Old Man Tutt

Arthur Ch. Train

Americas wisest and kindliest lawyer tackles a series of impossible cases and wins. Mr. Ephraim Tutt is a wily old lawyer who supported the common man and always had a trick up his sleeve to right the laws injustices. Based on author Arthur Trains experiences working in the offices of the New York District Attorney, Old Man Tutt is a must-read for fans of legal mysteries. Arthur Cheney Train, also called Arthur Chesney Train, was an American lawyer and writer of legal thrillers, particularly known for his novels of courtroom intrigue and the creation of the fictional lawyer Mr. Ephraim Tutt. Train was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was lawyer Charles Russell Train, who served for many years as attorney general of Massachusetts, and his mother was Sara Maria Cheney. Train graduated with a BA from Harvard University in 1896 and LLB from Harvard Law School in 1899.

La Reine Margot

Alexandre Dumas pere

Gloire Dieu, gloire la France! En cet heureux jour de la Saint-Barthélemy Marguerite de Valois, qui est la soeur de sa Majesté Charles IX, a épousé en justes noces Henri de Navarre, qui est prince des huguenots français. Alors, est-ce que les batailles entre catholiques et protestants viennent de prendre fin? Cest lheure est aux réjouissances, la fraternisation, au bon vin coulant flots dans les auberges de la capitale! Mais quelques sombres événements dans les rues de Paris...

Ucieczka z haremu

Mór Jókai

Światowej sławy powieść klasyka literatury węgierskiej, wydana również pod tytułem Złoty człowiek. Główny bohater, Michał Timar, prowadzi przez wody Dunaju statek o wdzięcznej nazwie Święta Barbara. Na statku tym przebywa też z ojcem piękna czarnowłosa i bladolica Turczynka o imieniu Timea. Michał zakochuje się w dziewczynie bez pamięci. Próbuje zrealizować swój ideał romantycznej miłości, uciekając od rzeczywistości, która go otacza.

Kwiat lotosu

Maria Rodziewiczówna

Rafał Radwan to elegancki i przystojny młodzieniec. Nie przywiązuje się do miejsc i ludzi. Słabszymi od siebie gardzi. Kobiet nie szanuje. Łaknie przygody i wyzwań. Na co dzień Radwan studiuje medycynę. Po wakacjach nie wraca jednak na swoją uczelnię. Straciwszy pasję do nauki, postanawia ruszyć w świat. Wyjeżdża wraz ze swoim kolegą ze studiów Adamem Lachnickim. Obaj młodzieńcy opuszczają Polskę z przeświadczeniem, że już nigdy do niej nie wrócą. Pracując, przemierzają kontynenty, poznają Azję i Amerykę, stają się prawdziwymi traperami. Po ośmiu latach Rafał sam wraca do kraju, gdzie niespodziewanie spotyka Leonkę. Niegdysiejsza gimnazjalistka wyrosła na przepiękną młodą kobietę. Została lekarzem. Oboje są całkiem innymi ludźmi niż kilkanaście lat wcześniej. Ich fascynacja tym razem wzajemna staje się ładunkiem wybuchowym tragicznych zdarzeń. Kwiat lotosu to książka, którą warto przeczytać.

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

L. Frank Baum

Originally published in 1908, while Baum was resident in Coronado, California, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is considered one of the darker of the Oz tales. However, it also is enlivened by Baums considerable wit, penchant for puns, and dry social commentary. This fourth Oz novel sees Kansas farm-girl Dorothy Gale once again transported to magical lands, this time thanks to a California earthquake, during which our heroine falls into the depths of the earth, together with a boy name Zeb, his carriage-horse Jim, and Dorothys mischievous kitten, Eureka. Deep beneath the earth, Dorothy is reunited with her old friend the Wizard of Oz and his troupe of nine tiny piglets. Together, they embark on an adventure through the earth dealing with angry vegetables, invisible people and bears, and wooden gargoyles. Eventually, after confronting a cave full of dragonettes, the travelers are rescued by Ozma of Oz, who transports them to the Emerald City. Here Dorothy and Wizard meet many old friends, while Eureka meets trouble...

Gehenna

Helena Mniszkówna

Akcja powieści rozpoczyna się na Wołyniu. Główna bohaterka siedemnastoletnia Andzia Tarłówna jest zaślepiona w swej dobroci i nie dostrzega początkowo wad i złych zamiarów wobec niej najpierw ojczyma a później męża. Andzia jest piękna i bogata co przeszkadza jej osiągnąć szczęście ze swoim ukochanym Andrzejem, który niestety umiera w tajemniczych dla niej i tragicznych okolicznościach. Powinna była wziąć sobie do serca wróżbę starej Cyganki...

The Path of the King

John Buchan

We wonder that so great a man as Abraham Lincoln should spring from humble people but who knows what his more distant ancestry might have been? In a series of dramatic chapters, Mr. Buchan tells what he imagines to have been the ancestry of Lincoln. The Path Of The King is a series of short vignettes, loosely connected, starting in Scotland before the Normans arrived and involving the people who where in conflict with their Scandinavian cousins. It ends in America with the aftermath of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. In the journey from the start to the end we visit various historical events and figures, such as France and Joan of Arc. This collection of fourteen short stories shows John Buchans talent for heroic adventures. Hightown under Sunfell is set in the time of the Vikings, whilst The End of the Road surrounds the period of Abraham Lincoln. Other tales cover periods in between. If you ever read one book by John Buchan this should be it, a true masterpiece of historical fiction.

The Green Eye of Goona

Arthur Morrison

Morrisons most popular books are probably his detective stories, featuring Martin Hewitt, a methodical investigator, who uses his ability to be thoroughly at home among any and every class of people to invite confidences in gathering evidence. Martin Hewitt stories are similar in style to those of Conan Doyle, cleverly plotted and very amusing. Morrison made two other forays into the detective field, the first: The Dorrington Deed-Box, which introduces the quasi-criminal antihero Dorrington, and The Green Eye of Goona, a pastiche of Wilkie Collinss The Moon-Stone. The Green Eye of Goona novel is set in India. Unusual and imaginative in subject matter, meticulously plotted, and smoothly written, this story will captivate mystery lovers.

The Cinema Murder

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Phillip Romilly is a poor art teacher in London, half-starved, both mentally and physically. His cousin, Douglas, has everything and even buys Beatrice, Philips fiancée. He strangles Douglas, throws him in the canal, and assumes his identity. Douglas had booked passage to America for the next day, so after a pleasant sea voyage Phillip arrives at the Waldorf Hotel in New York as Douglas Romilly. Philips career in New York is filled with incident. On his wedding day, he is arrested for the murder of his cousin, and he seems lost, but the unexpected happens to save the situation! With colorful characters this classic murder mystery truly captures 20th century English and American life, and culminates dramatically...

The Mysterious Island

Jules Verne

A storm, an eruption of a volcano, pirate attacks, a mysterious captain Nemo and, of course, a story of survival on a piece of land in the ocean are interwoven into the adventurous plot of the novel The Mysterious Island offered to the reader: resourceful heroes thrown by a hurricane onto a desert island themselves make sugar and melt steel. They make bricks, wool, sulfuric and nitric acid, nitroglycerin and dynamite, design a telegraph and a spinning machine. One of Jules Vernes most fascinating novels, The Mysterious Island, is an exciting adventure story of islanders.

Keeper of the Keys

Earl Derr Biggers

In this last written adventure, the plot unfolds with an intriguing scenario. Wealthy and hospitible Dudley Ward gathers together Charlie Chan along with Ellens three later husbands to his large house on Lake Tahoe. After hearing his former wife, Ellen Landini, may have been pregnant when she left him, Dudley Ward is determined to find his son. There are four ex-husbands, including Ward, all of them angry with Landini, who is about to marry a fifth husband, also present, with his sister, at this bizarre gathering. Landini herself arrives on the scene to complete the madness, and is promptly murdered. Her servants, entourage and husbands all come under suspicion. Keeper of the Keys was the final book written by Earl Derr Biggers before his passing a year later.

Ben Hur. A Tale of the Christ

Lewis Wallace

A Tale of the Christ one of the popular novels written by Lewis Wallace. It is considered the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century. The novel reflects the themes of betrayal, condemnation and redemption with a plot of revenge that leads to a story of love and compassion. It was the bestselling novel of all time.

Król Maciuś na wyspie bezludnej

Janusz Korczak

Powieść dla dzieci autorstwa Janusza Korczaka, ukazująca dalsze losy małego władcy-reformatora, bohatera powieści Król Maciuś Pierwszy. Maciuś Pierwszy król, który pragnął uczynić szczęśliwymi wszystkie dzieci na świecie cudem uniknął śmierci. Po przegranej wonie zostaje uwięziony i czeka na zesłanie na bezludną wyspę. Zaczyna rozmyślać nad sobą i swoim miejscem w świecie. Nie przestaje też działać. Ucieka z wiozącego go na bezludną wyspę pociągu, ukrywa się pod przybranym imieniem, wreszcie staje przed szansą odzyskania tronu... Opowieść pełna zaskakujących przygód, które nie zawsze kończą się pomyślnie. Znakomite źródło wiedzy o świecie i wartościach, które są ważne w życiu każdego dziecka.

The Guvnor and Other Short Stories

Edgar Wallace

Fifth book in the J.G. Reeder series. When Larry ORyan decides to become a burglar he attends night school to study ballistics, then secures a job at a safe-makers. After three successful robberies Larry is caught by Mr. J. G. Reeder. An unlikely friendship develops and on Saturdays they can be seen together at the British Museum or the Tower. One day Larry rescues Miss Lane Leonard, daughter of a millionaire. The disappearance of one and a half million pounds in gold bullion and a series of bank frauds baffles Scotland Yard. But not Mr. J. G. Reeder. The Guvnor and Other Short Stories is a short story compilation by the British crime writer Edgar Wallace. These are the final stories about Mr. J. G. Reeder, a police officer with the mind of a criminal.

Softfoot of Silver Creek

Robert Leighton

Over the laughter of a nearby waterfall, over a long roar the distant herds of bison that crowded the prairie, and over the oily creak of his knife on a sharp stone on his knee, his keen ear knew the sound of her light stepped as she crawled out of the pines into a sunny glade on a bluff. He didnt turn around, he only dropped the stone, threw back the thick locks that retreated, his long black hair, and then, with his thumb, meditatively checked the razor blade his blade Sitting very motionless, he raised his dreamy eyes to look forward through a sparkling stream and a billowing prairie to the dark sky behind the purple mountain.

The Light Beyond

E. Phillips Oppenheim

In this remarkable 1927 novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim, a great conference has been called in London to renegotiate the war debt. It is clear that Germany is suffering, and all of Europe is affected. The great Financier Felix Dukane is in London with his beautiful daughter Estelle. It is rumored that he stands ready to loan Germany One Billion Pounds if the conference is able to limit the total debt. The outcome of the conference hinges on military and industrial secrets. The novel presents a fascinating picture of the political mindset of the day to go along with the twists and turns of the story. Interestingly, unlike most of Oppenheims novels, many of the main characters act dishonorably at various points in the novel.