Twelve-year-old Tommy is left to fend for himself. Thanks to endurance, ingenuity and a wonderful union with the grizzly bear, whose mother he helped, the boy survives. When Tommy gets older, he and the bear set off for the valley, where they prevent the killing of an indestructible horse. The horse, bear and Tommy become legend – and the expedition is about to capture or kill Tommy.

The plot revolves around a simple but noble man who inherited the mine. And, of course, there are some dark characters who try to steal it all in various ways. A young thief becomes the brain of an operation.

Les Burchard owned the local gambling palace, half the town, and most of the surrounding territory, and Walt Devon’s thousand-acre ranch would make him king of the land. The trouble was, Devon didn’t want to sell. In a ruthless bid to claim the spread, Burchard tried everything from poker to murder. But Walt Devon was a betting man by nature, even when the stakes were his life. The way Devon figured, the odds were stacked against him. So he could either die alone... or takes ...

You don’t get a much more evocative opening than that for a Western novella called „Werewolf”, and the story lives up to both its title and that opening in ways you won’t expect from Max Brand who did write some fantastic fiction. On that bitter night Chris Royal walks into Yates Saloon to escape the storm where Cliff Main, gun happy brother of killer Harry Main, is looking for trouble over a girl both like. Words are exchanged, and there is the smell of cordite in the air. C...

After 8 years in prison for murder, Jimmy Geary returns to his town Yellow Creek, and his past, and an ambush. Jimmy was very happy to see town again. But there are three men who aren’t happy to see Jimmy Geary return, and they conspire to make his stay this time very short... Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Max Brand’s remarkable gift for storytelling. One of the greatest western authors of all time, Frederick Faust wrote under sixteen different pseudonyms, i...

This great book by Max Brand tells the story of honest, hard working Phil Slader, the son of a notorious murdering outlaw, who had sworn not to follow the footsteps of his father, a feared and hated gunman. Phil was adopted by the man who put a bullet in his father’s heart. Watched and expected every day to explode into the lawless ways of his father, young Phil patiently waits to come of age to leave the servitude of his father’s killer and find the truth of his death. Could...

„Była kusząca, ponętna, a jednocześnie sprawiała wrażenie onieśmielonej własną seksualnością, jakby dopiero poznawała siłę namiętności. Dziwne. Bez skrupułów wdała się w romans, choć była mężatką, a teraz udaje mało doświadczoną? A może z każdym nowym mężczyzną zachowuje się tak, jakby to on obudził drzemiący w niej erotyzm? Jeśli tak, jest nad wyraz przekonująca...” 

„Minecraft. Góra” to kontynuacja pierwszej powieści Maxa Brooksa, osadzonej w świecie gry („Minecraft. Wyspa”). Bezimienny bohater opuścił już swoją bezpieczną wyspę i płynie teraz w nieznane. Trafia do zasypanej śniegiem tundry. Nieprzygotowany na nowe wyzwania o mało co nie zamarza, potem z trudem wymyka się tłumowi zombie, szkieletów, pająków, creeperów, a światło, które bierze za blask pochodni, okazuje się potokiem wulkanicznej lawyUciekając przed mobami, znajduje ...

Sennym miasteczkiem Ostoja wstrząsa seria zagadkowych morderstw nastolatków. Ofiary zostają znalezione ze śladami poparzeń na ciałach i szmacianymi maskotkami w dłoniach. Detektyw prowadzący śledztwo ucieka z miasta, a tajemniczy morderca, znany w mediach jako Kociarz, pozostaje nieuchwytny. Kilkanaście lat później do Ostoi, na zaproszenie burmistrzyni, przyjeżdża znany pisarz, Filip Dragan. Ma rozpocząć pracę nad reportażową książką dotyczącą dawnych zbrodni. Niestety,...

The name Max Brand is synonymous with great adventure and quality. Good men gone bad fill the pages of this Western trio, with stories of outlaws, horse thieves and a rowdy ranch hand who turns to stage robbery. This book contains three short novelettes: „The Nighthawk Trail”, „Vamp’s Bandit” and the title story, „Rifle Pass”. In „Rifle Pass”, ageing Sheriff Thomas Weller has one major problem: his son Dick Weller. Dick cannot seem to apply himself to anything. In a desperate...

His name was Jim Silver, but they called him Silvertip. Jim Silver, the man with tufts of silver hair over each temple, the man who sometimes looked like a horned devil in the moonlight, hungered for action as most men hunger for food. And he found plenty when bank robber Jim Lovell sought his protection – because, unknown to Silvertip, Lovell was packing a half-million dollars in stolen cash along with his Winchester. And the men he’d double-crossed had shot their way out of...

One of the most prolific writers of all time, he wrote more than 500 novels and nearly 15 million words under the pen name of Max Brand and seventeen others. Alongside Zane Grey, the western section of any bookstore is usually packed with Max Brand titles. „The Jackson Trail” is another outstanding western that demands your attention. In it, Jesse Jackson is riding where the law feared to go... Packed with enough action and interesting twists to please even the most die-hard ...

Głębokie uczenie przez wzmacnianie rozwija się bardzo dynamicznie. Dziedzinę tę charakteryzuje niewyczerpany potencjał rozwiązywania trudnych problemów. Zajmuje się tym co najmniej kilka grup badawczych, koncentrujących się na wdrażaniu głębokiego uczenia przez wzmacnianie w różnych branżach. Niestety, opisy najnowszych osiągnięć są trudne do zrozumienia i zbyt abstrakcyjne, aby można było je łatwo zastosować w praktycznych implementacjach, a przecież poprawne d...

Ponad dwa miliony sprzedanych egzemplarzy pierwszego wydania!Dwadzieścia pięć lat temu John C. Maxwell opublikował książkę Bądź liderem! (tytuł oryginału Developing the Leader Within You), która zmieniła sposób myślenia o przywództwie i pomogła milionom czytelników rozwijać u siebie cechy skutecznego lidera. Teraz Maxwell odświeżył tę rewolucyjną książkę i zawarł w niej spostrzeżenia i praktyki, których nauczył się od czasu, jaki upłynął od pierwszego wydania. W nowym wydaniu...

Ambitna, pionierska próba połączenia wysiłków polskiego „filozofującego ekonomisty” i niemieckiego „ekonomizującego filozofa”, zorientowana na ukazanie głównych dylematów i wyzwań stojących przed ekonomią w konsekwencji globalnego kryzysu bankowo-finansowego i gospodarczego ostatnich lat.

Hawks and Eagles is the author’s classic. The brand is a great storyteller who shows his enthusiasm for humans and animals, such characters as a professor, a small dog, and Mole. Joe Good, the protagonist, he’s twenty years old. His father was killed by the richest man in the city, because he wants a good ranch not to be. A good, lazy, prickly guy who lacks a sense of respect and respect for everyone in the city. The only thing he can do is to handle a whip with such skill ...

Hordy głodnych i wściekłych zombie nadciągają! Jesteście przygotowani na WOJNĘ TOTALNĄ? Najpierw w Chinach pojawia się pacjent „zero” zarażony dziwną i nieznaną chorobą, która powoduje niespotykaną dotąd degenerację ciała i późniejszą reanimację zwłok. Wkrótce z całego świata zaczynają napływać kolejne doniesienia o podobnych przypadkach. Rządy wielu państw ignorują zagrożenie i skrywają prawdę przed obywatelami. A ta jest szokująca – po całym globie z prędkością błys...

Another great Max Brand western, first written in 1921. The story follows a cousin who was taken in by his uncle and his two sons. They make fun of him, and use his size and strength to do the hard chores they can’t do. The huge, lumbering outlaw Bull Hunter intends to hunt down and kill the men responsible for his uncle’s death. When he finds out that the ringleader is already behind bars, he devises a clever plot to spring his nemesis in order to dispense his comeuppance,...

Max Brand’s action-filled stories of adventure and heroism in the American West continue to entertain readers throughout the world. „"Chip Traps A Sheriff"” is one of his work. Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Brand’s remarkable gift for storytelling. One of the greatest western authors of all time. Max Brand leads the reader on a very authentic tale of the old west the way it was. Brand penned over 200 full-length Westerns in his career, including „"Destry R...

If you enjoy a fast moving Western dealing with vengeance and well-deserved payback, you’ll like "The Rangeland Avenger" by Max Brand. When Riley Sinclair heads into the town of Sour Creek to seek vengeance for the death of his brother, he doesn’t expect any trouble given his reputation and his skills with a gun. He is not prepared for Cold Feet, however, a man locally known for his abject lack of courage and his non existent fighting skills. A soft spoken but ruthless gunm...

The story of young, hardworking rancher John Saxon who suffers abuse from the mean-spirited Bob Witherell. With a great show of self-discipline and character, Saxon gains skill as a gunsman, and takes down Witherell in a duel ... but Witherell is not ordinary bully, he is also the brother of the notorious outlaw, The Solitaire, of national repute and a "list of dead men ... long and crowded with important names. One of many recommended Westerns by this prolific author. Fred...

W małym, klimatycznym miasteczku na południu Polski w ciągu ostatniego ćwierćwiecza kilkanaście kobiet popełnia w okrutny sposób samobójstwo. Okoliczności niezwykłych aktów wykluczają udział osób trzecich, dlatego policja nie ma żadnych podstaw do wszczęcia śledztw. Zbieżność faktów nie daje jednak spokoju dziennikarce lokalnego pisma. Magda namawia w końcu byłego policjanta, którego żona również odebrała sobie życie, aby wspólnie spróbowali wyjaśnić zagadkę. Gdy w podobny sp...

Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author best known for his thoughtful Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Prolific in many genres, he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. This is one of his work. Three men, each traveling alone, head for the town of Loomis, where they will meet in a violent confrontation that will leave one of them dead by morning. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary cha...

Carrick Dunmore seemed to be nothing more than a happy-go-lucky cowboy whose main pastimes were drinking and sleeping. He wasn’t the kind of man who could challenge Jim Tankerton, the outlaw chief whose cruel violence terrorized the countryside. But Dunmore had a few tricks to outwit old Jim... One of many recommended westerns by this prolific author. Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literar...