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Ove is the block's grumpy old man who enforces strict neighborhood rules and whom every body avoids. One ordinary day a new family is moving in next door to Ove and accidentally backs into his mailbox. Turns out there is an unexpected friendship that blooms out of it.
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Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found and her beloved uncle is convinced she was murdered, and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced investigative journalist Mickael Blomkvist and the tattooed and troubled yet resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate--with...
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The final installment of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy. Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have to not only prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the same corrupt government institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now, Lisbeth Salander is fighting back.
4) Ida
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A moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation.
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"In this second installment of Stieg Larsson's phenomenal 'Millennium' trilogy, Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. A researcher and a Millennium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and violent behavior makes her an official danger to society. Mikael Blomkvist, Salander's friend and Millennium's publisher, is alone in his belief...
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"La soledad de Oskar, un chico taciturno de 12 años de edad, parece llegar a su fin gracias a la llegada de Eli, una chica nueva del vecindario. A pesar de los terroríficos acontecimientos que alrededor de Eli de suceden, Oskar se siente atraido e identificado, más allá de cualquier clase de temor, e incluso sobre la sospecha de que Eli sea en realidad una criatura anormal. Sangre, violencia y ternura, son los ingredientes que dan forma a esta...
8) Inferno
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In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces -- Dante's "Inferno" -- as he battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle.
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Teenaged Astrid Lindgren, future author of Pippi Longstocking, leads a carefree life in rural Sweden. Eager to break free from her conservative upbringing, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor. After Astrid becomes pregnant, she leaves home to give birth to a son, whom she reluctantly leaves with a foster mother. When the foster mother falls ill, Astrid uses her imagination and flair...
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The Da Vinci Code has intrigued and thrilled millions of readers around the world. Now all the artwork, symbols, architecture, and historic locations, over 160 images, are beautifully compiled in this full-color collector's edition. A mind-bending code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci. A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe. An astonishing truth concealed for centuries, unveiled at last. While in Paris on business, Harvard...
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Harry Potter volume 3
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During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.
12) Corpus Christi
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After spending years in a Warsaw prison for a violent crime, 20-year-old Daniel is released and sent to a remote village to work as a manual laborer. The job is designed to keep the ex-con busy, but Daniel has a higher calling. Over the course of his incarceration he has found Christ, and aspires to join the clergy - but his criminal record means no seminary will accept him. When Daniel arrives in town, one quick lie allows him to be mistaken for...
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Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise...
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In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of traveling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
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Harry Potter volume 4
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Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding skills, friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger.
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"For Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls' bathroom. But then real trouble begins--someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects...Harry Potter himself?"--Back...
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"Lila i Helena mają po szesnaście lat i obie czują, że znalazły się w ślepym zaułku. Lila dopiero wyszła za mąż, ale przyjęcie nazwiska męża wiąże się dla niej z utratą własnej tożsamości. Elena to wzorowa uczennica, ale właśnie podczas ślubu przyjaciółki odkrywa, że nie czuje się dobrze ani w dzielnicy, ani poza nią. Podczas burzliwej młodości dziewczęta gubią się i ponownie odnajdują. A wszystko w scenerii Neapolu,...
19) Anioły i demony
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Summary from an English edition: A Harvard symbologist analyzes a mysterious symbol seared to the chest of murdered physicist and discovers evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood to carry out its vendetta against the Catholic Church.
Polskie tłumaczenie streszczeniem w języku angielskim: Harvard od symboli analizuje tajemniczy symbol smażone na klatkę piersiową zamordowanego fizyka i odkrywa dowody odrodzenia dawnej tajnego...
20) Początek
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"Robert Langdon, profesor Uniwersytetu Harvarda, specjalista od symboli, przenosi sie do malowniczej Hiszpanii. Tam przemierza ulice Madrytu, Barcelony, Sewilii i Bilbao w poszukiwaniu odpowiedzi na nurtujące ludzkość pytania: Skąd pochodzimy? Dokąd zmierzamy? Brown zapelnił karty tej fascynujacej powieści kodami, symbolami, odkryciami naukowymi i architektonicznymi. Powiewu świeżości dodają opisy dzieł sztuki współczesnej i najnowocześniejszych...
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