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The Road to Wanting
ISBN: 9780099535980 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the new Chinese economy of the late 1980s, the frontier at Wanting is a magnet for outcasts & the desperate. To Na Ga, the town of Wanting represents not the beginning of a new life, but the end of the road. Will, her American lover, has thrown her out leaving her with painful memories, a dollar bank account & a ticket back to Burma.
In the new Chinese economy of the late 1980s, the frontier at Wanting is a magnet for outcasts & the desperate. To Na Ga, the town of Wanting represen...
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81,93 zł |
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The Temple-goers
ISBN: 9780141045696 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A young man returns home to Delhi after several years abroad. But the city - and the country he left behind - are barely recognizable. Cast adrift in a world of fashion parties, media moguls, drink and designer labels, he meets Aakash, who introduces him instead to the city's squalid underbelly.
A young man returns home to Delhi after several years abroad. But the city - and the country he left behind - are barely recognizable. Cast adrift in ...
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81,93 zł |
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Edward has lost his short term-memory. He hopes it will return when he sees the cottage in which he lives. He recognizes his overcoat on the hook, his books, the double bed. The mystery however, is Naomi. Edward has no recollection of who she is or why she has left him a love letter.
Edward has lost his short term-memory. He hopes it will return when he sees the cottage in which he lives. He recognizes his overcoat on the hook, his...
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81,93 zł |
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The Old Romantic
ISBN: 9780141030609 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Obsessed with death and planning his own funeral, Ken is determined to die in the bosom of his family. But it isn't that easy - his family don't want to know him. In this dark comedy, Louise Dean writes about the changing generations, about class, ageing and death.
Obsessed with death and planning his own funeral, Ken is determined to die in the bosom of his family. But it isn't that easy - his family don't want ...
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87,06 zł |
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The Chase: Isaac Bell #1
ISBN: 9780241956427 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 1906: For two years banks across the western United States have been living in terror of the 'Butcher Bandit'. This cold-blooded bank robber empties safes and murders all witnesses, vanishing without trace. In desperation, the US Government calls in Isaac Bell, the best detective in the country.
1906: For two years banks across the western United States have been living in terror of the 'Butcher Bandit'. This cold-blooded bank robber empties s...
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65,53 zł |
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The British Museum Is Falling Down
ISBN: 9780099554226 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted -- not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the late 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a fourth child.
The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the st...
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50,40 zł |
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Small World
ISBN: 9780099554165 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge s satirical Small World. It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air."
Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make...
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55,44 zł |
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Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780857283931 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Travellers to the Middle East from Burkhardt to Thesiger' is a compendious anthology of travellers' writings produced during the high tide of Britain's involvement in the Middle East. The anthology contains extracts from many of the canonical travel texts of the period, including passages by T. E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell and Robert Byron, as well as many more extracts from both female and male writers. The anthology is also enlivened by the broad geographical span covered, including descriptions of territories in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Arabia and Persia. Geoffrey Nash's... 'Travellers to the Middle East from Burkhardt to Thesiger' is a compendious anthology of travellers' writings produced during the high tide of Brit... |
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128,10 zł |
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Gertrude And Claudius
ISBN: 9780140290905 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for Hamlet, John Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother. As only he could, Updike recasts a tale of medieval violence and presents the case for its central couple that Shakespeare only hinted at. Gertrude's warmth and lucidity, Claudius's soldierly yet peaceable powers of command are seen afresh against a background of fond intentions and familial dysfunction, on a...
Using details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for Hamlet, John Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter...
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66,56 zł |
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Secret Son
ISBN: 9780141042732 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Casablanca's stinking alleys are the only home that 19 year-old Youssef El-Mekki has ever known. Raised by his mother in a one-room home, the filmstars flickering on the local cinemas screen offer the only glimmer of hope to his frustrated dreams of escape. Until, that is, the father he thought dead turns out to be very much alive.
Casablanca's stinking alleys are the only home that 19 year-old Youssef El-Mekki has ever known. Raised by his mother in a one-room home, the filmstar...
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81,93 zł |
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The Wolf & Taurus
ISBN: 9780099546726 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In these two novellas, Joseph Smith transports the reader wholly into the mind of an animal, exploring the violence of the forest and the bull-ring from a new perspective.
In these two novellas, Joseph Smith transports the reader wholly into the mind of an animal, exploring the violence of the forest and the bull-ring fr...
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81,93 zł |
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Tiger's Quest: Tiger Saga Book 2
ISBN: 9781444734621 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Back in Oregon, Kelsey tries to pick up the pieces of her life and push aside her feelings for Ren. But danger lurks around the corner, forcing her to return to India where she embarks on a second quest - this time with Ren's dark, bad-boy brother Kishan, who has also fallen prey to the Tiger's Curse.
Back in Oregon, Kelsey tries to pick up the pieces of her life and push aside her feelings for Ren. But danger lurks around the corner, forcing her to...
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50,40 zł |
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The Eggman's Apprentice
ISBN: 9780099422259 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Orphaned at a cruelly young age by the death of both parents, diminutive Hugo Dinsmore goes to live with brutish country relatives. It is there that he is drawn into the entourage of the Eggman, a local gangster, before breaking free in his own spectacular but hazardous fashion.
Orphaned at a cruelly young age by the death of both parents, diminutive Hugo Dinsmore goes to live with brutish country relatives. It is there that h...
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81,93 zł |
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Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon
ISBN: 9781840226638 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the 'Roaring Twenties'. Even in its incomplete state The Last Tycoon remains the greatest American novel about Hollywood and contains some of Fitzgerald's most brilliant writing.
Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the 'Roaring Twenties'. Even in its incomplete state The Last Tycoo...
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20,14 zł |
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Zoe Nielsen was abducted as a 10-year-old. But, over time, her captor grows tired of the rapidly maturing Zoe. And, when he decides it is time to get rid of her, Zoe must finally make her bid for freedom."
Zoe Nielsen was abducted as a 10-year-old. But, over time, her captor grows tired of the rapidly maturing Zoe. And, when he decides it is time to get ...
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66,56 zł |
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Three Elegies For Kosovo
ISBN: 9780099560951 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 600 years ago a Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians was defeated by an Ottoman army. Part fiction, part history, this book comprises three short narratives focusing on the original Battle of Kosovo.
600 years ago a Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians was defeated by an Ottoman army. Part fiction, part history, this b...
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50,40 zł |
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Poetics and Politics of Iran's National Epic, the Sh?hn?meh
ISBN: 9780230113459 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book considers some of the Western interpretations of The Shahnameh - Iran's national epic, and argues that these interpretations are not only methodologically flawed, but are also more revealing of Western concerns and anxieties about Iran than they are about the Shahnameh.
This book considers some of the Western interpretations of The Shahnameh - Iran's national epic, and argues that these interpretations are not only me...
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201,72 zł |
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A harrowing investigation of the raw heart of addiction; its claustrophobia and momentum. From the heady narcissism of the narrator's first days with his new lover, Candy, and the relative innocence of their shared habit, this book charts their decline when smack becomes the total and only focus of their lives.
A harrowing investigation of the raw heart of addiction; its claustrophobia and momentum. From the heady narcissism of the narrator's first days with ...
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81,93 zł |
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The Dearest And The Best
ISBN: 9780099550235 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the spring of 1940 the spectre of war turned into grim reality. For the Lovatt family - James, seconded on an assignment to work with Churchill, and Harry, a naval officer - and all the inhabitants of the historic villages of the New Forest, it was the beginning of the most bizarre, funny and tragic episode of their lives.
In the spring of 1940 the spectre of war turned into grim reality. For the Lovatt family - James, seconded on an assignment to work with Churchill, an...
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92,18 zł |
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Claudine At School
ISBN: 9780099422471 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Claudine is a head strong, clever and extremely mischievous schoolgirl. Along with her friends the lanky Anais, the cheerful Marie and the prim Joubert twins Claudine wreaks havoc on her small school. Always clever, witty and charming Claudine is more than a match for her formidable headmistress as they fight for the attention of the pretty assistant Aimee. The horrors of examinations and good-humoured bullying are the backdrops in this immensely funny and delightful novel with which Colette established the captivating character of Claudine. Through the games, the fun and the intricacies of...
Claudine is a head strong, clever and extremely mischievous schoolgirl. Along with her friends the lanky Anais, the cheerful Marie and the prim Jouber...
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50,40 zł |
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