Russian Academy of Sciences: TOP Books For 9-10 y.o. Children

According to scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences, each children in 9-10 years old should read next list of books:

1. «Black Hen, or Living Underground» by Antony Pogorelsky
2. «Adventures of Captain Vrungel» by Andrei Nekrasov
3. «Tales from the Urals («The Mistress of the Copper Mountain», «The Malachite Casket», «The Stone Flower», «The Mountain Master», «The Brittle Twig», «The Two Lizards» and other) by Pavel Bazhov

Kazan, Sheep and Dastarkhan by Stalik Hankishiev

If the first book by Stalik Hankishiev was "a book of rice", the second - a real Encyclopedia of meat. More precisely, the question of mutton - the most important precursors for cooking in Central Asia and Azerbaijan, the gastronomic culture of which the author dedicates his work.

Photo as Haiku by Boris Akunin

This is an amazing book of all with whom I had to deal with in my editorial and publishing life. I advise you to read the book as I did.
First look at the photos carefully and try to guess who this man was and how there was this life.
Then read the story and check your perspicacity.

Boris Akunin

Siege Diary by Lena Mukhina "...Save My Sad Story..."

"... Save my sad story ..." - with these words, turned to her diary of a dying girl dystrophy.

We know the 'adult' evidence of monstrous, not fully studied the phenomenon, known as the Siege of Leningrad: "Memoirs" by D.Likhachev, Notes of the siege man" by L. Ginzburg, "Siege Diary" by G. Knyazev, " Memories of the siege" by V. Glinka and many others. But the "children's" evidences are little. For stunning effects can be called one thing: the diary of Jura Ryabinkin shown in the "Leningrad Gospels" - "Blockade Book" by D. Granin and A. Adamovich.

Archimandrite Tikhon: Unholy Holy and Other Stories

In the new book by the father of the Moscow Sretensky Monastery Archimandrite Tikhon tell about the life of monks.

The book is written an interesting literary language, and genuine sincerity with which the author created it, only helps to feel how this life is bright and beautiful. Even far from the Russian monastery church person can open the other side.

Zinaida Reich. Fate by Olga Kuchkina

The book is devoted to the complex history of relationships of Actress, Poet and Director. Triangle Reich-Yesenin-Meyerhold - it's tragic romance, and social upheavals, inspiration, creativity and strong feelings, and patterns of the fatal accident of time.

Tatyana Ustinova: Uncuted Edges

They're back! Author of detectives Masha Polivanova and fashion writer Alexey Lorer investigate a new case and try to sort out their feelings for each other. The matter, as well as the relationship is complicated by the hour.

Everyone's favorite, the head of IT-department of the famous publishing house "Alphabet" Vladimir Beregovoy was behind bars. Finding a corpse in the trunk of a well-known TV presenter, he brought the corpse to the police - and it immediately ... No, not rewarded, and planted. Save Beregovogo will have to Masha and Alexey. As well as strict and prim Catherine Mitrofanova, which occupies a high position in publishing. Especially that "Catherine the Great", cold and inaccessible, hiding from myself a terrible secret: she's ears in love with that of the head of IT-department.