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 ...

In The Entrepreneur’s Edge, legendary business coaches Dan Sullivan and Joe Polish bring together a lifetime of hard-won wisdom to help you achieve success that actually feels meaningful. Across six powerful sessions, these two entrepreneurial icons reveal how to grow ambition as a renewable...

There's no shortage of networking and entrepreneurship advice in books and on social media in today's world-but it's harder than ever to know what's authentic. To make matters worse, taking the wrong advice can result in superficial connections, transactional relationships, and unsatisfying...

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 this "deeply satisfying" thriller, Detective Betty Rhyzyk is up against a string of mysterious assassinations, an increasingly reckless partner, and her worst fear—desk duty—when she decides to go rogue . . . heading straight into the dark underworld of Dallas's most dangerous drug cartel...

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, ...

This program includes an exclusive author's note read by the author. In Poland, as World War II rages, a mother hides with her young daughter, a musical prodigy whose slightest sound may cost them their lives. As Nazi soldiers round up the Jews in their town, Róza and her 5-year-old daughter...

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.

Czy zdarzyło się Wam kiedyś spełnić swoje największe marzenie? Cudowne uczucie, prawda? Ale co zrobić, jeśli okaże się, że to było... zupełnie inne marzenie? "Marzenia z terminem ważności" to opowieść właśnie o tym. To historia pewnej rodziny, w której każdy o czymś marzy i każdy, czy ma lat szesnaście, trzydzieści, czy osiemdziesiąt, zaczyna spełniać swoje marzenia. Choć niektórym zdarza się pogubić gdzieś po drodze... Bo marzeniom też czasem kończy się termin ważności. Warto więc sprawdzić, czy są jeszcze aktualne i czy na pewno są nasze.

Henryka Orłowska, nietuzinkowa starsza pani o złotym sercu i bystrym umyśle, ponownie wciela się w rolę detektywa. Korzystając z uroków życia na emeryturze, wyrusza na wycieczkę do Paryża organizowaną przez biuro podróży „Niezapomniane doznania”. W autokarze, razem z panią Henią, jedzie osiem innych osób. Zanim uda im się dotrzeć do granicy Polski, jedna z nich umrze… Jaką rolę w tym śledztwie odegrają kot o imieniu Cziz i świnka morska z nadwagą? Czy bohaterce uda się rozwikłać zagadkę morderstwa? Przekonajcie się sami!

Autobiografia Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie to rzeczowa relacja z życia dwukrotnej laureatki nagrody Nobla. Autorka stawia na odtworzenie faktów, dzielenie się swoimi przemyśleniami, unikając przy tym górnolotnych słów i wygładzonej autokreacji. Jej opowieść daleka jest od stawiania sobie pomnika i budowania mitu. Skłodowska jako pisarka nie przestaje nigdy być naukowcem. Publikacja maluje obraz lat dzieciństwa i dorastania w Polsce w czasach zaborów. Odtwarza późniejsze życie obdarzonej wybitnym umysłem emigrantki, która za sprawą pracowitości i konsekwencji zostaje wybitną uczoną.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

Wiosna, 1835 r. Helena, najmłodsza córka hrabiny Modlińskiej, nie jest tak zdeterminowana i odważna jak siostry, Eliza i Zofia. Kiedy jednak otrzymuje list od madame Moreau z zaszyfrowanym przesłaniem, nie waha się ani chwili. Tropem starożytnej mapy, sekretów Złotej Ordy i rytuału wyrusza w towarzystwie brata, bratowej oraz Huberta Fleminga, awanturnika, hazardzisty i kłamcy, który przyciąga kłopoty i… kobiety jak magnes, a który podaje się za swatanego z Heleną swojego bliźniaka.

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.

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.