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!

Meet Miechka and Lilichka, two sisters. They are restless and anxious, and life approaches a certain crossroads of responsible choices. The girls decide to take a break from family problems and spend the summer at Grandma Teodora's house, where they spent their childhood. Over time, the women's commune, away from the noise and worries of the city, is replenished with other heroes. People from...

In Cecil the Lion Had to Die, Olena Stiazhkina follows these families through radical transformations when the Soviet Union unexpectedly implodes, independent Ukraine emerges, and neoimperial Russia occupies Ukraine’s Crimea and parts of the Donbas. Just as Stiazhkina’s decision to transition to writing in Ukrainian as part of her civic stance—performed in this book that begins in Russian...

Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. Everyone is the same. Except Jonas.

Left orphaned and physically flawed in a civilization that shuns and discards the weak, Kira faces a frighteningly uncertain future. Her neighbors are hostile, and no one but a small boy offers to help. When she is summoned to judgment by The Council of Guardians, Kira prepares to fight for her life. But the Council, to her surprise, has plans for her. Blessed with an almost magical talent that...

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...

Chernobyl, nuclear power, the exclusion zone... All this is not the scenery of a computer game, but the usual reality in which we live every day. With the consequences of the accident that happened more than 30 years ago, and the nuclear power plants that power our homes. In this book you will not find a detailed analysis of the events that happened on April 26, 1986, or the stories of the...

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.

The novel ‘Ailment’ shows the life of the Kyiv intelligentsia and artistic circles of the 1920s. The main character of the novel is the director of the plant Ivan Orlovets. His life is perfectly ordered and rational: work, home, family, and ahead is the systematic construction of a ‘bright post-revolutionary future.’ However, despite the apparent stability and systematicity, this construction...