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Children's & YAJanuary 2022Start a Fire. First Round
by P.S. Herytiera
START A FIRE is a story about difficult and toxic relationships (between young people, and these with parents and family), forbidden feelings, persecution and even stalking. The main characters “burn in a fire they kindled themselves”. From the day of its premiere, the book has sold over 200,000 copies in Poland, and has been holding first place on the bestseller lists for almost half a year. Summary of the book: We started a fire which we were not able to control Victoria Joseline Clark was quite an intelligent girl but she clearly lacked judgement. For seventeen years of her life she considered herself an ordinary person and also led an ordinary life. Education in a renowned secondary school, constant fights with her irritating twin brother, frequent parties with friends, family dinners — she did not stand out from the crowd of other kids living in the small town of Culver City in California. Unfortunately, no one prepared the girl for the fact that a tall boy with a dead look and a cold smile could be her greatest nuisance. A few ill-chosen words and being in the wrong place at the wrong time resulted in a battle she was not prepared for. Everything got out of hand when this black-eyed, jaded boy turned out to be a front-runner of illegal boxing fights her mother has hated. Victoria wished she could turn back time. Every time she looked into the jet-black eyes, she begged in her mind not to see them again. He was a problem she was not able to solve. Chaos which came. She begged for absolution which was not granted. Both of them were too great sinners for this.
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Children's & YAMarch 2022Start a Fire. Second Round
by P.S. Herytiera
We are burning in a fire which we have started ourselves How much is Victoria Clark, an ordinary 17-year-old from a small town in California, willing to sacrifice for an inappropriate relationship with dark Nathaniel Shay? Even she herself does not know that, although during conversations with her friends who warn her about her boyfriend, she defends him for unjustified reasons, getting more and more entangled in the web of lies. It’s of no importance that the girl’s mother sees nothing but evil in Nathaniel and is ready to do anything to eradicate from her daughter that wicked seed that the twenty-year-old has sown in her. Victoria knows that there will come a moment in her life when she will have to make a decision – choose between what she wants and what would be most appropriate for her. However, she does not expect it to be that difficult. Because even though she may be deceiving herself, this handsome cold-eyed boy was pure destruction. Delightful destruction, full of lies, darkness and heat, drawing her to the bottom of hell. But does Victoria have the strength to get out of it? “The story of Victoria and Nathaniel is quite complex, precise – and that's what I love about it. As I started writing, I noticed that I prefer to focus on the characters from the psychological point of view rather than a dynamic storyline loaded with events. To inject soul into them and sometimes make the reader forget that they are fictional characters. My little dream was for my characters to be multidimensional and it seems to me that I managed to do it”, said Katarzyna Barlińska in an interview for one of the literary websites.
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Children's & YASeptember 2022Burn the Hell. Third Round
by P.S. Herytiera
Let the world burn in the fire that we have started Victoria Joseline Clark is trying to live a new life. A life devoid of chaos and darkness. Of problems, cries, uncertainty and fear. Of pain in the body and soul. Of everything which Nathaniel Shey evoked. But it is not easy to resist the spell of this toxic boy’s black eyes, even if the eighteen-year-old already knows that their depth could be deadly. There is no magical key which you could press to erase your memories. It is both a bad and a good thing. Victoria closes off her past and gets rid of its traces — even at the cost of breaking off relationships which bring up memories of the previous months... Unfortunately, it does not work. Nathaniel Shey does not want to leave, although he really left a long time ago. The past is like an anchor which keeps a tight rein on Victoria’s life and does not allow her to embark on the path to the future. When Nate suddenly appears in the girl’s life following a five-month separation, the flame which has been smouldering all the time is starting to burn again. Beautiful and destructive.
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Children's & YADecember 2021Flaw(less)
Opowiedz mi naszą historię
by Marta Łabęcka
This girl. This boy. Not the right time... Two secondary school students from a small town near London. Josephine, a respectable girl from a good family, and Chase, a boy who can be described in a number of ways, but surely not as perfect. It is also hard to call Chase’s family good — his mother has always paid more attention to drugs and alcohol than to her son. Soon Josephine is leaving for Boston to study and fulfil her family’s expectations — she has to be perfect after all. Chase... well, he will just try not to follow in his mother’s footsteps. It seems that nothing links these two teenagers apart from the place they live in and the school they go to. They have something in common though. Both are trying to cope with loneliness, each of them in their own way. They hide behind a facade of indifference, they conceal their true, sensitive selves from the world. They meet each other by chance and the turn of events results in them slowly confiding in each other, perhaps more than they would like. Is it even worth investing in this relationship, if Josie is soon to disappear from Chase’s world?
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Children's & YAJune 2022All Of Your Flaws
Przypomnij mi naszą przeszłość
by Marta Łabęcka
She stepped into the same river for the second time. Now she is trying not to drown in it. Having left to study in Boston, not only did Josephine fulfil the role of a perfect daughter which had been imposed on her, but she also took advantage of this departure. It was an escape from her family which was not able to or did not want to give the girl love, from the routine of a small town, from the memories. Both bad and good. For six years Josie kept forgetting her past, erasing it from her memory, closing it off. Now she is coming back. She was leaving as a confused, lonely secondary school student. Six years later she is coming back as a woman who keeps both feet on the ground, with a fiancé by her side. She still does not know that her comeback to Moreton will turn her life upside down again. She will have to look at herself, at the relationships with her own family and at her own feelings from a new perspective. He stayed in Moreton after all. Chase. The boy who she has been trying to forget for all these years...
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Children's & YAOctober 2022Despite Your (im)perfections
Dotrzymaj złożonej mi obietnicy
by Marta Łabęcka
Tell me our story. It is so beautiful... Josephine and Chase are happy at last. After all storms and blizzards which fate did not spare them, they are still together, united with a feeling. The most beautiful fruit of their love, the eighteen-year-old Destiny, is growing up. Destiny knows the story of her parents and like many people her age she is dreaming of experiencing love that would be equally romantic — with a happy ending, of course. Meanwhile, we get to know her when she leaves with her parents to spend a holiday with family and friends. The girl cannot wait to meet people close to her heart... Especially one person who is very important to her. Alfie, that she used to play with when they were children, became a handsome man and it is him who Destiny especially wants to see. Since she is her parents’ daughter, soon matters will start to get complicated, just like before...
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Children's & YAJune 2023My Beloved Monster
by Marta Łabęcka
Why did you do this, Chad?! Norwood in North Carolina was considered the calmest place on Earth. Its residents knew each other very well — they were aware of their neighbours’ joys and sorrows, spent their time together, they were friends. People used to say nothing bad ever happens in Norwood. Adults said these words gently and calmly, teenagers with a degree of irritation. With all its idyllic qualities their small town was just boring. It had been like this until the day Chadwick Myers decided to ruin this peace fulness and aimed his gun at his best friends. The fact that his girlfriend Holly Wilson was absent from school made her in everyone’s eyes an accomplice in the cruel crime which resulted in Norwood suddenly making the front page of newspapers in the USA. What was behind this horrible act of Holly’s beloved? Is Chadwick Myers really a monster that the residents of Norwood take him for? Will the girl eventually learn the truth?
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Children's & YADecember 2022Burn the Hell. Fourth Round
by P.S. Herytiera
These embers will not stop burning, they will smoulder forever. Victoria Clark knows she will not manage to escape the inevitable any more. Soon, she will be an adult and making decisions is becoming more difficult. Each day brings her closer to the unavoidable — she will finally have to decide what to do next. Should she leave for a renowned university thousands of miles away from Culver City or slip out of the window of her bedroom every night to see a person who is the embodiment of paradise for her? Victoria has to face the truth even if it proves to be painful. The truth is that she is falling into a whirlwind again. A whirlwind caused by Nathaniel. He is to be blamed for everything getting out of hand and chaos ruling Victoria’s life. As Victoria faces new revelations time and time again, the most painful truth is that Nathaniel’s soul bears a thousand scars. She is the only one who tries to heal them all, but she cannot see that this makes her slowly bleed... She is the only one who believes she met a good man…
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Children's & YAJuly 2023Extinguish the Heat. Fifth Round
by P.S. Herytiera
When fervor absorbs us, blow away ash from my scarred heart Victoria Clark abandoned her hometown Culver City to make her late mother’s greatest dreams come true – live in a different state, study at a prestigious university and find a good job. But in reality, her life in Lewiston in Maine was a source of pain and she did not want to talk about it. Unfortunately, some man ruined Victoria’s and her brother’s peace of mind, which was apparently illusive, with just one telephone call. This one conversation ruined years of therapy and attempts to forget the past. To make matters worse, it made the perspective of coming back to her hometown more realistic than ever before. Victoria has to make a decision again: should she leave the issue of her family behind or try to learn the truth about her mother who lied to her her whole life. The greatest threat, however, is the awakening of the long forgotten feelings. Since Victoria left Lewiston, she has tried to have everything under control. She has tried to predict, plan and leave nothing to chance. This detailed plan starts to disintegrate when Victoria realizes that the black-eyed boy with a hurt soul still lives in Culver City…
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Children's & YASeptember 2023Extinguish the Heat. Sixth Round
by P.S. Herytiera
Who were we? The truth was that we were just people who made a lot of mistakes, with a spot right in the middle of hell reserved for us. Some returns are a source of joy. Others cause pain like a newly opened wound, for they bring something that gives neither happiness nor solace, but only unnerves and frightens. Victoria Clark did not want to go back to Culver City. However, fate constantly had her face new challenges that she was not ready for... So the girl can do nothing but watch helplessly, as her seemingly orderly life once again descends into chaos and gets wrecked by the truth about her family. This includes her father, who has been watching her steps closely for years, only to show up at the right moment. That time has come now, and even though Victoria fears that the truth may destroy her, she works up the courage to fight because she is not alone anymore. Nathaniel Shey dared run after her to support her at the most difficult times. Though the girl knows that things will never be the same again, she decides to uncover the truth. All sins must be brought to light in the end. But do the sinners deserve redemption?
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Children's & YAApril 2022Spark
by Monika Rutka
A new place, a new home, new people... and sleeping demons of the past Elizabeth Parker leaves sunny Californian beaches for rainy England in the middle of the school year. What is more, she starts living with complete strangers and is to spend upcoming months with them. Lots of changes for a single teenager. From the very beginning Crosby seems like an ideal place for her. Is there a better place to hide than a small seaside town and a home which is like a safe island? The Shaws — Jon and Josephine — as well as their daughter Caroline do everything they can so that Lizzie could make herself at home. As for the son... Chase, to say the least, does not show such friendliness as his parents and sister. He is prejudiced and distrustful. Elizabeth also considers him as someone exceptionally irritating. Will Chase’s concerns about Elizabeth prove to be reasonable? What if Crosby is not the end of the world after all? Did Lizzie’s father have a reason to choose this house for her?
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Children's & YAAugust 2022Flame
by Monika Rutka
The bridges have burnt, the island has sunk... and dormant demons of the past are coming to life A small spark can start a fire. A brief infatuation can lead to a much stronger bond than love. One little lie can initiate the weaving of a cobweb which, once you are tangled up, is difficult to escape. In the life of Lizzy and Chase there are enough lies for a few other people. When the curtain of lies comes down, the truth does not bring any relief. It only brings more questions and doubts. Who is who? Whom can you trust if you cannot even fully trust yourself? Dark clouds gather over Crosby. A hurricane is coming and neither Lizzy nor Chase are ready for what is to follow. The sequel to the novel Spark which female readers loved.
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Children's & YANovember 2022Ashes
by Monika Rutka
You can escape from people, even from feelings, but the demons of the past will always catch up with you! When Elizabeth Parker boarded a plane, she did not only leave rainy England behind. She also abandoned a baggage of lies, suffering and tears. The darkness from back when she was living with the Shaws. Now she is tougher than ever before, ready to face the new reality. Without secrets hurting her heart and soul, without suffering and without... Chase. At least that is what Lizzy thinks. She even manages to do so for some time. But demons rise from the ashes left in Crosby after the fire lit by Lizzy... The Atlantic is not an obstacle for them.
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Children's & YAJune 2023The Wave
by Monika Rutka
Sometimes we have to do bad things to survive. Does it mean we are bad people? Brighton, Great Britain, 1950. A young veteran, Herman Jones, decides to continue the service for his country and to join the British police force. His father’s influential acquaintance, Clarence Langford, can help him take the first steps in his professional journey. The businessman invites both Joneses to his house for supper to talk about his potential supporting for Herman. Herman meets Clarence’s daughters there: Janette and Florence. The conversation progresses according to the officer of the law’s expectations. It seems it will be a nice evening. Everything changes when the men hear a cry of the host’s wife. At that time he did not know yet that he would have to make the hardest decision in his whole life. That it would be him who would have to decide on the fate of a young girl. He did not know then that this decision would impact his whole future.
