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While She Sleeps – ebook
Ethel Lina White
Mystical incidents occur in „"While She Sleeps."” Miss Loveapple – extremely lucky woman. She was always lucky in life, so to speak, the card turned that side. However, there will always be luck on her side? Will she help when the killer will stalk her?Data dostępności:
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Marked „Personal” – ebook
Anna Katharine Green
Intoxicated by success, the crowd walked along the street, screaming and screaming, while broken glasses and women’s cries marked her progress. In a few minutes they will be ahead. Suddenly a second doorbell rang. This time the negro stopped before opening it.Data dostępności:
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The Beauty of the Purple – ebook
William Stearns Davis
There are typical characters in this book: the villains are very evil, while the heroes and heroines are beautiful, brave and wise. However, there is romance, adventure and suspense in this book, all against the backdrop of Constantinople during the Byzantine Empire.Data dostępności:
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Hide and Seek – ebook
Wilkie Collins
Hide and Seek is a story about love, betrayal, hardship and forgiveness. Mr. Valentine Blyth is an artist. While working in the countryside, painting portraits of babies and sometimes portraits of horses, he meets a deaf-mute girl named Mary.Data dostępności:
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Alexander’s Bridge – ebook
Willa Cather
Bartley Alexander is a civil engineer and world famous bridge builder. He is going through a midlife crisis. While married to Winifred, Bartley rekindles a relationship with Hilda Burgoyne from London. This connection torments the moral principles of Bartley.Data dostępności:
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Lady Susan – ebook
Jane Austen
Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marriage for herself, while attempting to push her daughter into a dismal match. A magnificently crafted novel of Regency manners and mores that will delight Austen enthusiasts with its wit and elegant expression.Data dostępności:
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Sanders – ebook
Edgar Wallace
Like most of the later ones even though this one is called „Sanders” it very much stars Lieutenant Augustus „Bones” Tibbetts. Employing his unique style of innocent and endearing humor, Bones has written to the newspapers The Surrey Star and The Middlesex Plain Dealer inviting the Foreign Secretary to pay a visit to the African territories which they administer. It is against the regulations and his...Data dostępności:
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Discourse Linguistics and Beyond, vol. 5, Types of Discourse via Applied Research – ebook
The notion of discourse type is directly linked to the notion of discourse community: while discourse type represents the thematic (referential) component of discourse production, discourse community represents its social context. What is specific about discourse revealing its transformational nature is that the relations between the form and the content of the unit studies are reciprocal. While discourse...Data dostępności:
Tracked to Doom – ebook
Dick Donovan
There are peaceful people and there are passionate people, and once in a while you encounter someone who is beyond passionate, and probably murderous. Such people often make very clever predators, changing name and lifestyle like chameleons. How many will you meet in this story? How many spies? Will the detective or the „clever people” prevail? Read on and discover the trail.Data dostępności:
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Thelma – ebook
Marie Corelli
A love story written by someone who was touched by the beautiful scenery of Norway, as evidenced by the detailed descriptions of the place. It’s very fast paced, and while you’re afraid of a tragic end, it’s not like that at all. It folds magically and you put the book down with a sigh, thoughtful, as love stories always do.Data dostępności:
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Tales of Hearsay – ebook
Joseph Conrad
This collection of four stories. One of the stories is Prince Roman. It tells about the Polish people and their hero. The conversation was about aristocracy. How did this discredited item come about? However, neither the great Florentine artist, who did not close his eyes at death while thinking about his city, nor Saint Francis, who blessed the city of Assisi with his last breath, were barbarians...Data dostępności:
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The Man Who Was Two – ebook
Fred M. White
Walter Pennington and Raymond Mallison were best friends. And it would seem that can prevent such a strong friendship. However, after a while a lawyer, Walter Pennington is found dead. His friend is under arrest. This news surprises their friends, because they were good friends, but before their death, they quarreled. Is Raymond Mallison to blame for the death of his friend?Data dostępności:
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Frank Merriwell at Yale – ebook
Burt L. Standish
Frank Merriwell is the perfect protagonist. He leads a healthy lifestyle, courageous and cheerful. Frank just radiates vital energy. Merriwell excelled at football, baseball, crew, and track at Yale while solving mysteries and righting wrongs. The book is written in a simple form, it is easy to read, thanks to all understandable slang.Data dostępności:
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The Second Deluge – ebook
Garrett P. Serviss
The protagonist is a rich scientist who predicts the onset of a new flood due to the passage of the Earth through a nebula. Instead of panic, people had laughter, because no one believed in his words. They thought he was crazy. While everyone was laughing, the mad scientist built the ark. The rains did not stop. The world is sinking, but will the main character survive?Data dostępności:
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No Man’s Land – ebook
H.C. McNeile
The story of real men who sacrificed themselves for the sake of their homeland and family. McNeile pays attention to people, their psychological state. Great attention to how things are in the trenches of soldiers. About how terrifying they could be and how long stretches of boredom punctuated by moments of terror could break any man after a while.Data dostępności:
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The Phantom of the Opera – ebook
Gaston Leroux
The fascinating story about a young Swede Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is brought up in the Paris Opera House. After a while in the opera house, she begins to hear a voice that, in the end, teaches her how to sing beautifully. The ghost is in love with the main character and is jealous of her friend, but it can only spell disaster.Data dostępności:
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Conan the Conqueror – ebook
Robert E. Howard
In this final (chronologically) Conan story, Howard demonstrates why he was one of the best adventure writers of all time. In the only novel he ever produced, Howard is able to maintain the blistering pace he is known for, while still weaving a complex and interesting tale. The story is set during Conan’s time as King of Aquilonia, which is a period in the hero’s life often overlooked.Data dostępności:
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Purple Pirate – ebook
Talbot Mundy
Without exaggeration, a very good, rich, interesting event, an adventure and a historical novel in an epic style about the noble personality of the Tros of Samothrace. The page by page describes the incredible courage and dedication of the protagonist in the struggle for Greek freedom and independence while helping the British and Druids fight Julius Caesar.Data dostępności:
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Comparative Education: Methodology Contexts – ebook
Renata Nowakowska-Siuta
The book does not recreate the reality but, metaphorically speaking, it causes the readers to forget the reality while reading and understanding the text. But if they record this process of forgetting, they will be able to remember it and then, perhaps, immerse in the reality addressed by this book...Data dostępności:
Universal spinning – ebook
Ryszard Skowroński Krzysztof Krawczyk Tomasz Bielecki
The book „Universal Spinning” is a methodological handbook devoted to an innovative variant of classic spinning cycling involving activation of the muscles of shoulder girdle, abdomen and back while pedaling. Besides theoretical findings, the publication contains 166 authors' own exercises aimed at improving the effectiveness of wholesome training.Data dostępności: