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Kathy Reichs – Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan #7) (Audio book)

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The secrets of the dead are in her hands. 

The bones of three young women are unearthed in the basement of a Montreal pizza parlor, and forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan has unsolved murder on her mind as she examines the shallowly buried remains. Coming up against a homicide cop who is convinced the dead have been entombed on the site for centuries, Tempe perseveres, even with her own relationship with Detective Andrew Ryan at a delicate turning point. In the lab, the clean, well-perserved bones offer few clues. But when Carbon 14 confirms her hunch that these were recent deaths despite the antique buttons found near the bodies, Tempe’s probing must produce answers quickly to stop a killer whose grisly handiwork has seen the light of day.

Izdevniecība/Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Kā tiku pie šīs grāmatas?/How I got this book?

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Vērtējums/Rating: 3.5/5

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Kathy Reichs – Grave Secrets (Temperance Brennan #5) (Audio book)

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Grāmatas apraksts no Goodreads/Synopsis from Goodreads:

“Fans of TV’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation should be in heaven” (People) stepping into the world of forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, star of Kathy Reichs’ electrifyingly authentic bestsellers.

A harrowing excavation unearths a chilling tragedy never laid to rest.

They are “the disappeared,” twenty-three massacre victims buried in a well in the Guatemalan village of Chupan Ya two decades ago. Leading a team of experts on a meticulous, heartbreaking dig, Tempe Brennan pieces together the violence of the past. But a fresh wave of terror begins when the horrific sounds of a fatal attack on two colleagues come in on a blood-chilling satellite call. Teaming up with Special Crimes Investigator Bartolomé Galiano and Montreal detective Andrew Ryan, Tempe quickly becomes enmeshed in the cases of four privileged young women who have vanished from Guatemala City — and finds herself caught in deadly territory where power, money, greed, and science converge.

Izdevniecība/Publisher: BBC Audiobook America

Kā tiku pie šīs grāmatas?/How I got this book?

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Vērtējums/Rating: 3.25/5

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Kurt Vonnegut – Cat’s Cradle (Audio book)

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Told with deadpan humour & bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut’s cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon &, worse still, surviving it …
Dr. Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding ‘fathers’ of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he’s the inventor of ‘ice-nine’, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker’s three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker’s Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to humankind brings about the end that for all of us, is nigh…

Kā tiku pie šīs grāmatas?/How I got this book?

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Vērtējums/Rating: 3/5

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Džozefs Konrāds – Almajera muļķība (audio book)

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Kaspars Almajers ir vienīgais baltais vīrs, kas mitinās Malaizijas džungļu apmetnē uz Pantajas upes. Vietējo tirgotāju izputināts un paša sievas ienīsts, viņš ir samierinājies ar savu neapskaužamo likteni. Taču meitas negaidītā ierašanās atgriež viņam zaudētos spēkus un cerības atgriezties Eiropā. Ar kāda noslēpumaina tirgotāja palīdzību viņš plāno doties meklēt pasakainas bagātības, kuru noslēpumu zina vienīgi viņš…
“Almajera muļķība” ir pirmais angļu literatūras klasiķa Džozefa Konrāda romāns, kas tika izdots vēl tālajā 1895. gadā. Pēdējā laikā tas atkal ir izpelnījies plašu lasītāju uzmanību, kā arī ir ticis vairākkārtēji ekranizēts. Romānā autors uz pasakaini skaistā un eksotiskā džungļu dabas fona sev vien raksturīgajā nolemtības pilnajā stilā cenšas apskatīt mūžam aktuālas problēmas – emigrāciju, globalizāciju, kapitālismu, kā arī dažādu kultūru sadursmi.
Džozefs Konrāds (1857-1924) tiek uzskatīts par vienu no izcilākajiem angļu literatūras klasiķiem. Pēc jūrnieka karjeras noslēgšanas šis poļu izcelsmes autors pievērsās rakstniecībai, ienesdams piedzīvojumu literatūras žanrā savu īpatnējo skatījumu un modernas vēsmas. Starp viņa ievērojamākajiem darbiem ir minami tādi romāni kā “Tumsas sirds”, ” Lords Džims”, “Nostromo” un “Slepenais aģents”.

Izdevniecība/Publisher: Burtlicis Burkšķis

Kā tiku pie šīs grāmatas?/How I got this book?

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Vērtējums/Rating: 3.75/5

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Neal Stephenson – Cryptonomicon (Audiobook)

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Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods–World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, crypt analyst extraordinaire, and gung-ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe. They’re part of Detachment 2702, an Allied group trying to break Axis communication codes while simultaneously preventing the enemy from figuring out that their codes have been broken. Their job boils down to layer upon layer of deception. Dr. Alan Turing is also a member of 2702, and he explains the unit’s strange workings to Waterhouse. “When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first… Of course, to observe is not its real duty–we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed… Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious.”

All of this secrecy resonates in the present-day story line, in which the grandchildren of the WWII heroes–inimitable programming geek Randy Waterhouse and the lovely and powerful Amy Shaftoe–team up to help create an offshore data haven in Southeast Asia and maybe uncover some gold once destined for Nazi coffers. To top off the paranoiac tone of the book, the mysterious Enoch Root, key member of Detachment 2702 and the Societas Eruditorum, pops up with an unbreakable encryption scheme left over from WWII to befuddle the 1990s protagonists with conspiratorial ties.

Izdevniecība/Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Kā tiku pie šīs grāmatas?/How I got this book?

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Vērtējums/Rating: 2.5/5

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Michael Crichton – The Andromeda Strain (Audiobook)

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The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to collect organisms and dust for study. One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town’s inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.

Izdevniecība/Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio

Kā tiku pie šīs grāmatas?/How I got this book?

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Vērtējums/Rating: 2.75/5

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Frederik Pohl – Gateway (Heechee Saga #1) (Audio book)

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Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe… and on reaches of unimaginable horror.

When prospector Robinette Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Rob Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he has become… in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!

 

Izdevniecība/Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Kā tiku pie šīs grāmatas?/How I got this book?

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Vērtējums/Rating: 3/5

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Alfred Bester – The Stars My Destination (Audio book)

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Grāmatas apraksts no Goodreads/Synopsis from Goodreads:

In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people “jaunte” a thousand miles with a single thought, where the rich barricade themselves in labyrinths and protect themselves with radioactive hit men – and where an inarticulate outcast is the most valuable and dangerous man alive. The Stars My Destination is a classic of technological prophecy and timeless narrative enchantment by an acknowledged master of science fiction.

Kā tiku pie šīs grāmatas?/How I got this book?

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Vērtējums/Rating: 1.5/5

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Greg Iles – The Devil’s Punchbowl (Penn Cage #3) (Audio book)

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Grāmatas apraksts no Goodreads/Synopsis from Goodreads:

The shocking new thriller from the king of southern gothic.

When he was a prosecuting attorney Penn Cage sent hardened killers to death row. But it is as mayor of his hometown – Natchez, Mississippi – that Penn will face his most dangerous threat.

Urged by old friends to restore the town to its former glory, Penn has ridden into office on a tide of support for change. But in its quest for new jobs and fresh money, Natchez has turned to casino gambling. Five fantastical steamboats float on the river beside the old slave market like props from Gone With the Wind. But one boat isn’t like the others. Rumour has it that the Magnolia Queen has found a way to pull the big players from Las Vegas. And with them comes an unquenchable taste for one thing: blood sport, and the dark vices that go with it.

When a childhood friend of Penn’s who brings him evidence of these crimes is brutally murdered, the full weight of Penn’s failure to protect this city hits home. So begins his quest to find the men responsible. But it’s a hunt he begins alone, for the local authorities have been corrupted by the money and power of his hidden enemy. With his family’s life at stake, Penn realizes his only allies in his one-man war are those bound to him by blood or honour.

Izdevniecība/Publisher: ISIS Audio Books

Kā tiku pie šīs grāmatas?/How I got this book?

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Vērtējums/Rating: 4.25/5

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Kathy Reichs – Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan #4) (audio book)

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Grāmatas apraksts no Goodreads/Synopsis from Goodreads:

Investigating a plane crash in the Smoky Mountains in North Carolina, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan discovers in a most disturbing way that the evidence doesn’t add up. Tripping over a coyote-chewed leg at the crash scene, she performs a little mental arithmetic and realizes that this victim wasn’t on the plane. Once again, Brennan’s high-tech DMORT snaps into action faster than you can say “Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team.” The author of Death du Jour serves up another exquisite meal.

Izdevniecība/Publisher: BBC Audiobooks

Kā tiku pie šīs grāmatas?/How I got this book?

Lejuplādēju no www.

Vērtējums/Rating: 2.5/5

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