Jack and Annie don't need another mummy. But that's what they get when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to ancient Egypt. There they meet a long-dead queen who needs their help. Will Jack and Annie be able to solve the puzzle, or will they end up as mummies themselves?

The book is dedicated to the most mysterious city connecting Europe and Asia — Istanbul. The heir of ancient Byzantium, the city became the successor of the great Constantinople — the capital of the largest Orthodox empire of the Middle Ages, turning into the center of the Ottoman Empire and an attraction for Muslims from all over the world. The everyday life of Istanbul in its brilliant era,...

Collection of humorous short stories.

Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the...

'Goodbye To Berlin' is the original story of the chanteuse heroine Sally Bowles. Isherwood ironically captures life in Weimar Berlin, a city infamous for its flourishing demimonde and violent politics.

Georgy Urushadze, publisher: — ‘Springfield’ can under no circumstances be published in modern Russia, and not only because of the ‘wrong’ orientation of the main character. I found this novel via a link on Facebook. With the words ‘this is stronger than ‘Edichka’’ I sent it to my friends. Writers are offended by comparisons with others, so I will say this: this is a novel of a generation. A...

This book was conceived by the author as a textbook, but as he worked on it, it turned into a confession of a man who invested his life in a lost, but no less interesting, matter — the study of Russian culture. A sick product of a sick system, Russian culture is doomed to perish along with the system. Russian civilization, according to Dmitry Bykov, can still function for some time —...

Alexander Rodnyansky analyzes the cultural and social life of Russia in the 2000s and early 2020s using nine films he produced as examples. Cinema, Rodnyansky believes, reflects changing moods in society better than any social surveys. In this book, he recalls his professional path — from Fyodor Bondarchuk’s 'The 9th Company' to Vladimir Bitokov’s 'Mom, I’m Home' — to understand how, against...

The author explores the transformation of public consciousness in times of crisis, touching on the themes of Russian and Ukrainian identity, collective guilt and responsibility, as well as the role of civilizations, empires and revolutions in the modern context. Pastukhov offers a new format of political and philosophical reflection adapted to the realities of the information age.

‘Vilnius Poker’ by Ricardas Gavelis (1950-2002) is a striking example of Lithuanian postmodernism. The novel was published in 1989 and has since been reprinted and translated into other languages many times. It became the basis for a performance and an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Vilnius. This is the first time the book has been published in Russian. The translation has been...

The endless Russian flight brings the first wave of emigrants to the Balkans. They have only a couple of decades of peaceful life between two catastrophes — from the Civil War to the Second World War. Each turn of the novel puts the heroes — musicians, writers, journalists — before a classic collision of the 20th century: how to remain human in the millstones of history. And each of them...