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...

Left orphaned and physically flawed in a civilization that shuns and discards the weak, Kira faces a frighteningly uncertain future. Her neighbors are hostile, and no one but a small boy offers to help. When she is summoned to judgment by The Council of Guardians, Kira prepares to fight for her life.

It’s been more than a year since Simon and Blue turned their anonymous online flirtation into an IRL relationship, and just a few months since Abby and Leah’s unforgettable night at senior prom. Now the Creekwood High crew are first years at different colleges, navigating friendship and romance the way their story began—on email.

On the way home from a party, seventeen-year-old Ivy and her soon-to-be ex nearly run over a nude young woman standing in the middle of a tree-lined road. It’s only the first in a string of increasingly eerie events and offerings: a dead rabbit in the driveway, a bizarre concoction buried by her mother in the backyard, a box of childhood keepsakes hidden in her parents’ closet safe. Most...

It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the...

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a...

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to...

'Pets' by Zhenya Berkovich is a prison fairy tale; everything told in it is the pure truth, but all the characters are fictitious and the coincidences are accidental. The action takes place in Tyurmyau, where cats, rats, dogs, cockroaches, a crow and, of course, people have to get along, but this is not a story about people. The main character, Volny Kotan, goes through a series of tests to...

Александр Солженицын — русский писатель, публицист, общественный деятель, лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе («За нравственную силу, с которой он продолжил традиции великой русской литературы», 1970), лауреат Государственной премии Российской Федерации за выдающиеся достижения в области гуманитарной деятельности (2006), академик Российской академии наук. В настоящее издание вошли ранние...

The final book in the Lord of the Rings series,

With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until...

В суждениях современников и потомков Эмили Бронте (1818–1848) не раз звучала мысль о том, что она гораздо в большей степени поэт, чем романист, а между тем в историю литературы писательница вошла прежде всего как автор знаменитого романа «Грозовой перевал». Его называли «романтичнейшим романом», «дьявольской книгой, объединившей все самые сильные женские наклонности», одним из самых лучших...