Sorting
Source
Legimi
(66)
Form of Work
E-booki
(66)
Author
Fortune Jan
(7)
Dutton Andrew
(5)
Darbyshire Bobbie
(3)
Ford Stephen
(3)
Strachan Carole
(3)
Austin Jane
(2)
Cromer Mish
(2)
Iceton Tracey
(2)
Pashley Michelle Angharad
(2)
Young Jennifer
(2)
Barnie John
(1)
Batten David
(1)
Beck Christopher
(1)
Bryce Jane
(1)
Connell Sarah
(1)
Cooksley Jody
(1)
Cox Beth
(1)
Craig Adam
(1)
Dalgetty Alexina
(1)
Davies Gareth
(1)
Durdey Tricia
(1)
Field Judith
(1)
Fortune Rowan B
(1)
Godfrey Mark
(1)
Gray LB
(1)
Gregory Yaara Lahav
(1)
Harpur James
(1)
Harvey Michael
(1)
Hopkins Tamsin
(1)
Hoyland Kate
(1)
Jenny Morris
(1)
Mahmutovic Adnan
(1)
Manuel Hazel
(1)
May Stephen
(1)
Newcombe Alan
(1)
Percival Stephanie
(1)
Read Paula
(1)
Reardon Jo
(1)
Roberts Marg
(1)
Saunders S M
(1)
Simms Gordon
(1)
Weldon Lucy
(1)
White Roger
(1)
Wilson Kate
(1)
Year
2020 - 2025
(46)
2010 - 2019
(20)
Country
Poland
(66)
Language
Polish
(66)
66 results Filter
E-book
In basket
Form of Work
Inspired by letters from family members who served on the Western Front and written home to Bangor, News From Nowhere describes the impact of war on a family, including Bronwyn, the sister coming of age as her brothers and father endure the torments of the trenches and the battlefield. Sometimes we get fed up in these shallow, narrow windings and run around on top, which isn't too bad as this part of the line is comparatively free of corpses. I've learned to control my stomach, but will never overcome my horror of the stench. Dodging bombs is surprisingly easy, when you can see them coming. One of the sentries shouts, coming over Right, or Left, and we clear into dugouts. At first you see a heavy puff of smoke, then the bomb, which looks like a champagne bottle, turning over and over as it flies.
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
E-book
In basket
Renegade / Jane Austin. - [miejsce nieznane] : Cinnamon Press : Legimi, 2022.
Form of Work
Justin, a popular Leeds professor, seeks redemption in the ashes of youthful idealism. Holding together his family is already a struggle as his son, Sanjay, is drawn into radical politics by his lover Farida, who joins a Kurdish Women's militia to fight ISIS. With nerves already frayed, Justin's wife, Harpreet, is devastated when revelations of his past as an urban bomber come to light, turning his life upside down. Can love and loyalty prevent this family from imploding? Jane Austin's second novel, Renegade is a compelling story of 70s rebellion, revolution in Rojava and a family in a tailspin; a tale that touches the beating heart of our times.
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
E-book
In basket
Tsunami Days / John Barnie. - [miejsce nieznane] : Cinnamon Press : Legimi, 2023.
Form of Work
"We need more writers with bite. We have lived in the flatlands too long," writes John Barnie in one of his 'observations' ('Art in the Flatlands'). And bite he delivers. Ranging across politics, history, culture, ecological disaster, the meaning of truth, poetry, what we mean by identity and more… Barnie shares a window onto the world that is both erudite and particular. Leaning towards pessimism in a darkening world, these observations are often provocative, not from any bullish desire to antagonise, but as the result of mining a rationalist line of thought with an honesty and consistency that is applied as much to the author as to his subjects. There is a clarity here that some may find uncomfortable, but the aim is always dialogue above agreement; intellectual engagement above cheap solutions and sentimentality. Barnie asks us to think, consider and dig deeper, but most of all he asks that we "…live richly among our secondary self-created meanings, while recognising them for what they are. To face without flinching the nullity of the great void." ('Varieties of Meaning') Tsunami Days is a vital collection of essays for those prepared to engage with its unflinching observations.
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
E-book
In basket
Transhumance / David Batten. - [miejsce nieznane] : Cinnamon Press : Legimi, 2016.
Form of Work
In the mountains of France the seasonal movement of livestock from one region to another acts as a metaphor for transition and transformation in the human the human world, whilst 'humance' relates us to the natural world; to the animals we rely on, to the seasons affecting our behaviours, our movements. And the seasons themselves are also in transition: behaving – often unpredictably – according to a cosmic order governed by strange powers: black holes, red/black/white dwarves, planets, stars. The tightly honed lyrical poetry of Transhumance follows a narrative arc that recognises that we are irrelevant in our minuteness and yet central to everything; without our interference things fall apart, yet sometimes our interference is what unravels things. Exploring how humanity is rooted in and linked to everywhere and everything, Batten brings a fresh voice and precise language to this reflective debut collection.
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
E-book
In basket
Gratitude / Christopher Beck. - [miejsce nieznane] : Cinnamon Press : Legimi, 2024.
At 44, New York divorcee, Mel, is not ready to give up on God or the possibility of motherhood. Between running an actors' agency in Hammersmith and rehearsing her role in a rock musical, she agrees to take care of her stepdaughter, Jess's challenging four-year-old son, Billy, two afternoons a week. Writing: Playing Billy's Mom on a strip of paper to place in her Gratitude jar, she prays that her good deed will have a pay off: her own fertility. Meanwhile, prepped with hormone tablets and injection at the ready, she awaits the return of charismatic Royce, who has been filming in Hollywood. But all is not well with Royce. A strange incident on Venice Beach after dark has shifted his world. Can he really be cursed? Desperate, Mel reaches out to her friend, Anto. He's gay but wants to be a parent. Thwarted again, will surrogacy be the answer? Will Mel be locked into taking on more responsibility for Billy as Jess spirals into depression following the loss of her father? Or can Mel make a life with the new man in her life, refugee Hassan, suffering from PTSD and raising his disabled eight-year-old son alone? Or will life take an unexpected turn? As Mel's faith moves towards Buddhism under Anto's influence and a friend steps in to help with a problem deeper than infertility that is gripping her life, will she be able to answer the call when an unlooked for opportunity presents itself? A deeply empathic, humane debut, Gratitude asks how we live now and how we make meaning in lives that rarely work to plan.
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
E-book
In basket
Zamani / Jane Bryce. - [miejsce nieznane] : Cinnamon Press : Legimi, 2024.
Form of Work
Haunted by memories of a Tanzanian childhood abruptly ended when her parents were deported, Jane Bryce returns in search of the past only to be ambushed by the present. As she retraces her own and her parents' footsteps she is surprised by unexpected connections, reaching back into the colonial past, and further, to a time of myth and legend. The key to understanding what holds these together comes to her in the form of 'zamani'—the Swahili sea of time where spirits inhabit places and landscape, memory animates the everyday and voices from the past speak to the present. Collectively these voices paint a picture of social and political change in Tanzania over the last 50 years, and invite the author to take her place in it.
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
E-book
In basket
Whenever / Sarah Connell. - [miejsce nieznane] : Cinnamon Press : Legimi, 2019.
Form of Work
Christine wakes up one morning to discover that her husband, Ray, did not come home from his evening out with a friend. She waits to hear from him but has no message or news. The friend she thought he had arranged to see has left a phone message to say that he is sorry they did not meet. Ray's work believe he has gone away on sabbatical and the police are sympathetic but unhelpful. Ray is gone and there is no reason to think he might come back again soon. From being settled and content, Christine's life lies in tatters. Until she encounters a young man tending a cat injured by a speeding car. Against her instincts, Christine is drawn to the young man and strange, fragile association grows between them, one which gradually alters Christine's life.
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
E-book
In basket
Form of Work
What is a life without Art and Beauty? Not one that Julia chooses to live. And so she searches the world for both, discovering happiness through the lens of a camera. A fictional account of pioneer photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron, and her extraordinary quest to find her own creative voice, The Glass House brings an exceptional photographer to life. From the depths of despair, with her relationships strained and having been humiliated by the artists she has given a home to, Julia rises to fame, photographing and befriending many of the day's most famous literary, artistic, political and scientific celebrities. But to succeed as a female photographer, she must take on the Victorian patriarchy, the art world and, ultimately, her own family. And the doubts are not all from others. As Julia's uneasy relationship with fame grows into a fear that the camera has taken part of her soul, her search leads her full circle, back to India, in her lifelong quest for peace and beauty. A poignant, elegant and richly detailed debut.
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
E-book
In basket
Britannia Street / Beth Cox. - [miejsce nieznane] : Cinnamon Press : Legimi, 2022.
Form of Work
Sometimes you have to lose yourself to find yourself. When life unravels for Beth after the break up of a long marriage, she finds herself reaching back for answers. Into her past as a troubled, pregnant teenager in a home rapidly falling apart. Into the life of her great-grandmother, using her skills as a researcher and psychoanalyst to find the truth behind family secrets. Moving between past and present, through parallel stories of family disintegration and lives knocked off course, and exploring how secrets resonate with shame down through the generations, Britannia Street is a story of how a woman carries trauma to her family and the world. A story with which so many will empathise. Will Beth be able to discover the lost parts of herself buried beneath the roles of daughter, wife, mother, nurse? Can she learn to understand and forgive herself? Will she emerge to find love again, and with who? Sometimes we have no idea why we make the choices we do, but for Beth, there is the chance to make the right choice. Family secrets and resilience weave together in this compelling story of how we deal with loss of so many kinds, even the loss of self. From historical fiction author, Beth Cox, Britannia Street is a vivid, compassionate fictionalised biography that will grip you from beginning to end.
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
E-book
In basket
High City Walk / Adam Craig. - [miejsce nieznane] : Cinnamon Press : Legimi, 2017.
Form of Work
Grief stricken, a sailor blames a sentient sea for his wife's death … An orphan girl searches Europe for the secret of Alchemy … Illicit lovers try to alter time … And, in a strange land, a bizarre ritual culminates in the Kiss …Short listed for the 2017 Saboteur Award for Best Collection, High City Walk side-slips genre as easily as it bends the rules of common reality, offer seventeen stories that interweavie threads of grief and loneliness, yearnings for ages and lives lost or yet to be found, the transformative power of love and its capacity for destruction. Lyrical, surreal, mythical or everyday, the collection spans past, present and futures as possible as they are cataclysmic, yet always it takes you to the heart of its characters' dreams and nightmares to finds that, often, there is hope in the worst of situations.
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
E-book
In basket
Alabama Chrome / Mish Cromer. - [miejsce nieznane] : Cinnamon Press : Legimi, 2020.
Form of Work
With nothing but a collection of vinyl records without a player, a shoebox of memories, and a lot of secrets, Cassidy is used to being alone. But when his camper-van breaks down in a snowstorm and he is rescued by a kind young woman, Lark, he finds himself working in a small-town bar and becoming part of the community. But with the arrival of an inscrutable new waitress, Reba, Cassidy finds himself unsettled by a sense of recognition. And there are further complications as Brooke Adler, reality TV host and hero of the town's inhabitants, arrives unexpectedly to shoot a new show. Cassidy is drawn into protecting Reba from the ghosts of her past only to discover that his own ghosts are chasing him and that he must find the courage to speak the truth, or risk losing everything, again. A story of family, both given and found, and the long shadow of domestic violence, Alabama Chrome interrogates the masks of the modern world, and what true kindness means.
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
E-book
In basket
Form of Work
After a decade trying to accept that London is home, a devastating bereavement pushes 29 year old May to return to the rural Vermont town she fled so long ago. Ignoring her sister's strong misgivings, she immerses herself in creating a healing garden, bringing people together with the food she loves to cook, and renovating a dilapidated farmhouse until she starts to find a sense of peace and purpose. But as spring turns to sultry summer and she is thrown increasingly together with Harley, the man she loved and left ten years before, May is torn. Will she take a risk and follow her heart, or go back to London where her ever loyal sister is longing for her return? Mish Cromer's latest novel of love and friendship and the healing power of the natural environment explores the impact of family, trauma and loss, and the powerful need we all have to find the place where we belong. Praise for Mish Cromer's debut novel: Alabama Chrome You'll come for the wonderful characters — gruff Cassidy with a dark past, wise Lark, Belle and her beauty parlour, Evangeline the mechanic, Brooke Adler the hard-nosed reality TV presenter... then you'll be swept away by the fantastic sense of place. Set in small-town Kentucky and focusing on the bar which acts as the town's front porch where stories are told and secrets are ultimately revealed, Alabama Chrome is a beautifully written page-turner, told in a voice that will stay with you — along with the book's big heart. — Alison Chandler You begin to understand, reading this story, how important it is to allow yourself to be understood, — Joanne Merrison A compassionate and skilful tale of a soulful young man's struggle, vividly intertwined with the characters of a remote US town who welcomed him, and their reaction to the arrival of a controversial reality TV presenter. A gripping read. — Isabella
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
E-book
In basket
I am Eve. Collector of words. I look them up. I write them down. I knead them into sentences. I am the story. When her mum rescues a book from a garbage can, Eve's life changes. She reads her way into the stories, into a place in the world, worlds she never knew existed. Eve becomes the story. Everything is possible. But with adulthood comes deception and betrayal; to survive Eve strips life bare. No stories, no people, no connection. But the stories are determined to win her back.
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
E-book
In basket
Three troubled people, driven by loneliness, vanity and revenge, dash to the Scottish Highlands, where their lives become mysteriously entwined around a reading group in the Inverness public library. We've all done it—gone after one thing and found entirely another—but never as surprisingly as Henry, Peter & Elena. It's Friday, 18th February 2000, and they're in for an unsettling weekend among the book stacks of the library, on the blizzard-bound streets of Inverness, in the recesses of the Loch Craggan Hotel, and on the treacherous mountain above.
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
E-book
In basket
Harry Whittaker is a world-famous, superstar actor, as revered as Laurence Olivier, as roguish as Jack Nicholson. When he dies suddenly of a heart attack he finds, to his astonishment, that he's still here among us, able to watch the effect of his mean-spirited will on those left behind. Meanwhile his unacknowledged son Richard is struggling to escape from his failing café in Worthing, his dotty, demanding mother and the wrong girlfriend…
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
E-book
In basket
Galvanised by a health scare, Felix Walton's chances of remaking himself by ending his forty-two-year marriage may be slight, but they are otherwise zero, so he ups and runs from London to Norwich in search of a new start. His family's distress has him doubting his decision, and he must unravel the sad truth of his marriage if he is not to give in to remorse and go home. In a chaotic household of waifs and strays run by a warm, erudite earth mother, his fellow lodgers open his eyes to lives unlike his own, help him to make peace with his conscience and find meaning and joy, but the price is unforeseen danger.
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
E-book
In basket
Form of Work
Humans, Being follows the lives of two humans, being. Vic and Mia are two fortysomethings struggling to cope with divorce, custody battles, infidelity, money worries and dating sites. Through their friendship, they explore the pitfalls of modern life and their pursuit of happiness leads them to ask what is normal and whether it is okay to live outside the norms that society dictates. Funny, touching, and thought-provoking in equal measure, Humans, Being reveals what it's like to be a middle-aged human in the twenty-first century.
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
E-book
In basket
Form of Work
When Hedda Brandt and other members of Kurt Jooss's dance company flee Germany for Holland in 1933, Hedda imagines she is going to a place free from the prejudice and threats that have overtaken her country. There they perform the celebrated anti-war piece 'The Green Table'. Staying behind to teach dance when Jooss and other members leave the Netherlands for England, Hedda encounters Katje, a girl who has seen and been enthralled by the performance and wants to learn to dance. But these are dangerous times and as Nazi Occupation changes all their lives, Katje watches her brother being drawn into Nazi sympathies fuelled by his admiration for his German piano teacher, Erik Weiss, a difficult man who also poses questions for Hedda. Determined to defy new regulations that demand dance should conform to rigid ideology, Hedda is drawn towards resistance, but with her life more and more at risk, matters are only complicated by the prospect of love with a much younger man, Kai Hoffman, whose family have befriended Hedda. Against a background of oppression, disappearances and terror, Hedda and Katje assert the power of dance, resistance and life in this gripping debut novel that takes real events and characters as its starting point. Poignant, sometimes harrowing, and exquisitely written, this is an extraordinary story from a convincing writer. Follow the story in the next generation with The Dancer at World's End, Tricia's latest novel.
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
E-book
In basket
Form of Work
Charting a life spent lost in numbers, is My Life in Receipts a memoir? Too fictionalised. A novella? Too close to the truth. All too recognisable? YES! From chanting times-tables and unlearning old money to discovering the sinking schoolroom 'Maths Feeling' that ends a child's ambitions to be a 'scientist'. From the promissory note of student days to the hard times of the dole giro. From the exuberance of the first wage packet to the pleasures and limits of being able to pay your way… My Life in Receipts plunges you into the world of bags full of threatening letters, intimidating bailiffs, bankruptcy, eviction—even imprisonment. Revealing the lives of people in a perpetual cost of living crisis, and the work of those who help them fight to reclaim their lives, this is a dark, original and tragi-comic exploration of the past, the future, money, debt: whether to flee, whether to fight. There are some victories, some routs—and, along the way, thoughts on electronic train tickets too. Andrew Dutton will make you laugh out loud, scream with righteous anger and, most of all, make you think.
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
E-book
In basket
Form of Work
Welcome-welcome-welcome-welcome to Being Young! And to the inner life and internet ragepage of Natasha [Redacted]. Her first name is all you're getting: there are too many haters, trolls and stupid adults out there. Iffen you understand me then you've picked up the rhythm of my heartbeat and maybe you're a friend. But that means you're a potential danger too, if you get too close and you know too much—be careful. Original, compelling and moving, Natasha [Redacted] is a coming of age story that charts the costs of trying to survive in the poisonous jungle that is 'growing up'. Family breakdown, friends who turn out to be anything but friends, parents and their love interests who want bland conformity above all else, Internet wars and real-world violence populate Natasha's Internet 'ragepage'. And we see Natasha too though her self-appraising 'sleevenotes', penned some unknown time after the events that she describes. At the end of it all, has she grown up? Will you like the answer anymore than Natasha does? Whatever the answer—if you've ever loved music with a matchless passion, wanted to form a band and play a gig on the Moon, you could be the friend that Natasha is waiting for. Read on…
This item is available online. Expand information to see details.
Dostęp do treści elektronicznej wymaga posiadania kodu Legimi. Informacja jak otrzymać kod Legimi znajduje się na stronie internetowej Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Gorlicach: Zasoby dostępne online
The item has been added to the basket. If you don't know what the basket is for, click here for details.
Do not show it again