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Pisma więzienne – ebook
Tomasz More
Tomasz More − pisarz, polityk, filozof, jeden z największych umysłów XVI-wiecznej Europy, który potrafił powiedzieć władcy „nie” w imię zasad, wiary i zgodności z własnym sumieniem. Wybór Pism więziennych − owoc osadzenia w kazamatach więzienia w Londynie w oczekiwaniu na z góry przesądzony królewski wyrok − to dorobek w postaci listów i rozważań, który jest zadziwiająco aktualny i w dzisiejszych...Data dostępności:
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For Ever More – ebook
Julia Biel
Wyczekiwana kontynuacja Be My Ever Julii Biel, autorki To nie jest, do diabła, love story . For Ever More to dowód na to, że czasem miłość nie wystarczy. A czasem… tak! Tematy poważne i zabawne przeplatają się w powieści jak pasma w warkoczu. Kipiąca od emocji fabuła bezwzględnie cię poturbuje, a następnie z mocą defibrylatora poderwie twoje serce do działania. Na końcu zaś z czułością zaleczy wszystkie...Data dostępności:
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The Cheerful Smugglers – ebook
Ellis Parker Butler
Ellis Parker Butler was an American author in the first half of the 20th century. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, and is most famous for his short story „Pigs is Pigs”. His writing spanned more than forty years and his stories, poems and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. More of this popular author’s fun, a bundle of absurd complications...Data dostępności:
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Swatty – ebook
Ellis Parker Butler
First published in 1920, „Swatty: A Story of Real Boy” is another breathtaking tale from American author Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937). Butler, the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, is most famous for his short story „Pigs is Pigs” in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea...Data dostępności:
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In Pawn – ebook
Ellis Parker Butler
Excerpt from „In Pawn”: Lem Redding had a dimple in his cheek that appeared when he smiled. For a boy with a faceful of freckles he was pretty. He had dear, bright gray eyes, and his smile, aided by the dimple, made most folks love him at sight. His hair was brown, as his dead mother’s had been; in fact he was much like that mother in more ways than one-far more like her than he was like Harvey Redding,...Data dostępności:
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Perkins of Portland – ebook
Ellis Parker Butler
Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was a contemporary of many big names in American fiction straddling the 19th and 20th centuries, but today he’s almost completely forgotten. Butler, the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays. His writing spanned more than forty years and his stories, poems and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. „Perkins of Portland „ are...Data dostępności:
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Rose in Bloom – ebook
Louisa May Alcott
Opening several years after the close of „Eight Cousins”, we find Rose coming home fresh from a voyage overseas, to find much changed about her. Suddenly, she is surrounded by male admirers, all expecting her to marry them. But before she marries anyone, Rose is determined to establish herself as an independent young woman. Besides, she suspects that some of her friends like her more her money than...Data dostępności:
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Dominie Dean – ebook
Ellis Parker Butler
Humorous novel set in Riverbank, a fictionalized Muscatine, in a Mississippi River town. Pastor David Dean and his wife take up residence in this town, Iowa in the 1850s and learn how unaccepting a small town can be of new residents, even after a stay of decades. An interesting social history of mid nineteenth century life, emphasizing the dominance of crass commercial interests in the vicissitudes...Data dostępności:
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Pembroke – ebook
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Pembroke is a novel about the work and dynamics of a small town, in this case a small town in New England. Freeman treats each character individually and devotes a lot of time to their individuality, giving the events taking place in Pembroke a more authentic atmosphere. Through his characters, Freeman focuses on how a person can influence their own happiness.Data dostępności:
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Relationals – ebook
Peter McCormick
In a world increasingly beset by climate change, pollution, epidemics, extinctions, and ever more generalized violence, more thoughtful and effective collective responses are needed. Were some persons, institutions, and communities, to change their most basic priorities from mainly preserving individual and social privileges to serve the communal and fundamental relational values of all, both history...Data dostępności:
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