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Dla panny tak urodziwej jak Marianna Johnson, a przy tym oczytanej i bystrej, znalezienie męża nie powinno stanowić problemu. Niestety dziewczyna nie ma posagu, więc nie może przebierać w kandydatach jak w ulęgałkach. Sądzi, że James Hint, emerytowany wojskowy, będzie dobrym wyborem. Nie ma pojęcia, że popełnia tragiczny błąd… Małżeństwo okazuje się pasmem rozczarowań, a los dość szybko czyni z Marianny wdowę bez pieniędzy i dachu nad głową. Nieoczekiwaną pomoc oferuje jej ...

Przepłynięcie tego tunelu zajmuje dwie godziny i dwadzieścia sześć minut. Wpłynęło do niego sześć osób, ale wypłynąłem tylko ja.W tunelu panowała nieprzenikniona ciemność. Nie wiem, co się stało. Jestem teraz jedynym podejrzanym. I jeśli nie wyjaśnię, jak zniknęli moi przyjaciele, zostanę skazany.Nowa powieść autora thrillera „Zgadnij kto”?Intrygujące, świeże i upiornie klaustrofobiczne. Zamknięta społeczność strzeże swoich sekretów lepiej niż mroczny tunel. Ekscytująca lektu...

Zbiór felietonów Krystyny Jandy, czytanych przez nią wcześniej w I Programie Polskiego Radia. Aktorka opowiada o swym własnym życiu z wielkim darem obserwacji, refleksji i autoironii.Janda nie dzieli spraw na „wielkie” i „małe”: fascynuje ją i widok za oknem, i poezja Haliny Poświatowskiej. Najbardziej jednak ceni sobie spotkania z ludźmi. Tymi znanymi – jak na przykład pewien reżyser, albo anonimowymi – jak pewien owdowiały portier czy mijany w drodze rowerzysta.Felietony Kr...

Nakam znaczy mściciel.Dramatyczna historia o walce, ocaleniu i zemście oparta na faktachSześć milionów. Zabijmy sześć milionów Niemców, by pomścić miliony Żydów – powtarzają w 1945 roku członkowie. grupy Nakam. Plan zatrucia wodociągów w największych miastach Niemiec jest bliski realizacji. Ktoś zdradza w ostatniej chwili. Kto? Mściciele do końca życia będą się zastanawiać, kto uratował setki tysięcy potencjalnych ofiar. Z upływem czasu ocalali z Holokaustu żydowscy...

Maks Gard, twardo stąpający po ziemi młody biznesmen, nie wierzy w przypadki ani zbiegi okoliczności. Liczy się dla niego tylko kariera i własna firma. Jednak wkrótce w jego uporządkowanym życiu nastąpi przełom, spowodowany pojawieniem się w głowie Maksa niepokojących głosów.Szepty nakazują mu wrócić do domu rodzinnego, gdzie spotyka młodą dziewczynę, Elenę, wnuczkę znanej w okolicy znachorki. Z dnia na dzień Maks zostaje wciągnięty w trudne do racjonalnego wytłumaczenia wyda...

Pierwsze dziecięce wyprawy do lasu i nad rzekę. Migotanie odcieni zieleni i pulsowanie zapadającego zmierzchu. Zachwyt, strach, zaciekawienie. Śmiała próba udomowienia mrówek – i zdumienie, że nie chcą żyć w szklanym słoju. Powolny spacer ze zniedołężniałym psem, ostatnim towarzyszem w długim życiu. Wędkowanie, polowanie, wizyta w zoo. Człowiek w naturze, z naturą, przeciw naturze.Filipowicz patrzy okiem wrażliwego przyrodnika, bohaterowie jego opowiadań dojrzewają i zmienia ...

Robinson Crusoe - a novel by Daniel Defoe, an English trader, writer, and spy. He is most famous for this novel, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations.The book is presented as an autobiography of the title character – a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued.The novel has gone on to become ...

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes - a collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer, and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.This collection of stories consists of:The Adventure of the Illustrious ClientThe Adventure of the Blanched SoldierThe Adventure of the Mazarin StoneThe Adventure of the Three GablesThe Adventure of the Sussex ...

“The Mucker“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.This is the first book in the Mucker series. Billy Byrne is a low-class American born in Chicago's ghetto. He grows up a thief and a mugger. "Billy was a mucker, a hoodlum, a gangster, a thug, a tough." He is not chivalrous nor kind and has only meager ethics - never giving evidence against a friend or leaving someone behind. He...

“The Return of the Mucker“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.This is a second book in the Mucker series. Billy returns to his old Chicago haunts intending to clear his name. His time with Barbara imbued him with faith in the law and justice. However, he soon realizes that the system is more interested in finding someone guilty than in finding the guilty party. Awaiting the v...

“The Girl from Hollywood“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.The story alternates between the all-American Pennington family on their remote California ranch and a young Hollywood actress.The Penningtons have a beautiful estate, and affectionate relationships with their children, Custer and Eva. Custer has had an "understanding" with neighbor and childhood friend Grace Evans for a...

“The Lost Continent“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.In 2137, Pan-American Navy Lieutenant Jefferson Turck is commander of the aero-submarine Coldwater, tasked with patrolling the 30th meridian from Iceland to the Azores. Disaster strikes when the vessel's anti-gravitation screens fail, dooming it to wallow upon the surface of the ocean, and the engines fail, leaving it adrift....

“The Mad King“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.Set in the fictional European kingdom of Lutha, the protagonist is a young American named Barney Custer, of Beatrice, Nebraska, who is the son of an American farmer and a runaway Luthan princess, Victoria Rubinroth. Unaware of his royal blood, much less that he is a dead ringer for his relative Leopold, the current king of Lutha, B...

“The Oakdale Affair“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.This is the third book in the Mucker series.In the home of Jonas Prim, president of an Oakdale bank, a thief makes off with a servant's clothing and valuables belonging to Prim's daughter Abigail. Abigail is thought to be absent visiting Sam Benham, whom her parents want her to marry. When the Prims discover the theft and lea...

“The Efficiency Expert“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.One of a small number of Burroughs' novels set in contemporary America as opposed to a fantasy universe, The Efficiency Expert follows the adventures of Jimmy Torrance as he attempts to make a career for himself in 1921 Chicago. The book is remarkable for the criminal livelihoods of the hero's friends. It was also admitted...

“The Cave Girl“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.Blueblooded mama's boy Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones is swept overboard during a South Seas voyage for his lifelong ill health. He finds himself on a jungle island. His bookish education has not prepared him to cope with these surroundings, and he is a coward. He is terrified when he encounters primitive, violent men, ape-like throwba...

“The Girl from Farris's“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.„JUST what Mr. Doarty was doing in the alley back of Farris’s at two of a chill spring morning would have puzzled those citizens of Chicago who knew Mr. Doarty best.To a casual observer it might have appeared that Mr. Doarty was doing nothing more remarkable than leaning against a telephone pole, which in itself might hav...

Nowa, poruszająca opowieść autora bestsellerów o tajemnicach krajów arabskich. Zatrważająca i niezwykle emocjonująca opowieść o biednych kobietach, które zostają służącymi w bogatych arabskich domach. Pozbawione paszportów, możliwości kontaktowania się z rodziną, zamknięte za murami wartych miliony posiadłości, pracują często bez wytchnienia i dni wolnych od pracy. Gwałcone, bite, upokarzane, nie mają szans na poskarżenie się na swój los, dopóki nie skończy się ich kont...

“The People That Time Forgot“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.
The People That Time Forgot is a fantasy novel, the second of his Caspak trilogy. The trilogy includes “The Land That Time Forgot”, “The People That Time Forgot” and “Out of Time's Abyss”.

“Out of Time's Abyss“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.
Out of Time's Abyss is a fantasy novel, the third of his Caspak trilogy. The trilogy includes “The Land That Time Forgot”, “The People That Time Forgot” and “Out of Time's Abyss”.

“The Land That Time Forgot“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.The Land That Time Forgot is a fantasy novel, the first of his Caspak trilogy. The trilogy includes “The Land That Time Forgot”, “The People That Time Forgot” and “Out of Time's Abyss”.

“Pirates of Venus“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.
Pirates of Venus is a science fantasy novel, the first book in the Venus series. The events occur on a fictionalized version of the planet Venus, known as "Amtor" to its inhabitants. The novel contains elements of political satire aimed at communism.

“At the Earth's Core“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.At the Earth's Core is a fantasy novel, the first in his series about the fictional "hollow earth" land of Pellucidar.The stories initially involve the adventures of mining heir David Innes and his inventor friend Abner Perry after they use an "iron mole" to burrow 500 miles into the Earth's crust. Later protagonists include...

“Pellucidar“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.Pellucidar is a fantasy novel, the second in his series about the fictional "hollow earth" land of Pellucidar.The stories initially involve the adventures of mining heir David Innes and his inventor friend Abner Perry after they use an "iron mole" to burrow 500 miles into the Earth's crust. Later protagonists include indigenous cavem...