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 ...

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.

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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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 ...

Reaching back to the Gilded Age, when that legacy first began to come undone, Alexandra has written an unflinching, mordantly funny account of neglect and class anxiety amid the ruins of a once prominent family. More than an insider's look at a decaying American institution, The Astor Orphan is the debut of a thrilling new voice able to render the secret pains and glories of childhood afresh.

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.

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Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother, an uneducated, vulnerable girl cast into a man’s world. Her aristocratic position enmeshed her in high politics and close encounters with Frederick the Great, Benjamin Franklin, Rousseau, Joseph II, Marie-Antoinette and Tsar Alexander I, and earned her the enmity of Catherine the Great.

Historia o zwykłych ludziach, których życie zmienia się w ciągu kilkunastu minut... Początek wojny to dla Kresów Wschodnich czas wywózek w odległe i złowrogie rejony Związku Radzieckiego. Dobrze zapowiadająca się aktorka, żyjąca w szczęśliwym związku z lekarzem społecznikiem, zawadiacki lekkoduch grający na saksofonie, siostry bliźniaczki, których ojciec znika bez śladu, chłopiec opiekujący się niewidomym dziadkiem i młoda mężatka wychowująca córeczkę - tych wszystkich ludzi pewnego dnia połączyło jedno zdarzenie.

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.

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.

W kamieniczce na krakowskich Dębnikach mieszkają różni lokatorzy: zadzierający nosa posiadacz sieci restauracji, emerytowana artystka, młoda matka z dwójką uroczych dzieci, para nadętych pracowników korporacji i wreszcie rodzina, w której wszystkie kobiety noszą imiona zaczerpnięte z dramatów Szekspira. Stary dom kryje niejeden sekret. Jego tajemniczy właściciel proponuje mieszkańcom udział w pewnym zaskakującym wyzwaniu. Czy zagadkowe zadanie okaże się dla sąsiadów uśmiechem losu, czy trudnym do pokonania problemem?

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.

A heartbreaking and deeply compelling debut, Mrs. Sinclair’s Suitcase is a compulsive pause-resister about thwarted love, dashed hopes, and family secrets - book-club fiction at its best. Roberta, a lonely 34-year-old bibliophile, works at The Old and New Bookshop in England. When she finds a letter inside her centenarian grandmother’s battered old suitcase that hints at a dark secret, her understanding of her family’s history is completely upturned.

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Berlin, 1948: World War II may be over, but a new era of conflict has begun. The Russians have cut off all access to the western part of Berlin in an attempt to seize it from the Allies. The thirst for power, dominance, and revenge is as strong as ever, and anti-Semitism is still rampant. When a store in West Berlin is vandalized with Swastikas, Sara Sturm, a German woman working for the US Department of Public Affairs, is dispatched to investigate, and meets Max and Karl Portnoy, two Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.

W KRAJU, KTÓRY JEST ZNIEWOLONY, GDZIE LUDZIE WALCZĄ O BYT I O WOLNOŚĆ, GDZIE NIE WOLNO NAM MÓWIĆ PUBLICZNIE PO POLSKU, NIE MA MIEJSCA NA PRAWA KOBIET. POCZUŁAM, ŻE COŚ GWAŁTOWNIE ŚCISNĘŁO MNIE ZA GARDŁO. (...) WŁAŚNIE DO TAKIEGO NARODU, KTÓRY WALCZY O WOLNOŚĆ, NALEŻY SZCZEGÓLNIE MÓWIĆ O KOBIETACH. BO KOBIETA TO POTENCJAŁ. TO SIŁA I NIEZŁOMNOŚĆ. TO HART DUCHA. Warszawa, 1904 rok. Klara Tyszkowska, młoda feministka i aktywistka, buntuje się przeciwko tradycji oraz uciskowi carskiego reżimu. Jej życie skupia się wokół studiów na tajnym Latającym Uniwersytecie i pracy dla gazety "Bluszcz".

Los trzydziestoletniej służącej, Marianny Zaczkiewicz, zdaje się przesądzony. Wyrokiem sądu w roku 1896 zostaje skazana na wieloletnie ciężkie roboty na Syberii. Popełniła zbrodnię i musi za nią zapłacić, choć w jej mniemaniu to ona jest skrzywdzoną ofiarą, niesłusznie skazaną i uwięzioną. Trafia na koniec świata ciężko chora i umierająca, lecz wbrew wszystkiemu się nie poddaje. Przystosowuje się do nowych warunków życia na zesłaniu i marzy o powrocie oraz... zemście.