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62) Lokator
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Polish
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In a time of drought and economic depression in 1934, Ella Barron runs her boardinghouse in Texas while caring for her son, Solly, and responds to the calm influence of one of her boarders, David Rainwater, while facing the tension and uncertainty around her.
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Polish
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"Opowieść o Annie Towiańskiej, która wybrała życie w Sosnówce. Zakochała się w tym miejscu, jego klimacie, tutejszych ludziach, zdobyła przyjaciół i--straciła serce. To także opowieść o ludziach dobrych i o tych, którzy dopiero dobro w sobie mają odkryć, o poszukiwaniu miłości niezależnie od wieku i odkrywaniu pasji w rzeczach, które kochamy. Opowieść o barwnym Dyziu, małym Florku, cudownej Irence, niezawodnym Jacku, niepokojącej...
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English
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"24 Merrion Square. The house stands empty, the old stone steps overgrown with thorny rose bushes. But Mary Kate feels a deep connection to the neglected, silent rooms. Could this be the place to help her heal? Dublin 1952. When Mary Kate Ryan receives a surprise inheritance from the woman who abandoned her as a tiny baby, she's stunned. All her life, she has longed to know why her mother disappeared, and now she's devastated to realise that every...
67) The lodger
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English
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"Dorothy Richardson is existing just above the poverty line, doing secretarial work at a dentist's office ... when she is invited to spend the weekend with a childhood friend. Jane has recently married a writer who is hovering on the brink of fame. His name is H.G. Wells, or Bertie, as they call him ... Dorothy notices his grey-blue eyes taking her in, openly signalling approval. He tells her he and Jane have an agreement which allows them the freedom...
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Lost journals of Ven Polypheme volume 1
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English
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Charles Magnus Ven Polypheme--known as Ven--is the youngest son of a long line of famous shipwrights. He dreams not of building ships, but of sailing them to far-off lands where magic thrives. Ven gets his chance when he is chosen to direct the Inspection of his family's latest ship--and sets sail on the journey of a lifetime. Attacked by fire pirates, lost at sea and near death, Ven is rescued by a passing ship on its way to the Island of Serendair....
70) Éste es mi lugar
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Español
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Isolating themselves from everyone save their four eclectic boarders, Mona and her daughter, Oneida, find their quiet life upended by the arrival of a widower in the middle of a nervous breakdown who carries his late wife's mementos and a never-sent, revelatory postcard to Mona.
71) Zanim wybaczę
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Polish
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Karolina opiekuje się swoją surową, konserwatywną i apodyktyczną babcią. Marzy, żeby wreszcie się usamodzielnić i żyć według własnych reguł.Dzięki pomocy przyjaciółki znajduje pracę w pensjonacie Jesionowy Zakątek w Zaborzu. Tu próbuje wyjaśnić tajemnicę zawartą w pamiętniku pisanym w czasie II wojny światowej przez młodą dziewczynę, Polkę zmuszoną do służby u esesmana Ericha Henschela.--Cover.
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"At 10:29 a.m., on a cold day in January, the Cedar Chapel Bank was robbed. At 5:41 that same afternoon, Aggie Pennington-Brown was declared missing. Victoria Storm, new owner of Cedar Lodge Boardinghouse, and her elderly boarders reluctantly agree with Sheriff Turner's conclusion -- Miss Aggie's been kidnapped by the robbers. But when secrets and long-lost loves begin to surface from their missing friend's past, a horrible possibility arises. Could...
73) Nieznana miłość
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Polish
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Lady Delilah Derring przez całe swoje małżeństwo była wierną, choć zdradzaną żoną. Śmierć hrabiego zderzyła ją z ponurą rzeczywistością: z powodu długów męża zostaje bez środków do życia i musi przeprowadzić się z rezydencji w centrum Londynu do zrujnowanego domu w okolicy portu. Niespodziewanie ta sytuacja daje Delilah szansę na inne życie: prawdziwą wolność, w której nie ma miejsca na łaskę i niełaskę mężczyzny....
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English
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"Claudie is traveling from Harlem to Georgia with Mama and Cousin Sidney to meet her grandmother and cousins for the first time. She hopes that learning her family's story will inspire her for the variety show she's planning to raise money to save the boardinghouse her family lives in. Claudie's grandmother tells her a legend from slavery times called "The People Could Fly." In it, an old man whispers magic words, and the enslaved people grow wings...
75) Hearts rekindled
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English
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"I'm here to see my daughter ..." She never thought she'd see John Davenport again. Marrilee Daniels Davenport's former husband has returned to their small Georgia town after fighting in the Pacific. And now the soldier is bearing a letter from the little girl he didn't know he had. Merrilee wishes that she and her daughter could lean on John's able shoulders, but her new assignment as a homeland informant won't allow it ... Twelve years have only...