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The Man Who Couldn't Die. The Tale of an Authentic Human Being – audiobook
Olga Slavnikova
In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him - and his pension - alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life - and the means and meaning of their own lives - by creating a world that...Data dostępności:
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Free Air – ebook
Sinclair Lewis
“Free Air” is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Free Air” is a road novel about Claire Boltwood, who, in the early days of the 20th century, travels by automobile from New York City to the Pacific Northwest, where she falls in love with a nice, down-to-earth young man and gives up...Data dostępności:
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The Way of Jesus – ebook
Luke
Find out what was said by a man, who in 50 AD became a follower of Jesus and then collected and wrote down the accounts of eyewitnesses of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection. His narrative – known today as the Gospel of Luke, a part of the Bible – has changed the lives of millions. It can also change yours! The Bible text is taken from the World English Bible (Version 2014), which is an update of...Data dostępności:
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Paint – audiobook
Jennifer Dance
It's the late 1800s. A Lakota boy finds an orphaned mustang foal and brings her back to his family's camp. Naming her Paint for her black-and-white markings, boy and horse soon become inseparable. Together they learn to hunt buffalo, their fear of the massive beasts tempered by a growing trust in each other. When the U.S. Cavalry attacks the camp, the pair is forced onto separate paths. Paint's fate...Data dostępności:
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The Matiushin Case. Tales from the Last Days. Book 2 – audiobook
Oleg Pavlov
The Matiushin Case is among the most powerful recent works of Russian fiction. Deriving, like Captain of the Steppe (2013, And Other Stories), from Oleg Pavlov's experience of the declining Soviet Union, it follows Matiushin, a young man damaged by brutality at home and then in the army. Drawing on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "labor-camp writing," Oleg Pavlov builds a unique tension between the horrors...Data dostępności:
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The Song of Leonard Cohen – audiobook
Harry Rasky
"'Harry, this is Leonard. I just wanted you to know I watched your film on me and it struck me I never thanked you enough at the time for the magnificent gift you gave with that film. Call me.' Then he left his personal number.' – Harry Rasky, April 2000. No other book about Leonard Cohen gets so close to the man, his city, his poems and songs, his friends, his background, and the many original influences...Data dostępności:
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Morkut und andere Erzählungen – audiobook
Aleksandra Majdzińska
Morkut heißt eigentlich Magda und hat acht Geschwister. Die Familie ist arm, und nun ist auch noch Morkuts Mutter gestorben. Immerhin darf sie nun endlich die hübschen Schuhe anziehen, die sie sich schon immer gewünscht hat… Aleksandra Majdzińska rückt in ihren Erzählungen die kleinen Dinge und die Außenseiter in den Mittelpunkt. Sie verleiht jenen eine Stimme, die allzu oft überhört werden, und erzählt...Data dostępności:
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The Greatest Athlete (You've Never Heard Of). Canada's First Olympic Gold Medallist – audiobook
Mark Hebscher
Canada's first Olympic gold medallist couldn't walk until he was ten, and became the greatest runner of his generation. Who was the first Canadian to Win an Olympic Gold Medal? When Mark Hebscher was asked this simple trivia question, he had no idea that it would lead him on a two year odyssey, researching a man he had never heard of. Paralyzed as a child and told he would never walk again, George...Data dostępności:
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Al-Gahiz and his theory of social communication – ebook
Krystyna Skarżyńska-Bocheńska
Al-Ğāhiz, an Arabic scientist of the 9th century, belongs to the thinkers whose participation in and contribution to the development of the world science has not been recognized and appreciated. The great erudite and author of numerous works in various areas formulated, among others, the theory of social communication which may be compared to the late 20th century Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of...Data dostępności:
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Klub samobójców. Angielski z Robertem Louisem Stevensonem – ebook
Ilya Frank Robert Louis Stevenson
Niniejsza trylogia jest związana z ekscentryczną postacią księcia Florizel. Spiski, pojedynki, porwania, morderstwa, sensacje, fatalne spotkania i inne przygody przedstawione w książce są zabarwione wesołą i mądrą ironią autora. Zbiór trzech opowiadań, które tworzą jedną narrację: Story of the young man with the cream tarts (opowieść o młodym człowieku z kremowymi ciastkami), Story of the physician...Data dostępności:
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