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Odyssey in a Teacup
ISBN: 9781517292447 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. A tut-tutting, big-breasted, modern-day gorgon; a humourless schoolmarm with an unfortunate name and freakishly long, yellow incisors (yeesh)-these are the kinds of people Ruth Roth regularly encounters. Add in daily dealings with an acerbic mother who squawks like a harpy, a father with a dodgy moral compass and a God complex, a bitchy mirror, and Ruth's existence feels like a Greek tragicomedy. The idiocy of daily life makes sense to Ruth when she develops a fascination with ancient mythology. She learns that the deviant gods and spectacular monsters of bygone myths are alive and well in...
A tut-tutting, big-breasted, modern-day gorgon; a humourless schoolmarm with an unfortunate name and freakishly long, yellow incisors (yeesh)-these ar...
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62,66 zł |
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A Person of Letters
ISBN: 9780994796103 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. There is something odd about him. He's a genius with numbers, and he's fascinated by words, but he just doesn't get people. With all their coded talk and body language they are a lifelong mystery, a black box without a key. That's why he gravitated years ago to the backrooms of finance; he was comfortable there, calculating risk and designing derivatives. Credit default swaps and mortgage-backed securities were far less complicated than other human beings. Now it's 2008, and global markets are melting down, but the guy who just may be responsible for the crisis is no longer thinking up...
There is something odd about him. He's a genius with numbers, and he's fascinated by words, but he just doesn't get people. With all their coded talk ...
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69,10 zł |
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Hits and Misses: Stories
ISBN: 9780316468893 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. |
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102,90 zł |
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Heart of a Dog
ISBN: 9780802150592 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. I first read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical air was heavy and full of the smells of cordite and motorcycle exhaust and rotting fish and wood-fire stoves, and the horizon flared ambiguously, perhaps from heat lightning, perhaps from bombs. Later each night, as was my custom, I would wander out into the steamy back alleys of the city, where no one ever seemed to sleep, and crouch in doorways with the people and listen to the stories of their culture and their ancestors and their ongoing...
I first read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical ...
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65,86 zł |
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The Hunting-Down of Michael Maus: Darkness at Pewkely Snorton
ISBN: 9781517012311 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Not just fantasy, but a unique blend of 'clear-minded surrealism' and mischievous earthy satire, directed to achieve a powerful end... Philip Goddard wrote five novels from 1990 to 1993, and "The Hunting-Down of Michael Maus" is the first of these. He approached his literary works as though each was a music composition, indeed all five novels and some of his short stories and poems actually being the literary equivalent of complex, organically structured symphonies, in which ideas, phrases and even individual words are treated like melodic motifs in such a symphony. At that time his... Not just fantasy, but a unique blend of 'clear-minded surrealism' and mischievous earthy satire, directed to achieve a powerful end... Philip God... |
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51,86 zł |
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Edits, Marginalia
ISBN: 9781511987035 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Who is someone that believes they can get everything they want yet have contempt for it all? What happens to your view of the world when your mind is always above where you are? At twenty-three years the relationships that Seth Felton has had - friends, lovers, all - have paled to the one with himself. His personally vindicated talent for writing journals the beginning of his attempt at non-scholarly success among the obligations and lives that exist in the interim. The deeper he delves into his beloved thoughts to create a new masterpiece of short literature, the further the conflict not to...
Who is someone that believes they can get everything they want yet have contempt for it all? What happens to your view of the world when your mind is ...
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64,79 zł |
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Bullies Always Win: Make Our Children Great Again!
ISBN: 9780997716009 / Angielski / Twarda / 40 str. Billy the bully is having a bad day. His didn't get enough sleep, his hair looks weird, and his fingers are too short to hold a basketball properly. Luckily, Billy knows just how to make himself feel better - insulting and bullying everyone else Bullies Always Win is author and concerned parent David Garrett's dismaying peek into how children's books may need to be re-written after the 2016 elections. "I just can't bear to see laid waste all of the lessons that all of these wonderful books have taught my daughters about respect and tolerance and kindness, and what it... Billy the bully is having a bad day. His didn't get enough sleep, his hair looks weird, and his fingers are too short to hold a basketball properly... |
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98,48 zł |
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When It Comes to Spooning, I'm a Fork
ISBN: 9781628650129 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. No one writes about relationships and parenting quite like humorist Marc Prey. Now comes his first book, a laugh-out-loud funny, brutally honest and deeply touching collection of personal stories about one man's relationship with his spouse and offspring. In When It Comes to Spooning, I'm a Fork, Prey takes readers on a journey from first awkward date to raising teenagers, all the while exposing moments that seemingly shift from the hilarious to the poignant in the beat of a heart. And when it's over, readers may discover they've learned something about themselves along the way.
No one writes about relationships and parenting quite like humorist Marc Prey. Now comes his first book, a laugh-out-loud funny, brutally honest and d...
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55,97 zł |
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My Canadian Exile
ISBN: 9780692744833 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Possessed of the four "Cs"-right Color, right Class and right aCCent-attorney Bob McKenzie has lived comfortably in the States for so long he has to remind himself he's still Canadian. But when taken briefly into custody on an immigration technicality his destiny intersects with that of a nine-year old girl of the "tinted persuasion," and life unexpectedly goes sideways. Troubled by her plight - her illegal Quebecois mother to be deported, the girl, Annie, a natural born American citizen, placed in foster care, too late McKenzie learns their fates have been braided together, and lax...
Possessed of the four "Cs"-right Color, right Class and right aCCent-attorney Bob McKenzie has lived comfortably in the States for so long he has to r...
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54,59 zł |
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Quantum Roots II: Worm Holes
ISBN: 9780986437496 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. In this sequel to Quantum Roots, the meekish Olan Chapman faces danger as vigilante Samuel Leroy McCoy, a US deputy marshal who upheld law and order in 1876, Dodge City. The metamorphous holds an eerie transformation, cloaked with rolling sagebrush and horse whinnies from yesteryear, which causes DPA Director, Alexis Grumman to rethink the validity of worm holes. -Basic creation is a worm hole, - replies Dr Norman Daly, -Atoms require hadrons to form a nucleus, and each hadron comes through it's own worm hole. Two quarks form the bi-dimensional plane needed to support the hole. The remaining...
In this sequel to Quantum Roots, the meekish Olan Chapman faces danger as vigilante Samuel Leroy McCoy, a US deputy marshal who upheld law and order i...
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51,65 zł |
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The Meowmorphosis
ISBN: 9781594745034 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. "One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that he had been changed into an adorable kitten."
Thus begins The Meowmorphosis--a bold, startling, and fuzzy-wuzzy new edition of Franz Kafka's classic nightmare tale, from the publishers of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Meet Gregor Samsa, a humble young man who works as a fabric salesman to support his parents and sister. His life goes strangely awry when he wakes up late for work and finds that, inexplicably, he is now a man-sized baby kitten. His family freaks out: Yes, their son is OMG so... "One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that he had been changed into an adorable kitten."
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53,30 zł |
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Washed Up
ISBN: 9781453667637 / Angielski / Miękka / 414 str. Brent, Ned, Andrew, and Mickey become fast friends in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous. When Brent seduces Ned's wife, and Ned retaliates by tricking him into a relapse, the bond connecting them is irrevocably torn. This single, spiteful act triggers a long succession of transformative events altering the lives of everyone involved. Andrew and Mickey, intent on unraveling this ingenious deception, must navigate a bizarre labyrinth to rescue their lost, languishing friend before he drinks himself to death. In the process, they encounter Cat, peripatetic country girl; Spook, a blind private...
Brent, Ned, Andrew, and Mickey become fast friends in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous. When Brent seduces Ned's wife, and Ned retaliates by tricking...
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69,10 zł |
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The Blow-Off
ISBN: 9781439154137 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Monster Stalks NYC When a local drunk is mugged near the toxic Gowanus Canal by "a hulking, hairy beast who smells really bad," Hank Kalabander thinks nothing of blaming the assault on the legendary Bigfoot. His sardonic crime blotter for The Hornet, a local Brooklyn rag, often gleefully recounts the tragedies that befall the borough's dimmer residents. But when an upstart reporter from The Eagle, a tabloid paper, lifts his piece and implicates Bigfoot in two more attacks, the crimes become local news fodder and the hunt for the "Gowanus Beast" takes off....
Monster Stalks NYC When a local drunk is mugged near the toxic Gowanus Canal by "a hulking, hairy beast who smells really bad," Hank Kalaba...
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86,39 zł |
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A Tale from Tailsville
ISBN: 9781453653418 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Tailsville didn't go to the dogs. It was founded by them If you think politics can get tricky in Washington imagine what they are like in a town where all the residents have a vast repertoire of tricks in their bag. Worse yet, Tailsville has an election EVERY year; although it seems more like seven years to the residents. Mayor Pinochle "Pig Tail" Pug's term is winding down and there are four pooches lined up hoping to succeed him. There hasn't been a major political scandal in Tailsville since the infamous 1972 Tailgate but things are about to change. What's about to happen to the residents...
Tailsville didn't go to the dogs. It was founded by them If you think politics can get tricky in Washington imagine what they are like in a town wher...
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43,00 zł |
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The Dave Store Massacre
ISBN: 9780897336147 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. |
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101,78 zł |
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Sustenance Through Starvation
ISBN: 9780988824256 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Is it acceptable for a non-profit organization to direct the first million dollars it collects to the pockets of its CEO?
Do well-connected corporations and universities respect justice and strive to make the world better for everyone? Should government serve the population or exploit it to benefit the powerful? 'Sustenance Through Starvation' is satire-but only if Franz Kafka wrote satire. It is fiction-but only if George Orwell wrote fiction. Judge for yourself. Gwendolyn is a student at Stambridge University, and all she wants to do with her life is help people. As the... Is it acceptable for a non-profit organization to direct the first million dollars it collects to the pockets of its CEO?
Do well-connected corpor... |
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82,75 zł |
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Rome & Joliet
ISBN: 9780986031625 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. |
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77,74 zł |
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American Slave
ISBN: 9780989259309 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. American Slave is an assault to corporate America. This is a story that cuts to the core of the American Dream, and makes no apologies as it lays on the ground gurgling for mercy. Richard Wright is a regular working stiff in middle America on the brink of insanity because of his place in the world as a cashier in a maternity clothing store. Richard and his porn aspiring director roommate Markus find a autobiography of a slave from the eighteen hundreds and see the parallels between the slaves life, and their life as minimum wage workers. Richard soon sets out on a mission that he hopes will...
American Slave is an assault to corporate America. This is a story that cuts to the core of the American Dream, and makes no apologies as it lays on t...
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59,21 zł |
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Delayed Reaction
ISBN: 9781492213642 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Jacob Wherly, an aging Vietnam veteran, shocked out of his staid existence as an Illinois highway patrolman, begins to live his life as he sees fit outside the established norms of his rural community. This self-styled buffoon befriends a teenage boy who is steeped in religious fundamentalism. Each seeks to convert the other to his world view-young Lenny to lead Jacob toward acceptance of Jesus as his savior and Jacob to nudge Lenny through humor toward an awareness that the unexamined life is not worth living. This comedic novel's protagonist exemplifies what it means to be a baby boomer in...
Jacob Wherly, an aging Vietnam veteran, shocked out of his staid existence as an Illinois highway patrolman, begins to live his life as he sees fit ou...
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38,85 zł |
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Tom's Job
ISBN: 9781439211892 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Tom Howell, an editor at a struggling publishing company, travels to New York to lead a panel discussion. There, he copes with a crazy boss, flirtatious colleagues, a corporate weasel, and a scheduling disaster, while experiencing serendipitous adventure in the Big Apple. On his trip, Tom also struggles with the themes and preoccupations of his life. These include the demands of his maddening but involving job, his determination to be a good father, and the nagging possibilities of his literary talents, which are captured in a novel he has started but nearly forsaken. As an unappreciated...
Tom Howell, an editor at a struggling publishing company, travels to New York to lead a panel discussion. There, he copes with a crazy boss, flirtatio...
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60,29 zł |
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