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Pięcioro małych Indian – ebook
Michelle Good
Poruszająca historia rdzennych mieszkańców Kanady, których dzieciństwo zostało naznaczone okrucieństwem, pogardą i obojętnością. Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie i Maisie, zabrani rodzinom i wysłani do odległej, prowadzonej przez Kościół szkoły z internatem, ledwo wchodzą w dorosłość, gdy po latach uwięzienia, zostają wypuszczeni na wolność. Samotni, nieprzystosowani do życia w społeczeństwie, pozbawieni...Data dostępności:
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Meanwhile – ebook
Herbert George Wells
This novel is split into two parts, „The Utopographer in the Garden” and „Advent”. The former is set on the Italian Riviera where the novel’s central figures, a British couple, The Rylands, entertain guests. The latter, written largely in the form of letters between the couple during the husband’s trip to London, provides commentary on British political landscape of the 1920’s. A pretty good book,...Data dostępności:
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Methods and Theories of Magick – ebook
Saturnin
This is a selection of methods in magic and sketches in heathen theology that were found effective over the years. It is not an absolute course, but a supplement to Occultosophia, and is intended to contain practical methods with which one can easily get started. It is intended for an intelligent practitioner who is a beginner. Magick is an art of virtuosity. It is a personal religion and set of tools...Data dostępności:
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Emma – ebook
Jane Austen
Beautiful, clever and... single. Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have...Data dostępności:
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Joan and Peter – ebook
Herbert George Wells
The book starts in late Victorian England and ends shortly after the first world war. It covers the transition between the end of the Victorian era, and the aimlessness of the next generation very well. The main characters grow up with the best education that can be found in England at the time, which is freely admitted to be not very good. They grow up and deal with love, decadence and the reality...Data dostępności:
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Dombey and Son – ebook
Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. Mr. Dombey, a wealthy London merchant, puts all his hopes in his sickly son Paul to succeed him in running the firm, and ignores his good daughter Florence. The firm...Data dostępności:
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The Professor – ebook
Charlotte Brontë
Written two years before Jane Eyre, The Professor was Charlotte Bronte’s first novel and was based on her experiences in Brussels. The story is one of love and doubt, as the hero, William Crimsworth, seeks his fortune as a teacher in Brussels and finds his love for the good Anglo-Swiss girl, Frances Henri, severely tested by the sensuously beguiling and manipulative headmistress, Zoroaïde Reuter. On...Data dostępności:
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The Pathfinder – ebook
James Fenimore Cooper
In the third installment of the Leatherstocking Tales, Cooper takes his main character, here called the Pathfinder (Natty Bumppo) and examines his role as an explorer for British/Colonial forces in the forests and islands around the Great Lakes. The story is a classic historical adventure/romance and Bumppo falls in love, for the first and only time in the five novels, only to see his choice fall in...Data dostępności:
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Swap Club Year Two – audiobook
Lauren Wise
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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Marzenie panny Benson – ebook
Rachel Joyce
Brawurowa opowieść o sile kobiecej przyjaźni Mając lat dziesięć, Margery Benson się zakochała. Mając lat czterdzieści sześć, uświadamia sobie, że to ostatni moment, by odnaleźć tę miłość i zacząć wszystko od nowa. Rzuca pracę nauczycielki i postanawia podążyć za marzeniem z dzieciństwa – odnaleźć złotego chrząszcza, który przed laty oczarował ją na ilustracji w książce o niesamowitych stworzeniach....Data dostępności:
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