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- Can a friendship arise between a hospice resident and a convict? Why not. The crazy twist of events makes Henry, who hides dark secrets from the past, and Janek, who is serving a sentence for a crime that he may not have committed at all, become unusual allies. They start a journey through Poland, run away from the police, get into a conflict with a dangerous gangster from Bydgoszcz and, above all, try to decipher each other. In addition, they meet a galaxy of picturesque characters, including the widow of a former mafia boss and a disguised priest. Rapid action and reflections about life, and the whole thing is richly seasoned with black humor.
- An epic blockbuster that will take you to the darkest period of the 20th century - to Germany after World War I, where Nazism is on the rise; to the Soviet Union, where communism tries to maintain the "gains of the revolution" through terror; to the offices of power, where they try to prevent a war that could bleed the world, and finally - to the war front, where people die, sometimes as a result of senseless cruelty. Against the background of great history, the fate of ordinary people takes place: five interconnected families - American, German, Russian, English and Welsh - previously known from "The Fall of the Giants". Their emotions clash with each other and with ruthless destiny.
- "Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin is a novel that needs no introduction. The epic story in which the years of peace have passed and the nobles begin the game for the iron throne of the Seven Kingdoms has captivated audiences all over the world. On its basis, among other things, the HBO series, breaking records of popularity, was created, and the book itself has the status of a bestseller and has been published in several dozen languages. It fascinates even those who have not yet reached for the fantasy genre. The fate of the Stark family from Winterfell, the Lannisters from Casterly Rock, Daenerys Targaryen and Jon Snow took millions of people around the world.
- Is it possible to commit the perfect crime thanks to astrology? This question must be answered by Olgierd Paderborn, a ruthless prosecutor known from the series about Joanna Chylka. Together with Karolina Siarkowska, he undertakes an investigation into the case of the Butcher of the Oder - a brutal serial killer who escapes from justice using... astrology.
- Much changed in 3001. Religion is considered quirky, and most people live aboard an installation around the world. Lightning-fast travel and a direct connection of the human brain to a computer are also possible. This is the reality that Frank Poole, the astronaut killed by HALA 9000 during a space walk in 2001: A Space Odyssey, learns about this reality. With the help of technology, it is brought back to life. Frank decides to solve the mystery of a monolith, which once allowed prehumans to develop, and now can be a big threat to her.
- Sixty years have passed since the Monolith left by representatives of the highly developed cosmic civilization was found on the moon. Professor Heywood Floyd is the last surviving member of an expedition that was sent to the moon in 2001 to investigate this mysterious find. Years later, he once again goes to the vicinity of Jupiter to face the power of aliens again. Will he learn more about the future fate of man this time?
- Blade Runner is an attempt to answer the question about the essence of humanity. The title character tries to track down robots incapable of human feelings: compassion, remorse, guilt. He tests them and ruthlessly eliminates those that fail. This seems to be the only right solution. Hear what happens to the hunter himself, Rick Deckard? How will this occupation affect him? And wouldn't the androids try to outsmart him?
- 1991. Two daredevils - Maks and Albert - undergo the hibernation experiment. The epochal event attracts the attention of the whole world and is broadcast by television. Upon waking, both men expect flashes of cameras and welcoming handshakes. They are welcomed by - an unknown world inhabited only by women. Their caretaker, Dr. Lamia, explains that they were not awakened until 2044 because a nuclear war broke out while they were asleep, completely destroying the male genes. Albercik and Maksio are the only men on the planet, or at least the only ones in the underground city of women, where the fate of future generations will depend only on their cleverness and determination. But before the gentlemen can achieve their sex mission goal, they just have to - survive.
- Don Vito Corleone is the Godfather of one of six New York City mafia families. Tyrant and blackmailer, and at the same time a man of honor, rules with an iron fist. His decisions are final. He arouses respect and fear among his enemies, and deserved, though not completely disinterested, respect among his friends. When he refuses to participate in a lucrative new business - drug trafficking, he comes into a sharp, bloody conflict with Cosa Nostra. The honor of the family can only be saved by the youngest, beloved son of Vita Michael, a war hero. Will he prove to be a worthy successor to the Godfather?
- Parker wakes up in another world unknown to him, with no idea how he got there. The local Natalia does not resemble his Natasha, and he is thrown into the life of another version of himself - a life he does not know and with which he wants nothing to do. He begins to look for a way back to the reality he knows, while Natalia does everything to find him. However, he encounters people in the tunnels of the Riese Complex who shouldn't be there. And then the whole world turns into entropic chaos.
- Piotr Langer needs no introduction. He also needs no introduction to Nina Pokora, whom he meets at the banquet of his new foundation. A beautiful woman, well dressed, perfect to... become the new victim. However, there is something about her that makes Langer start to open up... And for the first time someone learns the story of how evil is born.
- "Attention. The nuclear attack on Poland has begun. If you can, go down to the shelter immediately." The terrifying alert sowed panic among millions of Poles. However, it was not given by the Government Security Center. The news came from hackers who launched a massive attack on the country. They paralyzed state-owned energy companies, banks, and even the stadium where the Poland-Germany match was about to start.
- After three decades of emigration, a shy engineer returns to Poland. Within two years, he will be drawn into the vortex of brutal politics, going through a rapid path from an unknown specialist, through a minister, to the highest office in the country. How did Gabriel Narutowicz achieve all this in such a short time? Narutowicz's life is a fascinating story about an undiscovered hero who was surrounded by the most colorful figures of the interwar period. Pilsudski and Haller, Witos and Daszynski, Tuwim and Illakowiczówna, in whose roles you can hear the best Polish voices. It is also an extremely current story about public investments, the pursuit of the West and political polarization. Narutowicz's life is a fascinating story about an undiscovered hero who surrounds the most colorful figures of the interwar period. Pilsudski and Haller, Witos and Daszynski, Tuwim and Illakowiczówna, in roles in which you can listen to the best Polish voices. It is also an extremely current story about public investment, the pursuit of income and political polarization.
- A nuclear submarine goes to the aid of a destroyed research station at the North Pole. A fire has decimated the Zebra Arctic Station, and people trapped in the snow are waiting for help. However, a series of mysterious accidents stands in the way of the rescue team.
- Mmm - And if you could, even for a moment, be in the land flowing with chocolate? Listen, it's possible. Hurry up, Willy Wonka is just opening the doors of her famous chocolate factory. If you sneak quietly, you can go in there with Charlie and the other four lucky kids - the kids who won the Golden Fortune. What awaits inside a mysterious factory? Fluffy, bubble waterfalls, sweets from the TV or the healthiest vitamin chocolate in the world - It's drooling. But is it really a gourmands' paradise? See for yourself. One thing's for sure - this trip will disenchant Charlie's life forever.
- The book you are about to read is undoubtedly much more complex than you might expect from the proverbial sequel to an earlier novel or film. Where the first part and the movie differed, I usually stayed true to the movie version; however, my main goal was to make the present novel as compact and as accurate as possible in describing the facts in the light of today's knowledge.
- England. XIV century. The fate of King Edward III's subjects is shaped by the wind of history and great politics. The country is ravaged by wars, epidemics and witch hunts. However, the greatest threat to the foundations of the world seems to be ... the development of science. The action of The Endless World takes place two hundred years after the construction of Kingsbridge Cathedral began. The cathedral and monastery are once again at the center of a web of intrigue, lies, hatred, pride and greed. In a world where traditionalists, fearing change like fire, fight against advocates of broadly understood progress, tension in the blink of an eye reaches a boiling point. And as if that were not enough, in fourteenth-century Europe the harvest is being reaped by the Black Death, which can knock on the door at any moment .
- Humans have destroyed and poisoned the Earth completely. So they set out on the Great Journey, scouring the galaxy for other habitable planets. At a distance of 14 light years, they found, conquered and colonized the planet Terce. It came easily to them because the Tertias are completely free from aggression. A handful of people remained on Earth, reversing the effects of its long-term destruction over the years. Climate balance has been restored. Reclamation was carried out. There are only one million people on earth. They form the Areopagus, the council that decides the fate of Tercja. Every three years, a person is selected to join the Council. It is an absolute honor. The draw is won by a Tertiary Borg and he is sent to Earth. Instead of paradise, there are piles of corpses and aliens, and behind a great wall - a society divided into the Outstanding and the Poor. He also meets Aurora - Has the Borg really hit where it should be? And is he sure as a Tertian he is devoid of aggression?
- Meet The Nowaks - a family full of individuality. Mom - Lodelia Psychodelia, is an extremely intelligent head of the family who, in one word, can solve any problem. Dad - Peter Pank, is only a little irresponsible, but a very happy element of musical energy. Uncle - Johnny Philosophy, is so heroic that even legends about him have their legends. And Sofia's sister Riot is the force of revolution, it undermines the questioned, it is totally conceptual and does not allow itself to be confined to any framework. Even within the confines of peace. Because there is no door. Finally - our main character - Wiktor... Just Wiktor. He is thirteen years old and thinks he is the most ordinary person in the world. You know that feeling? You know why he decides to start a podcast - Wiktor decides to go on a quest and get his own nickname that distinguishes him from this crazy family. Unfortunately, it will not be such an easy task, because Wiktor's path will be blocked by the sinister Mr. Zbigniew, who wants to become the most powerful businessman in Poland - and will stop at nothing to achieve it.
- The lives of two Los Angeles police officers are turned upside down. The simple intervention at the crematorium at the Western Cemetery was supposed to be just a routine operation, but Harper and Alex make a shocking discovery. They come across a metal skeleton whose origin is difficult to explain. The police manage to recover an ellipsoidal object made of an unknown alloy that filled the head of the cremated man. It turns out that it still emits a radio signal that allows locating... Now Harper and Alex have not only a difficult-to-understand investigation on their hands, but also the Agency for Investigation of Supernatural Phenomena and Unidentified Objects. A game of time begins in which the future of our planet is at stake.
- Welcome to the Republic of Arna in 2036, where armed groups fight for power and water, the country is ruled by a failing Coalition government, and the upcoming elections threaten civil war. Josi lives in this world, unable to cope with the recent death of his sister. This event decided his life - Josi decides to join the Peace Front, a new, radical group declaring a violent crackdown on lawlessness and a fair distribution of water. However, he does not expect that he will quickly become entangled in a network of secret connections of political conflict, and that the current government, a religious-terrorist organization called the Cult and the Vesna Cartel will soon reach out for him. The dystopian vision in "Scorched Earth" is a timely commentary on contemporary problems, such as the erosion of democratic political systems or the inexorably approaching climate catastrophe. How will we behave in the face of a lack of raw materials necessary for life? Will weakened state bodies be able to face real challenges?
- Five families living on two continents: from the Welsh mining settlement, through the salons of London and the White House - From the trenches of the Great War, through the offices of Versailles, where its fate was decided, to St. on the coronation day of George V, and ends in the 1920s, in a world completely different from the one that ended with the First World War .
- "The Karamazov Brothers" are the dramatic fate of Fyodor Pavlovich's four sons, who are reunited by a tragedy: the murder of their father. Each of the brothers represents a different character and radically different worldviews. Dymitry, Ivan, Alexei and Pavel - through their creations, Dostoevsky masterfully shows the darkest recesses of the soul and passions tormenting man. The brothers, burdened each with their own guilt, emotions and desire, try to find a place in the dark Karamazov family.
- "With Fire and Sword" is the first part of the famous trilogy, which has been accompanying successive generations of Poles continuously since 1884. The superproduction takes you straight to the 17th century, to the Wild Fields and steppes of Ukraine, to the very center of the Cossack uprising led by Khmelnytsky. But above all, it allows you to learn about the love story of Jan Skrzetuski, the beautiful Helena Kurcewiczówna and the dangerous Jurko Bohun. Rediscover the history of Zagloba, Skrzetuski, Wolodyjowski and Podbipieta in a completely new adaptation, with the best Polish voices and the original soundtrack by Percival Schuttenbach.
- Jacek is a copywriter who is forced to divide his time between work in Warsaw and family life in a small town in the Opole region. One night, returning home after a week of work, he saves a silent girl on the road, chased by a mysterious figure in a black off-road car. Soon after, strange, terrifying things begin to happen around him, all of which lead to a mysterious tragedy from years ago that still weighs Jack on his conscience. He knows he must act, and fast, because the recurring visions he has learned not to underestimate tell him that his loved ones are in mortal danger. Will he and his brother, a local journalist, be able to solve the mystery and prevent another tragedy? And how does the local legend about the terrible Blackpaw, which his son became interested in as part of his summer adventure, have to do with it?
- In Eastern Europe, communism is coming to an end, and the mafia begins to rule the streets of Russia. Tima, an unfulfilled musician, begins to act for one of the criminal groups of Leningrad, where he quickly becomes an extremely ruthless and effective executor. The real challenge, however, awaits him in Poland, to which he flees from law enforcement agencies and rival gangs - Tim finds himself in the middle of a mafia war .
- Martin Williams, a Hollywood screenwriter, writes a musical based on the life of a young actor in the 1930s, Boofuls. The tragic story of a boy who was killed by his own grandmother becomes his obsession. One day, Williams comes across a mirror that once hung in the home of a young star. He's spending his last money on them. With time it turns out that it was not a dream purchase, but the worst of nightmares .
- A runner is killed at Lake Rusalka in Poznan. Anka, a journalist from a small town, decides to take up the case. He goes to Poznan to keep up to date with all the findings of the investigation. He accidentally contacts a policewoman, Lidka, who has a theory about the crime, but her voice is downplayed at the police station. Rusalka's case quickly turns out to be not only investigative material, but also a strong trigger of social, women's agitation. How does the myth of the Slavic demon come to life in the modern world? Can murders have noble motives? Or are they a sign of the decline of modern society?
- A quiet town. People who know each other well. Soothing nature. But are you sure? Szczepan comes to Zwierzyniec for a psychological consultation. His charge is a boy who suddenly closed himself in his world, and his worried parents do not know how to reach him. The psychologist starts observing the family and expects no surprises in a sleepy and quiet town. Meanwhile, each day brings a new, disturbing discovery. Old things and wrongs are revived. Szczepan is no longer sure who he should be watching, especially when Ula - a resident of the city - starts telling him local stories, and the boy insists more and more often that he saw a scary aquarius by the lake.
- The action of "The Cockroaches" begins when a Norwegian policeman, Harry Hole, travels to Thailand, where the body of a Norwegian ambassador has been found in one of the motels. Harry gets on the plane hungover, with a supply of vitamin B12 injections, and soon begins to wander the alleys of Bangkok: among temples, opium smokers, child prostitutes and go-go bars. He discovers that there is more to this case than murder: something crawls behind the walls that hates the light of day .
- Earthly civilization stopped taking any risks and rejected all conflicts. Chemical betrization treatment eliminated aggressive instincts. Only robots take up jobs, and people are entertained. The astronaut Hal Bregg comes into this reality. Everything changes during his 10-year research expedition to the vicinity of the star Fomalhaut. The phenomenon of time dilation means that not 10, but 127 years passes on Earth. At this time, a fearless civilization was created. Will an inhabitant of the old planet understand and accept the rules of the new world?
- New York, 1970s. After three hundred years, the spirit of the greatest Indian shaman, Misquamacus, returns to the world of the living to take revenge for the souls of his brothers. Reborn in the body of a young girl, Karen Tandy, tries to bring in other demons from the opposite side of being. A duel is approaching in which humanity may fail. Only the occultist Harry Erskine, with the help of the Indian shaman Singing Rock, takes the fight against ancient magic and supernatural forces.
- The struggle for power, conflicts between the monarchy, the clergy and the nation, passion, love, dark secrets and bloody crimes ... Heroes who, thanks to unimaginable determination and willpower, touched the impossible. Though civil war rages around, people starve to death, intricate plans bogged down in webs of intrigue, and each character struggles to win their favor, the stone walls of Kingsbridge Cathedral are steadfastly climbing to reach heaven.
- A mysterious foreigner unexpectedly interferes in a conversation between two Moscow writers. This event begins a series of many unexplained phenomena that will take place in the capital of the Soviet Union over the next few days, culminating in the ball at Satan's.
- Fifteen-year-old Iga dies under the wheels of a car, and the investigation into her case is to be discontinued. When her friend Joanna Bator finds out about this, she is convinced that the girl's killer was a member of the sect in which they both grew up. The woman knows that Iga was mortally afraid of someone from the Karkonosze Settlement. Joanna returns to the Children of the Day of the Apocalypse to solve the mystery of her friend's death together with the recently met commissioner, Tymon Hanter.
- A political spectacle about the fragility of democracy, political involvement and responsibility for choices that can change history. In a country ruled by a right-wing government led by President Alatar, political parties are preparing for the upcoming presidential elections. Jean Vampel is an honest, hard-working, but anonymous and unambitious MP. Pushed by those around him planning his career, he takes advantage of the set of circumstances to take part in the primaries of his party, the Left Union. He knows he won't win, but he wants to use the campaign to "be known" in the media. Was it his own decision? Or maybe he was unaware of the intrigue and got involved in it? Six months later, France will begin the darkest chapter in its history.
- An anti-utopian story about the world of the future, in which individualism is completely suppressed, knowledge is unnecessary to anyone, and illiteracy is welcome. Books are evil, punishments are made for having them, and firefighters are burning them in huge piles. 451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper starts to burn. Ray Bradbury's most famous novel continues to shock and evoke positive emotions. Once perceived as a voice against totalitarianism, now it shows the other bottom and forces us to reflect on the fate of civilization.
- Mordimer Madderdin is back in a new version. Leszek Lichota as a cult inquisitor, a servant of God who fights to save the innocent, to punish criminals, and above all - to maintain at least a remnant of justice. The city of Weilburg slammed its gates shut and declared a quarantine. Within the closely guarded walls, people who were sick and dying of the plague were locked up. But even for those who have escaped the epidemic, death is ready to reach out for other reasons. Because in a city soured by weeks of drought, shackled by fear of the future, terrorized by external enemies and native fanatics, a spark is enough to turn the houses into ruins and the streets to be littered with corpses.
- A new tenant, Mr. Lockwood, arrives at Wuthering Heights. It is met with extreme resentment by all the inhabitants - the surly host Heathcliff, his son Hareton, the mysterious girlfriend Cathy and the quarrelsome servant Joseph. The only friendly person is Mrs. Dean, with whom Lockwood soon becomes friends and thanks to her he discovers the mysterious past of his new host: the tragic story of forbidden love, the consequences of which have forever determined the fate of the Earnshaw and Linton families.
- The Gierek's decade of the 1970s is underway. David Bowie, traveling from Moscow to Berlin, stops for a short while in Warsaw. His seemingly insignificant stay in the Polish capital became a legend as the embodiment of what is unattainable and inaccessible, a streak of color and brilliance in the universal dullness. Meanwhile, platoon leader Wojciech Kretek cannot sleep in one of the stuffy and cramped apartments in Warsaw. A sensitive and emotional policeman tries to solve the case of a man named Dusidamek from Mokotów. The fear-mongering torturer, however, seems to be only a symbol of lesser violence and oppression that the inhabitants of Warsaw experience at every step from the world and each other.
- Hear the stories of the old storyteller - When the gods threw lightning, fairies danced in the moonlight, and bloodthirsty nightmares and werewolves ravaged human habitats. No mortal witnessed these ancient events. The immortals passed on the stories of those days to the oldest people, and the grandfathers and fathers to their sons and grandchildren. This is how, repeated from mouth to mouth, from generation to generation, they have survived to this day.
- Ada and Tymon, characters known from the first season of the CANAL+ series WILK, set out on a journey to save their relationship and free them from toxic relationships with their parents. However, the stay at Ada's father's house by the lake quickly ceases to resemble an idyll. A message asking for help from Ada's best friend becomes an excuse for the couple to leave their safe haven and face the changes that have taken place not only in themselves, but also in the country controlled by the National Council.
- In Pakistan, a Polish businessman is kidnapped by the Taliban. He is in danger of death. A super-secret unit of the Foreign Intelligence Agency, known as the "Section", starts the rescue operation. It quickly turns out, however, that the kidnapping is only part of a broader plan, in which interviews from various countries are involved, and becomes the reason for ruthless political games in Poland. Under the direction of the eccentric Roman "Section", that is Monika - a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts, Dima - former illegal, Ela and Witek, risking their lives, try to expose the traitor and, traveling through Greece, Russia, Pakistan and South Africa, solve a difficult spy mystery.
- A moving reconstruction of the last 23 days of the life of Alexander Litvinenko - a man who tried to solve the mystery of his own murder. Alexander Litvinenko was a former Russian agent who worked for the KGB and FSB. In 2000, he emigrated to Great Britain, where he was granted asylum and later British citizenship. In early November 2006, he was poisoned with radioactive polonium and died three weeks later. In his latest statement, he blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for his death. But what happened between the day Litvinenko entered the Millennium Hotel and the day the doctors pronounced him dead...? Here is a mosaic of events from the last twenty-three days of Litvinenko's life. Doctors looking for a diagnosis, detectives looking for a killer, Sasha looking for justice and Marina looking for love. The journey from the world of the living to the world of shadows begins. An emotional and impressive tale of a withering body and a disappearing mind.
- One day, Alice falls into a rabbit hole and finds herself in an extraordinary world like from a dream. Alice's everyday reality is far from the one in which she begins her adventure. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is undoubtedly a unique story, revealing to the audience many wisdom and truths in life, in which everyone - both the youngest and the elderly - can find themselves.
- The body of an old woman was found in a small town. Stray dogs had kicked her out of a shallow grave in the forest. The life of investigator Jacek Burchot turns upside down. On the one hand, the task of uncovering the secret of the crime stimulates the ambition after years of escorting drunk people to their cells and lost elderly people home. On the other hand, it is so irritatingly ruining his daily routine, shopping in the market, taking his daughter to school, filling out paperwork and chatting with his colleagues at the police station. And when the young and full of life Justyna, who has only recently moved, disappears - These are crimes that do not fit this town at all .
- It is a story about loss, the power of imagination that can make up for this loss, and the hardships of reconciling the world of a lonely girl with the world of an equally lonely dad. This is the story of a magical mountain - the ever-snow-covered Kilimanjaro, which had a huge impact on the life of a 7-year-old girl from a village where nothing ever happens... It's also a story about family relationships and the fact that grandma doesn't always have to know how to bake cookies.
- We invite you to Borówkowo, where you will meet Tuptus the hedgehog, Mousey the mouse, Dziobek the rook, Fredek the ferret, Dudus the hamster and many other unique inhabitants. Together with them you will spend unforgettable moments at birthday parties, climbing the Eagle Rock, having picnics and watching the fascinating life of wild animals.