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Polish
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A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to find the cause of his father's death, after his paternal uncle returns and implants himself into the family.
4) Martwy punkt
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Polish
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Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it's a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something foul in these remote woods, and is soon certain...
6) Miasto
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Polish
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This is the second volume of Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the postbellum South. Like its predecessor, The Hamlet, and its successor, The Mansion, The Town is self-contained but gains resonance from being read with the other two. Flem Snope's ruthless struggle to take over the town of Jefferson, Mississippi, is rich in episodes of humor and profundity.
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Polish
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"W prowincjonalnym amerykańskim miasteczku zaczynają dziać się rzeczy niepojęte i przerazające. Znikają bądź umierają w dziwnych okolicznościach dzieci i dorośli, jedna śmierć pociąga za sobą drugą. Czyżby Salem było nawiedzone przez złe moce? Kilku śmiałków, którym przewodzi mały chłopiec, wydaje im pełną determinacji walkę"--Page 4 of title.
Summary from an English edition: Into the sleepy little hamlet of Salem's...