Day Watch is the second installment in the blockbuster series of novels by Russia's most popular science fiction author, Sergei Lukyanenko. This novel transports readers back into the hyperimaginative world where the dramatic battle between good and evil, light and dark, day and night continues.

Set in modern-day Moscow, this epic saga chronicles the eternal war of the "Others," an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who must swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light. The agents of Dark, known as The Day Watch, keep an eye during the day, while the agents of Light keep watch over the night. For a thousand years, a treaty between the two sides has maintained an uneasy balance.

The story takes an intriguing turn when a potent artifact is stolen from the inquisition—an impartial group of Others who oversee all. The consequences are dire for both sides. Day Watch introduces the perspective of the Dark Ones, narrated in part by a beautiful but troubled young witch. When she falls in love with a handsome young Light One, the balance is threatened, and a death must be avenged.

This fast-paced, darkly humorous, and haunting world is filled with cunning, cruelty, violence, and magic. It will take root in the shadows of your mind and live there forever.

Who is going to marry Eugénie Grandet? This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugénie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comédie Humaine.

The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugénie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugénie's emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel.

Eugénie's moving story is set against the backdrop of provincial oppression, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the workings of the financial system in the aftermath of the French Revolution. It is both a poignant portrayal of private life and a vigorous fictional document of its age.