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E. Phillips Oppenheim
Turmoil over Thurlow House. The new tenant of the garden house has barely moved in when a grisly murder happens. Is Mister Brown, the new tenant guilty? Who is he, anyway? His past is shrouded in mystery and nobody seems to know anything about him other than that he is wealthy? Strange things continue to happen... The New Tenant is a devious mystery from the the prince of storytellers Phillips Oppenheim who wrote nearly 150 novels during his career. Very much in the genre of The Woman in White and other late Victorian mysteries, this book evolves slowly, with lengthy descriptions of setting, scenery, and society. If you like British style mysteries, this ones for you!
The New Yorker. Biografia pisma, które zmieniło Amerykę
Michał Choiński
Dokładnie sto lat temu przy kawiarnianym stoliku w Hotelu Algonquin na Manhattanie grupa inteligentnych i wygadanych przyjaciół wpadła na pomysł założenia gazety. Miała wyrażać wielkomiejskiego ducha Nowego Jorku, być wyrafinowana i dowcipna. The New Yorker szybko stał się czymś znacznie więcej. Zmienił dziennikarstwo i Amerykę. Po publikacji reportażu Hiroszima, pokazującego ogrom zniszczeń wywołanych zrzuceniem bomby, Albert Einstein poprosił redakcję o 1000 egzemplarzy tego numeru. Drukowany w odcinkach Eichmann w Jerozolimie Hanny Arendt stał się najgłośniejszym dziełem filozoficznym XX w. Reportaż śledczy o przestępstwach seksualnych Harveya Weinsteina stał u początku ruchu #MeToo. Okładki magazynu na życzenie Baracka Obamy zdobiły ściany Białego Domu. A komiksy i żarty Charlesa Addamsa dały początek słynnej Rodzinie Addamsów. Michał Choiński opowiada o ekscentrycznych dziennikarzach, wielkich pisarzach i pisarkach, ikonicznych okładkach i przełomowych tekstach. A także pyta o przepis na sukces, czyli jak stworzyć ambitne pismo, które w dobie internetowej walki o klikalność zbudowało trwałą relację z milionami wiernych czytelników. Michał Choiński amerykanista, stypendysta Fulbrighta na Uniwersytecie Yale, profesor na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskiego. Przeprowadził wywiady z ponad 50 redaktorami New Yorkera, zgromadził setki nagrań, a w archiwum magazynu i w The New York Public Library dokonał unikalnych odkryć. Jedyny Polak, któremu redakcja New Yorkera tak mocno uchyliła drzwi swojego świata. Specjalizuje się także w literaturze amerykańskiego Południa.
The New Yorker. Biografia pisma, które zmieniło Amerykę
Michał Choiński
Dokładnie sto lat temu przy kawiarnianym stoliku w Hotelu Algonquin na Manhattanie grupa inteligentnych i wygadanych przyjaciół wpadła na pomysł założenia gazety. Miała wyrażać wielkomiejskiego ducha Nowego Jorku, być wyrafinowana i dowcipna. The New Yorker szybko stał się czymś znacznie więcej. Zmienił dziennikarstwo i Amerykę. Po publikacji reportażu Hiroszima, pokazującego ogrom zniszczeń wywołanych zrzuceniem bomby, Albert Einstein poprosił redakcję o 1000 egzemplarzy tego numeru. Drukowany w odcinkach Eichmann w Jerozolimie Hanny Arendt stał się najgłośniejszym dziełem filozoficznym XX w. Reportaż śledczy o przestępstwach seksualnych Harveya Weinsteina stał u początku ruchu #MeToo. Okładki magazynu na życzenie Baracka Obamy zdobiły ściany Białego Domu. A komiksy i żarty Charlesa Addamsa dały początek słynnej Rodzinie Addamsów. Michał Choiński opowiada o ekscentrycznych dziennikarzach, wielkich pisarzach i pisarkach, ikonicznych okładkach i przełomowych tekstach. A także pyta o przepis na sukces, czyli jak stworzyć ambitne pismo, które w dobie internetowej walki o klikalność zbudowało trwałą relację z milionami wiernych czytelników. Michał Choiński amerykanista, stypendysta Fulbrighta na Uniwersytecie Yale, profesor na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskiego. Przeprowadził wywiady z ponad 50 redaktorami New Yorkera, zgromadził setki nagrań, a w archiwum magazynu i w The New York Public Library dokonał unikalnych odkryć. Jedyny Polak, któremu redakcja New Yorkera tak mocno uchyliła drzwi swojego świata. Specjalizuje się także w literaturze amerykańskiego Południa.
The Nigger of the Narcissus. A Tale of the Sea
Joseph Conrad
The Nigger of the Narcissus was written in 1896 and is loosely based on Conrads own experiences as a sailor; in 1884, Conrad made a voyage on the real Narcissus from Bombay to Dunkirk as a Second Mate, and some of the events described in his novella may be based on adversities Conrad and his fellow-sailers had to contend with. And yet, Conrads third novel is much more than just an accout of adventures at sea partly based on fact and experience. In The Nigger of the Narcissus, Conrad powerfully expresses his emotional leanings towards a seafaring life but he also unfolds a rather pessimistic worldview, maybe an even more pessimistic one than in many of his later works. An absolutely engrossing tale that takes place on board of the Narcissus, a ship bound for England. It explores the microcosm on board of this ship and examines human nature and power relations as more and more strain is put on the crew.
Jack London
Romance and adventure, the majestic nature and extreme conditions, strong and independent heroes Jack Londons stories are extremely popular, more than a hundred adaptations of works are known. In a small work, Born in the Night, the author shows how the benefits of civilization are inferior to the forest and to a huge concept called Freedom. A woman who stumbles upon abandoned bags of gold does not become a noble lady with a wardrobe, but leads a small tribe.
Max Brand
For all his untamed ways, Whistling Dan Barry has won the love of Kate Cumberland, who struggles to lure him from the call of the wind and the night in the desert country. But Dans mysterious personality leads him into one difficult situation after another, for the path he takes with his wild companions - the stallion Satan and the wolf dog Black Bart - is strewn with desperate enemies and fierce encounters. "The Night Horseman" is part of a trilogy about a mysterious gunslinger who appears to be a Casper Milquetoaste but, in concert with a powerful wolf-dog, and a murderous stallion; is able to overpower seemingly any opposing force.
Thorne Smith
In Night Life of the Gods, we meet Hunter Hawk, wealthy eccentric scientist in 1920s America, who, after numerous explosions, manages to invent an atomic ray that turns living beings into statues, and a second ray that restores them to their original state. With the help of Megaera, a fetching nine-hundred-year-old lady leprechaun he meets one night in the woods, he masters the art of transforming statues into people. Together, the two are invincible, especially when they get to New York City, where there are museums full of statues of Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, waiting to come back to life... Author Thorne Smith puts his seemingly boundless imagination to good work in The Night Life of the Gods, a rip-roaring novel that postulates about what would happen if ancient deities were revived and allowed to run wild in the streets of Depression-era New York City.
Alex Finlay
Sylwester 1999 roku. Ludzie spodziewają się, że tej nocy nastąpi koniec świata: z nieba zaczną spadać samoloty, na giełdach wybuchnie panika, dojdzie do masowej awarii komputerów. Nic takiego się nie stało, ale w wypożyczalni kaset video w stanie New Jersey zaatakowano cztery nastolatki. Tylko jedna dziewczyna przeżyła. Policja szybko wytypowała podejrzanego chłopaka jednej z ofiar. Niestety sprawcy nie udało się ująć... Piętnaście lat później kolejne dziewczyny zostają napadnięte w tym samym mieście i znowu tylko jedna uchodzi z życiem. Agentka FBI Sarah Keller musi zagłębić się w tajemnice obu nocy, aby odkryć prawdę o morderstwach na nocnej zmianie Alex Finlay to pseudonim literacki wybitnego prawnika amerykańskiego, autora powieści sensacyjnych. Autor nagrodzonego thrillera W otchłani strachu, przetłumaczonego na kilkanaście języków. W młodości dużo podróżował: mieszkał na tropikalnej wyspie na Pacyfiku, w małej wiosce w Wielkiej Brytanii i w odległym zakątku Dalekiego Wschodu.
Jack London
“The Night-born” 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 Night-born is a series of short stories by Jack London. It consists of ten moving and thrilling stories such as: The Night-Born, The Madness of John Harned, When the World was Young or To Kill A Man.
Radosław Budkiewicz
“I knew it!” he exclaimed. “What did you know?” “That there would be something like this. There are probably drugs inside. Opium!” “Kid, you can buy opium and cocaine without any problem... Coca-Cola has cocaine in it after all, nothing’s wrong with that,” argued Adrien, who admittedly preferred coffee, but didn't mind a bottle of this fizzy drink. Steve nodded and Connor muttered something in reply. Wright, being the oldest of all and possessing the greatest reserves of common sense, walked over to his truck. He spent a moment there, and when he returned he was holding a crowbar in his hand. “This is the extra crate, yes?” he asked, but didn't wait for an answer. He crossed himself and thrust the crowbar between the boards, hit the flat end with his open palm, then pushed with all his weight until the wood burst open. The four petty criminals came at the open crate like vultures, greedily peering inside. There, among the crumpled newspapers and hay, was absolutely nothing. At least this was the first impression. The youngster cursed and reached between the crumpled straw and newspaper with his trembling hand, rummaging through for a moment. Then he sprang back from the crate like a scalded man with a shriek on his pale, young face. Connor also backed away, unsure of what was happening. Steve, however, stepped closer and carefully slid his hand into the crate. A moment later he cursed and made the sign of the cross with terror in his eyes.
Edgar Wallace
With the stealing of the fat Englishmans wallet by Gregory Silinski, commences this extraordinary story of crime. Who are the Nine Bears? Who is Hyatt and the Man of the Eiffel Tower? And where is LOLO the secret rendezvous of the Nine? These are only a few of the facers that confront T. B. Smith, Assistant Commissioner from Scotland Yard, until the final dramatic scene aboard the mad battleship. This book is one of the most popular novels of Edgar Wallace, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. Novelist, playwright and journalist, Edgar Wallace, is best known for his popular detective and suspense stories which, in his lifetime, earned him the title, King of the Modern Thriller.
The Nine Unknown The Red Flame of Erinpura
Talbot Mundy
This is the first story in which Chulunder Gon takes a leading position, and previously acted only in the company of other Mundi heroes. The story is about a corrupt Indian ruler who is looking for hidden wealth on his land and has formed a background for the curtains of the gods of Manda. The buried treasures are in fact oil deposits. The inspirational author had his own interest in oil in Mexico and the presence of oil in Assam, one of the Indian provinces, which Talbot visited in his youth. Mundi describes the acquisition of wealth in the context of an adventure, about which he simultaneously wrote and tried to live in it.
The Node Craftsman Book. An Advanced Node.js Tutorial
Manuel Kiessling
The Node Craftsman Book helps JavaScript programmers with basic Node.js knowledge to now thoroughly master Node.js and JavaScript. This book dives you deeper into the craft of software development with Node.js and JavaScript, incuding object-orientation, test-driven development, database handling, web frameworks, and much more.The Node Craftsman Book shows you how to work with Node.js and how to think deeply about how you build your Node projects. You'll master how to build a complete Node.js application across six crafting milestones, and you'll learn many specific skills to achieve that mastery. These skills include how to work with the Node Package Manager in depth, how to connect your Node applications to databases, and how to write unit tests and end-to-end tests for your code. You'll experience the full Node.js development picture, and learn how to craft and control your Node.js applications - right through to fully-fledged web applications using REST, and integration with Angular applications.
Edgar Wallace
Rather different from the usual Wallace plot, here we have a tramp heading for the Canadian border who marries a girl while in a drunken stupor. Her wedding day was so fraught with danger that she and her husband were forced to flee from the deadly menace that ruthlessly dogged their every move. She learned to avoid the man with the red beard and his swarthy knife-juggling companion. Above all, she feared and avoided Gussie, whose drawl and monocle gave him a deceptive appearance of meekness. Who were these three and who was her strange husband and what was the secret that spelled death between them? Mysterious tramps, Chicago gangsters, and villainous members of the English nobility!
Lewis Carroll
This is a simplified version of Alice in Wonderland for the little ones. Added a few new digressions that still add color to this childrens fiction. Easy to read and easy to understand, which is the most important. As always, amazing creatures will meet on the path of the protagonist.
The Oak Openings. Or, The Bee-Hunter
James Fenimore Cooper
In this book you will find a description of the life and way of life of the indigenous inhabitants of the country Indians and white settlers; numerous hunting scenes. The novel will not leave indifferent either those who appreciate the sharp, constantly in suspense plot, or those who are interested in the conditions under which the development of the American continent was carried out at the beginning of the last century.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
“The Oakdale Affair“ 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 third book in the Mucker series. In the home of Jonas Prim, president of an Oakdale bank, a thief makes off with a servant's clothing and valuables belonging to Prim's daughter Abigail. Abigail is thought to be absent visiting Sam Benham, whom her parents want her to marry. When the Prims discover the theft and learn that Abigail never arrived at Benham's. The incidents are assumed to be connected to other crimes, the assault and robbery of John Baggs and the murder of Reginald Paynter, who had been seen with two men and a girl. The local paper speculates Abigail might have been involved with Paynter's murder. Mr. Prim hires a private eye.
Hulbert Footner
The novel begins with the fact that Phil Nevitt, an employee of an American alcoholic beverage company, goes to Annunziata, the mythical island of Futners creation in the West Indies, to learn everything he can about the Randall Trantora rum. The Obeah Murders show their fantastic roots with so many genre influences (spy, western, adventure, supernatural and detective). In the end, however, the race issue was the most surprising and, ultimately, the most important aspect of the book. More Footner reviews will appear later this summer.
Ethel M. Dell
This is another wonderful Christian love story by British writer of popular romance novels Ethel M. Dell. She was a popular 20th century writer who wrote dozens of romance novels and several short stories, including the well known The Keeper of the Door series. Our story takes place mainly in a little fishing village in England. This small seaside village hides a romance for Juliet Moore a romance with Dick Green, the village schoolmaster, a very different sort of man than the socialite swells shes known in London. But there are also secrets between them that threaten to tear them apart. It is a very sweet love story, full of surprises and poignant moments. The Obstacle Race is an interesting book and written in the classic style of an old-fashioned inspirational love story.
J.U. Giesy, Junius B Smith
Abdul Omar was a psychologist, mystic and astrologer who worked as a private detective. He believed that astrology would help predict the exact actions of a person. Based on the time of birth, he can accurately predict what and when a person will do. He was devoted to protecting women and their honor. He fell in love with and married Lotis, a former assassin of the Black Brotherhood who was sent to kill him.
Homer
A classic for the ages, The Odyssey recounts Odysseus (Ulysses) journey home after the Trojan War. After the end of the war, Ulysses and his companions decide to return home, but in the middle of the path a horrible storm deviates them from the original route. Just one more difficulty, they have to face monsters like Cyclops and Mermaids, always overcoming them with cleverness astuteness. During one of these confrontations, all his companions are murdered and Ulysses has to continue his journey alone, but a generous king and the goddess Athena helps him. He withstands the lure of the Sirens song and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his most difficult challenge at home, where treacherous suitors seek to steal his kingdom and his loyal wife, Penelope.
The Office. Opowieść o kultowym serialu
Andy Greene
Wcześniej nieznane historie zza kulis kultowego serialu, opowiedziane przez jego twórców, scenarzystów i aktorów Kiedy ostatnio widzieliście się z Jimem, Pam, Dwightem, Michaelem i resztą pracowników Dunder Mifflin? Być może w 2013 roku, kiedy wyemitowano finalny sezon serialu a może wczoraj wieczorem, kiedy obejrzeliście trzy odcinki z rzędu. Tak czy inaczej, długo po pierwszej emisji ten sitcom nadal cieszy się niesłabnącą popularnością, a jego fani szukają kolejnych informacji o ulubionym serialu. Andy Greene w swojej książce, napisanej na podstawie szczegółowych badań i wywiadów, zabierze czytelników za kulisy serialu. Przypomni ulubione sceny i odcinki i opisze historię ich powstania, a także opowie o wcześniej nieznanych szczegółach związanych z serialem, takich jak walka o jego utrzymanie na antenie, gdy NBC chciało zrezygnować z emisji po zaledwie sześciu odcinkach. Ta książka jest prawdziwą gratką dla wszystkich fanów serialu, który zmienił nie tylko oblicze telewizji i popkultury, lecz również to, jak postrzegamy pracę w biurze.
Knut Sveidqvist, Ashish Jain
Mermaid is a JavaScript-based charting and diagramming tool that lets you represent diagrams using text and code, which simplifies the maintenance of complex diagrams. This is a great option for developers as they’re more familiar with code, rather than using special tools for generating diagrams. Besides, diagrams in code simplify maintenance and ensure that the code is supported by version control systems. In some cases, Mermaid makes refactoring support for name changes possible while also enabling team collaboration for review distribution and updates.Developers working with any system will be able to put their knowledge to work with this practical guide to using Mermaid for documentation. The book is also a great reference for looking up the syntax for specific diagrams when authoring diagrams.You’ll start by learning the importance of accurate and visual documentation. Next, the book introduces Mermaid and establishes how to use it to create effective documentation. By using different tools, editors, or a custom documentation platform, you’ll also understand how to use Mermaid syntax for various diagrams. Later chapters cover advanced configuration settings and theme options to manipulate your diagram as per your needs.By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with Mermaid diagrams and how they can be used in your workflows.
The Official MongoDB Guide. Resilience, scalability, security and performance
Rachelle Palmer, Jeffrey Allen, Parker Faucher, Alison...
Delivering secure, scalable, and high-performance applications is never easy, especially when systems must handle growth, protect sensitive data, and perform reliably under pressure. The Official MongoDB Guide addresses these challenges with guidance from MongoDB’s top subject matter experts, so you learn proven best practices directly from those who know the technology inside out.This book takes you from core concepts and architecture through to advanced techniques for data modeling, indexing, and query optimization, supported by real-world patterns that improve performance and resilience. It offers practical coverage of developer tooling, IDE integrations, and AI-assisted workflows that will help you work faster and more effectively.Security-focused chapters walk you through authentication, authorization, encryption, and compliance, while chapters dedicated to MongoDB Atlas showcase its robust security features and demonstrate how to deploy, scale, and leverage platform-native capabilities such as Atlas Search and Atlas Vector Search.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to design, build, and manage MongoDB applications with the confidence that comes from learning directly from the experts shaping the technology.*Email sign-up and proof of purchase required