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Powieść podróżniczo-przygodowa Daniela Defoe z 1719 roku opisujaca przygody Robinsona Cruzoe . Do końca XIX wieku była najczęściej wydawaną, tłumaczoną i interpretowaną książką w historii. W sumie doczekała się ponad 700 rożnych edycji i adaptacji. Autor mógł oprzeć swe opowiadanie na prawdziwej historii Alexandra Selkirka. W XX wieku utwór był wielokrotnie ekranizowany, powstało także wiele dzieł...

Hawk, a First Nations teen from northern Alberta, is a cross-country runner who aims to win gold in an upcoming competition between all the schools in Fort McMurray. But when Hawk discovers he has leukemia, his identity as a star athlete is stripped away, along with his muscles and energy. When he finds an osprey, "a fish hawk," mired in a pond of toxic residue from the oil sands industry, he sees...

The old 1970s trend of suburban husbands and wives having consensual sex with other married couples is alive in Montreal. For her fortieth birthday, Valerie Matthews gave herself the sex life she deserved and joined the not-so-secret Swap Club with her husband Ryan. One year later, determined to hold on to the excitement they discovered, Val and Ryan decide to embark on year two in Swap Club, hoping...

This book takes us from the early childhood to the last days of George Lemaîitre, the man behind the theory of the primeval atom, now better known as Big Bang theory. But who was George Lemaître? A clergyman, a genius astronomer, an audacious cosmologist, a computer enthusiast ahead of his time, a professor with his head in the clouds, a bon vivant mathematician and gourmand? Dominique Lambert's book...