This book is the author's full version of the famous documentary novel 'Babi Yar' about the extermination of the Jewish population of Kiev in the autumn of 1941. Anatoly Kuznetsov, then a teenager, himself witnessed the executions of Kiev Jews, communicated a lot with people who survived the catastrophe, collected memories of other contemporaries and eyewitnesses. His novel was first...

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's...

What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called 'Quirks?' Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless?

The era in which Andrei Bitov lived ... These are the years of the thaw - a time of hope, a bright entry into literature, and a period of 'stagnation', when the main novel 'Pushkin's House' could only be read in samizdat. And perestroika, and the turbulent 1990s, and transformations in the country - a different breath, changes in life and work. An intellectual writer, a unique interlocutor -...

How does it feel to know one day that you are the heir to an aristocratic title and a huge fortune? This is exactly what happened to the hero of the novel by the American writer Francis Burnett 'Little Lord Fauntleroy.' The book, published in 1886, immediately became a bestseller, and the charming seven-year-old boy conquered not only haughty heart of a wayward grandfather, but also became...

To defeat Matt Murdock, the Kingpin of her dimension, Gwen has to let Venom win! But there's a problem -if Murdock dies, then so does Gwen! But that's the least of her worries, as after recent events Gwen has found herself on a one-way road into darkness. And the only one that can help her find her way back to the light...is Gwen Stacy. Is the universe trying to save her, or does fate only hold...

Схватка с Убийцей Героев стала серьезным испытанием для Иды, Тодороки и Мидории. Одноклассникам пришлось довериться друг другу, чтобы остаться в живых. Травмы, полученные в сражении с Пятном, долго будут напоминать друзьям о совершенных ошибках, но жизнь продолжается. Первый год обучения в академии подходит к концу, и на носу итоговые экзамены, к которым нужно готовиться уже сейчас…

The Ice Age is very cool…for two kids in bathing suits! Jack and Annie nearly freeze when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of cave people and woolly mammoths. But nothing can stop them from having another wild adventure—not even a saber-toothed tiger!

The art of love is never a science

After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, he’s officially retired. But after his mom urges him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly agrees to sign up for basketball. Tryouts are a mess, and Greg is sure he won’t make the cut. But he unexpectedly lands a spot on the worst team.

From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictator-ship. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and overflowing with symbolic...