american
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American dream – ebook
Stefania Jagielnicka
Dramatyczna opowieść o emigranckich losach, z wątkiem szpiegowskim w tle. Wyobraźmy sobie sytuację, że z dnia na dzień jesteśmy zmuszeni do opuszczenia kraju, rodziny i przyjaciół. Przed nami totalnie obca rzeczywistość, nieznani ludzie i zaskakujące sytuacje. Właśnie z takim wyzwaniem musi zmierzyć się dziennikarka Julia wraz ze swoją czternastoletnią córką. Chociaż ucieczka do Stanów wydaje się być...Data dostępności:
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Marjorie in Command – ebook
Carolyn Wells
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”,...Data dostępności:
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The Fate of a Crown – ebook
L. Frank Baum
Need an adventure story with plots and counterplots? Intrigue? A love interest? Politics? Murder? Follow our young American hero, Robert Harcliffe, as he goes on the adventure of his lifetime. A young man just out of college goes to Brazil as secretary of the prime mover in the revolution, and by so doing begins a series of adventures that run from tragic to comic, ending with the success of the conspiracy,...Data dostępności:
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Daisy Miller – ebook
Henry James
A short story which deals, as many other novels by James, with the changing role of women in Society and the differences that begun to arise between the old stiff Europe and the America at the end of the XIXth century. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness,...Data dostępności:
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The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle – ebook
Hugh Lofting
Tommy learns how to communicate with animals, thanks to Doctor Dolittle. Tommy finds himself with a kind doctor on a thrilling and dangerous journey to find Long Arrow, the native American and son of the Golden Arrow, who is considered the greatest living naturalist in the world. This is both an adventure story and a strong call for compassion for animals. The main character found a man in spirit and...Data dostępności:
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The Deerslayer – ebook
James Fenimore Cooper
The Deerslayer is an exciting story about the adventures of the woodsman known as Deerslayer and his Delaware Indian friend, Chingachgook. The novel presents the violence and unpredictability of life in a place where only a few white hunters and hunting parties of Indians have ever set foot. The interface between the wilderness and civilization, the pristine life of nature and the impact being made...Data dostępności:
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Mike Flannery On Duty and Off – ebook
Ellis Parker Butler
Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was a contemporary of many big names in American fiction straddling the 19th and 20th centuries, but today he’s almost completely forgotten. The selections in „Mike Flannery On Duty and Off” book include three humorous stories, „Just Like a Cat,” „The Three Hundred” and „Fleas Will Be Fleas,” by this American humorist, whose first success, „Pigs is Pigs” (1906), remained...Data dostępności:
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Kitty’s Class Day and Other Stories – ebook
Louisa May Alcott
Originally published under the title „Proverb Stories” in 1882 by Louisa May Alcott, this collection of sweet stories with a high moral tone includes: „Kitty’s Class Day”, „Aunt Kipp, Psyche’s Art”, „A Country Christmas”, „On Picket Duty”, „The Baron’s Gloves”, „My Red Cap”, and „What the Bells Saw and Said”. Using different characters in each story, she has portrayed various aspects of life brilliantly....Data dostępności:
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Patty’s Motor Car – ebook
Carolyn Wells
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...Data dostępności:
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Patty’s Fortune – ebook
Carolyn Wells
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...Data dostępności:
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