When God Is Born, No Power Prevails

Franciszek Karpiński

When God Is Born, No Power Prevails When God is born, no power prevails,  Our Lord in nakedness enwound.  All fire congeals, all luster pales,  Contained is He that knows no bound.  Despised, in glory comes untold,  A mortal king for aye to reign.  The Word of God in flesh behold,  Now born to share our life mundane.    What have ye Heavens o’er the earth,  That God forsook His sweet delight,  And wished to take a human birth,  To share our every toil and plight?  And He did suffer unconsoled,  And we were guilty of His pain. [...] Franciszek Karpiński Ur. 4 października 1741 r. w Hołoskowie Zm. 16 września 1825 r. w Chorowszczyźnie Najważniejsze dzieła: sielanki: Laura i Filon, Do Justyny. Tęskność na wiosnę; pieśni religijne: Pieśń poranna (Kiedy ranne wstają zorze...), Pieśń wieczorna (Wszystkie nasze dzienne sprawy...), Pieśń o narodzeniu Pańskim (Bóg się rodzi, moc truchleje...); wiersze patriotyczne: Pieśń dziada sokalskiego, Żale Sarmaty nad grobem Zygmunta Augusta Od 1750 r. przez osiem lat uczęszczał do kolegium jezuickiego w Stanisławowie. Następnie ukończył studia teologiczne na Akademii we Lwowie. Tam uzyskał tytuł doktora filozofii i nauk wyzwolonych. Później przez półtora roku szkolił się w Wiedniu, doskonalił tam znajomość języków obcych. Po otrzymaniu odpowiedniego wykształcenia rozpoczął pracę nauczycielską. Gdy miał 40 lat wydał pierwszy tomik wierszy Zabawki wierszem. W 1780 r. wyjechał do Warszawy, objął posadę sekretarza księcia Adama Kazimierza Czartoryskiego i wydał trzy kolejne tomy wierszy. W 1793 r. osiedlił się w Kraśniku, a około 1818 r. kupił wieś Chorowszczyznę i tam spędził resztę życia. Był członkiem Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk. autor: Natalia Kur   Kupując książkę wspierasz fundację Nowoczesna Polska, która propaguje ideę wolnej kultury. Wolne Lektury to biblioteka internetowa, rozwijana pod patronatem Ministerstwa Edukacji Narodowej. W jej zbiorach znajduje się kilka tysięcy utworów, w tym wiele lektur szkolnych zalecanych do użytku przez MEN, które trafiły już do domeny publicznej. Wszystkie dzieła są odpowiednio opracowane - opatrzone przypisami oraz motywami.

When God Laughs & Other Stories

Jack London

“When God Laughs & Other Stories” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.   When God Laughs & Other Stories is a series of short stories by Jack London. It consists of twelve moving and thrilling stories such as: When God Laughs, A Wicked Woman, Make Westing or The Curious Fragment.  

When God Laughs and Other Stories

Jack London

A very wise story from the cycle about love. An inexhaustible topic, do not talk about it. No one has yet managed to beat the gods. Although Karkines met people who almost succeeded: Marvin Fisk and Ethel Baird. But the punishment of the gods overtook them at the end.

When mountains scream

Paweł Więzik

Central Europe, Beskidy Highlands, Present Day When Tom Dubiel, a teenage boy, vanishes in the highland woods around Szczyrk, inspector Alex Dunaj has no idea what forces he is about to go up against. An ancient cave complex beneath Klimczok Peak conceals buried secrets which should never come to light. Meet Magda Flis, a womans whose supernatural gifts will alter the course of local and cosmic histories. Who will be able to tame their own demons and who will fail to see and avert disasters looming over centuries? Discover a world in which illusion and reality clash, become entangled and take us on a journey between worlds to meet the Sage With Three Faces. Featuring protagonists of all ages, sexes and backgrounds, MOUNTAINS SCREAM is a novel which weaves history, adventure, love, hate, addiction and desire together into a wild rollercoaster ride of a book. This second novel by Paweł Sylwester Więzik, author of his successful debut HIGHLAND SHIVERS / DRESZCZE BESKIDÓW, offers an exciting mix of horror, crime thriller, fantasy and coming of age stories. Delve into the valleys and peaks around Szczyrk, learn how local histories connect this place to distant African lore, and take a wild ride into the unknown to discover how the forces which govern our world are connected to places and dimensions far, far from our own. Książka wydana przez Paweł Sylwester Więzik, Wydawnictwo Hm... zajęło się dystrybucją ebook.

When Rogues Fall Out

R. Austin Freeman

"When Rogues Fall Out incorporates some wonderful conundrums to hoodwink and hinder the cleverest of crime readers. This book contains three interconnected stories. In the first, a respectable collector of antiques falls victim to temptation. In the second a police inspector is found dead in suspicious circumstances in a railway tunnel. This section includes an interesting essay on the early use of fingerprint evidence. The third is a classic locked room mystery where someone has been making use of a sealed room in a remote country house. All three are resolved together in the last few pages. The rogues of the title include three very different men engaged in stealing and fencing high-quality jewelry. One is a working-class robber; one a refined antiques dealer turned fence; and one a mysterious middleman with the appearance of a gentleman.

When the Gangs Came to London

Edgar Wallace

Set in the late 1920s-early 1930s, When the Gangs Came to London is rated as one of Edgar Wallaces best work by fans of his genre of crime fiction. Two rival gangs from Chicago coming to London and competing to blackmail rich men into paying up to prevent being killed. When a lull ensues, Captain Jiggs Allermain of the Chicago Detective Bureau suspects the rival gangs of forming an uneasy alliance. Suddenly a shot rings through the House of Commons, unleashing an outburst of terror even more bloody. Wallace wrote this one towards the end of his life, he may even have been in Hollywood when he wrote it which could explain the very old school Hollywood gangsters!

When the Sleeper Wakes

Herbert George Wells

This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like sleep, a sleep that he wakes from some 203 years in the future. But times have changed. Due to the wise investments of a board of trustees, Grahams money has compounded into the greatest fortune the world has ever seen, and the trustees have used it to virtually enslave the entire planet. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. This struggle is the main focus of the larger part of the novel. The novel proposes that whatever is done officially for the good of society, individual ambition is unlikely to address the failure of capitalist structures to create a good standard of living for those whose work supports the system.

When the World Screamed

Arthur Conan Doyle

The final, and certainly climactic, adventure of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Professor George Edward Challenger is 1928s When the World Screamed. It is another Professor Challenger story where a new craziness pressures him to make the earth feel the existence of human being on its surface. Professor says the earth is a giant creature and it doesnt even care or know that we the human being exist on its surface. Professor believes that by drilling into the center of the earth, he will be the first person to let the planet know that there are people on its surface. He begins a very expensive experiment and one day his dreams come true. The majority of the story, like others in the story, is about the build-up to the event. Its narrated by a new character, Peerless Jones, who is an expert on drilling.

When the World Shook

H. Rider Haggard

When the World Shook is a classic story, written by H. Rider Haggard, telling about the horror of a ghost town. The plot revolves around three friends one absolutely unshakable skeptic, the other an absolutely believer, and the third and central character is a person who is looking for meaning in life. A hurricane shipwrecks them on an unknown island in the Pacific inhabited by a degenerating people who worship an ancient god called Oro. Three men experience all sorts of difficulties and find all kinds of miracles on the island.

When We Were Them

Laura T. Namey

WHEN WE WERE THEM LAURA TAYLOR NAMEY Young adult Willa, Luz i Britton były najbliższymi przyjaciółkami od dzieciństwa. Wydawało się, że nic nie może zniszczyć tej przyjaźni. A jednak wszystko zmieniła wielka miłość. I jeszcze większa tragedia. W tym tygodniu zakończą swoją przygodę ze szkołą średnią. Razem łatwiej byłoby pokonać obawę przed jutrem, odpowiedzieć sobie na pytania o przyszłość. Ale jedna samolubna decyzja sprawia, że Willa zostaje z pudełkiem wspomnień, wypełnionym symbolami ich siostrzeństwa. I myślą, że nic już nie będzie jak dawniej, bo nie da się naprawić złamanego serca, zapomnieć o naruszonej intymności i wybaczyć podłego kłamstwa. Dorośli wszystko tylko komplikują, nikt już nie może na nikogo liczyć. A gdy brzydka prawda wychodzi na jaw, Willa musi dzielnie zmierzyć się z przeszłością.

Where Highways Cross

J.S. Fletcher

Outside the city of Sycaster, they found small villages. In the villages themselves, the observant traveler often finds traces of old houses, which, no doubt, were picturesque and calculated in those times when agriculture was preferred to coal mining. In these villages, there is something secretive that will have to razgodat.

Where We Belong

Ewelina Nawara

Czy miłość potrafi nam pokazać, gdzie naprawdę jest nasze miejsce na ziemi? Ryan Foster, gwiazda hokeja, po bolesnej porażce i kontuzji wraca do rodzinnego miasteczka, by odzyskać spokój i sprawność. Nie spodziewa się jednak, że los ponownie postawi na jego drodze Emmę - pierwszą miłość, której już raz pozwolił odejść. Emma Turner od dawna stara się zapomnieć o przeszłości. Poświęca się pracy nauczycielki w Silverbrooke Harbor, unikając myśli o tym, co mogłoby się wydarzyć, gdyby... Aż do momentu, kiedy Ryan nagle pojawia się znów w jej życiu. Czy stara miłość rzeczywiście nie rdzewieje? A może dawne rany okażą się zbyt bolesne, by druga szansa stała się nowym początkiem? "Where We Belong" to pełna emocji i czułości historia o uczuciu, które nie da o sobie zapomnieć.

Wheres Emily

Carolyn Wells

Fleming Stone 23. On the eve of her marriage to Rodney Sayre, Emily Duane disappears. She had left her Hillside Park home to visit the hospital but never arrived there. Foul play is feared when Jim Pennington reports his wife Pauline, Emilys best friend, also missing. Pennington says he left his wife at the ravine a short distance from Emilys home. When he returned she had vanished. Pollys body is found in the ravine, but wheres Emily? A wonderful mystery abound with twists and turns on every corner. Carolyn Wells inspires and entertains with her classical mystery masterpiece, Wheres Emily, guaranteed to feed the mystery monster that craves suspense!

Which one is Malala

Renata Piątkowska

Let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the entire world. Taken from Malala Yousafzais speech to the UN in 2013 When I meet with children on different occasions, I ask them which of their rights is the most important to them. Polish children say its the right to express their own opinion. The same right is also important to Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who not only uses it with courage but also boldly speaks out for another fundamental right: the right to education. In many countries the opportunity of attending school is treated as an unpleasant necessity. For Malala and her colleagues learning was a desired and only chance for a better future. Marek Michalak The Ombudsman for Children On the 29th October 2016, on the request of Polish and Pakistani children and by the resolution of the International Chapter, Malala was made a Knight of the Order of the Smile. The author of this book, Renata Piatkowska, is also a Knight of the Order of the Smile. Smiley, eager to play and to sing hits by Justin Bieber this is the Malala we meet. The only thing that distinguishes her from her friends is that she doesnt cover her face with a scarf. Is that a good reason to shoot a teenage girl in the face? It soon becomes clear that Malala is no ordinary teenager, but a blogger who by describing the state of education for girls in Pakistan exposed herself to the Taliban. A touching story about the strength that lies dormant in each one of us and how we should fight to help those who are weaker than us. Malala has proven that just one brave person is enough to inspire multitudes.

While She Sleeps

Ethel Lina White

Mystical incidents occur in "While She Sleeps." Miss Loveapple extremely lucky woman. She was always lucky in life, so to speak, the card turned that side. However, there will always be luck on her side? Will she help when the killer will stalk her?

Whirligigs

O. Henry

Settle in for a whimsical, thoroughly enjoyable whirlwind tour through the prodigious imagination of American short-story master O. Henry. When he wrote the following, he may have discounted his own creativity. Whirligigs, comprised of 24 short stories and published in 1910, is evidence of this. O. Henry writes of love and loss, of mystery and drama, of journalism and murders and trials. He creates a tapestry of characters, young and old, wealthy and poor. It offers some of his best short stories; complete with quirky characters, witty romps with clever twists and surprise endings. If you love classic O. Henry stories like The Gift of the Magi and have been curious about the rest of this beloved authors body of work, Whirligigs is a great place to start.

Whiskey Sour

Max Brand

Doctor Kildare approached just in time to hear Meg say to the officer, "I heard a shot outside my apartment, then a crash. When I ran out, this man was lying on the landing... "Whiskey Sour" (1938) is a Doctor Kildare story that continues the depiction of a "gangster" atmosphere surrounding the young doctor as he cared for East Side streets toughs and local political bosses while defying his hospital superiors. Max Brand (1892-1944) is the best-known pen name of widely acclaimed author Frederick Faust, creator of Destry, Dr. Kildare, and other beloved fictional characters. His action-filled stories of adventure and heroism and even poetry continue to entertain readers throughout the world.

Whisky i naleśniki

Mia Ahl

Vendela samotnie wychowuje dziesięcioletnią córkę Tildę i ma skomplikowane relacje z ojcem dziewczynki. Wkrótce oznajmia krewnym, że otrzymała dobrze płatną posadę w Bostonie, lecz cała rodzina z obawą rozmyśla, jak potoczą się sprawy z dzieckiem bohaterki. W dodatku gdy pewnego dnia Vendela wraca z pracy do domu, na schodach przed drzwiami zauważa swoją matkę, która uciekła od męża Karla. Na domiar złego rodzinna księgarnia nie prosperuje zbyt dobrze i potrzebne są duże zmiany, aby familijny interes przetrwał trudny okres. Ta seria niepokojących zdarzeń sprawia, że Vendela wspomina swoje życie, podejmowane przez siebie decyzje oraz ich wpływ na otaczających ją ludzi. „Whisky i naleśniki” to opowieść o niezależnej kobiecie, która odkrywa, jak wielkim oparciem potrafi być najbliższa rodzina. Po tym pełnym zawirowań czasie życie Vendeli diametralnie się zmieni. 

Whispering Death

Aidan de Brune

Whispering Death (1931) is the third adventure in the Dr. Night trilogy by Aidan De Brune, (1874-1946). This third story is gaudy crime yarns, which steadily veers into fantasy by the end and features a very unlikely Asian villain who is as different from Fu Manchu as you can imagine: a small, colorless man of uncertain central Asian origin whose principal obsession is raising money by any means possible to recreate a long-dead central Asian kingdom of which his distant ancestors were kings. Most of the stories in the Dr. Night trilogy take place in and around Sydney, although the earliest known is set in Perth Western Australia and one of the novelettes in north Queenslan. Aidan de Brune was a big name in Australian literature but is forgotten today. He was a prolific author who wrote in a variety of genres.

White Death - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Vicary, Tim

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. Sarah Harland is nineteen, and she is in prison. At the airport, they find heroin in her bag. So, now she is waiting to go to court. If the court decides that it was her heroin, then she must die. She says she did not do it. But if she did not, who did? Only two people can help Sarah: her mother, and an old boyfriend who does not love her now. Can they work together? Can they find the real criminal before it is too late?

White Death Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Vicary, Tim

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary Sarah Harland is nineteen, and she is in prison. At the airport, they find heroin in her bag. So, now she is waiting to go to court. If the court decides that it was her heroin, then she must die. She says she did not do it. But if she did not, who did? Only two people can help Sarah: her mother, and an old boyfriend who does not love her now. Can they work together? Can they find the real criminal before it is too late?

White Face

Edgar Wallace

A man ends up stabbed to death on a street in Londons Tidal Basin, victim of the almost mythical murderer roaming the streets of London, the Devil of Tidal Basin. But why is another bandit suddenly sighted in Tidal Basin as well? What connection had the Devil with White Face? Superintendent Mason, one of the Yards Big Five wanted to know, and what Superintendent Mason wanted to know he generally found out. Criminals knew him as Sympathetic Mason, because of his curious methods of cross-examination. This is Edgar Wallace at his best and Edgar Wallace is known the world over as the king of mystery writers. White Face involves more mystery than a number of his novels and recommended for people who like to treat a mystery story as a solvable riddle.

White Fang

Jack London

The main conflict of the story is dog-nature vs. wolf-nature, or nature vs. man. What happens to White fang, and how he goes through the many troubles that he has to. Growing up in the Yukon territory of Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush, he learned the law of the Wild at an early age: kill, or be killed, eat, or be eaten. Separated from his mother and traded from master to master, White Fang never grasped the concept of love, and violence was all that he knew. Having no teacher, he learned the rules of survival by experience. Then, a cruel man buys White Fang and turns him into a pit dog forced to fight for money. He save one day, a mixed dogwolf from the hands of a cruel man, and a brave friendship develops between the two. With beautifully realistic details of the harsh realities of life in the Yukon, White Fang is a grippingly original tale about morality and redemption that still stands as an American classic.

White Fang

Jack London

“White Fang” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.   White Fang is the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. The story details White Fang's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild.