A story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Red Scare. “That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other.” And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: “Have you ever heard of such a thing?” Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.

„Skirgaila“ – pirmoji klasikinė lietuvių tragedija. Pirmasis dramos „Skirgaila“ variantas buvo parašytas Kaukaze pirmojo pasaulinio karo metu. Kai režisierius Borisas Dauguvietis norėjo pastatyti ją Kauno Valstybės Teatre, V. Krėvė 1924 metais dramą perkūrė lietuviškai, pakeitė ir nemažai papildė. Drama turi griežtą kompoziciją – tai lyg istorinės dramos modelis. Drama vaizduoja XIV a. pabaigos Lietuvos valdovą Skirgailą ir to meto politines, kultūrines bei religines problemas. „Skirgailoje“ atskleidžiama žmogaus dvasinio žlugimo drama, tragiška Skirgailos kova su aplinkiniais ir su savimi, parodomas savigriovos procesas. Šiuo požiūriu Krėvės „Skirgaila“ labiausiai priartėja prie šekspyriškojo tragizmo esmės. V. Krėvės Skirgaila – tragiškasis herojus, kuriam būdingas kentėjimas. Jis nori žmonėms gero, tačiau nežino, kaip tai padaryti, o savo veiksmais, griaudamas nusistovėjusias gyvenimo normas, atneša žmonėms ir sau daug kentėjimų. Be viso to, tragiškasis herojus dar yra ir kaltas be kaltės. Skirgailos tragizmą ir didybę sujungia charakteris. Skirgaila troško prasmingo gyvenimo, tačiau patyrė gyvenimo beprasmybę, jo energingas rūpestis valstybe virto apatišku neveiklumu, aistringas Dievo ieškojimas – demoniškumu, o pasitikėjimas savimi – paniška pralaimėjimo baime.

The heroic son of Poseidon makes an action-packed comeback in the second must-read installment of Rick Riordan's amazing young readers series. Starring Percy Jackson, a "half blood" whose mother is human and whose father is the God of the Sea, Riordan's series combines cliffhanger adventure and Greek mythology lessons that results in true page-turners that get better with each installment. In this episode, The Sea of Monsters, Percy sets out to retrieve the Golden Fleece before his summer camp is destroyed, surpassing the first book's drama and setting the stage for more thrills to come.

"Description contains spoilers for previous book in the series" The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler—the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years—has been vanquished. But Kelsier, the hero who masterminded that triumph, is dead too, and now the awesome task of building a new world has been left to his young protégé, Vin, the former street urchin who is now the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and to the idealistic young nobleman she loves. As Kelsier's protégé and slayer of the Lord Ruler she is now venerated by a budding new religion, a distinction that makes her intensely uncomfortable. Even more worrying, the mists have begun behaving strangely since the Lord Ruler died, and seem to harbor a strange vaporous entity that haunts her. Stopping assassins may keep Vin's Mistborn skills sharp, but it's the least of her problems. Luthadel, the largest city of the former empire, doesn't run itself, and Vin and the other members of Kelsier's crew, who lead the revolution, must learn a whole new set of practical and political skills to help. It certainly won't get easier with three armies - one of them composed of ferocious giants - now vying to conquer the city, and no sign of the Lord Ruler's hidden cache of atium, the rarest and most powerful allomantic metal. As the siege of Luthadel tightens, an ancient legend seems to offer a glimmer of hope. But even if it really exists, no one knows where to find the Well of Ascension or what manner of power it bestows.

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde must uncover their secrets before it’s too late, in this heartwarming, enchanting second installment of the Emily Wilde series. Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore who just wrote the world’s first comprehensive encyclopaedia of faeries. She’s learned many of the secrets of the Hidden Ones on her adventures . . . and also from her fellow scholar and former rival Wendell Bambleby. Because Bambleby is more than infuriatingly charming. He’s an exiled faerie king on the run from his murderous mother and in search of a door back to his realm. And despite Emily’s feelings for Bambleby, she’s not ready to accept his proposal of marriage: Loving one of the Fair Folk comes with secrets and dangers. She also has a new project to focus on: a map of the realms of faerie. While she is preparing her research, Bambleby lands her in trouble yet again, when assassins sent by his mother invade Cambridge. Now Bambleby and Emily are on another adventure, this time to the picturesque Austrian Alps, where Emily believes they may find the door to Bambleby’s realm and the key to freeing him from his family’s dark plans. But with new relationships for the prickly Emily to navigate and dangerous Folk lurking in every forest and hollow, Emily must unravel the mysterious workings of faerie doors and of her own heart.

Apysakoje „Sename dvare“ vaizdžiai veriasi archetipinio, senojo dvaro peizažai, iškyla gilūs psichologiniai ryšiai tarp jautriosios mamatės ir jos dukters Irusios. Kūrinys kupinas gyvenimo filosofijos, buities ir būties klausimų, pareigos ir laisvės, ribos tarp trapių svajonių ir proziškos gyvenimo realybės apmąstymų. Apysaka "Sename dvare" yra vienas meniškiausių Šatrijos Raganos kūrinių. Veikėjų paveikslus rašytoja kuria psichologinės analizės, realistinės detalės, kalbinės charakteristikos būdu. Apysakos kompozicija yra gerai apgalvota. Nuo išorinio dvaro vaizdo, nuo siauros šeimyninės aplinkos einama prie platesnio gyvenimo reiškinių rato, nuo vaikiško pasaulio su jo pasakomis ir paslaptimis - prie svarbių visuomeninių klausimų. Šatrijos Ragana (tikr. Marija Pečkauskaitė, 1877–1930) – lietuvių rašytoja ir pedagogė.