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1) SHOPGIRL
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One of the most acclaimed and beloved entertainers, Steve Martin is quickly becoming recognized as a gorgeous writer capable of being at once melancholy and tart, achingly innocent and astonishingly ironic (Elle). A frequent contributor to both The New Yorker and the New York Times as well as the author of the New York Times bestseller Pure Drivel, Martin is once again poised to capture the attention of readers with...
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 20
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English
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"Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous big-business world of prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him and seems...
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"From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a shocking and tender novel about a young woman's efforts to sustain a state of deep hibernation over the course of a year on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her...
4) Do no harm
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English
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"Emma loves her life. She's the mother of a precocious kindergartener, married to her soulmate--a loyal and loving police detective--and has a rewarding career as a doctor at the local hospital. But everything comes crashing down when her son, Josh, is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Determined to save him, Emma makes the risky decision to sell opioids to fund the lifesaving treatment he needs. But when somebody ends up dead, a lethal game of...
6) RX
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English
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Thyme Gilchrest is an honors student. Thyme Gilchrest is popular. Thyme Gilchrest is on student council. Thyme Gilchrest is a drug dealer. Like piecing together a logic puzzle, Thyme has organized a complex trading system that enables her to obtain the meds her friends need. They all come to her to diagnose their problems and provide the "cure" -- be it Prozac, Ritalin, Vicodin...She's therapist, doctor, and pharmacist all in one. She helps people....
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En Mi año de descanso y relajación, Ottessa Moshfegh hace de Manhattan el epicentro de una civilización, la del año 2000, dominada por la apatía. Como una oscura bella durmiente, la narradora de esta novela decide encerrarse durante un año en su piso de una de las zonas más exclusivas de Nueva York, asistida por una herencia ingente y por una gran cantidad de fármacos, para dedicarse a dormir y ver películas de Whoopi Goldberg y Harrison...
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Polish
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"Bohaterka powieści, młoda Amerykanka, jest piękna, chuda, świetnie wykształcona i zamożna. Na pierwszy rzut oka powinna być też szczęśliwa, ale nie jest. Mamy rok 2000, początek nowego tysiąclecia, gospodarka kwitnie i wszystko mogłoby się układać idealnie, jednak tylko długi odpoczynek i odcięcie się od rzeczywistości dają bohaterce nadzieję na dalsze normalne życie. "Mój rok relaksu i odpoczynku" to opowieść o niemożliwej...
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Series
Harry Bosch volume 20
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Polish
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Jak wpływa na człowieka przebywanie w środowisku pełnym morderc̤w i przestępc̤w? Sięgnij po książkę "Dwa rodzaje prawdy", kt̤rą napisał Michael Connelly, i poznaj odpowiedź na to pytanie! O tym, że świat jest pełen zła, doskonale wie każdy z nas. Informacje na ten temat czerpiemy przede wszystkim z sensacyjnych wiadomości publikowanych przez media, jednak znacznie rzadziej jesteśmy naocznymi świadkami takich wydarzeń. Harry...