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 ...

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...

"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, ...

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...

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 ...

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.

"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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Gdy pewnego dnia dostają zaproszenie na potańcówkę w klubie seniora, decydują się z niego skorzystać i wreszcie zrobić coś dla siebie. Krótko potem przyjaciółki wyruszają w szaloną podróż. Przy dźwiękach muzyki flamenco, na tle bajecznych zabytków Andaluzji oraz na słonecznych plażach Costa del Sol rozpętują mrożącą krew w żyłach i nieco gorszącą aferę.

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.

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.

Ona - piękna dziewczyna z hiszpańsko-polskimi korzeniami. Jedynaczka, oczko w głowie tatusia, rozpieszczona, nieznająca prawdziwego życia. On - mężczyzna z krwi i kości, twardo stąpający po ziemi. Facet z zasadami i przeszłością, którą z tylko sobie znanych powodów ukrywa. Dzieli ich niemal wszystko: charaktery, kultura, a przede wszystkim zupełnie odmienne spojrzenie na życie. A jednak coś, do czego początkowo żadne z nich nie chce się przyznać, pcha ich ku sobie jak niewidzialny magnes.

Richard is a soldier. He obeys orders... ...until he sees her. He never wanted to be a Wehrmacht soldier, he’d much rather stick his nose into a book. But Hitler’s war thrust him deep into Russia on the Eastern Front when he was but sixteen years old. Two years later and he’s learned to silence his own conscience to stay alive. He closes his ears, eyes, and mind to what’s going on around him. Hanging on to his life for just another day, never once questioning his orders. But this changes the moment he sees her. She works for the Polish resistance, saving her life is a crime against ...

Basia jest zabawną i mądrą przyjaciółką wszystkich przedszkolaków. Jej przygody pomagają dzieciom zrozumieć świat i uczą, jak zachować się w trudnych sytuacjach. W Wielkiej Księdze zebrano siedem opowieści o Basi i jej rodzinie. Część z nich bawi, część wzrusza, a część pokazuje trudne sytuacje. Wszystkie ilustrują sytuacje bliskie każdemu dziecku. Raz jest to gotowanie z tatą, raz podróż z mamą, a innym razem emocjonująca wyprawa na plac zabaw.

Kornelia Trzpiot, dość leciwa dama, podczas wieczerzy wigilijnej oznajmia rodzinie, że do szczęścia, zarówno doczesnego, jak i wiekuistego, potrzebny jest jej wyłącznie herb. Nikt z osób zebranych przy stole nie zdaje sobie sprawy, że jest to głęboko przemyślana strategia naprawiania relacji rodzinnych, uknuta przez Kornelię i jej przyjaciela proboszcza w noc przed pierwszymi roratami. Rodzina bowiem stara się ukryć przed seniorką rodu różne sekrety. Ale Kornelia widzi wszystko.