The final novel from the bestselling author of the Inspector Wallander mysteriesFredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone on an island. He swims in the sea every day, cutting a hole in the ice if necessary. He lives a quiet life. Until he wakes up one night to find his house on fire.Fredrik escapes just in time, wearing two left-footed wellies, as neighbouring islanders arrive to help douse the flames. All that remains in the morning is a stinking ruin and evidence of arson. The house that has been in his family for generations and all his worldly belongings are gone. He cannot think who would do such a thing, or why. Without a suspect, the police begin to think he started the fire himself...
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Kontynuacja książki pt.: Włoskie buty (Italian shoes). Tekst w języku angielskim. Oznaczenia odpowiedzialności: Henning Mankell ; translated from Swedish by Marlaine Delargy.
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Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she`s ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places. Or why the flat she`s owned for a year still doesn`t feel like home. Whether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did eighteen months ago. And will she ever get over the love of her life. What Lou does know for certain is that something has to change. Then, one night, it does. But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for - or just more questions? Close the door and life continues: simple, ordered, safe. Open it and she risks everything. But Lou once made a promise to live. And if she`s going to keep it, she has to invite them in...
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Tekst w języku angielskim. Oznaczenia odpowiedzialności: Jojo Moyes.
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Wzruszająca, budząca szczery uśmiech wspomnieniowa książka syna irlandzkich imigrantów, uhonorowana w 1997 roku Nagrodą Pulitzera.
Lata 30, czasy Wielkiego Kryzysu. Uciekając przed nędzą i brakiem pracy, rodzina McCourtów powraca z Ameryki do Limerick w Irlandii, by w miejscowych slumsach prowadzić walkę o przetrwanie. Taki jest punkt wyjścia fascynującej autobiograficznej historii młodego chłopca Franka i jego rodziny - matki Angeli, ojca Malachy`ego, trójki braci i siostry - historii o godności, sile marzeń oraz zbawczej mocy śmiechu.
Pierwsze wyd. polskie ukazało się pod tytułem "Popiół i żar".
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Oznaczenia odpowiedzialności: Frank McCourt.
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Maggie has always been the white sheep of the Walsh family.Unlike her comically dysfunctional sisters,Rachel(heroine of Rachel`s Holiday) and Claire (heroine of Watermelon), she married a decent man who adored her and found herself a solid career. Where Rachel was reckless and Claire dramatic, Maggie settled early for safety. Or so she believed until she discovers that her husband is having an affair and her boss is going to fire her. Suddenly, her perfectly organized life has become a perfect mess.Devastated, she decides the only thing to do is to run for the shelter of her best friend, Emily, who lives in Los Angeles. There, with the help of sunshine and long days at the beach, she will lick her wounds and decide where life will take her next.But from the moment she lands in the City of Angels, things are not quite what she expected. Overnight, she`s mixing with movie stars,even pitching film scripts to studios.Most unexpectedly of all,she finds that just because her marriage is over,it doesn`t mean her life is. In the end neither the City of Angels nor Maggie Walsh will ever be the same again
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Tekst w języku angielskim Oznaczenia odpowiedzialności: Marian Keyes.
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Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: when she was eleven and her mother disappeared, being proposed to at twenty-one, the accident that would make her a widow at forty-one. At each of these moments, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others.So when she receives a phone call telling her that her son`s ex-girlfriend has been shot and needs her help, she drops everything and flies across the country. The spur-of-the moment decision to look after this woman - and her nine-year-old daughter, and her dog - will lead Willa into uncharted territory. Surrounded by new and surprising neighbours, she is plunged into the rituals that make a community, and takes pleasure in the most unexpected things.A bittersweet novel of hope and regret, fulfilment and renewal, Clock Dance brings us the everyday life of a woman who decides it`s never too late to change direction, and choose your own path.
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Tekst w języku angielskim. Oznaczenia odpowiedzialności: Anne Tyler.
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