Living in the Land of Ashes

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1. 1. Pride and Prejudice / Duma i uprzedzenie. 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. Adaptacja powieści Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice. 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 angielskiego.

2. 2. Where the Crawdads Sing. Wersja ukraińska, Delia Owens

   Kaya has been watching endless meadows on the coast all her life - marches. She is alone in the middle of this wildlife, she has to rely only on herself. Among her relatives, she has only one father left, but he does not care about his daughter. Fearing that she will be abandoned again, Kaya does not let anyone in and hides from the problems, as do the cancers she likes to watch. But for all her time, and one day the girl realizes that she is ready to share with someone her closed wor...

3. 3. Tarot. The Library of Esoterica, Fiebig Johannes

   To explore the Tarot is to explore ourselves, to be reminded of the universality of our longing for meaning, for purpose and for a connection to the divine. This 600-year-old tradition reflects not only a history of seekers, but our journey of artistic expression and the ways we communicate our collective human story. For many in the West, Tarot exists in the shadow place of our cultural consciousness, a metaphysical tradition assigned to the dusty glass cabinets of the arcane. Its history...

4. 4. Pocket History of Poland, Dariusz Sirko

   A POCKET HISTORY OF POLAND began as a course on Polish history and culture that Dariusz Sirko, then 25, gave in Madeira island, Portugal, while participating in the European Voluntary Service in 2017. The avid interest that the presentation kindled in the course`s international audience inspired Sirko to expand and deepen it into this book. The informal, youthful, conversational tone of the presentation has carried over into the book. It is one of the qualities that distinguishes it from ot...

5. 5. I'm going to a psychologist. Wersja ukraińska, Kateryna Holzberg

   It's not easy to live when the world is going to pieces. Parents don't understand, teachers are difficult, friends behave strangely, and you don't have the strength to explain to them what's wrong. Anxiety, apathy, lack of happiness... The question: Am I okay? Am I okay? The media and social networks advise to consult psychologists. But how do you decide to go for a conversation when there are so many myths and prejudices, including the fact that only psychos go to them? What ...

6. 6. Journey Shikoku Pilgrimage. Lonely Planet, Craig McLachlan

   Lonely Planet's Journey Shikoku Pilgrimage is the definitive guide to one of the world's great adventures–bringing you closer to the culture, history and landscapes you'll encounter along the way. Get inspiration, ideas and planning tips from our experts who have walked every step to uncover unique experiences you can make all your own. Discover magnificent mountain views, see the 'temple in the clouds', explore windswept coastal headlands, and so much more. Inside Lonely Planet's Journ...

7. 7. The Garden Party and Selected Short Stories, Katherine Mansfield

   When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a kinship with the staff and the helpers hired to set up the venue for the festivities. As she learns of the death of one of their working-class neighbours, this burgeoning sense of class consciousness is heightened by a realization of her own mortality. Published in 1922, at the height of literary modernism, `The Garden Party` is now considered one of the key texts of t...

8. 8. Nothing More to Tell, Karen McManus

   Czwórka uczniów wychodzi z kozy żywa. Piąty umiera. Czy uda Ci się rozszyfrować, kto jest winny, zanim bohaterzy odkryją prawdę? Przygotuj się na niezapomnianą jazdę emocjonalną wraz z bestsellerową książką Karen M. McManus."One Of Us Is Lying" to hit ostatnich lat, który doczekał się serialowej adaptacji Netfliksa. Ten thriller dla młodzieży wciąga od pierwszych stron i trzyma w napięciu do samego końca. Znajdziemy w nim intrygi, nieoczekiwane zwroty akcji oraz emocjonujące wątki miłosne. Dz...

9. 9. 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 ...

10. 10. 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...

11. 11. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Doktor Jekyll i pan Hyde. Czytamy w oryginale, Robert Louis Stevenson

    Seria czytamy w oryginale zawiera adaptacje największych dzieł literatury światowej w wersji dwujęzycznej, przeznaczonej dla uczących się języka angielskiego.   Adaptacja powieści Roberta Louisa Stevensona Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Doktor Jekyll i pan Hyde została przygotowana z myślą o czytelnikach na poziomie średnio zaawansowanym, jednak dzięki obecności polskiego tłumaczenia z książki korzystać mogą również początkujący w nauce języka angielskiego.

12. 12. Alice in Wonderland. Alicja w Krainie Czarów. Angielski z ćwiczeniami. Poziom B1-B2, Lewis Carroll

    "Alice in Wonderland. Alicja w Krainie Czarów. Angielski z ćwiczeniami. Poziom B1-B2" to powrót do klasyki literatury, ale tym razem z solidną dawką ćwiczeń, dzięki którym uczniowie na poziomie B1 i B2 mogą rozwijać swoje umiejętności w zakresie języka angielskiego.Mało kto nie zna "Alicji w Krainie Czarów", ale na pewnym etapie nauki języka obcego warto sięgać po dzieła literackie w oryginale. Dzięki temu uczniowie mogą wyłapać językowe subtelności i niuanse, które nie zawsze są możliwe do p...

13. 13. Moje pierwsze słowa, Anna Simeone

    Moje pierwsze słowa to mini słowniczek polsko-ukraiński. Dzieci poznają podstawowe nazwy zwierząt, pojazdów i określenia emocji.

14. 14. The Earth Transformed. An Untold History wer. angielska, Peter Frankopan

    THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT AND FINANCIAL TIMESA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK | AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' Financial Times'Vast, learned and timely work' Sunday Times From the international bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes a major history of how a changing climate ha...

15. 15. A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

    Over one million copies soldToo many broken hearts to count`A book unlike any other` – The Guardian`This novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship` – Dua LipaThe million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance.JB, Jude, Malcolm and Willem.Four young men move to New York broke, adrift and buoyed only by friendship and ambition. There is kind, h...

16. 16. Good fairy tales for the little ones w.ukraińska, M S Zhuchenko

    "With this book, little readers will go into the fascinating world of wise fairy tales. Five interesting stories with bright illustrations and wonderful characters are waiting for the little ones, which will teach kindness, honesty and generosity.The ugly ducklingThree little pigsGoat-derezaKyrylo KozhumyakIvan-Pobyvan"

17. 17. Masquerade (barwione brzegi) w.ukraińska, Olena Pchilka

    Olena Pchilka is actually Olga Dragomanova-Kosach. She is not only Lesya Ukrainka's mother, but also the mother of five other children. What's more, she is also an ethnographer, editor, public figure, educator, partner, as well as a wife, mother-in-law, grandmother... This is where her masquerade begins. The collection Masquerade is a whole gallery of characters who are searching for themselves, learning, traveling, working, loving, raising children. Or dreaming of getting married, af...

18. 18. Moominland Midwinter wer. angielska, Tove Jansson

    Moomins always sleep through the winter - or they did until the year Moomintroll woke up and found he couldn't go back to sleep again.All the clocks had stopped, there was nothing to eat and no one to talk to at home, so he went out - straight into the first snowdrift he had ever seen. The valley was white and silent and very scary. But then Moomintroll spied some tracks in the snow and decided to follow them. Maybe he wasn't the only one awake in Moominvalley after all?

19. 19. 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...

20. 20. 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...