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Lektura na wakacje „Dlaczego nie jestem ateistą”

W związku ze zbliżającym się okresem wakacyjnym nadszedł czas, w którym trzeba uzupełnić osobistą biblioteczkę. Długie, zimowe wieczory spędzone z lekturą w ręku, zamienią się w słoneczne dni z książką w parku.

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Weranda pełna słońca – wywiad z Juliette Fay

Weranda pełna słońca to słodko-gorzka książka o życiu kobiety, w której każda z nas może odnaleźć cząstkę siebie. Opowiada o stracie i cierpieniu, ale także o wybaczaniu, rodzącej się miłości i nie zawsze prostych kontaktach z rodziną.

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Creation

Autor:	R. Keynes
Wydawnictwo:	John Murray
Liczba stron:	272
Data wydania:	2009
ISBN:	978-1-84854-323-2

In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, Randal Keynes discovered a child's writing case, which had been in his family for generations. The case belonged to Annie, Charles Darwin's daughter, who died at the age of ten. These hitherto unpublished letters and diaries, written by Darwin in memorial to his daughter during her illness, provide new insight into the life of a man who has been much written about but little understood.

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Pornografia

Autor:	W. Gombrowicz
Wydawnictwo:	Grove Press
Liczba stron:	176
Data wydania:	2009
ISBN:	978-0-8021-1925-4

One of the indisputable totems of twentieth-century world literature, Witold Gombrowicz wrote Pornografia after leaving his native Poland for Argentina in 1939 and then watching from afar as the German invasion destroyed his country. Translated for the first time into English from the original Polish by award-winning translator Danuta Borchardt, Pornografia is one of Gombrowicz's highest regarded works - a richly imagined tale of violence and...

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Cycle of Werewolf

Autor:	S. King
Wydawnictwo:	Penguin Putnam
Liczba stron:	128
Data wydania:	1985
ISBN:	978-0-451-82219-2

When the full moon shines, a paralysing fear descends on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next, but snarls that sound like human words can be heard and all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated.

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Up in the Air

Autor:	W. Kirn
Wydawnictwo:	John Murray
Liczba stron:	304
Data wydania:	2009
ISBN:	978-1-84854-327-0

Ryan Bingham's job as a Career Transition Counselor (he fires people) has kept him airborne for years. He hates his job, but he loves 'Airworld', finding happiness in pressurized cabins and anonymous hotel rooms, and pursuing a noble ultimate goal: one million frequent flier miles. With sharp wit, and wisdom, Up in the Air combines brilliant social observation with an acute sense of the modern mind. It is a story for unsettled times.

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Search

Autor:	N. Roberts
Wydawnictwo:	Piatkus
Liczba stron:	496
Data wydania:	2010
ISBN:	978-0-7499-4179-6

It's been a few years since Fiona Bristow has moved to Orcas Island. Within the small, tight-knit island community she's built up her business, a canine rescue centre that trains dogs to track missing persons. Whether they are lonely travellers on a hiking trip gone wrong or disappearances of a more sinister nature, more than once Fiona has been the last hope for those lost in Washington's vast wilderness. Other than her work, Fiona doesn't ask...

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Storyteller's Tale

Autor:	O. Ahmad
Wydawnictwo:	Viking
Liczba stron:	132
Data wydania:	2010
ISBN:	978-0-14-306313-1

While Afghan warlord Ahmed Shah Abdali plunders 18th century Delhi, a wandering storyteller fleeing the carnage happens across an isolated casbah a day's ride from the city. When the beautiful and lonely lady of the manor invites him to stay and share a story, his grief at the destruction of his glorious city spills forth in a story of two brothers, Taka and Wara - wolf and boy - a tale of love and loyalty, hurt and distrust. The storyteller is...

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