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In this "New York Times" bestseller, now available in paperback, Sedaris returns to his deliriously twisted domain: hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy, the gulf of misunderstanding that exists between people of different nations or members of the same family, and the poignant divide between one's best hopes and most common deeds.
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- Abacus UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11850-5
EAN 9780349118505
Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, has turned his hand to humour. The delightful result is a creation of comic genius. For in the unnaturally tall form of Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, we are invited to meet a memorable character whose sublime insouciance is a blend of the ...
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- Abacus UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11563-4
EAN 9780349115634
The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe of its fall. ...
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- Abacus UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11725-6
EAN 9780349117256
Mma Ramotswe, who became engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni at the end of the first book, is still engaged. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fiance.For indeed he has other things on his mind - notably a frightening ...
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THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY published in 1998, introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe, the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE took us further into this world, and now, continuing the adventures of Mma Ramotswe, MORALITY FOR BEAUTIFUL GIRLS, finds her expanding her business ...
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- Abacus UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11353-1
EAN 9780349113531
Born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, the eighty-five years of Eric Hobsbawm's life are backdropped by an endless litany of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions. He has led a remarkably fulfilling and long life; historian and intellectual, fluent in five languages, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, until it dissolved ...
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- Abacus UK, 2003
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11673-0
EAN 9780349116730
Sir James Brooke was an extraordinary 'eminent' Victorian, whose life was the stuff of legend.His curious career began in 1841 when he was caught up in a war in Brunei which had started because a party of local Dayaks had refused to furl their umbrellas in the presence of the Sultan. Brooke was an opportunist ...
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TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE, McCall Smith's second book, takes us further into this world as we follow Mama Ramotswe into more daring situations ... Among her cases this time are wayward wives, unscrupulous maids, and the challenge to resolve a mother's pain for her son who is long lost on the African plains. Indeed, Mma ...
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- Abacus UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11738-6
EAN 9780349117386
Ben had always known he would be a photographer, until life got in the way. Now a junior partner in a Wall Street firm, he feels trapped until he discovers his wife has been having an affair and a flash of anger leads him into a nightmare. Is this his chance to assume a new ...
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- Abacus UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11675-4
EAN 9780349116754
Wayward daughters. Missing husbands. Philandering partners. If you've got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only female private detective. Her methods may not be conventional, but she's got warmth, wit and canny intuition on her side.
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This biography tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as a novel. There is Nancy, whose bright social existence masked a doomed obsessional love, which soured her success; Pam, a countrywoman maried to one of the best brains in Europe; Diana, ...
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- Abacus UK, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11391-3
EAN 9780349113913
Anyone that has read NAKED and BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a new collection from him is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious new pieces, including 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', about his attempts to learn ...
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Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot, and a dazzling and brilliant leader.
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One Palestine, Complete
Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
- Abacus UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11286-2
EAN 9780349112862
Tom Segev's widely acclaimed work has changed the way we view the history of Israel. He discussed the three decades when Palestine was ruled by the British Empire; and Britain's promise to both Jews and Arabs that they would inherit the land. Segev reconstructs in vivid detail the tumultuous era when anything seemed possible and ...
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- Abacus UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11302-9
EAN 9780349113029
BANDITS is a study of the social bandit or bandit-rebel - robbers and outlaws who are not regarded by public opinion as simple criminals, but rather as champions of social justice, as avengers or as primitive resistance fighters. Whether Balkan haiduks, Indian dacoits or Brazilian congaceiros, their spectacular exploits have been celebrated and preserved in ...
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- Abacus UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11188-9
EAN 9780349111889
David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World', which reveals a woman's agonised consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men', ...
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- Abacus UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11102-5
EAN 9780349111025
In these stories, the author renders the bizarre normal and the absurd hilarious, from the eerily real , almost holographic evocations of historical figures, to overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians. In the title story, punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism.
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- Abacus UK, 1998
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 353 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11001-1
EAN 9780349110011
This collection brings together novelist Wallace's musings on a wide range of topics, from his early days as a nationally ranked tennis player to his trip on a commercial cruiseliner. His observations and analyses expose the faultlines in American culture.
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- Abacus UK, 1997
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1104 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12108-6
EAN 9780349121086
Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of ...
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