Cleopatra and Frankenstein

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1. 1. Kleopatra i Frankenstein, Coco Mellors

   Wystawieni na próbę przez los. Książka "Kleopatra i Frankenstein" jest porywającą lekturą autorstwa Coco Mellors. Czy dorosłe życie okaże się za dużym wyzwaniem dla dwójki spragnionych miłości bohaterów?Cleo ma za sobą trudną przeszłość. Od lat towarzyszyła jej depresja, która utrudniała codzienne funkcjonowanie. Wizyta w Stanach Zjednoczonych i podjęcie decyzji o rozwoju twórczym ma jednak całkowicie odmienić jej rzeczywistość. Gdy malarka odkrywa swoje miejsce na ziemi w niezasypiającej czę...

2. 2. Siostry Blue, Coco Mellors

   W świecie literatury pełnym opowieści o rodzinnych więzach, niektóre historie wyróżniają się niezwykłą głębią i autentycznością. Taką właśnie jest najnowsza powieść Coco Mellors, „Siostry Blue” – tytuł, który z miejsca wciąga w wir skomplikowanych emocji, niezgłębionych tajemnic i niełatwej prawdy o tym, co naprawdę znaczy być częścią rodziny. To opowieść, która zmusza do refleksji nad tym, jak przeszłość kształtuje naszą teraźniejszość i jak bardzo jesteśmy związani z tymi,...

3. 3. Antony and Cleopatra. Wordsworth Classics wer. angielska, William Shakespeare

   Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of imperial power and the intensities of his sexual relationship with Cleopatra. She, variously generous and ruthless, loving and jealous, petulant and majestic, emerges as Shakespeare's most co...

4. 4. Siostry Blue, Coco Mellors

   Siostry Blue to poruszająca opowieść, która łączy w sobie wątki żalu, tożsamości oraz złożonych relacji rodzinnych. Autorka, Coco Mellors, wprowadza nas w świat trzech sióstr: Avery, Bonnie i Lucky, które po śmierci czwartej siostry, Nicky, wracają do rodzinnego domu w Nowym Jorku. Ich powrót nie jest jedynie fizyczny, ale także emocjonalny, pełen wspomnień i niezałatwionych spraw. Każda z bohaterek ma swoją unikalną historię i sposób na radzenie sobie z życiowymi zawirowaniami. Życie każdej...

5. 5. Eastern Poland. Polska Wschodnia wer. angielska, Adam Bujak

   Kiedyś były to terytoria środkowej i środkowo-zachodniej Rzeczypospolitej, dziś jest to Polska Wschodnia. Ziemia gospodarna, piękna, o urozmaiconym krajobrazie, przesiąknięta bogatą tradycją patriotyczną. Tereny te od czasów zaborów były jednak systematycznie degradowane przez okupantów, stąd przylgnęła do nich nazwa Polska B. Dziś to już na szczęście historia, gdyż ziemie te odradzają się zarówno jeśli chodzi o gospodarkę, jak i tradycje.Wzdłuż i wszerz przemierzył Polskę Wschodnią z aparate...

6. 6. The Women wer. angielska, Kristin Hannah

   The Number One bestselling novel which has captured the hearts of readers across the world. The Women is a novel of epic love and devastating loss. And it is a story of a memorable heroine, and her deep friendships, whose idealism and courage under fire will define an era. Their friendship changed lives. Their bravery changed history. 'Women can be heroes, too'. When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances "Frankie" McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelati...

7. 7. Invisible Man wer. angielska, Ralph Ellison

   Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was in the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison's invisible man - from his expulsion from a Southern college to a terrifying Harlem race riot - go far beyond the story of one individual. As John Callahan says, 'In an extraordinary imaginative leap, he hit upon a single word for...

8. 8. Kitty Kotty cooks, Anita Głowińska

   Kitty Kotty cooks – the Polish bestselling series now available in English! Kitty Kotty, the cheeky little kitten, will take you everywhere, even into space! But also to the library, preschool, swimming pool, playground, beach, or on a train journey. With Kitty Kotty children can do some tinkering and recycling, they can cook, play musical instruments and much more! Children will never get bored with Kitty Kotty!

9. 9. The Communist Manifesto. Classics of World Literature wer. angielska, Engels Friedrich

   With an introduction by Dr. Laurence Marlow. A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism. Marx's prediction that the state would wither away of its own accord has proved inaccurate, and he did not foresee the tyrannies which have ruled large parts of the globe in his name. Indeed, he would have been appalled if he had witnessed them. But his analysis of the evils and dangers of raw capitalism is as cor...

10. 10. The Bay Of Angels, Anita Brookner

    'It was at Millie's party, on that Friday evening, that she met her second husband, my stepfather-to-be, and thus changed both our lives . . .'Zoë is delighted when her widowed mother marries Simon, a generous older man who owns a villa in Nice. She is enchanted by the visits to France that follow, but they come to an abrupt end when Simon suffers a bad fall. Finding themselves thrust into uncertainty and surrounded by well-meaning strangers, Zoë and her mother must learn how - and how not - ...

11. 11. Gypsies, Josef Koudelka

    Fifty years after first publication, one of the most important photobooks of the 20th century returns, offering an intimate glimpse into the daily lives of the Roma community in the 1960s and 1970s. Josef Koudelka's Gypsies remains one of his best-known series, offering a unique survey of the lives of the Roma community across then-Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, France and Spain between 1962 and 1971. Originally published in 1975, five years after Koudelka left Prague following ...

12. 12. The Weekend, T. M. Logan

    When a group of friends rent a converted farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales, they have little idea that this one weekend may change the course of their lives forever.While out on a walk, a storm descends and the friends take shelter in the mouth of an old lead mine. Inside, they discover a backpack filled with more money than they've ever seen.Of course, they agree, they will hand the money to the police at the first opportunity. But as the storm continues and time passes, some of the party beg...

13. 13. Letters To Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir

    These intimate love letters reveal the open relationship between de Beauvoir and Sartre, two of the twentieth century`s groundbreaking thinkers.Simone de Beauvoir lived her feminist philosophy. She never married or had children, she had affairs with both men and women, and she actively defied the norms for women of her era. At the same time, she conducted an intense, long-term relationship with the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, whom she referred to as her husband.De Beauvoir and Sartre met as...

14. 14. Atomic Coffin, Benedict Anning

    December 1984. SIS field asset Heidi Sperling [codename Thistle] exfiltrates from East Berlin with the sole copy of a critical intelligence leak: a naval log containing a solitary message received from a previously unidentified Soviet submarine.Incredulously – impossibly – it seems the vessel, known only as TK-15, has been sitting motionless and undetected in the waters between Scotland and Iceland for three whole years. And now this latest message reads: ACTIVE.Picked up by the R...

15. 15. How Your Body Works wer. angielska, Rosie Dickins

    Lift the flaps to uncover the amazing inner workings of your very own body - from your bones, blood and brain to the bacteria in your belly button. Discover what happens when you eat, how your senses work, what your heart and lungs do and lots more fascinating facts. With links to specially selected websites for activities and videos about the human body.Chapters in this book include:- What are you made of?- Bones and muscles- heart and lungs- Brain and nerves- Senses- Eating- Growing- Stayin...

16. 16. Circe. Wersja ukraińska, Dafaux Marini

    This is a story of love and loss, determination and tireless struggle. You will see the Greek pantheon through the eyes of Circe - a cunning sorceress, a treacherous beauty-seductress. But it is also a story of a woman who chooses her place in the world of men, because sometimes another is hidden under the familiar surface , a deeper story. Circe, the daughter of the sun god Helios, turned out to be unusual even by the standards of the gods - with a rare sorcerer's power capable of turnin...

17. 17. Polska najpiękniejsze miasta wer. włoska, Rafał Jabłoński

    Album-przewodnik pokazujący najpiękniejsze miasta Polski z 533 zdjęciami oraz mapy.

18. 18. The Gruffalo wer. angielska

    A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood. A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good.Walk further into the deep dark wood, and discover what happens when a quick-witted mouse comes face to face with an owl, a snake . . . and a hungry Gruffalo!Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's The Gruffalo is an undisputed modern classic and has become a bestselling phenomenon across the world with over 13.5 million copies sold. This award-winning rhyming story of a mouse and a monster has found ...

19. 19. Anna dai capelli rossi / Ania z Zielonego Wzgórza. Czytamy po włosku, Lucy Maud Montgomery

    Seria wydawnicza ?czytamy po włosku? to adaptacje największych dzieł literatury światowej w wersji dwujęzycznej, przeznaczonej dla uczących się języka włoskiego. Adaptacja powieści Lucy Maud Montgomery Anna dei tetti verdi. Ania z Zielonego Wzgórza została przygotowana z myślą o czytelnikach na poziomie średnio zaawansowanym, jednak dzięki obecności polskiego tłumaczenia z książki korzystać mogą również początkujący w nauce języka włoskiego.

20. 20. Part of your world. Wersja ukraińska, Abby Jimenez

    A car stuck in a ditch, a crazy bet, a delicious cheese sandwich, and a cuddle with a goat in her pyjamas - Alexis Montgomery, heiress to a famous family of surgeons, has her world turned upside down. It's all because of Daniel Grant, a reliable, sincere and very attractive carpenter ten years her junior. From the first meeting, they had an incredible chemistry... But her wealthy and reputable parents want Alexis to continue the family business of world-famous doctors. But she needs neith...