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Author
Series
Witcher novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Geralt de Riv, a witcher, uses his vast sorcerous powers to hunt down the monsters that threaten the world, but he soon discovers that not every monstrous-looking creature is evil, and not everything beautiful is good.
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
John Kemp, a young Englishman thirsting for adventure, journeys to the Caribbean where he meets an influential landowner and becomes entangled in the dangerous world of local pirates.
Romance was the final of three fictional collaborations between authors Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford (writing under the name of F. M. Hueffer). Forged before either author achieved literary fame and fortune, the collaboration between Conrad and Ford resulted in...
5) Przedwiośnie
Author
Series
Dzieła volume 19
Language
Polish
Description
Set between 1914-1924, before and during the reconstitution of Poland as the Second Polish Republic, but prior to the Polish-Soviet war. As the Russian Revolution breaks out, the main character, Cezary Baryka, escapes from Baku with his father, a Polish political exile from Siberia. The father dies en route to the newly formed Polish state. Cezary enters Poland alone, the country of his parents, having never been there before. The novel tells of his...
6) Dewajtis
Author
Language
Polish
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Description
Backwater and court history, located in Samogitia. The lives of the heroes revolve around the maintenance of the land, heritage and identity, and the only measure of a person's value is their attitude to work. "Dweajtis" is an ancient oak, a symbol of eternal existence. The protagonist, who works "on someone else's", fights to save him. Unexpectedly, a young and pretty owner stands on his side.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Collects short stories following the adventures of magical hero Geralt.
"Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent."--
Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A bestselling and award-winning satire of contemporary media-saturated consumer culture, Honey, I Killed the Cats introduces us to two independent young women in a bizarro, all-too-real imaginarium of American pop culture. In this warped world saturated by advertising and materialism, where everything can be bought, from personality and physical traits to religion and self-fulfillment, Joanne and Farah, two very different women form a friendship...
14) The Argonauts
Author
Language
English
Description
The story is very simple. We are in Poland in the early 1900. Aloysius Darvid is a millionaire with a wife and three children. At the beginning of the story his wife is ending an affair, his eldest daughter wants to marry someone he doesn't approve of, his son is living his life as a dandy not making something of himself, and his youngest daughter dotes on him. That the youngest is such a daddy's girl is sub-textually explained with her elder siblings...
Author
Series
Pisma volume t. 9, 10, 11
Language
Polish
Description
The trilogy describes the situation in the Republic of Poland in the last years of its existence. The small and middle nobility, peasants and middle class, and the criticized magnates were presented in a positive light. In Reymont's work, the hero of the Kościuszko Uprising is the collective - the people, and the uprising is a joint effort of all social classes.
17) Solaris
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Series
Language
English
Description
"When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds himself confronting a painful memory embodied in the physical likeness of a past lover. Kelvin learns that hs is not alone in this, and that other crews examining the planet are plagued with their own repressed and newly real memories. Could it be, as Solaris scientists speculate, that the ocean may be a massive neural center creating...
Author
Series
With fire and sword trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite some deviations, the book's historical framework is genuine and the fictional story is woven into real events. Many characters are historical figures, including Jeremi Wiśniowiecki and Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Polish: Bohdan Chmielnicki). Sienkiewicz researched memoirs and chronicles of the Polish nobility, or szlachta, for details on life in 17th-century Poland. The book was written, according to the author, "to lift up the heart" of the Polish...