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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
ISBN: 9780061438592 / Angielski / Skórzana / 2007 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have read--and reread--Christopher Moore's irreverent, iconoclastic, and divinely funny tale of the early life of Jesus Christ as witnessed by his boyhood pal Levi bar Alphaeus (a.k.a. Biff). Now, in this special (check out the cool red ribbon marker, gilt-edged pages, and gold lettering) gift edition of Christopher Moore's bestselling Lamb, you, too, can find out what really happened between the manger and the Sermon on the Mount. And, in a new afterword written expressly for this edition, Christopher Moore addresses some of the... Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have read--and reread--Christopher Moore's irreverent, iconoclastic, and divinely funny tale of th... |
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118,13 |
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The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters
ISBN: 9780061452482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. After 15 years of designing more than 1,500 book jackets at Knopf for such authors as Anne Rice and Michael Chrichton, Kidd has crafted an affecting an entertaining novel set at a state university in the late 1950s that is both slap-happily funny and heartbreakingly sad. The Cheese Monkeys is a college novel that takes place over a tightly written two semesters. The book is set in the late 1950s at State U, where the young narrator, has decided to major in art, much to his parents' dismay. It is an autobiographical, coming-of-age novel which tells universally appealing stories of maturity,... After 15 years of designing more than 1,500 book jackets at Knopf for such authors as Anne Rice and Michael Chrichton, Kidd has crafted an affectin... |
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70,83 |
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Quinceañeras: 15 Relatos de Coronas, Tafetán, Tíos Borrachos Y Más
ISBN: 9780061470752 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Para aquellos ajenos a este ritual, la fiesta de quinceanera celebra a la nina que al cumplir estos dichosos quince anos pasa a ser mujer. Es una mezcla de bat mitzvah con una pizca de baile de debutantes, repleto de momentos graciosisimos y recargado de toda la angustia adolescente que viene con esa edad intermedia. En esta antologia original, quince de los mas brillantes y graciosos escritores latinos, tanto mujeres como hombres, comparten sus memorias sobre esta celebracion espectacular, conmovedora y por momentos absurda, y esa forma unica de humillacion familiar que nace con las mejores...
Para aquellos ajenos a este ritual, la fiesta de quinceanera celebra a la nina que al cumplir estos dichosos quince anos pasa a ser mujer. Es una mezc...
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58,86 |
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How to Live with a Neurotic Dog
ISBN: 9780071418652 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Sure you regard your pet as your best friend and most loyal companion, but, while you may be loathe to admit it, sometimes it's just a sad fact that your best friend is a little bit crazy. This book is a must read for every dog owner who's baffled by their dog's quirky habits and strange behaviors, which may include the need to chew up old blankets, repetitiously lick the wood floor, or bark uncontrollably at an empty corner. This unique self-help, humor title will explain your dog's neurotic behaviors, including what it means when your dog is: *Hungry all the time (Compulsive eating...
Sure you regard your pet as your best friend and most loyal companion, but, while you may be loathe to admit it, sometimes it's just a sad fact that y...
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86,63 |
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WLT: A Radio Romance
ISBN: 9780140103809 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the spring of 1926, the Soderbjerg brothers, Ray and Roy, plunge into radio and launch station WLT (With Lettuce and Tomato) to rescuer their failing restaurant and become the Sandwich Kings of South Minneapolis. For the next quarter century, the Friendly Neighbor station produces a dazzling array of shows and stars, including Leo LaValley, Dad Benson, Wingo Beals, Slim Graves and Little Buddy, chain-smoking child star Marjery Moore, and blind baseball announcer Buck Steller.
Francis With, a shy young man from North Dakota, entranced by radio, gets into WLT through his uncle Art and... In the spring of 1926, the Soderbjerg brothers, Ray and Roy, plunge into radio and launch station WLT (With Lettuce and Tomato) to rescuer their faili...
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Leaving Home
ISBN: 9780140131604 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Revisit the beguiling comic world of Lake Wobegon. In the first collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Keillor tells readers ore about some of the people from Lake Wobegon Days and introduces some new faces. "Leaving Home is a book of exceptional charm . . . delightful . . . genuinely touching".--The Wall Street Journal. Available in early December.
Revisit the beguiling comic world of Lake Wobegon. In the first collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Keillor tells readers ore about some of the peo...
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94,50 |
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Happy to Be Here
ISBN: 9780140131826 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Keillor's best stuff is clean (in the sense that lines are clean), down to earth, exquisitely good-hearted, highly ludicrous, and as labored as nitrous oxide.... This book will either leave you dumbfounded or happy--almost deservedly happy--to be anywhere" --The New York Times Book Review
"His humor is cerebral and complex, a blend of romance and nostalgia; it sparklingly parodies the American (and human) condition.... His stories and satires glow with a sense of time and place." --The Washington Post "Keillor's best stuff is clean (in the sense that lines are clean), down to earth, exquisitely good-hearted, highly ludicrous, and as labored as nitro...
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The Book of Guys: Stories
ISBN: 9780140233728 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Guys are in trouble these days," says Garrison Keillor. "Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement and now it's just a problem to be overcome. Guys who once might have painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling are now just trying to be Mr. O.K. All-Rite, the man who can bake a cherry pie, be passionate in a skillful way, and yet also lift them bales and tote that barge."
This brilliant collection confirms Keillor's reputation as an ingenious storyteller and a very funny guy. "Guys are in trouble these days," says Garrison Keillor. "Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement and now it's just a problem to be over...
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98,44 |
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Wobegon Boy
ISBN: 9780140274783 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Garrison Keillor returns to Lake Wobegon in "a masterful portrait of the sort of small-town world that many of us Americans believe we grew up in, or would have liked to. . . . A wonderfully readable tale".--"The Washington Post Book World". NPR sponsorships.
Garrison Keillor returns to Lake Wobegon in "a masterful portrait of the sort of small-town world that many of us Americans believe we grew up in, or ...
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Cactus Tracks and Cowboy Philosophy: Commentary by NPR's Cowboy Poet and Former Large-Animal Veterinarian
ISBN: 9780140276831 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Described by The Washington Post as being able "to make a dead man sit up and laugh," Baxter Black--veterinarian/doctor turned poet/columnist/raconteur--has been making living people laugh with his novel (Hey Cowboy, Wanna Get Lucky?), syndicated columns, appearances on The Tonight Show, and regular pieces on National Public Radio. Now this complete illustrated collection of the commentaries that have aired on NPR's Morning Edition presents Black's latest dose of medicine for animal and human alike. Ranging from a riotous account of two cowboys chasing down...
Described by The Washington Post as being able "to make a dead man sit up and laugh," Baxter Black--veterinarian/doctor turned poet/colu...
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106,31 |
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
ISBN: 9780140298475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With another devastatingly hilarious, ridiculous, unnervingly accurate take on modern womanhood, Bridget Jones is back. (v.g.)
Monday 27 January "7:15 a.m. Hurrah The wilderness years are over. For four weeks and five days now have been in functional relationship with adult male, thereby proving am not love pariah as recently feared." Wednesday 5 March "7:08 p.m. Am assured, receptive, responsive woman of substance. My sense of self comes not from other people but . . .from . . .myself? That can't be right." Lurching from the cappuccino bars of Notting Hill to... With another devastatingly hilarious, ridiculous, unnervingly accurate take on modern womanhood, Bridget Jones is back. (v.g.)
Monday 27 January<... |
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The Wee Book of Calvin: Air-Kissing in the North-East
ISBN: 9780141019727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of essays and aphorisms about Scottish Calvinism. This is Scottish literary humour at its finest. 'A work of contemporary shamanism, with all the bluff, poetry, deranged humour, sleight-of-hand and real magic that implies.' Don Paterson. This is the first (and maybe the last) self-help guide that promises to make you feel a lot worse after you read it. A hilarious satire on freeze-dried mysticism and off-the-shelf enlightenment, it is also a haunting and lyrical reflection on places, voices and memories -- a literary journey into the heart of North-East darkness. 'A perfect...
A collection of essays and aphorisms about Scottish Calvinism. This is Scottish literary humour at its finest. 'A work of contemporary shamanism, with...
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83,28 |
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Cause Celeb
ISBN: 9780142000229 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Disillusioned with life as a literary publicist in London and sick of her hotshot TV presenter boyfriend, twenty-something Rosie Richardson decides to give up glitz for good deeds and escape to Africa to run a refugee camp. When famine strikes and a massive refugee influx threatens to overwhelm the camp, officials drag their heels. The only way to get food fast is to bring the celebrities first, so Rosie returns to London to organize a star-studded and risky emergency appeal. Deftly skewering the world of celebrity fundraising, Fielding's debut novel is both comic and thought-provoking....
Disillusioned with life as a literary publicist in London and sick of her hotshot TV presenter boyfriend, twenty-something Rosie Richardson decides to...
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A Short History of a Small Place
ISBN: 9780142003626 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Marvelously funny, bittersweet, and beautifully evocative, the original publication of A Short History of a Small Place announced the arrival of one of our great Southern voices. Although T. R. Pearson's Neely, North Carolina, doesn't appear on any map of the state, it has already earned a secure place on the literary landscape of the South. In this introduction to Neely, the young narrator, Louis Benfield, recounts the tragic last days of Miss Myra Angelique Pettigrew, a local spinster and former town belle who, after years of total seclusion, returns flamboyantly to public view-with...
Marvelously funny, bittersweet, and beautifully evocative, the original publication of A Short History of a Small Place announced the arrival o...
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Miss Julia Hits the Road
ISBN: 9780142004043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Miss Julia--that Southern spitfire of a certain age who is never less than charming, even when she's at her most opinionated--has been praised by Fannie Flagg as "one of the most delightful characters to come along in years." Don't miss Ann Ross's newest, Miss Julia Weathers The Storm, coming April 2017 from Viking.
In Miss Julia Hits the Road, she is becoming increasingly concerned about her gentleman friend, Sam, who has suddenly started wearing cowboy boots, sending her flowers, and writing bad poetry. And when he shows up on a Harley-Davidson Road King and asks... Miss Julia--that Southern spitfire of a certain age who is never less than charming, even when she's at her most opinionated--has been praised by F...
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Love Me
ISBN: 9780142004999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. n this charming departure from Lake Wobegon, bestselling author Garrison Keillor tells a hilarious and heartwarming tale of ambition, success and failure, and the virtues of real love. Aspiring writer Larry Wyler leads a quiet, decent life with his do-gooder wife, Iris, in St. Paul, Minnesota, but he wants more. When his literary debut becomes a hit, he departs for a Manhattan apartment, a job at the New Yorker, and three- martini lunches with the great editor, William Shawn.
But when his second novel bombs and he finds himself in the grip of writer's block, Wyler discovers that... n this charming departure from Lake Wobegon, bestselling author Garrison Keillor tells a hilarious and heartwarming tale of ambition, success and fail...
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Miss Julia Meets Her Match
ISBN: 9780143034858 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the 5th installment of the New York Times bestselling Miss Julia series, Miss Julia has finally met her match. Don't miss Ann Ross's newest, Miss Julia Weathers The Storm, coming April 2017 from Viking.
With devoted fans across the country, Miss Julia--that endearingly sharp-tongued southern belle of a certain age--has no shortage of admirers. But in Miss Julia Meets Her Match, our feisty heroine must come to terms with her most ardent admirer of all: longtime beau Sam Murdoch, who wants to tie the knot. While it's hard to resist Sam's charm, Miss Julia... In the 5th installment of the New York Times bestselling Miss Julia series, Miss Julia has finally met her match. Don't miss Ann Ross's newe...
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The Memory of Running
ISBN: 9780143036685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Every decade seems to produce a novel that captures the public's imagination with a story that sweeps readers up and takes them on a thrilling, unforgettable ride. Ron McLarty's The Memory of Running is this decade's novel. By all accounts, especially his own, Smithson "Smithy" Ide is a loser. An overweight, friendless, chain-smoking, forty-three-year-old drunk, Smithy's life becomes completely unhinged when he loses his parents and long-lost sister within the span of one week. Rolling down the driveway of his parents' house in Rhode Island on his old Raleigh bicycle to escape his...
Every decade seems to produce a novel that captures the public's imagination with a story that sweeps readers up and takes them on a thrilling, unforg...
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Miss Julia's School of Beauty
ISBN: 9780143036708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Imagine Aunt Bee from The Andy Griffith Show with a lot more backbone and confidence," wrote Publishers Weekly about Miss Julia, Ann Ross's endearing Dixie doyenne of decorum. Don't miss her latest, Miss Julia Weathers The Storm, coming April 2017 from Viking.
In her latest romp, Miss Julia--now Mrs. Sam Murdoch--returns from her whirlwind elopement, only to find herself roped into Hazel Marie's scheme to raise money by throwing a beauty pageant. Though it all seems a tad distasteful, it's nothing compared to the revelation that Pigeon Forge, the marriage mill across... Imagine Aunt Bee from The Andy Griffith Show with a lot more backbone and confidence," wrote Publishers Weekly about Miss Julia, Ann Ross's endeari...
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London Is the Best City in America
ISBN: 9780143038504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The first novel from the acclaimed author of Eight Hundred Grapes and Hello Sunshine
Emmy Everett is reluctantly heading home to New York for her brother Josh's wedding. She has spent the last three years in a fishing town in Rhode Island and, having little to show for it, she doesn't particularly want to answer the questions she is sure to face about her (ex)-fiance, her (questionable) career choices, her (unknown) future. But she is still shocked when her typically resolute brother Josh confesses he is having doubts about his imminent marriage - and he asks Emmy the... The first novel from the acclaimed author of Eight Hundred Grapes and Hello Sunshine
Emmy Everett is reluctantly heading home... |
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