Po tamtej stronie rzeki
Translated title: On the Other Side of the River
Author: Szymanska, Ewa
Genre: Family Saga / Social Novel
Year: 2026 | Pages: 344 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 91992
The year is 1939. Szymon Borkowski works on Count Przyluski's estate; he is a very good manager, a happy father and husband. The family idyll is interrupted by war. When bombs fall on Borycin, his wife Bogumila is giving birth to their fifth child. The Borkowskis struggle to survive in this cruel reality. Some villagers disappear without a trace, deported deep into Siberia, others fall victim to German repression. Reconciling family concerns with their own values and honor is not easy. When Szymon becomes involved in the Polish underground, Bogusia fears daily for the safety of her loved ones. Conflict escalates between the couple, and they grow increasingly distant. But life has a way of surprising them. On the Other Side of the River is a dramatic story about the will to survive, which compels them to build a new home on the ruins, and about love that forgives all. Against the backdrop of the story of the Borkowski family, the author shows the fate of the inhabitants of Podlasie from the outbreak of the war, through the Soviet and German occupation, to the first post-war years in communist Poland
Pod milczacym niebem. Dom wyjatkowy. Tom 1
Translated title: Under the Silent Sky. A Unique Home. Volume 1
Series: Vol 1
Author: Majewska-Ziemba, Katarzyna
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2026 | Pages: 384 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 92010
Exceptional people create exceptional places.
Lucyna's life isn't a bed of roses. She's disappointed by constant conflicts with her father and the lack of warmth in her family home. She's also unlucky in love. Searching for her path, she decides to don the habit and take her vows.
She arrives in Warsaw, where she lives in a convent home for orphans run by nuns. From that moment on, she becomes Sister Benedicta, who, with passion and faith in her purpose, begins working with abandoned children.
Life in a Catholic orphanage isn't easy. Poverty and disease are omnipresent, yet there's something that makes this place feel like home - care and love. The sisters not only provide care but also strive to give the children a semblance of family warmth, even though they know they can't replace their parents. The children learn to live together, even if they come from different backgrounds - including those that adults divide into 'us' and 'them'.
This is a story about a place created not out of ideals, but out of need
Zanim zaplonal swiat. Saga krzemieniecka. Tom 1
Translated title: Before the World Burned. The Kremenets Saga. Volume 1
Series: Vol 1
Author: Sawicka, Wioletta
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2026 | Pages: 288 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 92001
Zamosc, 2022.
An elderly, ailing woman, Alicja, receives a book from the library. Within its pages, she finds Marta, a friend from seventy years ago, with whom she shared a post-war fate as children in Wroclaw. Each survived a different conflagration: Marta from the Soviet era, Alicja from the Volhynian era. Her memories lead Alicja to Volhynia, to Krzemieniec, a city seemingly peaceful but already marked by impending catastrophe.
Kremenets in Volhynia, 1930s.
Helena Krzemieniecka, a young, self-confident chemical engineer, strives for independence and carving out her own place in a man's world. She desires more than was expected of a woman of her time. Therefore, she consistently rejects the successive marriage candidates her mother, raised in ancient ideals, finds for her. Defying her family and conventions, Helena seeks money to fulfill her dreams.
At her side are her friends: Ukrainian Dmytro and Jewish couple Zuzanna and Szymon. They share a friendship stronger than their national differences, and a promise that, no matter the circumstances, they will always be able to count on each other.
Meanwhile, the atmosphere in Volhynia is thickening with distrust, Polish-Ukrainian tensions, and antipathy toward Jews. Conflicts that had been silenced until now are suddenly surfacing.
This is a story about the pre-war Borderlands. About love, ambition, dreams, and a world that doesn't yet know it's about to ignite
Zima pozegnanych. Krystyna Lesinska. Tom 4
Translated title: The Winter of the Farewells. Krystyna Lesinska. Volume 4
Series: Vol 4
Author: Kantoch, Anna
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2026 | Pages: 312 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 91986
Several years after the events described in 'Spring of the Missing', a young neighbor, Milosz Najder, contacts retired policewoman Krystyna Lesinska, asking for help. He recently received an email containing a video of a woman walking through the woods. He doesn't know who sent it or who the mysterious blonde is. Krystyna takes it as a joke or a mistake, but Milosz is convinced the woman may be in danger, since someone is clearly watching and secretly filming her. However, a second video soon appears, and then a third, and Krystyna begins to worry. With her grandson's help, she manages to track down the woman's address in the video, but before she can decide what to do next, she is hospitalized with bronchitis. Two months later, Krystyna learns of a double homicide in Patnów near Legnica: the victims are the blonde from the video and Milosz Najder. The police are clear: Milosz Najder attacked the woman, and she killed him in self-defense. Krystyna does not believe this version of events and, at the request of Milosz's sister, begins her own investigation, in which she is assisted by a writer she has recently met who is interested in true crime
Przetok
Translated title: Fistula
Author: Szczukowska-Bialys, Hanna
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2026 | Pages: 432 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 92007
SOMETIMES THE GREATEST CRIMES ARE BORN FROM LOVE
Dominika struggles to cope with the grief of her mother's death and rebuild her shattered life. Jakub grapples with the tragedy of his father's terminal illness and decisions that will forever alter their relationship. Fate intertwines their paths in unexpected ways, and their shared suffering leads to the edge where morality ends and the dark side of human nature begins.
Mateusz returns to his hometown, trying to start over. When he takes a job as a driver for the charismatic priest Wirtel, his life takes an unexpected turn. The priest harbors a dark secret, and his attempt to uncover the truth will prove to be the beginning of a deadly game.
Przetotka is a psychological thriller full of tension, mystery, and emotion. It's a story about faith, guilt, the limits of morality, and how evil can arise where we least expect it
Co robia cienie gdy nie patrzymy
Translated title: What Shadows Do When We're Not Looking
Author: Patkowski, Maciej
Genre: Horror
Year: 2026 | Pages: 496 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 91965
The entire family gathers at the snow-covered Denhoff Palace. The family's senior member dies under mysterious circumstances. Jakub Getling, a policeman from Warsaw, exiled to a remote province, takes up the investigation. No one trusts him. No one wants to cooperate with him...
So we have a dead body, and then... more dead bodies. A narrow circle of suspects. An old palace in Kobryn and snow outside. And an investigator tasked with tracking down the murderer and solving the mystery. All in all, it's like a good, classic, retro crime thriller.
However, something appears that is more disturbing than the villains in typical detective novels - because here, it's not only the living who speak out... And the cawing birds seem to know more than humans from the very beginning.
'What the Shadows Do When We're Not Looking' is a highly original combination of an Agatha Christie-style crime novel and a Stephen King horror novel
Anonim
Translated title: Anonymous
Author: Brzezinska, Diana
Genre: Crime / Mystery
Year: 2026 | Pages: 440 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 91973
One night. One secret. One letter that shatters the peace of a small community after seventeen years.
An anonymous tip arrives at the police station with a description of a crime from years ago: beatings, kidnappings, dismemberment... and a bonfire over which the perpetrators allegedly roasted human body parts. No one knows the victim's name. No one wants to remember that night. Yet, someone finally snaps.
Prosecutor Komorowski and police officer Kozlowski pursue a trail reminiscent of a village legend - until information from wiretaps, interrogations, and testimonies begins to coalesce into something terrifyingly coherent. Panic grows. Someone is lying. Someone is trying to save their family. Someone is hiding a truth that could destroy the lives of many.
This is a story about wine that is worn like a second skin.
About lies that mature in silence.
And about revenge that tastes worse than fear
Tam i z powrotem + trzy metry
Translated title: There and Back + Three Meters
Author: Orszulik, Sebastian
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Year: 2026 | Pages: 380 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 91980
To what lengths will you go to satisfy your deepest desires? Rzeszów, 2008. The basement of a newly constructed apartment building was supposed to smell of lime and fresh paint. Instead, it's filled with the heavy stench of decay. It's there that investigators discover a man's body. For Commissioner Dawid Wilk, it's just another routine case. Prosecutor Bartosz Chojecki wants to close it as quickly as possible. Only Sebastian Orwicz senses that there's more behind this crime - even though he doesn't wear a police badge himself. Orwicz is overseeing the construction of a new wing of the city hospital. It's there that he meets Anna Jagier, a neonatal nurse, who disturbs his peace and ignites his senses. It soon turns out her husband is the victim found in the basement. Sebastian knows this crime is only the beginning. Following the trail that leads to a nightmare world - full of leather belts, eroticism, and pain - he becomes increasingly lost in his search for the truth. He doesn't notice that Death is already reaching out for more victims. This time, one of them might be him... or Anna - the only person Sebastian would dare descend into Hell itself for
Grzechy Przeszlosci. Pokuta
Translated title: Sins of the Past. Penance
Author: Zajac, Szymon
Genre: Horror
Year: 2026 | Pages: 54 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 91967
Every sin has its price.
Stories of women wreaking havoc have rarely made it into the chronicles. For years, they existed only in the world of reluctantly passed down legends - forgotten, too dark to be written. Until now.
After witnessing an assassination attempt, Bianca develops a disturbing fascination with blood. Teenage mistakes lead to decisions that intensify her new obsession - dangerous, alluring, and spiraling out of control.
Agnes, a noblewoman from an incestuous family, is willing to do anything to seize power. Literally anything. When she begins to delve into the secrets of alchemy, she must decide against whom to use it - other families, the emperor, or perhaps... her own family?
Adelle is a witch who sold her soul to a demon. Initially, his influence seems harmless, but over time, dark whispers turn into demands. Will her pact with the demon prove to be salvation, a fatal mistake, or the only path to true power?
Each of these women carries within them an element of destruction. Each follows a path that leads in only one direction... And from this place, no matter how hard one tries, there is no return
Laurka
Author: Sinicka, Alicja
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2026 | Pages: 352 | Origin: POL | BA Seq Num: 91961
A new book by Alicja Sinicka, author of bestselling thrillers.
What can you do to protect your secrets?
Joanna struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder after masked attackers break into her home. She and her husband move to a new home for a fresh start. An idyllic neighborhood, families with children, and manicured gardens - at first glance, the neighborhood seems like a place of solace, but it also holds its secrets.
When the neighbor's daughter, whom Joanna is caring for, gives her a card with the words 'HELP' written on it, Joanna begins to observe her surroundings more carefully. She suspects that this new place may prove more dangerous than the one she fled
