Pierwsza czesc nowego cyklu powiesciowego Joanny Jax - autorki sagi o rodzinie von Becków. Podobnie jak w swych poprzednich ksiazkach pisarka osadzila fabule powiesci w kilku krajach, pokazujac losy dwóch spokrewnionych z soba mezczyzn i ich potomków na przestrzeni kilkudziesieciu lat. Julian Chelmicki i Emil Lewin sa przyrodnimi bracmi, ale oprócz wspólnego ojca dzieli ich wszystko - pozycja spoleczna, stopien zamoznosci, wyznawane wartosci.

Pierwsza czesc wspanialej trylogii Henryka Sienkiewicza. Wielka milosc rycerza bez skazy, Jana Skrzetuskiego i uroczej, niewinnej szlachcianki Heleny Kurcewiczówny. A w tle dzieje Polski w dobie powstania Chmielnickiego (1648-1654).

Bohaterowie próbują odpowiedzieć sobie na pytania, co jest w życiu najważniejsze i czym dla nich jest prawdziwe szczęście. Niektórym z nich przyjdzie zapłacić za to najwyższą cenę, a tkwiące w ludzkich duszach demony kolejny raz dadzą o sobie znać. Inni po wielu życiowych dramatach odnajdą spokój i swoje miejsce na ziemi. Dla kogo los okaże się łaskawy, a kogo nie oszczędzi? Jak wiele determinacji musi mieć w sobie człowiek, by poświęcić tak wiele dla miłości? Czym jest prawdziwa przyjaźń w egoistycznym, brutalnym świecie?

Kazde miasto ma swoje mroczne tajemnice... Mieszkancy Szczecinka zastygli w smiertelnym przerazeniu. Dwie brutalnie zamordowane mlode kobiety, dwoje porwanych dzieci i oskórowany mezczyzna - to bilans kilku tygodni. Gdy emerytowany komisarz policji staral sie uciec przed zmorami przeszlosci, to miejsce wydawalo mu sie sielska przystania. Tymczasem staje on przed podwójnym wyzwaniem. Musi wlaczyc sie w poszukiwania psychopatycznego mordercy, a takze po raz drugi zmierzyc sie z niejakim Lezka, szefem szczecinskiej mafii, który przed laty wydal wyrok na jego córeczke.

Kwiecień 1943 roku. Debora Singer wyskakuje z wagonu transportującego krakowskich Żydów. Podczas próby ucieczki boleśnie skręca w kostce nogę i nie jest w stanie iść. Przekonana, że nie ocali życia, siada w sosnowym zagajniku, czekając na śmierć. Słyszy odgłosy obławy. Nagle nadjeżdża wojskowy motocykl. Do przestraszonej dziewczyny zbliża się esesman. Debora jest Żydówką, czyli - jest winna. Przed nią staje hauptsturmführer Bruno Kramer. W tym miejscu ta historia mogłaby się właściwie skończyć. To jednak dopiero jej początek.

When mystery author D. B. Ziegler is late delivering her book, Abi Schore steps in to help. Surely she can give her favorite author moral support over the holiday break and get the manuscript to her boss at Tea & Sympathy Publishing in time for the new year. When Abi shows up on Ms. Ziegler’s doorstep bearing holiday treats, she’s met by the author’s handsome grandson Dov, who reveals a startling plot twist. His grandmother isn’t able to finish the book and Dov promised he’d complete it so fans won’t be disappointed—a task that’s harder than he ever imagined.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med thanks to the tragic history of students overdosing on illegal drugs. But Heather would never consider doing anything like that. That is, until her longtime boyfriend dumps her, she finds herself failing anatomy, and her world starts to crumble.

Tilly Farriday isn’t feeling very jolly this season. Recently divorced and broke, she’s squatting in one of her rental agency’s properties until her new home is ready. The sprinkles on top of the burnt Christmas cookie that is her life? The new owner shows up early, forcing Tilly to hide in the attic to save her job…and what remains of her dignity.

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

Oakland-bred LaVeesha “Vee” Gilliam (Coco Jones) is a determined single mother of an autistic son and a gifted aspiring coder. When Vee loses her job as a food-services worker at the onsite restaurant at Grapengine, a large Silicon Valley tech company, she’s unable to pay for her son’s much-needed specialized education. By a twist of fate, mistaken identity, and her tech skills, Vee meets Troy Wilson (Keith Powers), the company’s wealthy founder and CEO and a wunderkind in the tech industry, who believes that Vee is a college-educated techie who works at his company.

As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio. From the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow to the tortured spirits of M.R. James, from Edgar Allan Poe’s terrifying tale of a doppelganger to Charlotte Riddell’s Open Door that should definitely stay shut, join Stephen as he tells you some truly terrifying tales.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.

Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job.