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Trust / Hernan Diaz. - New York : Riverhead Books, 2023. - 461, [3] strony ; 22 cm.

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Díaz Hernán (1973- ). Autor

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Literatura amerykańska

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Bogactwo Finansiści Małżeństwo Wielki kryzys (1929-1935) Władza Nowy Jork (Stany Zjednoczone)

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Książka w języku angielskim. Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.

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Little Rot / Akwaeke Emezi. - New York : Riverhead Books, 2024. - [6], 276 stron ; 23 cm.

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Emezi Akwaeke (1987- ). Autor

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Książki Proza

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Literatura nigeryjska

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Korupcja Mniejszości seksualne Pracownice i pracownicy seksualni Przestępczość Nigeria

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Powieść Thriller

Książka w języku angielskim. One weekend. The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city. A party that goes awry. A tangled web of sex and lies and corruption that leaves no one unscathed. Aima and Kalu are a longtime couple who have just split. When Kalu, reeling from the breakup, visits an exclusive sex party hosted by his best friend, Ahmed, he makes a decision that will plunge them all into chaos, brutally and suddenly upending their lives. Ola and Souraya, two Nigerian sex workers visiting from Kuala Lumpur, collide into the scene just as everything goes to hell. Sucked into the city’s corrupt and glittering underworld, they’re all looking for a way out, fueled by a desperate need to escape the dangerous threat that looms over them.

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The Vaster wilds / Lauren Groff. - New York : Riverhead Books, 2023. - [8], 256 stron ; 23 cm.

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Groff Lauren (1978- ). Autor

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Kobieta Pustynie Sztuka przetrwania Kolonializm Adaptacja społeczna

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Powieść psychologiczna Thriller

Książka w języku angielskim. A tense and electrifying novel about a captivating girl trying to survive alone in the desert. Is both a thrilling adventure story and an insightful story about trying to find a new way of life in a world undergoing the destruction of colonialism. Vaster Wilds is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells America's story in miniature, through one girl at a pivotal moment in history, asking how – and if – we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves.

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Afterlives / Abdulrazak Gurnah. - New York : Riverhead Books, 2022. - [8], 309, [1] strona ; 21 cm.

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Gurnah Abdulrazak (1948- ). Autor

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Książki Proza

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Literatura angielska

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Postkolonializm Przemoc Rodzina Wybory życiowe Afryka Wschodnia

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Powieść obyczajowa Saga rodzinna

Książka w języku angielskim. A sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza, too, returns home from the war, scarred in body and soul and with nothing but the clothes on his back-until he meets the beautiful, undaunted Afiya. As these young people live and work and fall in love, their fates knotted ever more tightly together, the shadow of a new war on another continent falls over them, threatening once again to carry them away.

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The Kite runner / Khaled Hosseini. - New York : Riverhead Books, 2007. - XIV, 401 s. : fot. ; 18 cm.

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Hosseini Khaled (1965- ).

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Powieść amerykańska Powieść afgańska

Książka w języku angielskim. Dobrze napisana proza psychologiczna. Dwunastoletni bohater, syn bogatego biznesmena z Kabulu, desperacko pragnie wygrać doroczne zawody latawców, by udowodnić ojcu, że jest wart jego uwagi i pochwały. On i jego przyjaciel marzą o zwycięstwie. Żaden z chłopców nie potrafi jednak przewidzieć, co wydarzy się owego tragicznego popołudnia. Ten dzień na zawsze zmieni ich życie. Książkę czyta się bardzo dobrze.

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A Thousand splendid suns / Khaled Hosseini. - New York : Riverhead Books, 2008. - [12], 448 s. ; 18 cm.

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Hosseini Khaled (1965- ).

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Powieść amerykańska Powieść afgańska

Książka w języku angielskim. Niezwykle wzruszająca historia spisana przepiękną prozą. Kronika trzydziestu lat historii Afganistanu i głęboko poruszająca opowieść o rodzinie, przyjaźni, nadziei i ocaleniu dzięki miłości.

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The End of the world is a cul de sac / Louise Kennedy. - New York : Riverhead Books, 2023. - [12], 289 stron ; 22 cm.

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Kennedy Louise. Autor

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura irlandzka

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Kobieta

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Opowiadania i nowele

Książka w języku angielskim. Brilliant, dark stories of women’s lives. In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories women’s lives are etched by poverty material, emotional, sexual, but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards they’ve been dealt.

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The Psychopath test : a journey thruogh the madness industry / Jon Ronson. - New Yrok : Riverhead Books, 2012. - [10], 275, [1] strona : ilustracje ; 21 cm.

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Ronson Jon (1967- ). Autor

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Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Literatura angielska

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Psychopatia

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Publicystyka

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Psychologia Medycyna i zdrowie

Bibliografia na stronach 273-275..

Książka w języku angielskim. This is a story about madness. It all starts when journalist Jon Ronson is contacted by a leading neurologist. She and several colleagues have recently received a cryptically puzzling book in the mail, and Jon is challenged to solve the mystery behind it.

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Flights / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Jennifer Croft. - New York : Riverhead Books, 2019. - [8], 403, [4] strony ; 21 cm.

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Tokarczuk Olga (1962- ). Autor Croft Jennifer. Tłumacz

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Książki Proza

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Literatura polska

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Podróżnicy Tożsamość osobista Ucieczki

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Książka w języku angielskim. "Flights" interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.

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Family meal / Bryan Washington. - New York : Riverhead Books, 2023. - [12], 306 stron : ilustracje ; 23 cm.

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Washington Bryan (1993- ). Autor

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Literatura amerykańska

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Geje Śmierć bliskiej osoby Żałoba Przeprowadzka Przyjaźń Miłość Houston (Stany Zjednoczone, stan Teksas) Los Angeles (Stany Zjednoczone, stan Kalifornia) Osaka (Japonia)

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Powieść Literatura LGBT

Ksiażka w języku angielskim. An irresistible, intimate novel about two young men, once best friends, whose lives collide again after a loss. Spanning Los Angeles, Houston, and Osaka, "Family meal" is a story about how the people who know us the longest can hurt us the most, but how they also set the standard for love.

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The End of August / Yu Miri ; translated by Morgan Giles. - New York : Riverhead Books, 2024. - [10], 710 stron : ilustracje ; 23 cm.

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Yū Miri (1968- ). Autor Giles Morgan. Tłumaczenie

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Literatura japońska

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Dzieciństwo II wojna światowa (1939-1945) Okupacja japońska Korei (1910-1945) Prostytucja Rodzina Sportowcy Japonia Korea (państwo dawne)

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Książka w języku angielskim. In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-cheol was a running prodigy and a contender for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. But he would have had to run under the Japanese flag. Nearly a century later, his granddaughter is living in Japan and training to run a marathon herself. She summons Korean shamans to hold an intense, transcendent ritual to connect with Lee Woo-cheol. When his ghost appears, alongside those of his brother Lee Woo-Gun, and their young neighbor, who was forced to become a comfort woman to Japanese soldiers stationed in China during World War II, she must uncover their stories to free their souls. What she discovers is at the heart of this sweeping, majestic novel about a family that endured death, love, betrayal, war, political upheaval, and ghosts, both vengeful and wistful. A poetic masterpiece that is a feat of historical fiction, epic family saga, and mind-bending story-telling acrobatics, The End of August is a marathon of literature.

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Land of milk and honey / C. Pam Zhang. - New York : Riverhead Books, 2023. - [6], 232, [2] strony ; 23 cm.

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Zhang C Pam (1990- ). Autor

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Książki Proza

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Literatura amerykańska

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Rzeczywistość postapokaliptyczna Kobieta Kucharze Ludzie bogaci Etyka społeczna Pragnienie Sztuka przetrwania Jedzenie (czynność) Przyjemność Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

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Powieść Dystopia

Książka w języku angielskim. Sensuous and surprising, joyous and bitingly sharp, told in language as alluring as it is original, Land of Milk and Honey lays provocatively bare the ethics of seeking pleasure in a dying world. It is a daringly imaginative exploration of desire and deception, privilege and faith, and the roles we play to survive. Most of all, it is a love letter to food, to wild delight, and to the transformative power of a woman embracing her own appetite.

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