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FOREIGN RIGHTS Spring 2020 FOREIGN RIGHTS Spring 2020 Kerstin Schuster Foreign Rights Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur Hilblestr. 54, 80636 München, Germany Contact: [email protected] CONTENT Page Author Title Fiction 7 Landau, Grit The Sardinian Wedding 8 Stihlé, Claire How Love Found Us Crime & Thriller 9 Berg, Mathias The Cost of Revenge 10 Bohnet, Katja Fall and Die 11 Bronski, Max Jaguar 12 Falconi, Vitu Corsican Vendetta 13 Finn, Thomas Bermuda 14 Franz/Holbe The Whisperer 15 Gilbers, Harald Winter of Starvation 16 Hofmann, Marc The Math Teacher and Death 17 Jacobs, Jan The Body in the Canal 18 Martin, Pierre Mme le Commissaire and the Woman Without Her Memory 19 Oetker, Alexander Zara & Zoë – Deadly Twins 20 Rüther, Sonja The Bodyguard 21 Svensson, Angelika Costal Revenge 22 Tomasson, Ben Forsberg and the Disappeared Girl Historical Fiction 23 Dutton, Annette Bertha Benz – or the Speed of Dreams 24 Lorentz, Iny Charm of the Exotic 25 Martin, Noah Raphael – The Smile of the Madonna CONTENT Page Author Title Commercial Fiction 26 Fröhlich, Susanne Withdrawn from Serice 27 Herzblum, Anna Loves Lives on the Second Floor Left 28 Kabatek, Elisabeth Chaos in Cornwall 29 Landgraf, Annette Happiness Like Glass 30 Matisek, Marie The Butterfly Garden 31 Maybach, Katja The Fashion Designer 32 Vossius, Corinna My Husband‘s Widows 33 Walter, Nicole A Look In Your Eyes 34 Winter, Nicole The Dune Villa 35 Wolff, Steffi von It Will Calm Down 36 Ziegler, Christine Anger Makes You Cunning Destiny & Family Secrets 37 Beinert, Claudia & Nadja The Infirmary – Physician Out Of Passion 38 Beinert, Claudia & Nadja The Infirmary – Physician in Stormy Times 39 Caspian, Hanna Greifenau Manor – Storm of Gold Young Romance 40 Fischer, Tami Hiding Hurricanes 41 Lucas, Lilly New Dreams 42 Mittmann, Katharina Campus Love – Lauren & Cole 43 Tack, Stella Beat it Up Fantasy 44 Haderer, Katharina von The Ruler of the Forest 45 Koch, Boris Throne of Thornes 46 Puljic, Madeleine Second Home– The Journey of The Celeste CONTENT Page Author Title Non-Fiction 47 Buether, Prof. Dr. Axel The Mysterious Power Of Colours 48 Förster, Jens Box Open, Box Closed 49 Grimm, Hans-Ulrich Food-War 50 Kitzler, Albert Wisdom To Go 51 Lucas, Stephan On The Side Of Evil 52 Rackete, Carola Time to Act 53 Schulze, Katharina Give Hope Instead Of Spreading Fear 54 Vajkoczy, Peter Head Work Pop Science 55 Fischer, Dr. med. Julia Medicine of Emotions 56 Gitter, Christine Is That Healthy or Can It Go? 57 Hesse / Schwanke From Lucky Numbers To PIN Codes 58 Schwarz, Marcus When Insects Walk on Corpses Biography 59 Seewald, Peter Benedict XVI – A Life CONTENT Page Author Title Memoir 60 Johannsen , Diana & Percy Sh. All Aboard! 61 Rammes, Peter Tree Herders 62 Schlaffer, Philip Hate.Power.Violence 63 Schröder, Bärbel Time With Mother 64 Schüle, Geraldine Life Without Borders Self-Help 65 Niekerken, Anja The Art of Not Being An Arshole Mind, Body, Spirit 66 Droste-Laux, Michael Timeout For The Skin 67 Rubach, Dr. Malte The Secret of Ageing Healthily 68 Schmid, Lucia Nirmala The Hand Healing Book 69 Strauß, Markus The Wild Plant Pharmacy 70 Zimmermann, Dorit Children‘s Hour With Doctor Nature Yoga 71 Schöps, Inge Yoga – The Big Exercise Book Family & Education 72 Jung, Daniel Let‘s Rock Education 73 Lüdeke, Ulf Daddys Can Do It! 74 Nolde, Marianne Remaining Parents After Separation Humour 75 Keidel, Volker Those Who Dring Alcohol-free Shandy Have Already Given Up CONTENT Page Author Title bene! Christian Spirituality 76 Ellermeier, Barbara Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Long Live Freedom! 77 Haak, Rainer 77 x Happines 78 Leinhäuser, Carsten Travelling for God 79 Tauber, Peter You Don‘t Have To Be A Hero 80 Wullf, Bettina Not What I Expected bene! for Kids 81 Käßmann, Lea/Walszyk, Jana The Little Racoon Asks About God 82 Käßmann, Margot What Happened At Easter 83 Contacts FICTION Grit Landau The Sardinian Wedding • A novel about family bonds, Sardinian honour, the omnipotence of love and the courage to do the right thing • A wonderful family saga with drama and great feeling of era and local colour May 2020, 368 pages An impossible love and a country at a crossroads Sardinia 1922, just before Mussolini seized power: The author: Leo Lanteri, a war veteran and heir to a Ligurian Grit Landau, born in 1973, writes novels, short olive plantation, kills a fascist in a fight and has to stories and non-fiction books (the latter under her go into hiding. His father sends him to Sassari on real name). Prior to becoming an author, she Sardinia, which for smart jazz enthusiast Leo feels studied history and worked as a music and culture like the end of the world. However, on the journalist. The passion for Italy is in the author’s “forgotten island” something is bubbling under the blood: her father, an opera director and Puccini surface; like in the rest of Italy. Sardinia is on the expert, worked several times at the Scala in Milan verge of revolution. Even Leo soon gets caught and in 1960, her mother aged 20 fell from a between the fronts, for he meets the love of his life collapsing hotel balcony near Sanremo, which was on the country estate belonging to Soriga, a practically the big bang moment for the author’s Mussolini supporter. He loves Gioia, the life-long love of Bella Italia. The author is married headstrong daughter of the house. It is bad timing and lives with her family close to Bonn. because in less than a week musically talented Gioia is to marry the son of an ancient Sardinian clan of horse breeders whose family has murderous traditions. FICTION Claire Stihlé How Love Found Us • One Alsatian village, five strong women and a turbulent past - a novel that ignites hunger for love. • A warm-hearted voice, a joyful story and charming figures that you immediately warm to • Enriched with gourmet recipes from Alsace May 2020, 304 pages An enchanting and sensitive novel about love and how you can help it along Bois-de-Val at the foot of the Sonnenberg in The author: Alsace: Madame Nanon, 92-years-old and lovingly Claire Stihlé was born close to Colmar and studied known by all as Madame Nan, has experienced in France and in Germany, where she also lives. many a thing in the small village with the good air. How Love Found Us about a village in Alsace is her France, Germany, France - her region has also been first novel a plaything caught in political interests and claims to power. Then at last there is calm - until Madame Nan’s eldest daughter suddenly comes up with an invention that not only leads to high regard and money, but also gives the village inhabitants a great deal of chaos in love. The happiness appears to be perfect, if it weren’t for her neighbour, Monsieur Boberschram, who has fallen in love with Madame Nan without knowing that they have a shared past. A past that does everything but bind them together. English and French sample translations available. 8 CRIME / THRILLER Mathias Berg The Cost of Revenge • Severed feet, Red Army Faction terror and a missing child The start of a fascinating cold case crime series • First book in the “Lupe Svensson and Otto Hagedorn” series June 2020, 400 pages A cold case from the 1970s is the first case for a special duo of investigators On her very first day at Düsseldorf regional police, The author: the young forensic psychologist Lupe Svensson is Mathias Berg was born in 1971 in novel-like confronted with a special case. As an intern to the circumstances - he was exactly 17 days early after experienced investigator Otto Hagedorn she is to his parent’s neighbour shot his wife the day examine the discovery of an almost 30-year-old before. corpse, whose foot has been severed. Back in His mother, the daughter of a chief inspector from 1975, Otto had been hunting the “foot-murderer” Stuttgart, gave him his passion for reading and but without success. But can the old case now be writing. After school, he studied sociology in solved? The investigations take Lupe and Otto back Bamberg and London, and worked as a radio to a fascinating era of modern German history and presenter, advertising copywriter and marketing to an unusual series of murders... editor. The Cost of Revenge is the start of the cold case series with psychologist Lupe Svensson and investigator Otto Hagedorn. Mathias Berg lives in Cologne. 9 CRIME / THRILLER Katja Bohnet Fall and Die • A new case for the investigative team of Rosa Lopez and Viktor Saizew from the Berlin police March 2020, 368 pages Attack on Alexanderplatz - a new case for Lopez and Saizew from the Berlin police While an Interpol congress is taking place, six The author: people are brutally murdered with a machete in an Katja Bohnet, born in 1971, studied Film and attack on Alexanderplatz in Berlin. A motorbike Philosophy, before making money as a cycle driver flees the scene and all traces of him are lost courier, portrait photography and with newspaper in Berlin-Falkensee. It is there where Viktor Saizew articles. She lived in the South West of the USA, in is undergoing therapy in a closed psychiatric unit Berlin and Paris, worked in a kibbutz and travelled on account of a breach of duty. However, crime across four continents. For many years she doesn’t allow for any timeout. With Victor’s help, presented a live program in the ARD and wrote as Rosa Lopez, who the Berlin police have put in an author for the WDR.
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