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Run Away – audiobook
Weronika Dobrzyniecka
Jak daleko się posuniesz, by ocalić swoje marzenia? Wychowywana przez samotną matkę alkoholiczkę Etinet Winston nigdy nie była grzeczną nastolatką. W końcu jednak udało się jej wyjść na prostą: dziewczyna za chwilę ma rozpocząć studia na prestiżowym college'u w Mieście Aniołów, a otwierający się przed nią nowy rozdział życia napawa ją optymizmem i nadzieją na szczęśliwą przyszłość. Wkrótce jednak...Data dostępności:
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Potępieni. Era Cieni – ebook
Agnieszka Zawadka
Gra dobiega końca. W Tumbstole zbiera się nadzwyczajna rada Rai. Południe otwarcie popiera księżniczkę Cassaris, a nad pustynią Kahhari przelatuje dawno niewidziany feniks. Zmuszona do powrotu na cesarskie ziemie Raven trafia na kogoś, kogo wolałaby już więcej nie spotykać. Pokrętny los ponownie pcha ją w sam środek lyryjskiej afery. Tym razem jednak ktoś ewidentnie macza w tym palce. Wśród elfich...Data dostępności:
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Stones from the Sky – ebook
T.C. Bridges
The roar of the pampero rattling above the chimneys of the solidly built Estancia drowned the rumble, but the sound was loud enough for Jock and Ned Burnie to jump from their chairs by the fire and run out of the room. At the foot of the stairs on the floor of broken clay lay an old man in a magnificent frame. Jock first got to him and leaned over him.Data dostępności:
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A Passionate Pilgrim – ebook
Henry James
The narrator meets the American Clement Searle in a London hotel. Searle had long wanted to move to England, to run away from the routine of his life. However, he is physically ill and depressed because his lawyer cannot support his claim for a share in the out-of-town property currently owned by Richard Searle. The narrator and the main character are trying to solve this problem.Data dostępności:
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Uncle’s Dream – ebook
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
„Uncle’s Dream” is a somewhat comic small-town society tale. It satirizes Petersburg society with an emphasis on the evils of gossip. When the aging Russian Prince, Prince K., arrives in the town of Mordasov, Marya Alexandrovna Moskaleva, a doyenne of local society life, takes him under her protection, with the aim of engineering his marriage with her 23 year old daughter Zina. Yet with many rivals...Data dostępności:
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One Night’s Mystery – ebook
May Agnes Fleming
”The Secret of One Night” tells about the life and love of three young women: Cyril Hendrick, daughter of a handsome, beggar, bastard; her best friend Sidney Owenson, a naive heiress; and Dolly De Courcy, an energetic actress. Both Cyril and Sidney are engaged, although everything is not as it seems in any case. Sydney’s gold miner is stupefied by Dolly, and Cyril is satisfied with her aunt, whom Cyril...Data dostępności:
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Rain in the Doorway – ebook
Thorne Smith
Who hasn’t waited for a ride in the pouring rain and wondered if there wasn’t something more to life? This is exactly how we find poor Mr. Owen, hopeless and downtrodden, wet and miserable. Suddenly, he is swept in through a doorway to a place full of wild imaginations, where loneliness and unfulfilled dreams are a thing of the past. It is the story an adulteress’s husband who embarks on inebriated...Data dostępności:
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Jan of the Jungle – ebook
Otis Adelbert Kline
Led to believe that his natural mother is a chimpanzee Chicma, a young boy knows only the savage ways of the great apes. Kept in a cage, he is systematically trained to become a savage killer by the fiendish Dr. Bracken. But the young boy, Jan, is clever enough to escape from the lab and make it out into the surrounding swamp with his chimp mentor at his side and emerge near the Lost Empire of Mu....Data dostępności:
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The Country Doctor – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
„The Country Doctor” („Le Médecin de Campagne”), by Honoré de Balzac, belongs to the series known as „Scenes from Country Life”; a part of his great cycle of fiction, „The Comedy of Human Life”. It is one of Balzac’s noblest pieces of fiction, presenting beautiful traits of human nature with sympathy and power. The scene is laid in a village near Grenoble in France, and the story begins with the year...Data dostępności:
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The Night Life of the Gods – ebook
Thorne Smith
In „Night Life of the Gods”, we meet Hunter Hawk, wealthy eccentric scientist in 1920s America, who, after numerous explosions, manages to invent an „atomic ray” that turns living beings into statues, and a second ray that restores them to their original state. With the help of Megaera, a fetching nine-hundred-year-old lady leprechaun he meets one night in the woods, he masters the art of transforming...Data dostępności:
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