Zielone pastwiska
Translated title: Green Pastures
Author: Bulicz-Kasprzak, Kasia
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2021 | Pages: 560 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89759
While the big world is worried about the crash of the New York Stock Exchange and the Olympics in Los Angeles, Tynczyn talks about Dolegawna's wedding to Dyzio Adamczuk.
While Poland is living through the May Coup, the ''Brest'' elections and the April Constitution, people in Tynczyn are still arguing whether Jadzka Adamczukowa stole Kornelowiczowa's cow or not.
Don't the local peasants know what's going on in the world? Of course they do, they read the newspapers. But their own affairs are more important to them. The children need to be fed, the fields ploughed, the flax harvested, the beans shelled, and the weather is miserable, the prices are rising, the money you earn is losing its value day by day. Who would care about the elections in Germany when there's nothing to put in the pot?
Dotyk marcepanowych marzen
Translated title: Touch of Marzipan Dreams
Author: Majewska-Ziemba, Katarzyna
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 400 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89756
A beautiful story about the power of dreams.
Lviv on the eve of war. Everyone is still sleeping peacefully, having fun, making love, having children, making plans for the future.
Rebecca is a young Jewish woman who loves cooking. She has talent and a head full of ideas about her own pastry shop. She also has the determination to fulfill her dreams, which is why, against her father's will, she finds employment as a maid for Anette and signs up for a pastry course. She doesn't want to live like a mother who has no say in the house.
Rebecca will have to make difficult choices and go against the tradition of her own family, in which a woman's place is at home with her children. She will have to pay a high price, but instead of breaking her, it will only give her strength
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
Dziewczyny wojenne
Translated title: War Girls
Author: Modelski, Lukasz
Genre: Short Stories / Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 440 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89743
11 incredible stories of extraordinary women.
Did they live in the city or in the countryside, did their lives look different, did they dream of something different? And suddenly a historical storm broke out and in one moment swept away their previous world. They all became warriors.
The war took away their youth and completely changed their lives. It brought new challenges that no one was prepared for, and which had to be faced. Dark times of difficult choices, heroic decisions and deeds that were paid for with blood - one's own, that of colleagues from the unit or those closest to them
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
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
Zapadlina
Translated title: Cavity
Author: Malecki, Robert
Genre: Crime / Mystery
Year: 2024 | Pages: 456 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89734
Almost half a century ago, the earth caved in for the first time in the Wapno mine. Although no one died, the area began to attract unfortunate events. Or maybe it should be said that it absorbed those who had something to hide? Jacek Malinowski's body was never found. According to the official version of events, he probably died in an accident.
Two decades later, a key witness changes his testimony, questioning everything that was known up to that point. Commissioner Maria Herman decides to investigate the clues from the past. At the same time, a well-known local doctor is attacked. There may be connections between these events hidden deep underground. A family conflict? A political game? A faked death?
The case takes on the characteristics of a personal score and gains momentum. Especially when Herman learns that Olgierd Borewicz - her former partner - is at the center of the events
Czas ucieczki Matki Rzeszy
Translated title: Time to Escape: Mothers of the Reich
Series: Volume 2
Author: Waszut, Sabina
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 288 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89761
January 1945. The Red Army is approaching Kunzendorf. For the handful of women and children still in the Mothers' House of the Lebensborn center, a time of fear and difficult decisions is coming.
In the chaos of the last weeks of the war, no one cares about civilians. Ruth, Annabelle and Brygid flee with hundreds of others, away from the clutches of Soviet soldiers. When they reach Bad Reinerz in the Sudetenland, they hope to breathe a sigh of relief and safely wait out the war.
However, a few months later, the young German women must face not only the cruel post-war reality, but also the awareness of the wrongs done by their own nation
Opowiadania kresowe
Translated title: Borderland Stories
Author: Dorogusz-Doroszkiewicz, Antoni
Genre: Historical / Short Stories
Year: 2024 | Pages: 282 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 89747
It happened in Kresy during the war, as well as fairy tales for children: 5 fairy tales for goodnight and Krolewska za Margerytke. I propose to readers a journey into the past - to the times when during World War II the eastern borders of Poland were under Soviet occupation, which settled there after the war. Reaching for the memories of witnesses, I look at this period from the perspective of the everyday life of people who found themselves in a situation completely new to them, exceeding all, even the darkest predictions. There is no great politics here, but there are small matters of everyday life, which have been fundamentally changed
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
