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Ania powraca do Avonlea, by uczyć w tamtejszej szkole. Szybko okazuje się jednak, że praca nauczyciela to prawdziwe wyzwanie. Świeże upieczona nauczycielka będzie musiała zaskarbić sobie sympatii podopiecznych - a są wśród nich urwisy, złośliwcy i fajtłapy... Na szczęście zdarzają się i bratnie dusze. Ania nawiązuje nowe przyjaźnie, popada w nowe tarapaty i zaczyna zdawać sobie sprawę, że coraz bardziej zależy jej na pewnym chłopaku...

Cola Eliot ma 44 lata, kiedy jej dotychczasowe życie, bezczelnie i bez zapowiedzi, wywraca się do góry nogami. Porzuca ją wieloletni narzeczony z grubym portfelem, zostawiając Colę sfrustrowaną, spłukaną, z lękami, hipochondrią i 10-kilogramową nadwagą. Na szczęście ratuje ją… bieganie. I to właśnie ono, wbrew pozorom, jest głównym bohaterem tej książki, w której historia 44-latki przeplata się z cennymi poradami dla początkujących biegaczek i biegaczy.“Biegam, bo muszę” to b...

Książka Kamili Żukowskiej Poetyka totalna. O antropologii literatury Northropa Frye’a jest cennym uzupełnieniem prac poświęconych teorii mitokrytycznej wybitnego amerykańskiego badacza mitu. Autorka, opierając się na opus magnum badacza (słynna Anatomia krytyki ukazała się w Polsce zupełnie niedawno), przeprowadza wnikliwą analizę jego teorii, opierając się na swej szerokiej wiedzy z antropologii i literaturoznawstwa po to, by badania Frye’a nad mitem jako...

Książka przedstawia jeden z najbardziej fundamentalnych projektów filozoficznych nowoczesności – projekt podmiotowości – w trzech różnych odsłonach, jakie znajdujemy w myśli Hegla, Marksa i Adorna. W każdym z tych trzech „momentów” pierwszoplanowe pozostaje pytanie o relację podmiotu i historii. Z tej perspektywy myśl Hegla można potraktować jako diagnozę dziejotwórczej podmiotowości i jednocześnie podmiototwórczej historii. Heglowskie rozpoznanie podmiotowego sprawstwa może ...

Czy słynna kronika Thietmara jest rzeczywiście wiarygodnym źródłem wiedzy o początkach organizacji Kościoła katolickiego w Polsce? Jaki był charakter zależności Kościoła polskiego od Magdeburga w latach 966-989? Czy rzeczywiście Jordan był pierwszym biskupem "poznańskim"? Na te i wiele innych fascynujących pytań, związanych z początkami polskiej państwowości i roli Kościoła katolickiego w niej, próbuje odpowiedzieć niniejsza praca. 

„Zwariowany i nieobliczalny. Nastawiony na «rozmowy istotne». Stworzony z chęci buntu i wpisujący się w tradycję teatralnej herezji” – komentowano powstanie w 1985 roku teatru im. S. I. Witkiewicza na Chramcówkach. „Jeden z najbardziej kochanych przez polską publiczność teatrów” – pisano jeszcze w wiele lat po jego powstaniu, choć w środowiskach opiniotwórczych beniaminek pierwszych teatralnych sezonów dość szybko popadł w niełaskę. Wróżono mu krótki żywot, ogłaszaj...

Autorka podejmuje próbę opisu poezji, dramatu i prozy Ewy Lipskiej w kategoriach relacji Ja–Ty. Uznając komunikację międzyludzką za najbardziej istotny problem, sprzeciwia się rozpowszechnionemu w wielu interpretacjach przekonaniu o kluczowej roli śmierci w tej twórczości i śledzi pragnienie podmiotu związane z tym, co żyje. Wnioski zmierzają do ukazania osoby mówiącej jako poety, któremu we współczesnej cywilizacji powierzono odpowiedzialność za „biedę” człowieka. Badanie un...

Papiestwo i papieże w średniowieczu Mieczysława Żywczyńskiego, to druga pozycja tego autora wydana w serii "Bestsellery z przeszłości". Książeczka ta jest fascynującą opowieścią o Kościele i instytucji papiestwa w oczach średniowiecza europejskiego. Obejmuje ona burzliwy okres panowania trzydziestu kilku papieży: od LEONA I WIELKIEGO (440-461) po KLEMENSA V (1305-1314). Jasność i precyzja wywodów, wartka narracja - oto walory, które powodują, iż książkę tę czyta się "jed...

Książka Pamięć Gułagu opowiada historię odkrywania przez mieszkańców ZSRR represyjnej przeszłości swojego kraju. Za punkt wyjścia rozważań autorka przyjmuje koniec lat osiemdziesiątych, gdyż jak tłumaczy dopiero wówczas rozpoczął się proces kreowania zupełnie nowej, wielopoziomowej sytuacji dyskursywnej, która umożliwiła zrozumienie skali i zasięgu represji sowieckich. Autorka przygląda się temu procesowi z perspektywy mieszkańców czterech regionów, które w sposób s...

Tom ma charakter monograficznego ujęcia działalności Jakuba Przyłuskiego – pisarza i prawnika z XVI wieku. Autorzy poszczególnych artykułów zebrali dotychczasową wiedzę na jego temat i znacząco ją poszerzyli. Cenne są tłumaczenia łacińskich utworów Przyłuskiego, [...] zostały omówione zachowane listy pisane przez Jeżowitę i kierowane do niego. Rozprawa poświęcona Stanisławowi Orzechowskiemu jest cennym uzupełnieniem badań nad kręgiem kulturowym środowiska zgroma...

Na książkę składa się z osiem części. Trzy pierwsze ukazują w innym świetle początki twórczej drogi Wata, poczynając poematu Ja z jednej i Ja z drugiej strony mego mopsożelaznego piecyka, poprzez nowe odczytania manifestów w perspektywie intermedialnej, po rozdział określający Wata jako twórcę nie futurystycznego, lecz dadaistycznego. Kolejne trzy teksty przynoszą rewizjonistyczne sposoby odczytania związków z tradycją. Po pierwsze, śródziemnomorską, interesuje ...

Nowosolski dziennikarz Andrzej Sokół trafia na ślad międzynarodowej afery mogącej zagrozić bezpieczeństwu Polski. W wyniku skrzętnie uknutej intrygi zostaje wrobiony w potrójne morderstwo. Ścigany przez polską policję i rosyjską mafię ucieka w Karkonosze. Tylko tam może znaleźć dowody, które pogrążą prześladowców, a jego oczyszczą z zarzutów.Wyścig z czasem trwa, a po piętach zaczynają mu deptać zawodowi zabójcy...

Ksiądz Sambor wysłuchuje wyznań zabójcy ośmiolatka. Związany tajemnicą spowiedzi nie może o tym poinformować policji. Kiedy ginie kolejne dziecko, wikary podejmuje własne śledztwo. Ale schwytanie mordercy to dopiero początek jego problemów.

It is historical fiction set during the Revolutionary War in northern New England. The protagonist has been a spy in New York for a long time and then uses his intimate knowledge of Native American Indians to aid the war effort during the latter part of the war.

A former American football star, Boyd Emerson has failed in several businesses. He did all this in order to get the hand of his rich lover, but failure seems to haunt him at every turn. Now he is trying his hand at salmon fishing in Alaska.

This is a story of political intrigue in which brave US government agents team up with a squad of young ladies with psychic powers to fight the Bolsheviks. This conspiracy was set up to overthrow the Western world.

Young and ambitious Thea Kronborg leaves Moonstone, a fictional city in Colorado, for Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a pianist. The music teacher hears her voice and realizes that the girl has a gift for singing. He encourages her to continue studying vocals instead of piano.

This is a gothic classic. Very atmospheric. This amazing and attractive story, written in the highest times of our Faustian civilization, the majestic poetics of romanticism, and today, in these godforsaken times of fate and despair, shines with mysterious darkness.

The protagonist is Roy Glenister, a young and ambitious man who has been exploring for three years with his partner, an elderly man named Dextri. Their Midas mine is one of the richest in the area. Returning by boat from Seattle, where they spent the winter, they learn that their lawsuit is being contested in court, and until the lawsuit is settled, Midas is under the control of lawyer Alec McNamara.

It is a good gothic thriller. Sir Giles Mompesson is a gloomy and all-powerful villain who sows destruction and suffering with the help of the Star Chamber court, it seems, just like that.

Kanpur has a marble angel, which is located in a very quiet garden and fenced off even from trees and flowers by a wall. The angel looks down, miserable sorrow stands next to her, that no one wants to touch her with words. People just come, look and silently leave. Sonni Sahib’s father believed that everything he could learn during his lifetime about the fate of his wife and young son was written there.

With the exception of Westgard, all other employees began migrating to the monthly conference, returning one by one from the mysterious financial jungle, popularly known as „Downtown”. This is a fascinating story that will keep you in suspense until the very end.

„Titan” is the second part of Theodore Dreiser’s famous „Trilogy of Desire”, which is based on the life story of the American millionaire C. Yerkes, who played a significant role in the development of the public transport system in Chicago and the London Underground.

This story is about love, about love for many people. The main character was thirty-three years old, it was pleasant to look at him, he was very developed. Mr. Keynes is a detective with an uncanny knack for solving strange disappearances.

A collection of poignant stories about art and artists, about those who love them and those who don’t. Every story in this book is about artists and disappointment. Three stories are Western, two of them set in Kansas and Wyoming, and the third is about a woman from Nebraska traveling through Boston.

The heroes of the novel love each other since childhood, but evil fate separates them for many years. Having managed to keep their feelings pure, the lovers, having gone through all the trials, finally connect their lives.

Young Pierce Phillips, green, naive, opinionated and with little money, ends up in Daya, Alaska. Soon he is separated from the money by eloquent players. Now penniless, hungry and unable to reach the Klondike, he is forced to take a job delivering supplies to other would-be prospectors across the perilous Chilkoot Pass.

This is one of Chambers’ most popular novels. It has been translated into several other languages around the world. The story begins with who Selwyn is. Lots of questions, lots of mysteries. But that just makes it more interesting to read.

Twelve Men – biographical stories. Each story individually is an autobiographical essay, a portrait of an individual. If we consider the works as a whole, as a collection, then we can trace the history of the author’s life: adolescence in Indiana, work as a newspaper reporter, freelance writer, worker at a railway station, magazine editor.

This story is about the Crown Prince. Most of the world is against him and what he stands for. He expresses surprise at the position of the United States. This attitude is the natural result of various causes, among which are the following: Distrust of any aggressor on the part of a peace-minded nation.

A classic historical novel set in and around Windsor Castle during the time of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Historical events are sharply aggravated by the appearance of the forest demon Hern the Hunter.

The stories in this collection mostly take place in New York and Boston, and are all about artists–writers, musicians, sculptors–and their relationship to society. There are stories of brilliance, inspiration and expectations. All of them are wonderful.

The adopted daughter of a wealthy aristocrat is a beauty who is waiting for a profitable marriage. What is her past hiding? Will the Princess have the courage to turn into Cinderella, to sacrifice love and wealth?

At that festival time, when the days are the shortest and the nights the longest, and when, therefore, it is the invariable practice of all intelligent men to turn night into day; when the ratio of business and pleasure is clearly in favor of the latter; when a magnificent carnival is held in London, and everything testifies to the predominance and influence of good humor.

This is a novel about how the British colonizers of late Victoria in Calcutta fall in love with the wrong people. Hilda Howe is a travel-loving actress clearly on her way to the top of her profession before she meets Stephen Arnold, a Catholic priest.

When Professor Godfrey St. Peter and his wife move into a new home, he begins to feel dissatisfied with the new turn in life. He continues his scientific work in his dusty laboratory in an old house, trying to return to his old life. Two of his daughters get married and leave their home, two sons-in-law appear in the family. This provokes a midlife crisis, making the professor feel like he has lost his will to live due to a lack of purpose.

A novel about a young woman, Jessie Yelverton (also known as the Queen of Hearts), aged 20, who soon inherits an inheritance from her dead parents. Due to a strange set of circumstances, Jessie is forced to stay at her caregiver’s house for six weeks until her 21st birthday. The guardian’s name is Griffith, he is a lawyer and lives with his two older brothers.

Wespazjan Cudny – dla przyjaciół Wally – wraca ze szkoły w dniu 18. urodzin. W domu, zamiast przyjęcia niespodzianki, czekają na niego ciała brutalnie zamordowanych rodziców oraz zabójcy, którzy próbują zgładzić także jego.Chłopak jednego mordercę śmiertelnie rani, drugiemu ucieka na deskorolce. Niestety, wpada pod samochód i trafia do szpitala. Kiedy budzi się następnego dnia, nic nie pamięta. Nie ma też pojęcia, że w czasie, gdy zajmowali się nim lekarze, miejsce zbrodni zo...

Jest 18 grudnia 1934 roku. Komisarz kryminalny Gustav Dewart wypoczywa w Grüssau (Krzeszowie), korzystając z gościny opata benedyktynów. Urlop ma mu pomóc w odzyskaniu sił nadwątlonych rodzinnym dramatem, ale pobyt wśród mnichów zaczyna go męczyć.Żeby nie robić przykrości opatowi, policjant bierze udział w Dniu Światła, corocznej mszy odprawianej na pamiątkę odnalezienia cudownej ikony Matki Bożej Łaskawej ukrytej przed husytami i odzyskanej w nadprzyrodzonych okolicznościach...

Uchodźca, mój bliźniKto jest moim bliźnim? – na to pytanie uczonego w prawie Jezus odpowiedział słynną przypowieścią o miłosiernym Samarytaninie, przekraczającym w niesieniu pomocy etniczne podziały. Ta ewangeliczna historia do dziś stanowi moralne źródło, z którego czerpią wierzący i niewierzący.Naszą empatię i gotowość do pomagania warto uzupełnić jednak o dwa inne elementy. Po pierwsze, o wiedzę dotyczącą współczesnych migracji i wielokulturowości. Po drugie, o reguły efek...

A very enjoyable novel that touches on topics that are relevant to this day. Rich people come together to start mysterious murders. This story will keep you in suspense until the very end.

The protagonist of the novel, Frank Kovperwood, begins to do business at school, and as an adult, he moves on to stock speculation. And although he is tried for breaking the law, and he ends up in prison, the hero does not feel guilty at all.

Charming, beautifully written. Fascinating in detail pre-war Florida (and also the East Coast) high society with its fashions and mores.

It’s an action-packed story set deep in an American forest shortly after World War I. There are international jewel thieves, rum dealers, gruesome deaths, a couple of sweet romances, betrayal, hidden identities, and multiple plot twists.

This book is not a flowing novel, but rather a collection of experiences. Young men with good looks and health are kidnapped and married to young women from the eugenics suffragette movement to breed a „perfect” race of beautiful and intelligent people.

The protagonist Destin is a poor gentleman who meets his soul mate and together they create Green Mouse Lmtd to further his search for a soul mate through psychic waves.

Gerard Roiland, a typical Collins outsider, returns from college in Germany to take over his family estate at Trimley Dean and falls inappropriately in love with Kristel Toller, the daughter of one of his tenants. There is a mysterious deaf tenant who is also after Christelle.

Duncan Sara Jeannette has written 22 works of fiction, many with international themes. The main characters have certain freedoms living among the limits of the Empire. The resulting stories combine a sophistication of manner and movement that is reminiscent of Henry James.

The author reveals many of the smallest details about the life of revolutionary volunteers, the land, the hardships of camp life, numerous tribes of indigenous aborigines and their relationship with each other and with whites. The West is a relative place in relation to time.

Lorne Murchison is the son of a respectable first-generation immigrant family. He is of Presbyterian Scottish descent and is running for office with his ideals of a renewed British Empire. An intelligent and insightful snapshot of provincial Canada as it enters the 20th century, torn between being alone in the world and strengthening imperial ties with the mother country.

The heroes learn about the fictional city of Karkos, where the King in yellow rules, and two suns shine in the sky, and this circumstance becomes the beginning of mystical changes in their destinies. Strange and terrible events in which reality and dreams are intertwined are illustrated by the outstanding Argentine artist Santiago Caruso.

The novel is based on the true story of the Pendle Witches, who were executed in 1612 for causing harm with witchcraft. Witches lived in the Pendley Hill area of Lancashire. This story will keep you in suspense until the very end.

A young woman gets married and suddenly finds herself in a situation where her loving and beloved husband turns out to be the bearer of a different surname, and a terrible, dark and discrediting secret is revealed in his past.

This book is about the civil war in Lancashire. Like any war, this story cannot but leave impressions after itself. You will be immersed in history and characters.

This book not only wants to thrill its readers with a chilling story, but also touches on social issues – in this case, the debate about whether there is a tendency to crime in a person. Blood is the genetic code, or can it be successfully counteracted by compassionate and virtuous parenting.

This is an adventure thriller about independence. The protagonist fights for the freedom of the United States, as well as for the love of his life. If you are a fan of the historical adventure novel, then this book is for you.

This is an outstanding book written in the old style. The story is set between the middle and the end of the Revolutionary War and has a good mix of adventure, romance and complex characters with a bit of history thrown in for good measure.

Those who think they recognize the Comtesse de Vassart are undoubtedly mistaken. Mornak, long dead, is safe in his disguise. No trains with treasures were actually sent from the arsenal in Brest to the port of Lorient.

Ain is a place where the great River flows under a thousand bridges, the gardens are full of fragrant flowers, and the air is filled with the melody of silver bells. This is the place where the Moon Elder rules. The lunar elder has the right to give whatever he wants, equally he can take away whatever he sees fit. He is the creator of terrible monsters from hundreds of thousands of different bodies.

Randulph Crewe is an unusual name for a young hero. Hilda Scarve is the daughter of a titled miser. The denouement of the plot hinges on the making of wills and inheritance of property, and there is a secret love affair (between Randulph’s uncle and Hilda’s mother) that comes from the past.

Youth and life and happiness on the lunar path, and yet the path is not always silver for two glorious heroines. Nikhla Quellen, a dancer and beauty, is constantly entangled in a web of intrigue against which spies and secret service agents are plotting. Little Dulcie Soan finds herself in a whirlpool of excitement more than once.

This is an excellent collection of horror stories that remind of the dark side of nature and what it hides. The author can impress his readers not only with prose, but also with the atmosphere. This is a story about the murder of a butterfly collector and the haunting spirit of a renegade priest.

American Norvin Blake travels to the island of Sicily to attend the wedding of his good friend, Count Martel Savigno. However, the mafia appears in the story, which leads to tragic events on the night before the wedding. The main character has to find out who ordered the killer.

The mistress of the old estate – the Portgen Tower – dies, leaving a dying letter in which she makes a fatal confession. The discovery of this secret can have truly tragic consequences for all the inhabitants of the estate. But the maid, hoping to keep the peace of her masters, hides the letter in the old abandoned room of the castle – the Dead Room. Many years will pass before the Dead Room will part with its terrible secret.

There is literally no such thing as an evil genius, just a lot of depressed people who were not lucky enough to live in the 1800s. This is a historical family drama. A very abrupt end. It’s never quite clear who the evil genius is. But he certainly gave us a clear idea of just how devastating adultery can be.

Full of noble aspirations, a young graduate of the American Christian Community, Amelius Goldenhart, comes to his homeland in England. Here he falls in love with Regina, the niece of the wealthy merchant Farneby, but, having learned selfishness and cruelty, the hypocrisy of the world, he gives his heart to the destitute, lonely girl Sally – one of the representatives of the „fallen leaves” of bourgeois society.

There are typical characters in this book: the villains are very evil, while the heroes and heroines are beautiful, brave and wise. However, there is romance, adventure and suspense in this book, all against the backdrop of Constantinople during the Byzantine Empire.

The novel The Black Robe tells the story of a young rich heir who has fallen into the net of the Catholic Church. Only the devotion of his wife and love for his son allowed Luis Romain to throw off his heavy fetters and make the right decision.

This book is one of the most popular novels by Robert William Chambers and has been translated into several other languages around the world. A casual conversation with a model for his new project forces him to test his theories about creativity, society, and love, and he discovers that other people have their own ideas about how it should all work.

This story is about a young girl, a companion of the Russian royal family, who made the decision to renounce God, the church and marriage after seeing the fall of the Czars. This story will keep you in suspense until the very end.

Wealth, romance, adventure and one woman’s struggle with addiction. This novel fits Robert W. Chambers’ love of walking the edge of what was acceptable to society at the time and then taking it one step further with tactful grace.

Jim Nyland, an artist with a touch of Irish in his blood, becomes an amateur adventurer among professional spies who, in the style of the Hitchcockian protagonist, treat the danger in which he finds himself as nothing more than fun.