A woman and her ‘relationship’ with the world is the main theme of Olga Kobylyanska’s prose. Is it good to get married happily or to neglect personal happiness for the sake of art? This is the point at which the search is focused in the story ‘Behind Situations’ and the short story ‘Ideas’. A fatal coincidence of circumstances, mystical signs and hypnosis sessions are intertwined with...

The professor's heart is an encyclopedia of passions hidden behind bibliographies and notes. In ‘Doctor Seraphicus’ it pulses in unison with the explosive waves of history. It rushes to classrooms and libraries, but cannot avoid parks and fashionable cafes, cozy ravines and wild alleys. Is it difficult to come across a hipster in the 1920s? What is easier - to fall in love with such a girl...

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.

It’s been more than a year since Simon and Blue turned their anonymous online flirtation into an IRL relationship, and just a few months since Abby and Leah’s unforgettable night at senior prom. Now the Creekwood High crew are first years at different colleges, navigating friendship and romance the way their story began—on email.

On the way home from a party, seventeen-year-old Ivy and her soon-to-be ex nearly run over a nude young woman standing in the middle of a tree-lined road. It’s only the first in a string of increasingly eerie events and offerings: a dead rabbit in the driveway, a bizarre concoction buried by her mother in the backyard, a box of childhood keepsakes hidden in her parents’ closet safe. Most...

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a...

There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. Though she's long been a part of the revolution, Katniss hasn't known it. Now it seems that everyone has had a hand in the carefully laid plans but her. The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss's willingness to be a pawn, to accept...

When one of Serilda's outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a grim world where ghouls and phantoms prowl the earth and hollow-eyed ravens track her every move. The king orders Serilda to complete the impossible task of spinning straw into gold, or be killed for telling falsehoods. In her desperation, Serilda...

Well into his third decade as a poet Gari Light uses his mature voice in Confluences to translate multicultural images and locales… These English poems by Gari have the same energy and elegance as his Russian poems, and they are enriched by his multilayered, polyphonic use of the English language to express thoughts and feelings with sophistication and humor… These poems are like seascapes, or...

Even though the geography of where the poems have been written tends to be quite vast, ranging from New York to Moscow, Kiev, Paris, London and Prague, the author appears to be spiritually connected to a certain metropolis on the South-Western tip of Lake Michigan, which became his American home in the early 1980's, and where he always appears to find his way back, at least for the time being.

‘Trajectories of Returns’ is a collection that includes poems written from the early eighties to the present day. In addition to a large number of new poems, it also features selected texts from the author's previous books, the print runs of which have already sold out: the collection ‘Returns’, which went through two editions in Kyiv in 2002 and 2005, and the collection ‘Trajectories’, printed...

Lily Karsten ist Tochter einer der erfolgreichsten Reederfamilien Hamburgs. Sie lebt in einer Villa an der Bellevue und träumt von der Schriftstellerei. Und sie glaubt, dass sie ihren Verlobten Henry liebt.