War comes to Patty Fairfield. Also she’s engaged. Patty’s fiancé, Big Bill Farnsworth, is a captain in the engineering service and is doing a lot of secret work for his government, in Washington. Patty is kept busy with Red Cross work for the War is on and even so important a thing as Patty’s engagement must take second place. „Patty Bride” is the 16th novel in the famous author Carolyn Wells series of Patty Fairfield for young readers, first published in 1918. It is one of...

Patty and her dad decide to spend part of the year in New York City. She moves to New York and enrolls in the Oliphant School. Then she starts to make friends, as she always does, and she even starts a club called the Grig. First appearance of the Farringtons. „Patty in the City „ (1905) is the third book of the Patty Fairfield collection, a total of 17 novels covering the life of this happy and cheerful American teenager of a century ago, as she matures and comes of age, a...

The cozy college town of Corinth, New England is the setting for this classic locked-room mystery by Carolyn Wells, author of „The Clue”. In the middle of the election of a new president of the University the favorite candidate is found dead. Is it murder or suicide? All entrances to the study where the body was found were locked from the inside. The future college president and groom-to-be had no known cause for suicide, yet no clues in either direction appeared to make an...

Najbardziej wyczekiwana powieść mistrzyni Marthy Wells! Według GOODREADS jedna z najpopularniejszych książek fantasy ostatnich lat! High fantasy utkane z subtelnością i dbałością o szczegóły. Piękna historia pełna głębokich emocji.Kai to demon, który potrafi przenosić się z ciała do ciała i żyć pod różnymi postaciami. Pewnego dnia budzi się w dziwnym zamku stojącym na odludnej wyspie otoczonej przez bezkresne morze. Wszystko wskazuje na to, że znalazł się w puła...

Porywająca powieść biograficzna o wielu twarzach George Sand. George Sand, francuska pisarka epoki romantyzmu, bodaj najsłynniejsza w XIX wieku, była wyjątkowa i intrygująca - jako niepokorna arystokratka i republikanka, wywrotowa pisarka i wolnomyślicielka, kobieta w spodniach i z cygarem w ustach, kochanka Alfreda de Musseta i Fryderyka Chopina, przyjaciółka Liszta, Delacroix i Balzaka, walcząca o prawa kobiet i prawa robotników krewna królów, niespokojna, niepokorna, ...

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Fleming Stone №23. On the eve of her marriage to Rodney Sayre, Emily Duane disappears. She had left her Hillside Park home to visit the hospital but never arrived there. Foul play is feared when Jim Pennington reports his wife Pauline, Emily’s best friend, also missing. Pennington says he left his wife at the ravine a short distance from Emily’s home. When he returned she had vanished. Polly’s body is found in the ravine, but where’s Emily? A wonderful mystery abound with t...

Carolyn Wells (June 18, 1862 – March 26, 1942) was an American author and poet. Wells wrote a total of more than 170 books. She was a well known author of children’s stories, until she began reading mystery stories written by Anna Katherine Green, and from then on she devoted her writings to puzzling mysteries in a similar vein. A new book by this popular author, and written in her best and most interest-compelling style. Ladybird Lovell, the staying guest, is a quaint and ...

Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American poet and writer of detective and mystery novels, as well as children’s books, best known for her Fleming Stone Detective Stories. Marjorie series is Carolyn Wells’s also known series was publicized as happy books for happy girls. The series includes „Marjorie’s Vacation”, „Marjorie’s Busy Days”, „Marjorie’s New Friend”, „Marjorie in Command”, „Marjorie’s Maytime”, and „Marjorie at Seacote”. Marjorie is a happy American little girl o...

Nikt nigdy nie widział smoczego dziecka. Nikt od bardzo dawna nie spotkał też żywego smoka. Jednak pewnego dnia przed drzwiami Boba pojawia się jeden z nich. Co więcej, okazuje się, że gad, ścigany przez zbójcerzy, uwolnił zaklęcie i zadzierzgnął z mężczyzną magiczną smoczą Więź. Od tej chwili ich losy są nierozerwalnie złączone. Bob musi strzec życia smoka jak swojego własnego, śmierć gada oznacza bowiem, że także on wyzionie ducha. Nieoczekiwanie dołącza do nich wojownicza ...

„… i poczułem się tak, jak chciałbym czuć się przez całe moje życie: beztroski, opanowany, otwarty i nieśmiertelny”. Missouri, rok 1985. Piętnastoletni Sam, aby uciec od problemów w domu, podczas wakacji podejmuje pracę w starym kinie. I w ciągu tego magicznego lata wszystko jego życie zmienia się diametralnie. Znajduje przyjaciół, zakochuje się i odkrywa tajemnice swojego rodzinnego miasta. Po raz pierwszy czuje, że znalazł swoje miejsce na ziemi. Aż wydarza się co...

„The Man Who Fell Through the Earth” is a traditional mystery novel by American author Carolyn Wells, set in 1920-s in New York. A lawyer is leaving his office on the top floor of an office building. He sees the shadows of two men fighting through the clouded glass of an office door followed by a shot from the office across the hall. He goes to investigate. He finds no sign of either victim or assailant despite the fact that no one could have passed him in the hallway witho...

In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, renowned mystery writer Carolyn Wells strays from the enclaves of the well-to-do that usually serve as the settings for her novels and introduces elements of gritty street life. When the body of Rowland Trowbridge, a successful businessman, is found in a remote corner of Van Cortlandt Park, it initially appeared to be a robbery gone wrong. The dead man’s last words were „Cain killed me”, which leads investigators to the victim’s nephew Ka...

The steamship Pinnacle leaves New York on its way to Liverpool. Suspicions are raised and cast when a first class passenger, a shrewd oil man, is murdered, his head battered in by blows of the sinister bronze hand, modeled from Rodin’s original, which the victim had prized as his mascot. The apparent motive is theft of jewelry for his new wife, whom no one can track down, not even knowing if the marriage has happened yet. But, who killed Oily Cox? What part did the bronze h...

Patty enters a contest and wins an electric car, which she names „The Swift Camilla”. Then she and her family decide to buy a summer home on the beach. All of Patty’s friends come up for a visit. Patty turns 19 in this book. She’s still not socially considered an adult, but her relationships are starting to get slightly more complicated. First appearance of Mona Galbraith. „Patty’s Motor Car” is the ninth novel in the series of Patty Fairfield for young readers by the famou...

Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American author and poet. She wrote more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children’s books. After 1910, she devoted herself to the mystery genre. This is one of the later books in the popular Patty Fairfield series of novels for young readers. In this volume, Patty and her chums hole up at a lavish hotel for a weeks-long reunion party. Then the story takes a dramatic turn when a...

„Dick and Dolly” was published in 1909 and told in a manner which makes the story really true to young readers. It is the story of nine-year old orphan twins (brother and sister) who have to move from one aunt’s home to live with some other aunt in Connecticut. This transfer of their dwelling-place didn’t bother Dick and Dolly much, for they were philosophical little people and took things just as they happened, and, moreover, they were so fond of each other, that so long a...

If you like Golden Age locked room mysteries this is a good one! „Deep Lake Mystery” (1928) by Carolyn Wells, author of „The Clue”, is set in the lake region of Wisconsin. Our narrator Gray Norris is invited to join his old friend, the detective Keeley Moore, and his new wife at their vacation cottage at Deep Lake, Wisconsin for a relaxing month of fishing, swimming, boating, and just getting away from the hustle and bustle of the East Coast. That goes by the wayside when o...

A thrilling tale for younger ladies who love mysteries by Carolyn Wells. When Dotty Rose moves into the house next door to Dolly Fayre, the two 14 year old girls quickly become friends. We follow them through many of their adventures as they finish 8th grade and start high school. Table of contents: „Two Little Women”, „Two Little Women and Treasure House”, „Two Little Women on a Holiday”. Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American writer and poet. She is known for her Patty...

Another thrilling mystery by author Carolyn Wells. Instead of prison time, former governor, Samuel Appleby, sentences his former rival, Daniel Wheeler to imprisonment on his homestead with a very strange addendum. He then endeavors to convince Mr. Wheeler to endorse his son’s candidacy for governor with a promise of commuting his sentence. In the meantime, Samuel Appleby is murdered in Wheeler’s study, with a bullet through his heart. With not enough clues to proceed in the...

Nowe wydanie jednego z najlepszych i najbardziej rozpoznawalnych podręczników z zakresu makroekonomii zarówno na polskich, jak i światowych uczelniach._x000D_ Główny tok znakomicie prowadzonej narracji o skomplikowanych problemach makroekonomicznych został uzupełniony o bardzo ciekawe wstawki oraz narzędzia dydaktyczne, które wzbogacają proces wykładu i przybliżają złożone zagadnienia, a jednocześnie uatrakcyjniają przekazywaną treść._x000D_ "Choć do napisania tej książki zac...

Jonathan Wells w książce „Zombie-nauka. Jeszcze więcej ikon ewolucji”, będącej kontynuacją publikacji „Ikony ewolucji”, zastanawia się, dlaczego zdyskredytowane przez niego świadectwa ewolucji nadal funkcjonują w akademickich podręcznikach biologii. Autor na drodze swoich badań doszedł do wniosku, że omawiane ikony ewolucji są niezgodne z danymi empirycznymi, a także wskazał, że niektóre z nich zostały nawet celowo sfałszowane.Według Wellsa twierdzenia w nauce powinny opierać...

Carolyn Wells inspires and entertains with her classical mystery masterpiece, „The Vanishing of Betty Varian”, guaranteed to feed the mystery monster that craves suspense! The book was first published in 1922. In this classic locked room mystery, the Varian family have rented a house for the summer – a house built on the edge of a cliff, three sides faced by water and the entrance the only way in. They are about to go on a picnic with family and friends when the daughter re...