The purpose of this self-study guide, which includes 16 lessons, is to help the reader quickly and effectively master the English language. The book presents the most important information about correct pronunciation, basic grammar topics, rules for constructing an English sentence, and also provides texts for reading. The material is presented in the most understandable and accessible way and...

More trips to the colorful places of Minsk: this time the main places of events are the 50th anniversary park of October and the dormitories near the Mogilevskaya metro station. Even more mysteries that only the unique duo of Yuryevna and Gorkovy can solve. No worse than Holmes and Watson!

But our main character is a city boy. University professor Antos loses his faithful friend, the beagle Argus. At the same time, his wife decides that their marriage has exhausted itself. Looking for a hobby to occupy his mind, Anton agrees to help his friend and decipher the text of mysterious notebooks found in an attic in one of the villages near the Abyss - the swamp near which the main...

The fifth edition of Algirdas Bakharevich's opus magnum, the novel ‘The Dogs of Europe’, banned in the Republic of Belarus. Books about the power of language and the language of power, about Belarus as a European island and Europe as the Belarusian destiny, about the eternal mystery of creativity and human obsession.

‘The Twenty-Sixth’ is a warm and nostalgic novel about growing up during the perestroika era. - This is a book about those who managed to be Octobrists, but no longer had to necessarily join the Pioneers, a story about awakening, hope, overcoming and finding freedom. — The first foreign cars, cooperative cafes, glasnost, coupons, perestroika, chewing gum inserts and the ringing...

In Intent to Destroy, political scientist Eugene Finkel uncovers these deep roots of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Ukraine is a key borderland between Russia and the West, and, following the rise of Russian nationalism in the nineteenth century, dominating Ukraine became the cornerstone of Russian policy. Russia has long used genocidal tactics—killings, deportations, starvation, and cultural...

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...

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...

Motanka is a collection of short fiction by Ukrainian writers about women's experiences of war and the incredible powers that manifest themselves in special circumstances. Fantasy, magical realism, steampunk, and even post-apocalypse; events that take place both in ancient times and in the days of modern war, in recognizable worlds or completely fantastic reality. These are twelve stories...

Odesa, where only furious storms from the sea flew in. Ukrainian cinema, fresh and bold, like a cabin boy on a tall mast. Young people who are looking for themselves and find — friendship, love, loyalty, courage. A director, an artist, a ballerina, a sailor, Odessa fishermen, port girls, a film factory director, a schooner owner. A subtle love intrigue, the spirit of romance and creative...

After the revolution and Civil War, the large Burliuk family became divided—some members left Soviet Russia forever, while others remained in their homeland. The same happened with the family and wide circle of friends of Sonia Delaunay. Despite the seemingly closed borders, correspondence between the two families continued for years. The main theme of these endless letters was the debate...