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Children's & YANovember 2019Claire Malone Changes the World
by Nadia L. King / Alisa Knatko
Swedish schoolgirl, Greta Thunberg has captured the world’s attention as she campaigns to raise awareness of climate change and calls world leaders to account. All children can follow Greta’s lead. Claire Malone is the hero of Claire Malone Changes the World, a feisty character with boundless energy to change her world for the better. Armed with her typewriter and the determination to make a difference, Claire is an ordinary kid with an extraordinary desire to change things for the better. Writing letter after letter, Claire advocates for change. One day she notices that her local park needs upgrading and she commits wholeheartedly to the cause. This an empowering and inspiring picture book for young children but especially for girls. You will love the journey of Claire, a strong and ambitious girl, so much that you will want to read this book over and over again.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)2021Where the Wind Is
by Lyubko Deresh
Max Tarnavskii is a young writer once recognized by the young audience for his debut novel about young counterculture but then scathingly criticized for his third novel "Where the Wind Is", — a philosophical parable about a hermit living in a lighthouse by the sea. Having fallen off the readers’ radar, he suffers through his inability to create any further. It’s the second half of the 2010s, Kyiv. On the New Year’s Eve Max gets an offer from Alisa, a first-year student, to go on a tour with a young rock band as a gonzo journalist to revive his counterculture icon status. Max balks at first, but an unexpected brawl on Facebook in which Max is reminded about his passivity during the Maidan and his uncertain ideological views in the days of the ATO and the war, and a critical review of Max’s new novel outline from his literary agent urge Tarnavskii to accept the offer after all. The rock band he joins for a tour from Western to Eastern Ukraine has turned up to be an inept group trip planner, so the protagonist has to take up the role of a leader capable of saving the band from a total fiasco. Traveling with the teenage freshmen becomes the young writer’s road to adulthood, forgiveness, and an attempt to forgive his own mistakes of youth in particular. Just to earn his living, Max agrees to perform with the rockers while on tour, flies in the face of his creative fears, and is forced to redefine himself as a writer once again. He faces the dangers of concert disruptions, the band split up, public disapproval, and threats of physical violence. Ability to write on the road becomes his only way to save and revive his own self, stand up to his hidden weaknesses, reconsider his role in a society that undergoes a war. A post-tour trip with Alisa to her grandmother who lives in a village on the liberated from the occupation territories becomes Tarnavskii’s hope for a renewal. On this trip Max gets a chance to full recovery, because in Tarnavskii’s mind these are the parts, where he will find the sand bar with the lighthouse where the hermit from his novel "Where the Wind Is" lives.
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September 2019So duftet Glück
Natürlich durchs Leben mit ätherischen Ölen
by Keller, Vivien; Merbele, Julia; Leube, Alisa
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ROGUE: UNTOUCHED
A MARVEL HEROINES NOVEL
by Alisa Kwitney
Rogue’s frightening new mutant powers keep her at arms-lengthfrom the world, but two strangers offer a chance tochange her life forever, in this exhilarating Marvel Super Heroadventure Young Rogue’s life is a mess: she lives alone in an abandoned cabin, worksa terrible diner job and hides from everyone. The powers she has startedto develop are terrifying her. When your first kiss almost kills the guy, it’shard to trust anyone – even yourself. Then two people arrive in town whocould change her life, and she finally gets a choice: follow a mysteriousbillionaire who says she’s scouting for gifted interns, or the handsomecard shark with eerie red eyes. Except they’re not the only ones watchingher… Rogue will have to trust in herself and accept the powers she’s tryingto suppress to decide her own fate – before someone else does.
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Picture books, activity books & early learning materialJanuary 2018Hello, Door
by Alastair Heim, Alisa Coburn
In this ode to the classic Goldilocks and the Three Bears story, kids can follow a thieving fox as he greets everything he sees in a home that isn't his. He collects fine art and jewelry, practices his golf swing, and devours a tasty snack along the way. But just when he thinks he's in the clear to leave with all the goods, the owners of the house – a mama bear, papa bear, and baby bear – come home. They chase him through the house, and when the mama bear catches him, she promptly throws him out. But she throws him so far that he ends up in a much nicer neighbourhood – in front of a mansion, in fact – where he can begin his mischievous adventure again!
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My White
by Ksenia Burzhskaya
A sensational and highly anticipated novel by Ksenia Burzhskaya, a Russian renowned journalist, writer, and co-host of the YouTube channel White Noise, together with the famous Russian writer, Tatyana Tolstaya. Ksenia is also a speechwriter for Alisa (a voice assistant and Yandex’s alternative to Alexa) and the winner of the literary competition My First Pain (2008) organized by another great Russian author, Ludmila Ulitskaya. My White is set in the modern day. Throughout the book, the main character, sixteen-year-old girl Jane (Zhenya) is preparing for a New Year school performance. Zhenya was brought up by her two moms, artist Alexandra and doctor Vera. But despite that, she faces the same problems every other teenager does: she studies, meets up with friends, falls for a boy, and tries her best to get over an unrequited love and her parents’ divorce. Zhenya’s ultimate goal and destination in the novel, the concert, has two purposes: to gather her mothers and hopefully make them change their mind about the divorce, and to give her a chance to confess to Lyonya, head of their music club and the guy she is secretly in love with. The novel has two central story lines. The first is a constant rehearsal, anticipation and premonition, that may be more important than the event itself. The second is memories, regrets, attempts to find your own way and answer the eternal questions: what is love? can it last forever? why do we love at all?
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March 2020My Name is Konisola
by Alisa Siegel
In a land of strangers, a new family can be found. On a freezing cold winter night, nine-year-old Konisola and her mother step off a plane in North America. Their home in Nigeria is no longer safe for them, and they are taking the biggest chance of their lives to travel across the world in search of refuge. Soon after they land, disaster strikes, Konisola’s mother falls ill and they become separated. Konisola is forced to fend for herself in a strange country, with no family and no friends. Then she meets a remarkable nurse and things begin to change for the better. Will she be allowed to stay in Canada as a refugee, or will she be sent back across the ocean? This is a story of bravery and determination, of loss, and of generosity and good will that paved the way for a new family. Inspired by a true story.
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The Sexuality Conundrum
Queer Culture and Dissidence in Contemporary Turkey
by Cüneyt Çakırlar, Serkan Delice (Eds.)
The Sexuality Conundrum aims to challenge heteronormativity, compulsory heterosexuality and homo / transphobic violence in Turkey by investigating local historical and cultural narratives, social practices and forms of relationality in creative, dissident and queer ways.The book brings together 19 essays by activists, scholars, cultural and literary critics, two interviews with Deniz Kandiyoti and Cüneyt Türel, and the work of four artists, Taner Ceylan, Nilbar Güreş, Murat Morova and Erinç Seymen. Articles by Cihat Arınç, Nami Başer, Zeynep Direk, Tuna Erdem, Başak Ertür, Veysel Eşsiz, Özlem Güçlü, Alisa Lebow, Cenk Özbay, Fatih Özgüven, Erdal Partog, EvrenSavcı, Bülent Somay, Birkan Taş, Sibel Yardımcı, and Adnan Yıldız.
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Artwork. Texts
by Editor: Alisa Lozhkina. Texts: Asia Bazdyreva, Kateryna Botanova, Anton Drobovych, Tamara Zlobina, Alevtyna Kakhidze, Maria Kulikovska, Alisa Lozhkina, Ewa Sulek, Iryna Stasiuk, Igor Pietraszewski
The ART WORK exhibition is a project of Mystetskyi Arsenal and Galeria Mieska (Wroclaw, Poland). It was held at Mystetskyi Arsenal from June 29 to July 30, 2017. The focus of the project is the work of artists and people involved in the art industry of Ukraine and Poland and the ambiguous relationship of the artist and the art market. The second important emphasis is a change in the traditional notion of work in society, the main challenge for which is the rapid reduction of jobs due to the comprehensive automation and development of artificial intelligence.
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Oleksander Hnylytskyj. Reality of Illusion
by Texts: Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta, Oleksander Soloviov, Solomia Savchuk, Alisa Lozhkina, Tatiana Kochubinska, Kateryna Tykhonenko
This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Reality of Illusion. Oleksander Hnylytskyj (February 23 — March 26, 2017). The exhibition was constructed not as a simple final retrospection. It had a specific conceptual core, reflected in the title – the reality and illusiveness of the world in their intermutation and convergence. It is this core that combines incredible variety into a cohesive artistic world of Oleksandr Hnylytskyj. The artistic path was depicted not in the linear form, but in the conceptual form instead – the exhibition was disintegrated like a puzzle where separate fragments, cycles, blocks and meanings joined and intertwined with unexpected logic, generating a complicated “exhibitional performance.”
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Oleg Holosiy. Non-Stop Painting
by Compiled by Kateryna Tykhonenko, Oleksandr Soloviov, Solomia Savchuk. Texts: Oksana Barshynova, Viktoria Burlaka, Volodymyr Yershykhin, Tetiana Zhmurko, Alisa Lozhkina, Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta, Solomia Savchuk, Oleksandr Soloviov
The publication is devoted to the figure of the artist Oleg Holosiy (1965-1993) — one of the most prominent artists in the history of Ukrainian art, a member of the Paris Commune art squat. The book examines Oleg Holosiy’s life and painting method as well as the first reproductions of graphic drawings, poems and sketches of the artist. The book you hold in your hands is an attempt to archive the fruitful creativity of the artist over the last five years of his life.
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FictionThe migrant
by D. Agnès Hill
by NZABA Arafat
I use my nickname: D. Agnès Hill for write this book, it's a novel about the migrant. A short history of African migrants who passed by the lybie to reach Europe.
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Children's & YASeptember 2020The Paper Boat
A Refugee Story
by Thao Lam
New from Thao Lam, the award-winning author of picture books My Cat Looks Like My Dad, Wallpaper, and Skunk on a String, comes a personal story inspired by her family’s refugee journey. In The Paper Boat, Thao’s signature collage art tells the wordless story of one family’s escape from Vietnam—a journey intertwined with an ant colony’s parallel narrative. At her home in Vietnam, a girl rescues ants from the sugar water set out to trap them. Later, when the girl’s family flees war-torn Vietnam, ants lead them through the moonlit jungle to the boat that will take them to safety. Before boarding, the girl folds a paper boat from a bun wrapper and drops it into the water, and the ants climb on. Their perilous journey, besieged by punishing weather, predatory birds, and dehydration, before reaching a new beginning, mirrors the family’s own. Impressionistic collages and a moving, Own Voices narrative make this a one-of-a-kind tale of courage, resilience, and hope.
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Children's & YASeptember 2020Pretty Tricky
The Sneaky Ways Plants Survive
by Etta Kaner, Ashley Barron
Have you ever thought of plants as tricky? Probably not. But in this nonfiction book, readers are introduced to the tricky techniques some plants use to defend themselves, reproduce, or acquire food. From the copycat Boquila vine that changes shape to match its host plant, to the pungent carrion flower that lures pollinating flies with the scent of rotten meat, plants across the globe have adapted to survive all kinds of threatening fauna. Each amazing plant adaptation is described through fact bubbles and easy-to-grasp blocks of text. End matter includes a list of sources for kids to explore, a glossary defining scientific terms, and an index. Brought to life with eye-popping cut-paper collage illustrations, this book is a garden of knowledge that will leave kids with a better understanding of how living things adapt to their environments.
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FictionAugust 2020Dinosaurios en otros planetas
Stories
by Danielle McLaughlin / Ca_teter
Los relatos que componen este libro poseen esa particular forma de impureza de la que puede surgir la comprensión hacia los otros: ninguno de los personajes maltrechos que habitan estas once historias tiene toda la razón o está totalmente equivocado; ninguna bondad es total aquí, ninguna mezquindad es absoluta. El talento de McLaughlin para hacer surgir los detalles que expresan la ambigua complejidad de la conducta humana convierte estos relatos en poderosas piezas literarias de singular lucidez. «La escritura de McLaughlin es tan atrapante y visual que el lector se mete de lleno en la historia desde el primer párrafo.» Sophie Gorman, Irish Independent «Este libro no es un debut en el sentido usual, es decir, una promesa de grandes cosas por venir. No es necesario preguntar qué hará Danielle McLaughlin luego: ya lo ha hecho. Este libro llegó para quedarse con nosotros por mucho tiempo.» Anne Enright
