Max Lucado napisał tę książkę, aby pomóc ludziom wydźwignąć się z szarości życia i dostrzec ich własną i niepowtarzalną drogę. Odkrywanie tej drogi i pójście nią sprawia, że najpełniej stajesz się sobą. Spróbuj odkryć rzeczy, które lubisz robić i które jednocześnie robisz dobrze. Możemy nazwać je momentami radosnej harmonii. Pomyśl o chwilach pełnych szczęścia i energii, gdy nie liczyłeś czasu. O chwilach, gdy pomyślałeś: „Tak, jestem do tego stworzony!”. Przypomnij sobi...

Para dziennikarzy z Polski wyjeżdża na wygraną w konkursie wycieczkę do Lizbony. Już pierwszego dnia pobytu dochodzi do tragicznego wypadku, a dziwne zachowanie przewodniczki zapowiada, że nie będzie to sielski wypoczynek. Sceptycznie nastawiony do wyjazdu Michał zostaje mimo woli włączony w ciąg nieprzyjemnych wydarzeń, począwszy od bójki z hotelowym włamywaczem aż po próby zastraszania. Gdy w polskiej grupie dochodzi do kolejnych nagłych śmierci, Michał na własną rękę próbu...

Max Brand (1892–1944), war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und gilt als einer der wichtigsten und bekanntesten Western-Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Joe Warder muss den berüchtigten Banditen „El Tigre” auffinden und verhaften. Der unerfahrene Dennis MacMore ist auf der Suche nach seinem älteren Bruder – der, wie sich bald herausstellt, mit „El Tigre” unter einer Decke steckt. MacMore und Warder reisen zusammen von der texanischen Grenze aus nach Mexiko. Sie geraten unv...

Bill Gary was blinded by the agony of torn flesh. Red sparks of pain flared through him. He saw Frosty, his mouth dripping with blood, ready to spring again. Bill struck at the leaping form ... and missed. The wolf’s teeth were at his throat! Bill Gary was dead. But this only encouraged the fortune seekers. For securely fastened around the killer wolf’s neck was a collar containing the location of a vein of gold ... and it was still anybody’s prize. This most vicious of tim...

Rival police detectives Angus Campbell and Patrick O’Rourke find themselves working together to locate the millionaire who disappeared while under their protection on a train bound for Chicago. Manhattan millionaire John Cobb has been receiving threatening letters, and so leaves for Chicago, hoping that by hopping the night-train he’ll escape from his anonymous ill-wisher. Assigned as guards, Campbell and O’Rourke go along. When, after signing his $15 million will over to h...

Trailin is a classic Western tale of vengeance meted out by six-guns. It tells the story of Anthony Bard, a motherless young man raised among the aristocracy of the East, who possesses a desperate hunger for the adventure that only the Western life could bring him. One day he sees his father murdered in the yard of their home. This starts young Anthony on a trail of vengeance that leads him to the far west. Here, Anthony, a tenderfoot with a knack for survival must track do...

Western Hero, Ronicky Doone, Provides His Own Brand of Justice. Ronicky Doone overhears Jack Moon’s gang plotting the murder of ex-member Hugh Dawn. While Ronicky doesn’t know Hugh Dawn or Jack Moon, he is always ready for adventure. With the aid of his trusty, well-trained horse, Lou, he outraces Moon’s gang and races off to warn Hugh and they flee along with Hugh’s daughter, Jerry. Great read with Max Brand’s leading off to unexpected places with characters you come to kn...

Ernest Pontifex, son of a clergyman, leads a life of disarray. Ernest struggles with orthodoxy, lives in the slums, is thrown into prison, and eventually marries Ellen. Saved by the discovery that Ellen is already married, Ernest received an inheritance, and is able to devote his life to literature, finally winning self-respect and success. One of many recommended Westerns by this prolific author. Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American author...

The "Dr. Kildare" series is written by Max Brand, which was the pen name of prolific author Frederick Faust, and is from the medical genre. This series is about the many exploits of Dr. Kildare, who starts out the series as a medical intern as he works to try and become a doctor. The stories follow Dr. James "Jimmy" Kildare, an aspiring surgeon, who leaves the simple life of his parents’ farm to practice medicine at a big-city hospital. Brand this time has young Dr. Kildare...

"Katastrofy” to kolejna po „ Murach”, „Rewolucjach” i „Wojnach” książka duetu Boguś Janiszewski, Max Skorwider, którzy tym razem rozprawiają się w sposób niebanalny z katastrofami. Opisują skutki, przebieg i konsekwencje zarówno katastrof wynikających z sił natury, jak i tych, które sami na siebie sprowadzamy. Autorzy stawiają tezę, że ludzie są mistrzami katastrof i potrafią zniszczyć wszystko, w sposób nagły i nieodwracalny. Palą wycinają, zabijają, dewastują. Książka ...

A jeśli spróbujemy… Megan Maxwell Szalona powieść o zranionej kobiecie, która zostaje swingerką Nazywam się Verónica Jiménez, mam trzydzieści osiem lat i jestem niezależną, ciężko pracującą, i, według tych, którzy mnie znają, dość upartą i kontrolującą kobietą. OK, przyznaję – jestem. Ale czy ktoś jest idealny? Kiedyś wierzyłam w istnienie księżniczek i książąt, do czasu, gdy mój książę nie zamienił się w ropuchę. Wtedy przestałam wierzyć w romantyzm. Więc ku...

Zło mogło być wszędzie, a z pewnością miejsce na nie było w sercu każdego człowieka.Komisarz Deryło poszukuje wytchnienia w ustroniu nad Bałtykiem. Jednak Zło nie spuszcza go z oczu.Kilkadziesiąt kilometrów dalej dochodzi do potwornej zbrodni. Pewna kobieta zostaje zamordowana tak brutalnie, jakby sprawcą był prawdziwy diabeł.Tymczasem w okolicy pojawia się tajemniczy badacz wiary w zjawiska paranormalne, a grupka dzieci rozpoczyna niezwykłą grę. Ponoć jej autorem jest sa...

WSZYSCY JESTEŚMY MORDERCAMI, CZYŻ NIE?Idealne życie profesora etyki Klausa Martina legło w gruzach, gdy oboje z żoną padli ofiarami brutalnej napaści. To zdarzenie pociąga za sobą falę dramatycznych wydarzeń. Najlepszy, najbardziej etyczny człowiek może złamać swoje zasady. Nigdy nie wiemy, kim jesteśmy naprawdę. Każdy z nas jest zdolny do zbrodni. Wy również. Jeśli macie jakiekolwiek wątpliwości, stracicie je po lekturze tej książki. Przekonajcie się sami...

A power more than human, a will to absolute evil – such was he. All who had tried to save her from him perished... Must her true love also die? Max Brand, the pen name of Frederick Faust, was an incredibly proficient author who wrote many books, stories, and even poetry. Brand is generally regarded as the author of superior Westerns like his „Destry Rides Again”, but Brand also wrote the „Dr. Kildare” series, numerous detective stories and fantastic novels as well. His Wester...

First published in 1932, „Lucky Larribee” is another great read by Max Brand. Alfred Larribee likes drinking, not working. He likes gambling, too. Maybe that’s what drives him to risk his easy-going life for Sky Blue, the horse of a lifetime. When he first goes after this wild and magnificent animal, he knows about the back shooters. But no one tells him about the Indians... they play for keeps. How safe is this bet? Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Brand’s rem...

Loafer was a big dog who looked like a buffalo wolf; he was gray against one background and pale yellow against another; like a buffalo wolf, he had a great leonine body covered with a loose hide which humped in a wave above his shoulders at every lurch of his gallop. Strangers always said „Wolf! „ when they saw him, and no one said „Good dog! „ except his master.

„Young Dr. Kildare” is the first in a popular series of eight novels by writer Max Brand, beginning in 1940 and finishing in 1943. Brand this time has young Dr. Kildare take on a special case to force his beloved Gillespie to take a rest from the research job which is draining him. The case involves a fear neurosis in the daughter of a multimillionaire, and Kildaire uses unorthodox means to get to the bottom of it. He has an ingenious way of bringing her out of darkness, and ...

A collection of short stories by a popular and influential Russian author, the founder of the literary method of socialist realism and, possibly, the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century. He wrote short stories, plays, memoirs and novels that touched the imagination of the Russian people, and was the first Russian author to sympathize sympathetically with characters such as tramps and thieves, emphasizing their daily struggle with insurmountable difficulties....

Like Byron’s passionate sayings „sounding on the tones of a wild and completely unsophisticated melody”, this is Gorky’s crazy, unbridled, powerful voice when he sings about the „madness of the brave,” barefoot dreamers who are proud of their idleness, who have nothing and fear nothing who is cheerful in his suffering, but unhappy in his joy.

The poem in prose „Twenty-Six and One” is based on the writer’s impressions related to life in Kazan and work in Semenov’s bakery. Gorky considers the image of a tramp, revealing its negative qualities. The work tells about twenty-six bakers, attitude, feelings, the behavior of which is presented by the author as the attitude of one person. This is achieved by using Gorky a huge number of pronouns „we are all”

This collection includes three short novels from „one of the top three Western novelists of all time” Max Brand (Frederick Faust). The stories here are character studies of outlaws, the lives they lead and the lies and myths that spring up about them. The title novel, „Peter Blue”, is an excellent character study. Blue, wounded in a gunfight, has lost the use of his gun hand and is desperately trying to learn to shoot with his left hand before his enemies realize how vulnerab...

Renowned Western writer Max Brand does it again in the eminently enjoyable novel „Six Golden Angels”. Max Brand’s action-filled stories of adventure and heroism in the American West continue to entertain readers throughout the world. Brand penned over 200 full-length Westerns in his career, including „Destry Rides Again” and „Montana Rides Again”. But in this work, we see Brand in a new role. A familiar situation in the story of the murder of a millionaire which is dismissed ...

A collection of three short exciting stories by Max Brand aka Federick Faust. Brand has been labeled „one of the top three Western novelists of all time” so western fans will be in for a treat. It includes „The Flaming Rider”, „Outlaw Buster” and „Sun and Sand”. Three western stories about men who appear to be lacking the intelligence and skills to survive on the frontier but are able to achieve success where others had failed. „Sun and Sand” is the story of a youth known onl...

Young Larry Lynmouth had been the most fabulous outlaw of them all. Now he was determined to go straight. But going straight wasn’t that easy-not with ugly leeches like Jay Cress around, who couldn’t believe any man was fool enough to be honest. Renowned Western writer Max Brand does it again in the eminently enjoyable novel „The Outlaw”. Packed with enough action, twists and turns to please even the most die-hard fans of the genre, the novel also addresses a wide range of im...