en-US Wed, 09 Apr 2025 10:45:05 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 944073
Nobleman Captain Jezal dan Luthar, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules.

Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. His latest trail of corpses may lead him right to the rotten heart of government, if he can stay alive long enough to follow it.

Enter the wizard, Bayaz. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make the lives of Logen, Jezal, and Glokta a whole lot more difficult.

Murderous conspiracies rise to the surface, old scores are ready to be settled, and the line between hero and villain is sharp enough to draw blood.

]]> 515 Joe Abercrombie 0575079797 Miss D 5 4.21 2006
author: Joe Abercrombie
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 2022/05/13
date added: 2025/04/09
shelves: school-library-books, currently-reading
review:

]]> 171681821
A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.

“With tenacity and candor, Haidt lays out the consequences that have come with allowing kids to drift further into the virtual world . . . While also offering suggestions and solutions that could help protect a new generation of kids.�� —Shannon Carlin, ,i>TIME, 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?

In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood�� began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood�� in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood�� has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.

Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems�� that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.

Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.]]> 400 Jonathan Haidt 0593655036 Miss D 5 4.36 2024
author: Jonathan Haidt
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2025/04/08
date added: 2025/04/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 34002132 Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.

Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.

Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar's blood-soaked past and stand together--and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past--even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization.]]> 1248 Brandon Sanderson Miss D 4 4.60 2017
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.60
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/28
date added: 2025/03/28
shelves:
review:

]]> 57756915 ����ó�ɰ첹 to absolutnie subiektywny wybór książek najważniejszych dla nas obu. To nie leksykon stu najważniejszych tytułów XX wieku, ani nawet wieku XIX. To nie żaden kanon - ani stary, ani nowy. To opowieść o tych książkach, które nas kształtowały i do których chciałyśmy po latach wrócić", piszą we wstępie autorki zapraszając czytelnika w literacką podróż.

Każda z autorek wybrała po pięćdziesiąt najważniejszych dla siebie lektur, począwszy od książek z czasów dzieciństwa. "Dużo czasu zajmowało nam zastanawianie się nad tym, do których książek z dawnych lat dobrze jest wracać, a które już w nas nie grają. Zbójnik Ondraszek czy Dziewczyna i chłopak czyli heca na 14 fajerek? Obie okazały się strzałem w dziesiątkę, podobnie Astrid Lidngren, którą znajdziecie w tekstach nas obu!", piszą autorki. To właśnie te pierwsze literackie wspomnienia prowokowały dyskusje o książkach wybieranych w latach późniejszych, w czasie dorastania, pierwszego zakochania, pierwszych podróży.

Na książkę składa się sto felietonów, które publikowane naprzemiennie czasami się ze sobą zazębiają, przenikają, a czasem wręcz przeciwnie �� zupełnie rozmijają. Autorki, mimo że prywatnie ze sobą zaprzyjaźnione, dokonywały przecież w życiu różnych literackich poszukiwań i wyborów. "Praca nad tą książką to było także dla każdej z nas spotkanie ze sobą �� tamtą czytelniczką sprzed lat, dziewczyną, której życie wewnętrzne kształtowała literatura", piszą autorki.

����ó�ɰ첹 to bardzo osobista lista książek, która powstała także po to, aby tych, którzy kochają literaturę, zachęcić do tworzenia własnych rankingów najważniejszych lektur. Jak pisał Jerzy Pilch "czytanie prawdziwe, to jest czytanie powtórne".]]> 262 Anna Dziewit-Meller 8366275264 Miss D 0 currently-reading 3.65 2021
author: Anna Dziewit-Meller
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/03/08
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> 59819466 264 Brandon Sanderson Miss D 3 4.22 2016
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/28
date added: 2025/02/28
shelves:
review:

]]> 219191798 Mayday, mayday! Jan Heweliusz" �� kapitan nadaje komunikat, który na całym świecie oznacza wezwanie pomocy na morzu. Jest 14 stycznia 1993 roku, godzina 4.36. Prom coraz bardziej pogrąża się w wodzie i staje się jasne, że to ostatnie chwile na ucieczkę. Pasażerowie skaczą do lodowatego Bałtyku, choć na pokładzie nie ma dla nich kombinezonów termicznych. Wkrótce do statku zaczynają się wlewać setki ton wody, odcinając drogę pozostałym.

Adam Zadworny opowiada historię największej katastrofy morskiej w powojennej Polsce: z ponad sześćdziesięciu osób, które były na promie, przeżyło zaledwie dziewięć �� wyłącznie załoga. Próbując ustalić, co się stało, przegląda stare akta, szuka ocalałych marynarzy, rozmawia z rodzinami ofiar i ekspertami, dociera nawet do ówczesnych decydentów. Interesuje go nie tylko przebieg katastrofy, którą odtwarza niemal minuta po minucie, ale także mozolne śledztwo w tej sprawie i skrywana historia promu. Zawinił wiatr, zły stan techniczny, błędy załogi, a może coś innego? Dlaczego kapitan zadecydował, że pójdzie na dno ze swoim statkiem? Komu najbardziej zależało na ukryciu prawdy? I dlaczego nawet dzisiaj tak trudno się do niej zbliżyć?]]> 216 Adam Zadworny 8381919932 Miss D 5 4.46 2024
author: Adam Zadworny
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/24
date added: 2025/02/24
shelves:
review:

]]> 17332218 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.

Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes." Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl.

The Assassin, Szeth, is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin's master has much deeper motives.

Brilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Despite being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. The secrets she needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more difficult than she could have imagined.

Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are making an epochal decision. Hard pressed by years of Alethi attacks, their numbers ever shrinking, they are convinced by their war leader, Eshonai, to risk everything on a desperate gamble with the very supernatural forces they once fled. The possible consequences for Parshendi and humans alike, indeed, for Roshar itself, are as dangerous as they are incalculable.]]> 1088 Brandon Sanderson 0765326361 Miss D 5 4.76 2014
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.76
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/22
date added: 2025/02/22
shelves:
review:

]]> 41086877 Librarian note: See an alternate cover edition here.

Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation �� awkward but electrifying �� something life-changing begins.

Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can’t.]]> 266 Sally Rooney Miss D 2 school-library-books 3.84 2018
author: Sally Rooney
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2018
rating: 2
read at: 2025/02/09
date added: 2025/02/09
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 1343239 224 Raymond Chandler 0140006524 Miss D 2 school-library-books 3.85 1939
author: Raymond Chandler
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1939
rating: 2
read at: 2025/02/03
date added: 2025/02/03
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 7235533 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, book one of The Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.

Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.

It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.

One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.

Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.

Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.

The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.

Speak again the ancient oaths:

Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before Destination.

and return to men the Shards they once bore.

The Knights Radiant must stand again.]]> 1007 Brandon Sanderson 0765326353 Miss D 5 4.66 2010
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.66
book published: 2010
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/01
date added: 2025/02/01
shelves:
review:

]]> 13242029 Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9781853260322.

Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results.

The different and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those around her.]]> 384 Jane Austen Miss D 3 school-library-books 3.62 1814
author: Jane Austen
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1814
rating: 3
read at: 2019/06/02
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 2162324 472 Władysław Stanisław Reymont Miss D 5 4.12 1899
author: Władysław Stanisław Reymont
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1899
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/12
date added: 2025/01/12
shelves:
review:

]]> 59617898 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES
The highly-anticipated finale to the A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series, the instant bestsellers that read like your favorite true crime podcast or show. By the end of this mystery series, you'll never think of good girls the same way again...

Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?

Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars.

Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim. As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle . . .and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears. . .]]> 552 Holly Jackson Miss D 1 school-library-books 4.34 2021
author: Holly Jackson
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2021
rating: 1
read at: 2025/01/04
date added: 2025/01/04
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 64345257 0 Emily Brontë 1489486968 Miss D 0 3.67 1847
author: Emily Brontë
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1847
rating: 0
read at: 2025/01/02
date added: 2025/01/02
shelves:
review:

]]> 200382515
Czy niedoświadczony milicjant będzie w stanie udźwignąć ciężar wytropienia mordercy? Ile prawdy jest w powtarzanej przez starszych mieszkańców legendzie, że wieś nawiedziła Mara, demon mrozu i śmierci, który już niegdyś zebrał krwawe żniwo? Czterdzieści lat po tamtych wydarzeniach policjanci z Archwium X wzywają emerytowanego Jana Rysia na przesłuchanie dotyczące zbrodni z 1978 roku, tym samym budząc uśpione demony.

Michał Śmielak kolejny raz buduje duszną atmosferę małej społeczności, pokazując, że zło nigdy nie śpi...]]> 336 Michał Śmielak 8383292783 Miss D 2 3.99 2023
author: Michał Śmielak
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2023
rating: 2
read at: 2024/12/26
date added: 2024/12/26
shelves:
review:

]]> 838652
This stirring adventure fantasy begins the tale of the hobbits that was continued by J.R.R. Tolkien in his bestselling epic The Lord of the Rings.]]> 276 J.R.R. Tolkien Miss D 4 school-library-books 4.31 1937
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1937
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/25
date added: 2024/12/25
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 33231085
Amy Alkon z wdziękiem prowadzi nas przez zawiłości etykiety i proponuje praktyczny zestaw zasad dobrego zachowania przystających do nowoczesnego stylu życia. Być może babcia próbowała nauczyć cię, którym nożem kroi się rybę, jednak na co dzień bardziej przyda ci się wiedza o tym:
czy wypada oddzwonić, zamiast odpowiedzieć e-mailem (a może to niegrzeczne),
czy można umieszczać w internecie zdjęcia z rodzinnego spotkania (wszyscy przecież wiedzą, że minęły czasy prywatności),
ile napiwku wręczyć kelnerowi w restauracji (i czy zostawić coś barmanowi),
jak uciszyć imprezujących sąsiadów (i nie wyjść przy tym na zrzędę).
A jeśli ktoś dmucha ci dymem papierosowym prosto w twarz? Bardzo głośno rozmawia przez telefon w miejscu publicznym? Postawił torbę na siedzeniu w autobusie i ani myśli jej ruszyć? Ta książka zawiera realistyczne rady na realne sytuacje i mnóstwo dobrego humoru. Stary, dobry Kamyczek może spokojnie przesunąć się na półce (chyba że to niegrzecznie tak mówić).]]> 304 Amy Alkon 8365087782 Miss D 3 2.40 2014
author: Amy Alkon
name: Miss D
average rating: 2.40
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/23
date added: 2024/12/23
shelves:
review:

]]> 51335759
With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her.

But she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reynolds has disappeared, on the very same night the town hosted a memorial for the sixth-year anniversary of the deaths of Andie Bell and Sal Singh.

The police won't do anything about it. And if they won't look for Jamie then Pip will, uncovering more of her town's dark secrets along the way... and this time everyone is listening. But will she find him before it's too late?]]> 413 Holly Jackson 1405297751 Miss D 3 school-library-books 4.27 2020
author: Holly Jackson
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/14
date added: 2024/12/14
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 55820574 An era-defining novel about the relationship between a fifteen-year-old girl and her teacher.

Vanessa Wye was fifteen years old when she first had sex with her English teacher.

She is now thirty-two and the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former student of his. Vanessa is horrified by this news, because she is quite certain that the relationship she had with Strane wasn’t abuse. It was love. She’s sure of that. But now, in 2017, in the midst of allegations against powerful men, she is being asked to redefine the great love story of her life �� her great sexual awakening �� as rape.

Nuanced, uncomfortable, bold and powerful, and as riveting as it is disturbing, My Dark Vanessa goes straight to the heart of some of the most complex issues our age is grappling with.]]> 372 Kate Elizabeth Russell 0008342253 Miss D 0 4.20 2020
author: Kate Elizabeth Russell
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at: 2024/12/07
date added: 2024/12/07
shelves:
review:

]]> 40916679
Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town.

But she can't shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer?

Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project, at first just to cast doubt on the original investigation. But soon she discovers a trail of dark secrets that might actually prove Sal innocent . . . and the line between past and present begins to blur. Someone in Fairview doesn't want Pip digging around for answers, and now her own life might be in danger.]]> 433 Holly Jackson 1405293187 Miss D 4 school-library-books 4.30 2019
author: Holly Jackson
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/29
date added: 2024/11/29
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 58556596 'Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here' ELIZABETH ZOTT
-------------
Set in 1960s California; Lessons In Chemistry is the brilliant, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home - something she most definitely does not believe - only to find herself the star of America's best-loved TV cooking show.
-------------
Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing.

But it's the 1960s, and despite the fact that she is a scientist, her male peers are very unscientific when it comes to equality. The only good thing to happen on her road to professional fulfilment is a run-in with famous colleague Calvin Evans, legend and Nobel nominee. He's also awkward, kind and tenacious. Theirs is true chemistry.

But life is never predictable and three years later Elizabeth Zott is an unwed, single mother and star of America's best loved cooking show Supper at Six. Her singular approach to cooking - 'take one pint of H2O and add a pinch of sodium chloride' - and empowering message prove revolutionary. Because Elizabeth isn't just teaching housewives how to cook, but how to change their lives.

Meet the unconventional, uncompromising Elizabeth Zott]]> 390 Bonnie Garmus 0857528122 Miss D 4 school-library-books 4.27 2022
author: Bonnie Garmus
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/19
date added: 2024/11/19
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 7763847 243 Magdalena Samozwaniec Miss D 3 4.17
author: Magdalena Samozwaniec
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.17
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/07
date added: 2024/11/07
shelves:
review:

]]> 7718341 272 Magdalena Samozwaniec 8370070922 Miss D 3 4.19 1956
author: Magdalena Samozwaniec
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1956
rating: 3
read at: 2024/10/31
date added: 2024/10/31
shelves:
review:

]]> 28264701 Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apartheid-era South Africa, told through one unique family brought together by tragedy.

Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles to raise her children alone after her husband's death. Both lives have been built upon the division of race, and their meeting should never have occurred...until the Soweto Uprising, in which a protest by black students ignites racial conflict, alters the fault lines on which their society is built, and shatters their worlds when Robin’s parents are left dead and Beauty’s daughter goes missing.

After Robin is sent to live with her loving but irresponsible aunt, Beauty is hired to care for Robin while continuing the search for her daughter. In Beauty, Robin finds the security and family that she craves, and the two forge an inextricable bond through their deep personal losses. But Robin knows that if Beauty finds her daughter, Robin could lose her new caretaker forever, so she makes a desperate decision with devastating consequences. Her quest to make amends and find redemption is a journey of self-discovery in which she learns the harsh truths of the society that once promised her protection.

Told through Beauty and Robin's alternating perspectives, the interwoven narratives create a rich and complex tapestry of the emotions and tensions at the heart of Apartheid-era South Africa. Hum If You Don’t Know the Words is a beautifully rendered look at loss, racism, and the creation of family.]]> 432 Bianca Marais 0399575073 Miss D 0 to-read 4.24 2017
author: Bianca Marais
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/10/27
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 58547648
"Dom w butelce" to zbiór mocnych, głębokich rozmów z dorosłymi dziećmi alkoholików. Jak wyglądało ich dzieciństwo? W jaki sposób uzależnieni rodzice wpłynęli na ich dorosłość? Kiedy rozmówcy uświadomili sobie obecność alkoholowego spadku w swoim życiu? Czy i jak udało im się od niego uwolnić? Kim są dzisiaj? Autorki wiedzą co mówią - jak same przyznają, książka jest również rozprawą z ich własnym, rodzinnym doświadczeniem.]]> 360 Agnieszka Jucewicz 8326837369 Miss D 3 4.21 2021
author: Agnieszka Jucewicz
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2024/10/24
date added: 2024/10/24
shelves:
review:

]]> 6982548
“Powerful . . . gripping . . . in the tradition that stretches from Ernest Hemingway to Cormac McCarthy.”�� The Washington Post

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review �� The Washington Post �� Economist �� Pittsburgh Post-Gazette �� Newsweek �� Kansas City Star �� Idaho Statesman
��
Left alone to care for his aging father after his mother dies by suicide and his sister escapes to Yale, Isaac English longs for a life beyond his hometown, a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town. But when he finally sets out to leave for good, accompanied by his temperamental best friend, former high school football star Billy Poe, they are caught up in a terrible act of violence that changes their lives forever.

Evoking John Steinbeck’s novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, American Rust takes us into the contemporary American heartland at a moment of profound unrest and uncertainty about the future. It is a dark but lucid vision,��a moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence and the power of love and friendship to redeem us.]]> 384 Philipp Meyer 0385527527 Miss D 3 3.72 2009
author: Philipp Meyer
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2009
rating: 3
read at: 2024/10/17
date added: 2024/10/17
shelves:
review:

]]> 60348761 The political philosopher Ryan T. Anderson, bestselling author of When Harry Became Responding to the Transgender Moment, teams up with the pro-life journalist Alexandra DeSanctis to expose the catastrophic failure—social, political, legal, and personal—of legalized abortion.

Hope in the Ruins of Roe

Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade and returned abortion law to the democratic process,��a powerful new book reframes the coming Our fifty-year experiment with unlimited abortion has harmed everyone—even its most passionate proponents.

Women, men, families, the law, politics, medicine, the media—and, of course, children (born and unborn)—have all been brutalized by the culture of death fostered by Roe v. Wade.

Abortion hollows out marriage and the family. It undermines the rule of law and corrupts our political system. It turns healers into executioners and “women’s health�� into a euphemism for extermination.

Ryan T. Anderson, a compelling and reasoned voice in our most contentious cultural debates, and the pro-life journalist Alexandra DeSanctis expose the false promises of the abortion movement and explain why it has made everything worse. Five decades after Roe, everyone has an opinion about abortion. But after reading Tearing Us Apart, no one will think about it in the same way.]]> 303 Ryan T. Anderson 1684513545 Miss D 5 4.81
author: Ryan T. Anderson
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.81
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2022/10/26
date added: 2024/09/28
shelves:
review:

]]> 21335778 608 Phillip Meyer 0857209442 Miss D 5 school-library-books 4.04 2013
author: Phillip Meyer
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2024/09/26
date added: 2024/09/26
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 12148120
Here is Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece. A powerful, triumphant portrayal of the American West as it really was. More than a love story, more than an adventure, Lonesome Dove is an epic: a monumental novel which embraces the spirit of the last defiant wilderness of America. Legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers, Lonesome Dove is the central, enduring American experience dramatically recreated in a magnificent story of heroism and love; of honour, loyalty and betrayal.]]> 848 Larry McMurtry 1447203054 Miss D 5 school-library-books 4.69 1985
author: Larry McMurtry
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.69
book published: 1985
rating: 5
read at: 2024/09/05
date added: 2024/09/05
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 42398827
“You shouldn’t be here. It’s too late . . . ��

These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine—a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth £3,000, to be precise.

Odd, considering he didn’t drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on the wall by the killer? And, most importantly, which of the man’s many, many enemies did the deed?

Baffled, the police are forced to bring in Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, the author Anthony, who’s really getting rather good at this murder investigation business.

But as Hawthorne takes on the case with characteristic relish, it becomes clear that he, too, has secrets to hide. As our reluctant narrator becomes ever more embroiled in the case, he realizes that these secrets must be exposed—even at the risk of death . . .]]> 375 Anthony Horowitz Miss D 0 4.08 2018
author: Anthony Horowitz
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/09/01
shelves: currently-reading, school-library-books
review:

]]> 205046925 SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER?

A woman is strangled six hours after organising her own funeral.

Did she know she was going to die? Did she recognise her killer?

Daniel Hawthorne, a recalcitrant detective with secrets of his own, is on the case, together with his reluctant side-kick �� a man completely unaccustomed to the world of crime.

But even Hawthorne isn't prepared for the twists and turns in store �� as unexpected as they are bloody...
_________________

Buried secrets, murder and a trail of bloody clues lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz’s page-turning new detective series. If you enjoyed BBC’s Sherlock, you’ll LOVE The Word is Murder.

Chosen as one of Crime Time's books of the year

'Raises the game-playing to Olympic level' �� Guardian Books of the Year

'A real page-turner. I loved it!' �� ALED JONES (ITV, Weekend)

'The beguiling whodunit plot is dispatched with characteristic elan as Horowitz blurs the line between fact and fiction' �� Financial Times

'Splendidly entertaining, absorbing and difficult to put down. Hawthorne is an intriguing character' �� Daily Express

'Sharp-witted readers who think they've solved the puzzle early on can rest assured that they've opened only one of many dazzling Christmas packages Horowitz has left beautifully wrapped under the tree' �� Kirkus Reviews

'Deduction and wit are well-balanced, and fans of Peter Lovesey and other modern channelers of the spirit of the golden age of detection will clamor for more' �� Publishers Weekly]]> 387 Anthony Horowitz 1784757233 Miss D 3 school-library-books 3.91 2017
author: Anthony Horowitz
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2017
rating: 3
read at: 2024/09/01
date added: 2024/09/01
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 59238565 576 Amor Towles 1529157641 Miss D 4 school-library-books 4.16 2021
author: Amor Towles
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2024/08/27
date added: 2024/08/27
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 217490362
Some said the family deserved it. That they never even thanked the searchers who stayed out for five nights in the freezing forest trying to help find their missing son.

Some said there was a reason it took the family so long to call for help. That they knew what happened to the boy.

Now, fifteen years later, the Van Laars' teenage daughter has gone missing in the same wilderness as her brother. Some say the two disappearances aren’t connected.

Some say they are.]]> 437 Liz Moore 0008663807 Miss D 4 school-library-books 4.12 2024
author: Liz Moore
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/08/19
date added: 2024/08/19
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 31296321
Henryk (Adam Alexander Pius) Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) was a novelist, born in Wola Okrzejska, Poland. He studied at Warsaw, travelled in the USA, and in the 1870s began to write articles, short stories, and novels. His major work was a war trilogy about 17th-c Poland, beginning with Ogniem i mieczem (1884, With Fire and Sword), but his most widely known book is the story of Rome under Nero, Quo Vadis (1896), several times filmed, notably in 1951 by Mervyn Le Roy (1900-87). He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905.]]> 585 Henryk Sienkiewicz Miss D 5 5.00
author: Henryk Sienkiewicz
name: Miss D
average rating: 5.00
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2019/01/01
date added: 2024/08/07
shelves:
review:

]]> 56019043
In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives. Now, in this bold sequel, Peterson delivers twelve more lifesaving principles for resisting the exhausting toll that our desire to order the world inevitably takes.

In a time when the human will increasingly imposes itself over every sphere of life—from our social structures to our emotional states—Peterson warns that too much security is dangerous. What’s more, he offers strategies for overcoming the cultural, scientific, and psychological forces causing us to tend toward tyranny, and teaches us how to rely instead on our instinct to find meaning and purpose, even—and especially—when we find ourselves powerless.

While chaos, in excess, threatens us with instability and anxiety, unchecked order can petrify us into submission. Beyond Order provides a call to balance these two fundamental principles of reality itself, and guides us along the straight and narrow path that divides them.]]> 382 Jordan B. Peterson 0593084640 Miss D 5 4.14 2021
author: Jordan B. Peterson
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2021/03/11
date added: 2024/08/07
shelves:
review:

]]> 62086891 This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9780571376483

Demon's story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking 'like a little blue prizefighter.' For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along with buckets of charm, a quick wit, and some unexpected talents, legal and otherwise.

In the southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, poverty isn't an idea, it's as natural as the grass grows. For a generation growing up in this world, at the heart of the modern opioid crisis, addiction isn't an abstraction, it's neighbours, parents, and friends. 'Family' could mean love, or reluctant foster care. For Demon, born on the wrong side of luck, the affection and safety he craves is as remote as the ocean he dreams of seeing one day. The wonder is in how far he's willing to travel to try and get there.

Suffused with truth, anger and compassion, Demon Copperhead is an epic tale of love, loss and everything in between.]]> 546 Barbara Kingsolver Miss D 5 4.45 2022
author: Barbara Kingsolver
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2024/07/24
date added: 2024/07/24
shelves:
review:

]]> 23124721 260 Gayle Forman Miss D 0 school-library-books 3.77 2011
author: Gayle Forman
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2011
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/24
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 53163059
Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency is working on the case of a missing dog - and her own need to be more assertive - when she sees the footage on TV. Then she tunes in again, to the late-night report, and realises there is something not quite right about the correspondent who was first on the scene. So begins 'If It Bleeds', a stand-alone sequel to the No. 1 bestselling The Outsider featuring the incomparable Holly on her first solo case - and also the riveting title story in Stephen King's brilliant new collection.

Dancing alongside are three more wonderful long stories from this 'formidably versatile author' (The Sunday Times) In 'Mr Harrigan's Phone', young Craig introduces a curmudgeonly retired business tycoon to the wonders of a smartphone - and they keep their connection, even after Harrigan has died.

'The Life of Chuck' is a three act life-story 'presented in reverse order, like a film running backwards' - from the father and retiring accountant whose face lights up a billboard as the city lies dying, through the business who dances to the drums of a busker in Boston and back to the young orphan whose grandma warns him not to go into the cupola of their Victorian house.

The final story, 'Rat', sees an author head up to a remote cabin in the woods of North Maine, where, frozen and sick with flu, he makes a Faustian pact with a deal-making rat.

These four brilliant novellas display King's extraordinary range with grace, humour, horror and breathtaking suspense. A truly fascinating Author's Note gives us a wonderful insight into the origin of each story and the writer's unparalleled imagination.]]> 369 Stephen King 1529391539 Miss D 3 school-library-books 4.00 2020
author: Stephen King
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2024/07/19
date added: 2024/07/19
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 62919748 At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secrets in this new fantasy series by internationally bestselling author of The Licanius Trilogy, James Islington.

AUDI. VIDE. TACE.

The Catenan Republic �� the Hierarchy �� may rule the world now, but they do not know everything.

I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most prestigious school. I tell them that once I graduate, I will gladly join the rest of civilised society in allowing my strength, my drive and my focus �� what they call Will �� to be leeched away and added to the power of those above me, as millions already do. As all must eventually do.

I tell them that I belong, and they believe me.

But the truth is that I have been sent to the Academy to find answers. To solve a murder. To search for an ancient weapon. To uncover secrets that may tear the Republic apart.

And that I will never, ever cede my Will to the empire that executed my family.

To survive, though, I will still have to rise through the Academy’s ranks. I will have to smile, and make friends, and pretend to be one of them and win. Because if I cannot, then those who want to control me, who know my real name, will no longer have any use for me.

And if the Hierarchy finds out who I truly am, they will kill me.]]> 630 James Islington 1982141174 Miss D 0 4.63 2023
author: James Islington
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.63
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/15
shelves: currently-reading, school-library-books
review:

]]> 60414182
But in a country where the cult of the Christians is spreading, Merlin's quest is devisive. And the ambitions of the rival warlord Lancelot threaten the delicate peace. Could even those closest to Arthur be moved to betray him?

In the second book of the warlord Chronicles, Bernard Cornwall brilliantly retells the Arthurian Legend, combining myth, history and thrilling Battlefield action...]]> 473 Bernard Cornwell Miss D 4 school-library-books 4.65 1996
author: Bernard Cornwell
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.65
book published: 1996
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/14
date added: 2024/07/14
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 44792723
An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.

As the investigation expands and horrifying answers begin to emerge, King’s propulsive story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can.]]> 475 Stephen King 1473676436 Miss D 4 school-library-books 3.87 2018
author: Stephen King
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/13
date added: 2024/07/13
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 30337608 Od 2011 roku to okrzyk, który na zniszczonej północy Japonii słychać wszędzie. Niektórzy mówią, że mają już go dosyć.

Ganbare! to opowieść o kraju, gdzie zagrożenie katastrofą stało się normą, a normalne życie jest podszyte widmem śmierci. I o ludziach, którzy pięć lat po trzęsieniu ziemi, tsunami i wybuchu w elektrowni jądrowej próbują poradzić sobie w nowej rzeczywistości. Niektórzy z nich nauczyli się nurkować i wciąż szukają szczątków bliskich na dnie morza. Inni, ignorując zagrożenie, usiłują żyć w napromieniowanym świecie, jakby nic się nie stało. Jeszcze inni rozmawiają z duchami. Albo zapisują się na warsztaty umierania.]]> 304 Katarzyna Boni 8326823864 Miss D 3 4.42 2016
author: Katarzyna Boni
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2024/07/06
date added: 2024/07/06
shelves:
review:

]]> 7232473
Pewnego dnia Janina dowiaduje się o śmierci sąsiada kłusownika, potem o następnej ofierze�� Seria mniej lub bardziej niewytłumaczalnych zgonów rośnie, a na śniegu nie ma innych śladów jak tylko zwierzęce... Janina próbuje zbadać sprawę własnymi metodami. Ma intrygującą teorię na temat motywu i sprawcy tych zbrodni, ale policja ignoruje ją, traktując jak nieszkodliwą dziwaczkę. Jednak Janina wie więcej niż wszyscy, bo potrafi czytać w gwiazdach, jak w otwartej księdze…]]> 320 Olga Tokarczuk Miss D 3 4.09 2009
author: Olga Tokarczuk
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2009
rating: 3
read at: 2024/06/26
date added: 2024/06/26
shelves:
review:

]]> 58481909 495 Bernard Cornwell Miss D 4 school-library-books 3.91 1994
author: Bernard Cornwell
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1994
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/25
date added: 2024/06/25
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 49696430 Zabawny, a przy tym przejmujący zbeletryzowany opis pięciu lat pracy w japońskim przedsiębiorstwie. Jak zatrudnia się, pracuje i odchodzi z firmy w Japonii.

Trzydziestoletni bohater rozpoczyna pracę w firmie K. Okazuje się, że jest jedynym obcokrajowcem, pośród sześciuset pracowników korporacji. Musi dostosować się do nowych warunków i wymagań. Przywdziewa strój roboczy, przesiaduje długie godziny w biurze, bierze udział w naradach, wyjeżdża w delegacje i na wycieczki pracownicze, spędza weekendy z Prezesem i wieczory z kolegami z pracy.]]> 270 Piotr Milewski 8381394287 Miss D 3 3.43 2020
author: Piotr Milewski
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.43
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2024/06/23
date added: 2024/06/23
shelves:
review:

]]> 18453827
Książka Mariusza Urbanka opisuje meandry losu i kulisy twórczości Juliana Tuwima �� poety, tekściarza kabaretowego, tłumacza, bibliofila, kolekcjonera, badacza i popularyzatora dziejów kultury.]]> 340 Mariusz Urbanek 8324403272 Miss D 4 4.11 2013
author: Mariusz Urbanek
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/20
date added: 2024/06/20
shelves:
review:

]]> 9917996
A stranger had also come to the Lot, a stranger with a secret as old as evil, a secret that would wreak irreparable harm on those he touched and in turn on those they loved.

All would be changed forever—Susan, whose love for Ben could not protect her; Father Callahan, the bad priest who put his eroded faith to one last test; and Mark, a young boy who sees his fantasy world become reality and ironically proves the best equipped to handle the relentless nightmare of 'Salem's Lot.]]> 653 Stephen King Miss D 4 school-library-books 4.07 1975
author: Stephen King
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1975
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/15
date added: 2024/06/15
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 62115454 204 Janusz A. Zajdel 8375781894 Miss D 4 4.27 1984
author: Janusz A. Zajdel
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1984
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/02
date added: 2024/06/02
shelves:
review:

]]> 15739070
In 2011, Jake Epping, an English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, sets out on an insane �� and insanely possible �� mission to prevent the Kennedy assassination.

Leaving behind a world of computers and mobile phones, he goes back to a time of big American cars and diners, of Lindy Hopping, the sound of Elvis, and the taste of root beer.

In this haunting world, Jake falls in love with Sadie, a beautiful high school librarian. And, as the ominous date of 11/22/63 approaches, he encounters a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald...]]> 740 Stephen King Miss D 4 school-library-books 4.36 2011
author: Stephen King
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2024/05/30
date added: 2024/05/30
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 52856151
But in a community where death and murder is rife, will Mickey be able to save her sister before it's too late?]]> 464 Liz Moore 1786090619 Miss D 4 school-library-books 3.99 2020
author: Liz Moore
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2024/05/06
date added: 2024/05/06
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 14942 194 Virginia Woolf 0151009988 Miss D 3 school-library-books 3.80 1925
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1925
rating: 3
read at: 2024/05/03
date added: 2024/05/03
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 61184723
Znajdujący się w samym sercu Warszawy klub, nieustannie inwigilowany przez bezpiekę, pozostawał wyspą wolności aż do stanu wojennego. Sam lokal działa do dziś, ale zmieniły się klimat i obyczaje. Po dawnym SPATiF-ie zostały jedynie legenda i mnóstwo anegdot z czasów, gdy za zamkniętymi drzwiami, skrywającymi nie zawsze piękne tajemnice, toczyło się intensywne życie. I ta historia �� polskiego kina, teatru, estrady i literatury �� barwnie opisana w książce Aleksandry Szarłat.]]> 552 Aleksandra Szarłat 8381914450 Miss D 3 3.77 2022
author: Aleksandra Szarłat
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2024/04/29
date added: 2024/04/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 452235 --jgrisham.com]]> 501 John Grisham 044021145X Miss D 0 school-library-books 4.26 1991
author: John Grisham
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1991
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/04/25
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 578587
A devastating new weapon of destruction.
When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy -- the Catholic Church.

Langdon's worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican's holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.
Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair...a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.

An explosive international thriller, Angels & Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.]]> 620 Dan Brown 0552150738 Miss D 3 school-library-books 3.82 2000
author: Dan Brown
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2000
rating: 3
read at: 2018/11/28
date added: 2024/04/23
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 46016436 Alternate cover edition can be found here

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.

But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.

Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?]]> 377 Richard Osman 0241425441 Miss D 2 school-library-books 3.95 2020
author: Richard Osman
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2020
rating: 2
read at: 2024/04/12
date added: 2024/04/12
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 52382796
Powerful and engrossing, capturing both the rich pageantry and stark realities of life in feudal Japan, Shōgun is a critically acclaimed powerhouse of a book. Heart-stopping, edge-of-your-seat action melds seamlessly with intricate historical detail and raw human emotion. Endlessly compelling, this sweeping saga captivated the world to become not only one of the best-selling novels of all time but also one of the highest-rated television miniseries, as well as inspiring a nationwide surge of interest in the culture of Japan. Shakespearean in both scope and depth, Shōgun is, as the New York Times put it, "...not only something you read--you live it." Provocative, absorbing, and endlessly fascinating, there is only one: Shōgun.]]> 1152 James Clavell 1982603844 Miss D 5 school-library-books 4.42 1975
author: James Clavell
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1975
rating: 5
read at: 2024/04/07
date added: 2024/04/07
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 28429312 Dobrze się myśli literaturą to zbiór esejów o praktykowaniu wiary w literaturę, rozumianą jako konieczność mówiącego człowieka. Ryszard Koziołek przekonuje, że ilekroć próbujemy coś wyjaśnić, porozumieć się z innym lub wyrazić własne emocje, jesteśmy skazani na literaturę. Czynimy to również bez lektury, ale �� jak przekonuje autor �� czytanie ulepsza nasze myślenie i mowę.

W myśleniu literaturą autor sięga do twórczości klasyków �� jak Prus, Kraszewski, Sienkiewicz, Przybyszewska czy Mrożek �� oraz pisarzy współczesnych �� Springera, Stasiuka, Pilcha czy Karpowicza. Życiorysy są dla niego równie ważne, jak fikcje, jeśli tylko pozwalają myśli ruszyć z miejsca i ćwiczyć się w wyrażaniu i opowiadaniu świata.

Eseje Ryszarda Koziołka to także głos w sprawie przywrócenia literaturze należnego jej miejsca, które ostatnimi czasy osłabiły media wizualne. Autor udowadnia, że dla człowieka nie ma lepszego programu symulacyjnego do trenowania wyobraźni, mowy i myślenia niż literatura.]]> 288 Ryszard Koziołek 8380492196 Miss D 3 3.88 2016
author: Ryszard Koziołek
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2024/02/25
date added: 2024/02/25
shelves:
review:

]]> 28005225 243 Tobias Wolff Miss D 4 school-library-books 3.83 1989
author: Tobias Wolff
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1989
rating: 4
read at: 2024/02/24
date added: 2024/02/24
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 59521608
Sinuhe, jako królewski trepanator związany z najwybitniejszymi osobistościami epoki faraona Amenofisa IV (Echnatona), zostaje wmieszany w ówczesne wydarzenia i intrygi. Ciesząc się bezgranicznym zaufaniem władcy „doliny Nilu��, przemierza w misji Syrię, Babilonię, Kretę i kraj Hatti, przeżywa wojny i prześladowania, kocha i nienawidzi, by wreszcie u schyłku życia poznać straszliwą tajemnicę związaną ze swymi narodzinami i odkryć własne przeznaczenie, które nie mogło się wypełnić skutkiem przedziwnych zrządzeń losu.

Wydanie luksusowe �� twarda okładka, uszlachetnienia, ponadczasowy design.]]> 656 Mika Waltari 8324584862 Miss D 3 3.77 1945
author: Mika Waltari
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1945
rating: 3
read at: 2024/02/17
date added: 2024/02/17
shelves:
review:

]]> 72377327 252 Peggy Parish 830807460X Miss D 4 4.00
author: Peggy Parish
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.00
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2024/02/15
date added: 2024/02/15
shelves:
review:

]]> 436609 Sunrise Over Falluja in hardcover.

A coming-of-age tale for young adults set in the trenches of the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, this is the story of Perry, a Harlem teenager who volunteers for the service when his dream of attending college falls through. Sent to the front lines, Perry and his platoon come face-to-face with the Vietcong and the real horror of warfare. But violence and death aren't the only hardships. As Perry struggles to find virtue in himself and his comrades, he questions why black troops are given the most dangerous assignments, and why the U.S. is there at all.]]> 309 Walter Dean Myers 0590409433 Miss D 0 3.98 1983
author: Walter Dean Myers
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1983
rating: 0
read at: 2024/01/26
date added: 2024/01/26
shelves:
review:

]]> 60165392 Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story.

You already know these stereotypes. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscape of famines and safaris, uniquely plagued by poverty and strife.

In this funny and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective. He examines each country's colonial heritage, and explores a wide range of subjects, from chronicling urban life in Lagos and the lively West African rivalry over who makes the best Jollof rice, to the story of democracy in seven dictatorships and the dangers of stereotypes in popular culture.

By turns intimate and political, Africa Is Not A Country brings the story of the continent towards reality, celebrating the energy and fabric of its different cultures and communities in a way that has never been done before.]]> 385 Dipo Faloyin 0393881539 Miss D 0 to-read 4.43 2022
author: Dipo Faloyin
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/01/26
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 40514431
Meanwhile, in New York City, Dean Tenney, former Major League pitcher and Andy’s childhood best friend, is wrestling with what miserable athletes living out their worst nightmares call the “yips��: he can’t throw straight anymore, and, even worse, he can’t figure out why. As the media storm heats up, an invitation from Andy to stay in Maine seems like the perfect chance to hit the reset button on Dean’s future.

When he moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie’s house, the two make a deal: Dean won’t ask about Evvie’s late husband, and Evvie won’t ask about Dean’s baseball career. Rules, though, have a funny way of being broken—and what starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more. To move forward, Evvie and Dean will have to reckon with their pasts—the friendships they’ve damaged, the secrets they’ve kept—but in life, as in baseball, there’s always a chance—up until the last out.]]> 289 Linda Holmes 0525619240 Miss D 2 school-library-books 3.80 2019
author: Linda Holmes
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2019
rating: 2
read at: 2024/01/22
date added: 2024/01/22
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 75540347
Niemal z dnia na dzień ludzie kultury, sportowcy, informatycy, personel medyczny, pośrednicy nieruchomości, emeryci musieli zmienić swoje dotychczasowe życie i zmierzyć się z wojną, która stała się jednym z największych wyzwań Europy od końca drugiej wojny światowej.

To właśnie tym osobom Paweł Pieniążek �� ceniony dziennikarz i reporter wojenny, który relacjonował wydarzenia na Ukrainie z pierwszego frontu walki �� poświęcił swoją nową książkę. Tym, którzy w tragicznych okolicznościach, trudnych warunkach i rzucając wyzwanie strachowi, starają się ratować swój kraj.]]> 256 Paweł Pieniążek Miss D 3 4.18 2023
author: Paweł Pieniążek
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2024/01/13
date added: 2024/01/13
shelves:
review:

]]> 62897700 This is an alternate cover edition for 9781529115543

This is not a romance, but it is about love

Two kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games becomes a shared world -- of joy, escape and fierce competition. But all too soon that time is over.

When the pair spot each other eight years later in a crowded train station, they are catapulted back to that moment. The spark is immediate, and together they get to work on what they love - making games to delight, challenge and immerse players, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives. Their collaborations make them superstars.

This is the story of the perfect worlds Sadie and Sam build, the imperfect world they live in, and of everything that comes after success: Money. Fame. Duplicity. Tragedy.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow takes us on a dazzling imaginative quest as it examines the nature of identity, creativity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play and, above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.]]> 482 Gabrielle Zevin Miss D 4 school-library-books 4.10 2022
author: Gabrielle Zevin
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2024/01/11
date added: 2024/01/11
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 144738296
Autor wyrusza więc w Polskę, aby zrozumieć, co się dzieje na polskich szosach. Opisuje wojnę między kierowcami a rowerzystami, organizację nielegalnych wyścigów, bezkarną jazdę po pijaku oraz najgłośniejsze wypadki, po których służby drogowe miały ostatecznie rozprawić się z piratami. Może to nieudolny system prawny odpowiada za społeczne przyzwolenie na szybką i ryzykowną jazdę?

Józefiak wnika także w środowisko firm odszkodowawczych, dosłownie utrzymujących się ze śmierci pod kołami. Sprawdza, jak się żyje tym, którzy dzięki samochodom zarabiają na chleb �� kierowcom tirów, kurierom, dostawcom jedzenia. Dociera do wykluczonych z dostępu do komunikacji miejskiej i tych, którzy z pasją gromadzą kolejne "najnowsze modele" na podwórku.

Wszyscy tak jeżdżą to wielowymiarowy, rasowy, gęsty reportaż o stanie umysłowym polskich kierowców]]> 392 Bartosz Józefiak 8381917123 Miss D 5 4.20 2023
author: Bartosz Józefiak
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2024/01/07
date added: 2024/01/07
shelves:
review:

]]> 199149591 In the seventh installment in the "outrageously entertaining" Strike series, detective duo Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult. (Financial Times)

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside.

The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths.

In order to try to rescue Will, Strike's business partner, Robin Ellacott, decides to infiltrate the cult, and she travels to Norfolk to live incognito among its members. But in doing so, she is unprepared for the dangers that await her there or for the toll it will take on her. . .

Utterly page-turning, The Running Grave moves Strike's and Robin's story forward in this epic, unforgettable seventh installment of the series.]]> 947 Robert Galbraith 1408730944 Miss D 5 school-library-books 4.60 2023
author: Robert Galbraith
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.60
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2024/01/04
date added: 2024/01/04
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 61069513 Pandrioszka Krystyny Kurczab-Redlich, autorki bestsellerowej książki Wowa, Wołodia, Władimir. Tajemnice Rosji Putina, powraca!

To książka, w której reportażystka w przejmujący i fascynujący sposób kreśli obraz Rosji lat 90. XX wieku i zmian politycznych, obyczajowych oraz społecznych.

W zetknięciu z Rosją na początku pojawiają się zachwyt i zauroczenie: sztuką i kulturą, pięknymi cerkwiami i folklorem, śpiewnym językiem. Potem włącza się opamiętanie, bo okazuje się, że zderzenie z rosyjską codziennością jest bolesne, a życie ma gorzki smak. Na końcu pojawia się niezrozumienie �� dla inności ludzi, ich bierności i braku wewnętrznej wolności, dla ich zgody na cierpienie.

Spod pięknych barw matrioszki zaczynają wyzierać nieszczęścia i strach, a każda kolejna cząstka malowanej zabawki to kolejny dramat. Matrioszka po otwarciu jest jak puszka Pandory, hybryda Dobra i Zła: PANDRIOSZKA.]]> 320 Krystyna Kurczab-Redlich Miss D 4 4.09 2000
author: Krystyna Kurczab-Redlich
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2000
rating: 4
read at: 2023/12/30
date added: 2023/12/30
shelves:
review:

]]> 60497669 Avery’s fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about.

To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. Her life is intertwined with theirs. She knows their secrets and they know her.

But as the clock ticks down to the moment when Avery will become the richest teenager on the planet, trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help—and whose presence in Hawthorne House could change everything. It soon becomes clear that there is one last puzzle to solve, and Avery and the Hawthorne brothers are drawn into a dangerous game against an unknown and powerful player.]]> 374 Jennifer Lynn Barnes 0316466301 Miss D 1 school-library-books 4.09 2022
author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2022
rating: 1
read at: 2023/12/25
date added: 2023/12/25
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 1009709 373 Agatha Christie 0007815530 Miss D 0 school-library-books 4.05 1937
author: Agatha Christie
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1937
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/12/25
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 60391622 Blizny. Prawdziwa historia „królików�� z Ravensbrück to rzecz o nazistowskim okrucieństwie, sile przetrwania i odwadze kobiet - młodych polskich działaczek ruchu oporu, poddanych wyniszczającym eksperymentom pseudomedycznym w obozie koncentracyjnym nad jeziorem Schwedt. To także historia kobiecego buntu i wzajemnej solidarności więźniarek różnych krajów, opowieść o lekarzach w służbie Hitlera i pewnej amerykańskiej filantropce, która postanowiła pomóc ofiarom eksperymentów w leczeniu ich blizn na ciele i duszy.]]> 432 Marta Grzywacz 8328092565 Miss D 5 4.52 2022
author: Marta Grzywacz
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.52
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2023/12/16
date added: 2023/12/16
shelves:
review:

]]> 56305028 Mystery. Riches. Romance. Betrayal.

TWO CAN PLAY THIS GAME.

Overnight, Avery Grambs went from sleeping in her car to billionaire heiress. Now ensconced in a world of opulence, riddles, danger, and family secrets, Avery is on the hunt for the one person who might hold the answers to all her questions—including why eccentric billionaire Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery, a virtual stranger, rather than to his own daughters and grandsons.

Avery has a DNA test that proves she’s not a Hawthorne by blood, but cryptic clues begin piling up, hinting at a deeper connection to the family. Soon, Avery finds herself pulled into another game just as twisted as the first. As she works her way through puzzle after puzzle, it becomes clear that nothing is what it seems. Grayson and Jameson, two of the enigmatic and magnetic Hawthorne grandsons, continue to pull Avery in different directions, and it's getting harder to tell who her allies are and who will stop at nothing to see Avery out of the picture—by any means necessary.]]> 359 Jennifer Lynn Barnes 0759557632 Miss D 2 school-library-books 4.23 2021
author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2021
rating: 2
read at: 2023/12/07
date added: 2023/12/07
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 61358638 Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?

In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow.

Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom.]]> 304 Matthew Desmond 0593239911 Miss D 0 to-read 4.27 2023
author: Matthew Desmond
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/12/07
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 62586003 A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body.

It’s not you, it’s the food.

We have entered a new age of eating. For the first time in human history, most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food. There’s a long, formal scientific definition, but it can be boiled down to this: if it’s wrapped in plastic and has at least one ingredient that you wouldn’t find in your kitchen, it’s UPF.

These products are specifically engineered to behave as addictive substances, driving excess consumption. They are now linked to the leading cause of early death globally and the number one cause of environmental destruction. Yet almost all our staple foods are ultra-processed. UPF is our food culture and for many people it is the only available and affordable food.

In this book, Chris van Tulleken, father, scientist, doctor, and award-winning BBC broadcaster, marshals the latest evidence to show how governments, scientists, and doctors have allowed transnational food companies to create a pandemic of diet-related disease. The solutions don’t lie in willpower, personal responsibility, or exercise. You’ll find no diet plan in this book―but join Chris as he undertakes a powerful self-experiment that made headlines around the world: under the supervision of colleagues at University College London he spent a month eating a diet of 80 percent UPF, typical for many children and adults in the United States. While his body became the subject of scientific scrutiny, he spoke to the world’s leading experts from academia, agriculture, and―most important―the food industry itself. But more than teaching him about the experience of the food, the diet switched off Chris’s own addiction to UPF.

In a fast-paced and eye-opening narrative he explores the origins, science, and economics of UPF to reveal its catastrophic impact on our bodies and the planet. And he proposes real solutions for doctors, for policy makers, and for all of us who have to eat. A book that won’t only upend the way you shop and eat, Ultra-Processed People will open your eyes to the need for action on a global scale.]]> 384 Chris van Tulleken 1324036729 Miss D 0 to-read 4.40 2023
author: Chris van Tulleken
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/12/07
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 61409261
Czy ludzi można opuścić językowo? Nie dać im prawa do języka? Albo za wszelką cenę nakłaniać do nauczenia się innego języka, którym posługuje się większość, chociaż dla wielu z nich to zadanie niewykonalne?

Jedno z pierwszych pytań, które zadają słyszący: głusi nie słyszą, ale przecież chyba mogą nauczyć się czytać? Gdy dowiadują się, że nie �� nie wszyscy głusi w Polsce potrafią czytać ze zrozumieniem po polsku �� słyszący dziwią się jeszcze bardziej: przecież to Polacy, kończą polskie szkoły, żyją w kraju, w którym wiadomości, pisma urzędowe, diagnozy i wyroki są po polsku. Jak to możliwe, że nie znają języka ojczystego?

�� Jesteśmy niepełnosprawni tylko między wami, słyszącymi �� mówi jeden z bohaterów Głuszy. �� Gdy jesteśmy sami ze sobą, głusi z głuchymi, możemy używać naszego języka i nie czujemy się inni.

Dotąd o głuchych wypowiadali się głównie ci, którzy słyszą. Teraz głusi chcą opowiedzieć o sobie sami.

Wychowawca z internatu dla głuchych dzieci bił je i znęcał się nad nimi psychicznie. Głucha kobieta miga, że wychowankowie nie mogli o tym nikomu powiedzieć, bo większość z nich nie potrafiła mówić, a ich matki nie nauczyły się języka migowego.

Głucha kobieta w ciąży trafiła do szpitala, ale nikt nie wezwał tłumacza. Jej syn, uczeń podstawówki, który umiał migać, musiał przekazać matce, że noworodka nie udało się uratować.

W czasie pandemii głucha matka zobaczyła, że nauczycielka ze szkoły dla głuchych mówi do jej syna podczas lekcji online. „Dlaczego ona to robi? �� zastanawiała się. �� Przecież on nic nie słyszy��.

"Jeszcze Porsy nie zdęła,/ lea my żeczamy,/ Co tam obca przemoc wziąła,/ Szablą odbierzemy. Marsz, marsz, Dąbrows,/ Z ziemi fłoskie do Borsy./ Zam twog przewodem/ Złoczym się z narodem" �� czyta na głos głuchy Daniel Kotowski.

�� Tego oczekuje ode mnie Rzeczpospolita Polska �� miga. �� Artykuł dwudziesty siódmy Konstytucji RP mówi, że "W Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej językiem urzędowym jest język polski". A więc ja, obywatel głuchy od urodzenia, powinienem mówić. Nawet jeśli nie potrafię, choć przez kilkanaście lat próbowałem się nauczyć. Nawet jeśli nie słyszę swojego głosu. Mam konstytucyjny obowiązek mówić po polsku.]]> 248 Anna Goc 8365970090 Miss D 5 4.60 2022
author: Anna Goc
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.60
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2023/11/25
date added: 2023/11/25
shelves:
review:

]]> 196578640 here.
----
A BILLION-DOLLAR FORTUNE TO DIE FOR.
Avery has a plan: keep her head down, work hard for a better future. Then an eccentric billionaire dies, leaving her almost his entire fortune. And no one, least of all Avery, knows why.

A DEADLY GAME.
Now she must move into the mansion she's inherited.
It's filled with secrets and codes, and the old man's surviving relatives -
a family hell-bent on discovering why Avery got 'their' money.

WINNER TAKES ALL.
Soon she is caught in a deadly game that everyone in this strange family is playing.
But just how far will they go to keep their fortune?]]> 372 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Miss D 3 school-library-books 4.09 2020
author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2023/11/22
date added: 2023/11/22
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 51380921
Oboje są artystami, ale o malarstwie Elżbiety, wywodzącej się z arystokratycznej rodziny Grocholskich, jest mniej głośno. Dała mężowi pierwszeństwo, uznając, że to on ma większy talent i możliwości oddziaływania, bo jego dzieła filmowe mogą „dotknąć czyjejś duszy�� bardziej niż jej obrazy. Rzeczywiście, bez jego filmów, takich jak „Imperatyw��, „Barwy ochronne��, „Cwał��, „Życie jako śmiertelna choroba przenoszona drogą płciową�� nie można sobie wyobrazić polskiego ani europejskiego kina. Znakomity reżyser jeszcze nigdy nie dopuścił w rozmowie tak blisko nikogo ze swoich rozmówców. Na skrócenie dystansu wpłynął fakt, że prowadząca ją Barbara Gruszka-Zych przyjaźni się z nim i jego żoną od ponad dwudziestu lat, co, naturalnie, narzuca inną perspektywę. Atutem książki jest dynamiczna formuła równoczesnej rozmowy z małżonkami, która nie tylko otwiera na nowe przestrzenie życia reżysera �� między innymi poznajemy historię jego pierwszej miłości, dowiadujemy się, że po Powstaniu Warszawskim o mało nie trafił z matką do Oświęcimia. Uzyskujemy wiedzę o tym, co inspirowało go do tworzenia kolejnych filmów, skąd brał na nie pomysły, jakie problemy z życia znalazły w nich odbicie. „Życie rodzinne Zanussich�� to wyjątkowy zbiór odpowiedzi na pytania dotyczące spraw najważniejszych w każdym związku, nie tylko artystycznym. Dowiadujemy, że dla Zanussich miłość to ciężka praca, poznajemy zasady według jakich żyją, uzyskujemy odpowiedzi na pytanie czy boją się śmierci i czym jest dla nich wiara. Sprawy ważne w ich życiu są przetykane anegdotami. Mamy okazję zorientować się w szczegółowych upodobaniach kulinarnych twórcy „Iluminacji��, który zdradza swoją słabość do majonezów. Jesteśmy zaskoczeni, że eleganckie ubrania kupuje w second-handach na Mazurach i w Miami. Książka to fascynujące spotkanie z wyjątkowymi nauczycielami życia, którzy sami nieustannie się uczą.]]> 308 Barbara Gruszka-Zych 8395337809 Miss D 5 4.50
author: Barbara Gruszka-Zych
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.50
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2023/11/17
date added: 2023/11/17
shelves:
review:

]]> 62821103 Ten się śmieje, kto ma zęby Zyta Rudzka po raz kolejny śmiało eksperymentuje z językiem i urzeka oryginalnym, bezkompromisowym stylem.

Historia małżeństwa fryzjerki męskiej i dżokeja.

Wera i Karol przeżyli ze sobą całe życie. Od dostatku do biedy.

Teraz Wera chodzi po starych miłościach, żeby załatwić mężowi buty do trumny.

Trudno o dobre buty dla nieboszczyka.

Rudzka w swoim charakterystycznym ostrym stylu oraz z poczuciem humoru przedstawia portret kobiety silnej i drapieżnej, która nigdy nie składa broni.]]> 256 Zyta Rudzka Miss D 1 3.69 2022
author: Zyta Rudzka
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2022
rating: 1
read at: 2023/11/12
date added: 2023/11/12
shelves:
review:

]]> 60293966 From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six.

A lifetime holding it together.
One party will bring it crashing down.

Malibu: August, 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together, the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over-especially as the offspring of the legendary singer, Mick Riva.

By midnight the party will be completely out of control.
By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames.

But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family's generations will all come bubbling to the surface.

Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them . . . and what they will leave behind.

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.]]> 365 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1529157145 Miss D 2 school-library-books
Julia Whelan's narration elevates it to 2*.]]> 4.11 2021
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2021
rating: 2
read at: 2023/11/01
date added: 2023/11/01
shelves: school-library-books
review:
Not my cup of tea.

Julia Whelan's narration elevates it to 2*.
]]> 58643095
In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We're going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn't fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art-namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?�� He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity.

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.]]> 408 George Saunders 1526624249 Miss D 5 4.52 2021
author: George Saunders
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.52
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2023/10/24
date added: 2023/10/24
shelves:
review:

]]> 62340909 Moi ważni. Portrety prywatne to zbiór osobistych portretów ludzi ze świata współczesnej kultury i nauki. Wśród opisanych znajdują się: Wilhelm Brasse, Josif Brodski, Tomasz Burek, Natalia Gorbaniewska, o. Jan Góra, Wojciech Kilar, Jan Kobuszewski, Henryk Mandelbaum, Czesław Miłosz, Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, ks. Janusz Stanisław Pasierb, ks. Jan Peszkowski, s. Michaela Rak, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, s. Dominika Sokołowska, ks. Marcello Stanzione, Józef Skrzek, Janusz Szuber, ks. Jan Twardowski, Tomas Venclova, Edward Wylęgała, Adam Zagajewski, Krzysztof Zanussi, Marian Zembala, abp Damian Zimoń. Podczas lektury nie tylko poznajemy artystyczne i życiowe inspiracje przedstawionych postaci, ale przede wszystkim dowiadujemy się, jakimi są ludźmi, czym żyją na co dzień. Istotne, że autorka każdego z nich zna osobiście, a z niektórymi się przyjaźni. Pisząc książkę, wykorzystała swoje, także nieupubliczniane dotąd notatki, korespondencję, wywiady, nagrania związane z pracą dziennikarską, odnoszące się do bohaterów wspomnień, które dzięki temu zyskały klimat intymnej, nasyconej szczegółami opowieści. B. Gruszka-Zych posiada wyjątkowy dar prowadzenia rozmowy, co sprawia, że jej bohaterowie bez obaw odsłaniają przed nami także te sfery życia, które zazwyczaj pozostają dla odbiorców niedostępne. Poznajemy nie tylko szczegóły biografii i dorobek "jej ważnych", ale ich życiowe przesłanie przekazane podczas wielogodzinnych rozmów. Wnikliwy czytelnik dostrzeże też wzajemne inspiracje wynikające z kontaktów między zaprezentowanymi postaciami. Publikacja jest nie tylko próbą ocalenia pamięci, która przyświeca pracy nad wszelkimi zapiskami dokumentalnymi, ale też pokazuje, czym żyła część powoli przemijającego pokolenia osobowości II połowy XX w. i początku XXI w. Teksty zostały wzbogacone atrakcyjnymi zdjęciami i dokumentami, m.in. z prywatnego archiwum autorki.]]> 480 Barbara Gruszka-Zych Miss D 5 4.00 2022
author: Barbara Gruszka-Zych
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2023/10/15
date added: 2023/10/15
shelves:
review:

]]> 15122031 142 Barbara Gruszka-Zych 8371834993 Miss D 4 4.50 2007
author: Barbara Gruszka-Zych
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 2023/09/29
date added: 2023/09/29
shelves:
review:

]]> 165446 589 Lucia St. Clair Robson 0345325222 Miss D 3 4.37 1982
author: Lucia St. Clair Robson
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1982
rating: 3
read at: 2023/09/24
date added: 2023/09/24
shelves:
review:

]]> 62037552
Matrymonium to barwny opis kolejnych etapów związku: od poszukiwań partnera za pomocą anonsów aż po małżeństwo, które zapewniało kobiecie bezpieczeństwo finansowe oraz złudzenie życiowego sukcesu. Czy jednak biznes małżeński naprawdę był najlepszym z rozwiązań?

Korzystając z oryginalnych świadectw epoki �� artykułów prasowych, pamiętników, powieści i poradników �� autorka przybliża system prawno-społeczny panujący na aż do dwudziestolecia międzywojennego. Zza ciasnych ram tego systemu wyłania się pasjonujący obraz kobiet, które próbowały kształtować własne życie: miłosne, rodzinne i finansowe.]]> 376 Alicja Urbanik-Kopeć 8381915686 Miss D 3 3.78 2022
author: Alicja Urbanik-Kopeć
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2023/09/17
date added: 2023/09/17
shelves:
review:

]]> 18373 Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.
��
Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence �� a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon.

As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie?]]> 311 Daniel Keyes 015603008X Miss D 0 school-library-books 4.19 1966
author: Daniel Keyes
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1966
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/09/15
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 40280880 80 Waldemar Okoń 8373842004 Miss D 3 3.00
author: Waldemar Okoń
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.00
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2023/09/08
date added: 2023/09/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 55539756 Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend. But life isn’t as idyllic as it should be: exhausted by the responsibility of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, Susan is beginning to miss her literary life in London �� even though her publishing career once entangled her in a lethal literary murder plot.

So when an English couple come to visit with tales of a murder that took place in a hotel the same day their daughter Cecily was married there, Susan can’t help but find herself fascinated.

And when they tell her that Cecily has gone missing a few short hours after reading Atticus Pund Takes The Case, a crime novel Susan edited some years previously, Susan knows she must return to London to find out what has happened.

The clues to the murder and to Cecily’s disappearance must lie within the pages of this novel.

But to save Cecily, Susan must place her own life in mortal danger��
_____________________________________________]]> 581 Anthony Horowitz 1787464199 Miss D 5 school-library-books 4.08 2020
author: Anthony Horowitz
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2023/09/01
date added: 2023/09/01
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 25440875
Twenty-seven years ago, Christina Lamb left Britain to become a journalist in Pakistan. She crossed the Hindu Kush into Afghanistan with mujaheddin fighting the Russians and fell unequivocally in love with this fierce country of pomegranates and war, a relationship which has dominated her adult life.

Since 2001, Lamb has watched with incredulity as the West fought a war with its hands tied, committed too little too late, failed to understand local dynamics and turned a blind eye as their Taliban enemy was helped by their ally Pakistan.

Farewell Kabul tells how success was turned into defeat in the longest war fought by the United States in its history and by Britain since the Hundred Years War. It has been a fiasco which has left Afghanistan still one of the poorest nations on earth, the Taliban undefeated, and nuclear armed Pakistan perhaps the most dangerous place on earth.

With unparalleled access to all key decision-makers in Afghanistan, Pakistan, London and Washington, from heads of state and generals as well as soldiers on the ground, Farewell Kabul tells how this happened.

In Afghanistan, Lamb has travelled far beyond Helmand �� from the caves of Tora Bora in the south to the mountainous bad lands of Kunar in the east; from Herat, city of poets and minarets in the west, to the very poorest province of Samangan in the north. She went to Guantánamo, met Taliban in Quetta, visited jihadi camps in Pakistan and saw bin Laden’s house just after he was killed. Saddest of all, she met women who had been made role models by the West and had then been shot, raped or forced to flee the country.

This deeply personal book not only shows the human cost of political failure but explains how short-sighted encouragement of jihadis to fight the Russians, followed by prosecution of ill-thought-out wars, has resulted in the spread of terrorism throughout the Islamic world.]]> 640 Christina Lamb Miss D 0 to-read 4.49 2010
author: Christina Lamb
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.49
book published: 2010
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/08/31
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 34835346
But Conway's latest tale of murder at Pye Hall is not quite what it seems. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but hidden in the pages of the manuscript there lies another story: a tale written between the very words on the page, telling of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition and murder.]]> 552 Anthony Horowitz 1409158381 Miss D 5 school-library-books 3.96 2016
author: Anthony Horowitz
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2023/08/28
date added: 2023/08/28
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 61842705 Nowa powieść Szczepana Twardocha, inspirowana polarnymi wyprawami autora.

Wielka podróż przez Arktykę - ocean, łagry, miłość i przemoc.


Pochodzący z Górnego Śląska Konrad Widuch jest weteranem Wielkiej Wojny, komunistą całym sercem oddanym rewolucji. Po wojnie razem z Karolem Radkiem wyjeżdża do sowieckiej Rosji i wciela w życie proletariacki porządek, walcząc w szeregach Konarmii w wojnie 1920 roku. Rewolucja jednak pożera własne dzieci. Podczas czystek 1937 roku towarzysz Widuch jako „stary bolszewik�� zostaje aresztowany, skazany i wysłany do łagru, z którego jednak ucieka i tak zaczyna się jego podróż przez śniegi, lody i tundrę.

Uchodząc przed sowiecką sprawiedliwością w towarzystwie niewidomego wora w zakonie i błatnej imieniem Ljubow, Widuch trafia w końcu do tajemniczej osady, nazywanej przez jej mieszkańców ����ł�ǻ�em. Żyją w niej oni zgodnie z rytmem surowej, polarnej natury, hodują renifery, polują na foki i niedźwiedzie, mówią swoim językiem i nigdy nie słyszeli o Stalinie.

Do czasu��


����ł�ǻ� jest opowieścią o rozczarowaniu ideami. O losie jednostki rzuconej w wir historii i o chwili wytchnienia, jaką bohater znajduje poza cywilizacją. Jest to jednak tylko chwila, albowiem rosyjski Behemot uparcie podąża śladem ex-towarzysza Widucha.]]> 456 Szczepan Twardoch 8308076823 Miss D 2 3.98 2022
author: Szczepan Twardoch
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2022
rating: 2
read at: 2023/08/25
date added: 2023/08/25
shelves:
review:

]]> 61447942 1248 Robert Galbraith 0751584185 Miss D 5 school-library-books 4.14 2022
author: Robert Galbraith
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2023/08/20
date added: 2023/08/20
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 395953
Althea and Brashen are finally at sea together, sailing the liveship Paragon into pirate waters to rescue the Vestrit family liveship, Vivacia, stolen by the pirate king Kennit; but there is mutiny brewing in their ragtag crew; and in the mind of the mad ship itself. And all the while the waters around the Vivacia are seething with giant serpents, following the liveship as it sails to its destiny.

Cover illustration by John Howe

]]> 903 Robin Hobb 0006498876 Miss D 5 school-library-books 4.32 2000
author: Robin Hobb
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2000
rating: 5
read at: 2023/08/14
date added: 2023/08/14
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 32191748 The Unseen World’s heart-stopping, fascinating conclusion.]]> 451 Liz Moore 0393354415 Miss D 0 4.08 2016
author: Liz Moore
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at: 2023/08/08
date added: 2023/08/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 25985861
The Vestrit family’s liveship, Vivacia, has been taken by the pirate king, Kennit. Held captive on board, Wintrow Vestrit finds himself competing with Kennit for Vivacia’s love as the ship slowly acquires her own bloodlust.

Leagues away, Althea Vestrit has found a new home aboard the liveship Ophelia, but she lives only to reclaim the Vivacia and with her friend, Brashen, she plans a dangerous rescue.

Meanwhile in Bingtown, the fading fortunes of the Vestrit family lead Malta deeper into the magical secrets of the Rain Wild Traders. And just outside Bingtown, Amber dreams of relaunching Paragon, the mad liveship . . .]]> 906 Robin Hobb 0008117462 Miss D 5 school-library-books 4.53 1999
author: Robin Hobb
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.53
book published: 1999
rating: 5
read at: 2023/08/03
date added: 2023/08/03
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 30687805 432 Katie McGarry 0373212186 Miss D 0 school-library-books 4.21 2016
author: Katie McGarry
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at: 2019/07/31
date added: 2023/07/30
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 45100
For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied her--a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim. For Althea's young nephew Wintrow, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard ship, Vivacia is a life sentence.

But the fate of the Vestrit family--and the ship--may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider. The ruthless pirate Kennit seeks a way to seize power over all the denizens of the Pirate Isles...and the first step of his plan requires him to capture his own liveship and bend it to his will....


From the Paperback edition.]]> 880 Robin Hobb 000649885X Miss D 5 school-library-books 4.20 1998
author: Robin Hobb
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1998
rating: 5
read at: 2023/07/25
date added: 2023/07/25
shelves: school-library-books
review:

]]> 60784614 The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.

An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation―and the moral implications that affect us all.

Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit to consumer-facing tech giants, and gathered shocking testimonies of people who endure immense suffering and even die mining cobalt.

Cobalt is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery made today, the batteries that power our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and electric vehicles. Roughly 75 percent of the world’s supply of cobalt is mined in the Congo, often by peasants and children in sub-human conditions. Billions of people in the world cannot conduct their daily lives without participating in a human rights and environmental catastrophe in the Congo. In this stark and crucial book, Kara argues that we must all care about what is happening in the Congo―because we are all implicated.]]> 288 Siddharth Kara 1250284309 Miss D 0 to-read 4.36 2023
author: Siddharth Kara
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/07/23
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 74837884 The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots �� three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men.

Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots lived together at the French court for many years �� years that bound them to one another through blood and marriage, alliance and friendship, love and filial piety. When they scattered to different kingdoms, they would learn that to rule was to wage a constant war against the deeply entrenched misogyny of the sixteenth century. A crown could exalt a young woman. Equally, it could destroy her.

Young Queens masterfully weaves the personal stories of these three queens into one, revealing their hopes, dreams, desires and regrets at a time when even the most powerful women lived at the mercy of the state.]]> 513 Leah Redmond Chang 1526613468 Miss D 0 to-read 4.16 2023
author: Leah Redmond Chang
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/07/22
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 61963525 A story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial��that reveals a shocking truth.

On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s ship The Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain.��While chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon, The Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The crew, marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing 2,500 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.

Then, six months later, another, even more decrepit, craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways and they had a very different story to tell.��The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes �� they were mutineers. The first group responded with counter-charges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous captain and his henchmen. While stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death—for whomever the court found guilty could hang.]]> 9 David Grann 1398522848 Miss D 0 to-read 3.82 2023
author: David Grann
name: Miss D
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/07/22
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 62119781 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND AMAZON BESTSELLER��

America’s most effective conservative intellectual proves once and for all that Marxist radicals have taken over our nation's institutions.

In the 1960s, Mao launched China’s Cultural Revolution. Cities grew overcrowded. Technocrats demanded progress from above. Anyone opposed was sent to be “re-educated.�� China’s revolution was bloody, fast, and a failure, but what if America started a revolution at the same time, based on the same bad ideas, and it’s just been slower, calmer, and more effective?

In his powerful new book, Christopher F. Rufo uncovers the hidden history of left-wing intellectuals and activists who systematically took control of America’s institutions to undermine them from within. America’s Cultural Revolution finally answers so many of the questions normal Americans have, such

�� Why is nearly every major corporation bending the knee to a far-left agenda?

�� How did DEI suddenly become the department no institution can continue without?

�� Why is race the main thing America’s rich, white elite wants to talk about?��

�� When did the left adopt all this doublespeak, saying progress is a lack of progress, equality is not equality, speech is violence, and violence is speech?

�� Has the goal of the left, for a century, actually been the destruction of every Western institution?��

Readers may not know the names of Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, Paulo Freire, and Derrick Bell, but they will recognize the ideas they spread. How their radical, destructive ideology slowly worked its way from prisons to academia to classrooms to your human resources department will come as a shock.

Failing to act soon, Rufo warns, could allow the radical left to achieve their ultimate replacing constitutional equality with a race-based redistribution system overseen by bureaucratic ‘diversity and inclusion�� officials. Most Americans don’t want this, but most Americans are no longer in control of our institutions. If the mainstream media’s depiction of a failing dystopia in need of a fresh start never sounded right to you, this expose and call to arms is the book you’ve been looking for.��]]> 352 Christopher F. Rufo 0063227541 Miss D 0 to-read 4.26 2023
author: Christopher F. Rufo
name: Miss D
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/07/19
shelves: to-read
review:

]]>