Backstage at the White House
ISBN: 9781434356871 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When First Lady Stacey Leanne Forbes uncovers a conspiracy to keep women out of power-especially out of politics, she and her four best friends set out to 'save the nation.'
When First Lady Stacey Leanne Forbes uncovers a conspiracy to keep women out of power-especially out of politics, she and her four best friends set ou...
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Refuge
ISBN: 9780827603080 / Angielski / Twarda / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the surprising world that Sami Michael reveals, Shula, an Ashkenazic Jew, is the center of a web of brilliantly drawn characters: Israeli Arabs, Palestinian refugees, black Jews, and white Jews. Swirling in and out of Shula s story are poignantly drawn minor players - an Arab/Israeli couple, their ever-more-militant son, a seductive Arab poet, and political outsiders in a fragile society at war. Sami Michael was born in Baghdad in 1926, fled to Iran during WWII, and eventually made his way to Israel. His first novel, Equal and More Equal was published to critical acclaim. Refuge was...
In the surprising world that Sami Michael reveals, Shula, an Ashkenazic Jew, is the center of a web of brilliantly drawn characters: Israeli Arabs, Pa...
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Anticipations
ISBN: 9781605972763 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. H G wells wrote both fiction and non-fiction. He worked in many genres including novels, history, and social commentaries. Wells was a leading socialist. Anticipations is a comprehensive study of the future developments in the history of predictive writing. This book is considered an excellent representative of human self-awareness. The essays in this volume range from the future of transport to the future of world order.
H G wells wrote both fiction and non-fiction. He worked in many genres including novels, history, and social commentaries. Wells was a leading sociali...
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How to Find Happiness in Under Three Weeks: Il Faut Un Village
ISBN: 9780595487547 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Having spent a gloomy semester in Paris as a student long ago, Franny Laforet is one Californian who doesn't harbor any romantic notions about France. All the same, she finds herself drafted as scout for a group of friends planning a reunion at a Provencal chateau. Her plane unfortunately lands at De Gaulle at the time of the attack on the World Trade Center. With the rest of the group stuck back home due to the cancellation of transatlantic flights, Franny seems fated to a lonely vacation spent exploring the countryside around the chateau and speculating about the natives. The natives...
Having spent a gloomy semester in Paris as a student long ago, Franny Laforet is one Californian who doesn't harbor any romantic notions about France....
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The President's Daughter
ISBN: 9780980919127 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When is a scandal not a scandal? Richard Johnson has had an extraordinary career as the Governor of the State of Washington. He is a political rarity - a genuine person who believes deeply that he works for the people. He is popular in his home state and has achieved all he can with integrity and passion. Now it is time to take his unique political style and policies to the national level as a Presidential Candidate. But a growing scandal threatens all that Richard and his family have worked so long and hard for. A member of his campaign staff is claiming to be his daughter.... When is a scandal not a scandal? Richard Johnson has had an extraordinary career as the Governor of the State of Washington. He is a poli... |
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To the Last Drop: A Novel of Water, Oppression, and Rebellion
ISBN: 9780972134965 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Mr. President
ISBN: 9781587214158 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Democracy, an American Novel
ISBN: 9781605974415 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Henry Adams was born in 1838. He was an American novelist, journalist and academic. Adams was born into one of America's most prominent political families with both his grandfather and great grandfather being U S presidents. After attending Harvard Adams went on a grand tour of Europe. On his return he became his father's personal secretary and accompanied him to London. On returning to the US he settle din Washington as a journalist and then became a professor of Medieval History at Harvard. In Democracy a relationship between a young hostess and a powerful politician develops. The political...
Henry Adams was born in 1838. He was an American novelist, journalist and academic. Adams was born into one of America's most prominent political fami...
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El Clan de la Hormiga
ISBN: 9781517155889 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. SINOPSIS: Narra la historia de un ser que nacio diferente a todos los de su especie. Y su diferencia sera suficiente para hacer tambalear los cimientos de la sociedad a la que pertenece. Una sociedad que se creia en armonia con la naturaleza, ciega a sus propias pasiones, y que acabara por caer, victima de sus propios actos. BIOGRAFIA DEL AUTOR: Hector Martinez Sanz (Madrid, 1979) es licenciado en Filosofia y Letras por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y Diplomado en Literatura por la Sociedad Cervantina de Madrid. Es autor de ensayos como "Comentarios a Unamuno y a aquellos que quisieron...
SINOPSIS: Narra la historia de un ser que nacio diferente a todos los de su especie. Y su diferencia sera suficiente para hacer tambalear los cimiento...
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The Book of Frank: ISIS and the Archangel Platoon
ISBN: 9781517077471 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring ISIS captured a town in Iraq, trapping Catholic children and their caregiving nuns. Western governments were unable or unwilling to help. The children's enslavement or death was certain unless Frank and a band of ex-military warriors could bring them back. Frank Martel, an ex-Marine, had finished his first year as a Jesuit novitiate. His path to the church was littered with doubt, anger and a failed relationship. Maggie and Frank were inseparable at first, but his loss of passion...
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring ISIS captured a town in Iraq, trapp...
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Prospect Hill
ISBN: 9780007141104 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fans of Jonathan Coe will love this extraordinary panoramic novel, which turns upon the whirligig of life that is Costford, a North Western town, in 1970. Costford, a brash north of England town. It's 1970 and young Trevor Morgan has a magical smile and large ambitions. But his marriage is in crisis, and he seeks help from an unexpected quarter: feisty middle-aged May Rollins. May is feeling the stress of living with the demented mother she has always hated. Strange things start happening: she spots a lollipop lady at eight o'clock on an August evening; her TV converts to colour of... Fans of Jonathan Coe will love this extraordinary panoramic novel, which turns upon the whirligig of life that is Costford, a North Western town, i... |
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Interface
ISBN: 9780099427759 / Angielski / Miękka / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This satirical thriller follows the fortunes of a shadowy cabal of wealthy investors who plan to rule America by putting a radio-controlled president into the White House.
This satirical thriller follows the fortunes of a shadowy cabal of wealthy investors who plan to rule America by putting a radio-controlled president ...
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98,79 zł |
Seven Lies
ISBN: 9780099483687 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part political thriller, part meditation on the nature of desire and betrayal, this book tells the story of Stefan Vogel, a young man growing up in the former East Germany, whose yearnings for love, glory and freedom express themselves in a lifelong fantas
Part political thriller, part meditation on the nature of desire and betrayal, this book tells the story of Stefan Vogel, a young man growing up in th...
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The Deceptive American
ISBN: 9780393332834 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many tens of thousands of copies of Sarkhan were in the bookstores on publication day. Suddenly it seemed to vanish. Mr. Lederer and the late Mr. Burdick were convinced that the book had been suppressed by agencies of the government, and certainly it contains much that might make such agencies unhappy. In a highly dramatic narrative, it tells of blundering by our intelligence community in Southeast Asia, of error and incompetence as well as heroics by Americans who understood Asia. Today, brought back to life after twelve years in limbo, ironically retitled The Deceptive American, and given a...
Many tens of thousands of copies of Sarkhan were in the bookstores on publication day. Suddenly it seemed to vanish. Mr. Lederer and the late Mr. Burd...
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Drift
ISBN: 9781425790806 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,80 zł |
In the City of Fear
ISBN: 9780393307221 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this novel of political intrigue, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ward Just captures the best and brightest of Washington amid turmoil of the sixties and its repercussions twenty years later. In the City of Fear follows the intersecting lives of a good congressman, his good wife, and the good wife's lover, an infantry colonel whose memories of the war, and a secret plot concocted by the Washington power brokers to win it, are more than he can bear.
In this novel of political intrigue, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ward Just captures the best and brightest of Washington amid turmoil of the sixties and i...
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99,28 zł |
Capitol Conspiracy: A Novel of Suspense
ISBN: 9780345487575 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Oklahoma defense attorney Ben Kincaid has found himself smack in the middle of more than a few controversies and deadly predicaments-and the unexpected leap from his modest Tulsa law offices to Washington, D.C.'s Senate chamber hasn't taken the edge off Ben's knack for stepping into the line of fire. Now the idealistic junior senator is plunged into the thick of lethal intrigue when a shocking campaign of terror against key government officials rocks the nation's capital. The nightmare begins with the abduction and murder of the director of Homeland Security; escalates with the killing of...
Oklahoma defense attorney Ben Kincaid has found himself smack in the middle of more than a few controversies and deadly predicaments-and the unexpecte...
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38,89 zł |
Blood Kin
ISBN: 9780143114826 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rarely does a debut novel attract the sweeping critical acclaim of Ceridwen Dovey's Blood Kin. Shortlisted for two prestigious awards, this tale centers around a military coup in an unnamed country, with characters who have no names or any identifying physical characteristics. Known simply as the ex-President's chef, barber, and portrait painter, these three men perform their mundane tasks and appear unaware of the atrocities of their employer's regime. But when the President is deposed, the trio are revealed as less than innocent. A deeply chilling yet sensual novel, Blood Kin...
Rarely does a debut novel attract the sweeping critical acclaim of Ceridwen Dovey's Blood Kin. Shortlisted for two prestigious awards, this tal...
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95,17 zł |
My Evil Twin and I
ISBN: 9780595513543 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since mankind has existed, he has had an evil twin. Today, evil twins call themselves Othro-Americans and seek the same rights as their counterparts, or good twins. "My Evil Twin and I" is the story of four Othro friends-Drake, Steve, Mickey and Quincy-who are unwillingly thrust into a watershed period for Othro rights. As New Jersey and the rest of the country marches toward the 2006 midterm congressional elections, a young Republican congressman drafts legislation that could force them to move out of the state, when all the 20-somethings want to do is hang out at their local chain...
Since mankind has existed, he has had an evil twin. Today, evil twins call themselves Othro-Americans and seek the same rights as their counterparts, ...
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64,67 zł |
I, Che Guevara
ISBN: 9780061718571 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Cuba, Castro has finally relinquished power. . . . now a mysterious exile (Che Guevara?) returns to finish the revolution. When a strange man appears in rural towns around Cuba quietly advocating a new kind of politics he calls "the True Republic," old-timers begin to suspect that the elderly stranger, who calls himself Ernesto Blanco, may actually be the martyr Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Shortly after Blanco's appearance, Fidel Castro steps down from power in exchange for a commitment from the United States to recognize Cuba and lift the crippling embargo. Two traditional parties... In Cuba, Castro has finally relinquished power. . . . now a mysterious exile (Che Guevara?) returns to finish the revolution. When a strange ... |
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