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Christoph Ransmayr

The Lockmaster • Over 1.2 million books sold in Germany • Sample translation available

March 2021 · 224 pages

Christoph Ransmayr returns with a short tale about killing.

A longboat plunges down the raging rapids and over the White River’s dreaded cascades. Five people drown. The man who tends the © Magdalena Weyrer Magdalena © © Magdalena Weyrer Magdalena © sluice gates, known respectfully in the riverside villages as the ‘lockmaster’, lord of life and death, ought to have prevented this disaster. When the lockmaster subsequently disappears, his son begins to sus- pect that it wasn’t an accident. Christoph Ransmayr, born in Austria in 1954, studied philosophy and ethnol- Has this irascible man, so obsessed by the past, turned to murder? The ogy in Vienna. Alongside popular and son’s quest for the truth takes him back to long-forgotten days and to internationally acclaimed novels such as Die letzte Welt, Cox oder Der Lauf der Zeit his beloved sister. Like his father, he is familiar with the incredible and Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes (Atlas forces of water through his work as a hydraulic engineer on the of an Anxious Man) he has published ten planet’s great rivers, the focal points of the new water wars. His works of prose in which he experiments search takes him across a European continent that has disintegrated with narrative form, including Damen into a mosaic of megalomaniac small states. und Herren unter Wasser, Geständnisse eines Touristen and Der Wolfsjäger. The Christoph Ransmayr has written a consummate, gripping tale about a edited volume Bericht am Feuer is dedi- world on the brink of breakdown, a tale of guilt and forgiveness. cated to his work.

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Sharon Dodua Otoo

Ada's Realm • A resounding feminist novel in the tradition of Virginia Woolf • (Spring 2021) available soon! • SampleNBG review translation by Jon Cho-Polizzi available

Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (2016) for Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin

February 2021 · 320 pages

The long-awaited first novel from Ingeborg Bachmann Prize- winning author Sharon Dodua Otoo © Ralf Steinberger Ralf © © Ralf Steinberger Ralf © Sharon Dodua Otoo’s courage and passion for narration and her curiosity for understanding the present day are breathtaking. Every- thing in her world hangs by a silken thread: threatening to fall at any moment, floating in wondrous suspense.

Since winning the Bachmann Prize in So, too, with Ada, the protagonist of Otoo’s first novel. Ada is not one, 2016, Sharon Dodua Otoo has become but many women: She revolves in orbits between Ghana and London a fixture in German-language media, before eventually landing in Berlin. But she is also all women — and the charismatic voice of a new gen- eration: Black, self-confident, feminist. because these loops transport her from one century to the next. And Her opening address for the 2020 Inge- so, she experiences the misery but also the joy of womanhood: she is a borg Bachmann Prize was a sensation. victim, she offers resistance, and she fights for her independence. Born in London in 1972, she now lives with both the English and German lan- With vivid language and infinite imagination — with empathy and guages in Berlin. Her first humor — Sharon Dodua Otoo’s novel Ada’s Realm paints an astonish- novellas, the things i am thinking while ing picture of what it means to be a woman. smiling politely and Synchronicity, were written in English; since the publication of her Bachmann Prize-winning short story Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin, she writes primarily in German. “Sharon Dodua Otoo will leave a lucid trail of words across the German- language literary scene. Some may find this journey arduous, but it will do all of us immense good.” TAZ

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Judith Hermann

Home • Over 1.5 million Judith Hermann books sold • English sample translation by Katy Derbyshire available

"This is a triumph of the novelist's art" The Guardian on Alice

• Blixenprisen 2018 for »Lettipark« • Erich-Fried-Prize • Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize • Kleist-Prize

Judith Hermann tells the story of a departure: an old world is lost and a new one comes about. © Gaby Gerster Gaby © © Gaby Gerster Gaby © Her daughter is a traveller, on the road far away. In little letters to her ex-husband, she tells him how she’s doing in her new life by the sea, in the north. She sets up house, forges cautious friendships, tries love for size, wonders whether she might feel at home here or ought to move on.

Judith Hermann tells the story of a woman who leaves a great deal behind her, builds resilience and becomes another person in the Judith Hermann was born in Berlin in intense landscape of the coast. 1970 and lives there with her family. Her extraordinary debut Sommerhaus, später She tells a story of remembering. And a story of a moment in which was followed by the short story collec- life splits in two, an old world is lost and a new one comes about. tion Nichts als Gespenster, the five stories in Alice, her first novel Aller Liebe Anfang and the short stories Lettipark. Judith Hermann’s work has become In this new novel, Judith Hermann admirably recreates the ‘dancing, required reading in schools and has feather-light and yet melancholy tone’ (Uwe Wittstock) that makes her been adapted for the silver screen, work so unique. internationally celebrated, and awarded numerous prizes, including the Kleist Prize and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize.

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Roland Schimmelpfennig

The Line between Day and Night • Debut novel One Clear, Ice-cold January Morning... was shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize • One of Germany’s most-performed and internationally successful playwrights • Sample translation available • NBG review available soon »A 21st century Döblin« Der Freitag February 2021 · 208 pages

A fast-moving and emotionally charged trip through the chaos of contemporary life © Adriana Jacome Adriana © © Adriana Jacome Adriana © During a police operation Tommy, a successful drug squad detective, kills an innocent child. Afterwards, nothing is the same. The young policeman no longer sees the point of his job, his long-term relationship breaks up, he goes further and further off the rails and the only person he can turn to is Csaba, a drug dealer – until ultimately Roland Schimmelpfennig, born in Tommy is suspended. Not until he recovers a young woman’s dead 1967, is Germany’s most-performed body at a techno party in Görlitzer Park, does Tommy find something contemporary dramatist. He worked as a journalist in Istanbul, going on to that moves and motivates him: Who was this woman? Why was she study directing. His first position as a wearing a wedding dress? And what is the significance of the mysteri- director was at the Munich Kammer- ous tattoo on her back? In his third novel, Roland Schimmelpfennig spiele. He has been working as a free- takes us on a journey through all the fascinating facets of vibrant con- lance writer since 1996. Schimmelpfen- temporary Berlin. This pulsating, cosmopolitan city is also a place lost nig’s plays have been staged in more between day and night – a city full of hidden depths. than 40 countries, to great success. Fis- cher Taschenbuch Verlag has published ten years of his dramatic work in the volume Die Frau von früher and Trilogie der Tiere. His first novel An einem klaren, »Sometimes there would be these rare evenings when I was sober and clear- eiskalten Januarmorgen zu Beginn des 21. headed, evenings when I could be certain of putting one step ahead of Jahrhunderts, published in 2016, was on another, even though everything in my life had fallen apart.« the shortlist for the Leipzig Book Fair from: The Line between Day and Night Prize.

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Lisa Krusche

Our Anarchistic Hearts • Nominated for Lit.Cologne's Debut Prize 2021 • Deutschlandfunk Prize 2020

“Lisa Krusche’s sinewy and poetic use of language brings everything to life as she mixes registers into a quicksilver flow, and her inexhaustible imagination shows me — and most other writers in German — how fossilized and robotic we have become.”

April 2021 · 448 pages

How are you meant to rebel when everything already seems lost?

Two young women: Charles and Gwen. Charles is dead against mov- © Charlotte Krusche Charlotte © © Charlotte Krusche Charlotte © ing to the countryside with her post-hippie parents. Luckily, she can count on a newsagent’s, a palm tree and wifi. And Gwen? She lives nearby, her wild, grimy lifestyle an escape from her parents’ prosper- ity. She steals money from the boys she sleeps with and gives it away. It is high time these two women met.

Lisa Krusche’s debut novel Our Anarchistic Hearts is about the Lisa Krusche was born in 1990 in impossible demands of modern life. How are you meant to rebel Hildesheim and lives in Braunschweig. when everything already seems lost? All that remains is friendship. She studied Art History and Aesthetics And this friendship develops its own explosive impetus... at Braunschweig University of Art (HBK). Her writing has appeared in magazines and anthologies including “Mindstate Malibu. Criticism is just “I think of Sartre. How totally unspecific he was. Hell is not other people. another form of escapism”. She won the Hell is parents.” From Our Anarchistic Hearts 2019 Edit Radio Essay Prize, followed in 2020 by the Hans-im-Glück Prize, and the Deutschlandfunk Prize at the Festi- val of German-Language Literature in “Lisa Krusche maps out a fantastic panorama . . . Powerful in its literary Klagenfurt. Our Anarchistic Hearts is Lisa Krusche’s first novel. technique and highly political.” Klaus Kastberger, Ingeborg Bachmann Prize jury member

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Ulrich Peltzer

That's You • Ulrich Peltzer's last novel, Das bessere Leben (The Better Life), was shortlisted for the in 2015. German Book Prize • 'A Storyteller of European stature' Heinrich Böll Prize Jury 2011

February 2021 · 288 pages

Ulrich Peltzer, born in Krefeld in 1956, Jump cuts through time: Ulrich Peltzer's portrait of the artist as studied philosophy and psychology in a young man Berlin, where he has lived since 1975. He has published the novels Die Sünden der Suddenly this woman is sitting at a corner table next to the bar, and Faulheit (1987), Stefan Mar- you have no choice but to approach her. Straight across the room like tinez (1995), Alle oder keiner (1999), Bryant Park (2002) and Teil der Lösung (2007). a sleepwalker. What was it that started back in snowy West Berlin in His work has won numerous awards, the early eighties, when Potsdamer Platz was a wasteland torn apart including the Prize of the SWR-Besten- by border installations, and the city was not yet stripped bare of its liste, the Bremen Literature Prize and dreams? Could everything have unfolded quite differently? Ulrich the Berlin Literature Prize. Teil der Peltzer writes in this moving story of love and of an artist, of the dan- Lösung was nominated for the Prize of gerous freedom, coolness and euphoric eruptions of a wild era that the Leipzig Book Fair in 2009. Ulrich Peltzer was invited to hold the Frank- now seems completely alien. What has survived is the impulse to furt poetics lectures in winter semester write. And the belief that each new word, each image, each sound or 2010/2011. tone can signify a new world.

'Ulrich Peltzer is quite simply a romantic.' from the Laudatory speech on the occasion of the Kranichsteiner Lit- eraturpreis (awarded by the German Literature Fund) in 2016

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Orkun Ertener

What happened so far (and never should have) • The new novel by Orkun Ertener, recipient of the presti- gious television award Grimme Preis • For readers of Blackbird, The Goldfinch and Why we Took the Car

Rights sold to: to previous titles: Lebt: TR (Pena)

February 2021 · 336 pages

A book about friendship and how it feels when a single moment changes everything forever © Gaby Gerster Gaby © © Gaby Gerster Gaby © Finn and Paul have been inseparable since early childhood. Now, shortly before their A levels, everything is different. Their future is uncertain, and this frightens them. And then there’s Khalil, who has suddenly come between them. Unpredictable and erratic Khalil, whom Paul idolises, and Finn doesn’t trust an inch.

Orkun Ertener, born in 1966, lives After Paul has a bad accident, he has to accept that his memory with his family in Cologne. He writes doesn’t extend beyond a day. In the rehab facility, Paul receives an predominantly for TV and has received numerous awards for his work, e.g. the alarming letter from Khalil, which leads him to fear the worst. Paul Adolf Grimme Preis for the series convinces Finn that they must stop Khalil. So, they embark on a road KDD-Kriminaldauerdienst, which he trip, which takes them from Cologne via Berlin and London to the developed. His first novel, Lebt, was G20 Summit in Hamburg. And changes everything forever. number one on the crime fiction bestseller list, and was praised by critics and readers alike.

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Thomas Mann, Hans Rudolf Vaget (Hg.)

Late Stories 1919-1953 • Thomas Mann's late stories critically edited for the first time • With commentary by the renowned Thomas Mann expert Hans Rudolf Vaget • All of Mann's stories now available in the expanded commentated Frankfurt edition

May 2021 · 900 pages

Thomas Mann, (1875 - 1955) is one of Thomas Mann's Late Stories critically edited the most significant writers of the 20th century. He is credited with bringing In Thomas Mann' work, short stories have a special place. From the the German novel to the international start of his writing career until shortly before his death, Mann fre- stage, and his multifaceted works have quently wrote shorter prose pieces of world literary status. received a positive reception worldwide, a feat that has rarely been equalled. From 1933 onwards, he lived in exile, first in Switzerland, then in the The volume Späte Erzählungen opens in 1919 with the idyll 'Herr und US. Mann did not return to Europe Hund' ('Master and Dog'), which is followed by such famous stories as until 1952. He died in Zurich in 1955. 'Unordnung und frühes Leid' ('Disorder and Early Sorrow') and 'Mario und der Zauberer' ('Mario and the Magician'). It closes in 1953 Hans Rudolf Vaget, who was born in with 'Die Betrogene' ('The Black Swan'). Marienbad in 1938, is Professor of Ger- man Studies and Comparative Litera- ture at Smith College (Northampton, Massachusetts). He has published For the 'expanded annotated Frankfurt Edition', Hans Rudolf Vaget numerous works on Thomas Mann and has critically edited the late stories and provided scholarly commen- received the Thomas Mann Medal. tary, which traces the texts' origins and impact, and outlines bio- graphical, literary and historical connections to provide new points of access to this epochal body of writing.

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Heinrich Mann, Ariane Martin (Hg.)

ExpandedThe Loyal Subject.New Edition

• Embossed cloth-bound edition • Carefully edited on the basis of the scholarly edition by Ariane Martin, President of the Hein- rich Mann Society • 150th anniversary of the birth of Heinrich Mann in March 2021

February 2021 · 640 pages

Heinrich Mann was born in Lübeck in Heinrich Mann's most famous and most successful novel – in an 1871. After dropping out of school, he expanded new edition with an extensive appendix containing trained briefly in the publishing indus- pictures and other material try, working as a volunteer in S. Fischer Verlag from 1891-92. Subsequently, he 'Over the past week, I had great fun re-reading The Loyal Subject: a book wrote novels, short stories, essays, and plays. In 1933, he emigrated to France that is not only quite extraordinary in literary terms but a totally horrify- and later to the US. He was appointed ingly prophetic work,' Klaus Mann wrote in exile in Amsterdam in Feb- head of the newly formed Academy of ruary 1936, three years after Hitler's "seizure of power". Today, Hein- Arts in East Berlin in 1949, but died in rich Mann's novel still invites such reading and re-reading. What Santa Monica, California, in 1950, remains horrifying to this day is that (male) 'craving to command and before he could take up the post. obey', which Kurt Tucholsky pointed to in his legendary review in the Weltbühne already in 1919. Nevertheless, or perhaps precisely for this reason, this social novel of the 20th century is not only a great reading pleasure for a Nazi opponent like Klaus Mann.

With an extensive appendix containing pictures and other material, including numerous newly discovered, and previously unpublished, documents on the book's origins and reception.

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Gerhard Roth

There Is No Evil Angel But Love Art historian Lilli Kuck travels to Venice after her husband Clemens dies there under mysterious circumstances. Following his death, she suddenly feels that she no longer knows who Clemens - a famous comic illustrator - really was. In Venice, she retraces her husband's steps. Where did he visit, and where had he lived? Did he have a lover? Was he looking for his father? Lilli lets herself drift as she follows chance encounters and her intuition, looking for access to another mode of perception and "second reality", where his secrets might be uncovered. When she witnesses the murder of a policeman, she herself becomes endangered, but she continues her investigations undeterred. In a fairy-tale world of beauty and death, her departure from the city turns into a new beginning. February 2021 · 256 pages

Arnold Stadler My TripOn Day to KilimanjaroSeven I Flew Back.

The first-person narrator of this wonderful book, behind whom the author is clearly discernible, travels to Mount Kilimanjaro. His task is to write a reportage, but he doesn't want to go to the summit or on safari. Quite the opposite, in fact: he is afraid of wild animals and has a tuxedo and patent-leather shoes in his luggage. He is also quite happy just to con- template the amazing mountain, which hung as an oil painting in his parents' livingroom, producing in him a longing to visit it ever since. For the narrator, the journey to Africa turns into a tragicomic tour de force through contemporary Germany, the colonial past, and touristic dreams. And, as always with this author, it becomes a meandering poetic March 2021 · 240 pages exploration of his own soul and that of all human life.

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Katerina Poladjan

Here be Lions • Nominated for the German Book Prize • over 15.000 copies sold in Germany

An old Armenian family bible is the only thing sister and brother Anahid and Hrant manage to rescue when they are forced to flee from their hometown on the coast of the Black Sea. One hundred years later, in Yere- van, someone entrusts a bible to Helen, an art restorer. ‘Hrant doesn’t want to wake up,’ reads a note in the margins of one page. Helen immerses herself in the mysteries of the old book and modern Armenian life and falls in love. Shaken by what she learns about the country’s past and pre- June 2019 · 288 pages sent, she sets off on a trip to the Black Sea coast and the land beyond Mount Ararat.

Zsuzsa Bánk

Death in Summer • More than 1.5 million copies of Bánk’s books sold • selected for New Books in German, edition Autumn 2020 • Sample translation available

An elderly man spends his final summer in the Balaton, in Hungary, his former homeland. Once again he sits under the acacia trees in his garden paradise, once again he goes into the lake for a swim. But his return to Germany will require a medical rescue helicopter and an ambulance to a clinic in Frankfurt am Main where his cancer is diagnosed as terminal. In these dogdays of summer his daughter sits at his bedside. She looks back on their years together with gratitude; she looks on the years to come September 2020 · 240 pages with despair. She takes stock of what will be lost and what can be sal- vaged, what must be done and what rearranged. How will his death change the family and how will it change her? What do we experience in the year of loss and what in the year after?

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Hans Jürgen Balmes Biography of a TheRiver Rhine.

• A unique blend of nature writing and journeys into the past • Including pictures, maps and drawings • Sample translation available

“I have never read such a sensual description of the Rhine.” Alexander Wasner

April 2021 · 560 pages

A poetic natural and cultural history about the Rhine and the soul of a landscape © Jörg Steinmetz Jörg © © Jörg Steinmetz Jörg © The Rhine once rose in the middle of its present-day course, where manatees frolicked in a tropical sea. Having eked out its bed back to its later headwaters, its geology is astounding. The river is still home to the oldest creatures in Europe, but from source to delta the Rhine has also been shaped by human hand. No other river encompasses so many contradictions — border, transport artery, escape route and lifeline. Hans Jürgen Balmes takes us with him on a river journey. We meet Hans Jürgen Balmes was born in 1958 people like William Turner, for whom the Rhine came to be an obses- in Koblenz and is an editor and transla- sion and the focus of his life’s work. We see woods and animals come tor. He wrote for Mare magazine about alive in Balmes’s sublime reflections on nature and his meditative “The Sources of the Seas”. His portraits images. This book about the Rhine beguiles us with its inexhaustible and essays have appeared in the Neue stream of stories and its quiet contemplation. Nature writing at its Zürcher Zeitung and the Süddeutsche Zeitung among many others, and he has best! translated works by John Berger and Barry Lopez as well as poetry by Robert “Rivers have more to say than mountains, landscapes or cities do. All they Hass, W. S. Merwin and Martine Bellen need is an intelligent, knowledgeable storyteller like Hans Jürgen Balmes, from English into German. The Rhine whose magnificent book records the river’s stories, the pitter-patter of wag- has always played a major role in his tails and the tinkling of white alders.” Michael Krüger life. He has hiked many times to its sources in the Alps, paddled along the Rhine in his father’s old folding canoe, savoured the deep silence and observed the shifting play of light on the water and the animals in and around the river.

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Stefan Klein A HowShort We History Change of thethe HumanWorld. Mind

• Stefan Klein is Germany's most successful science writer:

• Theover history 1 million and books future sold of creative thinking in a grand narrative • sample translation available Science Book of the Year (2011) for Survival of the Nicest Deutscher Lesepreis (2016) for Dreams March 2021 · 272 pages

A short history of the human mind: on the power of community © Andreas Labes Andreas © © Andreas Labes Andreas © Bestselling author Stefan Klein takes us on a thrilling journey through the history of creative thinking. From the innovations of the Stone Age, such as painting, via the invention of writing to the achievements of the computers of tomorrow, Klein shows us vividly and in an entertaining way how the human mind has repeatedly reinvented the world. In the process, we encounter Neanderthals and Steve Jobs, Stefan Klein, who was born in Munich Leonardo da Vinci and Ada Lovelace, Archimedes and AlphaZero. in 1965, is Germany’s most successful And it becomes increasingly clear: We do not owe innovation and science writer. His book The Science of progress to the brilliant ideas of solitary geniuses – they come about Happiness (2002) topped all German through intellectual exchange. For creativity, imagination, and inno- bestseller lists for over a year and also vation are not gifts of individuals, but are derived from human inter- brought the author international renown. This was followed by the much action. praised All by Chance, The Secret Pulse of How did the world we live in come to be as it is? How did we come to Time, Leonardo’s Legacy: How Da Vinci be as we are? And what will happen next? All change starts with a new Reimagined the World, and Survival of the idea! The renowned science writer's gripping new book about the Nicest, Science Book of the Year 2011. power of community, the future of thought, and the unlimited possi- His bestseller, Träume: Eine Reise in bilities of our creativity. unsere innere Wirklichkeit (Dreams: A Journey into our Inner Reality), received the Deutsche Lesepreis in 2016. His most recently published Das All und das Nichts (How to love the Universe) has been translated into nine languages.

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Götz Aly

The Luf Boat,How A German Looted Treasure.Colonialists Raided South Sea Culture

• The “Luf Boat” is one of the highlights of Berlin’s Hum- boldt Forum – and the silence surrounding its provenance remains a scandal. • This book is certain to provoke debate about the contro- versial intersections of racism, colonialism and looted art. May 2021 · 192 pages • Sample translation available

Along with monuments and street names, the delightful objects in many Western museums are remnants of colonialism. Götz Aly uncovers the brutality with which German colonialists went about © Andreas Labes Andreas © © Andreas Labes Andreas © looting in the South Seas, using the example of the island of Luf. There, the invaders destroyed islanders’ huts and boats and nearly completely exterminated the population. In 1902, Hamburg mer- chants seized the final surviving example of the island’s artistically built, high-seaworthy outrigger boats. Today, this unique culture trea- Historian Götz Aly has been honored many times for his books with awards sure serves as decoration in an entranceway of the Humboldt Forum including the Heinrich Mann and Lud- Museum in Berlin. wig Börne Prizes. In 2018, he received the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis for Götz Aly documents the brutality, destructive fury and greed with "Europa gegen die Juden 1880–1945" (S. which profiteers, ethnologists, navy men and museum directors fell Fischer – English: Europe Versus the upon cultural treasures. Even today, these looted items are admired Jews). His latest work deals with Ger- by museum visitors, who remain oblivious to the suffering of the peo- man colonial history, a departure from ple whose cultural treasures were stolen. his usual subject matter but nonetheless a “true Aly.” In it, he documents the brutality and greed with which Germans seized the cultural treasures of subju- gated peoples.

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Carolin Emcke Diary of a Crisis Journal. • Carolin Emcke's SZ 'Journal' now in expanded form • A subjective and exacting analysis of the time of the Corona virus

Peace Prize of the German Booktrade Johann Heinrich Merck Prize for Essay Writing Carl von Ossietzky Prize for Contemporary History and Politics

How will this state of emergency change us?

In this personal and political journal, bestselling author and peace © Andreas Labes Andreas © © Andreas Labes Andreas © prize recipient Carolin Emcke considers the exceptional year 2020. On 22 March 2020, the federal government and the federal states of Germany voted in "social distancing measures" – the new reality of the pandemic begins to encroach on our psychic, social, and political condition. The following day, Carolin Emcke starts work on her Jour- nal. She jots down nightmares and impossible farewells to people she loves, and analyses Europe's nationalistic reactions as well as the authoritarian tendencies that the virus calls forth. These are subjec- Carolin Emcke studied philosophy in tive, philosophical observations, which trace this historical caesura. London, Frankfurt/Main, and Harvard. Again and again, Carolin Emcke resists the temptation to consider From 1998 to 2014, she reported from only her own city or region. She repeatedly extends her focus, reflect- regions in crisis around the globe as a ing on the pandemic as something global. The result is a candid, yet journalist before becoming a freelance reflective chronicle of a state of emergency. No one knows when it writer. Her books have been translated into fifteen languages, and since 2019, will end and how it will have changed us. she has been touring with her solo show “Yes Means Yes and …”. She has been awarded the Peace Prize of the German Booktrade, the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize for Essay Writing, and the Carl von Ossietzky Prize for Contemporary History and Politics, among others.

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Wolfgang Kaleck

The ConcreteA Look Utopia Back intoof Human the FutureRights.

• Wolfgang Kaleck is one of the most important European human rights lawyers • A history of resistance from the French Revolution through the women's liberation and workers' movements to the civil rights movement

March 2021 · 176 pages

The international revolution of human rights starts now!

All over the world, inequality and poverty are on the increase, and © Nikita Teryoshin Nikita © © Nikita Teryoshin Nikita © human rights are being trampled on. But does this mean they are no longer significant? Or do they simply have to be thought anew in order to unfold their transformative potential?

Not only is Wolfgang Kaleck Edward Snowden's lawyer, he was also involved in numerous legal actions against Donald Rumsfeld and the Argentinian military dictators, among others. As a practising lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck, born in 1960, is a in worldwide struggles, for example against transnational companies, lawyer and journalist. In 2007, he he outlines here a new, concrete utopia. He criticises the currently founded the European Center for Con- much too narrow conception of human rights and broadens the per- stitutional and Human Rights spective by looking into the past and at interrelated struggles world- (ECCHR), which fights worldwide for wide. So that everything doesn't stay the same and something really human rights. He has participated in changes. numerous trials, against the German Federal Republic in the Kunduz case as well as against transnational companies. And he has received numerous awards for his activism, including the Hermann 'When the history of our time is not written by the torturers and their apol- Kesten Prize from the PEN Centre Ger- ogists but by those who have not given up the promise of the Universal Dec- many (2014) and the Prize of the Bruno laration of Human Rights, Wolfgang Kaleck will be one of the most impor- Kreisky Foundation (2017). He lives in tant authors.' Edward Snowden Berlin.

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Vitali Alekseenok Our TheDream White of a Days Free ofBelarus Minsk.

• With a foreword by Belarusian poet and academic Valzhyna Mort • Combines an outsider's view of his country with insider knowledge of the protest movement

March 2021 · 192 pages

A personal report by the Belarusian conductor © privat © © privat © Vitali Alekseenok.

Vitali Alekseenok, who now lives in Germany, writes in a moving and illuminating way about the struggle for freedom in his former home country, which he left several years ago, not least out of frustration at the political situation there.

As a musician, he has found a new home in Germany, but Belarus has Vitali Alekseenok, born in Belarus in never fully released him. When he travels to Minsk in summer 2020 1991, has been the conductor and artistic to vote in the election, he experiences a protest movement which director of the Abaco Symphony Orchestra of the University of Munich would have been inconceivable a few years earlier, and wonders: since 2017. As prize winner of the MDR What has happened to people in his homeland? radio conducting competition in 2018, he has conducted the MDR Symphony In a personal report, which overlays current observations with past Orchestra, the Jena Philharmonic experiences, Alekseenok writes of change taking place in a country Orchestra, the Weimar Staatskapelle, that we do not know. Of life under Lukashenko's totalitarian regime. among others. In August 2020, he trav- Of why he left Belarus, and now takes risks in order to participate in elled to Minsk to take part in the elec- the protest. Of how Belarusians' hope grew greater than their fear. tions there. After Lukashenko claimed victory for himself, Alekseenok decided And of how the message from Belarus is a wake up call for us all. to remain in Minsk for several weeks, Because the Belarusians know very well what it means to have to live to support the protests and strikes. without freedom and democracy.

Valzhyna Mort, born in Minsk, is a writer. Her most recent book of poetry, Music for the Dead and Resur- rected, came out last month at FSG. Born in Minsk, she teaches at Cornell University and writes in English and Belarusian.

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Gerd Schwerhoff The History of CursedBlasphemy Gods.

• The first comprehensive history of blasphemy from antiquity to the present day • From one of the most important experts in the field • A book spanning over 3,000 years of history, which also sheds new light on the present day

February 2021 · 528 pages

The first comprehensive history of blasphemy from Moses to Charlie Hebdo © Robert Jentzsch Robert © © Robert Jentzsch Robert © The worldwide outrage over the caricatures of Mohammed and the terror attack on Charlie Hebdo in 2015 have made it clear that blasphemy is not a relic of the Inquisition, but is more relevant today than a hundred years ago. But why do people berate God, prophets, and saints? And why do Gerd Schwerhoff, born in 1957, is a such words and deeds call forth such heated reactions? The historian Professor of early modern history at the Gerd Schwerhoff writes of cursing, blaspheming peasants, and the Technical University in Dresden. His books focus on marginal figures in the Protestant Reformers, who insult madonna figures and are sentenced early modern period - criminals, to death. He describes how the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire witches, and heretics. He works on blas- argued against punishment for blaspheming, and why a woman of the phemy in the context of the special radical feminist activist group Femen was accused of offending reli- research area "Invective. Constellations gious sentiment by the Cologne cathedral chapter. and Dynamics of Disparagement", for This large sweep of history, recounted in a sovereign manner, opens a which he is the spokesman. new perspective on contemporary conflicts: Certainly, "hate speech" is currently disseminated worldwide via digital media. However, such abuse of those who think and believe differently is not at all new.

Gerd Schwerhoff has been researching blasphemy for several years. He is one of the most renowned experts on the subject.

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Philipp Kohlhöfer How Viruses ChangePandemics. the World

• Philipp Kohlhöfer reports directly from the heart of science • Scientifically sound, competent and comprehensive: an overview that goes far beyond COVID-19 • With a preface by the leading German virologist Christian Drosten

May 2021 · 352 pages

The history and future of pandemics.

We live in a world of viruses. A single successful cross-species transmission anywhere in the world is enough to unleash a new epidemic. © Achim Multhaupt Achim © © Achim Multhaupt Achim © Against the backdrop of the new strain of corona virus, this book dis- cusses how pandemics come about and why so-called zoonosis is occuring with greater frequency: new illnesses, which leap across from animals to people and can become extremely dangerous. Because even if we like to believe that Covid-19 is unique, we live in a world of viruses. Epidemics are not natural catastrophes like earth- quakes. They don't just drop out of the sky. A single successful cross- Philipp Kohlhöfer works, among species transmission anywhere in the world is enough to unleash a other things, for the research network new pandemic. Zoonotic Contagious Diseases, spon- sored by the Bundesministerium für Philipp Kohlhöfer, who works for the research network Zoonotic Bildung und Forschung (the German Contagious Diseases, presents here an unsettling, but, at the same Federal Ministry of Education and time, optimistic book. He shadows leading scientists such as Christian Research). He is an author and colum- Drosten as they search for the origin of pandemics, observes them at nist for GEO, among other publica- tions. He got shot while covering a story work on viruses, such as MERS and Ebola, and in their attempts to in the Pacific, and for another story, he discover the next pandemic before it breaks out. His journey takes lived for months with street gangs. him through German-speaking countries as well as to West Africa Already in 2003, he wrote a reportage and Asia. To laboratories, museums and the rain forest. In the process, on corona viruses. The protagonist then the book tells of the greatest weapon that humanity has in the strug- was Christian Drosten. gle against a new kind of pathogen: science.

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Jean Peters

TrueWhen Stories Hope Dies,from Wethe Go On. Subversive Resistance

• From the founder of the Peng! collective

'Finally, the veil over the activist spectacle of the devilishly clever Peng! collective has been lifted.' Mike Bonanno, The Yes Men

March 2021 · 256 pages

'One of the smartest activists I know.' Sibylle Berg © Ivo Mayr Ivo © © Ivo Mayr Ivo © When it became apparent that the right was on the rise, when climate researchers warned of the consequences of exponential growth and everyone simply carried on just as before, Jean Peters felt politically impotent. To escape this feeling, he and others like him founded the Peng! collective: Using disguise, subversion and irony, they are break- ing through the crusts of power.

In a clever, funny, reflective and entertaining fashion, Jean Peters writes of how they put Shell and Vattenfall into panic mode, hacked Jean Peters, 36, is a journalist and per- into the websites of weapons dealers, and helped refugees flee within formance artist, who lives in Berlin. He Europe. And while his pessimistic self repeatedly reminds him that studied political science in London and hope is the first step on the road to disappointment, his optimistic self Berlin, and founded the tactical media constantly seeks out new plans of action. For when hope dies, Peng! collective Peng!, through which he reg- goes on … ularly infiltrates companies. He has exhibited at several Berlin Bienniale, and received the Aachen Peace Prize. In 2018, he co-founded the NGO See- 'Jean Peters treads where others only wish to go.' Titanic brücke, an organisation rescuing refugees in the Mediterranean, and in 2019 he went undercover in the global climate change denial scene on behalf of 'Jean Peters shows what we can achieve in concrete terms through creativity the research centre Correctiv. and determination.' Carola Rackete

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Dietrich Grönemeyer

There’sIt’s only time one to world act for all of us. • Over one million books by Prof. Dr. Dietrich Grönemeyer sold

Rights sold to: to previous titles: Weltmedizin: ES (Grijalbo) | NL (Atlas Con- tact)

March 2021 · 80 pages

Bestselling author Professor Dietrich Grönemeyer describes in this highly personal book what is wrong with the world, and how it can recover. It is time to take action. Now! © Gaby Gerster 2020 Gerster Gaby © © Gaby Gerster 2020 Gerster Gaby © The coronavirus pandemic has shocked the world, and prompted us to question our egotistical tendencies – those of individuals, countries, and nations. It has become clear what has to happen for us to return to a better form of co-existence. Germany‘s most prominent doctor demonstrates in this book what it all comes down to: that we are all equal, that life is a gift, and that we must bring body, mind and soul into balance. Experiencing life in all its diversity, and bringing Prof. Dr. Dietrich Grönemeyer, one faith, freedom and tolerance into harmony are enormous tasks. But in of Germany’s most prominent doctors, the end, everything boils down to how we view life. In words that a bestselling author and presenter of the speak directly to the heart, Professor Grönemeyer reveals what has to ZDF TV programme "Dietrich Gröne- be done. meyer - Leben ist mehr (Life is More)" held the chair of Radiology and Microtherapy at the University of Wit- ten/Herdecke until his retirement in 2012. As a scientist, he is one of the most influential champions of an approach to medicine situated between high-tech and traditional methods. In 2018, S. Fis- cher published his bestseller Weltmedi- zin. Auf dem Weg zu einer ganzheitlichen Heilkunst (World Medicine. On the Path to Holistic Medicine). Fischer has also published Naturmedizin und Schulmedizin. Mein gesammeltes Gesundheitswissen wichtiger Volkskrankheiten (Natural and Conventional Medicine: My Collected Knowledge of Important Common Ill- nesses).

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Peter Stephan Jungk A Hidden MarketHome in Whisperings. Paris

At the Marché d'Aligre, a bustling market of sensual pleasures and multicultural encounters near the Bastille in Paris, Peter Stephan Jungk has found what he has been looking for all his life: a place where he feels at home. He is consequently plagued by homesickness after he takes up a post as guest professor in Ohio. »Enfin!« Like a prodigal son, he is greeted on his return by Hamza, Min, Habib and other market traders – exiles from Algeria, China and Tunisia, who, despite their very different views on life, are like family to him. Their stories, hopes, longings, and disappointments awaken in him memories of his own sense of homelessness, which he believed he had put behind him. April 2021 · 224 pages

Elmar Schenkel

East-WestOn the Way Encounters to Xanadu.

Asia and Europe: A cultural history in portraits and encounters Xanadu – Asia's place of longing for researchers, theosophists, and those seeking salvation. It represents a secret something that unites the gods with the self as well as a meeting place of the cultures of the world. Elmar Schenkel writes of the two-way perceptions of the other: from the first clashes of western and eastern culture in Japan and India, to the western discovery of Japanese Zen, Chinese thinkers, and Indian gurus. What is the role of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, or, con- versely, of Madame Blavatsky, C. G. Jung and Hermann Hesse? How did May 2021 · 320 pages Taoism come to the West, and what do Zen or Yoga have to do with politics? In short, sparkling pieces of prose, Elmar Schenkel familiarises us with the search of cultures for things that will offset their own deficits.

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Eva von Redecker

Revolution for Life • NBG review available (Spring 2021) “One of this country’s most exciting young philosophers.” Philoso- phie Magazin

A radical social critique — and a heartfelt endorsement of the power of human action. The future of democratic societies is under intense pressure from the rise of authoritarianism and the imminent threat of climate change. However, resistance is forming in the gaps of the power matrix. In her philosophical analysis of these new forms of resistance, the philosopher Eva von Redecker sheds light on the potential for a revolution for life. September 2020 · 320 pages “This book might turn into the bible of intellectual resistance against real existing capital- ism”. Deutschlandfunk Kultur

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Martin Hartmann

Trust - The Invisible Power • Science Book of the Year 2021 (Federal Ministry of Educa- • Realistic,tion, Science comprehensible and Research, and Austria) concrete • Sample translation available

An Appeal for a Value in Crisis It’s coveted by everyone everywhere – in banks, politics, science, the internet and love: our trust! Yet there’s a crisis of trust. Many feel betrayed by the media, political parties and companies.

Philosopher Martin Hartmann analyses this crisis in an inspiring diagno- March 2020 · 304 pages sis of the present. And he discovers a fundamental dilemma: We glorify trust, we miss it and lament its loss. But many are afraid of the vulnerability that goes hand in glove with it. New forms of surveillance are undertaken and apparently confirmed opinions are adhered to. This leads to conflicts, insecurity and gridlock. Reason enough for trust-building initiatives!

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Arno Strobel

Killer Hunter - Tracking the Lost Girls • Max Bischoff, a highly gifted profiler and former detective, investigates on his own initiative • Fischer has sold far more than 1 million Arno Strobel books • Strobel's new thriller series forthcoming in spring 2021

'You don't need a bookmark when reading one of Arno Strobel's thrillers, as you simply can't put them down. Gripping and nail- biting!' Sebastian Fitzek March 2021 · 352 pages

Nothing is more familiar to him than the dark criminal mind... Max Bischoff, a highly gifted profiler, recognises evil face to face - © Gaby Gerster Gaby © © Gaby Gerster Gaby © The new thriller by No. 1 bestselling author Arno Strobel

His time in the KK11 murder investigation unit in Düsseldorf belongs to the past. Now profiler Max Bischoff is starting over again at the Police Academy in Cologne, where he is educating those who want to be as good as him. But the cases find him nevertheless. Arno Strobel loves liminal experiences and likes to share them with his readers. When the father of Leni Benz, who disappeared six years ago, asks This makes his thrillers suspenseful voyages of discovery into the dark Max for his help, his immediate impulse is to turn him down. But he recesses of the human soul, evoking the realises that he can't. Too many questions remain unexplained in the worst primal fears. case of the ten year old girl who disappeared on her way to school and was never seen again. Most of his themes are derived from But how is it that Leni's satchel has now turned up again in its usual everyday life, but it is only when an idea place in her parents' home, as if nothing had happened? How can this takes hold of him, and he feels com- pelled to get to the bottom of it happen after all this time? And, above all, why are there so many par- straightaway with the help of his net- allels with a current case? Max sets off on the trail of the perpetrator work of experts, that he knows that the ... groundwork for his next novel has been laid. All of his thrillers have been best- sellers and were No. 1 on the bestseller list for weeks. He lives as a freelance writer near Trier.

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Klaus-Peter Wolf

Rupert Undercover -A OnNew the HuntAssignment. in East Frisia.Vol. 2. Crime Novel

The second assignment for Detective Inspector Rupert as an undercover agent - the popular colleague of Frisia's most famous Inspector, Ann Kathrin Klaasen, by no. 1 bestselling author Klaus-Peter Wolf Criminal Director Liane Brennecke should have been fearing for her life. But that was not the case. She looked in the mirror, and didn't recognise herself. Something had happened to her in this torture cellar. Something had flown the physical prison and got itself out of harm's June 2021 · 352 pages way. A part of her soul had escaped. She was worried about her mental state. Was she close to losing her mind, or had she already passed that stage in this rat hole where he was holding her captive? In order to become whole again, she had to kill him. And for that she needed bait and a tool. Nothing and no one seemed more suitable to her than this Rupert alias Frederico Müller-Gonzáles.

Eva Ehley A Sylt Crime Novel Lonely Grave. The woman's dead body at Morsum Kliff is just the beginning: Their eighth criminal case leads Silja Blanck, Bastian Kreuzer and Sven Win- terberg directly into the dark heart of the island of Sylt – and places Inspector Blanck in imminent danger. Frost glistens on the heather stalks on Morsum Kliff as excavations uncover a gruesome secret. For 15 years, the headless skeleton of a young girl has lain beneath the idyllic landscape. Inspector Silja Blanck is particularly shocked by the find: Could there be a connection to her little sister, who was killed around the same time, and whose murderer has never been found? Or is the inspector chasing a fantasy? March 2021 · 416 pages

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Tom Voss

Dog Days for Beck State Office of Criminal Investigations Detective Nick Beck, who has been demoted, has to investigate himself. Nordbek – nature, peace and solitude characterise this village north of Hamburg. And precisely for these reasons, it is attractive to Nick Beck when he is transferred after a traumatic police operation. But his peace soon comes to an end after he runs over a woman while intoxicated. But did he actually kill her? The damage to his car suggests otherwise. But what happened? When Beck, together with Cleo Torner from the State Office of Crimi- nal Investigations in Hamburg, takes up the investigation he comes across human abysses that are deeper than he could ever have June 2021 · 400 pages imagined ... Nick Beck and Cleo Torner's first case

Nikos Milonás A New Case for CretanMichalis Silence. Charisteas

Two skeletons on the shore and the silence of those who knew of them – Inspector Michalis Charisteas investigates his third case It is the end of May on Crete, and the island is in full bloom. In the south of the island several tourists have gathered on Frangokastello beach, because they want to see the drosoulites, the "souls of the dew“ at dawn. According to local legend, these souls rise up from the sand every year at this time, and move across the beach in great swathes. But this year, it is not the souls that turn up: The skeletons of two men are discovered in the sand. Both contain bullet wounds. Murder, then? But when Michalis April 2021 · 384 pages Charisteas begins his investigations, he discovers something entirely different.

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Björn Kern

Solikante Solo • The social novel of the hour: a modern love story about a couple caught between the city and the countryside • of Das Beste, was wir tun können, ist Over 40,000 copies sold nichts (The Best We Can Do Is Nothing) • For readers of Dörte Hansen and Jan Brandt

March 2021 · 336 pages

The idyll lasts barely five minutes. © Suskia © © Suskia © A couple as different as the city and the countryside. While he seeks refuge in Solikante, she longs for joie de vivre and the urbanity of multicultural Berlin: Village pubs versus nights out in the city. The end of the relationship seems to be sealed. But then it becomes apparent that being single makes everything even worse. Björn Kern interweaves the fate of middle-aged parents with the social dislocations that have defined our country for several years. Teaming with contemporary allusions, the novel is at once a reflec- tion of a society that is out of touch with its core values, and a precise Björn Kern, born in the Black Forest in literary portrait of a couple searching for a new sense of belonging in 1978, lived for over ten years in Berlin, a deeply divided country. and now lives on a farm with his family in Oderbruch near the Polish border. His books have received the Brothers Grimm Award and featured on SWR radio's Best List.

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Patricia Koelle An IslandThe Dreams Garden of Novel Bees.

• Volume three of the Island Gardens series takes us to the Island of Fehmarn • by this top 10 bestselling Overauthor 500,000 copies sold

'What do bees dream about?' 'Freedom, scent and peace, the simple things of life.'

March 2021 · 528 pages

Bees and people don't actually need very much more than to know that spring will recur. © Gaby Gerster Gaby © © Gaby Gerster Gaby © 44-year-old Sila Beer works as a carpenter in Berlin. When she learns that she has inherited an old farm in the Oderbruch, she sets off not only on a journey into her old homeland, but into the past, in which painful memories are awoken, of her childhood in East Germany and fleeing to the West. But good memories also resurface - of the bees and plants that accompanied her throughout her childhood. However, Sila isn't sure if she should risk starting out all over again here and at this time, and if the Oderbruch really is the right place for her to find Patricia Koelle is a Berlin-based happiness. But through a garden blog, she gets to know a 27-year-old author who is passionate about the sea - teacher named Lexi Rehling, who tends a garden on the island of and about writing, in which she Fehmarn, which she uses to familiarise her pupils with nature, and the expresses her constant amazement for two women develop a friendship, which inspires both of them to try life, people and our wonderful planet. out new things and to set new goals ... Alongside novels and short story collec- tions, Fischer Taschenbuch has pub- Patricia Koelle skilfully combines the topical subjects nature, nature lished her Baltic trilogy and North Sea trilogy. The Time of the Fireflies, The preservation and insects with contemporary history. Smile of Dragonflies, and The Dreams of Bees belong to her Island Gardens series.

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Clara Langenbach

The Mustard Blossom Saga The taste of freedom, a longing for love, a young woman caught between duty and sentiment: Part 1 of an opulent trilogy about the beginnings of a mustard dynasty. Metz, Elsace-Lorraine, 1908: Emma would like to achieve more in life than simply become a wife and mother. Above all else, she would like to study in Strasbourg. Instead, she is to be paired off with the son of the owner of Seidel's haulage company. Emma und Carl - to their own amazement - immediately take to one another. Emma is impressed by Carl's passion for scents and aromas, and encourages him to establish his own mustard factory. And Emma's entrepreneurial spirit is also awoken. While setting things up, Carl seeks Emma's advice and involves April 2021 · 528 pages her in all decisions. But does Emma really love Carl? And why is she so fascinated by his friend Antoine? The charming Antoine threatens to drive a wedge between Carl and Emma.

Lina Behrens

The Sea Holly House Today: Rieke's marriage is over and she suffers sudden deafness. She is in urgent need of a rest – and nohwere is more suitable than her Sea Holly House on Spiekeroog. 1962: Viola returns to Spiekeroog. She wants to get her ailing mother away from the approaching storm tide, but her mother refuses her help. Viola would like to know why her mother would rather die than leave the island. 1933: To escape political persecution, Silvia tries to persuade her husband Joachim to flee from Berlin, and to seek refuge in Spiekeroog. In the lives of three very different women, the trip to Spiekeroog consti- tutes a turning point. A moving novel about the power of nature, the May 2021 · 432 pages meaning of love, and the power of truth.

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Juli Rothmund

In Love at One Remove Can people who cannot meet up fall in love? March 2020: If Jella had known that this would be the last party for a while, she would have moved a little faster. But she still wouldn't have fallen in love with Lennard, the guy with the way-too-white trainers, or would she? Then lockdown confuses everything. After the initial shock and a couple of days at home alone, she decides to send Lennard a message ... If Lennard had known that this would be the last party for a while, he would have done exactly the same. That hyper woman with a lot of tat- toos was a tad too crazy for him anyway. When Jella writes to him, he can't handle it at first, but then he gets curious – and suddenly both of February 2021 · 480 pages them are mired in a situation that is special on all levels. Every man for himself. And yet together.

Lisa Keil

Up and Away for More This is the third novel by bestselling author Lisa Keil. In the Bibliocafé in Neuberg, three-year-old twins are keeping their mother, Milli, on her toes, and away from her work. Vet Rob Schuer- mann has more than enough on his plate in his practice, but he can't count on help from Milli, whose dream of studying vet medicine has come to fruition. The university where she studies is far from home, but not far enough away from her mother, Cordula, who is trying to throw herself into student life again, and enrolls at the same university as Milli! When she moves in with Milli's former flatmate, plenty of aggro is guaranteed. September 2021 · 400 pages

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Lilian Kaliner Longing in your HeartFirefly Creek.

Welcome to Firefly Creek, the city of fireflies, and welcome to Bennetts' ranch! Home again at last! How Ethan Bennett missed the magnificent landscape around Silverwood Ranch. After losing his job in Sydney, he wants to start over again, and where better than at home? Straightaway he finds himself in the midst of the large Bennett family's turbulent daily life, which is rough and ready but warm hearted. However, Ethan didn't reckon with one thing – the beautiful Liz, who runs the chaotic household of his father and four brothers. He has never met a woman July 2021 · 448 pages like her before - so delicate and yet strong. How come Ethan's heart starts to beat faster whenever she smiles at him? Why is every fleeting touch like an electric shock? Liz turns his plans upside down ... Volume 1 of the Firefly Creek series: five irresistible brothers, five moving love stories, and an idiosyncratic family that will will take your heart by storm. The Second volume, Das Glück findet dich (Happiness Will Find You) will appear on 24 November 2021.

Inka Lindberg

You’ll bring me down A new adult novel with depth: thematises toxic relationships, diversity, and feminism Robyn knows exactly what she wants – from dating and from life. After studying mechanical engineering, she intends to climb the career ladder and no longer have to worry about money. And she doesn’t want anything or anyone to interfere with her plan. Certainly not Finn, an outra- geously handsome fellow student, who has more than earned his bad-boy image – and is clearly into her. But could a relationship with this good- looking rich boy maybe work out?

March 2021 · 416 pages

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Joshua Tree

Singularity Is humanity eliminating itself? Singularity is the latest sci-fi thriller by bestselling author Joshua Tree, on the subject of the future of artificial intelligence. At the end of the 21st century, humanity is deeply divided: while one half is leading a long life due to having access to the best medical treatments available, the other is plain and simply superfluous. At best, most scrape by from working as cheap labourers. One of the superfluous is James, who is hired as a servant to the new elite. His new master sets him a puzzling task: to find his daughter who disappeared twenty years ago - in a virtual simulation. Soon he must recognise that it is not just the boundaries of VR and reality April 2021 · 464 pages that are becoming blurred, but those between man and machine. And a terrible secret is revealed to him that calls the future as well as the past of humanity into question.

Lisa-Marie Reuter

Exit This City Climate fiction from Germany: Exit This City is a sci-fi thriller about the future of food. Germany in 2158: On the rice plantations of the depleted agricultural land, rebellion is brewing. Genetically modified bees are supposed to increase the crops in the fields, but their sting is fatal. Thousands of people have been infected with the poison, and all of them died – except for the charismatic Veeru, who has been worshipped like a goddess ever since. The plantation workers join her crusade against the landowners. The target is the European headquarters of the unscrupulous concern FinalFood Inc. But Veeru's real intentions remain obscure, and there are a number of indications that she is secretly following her own agenda. February 2021 · 432 pages Meanwhile, at the other end of the world, Marti is wandering through Delhi, suffering from amnesia. He is on his own and is being followed. When a radioactive dust storm heads for the metropolis, there is only one thing people there can do: get out. But Marti cannot leave until he knows why unknown enemies are after him. His search for truth leads him into the midst of intrigues by a company that is playing an unscrupulous game to gain power and influence in Germany.

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Mikkel Robrahn

Hidden Worlds – The Crown of the Heir The portal to Avalon is open – and the battle begins! The magical beings of our world are being relentlessly persecuted by the Inquisition. In the hope of finding allies in the realm of all supernatural beings for the struggle against the Inquisition, Elliot Craig, a human, and Soleil Boulanger, an elf, have succeeded in opening the portal to Avalon. But the Avalonions have no interest in the fate of their distant relatives, for they are embroiled in political intrigues and attempted coups of their own. Only he who wears the crown as the true heir to the Avalonion throne can reconcile the magical people. However, the crown has been March 2021 · 416 pages missing for ages. Will Elliot and Soleil manage to find it in time, and unite the Avalonions in the struggle against the Inquisition? Volume 2 of Mikkel Robrahn’s thrilling urban fantasy trilogy.

George Orwell Illustrated Edition 1984. Georg Orwell's great dystopian bestseller – now lavishly produced and wonderfully illustrated by Reinhard Kleist In 1948, after thirty years of working on it, George Orwell concluded his final novel, which was to make him world famous. In 2021 Reinhard Kleist's illustrations reveal how deeply he has pene- trated this novel in order to reposition it for our time. The artwork ren- ders this the definitive edition of 1984 for the 21st century. Reinhard Kleist (born 1970) is the star of the German-language graphic novel scene. His work is regularly enthusiastically received by fans and critics alike. His most successful works include illustrated biographies of March 2021 · 432 pages Johnny Cash, Fidel Castro and Nick Cave.

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Anna-Theresa Lipp The FatUnloved is Where Organ It's Finally At. Understood

• You cannot do without body fat: fat metabolism expert Dr. Lipp offers a new way of viewing an undervalued part of the human body • Unbiased and informative: based on up-to-date research and everything known about a healthy fat metabolism • So much more than a diet book or nutrition guide • Sample Translation available February 2021 · 224 pages

One in two people are at war with their body fat - this book is a peace offering. © Susanne Krauss Susanne © © Susanne Krauss Susanne © Most people imagine their own fat as a wobbly mass that has placed itself around their body and should be removed. From buttocks, thighs, stomach, or chin. And whenever we read about fat, it is classi- fied and stigmatised as either "bad fat" or "good fat". No connection to this vital organ is ever established. And yet fat is the most versatile and ultimately also the largest endocrine organ that we have. Anna- Theresa Lipp explains why we ought to love our fat and what we can do if our fat metabolism is dysfunctional. Dr. Anna-Theresa Lipp was born in - Recognise the 5 types of fat Salzburg, and studied medicine at Lud- - Debunk dietary falsehoods and false promises wig Maximilian University in Munich. - Understand the connection between fat and the brain She completed her specialist training at As a young girl, Anna-Theresa Lipp stood out from the rest of her the Rechts der Isar Hospital and at the family. She is frequently asked why exercise and diets have no effect University Medical Centre of the Tech- nical University of Munich, where she on her, and does not know what to reply. At 20, she enrolls to study also did her PhD. Today she works as a medicine. She wants to discover the secret of healthy fat cells. What doctor and a researcher in Munich. She follows is a multi-year occupation with the most versatile and largest is particularly engaged in research on endocrine organ. Today the young doctor knows: we must love our lipoedema, because she would like to fat, because we cannot do without it. You cannot be healthy without help women with incurable lipid meta- healthy fat metabolism. For up-to-date research, Anna-Theresa Lipp bolic disorders. sorts through verified scientific facts on how our brain, heart and hormones communicate with our body fat, and what is required for them all to work in harmony.

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Tom Belz Up KilimanjaroDo What You with Can't. One Leg

'Everyone has their own Kilimanjaro' At the age of eight, Tom Belz loses his left leg to bone cancer. But his unbridled spirit and strong will help him overcome even the largest hur- dles. At twelve, he decides against a prosthesis, because it will hinder more than help. At 33, he stands on the the highest summit in Africa, and sure of his success, raises his crutches into the sky. Tom Belz consciously reaches for his limits – and beyond. Through his own story and sensa- tional achievements, he would like to encourage others to DO WHAT YOU CAN´T. February 2021 · 240 pages

Bernd Gieseking

Finding Happiness the Finnish Way! A search for the Finnish soul. Bernd Gieseking travels through the land of the masters of happiness. He journeys from South to North, from Helsinki to Inari, via Rovaniemi, the Island of Hailuoto, and back again to Turku. He visits friends he has known for years and meets artists and a beer brewer, a female bishop, a vet, a Moomin expert, a former member of the Leningrad Cowboys band, a staff member of the Finnish parliament, the Finnish female runner-up in dressage, and he sits around in numerous saunas, speaks to a licorice manufacturer, and attends the Finnish watercross championships. Gieseking asks Finns why they are happy, May 2021 · 304 pages and if they think Germans could be happy in Finland, and Finns happy in Germany. And he asks himself why he is always so happy whenever he's in Finland.

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Sophia Kroemer

MyThe Journey Same and through Yet Not Trauma the Same .

There was this boy. And I was a girl. Isn't this the start of many a love story? Sakari is a fun-loving 19-year-old when her life falls to pieces after she is raped at a city festival. But suddenly Kari is there, her second ego, who constantly reminds her of her strengths. With the help of her best friend and her family, Sakari struggles back to life and to herself. Sakari's story is that of Sophia – with tremendous vehemence and authenticity, she depicts the consequences of a rape. Without once point- ing a finger, she answers the question of how people handle those who March 2021 · 240 pages have had to experience sexualised violence. It is also the story of a family that is almost torn apart by it. And it is a story about the value and the healing power of friendship and love.

Fränzi Kühne

ButQuestions I'll Ask Men Them are Anyway Never Asked .

When women are interviewed, it's very rare for the subject not to turn at some point to their role as a woman, to the significance of this, to what extent they are different or serve as a role model for other women, and how they combine their career with family life. The Interview protocol of Die Erfolgreiche Frau™(The Successful Woman) apparently stipulates such questions. And that's a problem. Even in the third decade of the 21st centutry, we're still deeply caught up in clichéd thinking, in particular with regard to gender roles. Deviations from the norm are not viewed as signs of an urgent need for change, but, rather, the exceptions that prove the proverbial rule: On the one side, May 2021 · 240 pages women, on the other, men. Yet it can be thoroughly eye-opening to turn the protocol around occasionally by putting the questions typically posed to women to successful men. For only if we break with traditional patterns can things really change.

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Jonas Wuttke

In Bed with the World Vincent loves Jessica. Jessica loves Vincent. He and the up-and-coming influencer have a trusting and fulfilling relationship – including in bed. But when Vincent suggests streaming their lovemaking live to the world, their otherwise very harmonious relationship begins to wobble. What was initially intended as a harmless adventure, suddenly turns into a catastrophe, which could not only ruin their relationship but their entire lives. An enthralling coming-of-age novel, which explores the depths of social media and porn consumption, as well as the consequences of cyber-mobbing.

March 2021 · 224 pages

Guido Knopp ALDI: a German StoryBubbly for All.

Germany's most popular historian writes about the best-known supermarket chain Contemporary history trend: ALDI is legendary and part of our cultural memory German frugality and bargain hunting – ALDI as history of men- talities

April 2021 · 352 pages

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Arno Strobel

The App – They Know You. They Know Where You Live • #1 on the Spiegel bestseller list upon publication • by Arno Strobel sold • 'SmartOver 1 millionHome' books– When the wish for security turns into a death trap …

It sounds almost too good to be true. The best neighbourhood, a house with Smart-Home, everything controllable through an App, at all times and from anywhere. And also completely secure. Hendrik and Linda are over the moon when they move in. This is the home they had always imagined sharing together. September 2020 · 368 pages But then one night Linda disappears. Hendrik is about to crack up. Could someone have got into the house that night? Hendrik feels increasingly under scrutiny. And rightly so, because it's not just the App that knows where he lives … 'You don't need a book mark when you're reading one of Arno Strobel's thrillers, since you can't put them down. Thrilling and nerve-racking!' Sebastian Fitzek

Phillip P. Peterson

Vacuum When the stars go out … The new sci-fi thriller from the pen of the bestselling author Phillip P. Peterson. Physicist Susan Boyle monitors a neutrino telescope during winter in the Antarctic. She receives a strong signal from a nearby cluster of stars, but cannot make out anything unusual. Until gradually more and more stars disappear from the sky. The astronaut Colin Curtis is preparing for landing in the lunar orbit. But the maneouvre is aborted when an astronomer in his crew discovers an alien spacecraft, which is approaching our solar system at great speed. It sends a radio message to humanity, consisting September 2020 · 496 pages entirely of physics formulas, before disappearing again. In time, it becomes clear to the scientists that something is approaching from deep space. Something so powerful that it will shake earth to its very foundations. 'This is the ultimate catastrophe thriller. And possibly also the most foolhardy rescue operation ever undertaken. Wonderful!' Andreas Eschbach

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