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Mufti

H.C. McNeile

Sapper was the pseudonym of Herman Cyril McNeile, who wrote many novels, mostly on military subjects. In the story, the author fulfilled a fascinating look at the consequences of the war not only at the front, but also at the problems of the social class and opinions about the role of women in the family. The hero finds himself in a difficult situation: life after the war. He experiences many moments, but the most difficult thing is to cope psychologically.

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For The Salt He Had Eaten

Talbot Mundy

Almost unknown today, Footner was a Candadian journalist and author of many adventure and mystery novels. His first works were primarily travelogues of various river trips in Canada and the U.S., although he did produce some adventure novels. He is also credited with introducing the first American female investigator in Madame Storey and her plain assistant who explains the evolving solutions to her boss cases. So we are introduced to the fascinating Madame Rosika Storey, fearless and intelligent, who plays cat-and-mouse with killers, goes undercover to break up criminal gangs, and unravels deadly mysteries. This is the third book of the succesful mystery series Madame Storey, by canadian-american author Hulbert Footner.

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The Honour of His House

Fred M. White

Borne Abbey a miracle of architecture. And there is nothing more outstanding or more beautiful in the English countryside than Borne Abbey. Indeed, this place had its own atmosphere. For nearly four hundred years the Cranwallis family had lived here, lords of broad acres and suzerain of a many goodly manors. Everything changed after the brazen millionaire came to this house.

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Pigularz

Wacław Gąsiorowski

Powieść Pigularz Wacława Gąsiorowskiego prezentuje wnikliwy obraz środowiska aptekarskiego z XIX wieku, znanego autorowi z własnego doświadczenia. Oczami bohatera Władka Turkowskiego śledzimy różne zachowania postaci na tle obyczajowości epoki, poznajemy różne typy aptek i aptekarzy z pasją wykonujących swój zawód i zwykłych partaczy, którzy psują opinię całej grupie.

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The Ghost Kings

H. Rider Haggard

Haggard was a great popularizer of the story about the lost world, and his The Ghost Kings are an interesting addition to dozens of others in the authors pantheon. We meet Rachel Dove, the daughter of a British missionary who has traveled through the wilds of Africa for most of her young life. Her life turned upside down when another teenager Richard Darrien saved her from sudden flooding. These two are another pair of Haggards predestined lovers.

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Tales of the Weird Southwest

Robert E. Howard

If you like your horror with a western twist then these tales are for you. Awesome occult western adventure, from the master of strange fiction, Robert E. Howard! This collection includes the following stories: THE HORROR FROM THE MOUND, THE MAN ON THE GROUND, OLD GARFIELDS HEART, BLACK CANAAN, THE DEAD REMEMBER, PIGEONS FROM HELL and others. Kind of like Dreams at the Witch House by Lovecraft but mixed with Howards own legends. Tales of the Weird Southwest is a combination of western with horror, occult, and fantasy stories. Truly one of the greatest contributions to the development of the Weird Fiction genre, Robert E. Howards Tales of the Weird Southwest is a treasure for any collection!

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The Passionate Friends. A Novel

Herbert George Wells

Although most famous for his sci-fi, Wells best work often deals with ordinary people having big thoughts in picturesque settings. The Passionate Friends is a fine representative example of this. Wells uses the changing relationships among childhood friends as the media for his thoughts on human relations on personal and global scales, and of what it all means. On the death of his father, Stephen Stratton writes a long and deeply personal letter to his son, hoping that, as his son becomes a man, he can benefit from Stephens experience and wisdom. As Stephen sets down his lifes history, he tells the remarkable story of his former lover, Lady Mary. With a lust for freedom and a fierce desire not to be owned by a man, she is a woman living ahead of her time until marriage threatens to ruin her. First published in 1913, The Passionate Friends is an inspiring love story between father and son, and man and woman.

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Sir Noels Heir. A Novel

May Agnes Fleming

A book with some gothic trends in the beginning. Dark and stormy night, terrible secrets, fainting of women and orphans. The December night was wet and wild around Thetford Towers. A strange, massive, old house built during the time of James the First by Sir Hugo Thetford, the first baronet of the name, and as strong and strong now as it was then. The December day was overcast and gloomy, but the December night was stormy and wild. On this stormy winter night, the last of the Thetford baronets was dying.

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Namioty wezyra

Walery Przyborowski

Powieść historyczna. Główny bohater Piotr Rzecki pozbawiony majątku przez macochę szlachcic wyrusza do Warszawy zaciągnąć się do królewskiego wojska. Towarzyszy mu wierny sługa Maciek. Po drodze bohaterowie zmagają się z wieloma trudnościami. Finalnie docierają do oblężonego przez wrogie wojska tureckie Wiednia. Rozpoczyna się wielka bitwa... Tłem historycznym powieści są wydarzenia z 1683 roku, zwieńczone bitwą pod Wiedniem 12 września.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville families home warns the descendants of that ancient clan never to venture out in those dark hours when the power of evil is exalted. Now, the most recent Baskerville, Sir Charles, is dead and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Will the new heir meet the same fate in The Hound of the Baskervilles ?

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Alcatraz

Max Brand

This is a story of a wild horse who many said could not be caught or broken, and the man who set out to prove them wrong. Alcatraz is a wild horse and Brand alternates the narrative between the people struggling to hold onto a ranch and the horse as he breaks from a cruel master and learns to survive on the plains. This is one of the great Western novels. Max Brands style of writing is classic western, heroes and villains, good guys and bad guys, wide open country. Max Brand was the pen name of American author Frederick Schiller Faust. Brand was best known for writing Western novels, and many films have been adapted based on his stories.

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The Garden of Vision

Elizabeth Louisa Moresby

The Garden of Vision (1929) is a story of Japanese Zen Buddhism and martial arts situated in Britain and Japan in the 1920s. The chief character is an English woman who joins the school. L. Adams Beck was one of the pen-names of Elizabeth Louisa Moresby, a Canadian writer who wrote most of her 30 books in the last 10 years of her life. She was also known as Eliza Louisa Moresby Beck and Lily Moresby Adams. She was a staunch Buddhist and strict vegetarian, highly critical of the materialism of the West. Her works include The Ninth Vibration (1922), Dreams and Delights (1922), The Perfume of the Rainbow (1923) and others.

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Ród Rodrigandów (Tom 11). Ród Rodrigandów. Traper Sępi Dziób

Karol May

Kolejny tom przygód w scenerii westernu z cyklu o rodzie Rodrigandów. Niebezpieczne wydarzenia rozgrywają się w Meksyku. Tytułowy traper Sępi Dziób udaremnia zasadzkę na lorda Drydena, raniąc przy tym dotkliwie przywódcę bandy. Ten jednak uchodzi z życiem. Wydarzenia przenoszą się do hacjendy del Erina, odbitej w poprzednim tomie z rąk bandy przez naszych bohaterów i Indian Miksteków.

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Almayers Folly. A Story of an Eastern River

Joseph Conrad

Almayer is a European by nature who never lived in Europe. He has to marry the adoptive Malay daughter of another European, who promises Almayer a rich life. But the European does not keep his word. The main character gets depressed. But the story revolves around the stupidity of Almayers life and the stupidity of Europeans, who believe that they are superior to others.

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Patty in the City

Carolyn Wells

Patty and her dad decide to spend part of the year in New York City. She moves to New York and enrolls in the Oliphant School. Then she starts to make friends, as she always does, and she even starts a club called the Grig. First appearance of the Farringtons. Patty in the City (1905) is the third book of the Patty Fairfield collection, a total of 17 novels covering the life of this happy and cheerful American teenager of a century ago, as she matures and comes of age, and, in the meantime, living all kind of amazing adventures. Patty Fairfield is a pretty, well-mannered, graceful, thoughtful, smart, but not too smart 14 year old who will make us laugh and cry, and learn about life with her.

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Anne of the Island

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of the Island was published in 1915, seven years after the bestselling Anne of Green Gables. This book tells the story of Anne Shirleys and her friends college years. As the security of home and childhood comforts fade, each must face the trials of being on their own. The novel kicks off when Anne decides to pursue her dream of a higher education, and subsequently leaves her two year teaching position at the school in Avonlea and begins her studies at Redmond College in Kingsport, where she is studying for her BA. A novel depicting the inevitable process of growing up, Anne of the Island is a perfect illustration of the challenging and sometimes awkward moments we all go through to achieve our full potential in life.