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19 produkter
Great Perhaps
Av Joe Meno
E-bok, 2011
155 kr
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Meet the Caspers . . . Jonathan is a palaeontologist, searching in vain for a prehistoric squid. His wife, Madeline, an animal behaviourist, cannot explain why the pigeons she is studying are becoming increasingly aggressive. Their older daughter Amelia is a fervent anti-capitalist and disappointed …
Great Perhaps
A Novel
Av Joe Meno
Häftad, 2010
386 kr
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The sky is falling for the Caspers, a family of cowards. When the parents decide to separate, this family is forced to appreciate the cloudiness of this modern age.
You Can Build It Book 2
Häftad, 2012
140 kr
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You Can Build It is a new, ongoing series of instruction books on theart of LEGO custom building, from the producers of BrickJournalmagazine! Spinning off from BrickJournal's popular "You Can Build It"column, these full-color books are loaded with nothing but Step-By-Stepinstructions by some of the …
Tender As Hellfire
Av Joe Meno
E-bok, 2007
148 kr
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Features some of the liveliest characters that one is apt to meet in a contemporary novel. Vividly described.”Publishers WeeklyExtremely vivid. . . . Any number of novels have been written about unhappy childhoods and bizarre families, but this one surpasses many.”Kirkus ReviewsJoe Meno limns a …
Office Girl
A Novel
Av Joe Meno
E-bok, 2012
164 kr
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This quirky tale of two young artists in love in 1990s Chicago is "a gorgeous little indie romance . . . A sweetheart of a novel" (Kirkus Reviews). In the last year of the twentieth century, Odile is a lovely twenty-three-year-old art-school dropout, a minor vandal, and a hopeless dreamer. Jack is …
How the Hula Girl Sings
A Novel
Av Joe Meno
E-bok, 2013
145 kr
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A haunted ex-con returns to his hometown: "Fans of hard-boiled pulp fiction will particularly enjoy this novel" (Booklist). Luce Lemay is out on parole three years after an awful tragedy sent him to prison. In his small Illinois town, he does his best to find hope: in a new job at the local …
Marvel and a Wonder
Av Joe Meno
E-bok, 2015
213 kr
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A boy and his grandfather hunt for a stolen horse in this novel "evoking William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy" (Booklist). Longlisted for the American Library Association''s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction In the summer of 1995, Jim Falls, a Korean War vet, struggles to raise his …
Chicago Noir: The Classics
Av Joe Meno
E-bok, 2015
263 kr
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Nelson Algren, Richard Wright, and Patricia Highsmith are just three of the iconic authors included in this outstanding volume."In this superior entry in Akashic''s noir series, Meno offers nearly a century of Chicago crime fiction. . . . Familiar bylines abound: Max Allan Collins, Richard Wright, …
Book of Extraordinary Tragedies
Av Joe Meno
Häftad, 2022
222 kr
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Aleksander and Isobel are siblings and former classical music prodigies, once destined for greatness until each was forced to confront the absurdity of tragedy at an early age: Aleks lives with hearing loss, while Isobel struggles with preposterous expectations from herself and her family. Both now …
Book of Extraordinary Tragedies
A Novel
Av Joe Meno
E-bok, 2022
246 kr
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From the best-selling author Joe Meno, a moving novel about the impossibility of fate and family."Joe Meno is one of those Chicago writers floating around so long that we take his sturdiness for granted. His latest, though, Book of Extraordinary Tragedies, the tale of Evergreen Park musical …
Between Everything and Nothing
The Journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the Quest for Asylum
Av Joe Meno
Häftad, 1900
190 kr
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, this harrowing true story of two young men from Ghana and their quest for asylum highlights not only the unjust political system of their homeland, but the chaos of the United States’ failing immigration system. Long before their chance meeting at a …
Hairstyles of the Damned
Av Joe Meno
E-bok, 2004
171 kr
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Included in MTV.com's "These 17 Music-Themed YA Books Could Be Your Life"A selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program."Meno gives his proverbial coming-of-age tale a punk-rock edge, as seventeen-year-old Chicagoan Brian Oswald tries to land his first girlfriend...Meno ably …
Boy Detective Fails
Av Joe Meno
E-bok, 2006
246 kr
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In the twilight of a mysterious childhood full of wonder, Billy Argo, boy detective, is brokenhearted to find that his younger sister and crime-solving partner, Caroline, has committed suicide. Ten years later, Billy, age thirty, returns from an extended stay at St. Vitus' Hospital for the Mentally …
Los peinados de los malditos
Joe Meno
Av Joe Meno
E-bok, 2018
136 kr
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Los peinados de los malditos es la historia de Brian, un inadaptado estudiante de escuela católica, y Gretchen, una dura chica punk aficionada tanto a las peleas como a grabar casets para su amigo, a quien considera un tonto. Los sucesos ocurren a principios de los años noventa, cuando el …
