"Not having recovered after being discharged from the Irish police, the Garda Síochána, Jack Taylor prefers to look at the world through the murky bottom of a beer mug and not notice the absence of any prospects. He balances on...

On the outside, Macy is calm and determined. Inside, however, everything is raging and tearing apart: she silently copes with her father's death and is forced to spend the entire summer apart from her perfect boyfriend to figure out if...

"Push yourself. Don't sit around." This is exactly what the paralyzed Will teaches Louise, his young caregiver. She lives with her parents, knows exactly how many steps it is from the bus stop to her house, but can't even imagine...

Ravka is enveloped in anger and instability. And the young king Nikolai Lantsov is increasingly turning into a dangerous monster at night. General Zoya Nazyalensky witnessed the death of her mentor and the resurrection of a fierce enemy. Now everything...

"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas is one of the favorite novels of many generations of readers. This is a story about Edmond Dantes, a young man unjustly convicted and imprisoned in the castle of If. Having managed...

A prominent Cossack figure, romanticized in European culture: his image inspired Voltaire, Hugo, Liszt, Byron. Even during the hetman's lifetime, the Russian tsar unleashed an information war against Mazepa, and for four centuries now, Moscow has been cursing him, while...

In these times of global crises and a sharp rise in collective anxiety, Tara Brach's transformative practice of "Radical Acceptance" offers a path to inner freedom. We often think that something is wrong with us because we have problems with...

Summer of 2013. Oleh, a sixteen-year-old boy, comes with his parents to Stormovoy, a cozy resort village in Crimea. Rest ahead, scorching sun, hot wind, salty splashes on the skin - what could be better? Oleg gets to know his...

"Buttons and lace. Book 1" is a book for everyone who missed the Fifty Shades of Gray trilogy. This is an erotic novel about a young girl named Pearl who is kidnapped by human traffickers. The girl ends up in...

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...

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...

On the ruins of what was once called North America lies the land of Panem, a resplendent Capitol surrounded by twelve distant Districts. The Capitol keeps the Districts in subjection by forcing them to choose tributes—one boy and one girl...

The book "Bridgertons. The Viscount Who Loved Me" is the second book from the world-famous "Bridgertons" series by the American writer Julia Quinn. It is not for nothing that the author is called the "Queen of the Regency Era": the...

The novel was written for three years, absorbing the real stories of real women. Because of this, there are neither completely positive nor completely negative heroines in it, but there are different psychotypes where every reader will find herself. Someone...

• Reissue in an updated design•CULTREAD series of fiction•In 1998, a screen adaptation was released with Robin Williams in the lead roleA penetrating story about love that overcame hell and rose above heavenWhat happens to us after death? Chris didn't know...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Hypothesis of Love. "Love in the Brain (color section)" is an exciting novel that combines science, humor and unforgettable love adventures. Bea Koenigswasser, an ambitious scientist, dreams of a big...

New from Kira Kass, author of the popular Selection book series! "Love has a sound. It sounds like thousands of heartbeats happening at once.” Princess Annika has lived a comfortable life, but no amount of luxury can change the fact...

A new bestseller about a small town in the north of Sweden, which at first glance seems quite calm, but in fact passions are raging in it. The novelty "Bear City" tells about the multifaceted human nature. In the backwater...

The novel "Mort" from the "Death" cycle opens the series "Discworld," in which the main character is Death. However, this does not mean that the book is grim, as in Terry Pratchett's world, Death goes fishing, philosophizes, loves kittens and...

In the new detective novel, contemporary Swiss writer, winner of the Grand Prix of the French Academy and the Goncourt Prize for Lycéens, Joël Dicker once again intrigues readers with the unraveling of a complicated crime. Forty-five-year-old police captain Jess...

When the young American writer Margaret Mitchell (1900—1949) was writing her only novel, she had no idea that it would become world-famous. The passionate love of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler ignites during one of the most difficult periods in...

"I apologize, but the war has begun."   For the writer Vladislav Ivchenko, February 24 began with such words. A day when life changed forever. Already in line at the military enlistment office, he realized that he had 'Now there...

True love and cynical betrayal, glorious triumphs and painful defeats — the history of Ukraine from ancient times to the present day is striking with testimonies of the greatness of strong-spirited extraordinary individuals and the disgraceful degradation of humanity. Ancestral...