The cheerleading squad at Shadyside has always been strong, but now there are rumors that lack of funds may mean the end of cheerleading at Shadyside. That would be a shame for Gretchen Page, who has just transferred from her old school, where she was a star, and is eager to join the squad. There’s only one other girl who stands in her way-rich, spoiled Devra Dalby, who is also trying out for...

Her friends warn her not to go to Brendan Fear's birthday party at his family's estate on mysterious Fear Island. But Rachel Martin has a crush on Brendan and is excited to be invited. Brendan has a lot of party games planned. But one game no one planned intrudes on his party-the game of murder. As the guests start dying one by one, Rachel realizes to her horror that she and the other teenagers...

This one is very gloomy but without the dramatic battles and mayhem found in other Russian novels. This is a grim study of a spiritually bankrupt country split by greed and selfishness. A very bitter portrayal of Russia.

Cinder, the star of the Lunar Chronicles, is getting married! She and Emperor Kai have made it to their big day - now all Cinder has to do is show up and say 'I do.' But it's not so easy when there are twists and turns and obstacles along the way, and you, the reader, are in control of her fate, along with the many friends and strangers she meets on this adventure. Can you and Cinder make it to...

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...

Few of the writers managed to touch the souls of readers with the skill of their words in the way that A.I. Kuprin. Kind, touching stories imbued with sincere love and compassion will resonate in the hearts of readers and leave no room for callousness, cruelty and indifference in them.

The town of Tarusa lies 101 kilometers outside Moscow, far enough to have served, under Soviet rule, as a place where former political prisoners and other 'undesirables' could legally settle. Lying between the center of power and the provinces, between the modern urban capital and the countryside, Tarusa is the perfect place from which to observe a Russia that, in Maxim Osipov's words, 'changes...

The Danish novelist, poet and playwright Hans Christian Andersen is known throughout the world primarily as a storyteller. His tales and stories have been translated into more than 100 languages. The strength and immortality of Andersen's fairy tales lies in the fact that they are poetic, wise, imbued with goodness, love for nature and beauty in all its manifestations. Many heroes of his...

This edition contains foreword by Dmitry Nabokov (Vladimir Nabokov's son), translation of the novel's text into Russian, foreword by the translator Gennady Barabtarlo, and the original text of Laura in English (images of the flash cards with Nabokov's handwriting and transcribed text).

I'm always up for a good mystery, but when the big question is what I should get Dad for his birthday, I don't have a clue! And then another mystery comes my way -- one that involves Heather Simmons, a leading candidate in the upcoming election for mayor of River Heights. My friends and I are pretty sure that her daughter Leslie, musician extraordinaire, has been kidnapped. But the thing is,...

Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn’t there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than seventy years.