Josie Bianchi died many years ago in a terrorist attack. She passed away. That's what her sister Kit, an emergency medical technician in Santa Cruz, thought. However, just a few heartbreaking seconds of a television report turned her world upside down. A live broadcast from the scene of a fire at an Auckland club captured a woman who looked very much like Josie. Kit is certain that her sister was looking at her through the smoke and debris. Kit sets off for New Zealand. T...
Eva Tremell settles in New York. The frenetic pace of the new city quickly acclimatises Eva to her new home, new job and new friends. And then he appears on her horizon. Handsome and wealthy, bold and sexy, Gideon Cross is every woman's dream. However, passionate feelings, wild passion, and openness to experimentation are no guarantee of a strong relationship. Eva and Gideon are forced to overcome their insecurities and learn to trust each other. Through their own experie...
In the collection The Maid's Wedding, Frida McFadden showcases her talent as a master of psychological thrillers in short stories that reflect on various themes, stir readers with the creations of her imagination, and craft lines of unfathomable suspense and intrigue. Each of these stories invites readers to immerse themselves in a fantastical journey through pages where secrets haunt the ghosts of the past and danger lurks for the troubled characters. The publication ope...
Returning to Dorset after many years working as a detective in the big city, Nicola Bridge never expected the picturesque village of Fleetcomb to become the scene of a brutal murder. The body of Jim Tiernan, owner of the White Stag pub, is found staged with bizarre theatricality on a remote country road. Nicola begins to ask questions and immediately realises that everyone in this village is hiding something. Rumours. Gossip. Lies. But Nicola knows that amid all this, the rea...
Who We Were is a book about people at war. About voices, names, and call signs. About Dali and Ruta, protesters and pacifists, the living and the dead. Stories about Avdiivka, Lviv, Odesa, Kherson, and the Black Sea. Reflections on literature and painting in the war zone, on memory, dreams and delusions, fatigue and the illusory nature of reality, the smell of war and the constant Groundhog Day, changes in the consciousness of people who are between the world of the dead and ...
The story of the Nativity of the Saviour is not just an ancient miraculous tale. This story takes place in eternity, never ending, but always continuing. A story with a thousand faces. The Christmas Classics anthology presents the Ukrainian faces of this thousand. It contains Christmas prose, primarily Christmas and Christmas Eve stories, written at different times by different people - men and women with different destinies and outlooks, with different creative intentions, w...
In your hands a wonderful gift to the baby is a big bright encyclopedia for the smallest. She will become your child's favorite book, color photos will attract her attention, and short but meaningful articles will help you answer the little chief's questions. Together with you, the kid will learn to make puzzles that decorate each turn. Such a book will instill a child's love for reading and knowing a new one.
Morrigan Crowe is listed in the Register of Cursed Children. She is accused of all possible sins - from hail to heart attacks. But worst of all, Morrigan is cursed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday. But a strange man named Jupiter North appears. He insists that the girl win a place in the prestigious Society of the Prodigiously Chosen, so she will have to endure four difficult and dangerous exams along with hundreds of other children, each of whom has an extraordina...
"There are two important points on the cultural map of the modern Ukrainian language: Bad Ems, archwith the decree they tried to convince the world that the Ukrainian language does not exist, never was and never will bemaybe Strasbourg is the point where its new history as one of the official languages ??beginsof the European Union.Orysia Demska tells the history of the Ukrainian language, starting from the moment of thethe decline of the Indo-European proto-language to the p...
For the first time in the last hundred years, the prose of Grigory Kvitka-Osnovianenko is returning appears to the readers as she really was. With its own rhythm and specialSlobojan dialect. Vengeful witches, the dead who make Easter, enchanted treasures, a cat's field - a witness against a murderer... It appears before us a bright and mystical picture of life in the Ukrainian lands from Konotop to Kharkiv The stories of Kvitka-Osnovyanenko are also European plots, transf...
To find a portal to the afterlife. To steal a soul from hell. It's a simple plan, except that people who go on this journey rarely return. But Halsey Stern is determined to get Darlington out of purgatory, even if it costs her her future at Letha and Yale. After being banned from any attempts to save the boy, she cannot turn to the Ninth House for help, so a team of dubious allies is assembled to rescue the gentleman from Letha. Together, they will have to overcome a maze...
What happens when you put a robot in the wild? At first glance, such an idea cannot end in anything interesting. However, it turns out that the survival instincts of animals and birds are close to the algorithms of robots. And in this case, a robot may well fit into the life of wild animals. Especially if this robot is a woman... Roz, who cannot feel, is programmed to improve herself. And this allows her to overcome the world's rejection of living beings, to win their lov...
The year is 1907. A fight breaks out in one of the Kyiv theaters. A respectable Austrian gentleman publicly accuses a boy messenger of theft. Without a shadow of fear, the teenager rejects the accusation, not yet suspecting that this is the first exam, a pass to a new life. After all, under a green cap, an elderly Austrian Herr Friedrich saw not only a disguised girl, but also a potential pupil for his orphanage - the secret school Artemis", where professional spies are train...
Small pests, children's fears, diseases in the form of living creatures - Dara Korniy collected stories about the ancient beliefs of Ukrainians about spirits that defile and bring trouble every day. You will find out what the plague and cholera looked like in the imagination of our ancestors, who is such a flirt, you will read a sad fairy tale about a kiss. So get ready to travel to the spooky world of mischief and mischief, to this magical secret corner where the dark si...
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...
In the Regency era, all the ballrooms and living rooms of London are strictly unwritten and inviolable rules: how to talk to an earl, what knyxen should be performed in front of a prince... A duke should be domineering and indifferent, and a young lady of marriageable age should be friendly, but not too much. Daphne Bridgerton, the fourth of eight descendants of a surprisingly friendly noble family, has a friendly character, in contrast to most of the swaggering young ladies ...
There is only one holiday that makes both children and adults smile dreamily. And it's Christmas. Even the winter cold becomes less biting in this magical time. There are only a few days until the holiday, but are you ready for it? Are you in the real Christmas spirit? Just open this amazing book and every night Santa will tell you one of 24 true stories about his elves. So waiting for Christmas will be unforgettable!
"No boot for gifts, no gifts, no garlands, no Christmas treeswho - really canceled Christmas? It's mid-December outside, and it's already the fifth yearIn a row, the Sullivan family's home in Harlem shows no sign of troublecelebration of New Year's holidays. But this year, someone mysterious is sending arunes to widower Henry Sullivan and his two children, Will and Ellie. First a small beaked and feathered creature pokes its head out from between the branches...
Evangeline Fox has travelled to the Great North in search of her happiness, and it seems she has found it. She is married to a handsome prince, lives in a legendary castle, and has no idea what price she paid for this fairy tale. Evangeline doesn't know what she has lost, and her husband is determined to make sure she never finds out. But first he must kill Jax, the Prince of Hearts.
Blood, a serial killer nicknamed Black Tongue, $267,000 and fair play...Ernest Cunningham, as well as all members of his family, killed someone, and some more than once. Why? This is how life circumstances developed, about which Cunningham will tell in detail, unraveling another murder. The thing is that during a family reunion at a ski resort, the Cunninghams find a frozen body with a blackened face in the snow. Anyone can be a killer. But who?The narrator, as he promises at...
If Frida is small, everything that was necessary for a happy life. Ale raptly everything went to hell: three months after the birth of the young woman, leaving Frida for the sake of a young kohanka, and through the bedroom, the woman forced herself to grow up with the need to earn money and sing about Harriet's love. One day the woman leaves the donka at home, and she herself goes to the office: there and back. Ut?m do not turn around at home - the officer of the police, ...
Thanks to this book, your child will be able to expand his vocabulary with many English words. And also - to develop imaginative thinking, speech, attention, memory and imagination. And all this against the background of a constant game! After all, it is very interesting to look at bright pictures and study their captions, look for small details in general illustrations and read funny poems. And thanks to the large number of words, transcriptions and illustrative material, t...
When a war begins, words become superfluous - actions are needed. And then it turns out that the words themselves have changed, crumbled, acquired newsenses and sound - began with fragments of stories heard and experienced, and became a way to record the experience of heavy losses and irreversibility, pain and belief in victory. Ostap Slyvinsky, carefully collecting documentary evidence, gave them a new form. Among the people whose voices the Dictionary of War" speaks are tho...
Ukrainian cuisine, tasty and diverse, is popular far beyond the borders of our country. For many centuries, it has become a symbol of hospitality and sincere Ukrainian character. Each region of Ukraine has its own special snacks, and all of them are tasty, nutritious and useful. In this book, we have collected for you recipes of the most diverse and characteristic delicacies from all corners of our country, so everyone will be able to choose a dish to their taste. Flip throug...
