Kacey Dawson has always lived life on the edge - impulsively, sometimes recklessly. And now, as lead guitarist for a hot up-and-coming band, she is poised at the brink of fame and fortune. But she is torn between wanting to be a serious musician and the demons that lure her down the glittering but alcohol-soaked path of rock stardom. A wrecked concert in Las Vegas threatens to ruin her career...

Quinn is intelligent, popular and very cool. Matilda is a gray mouse and the daughter of hated and depraved neighbors across the street. She loves fantasy novels and is definitely not Quinn's type. But one day the boy has to run away from creatures like from a nightmare and has a serious accident, after which he begins to see things from this world.

The Cyberiad - an amusing mix of traditional fairy tales and science fiction literature with constructors in the role of sorcerers and miracles that are only an incredibly developed engineering skill - is a kind of warning against the lack of moderation, ethics and excessive faith in the omnipotence of engineering.

The hero of The Star Diaries, Ijon Tichy, like Gulliver, communes with various extraterrestrial beings. During his numerous interplanetary journeys, the traveler has met various alien civilizations, created by both sentient beings and advanced robots.

Cormac McCarthy's masterwork, Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians and sell those scalps. Loosely based on fact, the novel represents a genius vision of the historical...

In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a ‘sissy’ by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal,...

Seventeen-year-old Evie Beckham has always been too occupied with her love of math and frequent battles with anxiety to want to date. Besides, she’s always found the idea of kissing to be kind of weird. But by senior year, thanks to therapy and her friends, she’s feeling braver than before. Maybe even brave enough to enter the national math and physics competition or flirt back with the new boy.

November 11, 1918. Leutnant Alois Pokora leaves the hospital and enters the streets of rebellious Berlin. The old world has ended.La Belle Époque died in the trenches of World War I. A new world is born in pain: on the Western Front and during the revolution that swept through defeated Germany.

Konrad Widuch, who comes from Upper Silesia, is a veteran of the Great War, a communist who is wholeheartedly devoted to the revolution. After the war, he and Karol Radek go to Soviet Russia and implement the proletarian order, fighting in the ranks of the Konarmia in the war of 1920. However, the revolution devours its own children. During the purges of 1937, comrade Widuch is arrested,...

Let's say that Erwin Piontek, a 73-year-old miner, is going on a voyage around the world. On an old Venus-class sailing yacht, with a worn-out rubber oilskin, a red woolen cap, a scout compass in a sailing bag and meticulously calculated provisions, he is prepared for a solo expedition. He has an ambitious plan to never put into port, for the entire twenty-nine thousand miles.

Beautiful cars, women, cold vodka and hot blood. Boxing, slums and luxurious brothels, the mud of Wola and the elegant streets of ródmiecie. Jews and Poles. The ghetto benches and street fights. The ethnic, social, religious and political melting pot of Warsaw in 1937. And above all divisions, the rules of the gangster world, where strength is the most valuable currency.