Voices Within: Original Russian Title: Golosa Vnutri. Bella: Po Tu Storonu Laya

From Lana Stasek, whose first book in the Voices Within series received a 2026 Readers' Favorite Book Award, comes the original Russian-language edition of Bella: Beyond the Bark, a novel inspired by the true life of her rescue dog.Bella is a beagle born in a barn among horses. Before she ever knew a home, she lived in cages, in a stranger's yard, and on a street corner on Chicago's South Side. She spent a full year waiting at the Orphans of the Storm shelter in Illinois, until a woman who had been terrified of dogs her entire life walked in.Told in Bella's voice, with humor and an unflinching eye, the story follows her through abandonment, the streets, the shelter system, and the five years she finally got to call her own. Watching people from below, she notices what they often miss in themselves: how fear becomes habit, how trust returns slowly, and how a home can take as long to get used to as loneliness.For readers who loved A Dog's Purpose and The Art of Racing in the Rain, and for anyone who has loved and lost an animal.This edition is written entirely in Russian.