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...

‘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...

Eight-year-old Tim looks indecisive, but when it comes to uncovering secrets, you won't find anyone braver and more understanding than him. But his sister Jenny, although not so smart, is very brave and likes to ski. And this time it played a decisive role in the investigation.

The story of Pollyanna Whitter, an eleven-year-old orphan who goes to live with her wealthy, but stern and cold Aunt Polly. To keep her spirits high, Pollyanna centers her life on what she calls the ‘The Glad Game,’ an optimistic and positive attitude towards life she learned from her father. Pollyanna soon brings her ‘game’ to the towns grumpy inhabitants.