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1) Windfall
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English
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"Alice loves Teddy, her best friend, but has never told him. On his eighteenth birthday she buys him a lottery ticket on a lark. To their astonishment he wins $140 million, and in an instant, everything changes. As a kid, Alice's parents died just over a year apart from each other. And Teddy's father abandoned his family not long after that, leaving them to grapple with his gambling debts. Through it all, Teddy and Alice have leaned on each other....
2) My 'Antonia
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English
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From the Back Cover: When orphaned, ten-year-old Jim Burden arrives in Nebraska to live on his grandparents' farm, he doesn't know what to expect. The Great Plains are so vast that he feels overwhelmed-marooned-blotted out. And what should he make of his new neighbors, the Shimerdas? They don't speak English, and their ways are foreign to him. Yet their fourteen-year-old daughter, Antonia, is pretty, high-spirited-and eager for Jim to teach her English....
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"An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her"--
Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the Forest, Xan, is kind. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon....
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Series
Wells and Wong mystery volume 1
Language
Polish
Description
"Akcja powieści toczy się na pensji dla panienek. W szkole dochodzi do zbrodni - ginie nauczycielka gimnastyki. Dziewczynki prowadzą w tej sprawie sekretne dochodzenie. Wszystko owiane jest tajemnicą, łącznie z tym, że w szkole kiedyś miało miejsce samobójstwo jednej z uczennic. Dziewczynki są trochę jak Sherlock Holmes i doktor Watson, do których się zresztą porównują. A prasa bardzo serię chwali i okrzyknęła autorkę „Agatą...
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