W tym dziale znajdziecie fascynująca literaturę, która przekona was jak fascynująca i ciekawa jest historia i jak wiele możemy się nauczyć. Może zainteresujecie się wojną na Pacyfiku, o której ciekawie pisze Morison Samuel Eliot, albo może zaciekawią was powieści Adama Borowieckiego, które przedstawiają przygody w galaktykach kosmosu Junga i Ing. Zapraszamy równiez po powieści biograficzne, polityczne.
„Szaman z rzeki. Opowieści wiślane” to zbiór baśniowych przygód doświadczonego szypra szesnastowiecznej szkuty pocztowej i jego załogi.
Szyper, czyli tytułowy Szaman, to nie tylko niezrównany filsak, ale również uzdrowiciel, znakomity zielarz i znawca tajemnych mikstur. U boku ma siłacza Waldemara, Marcza – miłośnika astronomii, awanturniczego górala Krisa, sprytną hucułkę Mariję i zawsze uśmiechniętą pół Francuzkę Matyldę. Z taką załogą Szamanowi żadne zadanie nie jest straszne.
Pływając po Wiśle, od Krakowa po Gdańsk, przewożą królewską pocztę i przyjmują zlecenia, których nikt inny nie odważyłby się przyjąć, jak transport niezwykłych kamieni z kosmosu, które mogą uratować flotę szwedzkiego króla. Ale nawet gdy na pokład biorą zwykłe materiały do budowy warszawskiego mostu, muszą stawić czoło niezwykłym wyzwaniom.
Spotykają rusałki, syreny i gryfy, huculskich zbójów i przerażającą Czarną Szkutę, o której krążą wśród flisaków legendy. Walczą z groźnymi utopcami, uciekają przed Buksami – wiślanymi piratami i ratują z rąk najemników chłopca, który okazuje się być dziewczyną. Nie straszny im Bazyliszek, ani naukowe wynalazki, dzięki którym w rekordowym czasie i w niezwykły sposób przenoszą się wraz ze swoją szkutą z Wisły na francuską Loarę. A wszystko to w otoczeniu pełnych zboża spichrzów i w atmosferze handlowych transakcji, które przypominają, że pięćset lat temu królowa polskich rzek przeżywała swoje najlepsze dni. Na kartach „Szamana z rzeki” można odnaleźć ślady tych wspaniałych, zapomnianych dziś czasów.
„Błyskotliwe, pełne humoru i wzruszające – czyli wszystko, co powinien mieć cudowny romans”. „Kirkus Reviews”
Tom 2 cyklu Ocaleni. O mężczyznach, którzy po powrocie z wojny usiłują nauczyć się na nowo żyć w świecie salonów, i kobietach na tyle odważnych, by przedrzeć się przez mury obronne ich serc. Powszechnie wiadomo, że dama potrafi zrobić wszystko, co robi mężczyzna. Czasem jednak potrzebuje pomocy…
Lady Juliana, córka hrabiego St. Maur, ma nie lada kłopoty. Prowadzi ubogi sierociniec, w którym brakuje wszystkiego, król londyńskiego półświatka chce ją zdobyć, a ojciec postanawia wydać ją jak najszybciej za mąż.
Na scenę wkracza Neil Wraxall, wysłany przez ojca, by sprowadzić ją do domu. Uparta panna nie zamierza jednak go słuchać. Chcąc nie chcąc, Neil zaczyna jej pomagać… i ulegać jej czarowi. Na szczęście dla niej mężczyzna potrafi wszystko naprawić i wszystkimi się zaopiekować.
Na nieszczęście dla nich obojga ich wzajemne zauroczenie może skończyć się czymś znacznie bardziej niebezpiecznym niż drobne kłopoty…
„Sam czar, urok i humor”. - „Romantic Times”
O Alexandrze Ridgeleyu wszyscy wiedzą dwie rzeczy: po pierwsze, że jest księciem, po drugie, że nie zamierza się żenić…
Wszystko zmienia się, gdy płomiennoruda Amerykanka rzuca się pod koła powozu, by uratować jego siostrzeńca. Alexander nigdy jeszcze nie spotkał takiej kobiety: odważnej i pełnej temperamentu, stanowczej
i słodkiej zarazem. Ale piękna nieznajoma jest służącą, a zatem kimś zupełnie nieodpowiednim dla wysoko urodzonego arystokraty...
Chyba że okazałoby się, że wcale nie jest tym, kim się wydaje… Lecz dlaczego udaje kogoś, kim nie jest?
Jak „Gra o tron”, ale prawdziwa.
„The Observer”
Bernard Cornwell tworzy najlepsze sceny batalistyczne spośród wszystkich pisarzy, których czytałem.
George R.R. Martin
Ósmy tom bestsellerowej serii Bernarda Cornwella o losach bohaterskiego Uhtreda z Bebbanburga. Na jej podstawie BBC realizuje serial „Upadek królestwa”.
Rok 911. Władca Mercji Aethelred umiera, nie pozostawiwszy prawowitego następcy. O sukcesji zdecyduje witan. Uhtred bierze udział w obradach, popiera Aethelflaed – córkę Alfreda Wielkiego, siostrę króla Wessexu Edwarda i wdowę po Aethelredzie.
Czy jednak sascy wojownicy zaakceptują kobietę jako przywódcę?
Druga część wciągającej powieści o losach Spartakusa – przywódcy najbardziej spektakularnego powstania niewolników w starożytnym Rzymie.
Spartakus dokonał rzeczy niemożliwych: uciekł z niewoli i, dowodząc potężną armią niewolników, pokonał siły Gajusza Kasjusza Longinusa. Wydaje się, że nic nie stoi już na przeszkodzie, by udał się do rodzinnej Tracji.
Tymczasem dezerteruje jeden z generałów armii Spartakusa wraz ze swoimi ludźmi, a Marek Licyniusz Krassus gromadzi w Rzymie potężne siły przeciwko byłemu gladiatorowi. Senat daje Krassusowi wolną rękę – ma zrobić wszystko, by rozgromić wojsko Spartakusa i położyć kres niewolniczej rebelii. Rozpoczyna się prawdziwa walka na śmierć i życie.
Powyższy opis pochodzi od wydawcy.
A charming, irresistible debut novel set in London during World War II about an adventurous young woman who becomes a secret advice columnist—a warm, funny, and enormously moving story for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Lilac Girls.
London 1940, bombs are falling. Emmy Lake is Doing Her Bit for the war effort, volunteering as a telephone operator with the Auxiliary Fire Services. When Emmy sees an advertisement for a job at the London Evening Chronicle, her dreams of becoming a Lady War Correspondent seem suddenly achievable. But the job turns out to be typist to the fierce and renowned advice columnist, Henrietta Bird. Emmy is disappointed, but gamely bucks up and buckles down.
Mrs Bird is very clear: Any letters containing Unpleasantness—must go straight in the bin. But when Emmy reads poignant letters from women who are lonely, may have Gone Too Far with the wrong men and found themselves in trouble, or who can’t bear to let their children be evacuated, she is unable to resist responding. As the German planes make their nightly raids, and London picks up the smoldering pieces each morning, Emmy secretly begins to write letters back to the women of all ages who have spilled out their troubles.
The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full.
Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic and potent account of the barbarous violence that man visits upon man. Through the hostile landscape of the Texas-Mexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept-up in the relentless tide of blood. But the apparent chaos is not without its order: while Americans hunt Indians – collecting scalps as their bloody trophies – they too are stalked as prey.
Since its first publication in 1985, Blood Meridian has been read as both a brilliant subversion of the Western novel and a blazing example of that form. Powerful and savagely beautiful, it has emerged as one of the most important works in American fiction of the last century. A truly mesmerizing classic.
Winter of the World is the second novel in Ken Follett's uniquely ambitious and deeply satisfying Century trilogy. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants and Edge of Eternity, this is a magnificent, spellbinding epic of global conflict and personal drama.
A BATTLE OF IDEALS
1933, and at Cambridge, Lloyd Williams is drawn to irresistible socialite Daisy Peshkov, who represents everything that his left-wing family despise, but Daisy is more interested in aristocratic Boy Fitzherbert, a leading light of the British Union of Fascists.
AN EVIL UPRISING
Berlin is in turmoil. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Many are resolved to oppose Hitler’s brutal regime – but are they willing to betray their country?
A GLOBAL CONFLICT ON A SCALE NEVER SEEN BEFORE
Shaken by the tyranny and the prospect of war, five interconnected families’ lives become ever more enmeshed. An international clash of military power and personal beliefs is sweeping the world, but what will this new war mean for those who must live through it?
A WORLD IN TURMOIL
1558, and Europe is in revolt as religious hatred sweeps the continent. Elizabeth Tudor has ascended to the throne but she is not safe in this dangerous new world. There are many who would see her removed, not least Mary Queens of Scots, who lies in wait in Paris.
A NEW ORDER
Elizabeth determines to set up a new secret service: a group of resourceful spies and courageous agents entrusted to keep her safe and in power. As she searches for those who will make the difference, one man stands out.
A MAN WHO WOULD DIE FOR HIS QUEEN
For Ned Willard the opportunity to serve his queen is God-sent. He cannot stay in Kingsbridge and watch the love of his life marry another, and as fires burn and extremism begins to spark throughout Europe, Ned makes his choice. He will spend his life protecting his monarch from the tyrants who aim to destroy her or die trying . . .
The first in Ken Follett's bestselling Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a captivating novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women.
A world in chaos.
1911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy Williams, begins working down the mines as George V is crowned king. The escalating arms race between the empire nations will put not only the king but this young boy in grave danger.
A terrible war.
Billy’s family is inextricably linked with the Fitzherberts, the aristocratic owners of the coal mine where he works. And when Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London, their destiny also becomes entangled with that of Gus Dewar, an ambitious young aide to Woodrow Wilson, and two orphaned Russian brothers, the Peshkovs, whose plan to emigrate to America falls foul of conscription, revolution and imminent war.
A revolution that will change everything.
When Russia convulses in bloody revolution and the Great War unfolds, the five families’ futures are entwined forever, love bringing them closer even as conflict takes them further apart. What seeds will be sown for further tragedy in the twentieth century and what role will each play in what is to come?
Edge of Eternity is the epic, final novel in Ken Follett's captivating and hugely ambitious Century trilogy. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, this is an irresistible and spellbinding epic about the fight for personal freedom set during the Cold War.
A FIGHT AGAINST INJUSTICE
1961, and in the United States George Jakes, a bright young lawyer in the Kennedy administration and fierce supporter of the civil rights movement, boards a Greyhound bus in Washington with Verena, an employee of Martin Luther King whom he is in love with, to protest against segregation.
A RISING TIDE OF DANGER
In East Germany, teacher Rebecca Hoffmann finds her entire life has been a lie as she is targeted by the secret police, even as her younger brother, Walli, dreams of escape across the Berlin Wall to Britain. In Russia, activist Tania Dvorkin narrowly evades capture for producing an illegal news-sheet, her actions all the more perilous because her brother, Dimka, is an emerging star of the Communist Party.
A COLD WAR THAT COULD ELIMINATE THE WORLD FOREVER
In a sweeping tale that began in 1911, the descendants of five families will now find their true destiny as they fight for their individual freedom in a world facing the mightiest clash of superpowers it has ever seen.
In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and Protestants, royalty and commoners clash, testing friendship, loyalty, and love.
Ned Willard wants nothing more than to marry Margery Fitzgerald. But when the lovers find themselves on opposing sides of the religious conflict dividing the country, Ned goes to work for Princess Elizabeth. When she becomes queen, all Europe turns against England. The shrewd, determined young monarch sets up the country’s first secret service to give her early warning of assassination plots, rebellions, and invasion plans. Over a turbulent half-century, the love between Ned and Margery seems doomed as extremism sparks violence from Edinburgh to Geneva. Elizabeth clings to her throne and her principles, protected by a small, dedicated group of resourceful spies and courageous secret agents.
A MASON WITH A DREAM
1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound. With his family on the verge of starvation, mason Tom Builder dreams of the day that he can use his talents to create and build a cathedral like no other.
A MONK WITH A BURNING MISSION
Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, is resourceful, but with money scarce he knows that for his town to survive it must find a way to thrive, and so he makes the decision to build within it the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known.
A WORLD OF HIGH IDEALS AND SAVAGE CRUELTY
As Tom and Philip meet so begins an epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power. In a world beset by strife and enemies that would thwart their plans, they will stop at nothing to achieve their ambitions in a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state, and brother against brother . . .
The Pillars of the Earth is the first in The Kingsbridge Novels series, followed by World Without End and A Column of Fire.
Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam--a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion--a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant.
"There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . ."
On a brisk autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt. But her new home, while splendorous, is not welcoming. Johannes is kind yet distant, always locked in his study or at his warehouse office--leaving Nella alone with his sister, the sharp-tongued and forbidding Marin.
On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed.
As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. One boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. One girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible love. And always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day.
Ken Follett’s masterful epic The Pillars of the Earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedral. World Without End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change.
Julian Carlisle, książę Lyonsdale, musi pojawiać się na najważniejszych wydarzeniach towarzyskich Londynu. Traci powoli cierpliwość do banalnych rozmów o niczym i wymiany pustych uprzejmości. Tym bardziej że wkrótce powinien się ożenić, co oznacza, że wszędzie otaczają go debiutantki, które marzą o ślubie z księciem. Podczas kolejnego balu z wytęsknieniem wyczekuje chwili, w której będzie mógł samotnie wymknąć się do ogrodu. Tam poznaje piękną kobietę, Katrinę Vandenberg. Wkrótce o ich znajomości dowiaduje się dawna kochanka Juliana i postanawia pozbyć się Katriny…
Panna Faye Shawcross jest piękna, odpowiedzialna i opiekuńcza. Prowadzi proste i przewidywalne życie, które obraca się wokół opieki nad młodszym rodzeństwem i prowadzeniem rodzinnej posiadłości. Wkrótce zamierza wyjść za mąż za oficera Marynarki. Kiedy do sąsiedniego majątku wprowadza się przystojny i tajemniczy wicehrabia Ryan Kavanagh, w życie Faye wkrada się zamęt. Narzeczony przesuwa jednak datę ślubu o kolejne miesiące, jednocześnie coraz bardziej tęskniąc do spotkań z nowo poznanym sir Ryanem. Dlatego to właśnie do niego zwraca się o pomoc, kiedy jej młodsza siostra znika…
Deep in a dark, foreboding forest, the Roman Empire will face its bloodiest test.
3 BC. Two wild Germanic brothers, Armin and Wulf, are held hostage in Rome to keep their father from rebelling against the Empire. As the years pass, they are moulded into ideal soldiers: brave, disciplined, ruthless. Attributes that are to be tested when a conspiracy arises, threatening their emperor and the Empire’s future . . .
As serving Roman soldiers, the brothers are separated at opposite ends of the Empire, each proving their bloody might on the battlefield. But Armin begins to realize that no matter how far he travels and how many lives he takes, he has an inescapable bond to his father, mother and the tribes of Germania. His goal: to unite them all under one banner.
Wulf, though, remains loyal to Rome and it soon becomes clear that both he and the might of the Roman Empire are the only obstacles standing between Armin and his dream of freedom for the Germanic people . . .
At the fortress of the eagles, three kings will fight…
Uhtred of Bebbanburg has won back his ancestral home but, threatened from all sides by enemies both old and new, he doesn’t have long to enjoy the victory.
In Mercia, rebellion is in the air as King Edward tries to seize control. In Wessex, rival parties scramble to settle on the identity of the next king. And across the country invading Norsemen continue their relentless incursion, ever hungry for land.
Uhtred – a legendary warrior, admired and sought as an ally, feared as an adversary – finds himself once again torn between his two heritages: fighting on what he considers the wrong side, cursed by misfortune and tragedy and facing one of his most formidable enemies. Only the most astute cunning, the greatest loyalty and the most spectacular courage can save him.
For decades, Uhtred has stood at the intersection between Pagan and Christian, between Saxon and Viking, between the old world he was born into and the new world being forged around him. But as the winds of change gather pace, the pressure on Uhtred as father, as politician and as warrior grows as never before.
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION
A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.’
For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History. The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. And a future which draws her ever closer to Werner, a German orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the Hitler Youth.
In this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories of
Marie-Laure and Werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
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