Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin...

She's just a New York City girl living with her artist mom...News flash: Dad is prince of Genovia. (So that's why a limo always meets her at the airport!) Downer: Dad can't have any more kids. (So no heir to the throne.) Shock of the century: Like it or not, Mia is prime princess material. The worst part: Princess lessons from her dreaded grandmere, the dowager princess of Genovia, who thinks...

When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he's definitely dead. But even in death he's not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days....

ItÆs the fall of 1977, and amid the lovely, leafy streets of Cambridge a young Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to become an assimilated American and a professor of literature. He spends his days in a pleasant blur of seventeenth-century fiction, but when he meets a brash, charismatic Arab cab driver in a Harvard Square cafΘ, everything changes.

Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.

Tatyana Tolstaya is a prose writer, publicist, TV presenter ('School of Scandal'), laureate of the Prize. Belkin ('Light Worlds'). Author of collections of short stories 'They sat on the golden porch ...', 'Day', 'Night', 'Raisins', 'Light Worlds', 'Invisible Maiden', etc. The novel 'Kys' was awarded the Triumph Prize and was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize.

The book presents the story 'The Diary of Fox Mickey' by the famous Russian writer of the early twentieth century Sasha Cherny. The work is written in the form of a diary from the perspective of a dog that can write. Fox Mickey talks about his amazing adventures, observations and discoveries. Together with him, readers will visit the Paris Zoo, see a performance at the circus, and take a boat...

In the collection 'Stories of A.P. Chekhov in Russian and Kazakh' included 10 stories by A.P. Chekhov in the Russian original and translated into the Kazakh language: 'Smear' (1883), 'Grisha' (1886), 'Evil Boy' (1883), 'Joy' (1883), 'Thick and Thin' (1883), ' Chameleon' (1884), 'Mysterious nature' (1883), 'Mask' (1898), 'Order' (1884), 'Reference' (1883). We hope that the book will be useful to...

'The Land of Random Numbers' is a collection of short stories by Tatyana Zamirovskaya, a writer and journalist, the author of the loud-sounding novel 'Death.net'. All the characters in the book are held hostage by the author. The reality of each of the worlds is strictly defined and outlined, but this does not mean that it is impossible to get out, violate, overcome the boundaries. All you need...

A new novel about 'the Internet for the dead', a continuation of the series 'Another Reality'

A mouse is taking a stroll through the deep, dark wood when along comes a hungry fox, then an owl, and then a snake. The mouse is good enough to eat but smart enough to know this, so he invents . . . the gruffalo! As Mouse explains, the gruffalo is a creature with terrible claws, and terrible tusks in its terrible jaws, and knobbly knees and turned-out toes, and a poisonous wart at the end of...