"CÓRKA CIENI" TO JULIANA I JEJ NIESAMOWITA HISTORIA. Przypadkowo znaleziony pamietnik odkrywa tajemnice. Przedwojenny zakazany romans, ucieczka w Bieszczady, brutalnosc wojny, bandy ukrainskie, trudna rzeczywistosc powojennej Polski - na tle historycznych zawirowan dorasta w samotnosci mala dziewczynka. Ciag dalszy losów Juliany - tom 2 "Obce matki", tom 3 "Burza przed cisza".

Konsekwencje... Gdyby całkowicie przesądzały o tym, jakie decyzje podejmujemy, ludzki świat prawdopodobnie nigdy nie byłby uporządkowany... Ta myśl determinuje pierwszy tom nowej trzytomowej serii powieściowej autorki bestsellerowej "Córki cieni". Osadzona w latach 70. ciemnego PRL-u opowieść o losach dziewczyny, która po dokonaniu pierwszego dorosłego wyborutraci szansę na zaplanowane i ustabilizowane życie. Odtąd jej los chwieje się i ociera o krawędzie cudzych małych światków, wyborów i okoliczności.

Joanna w trakcie rocznego urlopu dla poratowania zdrowia mieszka na Kociewiu i opiekuje sie ciocia Zofia, energiczna starsza pania. Nowe miejsce staje sie szansa na pozytywne zyciowe zmiany. Wraz z córka Lusia wikla sie w historie z przeszlosci i próbuje odnalezc tajemniczego Henryka z mlodosci cioci Zosi. Nastolatka wierzy, ze milosc moze przetrwac kilkadziesiat lat. Czy faktycznie jest to mozliwe? Autorka stawia glówna bohaterke przed waznymi decyzjami zyciowymi.

Matylda prowadzi pensjonat w Pobierowie i nawet nie przypuszcza, co przyniesie nadchodzace lato. Przyjazd wyjatkowych gosci sprawi bowiem, ze te wakacje beda inne niz wszystkie do tej pory. Iwona, Zoja, Aldona zmagaja sie z problemami zyciowymi i niezrealizowanymi marzeniami. Ryszard zjawia sie w pensjonacie z wnuczkiem Antosiem, ale szybko wychodzi na jaw, ze wcale nie jest spokrewniony z chlopcem. Dorota i Piotr zas to mlode malzenstwo, które wskutek niedawnej tragedii przezywa powazny kryzys.

Hajnówką wstrząsa tragiczna śmierć Krzysztofa, młodego funkcjonariusza Straży Granicznej. Adam, mieszkający teraz w Warszawie, ze zdziwieniem odkrywa, że tuż przed śmiercią Krzysiek próbował się do niego dodzwonić, i to kilkanaście razy. Czego mógł chcieć? Czasy, gdy przyjaźnili się w liceum, dawno minęły. Po skończeniu szkoły Adam wyjechał z Hajnówki i przez trzynaście lat tam nie wracał. Aż do teraz.

Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.

When mystery author D. B. Ziegler is late delivering her book, Abi Schore steps in to help. Surely she can give her favorite author moral support over the holiday break and get the manuscript to her boss at Tea & Sympathy Publishing in time for the new year. When Abi shows up on Ms. Ziegler’s doorstep bearing holiday treats, she’s met by the author’s handsome grandson Dov, who reveals a startling plot twist. His grandmother isn’t able to finish the book and Dov promised he’d complete it so fans won’t be disappointed—a task that’s harder than he ever imagined.

My fiancé brought me tea and scrambled eggs in bed that morning, and we snuggled together, talking about buying our rings, and about our perfect wedding next year. Then we headed into town. He held my hand and gazed at the ring I liked best, a smile spreading slowly over his face. Then a glass of bubbly to celebrate. I felt flushed, excited and ready for the rest of my life with the man I loved. We race to get on the train home. It screams to a halt and I run towards its open doors. Made it. I think he’s right behind me — but when I turn around, he’s gone.

Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job.

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.

When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med thanks to the tragic history of students overdosing on illegal drugs. But Heather would never consider doing anything like that. That is, until her longtime boyfriend dumps her, she finds herself failing anatomy, and her world starts to crumble.

Academy Award nominee Rachel McAdams stars in Mary Jane, a poignant and intimate drama following a single mother’s journey caring for her chronically ill young son. Set in New York City, the play unfolds in two parts—Mary Jane's small Queens apartment and a pediatric hospital. With unflinching honesty and unexpected humor, we witness Mary Jane's tireless devotion, her interactions with medical professionals, and her struggle to maintain her sense of self.