A high-fashion designer consults Wolfe after she sees her uncle — believed to have committed suicide a year before — in disguise and in the audience at one of her shows

«Man and Boy» — это трогательная история, которую Тони Парсонс рассказал нам с удивительной проникновенностью. Искренность чувств, юмор, ироничность повествования, современное отношение к затрагиваемым проблемам взаимоотношений и окружающему миру позволили этой книге известного британского журналиста стать международным бестселлером и книгой года в Великобритании. Критики сравнивают «Man and Boy» с «Дневником Бриджит Джонс». При этом справедливо считают книгу естественным дополнением нарисованной Хелен Филдинг ироничной и универсальной картины жизни современных тридцатилетних

Harry Silver returns to face life in the "blended family." A wonderful new novel about modern times, which can be read as a sequel to the million selling Man and Boy, or completely on its own. Man and Wife is a novel about love and marriage – about why we fall in love and why we marry; about why we stay and why we go. Harry Silver is a man coming to terms with a divorce and a new marriage. He has to juggle with time and relationships, with his wife and his ex-wife, his son and his stepdaughter, his own work and his wife's fast-growing career. Meanwhile his mother, who stood so steadfastly by his father until he died, is not getting any younger or stronger herself. In fact, everything in Harry's life seems complicated. And when he meets a woman in a million, it gets even more so… Man and Wife stands on its own as a brilliant novel about families in the new century, written with all the humour, passion and superb storytelling that have made Tony Parsons a favourite author in over thirty countries

A collection of stories These superbly crafted stories reveal an astonishing range, with settings that vary from a farm on the Canadian prairies to Bloomsbury in London, from a high-rise apartment to a mine-shaft. Vanderhaeghe has the uncanny ability to show us the world through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy as convincingly as he reveals it through the eyes of an old man approaching senility. Moving from the hilarious farce of teenage romance all the way to the numbing tragedy of life in a ward for incurables, these twelve stories inspire belief, admiration, and enjoyment, and come together to form a vibrant chronicle of human experience from a gifted observer of life's joys and tribulations. This is Guy Vanderhaeghe's brilliant first book of fiction

Russian terrorists kidnap a man suspected of Nazi war crimes--and get the wrong man. The rebels threaten to kill their captive unless ten million dollars and the real war criminal are delivered to them within 72 hours. Only the KGB's newest secret weapon could possibly stop their plan--Comrade James Bond.  From Kirkus Reviews Gardner rouses himself for more elaborate plotting than usual in his tenth stint as Ian Fleming's stand-in, but Gardner's James Bond, on loan to the KGB for some antiterrorist housecleaning, has aged a lot less gracefully than Sean Connery. A dissident Russian cabal calling itself The Scales of Justice (SoJ) has kidnapped somebody it claims is Josif Vorontsov, notorious second-in-command at Babi Yar, from his home in New Jersey and threatened to assassinate high-level brass hats until the government takes Vorontsov off their hands and places him on trial for war crimes. When the Kremlin denies that SoJ has the real Vorontsov and refuses to recognize his extradition, SoJ begins taking out high-level brass hats, and the KGB asks British Intelligence to let them have somebody--guess who--able to infiltrate SoJ by substituting for two English-speaking recruits. Gardner lays some promising trails--Bond working for the KGB, Bond partnered by Mossad agent Pete Natkowitz, two interloping French agents (one a natural bedmate), the news that SoJ intends to videotape its own free-lance war-crimes trial, and all the usual seductions, killings, double-crosses, flashbacks, and intimations of The End (this time by hard-liners bombing Washington while the US is busy bombing Baghdad)--but the going keeps getting muddier, as if somebody else had finished the book over a third martini (shaken, not stirred). Bond saves the world, gets the woman and the Order of Lenin, and turns in a less muffled performance than in last year's Brokenclaw, though still below average for Gardner's series. Let's not talk about how far below Fleming's average

After a whirlwind courtship, Kern Lowery whisked his young bride away to the mountains of Tennessee to start a new life. Unfortunately, Trisha’ s sheltered Grosse Pointe upbringing didn’ t prepare her for marriage or the hardships of country living, so she left with barely a goodbye. Five years later, an accident brings Trisha back to Tennessee. No longer the shy, helpless girl she was, she keeps her composure when she comes face-to-face with the stranger she is still technically married to. Inside, however, her emotions are a riot of passion-and fear. Fear of falling for the man she loves once again…

Изучение английского, путем чтения (средний уровень) -- ужастиков

On the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, the unnamed black narrator of Man Gone Down finds himself broke, estranged from his white wife and three children, and living in the bedroom of a friend’s six-year-old child. He has four days to come up with the money to keep the kids in school and make a down payment on an apartment for them in which to live. As we slip between his childhood in inner city Boston and present-day New York City, we learn of a life marked by abuse, abandonment, raging alcoholism, and the best and worst intentions of a supposedly integrated America. This is a story of the American Dream gone awry, about what it’s like to feel preprogrammed to fail in life and the urge to escape that sentence

Here is the story of Tom and Betsy Rath, a young couple with everthing going for them: three healthy children, a nice home, a steady income. They have every reason to be happy, but for some reason they are not. Like so many young men of the day, Tom finds himself caught up in the corporate rat race — what he encounters there propels him on a voyage of self-discovery that will turn his world inside out. At once a searing indictment of coporate culture, a story of a young man confronting his past and future with honesty, and a testament to the enduring power of family, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a deeply rewarding novel about the importance of taking responsibility for one's own life

SUPERMAN IS BACK — THE OFFICIAL MOVIE NOVELIZATION! The film, from director Zack Snyder, stars Henry Cavill (The Tudors) as Superman/Clark Kent, three-time Oscar® nominee Amy Adams (The Fighter) as Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane, and Oscar® nominee Laurence Fishburne (What’s Love Got to Do with It) as her editor-in-chief, Perry White. Starring as Clark Kent’s adoptive parents, Martha and Jonathan Kent, are Oscar® nominee Diane Lane (Unfaithful) and Academy Award® winner Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves). Squaring off against the superhero are two other surviving Kryptonians, the villainous General Zod, played by Oscar® nominee Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road), and Faora, Zod’s evil partner, played by Antje Traue. Also from Superman’s native Krypton are Lara Lor-Van, Superman’s mother, played by Ayelet Zurer, and Superman’s father, Jor-El, portrayed by Academy Award® winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator). Rounding out the cast are Harry Lennix as U.S. military man General Swanwick, as well as Christopher Meloni as Colonel Hardy. Man of Steel is being produced by Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas and Deborah Snyder. The screenplay was written by David S. Goyer, from a story by Goyer and Nolan, based upon characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Thomas Tull and Lloyd Phillips are serving as executive producers. Currently in production, Man of Steel is slated for release on June 14, 2013 and will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. TM & © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s12)

Antigua, 1817 and every harbour and estuary is filled with ghostly ships, the famous and the legendary now redundant in the aftermath of war. In this uneasy peace, Adam Bolitho is fortunate to be offered the seventy-four gun Athena, and as flag captain to Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Bethune once more follows his destiny to the Caribbean. But in these haunted waters where Richard Bolitho and his 'band of brothers' once fought a familiar enemy, the quarry is now a renegade foe who flies no colours and offers no quarter, and whose traffic in human life is sanctioned by flawed treaties and men of influence. And here, when Athena's guns speak, a day of terrible retribution will dawn for the innocent and the damned

A son searches for the men who killed his mysterious father Even at sixty-six, Gunnar Romstead was a tough old salt. It took several men to bring him down, and even after they’d bound his feet and hands he was still a threat. But finally the man who’d survived waterfront brawls, World War II, and countless stormy nights at sea died on his knees—shot through the back of the head.  Looking for answers, his son Eric comes to the barren California town where Gunnar breathed his last. He hardly knew the old man, but he can’t believe his father was killed in a botched drug deal. Somewhere in California is a massive shipment of heroin and a quarter of a million dollars, and if Eric finds them he will uncover the truth. But for a boy who grew up loving his father from afar, the truth may hurt even more than a bullet

An unforgettable story of faith, forgiveness and second chances, Man on Fire is a powerful and touching novel from the Booker and Guardian-shortlisted author of Pigeon English. John Lock has come to India to meet his destiny: a destiny dressed in a white karate suit and sporting an impressive moustache. He has fled the quiet desperation of his life in England: decades wasted in a meaningless job, a marriage foundering in the wake of loss and a terrible secret he cannot bear to share with his wife. He has come to offer his help to a man who has learned to conquer pain, a world record breaker who specialises in feats of extreme endurance and ill-advised masochism. Bibhuti Nayak’s next record attempt — to have fifty baseball bats broken over his body — will set the seal on a career that has seen him rise from poverty to become a minor celebrity in a nation where standing out from the crowd requires tenacity, courage and perhaps a touch of madness. In answering Bibhuti’s call for assistance, John hopes to rewrite a brave end to a life poorly lived. But as they take their leap of faith together, and John is welcomed into Bibhuti’s family, and into the colour and chaos of Mumbai — where he encounters ping-pong-playing monks, a fearless seven-year-old martial arts warrior and an old man longing for the monsoon to wash him away — he learns more about life, and death, and everything in between than he could ever have bargained for

An incident in the snows of Alaska could trigger the outbreak of World War III in this tense and twisting thriller. When Rake Ozenna of the elite Eskimo Scouts brings his fiancée, trauma surgeon Carrie Walker, to his remote home island in the Bering Strait, they are faced immediately with a medical crisis. Then Russian helicopters swarm in. America is on the eve of an acrimonious presidential transition and inauguration. As news breaks of a possible Russian invasion, Stephanie Lucas, British ambassador to Washington DC, is hosting a dinner for the president-elect. Ozenna’s small Alaskan island community is suddenly caught in the crosshairs of sabre-rattling big powers. The only way to save his people is to undertake a perilous mission across the ice. Can he survive long enough to prevent a new world war breaking out?

Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programe, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster — a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mars is humankind's only alternative to extinction. But beneath his monstrous exterior, Torraway still carries a man's capacity for suffering. Won Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1976. Nominated for Hugo, Locus, and Campbell awards in 1977

Steve had never even met the girl, yet her torrid love-making was leading him to the brink of disaster!

A wry, affecting tale set in a small town on the Indonesian coast, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families and of Margio, a young man ordinary in all particulars except that he conceals within himself a supernatural female white tiger. The inequities and betrayals of family life coalesce around and torment this magical being. An explosive act of violence follows, and its mysterious cause is unraveled as events progress toward a heartbreaking revelation. Lyrical and bawdy, experimental and political, this extraordinary novel announces the arrival of a powerful new voice on the global literary stage

A refreshingly imaginative, daring debut collection of stories which illuminates with audacious wit the complexity of human behavior, as seen through the lens of the natural world. Told with perfect rhythm and unyielding brutality, these stories expose unsuspecting men and women to the realities of nature, the primal instincts of man, and the dark humor and heartbreak of our struggle to not only thrive, but survive. In “Girl on Girl,” a high school freshman goes to disturbing lengths to help an old friend. An insatiable temptress pursues the one man she can’t have in “Meteorologist Dave Santana.” And in the title story, a long fraught friendship comes undone when three buddies get impossibly lost on a lake it is impossible to get lost on. In Diane Cook’s perilous worlds, the quotidian surface conceals an unexpected surreality that illuminates different facets of our curious, troubling, and bewildering behavior. Other stories explore situations pulled directly from the wild, imposing on human lives the danger, tension, and precariousness of the natural world: a pack of not-needed boys take refuge in a murky forest and compete against each other for their next meal; an alpha male is pursued through city streets by murderous rivals and desirous women; helpless newborns are snatched by a man who stalks them from their suburban yards. Through these characters Cook asks: What is at the root of our most heartless, selfish impulses? Why are people drawn together in such messy, complicated, needful ways? When the unexpected intrudes upon the routine, what do we discover about ourselves? As entertaining as it is dangerous, this accomplished collection explores the boundary between the wild and the civilized, where nature acts as a catalyst for human drama and lays bare our vulnerabilities, fears, and desires

As explosive and immediate today as when it was originally published in 1933, 'Man's Fate' ('La Condition Humaine'), an account of a crucial episode in the early days of the Chinese Revolution, foreshadows the contemporary world and brings to life the profound meaning of the revolutionary impulse for the individuals involved. As a study of conspiracy and conspirators, of men caught in the desperate clash of ideologies, betrayal, expediency, and free will, Andre Malraux's novel remains unequaled

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos ("meaning")-holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful. At the time of Frankl's death in 1997, *Man's Search for Meaning* had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. A 1991 reader survey for the Library of Congress that asked readers to name a "book that made a

He could take him alive with a bullet in the shoulder — but four inches and four thousand dollars to the left was the throat

In Manny Moon’s book there’s a dame behind every murder... and murder behind every dame. But the murder of the Lieutenant-governor of a large mid-western state abruptly left Moon’s book one chapter shy — while the steady hand of the killer promised to write the finish

Bibliotēkās un grāmatu veikalu plauktos ir plaši pieejami Nacionālsociālisma ideju komentāri. Izdevniecības "Vizītkarte" 1995. gadā izdotais Ādolfa Hitlera "Mana cīņa" autorizētais izklāsts latviešu valodā lasītājam dod iespēju pašam izvērtēt šādu literatūru. 1995. gadā, kad šī grāmata tika izņemta no tirdzniecības, zināmā sabiedrības daļā pastāvēja uzskats, ka Latvijas iedzīvotāji vēl nav gatavi pareizi izvērtēt šādu literatūru. Varbūt tagad ir pienācis tas laiks, kad cienītie lasītāji ir sagatavoti?

Agata Kristi Mana dzīve Agata Kristi (1891 — 1976) tas ir vesels laikmets, gandrīz simtgade kriminālromānu, gara un aizraujoša dzīve, kas līdzinās dēku romānam, ceļojumi, laikmeta portretējumi, un to visu neatkārtojamu padara autores nepārspējamā humora izjūta. Dīvainā kārtā detektīvžanra Pirmā Lēdija neuzskatīja sevi par "īstu" rakstnieci, viņas paškritiskums un spēja pasmieties par sevi ir apbrīnojama. Lai cik pieticīga savā pašvērtējumā būtu rakstniece, Agatas Kristi talants bija dabas dots, un tieši tas padarīja viņu pārlaiclgu nemirstīgu, ja vēlaties. Viņas spalvai pieder vairāk nekā 100 romānu, īso stāstu krājumu un lugu, viņas grāmatas angļu valodā izdotas biljons eksemplāros, tikpat liels ir ari vairāk nekā 44 citās pasaules valodās izdoto grāmatu metiens. Autobiogrāfijā rakstniece sev raksturīgajā manierē stāsta par savu neordināro privāto dzīvi bērnību, divām laulībām, piedzīvojumiem divu pasaules karu laikā, kā arī par savu divējādo rakstnieces un arheoloģisko ekspedīciju dalībnieces pieredzi. Un vēl grāmatā "Mana dzīve" jūs atradīsiet atbildes uz jautājumiem, kā vienkāršai angļu lēdijai, kura nekādi nav bijusi saistīta nedz ar kriminālām aprindām, nedz policiju, izdevies kļūt par visizsmalcinātāko noziegumu un ne mazāk izsmalcinātu to atklāšanas metožu aprakstnieci, kas ir bijuši viņas darbu sižetu avoti un vēl daudziem citiem. Noskannējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Agata Kristi MANA DZĪVE No angļu valodas tulkojusi Dagnija Dreika Māksliniece Ieva Krūmiņa Redaktore Indra Ozoliņa Maketētāja Ilze Reitere ISBN 9984-741-62-1 Apgāds DAUGAVA © Agatha Christie Limited, 1977 © Dagnija Dreika, tulkojums, 2005 © Ieva Krūmiņa, vāka zīmējums, 2005 © Aldis Aleks, dizains, 2005 © Apgāds "Daugava", izdevums, 2005 Apgāds "Daugava", Arhitektu ielā 1, Rīgā, LV 1050. Izdevējdarbības licence nr. 2-0944 Iespiesta un iesieta a/s "Paraugtipogrāfija", Puškina ielā 12. Rīgā LV 1050

Aisedora Dunkane Mana dzīve Slavena dejotāja, dzimusi Sanfrancisko, ceļo ar koncertiem uz daudzām valstīm, sadarbojas ar pasaules māksliniekiem, mīl blīvu, bohēmisku dzīvi, atver arī savu deju skolu. Vairākkārt ceļo arī uz Krieviju, sadarbojusies ar Saņislavski, bijusi arī viņā iemīlējusies. 1923. gadā Krievijā salaulājas (lai gan līdz tam bijusi kvēla laulību pretiniece) ar dzejnieku Sergeju Jeseņinu, kas pa daļai arī bija Dunkanes vēlāko neveiksmju cēlonis. A.Dunkane mirst 1927. gadā, nepabeigusi savu dzīves stāstu. Nīcā, 14. septembrī pēkšņā jūtu impulsā viņa iekāpj sacīkšu automobilī, ap kaklu aptītā garā šalle aizķeras aiz auto riteņa un nosmacē viņu. Šoferis vēl ilgi nemana, kādu šausmīgu nastu turpina nest viņa auto... Antēra, 2007 tulk. R.Deisons

Čārzls Čaplins Mana dzīve Autobiogrāfija Sērija „Ievērojamu cilvēku dzīve“ Izdevniecība «Liesma» Rīga 1966 No angļu valodas tulkojusi Ilga Melnbārde Mākslinieks M. Vuņins 8—1—5 1966—22

Džeklina Sūzena Mana dārgā Džozefīne Un uzlēca jauna zvaigzne. Bieži vien, kad es ar zvaigzni pastaigājos Centrālparkā, pie mums pienāca cilvēki un jautāja: — Vai šī ir tā Džozefine? — Es palocīju galvu, zvaigzne paluncināja ašteli. (Viņa slavu panesa cēli… svešus suņus un cilvēkus allaž sveicināja nepiespiesti burvīgi.) , Tiklīdz es apsēdos pie rakstāmmašīnas un sāku rakstīt, Džozefine bija pārliecinātā, ka rakstīšanai ir kāds sakars ar viņu. Es ar piespiešanos uzdrošinājos atzīties, ka "Leļļu ieleja" nav turpinājums grāmata par Džozetīni. Uzzinājusi patiesību, viņa tomēr to neņēma ļaunā. kad es sāku rakstīt "Mīlas mašīnu", viņai vairs nebija šaubu šoreiz tam jābūt turpinājumam par viņu, jo tik daudz, taču es saprotu kopš "Manas dārgās Džozefines" iznākšanas. Viņa ir cirpusies  skaistumkopšanas salonā ar Viktoriju Niksoni — mazu, melnu šuneli (Protams, ar Niksoniem mani iepazīstināja Džozefīne pirmoreiz šī grāmata iznāca 1963.gada 14. novembri. No angļu valodas tulkojusi Helmā Lapiņa Noskannējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Māksliniece Juta Tīrona Edgara Švanka grafiskais noformējums © Helma Lapiņa, tulkojums latviešu valodā, 1994 © Juta Tīrona, vāka zīmējums, 1994 © Edgars Svanks, grafiskais noformējums, 1994

Monika Zīle Mana mīļākā nams Tradicionāla aina - bagāts uzņēmējs, kam, šķiet, ir viss: veiksmīgs bizness, skaista sieva, gudrs dēls, kurš gatavojas stāties tēvam līdzās un vēlāk turpināt viņa darbu, sapņu nams, kuram līdzīga nav, un, protams, jauna un daiļa mīļākā. Taču ari šim cilvēkam ir sapnis - tāds, par kuru nevienam nedrīkst stāstīt - nesapratīs... Monika Zīle ir rakstniece un publiciste, daudzu romānu autore, rakstījusi ari lugas un scenārijus. Viņas darbi guvuši plašu lasītāju atzinību to vienkāršības un cilvēciskuma dēļ. Sērijā Ķengurgrāmata jau iznākuši romāni Kāravu bruņiniece, Smukas meitas maksā smuku naudu, Tase ar hibiska ziedu, Sliktā sieviete un Vasaras namiņš. Grāmata paredzēta aktīvai lasīšanai, nevis turēšanai plauktā. Šis darbs izdots ekonomisko izdevumu kategorijā; to brošējot, izmantota līmēšanas tehnoloģija. Izdevējs nepieņem nekāda veida pretenzijas par izdevuma poligrāfisko izpildījumu. Grāmatu var ņemt līdzi lasīšanai lidmašinā, autobusā, vilcienā un uzgaidāmajā telpā, to var ņurcit kabatā, pludmales somā un atvaļinājuma čemodānā. Autores redakcijā Ingunas Kļavas vāka dizains  Monika Zīle 2004. 282 lpp Noskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lv Yandex – GRĀMATAS - https://disk.yandex.ru/d/2JO3dvhReBIF-A

Mana pasaku ābece Pasakas pārstāstījusi Kristīne Skrīvele Māksliniece Agija Staka Ansītis un Grietiņa. ; Āža lielība. ; Brēmenes muzikanti. ; Cilvēks un vilks. ; Daugavas racēji. ; Čiks. ; Eža kažociņš. ; Erkšķrozīte. ; Fejas dāvanas. ; Gailītis un vistiņa. ; Ģenerālis Fantagira. ; Hanss pie Viršūkalna troļļa. ; Irbe un lapsa. ; Ikstīte. ; Jūras vārava. ; Kaķītis, gailītis un lapsa. ; Ķēniņš Strazdubārda. ; Lapsa par pīļu ganu. ; Ļaunprātīgais vezīrs. ; Meža gulbji. ; Nāriņa. ; Kā Ņauva meklēja draugu. ; Odi un zirgs. ; Pelnrušķīte. ; Runcis zābakos. ; Sniegbaltīte un septiņi rūķīši. ; Šķiltavas. ;Trīs labas lietas. ; Uzticīgais draugs. ; Ūziņš. ; Velns par kalpu. ; Zalkša līgava. ; Žagatas ligzda. Noskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lv Yandex – GRĀMATAS - https://disk.yandex.ru/d/2JO3dvhReBIF-A

Džeralds Darels Mana ģimene un citi zvēri Apvārsnis «Mana ģimene un citi zvēri» ir viens no agrīnajiem šī ievērojamā angļu zoologa un rakstnieka animālista darbiem. Tajā stāstīts par au­tora bērnību, par vairākiem Grieķijā, Korfu salā, pavadītiem gadiem, kad zēnā mostas mīlestība pret dabu, pret visu dzīvo radību, redzams, kā no viņa pamazām veidojas nopietns dabas pētnieks, zinātnieks zoo­logs. Taču grāmata nav vienkāršs autobiogrāfisks vēstījums. Ļoti liela ir tās izzinošā vērtība. Autors atklāj lasītājam savdabīgu pasauli, kas pavirša vērotāja acīm paslīd garām nepamanīta, un pastāsta par to daudz interesanta. Grāmata uzrakstīta saistoši, ar Džeraldam Darelam raksturīgo brīniš­ķīgo humoru, un to ar aizrautību lasīs ne tikvien bioloģijas zinātņu speciālisti, bet ikviens dabas draugs. izdevniecība «zinātne» Кīga 1973 Ar Džeraldu Darelu latviešu lasītājs vairs nav jāiepazīstina. Latviešu valodā izdotas jau divas viņa grāmatas, kas kļuvušas visai iecienītas: «Zvērudārzs manā bagāžā» un «Noslēpumaino trokšņu zeme». «Mana ģimene un citi zvēri» ir viens no agrīnajiem šī ievērojamā angļu zoologa un rakstnieka animālista darbiem. Tajā stāstīts par au­tora bērnību, par vairākiem Grieķijā, Korfu salā, pavadītiem gadiem, kad zēnā mostas mīlestība pret dabu, pret visu dzīvo radību, redzams, kā no viņa pamazām veidojas nopietns dabas pētnieks, zinātnieks zoo­logs. Taču grāmata nav vienkāršs autobiogrāfisks vēstījums. Ļoti liela ir tās izzinošā vērtība. Autors atklāj lasītājam savdabīgu pasauli, kas pavirša vērotāja acīm paslīd garām nepamanīta, un pastāsta par to daudz interesanta. Grāmata uzrakstīta saistoši, ar Džeraldam Darelam raksturīgo brīniš­ķīgo humoru, un to ar aizrautību lasīs ne tikvien bioloģijas zinātņu speciālisti, bet ikviens dabas draugs. No angļu valodas tulkojusi Helma Lapiņa Tulkojums latviešu valodā Izdevniecība «Zinātne», 1973 Noskanējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

Как организовать работу новой фирмы? Как повысить эффективность уже существующей? Такие вопросы часто стоят перед владельцами бизнеса и руководителями. Авторы книги Ольга Савельева и Владимир Данилов – владельцы и руководители консалтинговой фирмы «Инсайт», образованной в 1999 году. На основании многолетнего опыта работы в консалтинге ими была сформирована методика эффективного управления предприятиями малого бизнеса, изложенная в данной книге

С произведениями выдающегося английского поэта Джорджа Гордона лорда Байрона (1788–1824) Гете впервые познакомился в 1816 году и с тех пор с неизменным вниманием следил за его творчеством и деятельностью. Он считал его «представителем новейшего поэтического времени» и «величайшим талантом века»

Moi, vous me connaissez ? Quand la femme d'un zig qui m'a sauvé la vie vient chialer dans mon giron en me disant que son mari va être flingué deux jours plus tard pour haute trahison, je vole à sa rescousse. Même si c'est à Saigon que le mec en question doit effacer sa ration de prunes. Béru, vous le connaissez ? Il est toujours prêt à suivre son supérieur aussi hiérarchique que bien-aimé sur les sentiers de la gloire et de la châtaigne, même quand il s'agit d'un boulot d'ordre privé. Les femmes, vous les connaissez ? Plus elles sont baths, plus elles vous attirent d'emmouscaillements. Heureusement que moi aussi je les connais ! Ainsi que la manière de s'en servir ! Quant à mon style, si vous le connaissez pas encore, c'est le moment de vous y mettre. Car ça me ferait mal à la thyroïde que vous décédiez en n'ayant lu que Montaigne et Jean-Jacques Rousseau ! Souvenez-vous d'une chose, les gars : la culture, y a que ça de vrai !

No writer is more hardcore, offensive, or notorious than Edward Lee. His world is one of torture, bizarre fetishes, and alien autopsies. Prepare yourself, as these three novellas from the king of splatterspunk are guaranteed to make you gasp, gag, and laugh your ass off. What secrets do a crashed alien spaceship hold? One man and his surgical tools will find out. A man with a pregnancy fetish meets the girl of his dreams-and his worst nightmares. From his hotel room window, Flood will see his darkest desires become real

A collection of short stories from the master of space opera. Peter F Hamilton takes us on a journey from a murder mystery in an alternative Oxford in the 1800s to a brand new story featuring Paula Mayo, Deputy Director of the Intersolar Commonwealth's Serious Crimes Directorate. Dealing with intricate themes and topical subject this top ten bestselling author is at the top of his game

Young film-maker Rune, becomes obsessed with the murder of one of the customers at her video shop, who has been renting the same noir film over and over again. She is convinced that the secrets of his brutal death are hidden within the film, but her interest brings her too close to the killer

Here is the story of a mad love, written against the mysterious background of the underworld. Unlike the ordinary tale of this type with its crude, realistic descriptions, Manhattan Love Song is attuned in style and pace to the exoticism that surrounds and controls the life of Bernice. Because it is unusual, daring and bizarre this book will impress and delight the reader as few books have done before

An anthology of stories edited by Mary Higgins Clark From Wall Street to Harlem, the borough of Manhattan is the setting for all-new stories of mystery, murder, and suspense, presented by best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark and featuring Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, S. J. Rozan, and other top Mystery Writers of America authors. In Lee Child's "The Picture of the Lonely Diner," legendary drifter Jack Reacher interrupts a curious stand-off in the shadow of the Flatiron Building. In Jeffery Deaver's "The Baker of Bleecker Street," an Italian immigrant becomes ensnared in WWII espionage. And in "The Five-Dollar Dress," Mary Higgins Clark unearths the contents of a mysterious hope chest found in an apartment on Union Square. With additional stories from T. Jefferson Parker, S. J. Rozan, Nancy Pickard, Ben H. Winters, Brendan DuBois, Persia Walker, Jon L. Breen, N. J. Ayres, Angela Zeman, Thomas H. Cook, Judith Kelman, Margaret Maron, Justin Scott, and Julie Hyzy,Manhattan Mayhem is teeming with red herrings, likely suspects, and thoroughly satisfying mysteries

Manhattan millionaire Payne Sterling is used to being in the public eye, but his notoriety goes too far when he sees his picture on a succession of new romance novels! Payne has never posed for any portrait, so he's determined to track down the artist who's embarrassed him…. Beautiful, talented Rainey Bennet had seen Payne's photo in her brother's holiday snaps and, having no idea he was a famous entrepreneur, she thought he made perfect "hero" material! In the flesh, he's just as gorgeous -- but now he's taking her to court! Until the powerful tycoon proposes a way for Rainey to pay him back!

Brand-new stories by: Jeffery Deaver, Lawrence Block, Charles Ardai, Carol Lea Benjamin, Thomas H. Cook, Jim Fusilli, Robert Knightly, John Lutz, Liz Martínez, Maan Meyers, Martin Meyers, S.J. Rozan, Justin Scott, C.J. Sullivan, and Xu Xi

Following the commercial success of the original Manhattan Noir, mystery titan Lawrence Block explores the historic literary roots of this dark island. Featuring stories by: Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, O. Henry, Langston Hughes, Irwin Shaw, Jerome Weidman, Damon Runyon, Evan Hunter, Jerrold Mundis, Edgar Allan Poe, Horace Gregory, Geoffrey Bartholomew, Cornell Woolrich, Barry N. Malzberg, Clark Howard, Jerome Charyn, Donald E. Westlake, Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block, and Susan Isaacs

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A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one of our most brilliant and humane writers addresses with his characteristic warmth and lyric wit the all-important question: What does it mean to be a man today?