Shorty Bill

H.C. McNeile

Sapper stories focus on the individuals than overall strategy. They describe what the things are like for the soldiers in the trenches. The story of an excellent young man, noble and deeply versed in the intricacies of etiquette. Most of the human race was unaware of its existence; but the ladies and gentlemen in the Mogmoth Emporium of Mogg considered him the ultimate arbiter of elegance. There is no direct story about the war, but there is a story about the man who helped many after the war.

Clubfoot the Avenger

Valentine Williams

Clubfoot the Avenger is a delightful treasure hunt on the Pacific island from the fearless Major Oakuvuda. The circumstances of how Okuvud gains knowledge of the treasures and the subsequent pursuit of the sworn enemy of Okuvud, clubfoot, made for a swift, intense and fascinating reading highlighted by romantic interest and a satisfactory ending.

Dewajtis

Maria Rodziewiczówna

Historia zaściankowo-dworska, której akcja toczy się na Żmudzi. Tytułowy Dweajtis to prastary dąb symbol wiecznego trwania. O jego uratowanie walczy główny bohater, który pracuje na cudzym w majątku. Niespodziewanie po jego stronie staje młoda i ładna właścicielka. Życie bohaterów powieści obraca się wokół utrzymania ziemi, dziedzictwa i tożsamości. Najważniejszym miernikiem wartości człowieka jest jego stosunek do pracy. Dweajtis to piękna opowieść o życiu człowieka zmagającego się ze swoim losem, o sile charakteru, o niezłomności i w końcu o szukaniu siły i oparcia w przyrodzie. Jedna z najlepszych powieści Marii Rodziewiczówny, nagrodzona w 1888 r. w konkursie Kuriera Warszawskiego. Powieść była przekładana na język litewski (najwcześniej, bo już w 1890 r.), niemiecki, serbochorwacki, angielski, francuski, słowacki i czeski, a także na węgierski i hiszpański. Dewajtis został również adaptowany na scenę (w 1910 r.) oraz na słuchowisko radiowe (w 1969 r.).

Jan of the Jungle

Otis Adelbert Kline

Led to believe that his natural mother is a chimpanzee Chicma, a young boy knows only the savage ways of the great apes. Kept in a cage, he is systematically trained to become a savage killer by the fiendish Dr. Bracken. But the young boy, Jan, is clever enough to escape from the lab and make it out into the surrounding swamp with his chimp mentor at his side and emerge near the Lost Empire of Mu. The swamplands offer Jan has his first taste of freedom. He grows up fast, and has several run-ins with the wildlife of the swamps-crocodiles, snakes, bears, etc.... With all his fighting skill, there remained only one challenge to Jan: trace his origins and locate his man-parents. Full of intrigue and adventure, this classic from Otis Adelbert Kline is a must for adventure-pulp literature fans!

Atlas gwiazd

Przemysław Rudź

Odkrywanie nieba to zajęcie dla amatorów kosmicznej przygody w każdym wieku. Zmieniające się położenia konstelacji dostarczają obserwatorom wrażeń przez cały rok. Znany popularyzator astronomii Przemysław Rudź opisuje w poradniku 59 gwiazdozbiorów – ich historie, cechy oraz najważniejsze gwiazdy i obiekty znajdujące się w ich zasięgu. Szczegółowe mapy nieba ułatwią zlokalizowanie gwiazd na niebie w poszczególnych miesiącach, a treści zawarte we wstępie przygotują do obserwacji nieba.

The Elephant Man - 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. He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him 'The Elephant Man'. Then someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film.

West of the Pecos

Zane Grey

From one of the bestselling western novelists of all time, comes another classic story. It is the story of Terrill Lambert, a young girl who disguises herself as a boy, at first to please her fathers dream for a son and second to protect herself in wild west Texas when her father is murdered. Young Terrill Lambeth could ride and shoot with the best men of the south. When her widowed father parks a caravan and drives towards Texas, she gets the chance to test her skills and prove herself on the rugged and dangerous trail west. When Templeton is murdered Terrill is left to fend for herself until desperado Pecos Smith crosses her path. A romantic western of the early 20th century.

Topper

Thorne Smith

Thorne Smith best-remembered for humorous novels, many turning on some fantastic plot device which thrusts the protagonist into grotesque predicaments, often via unwitting transformation. The 1926 publication of Topper brought the author immediate acclaim. Elegant, fun-loving George and Marion Kerby are the toast of the town, until they wreck their flashy car and discover theyve become, well, ghosts. Making the best of a bad situation, they decide that being dead is the perfect opportunity to liven up stuffy Cosmo Topper. The capricious ghosts make it their mission to rescue the law-abiding, mild-mannered bank manager from the staid summer of suburban Sundays that is his life. With their ectoplasmic reappearances and whimsically insane actions, they leave Topper, and anyone else who crosses their path, in a whirlwind of discomfiture and delight.