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On Prince Edward Island, where Anne Shirley grew up in the sea-sprayed town of Avonlea, there was no shortage of wonderful stories. In „Chronicles of Avonlea”, a delightful collection of twelve short stories about the inhabitants of Avonlea and other nearby villages, we meet lovely new characters and relive many stories that inspired various episodes on Road to Avonlea. Focusing on universal themes about mankind, the book conveys the flaws of critical behavior that is sure ...

A sweet and moving romance from the author of the beloved Anne of Green Gables series! Eric Marshall is all that a well brought-up young man should be. Handsome, steadfast, and full of ambition, he is expected to expand the Marshall&Company empire and to marry a woman suitable to replace his mother in Nova Scotia’s finest circles. Eric has a bright future in the family business and has taken the two-month teaching post on Prince Edward Island only as a favor to a sick f...

This book has a sequel, „Mistress Pat”, which describes Patricia Gardiner’s life in her twenties and early thirties, during which she remained single and took care of her beloved home, Silver Bush. All she could ever ask of life was bound in the magic of the lovely old house on Prince Edward Island. And now there was more than ever to do, what with planning for the Christmas family reunion, entertaining a countess, playing matchmaker, and preparing for the arrival of the ne...

Lucy Maud Montgomery is perhaps best known as the author of the Anne of Green Gables series. Anne, an 11 year old girl, the hero of a girls novel has become a worldwide bestseller, from Canada to Japan, for children to adults. In this story the author beautifully weaves four short stories together into an amazing plot. None of the eccentric Lesleys can agree on what to call Lorraine’s baby. Lorraine secretly likes the name Marigold... but who among the assorted aunts, uncle...

The second book in the Emily novels, „Emily Climbs” tells the story of Emily moving to a high school in Shrewsbury and beginning her career as a writer with the local newspaper. Shrewsbury brings new friends, new adventures, and new enemies, and the town is scandalized by some of Emily’s exploits. Perhaps the hardest trial is having to board with her Aunt Ruth. Or is it her promise to Aunt Elizabeth? But Emily’s troubles are only the beginning of her climb to success... and...

Emily Starr and Teddy Kent have been friends since childhood, and as Teddy is about to leave to further his education as an artist, Emily believes that their friendship is blossoming into something more. But when Teddy leaves home to pursue his goal in Montreal, Emily’s world collapses. With Teddy gone, Emily agrees to marry a man she doesn’t love... as she tries to banish all thoughts of Teddy. In her heart, Emily must search for what being a writer really means... This th...

A chronicle of Anne’s early married life, as she and her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe begin to build their life together in the little „house of dreams” in the picturesque, lonely and sometimes wild seascapes of Four Winds Harbour. A tale uniting the much-loved characters also brings a farewell to Anne Shirley and officially welcomes Anne Blythe. It also introduces intriguing and entertaining new characters – Captain Jim, the tragic Lesley, the outspoken and warmhear...

„Anne of Windy Poplars” is the fourth book in the „Anne of Green Gables” series by L. M. Montgomery. In this book, 22-year-old Anne Shirley has left college to serve as principal of Summerside High School and settles down in Windy Poplars. Here her biggest challenge is the high-status Pringles family who are not what one would expect them to be. The novel features a series of letters Anne sends to her intended, Gilbert Blythe, who is completing medical school. Anne’s sweet ...

The desert shimmered in the heat waves. Conan the Cimmerian stared out over the aching desolation and involuntarily drew the back of his powerful hand over his blackened lips. He stood like a bronze image in the sand, apparently impervious to the murderous sun, though his only garment was a silk loin-cloth, girdled by a wide gold-buckled belt from which hung a saber and a broad-bladed poniard. On his clean-cut limbs were evidences of scarcely healed wounds.

Anne, now Mrs. Doctor Blythe, is still sometimes as impetuous as when she was the girl from Green Gables. But with six lively children and hard-worked Gilbert to look after – not to mention Gilbert’s disapproving aunt, Anne has to be practical too. She suddenly began to worry that perhaps her adored Gilbert no longer loved her. But how could he not? After all, she may have been older, but she was still the lively, irrepressible, irreplaceable redhead the wonderful Anne of G...

Wings in the Night collects Robert E. Howard’s fiction and prose published in Weird Tales Magazine from July 1932 to May 1933. These works represent literary stepping-stones to Howard’s infamous Cthulhu mythos stories and his most famous character of all -- Conan the Cimmerian -- and ably demonstrate that each of Howard’s stories improved and added to his formidable skills as a master of fantasy and adventure.

Eleven-year-old Anne Shirley is an orphan girl in need of a family and the novel follows her adventures over the next five years. She may be scrawny and freckled with red hair but she’s also loving and bright with imagination, smart, dutiful and hardworking. When she’s mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, elderly siblings who plan to adopt a young boy to help around their farm in Canada’s Prince Edward Island, Anne faces the prospect of securing a home and a lov...

„Anne of the Island” was published in 1915, seven years after the bestselling „Anne of Green Gables.” This book tells the story of Anne Shirley’s and her friends’ college years. As the security of home and childhood comforts fade, each must face the trials of being on their own. The novel kicks off when Anne decides to pursue her dream of a higher education, and subsequently leaves her two year teaching position at the school in Avonlea and begins her studies at Redmond Col...

Anne’s back! She older and wiser and more beautiful with the additional charm of growing womanhood than that gangly red-headed girl that first came to Avonlea. This book follows Anne Shirley from the age of 16-18 during the two years she teaches at the Avonlea school. Anne discovers all of the joys and struggles of being a teacher and continuing her studies and friendship with Gilbert. To top this off, she must aid Marilla in the caring of two children whom Marilla has chos...

From the unsurpassed imagination of the creator of Conan, Robert E. Howard, here are three tales of boxing, suspense and high adventure. „Three Tales of the Ring” is an excellent sampler of his non-sword and sorcery output, with a very strong emphasis on the gothic and the macabre. The collection includes such Howard’s masterpieces as „The Apparition in the Prize Ring”, „Alleys of Darkness”, „Cupid vs Pollux”. „The Apparition In the Prize Ring” is a ghostly little boxing st...

The speaker wrapped his purple cloak closer about his powerful frame and settled back into his official chair, much as he might have settled back in his seat at the Circus Maximus to enjoy the clash of gladiatorial swords. Realization of power colored his every move. Whetted pride was necessary to Roman satisfaction, and Titus Sulla was justly proud; for he was military governor of Eboracum and answerable only to the emperor of Rome.

Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, justly famous for her „Anne of Green Gables” series, wrote two novels in her career that were explicitly intended for adults. „A Tangled Web” centers around a community consisting mainly of two families, the Penhallows and the Darks whose collective lives are thrown into chaos by the dying wish of matriarch Aunt Becky Dark. For several generations everyone in the Penhallow family has married someone in the Dark family. Now Aunt Becky, t...

Mistrzowie powieści szpiegowskiej pod lupą Niektórzy pisarze czerpią garściami z własnych doświadczeń w pracy w służbach; inni prowadzą dogłębny research, docierając do byłych oficerów i szpiegów. Czy wszystko, co opisują, jest prawdą? Czy literatura szpiegowska może być źródłem informacji na temat pracy wywiadu? Piotr Niemczyk i Jaś Kapela opisują nowoczesne metody inwigilacji, sposoby werbowania agentów, szyfrowania informacji, fałszowania dokumentów i pro...

Szczęśliwe życie we dwoje. To możliwe! Większość ludzi postrzega udany związek jako jeden z filarów szczęśliwego życia. Jednak życie we dwoje, mimo że wymarzone, niesie ze sobą dziesiątki problemów i dylematów. Jak pogodzić pragnienia, nawyki i życiowe cele dwóch osób? Czy namiętność może trwać wiele lat? W jaki sposób pielęgnować swoją indywidualność, tworząc jednocześnie szczęśliwą parę? Czy związek to romans czy sojusz? Co jest ważniejsze: rozsądek czy uczucia? Czy...

Życie niesie ze sobą wiele problemów. Zwłaszcza życie współczesnej kobiety. Jak sobie z nimi poradzić i... nie zwariować? Pomoże ci w tym Katarzyna Miller. Każdego dnia kobiety zadają sobie pytania: Jak być szczęśliwą? Jak być pewną siebie? Jak nie być ofiarą? Jak pogodzić życie rodzinne z pracą zawodową? W bestsellerowej książce Być kobietą i nie zwariować znajdziesz przykłady najbardziej typowych problemów, z którymi zmagają się kobiety: własnej tożsamości, rela...

Mroczne miasto bezdomnych, prostytutek i handlarzy kobiet Żywy portret międzywojennej Warszawy Jaka była Warszawa międzywojnia? Czy romantyczny, ciepły obraz przedwojennego przestępcy ze stolicy ma coś wspólnego z ówczesną rzeczywistością? Opierając się na wielu szerzej nieznanych źródłach historycznych, Paweł Rzewuski kreśli żywy portret warszawskiego marginesu. Opisuje przyczyny biedy i niektórych przestępstw, problem prostytucji oraz handlu kobietami, a także ...

20 prostych projektów Raspberry Pi to kolekcja projektów elektronicznych przeznaczonych dla osób początkujących, idealnie dobrana dla dzieci, rodziców, nauczycieli czy hobbystów, którzy chcą podnieść swoje umiejętności techniczne. Książka krok po kroku uczy, jak realizować interaktywne projekty z wykorzystaniem Raspberry Pi – małego i niedrogiego komputera – takie jak np. cyfrowy zestaw perkusyjny, robot kontrolowany przez WiFi, gra Pong, alarm antywłamaniow...

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