Dina Rubina is one of the few authors who continues to sell well in times of crisis. Her prose tends to speak to the reader like a real friend or sister - close and heartfelt. She seems to hug you while reading. The novel 'On the Upper Maslovka' has gone through many reprints and has been filmed.

The main thing is not to know, but to believe. Faith is higher than knowledge. Otherwise, why would God create such a complex Machaonine as man? Why stretch it through the years, through trials, through love? To then be thrown from the tree of life and trampled? And where do our tears, our happiness, our everyday work go? .. All my life I have been striving for something: love, fame, wealth....

Lovely young Carla Ponce, who lives in Peru, invites Nancy and her friends Bess and George to visit her and solve her 'monkey mystery,' which promises to lead to a fabulous treasure. A clue is carved on an intriguing wooden plaque that is so old, most of the crossword cipher is obliterated. When a notorious gang headed by El Gato (the Cat) steals the priceless relic, Nancy’s hopes of solving...

To defeat Matt Murdock, the Kingpin of her dimension, Gwen has to let Venom win! But there's a problem -if Murdock dies, then so does Gwen! But that's the least of her worries, as after recent events Gwen has found herself on a one-way road into darkness. And the only one that can help her find her way back to the light...is Gwen Stacy. Is the universe trying to save her, or does fate only hold...

Gwen Stacy returns…as Ghost-Spider! But the interdimensional events of Spider-Geddon are about to rock her world, and soon, she will face her own evil self: the Gwen Goblin! Meanwhile, Mary Jane's vision for their band is driving Gwen crazy, her father is pressuring her to return to school and something sinister stalks the New York City of Gwen's Earth-65. So Gwen enrolls in classes in the...

The author is an unusual person who, as if through a magical lens, looks at this world and sees how to change it for the better here and now: here she is spying on grandmothers in the supermarket to become their good fairy for the New Year, here she is trying to support a pensioner- a taxi driver, although you donÆt need to go anywhere, but he has a simple everyday conversation with his son and...

In Charles Dickens' Christmas Tales, the main characters are fairies, elves, ghosts, spirits of the dead, and among them are ordinary Englishmen, the fairy tale is intertwined with reality, and the horrors of the other world are not inferior to the cruelty of reality. Magical, terrible and moderately morally educational reading.

'All my life I dreamed of becoming a rock musician, but the pressure, adventurism and arrogance was only enough to write texts for reading from the stage and performing them to a merciful and patient audience. But an unfulfilled desire is worse than caries. Sooner or later I will have to deal with it. I have a musical education no, voices too, hearing within the limits of physiological...

Splat is really excited about going camping-until his mom tells him she has invited his rival, Spike. Will Spike ruin Splat's trip? Or maybe Splat will learn that his worst enemy isn't so different from him after all..

Clickity clack, clickity clack . . . Splat's bicycle bumps and jumps over the bumpy track on his way to school, until . . . crack! Splat takes a tumble off of his bike and finds himself nose to beak with a duck. A crash of this caliber should certainly merit some alarm from this duck, but Splat hears no sound. A duck with no quack? Splat thinks that his teacher, Mrs. Wimpydimple, will know what...