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Woman from Shanghai: Tales of Survival from a Chinese Labor Camp
ISBN: 9780307390974 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Woman from Shanghai, Xianhui Yang, one of China s most celebrated and controversial writers, gives us a work of fact-based fiction that reveals firsthand and for the first time in English what life was like in one of Mao s most notorious labor camps.
Between 1957 and 1960, nearly three thousand Chinese citizens were labeled Rightists by the Communist Part and banished to Jianiangou in China s northwestern desert region of Gansu to undergo reeducation through hard labor. These exiles men and women were subjected to horrific conditions, and by 1961 the camp was closed because of... In Woman from Shanghai, Xianhui Yang, one of China s most celebrated and controversial writers, gives us a work of fact-based fiction that reve...
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Russian Sector (English Edition)
ISBN: 9780956401014 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A debut espionage thriller by a former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev, a co-author of Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, and The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America - The Stalin Era. Russian Sector tells about Russian spies and Mafia fighting for power and land in London while Britain is struggling to maintain its national and cultural identity. The novel touches upon the problems of multiculturalism, political correctness, patriotism, and the role of the Western media.
A debut espionage thriller by a former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev, a co-author of Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, and The Haunted...
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62,50 |
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The Werewolf of Wall Street
ISBN: 9780981496627 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Left-winger Alex Mallum has strange dreams and unexplained blackouts. His rival, Luke Fenris, is the idol of Wall Street right-wingers. Each has secret revolutionary plans to change the face of American politics. Only Ludwig von Dracula knows the secret of the homicidal beast that binds these two rivals together but he's not sure he should intervene.
Left-winger Alex Mallum has strange dreams and unexplained blackouts. His rival, Luke Fenris, is the idol of Wall Street right-wingers. Each has secre...
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57,37 |
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Blood-Stained Justice
ISBN: 9780982356449 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wayne Lott decides to pursue a career as a prosecutor and ends up in Stonewall County, Mississippi. While following leads involving a missing businessman, a suspicious airplane, and a drug-running ring out of Colombia, he uncovers a deadly web of bribery and conspiracy.
Wayne Lott decides to pursue a career as a prosecutor and ends up in Stonewall County, Mississippi. While following leads involving a missing business...
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Blood-Stained Justice
ISBN: 9780982356456 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wayne Lott, the young Mississippi attorney from Rick Ward's breakout novel The Lawmaker, is back to fight political corruption and bring down those who think that their power puts them above the law. In his quest to further fight crooked politicians, Wayne decides to pursue a career as a prosecutor and ends up in Stonewall County, Mississippi, where he finds a mentor in John Chastain, a charismatic DA with Senate aspirations. He also joins up with his old friend Wallace Tischner, who's getting ready to wage his own war against corrupt local officials-and no one is safe from the dragnet. While...
Wayne Lott, the young Mississippi attorney from Rick Ward's breakout novel The Lawmaker, is back to fight political corruption and bring down those wh...
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105,26 |
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Mockery
ISBN: 9780986520310 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sam Walker is a struggling young writer with a meagre contract to write yet another book about the so-called Miracle Election. Then an anonymous note causes him to stumble on an incredible truth that makes his book an American legend to be read for generations. But Walker cannot help questioning a few loose ends in his own account. Worse than the fate of an exposed liar is that of a truth-teller alone with the truth.
Sam Walker is a struggling young writer with a meagre contract to write yet another book about the so-called Miracle Election. Then an anonymous note ...
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77,92 |
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Bel Ami
ISBN: 9781449555375 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The novel, the second book by Maupassant, is about Georges Duroy's rise from a poor ex-NCO to become one of the most successful men in Paris.
The novel, the second book by Maupassant, is about Georges Duroy's rise from a poor ex-NCO to become one of the most successful men in Paris.
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37,94 |
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Anti-Twitter: 150 50-Word Stories
ISBN: 9781933293899 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These 50-word stories are based on "found" texts from mainstream news sources and other public sites. Jaffe sculpts them to reveal their inner core, all niceties stripped away. Now the true motives, fears and sins of our age are on display for all who care to see. Amidst an internet-driven content boom, meaning has virtually disappeared. ANTI-TWITTER's extreme brevity demonstrates by example that brief need not = dumbed-down. Though the stories describe a wide arc: high and pop culture, intimate and public, sordid and exalted, all subjects are equally laid bare by Jaffe's incisive stratagems.
These 50-word stories are based on "found" texts from mainstream news sources and other public sites. Jaffe sculpts them to reveal their inner core, a...
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61,03 |
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The Lacuna
ISBN: 9780060852580 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Lacuna, her first novel in nine years, Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds--an unforgettable protagonist whose search for identity will take readers to the heart of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events. In The Lacuna, her first novel in nine years, Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Pois... |
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Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation: Introduction by Michael Dirda
ISBN: 9780307593962 / Angielski / Twarda / 664 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Isaac Asimov's seminal Foundation trilogy--one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction--in a single hardcover volume. It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store--a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and violence that will last for thirty thousand years. Gathering a band of courageous men and women, Seldon leads them to a hidden location at the edge of the galaxy, where he hopes they can preserve human knowledge and...
Isaac Asimov's seminal Foundation trilogy--one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction--in a single hardcover volume. It is the saga of ...
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124,99 |
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Revolt
ISBN: 9781936051700 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When doing a favor for a friend, Detective Doug Crawford finds himself caught in a conflict between the citizens of Rockledge and an out of control federal government trying to control their lives. An unexpected shootout launches the war he had hoped to prevent. Soon he realizes they were all trapped in a nightmare; painted as extremists by the government and the media, and abandoned by the rest of America. Now they found themselves alone and surrounded by soldiers from a foreign land under the guise as "U.N. peacekeepers" controlled by a rogue President intent on taking over the nation. It...
When doing a favor for a friend, Detective Doug Crawford finds himself caught in a conflict between the citizens of Rockledge and an out of control fe...
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87,28 |
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The Yellow House
ISBN: 9781599952024 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE YELLOW HOUSE delves into the passion and politics of Northern Ireland at the beginning of the 20th Century. Eileen O'Neill's family is torn apart by religious intolerance and secrets from the past. Determined to reclaim her ancestral home and reunite her family, Eileen begins working at the local mill, saving her money and holding fast to her dream. As war is declared on a local and global scale, Eileen cannot separate the politics from the very personal impact the conflict has had on her own life. She is soon torn between two men, each drawing her to one extreme. One is a charismatic...
THE YELLOW HOUSE delves into the passion and politics of Northern Ireland at the beginning of the 20th Century. Eileen O'Neill's family is torn apart ...
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85,89 |
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Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
ISBN: 9780307588838 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sixty years ago, the United Nations took a moral stand against human rights crimes and adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a proclamation of thirty rights that belong to us all, starting memorably with Article 1: "All human beings are born free and equal."
Now, an array of internationally acclaimed writers have chosen one of the thirty rights as the inspiration for a short story. Published in association with Amnesty International, the result is a mix of thoughtful, serious, funny, and thrilling stories that harness the power of literature to celebrate--and affirm--our... Sixty years ago, the United Nations took a moral stand against human rights crimes and adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a proclamati...
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Voice from the Planet
ISBN: 9780615367323 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Award-winning and new authors from Congo to Hollywood join forces in Harvard Square Editions' second volume of Living Fiction, and they are donating the net proceeds from the sale of this book to the Nobel Prize-winning charity Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). Most anthologies are limited by their themes to a particular town or country, reinforcing entrenched literary nationalism whereby institutionalized literati only appreciate their own. Not Voice from the Planet. This collection of extraordinary voices is unlimited. It will transport you on a globe-trotting...
Award-winning and new authors from Congo to Hollywood join forces in Harvard Square Editions' second volume of Living Fiction, and they are donating t...
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88,05 |
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Heart of Deception
ISBN: 9780061962196 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It has everything you want: suspense, adventure, and romance across several continents." "Malcolm is a fabulous writer with an astonishing romantic clarity and captivating narrative style." Heart of Deception by M.L. Malcolm is the riveting sequel to the author's critically acclaimed Heart of Lies. Based in part on her family's actual history, Heart of Deception tells the intensely exciting story of a... "It has everything you want: suspense, adventure, and romance across several continents." |
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News from Nowhere
ISBN: 9781551112671 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written in 1890, at the close of William Morris's most intense period of political activism, News from Nowhere is a compelling articulation of his mature views on art, work, community, family, and the nature and structure of the ideal society.
Written in 1890, at the close of William Morris's most intense period of political activism, News from Nowhere is a compelling articulation of his mat...
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No Room for Truth
ISBN: 9780982356487 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A working reporter's search for the truth turns upside-down as she discovers a world filled with bribery and corruption, feeding unchecked into the very heart of America's soul. As she slowly uncovers the long-hidden secrets that will place her in grave danger, the story mounts to a searing suspense-filled courtroom climax.
A working reporter's search for the truth turns upside-down as she discovers a world filled with bribery and corruption, feeding unchecked into the ve...
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58,39 |
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To Play the King
ISBN: 9780007385171 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second book in the trilogy that inspired the hit Netflix series House of Cards After scheming his way to power in House of Cards, newly elected Prime Minister Francis Urquhart takes on the new King, The role of the monarchy in modern Britain comes under scrutiny as Prime Minister Francis Urquhart threatens to expose Royal secrets when his plans are blocked by the idealistic new King. Their differences of opinion quickly degenerate into open hostility. The battlefield ranges from architecture to the underprivileged; the battle is fought with rigged opinion polls, manipulated... The second book in the trilogy that inspired the hit Netflix series House of Cards After scheming his way to power in House of Cards, newly elect... |
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55,97 |
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Conspirata: A Novel of Ancient Rome
ISBN: 9780743266116 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conspirata is "a portrait of ancient politics as a blood sport," raves The New York Times. As he did with Imperium, Robert Harris again turns Roman history into a gripping thriller as Cicero faces a new power struggle in a world filled with treachery, violence, and vengeance. On the eve of Cicero's inauguration as consul of Rome, a grisly discovery sends fear rippling through a city already racked by unrest. A young slave boy has been felled by a hammer, his throat slit and his organs removed, apparently as a human sacrifice. For Cicero, the ill omens of this hideous...
Conspirata is "a portrait of ancient politics as a blood sport," raves The New York Times. As he did with Imperium, Robert Harris...
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Visitation
ISBN: 9780811218351 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck s grandparents) is the focus of this compact, beautiful novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of German history, from the nineteenth century to the Weimar Republic, from World War II to the Socialist German Democratic Republic, and finally reunification and its aftermath, Visitation offers the life stories of twelve individuals who seek to make their home in this one magical little house. The novel breaks into the everyday life of the house and shimmers through it, while relating the passions...
A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck s grandparents) is the focus of this compact, beautiful...
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