Bøger udgivet af Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

I bøkene One for the money, Two for the dough og Three to get deadly, møter vi Stephanie Plum. Hun var tidligere innkjøpsansvarlig for lavprisundertøy, men er nå en hardbarked dusørjeger som jakter på farlige forbrytere.

Forfatteren har tilbrakt tid blant etterkommerne fra mytteriet på Bounty på den lille øya Pitcairn sør i Stillehavet.

This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a "magnificent array" (Library Journal) of voices both new and recognized.With Rushdie at the helm, the 2008 edition "reflects the variety of substance and style and the consistent quality that readers have come to expect" (Publishers Weekly). "We all live in and with and by stories, every day, whoever and wherever we are. The freedom to tell each other the stories of ourselves, to retell the stories of our culture and beliefs, is profoundly connected to the larger subject of freedom itself."--Salman Rushdie, editor The Best American Short Stories 2008 includes KEVIN BROCKMEIER - ALLEGRA GOODMAN - A. M. HOMES - NICOLE KRAUSS - JONATHAN LETHEM - STEVEN MILLHAUSER - DANIYAL MUEENUDDIN - ALICE MUNRO - GEORGE SAUNDERS - TOBIAS WOLFF - and others

The authors report on a growing crisis in American journalism. From the corporatization that leads media moguls to slash content for profit, to newsrooms that ignore global crises to report celebrities, these veteran journalists chronicle an erosion of independent, relevant journalism. In the process they make clear why incorruptible reporting is crucial to American society. Rooted in interviews and firsthand accounts, the authors take us inside one of America's powerful institutions, the new media. With index.

A high-concept horror with a diverse multi-POV cast and remarkable depth and heart. In this riveting debut, equal parts Cabin in the Woods and The Breakfast Club, five teens will discover what lies within a local, infamous house is darker, and more personal, than any urban legend. Plenty of legends surround the infamous Boulder House in Whispering Bluffs, Wisconsin, but nobody takes them seriously. Certainly nobody believes that the original owner, Maxwell Cartwright Jr., cursed its construction-or that a murder of crows died upon its completion, turning the land black with their carcasses. If there were truth to any of the local folklore, River Red High wouldn't offer a field trip there for the graduating class. Five very different seniors-Violet, Paul, Ashley, Dylan, and Gretchen-volunteer, each for private reasons, none of which have to do with trip itself. When they're separated from the group, they discover that what lies within Boulder House is far more horrifying than any rumor they've heard. To survive, they'll have to band together and ultimately confront the truths of their darkest selves.

"Outrageous hijinks and nonstop hilarity-five-stars!" -Lincoln Peirce, author of the Big Nate series From the bestselling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library and co-author with James Patterson of I Funny, House of Robots, and Treasure Hunters, comes a hilarious illustrated series about all the wacky things that happen when you live in a motel! Eleven-year-old P. T. Wilkie may be the greatest storyteller alive. But he knows one thing for a fact: the Wonderland Motel is the best place a kid could ever live! All-you-can-eat poolside ice cream! A snack machine in the living room! A frog slide! A giant rampaging alligator! (Okay, that last one may or may not be made up.) There's only one thing the Wonderland doesn't have, though-customers. And if the Wonderland doesn't get them soon, P.T. and his friend Gloria may have to say goodbye to their beloved motel forever. They need to think BIG. They need to think BOLD. They need an OUTRAGEOUS plan. Luckily for them, Gloria is a business GENIUS, and OUTRAGEOUS is practically P.T.'s middle name. With Gloria's smarts and P.T.'s world-famous stories and schemes, there's got to be a way to save the Wonderland! BONUS: Includes fun extras like P. T. Wilkie's outrageous (and sometimes useful) things you learn living in a motel. Installment 1: How to say "Help! The toilet is clogged!" in over twenty languages!

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Mystic Creek series comes a standalone contemporary romance novel full of homespun holiday cheer--now in mass market! Maddie McLendon hasn't had a new relationship since the loss of her beloved husband two years ago. Broken by grief and desperate for a new start, Maddie moves to Bitterroot Valley, Montana, with her adult son and her grandson. But despite the natural beauty of her new town, not every change in her life is a welcome one. Maddie's new next-door neighbor, Sam Conacher, used to be a pillar of the community, but he has driven old friends and new acquaintances away due to a recent heartbreak of his own. He seems to intrude on her life at every turn. As Christmas draws closer, Sam's and Maddie's grown children begin to fall in love, but Maddie and Sam's interactions are punctuated by an increasingly bitter attitude. Under unexpected circumstances, the other townsfolk of Bitterroot Valley band together to show both Maddie and Sam that moving past their grief is possible, and burdens are lightened when you have someone else to depend on.

Koonty, a young Indian girl is squatting in pain beside the river, convinced that her agony is the result of a fish allergy. It's not - she's giving birth. Horrified, she places the baby onto a piece of floating debris, fixes her own necklace around his neck and pushes him downriver.

Innbyggerne på Little Tall Island har sett en del stygt vær, men den stormen som venter dem nå er noe helt annet.

"I have filed away at least a million things to thank you for, but somehow I never got around to actually telling you what I felt nearly as often as I wanted to." --BTG, inside "Thank You for Being You" This book makes up for every thank you letter you forgot to send. The perfect expression of gratitude for parents, friends, siblings, co-workers, and loved ones. "New York Times" best-selling author Bradley Trevor Greive (BTG) knows a thing or two about offering thanks. He has penned 15 book titles that have been published in more than 105 countries and have sold more than 15 million copies. That's an awful lot of thank you letters to write, so BTG decided to pen the ultimate acknowledgement of appreciation ideal for expressing a range of gratitude-induced sentiment. So, for all the thank you letters you may have sent, and especially for those you forgot to mail, consider this the long-overdue, but perfect message.

Deceptively simple and suspiciously addictive, "Not Quite What I Was Planning: And Other Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure" is a thousand little glimpses at humanity - six words at a time. In 2006, "SMITH" Magazine decided to give people the opportunity to answer a Hemingway inspired challenge: What would a six-word memoir look like? Within weeks, submissions were coming in by the thousands and this book is the fruit of this amazing response. Famous contributors range from Joan Rivers to Dave Eggers, Mario Batali to Jonathan Lethem, Deepak Chopra to Moby. Most of the contributions, however, came from amateur writers. Examples; From Aimee Mann: 'Couldn't cope so I wrote songs.'; From Joyce Carol Oates: 'Revenge is living well, without you.'; From Joan Rivers: 'Liars, hysterectomy didn't improve sex life!'; And from unknown writers we have: Never really finished anything, except cake.Found true love, married someone else; Study mathematics. Marry slut. Sum bad; Caring for parents. Life is circular. This title presents a glorious mishmash of these and myriad other voices. It's a thousand little windows into humanity-six words at a time. Whether the results are shocking, strange, silly, or sad, they are always entertaining, often inspiring, and totally addictive.

Intelligent, wry, and seriously twisted, Peter Crumb is a man who suffers two personalities, only one of which is capable of remorse. His life has been derailed by a single, devastating act of violence, and now, in what he intends to be his last week on earth, he is determined to leave his mark upon humanity--randomly, unjustly, with infinite attention to detail. Allowing the morning's newspaper headlines to loosely dictate his actions, Crumb sets out on a weeklong descent into hell, determined to drag as many as possible into the darkness along with him. Gritty, dazzling, and profoundly disturbing, Jonny Glynn's "The Seven Days of Peter Crumb" is an extraordinary debut that portrays the deterioration of a severely splintered soul.

Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it. From the Stone Age to the information age, the undead have threatened to engulf the human race. They're coming. They're hungry. Don't wait for them to come to you! This is the graphic novel the fans demanded: major zombie attacks from the dawn of humanity. On the African savannas, against the legions of ancient Rome, on the high seas with Francis Drake . . . every civilization has faced them. Here are the grisly and heroic stories-complete with eye-popping artwork that pulsates with the hideous faces of the undead. Organize before they rise! Scripted by the world's leading zombie authority, Max Brooks, "Recorded Attacks" reveals how other eras and cultures have dealt with-and survived-the ancient viral plague. By immersing ourselves in past horror we may yet prevail over the coming outbreak in our time.

Dana Hathaway doesn't know it yet, but she's in big trouble. When her mother, an alcoholic, shows up at her voice recital drunk, Dana decides she's had it with playing the role of her mother's keeper, so she packs her bags and travels to see her mysterious father in Avalon: the only place on Earth where the regular, everyday world and the magical world of Faerie intersect. Dana is a Faeriewalker, a rare individual who can travel between both worlds. She has always known that her father is a big-deal Fae, but what she doesn't realize is that she could be the key to his rise in power. When she arrives in Avalon, Dana finds herself a pawn in the game of magical politics. Avalon is a place where both magic and technology work, and humans and Fae coexist in something resembling peace. How can she change the winds of fate, find a boyfriend, and make new friends when she's not sure who, if anyone, can be trusted?

Four masked men--thieves, rivals, and friends from the tough streets of Charlestown--take on a Boston bank at gunpoint. Holding bank manager Claire Keesey hostage and cleaning out the vault was simple. But career criminal Doug MacRay didn't plan on one thing: falling in love with Claire. Original.

Our Fair Lady The Tiffany princess. In his distinguished career as a Hollywood photographer, Bob Willoughby took iconic photos of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Fonda, but remains unequivocal about his favorite subject: Audrey Kathleen Ruston, later Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston, best known as Audrey Hepburn. Willoughby was called in to shoot the new starlet one morning shortly after she arrived in Hollywood in 1953. It was a humdrum commission for the portraitist often credited with having perfected the photojournalistic movie still, but when he met the Belgian-born beauty, Willoughby was enraptured. "She took my hand like...well a princess, and dazzled me with that smile that God designed to melt mortal men's hearts," he recalls. As Hepburn's career soared following her Oscar-winning US debut in "Roman Holiday", Willoughby became a trusted friend, framing her working and home life. His historic, perfectionist, tender photographs seek out the many facets of Hepburn's beauty and elegance, as she progresses from her debut to her career high of "My Fair Lady" in 1963. Willoughby's studies, showing her on set, preparing for a scene, interacting with actors and directors, and returning to her private life, comprise one of photography's great platonic love affairs and an unrivalled record of one of the 20th century's touchstone beauties.

This title features over 300 aircraft with 1200 wartime and modern identification photographs. It describes all the truly classic aircraft, such as the Spitfire, Messerschmitt Bf109, Heinkel He111, F-14 Tomcat, MiGs, B-52 Stratofortress and B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. It covers the history of fighters and bombers, their technology and role in major conflicts around the world, including the first fighter aces, early bombing raids, Blitzkrieg, the Battle of Britain, the Dambusters, the Cold War, the Falklands and the Gulf Wars. Specification boxes for each aircraft provide at-a-glance information about their country of origin, first flight, power, armament, size, weights and performance. It includes glossaries of aviation terms and abbreviations. These two superb books trace the development of fighter and bomber aircraft from the early pioneering days through to the sophisticated machines of today. Fighters focuses on aircraft designed to attack and destroy other aircraft, and is brimming with information about planes such as the Bristol Fighter, Spitfire, P-51 Mustang, MiG-15, Hunter, Harrier and F-14 Tomcat. Bombers looks at military aircraft that are designed to drop bombs on enemy targets from the air, and includes the atom bomb-carrying Boeing B-29s and stealth bombers. These splendidly illustrated books provide enthusiasts and historians with key information about the world's greatest military aircraft.

Naipaul tar utgangspunkt i sine egne barndoms- og ungdomsopplevelser på landsbygden og i hovedstaden Port of Spain i Trinidad. Herfra tar han leseren med bakover på en historie- og geografileksjon som favner vidt: fra Columbus' oppdagelser i 1498, via andre europeiske kolonialisters erobringer, og fiaskoer, til lokale opprørslederes revolusjonsforsøk i forrige århundre.

Boken er inspirert av forfatterens fars liv og handlingen foregår på slutten av kolonitiden. Mr. Biswas blir besatt av tanken om å få seg sitt eget hus. To ganger forsøker han å bygge et, men planene går i vasken. Han får seg en bra jobb, men mister den. Til slutt låner han penger og kjøper et hus på impuls. Det er slitt og mangelfullt, om ikke rett og slett farlig, men det er i det minste et hjem for Mr. Biswas og familien hans. Kort tid etterpå dør han av hjerteattakk, men han forlater denne verden med tilfredsstillelsen over å i det minste ha fått kontroll over sitt eget liv.

Fortellingen ved første øyekast en reiseskildring, en beretning om en ferd gjennom noen av de amerikanske sydstatene. Men dypere sett er boken et nytt bidrag til forfatterens "bekjennelsesprosa" hvis sentrale kapitel er den bevegende Ankomsts gåte (1989).

Forfatteren følger Ibn Battutah på hans tidligste ferd fra Tanger til Konstantinopel, gjennom ørken, over hav og inn i noen av Islams største middelalderbyer. Forfatteren reiser både i Battutahs fotspor og i hans fotnoter, der de underligste ting blir trukket fram. Har register.

From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" comes aa glorious novel of unrequited love, longing and the meaning of friendship.a( Adriana Trigiani, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Big Stone Gap" and "Lucia, Lucia" Riley and Alice, two sisters now in their twenties, and as fiercely different as they are loyal, have spent every summer at their parentsa modest beach house on New Yorkas Fire Island. Each year, they return to the house and community they have known since they were childrenaand to Paul, the boy next door. But this summer marks a season of change: budding love and sexual interest, an illness, and a deep secret force all three to confront the increasing complexities of their lives and friendships.

THE CLASSIC STORIES FEATURING ONE OF HEMINGWAY'S MOST FAMOUS CHARACTERSThe famous Nick Adams stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent - a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life. "But," as Philip Young writes in the preface, "Hemingway naturally intended his stories to be understood and enjoyed without regard for such considerations - as they have been for a long time."ERNEST HEMINGWAY did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer in the twentieth century, and for his efforts he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. Hemingway wrote in short, declarative sentences and was known for his tough, terse prose. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Ernest Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. As part of the expatriate community in 1920s Paris, the former journalist and World War I ambulance driver began a career that led to international fame. Hemingway was an aficionado of bullfighting and big-game hunting, and his main protagonists were always men and women of courage and conviction, who suffered unseen scars, both physical and emotional. He covered the Spanish Civil War, portraying it in fiction in his brilliant novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, and he subsequently covered World war II. His classic novella The Old man and the Sea won the Pulizer Prize in 1953. He died in 1961.