Who is this lonely brat imprisoned on an artificial satellite high in Earth orbit? Only Bezbatchenko Kress, a "shell" without a family, who has been kept under a lock for many years by the insidious thaumaturgist Sybil. Cress's task is...

Patrick lives in a big house with his mother and father, but the person most attached to him is the housekeeper Yvette. The boy lives in his own world of imaginary games and children's fears, but his father's only punishment...

The most fearless of all female assassins, Adarlen is only eighteen. Selena is an outstanding assassin, able to survive in the salt mines, where she toiled hard, and try to escape from a place from which no one has yet...

When the opinion of others matters too much, the pursuit of fame changes your life forever. A scandalously famous artist in the past, today he is a seller of diet pills. How did it happen? He doesn't remember. And why...

Two men must kill a third. This is Operation Anthropoid: two Czechoslovak saboteurs sent from London are tasked with killing Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Gestapo, head of the Nazi secret services, "the most dangerous man in the Third Reich",...

Sixteen-year-old Al lives the life of an ordinary American teenager. He doesn't stand out at school, and after school he hangs out with a friend or works part-time in a movie theater. He falls in love without reciprocity with unattainable...

King's stepdaughter, bastard duchess, princess's human, queen's blade—she has many nicknames, but is even one of them true? Malkia Denmire is a duchess by birth and the queen's blade by title. She feels like a white crow in the Elmessar...

Makivka became not only a queen, but also a god, but this does not make her happy at all. Can she feel happy when Castiel, her kindred heart, is a prisoner of the Blood Queen? The girl is willing to...

Ivan Drach (1936-2018) is a recognized leader of the sixties, who, with the inspiration of a juggler, twisted into one poetic orbit the golden bulb, and the theory of relativity, and synchrofazotrons wailing like lions, and washed pants, and the...

Liz is forced to move to the capital. She hopes better. However, the first meeting with the new neighbor is rotating failure. A daring neighbour, having a nourishing nature, is not prepared to peace with a new halling neighbor. But...

Eva is the second book of the spy trilogy of the popular Spanish writer Arthuro Peresa Reverte. In the center of the plot, Falco's desperate and honest agent working on the Spanish dictator Franco. The main character's task is to...

In O. Henry's short stories, the element of theatricality is very important, which is undoubtedly connected with the author's own fatalism, faith in Chance or Fate. Freeing his characters from "global" thoughts and decisions, O. Henry never turns them away...

Alicia Berenson's life is perfect. A successful artist and a happy wife, she lives in a large house in the best part of London. Until one evening she puts five bullets in her husband's face. No explanation, no excuse -...

Meet The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes! - the best youth dystopia, a bestseller that sold millions of copies worldwide. This is the new creation of one of the most influential people in the world, according to the Times, Suzanne...

Detective Hercule Poirot receives a letter from a potential client. A wealthy lady - Miss Arundell - writes that she suspects her relatives of trying to kill her: she is currently recovering from a fall down the stairs. According to...

For collectors of the A. Christie series "Legendary Poirot" • For the first time in Ukrainian Norma Restarik is convinced that she killed a man. However, she cannot recall the victim's name, the murder weapon, or the crime scene. Feeling...

The book "Spanish Romance" is the debut novel of Elena Armas, which conquered readers all over the world and became a Tiktok sensation. Connoisseurs of the "from enemies to lovers" trope, get ready: the next wish is ahead of you!...

Rupi Kaur invites you to a deep and frank journey through the past, present and future. "body, my home" is a collection of sincere and honest conversations with myself that remind us of the importance of love, acceptance, sisterhood and...

On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests are gathering to celebrate a wedding. The groom is attractive and charismatic, the star of a popular TV show. The bride is smart and ambitious, the owner of a successful business....

Seeley and Nettie are sisters. Their life in Georgia is not easy - the mother dies, and the stepfather, whom 14-year-old Seely believes to be her own father, commits violence against her and marries her. Seely is unhappy in her...

What is time, if not a whale that swallows everything, equating geniuses and losers, noble virtues and political criminals in its bottomless belly. How many human lives of ordinary Ukrainians became that swallowed plankton. It is impossible to retrieve them...

"Under the Glass Cap" is the only novel by the American writer Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), known primarily as a poet. The novel, largely autobiographical, describes the experience of a young woman trying to overcome major depressive disorder (as experts retrospectively...

Charlie Gordon is mentally retarded, but he has friends, a job, hobbies and an irresistible desire to learn. He agrees to take part in a dangerous scientific experiment that could make him the smartest… What price do we have to...

1960s, Mississippi, USA. Aibileen worked all her life as a servant for white people, raised seventeen of their children, but lost her only son. Minnie is a restless and unrestrained woman with whom you should not argue. Due to her...