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Ja s toboj!

Ja s toboj!

Translated title: I Am with You!

Author: Lavrova, Lyudmila

Genre: Social Novel

Year: 2025 | Pages: 448 | Origin: RUS | ISBN: 9785171735838

'I Am with You' is not just a phrase. It is a quiet presence nearby when hands are down. It is warm fur under a gentle hand on the most anxious evening. It is a glance that says everything without words: 'I understand you.' Cats and dogs are not just pets; they are true companions in life. They feel more than people can express.

They know when to approach and silently lay their heads on your lap, directing their loyal gaze at you. When it is joyful to jump on the pillow, bringing laughter back into the home. When being nearby, just to be, without demanding anything in return. When all it takes is a gentle paw to soothe emotional pain
Moskva Maiskaia

Moskva Maiskaia

Translated title: Moscow in May

Author: Limonov, Eduard

Genre: Social Novel

Year: 2025 | Pages: 414 | Origin: RUS | ISBN: 9785002236084

The main events of the novel take place over three days in May 1969, but while adhering to this chronological framework, the writer makes its boundaries extremely permeable, telling how he moved from Kharkov to Moscow with Anna Rubinstein, how he tried to fit in a rather heterogeneous poetic community, searched for housing and means of existence, earning a living by sewing bags and trousers. Before the reader unfolds Moscow at the end of the thaw, bohemian and creative. Among the characters in this book are Arseny Tarkovsky, Ernst Neizvestny, Ilya Kabakov, Leonid Gubanov, and other participants of the legendary SMOG, Igor Kholin, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Anatoly Brusilovsky, Heinrich Sapgir, and many others
Dnevnik Svekrovi

Dnevnik Svekrovi

Translated title: Mother in Law's Diary

Author: Metlitskaya, Maria

Genre: Family Saga

Year: 2025 | Pages: 320 | Origin: RUS | ISBN: 9785042238253

Has your son, whom you seem to have just brought home from the maternity ward and recently took to first grade, changed a lot? He is texting, hanging on the phone for hours, and responding inappropriately? The diagnosis is clear. Remember the joke: a mother spends twenty years making a man out of her son, and his girlfriend is capable of turning him into an idiot in twenty minutes. Yes, yes, the hour is not far off when you will become not just a woman, and not just a wife and mother, but a mother-in-law. And you definitely need to read this book, because it is great therapy both for those who have recently become mothers-in-law and for those who have carried this burden for a long time, and for those who fear changes in their lives
Certova nevesta. Russkij horror nacala HH veka so stranic staryh zurnalov

Certova nevesta. Russkij horror nacala HH veka so stranic staryh zurnalov

Translated title: The Devil's Bride. Russian Horror of the Early 20th Century from the Pages of Old Magazines

Author: A, Tanaseychuk

Genre: Horror / Short Stories

Year: 2025 | Pages: 336 | Origin: RUS | ISBN: 9785386150662

This collection of domestic horror from the early 20th century presents a wide variety of the genre as found in the periodicals of that time. The compiler focused, of course, on the best examples
Prizraki bezmolvnykh kholmov

Prizraki bezmolvnykh kholmov

Translated title: Ghosts of the Silent Hills

Author: Krishan, Anita

Genre: Horror

Year: 2025 | Pages: 317 | Origin: RUS | ISBN: 9785222415924

This path, winding through the ancient, sinister forest, will surely lead you to the hills shrouded in the night mist and thick fog. You have arrived, and around you is only dead silence. No one really knows what lurks in the cold darkness here, but the locals carefully lock their doors when night falls and ask not to wander the hills alone after sunset. For the dead will not rest until they get what they desire.

A beautiful woman in white roams the forest trails, luring unsuspecting passersby into traps... In the stillness of the night, the cries of those who perished in accidents echo... And among the lush greenery and tranquil, clear streams stand abandoned cottages, whose inhabitants have been obsessed for centuries with only one thing - hunting the living...

Of course, from time to time, skeptics visit these lands, not hearing the warnings, not noticing the signs, and trying to find a rational explanation for what happens. All that awaits them are dying screams and futile attempts to flee from those whose existence they did not believe in just yesterday
Bolshaja kniga uzhasov 93

Bolshaja kniga uzhasov 93

Translated title: The Big Book of Horrors 93

Author: Usacheva, Elena

Genre: Horror

Year: 2025 | Pages: 384 | Origin: RUS | ISBN: 9785041798932

Everyone dreams of traveling. But not like this. Does anyone want to end up in a place where it is impossible to return? A place where a witch leads you in circles, forcing you to agree to her horrific deal, where snakes await their new victim. The heroes of these stories faced unexplained events and dark forces that leave no one who has once crossed their path untouched. How to escape their power and what is the price for liberation?
Bez kozi

Bez kozi

Translated title: Without skin

Author: Gradova, Irina

Genre: Crime

Year: 2025 | Pages: 352 | Origin: RUS | ISBN: 9785042211034

A serial killer has appeared in the city, stalking young women. The victims are not similar in appearance and belong to different social classes, so it is unclear why the maniac chooses them. The only coincidence is that they all had tattoos that they wanted to get rid of. Will this be enough to find the killer - and his fans-instigators?
Lera Medved investigated the murder of a doctor whose body was found on the roof of a hospital. And soon his friend, a nurse, was found murdered. Apparently, she also became a victim of the maniac.
Gradually, the two cases intertwine, leading the investigators to frightening discoveries

Nothing can stop a woman when she is driven by passion. Turning to reason when passion pushes you to commit a crime is like trying to stop a tsunami with words. But Irina Gradova knows how to tame exactly such heroines - powerful and reckless, blinded by love and ready to go for broke, daring and rebellious, like the elements
Bezlikij svidetel

Bezlikij svidetel

Translated title: Faceless Witness

Author: Bern, Irena

Genre: Crime

Year: 2025 | Pages: 352 | Origin: RUS | ISBN: 9785042205798

Strange crimes are happening on the outskirts of the city. The victims are young men - the maniac does not kill them, but leaves them in agony to await death... Young investigator Lisa finds one of them still alive. However, the rescued man is seriously injured and cannot remember the face of his pursuer. Alexandra Gerts, a famous psychotherapist, comes to the rescue. She tries to collect fragments of missing memories and help in the investigation. The game becomes more dangerous with every minute. And you can't trust anyone in it
Svet moj tisina

Svet moj tisina

Translated title: My light is silence

Author: Polyakova, Tatyana

Genre: Crime

Year: 2025 | Pages: 352 | Origin: RUS | ISBN: 9785042209376

Vladan Maric and I have been through a lot together. Now we have to figure out whose body was found in a pond near the house of a wealthy family and who benefited from drowning the woman. The new client suspects that her husband killed his mistress. She hopes to get grounds for a profitable divorce, but in the course of this story, it is easy to acquire only nightmares
Vsegda govori Vsegda

Vsegda govori Vsegda

Translated title: Always Say Always

Author: Ustinova, Tatiana

Genre: Crime

Year: 2025 | Pages: 352 | Origin: RUS | ISBN: 9785042218835

She was confident in herself, in life, in her husband, who seemed to her the best of men! Everything changed in an instant. The imagined world, so sweet and cozy, collapsed on her head, and she didn't have time to escape! However, she didn't even try, for she trusted and loved, and it never even occurred to her to escape from those she loves!
She will have to climb out from under the rubble and discover that the blooming garden in which she lived has turned into a pile of smoking ruins!.. But character is born in difficulties! She will find the strength within herself to start all over again. She will find new anchors. She will learn the true value of words and actions. She will become strong, and that is not easy at all!
Blizkie lûdi

Blizkie lûdi

Translated title: Close People

Author: Ustinova, Tatiana

Genre: Crime

Year: 2025 | Pages: 384 | Origin: RUS | ISBN: 9785042218774

In the morning, Stepan received a call from his deputy, Chernov, who reported that he had discovered the body of a laborer, Murkin, at the supermarket construction site. A strong start to the day! Stepan, head of the company Construction Technologies, understood that now he would have to explain himself not only to the police but also to the clients. And they are serious guys. And here's the deceased... Plus, local activists are organizing a protest march against the construction of the marketplace supposedly on sacred ground... But the police established that Murkin died as a result of an accident. However, Stepan does not believe this. After all, he found a notebook among the deceased's belongings, the entries of which indicate that this simple laborer was a... blackmailer. It seems that he was killed by someone from whom he was extorting money. And the killer is someone close, one of his close people... Stepan consciously delayed the terrible moment when he would have to sort through the notes. It turned out that it's not for nothing they say - delay is akin to death!
V. V. Tetrads risunkami na polâh

V. V. Tetrads risunkami na polâh

Translated title: V. V. Notebook with Drawings in the Margins

Series: Project Anonymous

Author: Anonymous

Genre: Crime

Year: 2025 | Pages: 320 | Origin: RUS | ISBN: 9785171738969

January - March 1902. United States of America - Russia. Young American engineer Andrew Timothy invents a high-speed electric engine for a submarine. The military commission does not accept the invention, since, in its opinion, it requires improvement. However, an unknown person finds out about the unique engine and begins to blackmail Timothy. The persecution frightens the engineer. In addition, he is in dire need of money. Fortunately, Russian artist Vasily Vereshchagin comes to San Francisco, where Timothy lives. Timothy learns that Vereshchagin is a former naval officer, therefore, he must understand something about ships and submarines. He meets Vereshchagin and says that he is ready to sell his invention to Russia. Vereshchagin suggests that he contact the Russian consulate in Washington. Timothy agrees. But on the way to Washington, right in the train car, an unknown person kills the engineer and steals all his things. Zagorsky and his faithful companion Ganzalin are also traveling on this train, and, apparently, they will have to once again join in a difficult investigation full of dangerous adventures
Avantûristka. Poslannica sudby

Avantûristka. Poslannica sudby

Translated title: Adventurer. Messenger of Destiny

Author: Malysheva, Anna

Genre: Crime / Historical

Year: 2025 | Pages: 320 | Origin: RUS | ISBN: 9785171739850

The action of the fourth book takes place in 1830. Viscountess da Grancy, in whom former enemies and lost friends are amazed to recognize Countess Elena Meshcherskaya, who disappeared seventeen years ago, comes to Moscow to take revenge on the relative who robbed her and to find her daughter, who disappeared without a trace. But something happens that no one could have predicted a cholera epidemic begins in Moscow
Dnevnik Kristiny

Dnevnik Kristiny

Translated title: Christina's Diary

Author: Saburov, Alexey

Genre: Crime

Year: 2025 | Pages: 272 | Origin: RUS | ISBN: 9785600045484

Maria Shubina and her husband move into a new house. They have years of life together behind them. Their daughter has grown up and fluttered off to Moscow for higher education. Maria's every day is filled with familiar concerns, and there was nothing exciting in them until she found the diary of the daughter of the previous tenants during renovations.
Student life, conversations with friends, first love - echoes of other people's memories are touching and allow you to escape from the hustle and bustle of work. But Maria's heart grows cold when the pages of the diary reveal a terrible story of missing girls...
What really happened twenty years ago? How did the fate of the diary's owner turn out? And how can the answers to these questions threaten Maria herself?
Graf Averin. Koldun Rossijskoj imperii

Graf Averin. Koldun Rossijskoj imperii

Translated title: Count Averin. Sorcerer of the Russian Empire

Author: Dashkevich, Viktor

Genre: Crime

Year: 2025 | Pages: 608 | Origin: RUS | ISBN: 9785042186912

The first book in the series about the investigations of Count Averin.

Magical Petersburg, 1982.

Count Averin investigates the murder of a nobleman's son, which is blamed on divs, cruel magical creatures from the Wasteland. They obey people, but get out of control as soon as they feel the blood or weakness of their master.
Averin understands that this is not the first murder and that a very powerful div is behind the crimes. At the same time, a huge demonic cat appears on Petrogradka

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