The short story "The Final Problem" by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1893, ended with the tragic death of Sherlock Holmes, the beloved hero of millions of his fans. This caused a real storm of outrage in readers' letters to...

How to respond to the question of why your relationship ended? What to do if you have no one to go to a party with or if you can't shed those extra pounds when it's time for new dates? How...

Sixteen-year-old El lives the life of an entirely ordinary American teenager. He doesn't stand out at school, and after classes, he hangs out with a friend or works part-time at a movie theater. He falls in love unrequitedly with unattainable...

The mother of one of the descendants of the famous Roksolana was a Ukrainian from Podillia – Nadiia, who in the harem of Sultan Ibrahim the Mad received the name Khadija Turhan. She lived during the turbulent years of the...

This guide is a continuation of the previous edition "Spanish in 4 Weeks." The proposed intensive Spanish course will interest not only those who are starting to learn it but also those who need to quickly and effectively recall Spanish...

Finally, Arsène Lupin, who until now had easily dealt with his pursuers, faced a worthy opponent. He turned out to be a successful student of the Lycée Isidore Botrel. Joining forces with the renowned detective Ganimard and the equally famous...

Can the past be changed? Yes, if you know the way. More precisely, The Way, the unique and unparalleled one — through time, from dinosaurs and ancient civilizations to the cosmic-futuristic era. The chosen ones from different centuries know how...

"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...

The fates of the heroes discussed in this book — the teenager Jim and the sailor Robinson Crusoe — are very similar. Amidst the wild nature, in the struggle against evil and cruelty, through hard work and faith in their...

"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...

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...

Kestrel and Arin made a choice — they betrayed love to achieve peace for their own states. However, coming to terms with the loss of a loved one turned out to be not so easy. The closer the wedding date...

The psychological novel addresses the issues of modern motherhood. The focus is on the fates of women who call themselves "May mothers" because their babies were born in this month. Twice a week, the friends gather in the park and...

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

The king's stepdaughter, the bastard duchess, the princess's person, the queen's blade — she has many names, but is any of them true? Malkiya Denmir is a duchess by birthright and the queen's blade by position. She feels like a...

The events depicted in the novel portray the life and customs of the Zaporizhian Cossacks of the 17th century. The romantic Cossack love of the young knight Pavlo and the Cossack daughter Orysia, the noble brotherhood of the ordinary Zaporizhians,...