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Written and illustrated for children ages 5 to 7, this book celebrates grandmothers, the superheroes without whom none of us would exist, and the cultural traditions they carry, uniting and nurturing families across space and time. A thousand-year-old Korean New Year tradition illustrates the universal importance of multigenerational family and immigrant backgrounds.
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There’s a lot more stirring in this house than a mouse…
Everyone knows Santa arrives on the rooftop with the clatter of eight tiny reindeer. But did you realize that 2023 is the 200th publication anniversary of Clement Clarke Moore’s famous American poem about Santa coming down the chimney? And now, creative director Sally Veillette has packaged the ultimate version of this beloved rhyme to share with the world.
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Lights and strange noises from the living room wake up the main character of this story. Understanding what is going on, he goes to the room where his mother is, and sees his mother sewing protective masks. His mother tells him that from now on all essential workers and all those who need to travel to work will need to wear masks. When he reflects on his mother's words, he decides that he will also wear a colorful mask sewn by his mother, and he asks...
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Jürgen Appelo, a successful entrepreneur and well-known leadership expert, is paving new paths in management to help creative organizations survive and succeed in the 21st century. His new book, Startup, Scalap, Scruap, is based not only on the author's own experience with startup management, but also on research and interviews conducted in many European countries. The main goal of the author is to unify the methods and tools that are successfully...
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The author of Lolita translates the celebrated, medieval epic Russian poem about a doomed campaign led by Prince Igor Sviatoslavich the Brave.
A chivalric expedition is undertaken in the late twelfth century by a minor prince in the land of Rus' to defeat, against overwhelming odds, a powerful alliance in a neighboring territory. The anonymous poet who chronicled this adventure packed unprecedented metaphorical agility, keenness of observation, and...
6) Masks!
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The young characters of this story have been told by their families that from now on everyone will need to wear protective masks and will need to stay away from each other. With new masks on their faces, the teenagers decide to go to an ice cream shop with their parents. They see it as a joke when adults on the streets wear strange hats as a reminder of the new laws. In any case, the use of masks and not interacting with people does not upset them,...
7) Invasion
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Dmytro Hromov and Oleh Ladyzhensky had never written documentary prose before, only fiction. They had never kept diaries. But the invasion of Ukraine changed everything. These diaries are not the fiction that Oldie is used to. Different language, different style, according to the circumstances. These notes were written in cities under fire, in basements and bomb shelters, on evacuation trains and buses, in rented apartments during short pauses of...
8) Deserts
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How do desert animals and plants get their water?
What animals live in the desert?
Learn all about the desert and the species that call it home.
9) Home Games
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Home Games is a broken fairytale depicting a crucial moment in the life of Alina, a 20-year-old "million dollar baby" from Kyiv, whose passion for football has a chance of saving her from poverty.
10) The Trumpeter
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Kolya is a young trumpeter in the brass orchestra Berezil. On the way to success some problems of adult life occur: envy, rivalry, intrigues. But friendship, mutual help and love help him overcome everything and win.
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In the Chernobyl "Dead Zone" or "Exclusion Zone," the film's central characters - Hanna Zavorotnya (80), Valentyna Ivanivna (72), and Maria Shovkuta (85) - are the last survivors of a community of "self settlers" who refused to leave their ancestral homes after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. "Shoot me and dig the grave," Hanna told a soldier who tried to evacuate her, "otherwise I'm staying." She'd survived Stalin's famines and Nazi atrocities...
14) Stranger
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When people begin to mysteriously disappear at a hydrotherapy clinic, a talented inspector is assigned to investigate the strange occurrences, but as the case unfolds, the true horrors of the detective's own identity come into focus for her.
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Three decades after the world's most infamous nuclear disaster, wildlife has returned in the absence of human settlements. Meanwhile, illegal hiking adventurers known as "stalkers," extreme sports aficionados, artists, and tour companies have begun to explore anew the ghostly, post-apocalyptic landscape.
18) Klondike
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The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Ukraine-Russia during the start of the war. The pregnant Irka refuses to leave her house, even shortly after the family find themselves at the center of an international air crash catastrophe.
20) Eastern Front
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Experience 6 months on the front lines of war with a Ukranian medical unit. From the first minute of Russia's large-scale aggression against Ukraine, Yevhen Titarenko began to record everything that surrounded him. Co-directed by Vitaly Mansky (UNDER THE SUN, PUTIN'S WITNESSES) and Yevhen Titarenko.