Alyosha is a first-grader, the smallest in his class. Because of his height, he's teased with the silly nickname 'Two-Portfolio.' Kysh is a funny puppy with a very strange name. They're both on probation: the boy at school, and the dog at home. They try their best, but somehow, it always turns out badly! Alyosha will disrupt school, Kysh will misbehave at home, or they'll get into trouble...

Includes: Tsinkovye mal'chiki, Vremia sekond hend, U voiny ne zhenskoe litso, Poslednie svideteli, Chernobylskaia molitva

A term of physiology and neurology, algometry is the science of measuring pain. However, it is not physical pain that Iryna Vikyrchak examines in Algometry, but her experiences growing up in Western Ukraine in the ’90s, emphasizing emotional sensitivity and inner strength, which give way to a philosophical and lyrical reflection on pain, suffering, and empathy as a measurement of our humanness....

Memory Burn, is a coming-of-age story of a queer boy from a Czech industrial town. Torcík’ delves into the recesses of memory in an effort to come to terms with painful memories from his childhood. As a homosexual boy with a slight build growing up in a small industrial town, the protagonist of the story faces severe bullying at school, but his problems aren’t over once he gets home: his...

From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbrück concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka’s first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist opposed to fascism. A non-conformist, bi-sexual feminist, she was way ahead of her time. With the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, her home became a central meeting place for Jewish...

In this groundbreaking book, historian Götz Aly addresses one of modern history's greatest conundrums: How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans? The answer is as shocking as it is persuasive: by engaging in a campaign of theft on an almost unimaginable scale-and by channeling the proceeds into generous social programs-Hitler literally bought his people's consent.

ABC book for the littlest learners!

A gripping and incredibly funny autofiction about how people don't hear each other. – A young writer works in a shop selling absurdly expensive designer candles in New York City and can't help her customers. – New York 2019–2021: capitalism and survival on the other side of the globe.

Drawing on archival materials released in Russia, Richard Pipes chronicles the upheaval that began as a conservative revolt but was soon captured by messianic intellectuals intent not merely on reforming Russia but on remaking the world. He provides fresh accounts of the revolution's personalities and policies, crises, and cruelties, from the murder of the royal family through civil war,...