Oleg Sentsov is a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and writer, public activist. Laureate of the Sakharov Prize 'For Freedom of Thought' and the National Prize of Ukraine named after T. Shevchenko. He was detained in Crimea in May 2014 and sentenced to 20 years in a Russian prison on charges of terrorism.

Do you think that young readers can only be interested in educational books about insects and birds, about life in past geological eras or about cosmic wonders? Lesya Movchun talks about the language in such a fascinating way that children will definitely want to read the book to the end!

Eleven-year-old Tomas has a secret friend like no other: Flicker, a dragon with glittering eyes and scales that flicker from fiery orange to ruby red. But Tomas is also having to get used to Flicker being away, now that his dragon's home is back in the frosty North. Adventure is never far away for Tomas, though - as he finds out when another dragon hatches on the dragonfruit tree at the bottom...

This is a book of poems that captivated numerous readers around the world. These poems not only penetrate the soul, but also penetrate the inside. They leave through holes in the mind, through which reality shines through, from which you want to hide your hands.

Vasyl Symonenko (1935–1963) is a poetic legend of the ‘sixties’ as a social and artistic movement. His poems were not allowed to be printed by Soviet censorship, so they were distributed in self-published lists and copied by hand - by teachers, professors and farmers.

In a land without magic, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She has no love for the vicious king who rules from his throne of glass, but she has not come to kill him. She has come to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three murderers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she will be released from prison to serve as the King's Champion.

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned-a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.

It's been four months since Nicky Roth has seen his best friend and neighbor, Aaron Peterson. Aaron's father, a reclusive theme park designer, told the town that Aaron and his sister Mya are living with a relative far away, but Nicky can't seem to accept it.

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls.

Maisie Hitchins longs to be a detective. She's sure there are lots of adventures to be had on the streets of Victorian London. And, together with her faithful puppy, Eddie, she is determined to follow even the slightest scent of a mystery no matter what! On a visit to the British Museum, Maisie meets Professor Tobin's old university acquaintance Lord Dacre, who's devastated about the recent...

In this fourth mystery about twelve-year-old Maisie, the young detective must solve a crime for her friend Professor Tobin. The professor travelled all over the world collecting strange and wonderful objects, and the British Museum is opening a special room to house his collection. But before the professor’s donation, a thief steals a valuable Amazonian tribal mask! With just a single feather...

Sarah Massey, talented lead actress in Circus Sweethearts, is a mess. She should be dancing on air-after all, her boyfriend just proposed. But she has lost his gift: a beautiful emerald necklace with a storied history. Rumor has it whoever loses the necklace will be cursed, and now everything around Miss Massey is falling apart. She turns to Maisie Hitchins and her dog, Eddie, for help. But...