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1. 1. Penguin Readers Level 5. Doctor Who. Borrowed Time, Naomi A Alderman

   Andrew Brown works at a big international bank. He makes lots of money every day, but he never has enough time. Now, he might have found a way to borrow some. But, instead of making his life easier, more time might just give him more problems. Maybe the time-travelling Doctor can help! Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, AND thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated AND carefu...

2. 2. Orgoglio e pregiudizio / Duma i uprzedzenie. Czytamy po włosku, Jane Austen

   Seria wydawnicza ?czytamy po włosku? to adaptacje największych dzieł literatury światowej w wersji dwujęzycznej, przeznaczonej dla uczących się języka włoskiego. Adaptacja powieści Jane Austen Orgoglio e pregiudizio. Duma i uprzedzenie 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.

3. 3. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

   Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here.INTRODUCED BY MARGARET ATWOOD Our perfect society achieves peace and stability by dispensing with monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs. You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills. This is the brave new world of Aldous Huxley`s deeply sinister and prophetic novel, a society based on maximum pleasure and complete surveillance – no matter the cost.'A masterpiece of speculation... As vi...

4. 4. Animal Farm. Wordsworth Classics wer. angielska, George Orwell

   In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain`s ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin`s brutal regime was either censored or discouraged. In any case, many intellectuals on the left still celebrated the Soviet Union, claiming that the terrors of its show trials, summary executions and secret police were either exaggerated or necessary. But, to Orwell, Stalin was always a “disgusting murderer” and he wanted to remi...

5. 5. Ania z Zielonego Wzgórza. Anne of Green Gables. Czytam po angielsku, Lucy Maud Montgomery

   W świecie literatury dziecięcej niezwykle ważne jest, aby czytanie stawało się przyjemnością oraz sposobem na naukę. Ta wyjątkowa książka to doskonałe narzędzie, które wprowadza najmłodszych w anglojęzyczną literaturę poprzez wciągającą fabułę. Historia opowiada o Matthew i Marilli, którzy planują adoptować chłopca do pomocy w gospodarstwie. Zamiast tego, przyjeżdża żywiołowa i pełna marzeń Anne Shirley, która odmienia ich życie. Dzięki jej impulsom i wyobraźni, czytelnicy mogą odkrywać świat...

6. 6. Illustrated Stories for Bedtime wer. angielska

   Illustrated Stories for Bedtime ? opis wydawcy Eight delightful tales of heart-warming fun and adventure. Stories include ?King Donkey Ears?, ?The Enormous Turnip?, ?Danny the Dragon?, ?The Inch Prince?, ?Androcles and the Lion?, ?Stone Soup?, ?The Clumsy Crocodile? and ?The Sorcerer?s Apprentice?. Each story is brilliantly illustrated by artists from the Usborne Young Reading Programme.

7. 7. The Revolutionists, Jason Burke

   Immersive, globe-spanning and full of detail and drama, The Revolutionists is an unprecedented account of a seismic decade that transformed the modern world.In the 1970s, a network of radical extremists terrorised the West with intricately planned plane hijackings and hostage-takings. Among them were the glamorous young Leila Khaled with her jewellery made from grenade rings, the hard-drinking Carlos the Jackal in shades and designer suits, and the radical leftists of the Baader-Meinhof Gang....

8. 8. Rome's Age of Revolution, Tim Whitmarsh

   How did Christianity, starting out as a minor offshoot of Judaism, grow into an international faith that shaped the world as we know it? Rome`s Age of Revolution corrects the triumphalist narrative that the Christian message was so persuasive, and indeed superior, that people converted in huge numbers, abandoning their pagan beliefs, thereby turning a small persecuted sect into the state religion of the Roman Empire.Tim Whitmarsh shows that Christianity would never have succeeded if it had no...

9. 9. The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, Various authors

   In The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, writers from different nations, languages and sensibilities come together in a globe-spanning and long overdue tour of modern fiction. In `Super-Frog Saves Tokyo`, Haruki Murakami presents a man who believes a giant amphibian is enlisting him to protect his city from an impending earthquake. In `War of the Clowns`, Mozambique`s Mia Couto sketches a perfect allegory for our divided culture. In the predecessor story to her iconic novel The V...

10. 10. Fake Out Make Out, Kate Williams

    A thrilling New Adult debut that combines high-stakes espionage with all-consuming attraction . . .Charlie Ross is a women's running champion until she's struck down by chronic illness. Needing time to heal but wanting to stay in the sports world, she takes a job at FIRE, which specializes in logistics for international sporting events. But there's more to FIRE than meets the eye and when Charlie starts to question the purpose and inflated budget of the "Strategic Operations" unit, she locks ...

11. 11. Goliath`s Curse, Luke Kemp

    A radical retelling of human history through collapse – from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century and beyond.** FEATURED IN THE NEW BBC SERIES CIVILISATIONS: RISE AND FALL **** THE  SUNDAY TIMES  BESTSELLER **`A brilliant, utterly convincing account of the evolution of human society and why we are probably reaching humanity's end days` HENRY MARSH'Absolutely essential reading for understanding why past civilisations collapsed, and...

12. 12. A little drama. Wersja ukraińska, Valerian Podmohylyny

    Valerian Pidmogilny wanted to write a novel in which a woman would be the master of the ship. And he wrote A Little Drama" - a novel about new relationships, new life, new morality and eternal questions that arise in the unexpected surprises of the age of technological progress. Crazy irrational passion or a cold rational calculation - who will emerge victorious in a duel? Is victory possible at all, if both love and suffering are just standard reactions of a squirrel? Podmohylyny master...

13. 13. Chinese Propaganda Posters. 45th Ed., Duo Duo

    With his smooth, warm, ruddy face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman  Mao Zedong  was a fixture in  Chinese propaganda posters  produced between the birth of the People`s Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s.Chairman Mao, portrayed as a  stoic superhero  (aka the Great Teacher, the Great Leader, the Great Helmsman, the Supreme Commander), appeared in all kinds of situations (inspecting factories, smoking a cigarette with peasant workers, standing by the Y...

14. 14. Antistress coloring book. Perfect harmony UA, I. Konoplenko

    Tired of everyday worries? Do you want to calm down? Rather take colored pencils or felt-tip pens and unfold this anti-stress coloring page. Convey your feelings and emotions with the help of various patterns, ornaments and other graphic elements. This is a great opportunity not only to be creative, but also to have an art session - therapy.

15. 15. The Hearing Trumpet wer. angielska, Leonora Carrington

    The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an institution. But this is an institution where the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, where the Winking Abbess and the Queen Bee reign, and where the gateway to the underworld is open. It is also the scene of a mysterious murder. Occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, The Hearing Trumpet ...

16. 16. Why I Am so Clever wer. angielska, Fryderyk Nietzsche

    Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether?'Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - inclu...

17. 17. Psie troski. Wersja ukraińska, Tom Justyniarski

    Psie troski to poruszająca historia przyjaźni chłopca i psa. Betty spotkał ciężki los, zaniedbywana i bita przez poprzednich właścicieli trafia do schroniska, skąd zabiera ją dziesięcioletni Adaś. Książka opowiada o trudnej przyjaźni, która musi pokonać głębokie zranienia. Wspaniała lektura dla dzieci uczy, czym jest szacunek dla zwierząt, pokazuje, jak dbać o swojego pupila, udowadnia, że zwierzęta czują tak samo, jak ludzie. Psie troski zajęły 1. miejsce w rankingu dziesięciu naj...

18. 18. No Longer Human wer. angielska, Osamu Dazai

    Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting...

19. 19. Wielkie romanse. Czytamy w oryginale, Jane Austen

    Seria wydawnicza „,czytamy w oryginale“, zawiera adaptacje największych dzieł literatury światowej w wersji dwujęzycznej, przeznaczonej dla uczących się języka angielskiego. Śledząc losy bohaterów, możemy na bieżąco porównywać tekst angielski i polski. Adaptacje powieści Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility. Rozważna i romantyczna oraz Pride and Prejudice. Duma i uprzedzenie zostały przygotowane z myślą o czytelnikach na poziomie średnio zaawansowanym, jednak dzięki obecności...

20. 20. Farm Animals

    Błyskotliwa seria dla najmłodszych czytelników opowie o różnorodności świata zwierząt i pozwoli uzupełnić słownictwo dziecka o nowe angielskie słówka. Autorką serii jest Katya Taberko, popularna blogerka książkowa z Białorusi, zdobywczyni nagrody "Best Runet Blogger", właścicielka bloga "Bookcase" i kanału YouTube, a niesamowite ilustracje stworzyła artystka Veronika Chaika. Zazwyczaj pierwszą rzeczą, której uczą się dzieci, jest naśladowanie odgłosów różnych zwierząt. Zes...