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Wyrazisty, przejmujący i prawdziwy głos nastolatków spisany przez Linn Skåber, z niezwykłymi ilustracjami Lisy Aisato. Nie sposób przejść obok niego obojętnie, bez względu na to, czy mieszkasz w Oslo, czy w Rzeszowie. To głośne YA, które pomoże ci być sobą. A jeśli jesteś już za stary, sprawi, że lepiej zrozumiesz swoje nastoletnie dziecko, sąsiada, ucznia. Mam wianuszek wągrów wokół nosa i krosty (…). Mam chorobliwie duże stopy (…). Jestem hałaśliwy, kiedy pragniesz ciszy,...

Artystki, pisarki, naukowczynie, polityczki, psycholożki, filozofki, a nawet jedna morderczyni – wyjątkowe kobiety, które wpłynęły na losy świata. Historia pełna jest kobiet, które zostały zepchnięte do ról żon sławnych mężów, ich muz, asystentek, opiekunek. Z ich dokonań świat czerpał i czerpie garściami. Awanturnice i działaczki walczące o prawa mniejszości, dzielne, dumne i utalentowane. Niezwykłe! Zmarginalizowane, wyklęte albo zapomniane w patriarchalnej rzeczywistości.A...

Nie musisz rezygnować z ukochanych produktów (nawet z czekolady, kawy i wina!). Możesz szybko zmniejszyć tkankę tłuszczową, wzmacniając jednocześnie mięśnie oraz poprawiając swoje samopoczucie i zdrowie. Wszystko bez głodówki i wyczerpujących ćwiczeń fizycznych. Nie wierzysz w cuda? Bardzo dobrze. Wystarczy, że uwierzysz w naukę.Dwoje dietetyków z Uniwersytetu Surrey udowodniło, że kluczowa w redukcji komórek tłuszczowych jest aktywizacja tzw. genów sirtuinowych. A w ich uruc...

Wyrzekła się siebie. W zamian zmieni świat!Aby opanować sztukę walki z magicznymi stworzeniami, a następnie jako Łowczyni strzec pokoju w Ember, Dwunastka złożyła uroczystą przysięgę. Została adeptką Hunting Lodge, ale musiała zapomnieć o przeszłości i porzucić dawne imię – prawo wyboru nowego uzyska dopiero wtedy, gdy na nie zasłuży.Kiedy pewnego dnia za pilnie strzeżone mury osady przenikną wrogowie i porwą jedną z dziewczynek, Dwunastka nie zawaha się ruszyć ich śladem. Dl...

„Jak serce pragnie wód płynących, tak dusza moja pragnie Ciebie, Boże”. Taki rodzaj pragnienia osobistej relacji z Bogiem, twierdzi A. W. Tozer, nie jest tylko dla kilku wybrańców, ale powinien być udziałem każdego ucznia Chrystusa.Oto mamy mistrzowskie studium wewnętrznego życia serca, które pragnie Boga. Oto mamy książkę dla każdego dziecka Bożego, pastora, misjonarza i chrześcijanina. Mówi ona o głębokich sprawach Bożych i bogactwie Jego Łaski. W książce „Szukanie Bog...

Nowa, urzekająca ilustracjami, mądra książka dla młodych czytelników stworzona przez autorki niezapomnianej Śnieżnej siostry! Po zimie nadchodzi wiosna! Czy aby na pewno? Kłujące w nos promienie słońca są dla Lilii tylko majaczącym w zakamarkach dziecięcej wyobraźni wspomnieniem. Słońce zniknęło, gdy miała niespełna rok. Jej świat jest szary, ponury i zasnuty deszczem. Dzień zlewa się tu z nocą. A nasiąknięta wodą ziemia od dawna nie rodzi plonów… Skąd zatem dziadek d...

Kraków 7500 lat temu. Przełom mezolitu i neolitu.Z wapiennego wzgórza roztacza się widok na wielką rzekę. Moczary, bagna i puszcza bez początku i bez końca, pełna turów, niedźwiedzi i wilków. Jaskinię u podnóża skały zamieszkuje gromada ludzka. Jak żyje, jak poluje, jak się bawi, o co się spiera, czego się boi, czy ich emocje są inne niż nasze dzisiaj?  Kraków dziś. Mieszkańcy doliny wśród wzgórz wędrują tymi samymi ścieżkami co łowcy turów sprzed tysięcy lat. Bawią...

The dead body of a beautiful girl in a disused house, the secret meeting room in the cellar, a baffling murder mystery... „The Dagger and Cord” is another mystery by Aidan de Brune (Herbert Charles CULL). It’s all great fun and the author keeps the action moving along swiftly, as he always did. Wonderful entertainment and highly entertaining. If you haven’t discovered the joys of Brune’s mysteries there is a good place to start. Aidan De Brune was a Canadian-born writer who...

„Whispering Death” (1931) is the third adventure in the „Dr. Night” trilogy by Aidan De Brune, (1874-1946). This third story is gaudy crime yarns, which steadily veers into fantasy by the end and features a very unlikely Asian villain who is as different from Fu Manchu as you can imagine: a small, colorless man of uncertain central Asian origin whose principal obsession is raising money by any means possible to recreate a long-dead central Asian kingdom of which his distant...

At Sydney’s scandalous Artist’s Ball... a gunshot... a falling body... Call Inspector Knox of the CIB. „The Little Grey Woman” is rather short story and moves along very quickly but there’s plenty of tension and some genuinely creepy moments. Recommended for lovers of the offbeat. The Artists’ Ball was a real, and occasionally scandalous, costume ball held in Sydney for many years. Aidan de Brune walked round Australia in two years, and so he is able to give a thoroughly Au...

How many R S Allersons can there be in Sydney? More to the point, how many gang bosses named R S Allersons? The master mystery-story teller Aidan de Brune presents another breathtaking novel „"The Unlawful Adventure"”, written in 1932. It is a highly entertaining little thriller with absorbing interest and complicated plot. The characters are broadly drawn but vivid, the plot movers along at a breakneck pace, and it’s rather luridly sensationalistic for its era. The book is...

„The Pursuits of Peter Pell” is an episodic novel in 12 parts by Aidan de Brune, set in Perth, Australia. Peter Pell is a con man. That’s essentially it. He engages in a lot of humorous adventures and situations. It’s told in sequential short story format. As the novel is rather short and quite fast-paced with a lot of scenery-changes and adventures, this nice. Aidan de Brune was a big name in Australian literature but is forgotten today. He was a prolific author who wrote ...

Meet the famous Australian author Aidan de Brune and his latest mystery „The Murders at Madlands”. Eight persons are assembled in the dining room of the palatial home of Sir Rupert Haffervale, Sydney’s business magnate. Five of them are his associates, prominent men in the life of the city. The sixth is the star reporter of a big daily. The occasion is the formal handing over of control of a huge trust to Sir Rupert’s niece and heiress on her coming of age. At noon, as the ...

Aidan de Brune has been described as the Edgar Wallace of Australia. De Brune was a Canadian-born writer who settled in Australia. His latest novel, „The Shadow Crook,” certainly justifies the claim. It is an amazing story of a master criminal who terrorized Sydney, taunted the police, and baffled the finger-print experts. „The Shadow Crook” raided the detective offices in Sydney, bound and gagged the fingerprint expert, and ransacked his records. Who was he? Why did he tak...

There is always a special thrill of excitement about a mystery story, especially when the main characters cover their tracks successfully. „The Phantom Launch” is an Australian story through and through, its main setting being Sydney and Melbourne, and the swiftness and sureness with which both the launch people and amateur sleuths act will keep the reader breathless. Wireless plays an important part in this story. We defy any reader to guess the perpetrators of the crimes ...

„The Kahm Syndicate” is another breathtaking novel by the master of mystery Aidan de Brune, a colorful and prolific Australian writer whose opus is well worth saving from oblivion. Who will control the mean streets of Darlinghurst? This and another answers you can find here. The story is fast-paced with some surprising twists, well written and great to read. This genuine mystery story takes the reader from one exciting episode to another with all the adroitness and ingenuit...

„The Green Pearl” (1930) is the second adventure in the „Dr. Night” trilogy by Aidan De Brune, (1874-1946). Aidan De Brune was a Canadian-born writer who settled in Australia. This second story is gaudy crime yarns, which steadily veers into fantasy by the end (gravity powered aircraft without engines...) and features a very unlikely Asian villain who is as different from Fu Manchu as you can imagine: a small, colorless man of uncertain central Asian origin whose principal ...

Another breathtaking novel by the master of mystery Aidan de Brune. What is the secret of the derelict mansion in the Australian countryside? „The Fortune-Telling House” is a fast-paced mystery, with good twists and turns where you can find the answer. Aidan de Brune provides a thrill of another sort! The author has acquired an admirable technique of the sort demanded by the novel of intrigue and mystery. De Brune is one of those thriller writers who were in their day wildl...

De Brune’s novel „The Flirting Fool” is a thrilling court-room melodrama previously only published as a newspaper serial. The story is fast-paced with some surprising twists, well written and great to read. Readers of Aidan de Brune’s novels may always count on a story of absorbing interest, turning on a complicated plot, worked out with dexterous craftsmanship. Nineteen novel length serials, two novella serials, and eighteen short stories, all except one published in Austr...

„The Dagger and the Cord,” „The Green Pearl,” „The Unlawful Adventure” and other thrilling tales of mystery and intrigue have made Mr. de Brune popular with Australian fiction readers. Nineteen novel length serials, two novella serials, and eighteen short stories, all except one published in Australian and New Zealand newspapers between 1926 and 1935. „The Grays Manor Mystery” enhances his reputation. It is a story packed with mystery and intrigue and Aidan de Brune keeps t...

Aidan de Brune was a big name in Australian literature but is forgotten today. He was a prolific author who wrote in a variety of genres. Lots of novels by De Brune were reputedly published in the USA under various pseudonyms, but these have not been traced. A new story by this popular author entitled „The League of Five.” The plot is laid mostly in Sydney, and centers round a mysterious band which goes under the name from which the tale takes its name. A love interest thre...

Another breathtaking novel by the master of mystery Aidan de Brune (Herbert Charles CULL). A dead man and three dead snails. What could it mean if not murder? The story is fast-paced with some surprising twists, well written and great to read. This genuine mystery story takes the reader from one exciting adventure to another with all the adroitness and ingenuity of de Brune’s previous successful books. One is left gasping with suspense as the many clues are unraveled only t...

„Cain”, Sydney’s most daring thief, has defeated Inspector Denvers; but can he defeat the only man to escape from Sing-Sing’s death row? „The Framing of Inspector Denvers” is a story packed with great adventure and the author Aidan de Brune keeps the action moving along swiftly, as he always did, and it highlights de Brune’s unmatched skill in setting a pulse-pounding pace. Aidan de Brune was a big name in Australian literature but is forgotten today. He was a prolific auth...