Latvian Books

If you thought your wedding day was stressful, wait until you hear about Millie's... This should be the happiest day of my life. I'm engaged to the man of my dreams, and in just a few hours we'll be declared husband and wife. Until death do us part.

Despite what I've been through in the past, this day is everything I've ever dreamed of. But there's just one small problem: someone doesn't want me to live long enough to say 'I do.' And if I'm not careful, that wish might come true

'...books are more than words on paper; they are a portal to other places and other lives.'. On a quiet Dublin street, a long-forgotten bookstore is waiting to be found...

Opalina, Martha, and Henry have spent most of their lives as secondary characters. But when the lost bookstore captivates them, these three strangers discover that their own stories are as extraordinary as those found in their beloved books.

As they gradually uncover the secrets of the bookshelves, they will find themselves in a world full of wonders... where nothing is as it seems at first glance. A love story in which books and book lovers play the main role. A heartwarming, wonderful novel that draws the reader into a magical world full of wonders

A yellow taxi, a golf club and a cat! What do they have in common? As if nothing... only these characters are repeated with unusual insistence in the new collection of stories by Latvian fantasy and science fiction writers 'Pedestrians'. Why? And that's not all - this collection draws the reader into guessing other riddles.

What does the Dream Blower do? How would a car controlled by thoughts work? Is the baby in the bed just a fiction? What would you do if you could rewrite the past? Or, even more so - the future?

The writers do not promise clear answers, but one thing they can promise - a colorful, exciting, even dazzling journey into the world of imagination, which often so imperceptibly overflows into the reality we know, that we have to understand - we are all just pedestrians in some mysterious, completely unknowable traffic of dreams, ideas and unusual events. In traffic, where accidents sometimes happen, and then the inexplicable and fantastic suddenly become visible

While celebrating her 45th birthday at a local gastropub, radio host Alix Summers meets an inconspicuous woman named Josie Feira, who is also celebrating her 45th birthday. They are twin birthday girls. A short time later, Alix and Josie meet again - this time at Alix's children's school. Josie has listened to several of Alix's radio broadcasts and thinks she could offer Alix an interesting story.

She confesses that she is facing a big life change. Alix agrees to meet for a test interview. Josie's life, as it turns out, has been strange and complicated, and although Alix's inner voice warns her, she cannot resist the temptation to delve deeper into it.

Gradually, Alix begins to think that Josie is hiding some very dark secrets, but before she knows it, Josie has already infiltrated her life and even her house. Soon, Alix begins to wonder: who is Josie Feira really? And what exactly has she done?

Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever hope for. She is head over heels in love with her boyfriend, Peter; her dad's finally getting remarried to their next door neighbor, Ms. Rothschild; and Margot's coming home for the summer just in time for the wedding.

But change is looming on the horizon. And while Lara Jean is having fun and keeping busy helping plan her father's wedding, she can't ignore the big life decisions she has to make

Most pressingly, where she wants to go to college and what that means for her relationship with Peter. She watched her sister Margot go through these growing pains. Now Lara Jean's the one who'll be graduating high school and leaving for college and leaving her family

The main story is about how a young girl starts filming a TV series, suddenly becomes famous and

Vizma Belsevica is my Grandmother, and I must admit that as a child 'Bille' bothered me a bit - often, when I asked my Grandmother about the time when she was little, I would get an unusually firm and blunt: 'Read Bille'.

Well, why should I read if the storyteller is sitting opposite? Now, when some time has passed, I am happy and grateful for this book. It is not only about the girl Billi, but also about countless Riga boys and girls and their parents, ordinary working people, who struggled through life in Riga in the 1930s as if they were teachers. It is described here colorfully, aptly and at times harshly

Step into a very public marriage, in the compulsive novel from the best-selling author of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman. Fanny Savage was once dutiful, clever, vulnerable and dreamy. Now married to Will, a successful politician with big ambitions, her life is a whirlwind of public engagements and loyalty to the party, a position that requires her to look good and remain silent.

But she's no fool. She's well aware that the world outside her home is one that seethes with despair, danger and division. And she's beginning to understand how fragile happiness can be. Is she coping with the transition from eager bride to politician's wife? Has she been the Good Wife? Does being good always mean being truthful?

Early Sunday morning, Egons Dambergs receives a call - a body has been found in the yard of Police General Bose, and his kitchen has been vandalized.

On the same day, returning home from Austria, Anna Elizabeth's grandmother, Baroness Anna Rose Berg, disappears without a trace at the Vienna airport. However, if these events remain known only to narrow circles, then the news that a well-known businessman's double has been found murdered in his home, along with an article in the yellow press, spreads throughout the country.

Anna Elizabeth again gets involved in the investigation

Of the three brothers, it was Ethan who inherited his father's passion for the Maryland coast. After his father's death, he is determined to make the family boatbuilding business a success. But life is not only about achievements, but also about serious challenges.

Young Seth, who has only recently joined the Quinn family, needs Ethan more than ever. And there is a woman Ethan has always loved and who has never seemed to be available. To fulfill his long-held dreams, Ethan must come to terms with his past and find the courage to open his heart before it is too late.

Sometimes it is the most unexpected turns that open the door to what the heart has been silently waiting for all his life