When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card. There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives...

A woman and her ‘relationship’ with the world is the main theme of Olga Kobylyanska’s prose. Is it good to get married happily or to neglect personal happiness for the sake of art? This is the point at which the search is focused in the story ‘Behind Situations’ and the short story ‘Ideas’. A fatal coincidence of circumstances, mystical signs and hypnosis sessions are intertwined with...

On the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill’s death, Boris Johnson celebrates the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century. Taking on the myths and misconceptions along with the outsized reality, he portrays—with characteristic wit and passion—a man of contagious bravery, breathtaking eloquence, matchless strategizing, and deep humanity.

Distant magical worlds and the past of Ukraine, the colonization of Mars and the gloomy Gothic of sleeping areas, and also the dangers of the space frontier, military tales of landsknechts, the secret history of Donbas and time paradoxes…This anthology is the first attempt to show a panorama of three centuries of Ukrainian fiction in all its diversity, from the classics to the younger...

The professor's heart is an encyclopedia of passions hidden behind bibliographies and notes. In ‘Doctor Seraphicus’ it pulses in unison with the explosive waves of history. It rushes to classrooms and libraries, but cannot avoid parks and fashionable cafes, cozy ravines and wild alleys. Is it difficult to come across a hipster in the 1920s? What is easier - to fall in love with such a girl...

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, 'The Hunger Games,' a fight to the death on live TV.

Deep in the Pacific Ocean sits Point Nemo: the spaceship graveyard. But it’s not only ships that sit at these dark depths. There’s a structure never made by human hands. And that structure seems to be…waking up. The crew of the experimental submarine Andromeda have been chosen to investigate this mystery. But they aren’t the only ones pursuing it. The master pirate Black Manta is on the...

This book series has been tailored to each person's specific level. Whether you are a beginner, advanced, or helping your child learn a new language you'll find the right book for your needs. Why? It's a great complement for anyone learning a language. Make it easy with an encouraging activity!

Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity and determination to grow as a person, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and the worlds of theater, philosophy, history, and education to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate toward others, and to find the joy that...

The book ‘Masquerade’ is a collection of selected prose by Olga Petrivna Dragomanova-Kosach, an outstanding Ukrainian writer who most often appeared under the pseudonym Olena Pchilka. In the national cultural space, she did a lot not only as an author, but also as a public figure, ethnographer, translator, publisher and patron of the arts. Olena Pchilka's multifaceted creative nature is...

The book ‘The Paths of Eurydice’ is an adventure novel with elements of mysticism by the modern Ukrainian writer Natalia Dovgopol. Costas Ypsilandis, a Greek historian and famous writer, has appropriated the authorship of the manuscript of the Kiev woman Vera-Nika Shcherbina, or simply Vera. Now the girl seeks to restore justice and prove to the world: this man is a fraud, and his book ‘Our...