Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is 77 years old and crazy, standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus crazy. She is also Elsa's best and only friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal.

Фредрик Бакман определяет жанр этой книги как «расширенный блог» — она действительно напоминает онлайн-дневник или серию постов в ЖЖ. Обращаясь к своему маленькому сыну, автор рассуждает о самых разных предметах — от футбола до «Икеи», от компьютерных игр до категорий добра и зла. И попутно делится первым, порой комичным, опытом отцовства — с той уникальной чисто бакмановской смесью иронии и...

История противостояния сборных команд Канады и СССР в 1972 году остаётся навечно вписанной в золотые страницы хоккейных летописей. Это эпическое противоборство, известное как «Суперсерия» привлекло внимание миллионов болельщиков по всему миру. Спортивный мир был потрясён великолепным мастерством советских игроков искоростью их передвижений на льду.Советским хоккеистам удалось выиграть первую...

The story of ants and people becomes even more complicated. The young ant queen Shli-pu-ni, who has just ascended to the throne, dreams of taking revenge on the fingers — that’s what the ants call people — for the murder of her mother. Meanwhile, outside the anthill, one after another, the chemists who were developing a poison against the ants are dying.

Мария Данилова — финалист премии имени Крапивина.— «Двадцать шестой» — теплый и ностальгический роман о взрослении в эпоху перестройки.— Это книга о тех, кто успел побывать октябрятами, но уже не должен был обязательно вступать в пионеры, история о пробуждении, надеже, преодолении и обретении свободы.— Первые иномарки, кооперативные кафе, гласность, талоны, перестройка, вкладыши от...

From this book we learn what science is and what scientists do, about the most important discoveries in the field of natural sciences. With the help of this book, young readers will be able, like real scientists, to conduct experiments and draw conclusions on their own. The text is complemented by magnificent illustrations and diagrams.

Bridget Jones’s Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of Bridget’s permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement—a year in which she resolves to: visit the gym three times a week, not just to buy a sandwich, form a relationship with a functional adult, and learn to work the television remote.

Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened before her very own eyes--or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community...

In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true...

Jackson and his family have fallen on hard times. There's no more money for rent. And not much for food, either. His parents, his little sister, and their dog may have to live in their minivan. Again. Crenshaw is a cat. He's large, he's outspoken, and he's imaginary. He has come back into Jackson's life to help him. But is an imaginary friend enough to save this family from losing everything?

Давным-давно даирны - те, кого часто путали с собаками, стаями пересекали равнины Недарры, но теперь их осталось всего-навсего четыре семьи... Днем они тихо сидят в пещерах - прячутся от людей, самых непредсказуемых хищников.Бикс появилась на свет после семерых братьев и сестер. Будучи младше и мельче всех, она всегда последняя ела, последняя пила. Теперь, когда люди все-таки выследили ее...

Three …two…one…BLAST OFF! The Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie off to the moon—and the future. Their mission? To find the last M thing that will free Morgan from the spell. Can they do it before the air in their oxygen tank runs out? Will the mysterious moon man help them? And why is Peanut the mouse acting so strange?_x000D_