The book acquaints the reader with the history of piracy, which appeared simultaneously with shipping and sea trade and accompanied humanity at all times. The publication contains amazing facts and legends about pirates, introduces their life on the ship during long voyages. In the book you can read about the most famous sea robbers, including Henry Morgan, Blackbeard, and the fairy-tale...

Peril has been loyal to Queen Scarlet, who used her fatal firescales to kill countless dragons in the SkyWing arena. Now, Peril is loyal to Clay, the only dragonet who has ever been her friend. So when Scarlet threatens Jade Mountain Academy, Peril sets off to find her former queen, stop her, and save the day, no matter what it takes.

In the shadows, trouble is brewing. . . The mysterious NightWings keep everything hidden, from their home and their queen to their allegiance in the war. Now they've kidnapped their own dragonet of destiny, and Starflight is finally meeting the rest of his tribe -- whether he wants to or not.

The collection 'Normal History' includes articles and essays by Vladimir Sorokin, written and published in the 2010s. In non-fiction prose, the author does not change his favorite topics: food and drink as manifestations of a national character, Moscow an

'Inhabitants of the hills' - the story of captive adventurers who had to leave their sinking city and go on a long journey full of dangers. And not one of them knows where it should end. The heroes of the Adams novel have their own mythology, language, customs and lifestyle. They tell each other tales and dig underground shelters. But they are rabbits, not people turned by the author's fantasy...

'Rarely, to such an extent, in such complete equilibrium, were two hard-to-combine elements: sympathy for humanity and artistic feeling,' F.I. Tyutchev admired the Notes of the Hunter. In Notes of the Hunter, Turgenev recreates the thin, colorful material of national life: poetry and prose, light and shadows are intertwined here in unique, bizarre images, and nature turns out to be a necessary...

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...

The classic tale about the elephant Horton and being responsible. In Polish with the original English included in the back as an appendix.

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...

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 Petersburg Stories constitute Gogol's finest work, on which his fame is justly based. The plays included in this volume are 'The Government Inspector' and 'The Marriage'.

Sergei Dovlatov was born in an evacuation and died in exile. As a writer, he formed in Leningrad, but success came to him in America, where he lived since 1979. His artistic thought with apparent paradoxicality, grounded in life experience, is simple and noble: to tell how strangely people live - then sadly laughing, then ridiculously sad. There are no righteous people in his books, because...