Bøker utgitt av Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Det kommer lyder fra veggene i huset, og Lucy er sikker på at det er ulver. Og alle sier at hvis ulvene kommer ut av veggen, er det slutt. Men familien til Lucy tror ikke på henne, ikke før den dagen de kommer. Men det er ikke slutt, Lucys kamp mot ulvene har bare så vidt begynt.

Journalisten Jack Tagger er degradert til å skrive nekrologer, og er temmelig frustrert. Men nå har han snublet over en stor sak, som kanskje kan få fart på karrieren igjen. Han forsøker sammen med sin unge redaktør å finne ut omstendighetene rundt døden til frontfiguren i Jimmy and The Slut Puppies. Han døde i en dykkeulykke, og Jack mistenker at enken kan ha hatt fordeler av mannens død. Men ingen ting er så rett frem som Jack tror.

As the Western Roman Empire begins to collapse in 470 AD, a small band of British Roman soldiers make a journey to Rome only to find the city not far from destruction. Deciding to return to Britain, they cross the channel in defeat, little knowing the magical destinies that await them.

I denne tredje boka i trilogien om Alexander den store fortsetter han sitt felttog inn til hjertet av Asia og videre mot India. Felttoget fører med seg både opprør og blodbad, men tanken på den vakre dronning Roxane gir Alexander styrke til å oppfylle sin skjebne.

Fire menn som alle sto ham nær, møtes for å kaste den døde Jack Dodds aske på havet. Enken blir ikke med, av grunner bare hun vet om. Om en stadig mer bisarr dagstur, en reise på flere plan, og en roman om det mot og den sammensatthet en kan finne i vanlige menneskers liv.

Dolan og Oliphant kontakter Kinsey og ber henne hjelpe dem å oppklare en gammel sak. Atten år tidligere ble en ung pike funnet knivdrept nær et steinbrudd nord for Santa Teresa. Saken ble aldri oppklart, den døde ble ikke identifisert. De tre går nøye gjennom sakens papirer som etter hvert bringer dem dypt inn i Californias bakgård, til nedstøvete, søvnige småbyer, som Peaches, Creosote - og Quorum.

It is Ad 2380 and humanity has colonized over 600 planets, all interlinked by wormholes. With Earth as its centre, the Intersolar Commonwealth has grown into a society where rejuvenation allows its citizens to live for centuries. When a star vanishes, the Commonwealth is anxious to investigate.

Winifred Rudge attempts to write a novel about a woman haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper, and finds herself the object of spectral phenomena as she arrives in London to find her friend John mysteriously missing.

Hovedpersonen Paul Skoglund lider av Tourettes syndrom, som bl.a. gir ham problemer med å beholde jobber. Da hans rike tante trenger en i familien til å pusse opp hennes gamle jakthytte, tar han oppdraget selv om han aner ugler i mosen. Underveis oppdager han skremmende og farlige sider ved familiens fortid. Sammen med kjæresten Lia og politietterforskeren Morgan Ford forsøker han å finne det som kan redde ham fra ødeleggelse og hans nærmeste fra døden. Debutroman.

Noen romvesener er på tur med romskipet sitt da de blir angrepet av Khlevikrigere, og romskipet blir forvandlet til et døskammer. De klarer allikevel å redde lille Acorna før romskipet eksploderer. Tre menn finner henne, og hun blir straks alles maskot. Det viser seg at hun har mektige krefter.

Martianerne er mennesker som har kolonisert Mars over flere generasjoner. Denne boken er en samling historier og utdrag fra Robinsons Mars-trilogi hvor vi bli kjent med disse menneskene og deres liv og historie.

Five months into his term, President Kilcannon and his fiancée, television journalist Lara Costello, have decided to marry. But the occasion is followed by a terrible tragedy: a massacre of innocents in a lethal burst of gunfire. It is a shattering event that consumes Kilcannon and his wife, challenging both their marriage, and his Presidency in such a personal way that Kilcannon vows to eradicate gun violence throughout the US. In a high-stakes game of politics and legal manoeuvring where ideals collide in the Senate, the courtroom and across the country, President Kilcannon is determined to win at any cost. But in the clash over gun rights and violence, the cost to both Kilcannons may be even higher than the President imagined.

Taking the events and characters of the "Iliad" as his jumping off point, Simmons creates an epic of time travel and savage warfare. Travellers from 40,000 years in the future return to Homer's Greece and rewrite history forever, their technology impacting on the population in a godlike fashion.

Imagine a world without Europe. A vanguard of the Mongol horde rides west across the steppe, into an eerily silent world. People lie dead in villages and in the streets of towns. The Black Death has struck Europe. There are virtually no survivors. Into this empty land pour merchants, warlords and refugees, from China, India and the Arab nations. They fill a world without the ancestors of Columbus and Shakespeare, Newton and Einstein and Hitler. Nothing will ever be the same again. From that day forward, history is shaped by the East instead of the West.

I denne boken angriper forfatteren alt som er galt i det amerikanske samfunnet - korrupte politikere, økonomisk kriminalitet, krigshissing, miljøforurensning, rasisme, dødsstraff og mye mer. Forfatterens våpen er humor, ironi og en innstendig oppfordring til direkte handling.

Shortlisted for the Epic Novel award in the Romantic Novelists Association Books Awards. A lifelong passion. An endless search. Spanning four generations, The Midnight Rose by Lucinda Riley sweeps from the glittering palaces of the great maharajas of India to the majestic stately homes of England, following the extraordinary life of a girl, Anahita Chavan, from 1911 to the present day . . . In the heyday of the British Raj, eleven-year-old Anahita, from a noble but impoverished family, forms a lifelong friendship with the headstrong Princess Indira, the privileged daughter of rich Indian royalty. Becoming the princess's official companion, Anahita accompanies her friend to England just before the outbreak of the Great War. There, she meets the young Donald Astbury - reluctant heir to the magnificent, remote Astbury Estate - and his scheming mother. Eighty years later, Rebecca Bradley, a young American film star, has the world at her feet. But when her turbulent relationship with her equally famous boyfriend takes an unexpected turn, she's relieved that her latest role, playing a 1920s debutante, will take her away from the glare of publicity to the wilds of Dartmoor in England. Shortly after filming begins at the now-crumbling Astbury Hall, Ari Malik, Anahita's great-grandson, arrives unexpectedly, on a quest for his family's past. What he and Rebecca discover begins to unravel the dark secrets that haunt the Astbury dynasty . . .

'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by lookalike people with a penchant for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost; lost to itself because blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a stranger in his own land. Bryson's acclaimed first success, The Lost Continent is a classic of travel literature - hilariously, stomach-achingly, funny, yet tinged with heartache - and the book that first staked Bill Bryson's claim as the most beloved writer of his generation.

Kransen skildrer Kristins oppvekst. Hun ble som barn trolovet med sønnen på nabogården, men trasser seg til ekteskap med Erlend som hun venter barn med. Dette fører til konflikt med både familie, slekt og kirke. I Husfrue er Kristin blitt mor og husfrue, men livet med Erlend blir ikke slik hun hadde ventet. Vi følger henne gjennom det vanskelige samlivet og på den tunge botsgangen til Nidaros. Korset handler om Kristin som gammel og sliten blir tatt opp som leksøster i et kloster. Endelig får hun fred med seg selv og med Gud.

Not for the faint-hearted, Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho is a notorious indictment of the modern world's obsession with money and status. First published in 1991, this black-hearted satire has provoked admiration and controversy ever since. Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. This bitter black comedy takes a hilarious and spine-chilling look at the preoccupations of modern American society, and in so doing exposes the darkness that lurks behind the mask.

Denne gangen tar forfatteren oss med på vinprøve hvor han erfarer at man ikke spytter ut en Chateau-neuf-du-Pape. Han forteller om piknik a la Anglais, om jakten på napoleonske gullmynter i hagen og om trøffelhandel med Monsieur X.

The brilliant first novel in The Encircling Trilogy, a searing psychological portrait of a man by his friends David has lost his memory. When he places a newspaper ad to ask his friends and family to share their memories of him, three respond: Jon, his closest friend; Silje, his teenage girlfriend; and Arvid, his estranged stepfather. Their letters reveal David's early life in the small town of Namsos, full of teenage rebellion, the uncertainties of first love, and intense experiments in art and music. As the narrative circles ever closer to David, the letters interweave with scenes from the present day, and it becomes less and less clear what to believe. Jon's and Silje's adult lives have run aground on thwarted ambition and failed intimacy, and Arvid has had a lonely struggle with cancer. Each has suspect motives for writing, and soon a contradictory picture of David emerges. Whose remembrance of him is right? Or do they all hold some fragment of the truth? Carl Frode Tiller's masterful opening novel to The Encircling Trilogy won the European Prize for Literature, the English PEN Award, and the Hunger Prize. Encircling, with David as its brooding central enigma, confronts the relativity of memory in an audacious and daring novel that reveals the shape of a life and leaves us wanting more.

A magnificently packaged boxed set of hardcover editions of Mr. Mercedes,Finders Keepers, and End of Watch, the Edgar award-winning trilogy starring Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, Jerome Robinson, and the diabolical Mercedes Killer, Brady Hartsfield-with unique new jackets and case.

Inspired by a true story, Hannah Kent's Burial Rites was shortlisted for The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, The Guardian First Book Award and The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards. In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of her lover. Agnes is sent to wait out her final months on the farm of district officer Jon Jonsson, his wife and their two daughters. Horrified to have a convicted murderer in their midst, the family avoid contact with Agnes. Only Toti, the young assistant priest appointed Agnes's spiritual guardian, is compelled to try to understand her. As the year progresses and the hardships of rural life force the household to work side by side, Agnes's story begins to emerge and with it the family's terrible realization that all is not as they had assumed. Based on actual events, Burial Rites is an astonishing and moving novel about the truths we claim to know and the ways in which we interpret what we're told. In beautiful, cut-glass prose, Hannah Kent portrays Iceland's formidable landscape, in which every day is a battle for survival, and asks, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others? Burial Rites is perfect for fans of Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood and The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan.

A special Christmas edition of the Sunday Times bestseller. WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2013 BOOK OF THE YEAR The Ocean at the End of the Lane is the bestselling magical novel from Neil Gaiman, one of the most brilliant storytellers of our generation and author of the epic novel American Gods, and the much-loved Sandman series. 'Possibly Gaiman's most lyrical, scary and beautiful work yet. It's a tale of childhood for grown-ups, a fantasy rooted in the darkest corners of reality' (Independent on Sunday). If you loved the mesmerising world of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus or were drawn into J.K. Rowling's magical universe, this book is for you. It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond this world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defence is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac - as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly's wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark.

He was the first to popularize the concept of time travel. He disturbed--and fascinated us with a frightening doctor's island. He wrote of an invisible man, of men on the moon, and of a war of the worlds. He has influenced countless other writers, artists, and even scientists. H. G. Wells is one of the most acclaimed science fiction writers who ever lived, and five of his classic tales are collected in this book for readers to treasure.H. G. Wells includes The Time Machine, The Island of Dr Moreau, The Invisble Man, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, and The Food of the Gods. Readers new to this remarkable author will delight in these amazing stories, while fans of Wells will enjoy the insightful introduction by an expert on the author's life and work. All will appreciate the leather cover, gilded edges, printed endpapers, ribbon bookmark, and other features on this unique gift book.No library is complete without the works of H. G. Wells, the father of science fiction!

The Iliad and The Odyssey are two of the oldest works of Western literature yet these ancient myths still offer powerful lessons for our times. From the fascinating fall of Troy to Odysseus's perilous journey home, from the gods and goddesses to the Sirens and the suitors, the events and characters of these epic tales captivate us, teach us, and inspire us. Their influence can be seen far and wide, from James Joyce's Ulysses to the movie sensation Troy, starring Brad Pitt.Whether you've read Homer's original stories or you've only enjoyed their modern-day descendants, you'll love this Canterbury Classics edition of Iliad and Odyssey. The perfect book to complete any bookshelf, Iliad and Odyssey features an eye-catching leather-bound cover with gold foil stamping, as well as fine ivory paper with gilded edges. You'll be moved by these magical works, and then delight in displaying this beautiful book in your home.A classic keepsake for fans of Greek mythology, as well as all great literature, Iliad and Odyssey is the perfect addition to any library.Lexile score: 1290L

Boken handler om enhver mors mareritt: barnet hennes er forsvunnet og blir funnet drept og morens kjæreste blir siktet for mordet.

Forfatterens debutroman fra 1970, skildrer en fattig familie i en liten by i 1940-tallets Ohio. Den elleveårige datteren Pecola ber til Gud hver kveld om å få blå øyne. Hun er sikker på at om hun bare får blå øyne, vil hun bli vakker, elsket og lykkelig. Foreldrene vil slutte å slåss, faren vil slutte å drikke, broren vil ikke lenger stikke av, og hjemmet vil bli fylt med kjærlighet i stedet for hat. Drømmen om blå øyne blir Pecolas fluktvei fra ensomhet, vold og fattigdom.