Porywająca czytelnicza przygoda! Książka, którą polscy czytelnicy wskazali jako najlepszą francuską powieść 2022 roku (Polski Wybór Goncourtów) Pod patronatem Festiwalu Conrada 2023 Jedenasty tytuł w serii Collection Nouvelle, w której ukazują się najnowsze francuskie powieści. Kim była modelka słynnego domu mody Fath, która w wieku 64 lat popełniła w swoim paryskim mieszkaniu samobójstwo przez zagłodzenie, prowadząc przez czterdzieści pięć dni dziennik swojej agonii? Jej zm...

Dlaczego nenufary? Nawet jeśli wszyscy rozumieją, co Nenufary Moneta oznaczają dla historii sztuki, to co znaczyły dla niego? Co on w nich widział, co takiego widział tylko on? Jaki sekret im przypisywał? Pod wrażeniem Wielkich Płócien Claude’a Moneta oglądanych w paryskiej Oranżerii autor odkrywa mroczne tajemnice i echa osobistych doświadczeń malarza skrywanych przez lilie wodne i stawy, które obsesyjnie malował. W powieści pełnej humoru, intrygujących pytań i inspiru...

Fleming Stone №23. On the eve of her marriage to Rodney Sayre, Emily Duane disappears. She had left her Hillside Park home to visit the hospital but never arrived there. Foul play is feared when Jim Pennington reports his wife Pauline, Emily’s best friend, also missing. Pennington says he left his wife at the ravine a short distance from Emily’s home. When he returned she had vanished. Polly’s body is found in the ravine, but where’s Emily? A wonderful mystery abound with t...

Carolyn Wells (June 18, 1862 – March 26, 1942) was an American author and poet. Wells wrote a total of more than 170 books. She was a well known author of children’s stories, until she began reading mystery stories written by Anna Katherine Green, and from then on she devoted her writings to puzzling mysteries in a similar vein. A new book by this popular author, and written in her best and most interest-compelling style. Ladybird Lovell, the staying guest, is a quaint and ...

Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American poet and writer of detective and mystery novels, as well as children’s books, best known for her Fleming Stone Detective Stories. Marjorie series is Carolyn Wells’s also known series was publicized as happy books for happy girls. The series includes „Marjorie’s Vacation”, „Marjorie’s Busy Days”, „Marjorie’s New Friend”, „Marjorie in Command”, „Marjorie’s Maytime”, and „Marjorie at Seacote”. Marjorie is a happy American little girl o...

Po śmierci matki autorka postanawia przyjrzeć się jej i swojemu dorastaniu, a także znalezieniu dla tych doświadczeń miejsca w historii, polityce, psychoanalizie i feminizmie. Zadaje pytania o emocje, rzeczy (jak przedmioty czy związki) i miejsce tego doświadczenia w dotychczasowych dyskursach; o sposób w jaki interpretujemy swoją robotniczą przeszłość; o kwestie sprawczości w naszej historii. Jak to się stało, że osobiste doświadczenie nie przystaje do historii znanych z pop...

Dobra wróżba. Tucker marzył o skromnym prezencie gwiazdkowym – chciał uciec od tłumu podekscytowanego zbliżającymi się świętami, nie patrzeć na szczęśliwe, roześmiane twarze. Najlepszą kryjówką dla samotnika wydawał się zapamiętany z lat dzieciństwa pensjonat na odludziu. Jednak teraz stary dom stał się własnością prywatną, a spragniony spokoju Tucker trafia w sam środek rodzinnego zjazdu. Wszyscy witają przybysza z otwartymi ramionami, biorąc go za dawno niewidzianego kuzyna...

If you like Agatha Christie, or Henry James, or simply search for an author whose writing and characters you’ll enjoy, look no farther than Wells’ Fleming Stone Mysteries. In this one, wealthy but ornery heiress Lucy Carrington is found dead in her home following a spat with her niece, one of the two heirs to her fortune. With police baffled, master criminologist Fleming Stone is called in. But in a romantic twist, the great detective loses his heart to the primary suspect....

War comes to Patty Fairfield. Also she’s engaged. Patty’s fiancé, Big Bill Farnsworth, is a captain in the engineering service and is doing a lot of secret work for his government, in Washington. Patty is kept busy with Red Cross work for the War is on and even so important a thing as Patty’s engagement must take second place. „Patty Bride” is the 16th novel in the famous author Carolyn Wells series of Patty Fairfield for young readers, first published in 1918. It is one of...

Patty and her dad decide to spend part of the year in New York City. She moves to New York and enrolls in the Oliphant School. Then she starts to make friends, as she always does, and she even starts a club called the Grig. First appearance of the Farringtons. „Patty in the City „ (1905) is the third book of the Patty Fairfield collection, a total of 17 novels covering the life of this happy and cheerful American teenager of a century ago, as she matures and comes of age, a...

The cozy college town of Corinth, New England is the setting for this classic locked-room mystery by Carolyn Wells, author of „The Clue”. In the middle of the election of a new president of the University the favorite candidate is found dead. Is it murder or suicide? All entrances to the study where the body was found were locked from the inside. The future college president and groom-to-be had no known cause for suicide, yet no clues in either direction appeared to make an...

Carolyn Wells inspires and entertains with her classical mystery masterpiece, „The Vanishing of Betty Varian”, guaranteed to feed the mystery monster that craves suspense! The book was first published in 1922. In this classic locked room mystery, the Varian family have rented a house for the summer – a house built on the edge of a cliff, three sides faced by water and the entrance the only way in. They are about to go on a picnic with family and friends when the daughter re...

It had seemed an idyllic way for a group of wealthy New Yorkers to spend a summer month, researching the supernatural in a reputed haunted mansion in the depths of Vermont’s Green Mountains. That is until two of their number are mysteriously struck down at afternoon tea. Could the supernatural be at the heart of these deaths? Or did humans do the deed. This is the riddle that the famed detective Pennington Wise must unravel as they tries to discover what happened in... The ...

A collection of short sketches by the prolific American author which was first published in 1913. Carolyn Wells was an early 20th century poet and author best known for mysteries like „The Gold Bag” and „Fleming Stone Detective Stories”. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children’s books. After 1910, she devoted herself to the mystery genre. The book contains: „At the lost-and-found desk”, „Tootie at the bank”, „The dressmaker ...

From that famous foundry of fiction, fact and frivolity, author Carolyn Wells, comes another Fleming Stone detective story. When a popular playwright is found stabbed with his own pen made from a medieval dagger, suspicion fall on Mrs. Guy Thorndike, wife of a prominent actor. Fleming Stone finally turns up to solve the case. In the room, unheeded by police and sleuths, is a clue upon which Fleming Stone constructs a daring solution. The yarn is skillfully woven and splendi...

„The Lover’s Baedeker and Guide to Arcady” book is the author’s description of a fantasy land inhabited by lovers. It is a travel guide to the mythic land of Arcardy which, according to the map on page 35, is just over the Delectable Mountains from the Land of Hearts Desire and is bordered by the State of Matrimony and the Sea of Dreams. Arcady is transversed by the Road To Wealth and the River Lethe, is just over the Great Divide from the State of Blessed Singleness. The c...

Słowo „narcyzm” jest jednym z częściej używanych – powtarzane w mediach i wpisywane w internetowe wyszukiwarki. Ale co tak naprawdę znaczy? Zrozumieć jedno z większych wyzwań psychologicznych naszych czasów. W swojej książce dr W. Keith Campbell uchyla rąbka tajemnicy, przedstawiając najnowsze psychologiczne, osobowościowe i społeczne badania tego zjawiska. Opisuje spektrum narcyzmu aż po narcystyczne zaburzenie osobowości, ale też uświadamia, że niemal każdy prezentuje n...

Szacunek do jedzenia to coś dużo więcej niż radość z organicznej marchewki czy kawałka dobrego sera; to nasza jedyna droga przeżycia.Dlaczego jedzenie uratuje świat? Bo wszyscy jemy. Bo gotując i jedząc wspólnie, dowodzimy swojego człowieczeństwa. Bo proces produkcji jedzenia ma ogromy wpływ na planetę i na nasze zdrowie, a zmieniając nasze menu, możemy uratować świat i pomóc sobie nawzajem.Industrializacja osłabiła lub nawet zerwała nasze więzi z naturą. Bogaci są coraz boga...

„The Man Who Fell Through the Earth” is a traditional mystery novel by American author Carolyn Wells, set in 1920-s in New York. A lawyer is leaving his office on the top floor of an office building. He sees the shadows of two men fighting through the clouded glass of an office door followed by a shot from the office across the hall. He goes to investigate. He finds no sign of either victim or assailant despite the fact that no one could have passed him in the hallway witho...

A thrilling tale for younger ladies who love mysteries by Carolyn Wells. When Dotty Rose moves into the house next door to Dolly Fayre, the two 14 year old girls quickly become friends. We follow them through many of their adventures as they finish 8th grade and start high school. Table of contents: „Two Little Women”, „Two Little Women and Treasure House”, „Two Little Women on a Holiday”. Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American writer and poet. She is known for her Patty...

Another thrilling mystery by author Carolyn Wells. Instead of prison time, former governor, Samuel Appleby, sentences his former rival, Daniel Wheeler to imprisonment on his homestead with a very strange addendum. He then endeavors to convince Mr. Wheeler to endorse his son’s candidacy for governor with a promise of commuting his sentence. In the meantime, Samuel Appleby is murdered in Wheeler’s study, with a bullet through his heart. With not enough clues to proceed in the...