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"This story blows up the Vatican ...", the Hamburg attorney Dieter Prätorius notes, when his friend, the Hamburg investigator Serge Christiansen dictates the Vatikan protocol. Christiansen is on the trail to reveal one of the greatest mystery of the Catholic Church. He is commissioned to find a disappeared Padre, who has dedicated himself to the mission of thwarting the machinations of the Vatican Bank. The man from Hamburg encounters the conspiracy of a fascist secret society, the Mafia and reactionary courier cardinals ... together with the Vatican Bank. When John Paul I becomes pope, the world hopes for a reformation of the Church. However, he dies in office under mysterious circumstances after only 33 days. The man from Hamburg becomes the feared opponent of the wire-pullers behind the scenes. But the mafia has already sent a killer to Rome. Can Christiansen help justice to victory and unmask the murderer? A thriller as mysterious and frightening as the catacombs.
Amalea, in the year 344 after the foundation of Fiorinde. The time of darkness is over. The people of Amaleas are about to clean the world from the last suporters of darkness and help the gods back to their power… The die is cast. Bargh, Telos, Chara and Thorn succeeded at Al’Jebal’s tasks and sealed their fates. But what helps one advancing, leads the other to his doom. The shadows of Bargh’s past catch up on him and he gets closer to the evil than he likes. Chara wonders why she is so incredibly fascinated by the supporters of chaos and Telos tries to combine his own outrageous doings with the words of Agramon. Thorn, on the other hand, secretly plans Al’Jebal’s demise. The chaos/wars are over for hundreds of years, but the encounter with Hakkinen Dragati, a prophet of the god of chaos, shows that this might be a lie. And at the end Bargh, Telos, Chara and Thorn realize that it has been chaos all along that determined their every step. But how does Al’Jebal match this recognition? Order has one mistake which is that it does not recognize chaos even it is right infront of it. Unfortunately, this mistake is devastating.
This collective edition consists of all of the three volumes of the adventures of Bandath, the dwarfling. Carsten Zehm’s fantastic saga of the little wizard who has to break dangerous tasks in the Drummel/Dragons/Mountains together with dwarfs, elves, trolls and dragons, is now available in one package. Dwarflings are incredibly rare, especially on this side of the Drummel/Dragons/Mountains. And Bandath is not only a dwarfling, but also a wizard. Therefore he is a thorn in the side of the magician guild. During his search for the diamond sword Bandath finds new friends: the mysterious Aehrchen/Knoergi Niesputz (=Sneezeclean), the Zwelfe (dwarfelv) Barella and even the elves and trolls, who are usually in a never ending battle with each other, become allies. After all, without the diamond sword their home will be doomed. A year later the friends are looking for the demon’s treasure in the desert of death. There an old curse comes to live again, while the doings of the magician guild become more and more opaque. Bandath has to realize that some borders are only there to cross them. In the last volume of the trilogy huge hordes of Gorgals advance on the Drummel/Dragons/Mountains. When his magical powers are attacked, Bandath conceives that the entire world is facing a watershed. “Pyr, the black” threatens to destroy everything! Bandath and his friends have to break the most difficult task of their lives. „Yea/eaah“, Niesputz cried. „Let’s chop the elves into pieces!“
Actually, Beatrice should be happy. She took over Mr. Plana’s antiquarian bookshop, her husband is healthy again and her publisher wants a new manuscript. Everything seems in perfectly good order. But one day the curious shopkeeper Quirinus appears, and he makes her an offer that she just can’t refuse. Together they make their way back into the deepest regions of the Booklands.
Elsa and Finn are living door to door. They are friends. Best friends. And despite all doubts of their personal environment, despite all feelings and temptations, that’s what they want to stay. In the end all love attachments fail: Closeness becomes tenure, affection becomes casualness and so on. It is known so well/ No, Elsa and Finn want to stay who they are, no matter what happens. And a lot of things happen that rock their heartfelt relationship both sides. This novel tells the humorous, exiting and touching story of an unusual and heartfelt relationship spread over two decades, their ups and downs, funny, happy and dramatic moments and repeatedly asks the question: How much love can a friendship stand. A wonderful love story and a recommendation for all readers of Cecilia Ahern.
A dead friend. – A stolen masterpiece. – An encrypted message within the famous altar of Ghent. – And an ominous organization… When Daniel finds his friend murdered in his apartment, he becomes inevitably involved in mysterious events concerning a spectacular art theft from 1934. With the help from Mara, Daniel encounters mysterious messages on the panel of the altar of Ghent, which is still missing today, and discovers an incredible secret. Based on the historic events concerning one of the most spectacular art thefts of all time Klaus/Jürgen Wrede develops a novel filled with tension. The reader is taken across Europe and from Cologne to Ghent on the trail of the still unsolved case of the famous altar of Ghent of the van Eyck brothers.
It is the time of Charlemagne. When pagan Saxon tribes invaded Hesse led by the legendary Widukind, Charles gathered a giant army at the Main. Arnulf, a destitute man, is forced into service within this army. During the bloody battles he achieves military exploits with his battle axe and wins the favor of the kings’ consultant Einhard. When Arnulf eventually destroys Irminsul, the biggest Saxon sanctuary, his future seems bright. But a hostage at the king’s court unravels the knight’s world: It is Widukind’s sister. And no axe or shield can help him against her charms… With the first volume of the Arnulf/saga the author portraits the expiring 8th century, which is coined by superstition, brutality, godliness and passion. Across the whole Franconian camp there is the gulf between the civilized scholars, like Einhard, and the fanatic chaplain of Charles, who wants to exterminate the pagan belief. Both sides fight with all available means to expand their influence on the king.
Amalea, in the year 342, after the foundation of Fiorinde. The time of darkness is over. The people of Amalea are about to clean the world from the last supporters of darkness and help the gods back to their power… Thorn, Chara, Telos and Bargh swore fidelity to Al’Jebal. Although the old man is seen as the former wiredrawer of chaos and the personification of evil, they get along with their new principle. And Chara even finds her real master in him. Only Thorn stays suspicious and follows his own plans. After a hard apprenticeship under the best of Al’Jebal’s supporters, the heroes are sent to their first mission far away from Ashrans and the Valianian Imperium. What the four do not know is this: The mission is one of three tests from Al’Jebal that are meant to prepare them for each of their fates. Telos discovers his true destiny during this first deadly mission at the Kabugna/Islands, Chara is confronted with a shocking realization of her own nature and Thorn has to face his past which directly takes him back to the Valianian Imperium to end what was once started. Meanwhile, the first signs appear that do not announce a golden time period at all. And while Chara, Telos, Bargh and Thorn each seal their fate, Al’Jebal starts to prepare for a war that will shake the world… “There is a principle that resembles fate very much. It follows the same rules, results in the same thing and sends us on the same journey. It whisperingly talks of a beginning, of a change, of an end. Where the Gods have no power, there it is the Alpha and the Omega. This principle is called strategy. If it is supposed to be like this, then let it be. Everyone is there where he is supposed to be.” Series: Amalea: The last chaos/war during the third Dark Period was won by the supporters of order. In the year 342 after the foundation of Fiorinde, the people of Amalea believe that chaos, thus Evil, is defeated. There is only one who sees the world with different eyes. He lives in the South of Amalea, is famous for his army of Orcs and Assassins and is said to be one of the most powerful surviving supporters of chaos. His name is Al’Jebal. The chronicles of chaos and order is a story about the winding road of an Assassin, a war priest, a ranger and a barbarian. While they are entangled in the big war between the powers of chaos and order, they gradually discover the truth about the origin of the world, of humanity and of magic. During their contribution to the war they realize that the fate of Amalea is controlled by only a few and that the world is far bigger than assumed. Thereby they walk all paths – in light and in the darkness, between chaos and order, as murderer and lovers, as hunters and hunted… And until the end they are accompanied by a man named Al’Jebal. In a world which offers everything that ever existed in the genre of fantasy (Elves, Dwarfs, Dragons, Vampires, Werewolves, Centaurs, Demons and Gods…) a cosmos unfolds which is still completely strange to us. And the best known being carries this cosmos within itself – the human. Whenever a human is the center of a fantasy novel and is shown in all its facets, the bright and the dark ones, without any kind of extenuation, fantasy comes to life, turns into High Fantasy and transforms into Real Fantasy.
Shortly before the end of the Second World War the young Jew Elsa is deported to Auschwitz. The encounter with the ruthless concentration camp doctor, Erich Hauser, changes her life dramatically. Almost 35 years she keeps the secret until she one day meets her tormentor in a restaurant in New York. Elasa’s daughter Leni only gets to know the tragic story of her family through her mother’s diary entries. The story begins in Auschwitz with experiments on humans… From then on Leni’s thoughts concentrate on one thing only: To call Dr. Hauser to account for everything he has done.
"Who makes himself a donkey, is dragging the sacks," the donkey Benjamin is reading, as he makes his way into a new life overcoming dependency and destructive relationships. Angelika Kaufmann, educationalist and sociologist, demonstrates the psychosocial phenomenon of codependency, by passing on her experience from projects with addicts and their families by means on the story of the donkey Benjamin, who needs to take a long journey which becomes a practical test. Experiencing his own limitations, he is finally able to grow out of fear of abandonment and learns to love himself. "Benjamin" is used in more than 300 self/help groups of rural adult education in the Department of Health and self/help and puts the focus on family members of addicts who reappraise their personal situation. This is a book to help people to help themselves, and seek ways to let the vortex of addiction, violence and dependence behind. " Benjamin 'is a companion on a path of perceived loneliness, pressure and strain to self (re) discovery and joy of life." (Erwin Vartmann / LEB Department Health and self/help)
Amalea, in the year 340, 560 years after the climax of the chaos reign: The time of darkness is over. The people of Amalea are about to clean the world from the last supporters of darkness and help the gods back to their power… Thorn Gandir, ranger and knight, loses everything that ever meant something to him during the slave revolts. There he fights serving the chairmen of the senate, Antonius Virgil Testaceus. Unfortunately, he lets himself get carried away and finds the scepter of Valian for his power/hungry patron. The scepter is said to be stolen from a mighty enemy of the imperium. Together with the mercenary Chara Viola Lukullus, the war priest Telos Malakin and the barbarian Bargh Barrowson he embarks on a journey through the ashranic desert. But Thorn cannot be sure of who is a friend and who is an enemy… Nor can he tell what his role is, because chaos is just about to step out of the shadows. Dwarfs and Elves, Orcs, Centaurus, Thanatanen, Humans… Gods and Demons live in the fantastic world of Amalea. Thorn and his fellows reveal the lost knowledge of the Old World starting from the Valianian Imperium, which resembles the Roman antiquity. While the powers of chaos and order struggle for supremacy, the story’s heroes are confronted with an incredibly old power. They have to cross the borders of their familiar world to prevent Amalea from perishing. Thereby they walk the narrow ridge between Good and Evil. Amalea’s future depends on their decision – chaos or order?
Lena Maria is five years old and often stays home alone with her little brother Maxi. Lena always tries not to annoy her mother Karla. That does not work all the time, though, especially not when she is tired or when she just does not get along with her brother or mother. The threat of her mother one day leaving forever hangs over her like a sword of Damocles. Only with Kalle, her stuffed bunny, Lena can share her worries. One day Hannah, a girl whose family seems to be intact, becomes Lena’s source of hope. With her Lena can spent careless hours and days, far away from her moody, revised mother. It is also Hannah who eventually rescues Lena and Maxi out of their dangerous loneliness… A novel about the neglect of children that intends to rouse us – don’t close your eyes, show initiative!
This is the second book in a series called “Quantum/Awareness” that deals with different possibilities of applying the 2/point/method to everyday life. It is an addition to the first book, “Quantum/Awareness: Freeing oneself through the power of the wave”, and contains new areas for applying the 2/point/method that enable easier decision/making, problem/solving and goal/reaching. The author’s goal is to motivate readers to regular “play with the quantum/wave” and remind them of the numerous possibilities for applying the method, in order to aid the reader in the development of his personality. The book is a journey through the fascination that is the human brain and shows effective yet simple methods for reaching full potential. A must/read for everyone wanting to overcome self/sabotage and “live himself”!
The east franc empire in the year 956: Once again there is peace in the empire of king Otto, after the Hungarian hordes were defeated successfully on the Lechfeld in the year before. But the calm is deceitful. The rulers, who stood united behind the king only a few months ago, are now eager to cement their power in the empire and expand their influence. People even plot cold/bloodedly against their own families! Because of his brother’s betrayal, the entire family of the ruler Farold is supposed to be killed. Only the seven year old son Rogar can escape the bloodbath. Traumatized and without any knowledge of his true identity he is taken in by a Benedictine order near Neustatt and from there on has the name Faolán. The abbot and the cellarer try to preserve the lad from the murderous fingers of the betrayer. The subterranean powers do not stay inactive either. The young knight Brandolf, who stayed loyal to his master Farold even after his death, wants to find Rogar and help him receive his lawful heritage. In order to do so, he and his father even go to the highest instance, king Otto himself, to publicly accuse Farold’s brother of betrayal. But the king has far/reaching plans for which he needs strong vassals… Without knowing anything of these things, Faolán meets a girl named Svea. On that day his life starts to change dramatically. His former worldview is unraveled when he becomes aware of his love for Svea. Faolán tries everything to see the girl again. Doing so, he makes one fatal mistake that makes it possible for his bailiffs to finally get rid of the true heir of the countship.
A golem in the middle of the city on a bright day – Fahrat cannot believe his eyes. Normal people cannot see the loamy being, but even for the young Schwertler (swordler) this is an unsettling view. Even though he usually prefers a good wine over any adventure, he follows the monster and meets Ava. The young woman is obviously a common human. Nevertheless, she claims distracted that a black angel stole her newborn twins. But what would Morton, vice chancellor of the city council and operator of the coven, do with two human children? Are these incidents connected to the dread that lurks outside the city? Fahrat’s good nature and his Schwertler/(swordler)pride keep him at Ava’s site. But soon he does not know who is experiencing a new world – whether it is Ava, who meets swearing witches, LKW/Chimären (truck/chimaeras) and lurking Waldwürger (forrestchokers) during her search of her children – or whether it is Fahrat, whose world does not seem to be the world he always thought it was.
The Hessian Wetterau 400 B.C. The celtic tribe of Eberleute is threatened by the tribe of deer people who want to win their fertile land for themselves.
“We can fulfill our dreams despite the handicap; we just have to prepare them better than healthy people do.” What does it mean to be ill all your life? Which ways lead out of this crisis? How can I fulfill my dreams and wishes despite a handicap? These and other questions are addressed by Marion Petznick in her book. In the middle of her life she draws conclusions regarding an eventful time and tells the story of her winding road with a kidney disease. With hope and motivation Petznick wants to bolster people in similar situations, so they will not give up. That way she tells the moving story of her life and describes how she managed to achieve her aims despite the disease. The potentially deadly kidney disease is diagnosed when Marion Petznick is only two years old. When the disease gets so worse that a dialysis becomes inevitable, she decides for a less common healing dialysis called the ‘peritoneal dialyses’. She reports about her experiences with the center of dialysis and weighs the pros and cons of the different procedures. After the fall of the Berlin wall she can travel wherever she wants and implements it in spite of the dialysis. She is lucky and receives a new kidney through transplantation. She tenderly calls this kidney ‘Paul’. In her book the author gives advice concerning the enjoyment of food despite a kidney disease, journeys and the fulfilment of compulsion to move. Thereby she also allows several experts on the subject of kidney diseases to speak. She makes clear that individual initiative and responsibility give life a better quality and that diseases can be understood as chances to deal with life more intensively, but also to contact others. Everybody who is authentic, credible and genuine will get honest consolation and find confidence in life. That way new perspectives can be developed and designed. Just have the courage!
In August 1946 the first food supplies from American civils reached the Bremer habours. But how was this biggest aid program of the world history until then achieved? Within his book Karl Hemeyer gives an answer to this question, which is as entertaining as it is informative. Home here and home there – but what do you do when you are no longer welcome in your home? What do you do when you cannot fulfill your aims and imaginations at home? The brothers David and Harro Stern from Wesermünde (now Bremerhaven) face exactly these problems when they return home from the Olympic Games in Berlin 1936. As journalists for the Nordsee magazine they spent an exciting time there and made friends with the stadium announcer Henri Nannen, the director Leni Riefenstahl and the Afro American sprinter Ralf, a college of Jesse Owens. They had an eventful future for themselves in their mind and planned to take over their father’s publishing house and expand it. But everything came differently… Because of persecution and escape, then because of war and imprisonment, the disparate brothers and their wayward father are suddenly separated. They never lose sight of their new aim to one day see each other and their father again, despite the constantly threatening and changing dangers and the connected tragedies, as well as the few happy events. Against this historical background a thrilling and adventurous story unfolds about the Brothers Stein whose fate is gripping from the beginning. The author successfully brings the protagonists close to the reader by telling entertainingly, fast/paced and pictorially.
Perfect functioning is expected from Susanne Kueppers, but the more she seeks, the more often she reaps scorn and violence. The father leaves the family, the mother is a servile Jehovah's Witness, schoolmates tease and harass the girl. For each alleged disobedience will is punished cruelly. Finally, she even experiences sexual abuse. As an adult, she tries to build a life on her own in harmony and tolerance. Again she functions perfectly, bringing together working life, children, marriage and friendships – until she suddenly collapses. A lengthy, emotionally painful therapy brings old wounds to light and gets cautious recovery going. However, the relapse into old patterns can therefore not always be prevented. Now Susanne Kueppers has written down the harrowing story of her ups and downs, her borderline disorder. Despite all suffered injuries, she turns to her fellow sufferers with confidence: Courage! It is worth the fight!
Cécile Koch reflects how, with the eyes of a child, she watched her once attractive, charming and witty mother lose control of her life and her family. Partly set off by the marriage to manic/depressive alcoholic who is also addicted to narcotics, the mother lets her own addictions take over, before being defeated by them. Young Cécile, an outsider among her peers, tries to cope with her reality by adjusting it with the help of her vivid phantasy. But when with advancing age she realizes that an internal escape will not suffice, her eagerness to leave home grows. At the age of 14, she runs away to travel with a small circus, earning her keep with the only thing she has – herself. Though torn inside, she decides that anything is better than staying home. An involuntary return shakes the ground beneath her feet, causing her to search for meaning in empty relationships, drug abuse and repeated attempts to take her own life. When her mother dies of liver failure, Cécile manages to turn her life around and begin the road to recovery. This autobiographic novel about a young woman’s relationship to her mother tells of a life without a sheltered childhood and the attempt to seize one’s own destiny through courage and a strong will to live – and the problems that come with these attempts.
