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Protagonist Kris Kelvin arrives at a scientific research station hovering above the surface of Solaris where research has been ongoing for years on the strange ocean life form. When Kris and his colleagues become more aggressive in trying to force contact with Solaris, the ocean's response is to experiment with the researchers' minds by confronting them with their most painful and repressed thoughts and memories through the materialization of complex human constructs.

Little Dougie loved dogs. Whether big or small, he loved them all! Today, Little Dougie went to the dog park to play and visit with the many varieties of dogs who frequented there. This is his story.

Not everyone who's missing is lost. When two teenage girls go missing along the Irish border, Paula Maguire has to return to the hometown she left years before. Swirling with rumour and secrets, the town is gripped by fear of a serial killer. But the truth could be even darker. Not everyone who's lost wants to be found. Surrounded by people and places she tried to forget, Paula digs into the cases as the truth twists further away. What's the link with two other disappearances from 1985? And why does everything lead back to the town's dark past - including the reasons her own mother went missing years before?

What do you do if you’ve been married to a man for half your life and out of nowhere he leaves your bed – permanently? When this happens to Jeanie, she’s furious and determined to confront George, her husband of thirty years. Is he in love with someone else? What did she do wrong? He won’t tell her. The brightest day of her week is Thursday; the day Jeanie takes her granddaughter to the park.

Co zrobilabys, gdyby przyszlo ci walczyc o szczescie i milosc? Do czego bys sie posunela, aby zatrzymac to, co dla ciebie najcenniejsze? Glówna bohaterka "Szeptu wiatru" szuka swego szczescia, podejmujac nierzadko trudne i kontrowersyjne decyzje. Goni za prawda, zderza marzenia z rzeczywistoscia, odwaznie poszukuje rozwiazan, by siegnac marzen oraz by zatrzymac milosc, która calkowicie zawladnela jej zyciem.

Chase is a little boy with a big imagination. He visualizes a car out of an upturned trampoline and has adventures.

Poet Bonnie Weiss presents a collection of stories and poems filled with vivid memories, halfway between verse and prose. Her words are honest, sensitive, and profound but also sometimes humorous, sometimes deep. The style is lyrical and deceptively simple as she presents the incredible power of love and the pain of loss. Empathize with the pain but find beauty and joy, too, as you walk the poet’s path to truth and enlightenment.

Brenda and Effie are living it up on the continent. Holidaying in Paris, they are menaced by a mysterious Peeping Tom with a limp and a hump, who warns them that they must never return home to Whitby again. Untold disaster will take over the world if they go anywhere near the North Yorkshire coast.... But Brenda and Effie know that they simply have to return to Whitby, even if it means the end of everything they hold dear.

In 'Homecoming', read by Sean Campion, the Brennans run Quentin's restaurant in Dublin for the owner, who lives abroad. But what will happen when he suddenly pays a visit? 'Telling Stories', read by Joanna Myers, sees Irene's fiancé turning up the night before the wedding with a face as white as the dress that is to be worn the next day. Then trouble starts....

Come and join Little Billy's adventure with the birds!

Olivia Curtis wakes to her seventeenth birthday and her presents: a roll of flame-coloured silk for her first evening dress, a diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, and a ten shilling note. Safe within the bosom of a family at once lovingly familiar yet curiously remote, she stands poised on the brink of womanhood, anticipating her first dance with tremulous uncertainty and excitement - the greatest, yet most terrifying, event in her restricted social life.

Hanka osiagnela w zyciu bardzo duzo: ladne mieszkanie, dobrze prosperujace biuro podrózy, grupe oddanych przyjaciól. Nie czuje sie jednak szczesliwa - ma za soba kilka nieudanych zwiazków i wciaz szuka mezczyzny, z którym bedzie mogla miec dziecko. Kiedy na portalu randkowym poznaje Jacka, Polaka "po przejsciach", który od dwudziestu lat mieszka w Stanach, nie waha sie ani chwili. Mimo ostrzezen przyjaciólek decyduje sie zostawic wszystko swoim braciom i wyjechac na stale do USA.

My grandmother is my greatest inspiration. She was like a mother to me. This book is dedicated to her. It is a song she wrote and sang to my mother when my mom was young. She always asked my gram, “Mommy, how come?” My mother used to sing the song to me, and I wanted to share it with the world. I think all moms can relate to this book, and I have the added privilege of sharing this wonderful journey with my son who is so talented.

A clown arrives in a small outback town in the Darling Downs region of southeast Queensland. The fact that no one knows anything about this clown, who the clown is, or where the clown came from raises no concern in the community of Warwick. The parents, struggling with the ravages of drought and other hardships, are only too pleased to see their children have moments of joy, being entertained by new and unusual experiences.

A Pocketful of Crows balances youth and age, wisdom and passion, and draws on nature and folklore to weave a stunning modern mythology around a nameless wild girl. Only love could draw her into the world of named, tamed things. And it seems only revenge will be powerful enough to let her escape. This is a stunning and original modern fairy tale.

When ravaged by storms, remote Irish islands become inaccessible...and inescapable. Two scientists inexplicably disappear from remote Bone Island during a vicious storm, and suspicions are quickly raised about foul play. With her own pressing personal issues and the possibility of her mother still being alive at the forefront of her mind, Paula has other concerns but is determined to help.

This is the story my mom, Helen Kaczor, told her six children. We then went on to tell her 17 grandchildren. We each had fun embellishing the details, but the moral stays the same.

In his first novel in 16 years, highly distinguished Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty draws a tender picture of a married couple on their winter trip to Amsterdam. Gerry and Stella seem to be one of those couples who learned to read each other's minds a long time ago. But the biting wind from the North Sea can scatter the appearance of happiness and bring out other longings. Garry and Stella will have to answer the question of whether or not there's still room in their life for another big change?

Little Jenny loved animals. She loved all kinds of animals. This is the story of her adventures.

A month before Christmas, and Ballyterrin on the Irish border lies under a thick pall of snow. When a newborn baby goes missing from hospital, it's all too close to home for forensic psychologist Paula Maguire, who's wrestling with the hardest decision of her life. Then a woman is found in a stone circle with her stomach cut open and it's clear a brutal killer is on the loose. As another child is taken and a pregnant woman goes missing, Paula is caught up in the hunt for a killer no one can trace, who will stop at nothing to get what they want.