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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 novel Man and Wife is a drama about a selfish and ambitious man who abandons his wife to marry a wealthier woman, taking advantage of a loophole in marriage law. Under Scottish law at the time, any couple who claimed to be married in front of witnesses was considered legally married in Scotland.

The Titan is the second part of the «Trilogy of Desire» by Theodore Dreiser (1871—1945). After his release from prison, Frank Cowperwood invests in stocks and becomes a millionaire again. He moves to Chicago with Aileen and divorces his first wife. Frank decides to take over the city’s railway system. He makes several competitors bankrupt. Meanwhile, Chicago society learns about his past. Aileen loses faith in him. Cowperwood meets the young Berenice, and she agrees to live with him.

The world watched as Putin was burried, expecting that his epoch would end. Instead, from the ashes of the “old guard,” there rise new leaders—young, ruthless, and terrifyingly effective. These heirs to the OGPU-NKVD-KGB-FSB machine are more cunning than their predecessors, wielding vast financial resources in order to fuel destabilization and terror across the globe. The chaos spreads—from Moscow’s corridors of power to the frozen tundras of Yakutia and the deserts of Uzbekistan, as well as to financial centers of Europe in Italy, France, and Switzerland. No corner of the world is safe from their reach. With his signature approach to the smallest details, Krasovytskyy crafted a geopolitical thriller that will keep readers on the edge of your seat all the way to the full stop. This is not just a story about political power—it’s a chilling warning about what happens when it is reborn in even darker hands.

A brutal war and military invasion totally broke down the former peaceful and comfortable life of Energodar, a satellite town of the Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. 

The House by the Churchyard (1863) is a mystery novel by the Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.
During a burial in the churchyard, a skull is accidentally dug up, bearing the marks of two devastating blows to the head and traces of surgical intervention. The story described in the novel takes place a hundred years before the grisly find, and immerses the reader in a whirlpool of intrigue surrounding Dr. Sturk, a military doctor.

The novel by American writer John Kendrick Bangs (1862–1922) Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream is a political parody of Lewis Carroll’s two Alice books (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass). Alice travels to Blunderland, where everything is communal; children live in the Town Hall, with the Duchess and the town being their parents. The book features familiar characters made famous by Alice in Wonderland, including the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, among others.

The third volume of Scotland Yard Book by the English writer Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) presents the collection of short stories The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reader, published in 1925. The collection includes the works The Poetical Policeman, The Green Mamba, The Stealer of Marble, The Troupe, Sheer Melodrama, The Investors, The Strange Case, and The Treasure Hunt.

This book contains classical works of erotic literature

«Tales of the Fish Patrol» is a collection of short stories by the American classic writer Jack London (1876–1916).

In the novel Yesterday, Oleksandr Krasovytskyy (b. 1967) explores historical events through the perspective of alternative history.

In the novel Miss Billy’s Decision (1912) by American author Eleanor Porter, Billy begins her married life and is quite happy until she begins to listen to the advice of others. After reading an article that young wives should be guided by their own personal interests, Billy takes the idea to extremes.

Pickman’s Model is a collection of horror stories by American writer Howard Lovecraft (1890–1937). In the story Pickman’s Model, the artist paints pictures of horrific images that are considered the fruit of his sick imagination. A friend of the artist comes to Pickman’s private secret gallery. The artist shows new painting, a huge image of a red-eyed creature that devours human victims. The friend finds a photograph that proves that Pickman painted the horrible monsters not from imagination, but he used real-life models.