As the Americans say, freedom is not for free. So sooner or later the enemy, who for centuries pretended to be a ‘brother’ and a ‘liberator’, had to shed the blood of Ukrainians. And we will pay the ‘bill’. Therefore, this war became one of the phases of the formation of Ukraine, because you have to fight both with the occupier and with prejudices. She showed how much we still have to do and...

Jerusalem 1119. A small group of knights seeking a purpose in the violent aftermath of the First Crusade decides to set up a new order. These are the first Knights Templar, a band of elite warriors prepared to give their lives to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land. Over the next two hundred years, the Templars would become the most powerful religious order of the medieval world. Their...

Documents of the Soviet state security agencies, declassified in Ukraine, have become a real Klondike for researchers and journalists. Month after month, year after year, stories found by Eduard Andryushchenko in archival files were turned into articles for Ukrainian and foreign publications. And now they are published under one cover. The heroes of these stories were outstanding artists and...

The book ‘The Pack’ is a novel about how to jump above your own head, literally and figuratively. About decisive steps beyond the comfort zone. About trust and friendship. About self-improvement and moving towards your goal, despite all obstacles. About how to overcome internal demons, which everyone has plenty of. About the fear that penetrates to the tips of the fingers and paralyzes, and...

The Unteachables are a notorious class of misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks. Like Aldo, with anger management issues; Parker, who can’t read; Kiana, who doesn’t even belong in the class—or any class; and Elaine (rhymes with pain). The Unteachables have been removed from the student body and isolated in room 117.

Diary of Volodymyr Vakulenko-K. — painful and true records that the writer kept from the beginning of the full-scale invasion and during the occupation of Izyum and his native village of Kapitolivka in Kharkiv Oblast. Until the abduction by the Rashists, the inevitability of which he was aware of, as well as the fact that he had little chance of survival - because he is Ukrainian, because he is...

Once upon a time, the magical creatures began to compete. But their worlds, unable to withstand that hertz, were completely shattered. The legendary creatures were forced to escape among the people, and the house ‘Wow!’ gave a stipule to the survivors. Now mermen and dwarves, sorceresses and ghouls, giants and airmen live in it. All of them sincerely try to adapt to new realities. And at the...

We are used to seeing bullying as a problem of confrontation between two parties: an ‘aggressive’ bully and a ‘repressed’ victim. But bullying is a whole ecosystem, which is influenced not only by the relations of children, but also by the relations between children and parents, parents and teachers, school rules and regulations, school atmosphere, traditions, modern historical events, etc....

Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people.

War is powerless before love. It appears in spite of everything and gives strength for sake. Then you can survive anything: capture, injury, hundreds of kilometers of distance, sleepless nights. Age, gender, fear become just words that have no meaning. And even when love multiplied by two has to be carried through life alone together with the pain of loss, it does not disappear.

This book is an attempt to rethink the biography of Lesya Ukrainka, in which illness and creativity, Ukraine and ‘foreigners’, politics and literature, classics and modernity, love and death are intertwined. Illness and writing. The birth of creativity from the trauma experienced at the bedside of the terminally ill Merzhynskyi. Spiritual and intellectual closeness to Drahomanov. Relations with...