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The Dogs of Winter
ISBN: 9780671793340 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heart Attacks is California's last secret spot--the premier mysto surf haunt, the stuff of rumor and legend. The rumors say you must cross Indian land to get there. They tell of hostile locals and shark-infested waters where waves in excess of thirty feet break a mile from shore. For down-and-out photographer Jack Fletcher, the chance to shoot these waves in the company of surfing legend Drew Harmon offers the promise of new beginnings. But Drew is not alone in the northern reaches of the state. His young wife, Kendra, lives there with him. Obsessed with the unsolved murder of a local girl,...
Heart Attacks is California's last secret spot--the premier mysto surf haunt, the stuff of rumor and legend. The rumors say you must cross Indian land...
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Mildred Pierce
ISBN: 9780679723219 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Mildred Pierce, noir master James M. Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devasting emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable. Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter.
In Mildred Pierce, noir master James M. Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devasting emotional violence, with a heroine whose...
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63,17 |
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
ISBN: 9780679723257 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside, and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger.
An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creat...
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67,12 |
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Night Shift
ISBN: 9780743254878 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1942 to rave reviews and astonishing commercial success, Night Shift dramatizes the working class life of the Midwest during World War II with the excitement of melodrama, the vividness of documentary, and the page-turning quality of the best commercial fiction. Sally Otis works herself to the bone as a waitress, supporting her three children and a jobless younger sister. With her bills mounting and no rest in sight, Sally's resolve is beginning to crumble when her swaggering older sister, Petey Braun, appears on the scene. Petey, with her furs and jewels...
Originally published in 1942 to rave reviews and astonishing commercial success, Night Shift dramatizes the working class life of the Midwest d...
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Nick's Trip
ISBN: 9780316079600 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
Originally published: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
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86,81 |
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Minotaur
ISBN: 9781609451165 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the day of his forty-first birthday, an Israeli secret agent encounters a beautiful, young English woman. He immediately recognizes her as the woman he has been searching for all his life, the one he has loved forever. Though they have never met, he is certain that she is an essential part of his life's destiny. Using all the tricks of his trade and his network of contacts, he takes control of her existence without ever revealing his identity. Alexander Abramov's desperate, dangerous love for a woman half his age consumes everything in its path: time, distance, and rival suitors. Only his...
On the day of his forty-first birthday, an Israeli secret agent encounters a beautiful, young English woman. He immediately recognizes her as the woma...
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63,17 |
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At the Chime of a City Clock
ISBN: 9781849013901 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bayswater, 1931. James Ross, an aspiring writer whose stories nobody will buy, is reduced to door-to-door selling. He meets glamorous Suzi, but their relationship turns out to be a source of bafflement: who is her boss, the mysterious Mr Rasmussen, and why is he so interested in the premises above a jeweller's shop?
Bayswater, 1931. James Ross, an aspiring writer whose stories nobody will buy, is reduced to door-to-door selling. He meets glamorous Suzi, but their ...
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120,72 |
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Nonostante tutto
ISBN: 9781499173390 / Włoski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mettetevi comodi. Sara un lungo viaggio quello che stiamo per intraprendere assieme. Partiremo dai corridoi di un Call Center del centro Italia dove faremo la conoscenza di personaggi cosi improbabili da sembrare inventati e forse, in parte, lo sono. Troveremo Miriana, troppo bella e troppo piena di sogni per una realta cosi piccola... Antonello e la sua maledetta polvere bianca... Giacomo e la sua famiglia destinata al trasferimento. E poi Claudia e la sua paura del mondo, l'elegante Cinzia, il cinico Masiero e i suoi abusi nei confronti delle sottoposte... Vedremo attraverso gli occhi di...
Mettetevi comodi. Sara un lungo viaggio quello che stiamo per intraprendere assieme. Partiremo dai corridoi di un Call Center del centro Italia dove f...
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37,93 |
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A Ladies Man
ISBN: 9781497504721 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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124,36 |
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Code Name: Home Sick: FILE SUBJECT: Edwards, Adrian C. (1A)
ISBN: 9781499541335 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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39,39 |
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American Dream: Studies in Mathematical Pornography
ISBN: 9781926617237 / Angielski / Miękka / 654 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,11 |
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All Due Respect Issue #3
ISBN: 9781499742930 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All Due Respect's third issue features a story by and an interview with Jake Hinkson, whose latest book, Saint Homicide, has that tasty combination of old-fashioned religion and murder. Plus new fiction from Angel Luis Colon, Jen Conley, Rob Hart, Jessica Adams, Patti Abbott, Chris Leek, Mike McCrary, and Alec Cizak. From thugs throwing rocks at freight trains to ex-convict converts to Buddhism, All Due Respect's got it all."
All Due Respect's third issue features a story by and an interview with Jake Hinkson, whose latest book, Saint Homicide, has that tasty combination of...
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33,16 |
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A Grave Misunderstanding
ISBN: 9781632639219 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Young, pretty and pregnant, Ana accidentally kills her abusive husband, Mike. She and her boyfriend, Dick, hide Mike's remains in the grave of Mike's first wife. Their scheme is unearthed when the county decides to dig up the old graveyard to make way for a new highway. This dilemma sets in motion a series of betrayals, illicit sex, and more unintended murders...
Young, pretty and pregnant, Ana accidentally kills her abusive husband, Mike. She and her boyfriend, Dick, hide Mike's remains in the grave of Mike's ...
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Brotherly Love
ISBN: 9780812987348 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the City of Brotherly Love, a car skids off the ice and ignites a chain of events that changes everything for eight-year-old Peter Flood. Peter s father is a powerful man, a union boss with mob connections, but all the power in the world is useless to a grieving son. Raised by his uncle, Peter tries to distance himself from the casual brutality of the family business, gravitating instead toward a small South Philly gym. Peter s cousin Michael his brother moves in another direction: into small-time intimidation and the trappings of a union prince. Neither, however, can outrun the logic of...
In the City of Brotherly Love, a car skids off the ice and ignites a chain of events that changes everything for eight-year-old Peter Flood. Peter s f...
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Tread
ISBN: 9780692252475 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the run from an unplanned murder of a law enforcement officer at his camp outside of Flagstaff, Arizona, Nat Cinder blazes to Phoenix on his Triumph Rocket. Soon he stumbles onto a packet of photos showing Governor Virginia Rentier lustily paired with three high-ranking women in state government. Though Cinder and the Governor clashed sixteen years before when his wife died in a car accident, Cinder prefers to keep his dislike of Rentier focused on her politics. He's too busy blaming himself for his wife's death, fighting his way back into his son's life, and leading a crew of lazy...
On the run from an unplanned murder of a law enforcement officer at his camp outside of Flagstaff, Arizona, Nat Cinder blazes to Phoenix on his Triump...
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AFTER HOURS, Selected Bar Prose Vol. II
ISBN: 9781499118926 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With After Hours, Selected Bar Prose Vol. II, St. Augustine's resident prose poet, William Williamson is back with volume two following the first book, Last Call, Selected Bar Prose. The focus is still in St. Augustine, William's adapted hometown, a town not as well known for its revelry or debauchery like Key West or New Orleans but since its founding 450 years ago, there have always been bars, saloons, pubs and taverns where hungry and thirsty souls came for food, spirits, company and entertainment. Almost five centuries later, it's not the sleepy carriage town of the past, neon lights and...
With After Hours, Selected Bar Prose Vol. II, St. Augustine's resident prose poet, William Williamson is back with volume two following the first book...
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Code Name: Home Sick: FILE SUBJECT: Edwards, Adrian C. (1A)
ISBN: 9781500496876 / Angielski / Miękka / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Home Sick, the brain wave research division of psy-ops, has been recording Adrian Edwards's thoughts and dreams. "Code Name: Home Sick" is the "leaked" report of those records. At great cost (and danger), the author was able to procure the Home Sick files. Home Sick, the brain wave research division of psy-ops, has been recording Adrian Edwards's thoughts and dreams. "Code Name: Home Sick" is the "leaked" report of those records. At great cost (and danger), the author was able to procure the Home Sick files. This is the third installment of the groundbreaking, 6 part, fantasy serial, "Code...
Home Sick, the brain wave research division of psy-ops, has been recording Adrian Edwards's thoughts and dreams. "Code Name: Home Sick" is the "leaked...
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32 Caliber
ISBN: 9781500617219 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 32 Caliber, by Donald McGibeny, is a 1920s mystery pulp fiction novel that has the narrator, a lawyer and amateur detective, is pulled into the complicated lives of his best friend, his friend's wife, and her war-profiteer lover, during their ensuing divorce.
32 Caliber, by Donald McGibeny, is a 1920s mystery pulp fiction novel that has the narrator, a lawyer and amateur detective, is pulled into the compli...
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Shooting Genji
ISBN: 9780991617456 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shooting Genji is a noir riff on the Japanese classic, The Tale of Genji, set in the U.S. during Prohibition and the Great Crash. The story's narrator, Jean-Yves LeFouet, is a book-lover who is almost blinded at age 16, when he falls from a ladder dusting books. He is changed and his eyes never recover. With daylight too bright and nighttime never too dark, he becomes perfectly suited for a multitude of shady careers. No one sees back roads at midnight as well, and a few years later he takes up driving at night for whiskey smugglers. The leader of the gang, Big Department, is reputed to be a...
Shooting Genji is a noir riff on the Japanese classic, The Tale of Genji, set in the U.S. during Prohibition and the Great Crash. The story's narrator...
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Dark Streets
ISBN: 9780692244142 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "God damn it, Turner. They got me. I told you. I told you so. They're coming for you now. Run. Run as fast as you can, you son of a bitch."
Nick Turner was in trouble. Big trouble. In less than 24 hours he'd gone from being the captain of London's top mob to a target for every gang in town. As Turner's world fell apart, the simmering struggle for control of London's streets flared into open violence. The two top bosses in London - Harry, unrivaled north of the river, and Wei, kingpin of South London - were on a collision course, and Turner was caught in the middle. It didn't help... "God damn it, Turner. They got me. I told you. I told you so. They're coming for you now. Run. Run as fast as you can, you son of a bitch."
Nick T... |
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