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Kingdom of Without – audiobook
Andrea Tang
Cyberpunkowa powieść osadzona w alternatywnym, podzielonym na klasy Pekinie. Gdy młoda, przebiegła złodziejka Zhong Ning’er przyjmuje zlecenie na włamanie, spodziewa się szybkiej akcji i łatwych pieniędzy. Ku jej zaskoczeniu podczas napadu poznaje byłego żołnierza, który brał udział w rebelii kilka lat wcześniej. Renegat marzy o powstaniu i uratowaniu swojego przywódcy, który jest przetrzymywany w...Data dostępności:
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Nutbrown Roger and I – ebook
J.H. Yoxall
The story of a boy who was deceived in his property. He is assisted in his trouble by a nobleman who, for various romantic reasons, accepted clothes without accepting the practice of a robber. After a series of exciting adventures, both of them succeeded not only in saving the betrothed nobleman from evil hands, but also in restoring the guy’s property.Data dostępności:
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The Golden Scarecrow – ebook
Hugh Walpole
Children come to this world with knowledge of the world that they left, and spiritual connection with him through the satellite, which they just call their Friend. Some adults can grow up without losing their friend, and some children repel him when they are young. The Golden Scarecrow needs a child’s heart and willingness to believe in something that we don’t see, but I think that if you want to give...Data dostępności:
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Mr. and Mrs. Sen – ebook
Louise Jordan Miln
At the core of the oldest state, civil war destroyed or wrested from them all the possessions of the town-sands. But Rosehill remained the widow of the southern general, and now she came with two children left by her war, and lived in it bitterly until the hour of her death, but retained her state of Virginia as much as she could, and in no way case without changing her lifestyle.Data dostępności:
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The Blotting Book – ebook
E.F. Benson
The Blotting Book ends with a murder story, but this is not a detective story. There is one amazing feature of this story that sets it apart from the others. The focus of the work is the human character and state, not action and history. This is an older writing style, and the author makes a compassionate analysis of human weakness, without being picky and offering no excuse for bad moral behavior...Data dostępności:
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The Reef – ebook
Edith Wharton
This is Wharton’s fifth novel. It is considered, together with the previous „Ethan Frome „and the subsequent „The Custom of the Country”, as partly autobiographical. Young diplomat George Darrow is on his way to meet Anna Leath, an old girlfriend who is now a widow with a young daughter and a grown stepson. When Anna abruptly postpones their rendezvous without explanation, Darrow concludes that she...Data dostępności:
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The Glimpses of the Moon – ebook
Edith Wharton
Set in the 1920s, „Glimpses of the Moon” details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a couple with the right connections but not much in the way of funds. They are in love and decide to marry, but realize their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and society that their more privileged friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate when either encounters...Data dostępności:
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The House of Mirth – ebook
Edith Wharton
Is Lily Bart a victim of circumstance or an agent of her own destruction? Edith Wharton’s acutely observed novel poses this question as it follows Lily’s tragic path through the country houses, card tables and drawing rooms of New York’s beau monde at the turn of the 20th century. Impoverished but well-born, Lily realizes a secure future depends on her acquiring a wealthy husband. Her desire for a...Data dostępności:
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Stąd do wieczności – audiobook
Jones James
Stąd do wieczności (ang. From Here to Eternity) to wielokrotnie nagradzana, ciągle wydawana na całym świecie, kultowa powieść amerykańskiego pisarza Jamesa Jonesa. Oparta jest na kanwie rzeczywistych wydarzeń, których uczestnikiem bądź świadkiem był sam autor, służąc w armii Stanów Zjednoczonych. Jest to pierwsza część trylogii wojennej, w której skład wchodzą również powieści Cienka czerwona linia...Data dostępności:
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Walk It Off. The true and hilarious story of how I learned to stand, walk, pee, run, and have sex again after a nightmarish diagnosis turned my awesome life upside down – audiobook
Ruth Marshall
Furiously Happy meets Elaine Lui in this truly original - and surprisingly hilarious - memoir about one woman’s journey to learn how to walk after a debilitating diagnosis turned her life upside down. Learn How to Walk (Again) To-Do List: Step 1: Stand, Step 2: Step, Step 3: Pee (Yes!), Step 4: Walk with walker, Step 5: Walk with sticks, Step 6: Walk without props Recreational interlude for sex Step,...Data dostępności:
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