Mihails ŠolohovsCilvēka liktenisSTĀSTSAizraujošais un aizkustinošas stāsts ir par kādu šoferi Andreju Sokolovu, kurš sākoties karam 1941 gadā dodas uz fronti, un jau pirmajos mēnešos tiek ievainots un nonāk gūstā, kur dabū iepazīt un pārciest visas fašistisko koncentrācijas nometņu šausmas. Tomēr pateicoties savai vīrišķībai un drosmei viņam ne tikai izdodas izvairīties no nošaušanas, bet arī izbēgt un nokļūt aiz frontes līnijas pie savējiem. Šeit viņš uzzina, ka viņa mīļotā sieva Irina un abas meitas gājušas bojā bombardēšanas laikā, un dzīvs palicis tikai dēls - oficieris. Atgriezies frontē Andrejs saņem ziņu, ka arī dēls kritis kara pēdējā dienā. Pēc kara vientuļais Sokolovs turpina strādāt par šoferi un satiek mazu bezpajumtnieku un bāreni zēnu Vaņu, kura māte ir mirusi, bet tēvs pazudis bez vēsts. Sokolovs pastāsta mazajam, ka ir viņa tēvs un līdz ar to atdod zēnam dzīvesprieku un ticību labākai nākotneiIzdevniecība " Liesma *  1965Tulkojis Valdis Grēviņš Mākslinieks Jānis SvenčsJEVGEŅIJAI GRIGORJEVNAI LEVICKAI, PSKP BIEDRENEI KOPS 1903. GADANoskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

Ivars Lu-JuhansonsCilvēks bez vārdaStāsts par manu jaunībuIzdevniecība «Liesma» Rīga 1965A(Zviedru)Tulkojusi Elīna Kliene Mākslinieks Uldis Zemzaris

Antuāns de Sent-EkziperīCilvēku zemeLVI Rīga 1981no franču valodas tulkojusi Maija Silmale«Lidojums nakti» (1931. g.) un «Cilvēku zeme* (1939. g.) — divas grāmatas, kur ikvienā rindā jūtams divdesmitā gadsimta pulss.To autors — Antuāns de Sent- Ekziperī (1900—1944) kļuvis par lidotāju jau aviācijas sākuma pos­mā, kad šis darbs, tāpat kā neiz­pētītu zemju apgūšana, prasīja no pilota saspringtu gribu, pašaizlie­dzību un drosmi. Būdams «lid­lauku zemnieks», kā Sent-Ekziperī pats sevi nosauc, viņš ne tikai iepa­zinis cilvēkus un vērojis to attiek­smju daudzplākšņainību, bet nācis arī «saskarē ar vēju, zvaigznēm, nakti, smiltīm un jūru». Viņa grāmātās poētiskais pasaules skatījums savienots ar tvirtu, asu domu. kas dziji Ieurbjas lasītāja apziņā, Izrai­sot negaidītu asociāciju plūsmu, vēl neapjaustas atziņas un reizē ar» dodot lasītājam viņa paša, div­desmitā gadsimta cilvēka, uzskatu apstiprinājumu, liekot līdzās sajust biedru plecu siltumu».Palikdams uzticīgs savos darbos paustajai domai, ka laime nav bez mērķa brīvībā, bet pienākumā, ko cilvēks labprātīgi uzņemas, Antuāns de Sent-Ekziperī gāja bojā 1944. gada 31. jūlijā, veikdams kaujas lidoju­mu virs tolaik vēl okupētās Dienvidfrancijas.Kāds franču rakstnieks teicis, ka literatūrā visi lauki jau uzarti; Jau­tājums tikai, cik dziļi. Sent-Ekzi- perī grāmatas, kurās skartas mūž­senās pienākuma, mīlestības un draudzības problēmas, atšķiras ar Šo «dziļo arumu».Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

Arčibalds Džozefs KroninsCitadeleRomāna pamatā ir smagā ārsta ikdienas darba tēlojums 20.gadsimta pirmajā pusē, kas veiksmīgi savijas ar citiem dzīves aspektiem (mīlestība un ģimenes dzīve, draudzība, naudas un slavas vilinājums utt.).  Darbs, mīlestība un ideāli nosaka un virza jaunā ārsta Endrū Mensona dzīvi. Lai arī viņš sāk strādāt kādā nomaļā Dienvidvelsas ogļraču pilsētiņā, tomēr ar gauži dekartisku pieeju tiecas sasniegt zinātniskā ideāla augstumus medicīniskajā darbā. Trūcīgos apstākļus, birokrātiskās sistēmas šķēršļus un citas nebūšanas palīdz pārvarēt mīļotā Kristīna un skeptiskā kolēģa Filipa Denija atbalsts.No angļu valodas tulkojis Valdemārs KārkliņšZvaigzne 1983

Sergejs AleksejevsCiti ies līdz galam cīņas ceļuStāsti par vēsturiStāstos aprakstīts Stepana Razina mūžsNo krievu valodas tulkojusi Aina Rudzroga B. Fedotova ilustrācijas A. Galeviusa vāksNoskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants LočmelisIzdevniecība «Liesma» Rīga 1976

Imagine your home is bombed one Sunday afternoon by a horde of enemy planes. Imagine your family has gone and you are left behind. This is the fate of five-year-old Peter and two teenagers Yuri and Tanya.Imagine being ordered to leave school to fight the terrifying Nazis in WWII. Imagine you are right in the middle of a battle; it’s you or them – you have no choice. This is the fate of Vlad and his three classmates.The battlefield is the city of Stalingrad, the pride of Russia. Germany’s Adolf Hitler wants the city badly, but Josef Stalin refuses to let go.Nobody has managed to stop the triumphant Nazi invasion across Europe. It all depends on one city – Stalingrad – her citizens, her soldiers and her children.

From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival — and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime.During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful Soviet colonel to use in his daughter’s wedding cake. In a city cut off from all supplies and suffering unbelievable deprivation, Lev and Kolya embark on a hunt through the dire lawlessness of Leningrad and behind enemy lines to find the impossible.By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, City of Thieves is a gripping, cinematic World War II adventure and an intimate coming-of-age story with an utterly contemporary feel for how boys become men.

Who do you trust, who do you love, and who can be saved?It is 1943—the height of the Second World War—and Berlin has essentially become a city of women.Sigrid Schröder is, for all intents and purposes, the model German soldier’s wife: She goes to work every day, does as much with her rations as she can, and dutifully cares for her meddling mother-in-law, all the while ignoring the horrific immoralities of the regime. But behind this façade is an entirely different Sigrid, a woman who dreams of her former lover, now lost in the chaos of the war. Her lover is a Jew.But Sigrid is not the only one with secrets.A high ranking SS officer and his family move down the hall and Sigrid finds herself pulled into their orbit.  A young woman doing her duty-year is out of excuses before Sigrid can even ask her any questions. And then there’s the blind man selling pencils on the corner, whose eyes Sigrid can feel following her from behind the darkness of his goggles.Soon Sigrid is embroiled in a world she knew nothing about, and as her eyes open to the reality around her, the carefully constructed fortress of solitude she has built over the years begins to collapse. She must choose to act on what is right and what is wrong, and what falls somewhere in the shadows between the two.In this page-turning novel, David Gillham explores what happens to ordinary people thrust into extraordinary times, and how the choices they make can be the difference between life and death.Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, August 2012: While the world hardly lacks for novels about WWII, David R. Gillham’s City of Women is extraordinary for what it does not do. It does not detail the events or imagined conversations of Hitler’s Reich, and it has not a single scene of life in the death camps. Instead, it chronicles—in detail so specific that it’s mesmerizing, but not so obviously researched as to be annoying—life for “ordinary” Berliners at a time that was anything but. Through Heroine Sigrid Schroder, a German wife drawn into an affair with a Jew, Gillham shows us a world in which not all Germans are bad, not all Jews are victims, and loyalty is a fiction, the grimmest of fairy tales.—Sara Nelson

The all-too-human individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are: Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's biggest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Sam, two Long Island teenagers seduced by downtown's nascent punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter; his spunky, West Coast-transplant neighbor; and the detective trying to figure out what they all have to do with a shooting in Central Park. From post-Vietnam youth culture to the fiscal crisis, from a lushly appointed townhouse on Sutton Place to a derelict squat on East 3rd Street, this city on fire is at once recognizable and completely unexpected. And when the infamous blackout of July 13th, 1977 plunges it into darkness, each of these entangled lives will be changed, irrevocably.

Georgijs BaidukovsČkalovsIevērojamu cilvēku dzīve. Valērija Čkalova vārds uz mūžīgiem laikiem iegājis padomju aviācijas vēsturē. Viņš devis lielu ieguldījumu jaunu lidmašīnu un jaunas iznīcinātāju aviācijas taktikas izstrādāšanā, viņš bija pirmais, kas veica pārlidojumu no Padomju Savienības pāri Ziemeļpolam uz ASV bez nosēšanās. Grāmatas autors ir Ckalova draugs, ilggadējs kolēģis lidmašīnu izmēģinātāja darbā un vēsturiskā pārlidojuma dalībnieks.No krievu valodas tulkojis Andris Rijnieks Mākslinieks Juris ĢērmanisRīga «Liesma» 1984Baidukovs G.Ba 194 Čkalovs / No kr. vai. tulk. A. Rijnieks. — R.: Liesma. 1984. — 333 lpp.r 11., 16 lp. il. — (Ievē-roj. cilvēku dzīve).Георгий Байдуков ЧКАЛОВМосква «Молодая гвардия» 1977© Tulkojums latviešu valoda, izdevniecība «Liesma», 1984© Издательство «Молодая гвардия, 1977

A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller

Possessing a wisdom and maturity rarely found in a first novelist, Korean-American writer Nora Okja Keller tells a heartwrenching and enthralling tale in this, her literary debut.

Comfort Woman is the story of Akiko, a Korean refugee of World War II, and Beccah, her daughter by an American missionary. The two women are living on the edge of society—and sanity—in Honolulu, plagued by Akiko’s periodic encounters with the spirits of the dead, and by Beccah’s struggles to reclaim her mother from her past. Slowly and painfully Akiko reveals her tragic story and the horrifying years she was forced to serve as a “comfort woman” to Japanese soldiers. As Beccah uncovers these truths, she discovers her own strength and the secret of the powers she herself possessed—the precious gifts her mother has given her.

Nora Okja Keller, author of Fox Girl, was born in Seoul, Korea, and now lives in Hawaii. In 1995, Keller received the Pushcart Prize for “Mother Tongue,” a piece that is a part of Comfort Woman.

1066 – Senlac Ridge, England. William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy, defeats Harold Godwinson, King Harold II of England, in what will become known as the Battle of Hastings.The battle is hard fought and bloody, the lives of thousands have been spent, including that of King Harold. But England will not be conquered easily, the Anglo-Saxons will not submit meekly to Norman rule.Although his heroic deeds will nearly be lost to legend, one man unites the resistance. His name is Hereward of Bourne, the champion of the English. His honour, bravery and skill at arms will change the future of England. His is the legacy of the noble outlaw.This is his story.

1066 – Senlac Ridge, England. William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy, defeats Harold Godwinson, King Harold II of England, in what will become known as the Battle of Hastings.The battle is hard fought and bloody, the lives of thousands have been spent, including that of King Harold. But England will not be conquered easily, the Anglo-Saxons will not submit meekly to Norman rule.Although his heroic deeds will nearly be lost to legend, one man unites the resistance. His name is Hereward of Bourne, the champion of the English. His honour, bravery and skill at arms will change the future of England. His is the legacy of the noble outlaw.This is his story.

Rome, 63 av. J.-C. À la veille de sa prise de pouvoir comme consul, l’avocat Cicéron mesure l’ampleur de sa tâche. Lui, l’homme sans noble ascendance, se sait méprisé par les patriciens, haï par les populistes. Au-delà même de sa personne, c’est la République qui est menacée, cernée par les complots des brigands en toge blanche et les manigances de l’ambitieux César. Il le sait : il faudra davantage que ses talents d’orateur pour détourner le glaive de sa gorge. Et Rome ne manque pas de glaives…« Un livre au rythme enlevé, basé sur des faits et délicieusement croustillant. »The New York Times« L’attrait du pouvoir et les périls qu’il provoque ont rarement été disséqués de manière aussi brillante dans un thriller. »The Sunday Times

For fans of Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light comes an historical espionage novel with a contemporary edge from Michelle Butler Hallett.

The time is 1937. The place: the Basque Country, embroiled in the Spanish Civil War. Polyglot and British intelligence agent Temerity West encounters Kostya Nikto, a Soviet secret police agent. Kostya has been dispatched to assassinate a doctor as part of the suppression of a rogue communist faction. When Kostya finds his victim in the company of Temerity, she expects Kostya to execute her — instead, he spares her.

Several weeks later, Temerity is reassigned to Moscow. When she is arrested by the secret police, she once again encounters Kostya. His judgement impaired by pain, morphine, and alcohol, he extricates her from a dangerous situation and takes her to his flat. In the morning, they both awaken to the realities of what Kostya has done. Although Kostya wants to keep Temerity safe, the cost will be high. And Temerity must decide where her loyalties lie.

Writing about violence with an unusual grace, Michelle Butler Hallett tells a story of complicity, love, tyranny, and identity. Constant Nobody is a thrilling novel that asks how far an individual will go to protect another — whether out of love or fear.

Février 1927. Le Tout-Paris assiste aux obsèques de Marcel Péricourt. Sa fille, Madeleine, doit prendre la tête de l’empire financier dont elle est l’héritière, mais le destin en décide autrement. Son fils, Paul, d’un geste inattendu et tragique, va placer Madeleine sur le chemin de la ruine et du déclassement.Face à l’adversité des hommes, à la cupidité de son époque, à la corruption de son milieu et à l’ambition de son entourage, Madeleine devra déployer des trésors d’intelligence, d’énergie mais aussi de machiavélisme pour survivre et reconstruire sa vie. Tâche d’autant plus difficile dans une France qui observe, impuissante, les premières couleurs de l’incendie qui va ravager l'Europe.Couleurs de l’incendie est le deuxième volet de la trilogie inaugurée avec Au revoir là-haut, prix Goncourt 2013, où l’on retrouve l’extraordinaire talent de Pierre Lemaitre.

1072 – England is firmly under the heel of its new Norman rulers. The few survivors of the English resistance look to Edgar the Atheling, the rightful heir to the English throne, to overthrow William the Conqueror. Years of intrigue and vicious civil war follow: brother against brother, family against family, friend against friend.In the face of chaos and death, Edgar and his allies form a secret brotherhood, pledging to fight for justice and freedom wherever they are denied. But soon they are called to fight for an even greater cause: the plight of the Holy Land. Embarking on the epic First Crusade to recapture Jerusalem, together they will participate in some of the cruellest battles the world has ever known, the savage Siege of Antioch and the brutal Fall of Jerusalem, and together they will fight to the death.

1072 – England is firmly under the heel of its new Norman rulers.The few survivors of the English resistance look to Edgar the Atheling, the rightful heir to the English throne, to overthrow William the Conqueror. Years of intrigue and vicious civil war follow: brother against brother, family against family, friend against friend.In the face of chaos and death, Edgar and his allies form a secret brotherhood, pledging to fight for justice and freedom wherever they are denied. But soon they are called to fight for an even greater cause: the plight of the Holy Land. Embarking on the epic First Crusade to recapture Jerusalem, together they will participate in some of the cruellest battles the world has ever known, the savage Siege of Antioch and the brutal Fall of Jerusalem, and together they will fight to the death.

Hay libros que envejecen con el tiempo, y otros que mantienen lozana su juventud inmarchita. Este es el caso de los "Cuentos de la Alhambra", escritos por Washington Irving, diplomático, historiador y viajero norteamericano que vivió por algún tiempo en la misma Alhambra. La obra, editada por primera vez en 1832, fue de inmediato traducida a muchas lenguas y atrajo a Granada a viajeros de todas las latitudes.