The new novel by Vladimir Sorokin is a look at the future of Europe, which, despite the dramatic changes in the world and human structure, seems very understandable and real. The recognizable and the unrecognizable coexist peacefully on the bright tapestry of the New Middle Ages, populated by dog-heads and centaurs, small people and giants, crusaders and Orthodox communists. Infinitely...

The book 'Marusya the Athlete' includes two stories about the cheerful Marusya. First, boys and girls will learn to swim with Marusya and her friends in the pool, and then they will go skiing, sledding and skating. Marusin's example is very contagious - you immediately want to go in for sports and become a champion! The book was retold into Russian by the famous translator, winner of many...

The manual includes 15 topics, among them: 'Let's get acquainted', 'Where are you from', 'The family', 'To Buy or not to Buy', 'City, transport, pedestrian', 'Everything is Known through Comparison', 'Leisure Time', 'Theater, Movies, TV'. The manual on vocabulary and conversational practice Slovo (Word) is intended for foreign students who study Russian in the amount of basic and partly I...

Sherlock Junior and the Bear from London is the first volume of a new detective series for kids - for learning English! The Sherlock Junior series is a fun and humorously illustrated first such detective series for readers from the age of eight, in which, in addition to a crime mystery, they will discover that learning English words and phrases is as easy as Big Ben's tower. Each volume of the...

The Elvestad police are investigating a series of mysterious thefts but fail to notice a few important clues. Among other things, the fact that all the houses in which the break-in took place were marked in advance. Detective Bureau No. 2 goes to action! Tiril, Oliver and Otto must not only find out who is behind it, but also catch the thieves before they leave their town.

Hurricane Katrina ravaged the states of Louisiana and Mississippi in August 2005. Thus, he left behind not only material losses. Ruined homes or cemeteries washed out by great water are just some of their examples. He also left a trauma in the psyche of the people who survived him. A girl from Poland comes to a town hit by a hurricane. She runs away from difficult experiences, but no idyll...

When two Niveus Private Academy students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are selected to be part of the elite school's senior class prefects, it looks like their year is off to an amazing start. After all, not only does it look great on college applications, but it officially puts each of them in the running for valedictorian, too. Shortly after the announcement is made, though, someone...

Maxim Kammerer is a young amateur space explorer from Earth, regarded as a failure by his friends and relatives because this occupation is not considered to be a serious pursuit. The novel starts when he accidentally discovers an unexplored planet Saraksh inhabited by a humanoid race. The atmospheric conditions on Saraksh are such that the inhabitants believe that they live inside a sphere. The...

Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving north to meet some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of hitchhikers who persuade him to take a job at the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy. The adventures Sasha has in the largely dysfunctional institute involve all sorts of magical beings - a wish-granting fish, a tree mermaid, a...

The Doomed City was so politically risky that the Strugatskys kept its existence a secret even from their closest friends for 16 years. It was only published in Russia during perestroika in the late 1980s, the last of their works to see publication. The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and off at night, a city bordered by an abyss on one side...

Ijon Tichy is the only human who knows for sure whether the self-programming robots on the moon are plotting a terrestrial invasion. But a highly focused ray severs his corpus collosum. Now his left brain can’t remember the secret and his uncooperative right brain won’t tell. Tichy struggles for control of the lost memory and of his own two warring sides.

In Solaris, Kris Kelvin arrives on an orbiting research station to study the remarkable ocean that covers the planet’s surface. But his fellow scientists appear to be losing their grip on reality, plagued by physical manifestations of their repressed memories. When Kelvin’s long-dead wife suddenly reappears, he is forced to confront the pain of his past - while living a future that never was....