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2012 U.S. Presidential Election: Challenges and Expectations – ebook
As every presidential election, the 2012 cycle was also unique. On the one side we had president Barack Obama, who either due to his own shortcomings or rather the character of the inherited political regime, as defined by Stephen Skowronek (1997), was struggling for reelection. On the other, we had former Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney – the first major party candidate since Walter Mondale, and...Data dostępności:
New Eastern Europe – e-wydanie – 3/2024
New Eastern Europe is a new Quarterly magazine dedicated to Central and Eastern European affairs. The magazine is the sister edition of the Polish version Nowa Europa Wschodnia , which has been on the Polish market since 2008. Countries in particular focus in New Eastern Europe include Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, as well the Caucasus region - Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Chechnya, etc. Articles...Data dostępności:
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The Black Mate – ebook
Joseph Conrad
Since this is not a very famous story, and most of the pleasure that it provides depends on the surprise that the highlight in the story will present to the reader. Winston Bunter, who registered as First Mate on Sapphire, a ship bound for Calcutta. His commander, Captain Jones, is described as an extremely unpleasant person, incredulous and capricious, who believes that sailors over forty are no longer...Data dostępności:
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Anioł Śmierci – ebook
Andrzej Jakubowski
Kajetan Zieliński jako doktorant Instytutu Filozofii Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego popełnia kolejne brutalne zbrodnie. Majówka, którą zgotował rodzinom ofiar i organom ścigania, będzie spędzać im sen z powiek w niejedną parną noc. Całość pierwszej części trylogii okraszona jest mrocznym klimatem oraz nutką fantazy i since-fiction. Czy aspirant Makary Szachraj zatrzyma śmiertelnie groźnego przestępcę,...Data dostępności:
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Poznasz mnie – audiobook
Sarah A. Denzil
KTOŚ BYŁ W JEJ DOMU. KTOŚ, KTO JĄ ZNA. W środku nocy z pokoju dochodzi ochrypły szept „Poznasz mnie”. Sophie całe dnie poświęca pracy w szkole podstawowej lub opiece nad matką, która cierpi na chorobę Alzheimera i nie jest łatwo się nią zajmować. Córce pozostaje niewiele czasu dla siebie i nielicznych przyjaciół. W dniu, w którym Sophie postanawia w końcu zrobić coś dla siebie i iść na...Data dostępności:
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Homage to Catalonia – ebook
George Orwell
“Homage to Catalonia“ is a book by George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting for the POUM militia of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. The war was one of the...Data dostępności:
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Poznasz mnie – ebook
Sarah A. Denzil
KTOŚ BYŁ W JEJ DOMU. KTOŚ, KTO JĄ ZNA. W środku nocy z pokoju dochodzi ochrypły szept „Poznasz mnie”. Sophie całe dnie poświęca pracy w szkole podstawowej lub opiece nad matką, która cierpi na chorobę Alzheimera i nie jest łatwo się nią zajmować. Córce pozostaje niewiele czasu dla siebie i nielicznych przyjaciół. W dniu, w którym Sophie postanawia w końcu zrobić coś dla siebie i iść na...Data dostępności:
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The Brothers Karamazov – ebook
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov - a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist, philosopher and short story writer. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature. Set in 19th-century Russia, The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into questions of God, free will, and morality. It is a theological drama dealing...Data dostępności:
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The Spook Hills Mystery – ebook
B.M. Bower
No writer of „cowboy” stories can equal B. M. Bower. Ever since „Chip” of immortal memory Bower has been easily first among the writers who stage their dramas in the wide spaces of the cattle country. There is something new about this novel. The old legend about the Spook Hills comes to life when the Sunbeam’s newest hand, a young tenderfoot named Shelton C. Sherman, takes a ride in the hills and discovers...Data dostępności:
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Les Misérables – ebook
Victor Hugo
One of the best classic novels in world literature. Jean Valjean, Cosette, Gavrosh – the names of the heroes of the novel have long become common nouns, the number of its readers for a century and a half since the publication of the book has not been reduced, the novel does not lose popularity. A kaleidoscope of people from all walks of life in French society in the first half of the 19th century,...Data dostępności:
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Kerry – ebook
Grace Livingston Hill
Kerry Kavanaugh is a beautiful child asked to be adult, not even of age, with a spoiled childlike mother who makes terrible decisions upon the death of Kerry’s father. Forced to flee with her father’s manuscript, a determined Kerry sails for New York to meet with her father’s publishers but is faced with a new challenge when a page of notes goes missing. Someone is out to steal the manuscript! But...Data dostępności:
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The Yellow Danger – ebook
M.P. Shiel
Not all invasion threats were purported to come from the Germans, the French or from Anarchists: in M.P. Shiel’s Yellow Danger it is an army of Chinese who invade Europe. In „The Yellow Danger” Mr. Shiel described in lurid colors the possibilities of the overwhelming of the white world by the yellow man, a possibility for the imagining of, which he claimed no originality. „The Yellow Danger” has been...Data dostępności:
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The Metal Monster – ebook
A. Merritt
Abraham Merritt tells a tale of awe and wonder as well as horror and dread to the speculative fiction and fantasy. „The Metal Monster” features the return of Dr. Walter T. Goodwin who first appeared in „The Moon Pool”. In the wilds of the Trans-Himalayan region, a quartet of adventurers led by Dr. Goodwin stumbles upon a tribe of human primitives forgotten since the age of Alexander the Great, and...Data dostępności:
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The Swindler and Other Stories – ebook
Ethel M. Dell
„The Swindler and Other Stories” is a collection of stories first published in 1923 by the hugely successful English writer of popular romances Ethel May Dell. „The Swindler”: As a young girl Cynthia holds a professional swindler in admiration, since he cleverly swindled her out of five hundred pounds. On a voyage she meets a private detective called West who is bent on capturing this swindler called...Data dostępności:
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The Solution of a Remarkable Case – ebook
Nick Carter
Carter is probably the most famous private detective after Sherlock Holmes. It has been a character of pulp fiction since 1886 and has appeared in a variety of formats over more than a century. Considered the King of Detectives, he was based out of an apartment on Madison Avenue in New York City and later out of Manchester. The Nick Carter name was treated as a pseudonym, and many of the volumes were...Data dostępności:
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The Millionaire Baby – ebook
Anna Katharine Green
Was the little girl, who appears to have been everybody’s darling, kidnapped for money? Nobody comes forward asking for a ransom. Did she sneak down to the river and drown? In „The Millionaire Baby”, a young detective Mr. Trevitt has more than one reason for desperately wanting to solve the mysterious case of little Gwendolen, a millionaire’s daughter who missed since the afternoon of August the 16th...Data dostępności:
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The Manderpootz Series – ebook
Stanley G. Weinbaum
„The Manderpootz Series” includes the three stories of Stanley G. Weinbaum’s early science fiction trilogy. He is best known for his short story „A Martian Odyssey” which has been influencing Science Fiction since it was first published in 1934. Weinbaum is considered the first writer to contrive an alien who thought as well as a human, but not like a human. In a series of comedies featuring the eccentric...Data dostępności:
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The Confessions of Arsène Lupin – ebook
Maurice Leblanc
Originally published in 1913, this grippling collection of Lupin short stories presents more puzzling criminal involvements of the classic French hero-thief and his men. It has been a fortnight since the baroness Repstein disappeared from Paris, taking with her a fortune in jewels stolen from her husband. French detectives have chased her all over Europe, following the trail of gemstones like so many...Data dostępności:
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Anne of Avonlea – ebook
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne’s back! She older and wiser and more beautiful with the additional charm of growing womanhood than that gangly red-headed girl that first came to Avonlea. This book follows Anne Shirley from the age of 16-18 during the two years she teaches at the Avonlea school. Anne discovers all of the joys and struggles of being a teacher and continuing her studies and friendship with Gilbert. To top this...Data dostępności:
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The Golden Road – ebook
Lucy Maud Montgomery
„The Golden Road”, written by legendary author Lucy Maud Montgomery is widely considered to be one of the greatest books of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. Introduced in „The Story Girl”, Sara Stanley is L.M. Montgomery’s most enchanting heroine since Anne of Green Gables. When she returns to Carlisle to spend the winter with the King family, she...Data dostępności:
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