The first novel about present-day North Korea to be published in the West. A moving and true-to-life tale of courage in the face of oppression and exile. Hyejin Kim’s Jia follows the adventures of an orphaned young woman, Jia, who has the grace of a dancer but the misfortune of coming from a politically suspect family. In the isolated mining village of her childhood, Jia’s father, a science teacher, questions government intrusion into his classroom and is taken away by police, never to be heard from again. Now Jia must leave the village where her family has been sent as punishment to carve a path for herself. Her journey takes her first to Pyongyang, and finally to Shenyang in northeast China. Along the way, she falls in love with a soldier, befriends beggars, is kidnapped, beaten, and sold, negotiates Chinese culture, and learns to balance cruel necessity with the possibilities of kindness and love. Above all, Jia must remain wary, always ready to adapt to the “capricious political winds” of modern North Korea and China

Aukščiausio lygio slaptosios tarnybos savo susitikimo vieta išsirenka Bagdadą. Deja, ši informacija iškyla į viešumą ir pogrindinė organizacija, esanti Viduriniuose Rytuose, pradeda veikti. Į patį šių įvykių epicentrą patenka Viktorija Džouns, nuotykių išsiilgusi mergina iš Londono. Viktorija patiria nuotykių kur kas daugiau negu tikėjosi, kai viešbutyje, jos kambaryje, miršta sužeistas agentas. Jeigu tik ji galėtų suprasti paskutinius jo žodžius: „Liuciferis… Basra… Lefaržas…“ Ši knyga buvo įkvėpta Agatha Christie kelionių į Bagdadą su savo antruoju vyru, archeologu Seru Maxu Mallowanu, ir tai taip pat yra vienas iš nedaugelio Christie romanų, priklausančių veiksmo ir šnipų fantastikos žanrams, o ne slėpiniams ir keistenybėms. Originalus pavadinimas: They Came to Baghdad (1951) Vertėjas: L. Bucevičienė, N. Jančiūtė, I. Šereikienė Preceded by  Three Blind Mice and Other Stories Followed by  The Under Dog and Other Stories

“Nothing can confuse a person (cops included) more than a lot of names and a lot of pieces and a lot of corpses...” The cops of the 87th Precinct are really confused this time. When Detective Arthur Brown finds two dead men, it looks like a nice simple double homicide — except for the piece of photograph clutched in one dead hand. The confusion doesn’t start until Irving Krutch, an insurance investigator, turns up at the squad room with another piece of the photograph. Part of a homemade jigsaw puzzle, according to Krutch. The handiwork of the late Carmine Bonamico. When all the pieces, which had been passed around to friends and relatives of Bonamicos gang, were assembled, they would reveal the hiding place of the§ 750,000 the gang had stolen from a savings and loan association six years ago. Find the missing pieces, find the missing money. The search is on, and it involves Detectives Brown and Carella with people like an art gallery owner, a cheap hoodlum, a middle-aged floozy, a hot-dog vendor and an old Sicilian woman. Detective Meyer gets lucky. He visits a boutique where all the salesgirls wear see-through blouses. Some of these people have another caller. It turns out that owning a piece of the photograph can be deadly, and it looks like a toss-up as to who will get the puzzle completed first — the police or a very determined murderer

Lose your best friend because you finally Came Out. Spend days driving aimlessly because there's nothing to do. Serve your rapist breakfast because you need your job. Fall asleep to gunshots and sirens because that's the only sense of home you've ever known. Hold hands with ghosts. Your life is in pieces, but you can't be broken. Wipe off the blood. Tired of being told who to be, what to wear, how to act and who to fuck. Break the rules and learn fast how to never get caught. All you need is nothing, but you're happy with your car, guitar and camera. Throwing around polaroids of tits like they're money, you swap stories about adventures and realize that we're all running away from something. "Tiffany Scandal is one of the most exciting new voices to emerge in years. A deft, masterful mix of both bizarro and horror. I definitely can't wait to read what she writes next!" — Brian Keene, author of The Rising and Ghoul "Powerful scenes, real characters, unforgettable images, and a climax that satisfies both the story and the reader simultaneously. Yes, yes, yes." — Laura Lee Bahr, author of Haunt "The way Scandal writes would make Hemingway proud." — Horrornews.net "Scandal has all the makings of a great storyteller." — JS Breukelaar, author of American Monster

WHAT THIS STORY IS ABOUT Jill had money, Jill was engaged to be married to Sir Derek Underhill. Suddenly Jill becomes penniless, and she is no longer engaged. With a smile, in which there is just a tinge of recklessness, she refuses to be beaten and turns to face the world. Instead she went to New York and became a member of the chorus of "The Rose of America," and Mr. Wodehouse is enabled to lift the curtain of the musical comedy world. There is laughter and drama in Jill the Reckless, and the action never flags from the moment that Freddie Rooke confesses that he has had a hectic night, down to the point where Wally says briefly "Let 'em," which is page 313

Megan, recently out of college and working a meaningless job as a gastroenterologist's secretary, openly hates all of her friends for being happy and successful. She makes herself feel better by obsessively critiquing the behavior of her coworker, Jillian, a rapid cycling, grotesque optimist, whose downfall is precipitated by the purchase of a dog

What good is a dream income, access to a private jet, all the perks that go with being Mike Furie’s überproficient personal assistant, if Jillian has no life? She wants a life with a man in it. And staying with overbearing, totally sexy, self-serving bachelor Mike will lead nowhere. A trip to Aspen to “rescue” Mike from the clutches of the latest woman seeking to sink her claws into him, an excess of champagne to fortify her, and she tells him what she thinks of his high-handed tactics. She’s quitting. Again. So how the hell did she end up in bed with him in a Tahoe honeymoon suite, naked? Why can’t she recall how her signature got on that marriage license? Mike discovers talents he never knew Jill possessed. Now he has her right where he wants her. And he wants her again…and again. In his bed and under him. But it’s not all about the lust, and if he gets his way, Jillian won’t be leaving his side or his bed-ever

Повесть о приключениях подростка среди английских контрабандистов в начале XIX века

In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. The Sergeant, whose job it is to sort the local people by colour, and thereby determine their fate, peers at the boy, then sticks a pencil into his hair, as one did in those days, waiting to see if it stays there, or falls out before he gives his verdict: 'He's very odd, this Jimfish you've hauled in. If he's white he is not the right sort of white. But if he's black, who can say? We'll wait before we classify him. I'll give his age as 18, and call him Jimfish. Because he's a real fish out of water, this one is.' So begins the odyssey of Jimfish, a South African Everyman, who defies the usual classification of race that defines the rainbow nation. His journey through the last years of Apartheid will extend beyond the borders of South Africa to the wider world, where he will be an unlikely witness to the defining moments of the dying days of the twentieth century. Part fable, part fierce commentary on the politics of power, this work is the culmination of a lifetime's writing and thinking, on both the Apartheid regime and the history of the twentieth century, by a writer of enormous originality and range

High school can be a difficult time in a young person’s life, especially toward the end where one has to start making the sudden transition into adulthood. For Jimmy Hawthorn it is even worse. Not only does he need to successfully make that transition, he has to do it while hiding the fact that he is the one responsible for the disappearances of two fellow high school girls, both of whom are prisoners in a secret underground fallout shelter he discovered behind an abandoned house on the outskirts of town

Bungling burglar John Dortmunder and his merry band of thieves are back in another classic, comic crime novel from the award-winning author of the new hardcover Baby, Would I Lie? Dortmunder and his gang plan to kidnap precocious kid Jimmy Harrington with the help of a crime novel outlining the perfect caper

Novela de ciencia ficción acerca de la aparición sobre la Tierra de misteriosas “nubes” rosadas, que resultan ser visitantes inteligentes del espacio cósmico. Los miembros de una expedición antártica soviética son los primeros en tener contacto con ellas en una serie de aventuras inexplicables. Las “nubes” remueven la capa de hielo de la Antártica y la envían al espacio. Son capaces de reproducir cualquier tipo de estructura atómica, incluyendo al hombre. Los héroes de la historia encuentran a sus “dobles”, ven aviones duplicados y viven muchas aventuras en una ciudad copiada. Incluso combaten contra agentes de la Gestapo reproducidos del pasado por las misteriosas “nubes”. Los científicos no pueden explicarse con que objeto se duplica la vida terrestre. Todos los intentos por lograr tener contactos con los visitantes del espacio cósmico terminan en un fracaso. Sin embargo, los científicos soviéticos -héroes de la novela- llegan a desentrañar el enigma de las “nubes” rosadas y establecer contacto con una civilización superdesarrollada existente fuera de nuestra galaxia

An omnibus of novels Blame It on Karma by Jacquie D'Alessandro Coffee shop owner Lacey Perkins scoffs when a fortune-teller informs her she's destined to fall for her arrogant, but definitely hot, property manager Evan Sawyer. Lacey figures she'd rather be jinxed-until she's cursed with a case of uncontrollable, insatiable lust… Together Again? by Jill Shalvis Accountant Chloe Cooper can't help but laugh at the prediction that her life is about to be transformed by true love. But that was before Chloe walked straight into her former lover, FBI agent Ian McCall, and he showed her just how thrilling things could get… Tall, Dark Temporary by Crystal Green Candy shop owner Erin Holland isn't convinced when she's told that Ryan Wes, an infamous playboy, is "The One." Erin is going on a cruise with the gorgeous day trader for one reason only: sex. But her decadent plans keep getting mysteriously, frustratingly, thwarted…

Kai jį paliko mergina, Denis Volisas užsidarė. Pernelyg užsivėrė. Jauno laisvo vienišiaus gyvenimas neatrodė labai smagus. Vaikinas ėmė vengti žmonių. Užuot skambinęs, rašė žinutes. Užuot susitikęs, skambino. Kol vieną lemtingą vakarą autobuse paslaptingas vyras patarė dažniau sakyti taip. Danny priėmė šį pasiūlymą kaip Mozė dešimt Dievo įsakymų, nusprendęs viskam, ką gyvenimas jam pametėja, tarti „taip“. Šis menkas žodelis visiems laikams pakeitė vaikino gyvenimą. „Jis sako Taip!“ - pasakojimas apie tai, kaip Danny nutarė pritarti viskam, kad gyvenimas taptų įdomesnis. Dievaži, ir jis toks tapo!

Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight (Paris time). It is a saga as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. If the liquid in the bottle actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered soon because it is leaking and there is only a drop or two left