Книги

Archaeologist Kenton receives a mysterious ancient Babylonian artifact. A spell transports Kenton to the deck of a ship sailing the eternal sea. The ship is divided into two possessions–Ishtar and Nergal. No one can overcome the invisible barrier, except Kenton. His arrival destabilizes this world, which has existed unchanged for 6,000 years, and fantastic adventures begin.

For 86 days, the Ukrainian military held defenses in the surrounded Mariupol and on the territory of the Azovstal plant.

Anne of Windy Poplars (1936) is Lucy Maud Montgomery’s fourth novel about Anne Shirley according to the chronology of events. Anne is the principal of Summerside High School. She rents a room in a beautiful house called Windy Poplars. Her fiancé, Gilbert Blythe, is a medical student at Redmond College. A secret war is waged against the new principal, and Anne even considers leaving Summerside. But fate decides otherwise.

The war for our emotions and choices is raging in Ukraine and the world, around and within us. The number of front lines is countless. People are at war in families, online communities, and societies. States are at war with people, companies, and each other.

The Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, are the main characters of D.H. Lawrence’s novel Women in Love (1920). Ursula is a schoolteacher, and Gudrun is an artist.

The Day After Tomorrow, a thriller novel by Oleksandr Krasovytskyy plunges readers deep into the shadowy maze of power in Russia on the brink of its collapse. The world watches as Putin’s death sets off a chain reaction: Lenin’s mummified body is removed from his mausoleum, air raid sirens howl over Moscow, and the Kremlin’s iron grip begins to wane.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopia by George Orwell. The main character of the novel, Winston Smith, is a censor at the Ministry of Truth. All its employees and he are watched by Big Brother; everyone is spying upon everyone else; even at home, citizens are followed through special screens. Today, in the age of the Internet, the social media are monitoring our every gesture, purchase, action, and online comment. They are constantly present in our lives and anticipate our every desire, our choices being carefully monitored.

Візуалізований довідник містить добірку найуживаніших англійських ідіом, до яких запропоновано малюнки-асоціації, здебільшого — гумористичні скетчі, що значно полегшує розуміння та запам’ятовування їхнього змісту задля влучного використання у мовленні.

The Forsyte Saga brought the English writer John Galsworthy (1867–1933) world fame and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Alphabet for Android will not bore fans of classic science fiction. The author once again mixes literary genres. He blends sci-fi with detective, horror, philosophical, and ethnographic parables. Once again, individual stories tell us about the possible development of humanity.

The last volume of the illustrated four-volume set by Arthur Conan Doyle’s (1859–1930) includes two collections of stories: The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (12 stories) and His Last Bow (7 stories). The title story His Last Bow is a spy story. On the eve of World War I, a German spy is about to smuggle valuable documents out of England. Sherlock Holmes is going to put a stop to that.

The Franchise Affair is a mystery novel by British writer Josephine Tey (1896–1952). The novel is based on the investigation of the crime of the Sharpe mother and daughter, accused of kidnapping a young girl. Their defense is led by local lawyer Robert Blair. The mystery of the Sharpe family’s guilt or innocence remains until the very end.

Oleksiy Dekan's novel “Kaydash Family vs Zombies” is a real mystery, seasoned with true horror and generously infused with Ukrainian history. This is a story about love, struggle and sacrifice, a tale that I hope you will enjoy.

Дане видання є одночасно навчальним і довідниковим лексико-графічним посібником.

На допомогу вчителеві 6-х класів НУШ!

Gone with the Wind is a novel by the American writer Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949).

Molly Gibson, a young and naive girl, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s. Mr. Gibson decides to remarry. For the sake of her father, Molly does everything to get along with her stepmother. Molly finds an ally in her stepsister Cynthia. The two girls are complete opposites. But Cynthia and her mother conceal a secret from their past.

It is the story of the sailor Ishmael about the obsessive pursuit of Ahab, the captain of the whaling ship Pequod, after a white sperm whale. The dramatic conflict between man and nature has captivated readers of this epic saga for the second century in a row.

Запропонований у посібнику інтенсивний курс англійської мови зацікавить не лише тих, хто починає її вивчати, а й у кого виникла потреба швидко та ефективно відтворити в пам’яті англійську лексику і повторити граматику.
До посібника додається аудіододаток із записами всіх діалогів.

David Herbert Lawrence (1885–1930) in the semi-auto-biographical novel Sons and Lovers (1913) touched on the topic of ambiguous relationships with parents.

Пропонований посібник для вчителя допоможе весело, цікаво та змістовно вести уроки з курсу «Англійська мова» за підручником «Англійська мова. 1 клас» (авт. Будна Т.Б.). Конспекти уроків, структура яких відповідає Державному стандарту початкової освіти та типовим освітнім програмам, містять також тексти до вправ на аудіювання та пояснення до ігор. У виданні подано календарне планування та перелік фраз навчально-методичного характеру, що необхідні для створення іншомовної атмосфери на уроках іноземної мови та якісного проведення занять. Для вчителів початкових класів, студентів педагогічних навчальних закладів.

Tess of the d’Urbervilles — a novel by the English writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), first published in 1891. One day, the head of the Darbeyfield family learns that their family comes from the ancient knightly family d’Urberville. He quits his job and spends most of his time in local pubs. Tess, the eldest daughter, becomes the support of the family.

The novel Glimpses of the Moon (1922) by American author Edith Wharton tells the romantic adventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch. They have agreed to get married and spend a year at the expense of their wealthy friends, spending their honeymoon in their mansions and villas. But if one of them meets a suitable match, they may end their marriage. This is a comedy of errors that will charm all fans of Wharton’s work.

The Buccaneers (1937), Edith Wharton’s last novel, was left unfinished.
The novel is set in the 1870s. Several wealthy American families have ambitions to gain even higher social status by marrying off their daughters to aristocrats. The money of the young women’s parents is very attractive to impoverished but titled Englishmen to maintain their version of wealth.

Nineteen-year-old Margaret Hale lives in London. Her life is turned upside down when her family moves to Milton Northern. It is a cotton-manufacturing town, which is at the centre of a workers’ revolution. At first, Margaret is hostile to John Thornton, a wealthy manufacturer; but over time, she begins to admire the way he rose from poverty. After a series of dramatic events, Thornton unexpectedly makes his declaration of love to her, but Margaret does not accept it, although she begins to realize the depth of Thornton’s personality.

In Oleksandr Krasovytskyy’s new novel, written in the genre of black humor, the action takes place in the United States of America. American democracy proves to be vulnerable and is turned inside out by those who have come to power. When the president sees himself as a king and even a god, adventurers and fanatics of various kinds swarm around him. Elon Musk produces small puppetlike people on bioprinters, replacing pet dogs and cats, and receives a trillion dollars from the budget for an expedition to Mars. The US financial system finds itself at risk, which puts in question the very existence of the nation. Musk’s assistant, Vlad Tepes—a descendant of Dracula with his own ambitious plans and unmet promises—is orchestrating an Armageddon. A war with Mexico is imminent...

«Persuasion» is the last novel completed by the esteemed English writer Jane Austen (1775–1817). It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death.

«Круто!» ― саме так уважатимуть юні читачі, гортаючи сторінки цього візуалізованого посібника з англійської мови.

Tender Is the Night (1934) is the last novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The action of the novel takes place on the French Riviera, where a glamorous couple, Dick and Nicole Diver, rent a villa and invite friends. Dick is a promising young psychiatrist, and Nicole was his patient. One of the guests, Rosemary, is delighted with the Divers, but senses that something is wrong with the couple. The other guests witness Nicole’s nervous breakdown....