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W Wyspie Dnia Poprzedniego Umberto Eco w typowy dlań sposób łączy przygodową fabułę z dyskursem filozoficznym, nawiązując w treści i formie do takich arcydzieł jak Podróże Guliwera czy Kandyd. Szlachcic z Piemontu, Robert de la Grive, uratowany z katastrofy morskiej, dostaje się na opuszczony statek "Daphne", zakotwiczony w pobliżu nieznanej...

From "Snuff": 'Vimes' prompt arrival got a nod of approval from Sybil, who gingerly handed him a new book to read to Young Sam. Vimes looked at the cover. The title was "The World of Poo". When his wife was out of eyeshot he carefully leafed through it. Well, okay, you had to accept that the world had moved on and these days fairy stories were...

Czasy Tudorów były epoką intryg, spisków i... szpiegów.Jest lato 1553 roku. Brendan Prescott, podrzutek i sierota, wychowuje się w domu potężnej rodziny Dudleyów. Prescott zostaje wysłany na dwór królewski jako giermek Roberta Dudleya, który powierza mu tajną misję i wysyła do przyrodniej siostry króla - księżniczki Elżbiety. Brendan wplątuje się w...

Rima Lanisell has a habit of losing things #8211; car keys, sunglasses, lovers, family members. Following the death of Rima's father, she goes to stay with her godmother Addison, a wildly successful, albeit eccentric, mystery writer. Addison's beach house seems the place to make sense of Rima's loss, yet she is soon caught up in a mystery of her...

Book One of the "Brethren of the Coast" trilogy, features Thomas Marlowe. With the bounty from his years as a pirate - a life he intends to renounce and keep forever secret - Thomas Marlowe purchases a fine Virginia plantation from a beautiful young widow, Elizabeth Tinling. Soon afterwards, while defending her honour, he kills the favourite son of...

Growing up in Afghanistan, Maryam was a plucky teenager who rebelled against the terrible second-class life that Afghan women had to endure. When Russia invaded, she made a risky public show of defiance, which resulted in her having to flee to America to begin a new life.The promise of a fresh start restored Maryam? spirit but her father had other...