Marcin Szymański powraca z drugim tomem wspomnień z misji w Afganistanie. Tym razem opowiada o doświadczeniach nabytych podczas miesięcy spędzonych wśród mieszkańców podnóża Hindukuszu. Jak żyli i co myśleli ludzie w kraju, w którym prowadzono eksperyment społeczny zwany wojną? Jakiej rzeczywistości chcieli, a z jaką przychodziło im się zmagać? Z czym konfrontowali się żołnierze powracający z misji do rodzin w Polsce? Jak wojenne przeżycia trawiły umysł dowódcy? „Zakładnicy...

Na malowniczej Gotlandii, podczas sezonu turystycznego, zostaje zamordowana młoda dziewczyna. Podejrzenie pada na jej męża, jako że poprzedniego wieczora widziano, jak doszło między nimi do burzliwej kłótni. Inspektor Anders Knutas, po zapoznaniu się ze sprawą, rozpoczyna rutynowe dochodzenie. Parę dni później zostaje odnalezione ciało innej młodej kobiety zamordowanej w podobny sposób. Śledztwo zaczyna się komplikować, a inspektor musi pogodzić się z faktem, iż przyjdzie mu ...

Prawdziwe heroski codziennego życia często nie są świadome swojej siły. Dopiero życzliwe spojrzenie z boku jest w stanie uchwycić niezwykłość w prozie ich życia. Tonia ma w życiu pod górkę. Niezbyt urodziwa i przeciętnie zdolna dziewczyna pochopnie wychodzi za mąż i szybko wpada w rolę Matki-Polki. Jej najmłodszy syn rodzi się niepełnosprawny i to na nią spada ciężar wymagającej opieki i terapii. Mąż Roman nie pomaga, a dodatkowo swoją postawą jeszcze utrudnia kobiecie działa...

Accused, tried, and convicted of robbery and murder that he did not commit, Jim Seton rotted in jail for five long years. Although the townspeople said he was lucky not to hang, that wasn’t how Jim saw it. He didn’t take kindly to being railroaded. Now he was free and ready. He was an innocent man who’d been sent to hell, and he was ready, willing, and able to return the favor. „The Return of the Rancher „ is a classical western excitement at its very best by a master of the ...

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...

A good classic western by Max Brand (Frederick Faust) about the famous outlaw King Bird. The King Bird, a young, reckless and mystery bandit, whose definition of happiness is freedom, the best horse, a wonderful girl, faces difficult choices when he attempts to save an old friend’s runaway daughter from a dangerous gang of robbers. „The King Bird Rides” is a fast moving, exciting, plenty of gun play and adventure. Max Brand’s action-filled stories of adventure and heroism in ...

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 ...

Superstar pulpsmith Max Brand was best known for his Westerns, but his historical adventures rank among the best stories he ever wrote. He wrote somewhere around 12 or 13 historical swashbucklers not including the seven Tizzo stories. The complete tales of Tizzo the Firebrand contains the 7 stories. „The Great Betrayal” is one of it. The series is set in early 16th Century Italy. Luigi Falcone had taken in red haired street urchin Tizzo outside of the city of Perugia. Raised ...

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...

„The Face and the Doctor” is another short story by Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This story filled with excitement, suspense, good guys and bad, and plot twists aplenty! Orphaned at an early age, Faust studied at the University of California, Berkeley. He became one of the most prolific writers of our time but abandoned writing at age fifty-one to become a...

Something natural or supernatural enters the soul of Andrew Creel, a commonplace and disaffected young man, and drives him into a swift game where death is a probability on the one side and love only a possibility on the other. Creel plays it to the end: an end unlike the end that seemed so sure when dusk fell on the garden of that charming mansion with its sinister residents who have taken up residence in the title’s Windon Manor after a bank failure wiped out their fortunes...

One of the greatest western authors of all time, superstar pulpsmith Max Brand, the pen name of Frederick Faust, was an incredibly proficient author who wrote many books, stories, and even poetry. Also, he wrote somewhere around 12 or 13 historical swashbucklers not including the seven Tizzo stories. Faust spent time in Italy every year and soaked up the atmosphere and history. The Tizzo stories came out of his Italian sojourn. The complete tales of Tizzo contains the followi...

One of the greatest western authors of all time, superstar pulpsmith Max Brand, the pen name of Frederick Faust, was an incredibly proficient author who wrote many books, stories, and even poetry. His Westerns were always different, with complex plots and characters, and uncertain endings... But his historical adventures rank among the best stories he ever wrote. These seven stories of 16th Century Italian Renaissance swashbuckling swordsman Tizzo are tightly-plotted, action-...

Ciepły zbiór opowiadań o inteligentnych, niezwykłych, wytrwałych psach, które potrafią uratować życie ludzi zasypanych przez lawiny czy odnaleźć zaginionych pod gruzami. Ciężko pracują w policji czy na lotniskach. Uczestniczą w terapiach chorych dzieci, towarzyszą niewidomym i osobom starszym. Każdy byłby dumny z takiego psa – psa na medal!

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...

Max Brand (Frederick Schiller Faust) is one of the greatest early Western writers who has been labeled „one of the top three Western novelists of all time” and „Speedy’s Bargain” is one of 9 „Speedy” stories that have seen print in various collections. „Speedy’s Bargain” features „Speedy,” Brand’s atypical western man of action who carries no gun and relies on his wits and psychological insights to stop crooks in their tracks. In it, an outlaw holds a family at gunpoint, thre...

They called him Speedy because he could outsmart bankers, outfox barkeeps, and outwit bounty hunters faster than any man alive. He arrived on an iron horse. The day he rode into Durfee, he was more than ready to use his skills to make a killing. To Speedy, Durfee didn’t look any different from a hundred other towns he’d seen before. There were fat bankers waiting for his smooth talk, and lovely young ladies ready to swoon over his smile and his guitar playing. But this time t...

Another Sleeper story, featuring Sleeper, a gunslinger turned horse-thief, from the collection „More Tales of the Wild West”. Six action-packed stories of the Old West, filled with unforgettable characters, includes „A Lucky Dog,” in which man’s best friend helps a would-be killer and thief find salvation, along with „A First Blooding,” „Inverness,” (aka „Sleeper Turns Horse-Thief”) and „Death in Alkali Flat.” In this story Sleeper is hired to break a horse and turns horse-th...

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 ...

Grupa przyjaciół, których łączy pasja do fotografii, postanawia wspólnie zapisać się na kurs. Marek, instruktor prowadzący zajęcia, proponuje uczestnikom konkurs na najlepsze zdjęcie. Wygrywa Martyna, ale w dniu, kiedy świętuje swój sukces, dochodzi do nieszczęśliwego wypadku. Dziewczyna trafia na oddział intensywnej terapii i zostaje wprowadzona w stan śpiączki farmakologicznej. Przyjaciele nie mogą poradzić sobie z poczuciem winy, ale czy tylko za ten wypadek? Kto odpowia...

Być może Archie Coomes oglądał zbyt wiele horrorów. Nagle najzwyklejsze rzeczy nabrały złowieszczego charakteru: grosz na wycieraczce. Dziwny mężczyzna w brązowym garniturze pod latarnią uliczną. Uporczywy dźwięk siekiery rąbiącej w środku nocy. Powtarza sobie, że to Seaham, senne nadmorskie miasteczko, w którym nigdy nic się nie dzieje. A przynajmniej nic się nie działo, dopóki firma budowlana jego ojca nie otworzyła klifu pod starym - niektórzy mówią, że przeklętym ...

Ta książka to destylacja mądrości neurologa z wieloletnim doświadczeniem – kompleksowy, całościowy przewodnik samopomocy przy bólach głowy. Jeśli cierpisz na bóle głowy lub powiedziano ci, że masz migrenę, to jest pierwsza książka, którą powinieneś przeczytać.Książka obejmuje mnóstwo sposobów leczenia migreny, od rygorystycznie badanych farmaceutyków przez witaminy i suplementy do praktycznych technik, takich jak akupunktura czy metoda Feldenkraisa – każdy z nich oceniony (w ...