Nicky Roth should be happy--he's finally proven that his best friend, Aaron, and Aaron's younger sister, Mya, are missing. Better yet, the police are actually doing something: they've plastered the town with missing posters, and have organized weekend search parties for the kids. But Nicky can't seem to pry his eyes from the house across the street, especially after he sees a frantic SOS...

Aaron Peterson has never had it easy. As the son of a famed and eccentric theme park designer, his life has been one move after the next as his father chases new jobs in countries around the world. Aaron has watched rides and attractions of all kinds start with a blueprint on his father's desk, and end up a towering, larger-than-life creation to marvel park-goers.

Streaker is a mixed-up kind of dog...with quite a bit of Ferrari and a large chunk of whirlwind. Streaker is no ordinary dog. She's a rocket on four legs with a woof attached, and Trevor has got until the end of the holidays to train her. If he fails, he'll lose his bet with horrible Charlie Smugg, and something very, very yucky involving frogspawn will happen.

For the first time in the last hundred years, the prose of Hryhoriy Kvitka-Osnovyanenko returns to readers as it really was. With its own rhythm and special Slobozhan dialect. Vengeful witches, the dead who celebrate Easter, enchanted treasures, a tumbleweed - a witness against a murderer... Before us appears a vivid and mystical picture of life in Ukrainian lands from Konotop to Kharkiv....

'Women's' texts by a man... Is this even possible? The unexpected and non-chronicle Franko convincingly proves that it is. Sexual slavery, prostitution and human trafficking, war and post-traumatic syndrome, the theory and practice of lies and the pickup technique, the crisis of traditional marriage and patriarchal morality, criminal crimes and investigation, mobbing and suicide - all this...

Valerian Pidmohylnyi wanted to write a novel in which the ship's master would be a woman. And he wrote 'A Little Drama' - a novel about new relationships, a new way of life, a new morality and eternal questions that arise in the unexpected surprises of the age of technological progress. Crazy irrational passion or cold rational calculation - who will emerge victorious from the duel? Is...

On February 24, 2022, Valery Zaluzhny, while giving orders, uttered the words that became a symbol of the Ukrainian resistance: ‘This country rests on our shoulders.’ An iron general, a legendary figure, Hero of Ukraine, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (2021–2024), a military leader who will be remembered by history as the man who thwarted the Russian ‘blitzkrieg’ plan and...

Odesa, where only furious storms from the sea flew in. Ukrainian cinema, fresh and bold, like a cabin boy on a tall mast. Young people who are looking for themselves and find — friendship, love, loyalty, courage. A director, an artist, a ballerina, a sailor, Odessa fishermen, port girls, a film factory director, a schooner owner. A subtle love intrigue, the spirit of romance and creative...

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card. There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives...

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...

On the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill’s death, Boris Johnson celebrates the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century. Taking on the myths and misconceptions along with the outsized reality, he portrays—with characteristic wit and passion—a man of contagious bravery, breathtaking eloquence, matchless strategizing, and deep humanity.