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The Undomestic Goddess / Sophie Kinsella. - Wyd. 2. - London : BLack Swan, 2006. - 415, [1] s. ; 20 cm.

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Kinsella, Sophie (1969- ).

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Język angielski Kobieta

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Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She's made a mistake so huge, it'll wreck any chance of a partnership. Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up, in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she's mistaken for an interviewee and finds herself being offered a job as housekeeper. Her employers have no idea they've hired a lawyer; and Samantha has no idea how to work the oven. She can't sew on a button, bake a potato, or get the #@%# ironing board to open. How she takes a deep breath and begins to cope - and finds love - is a story as delicious as the bread she learns to bake. But will her old life ever catch up with her? And if it does - will she want it back?

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Wedding Night / Sophie Kinsella. - Wydanie 3. - London : Black Swan, 2018. - 463, [1] strona ; 20 cm.

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Kinsella, Sophie (1969- ).

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The brilliantly fast and funny romantic comedy from Sophie Kinsella. It's all gone wrong with the man Lottie thought was Mr Right. Then out of the blue she gets a call from her first love. She decides it must be Fate, and rushes off to marry him and rekindle their sizzling Greek island romance. Lottie's older sister can't believe she's doing something so crazy. No more Ms Nice Sister, she's stopping this marriage. Right away! And she'll go to any lengths to do so...

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The Unbearable Dreamworld of Champa the Driver / Chan Koonchung ; Translated from the Chinese by Nicky Harman. - Wydanie 2. - London : Black Swan, 2015. - 228, [1] strona ; 20 cm.

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Koonchung, Chan. Harman, Nicky.

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Life is simple for Champa. He has a good job as a chauffeur in his hometown of Lhasa, and if his Chinese boss Plum is a little domineering, well, he can understand that-she’s a serious art-collector after all. And he does get to drive her huge Toyota. When he starts to sleep with his boss as well as drive her around, life becomes a whole lot more complicated. But not in a bad way. Suddenly Champa’s sex life is beyond his wildest dreams. But then Plum brings home a Tara statue-a statue that shines with exquisite feminine beauty-and suddenly life is not simple at all, as Champa finds himself on the long road to Beijing in search of its inspiration. This is a rollicking road novel brimful of sensuality and danger. Underlying the optimism and humor of its hero is a darker picture of racism and rough justice in modern Beijing.

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In the Garden of Beasts : Love and Terror in Hitler's Berlin / Erik Larson. - Wydanie 3. - London : Black Swan, 2012. - 587, [1] strona : mapy ; 20 cm.

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Larson, Erik.

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Książki Proza Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Dodd, William Edward (1869-1940) Dodd (rodzina) Nazizm Służba zagraniczna amerykańska Rody Stany Zjednoczone (część południowa) Niemcy

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Pamiętniki i wspomnienia Publicystyka

Dziedzina i ujęcie

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Indeks na stronach 575-587.

The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with unforgettable portraits of the bizarre Göring and the expectedly charming – yet wholly sinister – Goebbels, this book lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror.

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Babycakes / Armistead Maupin. - London : Black Swan, 1988. - 316 stron ; ,20 cm.

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Maupin, Armistead (1944-).

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Na okladce: The fourth volume in the acclaimed Tales of the City series.

The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier Tales of the City books with love and laughter are at it again. An ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a grieving gay neighbour, and an international ring of mail-order brides. Armistead Maupin has written a comedy of manners for our times.

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Made in America / Bill Bryson ; Illustrations by Bruce McCall. - Wydanie 3. - London : Black Swan, 1998. - XIX, 567 stron : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

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McCall, Bruce (1935- ).

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Index na stronach 549-567.

Bill Bryson turns away from the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture. In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up - as well as exposing the true origins of the G-string, the original $64,000 question and Dr Kellogg of cornflakes fame.

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The Thing About December / Donal Ryan. - Wyd. 3. - London : Black Swan, 2014. - 204, [3] s. ; 20 cm.

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Ryan, Donal (1977- ).

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While the Celtic Tiger rages, and greed becomes the norm, Johnsey Cunliffe desperately tries to hold on to the familiar, even as he loses those who all his life have protected him from a harsh world. Village bullies and scheming land-grabbers stand in his way, no matter where he turns. Set over the course of one year of Johnsey’s life, The Thing About December breathes with his grief, bewilderment, humour and agonizing self-doubt. This is a heart-twisting tale of a lonely man struggling to make sense of a world moving faster than he is.

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Happiness Is Easy / Edney Silvestre ; Translated from the Brazilian Portuguese by Nick Caistor. - Wyd. 3. - London : Black Swan, 2015. - 189, [2] s. ; 20 cm.

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Silvestre, Edney (1950- ). Caistor, Nick (1946- ).

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Olavo Bettencourt is an important man, a man of spin. With Brazil adjusting to the new idea of democracy, his PR firm holds the balance of power in its hands. Which has also made Olavo very rich, if not very popular. Loathed by his trophy wife and mired in a web of political corruption that spreads from Sao Paolo to Switzerland, Israel, and New York, Olavo is an obvious target for extortion. And what better leverage can there be but the kidnapping of his only son. Except that the child on his way home from school in Olavo’s armor-plated car, deep into his coloring book as the gang closes in—he’s not Olavo’s son.

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The Darkest Room / Johan Theorin ; Translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. - London : Black Swan, 2010. - 474, [6] stron : ilustracje, mapa ; 20 cm.

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Theorin, Johan (1963- ). Delargy, Marlaine.

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Tytuł oryginału: Nattfak.

On the idyllic island of Öland, off the coast of northern Sweden, a young couple from Stockholm tries to start life afresh. For Joakim and Katrine Westin, reclaiming a long-neglected family manor will be a labor of love, as they slowly bring the sprawling home back to life and introduce their two children to the island’s woodlands, glens, and beaches. But in the Westins’ new home, there are things that cannot be repaired, lives that have gone wrong, and secrets that have followed them. When the family is struck by tragedy, it’s up to grief-stricken Joakim to put together a puzzle of inexplicable loss, unbearable suspicion, and tangled lives. In this powerhouse of suspense–at once a crime novel and a searing family drama–a home built as a shelter from the sea becomes a human storm of murder.

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Echoes from the Dead / Johan Theorin ; Translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. - London : Black Swan, 2009. - 479 stron : ilustracje, mapa ; 20 cm.

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Theorin, Johan (1963- ). Delargy, Marlaine.

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Tytuł oryginału: Skumtimmen.

On a foggy autumn day in the early 1970s, a little boy disappears without a trace from the island of Öland. He is never found. Twenty years later his mother, Julia, is living on the Swedish mainland, still struggling to come to terms with her son’s disappearance. Julia receives an unexpected phone call from her father, a retired sea captain still living on the island who tells her that the postman has delivered a package containing the worn and mended shoe of a child. He is pretty sure it belongs to her son. . .

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Balancing Act / Joanna Trollope. - London : Black Swan, 2014. - 426, [1] s. ; 20 cm.

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Trollope, Joanna (1943- ).

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Four strong women. All working in a family business. But what happens when they begin to want different things? And what about the men - and the children - in their lives? Susie Moran has always been the breadwinner in her family. Her husband was the one who was there for their three girls. But now he wants something of his past back - the life he had before Susie's career took off, before they had children. And those children don't see their mother's business the way she has always seen it, thereby threatening the balance she has worked so hard to achieve. And then, amidst the simmering tensions, someone significant from the past, someone almost forgotten, turns up. The problems of the past, the present, and the future all become challenges to the stability of both family and work. Which relationships - if any - will survive?

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Brother and Sister / Joanna Trollope. - Wydanie 2. - London : Black Swan, 2005. - 366 stron ; 20 cm.

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Trollope, Joanna (1943- ).

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Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents, and now, grown-up, with their own families, they are still close to one another as brother and sister. Except that they aren't - brother and sister that is. They were both adopted, when their loving parents, found that they couldn't have children themselves. And up until now it's never mattered. But suddenly, Nathalie discovers a deep need to trace her birth parents and is insisting that David makes the same journey. And through this, both learn one of the hardest lessons of all, that sometimes, the answers to who we are and where we come from can be more difficult than the questions...

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The Serpentine Cave / Jill Paton Walsh. - Wyd. 2. - London : Black Swan, 1998. - 224 s. ; 20 cm.

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Walsh, Jill Paton (1937- ).

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Powieść angielska

Marion's search for the father she never knew takes her to St Ives. Here she learns of a lifeboat tragedy which is intrinsically tied up with her father's life. To find out more, Marion must delve deep into the past where she has to confront the demons which have tortured her own adult life.

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The Book Thief / Markus Zusak ; With illustrations by Trudy White. - Wydanie 5. - London : Black Swan, 2018. - 552, [1] strona : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

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Zusak, Markus (1975- ). White, Trudy.

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Język angielski II wojna światowa (1939-1945) Holokaust Niemcy

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HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall. SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION - THIS NOVEL IS NARRATED BY DEATH.

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The Lost Continent : Travels in small-town America / Bill Bryson. - Wyd. 3. - London : Black Swan, 1999. - 379 s. ; 20 cm.

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Język angielski Literatura podróżnicza amerykańska

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Publicystyka amerykańska

And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by lookalike people with a penchant for synthetic fibres. Travelling around thirty-eight of the lower states - united only in their mind-numbingly dreary uniformity - he discovered a continent that was doubly lost; lost to itself because blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a stranger in his own land. The Lost Continent is a classic of travel literature - hilariously, stomach-achingly funny, yet tinged with heartache - and the book that first staked Bill Bryson's claim as the most beloved writer of his generation.

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Dial M for Merde / Stephen Clarke. - Wydanie 2. - London : Black Swan Book, 2009. - 316, [1] strona ; 18 cm.

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Clarke, Stephen (1958- ).

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Paul West / Stephen Clarke ; 4

Englishman Paul West has just received an offer he can't refuse: two weeks in the sun, all expenses paid, with a beautiful blonde called Gloria Monday. M, as Gloria likes to be known, is down south to report on caviar trafficking – but it soon becomes obvious that she's interested in something a lot more fishy than caviar. Meanwhile Paul's best friend Elodie is marrying a French aristocrat, and Paul is asked to do the catering. Cooking for the French is a risky assignment at the best of times, but Paul, who is starting to feel a bit like James Bond, assures her that nothing can go wrong. Or can it? As Paul is sexually harassed by an English hen party, picked on by French commandoes and arrested by excitable gendarmes, he realises that events are spiralling out of control. And when he discovers that M's real target is France's biggest fish of all – the new President – and that he's coming to Elodie's wedding, Paul knows that the merde really is about to hit the fan.

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Merde Actually / Stephen Clarke. - Wydanie 2. - London : Black Swan Book, 2006. - 447, [1] strona ; 18 cm.

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Clarke, Stephen (1958- ).

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Paul West / Stephen Clarke ; 2

A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions: What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why are there no health warnings on French nudist beaches? And is it really polite to sleep with your boss's mistress? Paul opens his English tea room, and mutates (temporarily) into a Parisian waiter; samples the pleasures of typically French hotel-room afternoons; and, on a return visit to the UK, sees the full horror of a British office party through Parisian eyes. Meanwhile, he continues his search for the perfect French mademoiselle. But will Paul find l'amour eternel, or will it all end in merde? Merde Actually. In his second comedy of errors, Paul West continues to sabotage the entente cordiale. Author's apology: "I'd just like to say sorry to all the suppository fans out there, because in this book there are n...

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Merde Happens / Stephen Clarke. - Wydanie 2. - London : Black Swan Book, 2008. - 380, [1] strona ; 18 cm.

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Clarke, Stephen (1958- ).

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Paul West / Stephen Clarke ; 3

In the acclaimed third book in the popular Merde series, Paul West winds up stuck in America, chin-deep in financial trouble. He and his French girlfriend set off on their journey, with hopes of escaping fiscal ruin. But as the not-so-dynamic duo stumble toward Los Angeles, via Boston, Miami, New Orleans, and Las Vegas, Paul’s plans for success, of course, turn to merde: the couple takes on carjackers, old flames, and liaisons dangereuses. The result is a madcap, hilarious adventure and a sardonically witty tour through America, France, and England.

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A Year in the Merde / Stephen Clarke. - London : Black Swan Book, 2005. - 383 strony ; 18 cm.

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Clarke, Stephen (1958- ).

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Paul West / Stephen Clarke ; 1

Paul West arrives in Paris to start a new job - and finds out what the French are really like. They do eat a lot of cheese, some of which smells like pigs' droppings. They don't wash their armpits with garlic soap. Going on strike really is the second national participation sport after petanque. And, yes, they do use suppositories. In his first novel, Stephen Clarke gives a laugh-out-loud account of the pleasures and perils of being a Brit in France. A Year in the Merde tells you how to get served by the grumpiest Parisian waiter; how to make amour - not war; and how not to buy a house in the French countryside.

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American Wife : A Novel / Curtis Sittenfeld. - Wydanie 2. - London : Transworld Publishers : Black Swan, 2009. - 641 stron ; 20 cm.

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Sittenfeld, Curtis.

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In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest who comes to inhabit a life of dizzying wealth and power - that is itself remarkable. Alice candidly describes her small-town upbringing, and the tragedy that shaped her identity; she recalls her early adulthood as a librarian, and her surprising courtship with the man who swept her off her feet; she tells of the crisis that almost ended their marriage; and she confides the privileges and difficulties of being first lady, a role that is uniquely cloistered and public, secretive and exposed. In Alice Blackwell, Curtis Sittenfeld has created her most dynamic and complex heroine yet. American Wife is not a novel about politics. It is a gorgeously written novel that weaves race, class, fate and wealth into a brilliant tapestry. It is a novel in which the unexpected becomes inevitable, and the pleasures and pain of intimacy and love are laid bare.

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