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Agnes Grey (1847) by English writer Anne Bronte is the story of a governess. The novel is based on the author’s own five-year experience. Like Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, the work describes the difficult lives of poor girls who are forced to work for other families. У романі англійської пи...

The Strange High House in the Mist is a collection of several mystical stories by the American writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937). In the story of the same name, Thomas Olney is intrigued by a strange house on a cliff overlooking the ocean. Local residents are afraid of this place, which no o...

Frank Baum (1856–1919) was an American writer, a classic of children’s literature. «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» is the first book in a series about the heroes of a fairyland created by the writer. In this magical land, a hurricane once threw a hut with a girl Dorothy and her dog Toto. Ліман ...

The author, Valeriia ‘Nava’ Subotina, served with the press service of the Azov Regiment. For 86 days, Ukrainian troops maintained their defensive positions in the besieged city of Mariupol and on the grounds of the Azovstal steel plant. Thanks to the Azov Regiment’s press service, the world ...

У п’ятій книзі — ще більше карколомних пригод! Принцеса Маляка мусить врятувати драконячий світ. Але спершу треба знайти вірних друзів та дати раду дивам, які починаються, щойно з жолудя проростає чарівний дуб Агасфер. А тут ще Велика Маня знову рушає з місця, у Дніпрі селиться крокодилисько,...

An International Bestseller Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life on his family’s farm in remote northern Wisconsin, where they raise and train an extraordinary breed of dog. But when tragedy mysteriously strikes, Edgar is forced to flee into the vast neighbo...

Sara Blum lives an idyllic life--but her world comes crashing down when the Nazi occupation arrives in her small French town, separating her from her parents and forcing the young Jewish girl into hiding. Sara's classmate Julien and his family will risk everything to ensure her survival, and ...

Face your fear . . . or become your nightmare. Gotham meets Strange the Dreamer in this thrilling young adult fantasy about a cowardly girl who finds herself at the center of a criminal syndicate conspiracy, in a city where crooked politicians and sinister cults reign and dreaming means waki...

Olivia fled her abusive marriage to return to her hometown and take over the family beekeeping business when her son Asher was six. Now, impossibly, her baby is six feet tall and in his last year of high school, a kind, good-looking, popular ice hockey star with a tiny sprite of a new girlfri...

From USA Today bestselling author, T. Kingfisher, comes an original, subversive fairytale about a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways. On the day of Toadling's birth, she was stolen from her human family by the fairies, but she grew up s...

“Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel-only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that uninsurable jewel, his voice, cutting into the core of his confidence.” - Gay Talese In the winter of 1965, writer Gay Talese set out for Los Angeles with an assignment fr...

From the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of From Blood and Ash, Fall of Ruin and Wrath is a scorching romance with high stakes, breathtaking magic and a searing enemies-to-lovers romance. She lives by her intuition. He feeds on her pleasure . . . Long ago, the world was destroyed by...

A fallen regime. A missing child. A chance at freedom. By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divergent, Poster Girl is a haunting adult dystopian mystery that explores the expanding role of surveillance on society - an inescapable reality that we welcome all too easily. WHAT'S RIGH...

The encounter between art and fashion has been a rapidly growing phenomenon over the last decade, with major international artists working with top fashion houses to produce contemporary masterpieces that challenge the traditional boundary between these two dynamic cultures. In Art/Fashion in...

The Book of Symbols combines original and incisive essays about particular symbols with representative images from all parts of the world and all eras of history. The highly readable texts and over 800 beautiful full-color images come together in a unique way to convey hidden dimensions of me...

Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) had already sculpted Pieta and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painter, draftsman, and architect, the achievements of this Italian master are unique-no artist before...

The best of Harry Benson’s era-defining Beatles portfolio captures them on the road, performing, relaxing, composing and acting in A Hard Day’s Night. From their famous pillow fight in Paris to their first U.S. tour, Benson’s luminous black-and-white photographs show intimate glimpses of Geor...

From Azzedine Alaia, Cristobal Balenciaga, and Coco Chanel to Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, and Vivienne Westwood, more than a century’s worth of fashion greats are celebrated in this new edition of Fashion Designers A–Z. An accessibly priced and updated volume features photographs ...

The National Portrait Gallery’s collections hold numerous portraits of creative partnerships. This book looks at the extensive collection of the Gallery and explores the role of love and the people featured both as sitters and artists. Drawing on recent scholarship, the exhibition will explor...

Dreams in the Witch House is a collection of six horror stories by the American writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937). In the story of the same name, Walter Gilman, a student, rents a loft in the Witch House. Gilman learns that over the course of two centuries, many of the house’s residents have...