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...

Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukraine’s leading public intellectual, is called upon to make sense of the unthinkable reality of our times. In this breathtaking short story collection, she turns the concept of truth over in her hands like a beautifully crafted pair of gloves. From the triumph of the Orange Revolution, which marked the start of the twenty-first century, to domestic victories in matchmaking,...

I love the simple, not loud verse, /That smiles and so delicate. /I am near to the artless style, /That, as a school-girl, diligent. /I love a music of the verse, /It's breath and even signs. /I try to find the sparks of wisdom /In person, who is sly.

Spanning sixty tumultuous years of Ukrainian history, this multigenerational saga weaves a dramatic and intricate web of love, sex, friendship, and death. At its center: three women linked by the abandoned secrets of the past, secrets that refuse to remain hidden. While researching a story, journalist Daryna unearths a worn photograph of Olena Dovgan, a member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army...

Continuation of the book Spy Waffles, which was released in the summer of 2017! A new book from a recognized master of the modern novel! Vilmont's novels are loved for their dynamic, exciting plots, simple and vivid language. Ekaterina Nikolaevna Vilmont is in the TOP-10 of the most published, well-read and well-known writers in Russia. 'The books of Ekaterina Vilmont help to live and treat...

Join Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. You'll never read funnier science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic...

The first book by Arkadi Doubintchik, modern Russian-language poet living in America, includes mostly early lyrics, but also contains more recent works of philosophical orientation. Arkadi writes poetry for more than 30 years, was published in periodicals in America, has become one of the winners of the global competition of Russian poets abroad. The book will certainly be interesting to all...

The famous master of book graphics Kostyantyn Sulima - the author of the first Ukrainian comic 'Buiviter' - created a simple model comic based on the classic novel by Mykola Gogol. It seems that these drawings have existed forever, and the text of 'Taras Bulba' in the brilliant translation of Mykola Sadovskyi is conveyed with such tact and reliability, which, it seemed, no longer had to be...

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...

'War Alphabet' is one of the stories of the Russian-Ukrainian war. She started writing back in 2015, when Yevhen Stepanenko was fighting in the East of Ukraine as part of a medic unit, and his daughter Solya was waiting for her dad from the front in peaceful Kyiv. This is an honest and touching conversation about war and life for everyone: both children and adults.

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.

'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...