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In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount,...
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Into a tumultuous time is born a child for whom the witches of the world have been waiting. Ciri, the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe, the Lioness of Cintra, has strange powers and a strange destiny, for prophecy names her the Flame, one with the power to change the world: for good, or for evil.
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Reissue trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Geralt de Riv, a witcher, uses his vast sorcerous powers to hunt down the monsters that threaten the world, but he soon discovers that not every monstrous-looking creature is evil, and not everything beautiful is good.
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"Geralt the Witcher has fought monsters and demons across the land, but even he might not be prepared for what is to come. The kings and their armies are maneuvering for position, each fearing invasion from across the river, each fearing their neighbors more. And after decades of oppression, the elves and other races are fighting back and fighting one another. With growing numbers preparing for battle, the threat of a devastating war looms ever greater....
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Revised trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent."--
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Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1995
Edition
1st ed.
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ix, 214 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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A collection of poems by Wislawa Szymborska portraying a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in which nature is wise and prodigal and fate unpredictable, if not mischievous. The author documents life's improbability as well as its transient beauty.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
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xv, 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's last days during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English, with a foreword from American Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt. Renia Spiegel was a young girl from an upper-middle class Jewish family living on an estate in Stawki, Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. In the summer of 1939, Renia and her sister Elizabeth (née Ariana) were visiting their grandparents...
9) Maps
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Publisher
Big Picture Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
105 pages : color illustrations ; 38 cm
Language
English
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Learn about the different countries of the world and their locations.
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ABRAMS Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
North American edition.
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71 pages : color illustrations ; 38 cm
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English
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"One part science, one part cultural history, and countless parts fascination, Bees celebrates the important role that these intriguing insects have played in our ecosystem throughout the ages. From Athena to Alexander the Great and from Egypt to Ethiopia, Bees explores different methods of beekeeping and uncovers the debt that humans owe this vital species. With beautifully accessible illustrations depicting everything from bee anatomy to the essentials...
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Elsewhere Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Elsewhere edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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"From the tip of a chimney, we bound into the quiet and mischievous world of feelings, meeting a troupe of tufted creatures as we go. Tina Oziewicz's words hum with truth, and Aleksandra Zajac's illustrations bloom and burst with charming details like a sail constructed out of a pair of billowing long johns or a red slipper falling from a contented paw"--
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Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
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After spending years in a Warsaw prison for a violent crime, twenty-year-old Daniel is released and sent to a remote village to work as a manual laborer. The job is designed to keep the ex-con busy, but Daniel has a higher calling. While in prison, he found Christ and aspires to join the clergy, but his criminal record means no seminary will accept him. When Daniel arrives in town, one quick lie allows him to be mistaken for the town's new priest,...
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Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Antoine has just been transferred from Normandy to Paris. He is happy, but his wife prefers the country. Antoine loves her dearly, but he loves his job just as much. His co-workers include Inspector Vaudieu, veteran cop Mallet, and Muslim cop Solo. For the most part, they get along pretty well. This is especially so for Antoine and Vaudieu, who develops maternal feelings towards the rookie. When the body of a drifter is found murdered along the Seine,...
16) In darkness
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca.144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise...
17) Cold war
Series
Criterion collection volume 1005
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains, universes bridged by their...
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Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (585 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
The thrilling and epic drama series tells the story of three young Polish women who band together to fight against the Nazi occupation of their country during the outbreak of World War II. Irka, Ewa and Marysia each come from very different backgrounds and social standings: Irka was raised by well-educated parents in a patriotic family, Ewa was brought up by petty criminals, and Marysia is a daughter of a wealthy Jewish industrialist from Lodz. Their...
19) Avalon
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
"In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash, a star player, hears of rumors that a more advanced level of the game exists somewhere, she gives up her loner ways and joins a gang of explorers"--IMDb website.
20) Baptism of fire
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English
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The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup and, in the uproar, Geralt was seriously injured. The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those in need, a defender against powerful and dangerous monsters that prey on men in dark times. But now that dark times have fallen upon the world, Geralt is helpless until he has recovered from his injuries. While war rages across all of the lands, the future of magic is under...
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