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Rok 2005. Papiezem jest Benedykt XVI. Groser po miesiecznym pobycie w szpitalu - gdzie znalazl sie w wyniku brutalnego napadu - wraca na parafie Pierwszych Chrzescijan. Jedni traktuja go jako wspólczesne wcielenie Padre Pio, inni uwazaja go za ks. Jerzego, który przezyl. Spotkanie ze slynnym podróznikiem owocuje nieoczekiwana propozycja wyjazdu do Afryki.

It was a hell of a long shot.... CIA assassin Fortune Redding is about to undertake her most difficult mission ever - in Sinful, Louisiana. With a leak at the CIA and a price placed on her head by one of the world's largest arms dealers, Fortune has to go off-grid, but she never expected to be this far out of her element.

The old Apache sat quiet as stone - until a local tough challenged him. Big mistake. Never mess with a battle-tested warrior.

Arrogant, self-willed, and egotistical, Emma is Jane Austen's most unusual heroine. Her interfering ways and inveterate matchmaking are at once shocking and comic. She is "handsome, clever, and rich" and has "a disposition to think too well of herself." When she decides to introduce the humble Harriet Smith to the delights of genteel society and to find her a suitable husband, she precipitates herself and her immediate circle into a web of misunderstanding and intrigue, from which no one emerges unchanged.

Albeit that she is not yet 21, Emma Woodhouse foresees a future as a spinster dabbling in matchmaking. Charming and infuriating, she almost ruins the marriage prospects of Harriet Smith, her protégée, after misguidedly attempting to match Harriet with the local rector, who is in fact in search of a wealthy wife.

Alla sua pubblicazione nel 1814, Mansfield Park riscosse un immediato successo, tanto che nel 1816 fu tradotto in francese. Il romanzo è un delizioso affresco corale imbastito intorno alla protagonista, Fanny Price, che, partendo dalla sua umile casa piena di fratelli, si ritrova catapultata a soli nove anni nella ricca tenuta dei parenti nobili, i Bertram, a Mansfield Park. Fanciulla di sani principi e grande timidezza, Fanny trova nel cugino Edmund l’unica guida e sostegno alla sua crescita.

1944: Fiona Denning has her entire future planned out. She’ll work in city hall, marry her fiancé when he returns from the war, and settle down in the Boston suburbs. But when her fiancé is reported missing after being shot down in Germany, Fiona’s long-held plans are shattered. Determined to learn her fiancé’s fate, Fiona leaves Boston to volunteer overseas as a Red Cross Clubmobile girl, recruiting her two best friends to come along. There’s the outspoken Viviana, who is more than happy to quit her secretarial job for a taste of adventure.

Northanger Abbey is the light-hearted account of a young girl's first excursion into fashionable society. While in Bath, Catherine Morland is invited by Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor to visit their home, Northanger Abbey.

Desde niñas nos alimentamos de relatos terroríficos acerca del bosque, primero, y de la calle después. Los barrios peligrosos, los bares de madrugada, el despacho a puerta cerrada de un jefe, el coche o la casa de un desconocido: en realidad, el mundo entero es una amenaza con la que negociamos cada noche y cada día, porque no queremos dejar de vivir intensamente.

Willa Knight: The saviour of both worlds, or the destruction of everything? Sometimes history lies, and the tales of Minatsol and Topia are no different. Since the birth of Topia, Staviti has woven a web of deceit around the truth of Creation, striving only to maintain his power while destroying anything that gets in his way. Now, Willa and the Abcurses are determined to strip back the layers, to uncover the truth, and to understand the true nature of the two worlds before it's too late. The only problem?

Beatrice Harrow grew up in a world where there wasn’t a single place that she belonged, but the world is changing. Now, there is an entire kingdom and an actual ghost—with possible bad intentions—under her care, and she doesn’t know what to do with either of them. Exiled and separated from her friends, she finds herself swept up in the politics of her unwanted kingdom, with mysterious forces working against her at every turn. It will not be long until the whisperings of war on the horizon become a reality, but the question remains …Where will she stand?

Beatrice Harrow was raised in seclusion, separated from the Read Kingdom and protected from the mysterious mechanisms of the other four races, but they are not as blind to her as she is to them. Even before she steps foot inside the Academy, they know her name and they know the truth about her birth. She is one of the Tainted: a mixed-breed creature with the blood of a monster, clinging to legitimacy by the genes of her human father. She is more beautiful, more powerful, and more despised than any other being in the Read Kingdom.

The past few months have reduced Seraph Black to a permanent state of fight, and now it is all that she knows. She is fighting her friends and family to go off on a suicide mission to rescue Silas, she is fighting the fragmented memories that clamour for recognition inside her mind, and she is fighting a guilt so magnificent… it might just force her to betray the very people that have sacrificed so much to keep her safe. She had asked for space, and it had been given to her in the most heart-rending of ways, leaving only one of the four brothers remaining by her side.

Read by the author, acclaimed conductor Jane Glover. 'You don’t have to be able to hum Mozart to find this book utterly engrossing . . . I couldn’t put it down' - Joanna Lumley An expertly researched and vividly written account of Mozart’s formative trips to Italy. At thirteen years old...

Das ländliche England an der Schwelle zum 19. Jahrhundert: Nach dem Tod ihres Vaters stehen die ungleichen Schwestern Elinor und Marianne Dashwood fast mittellos da. In einer Welt, in der Status über das Schicksal einer Frau entscheidet, suchen beide nach Liebe und Sicherheit. Doch ihre Herangehensweisen könnten kaum gegensätzlicher sein.

Der unsterbliche Klassiker über die turbulenteste Liebesgeschichte der Weltliteratur – im Herbst 2026 als neue Netflix-Adaption von Dolly Alderton! Die standesgemäße Verheiratung ihrer fünf Töchter stellt das Ehepaar Bennet vor eine existenzielle Aufgabe. Vor allem die scharfsinnige Elizabeth widersetzt sich den gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen und weist den Antrag des wohlhabenden Aristokraten Mr. Darcy ab, dessen Hochmut sie abstößt.

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. ¿Le habría servido únicamente de refugio en la tormenta... o podría ofrecerle un hogar definitivo? Lo que menos esperaba encontrarse en su puerta el agente Dan Sorenson durante aquella fuerte tormenta era una mujer... Una mujer bella...

You want more than spiritual routines that leave you dry. You want to know God more closely, trust Him during difficult seasons, and experience meaningful change in how you live. Rooted and Growing in Christ presents biblical practices that can help you move from feeling spiritually uncertain or worn down to developing a deeper, stronger, and more fruitful relationship with God. Instead of trying to manufacture spiritual growth, you will learn to embrace the grace, truth, and practices God has designed to nourish your faith.

Orgullo y prejuicio es una novela clásica que gira en torno a la complicada relación entre Elizabeth Bennet y el apuesto pero arrogante señor Darcy en la Inglaterra del siglo XIX. Elizabeth, una mujer inteligente y de espíritu independiente, choca con Darcy debido a sus prejuicios mutuos. A medida que la historia se desarrolla, los personajes descubren sus propios errores y luchan contra los obstáculos sociales y personales para encontrar el amor verdadero.

Beim Lampionfest in Ostersande, einem idyllischen Ostseebadeort, wird die junge Lehrerin Frieda Jahnke bei einem Autounfall getötet. Für Hannah Bülow, die die örtliche Polizeiwache leitet, sieht alles nach einem Unfall aus. Doch bald kommen Zweifel auf: War Friedas Tod ein perfekt getarnter Mord? Als Hannahs Tochter Nele unerwartet nach Hause kommt, erinnert sie ihre Mutter an den mysteriösen Tod am Leuchtturm, den sie als Kind vor vielen Jahren gemeinsam mit Frieda beobachtet hat.