Motanka is a collection of short fiction by Ukrainian writers about women's experiences of war and the incredible powers that manifest themselves in special circumstances. Fantasy, magical realism, steampunk, and even post-apocalypse; events that take place both in ancient times and in the days of modern war, in recognizable worlds or completely fantastic reality. These are twelve stories...

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.

For the sake of an ordinary human girl, he broke millennial laws and went against the gods themselves. Yar is the son of an ancient clan of the Zavyryukh, endowed with mighty power. But for eight years they have been leaving their homes to escape the inevitable hatred of people. And all because, due to a cruel curse, they lost the most important thing - love. Who will stand on the side of...

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...

Distant magical worlds and the past of Ukraine, the colonization of Mars and the gloomy Gothic of sleeping areas, and also the dangers of the space frontier, military tales of landsknechts, the secret history of Donbas and time paradoxes…This anthology is the first attempt to show a panorama of three centuries of Ukrainian fiction in all its diversity, from the classics to the younger...

The professor's heart is an encyclopedia of passions hidden behind bibliographies and notes. In ‘Doctor Seraphicus’ it pulses in unison with the explosive waves of history. It rushes to classrooms and libraries, but cannot avoid parks and fashionable cafes, cozy ravines and wild alleys. Is it difficult to come across a hipster in the 1920s? What is easier - to fall in love with such a girl...

As one of the few able to traverse the forbidding Forest, Matty must deliver the message of Village’s closing and try to convince Seer’s daughter Kira to return with him before it’s too late. But Forest is now hostile to Matty as well. Now he must risk everything to fight his way through it, armed only with an emerging power he cannot yet explain or understand.

После глобальной катастрофы на Земле, похоже, не осталось ни городов, ни машин, ни железных дорог. Девочка Кира живет в поселке, где помощь ближнему — редкость, добыть еду — удача, а смерть подстерегает любого — от болезни или от лап хищных тварей. У хромой сироты Киры мало шансов, тем более что соседи считают ее обузой и хотят убить. Но сделать это без разрешения Хранителей нельзя....

It’s been more than a year since Simon and Blue turned their anonymous online flirtation into an IRL relationship, and just a few months since Abby and Leah’s unforgettable night at senior prom. Now the Creekwood High crew are first years at different colleges, navigating friendship and romance the way their story began—on email.

История о темных силах, написанная так магнетически и искренне, словно ее автор — настоящая ведьма.— Книга, получившая восхищенные отзывы Карен М. Макманус, Кэтрин Веббер и Виктории Шваб.— Что-то происходит. Тьма стала ближе. Странные предзнаменования: мертвый кролик на подъездной дорожке, загадочная коробка и обрывки тревожных воспоминаний о матери из далекого детства… Неужели мать Айви —...

Эти парень и девушка знакомы с детства и еще могут полюбить друг друга, но им придется стать врагами…По жребию они должны участвовать в страшных "Голодных играх", где выживает только один — сильнейший.Пока в жестоком квесте остаются хотя бы какие-то участники, Китнисс и Пит могут защищать друг друга и сражаться вместе. Но рано или поздно кому-то из них придется пожертвовать жизнью ради...