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Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
ISBN: 9780385352123 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NATIONAL BESTSELLER
In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels--Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973--that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. These powerful, at times surreal, works about two young men coming of age--the unnamed narrator and his friend the Rat--are stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism. They bear all the hallmarks of Murakami's later books, and form the first two-thirds, with A Wild Sheep Chase, of... NATIONAL BESTSELLER
In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two rem... |
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Tumour-Djinn
ISBN: 9780692347539 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. TUMOUR-DJINN I ORDER A magic lamp from the internet. According to the seller, it is good as new, and after rubbing the thing, a djinn will come out and give me three wishes. A few days pass, and the package arrives. A sign on the lamp's side informs me that the product is not suitable for children under the age of three, because they can swallow the small pieces. I don't know what tiny parts a genie could possibly have, but nowadays they write this warning to everything. I begin to rub the lamp, but what comes out fails to meet even my lowest expectations. Along with some dark smoke a thin,...
TUMOUR-DJINN I ORDER A magic lamp from the internet. According to the seller, it is good as new, and after rubbing the thing, a djinn will come out an...
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El abraso
ISBN: 9781503011182 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. EL ABRASO contiene: ..".una gran metafora del mundo, amalgamado por un fatalismo verosimil, cuyos resortes sostienen un devenir solo predecible internamente, por esos personajes autenticos primigenios que le habitan." -angel m. agosto ..".situaciones conflictivas de los personajes en sus propios clanes, asi como con otros grupos de la region, todos enfocados hacia las relaciones entre los hombres y las mujeres, y el papel y funcion que juega cada macho y cada hembra." -Angela Lopez Borrero "personajes atados a costumbres tribales que se alzan como prototipos de una humanidad que anhela y...
EL ABRASO contiene: ..".una gran metafora del mundo, amalgamado por un fatalismo verosimil, cuyos resortes sostienen un devenir solo predecible intern...
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Back home, into the Sky!
ISBN: 9781505794007 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Secuela
ISBN: 9781500513054 / Angielski / Miękka / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ujarak (Uji in the afterlife), galactic activist, metamorphoses into an arrow of change on earth: never realizing his mastery of nanotechnology (manipulation of individual...) will soon become a catalyst for change on another planet. Sequels include: Lighter Coffee Talk, Massive Reintroduction to Who We Really Are, Melodious Harmonies, Wizen and The Hand That Got Stuck to The Goose With The Golden Egg.
Ujarak (Uji in the afterlife), galactic activist, metamorphoses into an arrow of change on earth: never realizing his mastery of nanotechnology (manip...
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Memorial Service
ISBN: 9781503370111 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What do we owe to the auspicious previous generation of our family? Not to be prematurely forgotten, perhaps? There was no real danger of that, if Jeff Walker had anything to say about it. The memorial service for his mother sets the scene for a captivating novel that delves into universal family dynamics, including alternative lifestyles and childhood crushes. In the unfolding of this story, a near-fatal attack and the revelation of a love-child must be dealt with in quick succession by Phil Clark and the object of his lifelong obsessive love. In the meantime, the lively spirits of Phil's...
What do we owe to the auspicious previous generation of our family? Not to be prematurely forgotten, perhaps? There was no real danger of that, if Jef...
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Magic Gifted: The Rise of a New Generation
ISBN: 9781505283761 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the stroke of midnight, under an August sky in New Mexico, the Perseid Meteor shower went from displaying one or two meteors per minute to becoming ablaze, continuously, with thousands. In just a half a minute magic had randomly and secretly gifted mortals all around the world with powers and immortality, by way of this shower. Gifting has happened every few hundred years, for thousands of years and magicals from the very first generation learned long ago that they could no longer live among mortals due to the fear and jealousy from those who were not gifted. So they created a realm apart...
At the stroke of midnight, under an August sky in New Mexico, the Perseid Meteor shower went from displaying one or two meteors per minute to becoming...
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Junior Inquisitor
ISBN: 9781505865820 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brother Sebastian is halfway up a mountain in Vermont, hell-bent on interrogating an old woman in a shack, when he gets the order to abandon his quest for personal vengeance. He has to find a missing Inquisitor, or, more likely, his remains. He's reluctant, to say the least. Not only will he have to stop chasing the best potential lead he's had in years, this job-his first solo mission-will mean setting foot in the grubby black hole of Providence, Rhode Island. And, somehow, it only gets worse... If he'd known he would end up ass deep in witches, werewolves, and ogres, and that this mission...
Brother Sebastian is halfway up a mountain in Vermont, hell-bent on interrogating an old woman in a shack, when he gets the order to abandon his quest...
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Thanks for Breakfast
ISBN: 9781507553220 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Estes Park, Colorado, 1983: Magick is alive and well in this real-life Shangri-La where a bohemian underground thrives. Kitty Mar and Jimmy Thunder share a special relationship, which is challenged when she meets a Tantrick Cowboy from Texas. A handsome young auto-mechanic named Lance lusts after Beth Gardens, a beauty scarcely old enough to be legal. A young artist named Paul Goodfellow encounters the Great God Pan, and feels attracted to Dennis Giddings, a sanitation engineer, but he is too uncertain to make his feelings known. The long-empty family home of Jimmy is clearly occupied-the...
Estes Park, Colorado, 1983: Magick is alive and well in this real-life Shangri-La where a bohemian underground thrives. Kitty Mar and Jimmy Thunder sh...
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Men on Earth
ISBN: 9781843869573 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From his lonely bed inside his dingy flat on an idle night in an otherwise miserable life, John Doherty watches the last storm he will ever see before his life changes forever. In the midst of the storm, a creature falls through John's roof and into his world. This being from the clouds has all the attributes of divinity: exceptional beauty, powers beyond the dreams of men and the powdered, ivory white wings of an angel. Except this earthbound traveller does not know where he is, when he is, or even who he is. But all is not as it would seem; this fallen angel has further yet to fall. Men on...
From his lonely bed inside his dingy flat on an idle night in an otherwise miserable life, John Doherty watches the last storm he will ever see before...
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Celestial Land and Sea
ISBN: 9780692389997 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nine years after moving from Belfast to London, Grace Byrne wonders whether or not she made the right decision. She finds little satisfaction in working for the Anchor news team, and the eternal bitterness of her boss doesn't make it any easier. The only positive thing about being stuck in the office every day is Andy, with whom she has been smitten since first joining the Anchor team. After a less than comfortable conversation with her boss's assistant, Grace returns to her flat in Hampstead contemplating whether she herself might be the real cause of her dissatisfaction. Her... Nine years after moving from Belfast to London, Grace Byrne wonders whether or not she made the right decision. She finds little satisfaction in wo... |
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Taya's Enchanted Tutu: The Taming of the Black Hearts
ISBN: 9781500716820 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Honeydrop Tree: a novelette
ISBN: 9781508566885 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The lost community of Apistown trades honey with the outside world to survive. But its children do not know where the honored honey comes from-nor about the guilt the town must bear. One night, Amelia, Isaac, and Cassie dream of a great tree. Honey seeps through the tree's fruit and falls to waiting vessels below. Could this be Apistown's lifeblood? Is such a tree possible? The three friends set out to learn the truth. And their parents, guided by three mysterious matrons, must choose: protect their children or keep faith with the community. The truth will transform them all.
The lost community of Apistown trades honey with the outside world to survive. But its children do not know where the honored honey comes from-nor abo...
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From the heart
ISBN: 9781508590958 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Lion of Babylon
ISBN: 9781634902823 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Lion of Babylon is a fable of men and women, Muslims and Christians, Americans and Iraqis, who look into their futures during a time of war to decide what will become of their lives. Haidar is an orphaned Iraqi boy who can see the future. The source of his special talent is a 2,500 year old statue called the Lion of Babylon. The Lion of Babylon foretold to Haidar that the Americans would come.
The Lion of Babylon is a fable of men and women, Muslims and Christians, Americans and Iraqis, who look into their futures during a time of war to dec...
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The Golden Gate Is Empty
ISBN: 9780988244627 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ward Pentecost was the most dangerous man on the planet As a child, Nathaniel Pentecost was emotionally scarred when his father, Ward, revealed to him that magic was a real force in the universe. Ever since, he's done his best to alienate his father. Now, seven years after his father disappeared along with the Golden Gate Bridge, Nathaniel begins to piece together the mystery of what happened. The truth will change him in ways he never imagined possible.
Ward Pentecost was the most dangerous man on the planet As a child, Nathaniel Pentecost was emotionally scarred when his father, Ward, revealed to him...
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Dimension Guardian: The Realm of Light - Imbalance
ISBN: 9781507714362 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the Dalton trains to master his new powers, the realms begin to slip further into chaos. Distrust begins breeding within the people, and even withing hte Dimension Protection Council. Dalton returns to find the people threatening to attack Council as the Guardians begin turning on one another. Tensions are rising to a breaking point and threatening to topple the four-thousand year old system. But while Dalton and his team try to assuage the Guardian's concerns about Yokouro and ease the minds of the people about the Dimension Protection Council, trouble within the team distracts them...
While the Dalton trains to master his new powers, the realms begin to slip further into chaos. Distrust begins breeding within the people, and even wi...
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The Tower
ISBN: 9781508436751 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cop killers on the loose, railroad construction wars, illegal mining, lynching and floods--these are the kinds of problems the mayor of a small Oregon town could really sink his teeth into--in the past anyway. For the new mayor of Plankton, modern governance seems less exciting than it was in the rough and tumble pioneer and lumbering eras and more about the mundane....more "Parks and Recreation" than "How the West was Won." His appointment calendar is full of water systems, animal control and public safety. Accomplishing these modern tasks requires a modern skill set for fostering...
Cop killers on the loose, railroad construction wars, illegal mining, lynching and floods--these are the kinds of problems the mayor of a small Oregon...
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Damnificados
ISBN: 9781629631172 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner:
2016 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, Fiction 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year, Multicultural Fiction 2017 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold, Multicultural Fiction Nominee: 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Debut Fiction Uses magical realism, revolutionary politics, and romantic adventure to bring to life a colorful community of squatters in an imaginary Latin American city Damnificados is loosely based on the real-life occupation of a half-completed skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela, the Tower of David. In this... Winner:
2016 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, Fiction 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year, Multicultural Fiction 2017 Independent ... |
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Memory House: Memory House Collection
ISBN: 9780996080361 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A MAGICAL LOVE STORY... Second edition, now with added content. Memory House is a place where friendship turns to love, love lasts forever, and memories outlive their owner. Ophelia Browne knows this because she's been granted the unique gift of finding and caring for those forgotten memories. But now she's nearing ninety, and needs to find a successor - soon. When broken-hearted Annie Cross shows up on the doorstep of The Memory House Bed and Breakfast, Ophelia knows she is the one. The two women forge a bond of friendship as they sip magical dandelion tea and share stories. When Annie...
A MAGICAL LOVE STORY... Second edition, now with added content. Memory House is a place where friendship turns to love, love lasts forever, and memori...
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