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Dwa lata po inwazji na Świecie Haydena siły partyzantki i nieprzyjaciela znalazły się w impasie, ale żadna ze stron nie zamierza tak pozostawić stanu rzeczy. Sojusz obcych rzuca do walki kolejne siły, a Flota Solarna wprowadza do walki Task Force 5, grupę bojową składającą się z najnowocześniejszych okrętów skonstruowanych kiedykolwiek przez człowieka. Ostatecznie pewne rzeczy rozstrzygną się na niebie,...Data dostępności:
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Trwa wojna ludzi z Sojuszem obcych. Sorilla i jej zespół podejmują się niezwykle trudnej misji uwolnienia zakładników przetrzymywanych na jednej z wrogich planet. Pomimo że odbudowano orbitalne łącze na Świecie Haydena, w dżungli nadal grasują Strażnicy, prowadząc partyzancką walkę z oddziałami ludzi. Tymczasem w przestrzeni kosmicznej pojawia się nowy gracz, który zachwieje układem sił – ale Ziemianie...Data dostępności:
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W przyszłości ludzkość kolonizuje inne światy, eksploatuje pasy asteroid i wysyła swoje statki w ciemną przestrzeń, z której blask ich silników dociera na Ziemię po latach. W prawie każdym odwiedzanym systemie istnieje życie, ale jak dotąd człowiek nie spotkał innego inteligentnego gatunku. Aż do dziś. Kiedy kolonia na planecie zwanej Światem Haydena przestaje wysyłać informacje za pomocą nadświetlnego...Data dostępności:
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Przegraliśmy wojnę. Nadeszła zguba. Czas na rewanż. Po upadku cywilizacji władzę w dawnej domenie ludzi objęły demony. Wspaniałe dzieła ludzkości zostały zniszczone, ci, którzy przetrwali, żyli pokornie w niewoli, nie pamiętając o wielkich osiągnięciach swoich przodków. Byli jednak też tacy, którzy chcieli walczyć, i zapłacili za swój opór krwią. Ostatecznie demony zwyciężyły, pozostało im tylko pozbyć...Data dostępności:
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In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him - and his pension - alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life - and the means and meaning of their own lives - by creating a world that...Data dostępności:
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An old seventies trend was making its way back into the suburban homes of Montreal, Quebec. Husbands and wives were having consensual sex with other married couples and trying to keep the secret under wraps, unsuccessfully. Swapping. Swinging. An organized sex agreement; and to a thirty-nine year-old mother of two, like Valerie Matthews, the idea was riveting. With forty looming, Val wanted to spice...Data dostępności:
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Seventeenth century Russia, New Jerusalem Monastery. The recently deposed Patriarch Nikon, whose reforms lead to a schism in the Orthodox church, employs a French dramatist to stage the New Testament and hasten the Second Coming of Christ. Jacques de Sertan’s troupe consists of untrained and illiterate peasants. The actors are divided into roles, whole families play different social or ethnic groups...Data dostępności:
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Nine days after the birth of her daughter, Amanda was involuntarily admitted to a Toronto psychiatric ward for postpartum depression (PPD). The typical hold-and-release process in Ontario is seventy-two hours. She stayed eighteen days. New parent sleep deprivation is familiar, but Munday’s tumultuous experience with depression is one rarely discussed within parent communities. Any mental illness comes...Data dostępności:
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An old 1970s trend had resurfaced in suburban Montreal homes—husbands and wives having consensual sex with other married couples as part of a not-so-secret sex club. Valerie Matthews jumped into Swap Club with both feet, and now after two years of living out her wildest desires, her sex life has flourished but her relationships have suffered. Her marriage is on the rocks and her friendships are strained....Data dostępności:
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The old 1970s trend of suburban husbands and wives having consensual sex with other married couples is alive in Montreal. For her fortieth birthday, Valerie Matthews gave herself the sex life she deserved and joined the not-so-secret Swap Club with her husband Ryan. One year later, determined to hold on to the excitement they discovered, Val and Ryan decide to embark on year two in Swap Club, hoping...Data dostępności:
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Declassified government records shed additional light on the cancellation and subsequent destruction of the Avro Arrow. The controversial cancellation of the Avro Arrow - an extraordinary achievement of Canadian military aviation - continues to fire debate today. When the program was scrapped in 1959, all completed aircraft and those awaiting assembly were destroyed, along with tooling and technical...Data dostępności:
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A stark and honest memoir of thirty-five years spent in Canada’s prison system. Born and raised in Toronto’s Regent Park, Edward Hertrich left high school in grade eleven to start working. A year later, he started dealing drugs in earnest, beginning a criminal career that resulted in him being incarcerated for thirty-five of his next forty years. In Wasted Time, Hertrich describes his time behind bars....Data dostępności:
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In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada, from Victoria to Fogo Island, to write about small-town Chinese restaurants and the families who run them. It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included - her parents had run their own Chinese restaurant, The Legion Cafe, before she was born. This discovery, and the realization that...Data dostępności:
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This One's Trouble offers a collection of some of the best hard-hitting crime stories from acclaimed writer Peter Sellers. Hailed as "one of the key figures in the Canadian mystery renaissance" in the pages of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Peter Sellers' entertaining and offbeat crime fiction stories have appeared in every major mystery magazine including Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock...Data dostępności:
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A memoir from the first female cadet admitted to the Royal Military College of Canada. Kate Armstrong was an ordinary young woman eager to leave an abusive childhood behind her when she became the first female cadet admitted to the Royal Military College of Canada. As she struggled for survival in the ultimate boys’ club, she called on her fierce and humourous spirit to push back against the whims...Data dostępności:
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It's the late 1800s. A Lakota boy finds an orphaned mustang foal and brings her back to his family's camp. Naming her Paint for her black-and-white markings, boy and horse soon become inseparable. Together they learn to hunt buffalo, their fear of the massive beasts tempered by a growing trust in each other. When the U.S. Cavalry attacks the camp, the pair is forced onto separate paths. Paint's fate...Data dostępności:
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The second book in Kilpatrick's Power of the Blood World, NEAR DEATH is the story of the vampire David Lyle Hardwick - a poet who for over a century has lived in the unholy world of the undead, resisting his thirst for blood. Zero, a beautiful, wounded mortal, is sent to destroy him but falls for his seductive power and together they set out in search of his enemies. As their torrid love affair grows,...Data dostępności:
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- True stories from the Women of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Red Coat Diaries brings tales from the RCMP, but with a new and unique perspective. Editor Aaron Sheedy has compiled over 30 stories from the women of the RCMP. These stories include stories from officers, civilians and retired members of the Force. These true stories offer a unique insider's perspective of the "Mounties" and reveal...
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Late Soviet stagnation, Moscow. Alyosha - a writer who suffers from fits accompanied by memory loss - admits himself to a psychiatric institute for experimental treatment. Inspired by Ivan the Terrible’s “Memorial Book of the Disgraced” and his own spiritual crisis, Alyosha has been trying to record the memories of people in his life who "died before their time, leaving nothing behind except in my...Data dostępności:
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Life is changing for Canada's Anishnaabek Nation and for the wolf packs that share their territory. In the late 1800s, both Native people and wolves are being forced from the land. Starving and lonely, an orphaned timber wolf is befriended by a boy named Red Wolf. But under the Indian Act, Red Wolf is forced to attend a residential school far from the life he knows, and the wolf is alone once more....Data dostępności:
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