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Waverley – ebook
Walter Scott
This historical novel tells of a romantic young English captain in Scotland who strives for love, harmony and peace during the Jacobite rebellion in 1745. He becomes one of the leaders of the insurrection directed against the English. There is romance and adventure in this tale as our young hero is forced to test his loyalties to his country and the love of his life. Its unprecedented success prompted...Data dostępności:
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The Man with the Clubfoot – ebook
Valentine Williams
If you like English adventure and spy stories, during the Great War, Valentine Williams is for you. The brothers Okewood, Desmond and Francis, will steal your heart and inspire you to mix it up with any passing Hun. Desmond Okewood is a young British officer in the First World War who goes to Germany on an important secret mission. The Kaiser has written a letter which both the British and the Germans...Data dostępności:
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The Island of Sheep – ebook
John Buchan
Sir Richard Hannay, retired mining engineer, lives a comfortable suburban life outside London, but feels old age and stodginess coming on and longs to have his mettle tested again. He gets his chance when a promise he made years ago in Rhodesia, to protect the son of an old acquaintance from a sinister conspiracy, and the action moves rapidly from England through the Scottish Borders to the Island...Data dostępności:
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The Exploits of Danby Croker – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
What would you do if your doppelganger were committing crimes and making the police believe you were the perpetrator? In Danby Croker’s case, he decides to retaliate! But that is only one of the problems besetting him in this set of interlinked stories. Given a job as an antique dealer, can he resist the temptations of earning some easy money through a bit of fencing and counterfeiting? And what on...Data dostępności:
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The D’Arblay Mystery – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
In this novel, Dr. Thorndyke builds a card house of wild speculations to solve a perplexing murder case, astonishing all observers, including the police. The victim is Julius D ’Arblay, an artist highly skilled at the rare French art of making wax-work figures and portrait masks. D’Arblay has a beautiful daughter, which leads to a romance with a young Dr. Grey who discovers the father’s body and brings...Data dostępności:
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Guy Mannering – ebook
Walter Scott
The young educated gentleman Guy Mannering, after leaving Oxford, is travelling alone through some of the wilder parts of Scotland. After losing his way at nightfall, he is directed to Ellangowan, the home of Mr Godfrey Bertram at the time of the birth of Henry Bertram. By request of the father of a newborn baby, Guy made a horoscope in which the child was predetermined the ordeals from the fifth to...Data dostępności:
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Złamane dusze – ebook
Simone St. James
Vermont, 1950 rok. Jest takie miejsce dla dziewcząt, których nikt nie chce… Dla awanturnic, dla córek z nieprawego łoża, dla dziewczynek zbyt mądrych jak na swoje czasy. Nazywa się Idlewild Hall. W pobliskim miasteczku krążą plotki, że szkoła jest nawiedzona. Cztery współlokatorki z internatu łączy wyrażany szeptem strach. Ich przyjaźń rozkwita… do czasu, aż jedna znika w tajemniczych okolicznościach…...Data dostępności:
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