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Napisana ujmujacym, cieplym jezykiem saga rodzinna, opowiadajaca historie matki i córki wobec burzliwych dziejów Polski XX wieku. Wbrew pulapkom losu tworza kochajaca rodzin, patrza na swiat z radoscia zycia. Od pierwszych slów ksiazki wciagaja nas w swój swiat. cz.VII "Co to za czasy" - poczatek nowej rzeczywistosci po 1989 r. w Polsce. W odmienionej, czesto zaskakujacej codziennosci, zycie Kalczynskich toczy sie dalej.

In Liberty Falling, Anna leaves the rugged countryside of Colorado to face the concrete wilds of New York City. As soon as she hears her older sister is gravely ill, Anna rushes to the Big Apple to sit at her bedside. Between hospital visits, she relaxes at the park service quarters on Liberty Island and explores the crumbling ruins of Ellis Island where thousands of immigrants once were processed.

Stink may be super smart and Stink may be uber-clever, but he just can’t seem to turn into a Dolphin. He’s been in the Polliwog swim class for what seems like frog-ever, and still can’t bear to put his face in the water. Then, one day, Stink has a close encounter with a freaky mutant frog. All of a sudden, his froggy senses are tingling! He has an urge to slurp up raisins-that-look-like-flies. He can’t wait to play in the rain and mud. And he has become very interested in the local frog population. Could it be? Is it true? Could Stink be turning into...the Amazing Frog-Boy?

Rozwiń słownictwo na poziomie średnio zaawanasowanym i zacznij swobodnie rozmawiać w sytuacjach prywatnych i zawodowych. W kursie znajdziesz: 15 tematycznych lekcji, które wprowadzają i utrwalają zróżnicowane słownictwo, 150 starannie opracowanych ćwiczeń, które uczą poprawnej wymowy oraz pokazują zastosowanie wyrażeń w kontekście, 2600 słów, przykładów kolokacji, idiomów oraz zdań do powtarzania, 550 przykładów sprawdzających opanowanie słownictwa, słowa i zwroty nagrane z tłumaczeniami oraz przykładowe odpowiedzi w ćwiczeniach konwersacyjnych.

Du bist nicht verrückt, das sind die Hormone. Menopause und Perimenopause sind noch immer ein Thema, über das viele Ärztinnen und Ärzte sehr wenig wissen. Frauen fühlen sich deswegen oft alleingelassen mit den vielvältigen Symptomen, wie Hitzewallungen, Schlafstörungen, aber auch brain fog und Gedächtnislücken. Dr. Lisa Mosconi ist Expertin für Frauengesundheit und auf die Rolle des Gehirns und die Funktion von Hormonen spezialisiert. Sie möchte ein Umdenken anstoßen. Denn für sie markiert die Menopause nicht nur das Ende eines Lebensabschnitts, sondern eine Phase des Übergangs und Neubeginns.

Tea shop entrepreneur Theodosia Browning has been tapped to host a fancy Limón Tea in a genuine lemon orchard as a rousing kickoff to Charleston Fashion Week. But as fairy lights twinkle and the scent of lemon wafts among the tea tables, the deadly murder of a fashion designer puts the squeeze on things. As the lemon curd begins to sour, the murdered woman’s daughter begs Theodosia to help find the killer.

A distraught young woman arrives at Baker Street urgently requesting the assistance of Mr. Sherlock Holmes. But the great man and his assistant Dr. Watson are away. What to do? She confides in Holmes’ landlady, Mrs. Hudson, who over the years has developed certain powers of deduction from observing her tenant at work.

Mississippi, 1956. Shona Jackson knows two things - how to repair car engines and that her childhood secret must stay buried. On the run from Louisiana, she finds shelter from an unjust world in the home of a kindly old lady and a job as a mechanic. But a woman working a man’s job can’t avoid notice in a small town. And attention is dangerous, especially when it comes from one woman in particular....Free-spirited Lucy is new in town too. At 21 years old she is only now starting college. But her heart is just not in it, and when she meets Shona, something inside her begins to stir.

Growing up as a biracial child, Maggy Williams had three options: She could identify as black, white, or mixed. She chose to embrace her multiracial heritage, because she was taught that she could. Her hope is that this book will help children to realize that it is possible to integrate their multiple racial identities.

Letty Hood has spent the last fifteen years of her life hidden away with her grandmother in the backwoods of east Texas to escape the deadly schemes of an uncle who wants her dead. Now, with her twenty-first birthday on the horizon, she is forced to accept the escort of a stranger and return to Houston in secret so she can claim a birthright that will make her one of the wealthiest women in Texas. If she lives long enough to inherit.

Sixteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho crime authors! This captivating collection of short mysteries and crime capers - which features New York Times best-selling authors, Crime Writers Association Gold and Diamond Dagger winners, and Edgar Award nominees - contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season.

Theodosia's Honey Bee Tea was an elegant affair set in Charleston's new Petigru Park amid newly planted native grasses and a community beekeeping project. But when a phony beekeeper shows up and sprays toxic smoke at the guests, the party erupts in chaos. Worse yet, a shot rings out and Osgood Claxton III, candidate for state legislature, falls to the ground—dead.

Want to learn more about caring for someone at end of life? Discover the End of Life Guideline Series by Barbara Karnes. It is a compilation of five of our most popular hospice and palliative care books that prepares its listeners for the natural, normal process of dying and grief. The series includes, A Time to Live: Living with a Life Threatening Illness, for the newly diagnosed facing a life limiting illness. It addresses issues of comfort, nutrition, and sleep as they relate to the palliative care patient.

If widowed town seamstress Nell Armstrong has to make one more pair of boring chaps for the cowboys in her tiny Wyoming town, she might lose her mind. So meeting Brand Nolte, a widower father struggling to raise three girls, seems like her dream come true. Brand has no idea how to dress the girls, and Nell finally has a chance to both create beautiful dresses and teach the girls to sew. But Nell is much more than a seamstress.

Capucine Benoit works alongside her father to produce fans of rare feathers, beads, and intricate pleating for the haute couture fashion houses. But after the Germans invade Paris in June 1940, Capucine and her father must focus on mere survival - until they are betrayed to the secret police and arrested for his political beliefs. When Capucine saves herself from deportation to Auschwitz by highlighting her connections to Parisian design houses, she is sent to a little-known prison camp located in the heart of Paris, within the Lévitan department store.

In Who Stole Mona Lisa?, author Ruthie Knapp crafts a fascinating look at the disappearance of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911—retold from the point of view of the painting. Mona Lisa gets millions of visitors from all over the world. But one night, she hears footsteps, and before she knows it, she’s ripped right off the wall of the Louvre! Who would do such a thing?

Mama believed the woman who dies with the most fabric scraps wins. She saved scraps from odd sewing jobs for neighbors. She saved buttons from old winter coats and birthday dresses. Mama had a button from Daddy's first uniform and another from Grandma's cloth coat, and every button in the box came with a story. In her trademark Texas twang, award-winning storyteller Barbara McBride-Smith recounts stories from her family that speak to all of us.

Napisana ujmującym, ciepłym językiem saga rodzinna, opowiadająca historię matki i córki wobec burzliwych dziejów Polski XX wieku. Wbrew pułapkom losu tworzą kochającą rodzinę, patrzą na świat z radością życia. Od pierwszych stron książki wciągają nas w swój świat.

A troubled Byronic hero, a young governess blinded by her romantic obsession, a beautiful but forbidding manor, and a secret as ominous as the black rainbow that frames the huddled towers of the manor in the moonlight are the romantic elements of this Gothic mystery.

This new ghostly tale with thriller scares takes place in a haunted North Carolina Airbnb—with paranormal ghost adventures inspired by true otherworldly experiences. The team of ghost hunters encounter the Halloween investigation of a lifetime—filled with adventure, suspense, mystery, cliffhanger chapters, and the dark horror surrounding the haunted Airbnb they’ve rented for the week on Dead Man’s Curve.