Un capitaine de quinze ans

Jules Verne

Tout a commencé comme ça. Léquipage voulait aller chasser la baleine. Plus tard, ils ont vu le navire en train de couler. Au début, tout le monde pensait quil ny avait personne en vie. Mais tout coup il y avait un chien. Léquipage a décidé de la sauver. Ils ont trouvé cinq autres Noirs.

Jerry Todds Poodle Parlor

Leo Edwards

This story begins with a summer vacation in the small town of Tutter, Illinois, where the protagonist was born and raised. These are the adventures of the boys during their summer holidays. Many events revolve around the Woodlawn Bay Hotel and the old Windmere House, which stood side by side on the south bank of the river, each with about fifty acres of forested land around it. It was a new hotel, with its modern amenities, which put the old Hotel out of business. Now, after many years of idleness, the old hotel was demolished and its lumber and equipment were sold.

Trylogia napoleońska. Huragan. Rok 1809. Szwoleżerowie gwardii

Wacław Gąsiorowski

Na Trylogię napoleońską Wacława Gąsiorowskiego składają się powieści: Huragan, Rok 1809 oraz Szwoleżerowie gwardii. Akcja pierwszej powieści obejmuje okres od wypowiedzenia przez Napoleona wojny Prusom do utworzenia Księstwa Warszawskiego. Rok 1809 to rok wojny polsko-austriackiej w obronie Księstwa Warszawskiego. Akcja trzeciej powieści toczy się w czasie kampanii moskiewskiej Napoleona w 1812 roku. Na tle burzliwych wydarzeń tej wojennej epoki autor w mistrzowski sposób rysuje także wątki miłosne. Z zapartym tchem śledzimy losy głównych bohaterów powieści: Floriana Gotartowskiego i Zosi Dziewanowskiej, Tadeusza Bielskiego i Janki Głuskiej oraz Macieja i Joanny Żubrów.

Martin Paz

Jules Verne

Lima, au Pérou, lentrepreneur juif Samuel a promis dépouser sa fille Sarah avec un riche métis Andrea Serta. Cependant, Sarah est amoureuse de Indian Paz. Apres une bagarre au couteau dans la maison de Samuel, au cours de laquelle Serta a été blessé, Martin Paz saute dans la riviere turbulente. Tout le monde décide quil est mort, mais il est sauvé par lEspagnol Marquis Don Vegal.

False Evidence

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The story of a gallant soldier who is dismissed his regiment, and disowned by his father, because he has been found guilty, on false evidence, of cowardice in the field. He changes his name, and later his son falls in love with the daughter of the man whose false evidence led to his ruin.

Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue

Frank L. Packard

The third book Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue in the Gray Seal series is quite fantastic! Jimmie Dale, alias The Gray Seal, alias Smarlinghue, the gentleman adventurer, is back on the scent with the King of crim and quarry. Over the head of the woman he loves hangs a menace from the gang, she and Jimmie have often thwarted, and through the previous volume saw the leader disposed of, and they free to marry and live their own lives. But Marie knows that there is still one, The Phantom, who menaces her. She again disappears to work out her own salvation... Jimmie too resumes his underworld work. A fast-paced, adventurous story riddled with aliases, disguises, gunfire and opium dens.

Tajemniczy ogród

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Tajemniczy ogród opowiada o niezwykłym spotkaniu dwojga samotnych dzieci, z których każde nosi w sercu swoje krzywdy i troski. Miejscem ich spotkania jest stary, przytłaczający dom, w którym wciąż panuje nastrój nieukojonej żałoby. Dzieci, po przełamaniu pierwszych lodów, zawiązują przyjaźń, i wspólnie przywracają do życia bajkowy, zaniedbany ogród.

Albert Savarus

Honoré de Balzac

Wonderful tale set in the provincial town of Besançon, and focusing on the de Watteville family the fiercely religious and independently wealthy wife, the ineffectual husband, who absents himself, spending his days working his lathe and 19-year-old daughter, Rosalie. She falls in love with the mysterious stranger who took up residence a few yards away from her familys home. Through her maid, herself in love with Savaruss butler, Rosalie intercepts Savaruss letters to Paris and learns why this brilliant man established himself in Besançon and what he proposes to achieve. She hopes to escape from the dull marriage her mother is planning for her and instead ride on Savaruss growing success. Will Rosalie help Savarus succeed or will he unwittingly fail unaware of her selfish machinations? Written in 1842, Albert Savarus is a work of a circumstance at the same time a personal testimony. In correspondence since 1832, lovers in 1834, Balzac and Madame Hanska were promised to be married. But the death of the old is Mr. Hanski was waiting.