Lithuanian Books

She is running from the past. He has lost faith in love.

Returning to her small hometown, Noele hoped to find peace. After a violent relationship and the death of her husband, she wanted one thing - to forget. However, in the shadow of the Vyndragiai Church, her gaze is caught by him. Aras Gotbergas - a mysterious man with scars on his face and heart, a loner, hiding a dark past. A past in which Noele played a decisive role.

Their paths shouldn't cross, but in a town where everyone knows each other, secrets don't last long. Every step they take brings them closer to the abyss - can love heal two wounded souls, or only break them even more?

Our Town is almost realistic. The same laws of physics apply in it, and people like us live there, recognizable from everyday life - their desires and behavior are not strange, not invented, but as if highlighted (or caught) in the darkness by a spotlight

There is a deadly weapon that any person can bring onto a plane, and no surveillance system in the world would be able to detect it.

Renowned psychiatrist Mats Krueger is rushing on a night flight from Buenos Aires to Berlin.

He is excited that he will soon see his daughter, who is about to give birth.

On the same plane is his former patient, whom the doctor once freed from fantasies of violence and murder.

While flying over the Atlantic, Mats is forced to reawaken this patient's desire for death and revenge and psychologically influence her to crash the plane. If he doesn't, Mats' daughter will die that very night

At fourteen, Anatoly Kuznetsov began documenting the horrors he witnessed during the Nazi occupation of Kyiv, including the Babyn Yar massacre, the death of prisoners, and Soviet repression. These notes became Babyn Jaras, a powerful chronicle of ordinary people's suffering under both Soviet and Nazi rule. The novel, censored in the Soviet era, reveals a boy's coming-of-age amidst these atrocities. This edition includes censored passages and an introduction by historian Zigmos Vitkaus, providing context on the author, the text's history, and the Babyn Yar massacre site

In the summer of 2014, amid Russia's war against Ukraine, a brief 'bread truce' is declared, but the war continues to rage. In a city partially cut off by an explosion, two brothers are left to bury their mother while navigating the chaos of war. As they struggle with grief and survival, past betrayals and mistrust surface, revealing the deeper scars of war that will haunt them forever. This poignant story explores the lasting impact of conflict on those who never chose to fight

Three main themes emerge in the novel, each focusing on a different group of people: theatre creators, exorcism participants and children. The novel explores the pitfalls of theatre life, the encounter of talent with addictions, and the influence of fame and publicity on personal life. All characters are fictional, but the author's experiences are authentic. The book intrigues with vivid, vivid scenes of exorcism sessions

The two of them climbed the first landing. They were about ten steps from the bottom. It was a game children played, challenging each other to jump higher and higher. Frank took her hand. Cleo squeezed his hand in hers. And they both jumped down.

New York is slipping away from Cleo. Yes, she's partying, but she has almost no friends. Her student visa is about to expire, and she doesn't even have money for cigarettes. But then Cleo meets Frank. A man nearly twenty years her senior, his life is filled with the success and excess that Cleo lacks. Frank offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the chance to get a green card. Cleo offers him a life of beauty and art - and a reason to drink less. For each other, they are everything they both want at the moment.

Cleo and Frank plunge headlong into a love affair. Events unfold so quickly that both of them find themselves gasping for breath. Not only their lives are changed, but also the lives of those around them: Cleo's best friend, who is trying to come to terms with his sexual identity in the face of her marriage, and Frank's sister, who is financially dependent on him. Ultimately, a chance meeting between the two strangers after a New Year's Eve party changes everything - for better or for worse

In this sequel to the bestselling The Maid, which can also be read as a standalone book, maid Mole is once again faced with 'mess' - a new crime-puzzle. Mole must uncover the truth, no matter how much dirt it hides.

Nothing pleases Molly more than order and rules. And finally the day has come when she has earned her right to become the head chambermaid of the glamorous five-star Regency Grand hotel. But this sweet success and peace do not last long - the world-famous detective author J. D. Grimthorpe falls dead in the hotel's tea room

The novel 'Moscow Festival' is the author's reconciliation with the capital of the collapsing Soviet empire, where he had to live while studying at the M. Gorky Literary Institute.

It is a drunken wandering around Moscow by the author's alter ego, and at the same time a character from a true villain novel, whose drinking dens and sewers, the pitiful existence of the young intellectuals of the empire, illuminated by intoxicants and megalomaniac delusions, reveal an increasingly alien and repulsive face of the decaying megalopolis.

The playful, ironic story, studded with fantastic images and cultural allusions, leads to a grotesque apocalyptic climax, in which - how unexpected! - the role of hellish evil is played by the KGB, which has used all the myths of the empire in the fight for survival

'The Mushroom Dream' is a novel about people lost in their inner labyrinths. Thirty-five-year-old women Upe, Ina, and Norwegian restaurant chef Karlas, who have built successful lives in the eyes of society, actually live in the prisons of their own minds. They are missing something, but they themselves do not know what. Each of them, in their own way, searches for a path to inner reconciliation throughout their lives, but only after finding themselves in the mystical summer house at Pervalkos g. 31 do they find a hint of a solution