Let’s face it: Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Somebody just needs to explain that to Greg’s father. You see, Frank Heffley actually thinks he can get his son to toughen up, and he enlists Greg in organized sports and other “manly” endeavors. Of course, Greg is able to easily sidestep his father’s efforts to change him. But when Greg’s dad threatens to send him to military...

Igor Rabiner has been writing about the NHL since the 1990s and is familiar with all of our heroes. On the eve of the Olympics, Bomboraora releases his book in two volumes about the fantastic fates of Russian stars that still dominate the NHL. The heroes of the first book were Alexander Ovechkin from the Washington Capitals, Evgeni Malkin from the Pittsburgh Penguins and Nikita Kucherov from '...

The author is an unusual person who, as if through a magical lens, looks at this world and sees how to change it for the better here and now: here she is spying on grandmothers in the supermarket to become their good fairy for the New Year, here she is trying to support a pensioner- a taxi driver, although you donÆt need to go anywhere, but he has a simple everyday conversation with his son and...

When Splat plans a sweet surprise for his best pal, he unintentionally makes Seymour worry that their friendship is coming to an end. Will all the silliness split this pair apart or bring them closer than ever? Beginning readers will practice the -ore sound and delight in the hilarious measures Splat takes to surprise his best friend in this easy-to-read addition to the Splat series.

Clickity clack, clickity clack . . . Splat's bicycle bumps and jumps over the bumpy track on his way to school, until . . . crack! Splat takes a tumble off of his bike and finds himself nose to beak with a duck. A crash of this caliber should certainly merit some alarm from this duck, but Splat hears no sound. A duck with no quack? Splat thinks that his teacher, Mrs. Wimpydimple, will know what...

Splat can't wait to try out his brand-new roller skates! But when it starts to rain, will Splat's fun day be ruined? Beginning readers will love the wordplay in this Splat story

Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of 'Stargirl, Stargirl.' She captures Leo Borlock' s heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revolution with just one cheer. The students of Mica High are enchanted. At first. Then they turn on her. Stargirl is suddenly shunned for everything that makes her...

Tatyana Tolstaya is a prose writer, publicist, TV presenter ('School of Scandal'), laureate of the Prize. Belkin ('Light Worlds'). Author of collections of short stories 'They sat on the golden porch ...', 'Day', 'Night', 'Raisins', 'Light Worlds', 'Invisible Maiden', etc. The novel 'Kys' was awarded the Triumph Prize and was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize.

'All my life I dreamed of becoming a rock musician, but the pressure, adventurism and arrogance was only enough to write texts for reading from the stage and performing them to a merciful and patient audience. But an unfulfilled desire is worse than caries. Sooner or later I will have to deal with it. I have a musical education no, voices too, hearing within the limits of physiological...

This publication publishes two novels by I.S. Turgenev. 'Fathers and Sons' is the most philosophical of all Turgenev's novels, in which the writer tried to comprehend the character and direction of 'new people' - heroes of a new era in Russian public life. The Noble Nest is the story of the hero's failed love, a strong spirit, a lot of survivors, the last representative of an old noble family,...