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| Autor: |
Krakauer Jon |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Atlantic Books |
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390 |
| Data wydania: |
2010 |
| ISBN: |
9781848873025 |
| Oprawa: |
miękka |
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13.0x19.6cm |
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Where Men Win Glory is a profoundly eloquent and affecting account of heroism - the story of Pat Tillman, a millionaire sports star who, after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, gave up his carrer to fight for his country with the US Army in Afghanistan, only to be killed - apparently in the line of fire - on a desolate hillside near the Pakistan border. News of Tillman's death shocked America. But even as the public mourned his loss, the US Army...
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"My name is Oscar and I'm ten years old... They call me Egghead and I look about seven. I live in hospital because of my cancer and I've never written to you because I don't even know if you exist," writes Oscar in a letter to God. Oscar is ill and no one, especially not his parents, will tell him what he already knows: that he is dying.Granny Rose, the oldest of the "ladies in pink" who visit Oscar and his fellow patients, makes friends with...
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An audacious, fresh portrait of marginalized, fatalistic post-Communist youth. Andrzej 'Nails' Robakoski is a tracksuited slacker who spends most of his time doing nothing other than searching for his next line of speed and dreaming up conspiracy theories about the national economy. Dumped by his girlfriend Magda, a beautiful seductress, he turns to Angela, a proselytizing vegetarian Goth, and then to Natasha, a hellcat who tears his house apart...
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From the bestselling author of "Paradise & Power", this new book argues that liberal democratic states and autocratic countries are currently on a collision course. Kagan served in the State Department from 1984 to 1998, and states in this controversial work that the peoples of the liberal world need to choose whether they want to shape history or let others shape it for them. There will be a UK author tour to garner huge review and feature...
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Zbigniew Herbert was one of the outstanding poets of the last century, and this exceptional new translation brings together, for the first time in English in one volume, his entire poetic output - from his first book of poems, String of Light, to his final volume, previously unpublished in English, Epilogue Of The Storm. As Joseph Brodsky said of Herbert's Selected Poems, this definitive new collection is 'bound for a much longer haul than any of...
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Paperback edition of the new book in the Sandro Cellini series of crime novels, set in Florence. With strong appeal to fans of Donna Leon's Guido Brunetti novels, and also readers of Ian Rankin and Colin Dexter. Follows the success of A Party In San Niccolo, Late Season and A Florentine Revenge. 'Elaborate and convincing...' Diana Athill
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| Autor: |
Wright Austin |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Atlantic Books |
| Liczba stron: |
378 |
| Data wydania: |
2010 |
| ISBN: |
9781848870215 |
| Oprawa: |
miękka |
| Format: |
14.5x21.0cm |
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Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield. One day, comfortable in her home, and her second marriage, she receives, entirely out of the blue, a parcel containing the manuscript of her ex-husband's first novel.
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| Autor: |
Carlin John |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Atlantic Books |
| Liczba stron: |
276 |
| Data wydania: |
2008 |
| ISBN: |
9781848872400 |
| Oprawa: |
miękka |
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12.5x19.5cm |
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Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman, "Invictus" tells the story of Nelson Mandela's ambitious plan to use South Africa's national rugby team to engage the still deeply divided country.
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| Autor: |
Orford Margie |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Atlantic Books |
| Liczba stron: |
314 |
| Data wydania: |
2010 |
| ISBN: |
9781843549437 |
| Oprawa: |
miękka |
| Format: |
12.8x19.8cm |
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When a beautiful young woman is found murdered on Cape Town's Seapoint promenade, police profiler Dr Clare Hart is drawn into the web of a brutal serial killer. As more bodies are discovered, Clare is forced to revisit memories of the horrific rape of her twin sister and the gang ties that bind the city's crime rings. Are the murders really linked to human trafficking, or is the killer just playing sick games with her?
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| Autor: |
Orford Margie |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Atlantic Books |
| Liczba stron: |
356 |
| Data wydania: |
2010 |
| ISBN: |
9781843549444 |
| Oprawa: |
miękka |
| Format: |
15.6x23.3cm |
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Dr Clare Hart is sent to profile a possible serial killer in Namibia. Working with Tamar Damases, the woman who heads up the town's Murder Unit, Clare is glad for the distraction. Until a few days ago, her budding relationship with Captain Riedwaan Faizal seemed to be going very well indeed - but she knows she is not the only woman in his life...
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| Autor: |
Reading Mario |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Atlantic Books |
| Liczba stron: |
436 |
| Data wydania: |
2009 |
| ISBN: |
9781848871243 |
| Oprawa: |
miękka |
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11.0x17.6cm |
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This mystery drives two very different men. Adam Sabir is a writer desperate to revive his flagging career; Achor Bale is a member of an ancient secret society that long ago dedicated itself to the support of the 'Three Antichrists' foretold by Nostradamus - Napoleon, Adolf Hitler, and the 'one to come'...
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The latest magnificent creation from the award-winning author of Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle trilogy. Erasmas, 'Raz', is a young avout living in the Concent, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers. Three times during history's darkest epochs, violence has invaded and devastated the cloistered community. Yet the avout have always managed to adapt in the wake of catastrophe. But they now prepare to open the...
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| Autor: |
Aravind Adiga |
| Wydawnictwo: |
Atlantic Books |
| Liczba stron: |
322 |
| Data wydania: |
2008 |
| ISBN: |
978-1-84354-722-8 |
| Oprawa: |
miękka |
| Format: |
13 x 19.5 cm |
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`[An] extraordinary and brilliant first novel Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision.` Sunday Times, Balram, the White Tiger, was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escape. When he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur, he takes his opportunity, and is soon on...
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Melissa Katsoulis, New Statesman 'A dazzling, outrageous and important book.' M. J. Hyland `This is a great book. Buy it and read it. There's no more to say.'
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This book is approved for consumption by those seeking pleasure, escape, amusement, enlightenment, or general distraction. This book is not approved to treat disorders such as eBay addiction or incessant blind dating. In studies, some readers reported inappropriate convulsive laughter, a tingling sensation in the limbs and sudden gasping. Less than one per cent reported narcolepsy. Do not operate heavy machinery while reading this book, until you...
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A tough dissection of modern mores, this is more than the story of a woman and her young daughter and their insolent assailants. It is also the tale of their silent champion - a man who knows the meaning of justice, and love.
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Wydawnictwo Hachette Polska przedstawia niezwykle poruszającą opowieść o dziewczynce imieniem Dawn. Sprawiała ona wrażenie grzecznej i nieśmiałej, w rzeczywistości była wewnętrznie poraniona.
W czasie, gdy laicki styl życia zyskuje coraz więcej zwolenników, Marek Lipski swoją książką staje w kontrze do panujących trendów. "Dlaczego nie jestem ateistą" to pozycja, w której autor odważnie i wprost mówi o swojej wierze w Boga i powodach, które skłoniły go przyjęcia takiego światopoglądu. Książka pojawi się w księgarniach 24 lutego.
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