She vanished eleven years ago. Every year, on her daughter’s birthday, her mother received a letter: ‘You will never see each other again.’ For eleven years, few people believed she was still alive. And now, she has returned. Maxime Monceau—a gendarme by profession, a synergologist and non-verbal communication specialist by training, and, by birthright, a former member of a sect he loathes...

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must...

Атмосферная драма о возвращении героини в сердце Карелии, где время течет медленнее, чем в других местах, а граница между прошлым, настоящим и будущим размывается.

The book is rooted in the Orthodox legend of ‘Zoya’s Standing’ in Kuibyshev; in the author’s own words, it is a philosophical novel about modern man’s rejection of the miraculous. In the provincial backwater of Grechansk, the impossible occurs. A young woman named Tatiana gathers her friends for a dance party; finding herself without a partner, she invites... Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker...

This book represents yet another attempt to unravel the phenomenon known as the Russian banya. Alongside historical and practical sections—which allow readers to trace the traditions of banya culture, or to independently build a banya, construct a stove, install a plunge pool, and prepare and administer wellness treatments—this volume offers a unique perspective on the banya experience,...