Maska (Stanisław Lem. Dzieła, #29)

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Cartoon History of the Universe I, Vol. 1-7: From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great

Author	Larry Gonick
ISBN	0385265204

This is a really fun—and actually quite comprehensive—historical overview. It's very handy as sort of a quick-reference guide and/or as a supplemental companion to the reading of primary source history texts. (I found it to be fabulously helpful along these lines with respect to Herodotus.)

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The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love

Author	Kristin Kimball
ISBN	1416551603

"This book is the story of the two love affairs that interrupted the trajectory of my life: one with farming—that dirty, concupiscent art—and the other with a complicated and exasperating farmer."

Single, thirtysomething, working as a writer in New York City, Kristin Kimball was living...

Gateway

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0345475836

Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror.

When prospector Robinette Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently...

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Author	Anne Fadiman
ISBN	0374527229

Anne Fadiman is—by her own admission—the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material...

Ship Fever: Stories

Author	Andrea Barrett
ISBN	0393316009

1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as...

Brzechwa dzieciom

Author	Jan Brzechwa
ISBN	8310079109

Polecam wszystkim mówiącym po polsku, szczególnie tym, którzy uczą się polskiego i tym, którzy chcą polepszyć swoją polszczyznę, te książkę wierszyków napisanych przez Jana Brzechwy. Pisanie jest po prostu wspaniałe. Łatwo je rozumieć. Przeczytałam głośno z moją babcią,...