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Autor: Langfield Martin Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2008 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141025063 Ilość stron: 538 Cena : 29.97 zł | |
This thriller is set in New York. It is about a man who goes on a quest to discover the secrets behind a box that responds to psychic energy and is linked to the North American blackout of August 2003. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Dunthorne Joe Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2008 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780241144169 Ilość stron: 292 Cena : 59.85 zł | |
Submarine is proper laugh-out-loud funny all the way through. I can't quote the funniest bits here though cos it would be out of context, and also they are too rude, sometimes extravagantly oedipal, sometimes just plain bonkers. Yes, the protagonist of this book is an original. Forget the two-dimensional sub-Mole narrator of 'dog in the night time' - this book is in a different league, rightly taking its place among the greats: if you've enjoyed any of the following books, then I suggest you give Submarine a try - Black więcej... | ||
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Autor: Pearse Lesley Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2008 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141030487 Ilość stron: 632 Cena : 32.4 zł | |
1995, Scotland. The prison of Cornton Vale.Laura Brannigan is in jail for murder. For two years she's been battling for justic - insisting that she didn't kill her best friend, Jackie. Yet with her spirits at their lowest ebb, she receives a letter that takes her back to a different time and memory of an old love ... Twenty years ago was a heady time for Laura: she'd escaped an abusive home and together with new best friend Jackie she'd made a fresh start. The pair had sworn to be sisters for ever. And Stuart had come into więcej... | ||
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Autor: Lewis Kevin Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141021317 Ilość stron: 374 Cena : 32.49 zł | |
Homeless, streetwise and running away from a past she would rather forget, Francesca Mills is just another face on the streets of London. When a violent encounter leads to a man?s death, however, she is forced to leave the harsh world that has become her home and forge a new life elsewhere.On the run, Frankie unknowingly stumbles across a dangerous secret, a secret so powerful that men will stop at nothing to protect it. She tries to build a new life, but you can only stay anonymous when no one wants to find you. Hunted więcej... | ||
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Autor: Smith Zadie Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 0141026669 Ilość stron: 450 Cena : 31.5 zł | |
Glorious. Wonderfully engagging, wonderfully observed... That rare thing: a novel is affecting as it entertaining. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Monbiot George Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141026626 Ilość stron: 280 Cena : 36.9 zł | |
The Times "The most powerful treatise yet on the gravity of global warming....I defy you to read this book and not feel motivated to change." The Financial Times"Well-researched and worth reading for the detailed technical analysis showing just how [the country] could cut its greenhouse gas output and still enjoy the comforts of modern life." więcej... | ||
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Autor: Dickens Charles Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141031736 Ilość stron: 120 Cena : 31.5 zł | |
Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget. An exceptional 7 level series of carefully graded and simplified readers consisting of original titles and adaptations of classic więcej... | ||
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Autor: Cussler Clive Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780718152802 Ilość stron: 406 Cena : 61.2 zł | |
1906: For two years, the western states of America have been suffering an extraordinary crime spree: a string of bank robberies by a single man who cold-bloodedly murders any and all witnesses and then vanishes without a trace. Fed up by the depredations of the "Butcher Bandit," the U.S. government brings in the best man they can find-a tall, lean, no-nonsense detective named Isaac Bell, who has caught thieves and killers coast to coast. But Bell has never had a challenge like this one. From Arizona to Colorado więcej... | ||
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Autor: Littell Robert Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780143112662 Ilość stron: 302 Cena : 48.15 zł | |
An Israeli government minister is assassinated in the home of his mistress. Leading the Palestinian assassination team is Dr. Ishmael al-Shaath, a half-blind Palestinian doctor imprisoned by the Israelis for years for crimes he did not commit. Days later, Elihu, an aging and decorated Mossad officer, leads his final raid, killing a Hamas leader in his bed--and barely escaping with his life.Out of this familiarly cyclical scenario emerges what is perhaps Robert Littell's most heartfelt and suspenseful novel. Isaac Apfelbaum więcej... | ||
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Autor: Quick Amanda Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780515142808 Ilość stron: 342 Cena : 28.35 zł | |
It isn't as though attractive widow Venetia Jones doesn't have enough problems. She has worked hard to become a fashionable photographer catering to Victorian society's elite. Her career has enabled her to provide a comfortable living for her brother, sister and elderly aunt. Disaster looms, however. Venetia has some closely held secrets, not the least of which is her uncanny psychic ability. Now her life is in danger because she has viewed the unique aura of a killer fleeing the scene of his crime. But the really unsettling więcej... | ||
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Autor: Black Ingrid Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141025308 Ilość stron: 424 Cena : 33.3 zł | |
Marsha Reed was just another aspiring young actress trying to make it in Dublin. But now she's found fame for all the wrong reasons - as victim of a brutal murder, her body left tied to her bed. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Walker Sue Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141025674 Ilość stron: 297 Cena : 33.3 zł | |
Kirstin Rutherford's return to Edinburgh after two years away is tinged with sadness because five months ago her beloved father-in-law. Jamie, drowned in a deep pool in the Water of Leith. And no one is sure whether it was a tragic accident, or a suicide, or something much more sinister... więcej... | ||
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Autor: Follett Ken Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780525950073 Ilość stron: 1016 Cena : 81 zł | |
On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. One boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. One girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the więcej... | ||
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Autor: Hornby Nick Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141382975 Ilość stron: 294 Cena : 68.4 zł | |
Whoever invented skateboarding is a genius. There's only one skater, and his name's Tony Hawk. It doesn't matter if you don't know who he is, just trust me. Not only is Hawk the world's best skater, he's also good to talk to. So I talk to Tony Hawk, and Tony Hawk talks back. Because just when it seemed like everything had come together for me, I had to go and screw it all up. It only took two seconds. But all of me knew. One risk. One mistake and my life would never be the same. Hawk had a few things to say. And a few things więcej... | ||
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Autor: Webster Emms Campbell Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9781594482588 Ilość stron: 348 Cena : 49.5 zł | |
Lost in Austen is a labyrinth of love and lies, scandals and scoundrels, misfortunes and marriages that will delight and challenge any Austen lover. Will Elizabeth succeed in her mission? It's all up to you. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Matthews John Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141004853 Ilość stron: 572 Cena : 35.1 zł | |
Jon Jordan. Crime Spree Magazine.'Ascension Day is like a narcotic, laced with danger, and totally addictive. Impossible to put down. This is what thrillers are meant to be. Jac McElroy is a character I want to read more of.' więcej... | ||
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Autor: French Nicci Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780718147853 Ilość stron: 378 Cena : 58.5 zł | |
Young and athletic, London cycle courier Astrid Bell is bad luck - for other people. First Astrid's neighbour Peggy Farrell accidentally knocks her off her bike - and not long after is found bludgeoned to death in an alley.Then a few days later, Astrid is asked to pick up a package from a wealthy woman called Ingrid de Soto, only to find the client murdered in the hall of her luxurious home.For the police it's more than coincidence. For Astrid and her six housemates it's the beginning of a nightmare: suspicious glances, więcej... | ||
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Autor: Hesse Hermann Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141033457 Ilość stron: 255 Cena : 27 zł | |
Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, shy and alienated from society. His despair and desire for death draw him into a dark, enchanted underworld. Through a series of shadowy encounters - romantic, freakish and savage by turn - the misan - thropic Haller gradually begins to rediscover the lost dreams of his youth. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Buchan Elizabeth Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141030739 Ilość stron: 374 Cena : 35.1 zł | |
What happens when the mistress gets her man?Against the odds, that's what happened to Minty. She stole her best friend Rose's husband Nathan and made him her own. But now that she's got what she wanted - marriage, kids, a family home - she's discovering a few things she didn't bargain on: the cold shoulder from Nathan's other family, her husband's middle age and growing distance... and accepting that first wives don't just go away. What's more, age brings one or two other problems for Minty. Problems that will lead her więcej... | ||
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Autor: Drabble Margaret Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141033037 Ilość stron: 346 Cena : 35.1 zł | |
Humphrey and Ailsa met as children, by the grey Northern sea to which they are returning. Humphrey was already a serious child, drawn towards the underwater world of marine biology, but there were as yet few signs of Ailsa's dazzling transformation into a flamboyant feminist celebrity. The novel traces the evolution of their careers and their passionately entangled relationship, and brings them together again to see what they will make of their past, and in what spirit they will be able to face the future.In this taut and więcej... | ||
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Autor: Kelly Jim Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141018645 Ilość stron: 357 Cena : 34.2 zł | |
A man lies hidden in an abandoned boat. Stifling screams, he draws a knife across his arm, letting the blood flow free. Soon he'll be dead - and life can begin again. Three decades later Declan McIlroy, a 39-year-old loner, is found frozen to death in his flat as Arctic temperatures grip the cathedral city of Ely. His is not the only cold death that winter, but nevertheless reporter Philip Dryden has worrying doubts - for it seems Declan may not have been alone as he slowly froze to death ...Dryden's suspicions harden when więcej... | ||
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Autor: Roberts Nora Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 0515141666 Ilość stron: 342 Cena : 28.8 zł | |
Roberts's Circle Trilogy continues with this second installment (following Morrigan's Cross), in which the circle of six prepare for their battle against the powerful vampire Lilith and her undead army. The six members, culled by the goddess Morrigan from the past and the present, include the wizard Hoyt and his vampire brother Cian, the witch Glenna, ancient Geallian princess Moira and her shape-shifting cousin Larkin, and demon hunter Blair. Preparing for the showdown in modern-day Ireland, the group split their time among więcej... | ||
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Autor: Masoudi Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141025353 Ilość stron: 124 Cena : 22.05 zł | |
Much of his work has vanished, but Mas'udi's matchless The Meadows of Gold has almost miraculously survived: a compendium of stories and information on what he knew of the worlds of the Middle East, the Far East and Europe. It is both a great monument to Islamic scholarship and a time capsule allowing us into the world over a millennium ago. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Douglas Kym Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 0452287650 Ilość stron: 224 Cena : 41.4 zł | |
Some of Hollywood's most famous celebrities share their personal tips on beauty, skin care, hair, makeup, fitness, and more, in a resource that features contributions from Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Beyonc Knowles, Scarlett Johansson, Cameron Diaz, Queen Latifah, and many others. Original. 100,000 first printing. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Ridpath Michael Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141015255 Ilość stron: 394 Cena : 31.5 zł | |
When an old college friend pays Alex Calder an unexpected visit he is drawn once more into the City's shady underbelly. For Kim is married to Todd, son of South African newspaper tycoon Cornelius van Zyl. Todd wants Alex's help to investigate the murder of his mother 18 years ago. It was assumed Martha was killed by guerrillas but the recent discovery of a letter sent shortly before her death now suggests a crime far closer to home. When an attempt on his life puts Todd in a coma, Alex vows to uncover the truth. Then a sudden więcej... | ||
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Autor: Patterson James Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 0446617946 Ilość stron: 404 Cena : 27.9 zł | |
In the eleventh in Patterson's series, FBI Specialist Alex Cross's family vacation at Disneyland is interrupted by two unconnected events: His ex-wife abruptly gains custody of their young son and a shocking series of Hollywood murders comes to light. The use of three readers doesn't add clarity to this puzzle, except that Melissa Leo, the sole female narrator, delivers the murderer's emails with an acidic edge. Peter J. Fernandez and Michael Louis Wells portray Alex Cross and the whirlwind of events that compel him to help więcej... | ||
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Autor: Suskind Patrick Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141029047 Ilość stron: 266 Cena : 38.7 zł | |
In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and frest-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that więcej... | ||
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Autor: Vaca de Cabeza Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141025360 Ilość stron: 154 Cena : 22.05 zł | |
The original disaster narrative, The Shipwrecked Men tells how a confident, well-equipped Spanish expedition to explore the Florida mainland came utterly to grief through arrogance, storms and bad luck, leaving a handful of survivors to stagger to Mexico City some years later.Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries ? but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging więcej... | ||
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Autor: Bird Isabella Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141025346 Ilość stron: 120 Cena : 22.05 zł | |
Endlessly restless and endlessly curious, Isabella Bird (1831-1904) travelled the world looking for new experiences, but never more delightfully than in her pony-bound adventures in the Colorado Territory at a time when it was only notionally under the control of the American authorities. A vanished world of grizzly hunters, cowboys, isolated cabins and plagues of rattlesnakes is here beautifully brought back to life. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries więcej... | ||
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Autor: Hardy Thomas Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 0713999756 Ilość stron: 158 Cena : 60.75 zł | |
Thomas Hardy's novels are loved by millions of readers, but he was first and foremost a poet. He wrote around one thousand moving and deeply personal poems during his lifetime, tracing his experiences of life and love. This collection, selected and introduced by Claire Tomalin, Hardy's biographer, provides rich insight into Hardy's thoughts and emotions, and is central to the understanding of the man and his work. Divided into sections that move through the contours of Hardy's life - the English countryside in which he walked więcej... | ||
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Autor: Coben Harlan Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 0451219287 Ilość stron: 440 Cena : 28.35 zł | |
It has been six years since entertainment agent Myron Bolitar last played superhero. In six years he hasn't thrown a punch. He hasn't held, much less fired, a gun. He hasn't threatened or been threatened. He hasn't called his friend Win, still the scariest man he knows, to back him up or get him out of trouble. In the past six years, none of his clients have been murdered-a real positive for his business. But all that is about to change. Because of the simple urge to protect two neighborhood high-school girls from the all-too-dangerous więcej... | ||
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Autor: Santos Marisa de los Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 014102898X Ilość stron: 310 Cena : 32.4 zł | |
?A touching, triumphant story. A joy to read? więcej... | ||
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Autor: Grushin Olga Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141029962 Ilość stron: 358 Cena : 32.4 zł | |
Olga Grushin?s astonishing literary debut has won her comparisons with everyone from Gogol to Nabokov. A virtuoso study in betrayal and its consequences, it explores?really, colonizes?the consciousness of Anatoly Sukhanov, who many years before abandoned the precarious existence of an underground artist for the perks of a Soviet apparatchik. But, at the age of 56, his perfect life is suddenly disintegrating. Buried dreams return to haunt him. New political alignments threaten to undo him. Vaulting effortlessly from the real więcej... | ||
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Autor: Capote Truman Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 0140274189 Ilość stron: 352 Cena : 44.1 zł | |
Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely and frighteningly human. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Coulter Catherine Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780515141689 Ilość stron: 358 Cena : 29.25 zł | |
Coulter's new thriller romance (Blowout, etc.) opens with Ruth Warnecki lost in a cave in rural Virginia while fellow (married) FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are hot on the tail of a psychotic dirty old man (Moses Grace) and his flirtatious teenage partner (Claudia), who've kidnapped a smalltime comedian. Coulter fans know if they suspend belief?really suspend belief?she'll deliver page-turners filled with good guys battling bad guys as well as enjoying domestic tranquility. After Ruth makes it out of the cave więcej... | ||
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Autor: French Nicci Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141029849 Ilość stron: 294 Cena : 32.4 zł | |
Nina Landry is supposed to be taking her two children on a Christmas holiday. But the road away from Sandling Island seems littered with obstacles. Most pressing of all, her 15-year-old daughter, Charlie, has yet to return from a night out. Nina's unease builds to worry and panic. Has Charlie run away? Or has something sinister happened to her? więcej... | ||
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Autor: Chekhov Anton Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141025506 Ilość stron: 120 Cena : 22.05 zł | |
Overwhelmed by what he felt was the worthlessness of his great success as a writer, Chekhov (1860-1904) decided to leave everything behind him and go to the far reaches of Siberia - to the terrible Russian penal colony on Sakhalin Island. This book mixes his witty, charming letters back to friends on his long journey with his grim account of the reality of life in one of the worst places on earth. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into więcej... | ||
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Autor: Orwell George Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141025537 Ilość stron: 160 Cena : 22.05 zł | |
For an entire generation, the Spanish Civil War was the ultimate test of commitment and courage as Communism and Fascism faced each other across Europe. Nobody wrote more vividly or more painfully about this than Orwell (1903-1950), as he came face to face with the reality of the civil war in Catalonia. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences więcej... | ||
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Autor: Gerrard Nicci Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141029566 Ilość stron: 469 Cena : 34.65 zł | |
Gaby and Nancy were inseperable when they were young. As teenagers they had no secrets and as adults they could conceive of none. Even when they found love - Gaby with Connor, and Nancy with Gaby's brother, Stefan - it was clear that nothing could separate them.Then one heartbreaking day Nancy left Stefan and walked out of all their lives. No one saw or heard from her again. No one knew where she went or why.Two decades later, Gaby - now a dutiful mother - discovers where Nancy lives. And she does something rash and impulsive: więcej... | ||
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Autor: Kunzru Hari Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 0141008296 Ilość stron: 286 Cena : 43.65 zł | |
With this taut and entertaining novel, London native Kunzru paints a satirized but unsettlingly familiar tableau, in which his alienated characters communicate via e-mail jokes and emote through pop culture, all the while dreaming of frothy lattes and designer labels. Arjun Mehta is an Indian computer programmer and Bollywood buff who comes to the U.S. with big dreams, but finds neither the dashing romance nor the heroic ending of his favorite movies?just a series of crushing disappointments. When he is told he will lose więcej... | ||
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Autor: Krentz Jayne Ann Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780515142501 Ilość stron: 360 Cena : 28.8 zł | |
Krentz's latest fast-paced, well-plotted romantic thriller takes place in the tiny Napa Valley village of Dunster?perhaps named after the Amanda Quick heroine Emma Dunster. A mysterious e-mail from a childhood friend, Pamela Webb, draws big-city reporter Irene Stenson home, but when Irene arrives, Pamela is dead, apparently of a drug overdose. Handsome but damaged ex-Marine Luke Danner, who owns the lodge where Irene is staying, helps her look into the case. The plot thickens when Pamela's house gets torched shortly after więcej... | ||
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Autor: Kerley Jack Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780451412331 Ilość stron: 388 Cena : 29.25 zł | |
A GARDEN OF VIPERS initially centers on the investigation by Ryder and Nautilus of the brutal murder of a radio newswoman who, interestingly enough, has some ties to Dani Danbury, Ryder's significant other. Some additional incidents, including another horrendous murder, indicate the presence of a homicidal maniac in Mobile. Both Ryder and Nautilus are distracted by the revelations of personal betrayals --- Nautilus from the past, Ryder from the present --- that have a common source in Buck Kincannon, eldest son of a rich więcej... | ||
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Autor: Taylor Andrew Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141018607 Ilość stron: 424 Cena : 32.4 zł | |
James wasn't much more than a child when he had an affair with Lily. And now, twenty-four years later, Lily confesses to James that their affair led to a daughter, Kate. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Bates Walter Henry Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780141025391 Ilość stron: 108 Cena : 22.05 zł | |
One of the most impressive of all Victorian scientists but also a marvelous writer, Bates' (1825-1892) account of his years in the upper reaches of the Amazon is almost too good to be true - a great monument to human inquisitiveness as he battles great hoards of malevolent reptiles and insects in his quest for ever more obscure specimens on ever more narrow and creeper-choked tributaries. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and więcej... | ||
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Autor: Ferris Joshua Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2007 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 9780670916566 Ilość stron: 388 Cena : 42.3 zł | |
In this wildly funny debut from former ad man Ferris, a group of copywriters and designers at a Chicago ad agency face layoffs at the end of the '90s boom. Indignation rises over the rightful owner of a particularly coveted chair ("We felt deceived"). Gonzo e-mailer Tom Mota quotes Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the midst of his tirades, desperately trying to retain a shred of integrity at a job that requires a ruthless attention to what will make people buy things. Jealousy toward the aloof and "inscrutable" więcej... | ||
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Autor: Stone Nick Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 0-14-102108-X Ilość stron: 568 Cena : 33.3 zł | |
Max Mingus wanted to turn down the case— fifteen million bucks on the table or not. The boy was dead, Max was sure of it. Three years had passed since Haitian billionaire Allain Carver's five-year-old son was abducted. Why bother now? The huge bounty and the resources of the most powerful white family in Haiti hadn't turned up a lead. Sure, Max had been the best detective in Miami once. But that was eight years back. Before he served time for killing a pair of junkie child-murderers. Before his wife, Sandra, died więcej... | ||
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Autor: James PD Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 0-14-102510-7 Ilość stron: 468 Cena : 33.3 zł | |
Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is vilated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and his depleted team, who all have worries of their own. Hardly have the team began to unravel więcej... | ||
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Autor: Cussler Clive Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 0-14-102670-7 Ilość stron: 358 Cena : 32.4 zł | |
Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon ha ve made a very comfortable and very dangerous living working for high- powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the Far East to ask for Cabrillo's special brand of assistance: a consort ium of Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trolling the waters of Southeast Asia. Normally, suc h attacks on the high seas are limited to smaller ships and foreign-ow ned yachts-easy targets on the więcej... | ||
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Autor: Cussler Clive Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 0-7181-4802-9 Ilość stron: 378 Cena : 61.2 zł | |
Brand New. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenceless boat under fire off the African coast. Cabrillo takes action, saving the beautiful Sloane Macintyre-who's looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have been attacked on the open sea by giant metal snakes in the same area. What begins as a snake hunt więcej... | ||
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Autor: James P.D. Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 0-14-101553-5 Ilość stron: 548 Cena : 32.4 zł | |
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room celebrating notorious crimes committed in the interwar years, when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close the museum against the wishes of both staff and fellow trustees. Everyone it seems has something to gain from the crime. When it becomes clear that the killer is prepared to kill again, inspired by the real-life crimes from więcej... | ||
