Little green men, Buckley, Christopher (author)

Автор: Buckley, Christopher
Название: Thank You for Smoking
ISBN: 0812976525 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812976526
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 10420.00 T
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Описание: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND USA TODAY - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Nobody blows smoke like Nick Naylor. He's a spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies-in other words, a flack for cigarette companies, paid to promote their product on talk and news shows. The problem? He's so good at his job, so effortlessly unethical, that he's become a target for both anti-tobacco terrorists and for the FBI. In a country where half the people want to outlaw pleasure and the other want to sell you a disease, what will become of Nick Naylor?

Автор: Buckley Christopher
Название: The Judge Hunter
ISBN: 1501192531 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501192531
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 13030.00 T
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Описание: The latest comic novel from Christopher Buckley, in which a hapless Englishman embarks on a dangerous mission to the New World in pursuit of two judges who helped murder a king.

London, 1664. Twenty years after the English revolution, the monarchy has been restored and Charles II sits on the throne. The men who conspired to kill his father are either dead or disappeared.

Baltasar ';Balty' St. Michel is twenty-four and has no skills and no employment. He gets by on handouts from his brother-in-law Samuel Pepys, an officer in the king's navy.

Fed up with his needy relative, Pepys offers Balty a job in the New World.

He is to track down two missing judges who were responsible for the execution of the last king, Charles I. When Balty's ship arrives in Boston, he finds a strange country filled with fundamentalist Puritans, saintly Quakers, warring tribes of Indians, and rogues of every stripe. Helped by a man named Huncks, an agent of the Crown with a mysterious past, Balty travels colonial America in search of the missing judges.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Samuel Pepys prepares for a war with the Dutch that fears England has no chance of winning.

Christopher Buckley's enchanting new novel spins adventure, comedy, political intrigue, and romance against a historical backdrop with real-life characters like Charles II, John Winthrop, and Peter Stuyvesant. Buckley's wit is as sharp as ever as he takes readers to seventeenth-century London and New England. We visit the bawdy court of Charles II, Boston under the strict Puritan rule, and New Amsterdam back when Manhattan was a half-wild outpost on the edge of an unmapped continent.

The Judge Hunter is a smart and swiftly plotted novel that transports readers to a new world.

Автор: Curtis Mary C., Buckley Christopher, Ulriksen Mark
Название: Now What?: The Voters Have Spoken--Essays on Life After Trump
ISBN: 0960061576 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780960061570
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 17430.00 T
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Описание: When the networks called the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden on Saturday, November 7, 2020, people from coast to coast exhaled--and danced in the streets. This quick-turnaround volume, a collection of 36 personal essays from a variety of voices all over the country, captures the week Trump was voted out, a unique juncture in American life, and helps point toward a way forward to a nation less divided.

An eclectic lineup of contributors--from Rosanna Arquette to Anthony Scaramucci--puts a year of transition into perspective, and summons the anxieties and hopes so many have for better times ahead.

As award-winning columnist Mary C. Curtis writes in the lead essay, "Saying you're not interested in politics is dangerous because, like it or not, politics is interested in you."

Novelist Christopher Buckley, a former speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, laments, "The Republican Senate, with one exception, has become a stay of ovine, lickspittle quislings, degenerate descendants of such giants as Everett Dirksen, Barry Goldwater, Howard Baker and John McCain."

Nero Award-winning mystery novelist Stephen Mack Jones writes, to Donald Trump, "Remember: You live in my house. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is my house. My ancestors built it at a cost of blood, soul and labor. I pay my taxes every year to feed you, clothe you and your family and staff and fly you around the country and the world in my tricked-out private jet. If you violate any aspect of your four-year lease--any aspect--Lord Jesus so help me, I will do everything in my power to kick yo narrow ass to the curb."

As Publisher Steve Kettmann writes in the Introduction: "The hope is that in putting out these glimpses so quickly, giving them an immediacy unusual in book publishing, we can help in the mourning for all that has been lost, help in the healing (of ourselves and of our country), and help in the pained effort, like moving limbs that have gone numb from inactivity, to give new life to our democracy. We stared into the abyss, tottered on the edge, and a record-setting surge of voting and activism delivered us from the very real threat of plunging into autocracy."

Автор: Buckley Christopher
Название: Make Russia Great Again
ISBN: 1982157461 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781982157463
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Цена: 19360.00 T
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Описание: Herb Nutterman, a long-time Trump Organization employee, unexpectedly becomes President Trump`s White House chief of staff and finds himself entangled in Russian intrigue and leading the president`s reelection campaign.

Автор: Buckley Christopher
Название: Star Journal: Selected Poems
ISBN: 0822964309 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822964308
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 22170.00 T
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Описание: Star Journal is a selection of poems from Christopher Buckley`s twenty previous collections, 1980-2014. Buckley`s poetry is unique in its use of current science and cosmology, recent facts and theories mixed in with a lyrical underpinning.

Автор: Christopher Buckley
Название: Varieties of Religious Experience
ISBN: 162288017X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781622880171
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 17550.00 T
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Описание: Investigates the large, unanswerable questions that have dogged humanity since the Beginning. Buckley`s poetry provides readers with the constant blending of beautiful language and stirring content. Full of emotion, Varieties of Religious Experience promises to deliver meaningful messages.

Автор: Christopher Buckley
Название: Agnostic: Poems
ISBN: 0899241689 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780899241685
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Цена: 21050.00 T
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Описание: Specters as various as Vallejo, Szymborska, Neruda, Fidel Castro, and Groucho Marx guide and support the elegies in Christopher Buckley’s new collection. A god that may or may not be there as well as politics, memory, history, popular culture, philosophy, and a good deal of arm wrestling with chance inform Buckley’s on-going debate between faith and doubt, science and religion. Buckley brings his customary sense of irony and slant humor to bear on the deep inquiry into our collective fates in Agnostic .

Автор: Buckley, Christopher
Название: White House Mess
ISBN: 0140249281 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140249286
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 10420.00 T
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Автор: Buckley Christopher
Название: Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir
ISBN: 0446540951 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780446540957
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
Цена: 11140.00 T
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Описание: In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Christopher Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York's most glamorous and colorful socialites. He was their only child and their relationship was close and complicated. Writes Buckley: "They were not - with respect to every other set of loving, wonderful parents in the world - your typical mom and dad."

As Buckley tells the story of their final year together, he takes readers on a surprisingly entertaining tour through hospitals, funeral homes, and memorial services, capturing the heartbreaking and disorienting feeling of becoming a 55-year-old orphan. Buckley maintains his sense of humor by recalling the words of Oscar Wilde: "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness."

Just as Calvin Trillin and Joan Didion gave readers solace and insight into the experience of losing a spouse, Christopher Buckley offers consolation, wit, and warmth to those coping with the death of a parent, while telling a unique personal story of life with legends.

Автор: Buckley Christopher
Название: The Relic Master
ISBN: 1501125761 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501125768
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 13790.00 T
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Описание: Christopher Buckley's "hilarious, bawdy, and irreverent frolic of a tale" about a sixteenth-century relic hunter and the artist Albrecht D rer who conspire to fabricate Christ's burial shroud reads "like Indiana Jones gone medieval" (USA TODAY).

The year is 1517. Dismas is a relic hunter who procures "authentic" religious relics for wealthy and influential clients. His two most important patrons are Frederick the Wise and soon-to-be Cardinal Albrecht of Mainz. While Frederick is drawn to the recent writing of Martin Luther, Albrecht pursues the financial and political benefits of religion and seeks to buy a cardinalship through the selling of indulgences. When Albrecht's demands for grander relics increase, Dismas and his artist friend D rer fabricate a shroud to sell to the unsuspecting noble. Unfortunately D rer's reckless pride exposes the trickery, so Albrecht puts Dismas and D rer in the custody of four mercenaries and sends them all to steal Christ's burial cloth (the Shroud of Chamb ry), Europe's most celebrated artifact. On their journey to Savoy where the Shroud will be displayed, they battle a lustful count and are joined by a beautiful female apothecary. It is only when they reach their destination they realize they are not alone in their intentions to acquire a relic of dubious legitimacy.

"A rollicking good time, Christopher Buckley has transported his signature wit and irreverence from the Beltway to sixteenth-century Europe in The Relic Master" (GQ). This epic quest, "as rascally and convivial as any that Mr. Buckley has written" (The Wall Street Journal), is filled with fascinating details about art, religion, politics, and science; Vatican intrigue; and Buckley's signature wit "holds the reader till the very last page" (The New York Times Book Review).