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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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76,62 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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40,15 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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61,45 zł |
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Clumsy Hearts: A Slightly Misguided Romance
ISBN: 9781479346691 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Susannah Blandsley simply wanted to marry a tall, dark, handsome, strong, rich man and live in a country estate. What could go wrong? Just about everything, it turns out, especially for someone as lacking in common sense as Susannah. Clumsy Hearts tells the story of Susannah's three-week vacation at the mansion of her fiance Derek D'Avonsnerve in Cornwall. As she becomes aware of the troubled history of his family and picks up hints of more trouble to come, she decides to ferret out the truth. Fortunately, she's naturally nosy, so the snooping is not a hardship. Before her vacation is over,...
Susannah Blandsley simply wanted to marry a tall, dark, handsome, strong, rich man and live in a country estate. What could go wrong? Just about every...
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37,33 zł |
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An Indispensable Man
ISBN: 9780976652403 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Preston Waddington well understood that corporate survival in the auto industry meant finding a way to make himself indispensable. That objective, however, did not include becoming involved in a product defect cover up, having an affair with the CEO's wife, finding himself in the middle of a law suite, stumbling across a scam involving his father-in-law the car dealer, confronting a hostile dealer body and, finally, facing the prospect of being invited by the board of directors to "fall on his sword."
Preston Waddington well understood that corporate survival in the auto industry meant finding a way to make himself indispensable. That objective, how...
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76,67 zł |
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Trust Fund Kids
ISBN: 9781481131841 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gracious North Fork, Connecticut - a sleepy WASP backwater - is jolted awake when a mega-rich outsider plans to build a world-class golf resort on a pristine piece of rural real estate. The local trust fund kids vow to protect their cud-chewing way of life, banding together to resist the intruder in their own genteel way. Brute force intervenes in the form of Byron Weinberg, the town's gay Jewish mayor. Because of his unconventional political agenda, Weinberg allows no development in his town. Ever.... Neither gracious nor genteel, Weinberg uses creative methods to stop the golf course - from...
Gracious North Fork, Connecticut - a sleepy WASP backwater - is jolted awake when a mega-rich outsider plans to build a world-class golf resort on a p...
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40,31 zł |
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Happy Mutant Baby Pills PB
ISBN: 9780061990502 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lloyd has a particular set of skills. He writes the small print for prescription drugs, marital aids, and incontinence products. The clients present him with a list of possible side effects. His job is "to recite and minimize"--sometimes by just saying them really fast and other times by finding the language that can render them acceptable. The results are ingenious. The methods diabolical. Lloyd has a habit, too. He cops smack during coffee breaks at his new job writing copy for Christian Swingles, an online dating service for the faithful. He finds a precarious balance between... Lloyd has a particular set of skills. He writes the small print for prescription drugs, marital aids, and incontinence products. The clients presen... |
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69,13 zł |
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Amabo: The Bright Mouse In The White House
ISBN: 9781479181780 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Amabo is appointed to the highest office in the land, the mice of Pendleton eagerly await the changes that he has planned for the village. His victories, and indeed hardships, only strengthen his desire to make certain that every mouse is taken care of, every step of the way. Amabo's Pendleton leaves no mouse behind, and strives to create a place where every mouse is equal, no matter where they come from, what they look like, or what they believe. Equality is seemingly within grasp for the first time in the village's history, until some mice start having second thoughts. With leaders...
When Amabo is appointed to the highest office in the land, the mice of Pendleton eagerly await the changes that he has planned for the village. His vi...
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40,31 zł |
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Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
ISBN: 9783842447806 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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153,29 zł |
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The Antisocial Manifesto
ISBN: 9781482565904 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Antisocial Manifesto: A Novel, is the modern day perspective of a prophet. Much like the minions of the Old Testament-God (Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad), The Son is the author/ biographer of the anti-god, the anti-prophet, the Antitheist (the Adversary). The account herein is true and the mission of the Antitheist is very real. As documented herein, the apparent "delusions" of the Antitheist are no different than the prophets that came before him; however, they are polar opposites. His gradual, incessant, and progressive attacks upon the Monotheist's are unprecedented. "Riveting ...
The Antisocial Manifesto: A Novel, is the modern day perspective of a prophet. Much like the minions of the Old Testament-God (Abraham, Moses, Jesus, ...
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52,42 zł |
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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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40,31 zł |
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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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60,49 zł |
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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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56,45 zł |
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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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21,71 zł |
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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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81,56 zł |
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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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76,67 zł |
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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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60,53 zł |
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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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42,37 zł |
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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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36,19 zł |
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Happy Utopia Day, Joe McCarthy
ISBN: 9781937110536 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chris Thompson thought his youthful dreams of being a secret agent had long ago been put to rest. He has a wife and child, a stable job with the US Customs Department, and--aside from a minor incident involving outsourcing American apple pie production to Bangladesh--no real worries.
This all changes when Chris receives a phone call from the president of the United States, Oscar I. Wright, regarding a secret invasion of America from Canada and Mexico--an invasion somehow tied to the "Big Mac Party," a cultish political party that worships the legacy of the notorious Communist-hunting... Chris Thompson thought his youthful dreams of being a secret agent had long ago been put to rest. He has a wife and child, a stable job with the US Cu...
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53,61 zł |
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