Maisie Hitchins longs to be a detective. She's sure there are lots of adventures to be had on the streets of Victorian London. And, together with her faithful puppy, Eddie, she is determined to follow even the slightest scent of a mystery no matter what! Alice's father is having a run of bad fortune two of his ships have disappeared and he has lost a lot of money. Maisie is sure she can...

Maisie Hitchins longs to be a detective. She's sure there are lots of adventures to be had on the streets of Victorian London. And, together with her faithful puppy, Eddie, she is determined to follow even the slightest scent of a mystery no matter what! On a visit to the British Museum, Maisie meets Professor Tobin's old university acquaintance Lord Dacre, who's devastated about the recent...

Job is the tale of Mendel Singer, a pious Eastern-European Jew who teaches the Torah to children, and whose faith is tested at every turn. His youngest son seems to be incurably disabled, one of his older sons joins the Russian Army, the other deserts to America, and his daughter is running around with a Cossack. When he flees with his wife and daughter, further blows of fate await him . ....

This book will tell you about how our solar system works. Young readers will learn many interesting facts about Space, understand how the planets differ, what satellites, comets and asteroids are, and also get acquainted with the most successful scientific missions - from the first manned flight into space to sending research probes to other planets.

It's Luka Kane's 16th birthday and he's been inside The Loop for over two years. Every inmate is serving a death sentence with the option to push back their execution date by six months if they opt into ‘Delays,’ scientific and medical experiments for the benefit of the elite in the outside world.But rumors of a war on the outside are spreading amongst the inmates, and before they know it,...

This story inspired Hans Christian Andersen to write ‘The Little Mermaid’! A cult story about love and betrayal, written by a classic of foreign literature, Friedrich de la Motte Fouquet. More than 7 operas have been written based on history, and more than 10 feature films have been shot. This story lives on in thousands of stories about mermaids, sea maidens and water spirits who, by...

Everything feels off--especially me. I’ve returned to Katmere Academy, but I’m haunted by fragments of days I have no recollection of living and struggling to understand who, or what, I really am. Just when I start to feel safe again, Hudson is back with a vengeance. He insists there are secrets I don’t know about, threatening to drive a wedge between Jaxon and me forever. But far worse...

From the author: Dear readers! I would like some of you to believe that the so-called non-normative speech of the characters is not a consequence of the author’s linguistic promiscuity, but an artistic necessity, which, in my opinion, is the duty of any writer who considers himself a realist writer to follow. That is, the speech of a former thief, a pickpocket or a peasant, or a hard worker...

You are holding in your hands a new (and, according to the author, definitely the last) book about the adventures of Manyuni, Narka and other wonderful residents of the small town of Berd.

Here cattlemen steal geese, drink port on the roof of the Kazan Cathedral, Soviet citizens hunt for shortages and mock the leaders; here the romantic builders of the Great Empire love, believe and cheat, and the golden Brezhnev era becomes clearer in the haze like a beautiful and nostalgic picaresque novel.

'Legends of Arbat' is a collection of incredibly funny and dizzying stories from the Soviet and recent past. Ruthless truth and folk mythology form a brilliant alloy and explosive mixture.

The story of a Ukrainian-Jewish family in Kyiv is at the center of Alexei Nikitin's new novel ‘From the Faces of Fire’. Ilya Goldinov is a boxer, from Dynamo, champion of Ukraine in heavyweight. In the first months of the war, Ilya commanded a platoon of a partisan regiment, later fought as part of an infantry division of the Red Army, was captured, and found an opportunity to escape. In...