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Perseidy

Perseidy

Author: Przydryga, Ewa

Genre: Crime / Mystery

Year: 2025 | Pages: 300 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89739

This one night can change your life. Or brutally end it. Traces of blood found at the crime scene give Justyna hope that Milena, her sister, is still alive. From the fragments of a nightmare from over twenty years ago, Justyna puts together an increasingly clear picture.

It turns out that on the night of the Perseids, a few months before her death, Milena and a group of friends go to a secluded Neolithic observatory, where she undergoes a mysterious ritual. However, not all of its participants will come out of the forest alive... Justyna stubbornly follows the secrets of her sister, although she knows that it may bring danger to her family.

Important clues lead to Obrzyce and a psychiatric hospital shrouded in a dark history. After opening the door behind which mass murders once took place, Justyna realizes that some secrets should remain buried alive. Forever
Schronisko, które spowijal mrok

Schronisko, które spowijal mrok

Translated title: A Shelter That Was Shrouded in Darkness

Author: Gortych, Slawomir

Genre: Thriller

Year: 2024 | Pages: 400 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89712

December 1991.
Andrzej Czerwinski arrives at the Karkonosze mountain shelter Strzecha Akademicka. The man wants to learn the truth about the past of his father,
the former manager of Strzecha, who disappeared in unexplained circumstances.

A few days later, Andrzej's body is found during a rescue operation
following the most tragic avalanche in the history of the Polish mountains.

March 2007. At the urging of his friend Maksymilian, the crime novelist Tomasz Wilczur goes to the Karkonosze Mountains with the intention of writing a novel inspired by Czerwinski's mysterious death. The writer investigates the truth about the events of years ago, but the more he knows, the more he feels that everyone has something to hide?
What was the cause of Andrzej Czerwinski's death and what is the connection between his father's disappearance and the events in Cieplice? With his uncomfortable questions, Tomasz Wilczur begins to burst the closed system that has guarded the secret of Strzecha Akademicka's dark past for years

What was the cause of Andrzej Czerwinski's death and what is the connection between his father's disappearance and the events in Cuplike? With his uncomfortable questions, Tomasz Wilczur begins to burst the closed system that has guarded the secret of Strzecha Akademicka's dark past for years
Grota

Grota

Translated title: Grotto

Author: Moss, Marcel

Genre: Horror

Year: 2025 | Pages: 362 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89719

When the dismembered body of 14-year-old Marcin Sluzewski is found in the dark Runowskie forest, the residents of a nearby village panic. There are rumors that the murder was committed by the Slavic demon Strzyga, who comes out of hiding once a year and hunts people. This is confirmed by the fact that the remains were found near the terrifying Devil's Cave, which is supposedly inhabited by Strzyga.

However, Commissioner Sambor Malczewski, who leads the investigation, knows that there is no more dangerous beast than a human. The man delves into the history of the Sluzewski family and discovers disturbing facts. He also comes across a trail that leads him to the Render family, a dysfunctional family living on the outskirts of the forest and isolating themselves from the world. The longer he observes them, the more terrifying things he learns about them.

Who murdered Marcin? What atrocities occur in the Renders' house? And what secrets does the Devil's Grotto hide?
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
Otuleni syberyjskim wiatrem. Zdeptane nadzieje

Otuleni syberyjskim wiatrem. Zdeptane nadzieje

Translated title: Wrapped in the Siberian Wind: Trampled Hopes

Series: Book 1

Author: Piasecka, Wioletta

Genre: Social Novel

Year: 2025 | Pages: 336 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89765

The fight for freedom is shadowed by love and sacrifice. In the Polish lands occupied by the Russian Empire, persecution of insurgents for their independence struggle continues. To make matters worse, a cholera epidemic spreads in Krzemieniec, reaping a deadly toll. Meanwhile, sisters Zofia and Jozefa Rzazewski enter the most beautiful time of youth, filled with passions, dreams, hopes, and disappointments.

Each experiences their first romantic failures in their own way. One day, an emissary, Szymon Konarski, arrives in Krzemieniec, trying once again to revive the Polish people's desire to fight for independence. Initially, people are reluctant to get involved, fearing persecution, confiscation of property, and exile deep into Russia.

A true story of love, struggle, hope, and the strength of women set against the turbulent backdrop of the partition period. A grand epic of Polish women's fates in a time of persecution, separation, and patriotic ideals
Otuleni syberyjskim wiatrem. Skradziona milosc

Otuleni syberyjskim wiatrem. Skradziona milosc

Translated title: Wrapped in the Siberian Wind. Stolen Love

Series: Book 3

Author: Piasecka, Wioletta

Genre: Social Novel

Year: 2025 | Pages: 304 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 90492

When the heart bleeds and fate knows no mercy, a strength is born that cannot be broken. Persecution following the failure of the independence movement continues to reap a bloody harvest. The harsh sentences of the Russian Empire spare no one - not even women. Two sisters, Jozefa and Zofia, longed to love, dream, and have fun, yet, thrown into the maelstrom of historical events, they try to salvage the remnants of their interrupted youth. Jozefa Rzazewska is sentenced to lifelong exile deep into Russia.

The murderous journey to the most remote Siberian provinces is to be preceded by a public flogging. Longing for her loved ones and fear of what awaits her rob Jozia of her last courage. Will she find the strength to survive and fight for her dignity? Zofia Wielowiejska abandons her home and her tyrannical husband and retreats to the forest. Among ordinary people, she finds not only refuge but also meaning in her daily duties, in offering help, and in the quiet breath of the forest.

Will this be enough to heal a wounded soul and love again? 'Stolen Love' is a true story of longing, love put to the test, and courage that knows no bounds
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
Oblicza wampiryzmu

Oblicza wampiryzmu

Translated title: Faces of Vampirism

Author: Flaga-Andrzejewska, Kaja

Genre: Short Stories

Year: 2024 | Pages: 214 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89746

14 illustrated stories about vampires set in different historical periods, presenting the ''life'' of the undead and the principles they should follow to survive
Wiem o wszystkim

Wiem o wszystkim

Translated title: I Know Everything

Author: Smigielska, Alekandra

Genre: Horror

Year: 2025 | Pages: 313 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89729

Three women, three secrets. One dark truth. Bydgoszcz, the beginning of a hot summer. Weronika, a victim of a toxic relationship, is raising her son alone. Ewa fears how her husband's criminal past will affect the future of their teenage daughter. Janina, Ewa's mother-in-law, will do anything to ensure that she and her family get a life. Their fates unexpectedly intertwine when a body is found in the yard of Ewa's café. Everything points to a brutal murder. At the same time, an anonymous Instagram profile publishes photos from the crime scene. It also suggests that she knows the identity of the killer? Each of the women carries a dark secret. Each desperately wants to protect what is most dear to her. Is she also protecting the murderer? I Know Everything is a thriller about the dark side of love, destructive men and the price we have to pay for secrets. Because sometimes the greatest threat to us is what we ourselves hide
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?

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