Literatura
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.
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.
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.
Ewelina Nawara
Nowe miasto. Nowy start. Dawne uczucia, które nigdy nie zniknęły. Ivy wszystko zaplanowała - wyjazd z rodzinnej miejscowości na studia, zostawienie przeszłości za sobą i w końcu złapanie oddechu pełną piersią. Cade miał jeden cel - skupić się na futbolu i nie pozwolić, by cokolwiek stanęło mu na drodze do miejsca w NFL. Oboje się nie spodziewali, że ich drogi znów się skrzyżują... I to tam, gdzie każde z nich miało budować nowe życie. Choć na kampusie widzą się tylko przez chwilę, wspomnienia wracają z siłą, której nie potrafią zignorować. Gdy jednak ona w ramach niewinnej zabawy godzi się na zakład... wszystko zaczyna się komplikować. On nie może przestać o niej myśleć... ale to przecież siostra jego największego rywala. Czy w grze o tak wysoką stawkę wygrana przewyższa ryzyko? "When We Fall" to historia o niegasnących uczuciach, o nowych przyjaźniach i o drugiej szansie, na którą być może nikt nie jest gotowy.
Ewelina Nawara
Czy jedna obietnica wystarczy, by posklejać to, co rozsypało się na kawałki? Tate Ashford, kapitan Philadelphia Knights, przyzwyczaił się do presji, zarówno na parkiecie, jak i poza nim. Zawsze opanowany, skupiony na grze. Ale kiedy zostaje skonfrontowany z własnym sumieniem i zauważa, że siostra jego zmarłego przyjaciela niknie w oczach, coś w nim pęka. Rory Jones każdego dnia walczy, by zachować pozory. Świat nie widzi jej zmęczenia, pustki i samotności, bo dziewczyna starannie ukrywa je za uśmiechem. A przynajmniej tak jej się wydaje. Gdy Tate zaczyna dostrzegać to, czego nie chciała pokazać nikomu, w Rory budzą się strach i okrutnie bolesne wspomnienia. "When We Promise" to poruszająca historia o dwójce ludzi, których łączy więcej, niż kiedykolwiek odważyli się przyznać. To opowieść o mierzeniu się z własną przeszłością i o miłości, która potrafi uleczyć nawet najgłębsze rany. Nowelka z Kolekcji romansów sportowych Inanny
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.
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.
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!
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lori Rave
Piękna historia miłosna z hokejem w tle Życie Hope w żadnej mierze nie przypomina bajki. Dziesięć lat temu została porzucona przez ojca i od tej pory mieszka z chorą matką, która wymaga wsparcia i opieki. Dzielna córka w ciągu dnia pracuje w restauracji, wieczorami zaś dorabia jako kelnerka w nocnym klubie. Mimo starań Hope każdego dnia się martwi, czy nie zabraknie jej pieniędzy na jedzenie, ogrzewanie i leki. O pójściu na studia czy kupieniu sobie lepszych ubrań już dawno przestała marzyć... Osią świata Logana Matthewsa od zawsze jest hokej. Treningi, mecze, wygrane i porażki są dla niego ważniejsze od związku. Choć stara się być dla Tary mężczyzną, na jakiego ta kobieta zasługuje, zawodzi raz za razem. Narodziny ich nieplanowanego dziecka nie poprawiają sytuacji. Ostatecznie Logan zostaje samotnym ojcem małej Ruby. I choć na razie w opiece nad córeczką pomagają mu rodzice, jeden z najlepszych zawodników ligi NHL wkrótce będzie musiał zatrudnić opiekunkę. Przypadkowe spotkanie w lokalu, w którym pracuje Hope, staje się początkiem znajomości zwykłej dziewczyny i znanego hokeisty. Znajomości... a może czegoś dużo poważniejszego? Uniwersum Cup of Coffee
Lori Rave
Piękna historia miłosna z hokejem w tle Życie Hope w żadnej mierze nie przypomina bajki. Dziesięć lat temu została porzucona przez ojca i od tej pory mieszka z chorą matką, która wymaga wsparcia i opieki. Dzielna córka w ciągu dnia pracuje w restauracji, wieczorami zaś dorabia jako kelnerka w nocnym klubie. Mimo starań Hope każdego dnia się martwi, czy nie zabraknie jej pieniędzy na jedzenie, ogrzewanie i leki. O pójściu na studia czy kupieniu sobie lepszych ubrań już dawno przestała marzyć... Osią świata Logana Matthewsa od zawsze jest hokej. Treningi, mecze, wygrane i porażki są dla niego ważniejsze od związku. Choć stara się być dla Tary mężczyzną, na jakiego ta kobieta zasługuje, zawodzi raz za razem. Narodziny ich nieplanowanego dziecka nie poprawiają sytuacji. Ostatecznie Logan zostaje samotnym ojcem małej Ruby. I choć na razie w opiece nad córeczką pomagają mu rodzice, jeden z najlepszych zawodników ligi NHL wkrótce będzie musiał zatrudnić opiekunkę. Przypadkowe spotkanie w lokalu, w którym pracuje Hope, staje się początkiem znajomości zwykłej dziewczyny i znanego hokeisty. Znajomości... a może czegoś dużo poważniejszego? Uniwersum Cup of Coffee
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 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 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 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 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 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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
White Nights - a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist, philosopher and short story writer. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature. Like many of Dostoyevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator. The narrator is a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited.
White-Jacket. Or, The World in a Man-of-War
Herman Melville
The novel The White Jacket by American writer Herman Melville is dedicated to swimming on the US military frigate. The novel, which is a chronicle only in part, describes in detail the life and life of naval sailors, their colorful figures, as well as the features of ships and naval service in that era. A number of philosophical, romantic and socio-political thoughts are presented.
Robert W. Chambers
This story is about the Crown Prince. Most of the world is against him and what he stands for. He expresses surprise at the position of the United States. This attitude is the natural result of various causes, among which are the following: Distrust of any aggressor on the part of a peace-minded nation.
Hulbert Footner
Mappin is a wealthy New York criminologist and author who is highly valued by the police and high society. He participates only in those crimes that really interest him. And in Who Killed the Husband he investigates solely because all the people around him beg him to take action. In this story, a detective investigates the murder of a banker. The killer who, according to the police have already found.
Wiechecki Stefan Wiech
Kolejny tom opowiadań powojennych Stefana Wiecheckiego czyli popularnego, słynnego, najbardziej warszawskiego z warszawskich pisarzy - Wiecha. Niniejszy tom obejmuje opowiadania opublikowane pierwotnie w latach 1945-49. I jak zwykle u Wiecha skrzą się humorem, a dobroduszny i zjadliwy humor Wiecha pasuje wszak też i do naszej rzeczywistości. A w szczegółach znajdziecie opowiadanie tytułowe!