A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend this cat, this feline, this creature he is supposed to hate. They are an unlikely pair, about to become an unlikely family. Ranger urges the cat to hide underneath the porch, to raise her kittens there because...

Daniel Redmayne is fast asleep on the first night of a white water rafting trip, when he's awoken by screams. The dam has failed. The river is surging, and their camp will be under water in a matter of moments.As the shrieking roar of the river rushes closer, the kids scramble to higher ground. They make it; their counselors do not.Now they're on their own, with barely any food or supplies, in...

The collection includes the most famous novels and short stories by Andrei Platonov, including ‘The Hidden Man’, ‘The Juvenile Sea’, ‘The Potudan River’, ‘Fro’, ‘Flower on the Earth’, etc.

Nowadays, Andrei Platonov has rightfully taken the place of the leading classic of Russian literature of the twentieth century. This edition publishes one of the most important works for Plato’s entire work, which for a long time remained a ‘brilliant freak’ - the novel ‘Chevengur’, created in 1927-1928, but returned to readers only in the second half of the 1980s.

Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance.

You shouldn't have touched the oak! Then nothing terrible would have happened. And when they touched it, that’s when it started. Evil spirits crawled out of all the cracks. The brownies and office workers are for our high school students, the evil spirits are against. Perun throws lightning on the roof, Koschey tries to break through the vicious circle, the talking cat feeds the mermaid stolen...

The book ‘The Tale of Lost Time’ includes three children's fairy tales by the famous writer and playwright E. Schwartz: ‘The Tale of Lost Time’, ‘Two Brothers’ and ‘The New Adventures of Puss in Boots’. Wonderful illustrations for this book were drawn by the young talented artist E. Muratova.

How can you explain to a child in a simple and clear way that it is important to be careful and attentive and that kind and brave deeds can help you out of any trouble? The main characters of this book - animals - will show by their own example how to follow these simple rules. A red-haired fox, a careless cockerel , the stubborn crane and heron and many others gathered on the pages of this book.

Can a dog drop a chandelier? Easily. All you have to do is jump on it and swing it. For the Jagdterrier, a tireless hunter, there is nothing difficult about this, the main thing is to set a goal. But large dogs, for example, Giant Schnauzers, are usually good-natured, cheerful and love to frolic, imagining themselves as small dogs.

In Somoza's new novel, A Study in Black, it all begins in June 1882, when a nurse, Anne McCarry, middle-aged, ugly, unmarried, arrives in Portsmouth, where she has accepted a position at the prestigious Clarendon House mental hospital. She is assigned to take care of a mysterious gentleman. This strange patient calls himself Mr. X, he cannot stand daylight, but he is endowed with extraordinary...