Anglia, początek XX wieku. Marshall Allerdyke dostaje w nocy telegram od kuzyna Jamesa, w którym zostaje poproszony o niezwłoczne spotkanie. Jednak gdy zjawia się na miejscu, zastaje tam martwego kuzyna oraz klamerkę od damskiego pantofla. Właścicielką zguby okazuje się tajemnicza kobieta, która przedstawia się jako panna Lennard. Co łączy ją ze sceną zbrodni? I czy na pewno jest tym, za kogo się podaje? Odkrycie tej tajemnicy okazuje się dużo trudniejsze, niż się z początk...

Najbardziej utalentowany zawodnik, który kiedykolwiek grał w tę grę, Michael Jordan wzniósł się na wyżyny, na które żaden z koszykarzy nie sięgnął nigdy wcześniej. Co napędzało Michaela Jordana? Dążenie do sukcesu zespołowego... lub własnej chwały? Dążenie do doskonałości... lub ruch w stronę kontraktów wartych miliony dolarów? Lotem człowieka, którego wciąż nazywają „Air Jordan”, przez całą karierę wstrząsały turbulencje. W "The Jordan Rules", która jest kroniką pierwszego s...

Świat Patti Smith w „Roku Małpy” olśniewa osobliwością. Tu sen miesza się z rzeczywistością, dobre zjawy z przeszłości spotykają się z politycznymi demonami teraźniejszości, a wszystkiemu przyświeca pochwała codzienności w duchu poezji Williama Carlosa Williamsa. Smith z czułością wspomina tych, którzy już odeszli, rozmyśla nad największymi dziełami literatury i nie boi się pytać o niepewną dla świata przyszłość. „Rok Małpy” to poetycki manifest zaangażowane...

W jaki sposób szacunek, empatia i mądre wyznaczanie granic pomagają wychowywać uważne, samodzielne i szczęśliwe dzieci.Sarah Ockwell-Smith obala wiele mitów, które nagromadziły się wokół kar i motywowania dzieci, i proponuje alternatywne, efektywne podejście, u którego podstaw leży szacunek do dziecka. Nie należy jednak mylić go z rozpieszczaniem czy ignorowaniem niepożądanych zachowań – w centrum jej metody leżą zrozumienie i realistyczne oczekiwania względem dzieci, a także...

Polskie wydanie światowego bestsellera literatury psychologicznej! Jedna z najlepszych książek samopomocowych ostatnich lat nareszcie ukazuje się w Polsce. Co czyni ją tak wyjątkową? Stanowi ona doskonałe połączenie wyników najnowszych badań z niezwykle skutecznymi i praktycznymi poradami do wykorzystania od zaraz. Pełen wiedzy i humoru tekst został napisany niezwykle przystępnym językiem, pozbawionym sztampowego żargonu psychologicznego, dzięki czemu czyta się go jednym tc...

Sielankowe dzieciństwo Saffron Courtney zostaje przerwane przez rodzinną tragedię, która zmusza nastolatkę, by dorosła znacznie szybciej, niż wynikałoby to z jej metryki. Nieodparta ciekawość świata i nieustające pragnienie przygód zawiodą ją do Anglii, w sam środek zbierającej się burzy, która poprzedza II wojnę światową.Młody Gerhard von Meerbach, spadkobierca fortuny przemysłowej i zagorzały zwolennik partii nazistowskiej, stara się pozostać wierny swoim zasadom w coraz ba...

Jeden z najlepszych biografów naszych czasów napisał nowoczesną, wszechstronną i naprawdę wyczerpującą książkę o imponującym życiu Franklina Delano Roosevelta. Jean Edward Smith połączył w tym znakomitym dziele współczesny dorobek naukowy oraz szeroki wachlarz materiałów źródłowych z epoki, oddając w nasze ręce wciągającą historię jednego z największych prezydentów w dziejach Ameryki.To portret namalowany szerokimi pociągnięciami pędzla, ale i bardzo szczegółowy. Możemy zobac...

Cosmo Topper is an average American bank executive on holiday in the French Riveria. Feckless, fun-loving and totally uncontrollable ghosts, George and Marion Kerby and friends – the tortuously crooked Colonel Scott and his companion, the disreputable Mrs. Hart – return to bring chaos and merriment into the life of mild-mannered, stuffy, and somewhat plump, Topper. One of Thorne Smith’s best-loved comedies, it proves once again that he is the undisputed master of urbane wit...

Another magical, mischievous Thorne Smith classic. Though Thorne Smith’s most popular works involve elements of fantasy and science fiction, the clever novel „Turnabout” takes his penchant for incorporating supernatural and magical themes in his work and puts one such plot twist to use as a comedic tool. A classic battle of the sexes, it was published in 1931 and follows a married couple who fall prey to the tricks of an Egyptian idol who grows weary of the seemingly never-...

This early work by Thorne Smith was originally published in 1930. James Thorne Smith, Jr. was an American author who specialized in supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. „Did She Fall? „ (1930) is a straight murder mystery whose dialogue shows occasional traces of Smith’s wisecracking energy. America’s bawdiest, wittiest writer turns his talents to a startling novel of murder, suspense and brilliant detection. Welcome to the Crewe house, where it is on...

Thorne Smith’s imaginative novel „Skin and Bones” takes the concept of suffering for one’s art to a whole new level. This classic book contains the humorous and fantastical story of Mr. Quintus Bland, the eminent photographer, whose efforts to perfect X-ray film had, one evening, the unfortunate effect of leaving Mr. Bland in the position of an X-ray film himself; in other words, him found himself no more than a walking skeleton. Bland’s flesh does not merely become invisib...

Perhaps the best example of Thorne Smith’s acutely sharp social humor played out against a backdrop of the Prohibition. 60 year old Rex Pebble inadvertently discovers that the fountain of youth happens to be in his back yard swimming pool. A magical statue of a nymph by the name of Baggage, an ornamental pool decoration, has playfully endowed the Pebble swimming pool with the power to reverse the aging process. From there Rex, his wife and his mistress of twenty years, Spra...

A comic diary about entering life in the Navy. Published in 1918 and written for the Naval Reservist journal „The Broadside” while the author Thorne Smith was in the Navy, it is a series of short vignettes poking fun at the culture of the time in general and the military in particular. It’s the diary of Biltmore Oswald, a hapless naval recruit with no appreciable talents besides befriending animals and getting into trouble, and his day to day adventures during World War I. ...

Who hasn’t waited for a ride in the pouring rain and wondered if there wasn’t something more to life? This is exactly how we find poor Mr. Owen, hopeless and downtrodden, wet and miserable. Suddenly, he is swept in through a doorway to a place full of wild imaginations, where loneliness and unfulfilled dreams are a thing of the past. It is the story an adulteress’s husband who embarks on inebriated adventures with his various partners and a girl who works in a pornographic ...

James Thorne Smith, Jr. was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. He is best known today for the two Topper novels, comic fantasy fiction involving sex, much drinking and supernatural transformations. Smith’s literary debut was „Biltmore Oswald” (1918), the comic fictional diary of a hapless naval recruit, drawing heavily on wartime experience with the Navy. Episodes had featured in Broadside. The book sold well enough to...

A New York advertising executive leaves his job in the city to write poetry in a hut by the sea. Once there he finds himself caught in the coils of his attraction to two women – a situation that so unsettles his wits that he falls prey to a heavily symbolic dream obsession. The story centers on a love triangle that develops between Landor, the niece of the man he’s staying with, Scarlet and the wife of the local land baron, Hilda. „Dream’s End” is a radical departure from T...

If you’re in the mood for a wildly hilarious comic romp, give Thorne Smith’s „The Bishop’s Jaegars” a read. Mad, hilarious, degenerate, or simply fun fantasy? Only the reader can decide. Adrift and listless, a wealthy coffee heir Peter Van Dyke is searching for meaning in life. His young secretary Jo decides to shake things up and help him get back on track. Although he is engaged to another, she has far from given up. Laughter ensues as they go from one mishap to another a...

In „Night Life of the Gods”, we meet Hunter Hawk, wealthy eccentric scientist in 1920s America, who, after numerous explosions, manages to invent an „atomic ray” that turns living beings into statues, and a second ray that restores them to their original state. With the help of Megaera, a fetching nine-hundred-year-old lady leprechaun he meets one night in the woods, he masters the art of transforming statues into people. Together, the two are invincible, especially when th...

In „The Stray Lamb”, author Thorne Smith draws inspiration from his most famous works, the beloved Topper series. It follows mild-mannered investment banker, cuckold, ordinary, faithful, and dipsomaniac T. Lawrence Lamb. He is given a new perspective on life through the eyes of many different animals as he assumes the shape of many including a stallion, goldfish, dog, lion and many others. Mr. Lamb gains wisdom, fresh insight, and a new much needed exuberance for life as he...

Thorne Smith best-remembered for humorous novels, many turning on some fantastic plot device which thrusts the protagonist into grotesque predicaments, often via unwitting transformation. The 1926 publication of „Topper” brought the author immediate acclaim. Elegant, fun-loving George and Marion Kerby are the toast of the town, until they wreck their flashy car and discover they’ve become, well, ghosts. Making the best of a bad situation, they decide that being dead is the ...

Rider Haggard, just like his main character in this story, is not indifferent to Ancient Egypt. The events of the four stories take place in Africa. Here several acts overlap: extraordinary courage and an epic clash of different cultures. The main theme remains unchanged: the theme of love, which lasts until death.

Sheldon, who was sentenced many times to imprisonment, has long been free. There were no rumors about him. However, his daughter is married and is going to the honeymoon, which paid for her father. The detective gets a phone call saying Sheldon has taken up the old business. And the detective goes to Sheldon’s daughter, whom he was in love with. The pursuit of Sheldon will never stop. However, maybe this time he is still not guilty?

The story begins at the Central Police Department. Where led Sheldon for the fourth time. The prisoner asked to speak with the detective, saying that he has a lead on the case, which the detective is so interested in. But is he not lying? And would a detective believe this? After all, what the prisoner will say will affect many of the detective’s decisions.

Abdul Omar was a psychologist, mystic and astrologer who worked as a private detective. He believed that astrology would help predict the exact actions of a person. Based on the time of birth, he can accurately predict what and when a person will do. He was devoted to protecting women and their honor. He fell in love with and married Lotis, a former assassin of the Black Brotherhood who was sent to kill him.