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The Little Lady of the Big House
Jack London
“The Little Lady of the Big House” 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. The Little Lady of the Big House is a novel by American writer Jack London. It was his last novel to be published during his lifetime. The story concerns a love triangle. The protagonist, Dick Forrest, is a rancher with a poetic streak. His wife, Paula, is a vivacious, athletic, and sexually self-aware woman, who falls in love with Evan Graham, an old friend of her husband.
Elena Armas
Najbardziej ryzykowna gra to ta, w której stawką jest twoje serce. Adalyn Reyes ma idealnie zaplanowany każdy dzień: wstaje o świcie, jedzie do siedziby drużyny piłkarskiej Płomienie Miami, ciężko pracuje, wraca do domu. Kiedy nagranie jej starcia z maskotką drużyny wycieka do internetu i staje się wiralem, ta rutyna się kończy. Właściciel klubu nie zwalnia Adalyn, tylko daje jej nowe zadanie by odzyskać dobre imię, ma odbudować drużynę Zielonych Wojowniczek. Sęk w tym, że klub jest w Karolinie Północnej, zawodniczki trenują w strojach baletowych, hodują kozy i są dziewięciolatkami. Na szczęście w miasteczku przebywa Cameron Caldani, znany bramkarz, który mógłby pomóc Adalyn wprowadzić drużynę do wyższej ligi. Jednak po fatalnym pierwszym spotkaniu (słowa klucze: kogut, zderzak, noga Camerona) dziewczyna raczej nie ma co liczyć na współpracę. Ale jest zdeterminowana, by z niesfornych dzieciaków zrobić gwiazdy piłki nożnej z pomocą Cama lub bez niej. Najbardziej ryzykowna gra to ta, w której stawką jest twoje serce. Nawet na końcu świata gra toczy się dalej! Jeśli małe kózki i przeuroczy Cameron nie przekonają was do sięgnięcia po The Long Game, może zrobią to spicy sceny, które gwarantują wypieki na twarzy! Przyciąganie między bohaterami w książkach Eleny jest nie do podrobienia! Nawet lepienie z gliny może być hot ! Oliwia Panek, @ksia_zkowe Tylko Elena Armas potrafi stworzyć historię, która łamie serce i wyciska z oczu łzy, by po chwili otoczyć ciepłem i wywołać najczulsze uczucia. To się skończy książkowym kacem. I nie mówcie, że nie ostrzegałam! Natalia Miśkowiec, @prostymislowami Pokochałam tę książkę za humor i przewrotną fabułę, ale przede wszystkim za wywołanie ogromu emocji. Kilkukrotnie musiałam przerwać lekturę, aby powstrzymać napływające do oczu łzy. Nieraz do niej wrócę! Karolina Łukawska, @ksiazkidobrejakczekolada Zabawna relacja Adalyn i Camerona bardzo wciąga, sprawiając, że ciężko oderwać się od lektury. Ta historia was wzruszy i rozbawi. I sprawi, że uwierzycie w siebie. Małgorzata Wojtasik, @goszaczyta Czytając tę książkę, przekonacie się, jakie to uczucie mieć nieustannie szalejące motylki w brzuchu oraz uśmiech szczęścia na twarzy. Nigdy nie miałam dość Camerona i Adalyn oraz tego, jakim ciepłem otuliła mnie ich miłość. Elena Armas to królowa slow-burnów, które wywołują szybsze bicie serca! Weronika Czuryszkiewicz, @swiatromansow
Edgar Rice Burroughs
“The Lost Continent“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. In 2137, Pan-American Navy Lieutenant Jefferson Turck is commander of the aero-submarine Coldwater, tasked with patrolling the 30th meridian from Iceland to the Azores. Disaster strikes when the vessel's anti-gravitation screens fail, dooming it to wallow upon the surface of the ocean, and the engines fail, leaving it adrift. As its wireless radio has failed as well, Turck cannot even summon help.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World - a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. It is a novel concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals still survive. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
“The Mad King“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. Set in the fictional European kingdom of Lutha, the protagonist is a young American named Barney Custer, of Beatrice, Nebraska, who is the son of an American farmer and a runaway Luthan princess, Victoria Rubinroth. Unaware of his royal blood, much less that he is a dead ringer for his relative Leopold, the current king of Lutha, Barney visits Lutha on the eve of the First World War to see for himself his mother's native land.
G.K. Chesterton
This is a detective story collection of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Most of the stories in the collection are about the hermit of society, Horn Fischer, who has the talent to solve crimes. Journalist Harold March was walking around the outskirts of Turnbull and met the bizarre Horn Fisher, whom he immediately made friends with. No sooner did they get to know each other when they became witnesses of the disaster: the car flew off the road and fell into the abyss. Fisher and March approached the crash site and identified Sir Humphrey Turnbull, the local rich man. It turned out that he was shot, so that he fell into the abyss. New acquaintances take up the investigation.
The Marble Faun. Or, The Romance of Monte Beni
Nathaniel Hawthorne
At the center of the novel is a group of four characters. These are two young American artists, Hilda and Kenyon, who were brought to Rome by a thirst to comprehend the secrets of art, and their friends the artist Miriam and the young Donatello, who are introduced into this circle not by a passion for art, but by love for Miriam. Everyone is struck by the similarity of the count with the famous statue of Praxiteles, depicting a faun. Most importantly, this similarity is not limited to external similarity: traits dominate in the depiction of his image, beyond which the innocence of a creature unaware of the existence of evil is revealed.
Honoré de Balzac
Just a plain old story told by a superb story teller. A Marriage Contract (French: Le Contrat de marriage) is an 1835 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac and included in the Scenes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in Bordeaux, the marriage between an elegant but weak young Parisian gentleman, Paul de Manerville, and the beautiful but spoiled daughter of a Spanish heiress, Natalie Evangélista, is undermined from the beginning by a fight over the contract of marriage and the financial arrangements, which causes the mother-in-law to seek revenge against Paul. The story is told in a typical Balzac prose style, a forthright narrative sprinkled with witty adages and life lessons, a swift change in emotions running in his characters such that its difficult to decipher the true nature of each character but only to gratify ones curiosity by admitting that inherent fallacy of human character its multi-faced nature.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
“The Master Mind of Mars“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. The Master Mind of Mars is a science fantasy novel, the sixth of the Barsoom series. It features the characters of John Carter and Carter's wife Dejah Thoris. Full of swordplay and daring feats, the series is considered a classic example of 20th-century pulp fiction. The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment. This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell, whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Robert Barr
Robert Barr has been almost completely overlooked by critics and anthologists of Canadian literature, in part because, although he was educated in Canada, he spent most of his life in the United States and England. However, since most of his serious novels are either set in Canada or have some Canadian connection, Barr deserves attention. The Measure of the Rule is a 1907 coming-of-age novel about a country teacher who migrates to the city to study engineering, but is forced by dint of circumstance to go to a teachers training college, where he meets his wife-to-be. In this novel, Barr is exorcising unhappy memories and is ironic, even bitter, about the schools system and schools quality of education, the rigid discipline observed by its staff and their indifference to their students, and the sexual segregation practiced. A number of men under whom Barr actually studied are vividly caricatured.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - a collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. This collection of stories consists of: "The Adventure of Silver Blaze" "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" "The Adventure of the Yellow Face" "The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk" "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott" "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual" "The Adventure of the Reigate Squire" "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" "The Adventure of the Resident Patient" "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty" "The Final Problem"
May Agnes Fleming
This story is told during the great plague of London. A fantastic and historical tale begins with the story of Sir Norman Kingsley about the mystical La Masque, he ends up visiting her, and soon certain visions come to life in her presence. But how does a woman, supposedly dead, come to life and how can such a dead man suddenly disappear?
George Eliot
If you had to choose between the love of a lifetime and your relationship with your family, who would you pick? In The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, the author draws on her own experiences when writing the tale of the complicated relationship between a young woman Maggie and her brother Tom Tulliver during a time when women had limited choices. Maggies often tormented battle to do her duty and belong on the one hand, and to be herself, wild and natural on the other, propels her from one crisis to another. As the Tulliver fortunes decline and fall, the rift between Maggie and her family becomes almost irreconcilable. But Maggies biggest mistake of all is to fall in love with Stephen Guest who is engaged to another woman. This novel is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age.
The moon screams. Bracia Ashworth #2
A.P. Mist
Drugi brat Ashworth. Dziesięć lat ciszy. Jedna kobieta, o której nigdy nie zapomniał. Minęło dziesięć lat od dramatycznych wydarzeń, które na zawsze odmieniły jego życie. Alex w końcu odnalazł spokój - żyje przewidywalnie, bez zbędnych komplikacji. Wydaje się, że niczego mu nie brakuje. Samotność? Był to jego świadomy wybór. A przynajmniej tak mu się wydawało... do czasu, gdy zaczęła ciążyć bardziej, niż chciałby to przyznać. Gdy budzi się po rutynowym zabiegu, mającym ostatecznie zamknąć rozdział sprzed lat, nie spodziewa się zobaczyć tej twarzy. Kobiety o oczach, które zapamiętał na długo - może nawet na zawsze. Ale teraz to nie ta sama osiemnastoletnia wolontariuszka, która kiedyś odrzuciła jego zaloty. To pewna siebie, dojrzała kobieta, która wie, czego chce - rzecz w tym, że nie jest to Alex...
Edgar Rice Burroughs
“The Mucker“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. This is the first book in the Mucker series. Billy Byrne is a low-class American born in Chicago's ghetto. He grows up a thief and a mugger. "Billy was a mucker, a hoodlum, a gangster, a thug, a tough." He is not chivalrous nor kind and has only meager ethics - never giving evidence against a friend or leaving someone behind. He chooses a life of robbery and violence, disrespecting those who work for a living. He has a deep hatred for wealthy society. He trains as a prizefighter but cannot stop drinking. When falsely accused of murder, he flees to San Francisco and is shanghaied aboard a ship.
Robert Barr
First published in 1896 and considered one of Robert Barrs best works, this historical novel set in London at the beginning of the 20th century and centering on an industrial strike and a love triangle. The men in Monkton and Hopes factory strike. Sartwell, their manager, refuses to compromise with them, but discusses the situation with Marsten, one of their number, who clings to his own order, at the same time that he avows his love for Sartwells daughter Edna. Sartwell forbids him to speak to her. The strike is crushed, Marsten is dismissed, and becomes secretary to the Labor Union. He sees Edna several times, she becomes interested in him, and her father sends her away to school... A great read, The Mutable Many is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any home and for lovers of historical novels.