Джени Кроуфорд была уготована традиционная судьба чернокожей женщины: не ропщи, не высовывайся, во всем повинуйся белым и мужу. Не жди, что твоя жизнь будет чем-то отличаться от тех, что прожили твоя бабушка, мать и еще сотни тысяч других цветных. Жени полюбила и раскрылась, как большой белый...

Пронзительная и светлая история о семейных секретах, поиске себя, женской силе, любви и умении прощать. Лили Оуэнс сидит в придорожной палатке и продает персики, которые выращивает ее отец. Жарко. На дороге совсем нет машин, Лили умирает от скуки, но знает, что читать нельзя ─ отец отнимает у нее книги. Мама Лили погибла у нее на глазах десять лет назад: очередная семейная ссора, пистолет и...

Самы першы раман пісьменніка — «Былы сын» — расказвае пра юнака, які пацярпеў у страшнай цісканіне на Нямізе і 10 гадоў праляжаў у коме. Ім апекавалася бабуля, якая, у сваю чаргу, старалася бачыць свет вачыма ўнука, каб усё яму распавесці, калі той ачуняе. Яна расказвае, а чытач узгадвае тое, што беларусы перажылі за гэты час: усё адно як цэлая краіна праляжала ў коме, бо не было нейкага...

Рамана распачынаецца падзеямі 23 чэрвеня 1941 года, калі наступ нямецкай арміі запускае ў СССР чарговую хвалю барацьбы са шпіёнамі. Твор паглыбляе чытача ў атмасферу 1930-х гадоў і грунтуецца на матэрыялах следчай справы першага дырэктара Маскоўскага крэматорыя Пятра Ільіча Несцярэнкі, праз паказанні і дзённікі якога можна прасачыць лёс чалавека на фоне знакавых падзей першай паловы ХХ...

Ein Klassiker der 1930er-Jahre-Literatur, neu entdeckt: das Schicksal einer klugen und ehrgeizigen Frau als Bankangestellte in der Weltwirtschaftskrise

War is powerless before love. It appears in spite of everything and gives strength for sake. Then you can survive anything: capture, injury, hundreds of kilometers of distance, sleepless nights. Age, gender, fear become just words that have no meaning. And even when love multiplied by two has to be carried through life alone together with the pain of loss, it does not disappear.

Is there a place for love and compassion in the basements of Mariupol destroyed by the Russians? Can the gratitude for the time with a loved one be greater than the grief of losing him in the war? What gives you the strength to support people who have just escaped from the occupation, when your son is going through hell in Azovstal right now? And what is it like to welcome a child into this...

This time the gossip columnists have it wrong. London’s most elusive bachelor Anthony Bridgerton hasn’t just decided to marry—he’s even chosen a wife! The only obstacle is his intended’s older sister, Kate Sheffield—the most meddlesome woman ever to grace a London ballroom. The spirited schemer is driving Anthony mad with her determination to stop the betrothal, but when he closes his eyes at...

In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince—while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable…but not too amiable.

Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered in a ditch hours after her family awoke to find her gone. Margot Davies was six at the time, the same age as January—and they were next-door neighbors. In the twenty years since, Margot has grown up, moved away, and become a big-city journalist. But she’s always been haunted by the feeling that it...

The cozy Valyn world was destroyed by the war. She temporarily lives in Italy, but it is not easy for her to get used to a new life in the hospitable southern lands. Brothers David and Vlad feel the same way. Teenagers together sort humanitarian aid for Ukraine, get to know the world around them, test themselves and its strength... And all the time they think about DIM, parents, native...

When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow ‘delinquent’ Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only...