Beautiful Garbage
ISBN: 9781938314018 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If Holly Golightly lived in the '80s, how far would she go to make a name for herself as Manhattan's artist du jour? We know all about Warhol, Basquiat, Keith Haring, and their fictional counterparts, but what about the edgy women artists of this time?
Jodi Plum: smart, talented, ambitious, troubled. Fresh out of her teens, she leaves suburbia for Manhattan's glam and gritty art scene, and almost immediately falls into the clutches of Monika, a beautiful photographer. With the help of her new mentor, Jodi quickly becomes a rising star--but when a skeleton from her past surfaces, her dream... If Holly Golightly lived in the '80s, how far would she go to make a name for herself as Manhattan's artist du jour? We know all about Warhol, Basquia...
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73,14 zł |
Suite Life (Original)
ISBN: 9781451698183 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of A Brooklyn Story and one of USA TODAY's celebrated "New Voices of 2011," comes a new novel which exposes the over-the-top decadence--and corruption--of Wall Street's elite. Hailed as one of USA Today's New Voices for her 2011 literary debut, Brooklyn Story, Suzanne Corso brings back the "true female voice" (The New York Times) of aspiring author Samantha Bonti in this breathtaking companion novel. IT WAS THE DECADE OF BIG MONEY, BIG RISKS, BIG HAIR, AND BIG DREAMS . . . AND THERE WAS ONLY ONE BIG CITY WHERE IT COULD ALL HAPPEN Growing up...
From the author of A Brooklyn Story and one of USA TODAY's celebrated "New Voices of 2011," comes a new novel which exposes the over-...
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90,58 zł |
Karma Is the Truth
ISBN: 9781604029703 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A quick hustle that Karma thought was temporary has gotten him mixed up in a life of corruption, conspiracy, and murder. He's found himself connected in an attempt to build an empire and take over the city of Emerson, North Carolina from a real estate tycoon, Cal Gustavo - along with an associate named Venn. Unknown to him, Venn has an agenda. With Karma's slick, savvy and honest street ethics, Venn thinks he would be the perfect man he needs just to keep the FBI off his trail while he did his dirt. But to Venn's dismay, Karma excels in the business and establishes more power and street...
A quick hustle that Karma thought was temporary has gotten him mixed up in a life of corruption, conspiracy, and murder. He's found himself connected ...
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55,88 zł |
Alamo Dawn
ISBN: 9781934947708 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An already volatile eastside community becomes entrenched in community activism after the unwarranted murder of an African American youth. The youth-a standout athlete-is shot down in the streets under dubious circumstances by an officers questionable judgment, sparking civil unrest in the urban African American communities.
An already volatile eastside community becomes entrenched in community activism after the unwarranted murder of an African American youth. The youth-a...
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120,79 zł |
Lust & Philosophy
ISBN: 9780988744509 / Chiński / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Isham Cook, an English teacher in China, has it all worked out. He lives a highly ordered life of the mind and is not one to be swayed by circumstance, until his dispassionate existence is tripped up by Cookie, an elusive woman fleetingly glimpsed around his gritty Beijing neighborhood. He then becomes captivated by the flamboyant eroticism of a woman he meets on the subway, Luna, who radically overhauls his most basic preconceptions. A third woman of ambiguous Asiatic ethnicity, the beautiful Adalat, is as unknowable as the others and he becomes obsessed with her as well. Finally, a fourth...
Isham Cook, an English teacher in China, has it all worked out. He lives a highly ordered life of the mind and is not one to be swayed by circumstance...
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45,09 zł |
Incapitated: sex - power - money - control
ISBN: 9781938620034 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. INCAPITATED is the true story of a young woman's degradation into the dark underbelly of a world ruled by sex, power, money, and control. It spans 15 months of Ms Dahab's life when she found herself becoming emotionally and sexually paralyzed by one of New York's wealthiest bachelors. As he fell prey to the darkness of his own self loathing, depression, and alcoholism, she found herself discovering the darker depths of her own soul. Trading the sex acts performed by other young women as currency, Ms. Dahab struggled to maintain her sanity as she fought to protect herself from the predatory...
INCAPITATED is the true story of a young woman's degradation into the dark underbelly of a world ruled by sex, power, money, and control. It spans 15 ...
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85,87 zł |
The Christmas Kid: And Other Brooklyn Stories
ISBN: 9780316232746 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Hamill, a master raconteur, mines his own roots in this enchanting new anthology." ---"New York Times"
Pete Hamill's collected stories about Brooklyn present a New York almost lost but not forgotten. They read like messages from a vanished age, brimming with nostalgia---for the world after the war, the days of the Dodgers and Giants, and even, for some, the years of Prohibition and the Depression. THE CHRISTMAS KID is vintage Hamill. Set in the borough where he was born and raised, it is a must-read for his many fans, for all who love New York, and for anyone who seeks to understand... "Hamill, a master raconteur, mines his own roots in this enchanting new anthology." ---"New York Times"
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64,73 zł |
#tweeting the Tl
ISBN: 9780997274707 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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67,75 zł |
Gun Smoke
ISBN: 9781936649365 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Atlantic City is a kiddy pool, and the sins in Las Vegas are like good deeds compared to Lauryn's place aka The Casino, the roughest spot in Philly to roll sevens and yell out blackjack. Welcome to her gambling spot, a place where all bets are covered, dri
Atlantic City is a kiddy pool, and the sins in Las Vegas are like good deeds compared to Lauryn's place aka The Casino, the roughest spot in Philly to...
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94,90 zł |
Kręgi albo kolejność zdarzeń
ISBN: 9788362405022 / Polski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. W trakcie wakacyjnej wędrówki po górach młody nauczyciel Marcin staje się świadkiem irracjonalnych ludzkich zachowań. Nie przypuszcza, że stoi na początku drogi, która zawiedzie go w rejony odległe od codzienności. Krótko przedtem atrakcyjna kobieta zabroniła mu wstępu do swojego życia. Rozczarowany miastem, z jego prawami asfaltowej i uczuciowej dżungli, postanawia wyruszyć tam, gdzie inni się nie odważą. Zabijany Krochmalne to prowincja prowincji, zarazem jednak miejsce, którego mieszkańcy – nawet ci nieznani z imienia i nazwiska – budzą zaciekawienie. Tutaj...
W trakcie wakacyjnej wędrówki po górach młody nauczyciel Marcin staje się świadkiem irracjonalnych ludzkich zachowań. Nie przypuszcza, że stoi...
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30,40 zł |
Maggie, a Girl of the Streets
ISBN: 9783842437715 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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103,26 zł |
Me, Love and Johnny King: A Tale of Love, Tobacco and Tranmere Rovers
ISBN: 9781780996875 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Me, Love and Johnny King Is a romantic comedy set in Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, about Tommy, a plumber, who spends his time supporting Tranmere Rovers and searching for his one true love. One fateful day at Prenton Park whilst watching Tranmere Rovers he meets Katie, but as fate would have it, the course of true love never runs smooth...
Me, Love and Johnny King Is a romantic comedy set in Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, about Tommy, a plumber, who spends his time supporting Tranmere Rovers an...
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48,24 zł |
Can You Stay for Breakfast?
ISBN: 9781482381870 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. **URBAN READ WITH A TWIST*** THERES THREE SIDES TO A STORY...THE WIFES, THE HUSBANDS...AND THE MISTRESS As a young girl, women are taught three simple things about love and men. First, You meet the guy. Secondly, You get him to fall in love with you. And last but not least...you get him to marry you. Unfortunately, love just isn't that simple. A story told from three points of views; the wife, the husband...and the mistress, find out why true love is worth waiting for...or at least worth sticking around for breakfast. Somebody's got a secret...but then again, who doesn't? Can You Stay for...
**URBAN READ WITH A TWIST*** THERES THREE SIDES TO A STORY...THE WIFES, THE HUSBANDS...AND THE MISTRESS As a young girl, women are taught three simpl...
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45,27 zł |
Opowiadania Poleskie LTW
ISBN: 9788375652727 / Polski / Miękka ze skrzydełka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Opowiadania poleskie to zbiór opowieści ukazujących piękne, acz spowite tajemnicą, oblicze Polesia – bujność i dzikość poleskiej przyrody oraz rytm życia Poleszuków. „Opisuję to, co sam widziałem i odczuwałem; gdy sięgam do opowiadań bliskich mi ludzi puszczańskich, to widzę ich tak, jak to miało miejsce gdzieś na uroczysku, łodzi lub ławie leśnego domu przy odpoczynku po wyprawie” – zapowiada już na wstępie Autor, a pamiętać należy o tym, że Polesie było jego ziemią rodzinną, prawdziwym domem, miejscem, które ukochał całym sercem. Wsłuchajmy się...
Opowiadania poleskie to zbiór opowieści ukazujących piękne, acz spowite tajemnicą, oblicze Polesia – bujność i dzikość poleskiej przyrody o...
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26,60 zł |
Good morning korporacjo
ISBN: 9788393353934 / Polski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Książka “Good morning korporacjo”
+ Audiobook gratis! Powieść ta w lekki i żartobliwy sposób opowiada losy szeregowych pracowników firmy „MaxiMind” oraz ich bezpośrednich przełożonych?. pozwoli Ci odprężyć się po ciężkim dniu pracy zapewni sporo rozrywki i dużo śmiechu :-) pomoże Ci zdystansować się do korporacyjnej rzeczywistości Książka “Good morning korporacjo”
+ Audiobook gratis! Powieść ta w lekki i żartobliwy sposób opowiada losy szeregowych pra... |
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28,11 zł |
Girls I Know
ISBN: 9780983150534 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the winter of 2001, 29-year-old Walt Steadman survives a shooting in his favorite Boston cafe that leaves four people dead. In the aftermath, Walt forms two new relationships: one with Ginger Newton, a privileged, reckless, Harvard undergraduate who is interviewing women about their lives for a book called Girls I Know, and the other with 11-year-old Mercedes Bittles, whose parents were killed in the restaurant. Wounded but resilient, all three must deal with loss and grief and the consequences that come when their lives change in unexpected ways."
In the winter of 2001, 29-year-old Walt Steadman survives a shooting in his favorite Boston cafe that leaves four people dead. In the aftermath, Walt ...
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68,83 zł |
The Darlings of Soho
ISBN: 9781479331628 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This novel explores love, sexuality, and race. Four bombs have gone off in central London. One of those is at Kings Cross. The story opens with the desolate streets of Soho and the knowledge that the two lead characters, Greg and Martina have been speeding towards an uncertain destiny. They have arranged to meet at Kings Cross that very morning. You the reader have no idea what will happen to them, as you are taken through the months leading up to that one point in time. We have two relationships running in parallel; one hetrosexual white couple (adrift) and one homosexual black couple...
This novel explores love, sexuality, and race. Four bombs have gone off in central London. One of those is at Kings Cross. The story opens with the de...
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58,14 zł |
Falling Backwards
ISBN: 9781922198044 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Life becomes complicated for Simon - a fundamentalist preacher and marriage guidance counsellor - when he realises in between adulterous affairs that he is, in fact, an atheist. From his dingy office in Kings Cross, from the pulpit, and from the beds of his lovers, Simon sorrowfully observes the hypocrisies and corruption of the worlds that he inhabits. And sometimes he embraces them. Raunchy and blasphemous, provocative and funny, Falling Backwards follows Simon from his flock at Sunday School to his ministry in the brothels of Kings Cross, and asks us to wonder whether Simon may not be...
Life becomes complicated for Simon - a fundamentalist preacher and marriage guidance counsellor - when he realises in between adulterous affairs that ...
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82,16 zł |
Ślady krwi
ISBN: 9788375955613 / Polski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Ślady krwi" to niemal sensacyjnie rozwijająca się opowieść o czterech kolejnych pokoleniach rodziny, której koleje poznajemy podczas odzyskiwania i odkłamywania pamięci przez głównego bohatera. Powieść nie została napisana dla prostego pokrzepieniu serc. Ale chociaż odkryta prawda boli jeszcze mocniej daje w zamian szansę na jednostkowe i wspólnotowe ocalenie.
Napisana z rozmachem powieść Jana Polkowskiego to niezwykła próba rozmowy z Polakami o ich współczesnej kondycji za pomocą sięgnięcia po ważne składniki narodowej tożsamości – zmagania z niemieckim i... "Ślady krwi" to niemal sensacyjnie rozwijająca się opowieść o czterech kolejnych pokoleniach rodziny, której koleje poznajemy podczas odzyskiwa...
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37,51 zł |