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One of the indisputable totems of twentieth-century world literature, Witold Gombrowicz wrote Pornografia after leaving his native Poland for Argentina in 1939 and then watching from afar as the German invasion destroyed his country. Translated for the first time into English from the original Polish by award-winning translator Danuta Borchardt, Pornografia is one of Gombrowicz's highest regarded works - a richly imagined tale of violence and...
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When the full moon shines, a paralysing fear descends on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next, but snarls that sound like human words can be heard and all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated.
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| Autor: |
W. Kirn |
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John Murray |
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304 |
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2009 |
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978-1-84854-327-0 |
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Ryan Bingham's job as a Career Transition Counselor (he fires people) has kept him airborne for years. He hates his job, but he loves 'Airworld', finding happiness in pressurized cabins and anonymous hotel rooms, and pursuing a noble ultimate goal: one million frequent flier miles. With sharp wit, and wisdom, Up in the Air combines brilliant social observation with an acute sense of the modern mind. It is a story for unsettled times.
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| Autor: |
N. Roberts |
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Piatkus |
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496 |
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2010 |
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978-0-7499-4179-6 |
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It's been a few years since Fiona Bristow has moved to Orcas Island. Within the small, tight-knit island community she's built up her business, a canine rescue centre that trains dogs to track missing persons. Whether they are lonely travellers on a hiking trip gone wrong or disappearances of a more sinister nature, more than once Fiona has been the last hope for those lost in Washington's vast wilderness. Other than her work, Fiona doesn't ask...
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| Autor: |
O. Ahmad |
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Viking |
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132 |
| Data wydania: |
2010 |
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978-0-14-306313-1 |
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While Afghan warlord Ahmed Shah Abdali plunders 18th century Delhi, a wandering storyteller fleeing the carnage happens across an isolated casbah a day's ride from the city. When the beautiful and lonely lady of the manor invites him to stay and share a story, his grief at the destruction of his glorious city spills forth in a story of two brothers, Taka and Wara - wolf and boy - a tale of love and loyalty, hurt and distrust. The storyteller is...
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| Autor: |
N. French |
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Penguin |
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384 |
| Data wydania: |
2010 |
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978-0-14-104833-8 |
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A murderous thriller to devour in one sitting from top ten bestseller Nicci French Who is more dangerous? An enemy? A friend? Or a lover? Bonnie Graham is standing in her friend's flat. She is alone, except for the dead body lying in a pool of blood on the floor. What happened? What will she do? And what role has she played in the murderous events? Bonnie is a music teacher who has spent a long, hot summer in London rehearsing with a band to...
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W imieniu toruńskiego środowiska filozoficznego chcielibyśmy Państwu przedstawić polskie wydanie Dzieł zebranych Immanuela Kanta. Nasz projekt wzoruje się na edycji Kants Werke „Akademie-Ausgabe” Pruskiej Akademii Nauk (tomy I–VIII) i uwzględnia tylko pisma skierowane do druku przez samego Kanta. W źródłowym wydaniu Pruskiej Akademii Nauk zamieszczono ponadto opublikowane za życia filozofa manuskrypty z jego wykładów: z...
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| Autor: |
S. King |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Hodder |
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560 |
| Data wydania: |
2009 |
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978-0-340-99299-9 |
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What would you do if your everyday world were turned upside down in an instant? Here are twelve riveting stories about relationships with unexpected twists. Be very careful what you wish for. Read about the acts of kindness from strangers: `workmen` who intervene in the obsessive exercise regime of a middle aged artist in Stationary Bike; the unexpected visitor, a blind girl, whose kiss saves a dying man; a mute hitchhiker who helps a driver get...
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| Autor: |
D. Silva |
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Penguin |
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416 |
| Data wydania: |
2009 |
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978-0-14-103898-8 |
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Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is asked to visit Zurich, to clean the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker. But when he gets there he finds the corpse of his client in a pool of blood beneath the masterpiece, and discovers that a secret collection of priceless paintings - stolen by Nazis in the war - is missing. With the Swiss authorities trying to pin the murder on Allon and a powerful cabal determined to make sure this...
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Its a morning like any other, when seventy-four-year-old Mr Gurdial Singh, former chief engineer of the India National railroad (the largest transportation company in the world), goes on his newspaper round. He is looking forward to his daily exchange with Kevin Brace, popular radio talk show host on the twelfth floor of the luxury Holmes Tower in central Toronto. But this time his customer is not waiting to greet him and when the door is...
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| Autor: |
R. Keynes |
| Wydawnictwo: |
John Murray |
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272 |
| Data wydania: |
2009 |
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978-1-84854-323-2 |
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In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, Randal Keynes discovered a child's writing case, which had been in his family for generations. The case belonged to Annie, Charles Darwin's daughter, who died at the age of ten. These hitherto unpublished letters and diaries, written by Darwin in memorial to his daughter during her illness, provide new insight into the life of a man who has been much written about but little understood.
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| Autor: |
M. Lewis |
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Penguin |
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288 |
| Data wydania: |
2010 |
| ISBN: |
978-1-84614-257-4 |
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"The Big Short" tells a story of spectacular, epic folly. It has taken the world's greatest financial meltdown to bring Michael Lewis back to the subject that made him famous. His international bestseller "Liar's Poker" exposed the greed and carnage of the City and Wall Street in the 1980s; he wrote it as a cautionary tale, but people seem to have read it as a how-to guide. Now, he wants to settle accounts. In this visceral tour to the heart of...
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Featuring 20th-century writers, including Nobel Prize winners Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, as well as celebrated poet Zbigniew Herbert and internationally renowned Bruno Schulz, this collection captures the brilliance and originality of a literary culture rightly considered one of the most important and influential of our time. These writers are branded by the political realities of their country - creating literature out of the...
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| Autor: |
J. Thompson |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Orion |
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224 |
| Data wydania: |
2010 |
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978-1-4091-1971-5 |
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Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small Texas town, patient and thoughtful. Some people think he's a little slow and boring but that's the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his 'sickness'. It nearly got him put away when he was younger, but his adopted brother took the rap for that. Now the sickness that has been lying dormant for a while is about to surface again - and the consequences...
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| Autor: |
H. Coben |
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Orion |
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352 |
| Data wydania: |
2009 |
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978-1-4091-1711-7 |
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Myron screwed up. His job was to protect someone. He fell in love with that someone and then she died. End of story. So he's dropped out, left, run away to the Caribbean to escape his guilt. But now everything that he left behind has come back to haunt him. A friend is in trouble, murder trouble. The victim? One of his own clients. In order to help his friend, Myron must battle for her freedom - against her own wishes... Myron Bolitar is trying...
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| Autor: |
H. Coben |
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Orion |
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352 |
| Data wydania: |
2009 |
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978-1-4091-1706-3 |
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Life isn't going well for Myron Bolitar. His business is struggling, and his father, recently recovered from a heart attack, is facing his own mortality - and forcing Myron to face it too. Then comes another surprise. Emily Downing, Myron's college sweetheart, reappears in his life with devastating news: her thirteen-year-old son Jeremy is gravely ill and can be saved only by a bone-marrow transplant - from a donor who has vanished without trace....
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| Autor: |
H. Coben |
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Orion |
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400 |
| Data wydania: |
2009 |
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978-1-4091-1696-7 |
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Investigator and sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big-time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead, the deal starts to go sour. Suddenly Myron is plunged into a baffling mystery of sex and blackmail. Trying to unravel the truth about a family's tragedy, a woman's secret...
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| Autor: |
R. Shaw |
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Orion |
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256 |
| Data wydania: |
2010 |
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978-1-4091-0458-2 |
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Ford and Mercedes Barclay have decided to spend their twilight years in the lovely village of Turnham Malpas - but will these two newcomers be made welcome? Ford, a fermer businessman who made his fortune in scrap metal, has ambitious plans for the village - including the funding of a youth club and the hosting of a mock Elizabethan ball, to which all the village is invited. But not everyone in Turnham Malpas welcomes the newcomers with open...
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| Autor: |
R. Shaw |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Orion |
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288 |
| Data wydania: |
2009 |
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978-1-4091-0206-9 |
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When Seb joins Barleybridge, the last thing on his mind is romance. Keen to settle into his first real job and make a good impression he embraces the working life of a country vet. He has almost forgotten his high maintenance ex-girlfriend Carly and concentrates on settling down to a job he really loves. He is welcomed by the other members of the Practice and is soon contending with a menagerie of very diverse clients which take Seb on an...
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At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love,Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe - a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were survivors of previous horrific divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form...
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Wydawnictwo Hachette przedstawia wyjątkowy, wyczerpujący, napisany przystępnym językiem poradnik dla przyszłej mamy. Każdy tydzień ciąży opisany został w osobnym rozdziale, odnalezienie odpowiedniego opisu nie sprawi więc problemu.
O tym, jakich pytań nie zadawać nieznajomym, jak być dobrym gościem, kiedy Polak zostaje starym kawalerem i dlaczego Amerykanie nie proszą o pomoc – razem z autorką przekraczamy ocean znaczeń i wdzieramy się w dżunglę kulturowych symboli polskiego przylądka.