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The Man in My Basement
ISBN: 9780316159319 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hailed as a masterpiece-the finest work yet by an American novelist of the first rank-this is the mysterious story of a young black man who agrees to an unusual bargain to save the home that has belonged to his family for generations.
The man at Charles Blakey's door has a proposition almost too strange for words. The stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to spend the summer in Charles's basement, and Charles cannot even begin to guess why. The beautiful house has been in the Blakey family for generations, but Charles has just lost his job and is behind on his mortgage payments. The... Hailed as a masterpiece-the finest work yet by an American novelist of the first rank-this is the mysterious story of a young black man who agrees ...
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96,75 zł |
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Dying in the Dark: A Tamara Hayle Mystery
ISBN: 9780345468079 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Valerie Wilson Wesley's Tamara Hayle mystery series featuring Newark, New Jersey's number one private investigator are loved for their smart, sexy protagonist who "has a way with a wisecrack that is positively lethal" (Washington Post). Now in Dying in the Dark, Hayle is entrenched in a sinister investigation that will demand her best detective work yet.
Tamara Hayle's past has come back to haunt her-literally. She's been plagued by terrifying dreams about Celia Jones, an old friend whose walk on the wild side led her to a horrible death. Celia's teenage son,... Valerie Wilson Wesley's Tamara Hayle mystery series featuring Newark, New Jersey's number one private investigator are loved for their smart, sexy ...
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79,19 zł |
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The Dying Ground
ISBN: 9780375756535 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Billy: dead. Felicia: missing.
None of the words made sense together, but the doom I'd expected announced itself. I felt iron in my mouth, like I'd gargled with pennies, a taste like blood, a bitter taste that always followed bad news. The setting is Oakland, 1989; the crack epidemic is at its height and turf wars are brewing. Maceo Redfield, currently on hiatus from college, is walking a fine line between respectability and involvement in Oakland's drug underworld. As he waits in the neighborhood barbershop, one of his closest childhood friends, Holly Ford, brings him the news of the... Billy: dead. Felicia: missing.
None of the words made sense together, but the doom I'd expected announced itself. I felt iron in my mouth, like I'... |
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101,19 zł |
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One Night Stand
ISBN: 9780743268899 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did a street hustler, in and out of jail since he was ten, beat a murder rap, no matter whether he did the crime or not? Meet Myra Cross, a thirty-one-year-old redheaded beauty with a take-no-prisoners reputation as a Public Defender. She confounds her colleagues and clients alike as she not only wins acquittal after acquittal but poses for Playboy in her spare time. She has the face of an angel, the body of a goddess, and a mind like a steel trap. But with secrets and demons, she neither pretends to be a Girl Scout nor to have all the answers. This time, when she's...
How did a street hustler, in and out of jail since he was ten, beat a murder rap, no matter whether he did the crime or not? Meet Myra Cro...
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100,97 zł |
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Six Easy Pieces: Easy Rawlins Storiesvolume 8
ISBN: 9780743442541 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Easy should be living a contented life, with steady work as senior head custodian of Sojourner Truth High School, and a loving family. But happiness is as elusive for Easy as smoke in shadows. Easy's the man folks seek out when they can't take their problems to anyone else. Trading favors and investigating cases of arson, murder, missing persons, and false accusations, it's hard to steer clear of trouble. Easy walks the line in this must-have collection from bestselling, award-winning author Walter Mosley.
Easy should be living a contented life, with steady work as senior head custodian of Sojourner Truth High School, and a loving family. But happiness i...
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83,55 zł |
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A Little Yellow Dog: An Easy Rawlins Novel
ISBN: 9780743451802 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 1964: Easy has given up the street life and has taken on a job as a supervising custodian at Sojourner Truth High School. But his newly found carefree lifestyle is threatened when two corpses are discovered at the school and the police think Easy is involved.
1964: Easy has given up the street life and has taken on a job as a supervising custodian at Sojourner Truth High School. But his newly found carefree...
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83,55 zł |
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Lemon City
ISBN: 9780812970333 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this wry fiction debut, Elaine Meryl Brown plunges lucky readers into a gripping narrative of small-town hijinks and big-time hearts.
Rule Number One: Never marry an Outsider. If you do, the boll weevil will bite you back. Rule Number Two: If you can't be honest, you might as well be dead. Nestled in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains, Lemon City has ten rules, all designed in the best interests of its tight-knit black community. Granddaddy Dunlap knows all too well what can happen to folks who venture beyond Lemon City's protective borders. He... In this wry fiction debut, Elaine Meryl Brown plunges lucky readers into a gripping narrative of small-town hijinks and big-time hearts. |
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83,59 zł |
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Pretenses
ISBN: 9781593090180 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Supreme Court nominee has been murdered several days before her confirmation hearing. Within twenty-four hours, another high-ranking politician is killed -- and soon government officials are being picked off one by one. Enter FBI Special Agent Phoenix Perry, a tough-as-stilettos detective known to hold her own against even the most lethal of criminals. Phoenix, already involved in another high-profile sex-abuse investigation, is hand-picked by the President to find the assassin. Little did she know that the two cases are related...and that the culprit knows her every move.
A Supreme Court nominee has been murdered several days before her confirmation hearing. Within twenty-four hours, another high-ranking politician is k...
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83,37 zł |
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Casanegra: A Tennyson Hardwick Story
ISBN: 9780743287326 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Casanegra follows the adventures of Tennyson Hardwick, a gorgeous, sexy actor and former gigolo, living on the fringes of the good life in Hollywood. This story, which chronicles the redemption of a prodigal son, combines the glamour of Hollywood with the seedy hopelessness of the inner city. In this hot and steamy mystery, Tennyson struggles to hang on to his acting career and redeem his sex-for-pay history, which estranged him from his family -- especially his father, a decorated LAPD captain who raised Tennyson to call him "sir." Now, in the wake of his father's sudden stroke,...
Casanegra follows the adventures of Tennyson Hardwick, a gorgeous, sexy actor and former gigolo, living on the fringes of the good life in Holl...
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92,35 zł |
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7 Days (The Victor Sexton Series) Book 1
ISBN: 9780984107643 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. a body in the Officers quarters,
a betrayed former lover, and all he has left is... 7 Days After sixteen years of military service to his country, Lieutenant Colonel Victor Sexton of the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is looking forward to retiring in seven days, but when an army nurse is found murdered in the officers quarters, time is against him to find the killer. Captain Dominique Frazier is an army nurse and hasnt seen Victor Sexton since spending two romantic weeks with him in Europe that left a devastating betrayal that has shattered her trust in all men. Fate throws... a body in the Officers quarters,
a betrayed former lover, and all he has left is... 7 Days After sixteen years of military servic... |
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43,95 zł |
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Doc Voodoo: Aces & Eights
ISBN: 9780983825203 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Harlem, 1926.
As the West Indies and the Harlem Knights wage a bloody turf war, the Irish, Italian and Jewish mobs circle like sharks and a helpless community bleeds. But one of Harlem's darkest denizens has been called by the old gods in answer to the people's prayers for help. He stalks Harlem's night as a skull-faced, gun-toting, voodoo-powered avenger that the people call the Cemetery Man... the Witch Doctor... the Dread Baron... But you can just call him Doc Voodoo. ? ?In Aces & Eights the Queen Bee controls the speakeasies, brothels and numbers rackets in north Harlem;... Harlem, 1926.
As the West Indies and the Harlem Knights wage a bloody turf war, the Irish, Italian and Jewish mobs circle like sharks and a helpl... |
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74,57 zł |
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South By Southeast: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel
ISBN: 9781451650631 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fourth installment in this award-winning mystery series draws actor-turned-super-sleuth Tennyson Hardwick into his most challenging case, compelling him to face the unthinkable: save his daughter or the woman he loves. South by Southeast, a title inspired by the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, finds Tennyson and his family in South Beach, Florida, where he is filming his role in a television detective series. Ten's soon-to-be-adopted daughter, Chela, runs into old friend Maria from her earlier days as a prostitute in Los Angeles. The pair dives into the South Beach...
The fourth installment in this award-winning mystery series draws actor-turned-super-sleuth Tennyson Hardwick into his most challenging case, compe...
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70,39 zł |
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The Legend of Buffalostar: The Man with Three Faces
ISBN: 9781465395320 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,35 zł |
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Doc Voodoo: Crossfire
ISBN: 9781940761022 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Harlem, 1927.
Harlem's darkest denizens stalks Harlem's night as a skull-faced, gun-toting, voodoo-powered avenger that the people call the Cemetery Man... the Witch Doctor... the Dread Baron... But you can just call him Doc Voodoo. In Crossfire, the Reverend Barnabus Farnes and the members of his Harlem Concerned Citizens Brigade narrowly escape a mob rub-out when the shadowy crimefighter known as Doc Voodoo comes to their aid. But in the aftermath of their deliverance, mob boss Harry Flood decides to fight Doc's magic with magic and the revolutionary Jebediah Debbs forms an... Harlem, 1927.
Harlem's darkest denizens stalks Harlem's night as a skull-faced, gun-toting, voodoo-powered avenger that the people call the Cemete... |
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74,57 zł |
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Choice of Straws
ISBN: 9781480457553 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In London, racial hatred leads to a mugging, a murder, and a mystery in a powerful novel of intolerance, loss, and self-discovery by the bestselling author of To Sir, With Love Identical twins Jack and Dave Bennett enjoy nothing better than a rowdy night out in London-listening to hot jazz, hoisting a few pints, flirting with girls . . . and then finishing off the evening by roughing up a stranger. But one night they ambush the wrong victim, a young black man who fights back. Suddenly bottles break and a knife is drawn, and when it's over, Jack stumbles home alone-only to awaken the next...
In London, racial hatred leads to a mugging, a murder, and a mystery in a powerful novel of intolerance, loss, and self-discovery by the bestselling a...
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83,55 zł |
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Joe Carpenter and the Soul Of The Lost Artifact
ISBN: 9781494483913 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Product Description: Genre: Mystery/Adventure/Sci-Fi thriller About: If only Joe knew of a destiny that waits. If only Joe knew the find of an ancient artifact would bring such heavy responsibilities. Is he a fallen angel, a before, an after lifer... or is he something else? JOE CARPENTER AND THE SOUL OF THE LOST ARTIFACT is a global adventure taking the reader to discover secret locations, to uncover the mysteries of humanities original DNA, to see a flip side of evolution... not dictated by science. Ancient temples and abbeys, presidential homes are all uncovered allowing forbidden...
Product Description: Genre: Mystery/Adventure/Sci-Fi thriller About: If only Joe knew of a destiny that waits. If only Joe knew the find of an ancient...
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53,08 zł |
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Walks with Bears: Book 3 of the Comancheria Series
ISBN: 9781626525856 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When an international conspiracy leads to kidnapping and murder, it's up to Reid Matthews and his mysterious Comanche powers to save the day. When twelve-year-old Brandon Matthews and his classmates embark on a trip to Texas's Guadalupe Mountains National Park, little do they know that their journey will become a terrifying adventure that some will not survive. Kidnapped by terrorists with mysterious motives, things go from bad to worse for Brandon and the other children when their plane crashes in a lake in Southwestern Colorado. Lost with little hope of rescue, Brandon and his...
When an international conspiracy leads to kidnapping and murder, it's up to Reid Matthews and his mysterious Comanche powers to save the day. W...
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68,73 zł |
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The Jones Men
ISBN: 9780989141185 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A 1974 New York Times Notable Book and 1975 Edgar Award Nominee BEFORE THERE WAS STREET LIT, THERE WERE THE STREETS ... AND THE JONES MEN RULED THEM "It was The Wire before there was The Wire." - Gar Anthony Haywood DETROIT, 1974 To become the King, you have to take the crown. It won't be given up lightly. Heroin kingpin, Willis McDaniel, has been wearing that particular piece of jewelry for far too long, and youngblood, Lennie Jack, thinks it would look really good on his head. When a junkie tells Jack about a big delivery, the young Vietnam vet makes his move. Feeling his empire crumble,...
A 1974 New York Times Notable Book and 1975 Edgar Award Nominee BEFORE THERE WAS STREET LIT, THERE WERE THE STREETS ... AND THE JONES MEN RULED THEM "...
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87,77 zł |
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Land of Shadows
ISBN: 9780765336378 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A fresh voice in crime fiction. Fast, funny, heartbreaking and wise...Elouise Norton is the best new character you'll meet this year." --Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author, on Rachel Howzell Hall's Land of Shadows Along the ever-changing border of gentrifying Los Angeles, seventeen-year-old Monique Darson is found dead at a condominium construction site, hanging in the closet of an unfinished unit. Homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton's new partner, Colin Taggert, fresh from the comparatively bucolic Colorado Springs police department, assumes it's a... "A fresh voice in crime fiction. Fast, funny, heartbreaking and wise...Elouise Norton is the best new character you'll meet this year." --Lee Child... |
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87,95 zł |
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Murder with Fried Chicken and Waffles
ISBN: 9781617731747 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Welcome to Mahalia's Sweet Tea--the finest soul food restaurant in Prince George's County, Maryland. In between preparing her famous cornbread and mashed potatoes so creamy "they'll make you want to slap your Momma," owner Halia Watkins is about to dip her spoon into a grisly mystery. . .
Halia Watkins has her hands full cooking, hosting, and keeping her boisterous young cousin, Wavonne, from getting too sassy with customers. Having fast-talking entrepreneur Marcus Rand turn up in her kitchen is annoying enough when he's alive--but finding his dead body face-down on her ceramic tile after... Welcome to Mahalia's Sweet Tea--the finest soul food restaurant in Prince George's County, Maryland. In between preparing her famous cornbread and mas...
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74,79 zł |
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