Skarby

Zofia Żurakowska

Skarby stanowią pierwszą część planowanej trylogii autobiograficznej Zofii Żurakowskiej. Kolejno powstał tom Pożegnanie domu, jednak ze względu na zawieruchy dziejowe pisarce nie udało się dokończyć cyklu. Skarby utożsamiane są z domem rodzinnym, szacunkiem, miłością, krainą dzieciństwa, które pozwalają budować dorosłą tożsamość bohaterów powieści.

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

One of Edith Whartons most famous novels the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize exquisitely details a tragic struggle between love and responsibility during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people dreaded scandal more than disease. Newland Archer, a restrained young attorney, is engaged to the lovely May Welland but falls in love with Mays beautiful and unconventional cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska who returns to New York after a disastrous marriage to a Polish count. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life or mercilessly destroy it. An incisive look at the ways desire and emotion must negotiate the complex rules of society, The Age of Innocence is one of Whartons most moving works.

The Happy Family

B.M. Bower

A lively and amusing story, dealing with the adventures of eighteen jovial, big hearted Montana cowboys. First published in 1910, The Happy Family (a sequel to Chip of the Flying U) continues the various funny and catchy happenings of the well-known interesting beloved characters Weary, Irish, Pink, Happy Jack, Big Medicine, and in particular Andy Green, storyteller extraordinaire, and the rest. They were so popular that their creator devoted a series of novels to their wrangling on the rangeland and in the ranch house. These stories play out in the badlands, on the edge of the Rockies. A classic Western romp, The Happy Family is not to be missed by fans and collectors of vintage Western literature.

Smithy, Nobby & Co

Edgar Wallace

Between 1904 and 1918 Edgar Wallace wrote a large number of mostly humorous sketches about life in the British Army relating the escapades and adventures of privates Smith (Smithy), Nobby Clark, Spud Murphy and their comrades-in-arms. Set at a later-and, when first published, contemporary time, and on a different stage, this substantial collection of the Smithy stories finds our incorrigible hero and his scurrilous band of confederates malingering, scheming and conniving their way through life in the British Army during the First World War. Edgar Wallace published three more collections about Smithy and Nobby and many, many more uncollected stories about them in magazines and newspapers.

Frank Merriwell at Yale

Burt L. Standish

Frank Merriwell is the perfect protagonist. He leads a healthy lifestyle, courageous and cheerful. Frank just radiates vital energy. Merriwell excelled at football, baseball, crew, and track at Yale while solving mysteries and righting wrongs. The book is written in a simple form, it is easy to read, thanks to all understandable slang.

Dan Barrys Daughter

Max Brand

Hes an outlaw on the run. Harry Gloster is an accused murderer who, though innocent, is forced to hide. Harry is a heartbeat ahead of the posse. But neither twisted justice nor a gallows rope can stretch across the Rio Grande. Hell-bent for Mexico, Gloster meets up with Joan Daniels and shes a dream come true. Now hes got a choice. Kiss the sweetest thing hes ever seen goodbye... or stay and risk a lynching. One of many recommended westerns by this prolific author. Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary westerns under the pen name Max Brand.

Ród Rodrigandów (Tom 12). Ród Rodrigandów. Jego Królewska Mość

Karol May

Bohaterowie sagi rodu Rodrigandów wikłają się w kłopoty. Stają się więźniami doktora Hilario w klasztorze della Barbara. Mało tego wkrótce ich współwięźniem staje się sam Pablo Cortejo bandycki przywódca. Następnie przenosimy się do Berlina, gdzie oficer Kurt Unger udaremnia spisek zawiązany przez emisariuszy Rosji, Austrii i... pirata Landolę!

Die zweite Frau

Eugenie Marlitt

Detailgetreu zeichnet die Autorin jede einzelne ihrer Figuren. Feinsinnig webt sie eine Geschichte in eine höfische Umgebung hinein, in der ernsthafte Kritik sowohl an den festgefügten Familien- und Lebensbedingungen des Adels als auch am überkommenen Ständesystem und an tradierten Hierarchien geschickt verpackt transportiert wird. Der reiche Baron Raoul von Mainau nimmt die verarmte Gräfin Juliane von Trachenberg zur Frau. Was Juliane nicht ahnt: Es ist keine Heirat aus Liebe, vielmehr will sich der Baron an der jungen Frau rächen. Und so sieht sich die ahnungslose Gräfin, kaum dass sie ihrem Ehemann auf Schloss Schönwerth folgt, einer bösen Intrige ausgesetzt. Die junge Adlige Juliane von Trachenberg wird in der Ehe mit dem Baron Raoul nicht glücklich. Bald sehnt sie sich nach ihrem früheren Leben und ihrer Familie bis sie eines Tages einen verborgenen Teil des Schloßgartens entdeckt...