Polish Women

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.

Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and on Christmas Key, love is blooming like bougainvillea. Things are heating up between Mayor Holly Baxter and the island’s newest (and handsomest) resident, Miguel. The annual seafood festival is on the horizon. And Holly’s just received her DNA results—along with a surprise revelation that might change everything she thought she knew about her family. There’s a man out there who might be the father Holly never thought she’d meet. But after a lifetime of believing he didn’t exist, is she ready to let someone new into her life... or her ...

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From Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class, an intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away for the privileged clients who don't even know her true name. “I live in a...

A Holocaust historian, archivist, and history blogger adds a new dimension to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War II, shining a long overdue spotlight on five young, Polish Jewish women—champions who helped lead the resistance, sabotage the Nazis, and aid Jews in hiding...

In Polish: A rascal with teenage beauty and the voice of Jan Himilsbach. She didn't really have to act. She appeared in the Polish cinema out of nowhere and became an instant phenomenon. At times, as told by her relatives in the book, she hurried as if she knew that everything wouldn't last very long, that she had to quickly start a relationship, start a family, and have kids in order to have time to enjoy all of that. It's the first biography of Anna Przybylska authorised by her family.

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Marie Curie & The Fire Within by JD Arden opens on a quiet inferno—her calm demeanor masking an iron will and an insatiable drive to expose the hidden forces of nature. This lean, incandescent biography refuses hagiography and sentimentality, tracing how method, stubbornness, and moral clarity turned dangerous curiosity into discovery without softening the costs involved. Arden writes with surgical clarity: lab benches become battlefields, classrooms become cages, and the slow work of experiment reveals a woman who refused the limits others imposed. Here is science as grit and danger, ...

In the quiet town of Alma, Jane Barrow balances her life as a single mother, a small business owner, and an amateur detective. Her seemingly serene existence is upended when her ex-husband, Evan, re-enters her life, bringing with him a wave of complications and unresolved tensions. As Jane navigates the challenges of co-parenting their two children, Tyson and Libby, she becomes entangled in a series of mysterious events. A tall, bald man begins appearing unexpectedly, making the family uneasy and stirring memories of a past Evan seems connected to. At the same time, Jane's friend Mike ...

Are you sick and tired of not being able to learn Polish fast? Have you tried endless other ways of learning Polish but nothing seems to stick? Do you finally want to say goodbye to your tendency to "forget most of what you've studied" and discover something which works for you? If so, then you’ve come to the right place.

He left without saying goodbye. She's kept a secret from him that might end their second chance before it gets going again. Catherine St. James is a librarian in the tourist beach town of Bandon, Oregon. She’s poor by the world’s standards, but she loves what she does, and what she has is sufficient for her needs. She doesn’t want glass slippers, a grand ball, or Prince Charming. What she needs is a miracle, and she doesn’t know it yet, but she needs him. Last summer, Catherine fell in love with Samuel Merrick. She believed what they had together was beyond marriage, beyond “till ...

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.

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It's World War II and Ludwika Gierz, a young Polish woman, is forced to leave her family and go to Nazi Germany to work for an SS officer. There, she must walk a tightrope, learning to live as a second-class citizen in a world where one wrong word could spell disaster and every day could be her last. Based on real events, this is a story of hope amid despair, of love amid loss...ultimately, it's one woman's story of survival.

Kiedy Julię niespodziewanie porzuca mąż, wydaje się, że nic dobrego już jej w życiu nie czeka. Jednak coś się kończy zazwyczaj po to, aby mogło się zacząć coś nowego. Być może to czas, aby zadbać wreszcie o siebie, aby spełnić swoje marzenia. Tymczasem Julia od wielu lat ma jedno marzenie. JEDNO, ALE ZA TO WIELKIE – ZAMIESZKAĆ W SŁONECZNEJ TOSKANII. Gdy mija pierwszy szok, kobieta wyjeżdża jako pielęgniarka do pracy do Włoch... tam na jej drodze pojawiają się nowi mężczyźni, którzy mogą odmienić jej życie.

TYM RAZEM BEHAWIORYSTA BĘDZIE MUSIAŁ ZMIERZYĆ SIĘ Z NAJGORSZYM KOSZMAREM. Półtora roku po tym, jak Małgorzata Rosa wyjechała do Warszawy, szefostwo stacji telewizyjnej chce, by dziennikarka wróciła do rodzinnego miasta. Ma przygotować materiał na temat ofiary gwałtu, której opolska prokuratura odmówiła pomocy.

Dziennikarka Paulina Gudejko przyjeżdża do cichej miejscowości Mory, w której wynajmuje dom, by uciec z miasta po utracie pracy i napisać długo odwlekaną powieść. Wobec serii tajemniczych zabójstw Paulina przyjmuje posadę reporterki lokalnej gazety i relacjonuje postępy ze śledztwa. Do czego doprowadzi Paulinę Gudejko jej dziennikarskie dochodzenie? Kto stoi za serią tajemniczych zabójstw? I czy ona też znajduje się na celowniku mordercy?

A memoir of a child's forced relocation to Siberia under Stalin's Gulag system reveals the potential for true human kindness in the face of extraordinary hardship. In April of 1940, six-year-old Ida woke to the sound of pounding on her door. Soviet soldiers forcibly packed her and her mother onto a train with thousands of their neighbors and deported them to remote Siberia, leaving them stranded to survive the brutal winter in subhuman conditions.

Pełna zaskakujących sytuacji i mozolnego borykania się z codziennością, inspirowana autentycznymi przeżyciami historia trzech kobiet – Agaty, Olgi i Amiry. Ich losy splatają się, chociaż każda z nich ma inne oczekiwania. Tarot, bioenergoterapia, medycyna ingerują w ich życie – słuchacz sam oceni czy wpływ ten jest tak naprawdę motorem ich działań, czy jednak same kierują swoim losem. „Żyj w tych pragnieniach, jakbyś żyła w realnym świecie. Przekonuj się, że są prawdziwe.