The only thing that can bring down a Quinn is a woman… The next Mighty Quinn… Investigative reporter Brian Quinn is known for two things-always getting his story and always getting the girl. Only, this time neither one is cooperating. He's on the trail of a huge political scandal-one that could make his career-but there's one person standing between him and his story. PR specialist Lily Gallagher-the woman he slept with last night… His downfall… Lily Gallagher is very good at putting a positive spin on things. But even she is having trouble making light of the incredible one-night stand she shared with sexy Brian Quinn. Suddenly she can't keep her mind on her job-or off the sexy Irishman. Only, they're working against each other…and every disagreement ends up in the same place-his bed. But how can she complain, when she's never found her work more satisfying…?

Millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, Brian’s Winter, and Brian’s Return know that Brian Robeson is at home in the Canadian wilderness. He has stood up to the challenge of surviving alone in the woods. He prefers being on his own in the natural world to civilization. When Brian finds a dog one night, a dog that is wounded and whimpering, he senses danger. The dog is badly hurt, and as Brian cares for it, he worries about his Cree friends who live north of his camp. His instincts tell him to head north, quickly. With his new companion at his side, and with a terrible, growing sense of unease, he sets out to learn what happened. He sets out on the hunt

As millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson survived alone in the wilderness by finding solutions to extraordinary challenges. But now that's he's back in civilization, he can't find a way to make sense of high school life. He feels disconnected, more isolated than he did alone in the North. The only answer is to return-to "go back in"-for only in the wilderness can Brian discover his true path in life, and where he belongs

In Hatchet, 13-year-old Brian Robeson learned to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed only with his hatchet. Finally, as millions of readers know, he was rescued at the end of the summer. But what if Brian hadn't been rescued? What if he had been left to face his deadliest enemy-winter? Gary Paulsen raises the stakes for survival in this riveting and inspiring story as one boy confronts the ultimate test and the ultimate adventure

These two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and immeasurably influential Robert Coover are dirty, funny and brilliant. In Briar Rose a sleeping beauty is trapped in an enchantment for a hundred years, dreaming of stories in which someone like her wakes up disappointed, or becomes a mother, or is stripped and defiled. And, as she dreams, outside, failed princes die and hang their remains on the thorns of a briar hedge. In Spanking the Maid a maid and her master are each committed to their own hard service: she, attempting to perform her simple duties without error; he, supplying punishment by rod, belt, hairbrush, whip, cane and slipper when she inevitably fails. These tales of desire are Coover at his most darkly playful

A car bomb explodes in a white-orange flash, blowing a pretty young homicide detective to bits. A thousand miles away in Washington, Benjamin Dill learns of his sister’s murder and returns to their hometown to find out who killed her and why. Dill, a consultant to an obscure Senate investigating subcommittee, has another task to perform. He must obtain evidence from an old boyhood friend, Jake Spivey, about the illegal arms deals that have made Jake a multimillionaire, evidence that would send Jake’s former partner, the sinister Clyde Brattle, to jail for the rest of his life. Are Spivey and Brattle somehow connected to his sister’s death? Why was she leading a strange double life with her boss, Gene Colder, the dapper captain of the squad? Searching for answers to these questions, Dill uncovers an unsavory nest of petty thieves, hired guns, crooked cops and corrupt politicians — all with motives to murder his sister, and each other. He meets the smart, beautiful Anna Maude Singe, who falls in love with him. And in one brief, brutally hot weekend, they are swept up in a vortex of intrigue, betrayal and violence, risking their lives as the mystery reaches its surprising and spellbinding climax. Savage, sexy, sardonic, sophisticated — Briarpatch is all these, and more. Crackling with swift action and sharp dialogue, stinging in its satirical view of a small Midwestern city and its eccentric inhabitants, the novel is a dazzling display of Ross Thomas’s genius as a master storyteller

Paulo Coelho, con más de 35 millones de libros vendidos, no es sólo uno de los autores más leídos del mundo, sino también uno de los escritores con mayor influencia ideológica de hoy en día. Lectores de más de 150 países, sin distinción de credos ni culturas, le han convertido en uno de los autores de referencia de nuestro tiempo. Brida es una novela basada en una historia real de cautivadora belleza, la de la joven irlandesa Brida O` Fern. A la edad de veintiún años, Brida conoce a un mago al que le pide que le ayude a convertirse en bruja. Para ello, la muchacha deberá superar una serie de obstáculos que harán que cambie su concepción de la vida y descubrirá, junto al lector, que el amor es el único medio de alcanzar el mundo espiritual y que nos transfigura, porque cuando amamos queremos ser mejores de lo que somos

Just below the City of Cadence lie the remains of the Dead City of Old Cadence—resonating with the psychic and para energy of its dead souls. Wile exploring the darkest depths of the city, two business partners discover passions within each other that are very much alive… Virginia Burch, a psychic archaeologist, can’t believe her luck when she meets Sam Gage, a ghost-hunter and owner of prime real estate in the Old Quarter of Cadence, above the Dead City. He offers her his space to live and start up her business. What follows is an even more intriguing proposal—to become his wife. Strictly for professional reasons, of course… Their marriage of convenience would lead to a very lucrative business partnership, Gage & Burch Consulting. Until something throws a wrench into the plan: the undeniably sensual energy that exists between them—and love so storng it could wake the ghosts below…

A very public proposal! Gorgeous Sicilian Lorenzo Martelli had proposed to Helen in front of his whole family! How could she say anything other than…yes? Now the Big Day was getting alarmingly close-and the bride-to-be was getting cold feet! The groom, however, was as hot-blooded as ever. He wanted Helen, and Lorenzo always got what he wanted. But would he have to wait until she was ready to be his bride-by choice…?

From the day Favel came to Pendorric as the bride of Roc Pendorric she was drawn more and more under the spell of the place. For hundreds of years the house had stood there on the Cornish cliffs, towering above’ the sea, noble and arrogant as if defying sea and weather and any who came against it. But more forbidding to Favel than the house itself was the legend that hung about it of the curse of the Brides of Pendorric. The bride before her was the beautiful and incomparable Barbarina, and the spirit of Barbarina and her tragedy broods over all the ominous events of Favel’s own story

While in Japan to observe the filming of one of her novels, Pearl Buck was informed that her husband had died. This book is the deeply affecting story of the period that immediately followed — the grief, fears, doubts, and readjustments that a woman must make before crossing the bridge that spans marriage and widowhood

Against the exotic backdrop of China thirteen-and-a-half centuries ago—a land as filled with magic as Tolkien's Middle Earth—two odd companions seek the Great Root of Power. Number Ten Ox is a strong and eager, but rather naive, young peasant; Li Kao is a wily old sage with a slight flaw in his character and a weakness for rice wine. Together, they undertake a perilous quest to save the children of Ox's village from death by poison. The path they take leads them to a homicidal matriarch, the cruelest duke in history, monsters both visible and invisible, men more deadly than monsters, treacherous labyrinths, pleading ghosts whose pleas are incomprehensible, and the gradual realization that before they can accomplish their task they must complete another one: Solve a baffling mystery that occurred a thousand years before they were born. Blending fantasy and folklore with social history and the customs of different periods of ancient China, the author has created a rare and beautiful book that enables Western readers to view the world through ancient Oriental eyes. Bridge of Birds is a tour de force of narrative and literary ingenuity that is funny, sad, shocking, suspenseful, and completely irresistible. At times one submerges in it as in a warm sea formed from the tears of laughter; at other times, the tears are of heartbreak. At the end the reader will find a denouement that is both stunning and deeply poignant. No other book is quite like Bridge of Birds. Unless the author picks up his mouse-whiskered writing brush again, there never will be. BARRY HUGHART, who also has a slight flaw in his character, meditates in a shack in the Arizona Sonoran desert. This is his first novel

When wizards threaten Glorianna Belladonna and her work to keep Ephemera balanced, her brother Lee sacrifices himself in order to save her—and ends up an asylum inmate in the city of Vision. But a darkness is spreading through Vision, perplexing the Shamans who protect it. And Lee is the only one who can shed any light on its mysteries... 

Anglų rašytojos žavi ir linksma komedija apie mūsų laikais gyvenančių vienišų moterų gyvenimą. Tarptautinis bestseleris. Tokios nuostabios ir iki ašarų linksmos komedijos lietuvių kalba seniai nebuvo išspausdinta. „Nuostabiai komiškas kūrinys. Net vyrai juoksis.“ (Salman Rushdie) „Stulbinančiai tiksliai papasakotas mūsų laikų viengungės gyvenimas... kiekviena moteris, kuri yra turėjusi darbą, draugą, ar bent motiną, skaitydama nesusilaikys nekvatojusi.“ (Gill Hornby, „The Times“) “Nėra knygos, kurią rekomenduočiau su didesniu džiaugsmu... iki ašarų juokinga, stebuklingai įžvalgi, be galo jaudinanti”. (Jilly Cooper)

Dmitrijs Veriščagins Briedums Tālākas energoinformatīvās attīstības (TEIA) sistēma IV pakāpe Riga«Vieda» Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Šīs sērijas grāmatās nav gluži parastas. Es sev neizvirzīju mērķi pastāstīt jums cik slikti mes visi dzīvojam, un ieteikt, kur meklējams risinājums. Esmu uzrakstījis izsmeļošas praktiskas grāmatas par metodēm, kuras ļauj sasniegt vēlamo. Nedomājiet, ka šos paņēmienus var reiz izmēģināt un aizmirst.  Cilvēks, kas apguvis šīs metodes, uzsāk jaunu dzīves posmu, no kura atpakaļceļa vairs nav. Viņš atšķiras no citiem cilvēkiem tikpat lielā mērā kā viņi no sava alās dzīvojušā priekšteča. Sērijas autora jauna ilgi gaidīta gramata piedāvā jums unikālas metodes, kas ļauj panākt cilvēka dvēseles,: viņa apziņas un ēteriskā ķermeņa saplūsml šīs saplūsmes rezultātā cilvēks atklāj sevī neierobežota spēka avotu, gūst pieeju intuitīviem datiem, spilgti parādās viņa radošās spējas. Jaunrade, intuīcija, spēks ir tas, kas nosaka cilvēka briedumu un palīdz viņam iekārtot savu dzīvi tā, kā pats to vēlas; saņemt to, ko viņš ir pelnījis; kļūt neatkarīgam no fiziskā ķermeņa. Jums tiek piedāvātas metodes « dvēseles apzināšanai ■   apziņas apgarošanai ■    apziņas sazarošanai ■   apziņas savienošanai ar centrālajām plūsmām ■   apziņas; dvēseles uņ ēteriskā ķermeņa savienošanai Latvijas ekoloģiskās izglītības apgāds Autors piedāvā TEIA (Tālākas energoinformatīvās attīstības) sistēmu — vienotu harmonijas un veselības sasniegšanas sistēmu, kuras pamatā ir enerģētisko plūsmu apzinātas vadīšanas metodikas. Šajā grāmatā, kas ir ceturtā attiecīgajā sērijā (pirmo — "Atbrīvošanās", otro — "Tapšana" un trešo — "Ietekme" latviešu lasītājs jau ir saņēmis), D. Veriščagins piedāvā lasītājam unikālu iespēju apgūt dvēseles, apziņas un ēte­riskā ķermeņa saplūšanas metodes, kas ļauj atklāt sevī neierobežotu spēku avotu, attīstīt savas radošās spējas un efektīvi izmantot intuīciju jebkurā situācijā. No krievu valodas tulkojis Ivars  Alksnis L. Kovalass-Kovaļevskas mākslinieciskais noformējums  I. Alksnis, tulkojums latviešu valodā © L. Kovalass-Kovaļevska, mākslinieciskais noformējums NOVĒLĒJUMS LASĪTĀJAM Izlasījis šo grāmatu, jūs gūsit iespēju uz visiem laikiem izmainīt savu dzīvi, nostājoties uz jaunas evolūcijas pakāpes. Jums atklāsies veselības, slimības, rīcības un cilvēka likteņa patiesie cēloņi. Jūs atbrīvosities no ietekmes, kāda ir lielajiem ener­ģētiskajiem parazītiem, kuri valda pār pārējiem cilvē­kiem un mudina viņus uz pašnāvniecisku rīcību. Atcerieties, ka jūs nedrīkstat kaitēt cilvēkiem, kuri savā attīstībā nav pavirzījušies uz priekšu. Izturieties ar sapratni un palīdziet viņiem. Jums kļūs pieejamas lietas, kuras parastiem cilvē­kiem nav iedomājamas. Nešķiediet savus spēkus vel­tīgi, dzenoties pēc pasaulīgiem panākumiem. Jums ir liels mērķis — atklāt jaunu pasauli un atrast savu vietu tajā. Jūs iegūsit spēju dziedināt, un šī spēja katram atnāks citādi. Izmantojiet to, lai darītu labu. Palīdziet nesavtīgi. Jūsu dvēselē notiks nostiprināšanās process, un jūs varēsit vest sev līdzi citus cilvēkus. Nesiet viņiem gais­mu un prieku, nevis tumsu un sāpes. Jūs vairs nebūsit atkarīgs no karinas un karmis- kajām slimībām. Palīdziet to sasniegt arī citiem. Jums būs ticība — īstais pasaules pārveidošanas instruments. Lai jūsu ticība atnes labumu arī citiem. Lai noietu ceļu līdz galam, jums varbūt būs vaja­dzīga palīdzība. Meklējiet to pie tādiem pašiem ceļinie­kiem, kāds esat pats. Pazīstiet cits citu pūlī. Mācieties cits no cita. Atcerieties cits citu. Nokļuvis jaunā attīstības pakāpē, jūs būsit jaunas enerģētiskās kopības daļa, brīvu cilvēku kopības daļa. Sniedziet cits citam atbalstu. Atcerieties cits citu un dalieties enerģijā, jo brīvības cena ir augsta un vienam tā dažkārt nav pa spēkam. Atcerieties mūs, kas pirmie iegāja jaunajā pasaulē. Mēs jums veidojam jaunu enerģētisko vienotību. Grūtā brīdī vērsieties pie mums, un mēs nāksim palīgā. Vērsieties pie mums laimes mirklī, un mēs varēsim palīdzēt miljoniem citu cilvēku. Nāves nav. Mēs atsauksimies arī no viņas puses. Sajūtiet saiti ar mani, šo rindu autoru. Es to gaidu. Lūdziet palīdzību un palīdziet man. Pievienojiet jaunajai enerģētiskās vienotības gais­mai savus starus. Veidojiet jaunu, brīvu cilvēci. Jūs esat to pelnījuši

Der Brief an den Vater ist ein 1919 verfasster, jedoch niemals abgeschickter Brief Franz Kafkas an seinen Vater. Er wurde postum veröffentlicht und ist ein bevorzugter Text für psychoanalytische und biographische Studien über Kafka. Nachdem Kafka im Januar 1919 bei einem Kuraufenthalt in Schelesen (Böhmen) Julie Wohryzeck kennen gelernt hatte und sich einige Monate später mit ihr verlobte, reagierte sein Vater ungehalten auf seine neuen und unstandesgemäßen Heiratspläne. Es wird angenommen, dass dies der Auslöser für die Verfassung des Briefes zwischen dem 10. und 13. November 1919 war. Die Hochzeit war ursprünglich für den November geplant, fand jedoch nicht statt. Der vordergründige Anlass war eine vergebliche Wohnungssuche. Der Brief besteht im Original aus mehr als hundert handschriftlichen Seiten, auf denen Kafka versucht, seinen Vaterkonflikt schreibend zu bewältigen. Viele seiner Lebensschwierigkeiten schreibt er der Wesensunvereinbarkeit zwischen sich und dem Vater zu. Der Brief endet mit der Hoffnung, dass durch ihn sich beide ein wenig beruhigen werden und Leben und Sterben leichter gemacht werden kann

This collection of Huxley short stories contains After the Fireworks which is the length of a short novel and deals with the predicament of a well-known writer who finds himself approached as an oldish man, by an importunate female admirer who aspires at all costs to be his mistress. A further three stories are included, which are, Chawdron, The Rest Cure and The Claxtons. This is a must read for all Huxley fans

From the author of the acclaimed memoir When Skateboards Will Be Free comes a fiercely original and unforgettable collection of linked short stories, several of which appeared originally in The New Yorker. An unnamed American city feeling the effects of a war waged far away and suffering from bad weather is the backdrop for this startling work of fiction. The protagonists are aimless young men going from one blue collar job to the next, or in a few cases, aspiring to middle management. Their everyday struggles-with women, with the morning commute, with a series of cruel bosses-are somehow transformed into storytelling that is both universally resonant and wonderfully uncanny. That is the unsettling, funny, and ultimately heartfelt originality of Saïd Sayrafiezadeh's short fiction, to be at home in a world not quite our own but with many, many lessons to offer us

David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. The series of stories from which this exuberantly acclaimed book takes its title is a sequence of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. These portraits of men at their most self-justifying, loquacious, and benighted explore poignantly and hilariously the agonies of sexual connections

In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls the fleeting moments that have never left him — a scorching day in a blossoming orchard with a woman who loves another; a furtive, desperate affair in a Black Sea resort; the bunch of snowdrops a crippled childhood friend gave him to give to his lover

In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac. Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and doctors attempt to bring him back to reality. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous pyschological adventure that takes him from a spinning raft in the Atlantic to a ruined stone city on a tropical island to an outer-space journey through singing planets. As he travels in his mind through memory and the farther reaches of imagination, his doctors try to subdue him with ever more powerful drugs in a competition for his soul. In this provocative novel, Lessing takes us on a harrowing voyage into the rarely glimpsed territory of the inner mind

Laurenss Roberts Stains Briesmoņa asinis Asinis, Visur Asinis… Ciemojoties pie savas dīvainās krustmātes Ketrinas, Evanss apmeklē jocīgu, vecu rotaļlietu veikalu un nopērk putekļiem klātu kārbu ar Briesmoņa asinīm. Sākumā rotaļas ar tām sagādā prieku. Evansa sunim Trigeram kārbas saturs iepatīkas tik ļoti, ka viņš to nogaršo! Taču pēc kāda laika Evanss ievēro, ka ar zaļo, glumo nasu notiek kaut kas savāds šķiet, ka tā aug. un aug. un aug. un augot Briesmoņa asinīm pamostas briesmīga apetīte… Lasītāj, nešaubies mati stāvus sacelsies! Par autoru Domājot par jauniešiem, R. L. Stains ir sarakstījis ap divdesmit aizraujoša, noslēpumaina un nedaudz šausmi­noša sižeta grāmatu, kas guvušas visplašāko lasītāju at­saucību. Noteikti pieminamas izdevniecības Scholastic iz­dotās grāmatas Sit un skrien, Draudzene un Auklīte II. Viņa spalvai pieder arī Baiļu ielas sērija. (Šis grāmatas gan jūs vēl nevarat izlasīt latviešu valodā. Red.) Kad R. L. Stains neraksta šausminošas grāmatas, viņš ir Nickelodeona bērnu TV šova Eurikas pils idejas autors. Rakstnieks dzīvo Ņujorkā kopā ar sievu Džeinu un dēlu Metjū. Sajā sērija: Kr. 1 LAIPNI LŪDZAM MIROŅU MĀJĀ Nr. 2 TURIETIES TĀLĀK KO PAGRABA Kr. 3 BRIESMOŅA ASINIS Kr. 4 PASMAIDI UN MIRSTI isbn 118401335-2 drīzumā nr5 KAPEŅU LĀSTS Egmont 2001 Tulkojusi Sandra Rutmane Redaktore Aija Lāce Noskanējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

Riks Riordans Briesmoņu jūra Rick Riordan THE SEA OF MONSTERS Lasi par jaunajiem galvu reibinošajiem Persija Džeksona piedzīvojumiem ilgi gaidītajā Zibens zagļa turpinājumā! Persija Džeksona septītais mācību gads aizvadīts aiz­domīgi mierīgi. Ņujorkas privātskolā nav manīts neviens pats briesmonis. Taču, kad nevainīga bumbu spēle starp Persiju un klasesbiedriem pārtop nāvējošā cīņā pret ne­gantu kanibālu baru, viss saiet… teiksim tā, dēlī. Turklāt Anabeta negaidot paziņo: noslēpumains ienaidnieks sain­dējis burvju robežas, kas līdz šim sargājušas Pusdievu no­metni. Ja neatradīsies pretlīdzeklis, tad vienīgais patvē­rums būs pagalam. Persijam un draugiem nāksies šķērsot Briesmoņu jūras ūdeņus, lai glābtu nometni. Taču vispirms kāds negaidīts noslēpums liks Persijam aizdomāties — vai būt par Poseidona dēlu ir gods vai tikai ļauns joks. "Šajā varoņdarbu pārbagātajā sērijā Riordans ir radījis turpinājumu, kas pārspēj aizraujošo debiju." RIKS Riordans BRIESMOŅU JŪRA No angļu valodas tulkojusi Laura Freidenfelde Noskannējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis JUMAVA Rick Riordan THE SEA OF MONSTERS Text copyright © 2006 by Rick Riordan, permission for this edition was arranged through the Nancy Gallt Literary Agency Cover © John Rocco Translation copyright © 2013 Atbildīgā redaktore Marta Ābele Literārā redaktore Ieva Kolmane Tehniskā redaktore Irēna Soide Korektore Brigita Šoriņa Maketētājs Ivars Vimba Patrikam Džonam Riordanam — labākajam stāstniekam ģimenē

Isabella Aljende Briesmoņu pilsēta Bezgalīgās sērijas 1. grāmata Vai esi kādreiz vēlējies krustām šķērsām izstaigāt Amazones mūžamežus? Vai gribi uzzināt, kā šodien dzīvo indiāņi? Vai tev ir kāds sapnis, kuru nekad neesi iedrošinājies piepildīt? Ja ir, tad šī Isabellas Aljendes grāmata noteikti veldzēs tavas piedzīvojumu alkas… Piecpadsmitgadīgo Aleksandru Koldu gaida neaizmirstams piedzīvojums: puisim uz Amazones zemieni jāpavada viņa ekscentriskā vecmāmiņa Keitā Kolda, kurai kāda žurnāla redakcija ir pasūtījusi rakstu par dīvainu un nepazīstamu radījumu, ko dēvē par Briesmoni. Alekša acīm atklāsies jauna pasaule: ne tikai krāšņie un briesmu pilnie džungļi ar to pārsteidzošajiem iemītniekiem, bet arī vistumšākie cilvēku noslēpumi. Isabella Aljende (1942), čīliešu rakstniece, ir viena no populārākajām mūsdienu rakstniecēm Latīnamerikā. Vina pati sevi uzskata par Bezgalīgajā sērijā aprakstītās ekscentriskās vecmāmiņas Keitas Coldas prototipu. Briesmoņu pilsēta ir rakstnieces pirmais jauniešiem adresētais darbs, par kuru viņa pati saka: „Te vienā veselā savijušies piedzīvojumi, maģija, humors un daba," No spāņu valodas tulkojusi Guna Pigita 2008 Noskannejis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Alehandro, Andreai un Nikolai viņi man lūdza uzrakstīt šo stāstu

Vilburs Smits Briesmu varā No angļu valodas tulkojusi Aija Čerņevska "Iezvanījās BlackBerry. Heizela izņēma mobilo tālruni no somas. Paziņojums ekrānā vēstīja: "Jums ir 2 neatbildēti zvani un 1 ziņa. Vai parādīt ziņas?" Viņa nospieda pogu "Parādīt". Ekrānā parādījās meitas sūtītā īsziņa. Tā bija biedējoši īsa un vienkārša: Notiek briesmu lietas. Svešinieki ar ieročiem…" Viscaur no tērauda un dimanta kā naftas urbis tā bagāto atraitni Heizelu Benoku pirmajā tikšanās reizē novērtē pieredzējušais korporācijas drošībnieks Hektors Kross. Heizela pati pārvalda mantojumā saņemto naftas impēriju un vienlaikus audzina meitu Keilu daiļu, bet ārkārtīgi patvaļīgu un izlaistu būtni. Kad Keilu sagūsta Somālijas pirāti, Heizelai ir tikai viena iespēja atgūt meitu dzīvu lūgt palīdzību Hektoram, kura aizbildnieciskā tipiska mačo izturēšanās iesveļ Heizelā nevaldāmas dusmas. Cīņā ar Somālijas pirātiem šoreiz nevar palīdzēt nedz ASV prezidents, nedz prāvas naudas summas, jo pirātu mērķis ir atriebība. Tāpēc ienaidnieka midzenī jādodas vīram, kurš arī ir stingrs kā tērauds, gudrs un viltīgs kā čūska un spēj izzināt pat visrūpīgāk glabātos noslēpumus… Vilburs Smits (Wilbur Smith, dz. 1933) uzaudzis Ziemeļrodēzijā, tēvam piederošā fermā, kur jau bērnībā devies medībās kopā ar vietējiem. Viņa dēku kāre ir tikpat liela kā rakstnieka talants. V. Smita romāni tulkoti divdesmit sešās valodās, un visā pasaulē pārdoti vairāk nekā 120 miljoni viņa darbu eksemplāru! www.wilbursmithbooks.com "Vilburs Smits ir viens no pasaulē populārākajiem piedzīvojumu romānu rakstniekiem." The Washington Post Book World ISBN 978-9923-0-2734-5 "Bagāta atraitne, naftas lauki, izlutināta pusaudze un negan­tas kaislības Vilburs Smits pārspēj pats sevi, nepārspējami asā spriedzes romānā iekļaujot sirdi plosošu stāstu par liktenīgu mīlestību un nežēlīgu nodevību, par jūtām un kaislībām, kas ceļ un gremdē. Skarbas cīņu epizodes mijas ar lieliskām mīlas ainām." Saturday Evening Post "Vilburs Smits ir viens no augstākā līmeņa rakstniekiem, kura darbus ir grūti salīdzināt ar citu rakstnieku darbiem. Tie vienlai­kus ir gan sižetiski spraigi un emocijām pārpilni, gan vienkārši rakstības veida izvēlē un domas atklāsmē." The Times "Grāmatas "Briesmu varā" uzmanības centrā ir ļoti aktuāla tēma mūsdienu pirātisms. Ziemeļāfrikas pirāti jau gadiem ilgi netraucēti siro okeānā, nesodīti laupot kuģus un cilvēkus. Cīņai pret tiem ir nepieciešama enerģiska rīcība aci pret aci, zobu pret zobu…" Amazon.com "Spriedzes pilns, vērienīgs un dinamisks vēstījums par cīņām un piedzīvojumiem tuksnesī un jūrā." Amazon.com "Romānu "Briesmu varā" var ieteikt visiem, kurus aizrauj spriedze, spēcīgas personības, kolorīts vides atainojums, dina­misks vēstījums… Ir tikai daži rakstnieki, kas var sasniegt ko tādu, ko spēj Vilburs Smits." Sunday Express Arņa Kilbloka vāka dizains Vilburs Smits BRIESMU VARĀ Redaktore Iveta Polkmane © Tulkojums latviešu valodā. Apgāds Zvaigzne ABC 2012 ISBN 978-9934-0-2734-5 Šī gramata veltīta MOHINISO - manas sirds karalienei. Bez viņas mīlestības un atbalsta tā nebūtu tapusi. Tēvs mūžīgais, kas iespēj glābt, kas viļņu bangām pavēl stāt un dziļam okeānam, kad tas vētrā dimd, liek mūžam ierādītos krastos rimt. Ak, uzklausi mūs, Dievs, kad tevi lūdz, un palīdzi jel tiem, kam jūrā liktens grūts. VILJAMS VAITINGS. "Those in Peril" (1860); pirmais pants himnai, kas bieži tiek saistīta ar ASV un Lielbritānijas floti. (Atdzejojusi Lija B rīda ka.) Noskannējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

Nikolajs Gogolis Izlase Briesmīgā atriebība Latvijas Valsts Izdevniecība Rigā 1948 Tulk. M. Mencendorfa Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

NIKOLAJS GOGOLIS IZLASE BRIESMĪGĀ ATRIEBĪBA LATVIJAS VALSTS IZDEVNIECĪBA RiGĀ 1948 Tulk. M. Mencendorfa Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

Olafs Gūtmanis Brieža dziesma Grāmatas autors vairākkārt pabijis vienā no attālākajiem mūsu zemes novadiem — Sibīrijā, kur dzīvojis gan zieme|u tundrā aiz polārā loka, gan taiga starp medniekiem un zvejnie­kiem. Klausīdamies viņu raibajos stāstos, kā arī pats iedams vāveru, caunu, sabu|u, lapsu, vilku medībās, viņš labi iepazinis šo skarbo novadu, tā bagātīgo dzīvnieku pasauli un |audis. Stāstu un tēlojumu pamatā izmantoti patiesi notikumi un atga­dījumi, ko pieredzējis pats autors ka Sibīrijā, tā arī tepat Latvijā. Izdevniecība «Liesma» Riga 1977 Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Олаф Индрикович Гутманис Оленья песня Художник А. Спрудж Издательство «Лиесма» 1977 На латышском языке Mākslinieks Aivars Sprūdžs  «Liesma», 1977 , 70803- 237

 Ulle Matsons Briga "Trīs lilijas" Pazīstamā zviedru rakstnieka Ulles Matsona stāsts ir par zēna Mikeļa piedzīvojumiem. Viņš dzīvo pie savas vecmāmiņas nabadzīgā būdiņā, kur ziemā auksti un reizēm arī ar ēdamo ir pagrūti. Tomēr viņi saglabā dzīvesprieku, jo viņiem ir draugi, kā arī aitiņa Ulrika un suns Bobbe, kuri kliedē garlaicību. Un ja nebūtu bagātnieka Sintora, kurš viņus grib izdzīt no viņu nožēlojamā mitekļa, viņi ne par ko nebēdātu. Miķelis sapņo, ka atgriezīsies viņa tēvs, kurš  pirms vairākiem gadiem ar brigu "Trīs lilijas" devies ceļojumā un pazudis, un tad viņiem sāksies jauna neparasta dzīve; un arī pats Miķelis tad kopā ar tēvu dosies  jūrā. Vai piepildīsies šis Miķeļa sapnis par to uzzināsiet šai grāmatā... Latvijas Valsts Izdevniecība Rīgā I965 No zviedru valodas tulkojusi Elija Kliene M. CEGODAJEVAS ilustrācijas G. KROĻĻA vāks un titullapa Noskannējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

From bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy, a profoundly authentic, action-packed adventure set in Roman Britain. AD 100: BRITANNIA. THE EDGE OF THE ROMAN WORLD. Flavius Ferox is the hardbitten centurion charged with keeping the peace on Britannia’s frontier with the barbarian tribes of the north. Now he’s been summoned to Londinium by the governor, but before he sets out an imperial freedman is found brutally murdered in a latrine at Vindolanda fort – and Ferox must find the killer. As he follows the trail, the murder leads him to plots against the empire and Rome itself, and an old foe gathering mysterious artefacts in the hope of working a great magic. Bandits, soldiers, and gladiators alike are trying to kill him, old friends turn traitor, and Ferox is lured reluctantly to the sinister haunts of the old druids on the isle of Mona, and the bitter power struggle among the Brigantes, the great tribe of the north…

Torn between the possibilities… Fleeing her centaur clan's increasingly militant beliefs, Brighid Dhianna has begun to find peace and acceptance among the humans of Clan MacCallan. Still, she agrees to leave her newly formed friendships to guide her clan chieftain's grieving brother home. As she journeys, Brighid discovers that the long-dormant Shaman blood that runs so thickly in her veins will no longer be silenced. As seductive new powers begin to beckon, Brighid glimpses a future that is more impossible – and more magical – than any she could have dared to imagine. But when tragedy summons her back to the Centaur Plains, Brighid must make a decision that will affect not only her friendship with the humans, but the centaur herd and indeed the world. For the Great Goddess Epona has set her on a new path that demands everything she has to give. When the whole world is turning to her for help, healing the heart of a warrior doesn't sound so daunting…

The tragicomedy of a young man in NYC, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs. *** All messed up and no place to go. It's six a.m., the party's over and reality is threatening to intervene in the frenetic, powder-fuelled existence of a young man who should have everything but might just end up with nothing at all… His wife, a famous model, has left him. His job at a Prestigious Magazine can't last much longer. And the life he's been living in Manhattan's fast lane as if he owned it is about to end. Even a bright young man eventually has to face the biggest question of them all: which is worse, living an illusion – or losing it?

Jay McInerney's first novel since the best-selling The Good Life a sexy, vibrant, cross-generational New York story — a literary and commercial read of the highest order. Russell and Corrine Calloway seem to be living the New York dream: book parties one night and high-society charity events the next; jobs they care about (and actually enjoy); twin children, a boy and a girl whose birth was truly miraculous; a loft in TriBeCa and summers in the Hamptons. But all of this comes at a high cost. Russell, an independent publisher, has cultural clout but minimal cash; as he navigates an industry that requires, beyond astute literary taste, constant financial improvisation, he encounters an audacious, expensive and potentially ruinous opportunity. Meanwhile, instead of seeking personal profit in this incredibly wealthy city, Corrine is devoted to feeding its hungry poor, and they soon discover they're being priced out of their now fashionable neighborhood. Then Corrine's world is turned upside down when the man with whom she'd had an ill-fated affair in the wake of 9/11 suddenly reappears. As the novel unfolds across a period of stupendous change-including Obama's historic election and the global economic collapse he inherited — the Calloways will find themselves and their marriage tested more severely than they ever could have anticipated

"Linguistically explosive. . one of the most interesting American writers around." — The Nation "Ducornet — surrealist, absurdist, pure anarchist at times — is one of our most accomplished writers, adept at seizing on the perfect details and writing with emotion and cool detachment simultaneously. I love her style because it is penetrating and precise but also sensual without being overwrought. You experience a Ducornet novel with all of your senses." — Jeff Vandermeer A feral boy comes of age on a campus decadent with starched sheets, sweating cocktails, and homemade jams. Stub is the cause of that missing sweater, the pie that disappeared off the cooling rack. Then Stub meets Billy, who takes him in, and Asthma, who enchants him, and all is found, then lost. A fragrant, voluptuous novel of imposture, misplaced affection, and emotional deformity. An artist and writer, Rikki Ducornet has illustrated books by Robert Coover, Jorge Luis Borges, Forrest Gander, and Joanna Howard. Her paintings have been exhibited widely, including, most recently, at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Salvador Allende Museum in Santiago, Chile

Lavan Chitward and his family just moved to Haven and are fastly becoming part of the highest members of the Guild social circles. Lavan was very unhappy, but his family didnt care, they were. To make matters worse, his parents enrolled him into a private school where bullys quicjly made him a new target among the scapegoats. Whenever the boys picked on him, he'd turn a bright red which often left his skinned feeling burned and gave him a horrible headache which would leave him unable to attend classes. But when he returned the bullys started up again. This time they got a suprise. Lavan's Gift awakened with a vengence. His gift was FireStarting. Untrained and unable to control it, he set fires all around him, engulfing the bullys and killing them. Then to the suprise of many, he was Chosen. Valdemar needs his help in defeating an enemy, but if he isn't careful, his Fire Storms will consume him as well

Millennia ago the Five Galaxies decreed the planet Jijo off limits. But in the last thousand years six races have begun resettling Jijo, embracing a pre-industrial life to hide their existence from the Galactics. Overcoming their differences, the Six have built a society based on mutual tolerance for one another and respect for the planet they live on. But that has all changed with an event the Six have feared for hundreds of years: the arrival of an outside ship. David Brin has returned to his popular Uplift universe in this, the first book of a new trilogy

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge a death

Subjuguée par l’intelligence de son époux, elle se définit comme « la présidente de son fan-club ». Elle dit ne jamais l’influencer mais se contenter de « l’accompagner »… Pourtant, nul ne doute que, pour Emmanuel Macron, Brigitte est bien plus que ce qu’elle prétend. Depuis leur rencontre au lycée de la Providence jusqu’au perron de l’Élysée, elle n’a cessé de l’inspirer et de le guider. « Emmanuel a eu trois maîtres à penser : Paul Ricoeur, Michel Rocard et Brigitte » explique un proche. Jusqu’à lui attribuer, depuis son passage à Bercy, un rôle de collaboratrice. « Il ne fait rien sans elle », dit-on dans l’entourage présidentiel, avec quelques grincements de dents. Mais qui est vraiment cette première dame d’un genre nouveau, First Lady à la française qui intrigue les médias du monde entier ? Comment supporte-t-elle les rumeurs et polémiques que son couple génère ? Au-delà de leur relation de couple et de ses tenues très commentées, l’auteur suit les traces d’une femme qui, en dépit de son âge, apparaît parfois comme l’atout jeunesse du Président, « plus transgressive » que lui de l’avis de leurs proches. Une femme qui a déjà plusieurs vies, un destin indéniablement romanesque

In Wyoming, a little girl reads people’s darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. They’re called “brilliants,” and since 1980, one percent of people have been born this way. Nick Cooper is among them; a federal agent, Cooper has gifts rendering him exceptional at hunting terrorists. His latest target may be the most dangerous man alive, a brilliant drenched in blood and intent on provoking civil war. But to catch him, Cooper will have to violate everything he believes in—and betray his own kind. From Marcus Sakey, “a modern master of suspense” (Chicago Sun-Times) and “one of our best storytellers” (Michael Connelly), comes an adventure that’s at once breakneck thriller and shrewd social commentary; a gripping tale of a world fundamentally different and yet horrifyingly similar to our own, where being born gifted can be a terrible curse

Doctor Rodney McKay can't believe his eyes when he discovers a moon leaving planetary orbit for a collision course with its own sun. Keen to investigate, he finds something astonishing on the moon's surface — an Ancient city, the mirror of Atlantis… But the city is not as abandoned as he thinks and Colonel Sheppard's team soon encounter a strange sect of Ancients living beneath the surface, a sect devoted to decadence and debauchery, for whom novelty is the only entertainment. And in the team from Atlantis they find the ultimate novelty to enliven their bloody gladiatorial games… Trapped on a world heading for destruction, the team must fight their way back to the Stargate or share the fate of the doomed city of Admah… This book is a production of the InterWorld's Bookforge. http://interworldbookforge.blogspot.ru/. Follow for new books. http://politvopros.blogspot.ru/ — PQA: Political question and answer. The blog about russian and the world politics. http://auristian.livejournal.com/ — Interworld's political blog in LJ. https://vk.com/bookforge — community of Bookforge in VK. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Кузница-книг-InterWorldа/816942508355261?ref=aymt_homepage_panel — Bookforge's community in Facebook

New York Times-bestselling author Robert B. Parker takes aim at the Old West with this brilliantly crafted follow-up to Resolution and Appaloosa, again featuring guns-for-hire Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. When we last saw Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, they had just put things to right in the rough-and-tumble Old West town of Resolution. It's now a year later, and Virgil has only one thing on his mind: Allie French, the woman who stole his heart from their days in Appaloosa. Even though Allie ran off with another man, Virgil is determined to find her, his deputy and partner Everett Hitch at his side. Making their way across New Mexico and Texas, the pair finally discover Allie in a small-town brothel. Her spirit crushed, Allie joins Everett and Virgil as they head north to start over in Brimstone. But things are not the same between Virgil and Allie; too much has happened, and Virgil can't face what Allie did to survive the year they were apart. Vowing to change, Allie thinks she has found redemption through the local church and its sanctimonious leader, Brother Percival. Given their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town's deputies. But Brother Percival stirs up trouble at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, the two struggle to keep the peace. As sharp and clear as the air over the high desert, Brimstone proves once again that Robert B. Parker is 'a force of nature' (The Boston Globe)

Taz thought learning she’s a vampire, surviving attacks on her life, and falling for sexy Matthias were difficult. Can life get any crazier? Haunted by a devastatingly familiar phantom voice, Taz struggles to cope with new bombshells and the painful loss of Matthias’s cousin, Rafe. As she forges ahead, Taz knows her heart belongs to Matthias. What she doesn’t know is yet another betrayal from where they least expect it lies around the corner. When they all travel to London to carry out justice for Rafe, Taz finds herself in a fight not just for her life, but for her sanity. With the mysterious, lupine-like Others showing no signs of dropping their pursuit of her, Taz struggles to find her way. Fortunately, she has Matthias by her side. Unfortunately, she has to conceal her painful secret from his grandfather, Tobias. But even worse...she's got a wedding to plan

Delilah and her partner – tall, dark, handsome, and Hispanic ex-FBI guy Ric Montoya – are busy solving a "Romeo and Juliet" double-murder and she's got plenty more to deal with: vampires, werewolves, and tigers, oh my!

Trapped in 1877, a historian writes an account of an alternate history of America in which the South won the Civil War. Living in this alternate timeline, he was determined to change events at Gettysburg. When he's offered the chance to return to that fateful turning point his actions change history as he knows it, leaving him in an all too familiar past. “[WARD MOORE IS] ONE OF THE BEST AMERICAN WRITERS.” The United States never recovered from The War for Southern Independence. While the neighboring Confederacy enjoyed the prosperity of the victor, the U.S. struggled through poverty, violence, and a nationwide depression. The Industrial Revolution never occurred here, and so, well into the 1950s, the nation remained one of horse-drawn wagons, gaslight, highwaymen, and secret armies. This was home for Hodgins McCormick Backmaker, whose sole desire was the pursuit of knowledge. This, he felt, would spirit him away from the squalor and violence. Disastrously, Hodgins became embroiled in the clandestine schemes of the outlaw Grand Army, from which he fled in search of a haven. But he was to discover that no place could fully protect him from the world and its dangerous realities…. “The Civil War has been often rethought, most effectively in Ward Moore's Bring the Jubilee.” #42 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written. ‘Seminal… concise and elegiac.’ ‘A classic alternative world story.’ ‘One of the best American writers.’