When an EMP wipes out Britain’s power grid, four strangers are forced to band together to survive. The power’s out, the water’s gone and cars have stopped working. Two hundred miles from home, Annie soon suspects the cause, but accepting the truth means giving up the hope she’s been clinging to for months. London is the last place Clive wants to be now that darkness has fallen. Armed, trained and resourceful, getting out should be easy—but life isn’t that simple. Terry has seen the chaos first hand, but what can he do? He’s kept his mouth shut and his head down for so long, he no longer knows how to stick up for himself. Can he step up now the world is crumbling around him? Soon they’re left with no choice but to leave, as London descends into chaos. It’s only two hundred miles to safety, but it might as well be two thousand miles in this new, dark world where criminals are rushing to take advantage of the lawlessness. Pushed to their limits and with only a run-down block of flats in common, can they bury their differences and fight their way to safety?

A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas in the sixteenth century that continue to reverberate throughout modernity — a story unlike anything you’ve ever read before. Sudden Death begins with a brutal tennis match that could decide the fate of the world. The bawdy Italian painter Caravaggio and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo battle it out before a crowd that includes Galileo, Mary Magdalene, and a generation of popes who would throw Europe into the flames. In England, Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII behead Anne Boleyn, and her crafty executioner transforms her legendary locks into the most sought-after tennis balls of the time. Across the ocean in Mexico, the last Aztec emperors play their own games, as conquistador Hernán Cortés and his Mayan translator and lover, La Malinche, scheme and conquer, fight and f**k, not knowing that their domestic comedy will change the world. And in a remote Mexican colony a bishop reads Thomas More’s Utopia and thinks that instead of a parody, it’s a manual. In this mind-bending, prismatic novel, worlds collide, time coils, traditions break down. There are assassinations and executions, hallucinogenic mushrooms, utopias, carnal liaisons and papal dramas, artistic and religious revolutions, love stories and war stories. A dazzlingly original voice and a postmodern visionary, Álvaro Enrigue tells a grand adventure of the dawn of the modern era in this short, powerful punch of a novel. Game, set, match

Pure fun, pure intrigue. The action never stops until a fascinating climax! -Clive Cussler You like golf, you like murder mysteries, then Sudden Death is your book! -James Patterson *** Reid Clark is a pro golfer at the top of the leader board during the PGA tour; he s also a hothead with a reputation for trouble. Reid receives a death threat right before teeing off on the final day of the Master's Tournament, and hires a P.I. to track down the perpetrator. Suspense builds throughout as Reid tries to compete in one of golf s most prestigious contests…and woo the woman he loves…while dodging death at every turn. For golfers, and mystery lovers in general, Sudden Death will score big

Jimmy never thought he’d be spending the apocalypse farming in Nebraska and worrying about Hunter. But when the plague killed their parents, along with everyone over the age of seventeen, Jimmy suddenly became head of the household. Then the oldest kid in town turned eighteen and the plague chased him down. Now Jimmy has one more thing to worry about—and he’s running out of time. Hunter finds a little girl named Catherine under a cottonwood tree in the middle of nowhere. When Catherine magically heals Hunter’s broken arm, Jimmy hopes he will survive his eighteenth birthday if he can protect her from the horseman responsible for unleashing the plague. “I really liked this novel… intriguing [and] well-written…” “You will be wrapped up into the story line almost immediately. I had to know what was going to happen next.”

Ashley Kimbrough has everything a woman could want. Not only is she wealthy and successful, she has a more than satisfying sex life in The Channel, a secret network that allows women to live out their wildest fantasies. But if she doesn't find herself a husband she could be in danger of losing it all. Then multi-millionaire Ryan Mulcahy enters Ashley's life. With that Celtic warrior's body and drop-dead gorgeous face, he makes her fantasies run wild. Although their marriage is one of convenience, Ashley is starting to wonder whether she can use everything she learned from The Channel on her unsuspecting husband

In a village far away, deep in a valley, all the animals and birds disappeared some years ago. Only the rebellious young teacher and an old man talk about animals to the children, who have never seen such (mythical) creatures. Otherwise there’s a strange silence round the whole subject. One wretched, little boy has dreams of animals, begins to whoop like an owl, is regarded as an outcast, and eventually disappears. A stubborn, brave girl called Maya and her friend Matti, are drawn to explore in the woods round the village. They know there are dangers beyond and that at night, Nehi the Mountain Demon comes down to the village. In a far-off cave, they come upon the vanished boy, content and self-sufficient. Eventually they find themselves in a beautiful garden paradise full of every kind of animal, bird and fish — the home of Nehi the Mountain Demon. The Demon is a pied piper figure who stole the animals from the village. He, too, was once a boy there, but he was different, mocked and reviled, treated as an outsider and outcast. This is his terrible revenge, one which has punished him too, by removing him from society and friendship, and every few years he draws another child or two to join him in his fortress Eden, where he has trained the sheep to lie down with the wolves, and where predators are few. He lets the two children return to the village, telling them that one day, when people are less cruel and his desire for vengeance has crumbled, perhaps the animals might come back…

A poignant, heartbreaking new work — the story of a lonely older man and his devoted young caretaker who transform each other's lives in ways they could never have imagined. Ernst is a gruff seventy-year-old Red Army veteran from Ukraine who landed, almost by accident, in Israel after World War II. A retired investment advisor, he lives alone (his first wife and baby daughter were killed by the Nazis; he divorced his shrewish second wife several years ago) and spends his time laboring over his unpublished novels. Irena is the unmarried thirty-six-year-old daughter of Holocaust survivors who has been taking care of Ernst since his surgery two years ago; she arrives every morning promptly at eight and leaves every afternoon precisely at three. Quiet and shy, Irena is in awe of Ernst's intellect. And as the months pass, Ernst comes to depend on the gentle young woman who runs his house, listens to him read from his work, and occasionally offers a spirited commentary on it. But Ernst's writing gives him no satisfaction, and he is haunted by his godless, communist past; his health, already poor, begins to deteriorate even more. As he becomes mired in depression, Ernst seems to lose the will to live. But he has reckoned without the devoted Irena. As she becomes an increasingly important part of his life-moving into his home, encouraging him in his work, easing his pain-Ernst not only regains his sense of self but realizes, to his amazement, that Irena is in love with him. And, even more astonishing, he discovers that he is in love with her

Septyniolikmetė Suada pirmą kartą įsimyli, ir jos meilė sulaukia atsako. Tačiau kaime, kuriame ji gyvena – kaip ir daugelyje kitų Palestinos kaimų, – įsimylėti iki vestuvių tolygu pasirašyti mirties nuosprendį. Todėl Suados šeima nusprendžia „garbę praradusią“ merginą nužudyti. Kitą dieną po nuosprendžio vidiniame namų kiemelyje besitvarkančią merginą giminaitis apipila benzinu ir padega. Tačiau turėjusi mirti „dėl garbės“ Suada ir jos kūdikis per stebuklą išgyvena, ir, sulaukę vienos prancūzės pagalbos, pabėga nuo savo šeimos į Europą. Tačiau ir čia mergina negali jaustis saugi – gimtosios šalies papročiai jos giminaičius įpareigoja nužudyti ją bet kokia kaina... Savo ruožtu žiauraus nuosprendžio vykdytojas vietos gyventojų akyse yra didvyris, nes jo nežmoniškas nusikaltimas yra „nusikaltimas dėl garbės“. Nuosprendžio vykdytojas niekuo nerizikavo, nes dėl jo veikos niekas niekada nesikreips į teisėsaugą. Per metus pasaulyje įvykdoma gausybė panašių nusikaltimų, visuomenė kasmet sužino apie 5000 tokių įvykių, bet niekas negali pasakyti, kiek jų lieka nutylėta... Per stebuklą likusi gyva Suada išdrįso papasakoti savo istoriją. Tai didvyriškas poelgis, nes pasauliui papasakodama apie savo tragediją moteris rizikuoja būti surasta giminių. Tačiau Suada įsitikinusi – ji privalo kalbėti. Tai vienintelis būdas atkreipti pasaulio dėmesį į barbariškus papročius, kasmet beprasmiškai pražudančius tūkstančius moterų, ir pradėti su jais kovą

Suder, Percival Everett's acclaimed first novel, follows the exploits and ordeals of Craig Suder, a struggling black third baseman for the Seattle Mariners. In the midst of a humiliating career slump and difficulties with his demanding wife and troubled son, Suder packs up his saxophone, phonograph, and Charlie Parker's Ornithology and begins a personal crusade for independence, freedom, and contentment. This ambitious quest takes Suder on a series of madcap adventures involving cocaine smugglers, an elephant named Renoir, and a young runaway, but the journey also forces him to reflect on bygone times. Deftly alternating between the past and the present, Everett tenderly reveals the rural South of Suder's childhood — the withdrawn father; the unhinged, protective mother; the detached, lustful brother; and the jazz pianist who teaches Suder to take chances. And risk it all he finally does: Suder's travels culminate in the fulfillment of his most fanciful childhood dream

Klifas supažindina Kitę su tviskančiu aukštuomenės pasauliu, bet nuostabi meilė trunka neilgai; Kitė nenori prasidėti su vedusiu vyru, tačiau Klifas dievagojasi, kad jo šeima – tik popierinė, jau subyrėjusi. Jis išsinuomoja puikų butą prie Eliziejaus Laukų, ir atrodo, kad jiedviem niekas nebestos skersai kelio. Tačiau realybė kitokia. Ilgainiui Klifordas pasirodo visu gražumu, jį nuolat vilioja malonumai ir nemalonumai, naktimis siūlomi Pigalio aikštėje. Kai Kitė supranta esanti talentinga, Klifas visaip mėgina ją sugniuždyti. Kitė pamažu praranda viltį, ir suvokia tik viena: ją išgelbės nebent stebuklas

Karls Majs Sudrabezera dzelmes noslēpums mežonīgo rietumu stāsts Šis romāns latviešu valodā izdots jau 30. gados un ir viens no visinteresantākajiem K. Maja darbiem. Tajā aprak­stīts laika posms ASV pagājušā gadsimta 70. gados. Cīņa romānā noris starp gaišiem un tumšiem spēkiem. Izveidojas divas komandas, kas cenšas viena otru apsteigt ceļā uz ezera pasakainajām bagātībām. Te cīnās bālģīmji ar sarkanādainajiem, tiek šauts no koltiem un auļots ar mustangiem. Lasītājs sastapsies gan ar apaču virsaiti Vinetū, gan Veco Ugunsroku, gan Lielo Lāci, gan Garo Ausi u. c. Blakus bru­ņotai cīņai noris sacensība viltībā un gudrībā. Ļoti spraigais sižets tur lasītāju savā varā līdz pat grāmatas pēdējai lap­pusei. Karls Majs (1842—1912) ir vācu rakstnieks, indiāņu pie­dzīvojumu romānu autors. Viņa darbi tulkoti 25 valodās, pēc viņa romānu sižetiem uzņemtas kinofilmas. Sagatavots pēc izdevniecības «Dzintarzeme» izdevuma Tulkojis Jorģis(Georgs) Mednieks Noskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Mākslinieks V. Parkovs Avots 1994

Mit seinem eigenen Boot, der Snark, kreuzte Jack London zwei Jahre lang in der Südsee. Die Erfahrungen dieser Zeit liegen den vierzehn Erzählungen dieses Bandes zugrunde, in denen das Leben der Insulaner, ihre Freiheitsliebe und die Brutalität beschrieben werden, mit der die Weißen in die naivgrausame Welt der Eingeborenen einbrachen. Die Südseegeschichten kreisen um den nackten Existenzkampf der weißen Abenteurer und um den Widerstand, den ihnen die Insulaner -vorwiegend Kannibalen und Kopfjäger -entgegenbringen.    Zauberglauben    und Kannibalismus werden mit Sklavenhandel und Hochmut der Weißen konfrontiert. Auf beiden Seiten wird mit erbarmungsloser Härte gekämpft und gemordet. Die Natur ist in diesen Abenteuergeschichten mehr als Kulisse: Die Südsee mit ihren gefährlichen Stürmen, Korallenriffs und Sandbänken fordert die Menschen immer wieder zum Kampf heraus und nimmt sie gleichzeitig mit dem Zauber ihrer bizarren Wildheit und Ursprünglichkeit gefangen. Hier stellt Jack London seine meisterhafte Erzählkunst erneut unter Beweis