Silicon Valley: the eccentric inventor of a new encryption application is murdered in an apparent drug deal. Istanbul: a cynical undercover operative receives a frantic call from his estranged brother, a patent lawyer who believes he’ll be the next victim. And on the sun-drenched slopes of Sand Hill Road, California ’s nerve center of money and technology, old family hurts sting anew as two brothers who share nothing but blood and bitterness wage a desperate battle against a faceless enemy. Alex Treven has sacrificed everything to achieve his sole ambition: making partner in his high-tech law firm. But then the inventor of a technology Alex is banking on is murdered, the patent examiner who reviewed the innovation dies-and Alex himself narrowly escapes an attack in his own home. Off balance, out of ideas, and running out of time, he knows that the one person who can help him is the last person he’d ever ask: his brother. Ben Treven is a military liaison element, an elite undercover soldier paid to “find, fix, and finish” high-value targets in the United States global war on terror. Disenchanted with what he sees as America ’s culture of denial and decadence, Ben lives his detached life in the shadows because the black ops world is all he really knows-and because other than Alex, whom he hasn’t spoken to since their mother died, his family is long gone. But blood is thicker than water, and when Ben receives Alex’s frantic call he hurries to San Francisco to help him. Only then does Alex reveal that there’s another player who knows of the technology: Sarah Hosseini, a young Iranian American lawyer whom Alex has long secretly desired-and whom Ben immediately distrusts. As these three struggle to identify the forces attempting to silence them, Ben and Alex are forced to examine the events that drove them apart-even as Sarah’s presence, and her own secret yearnings, deepens the fault line between them. A full-throttle thriller that is both emotionally and politically charged, Fault Line centers on a conspiracy that has spun out of the shadows and onto the streets of America, a conspiracy that can be stopped by only three people-three people with different worldviews, different grievances, different motives. To survive the forces arrayed against them, they’ll first have to survive one another

Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life’s work of Germany’s greatest poet, Goethe. Beginning with an intriguing wager between God and Satan, it charts the life of a deeply flawed individual, his struggle against the nihilism of his diabolical companion Mephistopheles. Part One presents Faust’s pact with the Devil and the harrowing tragedy of his love affair with the young Gretchen. Part Two shows Faust’s experience in the world of public affairs, including his encounter with Helen of Troy, the emblem of classical beauty and culture. The whole is a symbolic and panoramic commentary on the human condition and on modern European history and civilisation

Johans Volfgangs fon Gēte Fausts 1 un 2 daļa Traģēdija Jāņa Raiņa tulkojumā Klasiķa Gētes traģēdija par veco labo tēmu dvēseles pārdošanu. Tajā ir gan grieķu mitoloģija, gan okultisms, gan viduslaiki u.t.t.. Būtībā tā ir luga, kurā ir viss, kas varētu patikt, interesēt dažādus cilvēkus. Mazliet grūti lasāms darbs, jo jālasa “starp rindiņām” un jāsaprot simboli, jābūt zināšānām par mitoloģiju (piezīmes neizskaidro visu). Manuprāt, darbs ir lasīšanas vērts kaut vai bagātās valodas dēļ. Raiņa tulkojums. Mākslinieks A.Apinis LVI 1958 Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

Vous croyez aux fantômes, vous ? Moi, non plus ! Seulement Béru y croit, lui. Et quand le Gros doute de ses sens, il fait appel à mon bon sens… Faut être logique ! On m'a toujours appris à l'école que la vérité sortait du puits. Eh bien ! moi, j'y suis descendu, dans le puits. Et, en effet, j'ai trouvé la vérité… Elle avait une drôle de bouille !

J'aime mieux vous prévenir, les gars : Des histoires pareilles, vous n'en trouverez pas souvent. Ce qui vaut mieux pour ma santé. Mamma mia ! A la fin de ce circus effarant, je ne savais plus bien si je m'appelais San-Antonio, Edouard ou la Joy ! Y a fallu que je me cramponne aux branches ! Et surtout que je garde la tête froide, ce qui n'était pas fastoche avec la lampe à souder qui me servait de chapeau ! Le transformateur cérébral, vous savez ce que c'est, vous ? Moi, je l'ignorais. Mais maintenant je sais !

Normally, the arrival of an art exhibition at the Mayville Heights library would be cause for celebration. But thanks to the overbearing curator and high-tech security system that comes with it, Kathleen’s life has been completely disrupted. Even Owen and Hercules have been affected, since their favorite human doesn’t seem to have a spare moment to make their favorite fish crackers or listen to Barry Manilow. But when Kathleen stops by the library late one night and finds the curator sprawled on the floor—and the exhibition’s most valuable sketch missing— it’s suddenly time to canvass a crime scene. Now Kathleen, her detective boyfriend Marcus, and her clever cats have to sniff out a murderous thief, before anyone else has a brush with death…