Year 2023 marked 120 years of the Lazarus Jewish Hospital in Lviv (Lwów/Lemberg). This richly illustrated book is a tribute to its place in the once-vibrant Jewish community of the city and in the society at large during the period 1903-1939. Visionaries from Lviv presents the hospital’s history and its fascinating architecture, its doctors, and its founder, a prominent local Jewish...

‘Trajectories of Returns’ is a collection that includes poems written from the early eighties to the present day. In addition to a large number of new poems, it also features selected texts from the author's previous books, the print runs of which have already sold out: the collection ‘Returns’, which went through two editions in Kyiv in 2002 and 2005, and the collection ‘Trajectories’, printed...

Even though the geography of where the poems have been written tends to be quite vast, ranging from New York to Moscow, Kiev, Paris, London and Prague, the author appears to be spiritually connected to a certain metropolis on the South-Western tip of Lake Michigan, which became his American home in the early 1980's, and where he always appears to find his way back, at least for the time being.

Well into his third decade as a poet Gari Light uses his mature voice in Confluences to translate multicultural images and locales… These English poems by Gari have the same energy and elegance as his Russian poems, and they are enriched by his multilayered, polyphonic use of the English language to express thoughts and feelings with sophistication and humor… These poems are like seascapes, or...

Vampire bats and killer ants? That's what Jack and Annie are about to run into when the Magic Tree House whisks them away to the Amazon River. It's not long before they get hopelessly lost. Will they be able to find their way back to the tree house? Or are Jack and Annie stuck forever in the rain forest?

The uniqueness of the method is that memorization of words and expressions occurs due to their repetition, without memorization and the need to use a dictionary. This book will help you overcome an important barrier: you will gain vocabulary and get used to the logic of the language, saving a lot of time and effort.

Gazdanov is primarily known for his novels An Evening at Claire’s, Night Roads, and The Return of the Buddha. Bunin and Gorky highly praised the novel An Evening at Claire’s. Critics particularly noted the author’s incredible sense of word and rhythm, the enchanting magic of the narrator, subtle irony, and lyrical depiction of the surrounding reality. — This collection includes two famous...

Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner's memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 1907 to 1933, his eyewitness account provides a portrait of a country in constant flux: from the rise of the First Corps, the right-wing voluntary military force set up in 1918 to suppress...

Even Minecraft villains have to retire sometime. The evil Herobrine is on the lookout for a successor, and this middle-grade activity book is his sinister interview process. Once you open its pages, you will become magically bound to Herobrine, leaving you only two options: demonstrate your Minecraft knowledge and problem-solving abilities . . . or suffer the fate of Herobrine’s previous...

Fierceteeth, a NightWing obsessed with what could have -- and should have -- been. Deathbringer, desperate to prove himself as the next great NightWing assassin. Six-Claws, a loyal SandWing, who will soon find that loyalty comes with a price. Foeslayer the NightWing, a dragon in love turned kidnapper, and Prince Arctic of the IceWings, a runaway turned captive.

Some secrets are deadly.It's no secret that Sundew wants to destroy the HiveWings. It's her life's mission to exact revenge on the tribe that tried to wipe out the LeafWings and ripped every tree from the surface of Pantala.Every tree, that is, except the wild and dangerous Poison Jungle, where the surviving LeafWings have been hiding since the war. Hiding, plotting, and waiting for a dragon...