The last of London's books published during his lifetime, it involves a love triangle set in California. The main character, Paula, is married to Dick Forrest but falls in love with Evan Graham. The story's sexuality bothered readers at the time but their actions appear rather unrealistic based on modern day standards.

Andrii Kurkov's book 'War Diary 2' is a collection of essays written in the period from August 2022 to the end of October 2023 and arranged chronologically. The events that took place in Ukraine and the world in those days prompted the writer to consider them and, passing through the prism of personal vision, present them to the readers.

The adventures of New Alice - an 11-year-old modern Russian girl Marusya Mendeleeva - in the underwater empire of Tsar-Dna. Funny! Creepy! Nice and cool. Marusya's first love. Decline of the underwater empire. Extraordinary passions and villainy of adults. There are many native Russian motifs (Saltykov-Shchedrin is resting). Who is Pink Mouse? It's a big secret. A book for adults!

Private detective Taras Bily is ordered to investigate the murder of a young lady. They accuse a certain seminarian Homa Brutus, and the case seems to be clear... However, the village where the murder took place hides a secret. And this secret is scarier than all the stories about the young lady who rose from the grave.

No need to get up early and do homework every day! Amy, Flora, Fau and Franek go to the village of Frog Horn to see Amy's grandmother. Summer in a house by the river is wonderful: you can have fun in the garden, walk among blueberries, build a smokehouse and go horseback riding. But there are no holidays in the Secret Club of Supergirls! After all, books are disappearing somewhere from the...

Judy Moody is in it to win it. Win the Book Quiz Blowout, that is. Judy and her brother, Stink, are two-fifths of the Virginia Dare Bookworms, and they’ve been reading up a storm to prepare for Saturday’s face-off against second- and third-grade readers from the next town. Judy’s trying out all kinds of tactics, from hanging upside down like Pippi Longstocking to teaching herself to speed read...

All of us are anxious, Volodymyr Stanchyshyn convinces. This feeling accompanies us throughout our lives and performs important functions: it warns of danger and mobilizes a person to act in the event of a threat. Everyone's level of anxiety is different. This is due to genetics, stressful situations from childhood, injuries and self-esteem. How anxious each person is is made up of a cluster...

‘Beyond Pain’ is an autobiographical novel by Osip Turyanskyi, in which he depicted the terrible experience of captivity during the First World War. Sixty thousand Austrian prisoners ended up in the hands of the Serbs, and they, retreating to the west, chased them by stage through the mountains into Albania. In the end, forty-five thousand prisoners died from cold and disease.

‘Ship Master’ is a real story with real prototypes. In the plot, you can recognize the artistic bohemians of that time: director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, director of Odesa and Kyiv film factories Pavlo Neches, artist, architect, one of the founders of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts, Vasyl Krychevskyi. This is the story of creativity, love, the stormy era of the emergence of cinema and life in Odessa...

Killed by shrapnel as he served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Olesya Khromeychuk’s brother Volodymyr died on the frontline in eastern Ukraine. As Olesya tries to come to terms with losing her brother, she also tries to process the Russian invasion of Ukraine: as an immigrant living far from the frontline, as a historian of war and how societies respond to them, and as a woman, a civilian, and...

‘After the 24th’ is a collection of short stories and rhythmic prose about the war, a record of what we have experienced and are experiencing now. About those who are ready to die for freedom and those who are ready to survive at any cost, about lovers and lovers, about losses so bitter that you want to howl in pain, and about laughter that keeps you healthy.

Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy's life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by the gods. But the choice...