Hailed as the definitive book on Uber and Silicon Valley, Super Pumped is an epic story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history.

It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don't dare...

For more than a century, this wonderful book by Mark Twain has been equally warmly received by more and more generations of readers, remaining timeless. And this is not surprising, because it has everything that so captivates the reader - the romance of adventure, a plot with unexpected twists, lively humor and even the experiences of the young hero. It turned out to be so real because, as the...

For a century and a half now, the adventures of the mischievous and inventor Tom and his friend Huck Finn from a provincial American town called St. Petersburg on the banks of the Mississippi have fascinated and captivated modern readers. An interesting plot and original characters raise this story to unprecedented heights. The publication presents the classic translation by K. Chukovsky....

You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight.

An almost forgotten novel and a deeply moving testimony: No one has described the months of collapse in 1945/46 as vividly as the author of 'Everyone Dies Alone.' This book about the confusing time between war and peace, in the Mecklenburg province and especially in the city of Berlin, which was punished for its historical guilt, is a real Fallada in its humanly warm and at the same time...

Hiroshima is the story of six human beings who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. John Hersey tells what these six -- a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest -- were doing at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. Then he follows...

The cycle ‘Little Tragedies’ was written in 1830 in Boldin, it is dedicated to human passions - subjugating all thoughts and feelings. Every main character is obsessed with such a passion - be it the acquisition of treasures, love, creativity or the thirst for immortality. And each of them is a voluntary slave of his passion, for whom it is not enough to subordinate his personal existence to it...

The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense an international figure, Joyce was faithful to his own country...

Twins Victoria Stitch and Celestine are denied their royal birth-right. Celestine accepts the decision with good grace, but Victoria Stitch is consumed with her obsession for power. The twins are like moonlight and sunshine – could it be possible to break free of the role you have been given, rewrite your story, and change your own destiny?

He composed fairy tales for his daughter Josephine, and when the girl died at the age of six from pneumonia, Kipling compiled a collection of twelve fairy tales and published it in 1902 in memory of his favorite. These tales about the creation of the world and the first wild animals have been translated into almost all languages , and children in all countries enjoy reading them. This book...

In Charles Dickens' Christmas Tales, the main characters are fairies, elves, ghosts, spirits of the dead, and among them are ordinary Englishmen, the fairy tale is intertwined with reality, and the horrors of the other world are not inferior to the cruelty of reality. Magical, terrible and moderately morally educational reading.