Established in 1918, as a new state the First Czechoslovak Republic was keen to project a distinct image. Participation in World Fairs offered the perfect opportunity-. In this comprehensive account of Czechoslovak participation in international exhibitions of the interwar period Marta Filipová looks beyond the sleek façade of the modernist pavilions to examine the intersections of...

Bilbo Beutlin, ein angesehener Hobbit, findet sich eines Morgens in der Gesellschaft von Gandalf, dem Zauberer, wieder – und von dreizehn Zwergen, die einer nach dem anderen unangemeldet in seine Wohnhöhle hereinplatzen. Und damit ist es mit seinem geruhsamen Leben vorbei. Gepackt von einer für Hobbits ungewöhnlichen Abenteuerlust nimmt er den Auftrag an, den Zwergenschatz, den der Drache Smaug...

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...

Best known for the anti-fascist novel The Seventh Cross and the existential thriller Transit, Anna Seghers was also a gifted writer of short fiction. The stories she wrote throughout her life reflect her political activism as well as her deep engagement with myth; they are also some of her most formally experimental work. This selection of Seghers’s best stories, written between 1925 and 1965,...

Das Tagebuch von Anne Frank ist Symbol und Dokument zugleich. Symbol für den Völkermord an den Juden durch die Nazi-Verbrecher und Dokument der Lebenswelt einer einzigartig begabten jungen Schriftstellerin.

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...

Антиутопия, которую заслуженно ставят в один ряд с такими знаковыми романами, как '451° по Фаренгейту' Рэя Брэдбери и 'О дивный новый мир' Олдоса Хаксли. Участник межзвездной экспедиции Эл Брегг возвращается на Землю через 127 лет после отлета - представьте, что сегодня очнулся человек из 80-х годов девятнадцатого века, - и попадает в прекрасный новый мир. Мир, где нет старости и болезней, нет...

Juli 1932, die Berliner Polizei steht vor einem Rätsel: Ein Mann liegt tot im Lastenaufzug von »Haus Vaterland«, dem legendären Vergnügungstempel am Potsdamer Platz, und alles deutet darauf hin, dass er dort ertrunken ist. Kommissar Gereon Rath hat schon genug Ärger. Seine Ermittlungen gegen einen mysteriösen Auftragsmörder treten seit Wochen auf der Stelle, seine große Liebe Charlotte Ritter...

Земля такая огромная, и на ней столько домов! Большие и маленькие. Красивые и уродливые. Новостройки и развалюшки. И есть ещё совсем крошечный домик Карлсона, который живёт на крыше. Карлсон уверен, что это лучший в мире домик и живёт в нём лучший в мире Карлсон. Вторая книга трилогии про Малыша и Карлсона замечательной шведской писательницы Астрид Линдгрен.

In Ordinary People Don't Carry Machine Guns, Artem Chapeye reveals his war, intimate and senseless, withholding nothing about his motivations, his nightmares, his new relationship with the world. Here one man, a pacifist turned fighter, a story writer turned soldier, a father and husband, considers the reasons for and reactions to war on a very personal level.

A gritty, realist depiction of Ukraine and the post Soviet world, this book offers an affecting yet honest look into the life of someone suffering from PTSD. It is a story of growing up without much hope for a better future, and yet intense moments of connection and kindness persist. Just when things begin to seem insurmountably dark, a friendship begins, a kind word is said, or a hand reaches...