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The Little Liar / Mitch Albom. - Wydanie 1. - London : Sphere, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2023. - [4], 333 strony ; 23 cm.

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Albom, Mitch (1958- )

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Nazizm II wojna światowa (1939-1945) Chłopcy Rodzina Wybory życiowe Kłamstwo Holokaust Saloniki (Grecja)

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When the Nazis invade Salonika, Greece, eleven-year-old Nico Crispi is offered a chance to save his family. He is instructed to convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards the east, where they are promised jobs and safety. He dutifully goes to the station platform every day and reassures the passengers that the journey is safe. Only after it is too late does Nico discover that the people he loved would never return. In The Little Liar, Nico's story is interweaved with other individuals impacted by the occupation: his brother Sebastian, their schoolmate Fanni and the Nazi officer who radically changed their lives. As the decades pass, the consequences of what they endured come to light. Exploring honesty, survival, revenge and devotion, The Little Liar is a timeless story about the harm we inflict with our deceits, and the power of love to redeem us.

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Horse / Geraldine Brooks. - Wydanie 3. - London : Abacus an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2023. - 401 stron ; 20 cm.

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Brooks, Geraldine (1955- ).

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Na okładce: Winner of The Pulitzer Prize.

Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a 19th-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance. Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse—one studying the stallion’s bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success. Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred, Lexington, who became America’s greatest stud sire, Horse is a gripping, multi-layered reckoning with the legacy of enslavement and racism in America.

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Murder in Miniature at Honeychurch Hall / Hannah Dennison. - Wydanie 1. - London : Constable, An imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2021. - [2], 310 stron ; 20 cm.

(Honeychurch Hall / Hannah Dennison ; 8)

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Dennison, Hannah. Dennison, Hannah. Honeychurch Hall (ang.)

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When a body found on the Honeychurch Hall estate proves to be that of a villager who had supposedly moved to Ireland years earlier, tongues start wagging and theories abound. Charlie Green had always been a rogue. Although Charlie's demise happened well before Kat's arrival, Kat is drawn into the mystery when she finds two rare miniature portraits hidden inside a custom-made dollhouse of Honeychurch Hall. And then Charlie's aunt suffers a mysterious fatal fall and suspicion lands on a stranger who is holidaying in the newly installed shepherd's hut in the walled garden -- one of Lady Lavinia's latest hare-brained moneymaking schemes. Although there is something off about the tourist, Kat believes the culprit is fellow antique dealer. With tales of blackmail, infidelity and greed gripping the small community, past and present collide and Kat realises that the miniatures harbour a vital secret that one particular person is willing to kill for.

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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries / Heather Fawcett. - London : Orbit An imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2023. - 315, [44] strony ; 20 cm.

(Emily Wilde / Heather Fawcett ; 1)

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Fawcett, Heather Fawcett, Heather. Emily Wilde (ang.)

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Literatura kanadyjska

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Powieść Fantastyka Fantasy

A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love in the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party--or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, and the Fair Folk. So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby, who manages to charm the townsfolk, get in the middle of Emily's research, and utterly confound and frustrate her. But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones--the most elusive of all faeries--lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town, she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? To find the answer, she'll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all - her own heart.

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The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference / Malcolm Gladwell. - Wydanie 25. - London : Abacus, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2013. - [4], 279 stron ; 20 cm.

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Gladwell, Malcolm (1963- ).

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Publikacje popularnonaukowe

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Literatura angielska

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Język angielski Psychologia społeczna Psychotechnika Manipulacja (psychologia) Przyczynowość Zachowanie

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Opracowanie Wydawnictwa popularne

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Gospodarka, ekonomia, finanse Psychologia

Index na stronach 273-279.

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas. Gladwell introduces us to the particular personality types who are natural pollinators of new ideas and trends, the people who create the phenomenon of word of mouth. He analyzes fashion trends, smoking, children's television, direct mail, and the early days of the American Revolution for clues about making ideas infectious, and visits a religious commune, a successful high-tech company, and one of the world's greatest salesmen to show how to start and sustain social epidemics.

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The Left Hand of Darkness / Ursula Le Guin. - London : Orbit, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2013. - [4], 248 stron ; 18 cm.

(Hainish Cycle / Ursula Le Guin ; 4)

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Le Guin, Ursula K. (1929-2018). Le Guin, Ursula K. (1929-2018). Hainish Cycle (ang.)

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Ambasadorowie Podróże międzyplanetarne Kolonizacja kosmosu Planety Cywilizacja Psychologia Socjologia Feminizm Gender Płeć Kultura Uprzedzenia

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Powieść Fantastyka Science fiction Fantasy

Na okładce dopisek: A classic of science fiction.

One of the most outstanding and enduring classics of science fiction. This is the story of Winter, an Earth-like planet with two major differences: conditions are semi-artic even at the warmest time of the year, and the inhabitants are all of the same sex. Tucked away in a remote corner of the universe, they have no knowledge of space travel or of life beyond their own world. And when a strange envoy from space brings news of a vast coalition of planets which they are invited to join, he is met with fear, mistrust and disbelief... A groundbreaking work of feminist science fiction, an imaginative masterpiece which poses challenging questions about sexuality, sexism and the organisation of society.

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Small Mercies / Dennis Lehane. - London : Abacus, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2023. - [10], 299 stron ; 24 cm.

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Lehane, Dennis (1966- ).

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Upał Matki i córki Osoby zaginione Wypadki Poszukiwania zaginionych Zabójstwo Dzielnice (części miast) Rasizm Przestępczość zorganizowana Mniejszości narodowe Boston (Stany Zjednoczone, stan Massachusetts)

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Powieść Kryminał Thriller

In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessey is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of "Southie", the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart. One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched – asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don't take kindly to any threat to their business. Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city's desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, this book is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism.

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My Italian Bulldozer / Alexander McCall Smith. - Wydanie 2. - London : Abacus, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2017. - [2], 246 stron ; 20 cm.

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McCall Smith, Alexander (1948- ).

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When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the perfect escape from stressful city life. Upon landing, however, things quickly take a turn for the worse when he discovers his hired car is nowhere to be found. With no record of any reservation and no other cars available it looks like Paul is stuck at the airport. That is, until an enterprising stranger offers him an unexpected alternative. While there may be no cars available there is something else on offer: a bulldozer. With little choice in the matter, Paul accepts and so begins a series of laugh out loud adventures through the Italian countryside, following in the wake of Paul and his Italian Bulldozer. A story of unexpected circumstance and lesson in making the best of what you have, My Italian Bulldozer is a warm holiday read guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

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The Survivors / Alex Schulman ; Translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles. - Wydanie 2. - London : Fleet, An imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2021. - 261, [2] strony ; 24 cm.

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Schulman, Alex (1976- ). Willson-Broyles, Rachel.

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Język angielski Dzieciństwo Powroty Rodzina Trauma Szwecja

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Powieść Thriller

Tytuł oryginału: Överlevarna.

Benjamin sees the shape of his two brothers trying to kill each other. It's no worthy finale, but perhaps it's also no surprise. How else had they expected this to end? Three brothers return to the family cottage by the lake where, more than two decades earlier, a catastrophe changed the course of their lives. Now, they are here to scatter their mother's ashes. Benjamin, the middle son, drives the three of them down the old gravel road to the house, through a familiar landscape but also through time. Here they are as boys, tanned legs and hungry eyes, children left to themselves by remote parents; here they are as young men, estranged but bound together by the history that defines them, their lives spent competing for their father's favour and their mother's love in a household more like a minefield than a home. . .

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Spies : The Epic Intelligence War between East and West / Calder Walton. - London : Abacus, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2023. - 625 stron ; 24 cm.

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Walton, Calder.

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Szpiegostwo Zimna wojna Walka informacyjna Polityka międzynarodowa Stosunki międzynarodowe Służby specjalne Wschód i Zachód Wybory prezydenckie w Stanach Zjednoczonych (2016) ZSRR Rosja Stany Zjednoczone (USA) Europa Chiny

Dziedzina i ujęcie

Historia Polityka, politologia, administracja publiczna Bezpieczeństwo i wojskowość

Zawiera indeks (s. 589-625).

Espionage, election meddling, disinformation, assassinations, subversion, and sabotage - all atract headlines today about Putin's dictatorship. But they are far from new. The West has a long-term Russia problem, not a Putin problem. "Spies" mines hitherto secret archives and exclusive interviews with former agents to tell the history of the war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage dark arts were the Kremlin's means to equalise the imbalance of arms between East and West before, during and after the Cold War. There was nothing 'unprecedented' about Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. It was business as usual, new means for old ends. The Cold War started long before 1945. Western powers gradually fought back after the Second World War, mounting their own shadow war, deploying propaganda, recruiting intelligence networks and pioneering new spy technologies against the Soviet Union. This book offers an inspiring, engrossing story of the best and worst of mankind: bravery and honour, treachery and betrayal. The narrative shifts across continents and decades, from the freezing streets of St. Petersburg in 1917 to the bloody beaches of Normandy; from coups in faraway lands to present-day Moscow, where troll farms weaponise social media against Western democracies. This fresh reading of history makes this volume a unique and essential addition to the story of the unrolling conflict between Russia, China and the West that will dominate the twenty-first century.

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Fourth Wing / Rebecca Yarros. - Wydanie 2. - London : Piatkus, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2023 - [8], 498, [2] strony : mapa, ilustracje ; 24 cm.

(Empyrean / Rebecca Yarros ; 1)

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Yarros, Rebecca Yarros, Rebecca. Empyrean (ang.)

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Wojna Kobieta Wybory życiowe Szkoły wojskowe Smoki (stworzenia fantastyczne)

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Powieść Fantastyka Fantasy

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general-also known as her tough-as-talons mother-has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter-like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant. She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise. Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret. Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda-because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.

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Iron Flame / Rebecca Yarros. - Wydanie 2. - London : Piatkus, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2023 - [10], 623, [2] strony : mapa, ilustracje ; 24 cm.

(Empyrean / Rebecca Yarros ; 2)

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Yarros, Rebecca Yarros, Rebecca. Empyrean (ang.)

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Kobieta Szkoły wojskowe Trudne sytuacje życiowe Tajemnica Smoki (stworzenia fantastyczne)

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Powieść Fantastyka Fantasy

Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College—Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it’s designed to stretch the riders’ capacity for pain beyond endurance. It’s the new vice commandant, who’s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is–unless she betrays the man she loves. Although Violet’s body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else’s, she still has her wits—and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules. But a determination to survive won’t be enough this year. Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College — and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.

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The Vanishing Half / Brit Bennett. - London : Dialogue Books, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2020. - 343, [2] strony ; 25 cm.

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Bennett, Brit (1990- ).

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Język angielski Afroamerykanie Bliźnięta Kobieta Matki i córki Rasizm Tożsamość osobista Tożsamość społeczna Wolność Wybory życiowe Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

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Powieść psychologiczna

The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect? . .

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