The young artist and writer Yevgenia Belorusets was in her hometown of Kyiv when Putin’s ‘special military operation’ against Ukraine began on the morning of February 24, 2022. With the shelling of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, and Kherson, the war with Russia had clearly, irreversibly begun: ‘I thought, this has been allowed to happen, it is a crime against everything human, against a great common...

The book ‘On the Island’ is a collection of modernist prose by Mykhailo Mykhailovych Kotsiubynsky. The famous author of Ukrainian classical literature had a gift: he saw the most secret corners of the human soul. The writer could delve into the consciousness of an individual, revealing their true motives, fears, and emotions. This is what helped him create unique, rather contradictory...

Es ist ein Jahr, in dem alles möglich scheint. Und doch wohnt dem gleißenden Anfang das Ahnen des Verfalles inne. Literatur, Kunst und Musik wussten schon 1913, dass die Menschheit ihre Unschuld verloren hatte. Florian Illies lässt dieses eine Jahr, einen Moment höchster Blüte und zugleich ein Hochamt des Unterganges, in einem grandiosen Panorama lebendig werden.

A monumental new translation—the first in more than twenty years—of Russia’s greatest family drama, rendered with all the passion, humor, and soul of the original.

Despite dreams of adventures far beyond the Salann shores, seventeen-year-old Verity Thaumas has remained at her family’s estate, Highmoor, with her older sister Camille, while their sisters have scattered across Arcannia. When their sister Mercy sends word that the Duchess of Bloem—wife of a celebrated botanist—is interested in having Verity paint a portrait of her son, Alexander, Verity...

Im glühend heißen Sommer 1933 spitzt sich die politische Lage in Europa zu - und die der Familie Mann: Thomas und Katia Mann und ihre sechs Kinder sind nach abenteuerlichen Fluchten im Juni in dem verträumten Hafenort Sanary am französischen Mittelmeer gestrandet. Und jetzt wissen sie alle weder vor noch zurück.

In March of 2022, three weeks after invading Ukraine, Russian forces bombed the shelter housed in the Donetsk Regional Academic Drama Theater, in the city of Mariupol. The bombing stands, to this day, as the single worst act of mass civilian killing of the war. This book tells the story of the group of ordinary Ukrainians--workers, teachers, actors--who built that shelter, giving succor to...

Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last--the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge--and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is...

1976, im Dresdner Vorort Gittersee: Karin ist 16, hütet ihre kleine Schwester und hilft der renitenten Großmutter im Haushalt, die ihrer Zeit als Blitzmädel hinterhertrauert. Karins Vater verzwei­felt an der Reparatur seines Škodas wie an der des Familienlebens, und ihre Mutter würde am liebsten ein anderes Leben führen. Aufgehoben fühlt sich Karin bei ihrer Freundin Marie, dem einzigen Mädchen...

Маленькому бездомному псу, герою этой книги, придется очень и очень нелегко, прежде чем он осуществит заветную мечту каждой собаки: воспитает себе друга. Об этом трогательная и смешная история, рассказанная известным французским писателем Даниэлом Пеннаком, при всей своей фантастичности очень, в сущности, правдивая. Для среднего школьного возраста. 8-е издание.

A searing portrayal of Vienna’s bourgeoisie, it begins with the arrival of an unnamed writer at an ‘artistic dinner’ hosted by a composer and his society wife—a couple he once admired and has come to loathe. The guest of honor, a distinguished actor from the Burgtheater, is late. As the other guests wait impatiently, they are seen through the critical eye of the writer, who narrates a silent...

Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth, first in The Locked Tomb Trilogy, unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon...