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The Rehearsals – audiobook
Vladimir Sharov
Seventeenth century Russia, New Jerusalem Monastery. The recently deposed Patriarch Nikon, whose reforms lead to a schism in the Orthodox church, employs a French dramatist to stage the New Testament and hasten the Second Coming of Christ. Jacques de Sertan’s troupe consists of untrained and illiterate peasants. The actors are divided into roles, whole families play different social or ethnic groups...Data dostępności:
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The Avro Arrow. For The Record – audiobook
Palmiro Campagna
Declassified government records shed additional light on the cancellation and subsequent destruction of the Avro Arrow. The controversial cancellation of the Avro Arrow - an extraordinary achievement of Canadian military aviation - continues to fire debate today. When the program was scrapped in 1959, all completed aircraft and those awaiting assembly were destroyed, along with tooling and technical...Data dostępności:
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Secrets of the Sands, Book #3: The Oracle of Avaris – audiobook
Alisha Sevigny
A search for answers from a mysterious Oracle has Sesha and her friends navigating intrigue and danger in this thrilling series finale. Leaving the oasis, Sesha and her friends set sail for Avaris, intent on stopping the Hyksos chieftain from claiming the throne and declaring war on Thebes. On the journey, Sesha learns that she and the scroll are at the centre of a pair of prophecies made by a famed...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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Captain of the Steppe. Tales from the Last Days. Book 1 – audiobook
Oleg Pavlov
Deep in the desolate steppe, Captain Khabarov waits out his service at a camp where the news arrives in bundles of last year’s papers and rations turn up rotting in their trucks. The captain hopes for nothing more from life than a meagre pension and a state-owned flat. Until, one Spring, he decides to plant a field of potatoes to feed his half-starved men... This blackly comic novel shows the unsettling...Data dostępności:
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Secrets of the Sands, Book #2: The Desert Prince – audiobook
Alisha Sevigny
Ancient Egyptian healer and scribe Sesha is ready for another role: spy. Be sure to read Sesha’s first adventure, The Lost Scroll of the Physician. Forced to flee Thebes or face death, Sesha and her friends, Paser and Reb, travel up the Nile and into the desert in search of a hidden oasis. Led by a freed spy, they plan to rescue Pharaoh’s daughter Princess Merat, given to a Hyksos chieftain...Data dostępności:
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The first devil – audiobook
Zuzanna Kulik
Ona się go boi, on jej nienawidzi... A jednak musi ją ochronić Royal State High School to prawdziwe piekło. Tak w każdym razie postrzega swoją nową szkołę Elena. Tym piekłem rządzi prawdziwie szatańska czwórka ― paru chłopaków, którzy bardziej przypominają bandytów niż licealistów. Ostatnie, czego chciałaby nowa uczennica, to zwrócić na siebie ich uwagę... Oczywiście, los jest przewrotny. Elena staje...Data dostępności:
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The BookTok Deal – audiobook
Maddie Pawłowska
Czy jest szansa na miłość rodem z książek, gdy wszystko zaczyna się od zwykłego układu? Pola Potocka, świeżo upieczona absolwentka amsterdamskiego liceum, raczej nie jest typem imprezowiczki. Zamiast świętować zakończenie szkoły w towarzystwie rówieśników, woli zaszyć się w najdalszym pokoju i kręcić filmiki na TikToka. Problem w tym, że przypadkiem wybrała do tego celu sypialnię gospodarza imprezy,...Data dostępności:
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Red Coat Diaries. True Stories from the Women of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police – audiobook
Aaron Sheedy Veronica Fox
True stories from the Women of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Red Coat Diaries brings tales from the RCMP, but with a new and unique perspective. Editor Aaron Sheedy has compiled over 30 stories from the women of the RCMP. These stories include stories from officers, civilians and retired members of the Force. These true stories offer a unique insider's perspective of the "Mounties" and reveal...Data dostępności:
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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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