While staying with his weird great-aunt Kathryn, Evan visits an eerie old toy store and buys a dusty can of Monster Blood. It's fun to play with at first. And Evan's dog, Trigger, likes it so much, he eats some. But then Evan notices something weird about

Dr. Brewer is doing a little plant-testing in his basement. Nothing to worry about. Harmless, really. But Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. Especially when they...meet...some of the plants he is growing down there. Then they notice

The Glass Bead Game is an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by the scholars, creamed off in childhood and nurtured in elite schools, in the province of Castalia. The Master of the Glass Bead Game, Joseph Knecht, holds the most exalted office in Castali

For his debut novel (Former Son, 2014), Sasha Filipenko received the Russian Prize a year ago. On the first try - a first degree diploma in the ‘Large Prose’ category. So how can you start reading the next book after this? Moreover, the author clearly ‘ma

This text radiates with furnace heat and exudes grave cold — and at the same time. The novel is based on materials from the investigative case of Pyotr Ilyich Nesterenko, director of the Moscow crematorium on the territory of the Don Necropolis. Whi

Set between 1625 and 1628, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (a character based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, hoping to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although d'Artagnan is

I'm always up for a good mystery, but when the big question is what I should get Dad for his birthday, I don't have a clue! And then another mystery comes my way -- one that involves Heather Simmons, a leading candidate in the upcoming election for mayor

Petersburg! What glory this city is covered with! For hundreds of years it has captivated poets with its fogs and winds, courtyards-wells and granite shores. ‘The city of fogs and dreams,’ a habitat for shadows of the past and images of the future, hiding

The book includes stories and fairy tales by the famous Russian writer Maxim Gorky, created by him for children: ‘The Case of Yevseyka’, ‘Misha’, ‘Sparrow’, ‘Samovar’, ‘The Tale of Ivanushka the Fool’, ‘Shake’. For primary school age

Too Loud a Solitude is a tender and funny story of Hanta–a man who has lived in a Czech police state–for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. In the process of compacting, he has acquired an education so unwitting he can't quite tell wh

Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become the King's Champion. But she is far from loyal to the crown. Though she goes to great lengths to hide her secret, her deadly charade becomes more difficult when she realizes she is not the only one seeking

In a land without magic, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She has no love for the vicious king who rules from his throne of glass, but she has not come to kill him. She has come to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three murderers, thieves, and