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Making Nice: A Novel in Stories
ISBN: 9781250081582 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meet Alby, the heartbroken antihero at the center of Matt Sumell s ferocious, funny, and wrenching debut "Making Nice." Fueled by heartache, fury, and the occasional pain pill from his mother s leftover stash, Alby is flailing wildly as he tries (and mostly fails) to cope with his mother s death. From his hometown on the Great South Bay to a sailboat in a Los Angeles marina, he stalks the perimeters of calamity: he punches his sister; gets drunk; picks fights; and spews insults at children, slow drivers, old ladies, and every single surviving member of his family. But it s in the rare moments...
Meet Alby, the heartbroken antihero at the center of Matt Sumell s ferocious, funny, and wrenching debut "Making Nice." Fueled by heartache, fury, and...
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76,02 |
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The Accidental Virgin
ISBN: 9780062431509 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From acclaimed author Valerie Frankel comes a wise, winning, uproarious novel about love--or something like it--in the big city. From: Venus, Goddess of Love, 120 Main, Mt. Olympus To: Stacy Temple, lapsed temptress Stacy, Stacy, Stacy. You were so promising at the beginning: Sexy, smart, personable and funny. Great on dates and really great afterward--if you know what I mean. But this is a sad state of affairs; or, in your case, non-affairs It's been nearly an entire year and you haven't had your way with even ONE eligible male. You've been... From acclaimed author Valerie Frankel comes a wise, winning, uproarious novel about love--or something like it--in the big city. From: Ve... |
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56,97 |
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The A to Z of Normal
ISBN: 9781781323816 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clare Thorpe's need for order and symmetry governs everything she owns - from tins and toiletries, to cushions and clothes. Yet she has always managed to hide the compulsions dominating her world. Until now. When long-distance boyfriend Tom proposes, her secret life begins to unravel. How can she share a future with the man she loves, if she can't even share her space? And when the only way forward brings a threat greater than any compulsive behaviour, do they have a future together at all? A poignant and humorous story of love, family, secrets...and military precision.
Clare Thorpe's need for order and symmetry governs everything she owns - from tins and toiletries, to cushions and clothes. Yet she has always managed...
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85,10 |
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Be Frank With Me LP
ISBN: 9780062440310 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A sparkling talent makes her fiction debut with this infectious novel that combines the charming pluck of Eloise, the poignant psychological quirks of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and the page-turning spirit of Where d You Go, Bernadette. Reclusive literary legend M. M. Mimi Banning has been holed up in her Bel Air mansion for years. But after falling prey to a Bernie Madoff-style ponzi scheme, she s flat broke. Now Mimi must write a new book for the first time in decades, and to ensure the timely delivery of her manuscript, her New... A sparkling talent makes her fiction debut with this infectious novel that combines the charming pluck of Eloise, the poignant psychologic... |
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98,78 |
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Horror Stories for Children: (a.k.a. Life Lessons for Adults)
ISBN: 9780999473603 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,97 |
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A Mother's Kisses
ISBN: 9781504019590 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An indefatigable, irresistible, and wildly inappropriate Jewish mother takes her 17-year-old son to school in this uproarious coming-of-age comedy
Tall and scattered-looking, Joseph has just graduated from high school and is ready for college. But is college ready for him? Apparently not, judging by the rejection letter he receives from Bates and the deafening silence that greets his application to Columbia. While his friends pack their bags for schools across the country, Joseph mopes around the apartment in his bathrobe and checks the mailbox... An indefatigable, irresistible, and wildly inappropriate Jewish mother takes her 17-year-old son to school in this uproarious coming-of-age comedy<...
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83,58 |
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Gaza, Wyoming
ISBN: 9780692484746 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. GAZA, WYOMING takes place in an alternate 2015. In this world, President Obama lost the 2012 election. And after the Israel-Hamas conflict of 2014, President Romney pushed through a Middle East peace plan that required the U.S. to absorb the Palestinian refugee population, outside the West Bank. They built the camps in Wyoming. With this new reality affecting the upcoming 2016 elections, one talented Democratic campaign operative -- a genderqueer individual named Persia VanSlyke -- uncovers a secret that could have grave consequences for hir party. The investigative path ze must pursue is... GAZA, WYOMING takes place in an alternate 2015. In this world, President Obama lost the 2012 election. And after the Israel-Hamas conflict of 2014,... |
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60,77 |
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King of Yiddish
ISBN: 9781604891607 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fiction. Jewish Studies. A serio-comic novel that tells of Shmulik Gafni, a professor of Yiddish. Two narratives contrast: One: Gafni's extended search in Poland for the man who murdered his father in the notorious Kielce pogrom. Two: Gafni's infatuation with Malina, a pretty non-Jewish Polish linguist in Jerusalem to study Yiddish. Guess who her private tutor is? Rumors fly. Will synchronicity also fly?
Fiction. Jewish Studies. A serio-comic novel that tells of Shmulik Gafni, a professor of Yiddish. Two narratives contrast: One: Gafni's extended searc...
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84,93 |
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Crooked Heart
ISBN: 9780062364845 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paper Moon meets the Blitz in this original black comedy, set in World War II England, chronicling an unlikely alliance between a small time con artist and a young orphan evacuee. When Noel Bostock--aged ten, no family--is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb northwest of the city with Vera Sedge--a thirty-six-year old widow drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money, she's unscrupulous about how she gets it. Noel's mourning his godmother Mattie, a former suffragette. Wise beyond his years, raised with a disdain... Paper Moon meets the Blitz in this original black comedy, set in World War II England, chronicling an unlikely alliance between a small ti... |
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68,38 |
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Walking the Dog
ISBN: 9781558619210 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Former child prodigy and rich-girl kleptomaniac, Ester--renamed into the gentile Carleen for her own protection--is incarcerated after a botched heist. For two decades, time is the enemy. Her twenties and thirties crawl by in stifling isolation. When finally let loose onto the streets of New York, she finds a job wrestling spoiled canines as a dog walker in Manhattan's most elite neighborhoods, relating better with their brutish instincts than with their human owners. Determined to also prove herself a real person, Carleen tries to reconnect with her estranged and ferociously Orthodox...
Former child prodigy and rich-girl kleptomaniac, Ester--renamed into the gentile Carleen for her own protection--is incarcerated after a botched heist...
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68,23 |
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Jamestown, Alaska
ISBN: 9781938103506 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Jamestown, Alaska"is the story of Aaron Jennings, a bestselling novelist bored by his life of suburban monotony and increasingly disturbed by violence heralded in his newspaper, who wakes one morning to find a small red book on his doorstep. There is no title, no author given: just the words The Survival Manifesto inscribed on the first page, and an invocation to the chosen few to abandon the society of the incompetent, lazy, and immoral and build a new utopia in the wilds of Alaska. Jennings is invited to the commune to write, or rewrite, the history of the imminent worldwide revolution....
"Jamestown, Alaska"is the story of Aaron Jennings, a bestselling novelist bored by his life of suburban monotony and increasingly disturbed by violenc...
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60,63 |
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Voroshilovgrad
ISBN: 9781941920305 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Trainspotting set against a grim post-Soviet backdrop." -- Newsweek World Literature Today's Recommended Summer Reads 2016 A city-dwelling executive heads home to take over his brother's gas station after his mysterious disappearance, but all he finds at home are mysteries and ghosts. The bleak industrial landscape of now-war-torn eastern Ukraine sets the stage for Voroshilovgrad, the Soviet era name of the Ukranian city of Luhansk, mixing magical realism and exhilarating road novel in poetic, powerful, and expressive prose. Serhiy... "Trainspotting set against a grim post-Soviet backdrop." -- Newsweek World Literature Today's Recommended Summer Read... |
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60,63 |
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Baba Dunja's Last Love
ISBN: 9781609453336 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Government warnings about radiation levels in her hometown (a stone s throw from Chernobyl) be damned Baba Dunja is going home. And she s taking a motley bunch of her former neighbors with her. With strangely misshapen forest fruits to spare and the town largely to themselves, they have pretty much everything they need and they plan to start anew.
The terminally ill Petrov passes the time reading love poems in his hammock; Marja takes up with the almost 100-year-old Sidorow; Baba Dunja whiles away her days writing letters to her daughter. Life is beautiful. That is until one day a... Government warnings about radiation levels in her hometown (a stone s throw from Chernobyl) be damned Baba Dunja is going home. And she s taking a mo...
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64,62 |
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Be Frank with Me
ISBN: 9780062413727 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. AN AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION ADULT DEBUT HONOR BOOK WINNER OF THE AUDIE AWARD FOR BEST FEMALE NARRATOR LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER A sparkling talent makes her fiction debut with this infectious novel that combines the charming pluck of Eloise, the poignant psychological quirks of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and the page-turning spirit of Where'd You Go, Bernadette. Reclusive literary legend M. M. "Mimi" Banning has been holed up in her Bel Air... AN AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION ADULT DEBUT HONOR BOOK WINNER OF THE AUDIE AWARD FOR BEST FEMALE NARRATOR |
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75,98 |
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QueerBashing
ISBN: 9780992976897 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,82 |
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The Total Package
ISBN: 9780062234865 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New York Times bestselling author of Big Girl Panties is back with a funny, sweet, and sizzling novel about love, redemption, and second chances. Heartthrob star quarterback Tyson Palmer has it all: a million-dollar arm, a winning season and the promise of a Superbowl ring. But more importantly, football's biggest star is the ultimate comeback kid. After an addiction to painkillers nearly derailed his career, Tyson got sober and went from zero to hero in the eyes of the public. But one person remains unconvinced: Dani Carr, a sports commentator with high... The New York Times bestselling author of Big Girl Panties is back with a funny, sweet, and sizzling novel about love, redemption,... |
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72,18 |
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A Scar Is Borne
ISBN: 9780692554241 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A thought-provoking literary experience from Dire McCain, author of Playing Chicken With Thanatos. A Scar Is Borne is a potent cocktail of ten grotesque yet true-to-life human condition tales driven by characters frequently encountered in the surreal and often absurd seriocomedy called Life. Irresistibly disturbing, morbidly hilarious, and suffused with heart, A Scar Is Borne is not for the squeamish or narrow-minded, whatever their views. Possible side effects include an inability to stop devouring pages despite recurring discomfort, and experiencing...
A thought-provoking literary experience from Dire McCain, author of Playing Chicken With Thanatos. A Scar Is Borne is a potent cock...
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45,90 |
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Dance with the Dead
ISBN: 9780008149550 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aspiring actress Elizabeth Smart lands her centre stage role: her mutilated body is found dumped in North London's red light district. Clasped in her hand is a piece of human hair belonging to an unidentified body of a woman murdered two weeks ago.
Aspiring actress Elizabeth Smart lands her centre stage role: her mutilated body is found dumped in North London's red light district. Clasped in her ...
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83,58 |
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Auggie's Revenge
ISBN: 9781940761244 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Down and out in America, with absurdity all the way. In the city of brotherly unemployment, Michael Vittinger shares an adjuncts' office far removed from any real or imagined full-time, tenure-track position. After more than a decade of teaching, Michael still lives paycheck-to-supermarket in a small studio apartment. Trapped between insomnia and omniphobia, Michael drifts into late-night, supermarket friendship with Auggie, an offensive pick-up artist, and Jonny November, a one-legged con man. Through their lessons on how to survive at the bottom rungs of Capitalism, Michael realizes the...
Down and out in America, with absurdity all the way. In the city of brotherly unemployment, Michael Vittinger shares an adjuncts' office far removed f...
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56,83 |
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The Deadly Dowager (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
ISBN: 9781943910380 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the Dowager Arabella, Lady Engleton announces to her relatives her jolly scheme to restore the familys fortunes by insuring their lives in favor of her grandson and heir, the young Lord Henry, they laugh at her and think her mad. But they wont be laughing for long. Soon she begins to kill them off one by one with sinister mirth and gruesome inventiveness . . .
Forgotten today, Edwin Greenwood (1895-1937) was the author of several clever and darkly humorous crime novels that were highly acclaimed by critics and admired by the master of the macabre, Arthur Machen. This edition... When the Dowager Arabella, Lady Engleton announces to her relatives her jolly scheme to restore the familys fortunes by insuring their lives in favor ...
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96,00 |
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