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- Young Lucretia Raymond lives with her strict aunts Lucretia and Maria. During Christmas time, Lucretia is invited by other schoolchildren to cut the Christmas tree in the school building in preparation for the Christmas celebration.
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- Antek’s jaw dropped. „Where… are we?” Robin pointed to a nearby building. A large banner fluttered in the breeze, emblazoned with the words: Vive le Roi! Mark turned to the others, his voice filled with awe. „I think we’re in Paris. And… judging by those outfits, it’s not the Paris we know.” The boys exchanged stunned glances. Their adventure had only just begun. Książka została utworzona przy pom...
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- „I had turned the corner at Thirty-fifth Street and was halfway down the block in my search for a number I had just taken from the telephone book when my attention was suddenly diverted by the quick movements and peculiar aspect of a man whom I saw plunging from the doorway of a large office-building some fifty feet or so ahead of me”.
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- The Civil War is tearing apart the North American United States. The Union Fleet blocked the Confederate seacoast, interrupting all sea trade, and European merchants suffer big losses from this. One of Glasgow’s trading houses is building a high-speed ship capable of breaking through the blockade and bringing unheard of profits. But on board the ship, not only those seeking benefits will set sail.
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- Welcome to the world of self-improvement and developing assertiveness skills. Only by gaining self-confidence and the ability to express our own needs can we achieve authentic happiness and healthy relationships with others. This book is a guide that will help you discover the power of assertiveness and learn how to use it in various areas of life. Discover the path to better meeting your needs and...
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- For all value investors and Charlie Munger enthusiasts, don't miss out on "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin." This book was a favorite of Munger's, and it's packed with practical wisdom. Franklin's life story teaches us about frugality, hard work, and building good habits—essential principles for success in both life and investing. Munger, a rational thinker himself, drew inspiration from Franklin's...
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- „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...
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- The book opens shortly before Christmas, many years ago. The city of Polchester was an old rickety building on a cliff above old grass. The house was a windy, creaky, bitten rain place where three elderly women lived as tenants, including Miss Beringer, who had moved the day before. These old women are only 70 years old, but in the history of Walpole, written in 1924, they are seriously ancient, poor,...
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- Miss Mott quickly rose from the sound of knocking at her office door. She was engaged in the typical task of writing her advice to a young woman whose relationship with the acquisition had been pulled in, and she forgot the flight time. Her typist left, her ambassador was a boy and a shy but very nice young clerk who helped her in various activities. In other words, Miss Mott was alone on the top floor...
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- „BEHOLD! „ cried Sabul Ahmid, with an upward sweep of his bare, brown arm, „behold the Sacred Temple of the people of Astrea! „ I stood up in the boat, my portfolio under my arm. High on the mountain’s side, crowning a thick mass of laurel undergrowth, and flanked by a grove of deep, cool, byana trees, was the building to which my servant was pointing. The material whereof it was fashioned I could...
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- A novel of crime and conscience by Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946), the self-styled „prince of storytellers.” „The Profiteers” was written about the stock market post-World War I and pre-1929 crash. The tale of the Bechtel family dynasty is a classic American business story. It begins with Warren A. Bechtel, who led a consortium that constructed the Hoover Dam. From that auspicious start, the...
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- A solitary cabin stood far away in the backwoods of Canada, outside all tracks of civilization, in a region which only the native Indians and a few daring trappers cared to penetrate. Rudely built of pine logs, it was ill-calculated to withstand the piercing cold and frost which, for nine months out of the twelve, holds this region in an iron grip. Around it, a small clearing had been effected, but...
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- „The U. P. Trail” takes place in the late 1860’s during the building of the Union Pacific Railroad, the first to connect the east coast to the west. Our protagonist is Warren Neale, a civil engineer on the railroad. His girlfriend, Allie Lee, seems to be always in need of recusing. One of the most interesting characters is Neale’s best friend Larry „"Red"” King, a rough gun toting Texan cowboy. The...
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- Zane Grey evokes the atmosphere, hardships and possibilities of the Old West like nobody else. Leaving Missouri with no knowledge of cattle ranching, Jim Traft of Missouri is put in charge of building one hundred miles of fence on his uncle’s western ranch to prevent cattle from drifting. The job puts him in conflict with the local community and he must find a balance. There’s also the lovely Molly...
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- This novel demonstrates Dickens experimenting with building his own voice. The Pickwick Papers is a series of linear adventures, unlike the convoluted plots of Dickens’s later novels. In other words, we follow our heroes from one stop to the next and meet interesting characters, rather than unraveling a mystery. The novel is a late example of the picaresque, a style of story in which we follow a rough,...
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- The book "Eating Disorders - Wolf Hunger, Orthorexia, Bigorexia, Hyperphagia" explores various eating disorders, their characteristics, causes, and the impact on the lives of those who struggle with them. Each of the discussed disorders, such as: 1. Binge Hunger - An obsessive desire to eat, often triggered by emotions or stress, leading to compulsive overeating. 2. Orthorexia - An extreme fixation...
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- Wells’s treatise on education is set in the region of Camford (Cambridge/Oxford), and tells of a visitor who proves that education can save the world from destruction. The story centres around a Utopian ’ventriloquist’ who subjects human life and in particular its treatment by the University of Camford to sympathetic but quite unsparing scrutiny. At its core, it was a warning to the educational world...
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- Stefan Jakobielski Małgorzata Martens-Czarnecka Magdalena Łaptaś Bożena Mierzejewska Bożena RostkowskaPublikacja dokumentuje relikty malowideł z wczesnochrześcijańskiej katedry odkrytej w Faras przez ekipę polskich archeologów pod kierunkiem prof. Kazimierza Michałowskiego w latach 1961–1964 w związku z budową tamy asuańskiej. Dla każdego malowidła podane są dane metryczne, lokalizacja oraz stan zachowania. Katalog jest bogato ilustrowany fotografiami malowideł przed zdjęciem ich ze ścian oraz po konserwacji,...
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- Who said fairy tales are just for children? Introducing "InspiTales" by Grzegorz Glinka – an extraordinary collection of 33 stories that serves as a bridge connecting generations. This is a book that magically speaks to both a child's imagination and an adult's need for reflection. It is the perfect continuation of the bestselling series "Motivational Fairy Tales for Children and Adults" and "Cuentos...
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- Who said fairy tales are just for children? Introducing "InspiTales" by Grzegorz Glinka – an extraordinary collection of 33 stories that serves as a bridge connecting generations. This is a book that magically speaks to both a child's imagination and an adult's need for reflection. It is the perfect continuation of the bestselling series "Motivational Fairy Tales for Children and Adults" and "Cuentos...
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