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"Ziemia. Okres kredy. Mrówki i dinozaury - stworzenia zupełnie niepodobne do siebie nawzajem, ale świetnie się uzupełniające - z biegiem czasu nawiązały ścisłą współpracę. Podstawą ich sojuszu były zwykłe usługi dentystyczne. Ale z tych skromnych początków wzięły się pismo, matematyka, komputery, fuzja jądrowa, antymateria, a nawet podróże kosmiczne - prawdziwa epoka cudów! Tak wspaniałe przedsięwzięcia mają jednak swoją...
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Alphabet box volume 1
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An alphabet book for grownups? Why not? but be warned: these are not the tales your grandmother taught you. Inside this book are the first three installments of Marc Richard's alphabet stories. And they're just as twisted and funny as you'd expect. Three tales so twisted, they'll make you question your own sanity.
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"Przerażaj�co prorocza powieść o przyszłości w świecie postliterackim... Guy Montag jest strażakiem. Jego praca polega na niszczeniu najbardziej zakazanego ze wszystkich dóbr, źródła wszelkich niesnasek i nieszcz�ść: ksi�żek. Nie przychodzi mu do głowy, że mógłby kwestionować swoje nijakie życie - dopóki nie zostanie mu objawiona przeszłość, w której ludzie nie żyli w strachu, i teraźniejszość, w której można postrzegać...
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Book club discussion kit featuring the title, Black buck: "A crackling, satirical debut novel about a young black man who accidentally impresses a CEO while serving his Starbucks order, catapulting him into the opportunity of a lifetime-a shot at stardom as the lone black salesman at an eccentric, mysterious, and wildly successful startup where, he will soon learn, nothing is as it seems"--
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"Joan Orpí (Piera, 1593 - New Barcelona, 1645) is one of the most unknown characters in Spanish history. In this torrential book we are told the odyssey that brought him first to Barcelona, later to Sevilla and finally to America, where he would experience all kinds of outlandish situations. Using historical facts as raw material, and with stellar appearances of characters such as Miguel de Cervantes or the brigand Serrallonga among others, Besora...
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Girl genius volume 2
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In a time when the Industrial Revolution has become all-out war, Mad Science rules the world... with mixed success. At Transylvania Polygnostic University, Agatha Clay was a student with trouble concentrating and rotten luck. Dedicated to her studies but unable to build anything that actually worked, she seemed destined for a lackluster career as a minor lab assistant. But then the University was overthrown, and Agatha was taken aboard the giant airship...
453) History
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"Clive Hapgood is feeling stuck. The private school he teaches at is consuming his life, no thanks to wretched head teacher Julian Crouch. The gentle country life Clive envisaged has stifled him and left his marriage on the brink. What he needs is a holiday--something to remind him and Helen what life used to be like. But when things don't go to plan, and an incident at school begins to weigh heavy on his head, Clive's life starts to unravel in front...
454) Sinclair Lewis
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Probes the relation of Lewis' personality and the social setting in which he lived to the themes of his works.
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"A middle-aged Jewish man who fantasizes about being a cowboy flees 1940s Lithuania ahead of the Nazis in this wild and witty yet heartrending novel from the bestselling author of Yiddish for Pirates, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Motl is middle-aged, poor, nerdy, Jewish and in desperate need of a shave. Since having his balls shot cleanly off as a youth in WWI, he's lived a quiet life at home in Vilnius with his shrewd and shrewish...
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The team of commercial sorcerers at Dawson, Ahriman & Dawson can help with any metaphysical engineering project, large or small (though by definition they all tend to be pretty large). They can also create massive great puddles of chaos that might one day swallow up the entire universe. Take, for example, the decision to recruit a certain bearded fellow whose previous work experience mainly involves reindeer and jingle bells. It might have seemed...
458) Class: a novel
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"The breakout novel by Francesco Pacifico, one of Italy's most acclaimed writers, hailed by Dana Spiotta as "brilliantly funny and weirdly subversive" Ludovica and Lorenzo live in Rome. She works in her family's bookstore, and he's a filmmaker--or, rather, a "filmmaker": so far, all he's produced is one pretentious short film that even his friends don't take seriously. But somehow, he gets a scholarship to Columbia University, and the couple decide...
459) Time is irreverent
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What if you could make a change to history that would eliminate the Spanish Inquisition, American slavery, World War II, global warming, and a US president who thought he could drop nuclear bombs here and there without negative consequences? What if that change also made the United States and 5 billion people disappear? Would you do it?
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