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Spiders in the sun
ISBN: 9781478341833 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The adventures of a young boy who is not Huck Finn. Also, a dystopian novel set in the imaginably near future, and exhibiting a roughly equal contempt for everyone's favorite utopian ideologies. Or, if that sounds a bit dense, how about a gentler, kinder sort of holocaust in which no one gets gassed and everyone gets free food and free therapy? A loving look at popular culture. A satire - cynical observations raised to a poignant art form. A book within a book - a personal history written by an ex-school teacher and self-appointed chronicler of the collapse of civilization (deceased...
The adventures of a young boy who is not Huck Finn. Also, a dystopian novel set in the imaginably near future, and exhibiting a roughly equal contempt...
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43,37 zł |
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Song of the Sea God
ISBN: 9781908011558 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Along with the strange flotsam of the sea, the aptly named John Love drifts in on the grey tide to grace a remote island off the English coast. The stranger, both bedazzling and unnerving, effects an immediate messianic glow upon the bladder-wracked community of odds and sods, making disciples of the most unlikely characters. Chris Hill's visionary and delightfully bizarre novel reads like the gospel for a neophyte religion spawning in the sea foam among strange goings-on. It examines how destiny is the result of the collective will, especially among tribal folk who forever yearn to conform...
Along with the strange flotsam of the sea, the aptly named John Love drifts in on the grey tide to grace a remote island off the English coast. The st...
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82,77 zł |
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Waiting for Karl Rove - The Sequel... (sort of): Kat & Jeni's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
ISBN: 9781480066342 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The follow-up to "Waiting for Karl Rove." Think Thelma and Louise-only Thelma's menopausal, Louise is an erratic big-mouth with a penchant for discussing her hemorrhoids, and they're on a road trip to wrestle an apology from Karl Rove by any means necessary. * * I laughed. I cried. I thanked the Creator I'm not married to either of them. Greg Crites, author of Crusade Satire is difficult and this one slams it out of the park. This sort of cultural analysis has a long history... a form of burlesque epic that uses exaggeration and mockery to attain its result. I would categorize Waiting for...
The follow-up to "Waiting for Karl Rove." Think Thelma and Louise-only Thelma's menopausal, Louise is an erratic big-mouth with a penchant for discuss...
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50,16 zł |
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Everyone Says That at the End of the World
ISBN: 9781593765187 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Earth is the mental asylum of the universe and humans are the incurable inmates. .Now the asylum is being shut down. Everyone Says That at the End of the World traces the adventures of a ghost-haunted slacker couple expecting their first child, an outrageously arrogant television actor seeking redemption and a prophetic hermit crab on a cross-country quest as they struggle to survive the final four days of life on Earth. Inter-dimensional time travelers, Jesus clones, and prosthetic limbs all play a role in the catastrophic events leading to the planet's end. Combining humor,...
Earth is the mental asylum of the universe and humans are the incurable inmates. .Now the asylum is being shut down. Everyone Says That at the End ...
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78,03 zł |
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The Weed Agency: A Comic Tale of Federal Bureaucracy Without Limits
ISBN: 9780770436520 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The spellbinding mock history of the Department of Agriculture's most secretive and vital agency
The little-known USDA Agency of Invasive Species -- founded by President and humble peanut farmer Jimmy Carter -- would like to reassure you that they rank among the most effective and cost-efficient offices within the sprawling federal bureaucracy. For decades, under Administrative Director Adam Humphrey and his "strategic disengagement" approach, the Agency has epitomized vigilance against the clear and present danger of noxious weeds. Humphrey's record of triumphant inertia faces only two... The spellbinding mock history of the Department of Agriculture's most secretive and vital agency
The little-known USDA Agency of Invasive Species ... |
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78,25 zł |
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Clive's Drive
ISBN: 9781480164987 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of how a fifty-something-grumpy-old-man's personal crisis and Interent quest for sex lead him on a rollercoaster ride that will forever change his life and maybe even the entire planet? A romp through the curmudgeonly yet often humorous mind of a man right off the end of his tether, journeying into territory uncharted for him to places he never envisaged he would visit and to a nightmare beyond imagining. Containing graphic content of a sexual nature the book is suitable only for a broadminded adult audience.
The story of how a fifty-something-grumpy-old-man's personal crisis and Interent quest for sex lead him on a rollercoaster ride that will forever chan...
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63,90 zł |
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A Really Unique Timeshare
ISBN: 9781480100640 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Professor Raymond Barger was awarded a grant from the English Department at Northwestern University. He and his wife were going to England for a year so he could study. They left the management of their apartment to the landlady, Mrs. O'Hara, with instructions to rent it if she could but only if the tenant was respectable and understood it would only be until they were scheduled to return. Dick Monahan owns and operates a very successful business in Los Angeles selling and installing various safety devices for the protection of small children. He is doing so well he decides to expand to...
Professor Raymond Barger was awarded a grant from the English Department at Northwestern University. He and his wife were going to England for a year ...
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40,86 zł |
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Coyote Reconstituted: The Smell of Decay
ISBN: 9781480293052 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the continuing escapades of the terrible trickster in the twenty-first century, Coyote takes a while to be reassembled by his faithful friends, but as the butt of jokes or focus of revenge he is still the center of attention and trickery in a Postmodern Landscape littered with persistent junk and gods.
In the continuing escapades of the terrible trickster in the twenty-first century, Coyote takes a while to be reassembled by his faithful friends, but...
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36,42 zł |
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The Road Through the Wall
ISBN: 9780143107057 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The compelling novel that began Shirley Jackson's legendary career
Pepper Street is a really nice, safe California neighborhood. The houses are tidy and the lawns are neatly mowed. Of course, the country club is close by, and lots of pleasant folks live there. The only problem is they knocked down the wall at the end of the street to make way for a road to a new housing development. Now, that's not good--it's just not good at all. Satirically exploring what happens when a smug suburban neighborhood is breached by awful, unavoidable truths, The Road Through the Wall is the... The compelling novel that began Shirley Jackson's legendary career
Pepper Street is a really nice, safe California neighborhood. The houses... |
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69,55 zł |
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Prometheus Ignored
ISBN: 9780615686080 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tammy Usher is as efficient a mid-level Washington bureaucrat in the Department of Transportation as bureaucracy allows her to be. She is confident that all in her life is going according to her plan. Unlike the many fools around her, she is certain that if a really good public works idea came her way she would know how to act to make sure it was accomplished. Then one day a really good idea actually does comes her way. Tammy finds her comfortably planned life upset as she navigates the twisting maze of the often overly complicated Washington insider world to try to get the new idea on the...
Tammy Usher is as efficient a mid-level Washington bureaucrat in the Department of Transportation as bureaucracy allows her to be. She is confident th...
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50,16 zł |
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Remain Calm
ISBN: 9780967943633 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,64 zł |
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Beddington Place
ISBN: 9780971162624 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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109,27 zł |
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Shrunk
ISBN: 9780988355316 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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48,84 zł |
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Who Town
ISBN: 9780615730158 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Ms. Kirschbaum's debut satirical novel Who Town, Sarah, Rick, Roxy and Lola-specifically, one trend reporter and a few 'it kids'-form a dysfunctional downtown family in NYC. How they manipulate the media, and how the media manipulates them results in their public images differing vastly from their personal realities.
In Ms. Kirschbaum's debut satirical novel Who Town, Sarah, Rick, Roxy and Lola-specifically, one trend reporter and a few 'it kids'-form a dysfunction...
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78,20 zł |
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The Drum Wars: A Modern Maya Story
ISBN: 9781478147206 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Drum Wars is a guide to the ancient Maya world as it collides with the 21st century. Past and present intersect at an offbeat hotel near the famed jungle ruins of Palenque, in Chiapas, Mexico. In this steamy landscape, American archaeologists, besieged Indians, and the dysfunctional hotel ownerss clash with spiritual seekers awaiting the apocalypse. While tribal drumming reaches out to the galaxies, feuds between the family patriarch and his heirs escalate into all-out battles gripping the entire community. Vying for space and time are a wild assortment of true believers: New Age gurus,...
The Drum Wars is a guide to the ancient Maya world as it collides with the 21st century. Past and present intersect at an offbeat hotel near the famed...
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82,16 zł |
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The Young Immigrunts
ISBN: 9781447469261 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This early work by Ring Lardner was originally published in 1920 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Young Immigrunts' is a novel about family life. Ring Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan in 1885. He studied engineering at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago, but did not complete his first semester. In 1907, Lardner obtained his first job as journalist with the South Bend Times. Six years later, he published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by 'Jack Keefe', a bush-league baseball player, to...
This early work by Ring Lardner was originally published in 1920 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Young Immigrunts' ...
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92,45 zł |
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Haircut
ISBN: 9781447470328 / Angielski / Miękka / 22 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This early work by Ring Lardner was originally published in 1925 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Haircut' is a dark satire about moral blindness. Ring Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan in 1885. He studied engineering at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago, but did not complete his first semester. In 1907, Lardner obtained his first job as journalist with the South Bend Times. Six years later, he published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by 'Jack Keefe', a bush-league baseball player, to a...
This early work by Ring Lardner was originally published in 1925 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Haircut' is a dark sat...
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97,32 zł |
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Shh! It's a Secret: A Novel about Aliens, Hollywood, and the Bartender's Guide
ISBN: 9781617207334 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2014 COMPTON CROOK AWARD FINALIST.
The Brogardi appeared out of nowhere, and -- telegraphing their peaceful intentions -- they landed in the middle of nowhere: New York State's Catskills Mountains resorts. It was an alien invasion, of the most peaceful, friendly kind. But there had to be something sinister behind it all, right? Movie executive Jake Berman lives fiction for a living, promoting movies to the masses. He's happy, and only moderately harried. But his peaceful existence is thrown into overdrive when one of the aliens sets his sights beyond the decaying resorts of the east... 2014 COMPTON CROOK AWARD FINALIST.
The Brogardi appeared out of nowhere, and -- telegraphing their peaceful intentions -- they landed in the middle... |
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86,67 zł |
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Picture.Book: The Full Story of the Movie They Didn't Want You To See.
ISBN: 9781481908900 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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45,41 zł |
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The New Republic
ISBN: 9780062103338 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Acclaimed author Lionel Shriver--author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the vivid psychological novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, now a major motion picture--probes the mystery of charisma in a razor-sharp new novel that teases out the intimate relationship between terrorism and cults of personality, explores what makes certain people so magnetic, and reveals the deep frustrations of feeling overshadowed by a life-of-the-party who may not even be present.
"Shriver is a master of the misanthrope. . . .... Acclaimed author Lionel Shriver--author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the vivid...
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69,51 zł |
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