The beginner's Russian language course is comprised of two parts (1.1 & 1.2). It is designed for an average of 80-120 hours of classroom instruction. Each part includes a textbook, a workbook (with keys to the exercises), and an audio component. QR-codes with links to the appropriate audio recordings are placed in the text of the books.

The beginner's Russian language course is comprised of two parts (1.1 & 1.2). It is designed for an average of 80-120 hours of classroom instruction. Each part includes a textbook, a workbook (with keys to the exercises), and an audio component. QR-codes with links to the appropriate audio recordings are placed in the text of the books.

From Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and the writers of the CW's Riverdale comes the first collection of the comic book set in the universe of the TV series. RIVERDALE VOL. 1 offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica, Josie & the Pussycats and their friends, exploring small-town life and the darkness bubbling beneath Riverdale's wholesome facade.

One day Moomintroll and his friends found a black cylinder on the top of a mountain out of nowhere. Imagine their surprise when it turned out that this hat was magic! And I must say, her pranks-transformations managed to do a lot of things before the real owner of the hat showed up - a lonely Wizard.

The fairy-tale characters Moomins were born in the 1930s at the behest of the writer and talented artist Tove Jansson. It is thanks to them that Tove Jansson is known and loved all over the world - books about the Moomins have been translated into more than 30 languages. This is not surprising, because the inhabitants of the hospitable valley are so nice and kind. But at first, Jansson thought...

Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a...

The Troll longs for a juicy goat to eat – but he's stuck with boring old fish for supper. Bother! Meanwhile, Hank Chief and his pirate crew love fish, but without a decent recipe their slimy, soggy dinner is even worse. If only they could find their buried treasure and pay for a ship's cook . . . but it seems they've sailed to the wrong island. Again.

No one ever said life was easy. But Ponyboy is pretty sure that he's got things figured out. He knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his friends—true friends who would do anything for him, like Johnny and Two-Bit. But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up on...

One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston’s classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the...

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation’s history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo’s firsthand account of the raid that led to his...

K is for Kidd. Set in South Carolina during the tumultuous summer of 1964, The Secret Life of Bees also ushered young Lily Owens, a girl transformed by the power and divinity of the female spirit, into the canon of modern-day heroines. Lily and her fierce-hearted black ‘stand-in mother’ escape the racism of their hometown and find refuge with an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters,...