Summer Preston is an excellent student with ambitious plans. She dreams of becoming a sports psychologist and applying for postgraduate studies. To do this, she needs to make hockey her research topic. Summer hates the game, but her academic advisor gives her an ultimatum: either she overcomes her prejudice or she loses her place in the postgraduate programme. Meanwhile, a reckless mistake by the captain of the hockey team, Aiden Crawford, puts the entire season in jeopardy. ...
I used to clean other people's houses - now I can't believe I have my own. A quiet lane, a huge yard for children to play in, a cosy kitchen. My husband and I have been saving for years to provide our children with a decent life. Our new neighbour, Mrs Lovell, invites us to dinner - a chance to make friends here. Her maid, wearing a white apron and her hair in a tight bun, answers the door. I know exactly how it feels to be in her shoes. But her cold gaze makes my ski...
Jessica Davis is a data and statistics wizard who is raising her daughter on her own and is used to relying on herself. She doesn't believe in romantic relationships and doesn't like chaotic dates, although sometimes she feels lonely and difficult. One day, Jess learns about GeneticAlly, a new DNA-based matchmaking company. Finding a soul mate through a scientific approach? The power of numbers is a method Jess understands. At least that's what she thinks until he...
A year and a half of waiting for the medicine in a quarantined school... First, the teachers die one by one, and then something starts happening to the students: under the influence of the toxin, the girls' bodies become strange and alien. Three best friends are cut off from the rest of the world on an island. Behind the fence is a wild and dangerous forest. And recently, one of them has been wandering there... The book Wild Girls is a body horror by American writer Rory ...
This is a story about being yourself and loving yourself for who you are. After all, everyone is unique. Everyone has special and unique qualities that make our world a diverse and beautiful place. So we hope that this book will show you how important it is to accept your own spots, no matter what they are. And when Giraffe is ready for bed, she tries to have a really good night. And the main thing is to give her little wrinkled head a rest.
Ordinary Kyiv schoolchildren, Zhenya Kysil and Vitaliy Doroshenko, take on a new business. And how could it be otherwise when not only food but also people disappear in the cellar of their grandmother Sekleta. So, the boys set off in search of the housekeeper hiding underground. They are not deterred by the spooky adventures in the cemetery, the elusive Madame Discount, or the formidable deaf and dumb seller of fate. The daredevils brilliantly solve all the mysteries and even...
A funny and touching story about a family that moves into a house where an invisible tiger lives. He swings on the chandelier, lies in the bathtub, and sunbathes on the balcony. And once he even showed up at school! But only the boy can see the tiger. Changes in life are sometimes accompanied by a sense of anxiety. Whether it's a move, a new school, or a new family member. Children can't always understand their feelings, and their imagination creates invisible creatur...
Discover the stories of 18 amazing girls who made their dreams come true and, thanks to their talent, strength and resilience, left an unforgettable mark on history by becoming great women. The book Amazing Girls Who Changed the World is a non-fiction book for children and teenagers by the Italian author Troiano Rosalba and a team of five artists. The illustrated collection of biographies introduces readers to women who have left a lasting mark on history with their talent, h...
Hi, I'm JIMMY and I live in a completely incomprehensible ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE! Everyone in town is mooing and drooling everywhere! And it turns out that finding a cure to turn all the zombie cows back into adults isn't as easy as I thought. But my friends and I are not losing hope! After all, we are sure that my dog Bear and his very special saliva are the key to solving this whole mess...
When everyone she loved was taken from Selena Sardotin, she had no choice but to travel back to the evil empire and take revenge on the shadows of her past for the sake of her people and her lost home. She has finally accepted herself as she is - she is Aelina Galatinia, Queen of Terrasen. And she is still capable of taking her throne if she does not give up without a fight. As luck would have it, familiar and new faces appear one after another on this difficult path, so she ...
Kinch owes the Guild of Thieves a fortune - his thieving education, which consisted of picking locks, knife fighting, climbing walls, weaving lies, setting traps, and a little bit of magic, proved to be very expensive. In order to get the money and repay the debt, Kinch sets off on a long journey in the hope of robbing a lone traveller. But the unlucky robber chose the wrong victim. Galva is a warrior who survived the brutal Goblin Wars, a servant of the goddess of death. Eve...
Humanism is based on cultural dynamics and moral responsibility. For centuries, this worldview has inspired people to make their choices based on the principles of free thinking, intellectual inquiry, compassion and optimism. What unites all the facets of humanism? Why does it have an enduring power against fanatics, mystics and tyrants? In answering these questions, Sarah Bakewell calls for a rethinking of history, for caring for each other, and reminds us that we are all hu...
What if a date is not a chance to please someone or find a partner, but a thoughtful way to get to know yourself fully, to reveal different facets of your personality? To find out what satisfies, pleases, excites you, revives your interest in another person? Why do you go on a second date with a man in whose presence you feel uncomfortable, embarrassed to eat French fries and laugh out loud? In this guide, the author uses her own example to teach girls to be the main characte...
Every day we are involved in about 20 areas of activity. Every 10.5 minutes we lose focus on our current work. Most often, we develop a reflex to interrupt ourselves. And this is disappointing news, because the brain takes about 25 minutes to activate cognitive processes to complete an interrupted task. The good news is that we can regain the lost psychological balance to focus on the really important goals. This book will help you understand the difference between multitaski...
With great power comes great damnation! A parody bandeau about American superheroes by European authors! In order to write the script for this comic, Sed watched all the Marvel movies seven times and claimed the cinema tickets as business expenses. He is currently wanted for film theft. Stevo, an artist and colourist, decided to create this comic in one sitting, instead of scratching a little bit day by day. As a result, after 76 sleepless days of drawing colourful costumes...
Jamie Streicher is a hockey goalkeeper with a difficult personality. Pippa Hartley had a crush on him in high school and now helps him with his household chores. It would seem that working as an assistant to an NHL player is not so difficult, even though she once had great musical ambitions and ended her career because of a broken heart. The arrogant hockey player doesn't seem to remember the girl from school, so maintaining a professional relationship will be easy. But n...
This time, Ernest Cunningham finds himself aboard the luxurious train Gun, which crosses the Australian desert from Darwin to Adelaide. After the publication of the novel, he was invited to become the guest of honour at a discussion of mystery writers. Ernest and his girlfriend Juliette board the train and find themselves among the creative elite. Suddenly, a murder occurs. Instantly, everyone becomes a suspect. Ernest is one of them. "Seven writers get on a train. At the end...
1919, Ekaterinoslav region. Former exile policeman Platon Chechel serves in Petliur's intelligence. Performing a secret mission in the deep enemy rear, Plato finds himself trapped and miraculously escapes from the whites. But? falls into the hands of the Reds ... Now he is one step closer to execution. The young and noble Daryna Ilnytska is in captivity with him. It's scary to think what threatens her. Therefore, Chechel makes a desperate attempt to save himself and t...
Summer 1911. Former Kyiv investigator and now exile Platon Chechel performs a delicate assignment in Poltava. But he is detained in the city by another story, not criminal, but mystical. Something strange is happening in the region. The weather is deteriorating, cattle are dying en masse, and a young local landlady is accused of witchery. Behind all this are old foreign family sins, bloody retribution for them is inevitable. What devils are hiding in a swampy corner of Poltav...
A young woman named Deborah Samson dares to determine her own destiny during the American War of Independence. As a girl, Deborah was forced to become a servant. And since then, she has longed for a life of freedom and adventure. When the American colonists begin their fight for independence, Deborah joins the Continental Army and soon finds herself face to face with the horrors of war. As she fights for the freedom of her country, she must also fight to keep her own secret. ...
Jack has a dream - to see Africa and its big five animals. Ma-Ma Gombe has fulfilled many of her dreams in her long life, but not her most cherished one: to find her way to the cradle of the world that her father told her about. One day, their paths will cross, and Ma-Ma Gombe will help Jack discover Africa. However, on this journey, he will find much more - his big five for life, meet a true friend and mentor who will become his guiding star for many years, and let himself i...
Winter Young was born for the stage: his voice is like velvet and his looks are stunning. He sells out stadiums from Los Angeles to London, and his army of rabid fans are ready to move heaven and earth just to catch a glimpse of him. What can we say about the dreams of becoming his new passion? When a crime boss presents his daughter with a performance by a famous pop star for her birthday, fate brings him and Sydney together. Sydney Cozzetta is the youngest spy in an elite c...
The Circle of Happy People art book includes texts by Hryhorii Skovoroda and contexts from literary critic Nazar Fedorak, philosophers Taras Liutyi and Oleksandr Filonenko, historian Vadym Nazarenko, as well as dreamlike illustrations by Vitalii Kohan. The poems from The Garden of Divine Songs are published for the first time in an adaptation by Serhiy Zhadan, which he created for the Skovorodance project, as well as the poem Frying Pan. By picking up this book, you enter a l...
There are a thousand and one ways to be a mum. But which is the best? Find the answer in these lovely images of mothers and stories about them. Everyone has a mum. A mum who takes care of us and makes us dress warmly when the weather is bad. But what does it mean to be a mum? It seems like a simple question. But finding an answer to it is just as difficult as raising a child. And despite the fact that every mother is different, they are similar in many ways. But does this mea...
