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Arthur Conan Doyle's latest collection of stories, 'The Empty House,' takes the reader into the exciting world of Sherlock Holmes' detective adventures, where the brilliant investigator and his trusted assistant, Dr. Watson, solve various, often seemingly incomprehensible crimes.

The collection of stories includes all the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson that have been translated into Latvian so far

A little ingenuity, a little technology, careful planning and a little luck - Basil Wislethwaite's annual Victorian-style haunted dinners have always attracted a large crowd, generating a good income for the owners of The Bell Hotel in Cheringham and a generous fee for Basil himself.

However, this time everything almost ends in tragedy and the guests are overcome with concern, could the hotel's infamous ghost Freddy be to blame?

Former investigator Jack and his best friend Sarah are convinced - no matter how mysterious the circumstances of the accident, the culprit is definitely not connected to the spirit world. If they can figure out who wants to harm the hotel, they will also have the villain in hand!

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?

Jennifer Weiner is a New York Times bestselling author. Several of her novels have been adapted into films. Very often, it begins with a thrilling first glance. Sometimes it's a story about giving a second chance. Sometimes the answers are known almost instantly. But Rachel Bloom and Andy Landis' relationship takes many years to come to the most important question of their lives - whether they can ultimately walk the path together.

They are just young children when they meet in a hospital emergency room. They meet again as teenagers, and the mutual attraction is too strong to resist. Romance unites the most different - a girl from a family of wealthy and caring parents and a young man whose mother takes care of her son alone. Over the next three decades, Andy and Rachel meet again and part again, bound by chance and shared memories, climb the mountain of success and victory and fall into the abyss of defeat and despair, but rise and climb again - even stronger and wiser in life.

This is a soulful novel with a dose of humor and self-irony, a fantastic revelation about the flow of time, about how we change, while changing each other. But the measure is only one - the beloved person and the ability to be happy

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

'Manzeva's House' is a rather frightening world: a busy woman receives an apartment as part of a deal that she has not even looked at before.

She moves in and gradually realizes that she is not the one dictating the rules for life in this house. Manzeva's House is like a complex microcosm that draws the lives of its residents into its beautiful and frightening reality

Using the myth of the Minotaur, the hero of Georgiy Gospodinov's novel constructs a labyrinth of stories about his family, jumping from century to century, from point of view to point of view, exploring the state of mind and stumbling blocks of Eastern Europeans.

The unnamed narrator suffers from 'pathological empathy,' the attacks of which take him on wanderings through his own and other people's memories. His message is at times incredibly moving, at times very witty.

'The Physics of Sadness' is a book in which the reader can settle down, look for connections, follow the narrator in his footsteps through various side corridors, blissfully get lost in the countless plots and sympathize with the sad, misunderstood Minotaur - the central axis of this work.

Part family history, part coming-of-age story, part meditation on communist-era Europe, this dazzlingly inventive, vision-broadening novel, with its unique structure, humanist ideas, and gifted narrative, confirms that Georgi Gospodinov is deservedly considered one of Europe's most important contemporary authors

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

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