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      • Film scripts & screenplays
        August 2020

        Convertible

        by Åshild Norun

        It's 1967, and a young Norwegian family leaves Norway for California, looking for opportunity and the free and easy lifestyle. The young immigrants settle in a nice house in the suburb. The couple both find jobs, and the twin girls go to school. Dad buys a convertible, just like mom always wanted. She invites her three siblings for a Christmas visit. Two of them stay on, and the younger sister finds an American boyfriend. Every one wants a piece of the American pie, but the price gradually dawns on the blue-eyed immigrants, as they discover simmering racial divides and unrest over the Vietnam war, and watch the terrifying assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy on the nightly news. The American dream is bittersweet.

      • Picture books
        October 2017

        Du lieber Himmel!

        Ein Geschenk für den Nikolaus

        by Rebecca Vonzun-Annen

        Der Nikolaus ist untröstlich! Seine Brille ist verschwunden und weder im Kühlschrank noch im Klo wieder auffindbar. Und ohne seine Brille ist der Nikolaus doch blind wie ein Maulwurf. Kurzerhand macht sich Eselchen Badrija auf die abenteuerliche Suche …

      • Any season is dog season

        Adventure guide for the seasons of the year

        by Heins, Stefanie

        Why does air after rainfall smell pleasantly but wet dogs are stinking? Why do dogs pick fresh blades of gras? How do migratory birds navigate and does such an inner compass also exist in our dogs? This entertaining guide provides fascinating answers to questions many dog owners may ask themselves while walking the dog.It also includes many tips to enjoy each season of the year: moments of joy in nature, delicious food picked by yourself, recipes, playful training, practical Do-It-Yourself- instructions and useful health care. Sorted by month with seasonal specialities and space for your personal notes. This guide is perfect for all people who love being outside with their dogs and enjoy nature!

      • Literary Fiction
        April 2018

        Cervantes for goats, Marx for sheep

        by Pablo Santiago Chiquero

        Mateo works as a herdsman of goats and sheep in Abra, a remote village in the province of Córdoba. He is smart and inquisitive, and due to the lack of incentives in his life he suffers from a severe depression. Only Lázaro Esquivel, a newcomer teacher, is able to get him out of his lethargy using an unorthodox therapy, at the same time that the II Republic of Spain is proclaimed. Once recovered, the first goal of the herdsman will be winning back Conchita, his ex-girlfriend. His second goal will be encouraging reading to get the village of Abra out of its ancient lack of culture. He will try to achieve this with a false veterinary experiment between goats and sheep that will put the whole village to read Cervantes’ Quixote and Marx’s Capital. The novel, set in the rural Andalusia at the beginnings of the 30s, suggests the possibility of a total metamorphosis of society through knowledge and the change of moral values as consequence. More than a rural comedy, Cervantes is for goats, Marx is for sheep is a fable about the love of books, the faith in classic authors and the transformative power of reading.

      • December 2020

        Why I can't like him/her?

        by Anna Claudia Ramos, Antônio Schimeneck

        Adolescence is a time of many doubts, anxieties and uncertainties. In this phase, sexuality is unfolding, and we are going through — because everyone has gone, is going or will go through — self-questions about all conditions, all desires, including regarding sexuality. If on the one hand, we see in beautiful social networks beautiful movements of self-acceptance and discovery, on the other hand we live in a time of great obscurantism and attempt to cage the desires and contain the experiences of young people – whether at home or at school, and unfortunately, many times, with public authority initiative. This book asks this of young people, who often find themselves trapped by a cultural need (or family pressure) to create heteronormative bonds, when, in fact, they feel the desire for people of the same sex. But this book also understands that it is necessary to take this issue to the world, so that everyone reflects on otherness, sexuality and, mainly, the many possibilities of affection and desire. Por que não consigo gostar dele/dela? is a book with two sides, two covers, four stories and many testimonials.

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA

        LET'S PLAY WITH PEEKABOO

        by NATAŠA BUCIK, ANA ZAVADLAV

        LET’S PLAY WITH PEEKABOOWritten by Nataša BucikIllustrated by Ana Zavadlav The Peekaboo series of educational activities, collected in five thematic sets prepared by developmental psychologist Nataša Bucik in collaboration with top illustrator Ana Zavadlav, offers the possibility of combining different thematic sets.  They can be printed together in one book (70 pages) or separately in five notebooks. 1. SPECIFICATIONS OF THE ONE VOLUME BOOK: Format: 20 x 27,5 cm | 112 pages | Age: 5+ 2. SPECIFICATIONS OF THE SERIES: Format: 20 x 27,5 cm | 24 pages | Age: 5+ 1,2,3 ... 10! LET'S COUNT LET'S EXPLORE LET'S OBSERVE LET'S OBSERVE (ADVANCED) IT'S NEVER BORING FOR US

      • The Arts

        The Marvels of the World

        Die Reisen des Ritters Jean de Mandeville

        by Jean de Mandeville

        The Livre de Mandeville (Book of Mandeville) is integrated into a composite manuscript - held today at the Bibliothèque national de France under the shelfmark Fr. 2810 - containing a number of texts about the countries of the Middle and Far East which was given the name Livre de merveilles, on account of the wonders described therein, but also because of its wonderful decorations. The author, Jean de Mandeville, refers to himself as a knight who embarked on his journey in the year 1322 and that he travelled not only to see the sites of the Holy Land, but also to countless far countries of the world and many wondrous regions. By combining seemingly familiar elements with mysterious narratives, he achieves an immediacy and freshness that would be enthusiastically welcomed by a wide readership. It is not only the enthusiastic reception of the text, but also the development of a rich iconographic programme that make the Livre de Mandeville such an impressive example of medieval world and travel literature and the most dazzling work representative of the genre.

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA

        BLACK CROW

        by JANJA VIDMAR

        BLACK CROWWritten by Janja Vidmar While getting used to living in London and attending school there, Jan comes across Hiba, a Syrian refugee who managed to escape the claws of the Islamic State. After a terrorist attack on the London Underground in which his father was wounded, Jan directs all his hatred and disappointment at Hiba. He sets off a sequence of events that st rongly affect him, his friends and family. Jan’s story is just one of many interwoven ones, in which we meet both London hooligans and young people at Islamic State training camps, in war zones and crisis spots in various parts of the world, as well as refugees on the Balkanrefugee route.Format: 14 x 20 cm250 pages | Age: 14+Nominated for the Večernica, Levstik and Desetnica Award in 2019.

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