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Deng Xiaoping Is a Chain-Smoking Communist Dwarf: The Sayings of Pat Buchanan
ISBN: 9780345407832 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here is Pat Buchanan in his own words: "Someone's values are going to prevail. Why not ours? Whose country is it, anyway? Whose moral code says we may interfere with a man's right to be a practicing bigot, but must respect and protect his right to be a practicing sodomite?"--Right from the Beginning, Pat Buchanan's autobiography "My good friend Bob Dole, basically, is the bellhop of the Business Roundtable."--Campaign appearance, Clearwater, SC, February 28, 1996 "I think God made all people good, but if we had to take a million immigrants in, say,...
Here is Pat Buchanan in his own words: "Someone's values are going to prevail. Why not ours? Whose country is it, anyway? Whose moral cod...
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Don't Get Me Started
ISBN: 9780345430168 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Let's get one thing straight. I'm not. I'm out and proud. When I'm out and it's raining I carry an umbrella. I used to be in but I hate the smell of mothballs. My closet was huge, complete with a foyer, turnstile, a few dead bolts, and a burglar alarm that had to be deactivated before I could even touch the door handle. And then there was the storm door. It wasn't until I had lived and slept with a woman for a year that it occurred to me to ask, "Do you think we're lesbians?" By the way, never come out to your father in a moving vehicle. Now I've written a book. It's not as easy as it...
Let's get one thing straight. I'm not. I'm out and proud. When I'm out and it's raining I carry an umbrella. I used to be in but I hate the smell of m...
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My Only Story
ISBN: 9780345442932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. He came to me first in a dream, as a crippled dog angling down a country lane, puzzled by his sudden age, his bum paw, the dry stick clamped between his teeth. I'd been expecting this dream for a very long time, and I woke up moving. . . .
Rita Rosario has a gift, a way with people. She listens to them and really sees them for who they are-warts and all. And sometimes, she even knows how to guide them toward a new beginning. Women, even men, come to Rita's beauty shop for perms, town gossip, and the makeovers of their very lives. John Reed first appears to Rita in one... He came to me first in a dream, as a crippled dog angling down a country lane, puzzled by his sudden age, his bum paw, the dry stick clamped bet...
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Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack #13: A Triple Helping of Classic Garfield Humor
ISBN: 9780345464606 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. THREE BOOKS IN ONE A TRIPLE HELPING OF GARFIELD HUMOR
MEANS THREE TIMES THE FUN He used to be perfect, but now he's even better Garfield, the fat cat with the super sized ego, is back in the spotlight, dissing his dimwitted owner Jon - even pilfering his pants. Some cats chase mice; Garfield prefers to take legal action. When down on the farm, the city kitty puts up with-and puts down-Jon and his barnyard brother. No wonder Garfield's often in a bad mood. But no matter what, he's always in the mood for food The GARFIELD FAT CAT 3-PACK series collects the GARFIELD comic-strip... THREE BOOKS IN ONE A TRIPLE HELPING OF GARFIELD HUMOR
MEANS THREE TIMES THE FUN He used to be perfect, but now he's even better Garfield, the... |
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Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack #2: A Triple Helping of Classic Garfield Humor
ISBN: 9780345464651 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. THREE BOOKS IN ONE A TRIPLE HELPING OF GARFIELD HUMOR
MEANS THREE TIMES THE FUN He used to be perfect, but now he's even better Garfield, the fat cat with the super sized ego, is back in the spotlight, dissing his dimwitted owner Jon - even pilfering his pants. Some cats chase mice; Garfield prefers to take legal action. When down on the farm, the city kitty puts up with-and puts down-Jon and his barnyard brother. No wonder Garfield's often in a bad mood. But no matter what, he's always in the mood for food The GARFIELD FAT CAT 3-PACK series collects the GARFIELD comic-strip... THREE BOOKS IN ONE A TRIPLE HELPING OF GARFIELD HUMOR
MEANS THREE TIMES THE FUN He used to be perfect, but now he's even better Garfield, the... |
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77,39 zł |
I Lost Everything in the
ISBN: 9780345467591 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Erma Bombeck has learned a few things about children and family over the years--and in a way that is uniquely and wonderfully her own, she shares everything she knows with her readers. Whether it's cleaning up after the kids and him, or expendable mothers-in-law, Erma Bombeck gets to the heart of the matter and makes us laugh through our tears.
Erma Bombeck has learned a few things about children and family over the years--and in a way that is uniquely and wonderfully her own, she shares ever...
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The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
ISBN: 9780345471727 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. " Erma Bombeck] is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living."--Vogue It's the expose to end all exposes--the truth about the suburbs: where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted the schools and taxes came up, where they died of old age trying to merge onto the freeway and where they finally got sex out of the schools and back into the gutters.
" Erma Bombeck] is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living."--Vogue It's the expose t...
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Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack #3: A Triple Helping of Classic Garfield Humor Vol 3
ISBN: 9780345480880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. THREE BOOKS IN ONE A TRIPLE HELPING OF GARFIELD HUMOR
MEANS THREE TIMES THE FUN He used to be perfect, but now he s even better Garfield, the fat cat with the super sized ego, is back in the spotlight, dissing his dimwitted owner Jon even pilfering his pants. Some cats chase mice; Garfield prefers to take legal action. When down on the farm, the city kitty puts up with-and puts down-Jon and his barnyard brother. No wonder Garfield s often in a bad mood. But no matter what, he s always in the mood for food The GARFIELD FAT CAT 3-PACK series collects the GARFIELD comic-strip... THREE BOOKS IN ONE A TRIPLE HELPING OF GARFIELD HUMOR
MEANS THREE TIMES THE FUN He used to be perfect, but now he s even better Garfield, the... |
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77,68 zł |
One Night at the Call Center
ISBN: 9780345498328 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Press 1 for technical support.
Press 2 for broken hearts. Press 3 if your life has totally crashed. . . . Six friends work nights at a call center in India, providing technical support for a major U.S. appliance corporation. Skilled in patience-and accent management-they help American consumers keep their lives running. Yet behind the headsets, everybody's heart is on the line. Shyam (Sam to his callers) has lost his self-confidence after being dumped by the girl who just so happens to be sitting next to him. Priyanka's domineering mother has arranged for her daughter's upscale... Press 1 for technical support.
Press 2 for broken hearts. Press 3 if your life has totally crashed. . . . Six friends work nights at a call... |
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77,03 zł |
Things Snowball
ISBN: 9780349115764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. I stopped off at the Peace Gardens - a memorial straddling the US-Canadian border commemorating 'Lasting Peace Between America and Canada', as if there had ever been a problem. Show me a garden commemorating Peace Between America and, say, Iraq and I'll be impressed.
America is like a beauty contestant. It's gorgeous, until it opens its mouth.' From the similarities between US gun laws and British drinking hours, to what cryptic crosswords really tell us about the British psyche, American in London Rich Hall casts a keen eye on the lunatic contradictions and weird marvels of his... I stopped off at the Peace Gardens - a memorial straddling the US-Canadian border commemorating 'Lasting Peace Between America and Canada', as if ther...
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133,12 zł |
Family Man
ISBN: 9780374525835 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Calvin Trillin begins his wise and charming ruminations on family by stating the sum total of his child-rearing advice: "Try to get one that doesn't spit up. Otherwise, you're on your own." Suspicious of any child-rearing theories beyond "Your children are either the center of your life or they're not," Trillin has clearly reveled in the role of family man. Acknowledging the special perils to the privacy of people living with a writer who occasionally remarks, "I hope you're not under the impression that what you just said was off the record," Trillin deals with the subject of family in a way...
Calvin Trillin begins his wise and charming ruminations on family by stating the sum total of his child-rearing advice: "Try to get one that doesn't s...
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81,99 zł |
A New Life
ISBN: 9780374529499 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "An overlooked masterpiece. It may still be undervalued as Malamud's funniest and most embracing novel." --Jonathan Lethem In A New Life, Bernard Malamud--generally thought of as a distinctly New York writer--took on the American myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention. When Sy Levin, a high school teacher beset by alcohol and bad decisions, leaves the city for the Pacific Northwest to start over, it's no surprise that he conjures a vision of the extraordinary new life awaiting him there: "He imagined the pioneers in covered wagons entering this valley for... "An overlooked masterpiece. It may still be undervalued as Malamud's funniest and most embracing novel." --Jonathan Lethem In A New Life<... |
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The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx
ISBN: 9780375702136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Groucho Marx may be the funniest man who ever lived.Here in one volume are the classics of Marxian mayhem: excerpts from the scripts of the immortal movies, passages from his books, his articles for magazines ranging from The New Yorker to the Saturday Evening Post, thechoicest ad-libs and quips from his long-running game show, You Bet Your Life, and selected letters, including his classic correspondence with T. S. Eliot.It's all here-the finest and funniest work by this century's most influential comedian, that man of whom Woody Allen said, "He is simply unique in the...
Groucho Marx may be the funniest man who ever lived.Here in one volume are the classics of Marxian mayhem: excerpts from the scripts of the immortal m...
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Shiksa Goddess: (Or, How I Spent My Forties) Essays
ISBN: 9780375726033 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein has been firmly rooted in New York s cultural life since her childhood of Broadway matinees, but her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects thirty-five of her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathic essays all written when she was in her forties, and all infused with her trademark irreverent humor.
The full range of Wasserstein s mid-life obsessions are covered in this eclectic collection: everything from Chekhov, politics, and celebrity, to family, fashion, and real estate. Whether fretting over her figure,... Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein has been firmly rooted in New York s cultural life since her childhood of Broadway matinees, ...
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It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything
ISBN: 9780375727122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this outrageous and delectable new volume, the Man Who Ate Everything proves that he will do anything to eat everything. That includes going fishing for his own supply of bluefin tuna belly; nearly incinerating his oven in pursuit of the perfect pizza crust, and spending four days boning and stuffing three different fowl--into each other-- to produce the Cajun specialty called "turducken."
It Must've Been Something I Ate finds Steingarten testing the virtues of chocolate and gourmet salts; debunking the mythology of lactose intolerance and Chinese Food Syndrome; roasting... In this outrageous and delectable new volume, the Man Who Ate Everything proves that he will do anything to eat everything. That includes going...
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90,63 zł |
Topper
ISBN: 9780375753053 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. " Thorne Smith] created the modern American ghost. A ghost with style and wit. A ghost that haunts us still."
--The New York Times Thorne Smith is a master of urbane wit and sophisticated repartee. Topper, his best-known work, is the hilarious, ribald comedy on which the hit television show and movie (starring Cary Grant) were based. It all begins when Cosmo Topper, a law-abiding, mild-mannered bank manager, decides to buy a secondhand car, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of its previous owners--the reckless, feckless, frivolous couple who met their untimely demise when the... " Thorne Smith] created the modern American ghost. A ghost with style and wit. A ghost that haunts us still."
--The New York Times Thorne Smit... |
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Topper Takes a Trip
ISBN: 9780375753077 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The beloved characters--mortal and immortal--of Topper return in this uproarious romp through the south of France. One of Thorne Smith's best-loved comedies, it proves once again that he is the undisputed master of urbane wit and sophisticated repartee.
Cosmo Topper, the mild-mannered bank manager who was persuaded to take a walk on the wild side by the ghosts of George and Marion Kerby in Topper, finds himself reunited with his dyspeptic wife for an extended vacation on the Riviera. But he doesn't have long to enjoy the peace and quiet before the irrepressible Kerbys materialize once... The beloved characters--mortal and immortal--of Topper return in this uproarious romp through the south of France. One of Thorne Smith's best-loved co...
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It's the Little Things . . .: An Appreciation of Life's Simple Pleasures
ISBN: 9780375758966 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1996, Craig Wilson began writing a column for USA Today called "The Final Word." In it, he extolled the virtues of the true pleasures in life--clotheslines, freshly cut firewood, sweet corn, and Adirondack chairs--and looked back on his childhood in the country with fondness and an infectious sense of humor. Wilson's message struck a nerve, and now he receives hundreds of letters and e-mails each week from readers who share his sense of nostalgia and appreciate his warm, thoughtful observations on daily life. It's the Little Things... showcases the best of "The Final...
In 1996, Craig Wilson began writing a column for USA Today called "The Final Word." In it, he extolled the virtues of the true pleasures in lif...
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I Left My Back Door Open
ISBN: 9780380732807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Chicago deejay Daphne "Dee Dee" Dupree is sassy and successful--but a series of catastrophic relationships has left her gun-shy. Now with her own life and the lives of those closest to her seemingly coming apart at the seams, she's going to have to leave the safe cocoon of her broadcasting booth to face her world, her secrets, and a new promise of mature love fearlessly and head-on. Chicago deejay Daphne "Dee Dee" Dupree is sassy and successful--but a series of catastrophic relationships has left her gun-shy. Now with her own l... |
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64,69 zł |
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy: An Original Jane Bond Parody
ISBN: 9780380803101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Sometimes the Best Bond for a Job is a Jane ... Jane Bond.
"What's the story on Bond?" "Your man is a homicidal depressive paranoiac," the doctor reported. "I know that. I want to know what's wrong with him And be straight with me, man. No medical mumbo jumbo." "He's lost his nerve." N. had suspected as much. After a long while spent staring at the jagged skyline of London, N. came to a decision. He had no other choice but to go through with Pumpernickel's ridiculous plan. Enter Bond, Jane Bond, James's lesbian twin sister and haoless bookstore employee, who... Sometimes the Best Bond for a Job is a Jane ... Jane Bond.
"What's the story on Bond?" "Your man is a homicidal depressive paranoiac," the d... |
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86,27 zł |