‘The year is 2033. A devastating war that turned the world into a radioactive wasteland forced Muscovites to seek refuge in the subway. Over the years, its stations have become real states that trade or wage war with each other. On the surface, mutant monsters roam the ruins of the metropolis, and below, in the tunnels, terrible things are happening. Artyom, a resident of VDNKh station, must...

The famous children's writer Nikolai Nikolaevich Nosov wrote not only short stories, novellas, and novels, but he also composed poems. He wrote about his beloved character Dunno and his friends – Gunka, Toropyzhka, Znaika, Pilyulkin... The book ‘Poems about Dunno and other little people’ contains all the poems about the little boys and girls. For preschool age.

For over half a century, Werner Herzog has challenged, enriched, and expanded our understanding of the truth. His films and books have mixed fiction and nonfiction, documentary and drama, reality and imagination. Invariably, Herzog goes beyond the appearance of what is true in search of a higher truth, or what he has often referred to as the “ecstatic truth.” In The Future of Truth, a great...

Shipwrecked on a remote, wild island, Robot Roz learned from the unwelcoming animal inhabitants and adapted to her surroundings--but can she survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island? From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed sequel to his New York Times bestselling The...

Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect. But when mysterious, dangerous waters surround the island, the animals are forced inland to fight over dwindling resources. Roz calms and organizes the animals, but the poison tide takes a terrible toll on the island. So the wild robot sets out across the ocean, determined to stop the poison tide. During her journey, Roz encounters...

‘The novel ‘Measuring the World’ fascinatingly, intelligently, and with subtle humor tells the story of two geniuses of the Enlightenment era, Carl Friedrich Gauss and Alexander von Humboldt, as typical representatives of the German national character in all its manifestations. These two outstanding men were very different in every respect. While Humboldt traveled almost the entire globe,...

Sergey Lebedev's collection of short stories, ‘Titan,’ is about the fact that nothing and no one disappears without a trace. Why don't birds peck at ripe apples, but flies swarm to them as if they were meat? Why does a dog whimper as if a person is groaning? Why is the grandmother a behemoth, even though she eats lean and bland food? And why does she have iron teeth? In Lebedev's stories,...