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Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron: Being a Jane Austen Mystery
ISBN: 9780553386707 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The restorative power of the ocean brings Jane Austen and her beloved brother Henry, to Brighton after Henry's wife is lost to a long illness. But the crowded, glittering resort is far from peaceful, especially when the lifeless body of a beautiful young society miss is discovered in the bedchamber of none other than George Gordon--otherwise known as Lord Byron. As a poet and a seducer of women, Byron has carved out a shocking reputation for himself--but no one would ever accuse him of being capable of murder. Now it falls to Jane to pursue this puzzling investigation and discover just how...
The restorative power of the ocean brings Jane Austen and her beloved brother Henry, to Brighton after Henry's wife is lost to a long illness. But the...
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Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion
ISBN: 9780061958311 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Witty, smart, and sharp as a stake....Tongue in cheek, a bit naughty, and unputdownable, Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion has a brilliance that Ms. Austen would wholly appreciate " The delicious adventures of Jane Austen, vampire, continue Janet Mullany follows up her delightful vampiric romp, Jane and the Damned, with Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion--pitting the Immortal author against a host of murderous creatures and an annoying ex-lover who intends to hound plucky Jane for all eternity, as she races to prevent an impending Undead... "Witty, smart, and sharp as a stake....Tongue in cheek, a bit naughty, and unputdownable, Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion has a brilliance t... |
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The Tiger's Wife
ISBN: 9780385343848 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER |
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Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events: Stories
ISBN: 9780062069221 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A dazzling new story collection from brilliant, young, award-winning writer Kevin Moffett, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events illuminates the intimate experiences of characters caught between aspiration and achievement, uncertainty and illumination, inertia and discovery, the past and the future. Channeling unexpected, eclectic voices in a collection perfectly suited to readers of Daniyal Mueenuddin, Alice Sebold, and Dave Eggers, Moffett delivers a nuanced, powerful, humorous, and moving meditation on the trials of transitions and liminal living in today's modern world....
A dazzling new story collection from brilliant, young, award-winning writer Kevin Moffett, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events illumi...
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The Last Policeman: A Novel
ISBN: 9781594746741 / Angielski / Miękka / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. " The] weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series."--John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns Winner of the 2013 Edgar(R) Award Winner for Best Paperback OriginalWhat's the point in solving murders if we're all going to die soon, anyway? Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There's no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact. The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a... " The] weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series."--John Green, author of The F... |
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Liminal States
ISBN: 9780806533643 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A visionary tour de force, Liminal States begins in 1874, out on the wilder edges of the New Mexico Territory, where Gideon Long stumbles toward his certain death, shot by his nemesis, Warren Groves, during a botched train robbery. But a mysterious white dog draws Gideon into a cave, leading him on a course that will alter a nation's history. . .
Over a hundred years later, the promise of America has grown twisted beyond recognition. Two sworn enemies are still alive, immortalized by the foreign alchemy of an alien presence. Their feud has unknowingly set the stage for humanity's end. An... A visionary tour de force, Liminal States begins in 1874, out on the wilder edges of the New Mexico Territory, where Gideon Long stumbles toward his c...
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Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II
ISBN: 9781594746260 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. - The] weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series.---John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns
Winner of the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award The Last Policeman received the 2013 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original--along with plenty of glowing reviews. Now Detective Hank Palace returns in Countdown City, the second volume of the Last Policeman trilogy. There are just 77 days before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective Palace is out of a job. With the... - The] weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series.---John Green, author of The Faul...
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World of Trouble: The Last Policeman Book III
ISBN: 9781594746857 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. - The] weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series.---John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns
Critically acclaimed author Ben H. Winters delivers this explosive final installment in the Edgar Award winning Last Policeman series. With the doomsday asteroid looming, Detective Hank Palace has found sanctuary in the woods of New England, secure in a well-stocked safe house with other onetime members of the Concord police force. But with time ticking away before the asteroid makes landfall, Hank's... - The] weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series.---John Green, author of The Faul...
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Screwed, Blu'd and Tattooed
ISBN: 9780615925103 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meet Blu Yunger, a wild and wooly young traveler who will take you for quite a ride in his fast Ford Fairlane. Along the way you'll meet the beauteous Fakyah Aineedair, Big Roid Bagwith, and Trout Bender. If this picaresque adventure isn't enough to hold you, there's a handful of other tales to tug on your brainpan. Yes, Reef Perkins can be downright hilarious
Meet Blu Yunger, a wild and wooly young traveler who will take you for quite a ride in his fast Ford Fairlane. Along the way you'll meet the beauteous...
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The Tao of Humiliation
ISBN: 9781938160325 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2014 Best New Fiction of May 2014, Typographical Era Alternately chilling, funny, devastating, and hopeful, these 17 stories introduce us to a theater critic who winds up in a hot tub with the actress he routinely savages in reviews; a biographer who struggles to discover why a novelist stopped writing; a student who contends with her predatory professor; and the startling scenario of the last satyr meeting his last woman. Writer-in-residence and a professor of English at Lafayette College, Lee Upton is author of...
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2014 Best New Fiction of May 2014, Typographical Era Alternately chilling, funny, de...
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TV Gods
ISBN: 9780988799127 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,68 |
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The Black Cat and the Ghoul
ISBN: 9781940761060 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On August 19, 1843, horror master Edgar Allan Poe released one of his darkest short stories, The Black Cat, his exploration of the psychology of guilt. Now, over a hundred and fifty years later, the tale of an unreliable narrator is continued by horror author Keith Gouveia. After killing his wife, John Mohr is sentenced to die at the gallows. But when an unlikely visitor turns into a reluctant partner, John embraces the monster within and becomes the god of the underworld's instrument of death. Doomed to walk the earth as an undead aberration with an insatiable hunger, John must send souls to...
On August 19, 1843, horror master Edgar Allan Poe released one of his darkest short stories, The Black Cat, his exploration of the psychology of guilt...
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Lost Boi
ISBN: 9781551525815 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lambda Literary Award finalist In Sassafras Lowrey's gorgeous queer punk reimagining of the classic "Peter Pan" story, prepare to be swept overboard into a world of orphaned, abandoned, and runaway bois who have sworn allegiance and service to Pan, the fearless leader of the Lost Bois brigade and the newly corrupted Mommy Wendi who, along with the tomboy John Michael, Pan convinces to join him at Neverland. Told from the point of view of Tootles, Pan's best boi, the lost bois call the Neverland squat home, creating their own idea of family, and united in their allegiance to Pan, the... Lambda Literary Award finalist In Sassafras Lowrey's gorgeous queer punk reimagining of the classic "Peter Pan" story, prepare to be swept overbo... |
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The Illustration of Tommy T. & Other Short Stories
ISBN: 9780692447161 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When he's not making music, Blues Hall of Famer Jersey Slim (A/K/A George Cook) writes short stories, songs, and poetry. This imaginative collection of 8 short stories take you inside a very special world where you'll follow Tommy T. as he seeks to cover his body in tattoos, meet partakers of an elixir known as D-5, watch some cons pull off the Murphy, and share a cell with Butch and Tommy. "These stand-alone stories will both amuse and amaze," says literary maven Hollis George.
When he's not making music, Blues Hall of Famer Jersey Slim (A/K/A George Cook) writes short stories, songs, and poetry. This imaginative collection o...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim
ISBN: 9781514344903 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NOTICE PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance. It is a time when zombies, having come back from the dead, are not seen as human beings and are denied certain rights. As a young man trying to escape the burdens of civilization to be free, Huckleberry Finn helps Zombie Jim escape as well. Along the way, he discovers the humanity of zombies and the inhumanity of his own species.
NOTICE PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons at...
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Sherlock Holmes: Cthulhu Mythos Adventures
ISBN: 9781517029715 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sherlock Holmes and fantasy writer HP Lovecraft did not meet until 1981. This introduction was made by Ralph E Vaughan in the seminal story "The Adventure of the Ancient Gods." Previously appearing in a small press journal, then as a limited-run chapbook, this out-of-print tale was available only as a high-priced collector's item, out of reach for most readers. After more than 30 years, it is again presented to a new generation of readers. Also brought back into print in this collection is "The Terror Out of Time," the first teaming of Sherlock Holmes and Professor George Edward Challenger,...
Sherlock Holmes and fantasy writer HP Lovecraft did not meet until 1981. This introduction was made by Ralph E Vaughan in the seminal story "The Adven...
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Heartstone
ISBN: 9780062451941 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A debut historical fantasy that recasts Jane Austen's beloved Pride & Prejudice in an imaginative world of wyverns, dragons, and the warriors who fight alongside them against the monsters that threaten the kingdom: gryphons, direwolves, lamias, banshees, and lindworms. They say a Rider in possession of a good blade must be in want of a monster to slay--and Merybourne Manor has plenty of monsters. Passionate, headstrong Aliza Bentaine knows this all too well; she's already lost one sister to the invading gryphons. So when Lord Merybourne hires a band of Riders to hunt... A debut historical fantasy that recasts Jane Austen's beloved Pride & Prejudice in an imaginative world of wyverns, dragons, and the warri... |
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61,28 |
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Bad Elements
ISBN: 9781945772023 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gary Alexander does it again, another experimental novel that will tickle your intellect while it plucks at your emotions. Using the periodical table as its framework, this story unfolds element by element. "You'll have a hard time pigeonholing this book," editorial director Hollis George said of Alexander's last novel. "But you'll be talking about this innovative work for weeks after you finish reading it." With this new novel, he says, "Ditto."
Gary Alexander does it again, another experimental novel that will tickle your intellect while it plucks at your emotions. Using the periodical table ...
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The Last Book: Further Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
ISBN: 9781976084478 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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57,45 |
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Secret Santa and Other Tales: Tell-Tale Publishing's 2nd Annual Horror Anthology
ISBN: 9781944056407 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,36 |
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