Rachel, a Jew, and Sergei, a Christian, find their worlds torn apart by violence in pre-revolutionary Russia…Rachel is a Jew living in Kishinev, Russia. At fourteen, she has dreams of being a writer. But everything is put on hold when a young Christian man is murdered and Rachel is forced to keep the murderer's identity a secret. Tensions mount and Rachel watches as lies and anti-Jewish propaganda leap off the pages of the local newspaper, inciting Christians to riot against the Jews. Violence breaks out on Easter Sunday, 1903, and when it finally ends, Rachel finds that the person she loves most is dead and that her home has been destroyed. Her main support comes surprisingly from a young Christian named Sergei. With everything against them, the two young people find comfort in their growing bond, one of the few signs of goodness and hope in a time of chaos and violence.

A girl’s 11th birthday always brings big changes to her world, but for Katya Dubko, it is truly the end of the world as she knows it. In the northern Ukraine, an area of dense forests, abundant wild life, and sparkling rivers, Katya’s little village of Yanov has been a fairytale home. Her family life is rich with ancient traditions and magical beliefs, and her father has a good job working for the government at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, a complex bigger than her whole village.

Steeped in the imagery of her people, Katya believes that the station is a magical factory, and she looks for men in white robes, the angels she has heard push buttons to create electricity. When she asks her father about the station, he reassures her that it is safe: “so safe I would let you and Mama sleep there. I’d let a baby sleep there.” Yet when Katya is sent into the forest to play while her family prepares her birthday dinner, she meets Vasyl, a mysterious otherworldly boy who tells her the agonizing truth: her world will be destroyed in an explosion. What is she to believe?

On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, and the Soviet government refused to acknowledge the extent of the disaster. As Katya struggles to survive in the aftermath, Vasyl reenters her life and helps her to realize that there can be no healing without truth, however difficult it may be to face. As she reconnects with her friends from before the explosion, she begins to learn more about the scientific concepts that have changed their world, and she discovers that blind patriotism like her father’s can be the undoing of a country as well as a man. With the help of friends she could have never imagined in her old life, Katya begins to understand that the things that are most important about her homeland and herself have survived the disaster. Combining the mythological truths of her ancestors with an understanding of the science behind the Chernobyl explosion, Katya finds the strength to fulfill a promise she made to herself many years before. And from her new vantage point she realizes that she is no longer the little girl in the fairy tale, she has become the author of her own story.

Radiant Girl weaves history, fantasy, photographs and illustrations together to create a fictional coming of age tale that offers readers insight on surviving the powerful forces of change that rock their own lives, both from within and without.

With swift, bold and powerful writing, debut author Alison Littman tells the story of a family ripped apart by revolution, illuminating a time when news, rock ‘n’ roll and underground journalism forever changed the lives of those living behind the Iron Curtain.

After years of suffering under the communist regime in Cold War Hungary, Eszter Turján—fanatical underground journalist—would sacrifice anything, and anyone, to see the government fall. When she manipulates news broadcasts on Radio Free Europe, she ignites a vicious revolution, commits a calamitous murder and is dragged away screaming to a secret underground prison.

Her daughter Dora, then a teenager, cowers in her bedroom as the secret police arrest her mother. Haunted and hurt, Dora vows to work against everything Eszter believes in. But, it’s not that simple.

After nine years, Dora meets a strapping young fan of Radio Free Europe and is unwittingly drawn back into Eszter’s circle. She finds her mother, driven mad by years of torture, is headed for death.

On the brink of losing Eszter again, Dora must decide if she should risk her life to save the mother who discarded her—or leave it to fate.

Radio Underground is a beautiful, relevant novel that explores the lengths and limits of love, family and the power of expression.

They were the deadliest ships of World War II. From 1940–1943, German commerce raiders disguised as peaceful cargo ships and flying the flags of neutral and allied nations, prowled the oceans searching for unsuspecting Allied shipping. These heavily armed yet carefully disguised warships roamed like twentieth-century pirates, striking in the blackness of night or slicing out of the foggy seas like hungry sharks.In the autumn of 1941, the British Admiralty has had enough. Hundreds of thousands of tons of Allied shipping have been lost to the nine known German commerce raiders. And intelligence suggests that a tenth commerce raider – known only as Raider X — is now scouring the seas in search of hapless victims.Unable to set a trap for these elusive ghosts, the British devise another plan. Bait, in the guise of one expendable man, Harlan Thatcher, will spell an end to Raider X before she can carry out her awful agenda.Thatcher’s mission is simple: travel on the most attractive merchant ship on the seas and when Raider X strikes, endure long enough to be taken captive on board. Once there, destroy the ship and her crew. It’s certain suicide. But Thatcher’s got little choice but to accept.After surviving a brutal attack on the merchant ship he travels on, Thatcher becomes a prisoner of the German Navy. But he’s not alone. There are other survivors as well. One of them, a raven-haired beauty named Cyra, may not be what she claims. And as quickly as Thatcher becomes the hunter, he may also become the hunted.

Maksims GorkijsRaksti XVIII. Kļima Samgina dzīve. (Četrdesmit gadu) Pirmā daļaPar šā darba ieceri Gorkijs 1931. gadā stāstīja: "šo grāmatu esmu aizsācis sen, pēc pirmās piektā-sestā gada revolūcijas, kad inteliģence, uzskatīdama sevi par revolucionāru viņa patiešām kā nekā faktiski piedalijās pirmās revolūcijas organizēšanā, septītajā un astotajā gadā sāka strauji aiziet pa labi. Tad parādījās kadetu krājums «Вехи» un vesela rinda citu ražojumu, kas norādīja un pierādīja, ka inteliģencei ar strādnieku šķiru un vispār ar revolūciju nav pa ceļam. Man radās vēlēšanās dot tāda, pēc manām domām, tipiska inteliģenta tēlu. Es viņus pazinu personīgi un diezgan lielā skaitā, bet bez tam vēl pazinu šo inteliģentu vēsturiski, literāri, pazinu viņu ne tikai kā mūsu zemes, bet ari Francijas un Anglijas tipu. Šis individuālista tips, katrā ziņā cilvēks ar caurmēra intelektuālām spējām, bez jebkādām spilgtām īpašībām, sastopams literatūrā visā XIX gadsimtā. Šāds tips bija arī pie mums: šis cilvēks bija revolucionārā pulciņa loceklis, pēc tam pārgāja buržuāziskajā valstiskumā kā tā aizstāvis. Jums laikam gan nevajag atgādināt, ka tā inteliģence, kas dzīvo emigrācijā ārzemēs, apmelo Padomju Savienību, organizē sazvērestības un vispār nodarbojas ar nelietībām, šī inteliģence lielāko tiesu sastāv no Samginiem. Daudzi no tiem ļaudīm, kas mūs patlaban apmelo visciniskākajā kārtā, ir bijuši cilvēki, ko ne vien es biju uzskatījis par ļoti cienījamiem..."Gorkijs bija iecerējis ne visai garu romānu vienā sējumā, tomēr uzrakstījis četrus sējumus un viņam romānu neizdevās pabeigt...Latvijas Valsts Izdevniecība Rīgā 1952

Maksims GorkijsRaksti XXI. Kļima Samgina dzīve. (Četrdesmit gadu). Ceturtā daļa Sava daiļdarba «Kļima Samgina dzīve» ceturto daļu autors nav pilnīgi nobeidzis. Latvijas Valsts Izdevniecība Rīgā 1953МАКСИМ ГОРЬКИЙ Собрание сочинений XXIНа латышском языкеTulkojis Kārlis ŠtrālsRedaktore E. Grinberfia. Māksi, redaktors V. Kooaļons. Tcchn. redaktore Я. Aizupiete. Korektores: L. УнгЦеогка, Z. Miezite.Nodota salikšanai 19>3. g. 10. aprilī. Parakstīta iespiešanai 1953. g. 21. maijā. Papīra formāts 6lX86Vie. 15.75 papīra 1., 28.93 iespiedi.. 32.72 izdevu. I. Metiens 7000 eks. JT 03410. Izdevu. Nr. 5872-D832. Tijiogr, pasūt. Nr. 702. Iespiesta I.PRHT 3. tipogrāfijā Rīgā, Ļeņina ielā Nr. 137/139. Maksu bez iesējuma 9 rl»l. 80 kap. Iesējums 2 rb|.ЛАТГОСИЗДАТ — РИГАОтпечатано в типографии JV” 3 ЛРТПП, г. Рига, у.ч. Ленина, 1.37/139.

Tai antroji ciklo apie Ramzį knyga. Ramziui išaušo iškilmingoji diena: jis vainikuojamas Egipto karaliumi. Jaunasis valdovas turi viską, kas galėtų padėti jam tapti didžiu faraonu: įstabiosios Nefertarės ir savo išmintingosios motinos karalienės Tujos meilę ir ištikimų draugų, kuriais visiškai pasitiki. Kaip tik jie – uolus raštininkas Amenis, subtilus diplomatas Aša, savo kelio tebeieškąs hebrajas Mozė, gyvačių kerėtojas Setau – tampa pirmaisiais jaunojo faraono padėjėjais.

Šioje epopėjos apie faraoną Ramzį knygoje vaizduojamas XIII a. pr. Kr. klestintis Egiptas, valdomas faraono Sečio. Vyresnysis faraono sūnus Šenaras, tingus ir mėgstantis prabangą, įsitikinęs, kad atėjus laikui užims tėvo vietą. Tačiau, visų nuostabai, savo įpėdiniu ir Egipto valdytoju Setis paskelbia dar paauglį jaunesnįjį sūnų Ramzį. Eidamas į sostą šis turi tik keletą draugų – ištikimąjį raštininką Amenį, gyvačių kerėtoją Setau, moksladraugį hebrają Mozę... Į jaunuolio širdį pasibeldžia meilė: ką jis rinksis – gražiąją Izetę, ar paslaptingąją Nefertarę?.. Tuo metu klastingasis Šenaras kantriai rengia perversmą. Ar mirus tėvui Ramzis atsispirs rezgamoms intrigoms?

Nacido en un remoto lugar de Siberia, Rasputin podría haber llevado la existencia de un simple mujik semianalfabeto, de no haber sido por la curiosidad que en él despertaban la religión y sus enigmas, por su singular percepción de la realidad y los a veces extraños acontecimientos que le sucedieron. Dotado de un magnetismo extraordinario, comenzó a ejercer su influjo sobre los campesinos y lugareños, divulgando una nueva forma de entender la religión y de practicarla, hasta que representantes de la Iglesia ortodoxa vieron en él la encarnación de la sencilla y positiva sabiduría popular y lo ayudaron a introducirse en la mejor sociedad de San Petersburgo. En poco tiempo, Rasputín consiguió rodearse de un círculo de seguidores, la mayoría mujeres nobles dispuestas a seguir sus enseñanzas y a entregarse a él en cuerpo y alma. Cuando la zarina Alejandra, desesperada ante los estragos que la hemofilia causando en su hijo, conoce a ese iluminado, deposita en él todas sus esperanzas y lo convierte en médico del zarevich y consejero de Estado, y, con ello, en una de las piezas claves de la irrefrenable caída del gran imperio ruso.

Uldis StrupulisRaunas stāstiRomānsSavdabīgā izteiksmē, izmantojot tautas ticējumus, paražas un nostāstus, aulors stāsta par notikumiem, kas norisinājušies Rau­nas pusē XVI gadsimtā, tēlo tautas beztiesisko stāvokli, vācu garīgo un laicīgo kungu divkosību, pērkamību un nežēlību. Kā visa romāna vadmotīvs darbam cauri vijas divu jauniešu — Ilzes un Inta skaidrā, pašaizliedzīgā mīlestība.Stāsti par vēsturi Šajā sērijā iznākT. Treicis Savas Taisnības Meklētāji G. Brokāns Trauksmainās Dienas Klusajā CiemaM. Zariņš Apgaismības Gadsimta ĒnāA. G roms L. Vaczemnieks NovadniekiJ. Mauliņš PēdasL. Purs Tālajos PilskalnosS. Stepņaks-Kravcinskis Andrejs KožuhovsN. Frīds ĶeizarieneA. Adamovics VilkačiRecenzenti: Jānis Kalniņš un Laimonis PursMākslinieks Imants KrepicsNoskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lv«Liesma», 1983

Eifemija BallestremaRāvensbergas baltās rozesVienīgi ļaudīm, kas nodarbojas ar heraldiku, bieži gadās pabrīnīties, kāpēc firstienes Hohvaldes ģerboņa kreisā stūra sidraba vairogā attēlotas trīs sārtas rozes un uz to zelta smailēm pa vienam sārtam pilienam. Un kam gan arī varētu ienākt prātā, ka tas ir Rāvensbergu senākais ģerbonis, kura baltās rozes pārvērtušas sārtās caur izpirkšanas asinīm, ko apzīmē trīs sārtie pilieni.tulkojis Kārlis Kļavisvāku zīmējis Aleksandrs StankevičsNoskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis I.Ločmelis"Latvijas grāmata" 1991.gads

In a daring plan, the Confederate Secret Service sends a group of cavalrymen to kidnap, or kill, President Abraham Lincoln by seizing the train secretly carrying him to Gettysburg on the eve of his famous Address.

Colonel Arthur Percy leads the rebel raiders into enemy territory. His crew includes Tom Flynn, an assassin sent to make sure Percy follows orders — or dies trying.

Lincoln is not the only valuable cargo on the train. A fortune in Union payroll is the target of a Baltimore belle and a tough gambler.

The situation is further complicated when the original crew of the seized train finds another locomotive and gives chase.

Based on a true story, Rebel Train runs a mile a minute in a steam-driven race through the farmlands and mountains of Maryland and Virginia. The outcome will decide not only the fate of Lincoln and the Raiders, but of the Union and the Confederacy.

Anchee Min, now a painter, film-maker, photographer and writer, left China for America in 1984. She had been a prize pupil and a model member of Mao Tse-tung's Red Guard. For her dutiful work for the Party, she was awarded a place at the arduous Red Fire Farm, where she experienced – at great personal risk – her sexual and emotional awakening with the female company leader. Selected from 20,000 candidates to be a star of propagandist films, she left behind the farm and her lover, for fame and an exotic affair with one of Madame Mao's leading emissaries. In this autobiography Anchee Min reveals, through a series of relationships, both a little-known China and her own character – independent, enquiring, and anxious to grasp every experience that comes within her reach. It is an erotic autobiography which, through the dialogue and characterizations of a novel, traces her life and relationships through the political and cultural upheavals of the era.

Coenraad de Buys was the most dangerous man around in the Cape of the late 1700s. At eight he crossed his first frontier and left his mother’s house behind. Left his home (the first of many); left the Cape; left civilisation. From the Langkloof Buys roves – a giant, a legend, polygamist and swindler; the bane of government, father to chieftains and a Buysvolk of his own.

Everywhere his wild oats are sown; everywhere renegades and criminals join his band of outcasts. He interprets between Xhosa and English but speaks only his own words. And everywhere on his travels, always there is the pack of dogs and the earless red leader that put Buys on his restless path. In Buys’ tracks, in his head, around his camp fires the slavering jaws snap. He was born in the Langkloof. He died on the banks of the Limpopo. But Buys is not dead.

Red Dog is a novel about frontiers and borders. The Afrikaans original Buys was hugely acclaimed in 2014. Now it has been masterfully translated by Michiel Heyns.

‘The black earth was already baking and the sun was just rising when they mounted their horses and rode across the grasslands towards the horizon on fire…’Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis.He enrols in the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his band of brothers are sent on a desperate mission behind enemy lines.Switching between Benya’s war in the grasslands of southern Russia, and Stalin’s plans in the Kremlin, between Benya’s intense affair with an Italian nurse and a romance between Stalin’s daughter and a journalist also on the Eastern Front, this is a sweeping story of passion, bravery and human survival where personal betrayal is a constant companion, and death just a hearbeat away.

Red Sniper is the story of a rescue mission for American POWs held captive by the Russians at the end of World War II.

For these American POWs, the war is not over. Abandoned by their country, used as political pawns by Stalin, their last hope for getting home again is backwoods sniper Caje Cole and a team of combat veterans who undertake a daring rescue mission prompted by a U.S. Senator whose grandson is among the captives. After a lovely Russian-American spy helps plot an escape from a Gulag prison, they must face the ruthless Red Sniper, starving wolves, and the snowy Russian taiga in a race for freedom.

In a final encounter that tests Cole’s skills to the limit, he will discover that forces within the U.S. government want the very existence of these prisoners kept secret at any price.

Regeneration by Pat Barker is a classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young — published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'I just don't think our war aims — whatever they may be — and we don't know — justify this level of slaughter.' The poets and soldiers Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen are dispatched to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland in 1917. There, army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating brutalised, shell-shocked men. It is Rivers' job to fix these men and make them ready to fight again. As a witness to the traumas they have endured, can he in all conscience send them back to the horrors of the trenches?

REĢENTA MEITAAleksandrs Dimā (tēvs)Kopoti raksti piecpadsmit sējumosVienpadsmitais sējumsREĢENTA MEITA »Izdevumu sagatavojusi SIA ,.IMPAKS" Rīgā 1994Redaktors A.MukānsOfseta papīrs. Formāts 60x90 1/16 Tirāža 5 000 eks. Līgumcena. Izdevējdarbības licence Nr.

Hermanis ZūdermanisReiz bija. Rūpju māteGrāmata dod iespēju jaunajai paaudzei iepazīt kādreiz tik populārā vācu rakstnieka Hermaņa Zūdermaņa (1857-1928) daiļradi. H.Zūdermanis ir viens no ievērojamākajiem naturālisma pārstāvjiem vācu literatūrā. Rakstnieka darbi saista ar savu aizraujošo, spraigo sižetu un cilvēcību.Grāmatā ievietoti divi H.Zūdermaņa romāni «Reiz bija» un«Rūpju māte».Lasītājam dota iespēja iepazīt šo romānu varoņu sarežģītos raksturus, izsekot to attīstībai, virzībai uz gaišo, paliekošo dzīvē un mūžībā.Rīga "Zvaigzne” 1993Hermann Zudermann ES WAR Roman 1894Hermann Zutlermann FRAU SORGE Roman 1887Romānu «Rūpju māte» no vācu valodas tulkojuši Anna un Valdis GrēviņiNoskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lvMākslinieks Viesturs Grants

Žans RenuārsRenuārsSērija «Ievērojamu cilvēku dzīve» Šo atmiņu un personisko iespaidu gūzmu es sniedzu lasītājiem kā daļēju atbildi uz jautājumu, kuru man bieži uzdod: «Kāds cilvēks bija jūsu tēvs?»Izdevniecība «Liesma» Rīgā 1973Jean Renoie RenoirHacliette, Paris 1962No franča valodas tulkojusi Milda Grīnfelde Vāku zīmējis A. Krēsliņš