Essays on the work of a doctor in the province, written by Maxim Osipov from 2006 to 2017, brought him fame. First collected under one cover, they paint a vivid picture of the changes that have taken place in recent years with Russian society and with the author himself, who is looking at the 'city N.' from different sides, but always sympathetic and unbiased. The peculiarity of the author's...

Gwen has a destiny to fulfill, but no one will tell her what it is. She's only recently learned that she is the Ruby, the final member of the time-traveling Circle of Twelve, and since then nothing has been going right. She suspects the founder of the Circle, Count Saint-German, is up to something nefarious, but nobody will believe her. And she's just learned that her charming time-traveling...

In a small valley on a green meadow is an amazing house, painted with blue paint. In this house lives a family of moomin trolls: Moomin-Mama, Moomin-Papa and Moomin-Troll himself. And even if one day a big company appears on the threshold, everyone will have a place here. In fact, there are a lot of incomprehensible and dangerous things around - natural disasters, magic hats, ant lions ......

Cute and funny Swedish folk folk songs in a brilliant translation by Irina Tokmakova as if really intertwined a round dance of funny and instructive little stories. The book is illustrated by the famous artist Anatoly Kokorin.

Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away by a figure who claims to come...

An instructive story of the wonderful children's writer Anatoly Mityaev about the capricious girl Dasha and one day of her life, which started badly but happily ended. This edition reproduces the famous illustrations of a talented Soviet artist Tatiana Eremina. They very accurately convey the bright mood of the book, which the little reader will surely catch. And adult members of the family...

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars brilliantly explores...

The new novel is the story of nine friends who came to the hotel on the top of a snowy mountain. They have known each other for ages, they are successful, happy and ready to have fun. But in the morning it turns out that freezing rain has left them withou

Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the...

Sergey Dovlatov is one of the most popular and widely read Russian writers of the late 20th - early 21st century. His stories, stories and notebooks are translated into many languages, screened, studied in schools and universities. Zapovednik, Zona, Alien

Sergey Dovlatov was born in evacuation and died in exile. As a writer, he was formed in Leningrad, but success came to him in America, where he lived since 1979. His artistic thought with a visible paradox, justified by life experience, is simple and noble: to tell how people live strangely, sometimes sadly laughing, then sadly grieving. There are no righteous people in his books, because there...