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Welcome to Copperfield! Wjeżdżacie do miasta wirtuozów stolarki, mistrzyń ciasta z wiśniami i zachwycających daglezji.

W pozornie sennym miasteczku stojącym hartem ducha i siłą drwalskich mięśni powstaje Jeffrey Waters. Z prowincjonalnych lasów trafia na pierwsze strony gazet i do kartotek FBI. Jego istnienie i nagła popularność budzą gorące emocje w amerykańskim społeczeństwie, a do matecznika Watersa zjeżdżają dziennikarze z całego kraju, ciekawscy fani i uduchowieni wyznawcy drzew. Szukają jego korzeni, za wszelką cenę starając się dociec, kim tak naprawdę jest on i jego stwórca oraz co to znaczy dla przyszłości świata. Ale to przecież Ameryka, sny się tu spełniają, a niewiarygodne historie stają się rzeczywistością.

Szalony i odważny debiut Jula Łyskawy jest groteskową sagą o przedziwnych mieszkańcach pewnej mieściny �� rodzinach drwali i stolarzy, ukrywającym się przed światem rzeźbiarzu czy tajemniczym irlandzkim księdzu, któremu Matka Boska objawiła się pod postacią foki. To polifoniczna, pełna literackiej werwy powieść i przewrotna próba znalezienia odpowiedzi na pytanie, czy świadome istnienie jest darem, czy brzemieniem?]]> 520 Jul Łyskawa 8381919649 Bartek 0 currently-reading 4.16 2024
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]]> 42201505
My name is Gary Rendell. I’m an astronaut. When they asked me as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, “astronaut, please!�� I dreamed astronaut, I worked astronaut, I studied astronaut.

I got lucky; when a probe sent out to explore the Oort Cloud found a strange alien rock and an international team of scientists was put together to go and look at it, I made the draw.

I got even luckier. When disaster hit and our team was split up, scattered through the endless cold tunnels, I somehow survived.
Now I’m lost, and alone, and scared, and there’s something horrible in here.

Lucky me.
Lucky, lucky, lucky.]]> 144 Adrian Tchaikovsky 1781087067 Bartek 4 3.71 2019
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]]> 68022 A Fisherman of the Inland Sea range from the everyday to the outer limits of experience, where the quantum uncertainties of space and time are resolved only in the depths of the human heart. Astonishing in their diversity and power, they exhibit both the artistry of a major writer at the height of her powers and the humanity of a mature artist confronting the world with her gift of wonder still intac]]> 207 Ursula K. Le Guin 0060763515 Bartek 3 4.06 1994
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]]> 32191737
"America's funniest science writer" ( Washington Post ) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries―panic, exhaustion, heat, noise―and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you’ll never see our nation’s defenders in the same way again. 15 illustrations]]> 288 Mary Roach 0393354377 Bartek 4 3.90 2016
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]]> 204845899 304 Didier Eribon 8368059011 Bartek 5 3.79 2023
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]]> 60850767
Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive, eking out a hardy existence. Yet life is tough, and much technological knowledge has been lost.

Then strangers appear. They possess unparalleled knowledge and thrilling technology �� and they've arrived from another world to help humanity’s colonies. But not all is as it seems, and the price of the strangers' help may be the colony itself.

Children of Memory by Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky is a far-reaching space opera spanning generations, species and galaxies.]]> 486 Adrian Tchaikovsky 1529087201 Bartek 5 3.97 2022
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]]> 52179420
Her journey would take her from a Generation Identity global strategy meeting in a pub in Mayfair, to a Neo-Nazi Music Festival on the border of Germany and Poland. She would get relationship advice from 'Trad Wives' and Jihadi Brides and hacking lessons from ISIS. She was in the channels when the alt-right began planning the lethal Charlottesville rally, and spent time in the networks that would radicalise the Christchurch terrorist.

In Going Dark, Ebner takes the reader on a deeply compulsive, terrifying, illuminating journey into the darkest recesses of extremist thinking, exposing how closely we are surrounded by their fanatical ideology every day, the changing nature and practice of these groups, and what is being done to counter them.]]> 352 Julia Ebner 1526616785 Bartek 0 to-read 3.83 2019
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]]> 40376072
Long ago, Earth's terraforming program sent ships out to build new homes for humanity among the stars and made an unexpected discovery: a planet with life. But the scientists were unaware that the alien ecosystem was more developed than the primitive life forms originally discovered.

Now, thousands of years later, the Portiids and their humans have sent an exploration vessel following fragmentary radio signals. They discover a system in crisis, warring factions trying to recover from an apocalyptic catastrophe arising from what the early terraformers awoke all those years before.]]> 597 Adrian Tchaikovsky Bartek 4 4.02 2019
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]]> 56769528
In Eight Days in May, the award-winning historian and Hitler biographer Volker Ullrich draws on an astonishing variety of sources, including diaries and letters of ordinary Germans, to narrate a society's descent into Hobbesian chaos. In the town of Demmin in the north, residents succumbed to madness and committed mass suicide. In Berlin, Soviet soldiers raped German civilians on a near-unprecedented scale. In Nazi-occupied Prague, Czech insurgents led an uprising in the hope that General George S. Patton would come to their aid but were brutally put down by German units in the city. Throughout the remains of Third Reich, huge numbers of people were on the move, creating a surrealistic tableau: death marches of concentration-camp inmates crossed paths with retreating Wehrmacht soldiers and groups of refugees; columns of POWs encountered those of liberated slave laborers and bombed-out people returning home.

A taut, propulsive narrative, Eight Days in May takes us inside the phantomlike regime of Hitler's chosen successor, Admiral Karl Dönitz, revealing how the desperate attempt to impose order utterly failed, as frontline soldiers deserted and Nazi Party fanatics called on German civilians to martyr themselves in a last stand against encroaching Allied forces. In truth, however, the post-Hitler government represented continuity more than change: its leaders categorically refused to take responsibility for their crimes against humanity, an attitude typical not just of the Nazi elite but also of large segments of the German populace. The consequences would be severe. Eight Days in May is not only an indispensable account of the Nazi endgame, but a historic work that brilliantly examines the costs of mass delusion.]]> 322 Volker Ullrich 1631498274 Bartek 0 currently-reading 4.10 2020
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]]> 25499718
WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH?

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age—a world terraformed and prepared for human life.

But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.

Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?]]> 608 Adrian Tchaikovsky 1447273281 Bartek 5 4.29 2015
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]]> 32277642 The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers is a masterful collection of short stories that will transport you to a realm of eerie mystery, madness, and supernatural horror, where the boundaries between reality and the unknown are blurred.

The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book has been described by critics such as E. F. Bleiler, S. T. Joshi and T. E. D. Klein as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are ten stories, the first four of which ("The Repairer of Reputations", "The Mask", "In the Court of the Dragon", and "The Yellow Sign") mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read it. "The Yellow Sign" inspired a film of the same name released in 2001.

Stories:
- The Repairer of Reputations
- The Mask
- In the Court of the Dragon
- The Yellow Sign
- The Demoiselle D'ys
- The Prophets' Paradise
- The Street of the Four Winds
- The Street of the First Shell
- The Street of Our Lady of the Fields
- Rue Barree]]> 224 Robert W. Chambers 153905344X Bartek 0 currently-reading 3.58 1895
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]]> 203579085 From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, centering three sisters navigating queer love and loss in a drowning world

It’s been raining for a long time now, so long that the land has reshaped itself and arcane rituals and religions are creeping back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene, and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their father dies. An architect as cruel as he was revered, his death offers an opportunity for the sisters to come together in a new way. In the grand glass house they grew up in, their father’s most famous creation, the sisters sort through the secrets and memories he left behind, until their fragile bond is shattered by a revelation in his will.

More estranged than ever, the sisters�� lives spin out of control: Irene’s relationship is straining at the seams; Isla’s ex-wife keeps calling; and cynical Agnes is falling in love for the first time. But something even more sinister might be unfolding, something related to their mother’s long-ago disappearance and the strangers who have always seemed unusually interested in the sisters�� lives. Soon, it becomes clear that the sisters have been chosen for a very particular purpose, one with shattering implications for their family and their imperiled world.]]> 291 Julia Armfield 125034431X Bartek 3 3.59 2024
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]]> 209217932 Judith Schalansky 8367713249 Bartek 3 3.89 2011
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]]> 195443798
On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history �� yet who were its builders and where did they go?

Professor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close. Then his wishes become a reality in the worst way. His political activism sees him exiled from Earth to Kiln’s extrasolar labour camp. There, he’s condemned to work under an alien sky until he dies.

Kiln boasts a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem like nothing seen on Earth. The monstrous alien life interacts in surprising, sometimes shocking ways with the human body, so Arton will risk death on a daily basis. However, the camp’s oppressive regime might just kill him first. If Arton can somehow escape both fates, the world of Kiln holds a wondrous, terrible secret. It will redefine life and intelligence as he knows it, and might just set him free . . .]]> 396 Adrian Tchaikovsky 1035013770 Bartek 5 3.98 2024
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Bardzo dobre sf, przy tym socjalistyczne, lewackie i woke!
]]> 140302193
When two Marines and their Corpsman reunite after a decade apart, they find themselves caught up in the mystery of their former squad leader’s disappearance. With little more to go on than a handful of disturbing charcoal sketches and the whispers of a local legend, they plunge into the depths of one of America’s last truly wild places.

But the trees themselves begin to whisper dark secrets. Secrets of trafficking and violence. Of rotten science and blood. Of something else that lurks in the shadows of the pines �� something ancient, savage, and hungry.]]> 274 Douglass Hoover Bartek 0 to-read 4.17
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]]> 195790601
With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated, and U.S. power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a “kinder, gentler America.�� Instead, it was a period of rising anger and domestic turmoil, anticipating the polarization and resurgent extremism we know today.

In When the Clock Broke , the acclaimed political writer John Ganz tells the story of America’s late-century discontents. Ranging from upheavals in Crown Heights and Los Angeles to the advent of David Duke and the heartland survivalists, the broadcasts of Rush Limbaugh, and the bitter disputes between neoconservatives and the “paleo-con�� right, Ganz immerses us in a time when what Philip Roth called the “indigenous American berserk�� took new and ever-wilder forms. In the 1992 campaign, Pat Buchanan's and Ross Perot’s insurgent populist bids upended the political establishment, all while Americans struggled through recession, alarm about racial and social change, the specter of a new power in Asia, and the end of Cold War–era political norms. Conspiracy theories surged, and intellectuals and activists strove to understand the “Middle American Radicals�� whose alienation fueled new causes. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton appeared to forge a new, vital center, though it would not hold for long.

In a rollicking, eye-opening book, Ganz narrates the fall of the Reagan order and the rise of a new and more turbulent America.]]> 432 John Ganz 0374605440 Bartek 0 to-read 4.09 2024
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]]> 209543060 Rising star New York Times technology reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk’s unprecedented hostile takeover of Twitter and the forty-four-billion-dollar deal’s seismic political, social, and financial fallout
The billionaire entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become inextricable from the social media platform that until 2023 was known as Twitter. Started in the mid-2000s as a playful microblogging platform, Twitter quickly became a vital nexus of global politics, culture, and media—where the retweet button could instantly catapult any idea to hundreds of millions of screens around the world, unleashing raw collective emotion like nothing else before. While its founder had idealistically dreamed of building a "digital town square," he detested Wall Street and never focused on building a profitable business.
Musk joined the platform in 2010 and, by 2022, had become one of the site’s most influential users, hooking over 80 million followers with a mix of provocations, promotion of his companies, and attacks on his enemies. To Musk, Twitter—once known for its almost absolute commitment to free speech—had badly lost its way. He blamed it for the proliferation of what he called the “woke mind virus�� and claimed that the survival of democracy and the human race itself depended on the future of the site. In January of 2022, Musk began secretly accumulating Twitter stock. By April, he was its largest shareholder, and soon after, made an unsolicited offer to purchase the company for the unimaginable sum of $44 billion dollars. Backed into a corner, Twitter’s board accepted his offer—but Musk quickly changed his mind, forcing Twitter to sue him to close the deal in October. The richest man on earth controlled one of the most powerful media platforms in the world—but at what price? Before long Twitter would be gone for good, replaced by something radically different, as Musk remade the company in his own image from the ground up.
The story of the showdown between Musk and Twitter and his eventual takeover of the company is unlike anything in business or media that has come before. In vivid, cinematic detail, Conger and Mac follow the inner workings of the company as Musk lays siege to it, first from the outside as one of its most vocal users, and then finally from within as a contentious and mercurial leader. Musk has shared some of his version of events, but Conger and Mac have uncovered the full story through exclusive interviews, unreported documents, and internal recordings at Twitter following the billionaire’s takeover. With unparalleled sources from within and around the company, they provide a revelatory, three-dimensional, and definitive account of what really happened when Musk showed up, spoiling for a brawl and intent on revolution, with his merciless, sycophantic cadre of lawyers, investors, and bankers.
This is the defining story of our time told with uncommon style and peerless rigor. In a world of viral ideas and emotion, who gets to control the narrative, who gets to be heard, and what does power really cost?]]> 480 Kate Conger 059365613X Bartek 4 4.26 2024
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Pierwsze dwie części nudne jak flaki z olejem, ale trzecia wynagradza.
]]> 214229728 ��A “devastating�� (Nation) examination of how a cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely new media landscape

Owned is the story of the underreported and growing collusion between new wealth and new journalism. In recent years, right-wing billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and David Sacks have turned to media as their next investment and source of influence. Their cronies are Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi—once known as idealistic and left-leaning voices, now beneficiaries of Silicon Valley largesse. Together, this new alliance aims to exploit the failings of traditional journalism and undermine the very idea of an independent and fact-based fourth estate.

Owned examines how this shift has allowed spectacularly wealthy reactionaries to pursue their ultimate goal of censoring critics so to further their own business interests—and personal vendettas—entirely unimpeded while also advancing a toxic and antidemocratic ideology.

A rich history of the decades-long rise of this new right-wing alternative media takeover, Owned follows the money, names names, and offers a chilling portrait of a future social media and news landscape. It is a biting exposé of journalistic greed, tech-billionaire ambition, and a lament for a disappearing free press.
���ձ�> 245 Eoin Higgins 1645030482 Bartek 0 to-read 3.72
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]]> 35297399 304 Paolo Bacigalupi 1481497294 Bartek 4 3.56 2018
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]]> 199927764
"You must be as sharp as a stilettotore’s dagger and as subtle as a fish beneath the waters. This is what it is to be Navolese, this is what it is to be di Regulai."

In Navola, a bustling city-state dominated by a handful of influential families, business is power, and power is everything. For generations, the di Regulai family—merchant bankers with a vast empire—has nurtured tendrils that stretch to the farthest reaches of the known world. And though they claim not to be political, their staggering wealth has bought cities and toppled kingdoms. Soon, Davico di Regulai will be expected to take the reins of power from his father and demonstrate his mastery of the games of Navolese knowing who to trust and who to doubt, and how to read what lies hidden behind a smile. But in Navola, strange and ancient undercurrents lurk behind the gilt and grandeur—like the fossilized dragon eye in the family’s possession, a potent symbol of their raw power and a talisman that seems to be summoning Davico to act.

As tensions rise and the events unfold, Davico will be tested to his limits. His fate depends on the eldritch dragon relic and on what lies buried in the heart of his adopted sister, Celia di Balcosi, whose own family was destroyed by Nalova’s twisted politics. With echoes of Renaissance Italy, The Godfather , and Game of Thrones , Navola is a stunning feat of world-building and a mesmerizing depiction of drive and will.]]> 576 Paolo Bacigalupi 0593535057 Bartek 0 to-read 3.79 2024
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]]> 61420116 Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet �� an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles and the most daring conspiracy against the Crown since the Gunpowder Plot.

In this fascinating and compelling book, veteran journalist Rory Carroll retraces the road to the infamous Brighton bombing in 1984 �� an incident that shaped the political landscape in the UK for decades to come. He begins with the infamous execution of Lord Mountbatten in 1979 �� for which the IRA took full responsibility �� before tracing the rise of Margaret Thatcher, her response to the ‘Troubles�� in Ireland and the chain of events that culminated in the hunger strikes of 1981 and the death of 10 republican prisoners, including Bobby Sands. From that moment on Thatcher became an enemy of the IRA �� and the organisation swore revenge.

Opening with a brilliantly-paced prologue that introduces bomber Patrick Magee in the build up to the incident, Carroll sets out to deftly explore the intrigue before and after the assassination attempt �� with the story spanning three continents, from pubs and palaces, safe houses and interrogation rooms, hotels and barracks. On one side, an elite IRA team aided by a renegade priest, US-raised funds and Libya’s Qaddafi and on the other, intelligence officers, police detectives, informers and bomb disposal officers. An exciting narrative that blends true crime with political history, this is the first major book to investigate the Brighton attack.]]> 397 Rory Carroll 0593419499 Bartek 3
Za dużo u autora sympatii dla Thatcher, żebym dał więcej niż trzy gwiazdki, sorry.]]> 4.24 2023
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Bardzo dobrze napisana książka o morderczym, psychopatycznym monstrum, niszczącym ludzkie losy i wyrządzającym ogromne szkody wszystkim narodom Wielkiej Brytanii. Oraz o zamachu na to monstrum zorganizowanym przez IRA.

Za dużo u autora sympatii dla Thatcher, żebym dał więcej niż trzy gwiazdki, sorry.
]]> 56222237
Now, he decides to tunnel back in.

It's summer, 1962, and Joachim Rudolph, a student, is digging a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin - dozens of men, women and children; all willing to risk everything to escape.

From the award-winning creator of the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 podcast, Tunnel 29 is the true story of the most remarkable escape tunnel dug under the Berlin Wall. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with the survivors, and thousands of pages of Stasi documents, Helena Merriman brilliantly reveals the stranger-than-fiction story of the ingenious group of student-diggers, the glamorous red-haired messenger, the American News network which films the escape, and the Stasi spy who betrays it. For what Joachim doesn't know as he burrows closer to East Germany, is that the escape operation has been infiltrated. As the escapees prepare to crawl through the cold, wet darkness, above them, the Stasi are closing in.

Tunnel 29 is about what happens when people lose their freedom - and how some will do anything to win it back.

Acclaim for the TUNNEL 29 podcast:

'Combining the fun of a thriller that we know will end happily with grim perspective on history and tyranny... stunning' New Yorker

'Reminiscent of a savvy Netflix block buster series' Evening Standard

'A truly exciting yarn... creates a sense for the listener of being right there in the tunnel, experiencing the dangers.' Observer]]> 352 Helena Merriman 1541788842 Bartek 4 4.51 2021
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]]> 197149 1984 and Darkness at Noon.]]> 256 Timothy Garton Ash 0679777857 Bartek 5 3.84 1997
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]]> 62052321 A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective investigating the murder of a Titan, one of society's most powerful, medically-enhanced elites.

"Cross-genre brilliance from the superbly talented Nick Harkaway." —William Gibson, New York Times best-selling author of Agency.

Cal Sounder is a detective working for the police on certain very sensitive cases. So when he's called in to investigate a homicide at a local apartment, he's surprised by the routineness of it all. But when he arrives on scene, Cal soon learns that the victim—Roddy Tebbit, an otherwise milquetoast techie—is well over seven feet tall. And although he doesn't look a day over thirty, he is ninety-one years old. Tebbit is a Titan—one of this dystopian, near-future society's genetically altered elites. And this case is definitely Cal's thing.

There are only a few thousand Titans worldwide, thanks to Stefan Tonfamecasca's discovery of the controversial T7 genetic therapy, which elevated his family to godlike status. T7 turns average humans into near-immortal distortions of themselves—with immense physical proportions to match their ostentatious, unreachable lifestyles. A dead Titan is big news . . . a��murdered��Titan is unimaginable. But these modified magnates are Cal's specialty. In fact, his own ex-girlfriend, Athena, is a Titan. And not just��any—she is Stefan's daughter, heir to the massive Tonfamecasca empire.

As the murder investigation intensifies, Cal begins to unravel the complicated threads of what should have been a straightforward case, and it becomes clear he's on the trail of a crime whose roots run deep into the dark heart of the world.]]> 236 Nick Harkaway 0593535367 Bartek 4 3.90 2023
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]]> 64231209 Wybuchowa feministyczna proza. Jedna z najważniejszych hiszpańskich powieści ostatnich lat.

Ángela, Patricia, Marga i Nati to kuzynki z niepełnosprawnością, które mieszkają razem w mieszkaniu komunalnym w Barcelonie. Codziennie muszą walczyć o zachowanie niezależności i swoją godność, starając się nie pozwolić, by państwo decydowało o każdym aspekcie ich życia. Ich strategie oporu to m. in. anarchistyczne zebrania i podziemne ziny, taniec i promiskuityzm.
Wściekle inteligentna i zabawna��Lektura uproszczona��jest oskarżeniem instytucji i języka, który marginalizuje osoby z niepełnosprawnością. To także portret �� wyrazisty, żywy i waleczny �� współczesnej Barcelony. Ale przede wszystkim powieść Cristiny Morales stanowi celebrację ciała we wszystkich jego formach �� to hymn na cześć kobiecych pragnień, queerowej seksualności, a także transgresywnej i rewolucyjnej siły języka.
Lektura uproszczona, czwarta powieść Cristiny Morales, została nagrodzona prestiżowymi Premio Herralde i Premio Nacional de Narrativa i stała się bestsellerem w Hiszpanii.]]> 424 Cristina Morales 8367515587 Bartek 5 3.95 2018
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average rating: 3.95
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]]> 217035947 160 Maciej Pisuk 8367121600 Bartek 4 4.30 2024
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The first of the book’s three intertwining essays is set in Dakar, Senegal. Despite being raised as a strict Afrocentrist, Coates had never set foot on the African continent until now. He roams the “steampunk�� city of “old traditions and new machinery,�� but everywhere he goes he feels as if he’s in two places at once: a modern city in Senegal and a mythic kingdom in his mind. Finally he travels to the slave castles off the coast and has his own reckoning with the legacy of the Afrocentric dream.

He takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he meets an educator whose job is threatened for teaching one of Coates’s own books. There he discovers a community of mostly white supporters who were transformed by the “racial reckoning�� of 2020. But he also explores the backlash to this reckoning and the deeper myths of the community—a capital of the confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over its public squares.

And in Palestine, Coates discovers the devastating gap between the narratives we’ve accepted and the clashing reality of life on the ground. He meets with activists and dissidents, Israelis and Palestinians—the old, who remember their dispossessions on two continents, and the young, who have only known struggle and disillusionment. He travels into Jerusalem, the heart of Zionist mythology, and to the occupied territories, where he sees the reality the myth is meant to hide. It is this hidden story that draws him in and profoundly changes him—and makes the war that would soon come all the more devastating.

Written at a dramatic moment in American and global life, this work from one of the country’s most important writers is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive nationalist myths that shape our world—and our own souls—and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths.]]> 232 Ta-Nehisi Coates 0593230388 Bartek 4 4.52 2024
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What makes “cults�� so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we’re looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join—and more importantly, stay in—extreme groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? Amanda Montell’s argument is that, on some level, it already has . . .

Our culture tends to provide pretty flimsy answers to questions of cult influence, mostly having to do with vague talk of “brainwashing.�� But the true answer has nothing to do with freaky mind-control wizardry or Kool-Aid. In Cultish, Montell argues that the key to manufacturing intense ideology, community, and us/them attitudes all comes down to language. In both positive ways and shadowy ones, cultish language is something we hear—and are influenced by—every single day.

Through juicy storytelling and cutting original research, Montell exposes the verbal elements that make a wide spectrum of communities “cultish,�� revealing how they affect followers of groups as notorious as Heaven’s Gate, but also how they pervade our modern start-ups, Peloton leaderboards, and Instagram feeds. Incisive and darkly funny, this enrapturing take on the curious social science of power and belief will make you hear the fanatical language of “cultish�� everywhere.]]> 309 Amanda Montell 0062993151 Bartek 4 3.82 2021
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average rating: 3.82
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It's no secret that American health care has become too costly and politicized to help everyone. So where do you turn if you can't afford doctors, or don't trust them? In��this book, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling examines the growing universe of non-traditional treatments -- including some that are�� really ��non-traditional.

With costs skyrocketing and anti-science sentiment spreading, the so-called "medical freedom" movement has grown. Now it faces its greatest going mainstream. In these pages you'll meet medical freedom advocates including an international leech smuggler, a gold miner-turned health drink salesman who may or may not be from the Andromeda galaxy, and a man who says he can turn people into zombies with aerosol spray. One by one, these alternative healers find customers, then expand and influence, always seeking the one thing that would take their businesses to the next level--the support and approval of the government.

Should the government dictate what is medicine and what isn't? Can we have public health when disagreements over science are this profound? No, seriously, can you turn people into flesh-eating zombies? If It Sounds Like a Quack�� asks these critical questions while telling the story of how we got to this improbable moment, and wondering where we go from here. Buckle up for a bumpy ride...unless you're against seatbelts.]]> 336 Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling 1541788877 Bartek 4 3.76 2023
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average rating: 3.76
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]]> 201930181
Caught up in academic intrigue and affairs of the heart, Dafyd Alkhor is pleased just to be an assistant to a brilliant scientist and his celebrated research team. ��Then the Carryx ships descend, decimating the human population and taking the best and brightest of Anjiin society away to serve on the Carryx homeworld, and Dafyd is swept along with them. They are dropped in the middle of a struggle they barely understand, set in a competition against the other captive species with extinction as the price of failure.

Only Dafyd and a handful of his companions see past the Darwinian contest to the deeper game that they must play to learning to understand �� and manipulate �� the Carryx themselves. With a noble but suicidal human rebellion on one hand and strange and murderous enemies on the other, the team pays a terrible price to become the trusted servants of their new rulers. Dafyd Alkhor is a simple man swept up in events that are beyond his control and more vast than his imagination. ��He will become the champion of humanity and its betrayer, the most hated man in history and the guardian of his people. This is where his story begins.]]> 422 James S.A. Corey 031652557X Bartek 5 4.11 2024
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average rating: 4.11
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Dawno nie czytałem tak dobrej fantastyki.
]]> 217473934 Jeśli dojdzie do wojny nuklearnej, prawdopodobnie właśnie tak potoczą się wydarzenia.

Wstrząsająca i pasjonująca książka Annie Jacobsen z narracją „minuta po minucie�� prezentuje bardzo możliwy scenariusz przebiegu konfliktu jądrowego, który mimo że trwa zaledwie kilka godzin, niszczy całą cywilizację człowieka.

Plany dotyczące powszechnej wojny nuklearnej to jedne z najtajniejszych dokumentów rządu Stanów Zjednoczonych. Książka ta zabiera czytelnika na granicę tego, co można legalnie poznać. Odtajnione dokumenty �� skrywane przez dziesięciolecia �� dopełniają obrazu z przerażającą jasnością.

***

Poza uderzeniem asteroidy jest tylko jeden scenariusz, który może położyć kres naszej cywilizacji w zaledwie kilka godzin: wojna nuklearna. Przyczyną jej wybuchu może okazać się głowica z ładunkiem jądrowym wystrzelona w kierunku Stanów Zjednoczonych.

Raz na jakiś czas pojawia się dziennikarz, który decyduje się zajrzeć w głąb nuklearnych struktur wojskowych: analizuje stosowane technologie, zabezpieczenia, plany oraz źródła ryzyka. Taki przegląd to klucz do zrozumienia sił, od których zależy przyszłość całej naszej planety: jedna wystrzelona głowica pociągnie za sobą stosowną odpowiedź, a choreografię końca świata ułożą brzemienne w skutki decyzje podjęte w zaledwie kilka sekund i bazujące wyłącznie na danych wywiadowczych.

Finalistka Nagrody Pulitzera Annie Jacobsen w książce Wojna nuklearna. Możliwy scenariusz opisuje tykanie śmiercionośnego zegara, opierając się na dziesiątkach wywiadów przeprowadzonych zarówno z ekspertami wojskowymi, jak i cywilami, którzy pracowali przy tworzeniu broni nuklearnej, zostali wtajemniczeni w plan reagowania oraz byli odpowiedzialni za kluczowe decyzje na wypadek niekorzystnego rozwoju wydarzeń.

Wojna nuklearna. Możliwy scenariusz to wyjątkowa relacja z pierwszych minut po wystrzeleniu pocisku nuklearnego. To lektura obowiązkowa dla każdego, książka niepodobna do żadnej innej pod względem rzetelności researchu i głębi płynących z niego wniosków.]]> 500 Annie Jacobsen 8368053692 Bartek 5

Bardzo wciągająca książka, czyta się jednym tchem, dużo wrażeń, w sam raz na obecne ciekawe czasy!]]> 4.36 2024
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average rating: 4.36
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Bardzo wciągająca książka, czyta się jednym tchem, dużo wrażeń, w sam raz na obecne ciekawe czasy!
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Marzył o sławie pianisty, ale to mu nie wyszło. Był szefem festiwali w Łańcucie i Krynicy. Pragnął kierować Teatrem Wielkim w Warszawie, dostał mu się Teatr Roma. Mimo że pozbawiony dorobku naukowego, został prorektorem na warszawskiej Akademii Muzycznej. To, co homoseksualne, zamknął w głębokiej szafie. Był mistrzem autokreacji. Dokładnie rozpisał swoją biografię w wywiadach i książkach �� korzystając ze schematu „od pucybuta do milionera��. Podszywał się pod szlachectwo. Nawet gdy opisywał jakieś trudności, to zawsze wychodził z nich zwycięsko. I nigdy nie przyznawał się do błędu.]]> 384 Bartosz Żurawiecki 8326844829 Bartek 5

Jednego dnia dałem dwie gwiazdki wspomnieniom perkusisty Dezertera, drugiego �� pięć gwiazdek biografii Bogusława Kaczyńskiego. I tak się to życie plecie.

Ale to jest naprawdę dobra książka! I wcale nie taka niechętna Bogusiowi, jak tu ludzie mówią. Owszem, Żurawiecki jest wobec niego bezlitosny i złośliwy �� w zasadzie już od pierwszej historii o tym, jak mały Boguś (według swoich opowieści) miał w domu sarenkę i gdy szedł spać, ta kładła swój łepek na poduszce obok jego główki. Wylicza kłamstwa, przeinaczenia, puchnące anegdoty, megalomanię i małostkowość, ale czuje też do niego szacunek i pisze o nim jako o niezwykłej opera queen PRL-u, przegiętym geju, który dla sporej grupy odbiorców był wzorem męskości (Żurawiecki dokopuje się do tego legendarnego sondażu, w którym czytelniczki "Anteny" ułożyły ranking najwspanialszych mężczyzn, gdzie pierwszą trójkę stanowili Richard Chamberlain, Tomasz Raczek i właśnie Kaczyński, sami homoseksualiści).]]> 3.63 2024
author: Bartosz Żurawiecki
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Jednego dnia dałem dwie gwiazdki wspomnieniom perkusisty Dezertera, drugiego �� pięć gwiazdek biografii Bogusława Kaczyńskiego. I tak się to życie plecie.

Ale to jest naprawdę dobra książka! I wcale nie taka niechętna Bogusiowi, jak tu ludzie mówią. Owszem, Żurawiecki jest wobec niego bezlitosny i złośliwy �� w zasadzie już od pierwszej historii o tym, jak mały Boguś (według swoich opowieści) miał w domu sarenkę i gdy szedł spać, ta kładła swój łepek na poduszce obok jego główki. Wylicza kłamstwa, przeinaczenia, puchnące anegdoty, megalomanię i małostkowość, ale czuje też do niego szacunek i pisze o nim jako o niezwykłej opera queen PRL-u, przegiętym geju, który dla sporej grupy odbiorców był wzorem męskości (Żurawiecki dokopuje się do tego legendarnego sondażu, w którym czytelniczki "Anteny" ułożyły ranking najwspanialszych mężczyzn, gdzie pierwszą trójkę stanowili Richard Chamberlain, Tomasz Raczek i właśnie Kaczyński, sami homoseksualiści).
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So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? This piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller. That is what June believes, and The New York Times bestseller list agrees.

But June cannot escape Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens her stolen success. As she races to protect her secret she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.]]> 319 R.F. Kuang 000853277X Bartek 2 3.69 2023
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average rating: 3.69
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]]> 18782045 400 Ellen Datlow 1771481935 Bartek 3 3.66 2014
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]]> 26876264 The previously untold―and previously highly classified―story of the conflux of espionage and technology, with a compelling narrative rich with astonishing revelations taking readers from World War II to the internet age.

As the digital era become increasingly pervasive, the intertwining forces of computers and espionage are reshaping the entire world; what was once the preserve of a few intelligence agencies now affects us all.

Corera’s compelling narrative takes us from the Second World War through the Cold War and the birth of the internet to the present era of hackers and surveillance. The book is rich with historical detail and characters, as well as astonishing revelations about espionage carried out in recent times by the UK, US, and China. Using unique access to the National Security Agency, GCHQ, Chinese officials, and senior executives from some of the most powerful global technology companies, Gordon Corera has gathered compelling stories from heads of state, hackers and spies of all stripes.

Cyberspies is a ground-breaking exploration of the new space in which the worlds of espionage, diplomacy, international business, science, and technology collide.]]> 448 Gordon Corera 1681771543 Bartek 4 3.96 2015
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name: Bartek
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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]]> 10299693
Odkrywa też niechlubną kartę z przeszłości. Szwedzcy entuzjaści rewolucji Pol Pota, głusi na relacje uchodźców, niezachwianie wierzyli, że czerwony terror to tylko konieczny etap na słusznej drodze do wyzwolenia. Fröberg Idling pyta, w jaki sposób udało się Khmerom zamydlić oczy szwedzkiej delegacji, która w 1978 roku odwiedziła Kampuczę. Dlaczego w sprawozdaniach, na zdjęciach i w filmie nie widać zagłodzonych i zastraszonych ludzi, o których mówili uciekinierzy?

Pragnie również zrozumieć, co sprawiło, że Saloth Sar, wykształcony w Paryżu młody fan piłki nożnej i francuskiej poezji romantycznej, stał się Pol Potem, krwawym tyranem, pod którego rządami zginęła prawie jedna czwarta ludności całego kraju. Odpowiedzi szuka zarówno w dokumentach, jak i w rozmowach ze świadkami terroru Czerwonych Khmerów. Z relacji tych buduje literacki reportaż przejmujący do szpiku kości.

"To prawdopodobnie jedna z najlepszych dokumentalnych książek tego roku. (��) Materiałów na temat Kambodży i rządów Pol Pota opublikowano wiele, ale Peter Fröberg Idling przedstawia tę dramatyczną historię w całkiem nowy sposób. I choć temat jest przerażający, to naszkicowany przez Idlinga portret kraju i ludzi jest przede wszystkim poetycki. Kojarzy się ze stylem Svena Lindqvista, szwedzkiego mistrza podróżniczego reportażu, lub jego duńskiego odpowiednika, Carstena Jensena. (��) A ponieważ świat jest zły, zróbmy dobry uczynek: pomóżmy tej książce wypchnąć z listy bestsellerów wszystkich bohaterów wojennych, uzdrowicieli i nawiedzonych dietetyków".
"Dagbladet"

"To powieść dokumentalna najwyższej klasy, sięgająca po najlepsze techniki literackie. Otrzymujemy świeże, wnikliwe spojrzenie połączone z zapierającym dech w piersiach doświadczeniem czytelniczym".
"Potemkinreisen"

"Uśmiech Pol Pota to subtelna i mimo swej tematyki niemal piękna książka, stawiająca niezwykle ważne pytanie: Jak chronić się przed politycznymi marzycielami i fanatykami, tak by nie zniszczyć jednocześnie możliwości stworzenia lepszego świata? Żyjemy w czasach, w których nie wszystkim idealistom udaje się odróżnić totalitaryzm od ruchów demokratycznych. Uśmiech Pol Pota to książka, która zwraca się do jednych i do drugich".
"Dagens Næringsliv"

"Idling stworzył przenikliwą i dramatyczną opowieść o tym, jak zagłodzono i wymordowano 1,7 miliona ludzi, nie pokazując międzynarodowej opinii publicznej nawet jednego ciała. Długo i uważnie przyglądał się uśmiechowi Pol Pota, który �� gdy się mu przypatrzeć �� okazuje się grymasem drwiny".
"Bergensavisen"

"Uśmiech Pol Pota to nie tylko świetny reportaż, ale także bardzo dobra powieść. Być może nie wypada polecać jej jako wciągającej narracji, ale temu, kto da się ponieść samemu tekstowi, trudno będzie zapomnieć o dramatycznym kontekście historycznym i pozostać wobec niego obojętnym".
"Studvest"

"Tę bezstronną, wnikliwą książkę po prostu trzeba przeczytać. Idling, który przez kilka lat mieszkał w Kambodży, z niezwykłym wyczuciem, subiektywnie, a jednak bez uprawiania polityki, pokazuje, jak rażąca niekompetencja i niedające się opisać zło mogą na wiele lat zniszczyć cały kraj".]]> 296 Peter Fröberg Idling 8375362085 Bartek 4 3.75 2006
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]]> 206084878 330 Krzysztof Grabowski 8397055800 Bartek 2 3.82
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Sto nudnych anegdotek opowiedzianych nieskładnie przez faceta z kijem w dupie. Szkoda, bo i zespół fajny, i jest to po części opowieść o moich kolegach i znajomych miejscach.
]]> 19494 212 John Le Carré Bartek 3 4.07 1963
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name: Bartek
average rating: 4.07
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Now the slow horses have a chance at redemption. An old Cold War-era spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. The despicable, irascible Jackson Lamb is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered. As the agents dig into their fallen comrade's circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient Cold War secrets that seem to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, who is either a Soviet bogeyman or the most dangerous man in the world. How many more people will have to die to keep those secrets buried?

]]> 347 Mick Herron 1616953675 Bartek 3 4.09 2013
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name: Bartek
average rating: 4.09
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rating: 3
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]]> 199798813 This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Polarized—depicts the United States of America as a country at a crossroads with the battle between the right and left spilling out from the darkest corners of the internet into the real world with often tragic consequences. Award-winning journalist and CNN correspondent Elle Reeve was not surprised by the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. With years of in-depth research and probing interviews under her belt, Reeve was aware of the preoccupations of the online far right and their journey from the computer to QAnon, militias, and racist groups. At the same time, Reeve saw a parallel growth of counterforces, with citizen vigilantes using new tools and tactics to take down the far right. This ongoing battle, long fought mainly on the internet, has spilled out into the real world with greater and greater frequency, culminating in the attempted coup on January 6th. Combining her years of on-the-ground reporting, Reeve clearly illustrates this shocking sweep of violence, where this cultural shift came from, and where it is going. She also introduces us to a shocking but powerful cast of characters, such as the creator of 8chan—an online hub for conspiracies and misogynistic rhetoric—and the white power leader who is still pulling the strings from a prison cell. Uncovering the hidden links between these events and how we can prevent further upheavals of this nature, Black Pill is a necessary read for any supporter of democracy.]]> 304 Elle Reeve 1982198885 Bartek 5
Jest dużo historii. Bo autorka tak długo relacjonowała działania faszystów i neonazistów, tak długo za nimi łaziła, aż ci się do niej jakoś tak przyzwyczaili. Dzięki czemu mogła wysłuchać żalów naziola ze starej gwardii, jednego z najważniejszych skinów w USA, że nie rozumie tych nowych ludzi w Ruchu, tych od żaby Pepe i żartów o gwałtach. Dla tego gościa, z blizną od łomu na głowie i faszystowskimi tatuażami alt-right to było "za dużo". Na tyle, że wyszedł ze środowiska i dziś współpracuje z Centrum Simona Wiesenthala. OK, nie tylko dlatego.

Z kolei ten gość, co go filmował rzecznik, stojąc na skrzynce, jak zdradza córkę z matką, też już nie pajacuje i porzucił dawne życie. Nie jest mu łatwo, bo w Stanach jak pracodawca dowie się, że jego pracownik to dawna duża postać w Ruchu, zazwyczaj wypowiada umowę o pracę. A zazwyczaj się dowiadują. Randkowanie też idzie ciężko. "Wiesz jak bardzo nie sexy jest mówić komuś: 'Dobrze by było, żebyś przed drugą randką przeczytała mój biogram na Wikipedii'?"...

I taka to jest książka. Autorka jest prawdziwą dziennikarką, reporterką, nie napisała tego z domu, guglając skrajną prawicę. Pracowała w Vice News i później w CNN, dokumentowała wydarzenia w Charlottesville �� spora część książki jest właśnie o tym. Do dziś jej feed na Twitterze jest regularnie nawiedzany przez nazistowskie trolle z całymi folderkami memów, których jest główną bohaterką.

Mam tak ostatnio, że czytam kilka książek naraz. Wcześniej tak nie robiłem, ale zauważyłem, że ugrzęźnięcie w jakiejś cegle zmniejsza moją generalną chęć do czytania. Teraz dzięki tej zmianie czytam dużo więcej. Ale dla "Black Pill" odłożyłem wszystkie inne lektury.]]> 4.17 2024
author: Elle Reeve
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average rating: 4.17
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Jest to książka pełna wspaniałych opowieści. Na przykład tej, jak neonazistowska Tradycjonalistyczna Partia Robotnicza rozpadła się niczym skrzynka, na której stał rzecznik prasowy partii, filmując przez okno przyczepy szefa partii uprawiającego pozamałżeński seks z żoną rzecznika i zdradzającego tym samym pasierbicę rzecznika, która była jego żoną (skrzynka się naprawdę rozpadła, zrobił się hałas i panowie zaczęli się bić). Ta historia, w nawiązaniu do angielskiego tłumaczenia Nocy Długich Noży, była znana wśród faszystów jako Night of the Wrong Wives.

Jest dużo historii. Bo autorka tak długo relacjonowała działania faszystów i neonazistów, tak długo za nimi łaziła, aż ci się do niej jakoś tak przyzwyczaili. Dzięki czemu mogła wysłuchać żalów naziola ze starej gwardii, jednego z najważniejszych skinów w USA, że nie rozumie tych nowych ludzi w Ruchu, tych od żaby Pepe i żartów o gwałtach. Dla tego gościa, z blizną od łomu na głowie i faszystowskimi tatuażami alt-right to było "za dużo". Na tyle, że wyszedł ze środowiska i dziś współpracuje z Centrum Simona Wiesenthala. OK, nie tylko dlatego.

Z kolei ten gość, co go filmował rzecznik, stojąc na skrzynce, jak zdradza córkę z matką, też już nie pajacuje i porzucił dawne życie. Nie jest mu łatwo, bo w Stanach jak pracodawca dowie się, że jego pracownik to dawna duża postać w Ruchu, zazwyczaj wypowiada umowę o pracę. A zazwyczaj się dowiadują. Randkowanie też idzie ciężko. "Wiesz jak bardzo nie sexy jest mówić komuś: 'Dobrze by było, żebyś przed drugą randką przeczytała mój biogram na Wikipedii'?"...

I taka to jest książka. Autorka jest prawdziwą dziennikarką, reporterką, nie napisała tego z domu, guglając skrajną prawicę. Pracowała w Vice News i później w CNN, dokumentowała wydarzenia w Charlottesville �� spora część książki jest właśnie o tym. Do dziś jej feed na Twitterze jest regularnie nawiedzany przez nazistowskie trolle z całymi folderkami memów, których jest główną bohaterką.

Mam tak ostatnio, że czytam kilka książek naraz. Wcześniej tak nie robiłem, ale zauważyłem, że ugrzęźnięcie w jakiejś cegle zmniejsza moją generalną chęć do czytania. Teraz dzięki tej zmianie czytam dużo więcej. Ale dla "Black Pill" odłożyłem wszystkie inne lektury.
]]> 19486 In the Country of Last Things takes the form of a letter from a young woman named Anna Blume to a childhood friend. Anna has ventured into an unnamed city that has collapsed into chaos and disorder. In this bleak environment, no industry takes place and most of the population collects garbage or scavenges for objects to resell. City governments are unstable and are concerned only with collecting human waste and corpses for fuel. Anna has entered the city to search for her brother William, a journalist, and it is suggested that the Blumes come from a world to the East which has not collapsed.]]> 188 Paul Auster 3425040847 Bartek 3 3.95 1987
author: Paul Auster
name: Bartek
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1987
rating: 3
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]]> 213124492
Celem książki jest dostarczenie Czytelnikowi przystępnie podanej wiedzy o nierównościach w Polsce. Chcemy ożywić i zmienić debatę publiczną na temat nierówności w Polsce �� pokazać, że są one ważne, ile wynoszą, jakie są ich przyczyny oraz jak je zmniejszać i dlaczego warto. Będziemy rozprawiali się z różnymi mitami, które mocno ugruntowały się w naszej debacie publicznej: że nierówności są dobre dla wzrostu gospodarczego, nierówności w Polsce są umiarkowane, bogaci stają się bogaci wyłącznie dzięki własnej pracowitości, bieda to głównie efekt lenistwa, płaca minimalna zwiększa bezrobocie, a progresywne podatki są nieefektywne. I tak dalej.]]> 344 Paweł Bukowski 8367805909 Bartek 0 currently-reading 4.41 2024
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name: Bartek
average rating: 4.41
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]]> 50887097 A wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and—possibly—even murder.

David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. But the more of the hidden blueprint of life he uncovered, the harder the universe seemed to try to thwart him. His specimen collections were demolished by lightning, by fire, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake—which sent more than a thousand of his discoveries, housed in fragile glass jars, plummeting to the floor. In an instant, his life’s work was shattered.

Many might have given up, given in to despair. But Jordan? He surveyed the wreckage at his feet, found the first fish he recognized, and confidently began to rebuild his collection. And this time, he introduced one clever innovation that he believed would at last protect his work against the chaos of the world.

When NPR reporter Lulu Miller first heard this anecdote in passing, she took Jordan for a fool��a cautionary tale in hubris, or denial. But as her own life slowly unraveled, she began to wonder about him. Perhaps instead he was a model for how to go on when all seemed lost. What she would unearth about his life would transform her understanding of history, morality, and the world beneath her feet.

Part biography, part memoir, part scientific adventure, Why Fish Don’t Exist reads like a fable about how to persevere in a world where chaos will always prevail.]]> 225 Lulu Miller Bartek 4 4.15 2020
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name: Bartek
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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]]> 123627807 A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice �� A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 �� A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 �� A Smithsonian Staff Favorite of 2023 �� A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 �� Finalist for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism �� Finalist for the Reading the West Award �� Finalist for the Colorado Book Award �� Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Competition in Environmental Literature �� Winner of the Sierra Club's Rachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental Writing

An eye-opening account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from the award-winning author of Eager. Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they’re practically invisible to us, wild animals experience them as entirely alien forces of death and disruption. In Crossings, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb travels throughout the United States and around the world to investigate how roads have transformed our planet. A million animals are killed by cars each day in the U.S. alone, but as the new science of road ecology shows, the harms of highways extend far beyond roadkill. Creatures from antelope to salmon are losing their ability to migrate in search of food and mates; invasive plants hitch rides in tire treads; road salt contaminates lakes and rivers; and the very noise of traffic chases songbirds from vast swaths of habitat. Yet road ecologists are also seeking to blunt the destruction through innovative solutions. Goldfarb meets with conservationists building bridges for California’s mountain lions and tunnels for English toads, engineers deconstructing the labyrinth of logging roads that web national forests, animal rehabbers caring for Tasmania’s car-orphaned wallabies, and community organizers working to undo the havoc highways have wreaked upon American cities. Today, as our planet’s road network continues to grow exponentially, the science of road ecology has become increasingly vital. Written with passion and curiosity, Crossings is a sweeping, spirited, and timely investigation into how humans have altered the natural world―and how we can create a better future for all living beings. 20 illustrations]]> 384 Ben Goldfarb 1324005890 Bartek 5 4.42 2023
author: Ben Goldfarb
name: Bartek
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2023
rating: 5
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Naprawdę zaskakujące, jak wciągającą książkę można napisać o czymś takim jak ekologia dróg. Już nigdy nie spojrzę tak samo na wiadukty dla zwierząt nad autostradami.
]]> 75610318 248 Zofia Smełka-Leszczyńska 8367805356 Bartek 4 3.57 2024
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name: Bartek
average rating: 3.57
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rating: 4
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]]> 6194 J. M. Coetzee's prize-winning novel is a startling allegory of the war between oppressor and oppressed. The Magistrate is not simply a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times; his situation is that of all men living in unbearable complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.]]> 152 J.M. Coetzee 0140283358 Bartek 5 3.94 1980
author: J.M. Coetzee
name: Bartek
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1980
rating: 5
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]]> 56534999 Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agents is united by one common bond: They've screwed up royally and will do anything to redeem themselves.

This special tenth-anniversary deluxe edition of a modern classic includes a foreword by the author, discussion questions for book clubs, and an exclusive short story featuring the slow horses.

London, England: Slough House is where washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their failed careers. The “slow horses,�� as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated there. Maybe they botched an Op so badly they can’t be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle—not unusual in this line of work. One thing they have in common, though, is they want to be back in the action. And most of them would do anything to get there─even if it means having to collaborate with one another.

When a young man is abducted and his kidnappers threaten to broadcast his beheading live on the Internet, the slow horses see an opportunity to redeem themselves. But is the victim really who he appears to be?]]> 334 Mick Herron 1641292970 Bartek 3 Kurde, serial lepszy. 4.05 2010
author: Mick Herron
name: Bartek
average rating: 4.05
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rating: 3
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Kurde, serial lepszy.
]]> 56683183 THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERShortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2021'A great achievement . . . brilliant, engaging and essential' Colm Tóibín'At once intimate and epic, this is a landmark book' Fintan O'TooleWhen Dubliner Derek Scally goes to Christmas Eve Mass on a visit home from Berlin, he finds more memories than congregants in the church where he was once an altar boy. Not for the first time, the collapse of the Catholic Church in Ireland brings to mind the fall of another powerful ideology - East German communism. While Germans are engaging earnestly with their past, Scally sees nothing comparable going on in his native land. So he embarks on a quest to unravel the tight hold the Church had on the Irish.He travels the length and breadth of Ireland and across Europe, going to Masses, novenas, shrines and seminaries, talking to those who have abandoned the Church and those who have held on, to survivors and campaigners, to writers, historians, psychologists and many more. And he has probing and revealing encounters with Vatican officials, priests and religious along the way.The Best Catholics in the World is the remarkable result of his three-year journey. With wit, wisdom and compassion Scally gives voice and definition to the murky and difficult questions that face a society coming to terms with its troubling past. It is both a lively personal odyssey and a resonant and gripping work of reporting that is a major contribution to the story of Ireland.'Reflective, textured, insightful and original ... rich with history, interrogation and emotional intelligence' Diarmaid Ferriter, Irish Times'An unblinking look at the collapse of the Church and Catholic deference in Ireland. Excellent and timely' John Banville, The Sunday Times'Engaging and incisive' Caelainn Hogan, author of Republic of Shame'Remarkable . . . Essential reading for anyone concerned about history and forgetting' Michael Harding'Fair-minded . . . thoughtful' Melanie McDonagh, The Times'Very pacey and entertaining . . . and it changed how I regard Ireland and our history for good. Fantastic' Oliver Callan'Original, thought-provoking and very engaging' Marie Collins'A provocative insight into a time that many would rather forget' John Boyne'Challenging' Mary McAleese'Explores this subject in a way that I've never seen before' Hugh Linehan, Irish Times]]> 335 Derek Scally Bartek 2 3.98 2021
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average rating: 3.98
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To jest książka raczej dla Tygodnik Powszechny hools, ja tymczasem jestem Tygodnik NIE ultras. Nie interesuje mnie pogłębiona analiza, chcę patrzeć, jak płoną kościoły.
]]> 24611567 Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction�� (The Washington Post)
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Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second,��Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction.��Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of Kafka, Ligotti eschews cheap, gory thrills for his own brand of horror, which shocks at the deepest, existential, levels.

Ligotti’s stories take on decaying cities and lurid dreamscapes in a style ranging from rich, ornamental prose to cold, clinical detachment. His raw and experimental work lays bare the unimportance of our world and the sickening madness of the human condition. Like the greatest writers of cosmic horror, Ligotti bends reality until it cracks, opening fissures through which he invites us to gaze on the unsettling darkness of the abyss below.

For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500��titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the��series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date��translations by award-winning translators.]]> 448 Thomas Ligotti 0143107763 Bartek 4 3.98 2015
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]]> 17857245 “America’s funniest science writer�� (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of—or has the courage to ask. We go on location to a pet-food taste-test lab, a fecal transplant, and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal. With Roach at our side, we travel the world, meeting murderers and mad scientists, Eskimos and exorcists (who have occasionally administered holy water rectally), rabbis and terrorists—who, it turns out, for practical reasons do not conceal bombs in their digestive tracts.

Like all of Roach’s books, Gulp is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies.]]> 353 Mary Roach 0393240304 Bartek 5 4.18 2013
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name: Bartek
average rating: 4.18
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]]> 65638406
The Illegals captures the untold history of Russia's deep cover spy programme, following its evolution from the talented "great Illegals" of the 1920s and '30s up to the 21st century, when agents maintained their fake identities and loyalties even after the fall of the Soviet Union. Directorate S, which ran the illegals programme, is the most secretive within the KGB, but through hundreds of interviews and access to never-before-seen archives and files, Shaun Walker has been able to capture a history as essential as it is character-driven and entertaining.]]> 416 Shaun Walker 1788167775 Bartek 0 to-read 3.67 2025
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average rating: 3.67
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]]> 369966 400 Katie Hafner 0684818620 Bartek 0 to-read 3.84 1991
author: Katie Hafner
name: Bartek
average rating: 3.84
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]]> 72241345 From one of China’s most celebrated—and silenced—literary authors, riveting portraits of eight Wuhan residents at the dawn of the pandemic.

When a strange new virus appeared in the largest city in central China late in 2019, the 11 million people living there were oblivious to what was about to hit them. But rumors of a new disease soon began to spread, mostly from doctors. In no time, lines of sick people were forming at the hospitals. At first the authorities downplayed medical concerns. Then they locked down the entire city and confined people to their homes.

From Beijing, Murong Xuecun—one of China’s most popular writers, silenced by the regime in 2013 for his outspoken books and New York Times articles—followed the state media fearing the worst. Then, on April 6, 2020, he made his way quietly to Wuhan, determined to look behind the heroic images of sacrifice and victory propagated by the regime to expose the fear, confusion, and suffering of the real people living through the world’s first and harshest COVID-19 lockdown.

In the tradition of Dan Baum’s bestselling Nine Lives, Deadly Quiet City focuses on the remarkable stories of eight people in Wuhan. They include a doctor at the frontline, a small businessman separated from his family, a volunteer who threw himself into assisting the sick and dying, and a party loyalist who found a reason for everything. Although the Chinese Communist Party has devoted enormous efforts to rewriting the history of the pandemic’s outbreak in Wuhan, through these poignant and beautifully written firsthand accounts Murong tells us what really happened in Wuhan, giving us a book unlike any other on the earliest days of the pandemic.]]> 320 Murong Xuecun 1620977923 Bartek 3 3.91 2022
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name: Bartek
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2022
rating: 3
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]]> 889284 This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth.

A timeless novel as urgently compelling as Warday or Alas, Babylon, David Brin's The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from a modern master of science fiction.

He was a survivor—a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war.��Fate touches him one chill winter's day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold.��The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery.]]> 321 David Brin 0553278746 Bartek 4 3.89 1985
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name: Bartek
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1985
rating: 4
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]]> 201730880 'A brilliant, scholarly, sharp and witty account of our weird eternal obsession with the end times... So enjoyable, that I didn't want it to end - the world, or the book.�� �� Adam Rutherford, author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

'Everything Must Go will make you happy to be alive and reading �� until the lights go out . . . Brilliant' �� The Spectator

A riveting and brilliantly original exploration of our fantasies of the end of the world, from Mary Shelley's The Last Man to Marvel's Age of Ultron, by the Baillie Gifford and Orwell prize-shortlisted writer and co-host of the podcast 'Origin Story'.

For two millennia, Christians have looked forward to the end, haunted by the apocalyptic visions of the Biblical books of Daniel and Revelation. But for two centuries or more, these dark fantasies have given way to secular stories of how the world, our planet, or our species (or all of the above) might come to an end.

Dorian Lynskey's fascinating book explores the endings that we have read, listened to or watched over the last two dozen decades, whether they be by the death and destruction of a nuclear holocaust or collision with a meteor or comet, devastating epidemic or takeover by robots or computers.

The result is nothing less than a cultural history of the modern world, weaving together politics, history, science, high and popular culture in a book that is uniquely original, grippingly readable and deeply illuminating about both us and our times.

'I was blown away by this book... Lynskey is one of the best non-fiction writers around.' �� Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland

'Impossibly epic, brain-expanding, life-affirming and profound. You’ll never see humanity the same way again.' �� Ian Dunt, author of How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't]]> 509 Dorian Lynskey 1529095964 Bartek 5 4.03 2025
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name: Bartek
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2025
rating: 5
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]]> 35525995 235 David Gerard Bartek 2 ekstremalnie specjalistyczna. Nie jestem dużo mądrzejszy po jej lekturze.]]> 3.96 2017
author: David Gerard
name: Bartek
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2017
rating: 2
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Naprawdę chciałem polubić tę książkę �� chociażby za fantastyczne jednogwiazkowe recenzje na ŷ������ (idźcie je czytać, tylko naszykujcie czarkę na łzy cryptobrosów). Ale jest napisana chaotycznie, w dodatku momentami robi się ekstremalnie specjalistyczna. Nie jestem dużo mądrzejszy po jej lekturze.
]]> 15821237
Deliciously frightening, darkly satirical, and always unexpected, Robert Shearman has won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Edge Hill Reader’s Prize. Remember Why You Fear Me gathers together his best dark fiction, the most celebrated stories from his acclaimed books, and ten new tales that have never been collected before.

This ebook contains four bonus novelettes drawn from throughout Shearman’s impressive career: “Tiny Deaths,�� “Jolly Roger,�� “The Big Boy’s Big Book of Tricks,�� and the previously unpublished “The Girl from Ipanema.”]]> 425 Robert Shearman 1927469228 Bartek 4 4.04 2012
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name: Bartek
average rating: 4.04
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]]> 194803883 The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how we might set ourselves free from a crisis that could haunt American life for generations.

“SHED MY DNA��: three excruciating words uttered by a QAnon-obsessed mother, once a highly respected lawyer, to her only son, once the closest person in her life. QAnon beliefs and adjacent conspiracy theories have had devastating political consequences as they’ve exploded in popularity. What’s often overlooked is the lasting havoc they wreak on our society at its most basic and intimate level—the family.

In The Quiet Damage, celebrated reporter Jesselyn Cook paints a harrowing portrait of the vulnerabilities that have left so many of us susceptible to outrageous falsehoods promising order, purpose, and control. Braided throughout are the stories of five American families: an elderly couple whose fifty-year romance takes a heartbreaking turn; millennial sisters of color who grew up in dire poverty—one to become a BLM activist, the other, a hardcore conspiracy theorist pulling her little boy down the rabbit hole with her; a Bay Area hippie-type and her business-executive fiancé, who must decide whether to stay with her as she turns into a stranger before his eyes; evangelical parents whose simple life in a sleepy suburb spirals into delusion-fueled chaos; and a rural mother-son duo who, after carrying each other through unspeakable tragedy, stop speaking at all as ludicrous untruths shatter a bond long thought unbreakable.

Charting the arc of each believer’s path from their first intersection with conspiracy theories to the depths of their cultish conviction, to—in some cases—their rejection of disinformation and the mending of fractured relationships, Cook offers a rare, intimate look into the psychology of how and why ordinary people come to believe the unbelievable. Profound, brilliantly researched, and beautifully written, The Quiet Damage lays bare how we have been taken hostage by grifters peddling lies built on false hope—and how we might release our loved ones, and ourselves, from their grasp.]]> 250 Jesselyn Cook 059344325X Bartek 2 4.47 2024
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average rating: 4.47
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Temat niezwykle ciekawy, ale książka okropna. Czułem się, jakbym czytał "Dom nad rozlewiskiem" o spiskologach. Autorka, zamiast cytować wypowiedzi bohaterów, opisuje ich stany emocjonalne.
]]> 48484 Two months since the stars fell...

Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown.

Two months of silence while a world holds its breath.

Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune’s orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever’s out there isn’t talking to us. It’s talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route.

So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable? Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn’t want to meet?

You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees X-rays and tastes ultrasound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won’t be needed, and a fainter hope she’ll do any good if she is needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called “vampire,�� recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist �� an informational topologist with half his mind gone �� as an interface between here and there, a conduit through which the Dead Center might hope to understand the Bleeding Edge.

You send them all to the edge of interstellar space, praying you can trust such freaks and retrofits with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they’ve been sent to find.

But you’d give anything for that to be true, if you only knew what was waiting for them…]]> 384 Peter Watts 0765312182 Bartek 5 4.01 2006
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]]> 25489159 This Census Taker is the poignant and uncanny new novella from award-winning and bestselling author China Miéville. After witnessing a profoundly traumatic event, a boy is left alone in a remote house on a hilltop with his increasingly deranged parent. When a stranger knocks on his door, the boy senses that his days of isolation are over—but by what authority does this man keep the meticulous records he carries? Is he the boy’s friend? His enemy? Or something altogether other?]]> 210 China Miéville 1101967323 Bartek 4 3.32 2016
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]]> 16234584 Heart of Darkness—complete with a mad white hunter and his hordes of native soldiers—this "powerful and beautifully clear" (Brian Aldiss) work becomes a thrilling adventure and a haunting examination of the effects of environmental collapse on the human mind.]]> 198 J.G. Ballard 0871403625 Bartek 3 3.50 1962
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]]> 12331767 208 J.G. Ballard 0871404028 Bartek 0 to-read 3.61 1975
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]]> 40053823 Mali bogowie (nominacja do nagrody Bestseller Empiku) autor zatrudnił się w szpitalu jako sanitariusz. Tym razem jeździł z pogotowiem do dramatycznych przypadków i brał udział w dyżurze na SOR. Po rozmowach z dziesiątkami lekarzy i ratowników medycznych nie można mieć wątpliwości: polski system opieki medycznej to katastrofa.]]> 336 Paweł Reszka 8377003198 Bartek 5 3.98 2018
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]]> 38412
"I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."

With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future generations.����What came to be known as Fermat's Last Theorem looked simple; proving it, however, became the Holy Grail of mathematics, baffling its finest minds for more than 350 years.����In Fermat's Enigma--based on the author's award-winning documentary film, which aired on PBS's "Nova"--Simon Singh tells the astonishingly entertaining story of the pursuit of that grail, and the lives that were devoted to, sacrificed for, and saved by it.����Here is a mesmerizing tale of heartbreak and mastery that will forever change your feelings about mathematics.]]> 315 Simon Singh 0385493622 Bartek 5 4.27 1997
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]]> 22237153 A searing new collection from the inimitable Amelia Gray

A woman creeps through the ductwork of a quiet home. A medical procedure reveals an object of worship. A carnivorous reptile divides and cauterizes a town. Amelia Gray’s curio cabinet expands in Gutshot, where isolation and coupling are pushed to their dark and outrageous edges. These singular stories live and breathe on their own, pulsating with energy and humanness and a glorious sense of humor. Hers are stories that you will read and reread—raw gems that burrow into your brain, reminders of��just how strange and beautiful our world is. These collected stories come to us like a vivisected body, the whole that is all the��more elegant and breathtaking for exploring its most grotesque and intimate lightless viscera.]]> 209 Amelia Gray 0374175446 Bartek 2 3.62 2015
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]]> 59364173
Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,�� eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?�� She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.

In I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly , she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (“Hi Gale!��), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.

Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I’m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.]]> 320 Jennette McCurdy Bartek 4 4.45 2022
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]]> 62919358 The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China.

Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia has been waging against the West for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and subversion were the Kremlin’s means to equalize the imbalance of resources between the East and West before, during, and after the Cold War. There was nothing “unprecedented�� about Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. It was simply business as usual, new means used for old ends.

But the West fought back after World War II, mounting its own shadow war, using disinformation, vast intelligence networks, and new technologies against the Soviet Union. Spies is an inspiring, engrossing story of the best and worst of mankind: bravery and honor, treachery and betrayal. The narrative shifts across continents and decades, from the freezing streets of St. Petersburg in 1917 to the bloody beaches of Normandy; from coups in faraway lands to present-day Moscow where troll farms, synthetic bots, and weaponized cyber-attacks are launched woefully on the unprepared West. It is about the rise and fall of eastern superpowers: Russia’s past and present and the global ascendance of China.

Mining hitherto secret archives in multiple languages, Calder Walton shows that the Cold War started earlier than commonly assumed, that it continued even after the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, and that Britain and America’s clandestine struggle with the Soviet government provides key lessons for countering China today. This fresh reading of history, combined with practical takeaways for our current great power struggles, make Spies a unique and essential addition to the history of the Cold War and the unrolling conflict between the United States and China that will dominate the 21st century.]]> 688 Calder Walton 1668000695 Bartek 5 4.26 2023
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]]> 61319931
The word “glitch�� implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren’t just bugs in mostly functional machinery—what if they’re coded into the system itself? In the vein of heavy hitters such as Safiya Umoja Noble, Cathy O’Neil, and Ruha Benjamin,��Meredith Broussard demonstrates in More Than a Glitch how neutrality in tech is a myth and why algorithms need to be held accountable.

Broussard, a data scientist and one of the few Black female researchers in artificial intelligence, masterfully synthesizes concepts from computer science and sociology. She explores a range of examples: from facial recognition technology trained only to recognize lighter skin tones, to mortgage-approval algorithms that encourage discriminatory lending, to the dangerous feedback loops that arise when medical diagnostic algorithms are trained on insufficiently diverse data. Even when such technologies are designed with good intentions, Broussard shows, fallible humans develop programs that can result in devastating consequences.

Broussard argues that the solution isn’t to make omnipresent tech more inclusive, but to root out the algorithms that target certain demographics as “other�� to begin with. With sweeping implications for fields ranging from jurisprudence to medicine,��the��ground-breaking insights of More Than a Glitch are essential reading for anyone invested in building a more equitable future.]]> 248 Meredith Broussard 0262047659 Bartek 4 4.14 2023
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]]> 30078108
When he finally did, he discovered unexpected secrets. His grandfather’s life was marked by years of childhood poverty in late-nineteenth-century Belgium, by horrific experiences on the frontlines during the First World War and by the loss of the young love of his life. He sublimated his grief in the silence of painting.

Drawing on these diary entries, his childhood memories and the stories told within Urbain’s paintings, Hertmans has produced a poetic novelisation of his grandfather’s story, brought to life with great imaginative power and vivid detail.

War and Turpentine is an enthralling search for a life that coincided with the tragedy of a century—and a posthumous, almost mythical attempt to give that life a voice at last.]]> 304 Stefan Hertmans 1925240207 Bartek 5 3.90 2013
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]]> 13651 387 Ursula K. Le Guin Bartek 4 4.24 1974
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]]> 191453779 Zakonnic, które odchodzą po cichu oraz Dzieci księży w swoim nowym reportażu przygląda się krajowi, który jeszcze do niedawna uważał się za przedmurze chrześcijaństwa a jego mieszkańcy za najlepszych katolików na świecie.

Historia laicyzacji Irlandii to historia zmiany mentalności, która zaszła w obrębie jednego pokolenia.

Z jednej strony jest to opowieść o wypaczeniach takich jak szkoły industrialne, pralnie magdalenek czy pedofilia księży, z drugiej o uwikłaniu Irlandczyków w system bliski totalitarnej kontroli, z trzeciej o rozliczeniach, które nie zadowalają nikogo, bo wzajemne prawdy zdają się wykluczać.

Przypadek Irlandii jest więc lustrem dla Polski przywracającym nadzieję na to, że zmiana jest możliwa.]]> 424 Marta Abramowicz 8367805097 Bartek 5 4.45 2023
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]]> 208168228
Jacek Leociak odczytuje ten szczególnego rodzaju palimpsest �� w miejscu-po-getcie zmieniła się przecież siatka ulic, ich nazwy, zbudowano nowe domy. Przywołuje tętniące kiedyś życiem targowiska przy Gęsiej i Świętojerskiej, tłoczne kamienice Nowolipek, dawny plac Broni. Szczególnie skupia się na tym, co pod ziemią. Opisuje życie w getcie podczas powstania: przygotowywanie skrytek, schowków, schronów w piwnicach, wreszcie budowę podziemnych bunkrów. Przytacza historie niemych świadków Zagłady przechowanych w ruinach: błahych przedmiotów codziennego użytku, garnków, kluczy, zbutwiałego i nadpalonego dziennika.

"Ślad ma zostać ciśnięty pod koło historii, żeby je zahamować" �� czytamy w relacji znalezionej w bańce na mleko zakopanej w piwnicy przy Nalewkach 68. Jacek Leociak jak archeolog zbiera te ślady i nakłada obraz dawnego Muranowa na dzielnicę, która dziś tętni życiem, po to, by upamiętnić coś, co wymyka się wyobraźni.]]> 344 Jacek Leociak 8381918723 Bartek 5 4.24 2024
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]]> 209314387 Cała prawda o branży deweloperskiej w Polsce.

Na zamkniętej konferencji deweloperzy dzielą się patentami na to jak wycisnąć najwięcej z metra kwadratowego i z klienta. Rozmawiają swobodnie, bo nie wiedzą, że na sali jest reporter.

Zainspirowany tymi nie zawsze etycznymi zwierzeniami Bartosz Józefiak wyrusza w Polskę, by sprawdzić, jak tak naprawdę wygląda budowa naszych domów i mieszkań. Urzędnicy, architekci, deweloperzy, marketingowcy i budowlańcy zdradzają mu, na czym najbardziej oszczędzają, na czym (i na kim) zarabiają najwięcej, na jakie kompromisy chodzą najczęściej i przede wszystkim, co ukrywają przed klientami. Ta książka to przerażający obraz tego, jak buduje się Polska, ale też kopalnia wiedzy dla każdego, kto chce kupić mieszkanie (i jeszcze wygodnie w nim mieszkać).

Patodeweloperka to dociekliwy reportaż, ujawniający hipokryzję i niewydolność branży napędzanej jedną emocją �� chciwością.]]> 352 Bartosz Józefiak 8324083979 Bartek 5 4.36 2024
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Wspaniałą niszę znalazł sobie Józefiak: książki, od których aż się chce napełniać benzyną butelki.
]]> 187456166
W opisanym tutaj szokującym śledztwie dziennikarz Geoff White zbadał, w jaki sposób hakerzy przez lata wykorzystywali najnowocześniejszą technologię, by zuchwale i bezlitośnie atakować swoich bogatszych i potężniejszych przeciwników. Nie chodziło jednak tylko o pieniądze. Grupę Lazarus wykorzystywano do grożenia demokracjom, kneblowania krytyków Korei Północnej i destabilizowania sytuacji na świecie.

Od tętniących życiem ulic Dhaki przez wspaniałe studia w Fabryce Snów i rozświetlone kasyna w Makau po tajemniczy dwór dynastyczny w Pjongjangu �� oto szokująca historia najbardziej niszczycielskich hakerów na świecie, ich ofiar oraz ludzi, którzy próbowali ich powstrzymać.]]> 432 Geoff White 838135336X Bartek 5 4.27 2022
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]]> 61114334
Aleksander Gurgul przygląda się więc podhalańskiej patodeweloperce, przytacza litanię haseł reklamowych z zakopianki, zwanej przez internautów billboardzianką, rozlicza kierowców lokalnych busów i opisuje największe zaniedbania wynikające z ignorancji zarówno władz, jak i turystów. Nie boi się też trudnych tematów �� pisze o przemocy domowej i wykorzystywaniu zwierząt. Z troską miłośnika i znawcy regionu zastanawia się nad przyszłością Podhala.

Książka Gurgula to opowieść o polskim kapitalizmie i jego pułapkach oraz reportaż o jednym z najliczniej odwiedzanych regionów w Polsce, w którym wszystko jest na sprzedaż. Wystarczy dodać parzenicę.]]> 224 Aleksander Gurgul 8381915023 Bartek 3 3.21 2022
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]]> 30842897 Winner of the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay,��HAD I KNOWN contains the most provocative, incendiary, and career-making pieces by bestselling author, essayist, political activist, and "veteran muckraker" Barbara Ehrenreich (The New Yorker).

A self-proclaimed "myth buster by trade," Barbara Ehrenreich has covered an extensive range of topics as a journalist and political activist, and is unafraid to dive into intellectual waters that others deem too murky. Now, Had I Known gathers the articles and excerpts from a long-ranging career that most highlight Ehrenreich's brilliance, social consciousness, and wry wit.

From Ehrenreich's award-winning article "Welcome to Cancerland," published shortly after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, to her groundbreaking undercover investigative journalism in Nickel and Dimed, to her exploration of death and mortality in the New York Times bestseller, Natural Causes, Barbara Ehrenreich has been writing radical, thought-provoking, and worldview-altering pieces for over four decades. Her reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the��Atlantic Monthly, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review, among others, while her essays, op-eds and feature articles have appeared in the New York Times, Harper's Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, Time, the Wall Street Journal, and many more. Had I Known pulls from the vast and varied collection of one of our country's most incisive thinkers to create one must-have volume.]]> 384 Barbara Ehrenreich 1455543675 Bartek 2 3.73 2020
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]]> 3698 Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam

"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon, where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas. As young Pyle's well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed, Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it impossible to stand safely aside as an observer. But Fowler's motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and himself, for Pyle has stolen Fowler's beautiful Vietnamese mistress.

First published in 1956 and twice adapted to film, The Quiet American remains a terrifiying and prescient portrait of innocence at large. This Graham Greene Centennial Edition includes a new introductory essay by Robert Stone.]]> 180 Graham Greene 0143039024 Bartek 5 3.97 1955
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]]> 133394 Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction

First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates to this day. Conceived as one of Graham Greene's 'entertainments,' it tells of MI6's man in Havana, Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true.

]]> 220 Graham Greene 0140184937 Bartek 4 3.94 1958
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]]> 61685822 From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, a passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of #MeToo, and of the link between genius and monstrosity.

In this unflinching, deeply personal book that expands on her instantly viral Paris Review essay, What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men? Claire Dederer asks: Can we love the work of Hemingway, Polanski, Naipaul, Miles Davis, or Picasso? Should we love it? Does genius deserve special dispensation? Is male monstrosity the same as female monstrosity? Does art have a mandate to depict the darker elements of the psyche? And what happens if the artist stares too long into the abyss? She explores the audience's relationship with artists from Woody Allen to Michael Jackson, asking: How do we balance our undeniable sense of moral outrage with our equally undeniable love of the work? In a more troubling vein, she wonders if an artist needs to be a monster in order to create something great. And if an artist is also a mother, does one identity inexorably, and fatally, interrupt the other? Highly topical, morally wise, honest to the core, Monsters is certain to incite a conversation about whether and how we can separate artists from their art.]]> 257 Claire Dederer 0525655115 Bartek 4 3.75 2023
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]]> 18999 397 John Le Carré 0743455800 Bartek 5 4.26 1979
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]]> 63251778 ��
The Heat Will Kill You First�� is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing.��It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90° F to 110°F. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory event�� one that culls out the most vulnerable people.�� But that is changing. As heatwaves become more intense and more common, they will become more democratic.����
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As an award-winning journalist who has been at the forefront of environmental journalism for decades, Goodell’s new book may be his most provocative yet, explaining how extreme heat will dramatically change the world as we know it.�� Masterfully reported, mixing the latest scientific insight with on-the-ground storytelling, Jeff Goodell tackles the big questions and uncovers how extreme heat is a force beyond anything we have reckoned with before.
���ձ�> 400 Jeff Goodell 0316497576 Bartek 3 4.26 2023
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Zamiast o temperaturze mokrego termometru autor opowiada, jak spotkał niedźwiedzia.
]]> 39337479 Ratowanie. Opowieści Polaków i Żydów (2010). Spory w niej rozdział poświęciłem ratowaniu w klasztorach. Według danych z 2007 roku wśród Polaków uhonorowanych medalem "Sprawiedliwy wśród Narodów Świata�� jest czterdzieści sióstr zakonnych i dwudziestu księży. Na swoich kartkach starałem się jednak notować to, o czym pisze się rzadziej.

Wyjmuję je z pudełka po butach firmy Bradshaw & Lloyd. Angielska firma z tradycjami, działająca od końca XIX wieku. Zależy mi na konkretach, nawet na drobiazgach. Nie silę się na bezosobowy chłód czy wyprany z emocji obiektywizm. Przeciwnie �� jest to zapis subiektywny, a wybór stronniczy. W końcu to moje pudełko. - Jacek Leociak]]> 200 Jacek Leociak 8380496469 Bartek 5 4.16 2018
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]]> 36228413 "Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air

The white power movement in America wants a revolution. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview made up of white supremacy, virulent anticommunism, and apocalyptic faith. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the history of a movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in Waco and Ruby Ridge and with the Oklahoma City bombing and is resurgent under President Trump.

Returning to an America ripped apart by a war they felt they were not allowed to win, a small group of veterans and active-duty military personnel and civilian supporters concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. They unified people from a variety of militant groups, including Klansmen, neo-Nazis, skinheads, radical tax protestors, and white separatists to form a new movement of loosely affiliated independent cells to avoid detection. The white power movement operated with discipline and clarity, undertaking assassinations, armed robbery, counterfeiting, and weapons trafficking. Its command structure gave women a prominent place and put them in charge of brokering alliances and birthing future recruits.

Belew's disturbing and timely history reminds us that war cannot be contained in time and space: grievances intensify and violence becomes a logical course of action. Based on years of deep immersion in previously classified FBI files and on extensive interviews, Bring the War Home tells the story of American paramilitarism and the birth of the alt-right.]]> 352 Kathleen Belew 0674286073 Bartek 5 4.19 2018
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Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan once again brings you the best stories from the past year. Within you will find twenty-eight amazing tales from authors across the globe, displaying why science fiction and fantasy are genres increasingly relevant to our turbulent world.

CONTENT
“Tough Times All Over��, Joe Abercrombie
“The Scrivener��, Eleanor Arnason
“Moriabe’s Children��, Paolo Bacigalupi
“Covenant��, Elizabeth Bear
“Slipping��, Lauren Beukes
“Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (The Successful Kind)��, Holly Black
“Shadow Flock��, Greg Egan
“The Truth About Owls��, Amal El-Mohtar
“Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology��, Theodora Goss
“Cold Wind��, Nicola Griffith
“Someday��, James Patrick Kelly
“Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No.8)��, Caitlin R Kiernan
“Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They are Terrifying��, Alice Sola Kim
“Amicae Aeternum��, Ellen Klages
“Calligo Lane��, Ellen Klages
“The Lady and the Fox��, Kelly Link
“The Long Haul From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION��, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009��, Ken Liu
“The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family��, Usman T Mailk
“Four Days of Christmas��, Tim Maughan
“The Fifth Dragon��, Ian McDonald
“Shay Corsham Worsted��, Garth Nix
“I Met a Man Who Wasn’t There��, K. J. Parker
“Kheldyu��, Karl Schroeder
“Tawny Petticoats��, Michael Swanwick
“Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)��, Rachel Swirsky
“The Insects of Love��, Genevieve Valentine
“Collateral��, Peter Watts
“The Devil in America��, Kai Ashante Wilson]]> 624 Jonathan Strahan 1781083096 Bartek 4 3.70 2014
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Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. It can be microscopic, yet also accounts for the largest organisms ever recorded, living for millennia and weighing tens of thousands of tonnes. Its ability to digest rock enabled the first life on land, it can survive unprotected in space, and thrives amidst nuclear radiation.

In this captivating adventure, Merlin Sheldrake explores the spectacular and neglected world of fungi: endlessly surprising organisms that sustain nearly all living systems. They can solve problems without a brain, stretching traditional definitions of ‘intelligence��, and can manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. In giving us bread, alcohol and life-saving medicines, fungi have shaped human history, and their psychedelic properties, which have influenced societies since antiquity, have recently been shown to alleviate a number of mental illnesses. The ability of fungi to digest plastic, explosives, pesticides and crude oil is being harnessed in break-through technologies, and the discovery that they connect plants in underground networks, the ‘Wood Wide Web��, is transforming the way we understand ecosystems. Yet they live their lives largely out of sight, and over ninety percent of their species remain undocumented.

Entangled Life is a mind-altering journey into this hidden kingdom of life, and shows that fungi are key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel and behave. The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them.]]> 352 Merlin Sheldrake 0525510311 Bartek 5 4.34 2020
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]]> 44148570 An acclaimed medical expert and patient advocate offers an eye-opening look at many common and widely used medical interventions that have been shown to be far more harmful than helpful. Yet, surprisingly, despite clear evidence to the contrary, most doctors continue to recommend them.Modern medicine has significantly advanced in the last few decades as more informed practices, thorough research, and incredible breakthroughs have made it possible to successfully treat and even eradicate many serious ailments. Illnesses that once were a death sentence, such as HIV and certain forms of cancer, can now be managed, allowing those affected to live longer, healthier lives. Because of these advances, we now live 30 years longer than we did 100 years ago.

But while we have learned much in the preceding decades that has changed our outlook and practices, we still rely on medical interventions that are vastly out of date and can adversely affect our health. We all know that finishing the course of antibiotics prevents the recurrence of illness, that sunscreens block harmful UV rays that cause skin cancer, and that all cancer-screening programs save lives. But do scientific studies really back this up?

In this game-changing book, Dr. Paul A. Offit debunks fifteen common medical interventions that have long been considered gospel despite mounting evidence of their adverse effects, from vitamins, sunscreen, fever-reducing medicines, and eyedrops for pink eye to more serious procedures like heart stents and knee surgery. Analyzing how these practices came to be, the biology of what makes them so ineffective and harmful, and the medical culture that continues to promote them, Overkill informs patients to help them advocate for their health. By educating ourselves, we can ask better questions about some of the drugs and surgeries that are all too readily available—and all too heavily promoted.]]> 293 Paul A. Offit 0062947516 Bartek 5 4.20
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Bardzo smutna książka o tym, jak wiele rzeczy robimy źle i jak wiele innych nie działa.
]]> 200795772 �� Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2022

When Elon Musk took over Twitter, commentators were rooting for the visionary behind Tesla and SpaceX to succeed. Here was a tough leader who could grab back power from Twitter’s entitled workforce, motivate them to get “extremely hardcore,�� and supercharge Twitter’s profit and potential. And it was all out of the goodness of his own heart, rooted in his fervent belief in the necessity of making Twitter friendlier to free speech. “I didn’t do it to make more money,�� Musk said. “I did it to try and help humanity, whom I love.”��

Once Musk charged into the Twitter headquarters, the command-and-control playbook Musk honed at Tesla and SpaceX went off the rails immediately. Distilling hundreds of hours of interviews with more than sixty employees, thousands of pages of internal documents, Slack messages, presentations, as well as court filings and congressional testimony, Extremely Hardcore is the true story of how Musk reshaped the world’s online public square into his own personal megaphone.

You’ll hear from employees who witnessed the destruction of their workplace in real-time, seeing years of progress to fight disinformation and hate speech wiped out within a matter of months. There’s the machine-learning savant who went all-in on Twitter 2.0 before getting betrayed by his new CEO, the father whose need for healthcare swept him into Musk’s inner circle, the trust and safety expert who became the subject of a harassment campaign his former boss incited, and the many other employees who tried to save the company from their new boss’s worst instincts. This is the story of Twitter, but it’s also a chronicle of the post-pandemic labor movement, a war between executives and a workforce newly awakened to their rights and needs.

Riveting, character-driven, and filled with jaw-dropping revelations, Extremely Hardcore is the definitive, fly-on-the-wall story of how Elon Musk lit $44 billion on fire and burned down Twitter. It’s the next best thing to being there, and you won’t have to sleep in the Twitter office to get the scoop.]]> 352 Zoë Schiffer 0593716604 Bartek 5 3.96
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As he observed this frenzy, investigative reporter Zeke Faux had a nagging feeling: Was it all just a confidence game of epic proportions? What started as curiosity—with a dash of FOMO—would morph into a two-year, globe-spanning quest to understand the wizards behind the world’s new financial machinery. Faux’s investigation would lead him to a schlubby, frizzy-haired twenty-nine-year-old named Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF for short) and a host of other crypto scammers, utopians, and overnight billionaires.

Faux follows the trail to a luxury resort in the Bahamas, where SBF boldly declares that he will use his crypto fortune to save the world. Faux talks his way onto the yacht of a former child actor turned crypto impresario and gains access to “ApeFest,�� an elite party headlined by Snoop Dogg, by purchasing a $20,000 image of a cartoon monkey. In El Salvador, Faux learns what happens when a country wagers its treasury on Bitcoin, and in the Philippines, he stumbles upon��a Pokémon knockoff mobile game��touted by boosters as a cure for poverty.��In an astonishing development, a spam text leads Faux to Cambodia, where he uncovers a crypto-powered human-trafficking ring.

When the bubble suddenly bursts in 2022, Faux brings readers inside SBF’s penthouse as the fallen crypto king faces his imminent arrest. Fueled by the absurd details and authoritative reporting that earned Zeke Faux the accolade “our great poet of crime�� from Money Stuff columnist Matt Levine, Number Go Up is the essential chronicle, by turns harrowing and uproarious, of a $3 trillion financial delusion.]]> 304 Zeke Faux 0593443810 Bartek 5 4.20 2023
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It was Japan’s greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. It set off a national crisis, and the meltdown of a nuclear power plant. And even after the immediate emergency had abated, the trauma of the disaster continued to express itself in bizarre and mysterious ways.

Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo, and spent six years reporting from the disaster zone. There he encountered stories of ghosts and hauntings. He met a priest who performed exorcisms on people possessed by the spirits of the dead. And he found himself drawn back again and again to a village which had suffered the greatest loss of all, a community tormented by unbearable mysteries of its own.

What really happened to the local children as they waited in the school playground in the moments before the tsunami? Why did their teachers not evacuate them to safety? And why was the unbearable truth being so stubbornly covered up?

Ghosts of the Tsunami is a classic of literary non-fiction, a heart-breaking and intimate account of an epic tragedy, told through the personal accounts of those who lived through it. It tells the story of how a nation faced a catastrophe, and the bleak struggle to find consolation in the ruins.]]> 276 Richard Lloyd Parry 1911214179 Bartek 4 4.18 2017
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Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience―she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who. Destabilized, she lost her bearings, until she began to understand the experience as one manifestation of a strangeness many of us have come to know but struggle to define: AI-generated text is blurring the line between genuine and spurious communication; New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers are scrambling familiar political allegiances of left and right; and liberal democracies are teetering on the edge of absurdist authoritarianism, even as the oceans rise. Under such conditions, reality itself seems to have become unmoored. Is there a cure for our moment of collective vertigo?

Naomi Klein is one of our most trenchant and influential social critics, an essential analyst of what branding, austerity, and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Here she turns her gaze inward to our psychic landscapes, and outward to the possibilities for building hope amid intersecting economic, medical, and political crises. With the assistance of Sigmund Freud, Jordan Peele, Alfred Hitchcock, and bell hooks, among other accomplices, Klein uses wry humor and a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the strange doubles that haunt us―and that have come to feel as intimate and proximate as a warped reflection in the mirror.

Combining comic memoir with chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Klein seeks to smash that mirror and chart a path beyond despair. Doppelganger What do we neglect as we polish and perfect our digital reflections? Is it possible to dispose of our doubles and overcome the pathologies of a culture of multiplication? Can we create a politics of collective care and undertake a true reckoning with historical crimes? The result is a revelatory treatment of the way many of us think and feel now―and an intellectual adventure story for our times.]]> 416 Naomi Klein 0374610320 Bartek 5 4.21 2023
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]]> 188859744 360 Patrycja Wieczorkiewicz Bartek 5 4.13 2023
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]]> 50045284 168 Natalka Suszczyńska 8365739755 Bartek 4 3.44 2019
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Wokół tych pytań krążą rozważania noblistki Annie Ernaux w trzech autobiograficznych prozach składających się na zbiór Bliscy. Zbierając słowa, gesty i wydarzenia z życia ojca, matki i siostry, rekonstruuje ich losy i odbija je w lustrze własnych doświadczeń. Opowiada o ojcu, który w dzieciństwie zamiast chodzić do szkoły, musiał pomagać w żniwach, a w dorosłości zajął miejsce wśród ludzi prostych i milczących. O matce pełnej gwałtowności i dumy, marzącej o pozycji, "dorobieniu się" i szacunku otoczenia. O przedwcześnie zmarłej siostrze, której odejście rzuciło długi cień na relacje rodzinne i zdefiniowało życie Ernaux. Ta, niczym archiwistka pamięci, opisuje dziedzictwo swoich najbliższych, łącząc kobietę, którą jest teraz, z dzieckiem, którym była w przeszłości.

I choć twierdzi, że beznamiętna opowieść przychodzi jej naturalnie, opisane przez nią brzemię pamięci porusza czytelnika do głębi.

Na tom składają się: Miejsce (La Place), Pewna kobieta (Une Femme), Druga córka (L'Autre Fille).]]> 176 Annie Ernaux 838191616X Bartek 0 4.15 2022
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]]> 29615530 Życie prywatne to portret 22 esesmanów i ich rodzin: od komendanta obozu Rudolfa Hoessa, jego zastępcy i kierownika obozu Karla Fritzscha, lekarzy odpowiedzialnych za selekcje deportowanych do obozu Żydów na rampie: Horsta Fishera, Wernera Rohde, a także Gerharda Palitzscha, który osobiście dokonał setek egzekucji pod Ścianą Śmierci, aż po niższych stopniem esesmanów �� wartowników i szoferów. Relacje wybrał i opatrzył wstępem oraz przypisami dr Piotr Setkiewicz, historyk Muzeum i wybitny znawca tematu.]]> 136 Piotr Setkiewicz 8377040514 Bartek 4 3.43 2013
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]]> 11996 "As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker."

A young woman is kept in a cage underground with thirty-nine other females, guarded by armed men who never speak; her crimes unremembered... if indeed there were crimes.

The youngest of forty—a child with no name and no past—she survives for some purpose long forgotten in a world ravaged and wasted. In this reality where intimacy is forbidden—in the unrelenting sameness of the artificial days and nights—she knows nothing of books and time, of needs and feelings.

Then everything changes... and nothing changes.

A young woman who has never known men—a child who knows of no history before the bars and restraints—must now reinvent herself, piece by piece, in a place she has never been... and in the face of the most challenging and terrifying of unknowns: freedom.]]> 208 Jacqueline Harpman 0380731819 Bartek 5 4.22 1995
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Mahaffey unearths lost reactors on far flung Pacific islands and trees that were exposed to active fission that changed gender or bloomed in the dead of winter. He explains why we have nuclear submarines but not nuclear aircraft and why cold fusion doesn't exist. And who knew that radiation counting was once a fashionable trend? Though parts of the nuclear history might seem like a fiction mash-up, where cowboys somehow got a hold of a reactor, Mahaffey's vivid prose holds the reader in thrall of the infectious energy of scientific curiosity and ingenuity that may one day hold the key to solving our energy crisis or sending us to Mars. 16 pages of color images]]> 464 James Mahaffey 1681774216 Bartek 3 3.86 2017
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For years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - were the city's lauded and decorated heroes. But all the while they had been skimming from the drug busts they made, pocketing thousands in cash found in private homes and planting fake evidence to throw Internal Affairs off their scent. Because who would believe the dealers, the smugglers or people who had simply been going about their daily business over the word of the city's elite task force?

Now, in light of their spectacular trial of late 2018, and in a work of astounding reportage and painstaking self-discovery, Justin Fenton has pieced together a shocking story of systemic corruption.]]> 352 Justin Fenton 0571356613 Bartek 4 4.24 2021
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]]> 61846549 Utrata, obsesja, samotność, poszukiwanie siebie...

Nowa powieść autora Niepokój przychodzi o zmierzchu, laureata Międzynarodowej Nagrody Bookera.

Dziwna nastolatka, naiwna jak dziecko i nad wiek dojrzała, opuszczona przez najbliższych w niekończącej się żałobie, szuka ucieczki w wyimaginowanych rozmowach z Freudem i Hitlerem, drobnych kradzieżach, fantazjach o lataniu, muzyce, w której zatapia się cała. Kiedy miejscowy weterynarz, troskliwy i szanowany, okazuje jej zainteresowanie, otwiera się przed nim.

Zafascynowany dziewczyną Kurt wabi ją, przyciąga, podsyca pragnienia, poddając się złudzeniu, że sam wreszcie zapomni o lękach i koszmarach, które dręczą go każdej nocy. Pośród obietnic, wyznań, sprzeczek, szeptów, wspólnych lektur i SMS-ów z cytatami z popularnych piosenek jego gesty stają się coraz mniej niewinne, sen miesza się z jawą, a za granicą tego, co zakazane, majaczy upiornie biel dwuosobowego materaca.

Mocna, odważna i wstrząsająca książka o tym, jak łatwo jest spłoszyć miłość.]]> 360 Lucas Rijneveld 830807653X Bartek 5 3.82 2020
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Claire Keegan jest mistrzynią krótkiej formy. Z zaledwie kilku słów buduje cały świat, tworząc uniwersalną opowieść o krzywdzie i życzliwości, o ludzkiej dobroci i milczącym przyzwoleniu na zło. Z empatią pochyla się nad tym, co najłatwiej przeoczyć, i nad tymi, których najtrudniej usłyszeć. To również głos w sprawie wstrząsających wydarzeń, do jakich dochodziło w klasztorach sióstr magdalenek w Irlandii, w których zajmowano się "upadłymi kobietami". Drobiazgi takie jak te to poruszająca opowieść o codziennych aktach dobroci, które nieraz wymagają od nas największej odwagi, oraz o drobnych decyzjach, które składają się na nasze życie.]]> 96 Claire Keegan 8381915856 Bartek 5 3.83 2021
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]]> 156300861 Kto ratuje jedno życie - ratuje cały świat.

Tu była cisza spokój, ptaszki śpiewały, aż któregoś dnia zamiast ptaszków usłyszeliśmy dźwięki helikopterów. Potem zaczęło się znajdować buty i ubrania. Potem ludzi.

Nikt z bohaterek i bohaterów tej książki nie wiedział, co ich czeka, kiedy pierwszy raz zdecydowali się pomóc uchodźcom. Nie wiedzieli, że będą musieli ukrywać się, nie tylko przed służbami państwa, ale również przed swoimi sąsiadami. Że pomaganie nada ich życiu największy sens, ale też odbierze spokój, życie rodzinne, czasami pracę, wypali w nich nieusuwalne emocjonalne piętno. Tymczasem państwo polskie wciąż nie umie zapobiec kryzysowi humanitarnemu na granicy białoruskiej, bo wybiera rozwiązania siłowe zamiast sięgać po systemowe. Konsekwencją tego są dziesiątki ofiar, o których już dzisiaj wiemy i setki, o których dowiemy się w przyszłości.

Ludzie, których głosy wybrzmiewają w tej książce, wzięli odpowiedzialność za tę sferę, która została porzucona przez państwo. Dzisiaj są obiektami prześladowań, kiedyś będą kolejnym w historii Polski listkiem figowym. Wyznawcy boga, honoru i ojczyzny ich właśnie będą niedługo nosić na sztandarach. By zapomnieć o hańbie polskich służb, im właśnie będą budować pomniki, ale znowu będzie za późno.]]> 320 Mikołaj Grynberg 832684246X Bartek 5 4.50 2023
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