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The Third Eye – ebook
Ethel Lina White
The Third Eye refers more to the thriller, not the detective novel. In the main events, Carolyn Watts is a young and intelligent middle-class teacher, who has just accepted a post as a games mistress at an exclusive school for girls. What she doesn’t know is that her predecessor was found dead in bed from heart failure. and that rumor has it that she was scared to death.Data dostępności:
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Crooks in the Sunshine – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
This is another great collection of short stories by Edward Phillips Oppenheim, the prolific English novelist who was in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers and spy novels, and who wrote over a 100 of them. He was the self-styled „prince of storytellers., generally regarded as the earliest writer of spy fiction as we know it today, and invented the ’Rogue...Data dostępności:
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The Great White Queen – ebook
William Le Queux
Our hero, Richard Scarsmere, befriends an individual (Omar) at an English boarding school who turns out to be an African prince from a kingdom called Mo. Omar receives a visit from one of his mother’s trusted advisers. His mother, the Great White Queen, seeks him to return home immediately. Omar convinces Scarsmere to return to Africa with him since there is little opportunity awaiting him in London....Data dostępności:
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As We Forgive Them – ebook
William Le Queux
To allow so young and delicate a girl to tramp England aimlessly in search of some vague and secret information which seemed to be her erratic father’s object, was, we decided, an utter impossibility; therefore, following that night of our first meeting at Helpstone, Burton and his daughter remained our guests for a week, and, after many consultations and some little economies, we were at last successful...Data dostępności:
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Villette – ebook
Charlotte Brontë
Villette is Charlotte Bronte’s last novel, published in 1853. After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. However, the novel is celebrated not so much for its plot as in its acute tracing of Lucy’s psychology, particularly Bronte’s use of Gothic...Data dostępności:
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KRONOS III/2014. Philosophical Journal – eprasa
Opracowanie zbiorowe
We are proud to present the latest, third issue of 'Kronos Philosophical Journal'. The issue comprises of excerpts from hitherto unpublished lectures by Leo Strauss on Aristotle, essays by American philosophers from Strauss' school of thought as well as Polish philosophers gathered around Kronos Journal. It also contains published for the very first time in English, pieces by Serio Quinzio on the end...Data dostępności:
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Exploring the virtual world of learning across generations. Information and communications technology for the educational support of immigrant youth – ebook
Marcin Rojek Joanna Leek Petr Svoboda
The book addresses the issue of intergenerational learning in a virtual world created by information and communication technology (ICT) and the role of ICT in an educational environment. In order to discuss how ICT can be used as a means to prevent early school leaving among immigrant youth, this book explores the literature on how learning can be understood in the intergenerational context, the challenges...Data dostępności:
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Men of the Mist – ebook
T.C. Bridges
The TEA at the Wasperton School was nothing more than thick slices of bread and margarine and an ominous black mixture served in huge metal teapots. The food was so bad that the boys could hardly eat it, but they did not dare to complain, at least as long as they were under the gaze of their master, Mr. Silas Craishaw. Because his eyes were no less rigid than his cane, and not a day passed, but some...Data dostępności:
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The Cruise of the Dazzler – ebook
Jack London
“The Cruise of the Dazzler” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. The Cruise of the Dazzler is an early novel by Jack London, set in his home city of San Francisco. It is considered a boy's adventure novel. In the novel, Joe Bronson, dissatisfied with his dull life at school,...Data dostępności:
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The Moon of Much Gladness – ebook
Ernest Bramah
This early work by Ernest Bramah Smith was originally published in 1911. „The Moon of Much Gladness Related by Kai Lung” is the fourth book in the Kai Lung series. The China which Kai Lung inhabits has numerous features of the fantasy Land of Fable, and many of the embedded tales are fantasy; all are told in an ornate manner which ironically, often hilariously, exaggerates the old Chinese tradition...Data dostępności:
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