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61) Chłopi
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Akcja powieści „ Chłopi " rozgrywa się pod koniec XIX wieku. We wsi Lipce trwają jesienne prace polowe. Najbogatszy gospodarz we wsi, Maciej Boryna, zamierza się ożenić, mimo iż jego dzieci domagają się rozdzielenia między nich ziemi. Decyduje się starać o rękę najpiękniejszej panny w Lipcach – Jagny Paczesiówny, córki Dominikowej.
Jagna bezwolnie godzi się na ślub z Boryną, ponieważ we wszystkim słucha matki. Antek Boryna,...
62) Córka
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Polish
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La Stampa Leda is a divorced teacher of English literature. When her daughters go to Canada to live with their father, it may seem that a period of pain and melancholy awaits her. Meanwhile, the woman states with embarrassment that she feels free and her life becomes lighter. Leda decides to go on holiday to the sea, south of the country. The first few days pass her quietly, until the woman meets a brusque family, in the presence of which she feels...
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Karski was a brilliant young diplomat when war broke out in 1939 with Hitler's invasion of Poland. Taken prisoner by the Soviet Red Army, which had simultaneously invaded from the East, Karski narrowly escaped the subsequent Katyn Forest Massacre. He became a member of the Polish Underground, the most significant resistance movement in occupied Europe, acting as a liaison and courier between the Underground and the Polish government-in-exile. He was...
65) Idealna para
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Polish
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"Bella Castle ze zlamanym sercem opuscila rodzinne miasto. Kobieta postanawia rozpoczac nowe zycie na wsi, gdzie mieszka z ukochana babcia, Alice, i pracuje jako agentka nieruchomosci. Bella uwielbia swoja prace i swojego chlopaka Nevila. Ale ostatnio wydaje sie czyms pochloniety, a ona sama rozwaza, czy jego nadzieje i marzenia pasuja do jej wlasnych. Niespodziewanie w progu jej domu zjawia sie Domenic, mezczyzna, który dwa lata wczesniej zlamal...
67) Mission of honor
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A group of brave Polish pilots known as Squadron 303 fought in the skies over England in World War II, not just to keep Great Britain free from the Nazis, but also to keep alive the very idea of their own country, which had existed in its modem form for barely 20 years before it was crushed between the opposing jaws of Germany and Russia. Equipped with the almost-obsolete Hurricane airplane and RAF blue uniforms, they fought, and Poland lived.
68) 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...
70) Country
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Polish
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Life for Stephanie Adams is all about being a devoted mother. For years, she has kept her unhappy marriage a secret, intent on protecting her children from seeing their family break up. Then Stephanie's husband dies suddenly, and she sees a chance for everything to be different. Stephanie strives to balance her children's grief with her desire to move on from the past -- but after years of giving up her life for everyone else, what should she do next?...
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"A panoramic, eye-opening history of the vast migration of Eastern Europeans to the West by a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship. Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the 'land of the free, ' and yet more than a third returned home again. In a groundbreaking study, Tara Zahra brilliantly explores...
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Culture Smart! guides provide travelers with vital information about the values and attitudes of the people they will meet, and practical advice on how to make the most of their time abroad. Travelers to Poland in particular, a country in transition from its Communist past, need to be open-minded and well-informed.--
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Polish
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In England, a woman is manipulated by her mother-in-law to the point where she is ready to kill. A journalist, she is not ready for a child, but after her in-laws sell the apartment she has no alternative but move to the country and become a mother. That is only the start of the manipulation.
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Polish
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England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. The quest for the king's freedom destroys his adviser, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell who helps him break the opposition, but what...
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"Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian governments have only recently admitted culpability. Standing in the shadow of the Holocaust, this episode of European history is often overlooked. Wesley Adamczyk's memoir, When God Looked the Other Way, now gives voice to the hundreds of thousands...
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