""I︠a︡ pishu istorii o li︠u︡bi, kotorai︠a︡ sama po seve i est' okonchatel'nai︠a︡ nagrada, esli ona ne bol'nai︠a︡, ne beshenai︠a︡, ne bymatyvai︠u︡shchai︠a︡ dushu. Inogda i︠a︡ pridumyvai︠u︡ k neĭ krasivue dekorat︠s︡ii - doma, mashiny, luzhaĭki, a inogda i dekorat︠s︡iĭ nikakikh ne pridumyvai︠u︡, polnym-polno istoriĭ, gde geroi zhivut v panel'nykh domakh i rabotai︠u︡t, skazhem, v bol'nit︠s︡e!.....

Humorous stories for children about the consequences of exaggerating, bragging, and other situations.

"A novel about 4 generations of a family living in Saint-Petersburg, Russia."

Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it's only when she and her friends Ruth...

Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abarbanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance. Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by tragic...