The World in Half
ISBN: 9781594484391 / Angielski / Miękka / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now in paperback, the "beautiful" (Chicago Sun-Times) novel from the prizewinning author of Come Together, Fall Apart. Miraflores never knew her father, and never thought he wanted to know her. But when she returns to the Chicago suburb where she grew up to care for her ailing mother, she discovers that her mother and father were greatly in love, and that her father had wanted a daughter more than she could have imagined. Now, Miraflores secretly plots a trip to Panama, in search of the man she hopes can heal her mother-and who can help her find the pieces of her...
Now in paperback, the "beautiful" (Chicago Sun-Times) novel from the prizewinning author of Come Together, Fall Apart. Mira...
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94,94 zł |
La Hojarasca / Leaf Storm
ISBN: 9780307475695 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Con La hojarasca nacio Macondo, esa poblacion cercana a la costa atlantica colombiana que se ha convertido en uno de los grandes mitos de la literatura universal. En el transcurre la historia de un entierro imposible. Ha muerto un personaje extrano, un antiguo medico odiado por el pueblo. Un viejo coronel retirado, para cumplir una promesa, se ha empenado en enterrarle frente a la oposicion de todo el poblado y sus autoridades. Como en una tragedia griega, el viejo coronel, su hija y su nieto van a cumplir la ominosa tarea. La accion, compuesta por la descripcion de los preparativos...
Con La hojarasca nacio Macondo, esa poblacion cercana a la costa atlantica colombiana que se ha convertido en uno de los grandes mitos de la li...
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El Otoño del Patriarca / The Autumn of the Patriarch
ISBN: 9780307475763 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Garcia Marquez ha declarado una y otra vez que El otono del patriarca es la novela en la que mas trabajo y esfuerzo invirtio. En efecto, Garcia Marquez construyo aqui una maquinaria narrativa perfecta que desgrana una historia universal la agonia y muerte de un dictador en forma ciclica, experimental y real al mismo tiempo, repitiendo una anecdota siempre igual y siempre distinta, acumulando hechos y descripciones deslumbrantes."
Garcia Marquez ha declarado una y otra vez que El otono del patriarca es la novela en la que mas trabajo y esfuerzo invirtio. En efecto, Garcia...
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La Increíble Y Triste Historia de la Cándida Eréndira Y de Su Abuela Desalmada / The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Gr
ISBN: 9780307475787 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Este libro excepcional reune la novela corta que le otorga su titulo y otros seis relatos mas, de los que todos menos uno pertenecen a la etapa de plena madurez del escritor. Fueron los anos en los que Macondo le abrio las puertas del realismo magico, donde la realidad se expresa mediante formulas magicas y legendarias y los milagros se insertan en la vida cotidiana. La candida Erendira y su abuela desalmada personifican la inocencia y la maldad, el amor y su perversion, y el relato recuerda al mismo tiempo las gestas medievales y los cantos provenzales o trovadorescos, aunque, como siempre,...
Este libro excepcional reune la novela corta que le otorga su titulo y otros seis relatos mas, de los que todos menos uno pertenecen a la etapa de ple...
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60,42 zł |
The Madonnas of Echo Park
ISBN: 9781439170847 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reminiscent of Luis Alberto Urrea and Dinaw Mengestu, The Madonnas of Echo Park is a brilliant and genuinely fresh view of American life. The Madonnas of Echo Park is both a grand mural of a Los Angeles neighborhood and an intimate glimpse into the lives of the men and women who struggle to lose their ethnic identity in the pursuit of the American dream. Each chapter summons a different voice--poetic, fierce, comic. We meet Hector, a day laborer who trolls the streets for work and witnesses a murder that pits his morality against his illegal status; his ex-wife...
Reminiscent of Luis Alberto Urrea and Dinaw Mengestu, The Madonnas of Echo Park is a brilliant and genuinely fresh view of American life.
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73,36 zł |
Pepita Jimenez: A Novel by Juan Valera
ISBN: 9780856688867 / Angielski / Miękka / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Juan Valera y Alcala-Galiano (1824-1905), one of 19th-century Spain's most well known authors, had a career in the diplomatic service with postings in Europe and the Americas. A serious student of his own and foreign literatures, Valera wrote novels, short stories, essays and literary criticism.
" Juan Valera y Alcala-Galiano (1824-1905), one of 19th-century Spain's most well known authors, had a career in the diplomatic service with postings in...
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238,91 zł |
The Accidental Santera
ISBN: 9781250011480 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A one-of-a-kind novel that plunges readers into the secrets of Afro-Cuban Santeria--a world of fascinating beauty, pulsating rhythms, and great mystery. Gabrielle Segovia, Ph.D., is struggling to build a career as a Latina scientist, cope with her third miscarriage, and resuscitate her marriage to fellow biology professor Benito Cruz. Becoming a santera is not in her plans. But everything changes when her best friend, the feisty Patricia Munoz, drags her into a French Quarter voodoo shop during a conference in New Orleans. When Gabrielle gets home to the San... A one-of-a-kind novel that plunges readers into the secrets of Afro-Cuban Santeria--a world of fascinating beauty, pulsating rhythms, and great ... |
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99,21 zł |
Água Viva
ISBN: 9780811219907 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally innovative, and philosophically profound as Clarice Lispector s, Agua Viva stands out as a particular triumph."
A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transformi...
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64,33 zł |
Near to the Wild Heart
ISBN: 9780811220026 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called "Hurricane Clarice" a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: "He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart of life." The book was an unprecedented sensation -- the discovery of a genius. Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue frame the life of Joana, from her middle-class childhood through her unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence, when she proclaims: "I shall arise as... Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called "Hurricane Clarice" a twenty-three-year-ol... |
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The Discovery of America by the Turks
ISBN: 9780143106982 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published here for the first time in English in a brilliant translation by the peerless Gregory Rabassa, "The Discovery of America by the Turks" is a whimsical Brazilian take on The Taming of the Shrew that will remind readers why Jorge Amado is to Portuguese-American literature what Jorge Luis Borges is to Spanish-American literature. It follows the adventures of two Arab immigrants-"Turks," as Brazilians call them-who arrive in the rough Brazilian frontier in 1903 and become involved in a merchant's farcical attempt to marry off his shrew of a daughter.
For more than seventy years,... Published here for the first time in English in a brilliant translation by the peerless Gregory Rabassa, "The Discovery of America by the Turks" is a ...
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94,94 zł |
Corazón Tan Blanco / A Heart So White
ISBN: 9780307951380 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Una extraordinaria novela sobre los secretos y las sospechas que, poco a poco, van tinendo los corazones blancos hasta que dejan de serlo
Pocos meses despues de su viaje de novios y sin aun haber podido, o querido, adaptarse a su cambio de estado, Juan se entera casi sin querer de que Teresa, la primera mujer de su padre, se quito la vida al regreso de su propia luna de miel. Solo una persona conoce el porque y ha guardado durante anos ese oscuro secreto. A partir de ese momento, el narrador sentira un creciente malestar un presentimiento de desastre respecto a su recien inaugurado... Una extraordinaria novela sobre los secretos y las sospechas que, poco a poco, van tinendo los corazones blancos hasta que dejan de serlo
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Men in Miami Hotels
ISBN: 9780062247278 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Men in Miami Hotels, Smith tells the story of Cot Sims, a listing Miami gangster who returns to Key West aiming to--among other things--save his fool-proof mother from homelessness after a recent hurricane. For love, for cash, and for the hell of it, he snatches a trove of emeralds that his boss, the relentlessly vicious Albertson, keeps hidden on a small island. And then trouble, which has been coiling around him for years like a snake, bites. Cot has forty-eight hours to return the emeralds before items of equal or greater value--namely, the lives of everyone he... In Men in Miami Hotels, Smith tells the story of Cot Sims, a listing Miami gangster who returns to Key West aiming to--among other things-... |
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The Bloody Frontier: Saga of a Texas Ranger: Volume 3
ISBN: 9781622128389 / Angielski / Twarda / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set in early Texas between the end of the Mexican War and the dawn of the American Civil War, The Bloody Frontier is the third in a series of four historic westerns written by Jeffery Robenalt. Saga of a Texas Ranger continues as Caleb McAdams recruits his own company of Rangers to deal with Comanche depredations on the Western frontier and the ravages of Mexican bandits along the Rio Grande. In the midst of this deadly struggle, Caleb must deal with an unknown assassin in his own ranks who has been sent to Texas by the Pate brothers, while his love for two women builds to a gut-wrenching...
Set in early Texas between the end of the Mexican War and the dawn of the American Civil War, The Bloody Frontier is the third in a series of four his...
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150,82 zł |
Say You'll Be Mine (Large Print Edition)
ISBN: 9781455528813 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Isabel Gallegos is only a handshake away from living her dream life. After years of putting everyone else's needs before her own, she's selling her family's vineyard and moving to a quiet cottage on the California coast. But just as she's about to seal the deal, a letter arrives from Argentina with shocking news: Her beloved cousin has died and Isabel is now the sole guardian of three young children.
Still holding on to her dream, Isabel travels to Argentina. There she meets little Julieta, the cherubic baby of the family; eight-year-old Adelmo, as hot-tempered as his sister is sweet; and... Isabel Gallegos is only a handshake away from living her dream life. After years of putting everyone else's needs before her own, she's selling her fa...
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157,28 zł |
Black Flower
ISBN: 9780544106390 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "'Can a nation disappear forever?' . . . In] a tale of collective loss, political revolution and the individual quest for self-determination . . . Kim brings us the souls caught up on the ground of this larger drama." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune In 1904, facing war and the loss of their nation, more than a thousand Koreans leave their homes for the promise of land in unknown Mexico. After a long sea voyage, these emigrants -- thieves and royals, priests and soldiers, orphans and entire families -- discover that they have been sold into indentured servitude. Aboard the ship,...
"'Can a nation disappear forever?' . . . In] a tale of collective loss, political revolution and the individual quest for self-determination . . . Ki...
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77,64 zł |
Quesadillas
ISBN: 9780374533953 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A brilliant new comic novel from "a linguistic virtuoso" (Jose Antonio Aguado, Diari de Terrassa) It's the 1980s in Lagos de Moreno--a town where there are more cows than people, and more priests than cows--and a poor family struggles to overcome the bizarre dangers of living in Mexico. The father, a high-school civics teacher, insists on practicing and teaching the art of the insult, while the mother prepares hundreds of quesadillas to serve to their numerous progeny: Aristotle, Orestes, Archilochus, Callimachus, Electra, Castor, and Pollux.... A brilliant new comic novel from "a linguistic virtuoso" (Jose Antonio Aguado, Diari de Terrassa) It's th... |
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81,99 zł |
The Realm of Hungry Spirits
ISBN: 9780446549639 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Buddhism, there is a place where hungry souls gather between lives awaiting rebirth so they can finally satisfy the desires that haunt them.
In the San Fernando Valley, that place is Marina Lucero's house. THE REALM OF HUNGRY SPIRITS For Marina Lucero, whose father transformed his life through meditation and whose mother gave hers to a Carmelite convent, spirituality should come easily. It doesn't. After a devastating relationship leaves her feeling lost and alone, she opens her home to a collection of wayward souls-- the abused woman next door and... In Buddhism, there is a place where hungry souls gather between lives awaiting rebirth so they can finally satisfy the desires that haunt th...
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119,57 zł |
Better with You Here
ISBN: 9780446564038 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Single mom Natasha Davila has done a good job holding things together. Her divorce didn't leave her with much, but she has her kids and they are her world. Only now, she's facing a problem she never predicted: Her ex-husband is re-marrying, planning a new family and--worst of all--suing Natasha for full custody of their two children. Desperate to save her family, she turns to her neighbors--fellow single moms facing their own drama. Sharing their laughter and their tears, these near strangers help Natasha find a strength she never knew she had. And when her ex ups the ante and exposes some...
Single mom Natasha Davila has done a good job holding things together. Her divorce didn't leave her with much, but she has her kids and they are her w...
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94,90 zł |
Mexico: Stories
ISBN: 9781101906293 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The unforgettable characters in Josh Barkan's astonishing and beautiful story collection--chef, architect, nurse, high school teacher, painter, beauty queen, classical bass player, plastic surgeon, businessman, mime--are simply trying to lead their lives and steer clear of violence. Yet, inevitably, crime has a way of intruding on their lives all the same. A surgeon finds himself forced into performing a risky procedure on a narco killer. A teacher struggles to protect lovestruck students whose forbidden romance has put them in mortal peril. A painter's freewheeling ways land him in the back...
The unforgettable characters in Josh Barkan's astonishing and beautiful story collection--chef, architect, nurse, high school teacher, painter, beauty...
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118,72 zł |
Haunted Honeymoon at Casa Dracula: Casa Dracula Book 4
ISBN: 9780989177375 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Funny, flirty Milagro De Los Santos is forced to take another ghostwriting job for hoaxer Don Pedro when she can't pay her condo fees. Her romantic life isn't much better. She's conflicted about her torrid affair with Vampire Council director Ian Ducharme and still yearning for her ex-fiance, Dr. Oswald Grant and her life at his wine-country ranch. When Ian's flirtations with a pretty neighbor infuriate Milagro, she travels to London, and the blood really hits the fan. People around her are dying grisly deaths, and Milagro's framed for murder. She escapes to Oswald's ranch, but an accident...
Funny, flirty Milagro De Los Santos is forced to take another ghostwriting job for hoaxer Don Pedro when she can't pay her condo fees. Her romantic li...
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63,44 zł |