K is for Kidd. Set in South Carolina during the tumultuous summer of 1964, The Secret Life of Bees also ushered young Lily Owens, a girl transformed by the power and divinity of the female spirit, into the canon of modern-day heroines. Lily and her fierce-hearted black ‘stand-in mother’ escape the racism of their hometown and find refuge with an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, whose...

The very first novel of the writer - ‘The Former Son’ - tells about a young man who was injured in a terrible stampede on Nemiza and was in a coma for 10 years. He was looked after by his grandmother, who, in turn, tried to see the world through the eyes of her grandson, to tell him everything when he recovered. She tells, and the reader remembers what Belarusians experienced during that time:...

The novel begins with the events of June 23, 1941, when the offensive of the German army launched another wave of the fight against spies in the USSR. The work immerses the reader in the atmosphere of the 1930s and is based on the materials of the investigative case of the first director of the Moscow crematorium, Pyotr Ilyich Nesterenka, through whose testimony and diaries one can trace the...

Ein Klassiker der 1930er-Jahre-Literatur, neu entdeckt: das Schicksal einer klugen und ehrgeizigen Frau als Bankangestellte in der Weltwirtschaftskrise

Ella and Jonas invite their siblings for a ten-day winter vacation in the American mountains. However, the holiday joy is overshadowed by the disappearance of a friend who, two and a half years earlier, caused a real stir in everyone's lives. But December is a time for forgiveness and miracles. Is there a chance that the boy will come back and cause an earthquake for them? Or maybe he simply...

This is the exciting - yet little known - story of the making of England in the ninth and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England's four kingdoms.

Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the lukewarm war of sporadic violence and constant propaganda that has been dragging on for years, only two residents remain: retired safety inspector turned beekeeper Sergey Sergeyich and Pashka, a rival from his schooldays. With little food and no...

War is powerless before love. It appears in spite of everything and gives strength for sake. Then you can survive anything: capture, injury, hundreds of kilometers of distance, sleepless nights. Age, gender, fear become just words that have no meaning. And even when love multiplied by two has to be carried through life alone together with the pain of loss, it does not disappear.

Is there a place for love and compassion in the basements of Mariupol destroyed by the Russians? Can the gratitude for the time with a loved one be greater than the grief of losing him in the war? What gives you the strength to support people who have just escaped from the occupation, when your son is going through hell in Azovstal right now? And what is it like to welcome a child into this...

This time the gossip columnists have it wrong. London’s most elusive bachelor Anthony Bridgerton hasn’t just decided to marry—he’s even chosen a wife! The only obstacle is his intended’s older sister, Kate Sheffield—the most meddlesome woman ever to grace a London ballroom. The spirited schemer is driving Anthony mad with her determination to stop the betrothal, but when he closes his eyes at...

In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince—while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable…but not too amiable.

Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered in a ditch hours after her family awoke to find her gone. Margot Davies was six at the time, the same age as January—and they were next-door neighbors. In the twenty years since, Margot has grown up, moved away, and become a big-city journalist. But she’s always been haunted by the feeling that it...