Nicki's mitten becomes a cozy home for a host of woodland creatures. The illustrations and book design are exquisite, perfectly capturing the wintry setting. Set in a snowy forest, the fun begins when, one by one, animals crawl into Nicki's lost white mitten to get warm until the bear sneezes, sending the animals flying up and out of the mitten. On each turn of the page, Jan hints at what animal is coming next in her signature borders, inspired by Ukrainian folk art.

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Finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards, sponsored by the Writers Union of Canada. Semi-finalist for the 2019 Kindle Book Awards.In this family saga set in Russia, love and loss are bound together by a country always at warDuring WWI, Lukia Mazurets, a Ukrainian farmwife, delivers her eighth child while her husband is serving in the Tsar’s army. Soon after, she and her children are forced to flee the invading Germans. Over the next fourteen years, Lukia must rely on her wits and faith to survive life in a refugee camp, the ravages of a typhus epidemic, the Bolshevik revolution, unimaginable losses, and one daughter’s forbidden love. Sunflowers Under Fire is a heartbreakingly intimate novel that illuminates the strength of the human spirit, as shown by its courageous and inspirational heroine. Based on the true stories of her grandmother’s ordeals, author Diana Stevan captures the voices of those who had little say in a country that is still being fought over.

Shortlisted for the prestigious Gramophone Awards in 2013, the CD version of Vinci's Artaserse was described by Gramophone as a "sensational landmark recording;" International Record Review judged it "an outstanding performance and the most important Baroque opera discovery of the year so far," with the reviewer adding: "I can't recommend it highly enough, especially if you like countertenors," while The Guardian said, "The singing is epoch-making." When, in late 2012, the opera was staged at the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy in an extravagant, Baroque-inspired production by Silviu Purcãrete, the response was no less enthusiastic. Artaserse, a story of the Persian emperor Artaxerxes, was first performed in 1730 at the Teatro delle Dame in Rome. At the time, a papal decree banned women from appearing on the stages of the city's theatres, so the entire cast was male, with the female roles sung by castrati. This production rises to the challenge of single-sex casting with an impressive line-up of fine countertenors: Croatian-born Max Emanuel Cencic, who was a driving force behind the entire Artaserse project; the Frenchman Philippe Jaroussky; Argentinian Franco... [Read More]

P'yata knyha z seriyi "Ukrayinsʹka vyshyvka. Zolota kolektsiya". Vypusk "Chornyy" - nove rukodilʹne vydannya, v yakomu zibrani ukrayinsʹki uzory dlya vyshyvannya. Krim khudozhnʹoho tvoru ta zaproponovanykh skhem knyha mistytʹ navchalʹnu chastynu z poyasnennyamy shchodo vykonannya okremykh tekhnik vyshyvky, korysni porady vyshyvalʹnytsyam-pochatkivtsyam. П'ята книга з серії "Українська вишивка. Золота колекція". Випуск "Чорний" - нове рукодільне видання, в якому зібрані українські узори для вишивання. Крім художнього твору та запропонованих схем книга містить навчальну частину з поясненнями щодо виконання окремих технік вишивки, корисні поради вишивальницям-початківцям.