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The two of them climbed the first landing. They were about ten steps from the bottom. It was a game children played, challenging each other to jump higher and higher. Frank took her hand. Cleo squeezed his hand in hers. And they both jumped down.

New York is slipping away from Cleo. Yes, she's partying, but she has almost no friends. Her student visa is about to expire, and she doesn't even have money for cigarettes. But then Cleo meets Frank. A man nearly twenty years her senior, his life is filled with the success and excess that Cleo lacks. Frank offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the chance to get a green card. Cleo offers him a life of beauty and art - and a reason to drink less. For each other, they are everything they both want at the moment.

Cleo and Frank plunge headlong into a love affair. Events unfold so quickly that both of them find themselves gasping for breath. Not only their lives are changed, but also the lives of those around them: Cleo's best friend, who is trying to come to terms with his sexual identity in the face of her marriage, and Frank's sister, who is financially dependent on him. Ultimately, a chance meeting between the two strangers after a New Year's Eve party changes everything - for better or for worse

A life full of tension, secrets, and unfulfilled dreams. A desire for sweet, sinful love, or is it all just about revenge? Can two hurt hearts beat in unison? What is the true price of revenge?

Martha is a successful police officer, a perfect daughter, and a wonderful friend, but they say you can't judge a book by its cover. This beautiful redhead hides much darker secrets than they might first appear

'Fictions' is Borges's legendary first collection of short stories, in which he explores various paradoxes, mysteries of the universe and misunderstandings with a spare and elegant style, constantly returning to themes and motifs that would haunt him for the rest of his life: time, eternity, infinity

'The Mushroom Dream' is a novel about people lost in their inner labyrinths. Thirty-five-year-old women Upe, Ina, and Norwegian restaurant chef Karlas, who have built successful lives in the eyes of society, actually live in the prisons of their own minds. They are missing something, but they themselves do not know what. Each of them, in their own way, searches for a path to inner reconciliation throughout their lives, but only after finding themselves in the mystical summer house at Pervalkos g. 31 do they find a hint of a solution

At fourteen, Anatoly Kuznetsov began documenting the horrors he witnessed during the Nazi occupation of Kyiv, including the Babyn Yar massacre, the death of prisoners, and Soviet repression. These notes became Babyn Jaras, a powerful chronicle of ordinary people's suffering under both Soviet and Nazi rule. The novel, censored in the Soviet era, reveals a boy's coming-of-age amidst these atrocities. This edition includes censored passages and an introduction by historian Zigmos Vitkaus, providing context on the author, the text's history, and the Babyn Yar massacre site

Marketer Gojus decides to build a house. However, his plans are thwarted by unexpected circumstances: it becomes clear that the construction will be extraordinary and will require sacrifices.

Everyone over thirty has already built something in their life: some a house, some a career, some a relationship; most often - from the very beginning.

Jaunius Petraitis' debut novel You Have Something mocks the tragicomic reality of today and invites us to seek answers to constantly arising existential questions. How to build a life correctly? How to build it for men, and how for women? How not to lose what is truly important in the construction dust?

'Devil's child' - this is what the peasants of Palevene called the teenage Une, unable to explain the strange things happening to her and around her. However, for the Talent Hunter of the Vilnius Resuscitator Lodge who arrived, everything is much clearer.

And then a crazy adventure begins - from Bezdonyi and free Vilnius to the fortresses of St. Petersburg, involving robberies and underwater constructs, professors and revolutionaries, bandits and mystics

Marta looked out the window of the carriage and tried not to think about working in intelligence. MI5, Abwehr, SIS... Now Lausanne, then Berlin, Moscow, Memel. Dangerous - not dangerous, impressive - despicable. After all, she thought, how did I get involved in this?

For a writer, publishing a book is a pleasure to share. After all, watching the most beautiful sunset or visiting the most interesting places in the world does not yet determine the meaning of life.

This book is about a person for whom the pleasure of sharing comes naturally.

I don't even know if I wanted to write this book or if the book wanted me to write it. While writing the novel, I thought several times that it was irrelevant, that maybe those thoughts should just remain in dust... But the future events I described kept repeating themselves exactly. Maybe I started to see the meaning. Because it's real. And real things are the most important in my world.

The hero of the book wanted to live a quiet life. However, fate sent him so many trials that the adventures and difficulties he experienced would be enough for even a few people who take everything from life

In this book of short stories, there is no need to look for reality or psychologism; the world described here operates according to its own rules. The writer plays, pushes words like building blocks and builds his own model of the world.

Who is this book for? Apparently, for those who like various lottos, charades, dreams. Or fairy tales