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The Spider
ISBN: 9781480021570 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A master of the Stratocaster, Clifford Williams used to rock. Girls used to scream his name. Women used to chase him, and many of them would catch him, and he had so much fun. But that was a long time ago. Nowadays, Clifford doesn't ask for much from life. All he wants is a quiet cigarette, perhaps with a mug of strong coffee, plus some privacy and peace to read his naughty magazines. But Clifford has a problem. His wife, Suzie, is a frigid schizophrenic. Caring for her can be difficult, and loving her can be deadly; especially when Freddie Mercury is involved.
A master of the Stratocaster, Clifford Williams used to rock. Girls used to scream his name. Women used to chase him, and many of them would catch him...
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41,41 |
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There Is No Mrs. Gezunterman: A corporate comedy
ISBN: 9781939113047 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When a movie theater projector of a large theater chain breaks down, a surly theater manager refuses to give an old woman her refund because she cannot find her ticket stub. That's when Frank Rooney, an easy-going chemistry professor, rises up to take the manager - and corporate arrogance - by the throat. Frank gets himself arrested and his trial becomes the flashpoint for massive protests organized by TULP - Treat Us Like People - a nascent group of citizens frustrated by corporate indifference and consumer abuse. Max Rodriguez, an aimless but charismatic recent college grad, stumbles into...
When a movie theater projector of a large theater chain breaks down, a surly theater manager refuses to give an old woman her refund because she canno...
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62,14 |
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Beyond Expectations: (Corruption a Socio-econopolitical Betrayal)
ISBN: 9781482653373 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edward Orony Omolo and Kennedy Omolo have used their bicultural advantage to write a narrative on how the cruel culture of corruption, impunity, status quo, infidelity, poverty, ethnicity and tribalism in their fictitious home in Africa, a country called Konza, a country in which the contents about tribalism, corruption, and impunity dominate national dialogue. Edward and his brother are both sojourners, but they have found different paths through the maze of American culture. They don't want to get back to their home after living in the real world, a new country, where things made sense,...
Edward Orony Omolo and Kennedy Omolo have used their bicultural advantage to write a narrative on how the cruel culture of corruption, impunity, statu...
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57,99 |
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The Feline Cup
ISBN: 9781483942179 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Four of our favourite pastimes - sport, lust, greed and crime - are included in this satirical book. Take a humorous journey and see yourself though the eyes of Cat Vale's cats. Join the cats on Feline Park as they compete for The Feline Cup. Follow the spoof of Chief Inspector Claws as he tries to solve the murder of Miss Bella, a sexy pussy with pleasing paws. And join the thieves in Robbery at Rodents-to-Go. Do you see yourself as Lusty Les, Miss Lizzie or Cat Vale's big football forward, Hercules? Will you partake of the pleasures of Madame Cat at Pussey's Pamper Parlour? Might you stroll...
Four of our favourite pastimes - sport, lust, greed and crime - are included in this satirical book. Take a humorous journey and see yourself though t...
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22,30 |
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Float
ISBN: 9781618220202 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When everything around you is sinking, sometimes it takes desperate measures to stay afloat When Duncan Leland looks down at the garbage-strewn beach beneath his office window, he sees the words God Help Us scrawled in the sand. While it seems a fitting message-not only is Duncan's business underwater, but his marriage is drowning as well-he goes down to the beach to erase it. Once there, he helps a seagull being strangled by a plastic six-pack holder-the only creature in worse shape than he is at the moment. Duncan rescues the seagull, not realizing that he's being... When everything around you is sinking, sometimes it takes desperate measures to stay afloat When Duncan Leland looks down a... |
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83,79 |
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Koontown Killing Kaper
ISBN: 9780989141109 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All the rappers in Koontown are being killed, and everybody thinks it is vampire crack babies who are doing the killing. Desperate, the police reach out to Genevieve Noire, a former supermodel and homicide detective now working as a private eye, to save the day. With this work, author Bill Campbell conducts a gleeful evisceration of the social tropes, stereotypes, and conspiracy theories running rampant in today s popular culture."
All the rappers in Koontown are being killed, and everybody thinks it is vampire crack babies who are doing the killing. Desperate, the police reach o...
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78,76 |
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Mamma Bambaleesa: A Story out of Africa
ISBN: 9781484043554 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "OUT OF AFRICA ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW..." Mamma Beauty Bambaleesa is a marriage broker in the village of Qua-Ka-Ka in the Ciskei... Not only this, she is an adviser to many... Her adventures in regard to her profession make for hilarious reading.... She goes to Egoli and to Sun City... She needs to find a new bride for the President of South Africa, Lacob Juma, a much married man... Along the way she encounters witch-doctors, pastors, schoolmasters, tsotsis, pole dancers, gamblers, erotic movies... Her long suffering husband Ndonwabile, is Chief of Police in Qua-Ka-Ka.... Her friend Katie...
"OUT OF AFRICA ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW..." Mamma Beauty Bambaleesa is a marriage broker in the village of Qua-Ka-Ka in the Ciskei... Not only this, she i...
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62,18 |
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Olsen's Nation: (A Story of Hope for Change)
ISBN: 9781484081327 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. BACON IS BANNED--AND THE GOVERNMENT IS RUNNING HOG-WILD The Government's Cheap and Accessible Care Act ("CACA") has put healthcare in the toilet. But President Bodvar Olsen is forging ahead with still more Government controls, from dietary mandates to restrictions on e-mail jokes. Now, as the President jets off to golf outings and TV talk shows, seven unlikely protesters are heading for Mexico. Their goals: 1) to cross the border for quality medical services; and 2) to focus media attention on the Government's invasive policies. Marvin, a Government health official with secret doubts about...
BACON IS BANNED--AND THE GOVERNMENT IS RUNNING HOG-WILD The Government's Cheap and Accessible Care Act ("CACA") has put healthcare in the toilet. But...
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43,52 |
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Yellow Evangelists
ISBN: 9781481129794 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Yellow Evangelists is a fiction. It is about Mr. Obinna Nsofor's family and their society. His wife Lynda is a member of the Charismatic Renewal. She manoeuvres to make Obinna and Uju her daughter join the renewal. She ignores her husband's warnings and fellowships with the Redeemed Ministry in her desire to have a son, despite losing her womb in an abortion. She desires wealth and hopes Sister Bimbo and Pastor Tunde will assist her achieve her goal. Uju at the University worked as sex worker with her schoolmates to enable them meet their financial needs. Wealthy and corrupt Philip proposes...
Yellow Evangelists is a fiction. It is about Mr. Obinna Nsofor's family and their society. His wife Lynda is a member of the Charismatic Renewal. She ...
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37,18 |
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Players, Pimps & Tricks
ISBN: 9780985212728 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the Rap music business a temp job can lead to permanent insanity. Read how a young mother moves from small-town Missouri to New York City. One morning, she discovers her husband has run away to join a religious cult. Soon she realizes that her only hope is to put her soul is in the clutches of a music mogul, Bigar Kahn. In his world you are a player, a pimp or a trick. Which one will she be?
In the Rap music business a temp job can lead to permanent insanity. Read how a young mother moves from small-town Missouri to New York City. One morn...
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49,71 |
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An All-American Family
ISBN: 9781482092134 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aging hippies John Brader and his wife Joanie travel from New York to Oklahoma in search of John's Native American roots and find a twisted family tale of cruelty, greed, hallucinogenic Indian medicines, and lost wealth. In Oklahoma, John discovers he is the sole heir of his grandfather's oil lands, which sends him looking for his grandfather's lost deeds. The family story begins in the early nineteenth century, when the tribe was forced-marched on the infamous Trail of Tears from its lands in Mississippi to Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, and ends sometime in the future. John Brader...
Aging hippies John Brader and his wife Joanie travel from New York to Oklahoma in search of John's Native American roots and find a twisted family tal...
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62,14 |
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Dear Jackie
ISBN: 9781482617900 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jackie Van Holland is an advice columnist in her local newspaper. An expert on everything from teen angst, women and religion in the workplace, and childrearing to national and international affairs, Jackie is the perfect person to hand out priceless advice to the huddled masses. Living a picture perfect agenda with her beautiful children and minister husband, Jackie's life would be pretty swell if it weren't for the liberal agenda that was bringing her beloved country to its knees. From a non-citizen president and an election that was sold to blacks and Hispanics to nearly half of the...
Jackie Van Holland is an advice columnist in her local newspaper. An expert on everything from teen angst, women and religion in the workplace, and ch...
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22,30 |
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Iran On Ice: A Paul Blaine Covert Adventure No. 4
ISBN: 9781490425924 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All-Star Ice Hockey players are being kidnapped all over the world and there appears to be a plot to fix the 2014 Winter Olympics. COVERT agents Paul Blaine, Danny Willoughby and Andi Harkness team up with an international Super-Spy to discover what is behind the bizarre series of events. Could the answer be found at a hockey rink located in one of the hottest places on Earth?
All-Star Ice Hockey players are being kidnapped all over the world and there appears to be a plot to fix the 2014 Winter Olympics. COVERT agents Paul ...
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49,54 |
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Mr. Wolf v. The Three Pigs: Mr. Wolf Goes to Court
ISBN: 9780615706337 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once again the Three Pigs and the wolf come head to head in this creative twist of a classic fairy tale. After being defamed by the Three Little Pigs for many years, Mr. Wolf wrestles with the idea of clearing his name. In a book that reads like The Three Little Pigs meet Law and Order, Mr. Wolf decides to buck conventional wisdom and disturb decades of fragile peace in the town of Maplewood. When Mr. Wolf hires an unlikely lawyer to tell his side of the story, The Three Pigs strike back with the formidable Ms. Priggly. As Mr. Wolf rages a legal battle against the pigs, the town is ripped...
Once again the Three Pigs and the wolf come head to head in this creative twist of a classic fairy tale. After being defamed by the Three Little Pigs ...
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62,14 |
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The Resurrection of Mary Mabel McTavish
ISBN: 9781459708495 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bony Blithe Light Mystery Award 2015 -- Nominated
Faith healers, movie moguls, and social-climbing fraudsters collide in Depression-era Los Angeles It's the Great Depression and Mary Mabel McTavish is suicidal. A drudge at the Bentwhistle Academy for Young Ladies (aka Wealthy Juvenile Delinquents), she is at London General Hospital when little Timmy Beeford is carried into emergency and pronounced dead. He was electrocuted at an evangelical road show when the metal cross on top of the revival tent was struck by lightning. Believing she's guided by her late... Bony Blithe Light Mystery Award 2015 -- Nominated
Faith healers, movie moguls, and social-climbing fraudsters collide in Depressi... |
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71,02 |
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No Child Left Alive
ISBN: 9781490388038 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If the shooter doesn't get them, the system will. That proved to be the case for author Randy Turner, as the veteran teacher was fired from his teaching job in Joplin, Missouri, for writing this book. No Child Left Alive tells the story of one year at dysfunctional Franklin Heights High School, where the teachers battle administrators seeking to pad their resumes at the expense of the students' education and find themselves at the mercy of a criminal element that has been lured back into the school in a misguided effort to increase graduation rates. At the center of the storm is Assistant...
If the shooter doesn't get them, the system will. That proved to be the case for author Randy Turner, as the veteran teacher was fired from his teachi...
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82,87 |
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The Savoy Truffle
ISBN: 9781908011657 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set among the mansions and tennis clubs of Surrey's richest suburb, The Savoy Truffle is a darkly comic drama that evokes an era when Mod gear was fab, the Shorty Nightie shocking, the coffee frothy, and a new Beatles' single brought hysteria to the classroom. The grey post-war years are trembling on the verge of Technicolour, and the Blyte children are struggling to cope with the transition in their own idiosyncratic ways: Hugh's novel is held up by yearning for the Irish au pair; Janey moons over the mystery of men and the enigmatic Black Mini; George wages savage war on his Enemy; and the...
Set among the mansions and tennis clubs of Surrey's richest suburb, The Savoy Truffle is a darkly comic drama that evokes an era when Mod gear was fab...
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75,17 |
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West of Sunset
ISBN: 9781448206810 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set in the shadow of Hollywood opulence - the gaudy wastes of Los Angeles - West of Sunset is a sharp and potent satire of movie-making America. However the excessive glitter is embedded in a deeper plot about a successful man's fall from grace. Hugo Arlington, a celebrated young writer, had the power to destroy people. His widow, Alice, is not the only person to be haunted by his death and life, and gradually the truth about the dangerous games Hugo played comes to light, and the past comes catching up with the present. West of Sunset is an amusing and rich... Set in the shadow of Hollywood opulence - the gaudy wastes of Los Angeles - West of Sunset is a sharp and potent satire of movie-making Amer... |
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79,82 |
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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
ISBN: 9780199554850 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidele is the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most modern' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading... Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidele is the confidence man'...
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51,12 |
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Blue White Red
ISBN: 9780253007919 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki's footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work undocumented immigrants. After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased with a stolen checkbook, he winds up in jail and is... This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing design... |
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69,43 |
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