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Madame Storey Intervenes – ebook
Hulbert Footner
Author Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) brought the excitement of the 1920s and 1930s to Madame Storey's cosmopolitan adventures, moving away from Edwardian and Victorian flavors of the mystery genre. Beautiful and aloof. Her secretary/narrator/companion is Bella Brickley. Rosika lives near Gramercy Park in NYC and has a pet monkey. She seems to solve cases by use of good guesswork, "practical psychology"...Data dostępności:
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Robinson Crusoe – ebook
Daniel Defoe
Powieść podróżniczo-przygodowa Daniela Defoe z 1719 roku opisujaca przygody Robinsona Cruzoe . Do końca XIX wieku była najczęściej wydawaną, tłumaczoną i interpretowaną książką w historii. W sumie doczekała się ponad 700 rożnych edycji i adaptacji. Autor mógł oprzeć swe opowiadanie na prawdziwej historii Alexandra Selkirka. W XX wieku utwór był wielokrotnie ekranizowany, powstało także wiele dzieł...Data dostępności:
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Swallow – ebook
M.M. Petlińska
Lucia Cocci runs Magnoopere foundation, which helps forced labor and sexual abuse victims. John Phis Cole is ex-SEALs. With the support of the influential Senator of the United States Congress, they build a secret and illegal female sex-agent team and declare war to human trafficking. However, politicians and other groups of power begin to be interested in the organization. Meanwhile, thousands of...Data dostępności:
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The Cat’s Eye – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
Narrated by Robert Anstey, who is acting as Thorndyke’s counsel as Jervis is away in America. He walks right into a murder scene, attracted by the screams of a beautiful young woman. The dead man is a harmless old bachelor who collects objects of arcane appeal. Several pieces of inscribed jewelry are missing. It’s a strange sort of burglary perpetrated by clumsy amateurs – who nonetheless got clean...Data dostępności:
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Hakeem Olajuwon – ebook
Łukasz Muniowski
Hakeem Olajuwon zakończył swoją sportową karierę ponad dwie dekady temu, jednak wciąż jest liderem w ilości zablokowanych rzutów. Prawdziwa żyjąca legenda NBA i organizacji Houston Rockets, dla których zdobył dwa mistrzostwa NBA. Człowiek, który zrewolucjonizował pozycję centra w ówczesnej koszykówce, pokazując światu nie tylko warunki fizyczne, ale również finezję i technikę. Jego słynny zwód The...Data dostępności:
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Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress – ebook
George Bernard Shaw
“Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress” is a one-act play by George Bernard Shaw, written in 1917. The play is obviously influenced by the Russian Revolution that year. It takes place in an imaginary...Data dostępności:
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The Cruise of the Dazzler – ebook
Jack London
“The Cruise of the Dazzler” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. The Cruise of the Dazzler is an early novel by Jack London, set in his home city of San Francisco. It is considered a boy's adventure novel. In the novel, Joe Bronson, dissatisfied with his dull life at school,...Data dostępności:
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Candide – ebook
Candide, who grew up in a rich man’s family, who absorbed real mentor sermons on the fact that everything in the world happens for the better, serves its purposes and in general is accomplished in the best of all possible worlds, despite all the misfortunes that have happened to people – this is also for the better. By the will of fate, Candide sets off on a „round-the-world trip”, where everyone literally...Data dostępności:
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The Deep-Lake Mystery – ebook
Carolyn Wells
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...Data dostępności:
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Just So Stories – ebook
Rudyard Kipling
“Just So Stories” are usually devoted to how a particular animal changed its initial appearance as a result of the actions of a person or a fairy creature. For example, Keith cannot swallow a person because he once swallowed a Sailor, who secured a wooden lattice inside, which prevents him from swallowing other people. The camel acquired a hump as a punishment from Gene, Lord of All Deserts, for refusing...Data dostępności:
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