Latvian Books

The New York Times bestselling author returns with an unforgettable novel about friendship and forgiveness, and tells the story of the shocking events at a pre-wedding party on the fabulous beach of Cape Cod. Six years have passed since a serious argument broke up the friendship of Daphne Berg and Drew Cavanaugh. Daphne Berg is shocked when Drew Cavanaugh returns to her life as beautiful and successful as ever, and wants something.

For many years, Daphne has not exchanged a word with her ex-girlfriend, but suddenly Drew wants Daphne to be her bridesmaid at her wedding planned for the summer, which will undoubtedly attract huge public attention. Drew has always been everything she could dream of. But she never knew how to value friendship, only using others to achieve her goals.

But Daphne is no longer the despised girl she was in school, and Drew has to pray for a long time and try to prove that she has changed too. In the end, Daphne can't resist this siren song. She agrees to Drew's proposal, thus becoming involved in previously unpredictable and very dangerous events

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

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

'...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

Good people do bad things too. For some, it is limited only to remorse, but for others - to an article of the criminal law. In a thicket of forest near the borders of Upmale, the body of a wealthy man is found, once again shaking up the peaceful life of the town. Moreover, a rather unusual weapon was used for the murder.

The investigation of the crime is entrusted to local policeman Jekabs Sils, who, preoccupied with the worries of his personal life, gladly hides behind overtime. Soon, his old friend and colleague Karlis Grava also comes to help. The investigation will soon lead to ruined lives, hidden machinations of influential people and secrets kept by the townspeople, as well as test the limits of the endurance of the novel's characters again and again.

In order to find the culprit, Jekabs will be forced to balance on the edge of the law. And at rush hour, it is easy to lose control

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

Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written - let alone published - anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn't need Jake's help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then... he hears the plot.

Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker's first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that - a story that absolutely needs to be told.

In a few short years, all of Evan Parker's predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says

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

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

Laura and her husband Agris live in a private house in a remote rural area. Laura has a loving husband, caring parents and a successful sister, a friendly dog and a dream of having a firstborn, but one evening her life changes.

Agris goes for a walk with the dog, but does not return home. When the woman begins the search for her missing husband, she has to face the misunderstanding of those around her, and even more - the claim that there is no Agra, that she lives alone.

Laura manages to find evidence of Agra's existence, but she still has to understand what really happened... Where does our imagination end and reality begin? Maybe sometimes we are so sure of our rightness that we are ready to do anything to prove it?