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The Island They Towed Away: A Modern Fairy Story
ISBN: 9781496981080 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A general election in Albion usually produces a clear winner but, when it does not, those who feel they should have won cannot resist the temptation to hold another one. Electorates, however, tend to be less enthusiastic a second time round and politicians struggle to engage their attention, so when a distinguished personage suggested the weather was the root of all Albion's woes and that it might be a good idea to tow the island away, certain politicians find the suggestion irresistible. The 'Island they towed Away' tells of the unpredictable consequences of such an extraordinary... A general election in Albion usually produces a clear winner but, when it does not, those who feel they should have won cannot resist the temptatio... |
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165,60 |
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Lorenzo's Fat Head
ISBN: 9781500634483 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lorenzo's Fat Head is a novel of drug smuggling set in the milieu of modern. The story follows the antihero Howard Fillimeer through the darkness of addiction into his redemption by the light of love.
Lorenzo's Fat Head is a novel of drug smuggling set in the milieu of modern. The story follows the antihero Howard Fillimeer through the darkness of a...
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43,70 |
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Curious Republic of Gondour
ISBN: 9781500729677 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gondour is a fictitious republic created by Mark Twain in his short story "The Curious Republic of Gondour," and popularized by Robert A. Heinlein and his heirs. Twain proposed a state in which all citizens have at least one vote, but where further votes (up to a dozen) could be acquired through education, which was provided by the state for free, or by relative wealth. Furthermore, no one was accepted to any public office without passing strenuous competitive examinations.
Gondour is a fictitious republic created by Mark Twain in his short story "The Curious Republic of Gondour," and popularized by Robert A. Heinlein and...
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23,35 |
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The Noah Cicero Bathroom Reader
ISBN: 9781621051589 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Korea to Ohio, Starbucks to the local dive bar, "The Noah Cicero Bathroom Reader" is the ultimate book of feeling shitty and taking shits. Justin remembered shitting himself in America. He had shit himself in the morning driving to class. He was driving to school and couldn't make it. Three minutes before he got to a parking space, boom, his ass exploded into his pants. It was wet and sad. He started crying. He was a thirty-year-old man in his car, crying with shit in his pants. The other time was horrible. He was with his sister. They were coming home from Chili's at night. He... From Korea to Ohio, Starbucks to the local dive bar, "The Noah Cicero Bathroom Reader" is the ultimate book of feeling shitty and taking shits. ... |
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63,82 |
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The Sycamore Tree
ISBN: 9789810793814 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nina is happily married to Gael, until his recently published book rouses the ire of a not-quite-there critic, Howard, intent on becoming the mover and shaker of Londons literary circles. Howard seduces Nina, while Howards wife Elizabeth becomes involved with an Hungarian exile, who befriends and is befriended by Gael, leading to an utterly unexpected and tragic outcome for all. Christine Brooke-Roses second novel is a waspish satire of the 50s London literary scene, and a story of madness and ill-fated lust-an entertaining novel from her early quartet of realist-mode tragicomedies.
Nina is happily married to Gael, until his recently published book rouses the ire of a not-quite-there critic, Howard, intent on becoming the mover an...
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85,89 |
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The Wallcreeper
ISBN: 9780989760713 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fiction. "Who is Nell Zink? She claims to be an expatriate living in northeast Germany. Maybe she is; maybe she isn't. I don't know. I do know that this first novel arrives with a voice that is fully formed: mature, hilarious, terrifyingly intelligent, and wicked. The novel is about a bird-loving American couple that moves to Europe and becomes, basically, eco-terrorists. This is strange, and interesting, but in between is some writing about marriage, love, fidelity, Europe, and saving the earth that is as funny and as grown-up as anything I've read in years. And there are some jokes in here...
Fiction. "Who is Nell Zink? She claims to be an expatriate living in northeast Germany. Maybe she is; maybe she isn't. I don't know. I do know that th...
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68,42 |
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Singaporeans Cried When They Found Out Their Hearts Were Made In China
ISBN: 9781500368340 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. financial sorrows. girlfriend dumping you for some rich asshole. feeling claustrophobic in your own backyard, unable to speak a certain language and feeling like a piece of shit for it. listening to old songs on the radio which remind you of your childhood only to realize you had a crummy one. take all of these arbitrary setbacks, serve them on an oriental plate, let that thing drown in hot sauce, and jam every last ounce of it down your throat because you don't really have much of a choice.
financial sorrows. girlfriend dumping you for some rich asshole. feeling claustrophobic in your own backyard, unable to speak a certain language and f...
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47,85 |
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Bitch Goddess (Robert Rodi Essentials)
ISBN: 9781500615666 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rodi's relentlessly acid satire of modern celebrity was a cult hit in 2002. Told entirely in the form of emails, interview transcripts, magazine articles, TV scripts, even Christmas cards, it's now back in print-and timelier (and funnier) than ever. Viola Chute, a seethingly ambitious actress who's graduated from Grade Z movies to network TV superstardom, hires failed novelist E. Manfred Harry to ghostwrite her (largely fictionalized) memoirs. Harry finds himself immersed in Viola's world of parties, planes, and paparazzi. But when he gets too close to discovering a real secret in her past,...
Rodi's relentlessly acid satire of modern celebrity was a cult hit in 2002. Told entirely in the form of emails, interview transcripts, magazine artic...
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67,65 |
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The Inlooker
ISBN: 9781909121768 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a 'black humour' science fiction story set in the near future, where a man finds that he has a very special talent. It is to take over other people's souls and thus possess their bodies as if they were his own. As he becomes increasingly aware of his abilities, he first uses them to mete out justice to mentally warped criminals, and then to undertake sexual adventures. Growing tired of what are, in the scheme of things, trivial pursuits, he embarks on a life of crime intent on accumulating serious amounts of money. Whilst fleecing the wealthy, he comes across an alien... This is a 'black humour' science fiction story set in the near future, where a man finds that he has a very special talent. It is to take over othe... |
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68,38 |
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A Secret Report to the True American Faith Society: Senior Citizens and Their Threat to America
ISBN: 9780989917308 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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42,53 |
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This Is Not My Bathing Suit: A Novel About Contemporary Artists and Fishermen
ISBN: 9780990532705 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,87 |
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Misadventures of Wunderwear Woman Down Under
ISBN: 9781482827637 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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70,83 |
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Misadventures of Wunderwear Woman Down Under
ISBN: 9781482827644 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,91 |
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Free Time
ISBN: 9781500320225 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roy Leboy is a medical student, living in a garage apartment near the city zoo. His car, Beulah, is a black '53 Oldsmobile Rocket 88. He depends on Beulah for getting him to class and around town. Roy meets his classmates at the DOA Bar and Grill, the watering hole for the medical center, and they walk together, down the street, to Blueballs Cafe to celebrate Roy's birthday. Harry Blueballs, the owner, is a paraplegic. What happens next lands Harry in the University Hospital and Roy in some trouble. The story takes place in the city of Heart. The people in the story are, as in real life,...
Roy Leboy is a medical student, living in a garage apartment near the city zoo. His car, Beulah, is a black '53 Oldsmobile Rocket 88. He depends on Be...
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39,87 |
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La Bovine Genocide
ISBN: 9781501099113 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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27,94 |
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Henry First: A Story of Excess
ISBN: 9780957494510 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Henry First enters his restaurant in a competition that he cannot win, only a miracle - or a chance discovery - can save him. Henry First is a darkly funny and multi-layered novel, a fast-paced story where people do despicable things to one another - all in the service of a jolly good meal.
When Henry First enters his restaurant in a competition that he cannot win, only a miracle - or a chance discovery - can save him. Henry First is a da...
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63,82 |
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The Eunuch: A Dark Tale
ISBN: 9780964647138 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A cultural satire that lampoons practically everything that makes America great...the legal profession, religion, war, art, advanced medical technology, sex, pets...even The American Dream itself.
A cultural satire that lampoons practically everything that makes America great...the legal profession, religion, war, art, advanced medical technolog...
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39,87 |
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Competitive Stupid
ISBN: 9781492332015 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,87 |
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The Man Who Wrote Dirty Books
ISBN: 9781497644939 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This the comic novel, told in epistolary fashion as a sequence of exchanged letters, presents pornographer "Guy LaDouche" retreating to the wilderness with the hope of solitude and concentration to write his next book under a looming deadline.
Instead of peace, he finds harassment and distraction from his publisher, his old girlfriend and an angry father convinced that LaDouche's last novel, featuring a genuine nymphomaniac, was based on the man's daughter. Soon, the author finds his quiet getaway plan beset by a lawsuit and investigation by the FBI and local sheriff. ... This the comic novel, told in epistolary fashion as a sequence of exchanged letters, presents pornographer "Guy LaDouche" retreating to the wilderness...
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64,58 |
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Deep Fried and Pickled
ISBN: 9781500685041 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Book one of THE RACHAEL O'BRIEN CHRONICLES introduces Rachael O'Brien, whose plan to study Art History turns into a laugh-out-loud romp of misadventure. It's 1986, the era of Pop Rocks, Jelly shoes, and big hair rockbands when she enrolls in a southern college intending to earn a degree, party, and meet cute guys--hopefully acing the latter two. She has barely had time to acquaint herself to the dorm food before finding herself threatened by a jealous She-Devil, fending off the advances of a thirty-something redneck, and stumbling upon an art fraud scheme. To top things off, her parents go...
Book one of THE RACHAEL O'BRIEN CHRONICLES introduces Rachael O'Brien, whose plan to study Art History turns into a laugh-out-loud romp of misadventur...
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67,73 |
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