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Polish
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Inspirująca, głośno dyskutowana powieść. Thriller moralny z metafizyczną zagadką, zaskakującą pod każdym względem. Zimą piękna Kotlina Kłodzka jest miejscem mało przyjaznym i opustoszałym. Wsród nielicznych mieszkańców pozostała Janina Duszejko - miłośniczka astrologii, która w wolnych chwilach dogląda domów nieobecnych sąsiadów i tłumaczy poezję Blake'a. Niespodziewanie przez tę spokojną okolicę przetacza się fala...
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Fresh-baked mystery volume 14
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"Hollywood comes to Weatherford, Texas, as a movie company arrives to shoot scenes for a film based on the novel by Phyllis Newsom's friend Eve. But movie fantasy turns to deadly reality as a murder recreated for film turns out to be the genuine article, and once more Phyllis has to track down a cunning killer to see that justice is done." --
44) Tante Eva
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"East Berlin, a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Eva, a retired nurse living in poverty in a slum-like apartment block, makes it through her day on a combination of stimulants and sleeping pills, wine and brandy. She waits for visits from her married lover and makes occasional attempts at contact with her distant daughter. Her friendly teenaged neighbor is her closest companion. Then her American niece, Maggie, arrives in Berlin. Eva is...
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Geraldine Porter and her granddaughter, Maddie, set out to create a multi-story haunted dollhouse complete with witches, ghosts, and ghouls. Geraldine wanted a scream-free holiday, but Maddie has a thirst for Halloween thrills. Fun turns to fear when what seemed to be a neighborhood scarecrow turns out to be a bloody corpse. Geraldine hopes to keep her distance from the death, but gets roped in when the dead body has ties to her late husband. Was...
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When her son's family descends on her quiet home, crafty miniaturist Geraldine Porter is thrilled. Now she has the help of her adorable granddaughter, Maddie, to complete a room box in time for "the real President's Day" of Lincoln Point. But when trouble looms over the event, she'll need her little helper for a much bigger project. Gerry's neighbor June has shocking news: her friend has been arrested for murder, and she desperately needs help.
50) Olive Kitteridge
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Olive novels volume 1
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Español
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En el borde del continente, en el pequeño pueblo de Crosby, Maine, vive Olive Kitteridge, una maestra de escuela jubilada que deplora los cambios en su pueblo y en el mundo en general, pero no siempre reconoce los cambios en quienes la rodean.
At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize...
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Wedding bells will be ringing in Weatherford, Texas, this Christmas when Phyllis Newsom opens up her home for her best friends wedding. And although the bride is wearing white, no one suspects that she will soon be wearing black. After all the planning and the cake tasting the big day has finally arrived. Eve Turner, one of Phylliss boarders and her best friend is moving out and getting married to the affable Roy Porter. While shes sad to see Eve...
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Conrad the cat volume 2
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English
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Retired police detective Lulu Lewis's life changed forever when she met a street cat named Conrad. There's something very special about Conrad, but it's a secret she has to keep to herself. When Lulu takes her narrowboat to Oxford, she is planning nothing more stressful than attending a friend's birthday party. And drinking a few glasses of Chardonnay. But a brutal murder and a daring art theft means her plans are shattered - instead she and Conrad...
54) Luz de febrero
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En Crosby, un pequeño pueblo en la costa de Maine, no suceden muchas cosas. Y sin embargo, las historias sobre la vida de las personas que viven allí contienen un mundo entero. Está Olive Kitteridge, una maestra jubilada, irascible, indecorosa, de honestidad inquebrantable. Tiene setenta años y aunque es más dura que una roca, sintoniza con los matices del alma humana. Está Jack Kennison, antiguo profesor de Harvard, que busca desesperadamente...
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"It's early summer in Weatherford, Texas, and retired teacher/amateur sleuth Phyllis Newsom and fellow retiree Carolyn Wilbarger are taking British cooking classes at the local senior center in this suspenseful Fresh-Baked mystery. In the latest from Livia J. Washburn, the nationally bestselling author of the Fresh Baked Mystery Series, Phyllis Newsom learns to make a trifle that's to die for... While Sam Fletcher is playing dominoes with the guys,...
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Conrad the cat volume 1
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English
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"Meet Conrad. Conrad is a cat. You've never met a detective like him before. Neither has Lulu Lewis, until he walks into her life one summer's day. Mourning the recent death of her husband, the former police detective had expected a gentle retirement, quietly enjoying life on her new canal boat, The Lark, and visiting her mother-in-law in a nearby care home. But when her mother-in-law dies suddenly in suspicious circumstances, Lulu senses foul play...
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Retired Detectives Club volume 1
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After a long career as a police officer, Moira hopes a move to a luxury retirement community will mean she can finally leave the detective work to the youngsters and focus on a quieter life. But it turns out The Homestead is far from paradise. When she discovers the body of a young woman floating in one of the pools, surrounded by thousands of dollar bills, her crime-fighting instinct kicks back in and she joins up with fellow ex-cops--and new neighbours--Philip,...