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Mission Earth Volume 10: The Doomed Planet
ISBN: 9781619861831 / Angielski / Miękka / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,05 |
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Exponential Apocalypse
ISBN: 9780985906207 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There had been twenty-two apocalypses to date. There were now four distinct variations of humanity roaming the earth - six, if you counted the undead. It had been suggested that there really should have been a new word to describe "the end of everything forever," but most people had stopped noticing, much less caring, after the tally hit double digits. Not to mention the failure of "forever" in living up to its potential. The last apocalypse wasn't even considered a cataclysm by most major governments. It was just a Thursday. EXPONENTIAL APOCALYPSE is the tender, heart-stirring tale of crappy...
There had been twenty-two apocalypses to date. There were now four distinct variations of humanity roaming the earth - six, if you counted the undead....
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40,43 |
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Ending Up
ISBN: 9780141194233 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Told with Amis's piercing wit and humanity, 'Ending Up' is a wickedly funny black comedy of the indignities of old age.
Told with Amis's piercing wit and humanity, 'Ending Up' is a wickedly funny black comedy of the indignities of old age.
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50,28 |
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The Visible Man
ISBN: 9781439184479 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New York Times bestselling author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Downtown Owl, "the Ethicist" of the New York Times Magazine, Chuck Klosterman returns to fiction with his second novel--an imaginative page-turner about a therapist and her unusual patient, a man who can render himself invisible. Therapist Victoria Vick is contacted by a cryptic, unlikable man who insists his situation is unique and unfathomable. As he slowly reveals himself, Vick becomes convinced that he suffers from a complex set of delusions: Y__, as she refers to him, claims to be a...
New York Times bestselling author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Downtown Owl, "the Ethicist" of the New York Times Magazi...
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69,32 |
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Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
ISBN: 9781447200352 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best-known novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant-garde, he became famous for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his unique ways of putting them into practice. Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry, the last novel to be published in his lifetime, is his funniest. Christie Malry is a simple man. As a young accounts clerk at a confectionery factory in London he learns the principles of Double-Entry Bookkeeping. Frustrated by the petty injustices that beset his life -- particularly...
In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best-known novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant-gar...
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66,97 |
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The Fairground Magician: Short Stories
ISBN: 9781908236104 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection features stories about love fulfilled and unfulfilled, about things that are visible in the everyday world and values that are perceptible only at exceptional moments. The narration moves from apparent realism to other genres, such as crime fiction, the thriller, and erotic prose. Memories, intimations, and premonitions are infused in these stories with a tranquility that accepts what fate brings, even when, as in the stories "Pockets Full of Stones "or "Nosedive," efforts are made to change it. Lengold uses eroticism as a natural ingredient of human life, as an integrated...
This collection features stories about love fulfilled and unfulfilled, about things that are visible in the everyday world and values that are percept...
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57,80 |
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The Reluctant Cannibals
ISBN: 9781909593596 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When a group of food-obsessed academics at Oxford University form a secret dining society, they happily devote themselves to investigating exotic and forgotten culinary treasures. Until a dish is suggested that takes them all by surprise. Professor Arthur Plantagenet has been told he has a serious heart problem and decides that his death should not be in vain. He sets out his bizarre plan in a will, that on his death, tests the loyalty of his closest friends, the remaining members of this exclusive dining society. A dead Japanese diplomat, police arrests and charges of grave robbing. These...
When a group of food-obsessed academics at Oxford University form a secret dining society, they happily devote themselves to investigating exotic and ...
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90,59 |
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How Best to Avoid Dying: Stories
ISBN: 9781593765224 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this devilishly clever collection of short fiction, renowned humorist Owen Egerton leads us on a wildly surprising, darkly comic, and often heart-wrenching ride into the terrible beauty of life's end. With razor wit and compassionate insight, Egerton has a crafted a work that brilliantly explores the pain and wonder of life, knowing that with the turn of any corner death could be panhandling for your soul.
In this devilishly clever collection of short fiction, renowned humorist Owen Egerton leads us on a wildly surprising, darkly comic, and often heart-w...
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65,32 |
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Arts & Entertainments
ISBN: 9780062322463 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Christopher Beha delivers a cutting send-up of our cultural obsession with celebrity--a deliciously witty, and ultimately tender, novel about the absurdity of fame and the complexity of love sure to appeal to fans of Maria Semple and Jess Walter. A sharp-edged satire with heart, Arts & Entertainments is the story of Handsome Eddie Hartley who, at thirty-three, has forgone dreams of an acting career for the reality of life as a drama teacher at a boys' prep school. But when Eddie and his wife, Susan, discover they cannot have children, it is one disappointment too... Christopher Beha delivers a cutting send-up of our cultural obsession with celebrity--a deliciously witty, and ultimately tender, novel about the a... |
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69,32 |
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Poop Love
ISBN: 9781533042507 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a sunny afternoon, he meets the love of his life and the bane of his existence in the same event. She is beautiful, wealthy and sweet. Unfortunately, she is also the mother of an extremely intelligent and overly protective five-year-old boy who takes enormous delight in tormenting his mother's suitors. "You look like you're made out of doo-doo." Is theirs a match made in heaven or hell? Can he survive her preschool son's animosity to prove his love for them both? An insightful short story.
On a sunny afternoon, he meets the love of his life and the bane of his existence in the same event. She is beautiful, wealthy and sweet. Unfortunatel...
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80,88 |
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Bekehrung der ISombies: Hauchs hundertste Heldentat (Episode 3)
ISBN: 9781530642397 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Politisch. Unkorrekt. Die furiose dritte Episode der subversiven Zombie-Satire ISombies.
Unsere vier Helden ergrunden auf dem Teufelsberg in einer verfallenen Abhoranlage die Herkunft des Parasiten, wahrend sich Bundesprasident Hauch seinem erbittertsten Feind stellen muss ... Episode 1: Angriff der ISombies Episode 2: Ruckkehr der ISombies Episode 3: Bekehrung der ISombies Episode 4: Wiedergeburt der ISombies Achtung Sperrgebiet Betreten auf eigene Gefahr Massive Verstoe gegen die Political Correctness Politisch. Unkorrekt. Die furiose dritte Episode der subversiven Zombie-Satire ISombies.
Unsere vier Helden ergrunden auf dem Teufelsberg i... |
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23,88 |
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In the Black, 1965-1969: A Satire of the Sixties
ISBN: 9780983380757 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kansas City, 1965 -- Y.T. Erp, Jr. can't wait to leave for college at the University of California, Berkeley to escape not only the work, but especially all the phlegm-brained idiots at his father's aerospace company. Leaving behind a pregnant auburn-haired cheerleader, a sensuous red-headed siren plotting to usurp his familial ties, and his two best friends -- one who ends up in Vietnam and the other in the Weather Underground -- his "trip" on the wild side of the Generation Gap takes him from the psychedelic scene of Haight-Ashbury to the F.B.I.'s Ten Most Wanted list. Meanwhile his... Kansas City, 1965 -- Y.T. Erp, Jr. can't wait to leave for college at the University of California, Berkeley to escape not only the work, but espec... |
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81,96 |
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Drunk Driving Champion
ISBN: 9781621052203 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,65 |
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Rake
ISBN: 9781619023147 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The landscape of contemporary Paris, the best restaurants, the trendiest bars and clubs, is usually filled with the wealthy, the famous, and le rake or le roue, the charming, educated sophisticate with little or no conscience. Into this cushy world bursts "Dr. Crandall Taylor"--or rather the actor who plays him--the star of a dated American soap opera that is now one of the hottest primetime shows in France. And this newfound fame, as enriching as it is unexpected, is not wasted on Crandall, eager to put his dark and often violent American past behind him and enjoy all the...
The landscape of contemporary Paris, the best restaurants, the trendiest bars and clubs, is usually filled with the wealthy, the famous, and le rak...
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65,32 |
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Available Light
ISBN: 9781938463150 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eighteen tragicomic short stories that explore love, tragedy, and loss. As he disassembles an infant's nursery, a father struggles for ways to tell his young daughter her brother is dead; a boy learns the truth about his parents' divorce; an out of work rock musician finds himself custodian of an abandoned child; a wife who sets out to find her husband's secret lover discovers a secret she's kept from herself; while settling their estranged father's estate, adult sisters encounter a side of their parents they never knew; a ne'er-do-well uncle pays the price for putting his young nephew's life...
Eighteen tragicomic short stories that explore love, tragedy, and loss. As he disassembles an infant's nursery, a father struggles for ways to tell hi...
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57,76 |
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Santa, Bring My Baby Back
ISBN: 9780062276414 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A bride abandoned at the altar . . . just in time for Christmas? 'Tis the season for second chances at Cheryl Harper's Elvis-themed Rock'n'Rolla Hotel. After trying and failing at acting, modeling, dog grooming, and a dozen other jobs, Grace Andersen thought for sure she'd nail marrying a rich man. But dumped in a hotel chapel and strapped for cash, Grace needs a miracle--and a job. If it were up to Charlie McMinn, Grace would be a married lady by now. Officiating weddings in gold lame and a rock star pompadour may not have been his idea of getting into the holiday... A bride abandoned at the altar . . . just in time for Christmas? 'Tis the season for second chances at Cheryl Harper's Elvis-themed Rock'n'Roll... |
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38,49 |
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The Greatest Living Englishman
ISBN: 9781479128785 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set in 1919, The Greatest Living Englishman tells the comedic adventures of "England's Worst Poet," Colin Gilfeather Millaney, an egotistical, self-proclaimed, poet who is wholly untouched with even the faintest speck of talent. He is so awful that people throw rotten produce at him on the streets. They buy it, just to throw it at him. But that does not stop him from penning his doggerel, or inflicting it upon the "misguided" public. When a letter arrives, inviting him to come to New York and tour, reading his "runaway bestselling" book of poetry, he is off like a shot. But, his unlikely rise...
Set in 1919, The Greatest Living Englishman tells the comedic adventures of "England's Worst Poet," Colin Gilfeather Millaney, an egotistical, self-pr...
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49,57 |
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The Banana Massacre
ISBN: 9781479398409 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A clueless American ad executive unwittingly finds himself in the middle of political intrigue and revolution on the island of Costa San Rica while trying to save the agency's banana account.
A clueless American ad executive unwittingly finds himself in the middle of political intrigue and revolution on the island of Costa San Rica while tr...
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61,71 |
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Liberal vs. Conservative
ISBN: 9781463629977 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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40,43 |
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The Reverberator
ISBN: 9781481933834 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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52,40 |
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