Alice, Cricket and Two Dogsby Serge GregoryNine-year-old Alice lives a quiet life with her father, her stepmother Annie, and two loyal dogs—Bella and Lola. But when a terrible secret emerges, everythingchanges: Annie is a witch, and Alice is in danger.Warned by Cricket, a brilliant, talking insect born from a cosmic event, Alice flees into the wilderness with the dogs as her only protectors....

Alice thought she had escaped mortal danger when Shaman hid her and her faithful dogs in the Underworld, within the Sanctuary — a secret tribal settlement hidden deep beneath the mountains.But the Underworld is far larger and far more dangerous than Alice could have imagined.Beneath the forests and lakes stretches a vast subterranean realm of enormous caves, dark tunnels, underground waterways, and abandoned cities built long ago by the mysterious Miners — a vanished people...

Combining history and biography, The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre focuses on the intimate relationship and professional collaboration between two creative women in Russia's Silver Age (1880s–1920). The actress Lidia Yavorskaya and the writer Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik overcame moral and social boundaries to assert themselves as successful artists. Their lives intersected with practically all the major theatrical entrepreneurs and a...

Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing this substantial—though until now neglected—epistolary corpus. The majority of the essays gathered here represent new contributions by the world's major Chekhov scholars, written especially for this volume, or classics of Russian criticism appearing in English for the first time. The introduction a...

Out in the mountains, Zack discovers a fossilised dinosaur egg. A once in a lifetime discovery - this could make a fortune! Zack takes it home to keep it safe. Only the egg isn't fossilised - it's hatching ...And there's an angry mother dinosaur on the loose who wants her baby back ...

A remarkable memoir of living in the Soviet Union and working as a literary translator.In the early twentieth century, Lilianna Lungina was a Russian Jew born to privilege, spending her childhood in Germany, France, and Palestine. But when she was thirteen, her parents moved to the USSR—where Lungina became witness to many of the era's greatest upheavals.Exiled during World War II, dragged to KGB headquarters to report on her friends, and subjected to her n...

The Secret Garden meets A Wrinkle in Time in the spellbinding final book of the New York Times-bestselling Greenwild trilogy.This is Daisy Thistledown’s greatest battle yet.With the support of the Iffenwilders and their mighty water magic, Daisy and her new friend Max are finally setting off to rescue the Botanists—including Daisy’s mother—imprisoned in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. But when an unexpected attack sends the re...

Sergei Dovlatov's subtle, dark–edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects—the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from the U.S.S.R. These seemingly undistinguished possessions, stuffed into a worn–out suitcase, take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired them, occasioning a brilliant series of interconnected tales: A poplin shirt evokes th...

This biography of the brilliant author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina "should become the first resort for everyone drawn to its titanic subject" ( Booklist, starred review).In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station. At the time of his death, he was the most famous man in Russia, more revered than the tsar, with a growing international following. Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy spent his exi...

The third action-packed quest in an exciting new six book character-led series for 7+ girls who love fantasy, adventure, and high-kicking heroines!On her tenth birthday, tomboy Sophie learns she is the Guardian of a magic gateway between our world and the Shadow Woods. She must keep the human world safe from mischievous goblins, sprites and elves.It’s the turn of the Spider Gnomes, gruesome man-sized spiders who make their webs in the trees of the Shadow Woods, to do battle...

The New York Times Notable Book of 2002Finalist for the Samuel Johnson PrizeFinalist for the Mark Lynton History PrizeHistory on a grand scale—an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizations.A People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I ...

Rudolf Nureyev had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and women, on or off the stage. With Nureyev: The Life, Julie Kavanagh shows how his intense drive and passion for dance propelled him from a poor, Tatar-peasant background to the most sophisticated circles of London, Paris, and New York. His dramatic defection to the West in l961 created a Cold War crisis and made him an instant ce...