Isadora Moon loves sunshine — and nighttime. She loves her magic wand — and her black tutu. She loves spooky bats — and Pink Rabbit. Isadora is half-fairy, half-vampire, and she’s special because she is different! Now Isadora’s parents want her to start school, but she’s not sure where she belongs — fairy school or vampire school?

Camping is full of surprises when you're a vampire-fairy! When Isadora Moon and her family go on a camping trip to the beach, they’re just like everybody else. They roast marshmallows and build sand castles and sleep in a tent! But in a magical family, anything can happen. And when Isadora goes on a nighttime adventure, she makes an unusual friend under the sea. . . .

The open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. Cattle Kingdom reveals how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today. The tale takes us from dust-choked cattle drives to the unlikely splendors of boomtowns like Abilene, Kansas, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. We meet a diverse cast, from cowboy Teddy Blue to failed rancher and future...

Twenty years have passed since Maxim Kammerer's mission on the planet Saraksh. He now works on Earth, at COMCON-2. His latest assignment is to locate the progressor Lev Abalkin, who left Saraksh without permission but ignored the requirement to register on Earth. Kammerer's encounters with Abalkin's acquaintances uncover a secret that could cause serious harm not only to those around him, but...

This book has four anonymous authors. But there are many more—volunteers living in Russia who have evacuated and continue to evacuate Ukrainian civilians from the bombings. Throughout the years of war, they have been active: they meet them at checkpoints between Russia and Ukraine, bring them to safe, warm apartments where they can breathe a sigh of relief, provide them with suitcases, food,...

Ukrainian novelist and publicist Yan Valetov's novel 'The Best Age to Die' conceals, beneath the guise of a tense action film, a conversation about what awaits humanity if it doesn't come to its senses. The dynamic post-apocalyptic plot is truly intriguing, and you won't want to take a break from the characters, as something new is constantly happening to them. A terrifying virus has...

One February day, an elephant appears in every home. Enormous. Silent. Uninvited. No one knows where it came from or why it's there. Some pretend nothing is happening, others try to figure it out, and still others write about it in the comments. Sasha Filipenko's new novel is about fear and courage, about love and detachment, about people who have faced something greater than themselves and...

A reader designed for Russian speakers learning English. Each chapter is followed by a glossary and exercises. Reader is designed for students at the pre-intermediate level.

No one ever said life was easy. But Ponyboy is pretty sure that he's got things figured out. He knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his friends—true friends who would do anything for him, like Johnny and Two-Bit. But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up on...

A boy who hates bugs starts to see them everywhere. A basketball player’s skin starts to almost drip off his hands-but no one else can see it. Three friends find a hole in the ground that just gets bigger, and bigger, and bigger... And each story is introduced by Stine himself, providing a personal touch sure to delight fans.

Alone in a giant water tank, Liam, holding a camera, watches as a twenty-foot-long hammerhead shark is about to be lowered in with him. This is not where he thought his day was going.