The Zap Gun
ISBN: 9780547572710 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this biting satire, the Cold War may have ended, but the eastern and western governments never told their citizens. Instead they created an elaborate ruse, wherein each side comes up with increasingly outlandish doomsday weapons--weapons that don't work. But when aliens invade, the top designers of both sides have to come together to make a real doomsday device--if they don't kill each other first.
With its combination of romance, espionage, and alien invasion, The Zap Gun skewers the military-industrial complex in a way that's as relevant today as it was at the height of the... In this biting satire, the Cold War may have ended, but the eastern and western governments never told their citizens. Instead they created an elabora...
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60,38 zł |
Searching for Jimmy Buffett
ISBN: 9780940075122 / Angielski / Twarda / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sister Moonbeam-Goom-jigi, a hallucinatory, burned out, hippy flower child of the 60's, wrongfully thinks her late in life son is the by-product of an imagined one night stand with Jimmy Buffett. Years later on her deathbed her final words inadvertently send her son, 14 year old James "Bean" Buffett Jr., on a quest to find his namesake famous father. And so the naive home schooled socially lacking young Bean and his scraggly little one eared telepathic dog Fruitcake, embark on an incredible adventure in his mother's car the Celstial Rocket, an oddly painted 1955 Nash Metropolitan convertable....
Sister Moonbeam-Goom-jigi, a hallucinatory, burned out, hippy flower child of the 60's, wrongfully thinks her late in life son is the by-product of an...
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157,42 zł |
This Beautiful Life
ISBN: 9780062024398 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "ThisBeautiful Life is a gripping, potent and blisteringly well-written story offamily, dilemma, and consequence. . . . I read this book with white-knuckledurgency, and I finished it in tears. Helen Schulman is an absolutely brilliantnovelist." --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
Theevents of a single night shatter one family's sense of security and identity inthis provocative and deeply affecting domestic drama from Helen Schulman, theacclaimed author of A Day at the Beach and Out of Time. In thetradition of Lionel Shriver, Sue Miller,... "ThisBeautiful Life is a gripping, potent and blisteringly well-written story offamily, dilemma, and consequence. . . . I read this book with...
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69,01 zł |
Conversations for Paco: Why America Needs Healthcare for All
ISBN: 9780983527701 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A mysterious illness is about to splinter an unsuspecting family ... An exposE jam-packed with love, lust, debauchery and greed unfolds when disease collides with healthcare profiteers and physician indifference in Conversations for Paco. Inspired by a true account, Conversations for Paco juxtaposes the venerable institutions of medicine against the personal anguish of enigmatic disease as PACO and SARITA SANCHEZ battle Paco's mysterious illness and JUSTIN SUTHERLAND surmounts the unanticipated challenges of medical education. Two parts social criticism, one part medical suspense, it spins... A mysterious illness is about to splinter an unsuspecting family ... An exposE jam-packed with love, lust, debauchery and greed unfolds when diseas... |
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150,82 zł |
It's in the Water and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781614345169 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifteen science fiction, real-life drama, satire, and children's stories range from touching to amazing to scary. Hull uses science and real-life experience to wend his tales with a twist.
Fifteen science fiction, real-life drama, satire, and children's stories range from touching to amazing to scary. Hull uses science and real-life expe...
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72,26 zł |
The Money That Never Was: Whisky Galore meets James Bond
ISBN: 9781908200440 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Tremayne is a spy out of his time. Counting down the days to his retirement by babysitting drunken visiting politicos, he is seconded by MI6 for one last case. He is dispatched to retrieve $250 million of government money destined as a payoff that has gone missing. "The Money That Never Was" is a hilarious new novel by the author of the bestselling "Return of The Hippy."
Charles Tremayne is a spy out of his time. Counting down the days to his retirement by babysitting drunken visiting politicos, he is seconded by MI6 f...
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78,74 zł |
Kingdom Come
ISBN: 9780871403193 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,83 zł |
Lightning Rods
ISBN: 9780811220347 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Described as the most well-executed literary sex comedy of our time by Salon.com, and a wickedly smart satire that deserves to be a classic by Bookforum, Helen DeWitt s Lighting Rods is a novel that will leave you laughing for more. Follow one steady rise to power in corporate America as down-and-out salesman Joe curtails sexual harassment in the office and increases productivity with his mysterious, mind-blowing invention."
Described as the most well-executed literary sex comedy of our time by Salon.com, and a wickedly smart satire that deserves to be a classic by Bookfor...
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69,70 zł |
Pirate Therapy and Other Cures
ISBN: 9780986662782 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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54,52 zł |
The Handsome Squirm
ISBN: 9781621050261 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,29 zł |
SEARCHING for JIMMY BUFFETT
ISBN: 9780940075115 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sister Moonbeam-Goom-jigi, a hallucinatory, burned out, hippy flower child of the 60's, wrongfully thinks her late in life son is the by-product of an imagined one night stand with Jimmy Buffett. Years later on her deathbed her final words inadvertently send her son, 14 year old James "Bean" Buffett Jr., on a quest to find his namesake famous father. And so the naive home schooled socially lacking young Bean and his scraggly little one eared telepathic dog Fruitcake, embark on an incredible adventure in his mother's car the Celestial Rocket, an oddly painted 1955 Nash Metropolitan...
Sister Moonbeam-Goom-jigi, a hallucinatory, burned out, hippy flower child of the 60's, wrongfully thinks her late in life son is the by-product of an...
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103,99 zł |
The Next Adventures of Guy: ... more wackiness
ISBN: 9781475058024 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every Quest has to have a sorcerer, an elf, a warrior, special effects ... and most of all, a sequel. So in the wacky stand-alone sequel to The Adventures of Guy, Guy and his college buddies Knob and Thurman take on a new quest... to save Earth from alien invasion. To do this they must take on Big Oil and other insidious enemies while overcoming their own leader's lack of faith in their abilities. But can our heroes do this without their mighty warrior? And with the impending invasion? And with Guy's kid-brother tagging along? Winner of the 2007 Preditors and Editors Readers Choice award for...
Every Quest has to have a sorcerer, an elf, a warrior, special effects ... and most of all, a sequel. So in the wacky stand-alone sequel to The Advent...
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67,97 zł |
Vile Bodies
ISBN: 9780316216340 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the years following the First World War a new generation emerged, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of 1920s London, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercised their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. In these pages a vivid assortment of characters, among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes and the glamorous, aristocratic Nina Blount, hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the hedonistic fulfillment of their desires. Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny satire reveals the...
In the years following the First World War a new generation emerged, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of 1920s Lond...
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81,95 zł |
Pride and Platypus: Mr. Darcy's Dreadful Secret
ISBN: 9781607620785 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of NORTHANGER ABBEY AND ANGELS AND DRAGONS...
PRIDE AND PLATYPUS: Mr. Darcy's Dreadful Secret When the moon is full over Regency England, all the gentlemen are subject to its curse. Mr. Darcy, however, harbors a Dreadful Secret... Shape-shifting demons mingle with Australian wildlife, polite society, and high satire, in this elegant, hilarious, witty, insane, and unexpectedly romantic supernatural parody of Jane Austen's classic novel. The powerful, mysterious, handsome, and odious Mr. Darcy... From the author of NORTHANGER ABBEY AND ANGELS AND DRAGONS...
PRIDE AND PLATYPUS: Mr. Darcy's Dreadful Secret When ... |
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124,93 zł |
The War with the Newts
ISBN: 9781781392171 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Karel Čapek's brilliant comic and satirical novel of 1936 deals with the discovery of a sentient race of newts or salamanders, and their subsequent transition from fairground sideshow to forced labour to ferocious enemies of the human race. Along the way he pokes fun at a whole range of targets, from the superficiality of Hollywood to the arrogance of scientists. He also deals with serious subjects such as racism, imperialism and exploitation, and is positively prophetic on the threat of expansionism and the folly of appeasement. This handsome new edition from Benediction Classics uses...
Karel Čapek's brilliant comic and satirical novel of 1936 deals with the discovery of a sentient race of newts or salamanders, and their subseque...
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109,96 zł |
Fishy-Fleshed
ISBN: 9781621050360 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Was Jesus actually a time-traveler from the future? The citizens of Ocean City believe this could be the case. Their world has become so technologically advanced that everyone now possesses the ability to walk on water, cure diseases, multiply food, and raise the dead... They are like an entire civilization of Jesus Christs. But when a team of researchers travel back in time to the days of Christ, they discover the past is a lot different than they ever imagined. It is an illogical flatland lacking in dimension and color, a sick-scape of crispy squid people wandering the desert for no...
Was Jesus actually a time-traveler from the future? The citizens of Ocean City believe this could be the case. Their world has become so technological...
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72,45 zł |
Satanic Summer
ISBN: 9780984969296 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Doug Backus is a normal young man trying to lead a clean Christian life but when mysterious and gruesome deaths begin occurring in his town of Clover, Kentucky, he learns that his life can never be as wholesome as he wants. Along with his heathen friend Crank and pariah neighbor Whitney, he becomes involved in an exploration of the town's secrets that will either lead them to their doom or answer all the questions Doug has about almost everything. Only one thing becomes certain: Salvation is not an option. From Andersen Prunty, author of Fuckness and Hi I'm a Social Disease comes a sleazy...
Doug Backus is a normal young man trying to lead a clean Christian life but when mysterious and gruesome deaths begin occurring in his town of Clover,...
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67,42 zł |
The Messiah
ISBN: 9780141180397 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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94,94 zł |
A Handful of Dust
ISBN: 9780316216265 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. In a novel that combines tragedy, comedy, and savage irony, Evelyn Waugh indelibly captures the irresponsible mood of the "crazy and sterile generation" between the wars.
After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy ...
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81,95 zł |
A Handful of Dust
ISBN: 9780316216272 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. In a novel that combines tragedy, comedy, and savage irony, Evelyn Waugh indelibly captures the irresponsible mood of the "crazy and sterile generation" between the wars.
After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy ...
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155,36 zł |