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The Magician's Assistant, Paperback - Ann Patchett

92,99 RON 99,99 RON

Reducere. "A secretive magician s death becomes the catalyst for his partner s journey self-discovery in this enchanting book ("San Francisco Chronicle") " t...

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Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary, Paperback - David Crystal

81,99 RON

"A secretive magician s death becomes the catalyst for his partner s journey self-discovery in this enchanting book ("San Francisco Chronicle") " t...

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Passion of the Western Mind, Paperback - Richard Tarnas

122,99 RON 131,99 RON

Reducere. " This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of...

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Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America, Paperback - Theodora Kroeber

125,99 RON 134,99 RON

Reducere. OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American an...

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Everything Is Its Own Reward, Hardcover - Paul Madonna

211,99 RON 226,99 RON

Reducere. -mesmerizing . . . When his international images are paired with his sparse, poetic words--sometimes thought-provoking one-liners such as 'You don'...

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Sewing the Rainbow: A Story about Gilbert Baker, Hardcover - Gayle E. Pitman

92,99 RON 99,99 RON

Reducere. Sewing the Rainbow is the powerful story of Gilbert Baker and the creation of the rainbow flag. This book takes readers from Gilbert's childhood in...

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Bel Canto, Hardcover - Ann Patchett

140,99 RON 150,99 RON

Reducere. "Blissfully Romantic....A strange, terrific, spellcasting story." -- San Francisco Chronicle"Bel Canto...should be on the list of every literate mu...

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Queen of the Damned, Paperback - Anne Rice

50,99 RON 54,99 RON

Reducere. In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose ...

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Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, Paperback - Rebecca Solnit

151,99 RON 162,99 RON

Reducere. Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid...

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Winning Richmond: How a Progressive Alliance Won City Hall, Paperback - Gayle McLaughlin

84,99 RON 90,99 RON

Reducere. WINNING RICHMOND - HOW A PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE WON CITY HALLGayle McLaughlin"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our c...

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Men Explain Things to Me, Paperback - Rebecca Solnit

74,99 RON 80,99 RON

Reducere. "This slim book--seven essays, punctuated by enigmatic, haunting paintings by Ana Teresa Fernandez--hums with power and wit."--Boston Globe"The ant...

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The Haight: Love, Rock, and Revolution, Hardcover - Joel Selvin

220,99 RON

Covering one of the most unforgettable moments in modern history--and including striking images of twentieth-century icons such as Janis Joplin, Bo...

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Tourist Season, Paperback - Carl Hiaasen

83,99 RON 89,99 RON

Reducere. Take a trip to exotic South Florida with this "dark, funny book"* that established Carl Hiaasen as one of the top mystery writers in the game. The ...

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Gift of Hope, Paperback - Danielle Steel

56,99 RON

The moving and inspirational true story behind Danielle Steel's charity work, now in PB. Whilst trying to come to terms with the devastation of her...

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Dear Life: Stories, Paperback - Alice Munro

85,99 RON 92,99 RON

Reducere. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Work of FictionA Best Book of the Year: The ...

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Ill Met by Moonlight, Paperback - W. Stanley Moss

125,99 RON 134,99 RON

Reducere. "This amazing story is marvelously well told, in an exuberant, racing style that makes it impossible to lay the book aside once the first page is r...

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Behind Closed Doors, Paperback - B. A. Paris

84,99 RON 90,99 RON

Reducere. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING DEBUT PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER YOU CAN'T MISS The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie?"A hair-r...

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Notes from the Divided Country: Poems, Paperback - Suji Kwock Kim

85,99 RON 92,99 RON

Reducere. Notes from a Divided Country, Kim's first collection of poetry, confronts a number of difficult subjects - colonialism, the Korean War, emigration,...

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Tea with the Black Dragon, Paperback - R. a. MacAvoy

77,99 RON 83,99 RON

Reducere. In 1980s San Francisco, a mother searches for her missing daughter in this Nebula Award-nominated tale that is part fantasy, part mystery, and part...

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Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine, an Autobiography, Paperback - Huston Smith

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. "In this delightful autobiography, Smith tells us how he became the dean of world religion experts. Along the way we meet the people who shaped him...

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Carry Me Like Water, Paperback - Benjamin Alire Saenz

94,99 RON 101,99 RON

Reducere. This immensely moving novel confronts divisions of race, gender, and class, fusing together the stories of people who come to recognize one another...

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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History, Paperback - Molly Caldwell Crosby

88,99 RON 95,99 RON

Reducere. In this account, a journalist traces the course of yellow fever, stopping in 1878 Memphis to "vividlyevoke] the Faulkner-meets-'Dawn of the Dead' h...

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Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005, Paperback - Robert Hass

75,99 RON 81,99 RON

Reducere. The poems in Robert Hass's new collection--his first to appear in a decade--are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the...

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Across America by Motor-Cycle: Fully Annotated Centennial Edition, Paperback - Mark Hunnibell

195,99 RON 209,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1919, Charles Kenilworth ("C.K.") Shepherd--a veteran of World War I and former British Royal Air Force Captain--took some "time off"...

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The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

62,99 RON

A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This P...

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Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays, Paperback - Young Jean Lee

107,99 RON

``Have you ever noticed how most Asian Americans are slightly brain- damaged from having grown up with Asian parents?`` begins the Korean American ...

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The Privilege, Hardcover - D. W. Buffa

150,99 RON 161,99 RON

Reducere. Joseph Antonelli, who never lost a case he should have won and won nearly every case he should have lost, is about to see his client, Justin Friedr...

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Duplicate Death, Paperback - Georgette Heyer

81,99 RON 87,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionDouble the murder means double the stakes in this Golden Age mystery from Georgette HeyerInspector Hemingway has his work cut out for hi...

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Pressing On: Unstable Approach Continuation Bias, Paperback - Edwin V. Odisho

78,99 RON 84,99 RON

Reducere. Pressing On is an exploration of an aviation safety problem that has plagued commercial airline operators for years. Recent airline accidents like ...

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Ghosts and Legends of Alcatraz, Paperback - Bob Davis

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. Alcatraz is one of the most infamous prisons in the world. Evil spirits, unknown beasts, vicious murderers and an untold number of ghosts all are s...

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The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America, Hardcover - Catherine Prendergast

155,99 RON 166,99 RON

Reducere. The Gilded Edge is a compelling read from start to finish. Gripping, suspenseful, cinematic. This is narrative nonfiction at its best.-Lindsey Fitz...

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The San Francisco Oracle, Paperback - MR Allen Cohen

591,99 RON 633,99 RON

Reducere. A complete copy of the legendary psychedelic underground newspaper originally published in the Haight Ashbury during the Summer of Love The San Fra...

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Through the Windshield, Paperback - Mike Decapite

174,99 RON 187,99 RON

Reducere. Through The Windshield is the terrific first novel by Michael DeCapite, first released from Sparkle Street Books of San Francisco. Circulated in ma...

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Superior Spider-Man Vol. 2: Otto-Matic, Paperback - Christos Gage

91,99 RON

DescriptionLike the rest of America, the West Coast has been overrun with Frost Giants But Otto Octavius doesn't settle for chaos - he plans to win...

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The Witch's Trinity, Paperback - Erika Mailman

91,99 RON 98,99 RON

Reducere. "A gripping, well-told story of faith and truth."--Khaled Hosseini, bestselling author of The Kite Runner "A disturbingly effective historical nove...

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Best Easy Day Hikes Lake Tahoe, Paperback - Tracy Salcedo

65,99 RON 70,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionBest Easy Day Hikes Lake Tahoe includes concise descriptions and detailed maps of 27 of the premier easy day hikes in northern Californi...

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The Record Store of the Mind, Paperback - Josh Rosenthal

116,99 RON 125,99 RON

Reducere. "Josh Rosenthal is a record man's record man. He is also a musician's record man. He is in the line of Samuel Charters and Harry Smith. In this age...

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The Other Side of the River: Stories of Women, Water and the World, Paperback - Eila Carrico

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. The Other Side of the River: Stories of Women, Water and the World is a deep searching into the ways we become dammed and how we recover fluidity. ...

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Leonardo Da Vinci, Paperback - Walter Isaacson

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Walter IsaacsonThe #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new ...

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Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

15,99 RON 18,99 RON

Reducere. Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco University. 'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to th...

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It's Good to Be Alive, Paperback - Roy Campanella

156,99 RON 167,99 RON

Reducere. Three-time winner of the National League's Most Valuable Player award, Roy Campanella was catcher for the Brooklyn (soon to be Los Angeles) Dodgers...

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A Daring Man, Paperback - Leigh Greenwood

44,99 RON

Leigh Greenwood takes us back to the lawless days of the Wild American West in this sweeping, epic story of family, honor, notoriety, and one last ...

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The Volunteer, Paperback - Salvatore Scibona

113,99 RON

"Thrilling... Scibona has built a masterpiece." - The New York Times Book Review "All of it -- all of it -- is just so ridiculously beautiful." - J...

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A Contrived World, Paperback - Jung Young-Moon

89,99 RON

Set in San Francisco, A Most Contrived World recounts the author's visit to the mythic Californian city. While the novel is based in this real expe...

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Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion, Paperback - Danya Ruttenberg

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. At thirteen, Danya Ruttenberg decided she was an atheist. As a young adult, she immersed herself in the rhinestone-bedazzled wonderland of late 199...

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Avalina Jones: And the Eye of the Storm, Paperback - Lori Adams

92,99 RON 99,99 RON

Reducere. "Adams' pirate-centric story teems with entertaining bits of magic. . . A well-crafted, supernatural pirate tale with a capable, young hero." KIRKU...

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Sony, Paperback - John Nathan

119,99 RON 128,99 RON

Reducere. Named one of the best business books of the year (by Fortune and Newsweek), SONY is the intimate biography of one of the world's leading electronic...

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Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, Paperback - Suzanne Lummis

125,99 RON 134,99 RON

Reducere. Named one of Los Angeles Times Book Critic David Ulin's "Top 10 Books of 2015", Wide Awake draws together nationally acclaimed poets and gifted new...

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Best Bear Ever!: A Little Year of Liz Climo, Hardcover - Liz Climo

62,99 RON

DescriptionCome spend some time in Liz Climo's world The artist and popular blogger returns with another collection of her comics--this time follow...

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ˇlluvia!/Rain! - Linda Ashman

33,99 RON 36,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator of Last Stop on Market Street, this bilingual board book is perfect for on-the-go storytime...

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Mr Midshipman Hornblower, Paperback - C.S. Forester

56,99 RON

The first Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea 1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command . ....

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Pirate Vishnu, Paperback - Gigi Pandian

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. A WHIRLWIND OF ADVENTURE ``Fast-paced and fascinating as Jaya's investigation leads her this time to India and back to her own family's secrets.`` ...

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Bay Lexicon, Paperback - Jane Wolff

131,99 RON 141,99 RON

Reducere. As human populations inhabiting cities have grown dramatically, we have lost the ability to understand and even to see the natural world around us....

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Nantucket White Christmas: Large Print Edition, Paperback - Pamela M. Kelley

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. Bad things always seem to happen around Christmas, which is also Angela Stark's birthday. On December 1, she is both fired and evicted. The next da...

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Dudes Rush In, Paperback - Lynn Downey

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. In this entertaining debut novel Lynn Downey takes us back to San Francisco in 1952. Restless war widow Phoebe McFarland decides it's time to make ...

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Ray Stanford Strong, West Coast Landscape Artist, Hardcover - Mark Humpal

450,99 RON 482,99 RON

Reducere. Throughout his long and prolific career, Ray Stanford Strong (1905-2006) strove to capture the essence of the western American landscape. An accomp...

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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Paperback - Sogyal Rinpoche

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. "A magnificent achievement. In its power to touch the heart, to awaken consciousness, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying] is an inestimable gift....

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If She Only Knew, Paperback - Lisa Jackson

51,99 RON 55,99 RON

Reducere. What if you were a stranger, even to yourself? In this riveting novel of suspense, bestselling author Lisa Jackson keeps readers guessing through e...

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Pacific Musick, Paperback - Ross Detwiler

82,99 RON

It's January 1938. . . For two years, Pan American's magnificent Martin M-130 flying boats have been safely and routinely carrying passengers from ...

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McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, Paperback - Frank Norris

56,99 RON

Inspired by an actual crime that was sensationalized in the San Francisco papers, this novel tells the story of charlatan dentist McTeague and his ...

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British Railway Stinks. The Last Railway Chemists, Hardback - David Smith

94,99 RON

DescriptionThe first railway chemical laboratory was opened in 1864 by the London & North Western Railway at Crewe, and the last ones lost their di...

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Lily and the Great Quake: A San Francisco Earthquake Survival Story, Hardcover - Veeda Bybee

131,99 RON 141,99 RON

Reducere. Lily is a twelve-year-old Chinese American girl living in San Francisco's Chinatown when an earthquake destroys her home and sets her neighborhood ...

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A Tropical Frontier, Tales of Old Florida, Paperback - Tim Robinson

178,99 RON 191,99 RON

Reducere. This is the First novel in the "Tropical Frontier" series. NOTE: This volume INCLUDES "The Wreckers, " the separate and stand-alone novel formatted...

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Lost in the Fog, Paperback - ***

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. "Thriller enthusiasts will want to add this well-sculpted heist drama to their collections." --Kirkus Reviews It was supposed to be a simple heist....

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Grave Danger: Rookie Club Book 4, Paperback - Danielle Girard

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. When a San Francisco Police Department storage site is robbed, seventy-two guns go missing, setting off a wave of gun-related deaths in the city. B...

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You Can't Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Wonderful Reprobates (16pt Large Print Edition) - Sam

267,99 RON 286,99 RON

Reducere. Sam Cutler was tour manager for the Rolling Stones at some of their major gigs in the late sixties, including the infamous concert at Altamont wher...

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The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World, Paperback - Russell Gold

84,99 RON

The "best all-around book yet on fracking" (San Francisco Chronicle) from a Pulitzer Prize finalist: "Gold's work is a tour de force of contemporar...

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Oracle Night, Paperback - Paul Auster

98,99 RON 105,99 RON

Reducere. Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill se...

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Dragonwings

42,86 RON

Reducere. In this Newbery Honor Book, Moon Shadow is eight years old when he sails from China to join his father, Windrider, in America. Windrider lives in S...

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This Is New York

77,73 RON

Reducere. The "This is" series would not have been complete without New York. The book is the first of three on American cities, followed by San Francisco an...

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