Winner Pulitzer Prize. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhoodùwhere even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as...

'Just Masa' is Masahiro Shibata alone, without Fandorin. The orphaned assistant of the great detective returns to his native Japan, which has changed very much during the wanderings of his prodigal son - and has remained forever unchanged. An incredible s

Viktor Petrovich Astafiev is a classic of 20th-century Russian prose, a laureate of two USSR State Prizes, the independent Triumph Prize, the State Prize of Russia and others. He received his first prize in 1978 for narrating in the stories 'King of the F

The villagers had never seen anything like it: dense white curtains of snow that instantly transformed the landscape. Not in autumn, not here in Burgundy. And on the same night a baby was discovered, dark-eyed little Maria, who would transform all their l

It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day - July 15th - of each year. Dex an

Someone is looking for love on the World Wide Web, and someone in an abandoned village. Someone travels the globe for love, while others are ready to exchange big cities for a small island. Wherever the action takes place, the reader suddenly recognizes h

Daniil Alexandrovich Granin is a classic of Russian literature, a soldier of the Second World War, a humanist, a public figure, an honorary citizen of St. Petersburg, a laureate of literary and state awards. At least three times he became a true master of

A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America's great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an archipelago of

Children of the Arbat is one of the most significant works of Russian literature of the 20th century. The main characters of this epic are the metropolitan youth of the thirties of the last century. True friends, a close circle - each of them has a special path prepared by fate. Someone will receive an honorable place of 'arbiter of destinies', others - a link to the Far East; some will be able...

As the love triangle heats up in the third book, Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob and her romance with Edward -- and her decision could change the fate of vampires and werewolves forever. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all,...

This illustrated edition includes stories by Narine Abgaryan, previously published in the collection 'Zulali'. They are all about the fragile world of people. About loneliness and how important it is when someone is around. About the love that expands the

The history of Italy in the last thirty years through the prism of friendship between two Neapolitan boys. Historical, educational, social novel. Massimiliano Virgilio The action of the novel by the Italian writer and journalist Massimiliano Virgilio 'Ame