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      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA

        Heart of Mist

        by Katrin Lange

        A girl torn between two brothers. Regardless of which one she falls in love with it will be disastrous for the other. Christopher and Adrian have sworn that no girl will ever come between them again, because there is a sleeping monster inside Adrian, just waiting to hurt his brother. But then Jessa comes to High Moor Grange… Jessa would do anything to find her sister Alice, who has been registered as missing for five years. High Moor Grange is the first clue she has been given after all this time – but apart from a ruin shrouded in mist, all she finds there are the owners of this dilapidated manor house. Jessa suspects that they both know more about Alice’s disappearance than they admit. Christopher wants nothing more than to be rid of her, and constantly gets on her nerves with his arrogance – and even his warm-hearted brother Adrian seems to be harbouring some secrets. Jessica knows that she ought to stay away from the twin brothers, because instead of finding answers at High Moor Grange, she finds herself in danger of losing her heart in a battle against a 200-year-old curse. Dark, irresistible and deeply romantic – a modern Beauty and the Beast story by the queen of emotions!

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA
        March 2020

        Nach vorn, nach Süden

        Forward, to the South

        by Jäger, Sarah

        Sometimes you have to leave your backyard to make life an adventure.   For a group of temporary employees of a local supermarket, the backyard of the discounter is more than meets the eye. It is a break room, a living room and sometimes also a party cellar. In the backyard you get your name, whether you like it or not. If you are lucky, you will be ennobled with an "our", just like “our Pavel”. Or you are unlucky. Like “Duckbutt”. She got her name from Jo, who disappeared months ago. His ex-girlfriend Marie, his best friend Can and the first-person narrator, “Duckbutt”, start looking for Jo and the reasons for his disappearance. Their only clues: stamps on the postcards that he sent to Marie.  The search for him develops into a wild summer trip through roaring hot July days. Without a plan, without air conditioning, further and further south.   14+ years Fast, funny, smart ... and also a love story.  Debut (road)novel of a highly promising rising German talent that radiates the feeling of youthful freedom and hot July days Awarded with the Lynx of the Month March 2020! For all fans of Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Tschick and Kirsten Fuchs’ Mädchenmeute. English sample translation available!

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        Children's & YA
        June 2020

        Das Herz der Zeit: Die vergessenen Geschichten

        The Heart of Time: The Forgotten Stories

        by Peetz, Monika

        Everything is lost. Lena’s enemies have taken over the invisible city and launched a witch hunt for time travellers. Together with Bobbie, Lena takes refuge in the future and tries desperately to find other rebels. The near future is already very different compared to her present life: in 2031 climate change is undeniable and people pay by using implanted memory chips, which is frightening enough. Then her chronometer picks up a faint signal – from Dante. Lena can hardly wait to see him again. But can she be sure the signal is genuine?  Things take a dark turn when she is visited by a group of time tourists; in a distant future, time travel is big business. But no one seems to care about the chaos and damage this kind of tourism can cause – or even that it could destroy humanity itself.   For Lena, everything is on the line: the existence of the invisible city, the fate of humanity’s forgotten stories – and even her love for Dante.     12+ years The finale of this enthralling fantasy trilogy. English sample translation available!

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        Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
        2018

        The New Girl Code

        by Niki Smit

        Tumi Letsatsi is a 13-year old melanin kween living in Rondebosch, Cape Town. Her favourite colour is yellow, she's still trying to figure out how not to dent her afro on the bus, and how one goes about (ahem!) “french kissing”. She’s a little awkward and a lot uncertain about her future, friendships and how to put together a cool outfit! But then she stumbles across the magic of coding and creates an app called “Project Prep” that goes viral and rockets her and her friends to fame. Then everything starts to fall apart, as she deals with a catfish who befriends her and steals her code, nasty rumours at school and the newfound attention of a crush. The New Girl Code (by Niki Smit, locally edited by Buhle Ngaba) is about the wonders of working in tech, aimed at girls and young women aged 9-15. The project is an initiative of Inspiring Fifty and based on an idea by Janneke Niessen.

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        Children's & YA
        February 2022

        Alles, was ich in dir sehe

        New Adult-Roman mit viel Liebe und Humor

        by Kyra Groh

        All That I See In You   All I See, All You Know, All You Have Been ...Anna, Polly and Anouk all have very different goals after graduating high school, but this does not harm their friendship. Quite the opposite: they have to stick together more tightly than ever. As there are a lot of things about life as an adult that no one has prepared them for – to not even mention their love lives! All these experiences are shared on a joint Instagram account, and each book tells the story of one of the girls.Two weeks in a luxury resort in Portugal - the perfect gift for graduation. Not for Anna, who would rather spend the summer at home with her two best friends. But because she always puts her own wishes on hold, she is now in the Algarve, lost between models and photographers. After escaping to a café, she befriends Helena, who invites her to help out on her dog farm. There, Anna meets the guy again who she bumped into at Frankfurt airport - not a good memory for both of them, as they instantly disliked each other. Fynn is not Anna‘s type at all and sees nothing more in her than a fashion doll. So, definitely not a dreamboat she could be falling for (she thinks) …• Original and modern twist on New Adult fiction – touching and an extra dose of humor• Girl power: 3 self-confident sisters as role models who stand up for themselves• Stories about first steps towards independence: Career choices, fear of the future, knowing and accepting yourself

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        Children's & YA
        September 2021

        Wen immer wir lieben

        New Adult-Roman mit Bad-Boy-Challenge und Liebe auf den zweiten Blick

        by Michelle Schrenk

        Whomever We Love Three sisters, three challenges, three winners of hearts?Although they are sisters, Lina, Kaya and Nika couldn‘t be more different. While Lina enjoys her life to the fullest, Kaya is a full-time perfect student. Nika, on the other hand, always falls for heartbreakers – but together the three of them fight against all odds. In life and in love!Tattoos, leather jacket and unbelievably charming: a bad boy from the books. In a bar, Lina and her two best friends rate guys on Tinder on a scale from 1 to heartbreaker. The reason is Lina‘s little sister Nika, who has once again fallen into the bad boy trap. When the very guy on Lina‘s display just walks through the door – clearly identified by them as a womanizer – her friends challenge her: Lina is to prove to them that she can resist him, effortlessly. That‘s how the Bad Boy Challenge begins... the stakes: nothing less than Lina‘s heart.   • Second encounters can defeat first impressions, the heart always wins ...• Original and modern twist on New Adult fiction – touching and an extra dose of humor• Girl power: 3 self-confident sisters as protagonists and role models• Stories about first steps towards independence: Career choices, fear of the future, parental pressure, exploring roots to find your place

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA
        October 2020

        Crazy

        by Serhiy Grydin

        The story Crazy is a new work by the famous contemporary Ukrainian author Serhiy Grydin, master of psychological prose for youth. This is the story of a 16-year-old boy who lives in a computer world and cannot imagine his life without gadgets. He feels like a completely happy person until he meets his first love, which not only gives him pleasant moments, but also brings the first serious trials of physical strength, morality and dignity, ingenuity and resourcefulness. This is where Artem will need all his till up to now acquired skills. But, as it turns out, sometimes not only the victory itself is important, but the experience gained by a person, and true friends.

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        Adventure stories (Children's/YA)
        2019

        De Profundis

        by Liubov Baz

        A programmer, a writer, a rock musician, a high school student. All of them are very different people. What seemed to unite them? All of them know a young girl, German tutor, a recent graduate of Ukrainian Literature Faculty, who is also an ardent admirer of computer games. This girl inexplicably gets involved in a complex history of threats and ends up in a dried-up well. Sitting in a well, the heroine tries to remember who caused her misfortune. Perhaps through her memories - and other people's stories - she will find the way to salvation?

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        Family & home stories (Children's/YA)
        2013

        The Other Home

        by Oksana Lushchevska

        The early 21st century. The humanity is on the verge of the apocalypse, or so they tell on every TV channel. But the mass psychosis sometimes covers up more important problems, so people don’t see the true collapse is looming over their private lives. The life of Polya and Artem, the protagonists of Oksana Lushchevska’s ‘The Other Home’, has divided into two parts – before and after their parents divorced. Now the kids have to build new relationships with their Mom and Dad separately. Can they do it? Can they make themselves at home at the other home? Can they accept new circumstances and overcome the challenges? And what’s more, will the teenage love be an obstacle or a driver of change?

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        Children's & YA

        Changeling

        by Kotryna Zylė

        Changeling is a rebellious novel about creativity, youth and the raging intensity of teenage emotional life. The gripping story plunges the reader into the depths of a mystical town, a haunting and haunted place, where boundaries between the real and the otherworldly become dangerously blurred. A strange and electrifying tale of teenage disenchantment, Changeling is a work of stunning emotional force that captures the twisted complexities of family relationships and friendships, first love, and the quest for self-definition. Guided by short introductions to Baltic mythology, readers will find themselves in an urban landscape steeped in pagan and post-Soviet history.

      • Children's & YA
        May 2020

        Déjame soñar contigo

        by Arianna Saurith Fernández

        Keaton Austin Wood's addiction to alcohol has taken everything away from him: family, friends, aspirations, and even a part of his life. He is an uninhibited young man who falls deeper every day into an endless pit from which there is no apparent way out, until he meets Luna de Africa Ross, an innate artist with a beautiful smile, and her godmother at the Lovely Parks help center. Together they will learn the true meaning of love, friendship and second chances when they are wrapped in a touching story in which dreams do come true.

      • Children's & YA

        GOING MY WAY?

        by SALLY

        An ordinary day, a packed commuter train – and an usual friendship blooms between a securities trader heading for his first day at a new job and an exhausted research student heading to his part-time job. Fate, it turns out, strikes in strange ways on ordinary days.

      • Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
        January 2017

        That One Night

        Novel

        by Arunika Senarath

        Love at first sight: Amina and Sten run into each other in Dresden. After a romantic dinner in a back room of the Semper Opera House, they see each other more often. But something stands between them. Not only Amina's past, but also Sten's racism. Against the backdrop of Dresden's Elbe Baroque, the pretty Amina falls in love with Sten with the ice-blue eyes. But do they really fit together? Because he belongs to a racist movement, and she hates prejudices. She also carries a heavy package of a bad party night during her school days, in which he seems to be somehow involved.In her debut novel, the young author Arunika Senarath creates a contemporary staff of young people who study, love, argue, celebrate between Neustadt and the Frauenkirche. And who is not unaffected by the political jolt to the right. With a sample translation into English of the first chapters.

      • Children's & YA

        A Dragonbird in the Fern

        by Laura Rueckert

        When Scilla, the eldest princess of Azzaria is murdered by an assassin, her vengeful spirit is doomed to remain with the living, tormenting her loved ones until her killer is brought to justice. While the entire kingdom mourns, Scilla’s betrothed arrives and requests her seventeen-year-old sister Jiara take her place as his bride to confirm the alliance between their countries.Marrying the young king intended for her sister and traveling to his distant home is distressing enough, but with years of scholarly struggles with her own language, Jiara abandoned any hope of learning other languages long ago. She's terrified of life in a foreign land where she'll be unable to communicate. Then Jiara discovers evidence that her sister's assassin comes from the king's own country. If she marries the king, Jiara can hunt the murderer and release her family from Scilla's ghost, whose thirst for blood mounts every day. To save her family, Jiara must find her sister’s killer . . . before he murders her too

      • Romance & relationships stories (Children's/YA)
        September 2020

        Lost Place - Jellas Geheimnis

        by Simone Holthaus

        Hals über Kopf muss Jella ihr altes Leben zurücklassen und in das Heimatdorf ihrer Mutter ziehen, zu lauter Fremden, die ihre Eltern nie auch nur mit einem Wort erwähnt haben. Bald entdeckt Jella, dass nicht alles so ist, wie es scheint, und Geheimnisse an die Oberfläche kommen, wenn man beginnt, nach ihnen zu suchen ...Was hat der geheimnisvolle Außenseiter Josh, der sich in verlassenen Kasernen herumtreibt und Jella manchmal ganz nah kommt, dann aber wieder kühl und distanziert ist, mit alledem zu tun? Warum will Jellas Vater nicht, dass sie etwas über die Vergangenheit erfährt? Und welche Rolle spielt der mysteriöse Beobachter, der immer wieder in Jellas Nähe auftaucht? Ist er der Schlüssel zu allem? In Jella kommt ein schrecklicher Verdacht auf ... Gemeinsam mit Josh macht Jella sich auf die Suche nach etwas, das nicht nur in der Vergangenheit liegt, sondern auch ihre Zukunft bestimmen könnte.

      • Romance & relationships stories (Children's/YA)
        2018

        You Think the World Falls Apart, but it’s Just You, Who’s Breaking

        by Armin Kaster

        Leo’s parents have just split up and Leo is supposed to live alternately with his father and his mother. However, as his parents focus on their ego trips and are out and about, they don’t notice that Leo has been commuting alone between their empty apartments for quite a while. He hangs around with his friends Sami and Luk, they smoke weed and get drunk. Leo hardly sleeps. In shorter and shorter intervals he sees videos on his cellphone which he has never filmed that way. Is somebody hacking his phone? Is somebody stalking him? Leo’s life becomes more and more oppressive, he loses himself between delusion and reality to find himself again in the end.

      • Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
        2020

        The Sky took its Birds and Went Away

        by Armin Kaster

        The 16-year-old twins Karl and Jim have grown up with Frida, almost like siblings. They spend the holidays with their parents by the sea in Portugal. But nothing is the same as it always was: the innocent friendship of the children is changing, a new form for their relationship has yet to be found. This makes them insecure, frightened and carries the risk of losing the intimate relationship between them altogether. Sexuality has become important, but who wants/does what with whom? On the beach the three meet Lilli, a student, Karl falls in love with. Frida plays with Jim and Karl and is constantly on the edge between sisterly love and sexual coquetry. Secrets, confusion and jealousy keep the teenagers busy even long after they've returned home to Düsseldorf. But finally the transformation succeeds and in the end Karl, Jim and Frida find each other in a new stability: reliable yet independent.

      • Children's & YA

        Stories from Shahnameh

        The Book of Kings

        by Rewritten: Atoosa Salehi

        Among the Iranian literary works, the Shahnameh is a masterpiece especially due to its epical nature. The rich Persian prose and language of Shahnameh, written by the great Persian poet, Ferdousi, is still a reliable literary source for researchers and professors of the Persian Literature. This epic enjoys several stories within itself, which can be hard for a young adult to read. The author of this series has adapted Shahnameh with having the keen young adults in mind as the major audience of these six books. The author has avoided repetition of the fairy tales in order to create them through a new point of view.

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