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...

As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships—but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and...

Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project—a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia—Marie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward.

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...

In the small hours of the morning, Abi Knight is startled awake by the phone call no mother ever wants to get: her teenage daughter Olivia has fallen off a bridge. Not only is Olivia brain dead, she’s pregnant and must remain on life support to keep her baby alive. And then Abi sees the angry bruises circling Olivia’s wrists.

Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts. But she's going to have to accept it. An old man she recently met has died, leaving her his historic Tradd Street home, complete with housekeeper, dog—and a family of ghosts anxious to tell her their secrets.

Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. So when an acquaintance informs him that he would make a ‘wonderful’ husband, his first reaction is shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical...

Serhii Zhadan's book colorfully describes the ‘carnival’ period of the early nineties. People who tried to survive in that period, earning money in any way, were witnesses of the construction of a new democratic society. And their desire to work at least as a trader in the market began to gradually grow into ideas of private entrepreneurship and big business. From mud to princes - the principle...

Sir - our client, Mr Robert Ferguson, has made an enquiry concerning vampires. Since we are an engineering firm, unfortunately the matter is not one upon which we can advise. Perhaps you can help. Holmes and Watson take on their strangest case yet when a distraught husband comes to them desperate to understand his wife's weird behaviour. He's caught her sucking the blood of their baby son! But...

The reprinting of two early books by Sofiia Andrukhovych: the short story collection ‘Women of their Husbands’ and the short story ‘Old Men’ with illustrations by Elena Stelmakh is a return to the stories of unusual and at the same time ordinary women and men, more often women. These are stories about corporeality and identity, about boundaries and their absence, about love and living, fusion...

Перша поетична збірка української письменниці, документалістки та документаторки воєнних злочинів Вікторії Амеліної. Вірші з цієї книжки Вікторія почала писати на початку повномасштабного вторгнення росії на територію України, а останній — був написаний за декілька днів до її загибелі від ракетного удару по Краматорську 27 червня 2023 року. Те, що ви відчуєте, коли читатимете ці вірші, —...