It tells the story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who as a mid-teenager in 1958 had an affair with an older woman, Hanna Schmitz, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp. Michael realizes that Hanna is keeping a personal secret she believes is worse than her Nazi past—a...

When people learned to use fire, it changed their lives. Later they invented gunpowder, Greek fire, explosives and firearms. Gunsmiths experimented, alchemists and chemists combined various elements and obtained unexpected reactions and explosive mixtures. And now we have combat poisons and nuclear weapons, an eternal source of energy, which at the same time can cause man-made disasters and...

Moscow, 2028. A scream, a moan, and a death rattle slowly pull Andrei Danilovich Komiaga out of his drunken stupor. But wait, that's just his ring tone. So begins another day in the life of an oprichnik, one of the czar's most trusted courtiers, and one of the country's most feared men.

The sugary, white Kremlin is the heart of Russia in the 2020s, which survived the Red, Gray and White Troubles, closed off from the outside world and plunged into sleep. its refined copy, but in fact it does not belong to anyone. Fifteen short stories from the collection 'Sugar Kremlin', written as if in completely different ways and about different things, add up to a picture of a ghostly,...

'War Alphabet' is one of the stories of the Russian-Ukrainian war. She started writing back in 2015, when Yevhen Stepanenko was fighting in the East of Ukraine as part of a medic unit, and his daughter Solya was waiting for her dad from the front in peaceful Kyiv. This is an honest and touching conversation about war and life for everyone: both children and adults.

'Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?' Dozens of children respond to this peculiar newspaper ad and are then put through a series of mind-bending tests, which readers take along with them. Only four children-two boys and two girls-succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and inventive children could complete. To accomplish it, they...

Under the alias GirlOnline, Penny blogs her hidden feelings about friendship, boys, high school drama, her crazy family, and the panic attacks that have begun to take over her life. When things go from bad to worse, her family whisks her away to New York, where she meets Noah, a gorgeous, guitar-strumming American. Suddenly Penny is falling in love - and capturing every moment of it on her blog.

n lore as he confronts a shadow from his past. While others towns celebrate Halloween, in Eerie-on-Sea it’s Ghastly Night, and a grim spirit in a lantern awaits its moment. Legend has it that if people fail to light manglewick candles on Ghastly Night, and if no showman conjures shadow puppets on the pier as an offering, the insulted Shadowghast will seize and devour the shadows of the living....

This book is dedicated to the Trojan prophetess Cassandra. Lesya Ukrainka was interested in the fortuneteller's personality, her psychology. Cassandra has the feelings of an ordinary person: she doubts and hesitates, seeks to find the truth, suffers and submits to her fate.

The incomparable Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913) wrote her masterpiece, the drama-extravaganza 'Forest Song' in distant lands, when she missed her homeland very much. And to my dear Kolodyazhnyi, where 'on a moonlit night I ran alone into the forest and waited there for Mavka to appear to me. I was fascinated by this image for the rest of my life.' It is evident that this longing inspired the...

Thanks to this cardboard box, your little one will be able to travel far, far - even to the jungle and savannah. And find out who lives there and what these colorful animals are called not only in Ukrainian, but also in English. And Olena Zabara, who sewed a giraffe, a lion, a crocodile and other animals from felt, the photos of which illustrate the book, is a creative mother who loves books...