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Studies in the Short Story

ISBN: 9780155059221

223,58 PLN (BRUTTO)
Doubletakes: Pairs of Contemporary Short Stories

ISBN: 9780155060814

318,79 PLN (BRUTTO)
Selected by celebrated author and professor T. Coraghessan Boyle, DOUBLETAKES: PAIRS OF CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORIES gives students the opportunity to enjoy, through close reading and analysis, the works of some of the most recognized names in contemporary literature.
Efictions

ISBN: 9780155062054

522,24 PLN (BRUTTO)
eFiction's unique database of 200 stories allows you to build your own customized anthology so that both you and your students purchase only the selections you want.
3 X 33: Short Fiction by 33 Writers

ISBN: 9780155104808

432,24 PLN (BRUTTO)
Offering 3 stories by 33 authors, 3 X 33 combines both a breadth and depth not seen in other contemporary or modern short fiction anthologies.
Le Compagnon Du Petit Prince Workbook

ISBN: 9780155504486

395,41 PLN (BRUTTO)
This exercise manual, written entirely in French, is the perfect complement to all three editions of Le Petit Prince. It features 23 groups of exercises as well as suggested topics for composition.
Consider This, Senora

ISBN: 9780156000024

57,98 PLN (BRUTTO)
The long-awaited and highly praised second novel by the author of Stones for Ibarra. The American characters here find themselves waiting, hoping, and living in rural Mexico-a land with the power to enchant, repulse, captivate, and change all who pass through it. Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times.
Nebula Awards 28: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

ISBN: 9780156000390

92,86 PLN (BRUTTO)
Morrow notes that many of the Nebula finalists grapple with the question Is science good or bad? Lending weight to this debate are all of the winners and many of the finalists in the 1992 awards.
Ugly Ways

ISBN: 9780156000772

66,67 PLN (BRUTTO)
The bestselling tale-powerful, compassionate, humorous-of the three Lovejoy sisters reunited in their hometown of Mulberry, Georgia, on the occasion of their mother's death. As the emotionally scarred Lovejoys prepare for their mother's funeral, the spirit of the selfish and manipulative Mudear hovers above them, complaining about her daughters' "ugly ways" in death as she did in life.
Nebula Awards 30: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

ISBN: 9780156000970

94,66 PLN (BRUTTO)
Excellent in all departments (Kirkus Reviews), Nebula Awards 30 continues a tradition of excellence by offering, alongside works by the winners in all Nebula categories, a generous selection of fiction, poetry, and essays not found in any other best-of-the-year anthologies.
Halo

ISBN: 9780156001137

80,66 PLN (BRUTTO)
A tale of the Old West as it has seldom been imagined before-authentic, frontier-harsh, and ethereal. Scrag, a young man on the trail to Oregon, meets Justly, a young woman, and her mother and is drawn into their lives. Winner of the David Higham Prize as the best first novel published in the U.K. or British Commonwealth.
Nebula Awards 31: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

ISBN: 9780156001144

89,06 PLN (BRUTTO)
The prestigious Nebula Awards are the Oscars of science fiction and fantasy, the only SF awards bestowed annually by the writers' own demanding peers, the Science-fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Just as the Nebula Awards honor only the finest science ficiton and fantasy, the Nebula Awards series showcases only the best of the ballot, offering as well fiction and nonfiction not collected elsewhere and a dazzling selection of essays written expressley for each volume. No other best-of-year anthology r
Nebula Awards 29: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

ISBN: 9780156001199

112,05 PLN (BRUTTO)
Each of the Nebula winners and finalists featured here displays its own (often highly idiosyncratic) excellence. This volume, which represents the best of 1993, includes offerings from Harlan Ellison, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Lisa Goldstein.
Downhome: An Anthology

ISBN: 9780156001212

119,86 PLN (BRUTTO)
A collection of diverse voices and experiences, all springing from a shared legacy: memories of the american South, of being "downhome." Mee introduces each group of stories and then lets the authors reveal aspects of the South from their own female point of view. Introduction by the Author.
Lilian's Story

ISBN: 9780156001236

61,21 PLN (BRUTTO)
Madness, cruelty, and sexuality permeate the household in which Lilian Una Singer is raised-an upper-crust Victorian world of teacups and servants. But Lilian, shielded by layers of fat, an iron will, and an indomitable spirit, has her sights set on an education, love, and-finally-her own transcendent forms of independence.
The Name of the Rose

ISBN: 9780156001311

60,43 PLN (BRUTTO)
It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville's investigation is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

ISBN: 9780156001410

57,98 PLN (BRUTTO)
This is a skeptic's journey into the meaning of God and of human existence. At once an ironic rendering of the life of Christ and a beautiful novel, Saramago's tale has sparked intense discussion about the meaning of Christianity and the Church as an institution. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
Fima

ISBN: 9780156001434

72,27 PLN (BRUTTO)
Fima's life in Jerusalem always manages to become enmeshed in the mundane. With wit and storytelling mastery, Oz portrays a man - and a generation - that has dreams but does nothing. Named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Translated by Nicholas de Lange. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Silk Hope, NC

ISBN: 9780156002073

72,41 PLN (BRUTTO)
"Compassionate understanding and humor illuminate this understated yet dazzling work" (Publishers Weekly)-a compelling parable in which two sisters find, among the neglected virtues of the past, a sustenance to carry them into the future. "A fine, unnerving little hermeneutic of love" (Village Voice).
This Is the Way the World Ends

ISBN: 9780156002080

89,06 PLN (BRUTTO)
The Gulliver's Travels of the nuclear age, the Alice in Wonderland of the arms race, this mordantly funny and visionary tale of the apocalypse was a Nebula finalist. The trouble starts when George Paxton ingenuously signs an admission of complicity in starting World War III. "The only book in the last ten years that I've read twice...a remarkable achievement" (Arthur C. Clarke).
Towing Jehovah

ISBN: 9780156002103

55,40 PLN (BRUTTO)
God is dead, and Anthony Van Horne must tow the corpse to the Arctic (to preserve Him from sharks and decomposition). En route Van Horne must also contend with ecological guilt, a militant girlfriend, sabotage both natural and spiritual, and greedy hucksters of oil, condoms, and doubtful ideas. Winner of a 1995 World Fantasy Award.
Albion's Story

ISBN: 9780156002417

75,21 PLN (BRUTTO)
In this "startling, fasciniating, disturbing" (Library Journal) companion to Lilian's Story, Kate Grenville takes on a daunting challenge: to imagine, from the inside out, how an apparently respectable Victorian gentleman can persuade himself that he has a right, perhaps even a "manly" duty to rape any woman under his control: his shopgirls, his servants, his wife, even his daughter.
Only Begotten Daughter

ISBN: 9780156002431

69,47 PLN (BRUTTO)
Call it a miracle or an accident at the sperm bank. But Julie Katz, the half-sister of Jesus, has been born to a celibate father. Soon poor Julie is tempted by the Devil and challenged by neo-Christian zealots-and that's just the beginning of her fantastic odyssey through Hell, a seceded New Jersey, and her own confused soul. Winner of a 1991 World Fantasy Award.
Bible Stories for Adults

ISBN: 9780156002448

75,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
Morrow unabashedly delves into matters both sacred and secular in this collection of short stories buoyed by his deliciously irreverent wit. Among the dozen selections is the Nebula Award-winning "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge."
The Following Story

ISBN: 9780156002547

55,47 PLN (BRUTTO)
Herman Mussert went to bed last night in Amsterdam and wakes in Lisbon in a hotel room where he slept with another man's wife more than twenty years ago. Winner of the European Literary Prize for Best Novel, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Translated by Ina Rilke. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

ISBN: 9780156002721

55,47 PLN (BRUTTO)
In a remote river town deep in the Ecuadoran jungle, Antonio Jose Bolivar seeks refuge in amorous novels. But tourists and opportunists are making inroads into the area, and the balance of nature is making a dangerous shift. Translated by Peter Bush.
Choice

ISBN: 9780156003889

108,66 PLN (BRUTTO)
When Melinda Kregg, a young southern belle, witnesses the bloody Kentucky mining strikes of the 1930s, her innocence is shattered. This saga chronicles her joys, sorrows, and ministrations to the social wound on her journey through the maelstrom of the twentieth century. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Awarded the 1995 Lillian Smith Book Award.
Rituals

ISBN: 9780156003940

61,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
An "intelligent, incisive" (Washington Post) parable about order and chaos by "one of the greatest modern novelists" (A. S. Byatt), Rituals tells the story of Inni Wintrop, a dabbler who floats comfortably on the open possibilities of life and in the flow of time meets two men who do not. Winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature. Translated by Adrienne Dixon. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. Harvest in Translation series
The Stone Raft

ISBN: 9780156004015

55,40 PLN (BRUTTO)
When the Iberian Peninsula breaks free of Europe and begins to drift across the North Atlantic, five people are drawn together on the newly formed island-first by surreal events and then by love. "A splendidly imagined epic voyage...a fabulous fable" (Kirkus Reviews). Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
In the Dutch Mountains

ISBN: 9780156004022

58,27 PLN (BRUTTO)
"A poet's fairy tale, elegant and beguiling"(Julian Barnes) that summons up a vast Netherlands encompassing Europe's highest peaks and a captivating pair of circus performers hunting for work. Translated by Adrienne Dixon.
Somebody Else's Mama

ISBN: 9780156004084

91,86 PLN (BRUTTO)
As she struggles to move from antagonism to common ground with Miss Xenobia Kezee, her sick, elderly, cantankerous mother-in-law, Paula Johnson confronts her own mother's death and her husband's detachment from the emotional life of his family.
A Plan for Women

ISBN: 9780156004527

75,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
Good-hearted Walter is convinced that all women, like his mother and sister, sacrifice their hopes and desires for the men in their lives. An aging bachelor, Walter is still looking for that perfectly pure woman whom he can rescue from the inevitable corruption of men. He thinks he's found her. Many years his junior, Louise is sweet, and more important, innocent. All is bliss in their young marriage, as they live equally and happily in their North Carolina farmhouse. But when Louise's past resurfaces in the
The Voyage

ISBN: 9780156004633

83,46 PLN (BRUTTO)
A woman's mysterious disappearance off the coast of Finland threatens the career-and marriage-of a distinguished New York diplomat in this "restrained, mature love story" (People) with an "extraordinary narrative grip" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogoro

ISBN: 9780156004688

75,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
This "exquisite, exuberant, X-rated" novel (Mirabella), set in feudal Japan, tells the story of a concubine who hires a stable boy to whisper erotic stories from behind a screen while she entertains her master, a samurai general.
All the King's Men

ISBN: 9780156004800

57,98 PLN (BRUTTO)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on american politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power. New Foreword by Joseph Blotner for this fiftieth anniversary edition.
Open Heart

ISBN: 9780156004848

97,46 PLN (BRUTTO)
In this "astonishing work about love in all its forms" (Washington Post Book World), an ambitious young doctor accompanies his superior to India, where he discovers an illicit passion that threatens to destroy his orderly world.
Funny Boy

ISBN: 9780156005005

55,40 PLN (BRUTTO)
"A marvelous first novel, about growing up gay in Sri Lanka...from a brilliant new writer whose next book cannot arrive here quickly enough" (Kirkus Reviews).
Live at Five

ISBN: 9780156005036

80,66 PLN (BRUTTO)
Sparks fly when a black television anchorman looking for "real life" (and higher ratings) hooks up with a spunky young woman from the inner city in this "touching and wickedly funny novel" (Publishers Weekly) by one of Granta's Best Young american Novelists.
Blameless in Abaddon

ISBN: 9780156005050

103,06 PLN (BRUTTO)
In this "funny, ferocious fantasy" (Philadelphia Inquirer), God is a comatose, two-mile-long tourist attraction at a Florida theme park-until a conniving judge decides to put Him on trial in The Hague for crimes against humanity. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Baltasar and Blimunda

ISBN: 9780156005203

57,98 PLN (BRUTTO)
From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. National bestseller. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
Orchard on Fire

ISBN: 9780156005326

69,47 PLN (BRUTTO)
Set in the small English village of Stonebridge, the Orchard on Fire tells the story of eight-year-old April Harlency's coming-of-age in a place where the charm of the local landscape contrasts sharply with the predjuices and vagaries of the adult world. When April encounters the red-haired, energetic Ruby Richards, the two girls become fast friends. Together, they abandon the physical and mental abuse forced on them by adults in their lives and transform an abandoned railway car in an orchard into their se
Medieval in La

ISBN: 9780156005371

72,27 PLN (BRUTTO)
Jim Paul muses on Western philosophy and the medieval mind as he makes his way through a harried weekend in Los Angeles, yielding a "delightful...humorous" book (Bloomsbury Review) whose every "sentence bursts with information, gorgeously put" (New Yorker).
Portrait of the Walrus by a Young Artist

ISBN: 9780156005432

61,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
A "baroque, surreal, and witty" novel (Ms.) about art, bowling, sex, and hairspray-"a mad tale of a mad genius, by a young author who may be a genius herself" (Kirkus Reviews).
Pushing the Bear

ISBN: 9780156005449

61,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
In a novel that "retains the complexity, immediacy, and indirection of a poem," Glancy brings to life the Cherokees' 900-mile forced removal to Oklahoma in 1838 and gives us "a powerful witness to one of the most shameful episodes in american history" (Los Angeles Times).
The King of Babylon Shall: Not Come Against You

ISBN: 9780156005531

91,86 PLN (BRUTTO)
A reporter investigates a crime spree that shakes a small Florida town in the week Martin Luther King is assassinated. "There are few recent novels as thought-provoking, as witty, and as entertaining as this one" (Washington Post Book World). With an introduction by Madison Smartt Bell, written for this edition.
Don't Call It Night

ISBN: 9780156005579

66,67 PLN (BRUTTO)
In this "extraordinary novel from a great and true voice of our time" (Washington Post), a teenage drug overdose throws a closely knit Negev Desert settlement into turmoil - and tests the limits of a precarious love affair. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Translated by Nicholas de Lange.
Spirits of the Ordinary: A Tale of Casas Grandes

ISBN: 9780156005685

63,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
This "strong and finely rendered book" (Larry McMurtry) takes us to the Mexican-american border in the 1870s, conjuring up a magical tale of faith, gold, and family passions that "echoes the style of Isabel Allende and Laura Esquivel" (Washington Post Book World). Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award.
A spectacular tapestry of folklore, spirituality, and landscape, this extraordinary first novel vividly blurs fantasy and reality as it details one family's search for identit
The House of Moses All-Stars

ISBN: 9780156005708

108,66 PLN (BRUTTO)
An all-Jewish basketball team barnstorms across Depression-era americanca, confronting prejudice and point-shaving in this "some-times agonizing, frequently hilarious" novel (Chicago Tribune) by "the game's foremost chronicler" (Wall Street Journal).
All American Dream Dolls

ISBN: 9780156005722

80,66 PLN (BRUTTO)
David Haynes "strikes out from the Waiting to Exhale formula" (Newsday) in a "hilarious" (Publishers Weekly), "consistently on-target" novel (Kirkus Reviews) about faithless boyfriends, spoiled siblings, preteen beauty queens, and Whitney Houston wannabes.
A Goat's Song

ISBN: 9780156005821

103,06 PLN (BRUTTO)
An Irish playwright reimagines his estranged lover's past in this "rare and powerful book"(E. Annie Proulx) whose "melancholy beauty resonates with the deepest truths" (Boston Globe).
Ingenious Pain

ISBN: 9780156006002

91,86 PLN (BRUTTO)
A chronicle of life of an eighteenth-century man born without the ability to feel pain, this amazing book "offers a panoply of literary pleasures" (Washington Post Book World). Winner of Britain's James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 1999 IMPAC Award. "Astoundingly good" (New York Times Book Review).

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