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The Hundred Days
ISBN: 9780811225113 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roth s signature lyrical elegance and haunting atmospheric details sing in The Hundred Days. There may be, as James Wood has stated, no modern writer more able to combine the novelistic and the poetic, to blend lusty, undamaged realism with sparkling powers of metaphor and simile. "Roth s signature lyrical elegance and haunting atmospheric details sing in The Hundred Days. There may be, as James Wood has stated, no mo... |
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Pierre; or The Ambiguities
ISBN: 9781514228395 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THERE are some strange summer mornings in the country, when he who is but a sojourner from the city shall early walk forth into the fields, and be wonder-smitten with the trance-like aspect of the green and golden world. Not a flower stirs; the trees forget to wave; the grass itself seems to have ceased to grow; and all Nature, as if suddenly become conscious of her own profound mystery, and feeling no refuge from it but silence, sinks into this wonderful and indescribable repose.
THERE are some strange summer mornings in the country, when he who is but a sojourner from the city shall early walk forth into the fields, and be won...
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The Other Side of the Trench: The Spirit of War
ISBN: 9781925280814 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This story deserves to be told. Garry Willmott creates graphic and quite horrifying insights into unseen and 'unsung' aspects of World War 1, where so many Australian, Canadian, British, New Zealander, American and French soldiers were slaughtered and still, today, lie uninterred in forgotten furrows of French fields. The author tells this story in a simple direct style which has an immediate impact. Garry Willmott's ancestors are among those who lost their lives fighting against the Kaiser's Juggernaut. The characters of the soldiers come to life and even in death, their spirits are revived...
This story deserves to be told. Garry Willmott creates graphic and quite horrifying insights into unseen and 'unsung' aspects of World War 1, where so...
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85,10 |
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Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9780544704855 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Daring . . . Vincent s psychological approach is intriguing. USA Today
Vincent is a sensitive recorder of a mind s movements as it shifts in and out of inspiration, and as it fights before submitting to despair. New York Times Book Review With poetic precision and psychological acuity, Norah Vincent s Adeline reimagines the events that brought Woolf to the banks of the River Ouse, offering us a denouement worthy of its protaganist. Channeling Virginia and Leonard Woolf, T. S. and Vivienne Eliot, Lytton Strachey, and Dora Carrington, Vincent... Daring . . . Vincent s psychological approach is intriguing. USA Today
Vincent is a sensitive recorder of a mind s movements as... |
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64,58 |
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Norma Lee
ISBN: 9781490762227 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This contribution to the sum of total knowledge is mostly about my only sister, Norma Lee Hays. It addresses the incestuous relationship that we, as young siblings, had for each other. It also features these different protagonists and antagonists during the days that the L&N Railroad was first built and running through the native forests of Eastern Kentucky. These are my heroes and my villains: Morris Slater, a notorious train robber. His band of thieves who killed just for the thrill of it, The women of Slater's secret hide-a-way, The trials and tribulations of thievery. Friar Simon Tuft who...
This contribution to the sum of total knowledge is mostly about my only sister, Norma Lee Hays. It addresses the incestuous relationship that we, as y...
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42,20 |
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Norma Lee
ISBN: 9781490762241 / Angielski / Twarda / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This contribution to the sum of total knowledge is mostly about my only sister, Norma Lee Hays. It addresses the incestuous relationship that we, as young siblings, had for each other. It also features these different protagonists and antagonists during the days that the L&N Railroad was first built and running through the native forests of Eastern Kentucky. These are my heroes and my villains: Morris Slater, a notorious train robber. His band of thieves who killed just for the thrill of it, The women of Slater's secret hide-a-way, The trials and tribulations of thievery. Friar Simon Tuft who...
This contribution to the sum of total knowledge is mostly about my only sister, Norma Lee Hays. It addresses the incestuous relationship that we, as y...
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The Dig: A Novel Based on True Events
ISBN: 9781590517802 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A succinct and witty literary venture that tells the strange story of a priceless treasure discovered in East Anglia on the eve of World War II
In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. Mrs. Pretty, the widowed owner of the farm, has had her hunch confirmed that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. This fictional recreation of the famed Sutton Hoo dig follows three months of intense activity when... A succinct and witty literary venture that tells the strange story of a priceless treasure discovered in East Anglia on the eve of World War II...
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72,18 |
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The Announcers: Darkness Before Mourning, Volume 1
ISBN: 9781633980020 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Greg Perkins' 19-volume Darkness Before Mourning is one of the largest series of serious fiction ever created by a single author. Over 40 years in the making, the novels comprise over 10,000 pages in manuscript. Publishing the project has required an enormous editorial team to ensure that the complete series will be issued in only 2 years, starting with Volume I, The Announcers. Each independent work forms part of a biographical continuum, exploring in profoundly dark semi-fictionalized form the author's searing experiences. This, the first volume of the series, will be published in July,...
Greg Perkins' 19-volume Darkness Before Mourning is one of the largest series of serious fiction ever created by a single author. Over 40 years in the...
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68,38 |
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Katharina von Medici
ISBN: 9783734001062 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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278,97 |
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Brothers in Arms
ISBN: 9781925280852 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brothers in Arms is an extraordinary story, one which provides insights into the dualities of human nature, especially against a background of war. We are confronted with the potential within all of us for both heroism and cowardice, honesty and deception, altruism and greed; there is, in the intensity of war-time, a heightened awareness of moral dilemmas, choices between good and evil which have eternally confronted humankind. Weaving an intricate narrative, the author confronts his readers also with the question: where does truth lie? At what point can one depart from contextual history to...
Brothers in Arms is an extraordinary story, one which provides insights into the dualities of human nature, especially against a background of war. We...
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85,10 |
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Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
ISBN: 9781942600381 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the highly personal tradition of Jenny Offill and Elena Ferrante, Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride is loosely based on Sweany's tragicomic teenage life growing up in Indiana and his later years working in the New York publishing industry. Hunter S. Thompson biographer William McKeen called it, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets Leave It to Beaver." And bestselling author Frank Bill adds, "In the vein of David Sedaris or Chuck Palahniuk, Brian Sweany has written a tight satirical story that has you bent over with laughter one moment, then wiping away the tears the next...
In the highly personal tradition of Jenny Offill and Elena Ferrante, Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride is loosely based on Sweany's tragicomic teen...
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76,02 |
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The Season of Migration
ISBN: 9781250094698 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The lyrically told story of one of the world's greatest artists finding his true calling In December 1878, Vincent van Gogh arrives in the coal-mining village of... The lyrically told story of one of the world's greatest artists finding his true calling |
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75,98 |
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You'll Like Linton
ISBN: 9781491771013 / Angielski / Twarda / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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113,84 |
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You'll Like Linton
ISBN: 9781491771020 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,83 |
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Mój dziennik
ISBN: 9788362449118 / Polski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Komiks opisuje życie i twórczość jednego z najwybitniejszych rzeźbiarzy w powojennej Polsce. Józef Makowski (rocznik 1914) był nieprzeciętnym artystą i człowiekiem o bardzo bogatym życiorysie. Na podstawie jego skomplikowanych losów (wojna, okupacja, Powstanie Warszawskie, obóz jeniecki, trudne czasy powojenne) Maciej Jasiński i Jacek Przybylski stworzyli rodzaj dziennika i jednocześnie szkicownika tego malarza i rzeźbiarza, nadając mu swoistą komiksową formę.?
Komiks opisuje życie i twórczość jednego z najwybitniejszych rzeźbiarzy w powojennej Polsce. Józef Makowski (rocznik 1914) był nieprzeciętnym ...
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Cauliflower
ISBN: 9781627797191 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Maddening, funny, playful and beautiful...Barker has once again invigorated an old form -- the historical biographical novel -- through electric wit and sheer bedazzlement." To the world, he is Sri Ramakrishna--godly avatar, esteemed spiritual master, beloved guru. To Rani Rashmoni, she of low caste and large inheritance, he is the brahmin fated to defy tradition. But to Hriday, his nephew and longtime caretaker, he is just Uncle--maddening, bewildering Uncle, prone to entering trances at the most inconvenient of times, known to sneak out to... "Maddening, funny, playful and beautiful...Barker has once again invigorated an old form -- the historical biographical novel -- through electric w... |
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Tender is the Night
ISBN: 9781517453794 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tender Is the Night is an English language novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in Scribner's Magazine between January-April, 1934 in four issues. It is ranked #28 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century. In 1932, Fitzgerald's wife Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was hospitalized for schizophrenia in Baltimore, Maryland. The author rented the "la Paix" estate in the suburb of Towson to work on this book, the story of the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychoanalyst and his wife, Nicole, who is also one of his patients. It would be...
Tender Is the Night is an English language novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in Scribner's Magazine between January-April, 1934 in ...
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Ourika
ISBN: 9781517403737 / Francuski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Achetee avant son embarquement sur un navire negrier par le gouverneur du Senegal qui l'amene a Paris pour l'offrir a sa tante, la jeune Africaine Ourika recoit une bonne education. A l'age de douze ans, elle se rend compte du prejudice que suscite sa couleur de peau. Apres le mariage de Charles, dont elle est amoureuse, avec une Francaise, elle se retire au couvent ou elle finira par mourir prematurement."
Achetee avant son embarquement sur un navire negrier par le gouverneur du Senegal qui l'amene a Paris pour l'offrir a sa tante, la jeune Africaine Our...
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That CHRISTMAS 1941 MORN
ISBN: 9781517515430 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS THAT CHRISTMAS 1941 MORN ... In Germany, a bullet renders Rachel, now Jewish Yohann's wife, barren. When Dirk learns that his wife Delilah's Nazi father is responsible, he is penitent. The ability to recompense the family arrives in 1929. In a magnanimous gesture, Dirk and Delilah bestow Dolb and Donter, one each of two sets of twins born to them, to Yohann and Rachel - to be brought up by them as their own children. On Christmas 1941 morning, when Delilah's brother, a Nazi soldier, attempts to kill the Jews - including her flesh and blood, Dolb and...
Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS THAT CHRISTMAS 1941 MORN ... In Germany, a bullet renders Rachel, now Jewish Yohann's wife, barren. When Dirk le...
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Lit by Lightning: An Occasionally True Account of One Girl's Dust-ups with Ghosts, Electricity, and Granny's Ashes
ISBN: 9781633980006 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From North Carolina comes the electrifying new voice of Nicole Sarrocco, whose debut novel Lit by Lightning--first in the Occasionally Trueseries--is an intensely personal and strangely universal tale of finding grace in chaos, creating meaning from nonsense, and for heaven's sake not making too much of a spectacle of yourself. A witty, hilarious, transcendent and disturbing tale of ghosts, manners, and the family we choose and the ones who choose us. "I could sweep together the dust of our hearts. The ashes of my grandparents' house that didn't burn. The... From North Carolina comes the electrifying new voice of Nicole Sarrocco, whose debut novel Lit by Lightning--first in the Occasionally... |
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