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Avery Bartholomew Pendleton is back, and he’s just as crazy as ever. Avery is a paranoid loner obsessed with global conspiracy theories who spends most of his time crafting absurd and threatening letters to anyone who offends him. That means pretty much everyone.
Still convinced of the existence of the mythical Mexican chupacabra*, Avery enlists the assistance of the Southwest Texas Revolutionary Armed Confederate Border Operations Militia (STRAC-BOM) and their manic leader, General X-Ray, to help him invade Mexico. Accompanied by Ziggy, a burned-out hippy, and an uncommonly large iguana named Nancy, the group follows the advice of a New Orleans voodoo priestess and heads straight into the Mexican desert.
Unfortunately for the motley gang of explorers, Mexico can be a dangerous place if you cross the wrong people — specifically, the Padre, a vicious drug cartel boss, and El Barquero, a murderous gunrunner who has crossed Avery’s path before.
What unfolds is a laugh-out-loud dark comedy of insane humor, unforgettable characters, and chilling thrills.
*No chupacabras were injured in the writing of this book.
Ērihs Kestners
Trīs vīri kurortā
Neievērojot to, ka miljonāri nav vairs moderni un ka es pat noteikti nezinu; kāpēc tas tā, šīs grāmatas galvenā persona tomēr ir miljonārs. Tas noteikti ir miljonārs Toblers. Slepenpadomnieks Toblers. Vīrs, kam pieder bankas, preču nami un fabrikas, kalnraktuves Slēzijā, cepļi pie Rūras un kuģniecības līnijas starp kontinentiem.
Saimniecisku koncernu laikmets ir pagājis, bet Toblera koncerns vēl pastāv. Toblers nav rūpējies ne par ko, kopš viņš pirms piecpadsmit gadiem kļuva sava krusttēva mantinieks. Varbūt taisni tādēļ viss tā ir. — Koncerni līdzinās lavīnām. Tie kļūst lielāki un lielāki: vai pie tā ir jāpalīdz? Tie beidzas ielejā: vai to var aizkavēt?
Tobleram pieder daudz miljonu, bet būtībā viņš nav miljonārs.
Noskanējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lv
No vācu valodas tulkojusi Jausma Ābrama Mākslinieks Andris Lamsters
Džeroms k. Džeroms
Trīs vīri laivā
Romāns „Trīs vīri laivā” ir angļu humorista un dramaturga Džeroma K. Džeroma (1859–1927) slavenākais un novērtētākais darbs, kas ar nepārspīlētu, smalku humoru un vieglu valodu attēlo Trīs draugu – Harisa, Džordža, paša autora un trakulīgā foksterjera – Montmorensija, divu nedēļu braucienu laivā pa Temzu. Darbība norisinās 19. gs beigās Londonā, bet, lasot rodas sajūta, ka Trīs vīri ir vienkāršas mūsdienu personas nevis džentelmeņi no 19.gs Anglijas, kas, šķiet, skaidrojams ar cilvēka dabas un dzīves noteikto likumu nemainību laika gaitā. Darbu varētu nodēvēt arī kā parasta ceļojuma aprakstu, tikai sīko dabasskatu un iespaidu attēlojumu vietā ir tīri sadzīviskas, dažubrīd aplamas un muļķīgas ainiņas, kuras, piekritīsiet, ir neizbēgamas, ja trīs stiprā dzimuma pārstāvji izlemj doties vairāku nedēļu garā laivu pārbraucienā pa upi.
(NERUNĀJOT NEMAZ PAR SUNI)
Tulkojusi Vizma Belševica
Džeroms K. Džeroms
Trīs vīri uz vellapēda
Pagājuši desmit gadi kopš trīs garlaicības mākti džentlmeņi devās laivu braucienā pa Temzu un, spītējot dažādām likstām, spēja lieliski izklaidēties un pavadīt laiku. Šoreiz, atstādami mājās sievas un bērnus, draugi nolemj kāpt mugurās vellapēdiem un doties garākā ceļojumā pa Vāczemi (Švarcvaldi) un, protams, atstāstīt ceļojuma gaitu arī mums.
Atminos, kā tiku mocījies ar vēdera krampjiem un sausu muti, lasot „Trīs vīri laivā”(Three man in a boat) un neviltoti apbrīnojis stāsta nesamākslotību un tuvību dzīves realitātei, jo humors, kas šajā izcilajā satīrā ir sastopams nav vis parasts humors vai joks, tā ir mūsu pašu dzīve un skats no malas uz mums pašiem, kā dabas lielākajiem klauniem un neprašām.
No angļu val. tulk. Ojārs Sarma
Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis
Vaga 1993
Malcolm Thomas is not happy. The view he loves is about to be blocked by an ugly building. He decides to take action and forms a protest group. Then things go badly wrong and Malcolm finds himself running for his life. Along the way he gets mixed up with corrupt town planners, violent gangsters, and a kidnapped concert pianist. Malcolm starts to wonder if objecting to the building was such a good idea when he finds himself upside down with a gun in his mouth.
This hilarious story from Monty Python star, Terry Jones, will make you laugh out loud.
Wondering if science could explain how he survived his 40-year avalanche of drugs and alcohol, Ozzy Osbourne became one of a handful of people in the world to have his entire DNA mapped in 2010. It was a highly complex, $65,000 process, but the results were conclusive: Ozzy is a genetic anomaly. The “Full Ozzy Genome” contained variants that scientists had never before encountered and the findings were presented at the prestigious TEDMED Conference in San Diego-making headlines around the world. The procedure was in part sponsored by The Sunday Times of London, which had already caused an international fururoe by appointing Ozzy Osbourne its star health advice columnist. The newpaper argued that Ozzy’s mutliple near-death experiences, 40-year history of drug abuse, and extreme hypocondria qualified him more than any other for the job. The column was an overnight hit, being quickly picked up by Rolling Stone to give it a global audience of millions. In TRUST ME, I'M DR. OZZY, Ozzy answers reader's questions with his outrageous wit and surprising wisdom, digging deep into his past to tell the memoir-style survival stories never published before-and offer guidance that no sane human being should follow. Part humor, part memoir, and part bad advice, TRUST ME, I’M DR. OZZY will include some of the best material from his published columns, answers to celebrities' medical questions, charts, sidebars, and more.
Ozzy Osbourne was born in Aston, Birmingham, in 1948. He has sold over a hundred million records both with Black Sabbath and as a Grammy Award-winning solo artist. He has five children and lives with his wife, Sharon, in California and Buckinghamshire.
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Wondering if science could explain how he survived his 40-year avalanche of drugs and alcohol, Ozzy Osbourne became one of a handful of people in the world to have his entire DNA mapped in 2010. It was a highly complex, $65,000 process, but the results were conclusive: Ozzy is a genetic anomaly. The “Full Ozzy Genome” contained variants that scientists had never before encountered and the findings were presented at the prestigious TEDMED Conference in San Diego-making headlines around the world. The procedure was in part sponsored by The Sunday Times of London, which had already caused an international fururoe by appointing Ozzy Osbourne its star health advice columnist. The newpaper argued that Ozzy’s mutliple near-death experiences, 40-year history of drug abuse, and extreme hypocondria qualified him more than any other for the job. The column was an overnight hit, being quickly picked up by Rolling Stone to give it a global audience of millions. In TRUST ME, I'M DR. OZZY, Ozzy answers reader's questions with his outrageous wit and surprising wisdom, digging deep into his past to tell the memoir-style survival stories never published before-and offer guidance that no sane human being should follow. Part humor, part memoir, and part bad advice, TRUST ME, I’M DR. OZZY will include some of the best material from his published columns, answers to celebrities' medical questions, charts, sidebars, and more.
Ozzy Osbourne was born in Aston, Birmingham, in 1948. He has sold over a hundred million records both with Black Sabbath and as a Grammy Award-winning solo artist. He has five children and lives with his wife, Sharon, in California and Buckinghamshire.
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A heartwarming novel about the surprise of second chances in the autumn of your life.
Gor is keeping busy. He has a magic show to rehearse, his new assistant to get in line and a dacha in dire need of weeding. But he keeps being distracted by a tapping on his window – four floors up. Is old age finally catching up with him?
Tolya has woken from a long illness to find his memory gone. Tidied away in a sanatorium, with only the view of a pine tree for entertainment, he is delighted when young doctor Vlad decides to make a project of him. With a keen listener by his side, and the aid of smuggled home-made sugary delights, Tolya’s boyhood memories return, revealing dark secrets…
Two Cousins of Azov is a tender and wonderful story of two men who, in the autumn of their years, have the chance to learn that memories can heal, as well as haunt.
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Timurs Vermešs
Viņš ir atkal klāt
2011.gada vasara. Ādolfs Hitlers pamostas neapbūvētā klajumā Berlīnes Mitē. Bez kara, bez partijas, bez Evas. Pilnīga miera laikos, starp tūkstošiem ārzemnieku, Angelas Merkeles vadītā valstī. 66 gadus pēc savas šķietamās bojāejas viņš nonāk mūsdienās un pretēji visam, ko varētu paredzēt, uzsāk jaunu karjeru televīzijā. Šis Hitlers nav nekāds āksts un tieši tāpēc ir biedējoši reāls. Un arī valsts, kurā viņš pamodies, ir biedējoši reāla un ciniska. Par spīti vācu demokrātijas desmitgadēm tajā triumfē veikls demagogs un dzīšanās pēc slavas un reitingiem.
Viņš ir atkal klāt, bet vai gan Ādolfs Hitlers tagad var būt bīstams? Lūk, tieši par to stāsta šī spīvā satīra, kura liek viņam pamosties mūsdienu Berlīnē. Romāna galvenais varonis tiešām ir Hitlers. Nevis karikatūra vai komēdijas varonis, bet gan cilvēks, kurš savdabīgi izprot un analizē mūsdienu pasauli, asi un zibenīgi saskata cilvēku vājības un nelokāmi seko savai loģikai seko stūrgalvīgi, bet nebūt ne muļķīgi.
Šis romāns par Ādolfa Hitlera ceļu no neapbūvēta klajuma Berlīnes Mitē caur avīžu kiosku un turkiem piederošu ķīmisko tīrītavu līdz pat vācu televīzijai ir elpu aizraujošs lasīšanas piedzīvojums, negants un viltīgs jo lasītājs arvien biežāk attopas, ka viņš nevis smejas par Hitleru, bet gan smejas kopā ar Hitleru. Vai tas ir iespējams? Vai to vispār drīkst?
Izdibiniet to paši. Galu galā šī ir brīva valsts.
Pagaidām.
No vācu vaIodas tulkojusi Silvija Brice
Timurs Vermešs (Timur Vermes) ir dzimis 1967. gadā Nirnbergā vācietes un ungāra ģimenē. Studējis vēsturi un politikas zinātni Erlangenā, pēc tam darbojies žurnālistikā (Abendzeitung, Ķelnes Express, Shape u. c.). Kopš 2009. gada kā “rēgrakstītājs” izdevis četras grāmatas, vēl divas tādas patlaban top. “Viņš ir atkal klāt” ir Vermeša debijas romāns, kas viena gada laikā kopš publicēšanas jau pārtulkots vairāk nekā 30 valodās.
Timur Vermes ER IST WIEDER DA
Originally published in Germany under the title ER IST WIEDER DA by Eichhorn A Division of Bastei Luebbe Publishing Group.
Copyright © 2012 by Bastei Lьbbe AG Vāka dizains ©Johannes Wiebel, punchdesign
Vāka dizainu adaptēja Ilze Isaka
Die ubersetzerin dankt dem Europeischen ubersetzer-Kollegium Nordrhein-Westfalen in Straelen fur die Unterstutzung bei der ubersetzung des Romans.
Visas darbības, tēli un dialogi šajā grāmatā ir izdomāti. Līdzība ar dzīviem cilvēkiem un/vai viņu reakcijām, ar firmām, organizācijām utt. ir nejauša jau tikai tāpēc vien, ka salīdzināmos apstākļos realitātē nevarētu pilnībā izslēgt citādus darbojošos personu rīcības un izturēšanās veidus. Autors uzsver faktu, ka Zigmārs Gabriels un Renāte Kīnasta īstenībā nav runājuši ar Hitleru.
© Tulkojums latviešu valodā, Silvija Brice, 2014
No one writes about cars like Jeremy Clarkson. While most correspondents are too buys diving straight into BHP, MPG and MPH, Jeremy appreciates that there are more important things to life. Don’t worry, we’ll get to the cars. Eventually. But first we should consider:
• The case for invading France
• The overwhelming appeal of a nice sit-down
• The inconvenience of gin and tonic
• Why clothes are no better than ice cream
• Spot-welding with the Duchess of Kent
• And why Denmark is the best place in the world
Armed only with conviction, curiosity, enthusiasm and a stout pair of trousers, Jeremy hurtles around the world – along motorway, autoroute, freeway and autobahn – in search of answers to life’s puzzles and ponderings without forethought or fear for his own safety. What, you have to ask, could possibly go wrong…
The contents of this book first appeared in Jeremy Clarkson’s Sunday Times column. Read more about the world according to Clarkson every week in The Sunday Times.
Winner of the National Book Award, the long-awaited novel from the author of the acclaimed collection, Jenny and the Jaws of Life, is an unusual and wonderful novel that is somehow able to be at once bleak and hilarious, light-hearted and profound.
It's the story of two sisters. Abigail Mather is a woman of enormous appetites, sexual and otherwise. Her fraternal twin Dorcas couldn't be more different: she gave up on sex without once trying it, and she lives a controlled, dignified life of the mind. Though Abigail exasperates Dorcas, the two love each other; in fact, they complete each other. They are an odd pair, set down in an odd Rhode Island town, where everyone has a story to tell, and writers, both published and unpublished, carom off each other like billiard balls.
What is it that makes the two women targets for the new man in town, the charming schlockmeister Conrad Lowe, tall, whippet-thin and predatory? In Abigail and Dorcas he sees a new and tantalizing challenge. Not the mere conquest of Abigail, with her easy reputation, but a longer and more sinister game. A game that will lead to betrayal, shame and, ultimately, murder.
In her darkly comic and unsettling first novel, Jincy Willett proves that she is a true find: that rare writer who can explore the shadowy side of human nature with the lightest of touches.
In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity parents, she was picked to play a princess in a little movie called Star Wars when only 19 years old. “But it isn’t all sweetness and light sabres.” Alas, aside from a demanding career and her role as a single mother (not to mention the hyperspace hairdo), Carrie also spends her free time battling addiction and weathering the wild ride of manic depression. It’s an incredible tale—from having Elizabeth Taylor as a stepmother, to marrying (and divorcing) Paul Simon, and from having the father of her daughter leave her for a man, to ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed.
An alien starship is nearing Earth, but its inhabitants show no interest in communicating with humanity. The only invited visitor to their ship uncovers a shocking reason for the aliens’ lack of curiosity about us.
Look at me. I’m not dead. Do I look dead?
Arnold Leadbetter has never had a worse day in his life. He wakes up to find himself in the Intensive Care Unit of his local hospital, tubes protruding from his body and hooked up to a machine which is apparently breathing for him. That, in itself, would be bad enough but nobody else in the hospital room seems to be interested in what is happening to him, preferring instead to talk amongst themselves. He tries to call out to them but no words come out of his mouth. He tries waving his fingers but they won’t move. He is imprisoned in a lifeless body with no way of communicating with the outside world.
He recognises a woman with tears in her eyes, who nods her head as the doctor explains Arnold’s prognosis. A decision is made and his life support machine is turned off.
But that’s just the start of Arnold’s problems – problems which include zombies, vampires, and werewolves.
“WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S” meets “AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON”