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2) The Croods
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The Croods is a prehistoric comedy adventure that follows the world's first family as they embark on the journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed. Traveling across a spectacular landscape, the Croods discover an incredible new world filled with fantastic creatures, and their outlook is changed forever.
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In the wake of the sexual revolution and the rise of the women's movement, the 1973 tennis match between women's world champion Billie Jean King and ex-men's-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs became one of the most watched televised sports events of all time, reaching 90 million viewers around the world. As the rivalry between King and Riggs kicked into high gear, off-court each was fighting more personal and complex battles.
4) LONGBOURN
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The servants at Longbourn estate, only glancingly mentioned in Jane Austen's classic, take center stage in Jo Baker's lively, cunning new novel. Here are the Bennets as we have never known them: seen through the eyes of those scrubbing the floors, cooking the meals, emptying the chamber pots. Our heroine is Sarah, an orphaned housemaid beginning to chafe against the boundaries of her class. When the militia marches into town, a new footman arrives...
5) Little women
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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
6) Emma
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"Błyskotliwa komedia omyłek, której przedmiotem jest gra pozorów i iluzje, jakich dostarcza nam w nadmiarze nasz egoizm i zadufanie. W samym zaś środku intrygi stoi niezwykła bohaterka, pełna życia i wigoru, urocza, nieznośna i apodyktyczna Emma. Emma Woodhouse mieszka z ojcem na angielskiej prowincji. Chociaż sama nie zamierza wyjść za mąż, próbuje swoich sił jako swatka. W sprawach serca jednak nie wszystko da się przewidzieć....
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Your nails can say a lot about you?so you want them to look their best. The first step to great-looking nails is making sure they're healthy. Then, with a few style secrets, you can make your nails glamorous. Caring for your nails?and the skin around your nails?can be as easy as using the right kinds of tools and as fun as giving yourself a pedicure. And happy, healthy nails look even better with some decoration. Find out about different kinds of...
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Through comic mayhem that stretches from the White House and through the heartland, Columbus, Tallahasse, Wichita, and Little Rock must face off against the many new kinds of zombies that have evolved since the first movie, as well as some new human survivors. But most of all, they have to face the growing pains of their own snarky, makeshift family.
9) Pokój
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"To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created...
10) Painted lady
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Maggie Sheridan is a semi-retired, former '60s rock singer. She seems resigned to a life lived on a crumbling country estate, ruminating about her past. Everything changes when a botched robbery leaves her friend Sir Charles Stafford dead and one of his prized pantings missing. Determined to retrieve the masterpiece and find the killer, Maggie plunges into the dark underworld of the art trade. Posing as a wealthy Polish countess, she sets off on a...
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In book 3 of the Emma Raber's Daughter series, Amish fiction author Jerry Eicher brings the faith-filled journey of Katie Raber to its happy conclusion. Katie Raber is trying to put her life back together after Ben Stoll's devastating betrayal of her love. When she is baptized into the church, she receives a surprising offer that will keep her close to her Amish community--much to her mother's delight. But soon Ben is back in her life again--and at...
12) Cud
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"Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who is said to be living without food, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. As Anna's life ebbs away, Lib finds herself responsible not just for the care of a child but for that child's very survival. Haunting and magnetic, The Wonder is a searing examination of doubt,...
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High in the hills of Valencia, a forgotten house guards its secrets. Emma Temple is the first to unlock its doors in seventy years. It is the perfect retreat. However, for her grandmother, Freya, a British nurse who stayed there during the Spanish Civil War, Emma's new home evokes terrible memories.
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"This 1944 World War Two drama tells the story of Anthony, a boy living in a deprived Welsh village, anticipating the arrival of American troops. Suddenly, a German plane crashes into the village mountain. A Polish prisoner-of-war survives and is brought into the community where he builds a close relationship with Anthony. Later, the villagers discover one of the Germans on the plane has survived and is still on the mountain. Joyous, thrilling, and...
16) Obce dziecko
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When Emma Joseph met her husband David, he was a man shattered by grief. His first wife had been killed outright when her car veered off th road. Just as tragically, their six-year-old daughter mysteriously vanished from the scene of the accident. Now six years later, Emma believes the painful years are behind them. She and David have built a new life together and have a beautiful baby son, Ollie. Then a stranger walks into their lives, and their...
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Full of extraordinary facts about a wide range of creatures. Discover that goats have rectangular pupils, that gorillas can catch human colds and that rhinoceros beetles can carry up to 850 times their own weight. This is a lively, fun book about animals that is certain to make you say Wow! again and again--Based on the English text.
20) Smak chwili
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Bride quartet volume t. 3
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Polish
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Wedding baker Laurel McBane is surrounded by romance working at Vows wedding planning company with her best friends Parker, Emma, and Mac. Low-key and unpretentious, she longs for the seemingly unreachable Ivy League lawyer Delaney, Parker's older brother.
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