Polish Families

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 ...

From a New York Times bestselling author Lauren Grodstein, a story inspired by a little-known piece of history in the lives of Jewish occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II. Called a "masterpiece", and as seen on The Today Show with Jenna pick (Madeline Miller). On a November day in 1940...

NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS FINALIST “Part personal quest, part testament, and all thoughtfully, compassionately written.”—The Washington Post “Esther Safran Foer is a force of nature: a leader of the Jewish people, the matriarch of America’s leading literary family, an eloquent...

"A deeply revealing, intimate account of a family’s Polish history. As a six-year-old boy, Charns came across a book named ‘I Survived Hitler’s Hell’ by A.P. Gwiazdowski and became curious about his family’s Polish history. As he grows older, he begins to wonder about his family’s claim about risking their lives for their Jewish neighbors in Suwalki, Poland, during WWII and his maternal grandfather Alexander Peter Gwiazdowski’s antisemitic views. Charns took on himself to unravel the truth, throwing himself into meticulous research, which included reading Polish history, ...

This program features multicast narration. When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if redemption and atonement can be found in embracing what we most fear. We bear the sword, and we bear the pain of the sword. Pain is Dymitr’s calling...

Goodbye Poland is a gripping true story of survival, sacrifice, and the quiet strength of a boy forced into manhood by war. Seventeen-year-old Stefan Maczka was born into a proud legacy—his father, a Polish cavalry officer, helped stop the Russian advance into Europe during the 1920 ‘Miracle of the Vistula.’ That victory secured Poland’s independence and earned the Maczkas a plot of land on the new frontier. But Stalin never forgot the humiliation. In 1939, he got his revenge. Overnight, the Soviets rounded up the same families who had once defied them—ripping them from their ...

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...

"Narrator Fred Berman brings gravitas to the events of this memoir while still creating a voice for Michael [Bornstein] that sounds young and vulnerable. Berman also excels at the use of Yiddish, Polish, and German accents where needed to create a sense of the time and place." — AudioFile...

When the greatest female mathematician in history passes away, her son, Alexander "Sasha" Karnokovitch, just wants to mourn his mother in peace. But rumor has it the notoriously eccentric Polish émigré has solved one of the most difficult problems in all of mathematics and has spitefully taken the solution to her grave. A ragtag group of mathematicians from around the world descends upon Rachela's shiva, determined to find the proof or solve it for themselves - even if it means prying up the floorboards for notes.

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 ...

She ran from Poland as a child. She thought Wales would keep her safe. She was wrong. At ten years old, Lauren Bucievski was torn from everything she knew. No explanation. No goodbye. Just her father's hand pulling her into the dark, and the sound of their old life disappearing behind them. Wales gave her shelter. A quiet bay. A new name for her fear. But safety has a way of being temporary and when Stefan walks back into her world from across the sea, Lauren realises she has been waiting for her past to find her all along. Across a bleeding Europe, a young Polish soldier claws his way ...

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.

'This is a unique juxtaposition of the shatteringly honest diaries of two Jewish girls fighting to survive — Grandma Rosi in the Holocaust and two generations later Jess in today's grubby showbiz world. It appalled, uplifted and delighted me. I wish I’d written it.' MIRIAM MARGOLYES 'Deeply...

Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night opens on September 4, 1913, two months after the Fourth of July tragedy. Owen, the girls' father, "turns to drink" and abandons his family. Their mother Grace falls victim to the seductive powers of Grief, an imagined figure who has seduced her off-and-on since childhood. Violet forms an unlikely friendship with Stanley Adamski, a motherless outcast who works in the mines as a breaker boy.

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.

Po wypadku na Zawracie Wiktor Forst był zmuszony pogodzić się z tym, że jego zdrowie nigdy nie wróci do poprzedniego stanu. Pożegnał się z bieganiem, a także chodzeniem po Tatrach. Osiadł w Krakowie i niespodziewanie w końcu poukładał sobie życie, odnajdując jego sens w rodzinnej egzystencji z Dominiką i jej dziećmi. Nie miał zamiaru wracać w góry. Zrozumiał, że to w nich spotkało go wszystko, co najgorsze, i zmusił się, by wymazać je z pamięci. One jednak nigdy nie zapomniały o nim. Nadciąga zima stulecia, a wraz z jej nadejściem wrócą najmroczniejsze tajemnice, jakie skrywały Tatry.

Podobnie jak w „Sklepach cynamonowych”, głównym bohaterem i jednocześnie narratorem „Sanatorium pod klepsydrą” jest Józef, noszący wyraźne podobieństwo do samego autora. Centrum świata Józefa, dojrzewającego nastoletniego chłopca, stanowi małe prowincjonalne miasteczko, w którym można dostrzec współczesny Schulzowi, galicyjski Drohobycz.

Konsekwencje... Gdyby całkowicie przesądzały o tym, jakie decyzje podejmujemy, ludzki świat prawdopodobnie nigdy nie byłby uporządkowany... Ta myśl determinuje pierwszy tom nowej trzytomowej serii powieściowej autorki bestsellerowej "Córki cieni". Osadzona w latach 70. ciemnego PRL-u opowieść o losach dziewczyny, która po dokonaniu pierwszego dorosłego wyborutraci szansę na zaplanowane i ustabilizowane życie. Odtąd jej los chwieje się i ociera o krawędzie cudzych małych światków, wyborów i okoliczności.

Maria, bohaterka powieści, jest tłumaczką i samotną matką. Wychowuje synka – owoc studenckiej miłości. Jakże wielkie okazuje się jej zdziwienie, kiedy pewnego dnia otrzymuje list z Włoch. Napisany przez ojca Marcela, który deklaruje, że dojrzał do roli ojca i chciałby nadrobić stracony czas. Za radą przyjaciółki Maria decyduje się na podróż i tym sposobem trafia do Kalabrii. Posiadłość na skraju urokliwego miasteczka San Lorenzo Bellizi, gaj pomarańczowy, przytulny dom i pani Giuseppina z sercem na dłoni.

Maria, Kuba, Elżbieta, Dorota, Olga, Jaśmina, Ala, Jacek. Co ich łączy? Z pozoru nic. A jednak ich życiowe ścieżki się przecinają. I pozostawiają trwały ślad. Marysia decyduje się na desperacki krok. Ma już dosyć swojego małżeństwa i życia w ogóle. Oparcie znajduje w córce, ale uważa, że jest dla niej tylko zbędnym obciążeniem. Kobieta trafia do szpitala i choć bardzo nie chciała nikogo zranić, okazuje się, że jej decyzja miała wpływ na wiele osób. Dotknęła nie tylko najbliższych, ale także dawno niewidzianą siostrę i sąsiadki, a także byłego partnera Marii.