У этой книги четыре анонимных автора. Но их — волонтеров, живущих в России, которые вывозили и продолжают вывозить мирных жителей Украины из-под бомбежек, — гораздо больше. Все эти годы, что идет война, они действуют: встречают на пропускных пунктах между Россией и Украиной, привозят в безопасные теплые квартиры, где можно выдохнуть, обеспечивают чемоданами, едой и одеждой, а потом провожают...

В один февральский день в каждом доме появляется слон. Огромный. Молчаливый. Непрошеный. Никто не знает, откуда он взялся и зачем пришел. Одни делают вид, что ничего не происходит, другие пытаются разобраться, третьи — пишут об этом в комментариях. Новый роман Саши Филипенко — о страхе и смелости, о любви и отстраненности, о людях, которые столкнулись с тем, что больше их самих, — и...

A reader designed for Russian speakers learning English. Each chapter is followed by a glossary and exercises. Reader is designed for students at the pre-intermediate level.

A boy who hates bugs starts to see them everywhere. A basketball player’s skin starts to almost drip off his hands-but no one else can see it. Three friends find a hole in the ground that just gets bigger, and bigger, and bigger... And each story is introduced by Stine himself, providing a personal touch sure to delight fans.

Alone in a giant water tank, Liam, holding a camera, watches as a twenty-foot-long hammerhead shark is about to be lowered in with him. This is not where he thought his day was going.

Todd loves his basement worm farm. Worms are fascinating creatures--it's just a convenient bonus that they happen to gross out his family. But when Todd starts to find worms in unlikely and unwanted places, like his bed, his toothbrush, and his spaghetti--the tables have turned. Now Todd is the one running scared!

On his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic amusement park ride accident in an attempt to save a little girl’s life. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by both loved ones and distant strangers.

In his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power and a remarkable lesson in what makes an...

Now, a man erased from this world has managed to break the invisible chains that bound him to another. He is free—but his former masters still hunt him.

She is a winner of the NOS and Debut awards, as well as the Andrei Bely Prize. Alla Gorbunova's prose is utterly authentic and attracts a wide range of readers, from renowned literary critics, artists, and philosophers to college and high school students. This book is no exception. Funny, sad, touching, and sometimes terrifying, yet surprisingly vivid, these stories are imbued with the light of...

The most famous ABC Book edition that is widely adopted in elementary schools and used by parents to introduce children to the Russian alphabet.