The Blue Daffodil

Fred M. White

The story begins in the London home of John Garnstone, an elderly bachelor and antiques dealer. Garnstone is an enthusiastic gardener and grows a plant of incalculable value, a blue daffodil, on the roof of his house. One of the nights his body is a secretary. A lot of weird events happen after that.

The Treasures of Tartary

Robert E. Howard

An Irish-American warrior passes himself of as a Kurd and sets out to steal the treasure of Tartary. This is one of Robert E, Howards fast-paced short stories, featuring lots of fights and sliced entrails. Not one of his best works, in my opinion, as it somehow lacks substance. It seemed all hell and no notion.

Na marne

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Na marne to debiut beletrystyczny Henryka Sienkiewicza z 1872 r. Powieść osnuta jest na tle życia młodzieży uniwersyteckiej w Kijowie. Główny bohater, Józef Szwarc, studiuje medycynę. Sienkiewicz realistycznie opisuje życie studenckie. Przy okazji powieść krytykuje na pozytywistyczną modłę powierzchowny romantyzm młodzieży polskiej i pokazuje wyższość pracy organicznej nad patriotycznymi mrzonkami.

Seven Faces. A Mystery

Max Brand

Rival police detectives Angus Campbell and Patrick ORourke find themselves working together to locate the millionaire who disappeared while under their protection on a train bound for Chicago. Manhattan millionaire John Cobb has been receiving threatening letters, and so leaves for Chicago, hoping that by hopping the night-train hell escape from his anonymous ill-wisher. Assigned as guards, Campbell and ORourke go along. When, after signing his $15 million will over to his cousin, Cobb disappears from his Pullman, Campbell and ORourke must check the train for their missing charge. Hes not on the train, though, and not in Buffalo, so they scour Chicago - and, as it happens, mean old Cobb has enemies galore from some slick deals hes pulled.

The Desert Pilot

Max Brand

Seattle-born author who worked as a cowhand in California, attended Berkeley, joined then deserted the Canadian Army, and finally settled down to writing full-time. He was incredibly prolific and wrote numerous books under his birth name (Frederick Faust) and a variety of pseudonyms. Today he is best known for his work published as Max Brand, including the classic Western "Destry Rides Again" and his popular series Dr. Kildare. In "The Desert Pilot", Reverend Reginald Ingram arrives in the town of Billman hoping to defeat the lawless. Then Ingram realizes he must make a choice between his peaceful ways and survival. Highly recommended, especially for those who love the Old Western genre.

Those Folk of Bulboro

Edgar Wallace

An Edgar Wallace detective thriller novel. The plot revolves around the nephew of a small town English doctor who takes over his uncles practice and runs into trouble with a religious fanatic. This book is in a new vein for Edgar Wallace, for it is not a story of mystery but a real novel, and goes to show where his versatility could take him if he wished, for Those Folk of Bulboro proves him to be the possessor of all the requisite gifts which go to make the really popular novelist against the writer of detective fiction. He has always been noted for his ability to sketch character vividly in a few strokes, and here his touch is as sure as ever, and the story he tells is sympathetic, true to life and deeply interesting.

Above the Law

Max Brand

Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author best known for his thoughtful Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Prolific in many genres, he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. In his first western tale, Above the Law... Max Brand, villain, the bandit Black Jim, has the books of Scott, Shakespeare, Poe, Byron, Malory at his bunk. Poetic passages are found in practically every Max story. Black Jim loses his heart when he discovers love and a new identity in the Old West. Brands first western story is a timeless tale of new identity and love in the Old West.

Rozmówki dla osób z zaburzeniami mowy o typie afazji motorycznej

Ewa Wolańska, Adam Wolański

<p>Komunikowanie się z innymi ludźmi jest jedną z podstawowych potrzeb psychicznych człowieka. Osoba, która ma poważne deficyty w porozumiewaniu się za pomocą żywej mowy, może przeżywać wiele negatywnych emocji. Jeśli nie może w sposób zrozumiały dla innych wyrazić swoich potrzeb, przeżywa często frustrację, a nawet wycofuje się z kontaktów z innym ludźmi.</p><p>Rozmówki stanowią narzędzie wspomagające komunikację językową u osób, u których zostało zachowane rozumienie cudzej mowy, własne wypowiedzi formułowane są w myślach, ale bez możliwości ich właściwej artykulacji w słowach. Pytania i zwroty oraz słownictwo zawarte w niniejszej publikacji pozwalają nadać myślom kształt słowny i porozumieć się w podstawowym zakresie w typowych sytuacjach związanych z codziennymi czynnościami.</p><p>Pytania i zwroty oraz niezbędne słownictwo zawarto w osiemnastu praktycznych tematach uszeregowanych w kolejności alfabetycznej. Na początku każdego z nich podane zostały zwroty i pytania wzorcowe, związane z danym tematem. Oprócz zwrotów i pytań wzorcowych każdy temat zawiera bogaty zestaw wyrazów i wyrażeń uzupełniających (słownik tematyczny).</p>

Die Colonie. Brasilianisches Lebensbild

Friedrich Gerstäcker

Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816 1872) führte von der Wiege bis zur Bahre ein bewegtes Leben. Gerstäcker, in Hamburg geboren, war es bereits in frühen Jahren aufgrund der Rezeption einschlägiger Literatur, wie zum Beispiel von Defoes Robinson Crusoe, ein dringendes Bedürfnis, ferne Länder zu bereisen und zu entdecken. 1837 fasste er den Entschluss, seinen Wunsch wahr zu machen und wanderte von Bremerhaven aus nach Amerika aus. Nach einigen Jahren jedoch führte ihn sein Weg zurück nach Deutschland, wo er seine Erfahrungen, die er im fremden Land gemacht hatte, niederschrieb und sehr schnell zu einem beliebten Autor avancierte. In den darauffolgenden Jahren unternahm er weitere Reisen, unter anderem nach Afrika, Südamerika und in die Goldsucher-Regionen rund um Kalifornien. Friedrich Gerstäcker veröffentlichte eine Vielzahl von Erzählungen, Romanen und vor allem Berichte über seine verschiedenen Reisen, die ihn zu einem der meistgelesenen und bekanntesten Autoren Deutschlands machten. Die Colonie erschien erstmals 1864. Gerstäcker verarbeitet in diesem Buch die Erfahrungen und Eindrücke seiner Südamerikareisen.

The Life and Death of King John

William Shakespeare

King John Shakespearean chronicles of the reign of such a historical figure as John Landless. John becomes king of England, bypassing his nephew Arthur, who has completely legal rights to the throne. Arthur, supported by his mother Constance, asks for the help of the King of France, Philip. King Philip goes to John by war.

The Scarlet Plague

Jack London

Books about the future are always interesting to read in order to reflect on what may await us if we do not take certain actions. Usually we imagine that in many years science and technology will reach a new level, people will become more and more developed both physically and mentally, but Jack London in his novel shows a completely different world in which there is no science, medicine is replaced by quackery, and people become worse and worse, gradually sinking morally. Mockery and ridicule of anyone is now normal entertainment for them, their vocabulary is very limited, and their knowledge is scarce.

Eves Island

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace was one of the most popular and prolific authors of his era. This novel is framed as several witness accounts to a fictious journalist and starts as an entertaining adventure yarn with even some pirate episodes, but the story looses steam at the half-way point when it turns into a very predictable society novel. Wallace follows his passions for horse-racing and adventure, and the title character in all his generosity and extravagance is clearly autobiographical. The story of a man who founds his own colony on an uninhibited island, returns to England to find true love and manages to keep the island out of the hands of various foreign powers.

The Riddle of the Purple Emperor

Thomas W. Hanshew

Hamilton Cleek, once known to Scotland Yard as The Vanishing Cracksman is a reformed crook turned detective. He has a gift for both deduction and impersonation, a curious combination of Sherlock Holmes and Peter Sellars, which he uses to solve mysteries. After a long Channel crossing, Cleek drives a lady home only to discover her aunt has been murdered. But the mystery has only just begun. It leads to a mysterious and sinister chain of events, which Cleek and Superintendent Maverick Narkom of Scotland Yard attempt to unravel, with, of course, the help of the irrepressible and ever-hungry Dollops, Cleeks cockney sidekick. As excitingly improbable a detective story as ever baffled and allured the breathless reader, The Riddle of the Purple Emperor has all the thrills of adventure and murder and hate and love embroidered on the groundwork of a plot as precisely worked out as a problem in mathematics.

Baśnie i opowieści

Hans Christian Andersen

Zbiór ponad 40 baśni i opowieści Hansa Christiana Andersena, stanowiących klasykę światowej literatury dziecięcej. W zbiorze zamieszczono najpopularniejsze baśnie, jak np. Brzydkie Kaczątko, Dzikie łabędzie, Calineczka, Królowa Śniegu i Mała Syrena, a także wiele innych nieco mniej popularnych utworów. Każdy przekaże najmłodszym czytelnikom ważne prawdy moralne, wzruszy, zadziwi, a czasem również rozbawi.

Victory. An Island Tale

Joseph Conrad

This is an exciting, atmospheric work that works on several levels: partly a story of tropical adventures, partly a melodramatic novel, partly a psychological thriller, partly a criticism of the empire. Axel Heist lives on an island in present-day Indonesia with a Chinese aide Wang. Heist visits a nearby island when a womens group plays in a hotel owned by Mr. Schomberg. Schomberg tries to impose himself sexually on one of the band members, Alma, later named Lena. She runs with Heist back to his island and they become lovers

Błękitno-purpurowy Matuzalem. Powieść chińska

Karol May

Karol May rzadko zabiera czytelników do Chin, więc tym bardziej warto skorzystać z nadarzającej się okazji i odwiedzić z grupą podróżników ten niezwykły kraj. Emocji i ekscytujących przygód jak zwykle nie zabraknie, a dodatkową atrakcją będzie specyficzna sceneria Państwa Środka. Wraz z podróżnikami zanurzymy się w chińskiej kulturze i religii oraz zachwycimy chińskimi krajobrazami.