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Irlandia to kraj położony na wyspie o tej samej nazwie, otoczony zewsząd Oceanem Atlantyckim. Państwo pełne zieleni, majestatycznych widoków, niecodziennych zwyczajów i zachodnioeuropejskiego klimatu. Antek, dumny piątoklasista i bohater książki "Irlandzka przygoda”, z niecierpliwością czeka, by spędzić tam wakacje. Wraz ze swoim kuzynem Jakubem zamieszkującym w Hrabstwie Wicklow, przeżywa niesamowite przygody. Nie trzeba na nie długo czekać, bo tuż po wylądowaniu w Dublinie zaczynają dziać...
| Автор | Agata Vyhnankova |
Read the definitive edition of Bilbo Baggins’ adventures in middle-earth in this classic bestseller behind this year’s biggest movie.The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins, a comfort-loving unambitious hobbit, who surprises even himself by his resourcefulness and skill as a burglar.Encounters with trolls, goblins, dwarves, elves and giant spiders, conversations with...
| Автор | Джон Толкин |
The 12th book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions. A hero will be forged from this broken land. As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world. An oath bound him to King Alfred. An oath bound him to Æthelflaed. And now an oath will wrench him away from the ancestral home he fought so hard to regain. For Uhtred has sworn that on King Edward’s death, he will kill two men. And now Edward is dying. A violent attack drives Uhtred south with a small band of warriors, and headlong...
| Автор | Bernard Cornwell |
Приехать в Москву, не зная там никого, раз плюнуть. Выжить в ужасных условиях, это мы можем. А вот найти свое счастье под столичным солнцем уже задача потруднее.Но я не привыкла сдаваться, а это значит, нужно выжить в каменных джунглях любой ценой.Или я все же переоцениваю свои силы?
| Автор | Ольга Старцева |
Tess et Jake sont face à un dilemme. Aara, leur fille adoptive Aara a reçu un héritage conséquent de l'ennemi juré de Tess, le défunt Amir Al-Saadi. Et cette fortune est sujette à une condition quelque peu troublante : Aara dispose d'un an pour se marier à un musulman. Est-ce acceptable ? C'est ce que Tess et Jake auront à déterminer. Tess et Jake sont face à un dilemme assez singulier. Aara, leur fille adoptive a reçu un héritage conséquent de l'ennemi juré de Tess, le défunt Amir Al-Saadi. Et...
| Автор | Andres Mann |
Rok 1462. Imperium Osmańskie urosło w siłę. Sułtan Mehmed II Zdobywca przekroczył Dunaj i stanął u wrót Europy. Lada dzień stutysięczna armia turecka uderzy na chrześcijańskie ziemie. Na kościelnych wieżach załopoczą zielone sztandary. Krzyż upadnie, zastąpiony przez półksiężyc. Z dzwonnic rozlegnie się zawodzenie muezinów. Król Węgier gotów jest sprzymierzyć się nawet z diabłem, żeby odwrócić zły los. Kapitan Czarnych Legionów, Janos Lechoczky, zostaje wysłany na Wołoszczyznę, żeby spotkać...
| Автор | Dariusz Domagalski |
"Rozpoczyna się gra o Bałtyk i Morze Północne. Rok 1389. Hanza niepodzielnie rządzi na Morzu Bałtyckim. Wyładowane towarami pękate kogi niemieckich kupców stanowią łakomy kąsek dla morskich rozbójników. W całym regionie wrze. Wojska duńskiej królowej Małgorzaty podbiły już niemal całą Szwecję. Zakon krzyżacki chciwym okiem spogląda na Polskę i Litwę szykując się do wojny. Lecz na Bałtyku wkrótce ma pojawić się nowa siła. Klaus Störtebeker, rudowłosy żeglarz, najemnik i awanturnik,...
| Автор | Dariusz Domagalski |
Action und Abenteuer im Zeitalter der Dampftechnik! Mit Spannung fiebert das ruhmreiche britische Empire einem ganz besonderen Großereignis entgegen – dem einhundertsechzigsten Jahrestag der Regentschaft Ihrer Majestät, Königin Victoria! Doch die Feierlichkeiten werden von finsteren Machenschaften überschattet. Unbekannte sind ins Natural History Museum eingebrochen, ein angesehener Professor für Evolutionsbiologie wird vermisst und ein katastrophales Eisenbahnunglück lässt Dinosaurier aus...
| Автор | Jonathan Green |
Während die Ex-U.S.-Navy-Spezialisten Carter Hunt und Jayden Takada in ihrem ersten zivilen Auftrag damit beschäftigt sind, das Unterseekabel einer internationalen Telekommunikationsfirma zu reparieren, wendet sich Carters Ex-Freundin mit einer ungewöhnlichen Bitte an ihn. Die Archäologin benötigt jemanden mit der nötigen Erfahrung, um in eine überflutete Kammer der Pyramide von Gizeh abzutauchen. Hunt willigt ein, doch schon bald müssen sie feststellen, dass ihnen eine kriminelle Vereinigung...
| Автор | Rick Chesler |
Die Abenteurer Drake, Allie und Spencer sind zurück – und dieses Mal verschlägt es sie in die unwegsamen Dschungel von Myanmar. Ihr Ziel ist es, einen legendären Schatz rund um eine Jade-Statue aus dem Khmer-Reich zu finden. Gleichzeitig stehen sie aber auch noch im Dienst des CIA und sollen vor Ort das abgestürzte Flugzeug mit der Tochter eines US-Senatoren und deren Freund an Bord bergen. Das Ganze wäre natürlich zu einfach, wenn nicht noch ein paar rachsüchtige Chinesen, schießwütige Armeen...
| Автор | Russell Blake |
Beginnings is based on the lives of Greg and Charly that propels the reader on an emotional roller coaster, as events unfold in their lives, including the more absurd and humorous aspects of life. Beginnings traverses the singledom lives of Greg and Charly and what brings them together. The global benchmarks that help define them and a people unfold for each decade of their lives. We all encounter collectively many beginnings and beginnings of the end. We share them for they are part of what we...
| Автор | Edward Galluzzi |
Geocaching (jee-oh-kash-ing) noun. The act of using a GPS receiver to locate hidden containers. A hobby, similar to a treasure hunt, using technological advancements to guide the way. Using military satellites to find cheap toys and trinkets. A hobby in which people accidentally find beauty, adventure, and sometimes love while purposely searching for containers hidden in odd places. Gwendolyn Amelia Brody is about to learn exactly what geocaching is. And Tony Van Yancy is just the right man to...
| Автор | Kelly Rysten |
Dangerous Hilarity came about because identical twin boys were playful and mischievous. One of them thought it was funny to play practical jokes and once almost lost his own life due to one of his jokes. Follow the Jackson family as they travel across the United States from Virginia to Alaska. It would be fun to get a map and follow their journey. The three years they spent in Alaska were adventurous and entertaining. It is heartwarming to grow with them and discover how they matured and learned...
| Автор | Sioux Dallas |
In this savage tale of love, greed, and redemption in America’s early frontier famed lawman, Jon Stoudenmire, is on a quest to find peace at his vineyard paradise. Near his journey’s end and anxious to settle down with his true love Elizabeth Thompson, Jon meets up with his long-lost cousin Cliff Stone. Stone asks Jon to stay and join his fight against greedy gold mining magnate George Stanton. Reluctant at first, after a shootout with one of Stanton’s hired guns, Jon joins the fight. Stanton’s...
| Автор | R. B. Conroy |
Worn down by years of hard living and violence, aging gunman Jon Stoudenmire is on his way to find solace at his vineyard in California. His last stop along the way is a raucous mining town far out in the Sonoran Desert. Short of ready cash, an old friend asks him to stay on as acting Sheriff and he agrees. Jon soon discovers that a local man, wealthy Englishman Alex Faraday, is on a mission to take over the prosperous outpost. Smitten by beautiful saloon owner Elizabeth Thompson, a target of...
| Автор | R. B. Conroy |
Nathaniel's Chorus combines espionage, adventure, loyalties and romance in an action filled mystery set in present day with solutions found in the past. An innocent fraternity created by three brothers, morphs into an international terrorist organization that threatens the very existence of everything they each hold dear. Nathaniel's Chorus is the first in a series following the lives and loves of three brothers and a secret society that permeates every strata of life. The brothers...
| Автор | Gary Lightfoot |
"Epic… The Other Side of the World can charm you with its grace, intelligence and scope… [An] inventive novel."—Mark Athitakis, The Washington Post Charlie is a journeyman whose friend Nick convinces him to move to Singapore, where he falls in love with the vibrant and endangered world of nearby Borneo. One night, during a fight at a cocktail party in Singapore, Nick dies mysteriously, prompting Charlie to return to New England where he discovers that a former student has moved in...
| Автор | Jay Neugeboren |
* Time Out New York 's #1 Best Book of 2008 * ForeWord Magazine Gold Medal for Literary Fiction Rudolph Wurlitzer’s first novel in nearly 25 years is an epic adventure that explores the truth and temptations of the American myth. Beginning in the savage wilds of Colorado in the waning days of the fur trade, the story follows Zebulon Shook, a mountain man who has a curse placed on him by a mysterious Native American woman whose lover he murdered, to “drift like a blind man between the...
| Автор | Rudolph Wurlitzer |
"Mexico's greatest woman writer."—Roberto Bolaño"A luminous writer . . . Boullosa is a masterful spinner of the fantastic"—[i]Miami HeraldAn imaginative writer in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, and Cesar Aira, Carmen Boullosa shows herself to be at the height of her powers with her latest novel. Loosely based on the little-known 1859 Mexican invasion of the United States, [i]Texas is a richly imagined evocation of the volatile Tex-Mex...
| Автор | Carmen Boullosa |
Ghost Recon: Marine One is about military treason and espionage. MI-45 references a secret congressional council, funding deep-cover black operations. This is a story about a secret military project genetically engineering hybrids and putting them into military service as presidential combat assassins. The hybrids uncover a major intelligence leak from the CIA to the Russian KGB and stop the leak. MI-45 congressional council funds this operation. The hybrids were kidnapped by the CIA and turned...
| Автор | David Knight |
Wilkes' debut is a rich and heartfelt yarn that resonates as deeply as his music." — Kirkus Reviews With the energy, wit, and singularity of vision that have earned him a reputation as a celebrated and charismatic musician, The Vine That Ate the South announces J.D. Wilkes as an accomplished storyteller on a surreal, Homeric voyage that strikes at the very heart of American mythology. In a forgotten corner of western Kentucky lies a haunted forest referred to locally as «The...
| Автор | J.D. Wilkes |
* A Best Book of 2017 —Writer's Bone "[A] mysterious work of metafiction… dizzying, arresting and defiantly bold."—Laura Pearson, Chicago Tribune Amrapali Anna Singh is an historian and analyst capable of discerning the most cryptic and trivial details from audio recordings. One day, a mysterious man appears at her office in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, having traveled a great distance to bring her three Type IV audio cassettes that bear the stamp of a library in Buenos Aires that may...
| Автор | N.J. Campbell |
Set against a backdrop of grey spruce and muskeg, Cowboy tells the story of Gilles Desches, a twenty-something who moves from Montreal to Grande-Ourse, a northern Quebec town haunted by the grisly memory of a twelve-year-old murder. Located at the back of beyond, Grande-Ourse is a dismal place with a bleak future. Until, that is, a Quebec consortium buys up the town, wanting to turn it into a hunting and fishing paradise for wealthy Americans seeking city comforts in the middle of nature. ...
| Автор | Louis Hamelin |
Nominated for the 2016 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award Nominated for the 2014 Victoria Book Prize An Englishwoman’s mysterious death in 19th-century West Africa haunts those left behind. Letitia Landon, «Letty» to her friends, is an intelligent, witty, successful writer, much sought after for dinner parties and soirées in the London of the 1830s. But, still single at thirty-six, she fears ending up as a wizened crone in a dilapidated country cottage, a cat her only companion. Just as she...
| Автор | Audrey Thomas |