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Schronisko, które przestalo istniec

Schronisko, które przestalo istniec

Translated title: The Shelter That Ceased to Exist

Author: Dolnoslaskie, Wydawnictwo

Genre: Thriller

Year: 2024 | Pages: 368 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89711

A young dentist, Maksymilian Rajczakowski, goes to the Karkonosze Mountains to take a break from his family problems. He is unaware of the secrets hidden in the wartime past of the mountains. Will he find what he is looking for?
The owner of the inactive Nad Snieznym Kotlami shelter dies in an unfortunate accident. Shortly after this tragedy, his nephew Maksymilian arrives on the scene. The man learns that before his death, his uncle was interested in the fate of another mountain shelter, which burned down in unexplained circumstances right after World War II. As more facts come to light, Rajczakowski begins to suspect that his uncle's death was not an unfortunate twist of fate. Unaware of the danger lurking, he begins his own investigation. Soon he begins to receive threats from someone claiming to be the Spirit of the Mountains? If he does not solve the mystery in time, he will find himself in mortal danger.

The Shelter That Ceases to Exist opens a series of novels dedicated to the Karkonosze Mountains. These are suspenseful crime novels marked by family secrets, as well as a journey through forgotten trails of the past, dense with riddles and legends
Puste wygony

Puste wygony

Translated title: Empty Fields

Author: Bulicz-Kasprzak, Kasia

Genre: Social Novel

Year: 2023 | Pages: 600 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89764

Tynczyn is covered with the gloomy clouds of occupation. In the new reality, people are convinced that just as one should not return to the past, it is better not to ask about the future. One must focus only on how to survive. Every evening, there is fear whether one will manage to survive the next day. The following days are like scraps torn from the bloody teeth of fate.

The young inhabitants of Tynczyn do not know everything about themselves yet, and they already have to pass an exam in maturity, decency, patriotism. Every day they lose hope and regain it anew. The war forces them to make decisions they would never have made, to choose paths they would never have taken. When the war dust settles, they will have to look each other in the eye and answer the question of what kind of people they are now
Zlodziejski spadek

Zlodziejski spadek

Translated title: The Thief's Inheritance

Author: Mazalik, Bozena

Genre: Crime / Mystery

Year: 2025 | Pages: 384 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89731

In the silence of the mountains, secrets are hidden Hilda Mainwolf is a woman of many faces. Deputy mayor of Ratsel, a town in the foothills of the Alps. Liked and respected. Today, valued for her work on behalf of orphans, and once associated with completely different people, one of whom she would never want to meet again. After the ceremony of awarding her the Maltese Cross, Hilda unexpectedly disappears. A day later, her daughter, driving back from her mountain cottage, falls off a cliff. These events bring Carla, their closest relative, a former policewoman, to Ratsel, who begins to investigate the case on the spot. Instinct tells her that what seems like a coincidence may hide something more. Questions multiply. And it is not known who to trust and who not to
Sekret prawie bylego meza

Sekret prawie bylego meza

Translated title: The Secret of My Almost Ex-Husband

Author: Jadowska, Aneta

Genre: Crime / Mystery

Year: 2025 | Pages: 352 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89713

It's not just old houses that have their secrets - as it turns out, almost-ex-husbands can also surprise. Especially when they drop dead in the orchard behind the house, where no one expected them. And the clues clearly point to the almost-ex-wife: popular crime novelist Agata Bunc. Staff Sergeant Straszewicz arrives at the crime scene and quickly accepts that he will have to deal not only with a prosecutor, but also with three writers with way too much curiosity: Agata, Nina and Zuza. Each of them has their own worries - Zuza can't get rid of an intrusive publisher, Nina has to deal with the lack of any, and Agata? Well, she simply has to solve this case. Otherwise, she'll write another crime novel from behind bars. The Secret of the Almost-Ex-Husband is an absorbing story about three women who are not afraid to stick their noses where they shouldn't, and who can come out of every situation with class - although not always unscathed. Humor, secrets and plot twists guaranteed
Inkwizytor

Inkwizytor

Translated title: Inquisitor

Author: Smielak, Michal

Genre: Mystery

Year: 2025 | Pages: 520 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89720

A priest selling fake medallions with miraculous properties is burned alive in front of his church. The circumstances of the crime clearly indicate the return of the Inquisitor, a murderer who, according to the police, has been dead for two years?

At the same time, celebrity healer Jan Sarna receives a letter indicating that the previous order has been disrupted, and the murderer begins another bloody cycle. It quickly turns out that in this game, time is the most valuable currency, because from one day to the next and without any warning, the pyres begin to burn again.

How is it possible that the infamous Inquisitor has returned and returned to the path of crime? Or is his copycat responsible for the murder? Healers, healers and fortune tellers are struck with fear. The hunt begins.

Michal Smielak returns in the phenomenal and long-awaited sequel to The Quack
Wiosna przynosi ukojenie

Wiosna przynosi ukojenie

Translated title: Spring Brings Relief

Author: Wilczynska, Karolina

Genre: Social Novel / Family Saga

Year: 2024 | Pages: 304 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89766

Stop at Wrzosowa Polana, where the awakening nature greets the world with intense scents and colors, and brings solace to the inhabitants.

Diana tries to deal with the consequences of the fire, but her thoughts constantly revolve around what happened between her and Tobiasz. Should she tell her friend about everything? Or maybe it's better to forget?
Martyna can't come to terms with the changes and begins to regret the decisions she made. Krzysztof comes to her aid. What will come of it? Will the journalist finally manage to find peace?

Spring is also a difficult time for Greta. Her relationship with her daughter is far from good, but there is someone else nearby - little Julka, who finally has a chance to get her grandmother back
Tajemnice arabskich szpitali

Tajemnice arabskich szpitali

Translated title: Secrets of Arab Hospitals

Author: Margielewski, Marcin

Genre: Social Novel

Year: 2025 | Pages: 304 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89762

Gynecologists from Europe are highly respected in Saudi Arabia. One of them is a Polish woman, Sara - the heroine of this fascinating, multi-threaded story about life in a desert kingdom, where the call of modernity tries to break through the din of Islamic fundamentalists
Agnieszka i szlachcic

Agnieszka i szlachcic

Translated title: Agnieszka and the Nobleman

Author: Feliksik, Gabriela

Genre: Social Novel

Year: 2025 | Pages: 304 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89753

Jadwiga is born in a poor peasant's cottage. When her mother dies, Duchess Helena Lubomirska arrives, seeking redress for the woman she brutally raped by Prince Lubomirski. She takes the child to her manor to raise her. The girl grows up with the duchess's children, unaware of the truth about her father. When the duchess's son becomes interested in Jadwiga, she quickly marries her off to a common peasant.

Bartosz brutally treats his wife, so she decides to flee from him. With the help of her friend, Klara Lubomirska, she travels to Kraków and takes the name Agnieszka Machówna. She meets and falls in love with a nobleman, Colonel Michal Taralski. She is willing to commit bigamy to escape her peasant life.

The novel is inspired by the life of a real-life figure, Agnieszka Machowna, who caused a huge scandal in 17th-century Poland
Demony Babiej Gory

Demony Babiej Gory

Translated title: Demons of Babia Gora

Author: Malysa, Irena

Genre: Mystery / Thriller

Year: 2024 | Pages: 376 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89742

A new chapter in the seaside town of Marucice forced her not only to fight for her life, but even to reach for the highlander magic known for generations. 2022. The owner of the guesthouse in Marucice, where Baska Zajda wanted to spend her vacation, disappears in unexplained circumstances. Suspected, among other things, of burning the local hunters' pulpits, she did not enjoy much sympathy from the locals.

The only person she kept in touch with was an old woman from a terrifying post-German homestead. Soon more people mysteriously disappear. What plan did fate have for Baska Zajda, directing her to this place? Will she be able to break through the fog of understatements and magical spells on her way to the truth?
Medea z Wyspy Ognia

Medea z Wyspy Ognia

Translated title: Medea from the Island of Fire

Author: Knedler, Magda

Genre: Social Novel

Year: 2024 | Pages: 320 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89763

After the tragic events in Falkenberg Palace and the conflict with Johann, Medea moves to Breslau. She lives there comfortably, but she is not happy. In difficult times, she is helped by psychiatrist Horst Achilles Lange.

A feeling develops between them and they both plan a future together. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Horst receives a letter from a friend, whom he decides to help. Medea is left alone in Breslau. Her beloved sets off towards the Eastern Front and disappears.

No one knows what happened to him, and he himself has no idea that he left in the city, now transformed into a fortress, not only his fiancée

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