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| Autor: |
W. Kirn |
| Wydawnictwo: |
John Murray |
| Liczba stron: |
304 |
| Data wydania: |
2009 |
| ISBN: |
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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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 |
| Liczba stron: |
272 |
| Data wydania: |
2009 |
| ISBN: |
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 These hitherto unpublished letters and diaries, written by Darwin in memorial to his daughter during her illness, provide new insight into the life of a man who has been much written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: |
Hughes Declan |
| Wydawnictwo: |
John Murray |
| Liczba stron: |
328 |
| Data wydania: |
2010 |
| ISBN: |
9781848540392 |
| Oprawa: |
miękka |
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13.0x19.5cm |
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A hard-boiled crime drama set in Dublin. Det. Ed Loy is investigating a 15 year old murder and begins to suspect the case has links to the IRA. Hughes's The Wrong Kind Of Blood was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger Award and won the 2007 Shamus Award for Best First Novel.
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| Autor: |
J. Hart |
| Wydawnictwo: |
John Murray |
| Liczba stron: |
480 |
| Data wydania: |
2010 |
| ISBN: |
978-0-7195-2221-5 |
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Thirteen-year-old Johnny Merrimon has to face things no boy his age should face. In the year since his twin sister's abduction his world has fallen apart: his father has disappeared and his fragile mother is spiralling into ever deeper despair. Johnny keeps strong. Armed with a map, a bike and a flashlight, he stalks the bad men of Raven County. The police might have given up on Alyssa; he never will. Someone, somewhere, knows something they're...
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| Autor: |
Williams Andrew |
| Wydawnictwo: |
John Murray |
| Liczba stron: |
392 |
| Data wydania: |
2009 |
| ISBN: |
9780719523816 |
| Oprawa: |
miękka |
| Format: |
12.7x19.6cm |
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Spring, 1941. The armies of the Reich are masters of Europe. Britain stands alone while Hitler's submarines prey on the Atlantic convoys that are the country's only lifeline.
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| Autor: |
J. Frey |
| Wydawnictwo: |
John Murray |
| Liczba stron: |
560 |
| Data wydania: |
2009 |
| ISBN: |
978-1-84-854049-1 |
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Welcome to LA. City of contradictions. It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees. Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity. Frey’s trademark filmic snapshots zoom in on the parallel lives of diverse characters, bringing their egos and ideals, hopes and despairs,...
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When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River. But what he experienced - the natural beauty, cultural tension, and complex process of understanding that takes place when one is thrust into a radically different society - surpassed anything he could have imagined. Hessler observes firsthand how major events such as the death of Deng...
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| Autor: |
O. August |
| Wydawnictwo: |
John Murray |
| Liczba stron: |
288 |
| Data wydania: |
2008 |
| ISBN: |
978-0-7195-6007-1 |
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In 1999, shortly after arriving in Beijing as The Times's China correspondent, Oliver August set out on the trail of China's most wanted man, Lai Changxing. An illiterate peasant from the coastal city of Xiamen, Lai created his own shipping empire from nothing before vanishing abruptly when the Communist Party accused him of corruption and fraud. Once the richest man in the country, Lai was now public enemy number one because his immense wealth...
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| Autor: |
Hart John |
| Wydawnictwo: |
John Murray |
| Liczba stron: |
376 |
| Data wydania: |
2009 |
| ISBN: |
9781848540224 |
| Oprawa: |
miękka |
| Format: |
15.0x23.0cm |
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In the year since his twin sister's abduction, thirteen year old Johnny Merrimon's world has fallen apart. However, Johnny keeps strong. Armed with a map, a bike and a flashlight, he stalks the bad men of Raven County. The police might have given up on Alyssa; he never will. Someone, somewhere, knows something they're not telling. Detective Clyde Hunt shares his obsession with the case. But when Johnny witnesses a hit-and-run and insists the...
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Give a big, fat, sloppy kiss to the Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries, a sharply-written, deeply urbane and ongoing series
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| Autor: |
Ghosh Amitav |
| Wydawnictwo: |
John Murray |
| Liczba stron: |
534 |
| Data wydania: |
2009 |
| ISBN: |
9780719523434 |
| Oprawa: |
miękka |
| Format: |
11.0x18.0cm |
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2008. At the heart of this epic saga is an old slaving-ship. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of China. But it is the panorama of characters, whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed...
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| Autor: |
B. Colin |
| Wydawnictwo: |
John Murray |
| Liczba stron: |
416 |
| Data wydania: |
2009 |
| ISBN: |
978-1-84854-031-6 |
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This is a rich, romantic historical novel showcasing the glamour, spectacle and theatrical energy of the Weimar Republic. As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. Born to a cabaret dancer and soon orphaned in a scandalous murder-suicide, Lilly finds refuge at a Catholic orphanage, coming under the wing of the, at times, severe Sister August, the first in a string of lost loves. There she...
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| Autor: |
J. Frey |
| Wydawnictwo: |
John Murray |
| Liczba stron: |
513 |
| Data wydania: |
2008 |
| ISBN: |
978-1-848-54044-6 |
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Welcome to LA. City of contradictions. It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees. Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity. Freys trademark filmic snapshots zoom in on the parallel lives of diverse characters, bringing their egos and ideals, hopes and despairs, anxieties and absurdities...
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| Autor: |
T. Dekker |
| Wydawnictwo: |
John Murray |
| Liczba stron: |
368 |
| Data wydania: |
2008 |
| ISBN: |
978-0-340-96496-5 |
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New York Times bestselling author Dekker unleashes his most riveting novel yet about an elusive serial killer whose victims die of unknown causes and the psychologist obsessed with catching him.
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Bestselling Mitchard offers the harrowing tale of four women lost at sea and pitted against nature and a cohort of contemporary pirates. Tracy, Holly and Olivia have known each other since high school, when they were glamorous, popular troublemakers. Twenty-five years after graduation, the three women, plus Tracy's 19-year-old daughter, Camille, set out on a "reading, sunning, gossiping" trip aboard a luxe sailboat helmed by a two-man crew. But a...
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| Autor: |
Jones Lloyd |
| Wydawnictwo: |
John Murray |
| Liczba stron: |
224 |
| Data wydania: |
2008 |
| ISBN: |
9780719521836 |
| Format: |
11.0x18.0cm |
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A promising though ultimately overwrought portrayal of the small rebellions and crises of disillusionment that constitute a young narrator's coming-of-age unfolds against an ominous backdrop of war in Jones's latest. When the conflict between the natives and the invading redskin soldiers erupts on an unnamed tropical island in the early 1990s, 13-year-old Matilda Laimo and her mother, Dolores, are unified with the rest of their village in their...
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| Autor: |
Hughes Declan |
| Wydawnictwo: |
John Murray |
| Liczba stron: |
346 |
| Data wydania: |
2007 |
| ISBN: |
9780719564536 |
| Format: |
11.0x17.6cm |
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Ed Loy hasn't been back to Dublin for twenty years. But his mother has died, and he has returned home to bury her. Loy soon realizes that the world waiting for him is very different from the one he left behind all those years ago.
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Ireland, 1950. Nina Hardy wakes in the big house where she grew up. Now aged fifty, she has returned to the fading beauty of her old home, and its unkempt gardens, its views of the wild Irish Sea, and its long-buried memories. With her childhood friend George, she is seeking peace from a turbulent world. But by the end of the day, a brutal crime will have been committed, which will alter their lives forever. As Nina tries to make sense of...
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| Autor: |
Hart John |
| Wydawnictwo: |
John Murray |
| Liczba stron: |
390 |
| Data wydania: |
2007 |
| ISBN: |
9780719521300 |
| Format: |
11.0x18.0cm |
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Jackson Workman Pickens - 'Work' to his friends - an unambitious lawyer in a small Southern town, has some serious baggage. His mother died a year ago from a 'fall' down the family's colonial staircase and his father, Ezra, has been missing ever since. Work is left to deal with his psychologically damaged sister, his father's legal caseload and his own rocky marriage. Power and greed bring many enemies, especially for a man as cruel as Ezra...
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