After a rich man's death, heirs start to squabble - and die. When Conrad Stanley dies, Laura is the only heir not concerned with her slice of his estate. Orphaned at a young age, she was Stanley's ward, and cannot celebrate the death of the only father she ever knew. The executors of Stanley's will find that he had a Polish relative, Conrad Stanislowski, who is due part of the inheritance. A search for Stanislowski produces only his daughter: eight-year-old Jonny, who comes to Chicago to live with Laura. Soon a man claiming to be Stanislowski turns up at Laura's doorstep, demanding his daughter and his chunk of Stanley's wealth. When the mysterious interloper is found stabbed to death, Laura is a suspect. If she doesn't move fast, the only inheritance she gets from dear, departed Conrad will be a permanent stay in a federal prison. Review quote: "A nice example of [Eberhart's] powers ... Intelligently complicated." - The New Yorker. "One of the best mystifiers in America." - Gertrude Stein. "A weaver of mysteries that ... are something more than mere jig-saw puzzles." - The New York Times. "A star writer." - H. R. F. Keating, author of Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books. Biographical note: Mignon G. Eberhart (1899-1996) wrote dozens of mystery novels over nearly sixty years. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, she began writing in high school, swapping English essays with her fellow students in exchange for math homework. She attended Nebraska Wesleyan University, and in the 1920s began writing fiction in her spare time, publishing her first novel, The Patient in Room 18, in 1929. With the follow-up, While the Patient Slept (1931), she won a §5,000 Scotland Yard Prize, and by the end of the 1930s she was one of the most popular female mystery writers on the planet. Before Agatha Christie ever published a Miss Marple novel, Eberhart wrote romantic crime fiction with female leads. Eight of her books, including While the Patient Slept and Hasty Wedding (1938), were adapted for film. Elected a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master in 1971, Eberhart continued publishing roughly a book a year until the 1980s. Her final novel, Three Days for Emeralds, was published in 1988.
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A young girl is consumed by love for a tortured married man. Myra has lived at Thorne House for so long that she almost feels part of the family. Orphaned at a young age, she has never known another home, and yet it is time for her to leave. She is burning with an irresistible passion for Richard, the man of the house, and she knows that her love can never be fulfilled. For Richard is married to Alice, and Alice is guilty of murder. Myra knows that Richard is too noble to ask an incarcerated woman for a divorce, but on the eve of her departure he surprises her, confessing that he loves her in return. Just as Myra's future happiness seems assured, Alice returns to crush it. The convicted killer is back at Thorne House, and blood will follow in her wake. Review Quote. "A novel in which the love element and the murder mystery are so inextricably entwined that they cannot be considered separately." - The New York Times "Complex." - The New Yorker "A star writer." - H. R. F. Keating, author of Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books Biographical note. Mignon G. Eberhart (1899-1996) wrote dozens of mystery novels over nearly sixty years. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, she began writing in high school, swapping English essays with her fellow students in exchange for math homework. She attended Nebraska Wesleyan University, and in the 1920s began writing fiction in her spare time, publishing her first novel, The Patient in Room 18, in 1929. With the follow-up, While the Patient Slept (1931), she won a §5,000 Scotland Yard Prize, and by the end of the 1930s she was one of the most popular female mystery writers on the planet. Before Agatha Christie ever published a Miss Marple novel, Eberhart wrote romantic crime fiction with female leads. Eight of her books, including While the Patient Slept and Hasty Wedding (1938), were adapted for film. Elected a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master in 1971, Eberhart continued publishing roughly a book a year until the 1980s. Her final novel, Three Days for Emeralds, was published in 1988.
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The Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth, and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. By reflecting upon the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets. An important theme that persists throughout the work is the idea that the economic system is automatic, and, when left with substantial freedom, able to regulate itself. This is often referred to as the "invisible hand." The ability to self-regulate and to ensure maximum efficiency, however, is limited by externalities, monopolies, tax preferences, lobbying groups, and other "privileges" extended to certain members of the economy at the expense of others. The Wealth of Nations was published 9 March 1776, during the Scottish Enlightenment and the Scottish Agricultural Revolution. It influenced a number of authors and economists, as well as governments and organizations. For example, Alexander Hamilton was influenced in part by The Wealth of Nations to write his Report on Manufactures, in which he argued against many of Smith's policies. Interestingly, Hamilton based much of this report on the ideas of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, and it was, in part, Colbert's ideas that Smith responded to with The Wealth of Nations. The Wealth of Nations was the product of seventeen years of notes, an observation of conversation among economists of the time concerning economic and societal conditions during the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and took Smith ten years to produce.
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While treating a gunshot wound, two nurses come upon a murder. It takes a compound fracture to bring Craig Brent and Drue Cable together. A millionaire injured in an auto accident, Craig falls quickly for his nurse, wedding Drue as soon as his arm is mended. Craig's father, disgusted to see his son marrying below his station, pressures him into a divorce, and the whirlwind marriage dies in Reno. A year later, the young lovers are given a second chance, when a bullet shatters Craig's shoulder. The family insists Craig shot himself while cleaning his gun, but Drue has never known a man to clean his gun at eleven o'clock at night. She calls on Sarah Keate, whose nursing skill is matched only by her deductive reasoning, to unravel the mystery. When Sarah arrives at the Brent house, Craig is in a drugged sleep. If he is ever to awake, the nurses must unmask the killer in his family. Review Quote. "[The romance] serves to increase and accentuate the suspense ... Absorbing." - The New York Times "A star writer." - H. R. F. Keating, author of Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books "One of the most thorough and ingenious plotters in the trade." - The New Yorker Biographical note. Mignon G. Eberhart (1899-1996) wrote dozens of mystery novels over nearly sixty years. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, she began writing in high school, swapping English essays with her fellow students in exchange for math homework. She attended Nebraska Wesleyan University, and in the 1920s began writing fiction in her spare time, publishing her first novel, The Patient in Room 18, in 1929. With the follow-up, While the Patient Slept (1931), she won a §5,000 Scotland Yard Prize, and by the end of the 1930s she was one of the most popular female mystery writers on the planet. Before Agatha Christie ever published a Miss Marple novel, Eberhart wrote romantic crime fiction with female leads. Eight of her books, including While the Patient Slept and Hasty Wedding (1938), were adapted for film. Elected a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master in 1971, Eberhart continued publishing roughly a book a year until the 1980s. Her final novel, Three Days for Emeralds, was published in 1988.
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Dieser Individual-Reiseführer konzentriert sich auf Süd- und Zentral-Kalifornien. Denn: Man muss für eine abwechslungsreiche Amerikareise nicht unbedingt endlose Meilen durch alle Südweststaaten düsen. Allein der in diesem Buch intensiv behandelte Teil Kaliforniens zwischen San Francisco/Lake Tahoe/Reno und der mexikanischen Grenze liefert attraktive Routen und Ziele für mehrwöchige oder noch längere Touren. Mit Abstechern nach Las Vegas und zu den Nationalparks Bryce Canyon, Zion, Grand Canyon und zum Valley of Fire State Park.
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<p><strong>20.000 mil podmorskiej żeglugi </strong>to powieść przygodowa i fantastyczno-naukowa <strong>Juliusza Verne’a.<br /></strong></p> <p> </p> <p>Jest to druga część tak zwanej dużej trylogii Juliusza Verne’a (<em>Dzieci kapitana Granta</em>, <em>Dwadzieścia tysięcy mil podmorskiej żeglugi</em>, <em>Tajemnicza wyspa</em>).</p> <p> </p> <p>W powieści opisano szczegóły życia pod wodą i techniczne środki do tego służące (łódź podwodna „Nautilus”). Akcja rozgrywa się w roku 1866, a główne postacie to tajemniczy kapitan <strong>Nemo</strong>, zoolog profesor <strong>Pierre Aronnax</strong>, jego służący <strong>– Conseil</strong>, harpunnik <strong>Ned Land</strong>.</p> <p> </p> <p>Akcja zaczyna się od pościgu za tajemniczym stworem, uznawanym za wielkiego wieloryba. Profesor Aronnax oraz Conseil i Land biorą udział w nim na pokładzie amerykańskiej fregaty. Nautilus uszkadza jednak okręt, a Aronnax z towarzyszami wpadają do wody i dostają się na pokład Nautilusa. Na jego pokładzie odbywają podróż zaczynającą się od wybrzeży Japonii, przez Hawaje, Cieśninę Torresa, Ocean Indyjski na Morze Czerwone.</p> <p>Przepływają podwodnym tunelem do Morza Śródziemnego, gdzie Nemo dostarcza pieniędzy antytureckim powstańcom. Następnie trasa wiedzie na Atlantyk, później na biegun południowy i z powrotem na Atlantyk. Na północnym Atlantyku Aronnax z towarzyszami uciekają z Nautilusa.</p> <p> </p> <p>O sympatiach politycznych Verne’a świadczy fakt, iż w kajucie kapitana znajdowały się portrety takich postaci jak: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln i Tadeusz Kościuszko. Mimo że autor starał się w powieści przedstawiać technologie zgodne z ówczesnym stanem wiedzy, to niektóre z pomysłów jest z nią sprzecznych.</p>
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<p> <span>«Le Capitaine Paul» est un des premiers livres d’Alexandre Dumas, qui nous montre, que l’auteur est un grand écrivain et même à ses débuts. On peut voir son talent avec ses intrigues et sa passion de l’aventure. Cette fois-ci, il raconte de l’abordage, du prisonnier Lusignan et du capitaine de bateau Paul, qui écoute sa histoire. Il découvre après plusieurs années la vérité de ses parents...</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: PL;">Stadnina Sutherlandów jest dla Hannah całym życiem. Ale nie dla jej ojca. Bez uprzedzenia sprzedał posiadłość biznesmenowi Wyattowi Jacobsowi, który nie interesuje się końmi, liczy tylko na zysk. Nie rozumie, po co Hannah bezinteresownie pomaga koniom i ludziom i każe jej zakończyć działalność fundacji. Hannah nie zamierza poddać się bez walki…</span></p>
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