The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of...

The summer camp, which the girlfriends dreamed of, became the place where they quarreled. Lucia is confused, because soon the filming of a fashionable clothing advertisement will take place, in the casting of which her friends won at the beginning of the summer. Will the girls be able to reconcile in order not to fail the filming? But will they find Bea's lost violin in the subway, without...

The friends are entering the second grade of high school. In the new academic year, they will have to become a strong team in order to win the sports competitions of their rivals - the team of the Fashionable caste. However, the girls are increasingly quarreling with each other, and Marisa is playing a sneaky game again, and no one knows what Alba's role is in this very complicated story......

They are a systematic presentation of the facts of the age-old confrontation between two borderline positions: the will on the part of our ancestors and modern Ukrainians, and slavery, which Russia has been the bearer of for more than one century in a row. The authors of the articles are significant people for modern Ukraine: doctor of legal sciences, professor Natalya Krestovska; writer,...

After a conflict with her father, young violinist Romana moves to a provincial town and starts working at a music school. Somehow, among the junk in the attic of an old house, she finds a violin, notes of an unknown melody and a letter. Who did it all belong to? Who lived here before? Now she needs to learn the secret and regain the memory of the unjustly lost, of the unusual forgotten...

The book talks about how Odessa residents ruined Putin’s long-term plans. It contains testimonies of people who, to varying degrees, determined the vector of resistance of Odessa residents to hybrid aggression. Their memories of the key events of the spring of 2014 allow us to feel the mood and atmosphere of what was happening.

In hot Africa lives Levenya, who dreams of being a musician. But Tato-lion is against it, because he believes that Levenia should become the king of beasts. And for this one must learn to growl menacingly, and not to play and sing. Will Leveniata have to give up her own dream?

2600 years ago, the slave Aesop created more than 400 fables. All this time, they were passed on from mouth to mouth, and in this way about 100 works reached us. The most recent retelling of Aesop's fables for this book was made by a real storyteller, the ‘Ukrainian nightingale’ Oleksandr Vyzhenko. He told 35 fables!

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Newt Scamander's classic compendium of magical creatures, has delighted generations of wizarding readers. With this beautiful, large-scale new edition illustrated in full color, Muggles too will have the chance to discover where the Runespoor lives, what the Puffskein eats, and why shiny objects should always be kept away from the Niffler.

Here, each inhabitant has his own profession, for example, Hrak is a famous journalist, and Bee is a real nurse. One day, the Postman began to receive strange letters, without an address or signature, and inside the envelopes there were unexpected things... The wolf did not stop searching until he solved this mystery. And then his heart was filled with joy and love, the door of which he opened...

A fantastic adventure novel with elements of historical truth describes the events of Cossack times. An ordinary village teenager, Samiylo, embarks on a dangerous journey through the Tauri steppe to the Crimea, seeking to free his younger sister, enslaved by invaders. Cossack mythology is woven into the adventures. The reader will get to know Cossack Mamai, Gryphon, Pesygolovets, Bui-Tur, Didek.