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Desk Jockeys Rule the World!: An Alternative History of the Near Future
ISBN: 9781511510776 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Andrew Jones is content to work in his office cubical year after year, flitting away the hours while he daydreams of his one true love. Then one day he's unexpectedly summoned to the Corporate CEO's office. Set on a seemingly simple errand, events quickly unfold for Andy, sending him crashing headlong into a future that will see him become a true hero of the employed--the world's first Desk Jockey Emperor.
Andrew Jones is content to work in his office cubical year after year, flitting away the hours while he daydreams of his one true love. Then one day h...
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Memoirs of a Dead White Chick
ISBN: 9781511407045 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It began as one of those days when I asked myself, what else could go wrong?" "And then I died." Eleanor, a harried, middle-aged White female elementary schoolteacher (and former police officer), begins her day by dying in the year 1999. Somehow, while her essence is en route to wherever one's essence goes upon death, she inadvertently ends up occupying the body of a 16-year-old Black male in 1858 Philadelphia. Not only does she have to deal with the obvious gender, race, and time period changes, but she also has to figure out whether, when lives are at stake, she should... "It began as one of those days when I asked myself, what else could go wrong?" "And then I died." Eleanor, a harried, middle-aged White femal... |
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To Keep a Dark Promise
ISBN: 9781511770149 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. November 1963 "THE PRESIDENT HAS TO DIE-" Mary Randolph, her beautiful, aging spy lady boss, Lindy, an expert at seduction, and murder; Angelique, tall, slender and darkly beautiful with her own secrets, an expert in the fine art of Southern cooking and other kinds of less lady-like knife work, are on a mission to stop the assassination in Dallas. Their black '59 Chevy flares its tail fins like an avenging Batmobile and swoops in a roar of 1963 dust along old route 66, in a desperate, dangerous attempt to change history; ...and keep the dark promise Mary has made to the ghost of Marilyn...
November 1963 "THE PRESIDENT HAS TO DIE-" Mary Randolph, her beautiful, aging spy lady boss, Lindy, an expert at seduction, and murder; Angelique, tal...
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56,45 |
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Saving Sophie Scholl
ISBN: 9781515112006 / Angielski / Miękka / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hitler dies from a single bullet to the head in 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad, months after the Fall of Moscow and the execution of Stalin and his cronies. Occupied with the war in the Pacific, the United States sends only aid to the British, but no troops. The isolationists and stateside business interests have kept US forces from the Continent, and Heinrich Himmler's unexpected heart attack brings the Holocaust to a halt before it begins. The Gestapo, however, still hunts for opposition and unrest. The White Rose is very much on their radar, and they slowly close in on Sophie Scholl,...
Hitler dies from a single bullet to the head in 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad, months after the Fall of Moscow and the execution of Stalin and ...
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72,63 |
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Juegos literarios: Divertimento literario alrededor de Shakespeare y Melville
ISBN: 9781516809622 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Una "deriva" en forma de juego literario alrededor de dos obras fundamentales de la literatura universal: "Hamlet" de Shakespeare y "Moby Dick" de Melville.
Una "deriva" en forma de juego literario alrededor de dos obras fundamentales de la literatura universal: "Hamlet" de Shakespeare y "Moby Dick" de Mel...
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23,88 |
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Spiritualized
ISBN: 9780983360834 / Angielski / Miękka / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. He's a wannabe rock star with the know-how to match-a self-indulgent musician on the cutting edge of cool. Now, residing in the legendary Hotel Boulderado, it seems like Jon Cells might finally be on the brink of achieving his dreams as he delves deep into the secrets of recording killer tracks at the local BlueStar Studios. So when the hotel plans to throw a blowout bash to celebrate the upcoming movie "Halloween," Jon couldn't care less. He'd rather be in the studio recording than at a cheesy costume party filled with ghosts and goblins. Meanwhile, a freethinking revolution has... He's a wannabe rock star with the know-how to match-a self-indulgent musician on the cutting edge of cool. Now, residing in the legendary Hotel Bou... |
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80,03 |
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Days Like These
ISBN: 9781514235157 / Angielski / Miękka / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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70,77 |
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The Death Strip
ISBN: 9781514815823 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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40,43 |
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Truth And Liability
ISBN: 9781514863466 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is Truth And Liability about? Truth And Liability is about the early-to-mid-life struggles of a beautiful woman who marries an American sports icon, while dealing with her own internal conflicts, and an increasingly rabid paparazzi, while living in the world of the get-everything-for-nothing American legal system that was in the late 20th Century. At least that is what Truth And Liability is on the surface. But what is Truth And Liability really about? If you ask readers what other books are about, such as: The Old Man And The Sea, To Kill A Mockingbird, or The Catcher In The Rye; you...
What is Truth And Liability about? Truth And Liability is about the early-to-mid-life struggles of a beautiful woman who marries an American sports ic...
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52,40 |
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Vallis Timoris: Based upon Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Valley of Fear
ISBN: 9781909573246 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,84 |
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The Misses Bronte's Establishment
ISBN: 9781515160281 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What if. . . Branwell Bronte had not died before Emily? What if. . .Charlotte was able to marry her "Mr. Rochester"? What if. . .the Misses Bronte's Establishment actually found a pupil: one who is taught by three geniuses? Meet Maria Shelby, spoiled - and rich - daughter of a knight in mid-Victorian England. Maria has a habit of getting in trouble: at eighteen, she's already been sacked from six London schools and no one else will have her. Except: "The Misses Bronte's Establishment," in the remote Yorkshire village of Haworth. Maria is bundled off to Exile, to a land as strange to her as...
What if. . . Branwell Bronte had not died before Emily? What if. . .Charlotte was able to marry her "Mr. Rochester"? What if. . .the Misses Bronte's E...
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52,56 |
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Everyone Hates The English
ISBN: 9781515306511 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,61 |
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Voyagers of the Gray Dawn: Finding Henry
ISBN: 9780692394281 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This alternate history, time travel, WWII-era action-adventure tale mixes fact and fantasy as a prequel to the 2013 "Travelers of the Gray Dawn." In both novels the Confederate States of America becomes the landscape and backdrop for a variety of characters who must navigate through what are essentially foreign lands. In Voyagers, much of the action is set along the East Coast of the mid-Atlantic former U.S. as Nazi U-boats meet U.S. Destroyers and Civil War-era ironclads. Dr. Albert Einstein tempts the Multiverse and unwittingly sends his young protoge, Henry Rollins, headlong into strange,...
This alternate history, time travel, WWII-era action-adventure tale mixes fact and fantasy as a prequel to the 2013 "Travelers of the Gray Dawn." In b...
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The Disinformation Agent
ISBN: 9781499204582 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Disinformation Agent uncovers the wartime activities of Carl Fahtenwasser, a former Cambridge philosophy student, who was engaged by Britain's secret service during World War II, to create and distribute disinformation to the Nazi regime. The agent was probably involved in luring the German Deputy Fuhrer, Rudolf Hess to Britain, based on a bogus peace plan proposal and is also believed to have been the leading participant in a daring undercover operation to rescue rocket scientists in Nazi Germany. Fahtenwasser's disinformation techniques were also highly valued by the US Military and...
The Disinformation Agent uncovers the wartime activities of Carl Fahtenwasser, a former Cambridge philosophy student, who was engaged by Britain's sec...
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64,53 |
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Parallel
ISBN: 9781515162148 / Szwedzki / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Forever, Love: Amelia Earhart: Life after 1937
ISBN: 9781515305637 / Angielski / Miękka / 490 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amelia Earhart, arguably one of the world's most accomplished aviatrix', was lost at sea while attempting to circumnavigate the world. Her plane was lost and she and her navigator were also lost to the world... and that was just the beginning. There have been many theories about what happened that fateful day, no-one knows the truth. What if several things happened? And what if even after practically falling out of the sky, Amelia went on to live a very different kind of life, not one of a housewife, but the kind of life that she had always wanted? Join Amelia as she falls out of the sky and...
Amelia Earhart, arguably one of the world's most accomplished aviatrix', was lost at sea while attempting to circumnavigate the world. Her plane was l...
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101,12 |
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The Aviary
ISBN: 9780692516874 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pamela Devereux and Grandson Jason watched the feathered visitors swoop down to the old weathered aviary on the deck of her Southern California mountain home. The aviary door had disappeared long ago, and the birds could come and go freely, attracted by the bowls of fresh water and birdseed that Pamela refilled daily. When a young Rock Pigeon returns to the aviary again after several recent visits, Pamela recalls the strange events that began twenty years earlier: How a visitor to the aviary from another time helped to save her son, the father of Grandson Jason. THE AVIARY is a tale of...
Pamela Devereux and Grandson Jason watched the feathered visitors swoop down to the old weathered aviary on the deck of her Southern California mounta...
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56,45 |
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Vaporized
ISBN: 9780983360841 / Angielski / Miękka / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,20 |
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The Great Rebellion: Book One of The Autobiography of William Watson
ISBN: 9780986193200 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What if George Washington's crossing of the Delaware had led to a catastrophic defeat and the collapse of the American Revolution? This is William Watson's world. As a thirteen-year-old boy from a farm in Graves End near New York City, he is swept up in what he knows as the Great Rebellion - a war that takes the lives of both his parents. He joins the rebel army just before its defeat at the Battle of Brooklyn, and shares its suffering as it retreats across New Jersey into Pennsylvania. He is at Washington's side at the Battle of Trenton, the rebel's final defeat and surrender. Escaping from...
What if George Washington's crossing of the Delaware had led to a catastrophic defeat and the collapse of the American Revolution? This is William Wat...
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Invasion: Celtic Empire 03
ISBN: 9781517673741 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An army of Catuvellauni is gathering under the leadership of Caradoc with the intention of storming and plundering the fortress town of Windubro. A local tribe (the Coritani) are not active allies of Caradoc but they are numerous and his army would be vulnerable to sporadic attacks from their heavily forested domain. Seventy thousand warriors have gathered and more bands are arriving; one of them makes for a small town in the forest to replenish its rations only to find that the natives have nothing for them. In a fit of anger he has the daughter of the headman disgraced (the warriors are...
An army of Catuvellauni is gathering under the leadership of Caradoc with the intention of storming and plundering the fortress town of Windubro. A lo...
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