Fiction. "That the fresh and haunting new voice Lindsay Stern exercises in TOWN OF SHADOWS is difficult to classify ought to serve only to make it impossible to ignore. Rife with arch urgency, brief density, and fruitful disregard for traditional genre bounds, Stern's debut is an important addition to the recent rejuvenation of the novella form. Through its razor-sharp technique, translucent diction, and elliptical vignette structure, TOWN OF SHADOWS peels layer from layer to reveal a complex, perspicacious author who is unafraid to trouble the water where poetry and prose mingle. Stern's...

Guards! Guards! «Varta! Varta!» pershij roman pdciklu «Varta» z serji «Diskosvt» Terr Pratchetta. Ms'ka varta slavetnogo msta Ank-Morporka zanepadae. Osnovn principi roboti vartovih: ne bgti zanadto shvidko, abi u zhodnomu raz ne nazdognati pravoporushnika, ne vstrjagati u bjki, abi uniknuti stusanv, ne privertati do sebe nadto bagato uvagi, bo zh raptom htos' poprosit' pro dopomogu. Taktika nevtruchannja najbezpechnsha! Ta, zdaet'sja, star principi dovedet'sja peregljanuti. Po-pershe, do lav vartovih zapisavsja dobrovolec': spovnenij sil, nathnennja ta nadmrnogo entuzazmu molodshij...

Eat, Pray, Love. «Jisti, molitisja, kohati» - nadzvichajno shhira rozpovd' zhnki pro duhovne pererodzhennja pozitivn zmni u zhitt. Avtorka knigi na vlasnomu priklad dovela, shho navt' pslja najbl'shih kriz mozhna ne lishe vdnovitisja, a j vdkriti v sob nov gran, mozhlivost ta rvn perezhivan'. Gerojija jiji romanu - pis'mennicja Lz rozcharovana u smejnomu zhitt ta znevrena v osobistomu shhast. Zhnka vtrachae golovne: sens ta smak do zhittja. Abi nabratisja sil ta povernutisja do zhittja, Lz virshue podorozhuvati. Na jiji shljahu tri krajini: talja, ndonezja ta ndja. Tam vona vchit'sja...

England, 1940. The worlds last copy of the Middlebury pink camellia grows on the territory of the country estate. On the eve of the Second World War, the American Flora makes a deal with a thief. Her task is to infiltrate the estate and find the camellia. The path to this goal turns out to be filled with joy and fear at the same time... New York, our time. Addison, who works as a landscape designer, comes to the same estate with her husband Rex. This house is now owned by Rexs parents. He, like his wife, adores detective stories, so the couple, having found an album with dried camellia...