Polish Literature

New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is internationally renowned as master of the European espionage thriller. Unfolding in September of 1939 as Hitler’s Wehrmacht ravages Warsaw, the Polish Officer discloses the clandestine existence of Polish Military Intelligence.

The best-known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right. Written in the early 1950s, when Eastern Europe was in the grip of Stalinism and many Western intellectuals placed their hopes in the new order of the East, this classic work reveals in fascinating detail the often beguiling allure of totalitarian rule to people of all political beliefs and its frightening effects on the minds of those who embrace it.

September 1939: The conquering Nazis swarm through Warsaw as social worker Irena Sendler watches in dread from her apartment window. Already, the city's poor go hungry. Irena wonders how she will continue to deliver food and supplies to those who need it most, including the forbidden Jews. The answer comes unexpectedly.

As the wife of Don Massimo Torricelli, one of the most dangerous Mafia bosses in Sicily, Laura’s life is a roller coaster. She is often at risk, the potential target of Massimo’s unscrupulous enemies who will stop at nothing to destroy the powerful man. And when Laura is seriously injured in an attack, pregnant and fighting to survive, Massimo faces the toughest decision of his life. What will his life be without Laura? Will he be able to raise their child alone? What will the fate of his family be, and whose 365 days may come to a close?

In Polish: His name was Piłsudski. Bronisław Piłsudski. He was 13 months older than Józef. They competed for the same girls and got tangled up in the same plot for the Tsar's life. Paweł Goźliński wrote a novel about him in which history ignites the imagination and the imagination serves history. After this book, the Piłsudskis will always be together as two faces of Poland.

Wykwintny dramat historyczny z watkiem milosnym w tle, przedstawia skromny swiat chrzescijan w kontrze do topiacego sie w przepychu i rozpuscie Rzymu. Za sprawa milosci i wiary bohaterowie przechodza przemiany osobowosci.

"Pan Wolodyjowski" jest zwienczeniem Trylogii. Henryk Sienkiewicz polaczyl istotne watki: losy Zagloby, Skrzetuskiego i tytulowego Michala Wolodyjowskiego. Opowiesc o milosci, przyjazni, zazdrosci, nienawisci i zdradzie przedstawionych na tle wojen z Turcja.

Sluchacze "Lalki" poznaja opowiesc o nieszczesliwej milosci bogatego kupca Wokulskiego do zubozalej arystokratki Izabeli Leckiej. W tle obraz spoleczenstwa polskiego konca XIX wieku.

Druga czesc "Trylogii", wydana w 1886 Roku. Akcja dzieje sie w okresie najazdu szwedzkiego na Polske (1655-1660). Zareczony z Olenka Billewiczówna chorazy orszanski Andrzej Kmicic opowiada sie poczatkowo po stronie kolaborujacego ze Szwedami poteznego rodu magnackiego Radziwillów.

Winter 1939: Danusha and her family are forced to flee their home when the Nazis invade Poland. Danusha’s mother, Anna, changes her name and secures a position as a housekeeper in a German doctor’s mansion in Kraków where Gestapo meetings are hosted in the kitchen. Her secret is their salvation, but what Danusha remembers most is the solitude, with only her baby brother and the girl in the mirror for company.

A cosmic accident sets the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia, down in war-torn 17th-century Europe and a new nation is forged. Now when United States of Europe ally King Gustavas of Sweden invades Poland, the U.S. of E. is dragged into a full-scale European war against ruthless opponents. Meanwhile Mike Stearns, wily and courageous leader of the up-time West Virginians, has been turned out of office in an election. But, like Churchill (before and after him) Stearns is not done yet.

As Nazi soldiers round up the Jews in their town, Róza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, flee, seeking shelter in a neighbor’s barn. Hidden in the hayloft day and night, Shira struggles to stay still and quiet, as music pulses through her and the farmyard outside beckons. In this make-believe world, Róza can shield Shira from the horrors that surround them. But the day comes when their haven is no longer safe, and Róza must make an impossible choice: whether to keep Shira by her side or give her the chance to survive apart.

Pierwsza czesc wspanialej trylogii Henryka Sienkiewicza. Wielka milosc rycerza bez skazy, Jana Skrzetuskiego i uroczej, niewinnej szlachcianki Heleny Kurcewiczówny. A w tle dzieje Polski w dobie powstania Chmielnickiego (1648-1654).

W "Starym sludze" sluchacze audiobooka znajda takie utwory pisarza, jak tytulowy "Stary sluga", "Hania" oraz "Selim Mirza". Wszystkie skladaja sie na tak zwana "mala trylogie", skierowana do wszystkich wielbicieli romansu, powiesci batalistyczno-sensacyjno-przygodowych oraz talentu Sienkieiwcza.

1941, Poland. Though war rages around her and occupying German forces march steadily onward, 16-year-old Aleksandra has lived her life sheltered from danger. Until one day, she goes to school—never to return. Pushed roughly into a truck with other schoolgirls like her, a single ominous word tells her all she needs to know about her fate: Lebensborn.

A masterful blend of historical and modern fiction by a best-selling, award-winning author, The Best Polish Restaurant in Buffalo chronicles a century of life in America for one humble Polish farm girl and three generations of her descendants in Buffalo, New York.

W "Nowelach wybranych" sluchacze audiobooka znajda tak znane nowele pisarza, jak "Nikt nie jest proRokiem miedzy swymi", "Dwie drogi", "Szkice weglem", "Janko Muzykant", "Bartek zwyciezca", "Za chlebem", "Latarnik", "Wspomnienia z Maripozy", "Z pamietnika poznanskiego nauczyciela".

In 1881, 12-year-old Rodzina Clara Jadwiga Anastazya Brodski wishes she didn't have to board the orphan train in Chicago. But she has no home, no family, and no choice. Rodzina doesn't believe the orphans are on their way out West to be adopted by good families. She's sure they will become slaves to strangers. Anyway, who would ever adopt a large, tough, stubborn girl of Polish origin? As the train heads west, all Rodzina has is a small suitcase and her family memories from the past.

Nowa saga rodzinna Joanny Jax - autorki bestsellerowego Dziedzictwa von Becków. Burzliwe losy Antoniny Tanskiej ukazane na tle waznych wydarzen w dziejach swiata. Córka emigrantów z Polski zakochuje sie w narzeczonym siostry i zachodzi z nim w ciaze. Wybucha wielki skandal i mlodzi musza opuscic rodzinne strony. Osiedlaja sie na Kubie, ale szczescie nie trwa dlugo.

Dennis Milne, były policjant skazany w Wielkiej Brytanii za morderstwo, zostaje po zmianie tożsamości płatnym zabójcą działającym na Dalekim Wschodzie. Właśnie wykonał zlecenie – zlikwidował na Filipinach dziennikarza, którego śledztwo było dla kogoś niewygodne. Komisarz Tina Boyd wbrew opiniom kolegów i przełożonych nie wierzy, że inny dziennikarz, jej były kochanek, popełnił samobójstwo. Jest przekonana, ża został zamordowany. Chce dopaść sprawcę, a jeszcze bardziej jego mocodawcę. Jedyny trop prowadzi na Filipiny. To tylko kwestia czasu, aż dojdzie między nimi do konfrontacji.