Схватка с Убийцей Героев стала серьезным испытанием для Иды, Тодороки и Мидории. Одноклассникам пришлось довериться друг другу, чтобы остаться в живых. Травмы, полученные в сражении с Пятном, долго будут напоминать друзьям о совершенных ошибках, но жизнь продолжается. Первый год обучения в академии подходит к концу, и на носу итоговые экзамены, к которым нужно готовиться уже сейчас…

Майя Анджелу — одна из главных американских писательниц и поэтесс второй половины XX века. «Поэтому птица в неволе поет» (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) — главная книга Анджелу — повествует о ее взрослении на полном предрассудков юге США. Отданная вместе с братом на попечение бабушки, Майя с детства сталкивается с непонятными ей, ребенку, неприятием и расизмом и в восемь лет подвергается...

This book about dramatic events in science and life is also a kind of self-instruction manual, a manual on moral survival. It helps to understand that sincerity does not always serve good, and the truth can sometimes be hidden for the sake of preserving the Truth, but on the main issues one must not compromise with one's conscience, one must not defile one's 'white clothes' so far invisible...

The art of love is never a science

Lost in a new world, Lyra finds Will—a boy on the run, a murderer—a worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels.

After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, he’s officially retired. But after his mom urges him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly agrees to sign up for basketball. Tryouts are a mess, and Greg is sure he won’t make the cut. But he unexpectedly lands a spot on the worst team.

From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictator-ship. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and overflowing with symbolic...

When he decides to tag along with his brother Rodrick’s band, Löded Diper, Greg doesn’t realize what he’s getting into. But he soon learns that late nights, unpaid gigs, fighting between band members, and money troubles are all part of the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle.

This book is the memory and pain of ordinary people. The testimonies of the surviving residents of the burnt villages sound like a revelation, and the reader clearly hears their voices. The publication has been reprinted several times in Belarus and has been translated into Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, English, Hungarian, Polish, Bulgarian and other languages.

Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people, piecing together the tiniest details to know who a person is, and what they want. But it’s not a skill she takes seriously until the FBI come knocking—they’ve begun a classified program that uses exceptional teens to crack infamous cold cases, and they want her to join.