A collection to whet the appetite of anyone wishing to learn more about a region rich in history, folklore and (her)stories. Telling it like a woman does not mean literature for women only: it provides an insight into half of humanity, a window onto the lives of citizens who work, love and develop their inner lives. This collection brings together the voices of a wide selection of prize-winning...

Blue Salo is the most scandalous novel in the history of modern Russia. He was publicly burned and cursed, he was ardently admired and hated just as much. But he does not leave anyone indifferent. Siberia in 2048. In a secret laboratory, hidden between two huge hills, 'blue salo' began to be mined. This mysterious substance appears under the skin of clones of great writers: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy,...

'Arc de Triomphe' is a poignant love story against all odds, love that brings pain, but also gives endless joy. The scene is Paris on the eve of World War II. The hero is a refugee from Germany, without documents, hiding from both the French and the Nazis, a surgeon who saves human lives. The heroine is an Italian actress, surrounded by fans, quick-tempered, like all artists, beautiful and...

War. Terrible and hateful. Ernst Graeber - an ordinary German soldier - for the first time after two years of war goes on vacation for three weeks. Three priceless weeks - time to live! He leaves to be at war again - in a city where endless bombing. In the city, where residents are afraid to breathe once again, where no one can ever be trusted with their thoughts and feelings, otherwise -...

Few of the writers managed to touch the souls of readers with the skill of their words in the way that A.I. Kuprin. Kind, touching stories imbued with sincere love and compassion will resonate in the hearts of readers and leave no room for callousness, cruelty and indifference in them.

The book of the Soviet biologist, writer and popularizer of science for children Igor Akimushkin 'Traces of Unseen Animals' will tell about the amazing, previously unknown to science animals that man managed to meet. Some species are indeed recognized as new, while the existence of others is questioned.

The book includes works about the Great Patriotic War - the story ‘And the dawns here are quiet...’ and the novel ‘Not on the lists’.

The life of little Anya flows measuredly and happily. In the summer - in the village, with blueberry glades, and tall pines and a warm lake. And in the winter in Moscow, with the Tretyakov Gallery and gifts from the Children's World. But one day this life ends. Anna now lives in New York. While her parents are studying at the university, she goes to an American school, eats sandwiches with jam...

Incredible events are taking place in the Paris Zoo: a one-eyed Polar Wolf and a little African boy silently tell each other stories, one more amazing than the other. In two pupils - a boy's and a wolf's - flash, replacing each other, the snow-covered Tundra, yellow, gray and green Africa. Somewhere in the past, gunshots are heard, screams are heard, the noise of propellers and the howl of...

In the memoir The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience as a prisoner for nearly three years at a modern-day concentration camp overseen by the Federal Security Bureau of the Russian Federation (FSB) in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk.