Alyosha is a first-grader, the smallest in his class. Because of his height, he's teased with the silly nickname 'Two-Portfolio.' Kysh is a funny puppy with a very strange name. They're both on probation: the boy at school, and the dog at home. They try their best, but somehow, it always turns out badly! Alyosha will disrupt school, Kysh will misbehave at home, or they'll get into trouble...

Alyosha is a first-grader, the smallest in his class. Because of his height, he's teased with the silly nickname 'Two-Portfolio.' Kysh is a funny puppy with a very strange name. They're both on probation: the boy at school, and the dog at home. They try their best, but somehow, it always turns out badly! Alyosha will disrupt school, Kysh will misbehave at home, or they'll get into trouble...

Camping is full of surprises when you're a vampire-fairy! When Isadora Moon and her family go on a camping trip to the beach, they’re just like everybody else. They roast marshmallows and build sand castles and sleep in a tent! But in a magical family, anything can happen. And when Isadora goes on a nighttime adventure, she makes an unusual friend under the sea. . . .

The open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. Cattle Kingdom reveals how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today. The tale takes us from dust-choked cattle drives to the unlikely splendors of boomtowns like Abilene, Kansas, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. We meet a diverse cast, from cowboy Teddy Blue to failed rancher and future...

Twenty years have passed since Maxim Kammerer's mission on the planet Saraksh. He now works on Earth, at COMCON-2. His latest assignment is to locate the progressor Lev Abalkin, who left Saraksh without permission but ignored the requirement to register on Earth. Kammerer's encounters with Abalkin's acquaintances uncover a secret that could cause serious harm not only to those around him, but...

The new era has posed old questions head-on—and rejected the old answers. No allowances have been made for Pushkin. Was he an imperialist? A militarist? If so, how can we love him? Was the government able to tame him, and he to influence it? Is it true that he wanted to emigrate? The convention about 'our everything' must be revisited once a generation, no less often and no less frequently....

Where are we and where is Russian literature? The answer is: here. Everything is here, close by, no matter how many years have passed and wherever we may be. 'Simply Classics!' is a book for free reading. It was written by novelist, philologist, and teacher Alexander Arkhangelsky*. Its addressee is anyone interested in learning. Myths and theater, Antiquity and the Enlightenment, poor Liza...

Ukrainian novelist and publicist Yan Valetov's novel 'The Best Age to Die' conceals, beneath the guise of a tense action film, a conversation about what awaits humanity if it doesn't come to its senses. The dynamic post-apocalyptic plot is truly intriguing, and you won't want to take a break from the characters, as something new is constantly happening to them. A terrifying virus has...

One February day, an elephant appears in every home. Enormous. Silent. Uninvited. No one knows where it came from or why it's there. Some pretend nothing is happening, others try to figure it out, and still others write about it in the comments. Sasha Filipenko's new novel is about fear and courage, about love and detachment, about people who have faced something greater than themselves and...

Will Fowler's book, ‘Kursk Bulge: 24 Decisive Hours,’ is an illustrated chronicle of the tank battle near Prokhorovka on July 12, 1943, against the backdrop of the larger Battle of Kursk. The publication includes more than 120 rare photographs and drawings documenting the failed attempt by the German II SS Panzer Corps to crush the Soviet 5th Guards Tank Army. Color maps show the combat zones,...

A reader designed for Russian speakers learning English. Each chapter is followed by a glossary and exercises. Reader is designed for students at the pre-intermediate level.