The crime story takes place in 1992, just after the political transformation in former Czechoslovakia. Commissioner Krauz (very young, cheeky, quick and inexperienced, but promising) investigates a murder. The clues lead to the former communist political police and church services. In the new order, both the Church (preparing to return to big politics) and the former security officers who are...

On a rainy November day, police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: a woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer.

Helena Pelletier has a loving husband, two beautiful daughters, and a business that fills her days. But she also has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Helena, born two years after the abduction, loved her home in nature, and despite her father’s sometimes...

Every day at four o'clock in the morning, Findus likes to jump up and down on his bed. He wakes Pettson, who tells him to stop. Because cats really need their early morning exercise, Findus decides to find a house of his own where he can jump and bounce when he likes. But jumping on beds is one thing – living without Pettson is quite another…

The 1930s, the times of Stalinist repressions. A young man sentenced to 25 years for love of his homeland escapes from the stage echelon of the NKVD, which transports exhausted and desperate people to a slow death in the Gulag camps. A townsman, an aircraft design engineer, finds himself in a forest thicket teeming with predators, without a map, weapons, tools, warm clothes or even food.

It is difficult to find something as funny, talented and witty in our literature as this outstanding book by Vsevolod Nestaik, who is often called the Gogol of modern Ukrainian children's literature. It is not for nothing that 'Toreadors from Vasyukivka' has been translated into twenty languages and is included in Andersen's Especially Honorable List as one of the greatest works of world...

Bi-lingual, parallel text edition of the Great Gatsby.

The book by Natalka Bilotserkivets, one of the most important contemporary Ukrainian poets, includes poems from all her collections: ‘Ballad of the Unconquered’ (1976), ‘In the Country of My Heart’ (1979), ‘Underground Fire’ (1984), ‘November’ ( 1989), ‘Allergy’ (1999), ‘Central Hotel’ (2004). This is the author's most complete selection to date.

Ivan Drach (1936-2018) is a recognized leader of the sixties, who, with the inspiration of a juggler, twisted into one poetic orbit the golden bulb, and the theory of relativity, and synchrofazotrons wailing like lions, and washed pants, and the Communist Party, and a touching old lady, and Lenin's fanfare, and the lost cinematogram, and Chernobyl, and Rukh, and spirit, and Stanley Kunitz, who...

The novel ‘Shoes of the Mother of God’ by the prominent Ukrainian writer Maria Mathios tells about one of the most painful tragedies of the 20th century in the territory that historian Timothy Snyder calls the ‘bloodlands’. This is a new edition of the work with new episodes.

The family saga in the short stories ‘Almost never the other way around’ by the prominent Ukrainian writer Maria Mathios is not inferior to her famous ‘Sweet Darusa’ in terms of skill of writing and depth of presentation. ‘It is not time that counts, but a person in the circumstances of time’ - the writer reveals this thesis through the dramatic history of several Hutsul families during the...

1905 year. The career of one of the best investigators of Galicia, Lviv commissioner Adam Vistovych, is on the rise. In order to help his younger colleague, Associate Professor Samkovsky, the commissar takes on a seemingly trivial matter. However, it turns out that its threads stretch far beyond the borders of Lviv and even beyond the borders of the empire.