It's fascinating to see some of my favourite crime novelists coming together to create a taut, tense thriller; each chapter stands alone as a powerful story, yet they also combine seamlessly into a great read. Genuinely gripping.' – Harlan Coben *** With each crime writer picking up the story in their usual locale, each of the authors tell a gripping story of murder, betrayal and intrigue. Running through each story is a charm bracelet which brings bad luck wherever it's found. Set in locations ranging from nineteenth-century Georgia to wartime Leeds, the book features stories from contributors such as Peter Robinson (writing about 1940s Leeds), Fidelis Morgan, Lynda La Plante (1970s Britain), Val McDermid (1980s Scotland) and Mark Billingham tackling contemporary London

Ex-army musketry trainer, Jay Benson and his wife Lucy’s dream of running a shooting school turns sour as the school heads towards certain closure. They need money — quickly, and a lot of it. At the eleventh hour Augusto Savanto, head of a vast corporation in Venezuela, walks into their lives with a proposition they can scarcely refuse — he will pay them $50,000 to turn his son into an expert marksman, in nine days. Desperate for money they accept the challenge but find themselves in a deadly game of ruthless vendettas and vengeful murder. 

“All I can say is, if this should be the world’s and, it’s a real black color...”

It’s business school, the Branson way. Whether you’re interested in starting your own business, improving your leadership skills, or simply looking for inspiration from one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time, Richard Branson has the answers. Like a Virgin brings together some of his best advice, distilling the experiences and insights that have made him one of the world’s most recognized and respected business leaders. In his trademark thoughtful and encouraging voice, Branson shares his knowledge like a close friend. He’ll teach you how to be more innovative, how to lead by listening, how to enjoy your work, and much more. In hindsight, Branson is thankful he never went to business school. Had he conformed to the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, would there have been a Virgin Records? A Virgin Atlantic? So many of Branson’s achievements are due to his unyielding deter­mination to break the rules and rewrite them himself. Here’s how he does it

In Like Life's eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Moore's characters stumble through their daily existence. These men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can't quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York. Jane is biding her time at a cheese shop in a Midwest mall. Dennis, unhappily divorced, buries himself in self-help books about healthful food and healthy relationships. One prefers to speak on the phone rather than face his friends, another lets the answering machine do all the talking. But whether rejected, afraid to commit, bored, disillusioned or just misunderstood, even the most hard-bitten are not without some abiding trust in love

"Violent, erotic, blasphemous, and extreme." -Fear Zone "Without apologies, White tears through your emotions, from sympathy to hate, humor to shock..." -Horror Web From a world-ending orgy to home liposuction. From the hidden desires of politicians to a woman with a fetish for lions. This is a place where necrophilia, self-mutilation, and murder are all roads to love. Like Porno for Psychos collects the most extreme erotic horror from the celebrated hardcore horror master. Wrath James White is your guide through sex, death, and the darkest desires of the heart

Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen—“Here is the effect of these two books,” wrote the Chicago Tribune: “A reader finishes them buzzing with awe”—Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade. Like You’d Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with a host of narrators only Shepard could bring to pitch-perfect life. Among them: a middle-aged Aeschylus taking his place at Marathon, still vying for parental approval. A maddeningly indefatigable Victorian explorer hauling his expedition, whaleboat and all, through the Great Australian Desert in midsummer. The first woman in space and her cosmonaut lover, caught in the star-crossed orbits of their joint mission. Two Texas high school football players at the top of their food chain, soliciting their fathers’ attention by leveling everything before them on the field. And the rational and compassionate chief executioner of Paris, whose occupation, during the height of the Terror, eats away at all he holds dear. Brimming with irony, compassion, and withering humor, these eleven stories are at once eerily pertinent and dazzlingly exotic, and they showcase the work of a protean, prodigiously gifted writer at the height of his form. Reading Jim Shepard, according to Michael Chabon, “is like encountering our national literature in microcosm.”

A neurosurgeon is sexually assaulted, stabbed and left for dead in her office at the labyrinthine Mid-Manhattan Medical Centre. The police designate her Likely to Die. Alexandra Cooper, head of the district's sex crimes unit, assembles a task force to investigate but finds herself hindered at every turn. Not only has her office prosecuted some of the vast hospital's patients and staff before but the building itself compounds the problem. A vast complex encompassing a medical college and the Stuyvesant Psychiatric Centre, the hospital rises over a network of tunnels now occupied by numberless transients who have easy access to the corridors. Strung out with other cases and mired in the investigation personally when even the man she has begun to date, has a connection to the case, Alex must find the killer – before the killer finds her…

Tomass Mains Rīds Liktenīgais šāviens Amerikas Dienvidu štatu Misisipi baseina dzīve un parašas. Negaidīti aizraujošā sižeta pavērsieni, plantatora meitas mīlestība, bet fonā cietsirdība, nodevība un naids. No krievu valodas tulkojis Ēriks Valdis noskanējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Mākslinieks A. Liepiņš. Redaktors V. Zanders. Rīga 1992

MIHAILS BULGAKOVS Liktenīgās olas Ārsts, žurnālists, dramaturgs, prozaiķis, 20. gadsimta krievu literatūras ikona Mihails Bulgakovs (1891-1940) visā pasaulē pazīstams kā romānu "Meistars un Margarita","Baltā gvarde", stāstu "Suņa sirds" un vairāku lugu autors. "Liktenīgās olas" (1924) ir groteska filozofiska antiutopija par sava laika dzīvi Padomju Savienībā. Spilgtos fantastikas elementus rosinājusi ne tikai "fantastiskā" pēcrevolūcijas realitāte, bet ari krievu vēlīnais ekspresionisms. МИХАИЛ БУЛГАКОВ Роковые яйца No krievu valodas tulkojusi Maija Kudapa Māksliniece Arta Ozola-Jaunarāja Vāka noformējumam izmantota Vasilija Kandinska glezna "Oveicast" Atbildīgā redaktore Mārīte Gulbe Zinātniskā redaktore Silviju Radzobe Literārās redaktores Valda Melgalve un Silvija Radzobe Tehniskā redaktore Irēna Soide Korektore Brigita Šoriņa Maketētājs Ingus Feldmanis ISBN 9984-05-893-X © Apgāds "Jumava", izdevums latviešu valodā, 2005 © Maija Kudapa, tulkojums latviešu valoda © Silvija Radzobe, pēcvārds, 2005 © Arta Ozola-Jaunarāja, mākslinieciskais noformējums, 2005 © Vasilijs Kandinskis; AKKA/LAA, Rīga