The young companion of a capricious elderly American woman becomes the wife of the imposing English aristocrat Maximilian de Winter, tormented by secret sadness, and arrives with him at his Manderley family estate. In a huge gloomy mansion, the people, the walls, and, it seems, the air itself remind the new owner of her deceased predecessor, the beautiful and sophisticated Rebecca de Winter....

Ijon Tichy is the only human who knows for sure whether the self-programming robots on the moon are plotting a terrestrial invasion. But a highly focused ray severs his corpus collosum. Now his left brain can’t remember the secret and his uncooperative right brain won’t tell. Tichy struggles for control of the lost memory and of his own two warring sides.

A poignant story of canine friendship and devotion.

Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the best-selling Lunar Chronicles. She's trying to break out of prison - even though if she succeeds, she'll be the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive. Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit's grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn't know about her grandmother or the grave danger she...

Cinder, the star of the Lunar Chronicles, is getting married! She and Emperor Kai have made it to their big day - now all Cinder has to do is show up and say 'I do.' But it's not so easy when there are twists and turns and obstacles along the way, and you, the reader, are in control of her fate, along with the many friends and strangers she meets on this adventure. Can you and Cinder make it to...

Fairy tales do not end with us and will never end. Over time, the texts get better, and there are more authors, and in general everything is just beginning. Always, every day, at any moment, everything is just beginning, but you probably didn’t know. No illustrations. newspaper paper.

A sweeping novel that takes us from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea, from a kidnapping at Hong Kong’s most elite private school to a surprise marriage proposal at an Indian palace, caught on camera by the telephoto lenses of paparazzi, Kevin Kwan's hilarious, gloriously wicked new novel reveals the long-buried secrets of Asia's most...

The dictionary includes 868 phraseological homonyms of different types. Each dictionary entry contains an interpretation of a phraseological unit, a type of categorical meaning, grammatical, stylistic characteristics, etc. Quotes from literary texts, the press, and colloquial speech are used as illustrations. There are no analogues to this dictionary in modern lexicography

Training tests of the III certification level are part of the official set of materials of the Russian system of testing citizens of foreign countries in the Russian language. The book includes two versions of tests at this level. When developing options, the experience gained over several years of testing foreigners was taken into account. The proposed materials have been tested at the Faculty...

Böll’s well-known opposition to fascism and war informs this moving story of a single day in the life of traumatized soldier Robert Faehmel, scion of a family of successful Cologne architects, as he struggles to return to ordinary life after the Second World War. An encounter with a war-time nemesis, now a power in the reconstruction of Germany, forces him to confront private memories and the...

'The Last Judgment' - a book by Viktor Erofeev, similar to the famous painting by Bosch - is a judgment on all of us, writers, journalists, critics, thinkers, prophets, millionaires, homeless people, Russia, America, Europe, Atlantis, friends, lovers, enemies - and over the reader. This is a worldwide massacre of passions that can shake, destroy and recreate the world from the ashes.