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April 2017Das Stammeln der Wahrsagerin
Unglaubliche Geschichten hinter Kleinanzeigen. Recherchiert und erzählt von Sarah Khan
by Sarah Khan
Wohnungsauflösungen und Tabula rasa, Not- und Spontanverkäufe. Was treibt Menschen dazu, sich über Kleinanzeigen für kleines Geld von ihren Dingen zu trennen? Ernsthaft, in Kaufabsicht, hat Sarah Khan viele Inserierende getroffen und genau hingehört, als sie anfingen, ihre Lebensgeschichten zu erzählen – u nd aus Oral History Literatur gemacht. Entstanden sind Geschichten von Abschied und Neuanfang, Glück und Unglück, von hochfahrenden oder bereits geplatzten Träumen. Seit Sarah Khan mit ihrer Familie ein altes Schulhaus in Brandenburg renoviert und als Wochenendhaus einrichtet, studiert sie ständig eBay-Kleinanzeigen. Sie findet dort nicht nur Haushaltsgegenstände, sondern auch ungetragene Hochzeitskleider, Pferdebücher, Kosmetikartikel, Fotoalben. Und sie stellt fest: Hinter diesen Anzeigen verbergen sich Menschen. Die traurige Yvonne mit ihrem Hochzeitskleid; eine junge Frau, die ernsthaft glaubt, mit ihrer Pferdebuchsammlung könne sie ihre Altersversorgung sichern; eine Wahrsagerin, die ihre Dienste anbietet und dabei ins Stammeln gerät; ein Tierpfleger, genannt der »Affen-Walter«, der einst Michael Jackson durch den Berliner Zoo geführt hat, Bilder im Album zeugen davon. Was ist diesen Menschen passiert, die sich von Teilen ihres Lebens trennen wollen? Sie haben es Sarah Khan erzählt, und Sarah Khan hat ihre Geschichten aufgeschrieben.
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Children's & YANigu the Friendly Dragon
by Watiek Ideo
On the top of the mountain, live a dragon that often spout fire. Everyone in the village is afraid of the lone dragon. Three friends are curious about it and want to take a peek if the dragon is truly as scary as people said. When they arrive there, what they see is definitely not something they expected!
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Comic book & cartoon art2012Sillygirl, Never change! (Part II)
by Daniela Viviani/ Diego "Novanim" Zúñiga
The naturalness and closeness of these sillygirls are their greatest attributes. In them we can meet our sisters, best friends, and partners in crime. Sooner or later you will feel identified with their funny stories.
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Where the Silver River Ends
by Anna Quon
Joan, a Chinese Canadian English conversation teacher who is unmoored in Europe, flees Budapest for a fresh start. Stepping off the train in Bratislava, she meets Milan, a proud Roma teenager, with whom she strikes up a friendship. The ensuing tale of youthful hope in the face of systemic oppression and racial violence, of family reconciliation and the magic of coincidence, asserts the primacy of love and courage in hard times. Where the Silver River Ends plumbs the depths of intergenerational relationships, mixed-race identity, and what happens when we gather the courage to step out of the current and make our own way in the world.
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Art & design styles: from c 1960September 2014Ways of Looking
How to Experience Contemporary Art
by Ossian Ward
Art has changed. Familiar styles and movements that characterized art production prior to the twenty-first century have all vanished. Traditional artistic media no longer do what we expect of them. Ways of Looking provides a six-step programme for understanding contemporary art based on the concept of the tabula rasa — a clean slate and a fresh mind. It transforms a potentially intimidating encounter with cutting-edge art into a dramatic, sensually rewarding and thought-provoking experience.
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July 2021The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream
The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
by Dean Jobb
“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals, he has the nerve and he has the knowledge,” Sherlock Holmes observed. At the time the words of the fictional detective appeared in The Strand Magazine, a real-life Canadian doctor was murdering women in London’s downtrodden Lambeth neighbourhood. Dr. Thomas Cream had been a suspect in two deaths in Canada, and killed four people in Chicago before arriving in London in 1891 and using pills laced with strychnine to kill prostitutes. The "Lambeth Poisoner" became one of the most prolific serial killers in history. Dean Jobb reveals how bungled investigations, corrupt officials, and failed prosecutions allowed Cream to evade detection and kill again. Alongside an inside account of Scotland Yard’s desperate search for a brazen killer, Jobb explores how the morality and hypocrisy of the Victorian era enabled Cream to poison the vulnerable and desperate women who had turned tohim for help.
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Biography & True StoriesOctober 2013Going Solo on Lake Como
by Ciara O'Toole
Sometimes flying by the seat of your pants is the best thing you can do … When Ciara O’Toole and her husband move to Lake Como, Italy, they make plans – to run their own businesses, to learn the language and to immerse themselves in the Italian way of life. But just a few months into the adventure Ciara’s marriage ends and she finds herself alone in a country where she doesn’t speak the language. She is faced with a choice: return to Ireland or stay in Italy and make her new life work. Determined to make a go of it, she throws herself into everything – forging new friendships – whirlwind romances, attempting to eat her own weight in four-cheese pizzas … and learning to fly a seaplane! Her new passion grips her as she works tirelessly towards an all-important milestone: her first solo flight. Told with warmth, humour and disarming honesty, Going Solo on Lake Como is the inspirational story of how one woman finds her wings and takes to the skies. ‘It made me laugh, it made me cry. It is epic in scope but incredibly intimate.’ Jane Maas
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July 2013New Beginnings
Ten Teachings for Making the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
by Sandy C Newbigging
Offering the ultimate fresh start, this inspiring exploration invites readers to create a positive and powerful platform for making wanted changes. Examining 10 essential life lessons for making the law of attraction a living reality, focus is placed on recognizing that each sacred moment can be a new beginning. Providing more than 40 practical exercises for being present, feeling calm, attracting desires, and living healthier and wealthier, Sandy Newbigging gives clearly structured, timeless advice on how to appreciate life as it is right now so that one’s intentions are not motivated by fear, but by love.
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FictionAugust 2019The Trespassers
by Meg Mundell
A shipload of migrant workers flees the pandemic-stricken UK, seeking a fresh start in Australia. For nine-year-old Cleary the journey promises adventure, for former nurse Billie it’s a chance to put a shameful mistake behind her, while struggling schoolteacher Tom hopes for a brighter future. But when a crew member is murdered and people start falling gravely ill, the Steadfast descends into chaos. Trapped on the ship, the trio must join forces to survive the journey and its aftermath. The Trespassers is a beguiling novel that explores the consequences of greed, the experiences of migration and exile, and the way strangers can become the ones we hold dear.
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FictionJuly 2013Love, Like Water
by Rowan Speedwell, AngstyG
Three years undercover with one of the worst gangs in the country left FBI agent Joshua Chastain shattered. Battling nightmares and addiction, he leaves the concrete jungle for New Mexico horse country, hoping to start over on his uncle’s ranch.Foreman Eli Kelly spends his life rehabilitating abused animals, and Joshua is just another lost soul. But as Joshua slowly begins to put his life back together, Eli realizes that Joshua is a lot more than his newest project.Joshua’s plan seems to work—maybe a fresh start was just what he needed. Then, just when he has finally found a sense of peace, crime and hatred nearly destroy all his hard work, forcing him to reevaluate what he wants out his relationship with Eli and his own life. ;
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Inflation!
Detective Story from Berlin 1923
by Gunnar Kunz
Berlin, 1923. inflation! Millions in your pocket, but nothing to eat. No wonder that philosophy professor Hendrik Lilienthal and Diana Escher, Max Planck's assistant, have no other way to help themselves than to secretly visit the potato fields around Berlin at night. But they are not the only ones, and suddenly they find themselves in front of a badly mauled corpse. Fortunately, they manage to get the case transferred to Inspector Gregor Lilienthal, Hendrik's brother - and the extraordinary trio is back on the investigation. They quickly find out that the victim was wearing a white suit, but by no means a clean slate. The investigations lead to thieves and black market dealers, to people at the edge of existence. One trace leads to the French-occupied Ruhr area, where clashes between Germans and occupiers, saboteurs and separatists are raging. When Diana ventures too far, she is in mortal danger. Sutton publishing house, Erfurt 2011 / BoD, Norderstedt 2019. 200 pages, 9.99 Euro. ISBN 978-3-7412-2405-8
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Literary FictionAugust 2020Down the Elbe
by Thilo Krause
After years away, a young couple returns to the strange rocky landscape of the Sächsische Schweiz. The desire to start afresh in the place where they spent their childhoods puts them on a collision course with their home town and leads to a new feeling of alienation. What happens to the individual in a society which rejects everything that’s different? Is it just homesickness that has driven them back? The narrator keeps it a secret from his girlfriend Christina, also he feels guilty towards Vito, the school friend who lost a leg during a climbing trip together. He now returns to this place, recalling formative moments in his life: the accident, the public shaming at school during the raising of the socialist flag, his decision to break away. But his first attempt at reconciliation fails.Thilo Krause’s debut novel tells the story of a couple returning to a setting that feels foreign to them. He casts his eye across a landscape of apple trees and Elbe meadows, but also neo-Nazi summer camps. Ultimately, the couple’s fresh start is threatened by the distrust of the villagers. A powerful novel about our country and the times we live in.
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RomanceMay 2021Torn Wings
The most dangerous enemy is the one you love
by Emilia Hansen
STORYTEL Shortlisted! A brilliant, page-turning romantic novel about the ambitious Laura and her struggles to overcome her past while making a name for herself in a large design company. Success has a price – but so does love. Laura has been accepted as a trainee in the prestigious management programme with the international fashion conglomerate Bloom Designs. She has big plans for the future but also big secrets from the past. This is her chance to make a fresh start. She’s determined to excel through hard work, hoping to gain a foothold in a competitive world. Then Valdemar –with his sporty body and fascinating green eyes – shows up, as eager as her to succeed. The attraction between them is undeniable, but is he really the right man for her when he’s also her rival at work? And just when she starts believing that her moment has come, someone from her past suddenly appears. It’s the guy she was secretly in love in. The one she dreamed about kissing but never did. The guy who knows her darkest secret. Torn Wings is a story about escaping your past, about love, hate and enemies. Success has a price – but so does love. About the book • A modern take on Sense and Sensibility • Strong working-girl characters • Surprising plot turns • A secret from the past involving social media, a drunken moment and a lifetime of regret
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FictionAccidental Hitman
by A.W. Wilson
“Hitmen don’t worry about what their underwear’s like, but then proper hitmen don’t poo in their pants.” When Tom White’s dead-end life is blighted by his neighbour’s parties Tom’s aversion to face to face confrontation leads him to an unusual action: he kills the noise pollutant. Unknown to Tom, the neighbour was a target for Stan Costanza, head of a powerful criminal enterprise. Costanza’s heavies are more adept than the police at tracking Tom down and in a farcically comic meeting become convinced that Tom is a skilled lone assassin “one of them ones with the eastern mystical influences”. They offer him another hit and Tom, too scared and perhaps too flattered to decline, takes the job, and the next. Colin, Tom’s best friend, shares Tom’s macabre moral compass and rides shotgun on his assignments, leading to a series of comedy set-pieces but inevitably into darker waters as the reality of their actions takes hold, causing the pair to fall out. Tom catches the interest of Laura, the barmaid in his local pub, and becomes torn between his desire for the long-term object of his affections and the need to keep his nefarious activities from her. When the impossibly beautiful Stephanie arrives, Tom assumes she is a high-ranking member of Costanza’s operation and takes the contracts she assigns. Stephanie doesn’t tell him that her father was murdered by Stan Costanza in a criminal coup d’etat. Stephanie is orchestrating a turf-war between two rival gangs using Tom, along with some of Costanza’s own people, as a key piece in her game to avenge her father’s death and regain her birthright. By the time he realises that he is an unwitting double agent, Tom is being pursued by two police forces and both gangs. As the net closes around him he has no option but to ‘fess up to Laura, make peace with Colin and leave his fate in the hands of Stephanie. Costanza meets his arch-rival, Joe Barrett, for a sit-down to discusstheir mutual problem - namely Tom White - but this is actually Stephanie’s final push. She shows her cards to the hapless crime-lords, including the fact that she has turned most of their own men against them. In a final showdown, Stephanie kills both men and takes what is rightfully hers. But what of Tom? Wanted for murder he badly needs a fresh start. Stephanie uses her valuable connections to set up a new life for him, Laura and Colin under the cloak of the witness protection program in the USA. They have a new home, new names and Tom has a new job, one that makes good use of his talents and protects his anonymity: an executioner for the state of Texas. Accidental Hitman is a thriller but features large doses of comedy in the rapport between the characters, the first-person narrator’s musings on modern life and the farcical situations Tom and Colin bumble into as they carry out their murders-to-order. All rights are available.
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FictionOctober 2020EVERNA Rajni Sari
Wicked
by Andry Chang
Rajni Sari, princess of Rainusa is forced to flee from the palace to catch up with her mother, Lastika. Together with Jaka, a market thug appointed as the palace guard, Sari goes through various adventures and faces powerful adversaries. The love between Sari and Jaka grows, but her destiny as Lastika's daughter, who turns out to be Calon Arang, separates herself and Jaka. Sari prefers her mother. Unable to reject the legacy of strength from her mother, Sari relents and accepts her mother's orders to become her successor, the ruler of dark powers. Sari is on the crossroads: following her mother's orders or following her heart's wishes. Sari's choice then triggers a new fight between Light and Darkness, namely Barong and Calon Arang, which will simultaneously determine Rainusa's future. Favorite Winner in the 2019 Comico x Elex E-Novel Challenge Contest.
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Children's & YA2021Little Light
by Coral Rumble
This is an inventive and evocative story of a young girl called Ava facing daily challenges in her life and how she overcomes them. In a seamless poetic narrative Coral creates a world peppered with utterly believable characters and feelings and highlights very sensitively the dilemmas and challenges some young people face as they grow up.
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Debut as Crown Princess
by GUADANG
“Can mangdol[1] also become the Crown Princess? A dominant Alpha prince who has everything but rejects pheromones. The only opponent with 90% compatibility is an enthusiastic Omega idol who has nothing to fear in the world?! A battle romance of a hateful relationship that begins with a contract love between two polar opposites!” 1. Celebrity stories with real historical evidenceCelebrity series that sublimated celebrity fan fiction into a genre. It uses itself as a hit factor. The target group that can stimulate fan spirit is clear, and the composition of characters and events full of reality in the entertainment industry causes so-called ‘over immersion’ of readers.2. Alpha and Omega hate relationship Stop being an omega who is servile and dragged around in front of an alpha! An enthusiastic omega idol who has nothing but fear. It shows the standard of battle romance with the abomination of the dominant alpha prince who has everything but feels rejected by omega pheromone. 3. A modern aristocratic romance that goes beyond the modern conglomerate romance!The plot unfolds against the background of the crown prince and the royal family of Korea, presenting the novel charm of 21st century palace romance.
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Computer games: strategy guidesAugust 2012Nintendo Wii & DS
by The CheatMistress
The Cheat Mistress is your guide to all that best in Computer and Electronic games , she will help you in any place that you may be stuck or need help or simply a sexy guide through your latest game.
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FictionSimon & Schuster Australia
by Books From Australia
Simon & Schuster Australia is part of the CBS Corporation and is a major force in today’s publishing industry, dedicated to bringing an extensive range of books, in all formats, into the hands of readers. Simon & Schuster Australia publishes and distributes a variety of books in Australia and New Zealand across a range of genres including fiction, non-fiction and children’s books under our local and international imprints. These include Atria, Free Press, Gallery, Howard, Pocket, Scribner, Simon & Schuster and Touchstone. Simon & Schuster Australia also acts as the local sales and distribution partner for: 4 Ingredients, Berbay Publishing, Big Sky Publishing, Black Library, Cider Mill Press, Elliott & Thompson, Fox Chapel Publishing International, Gallup Press, Hazelden, Hunter Publishers, Inner Traditions, Insight Editions, Manuscript Publishing, Pegasus Books, Printers Row, Regan Arts, Rockpool Publishing, Smith Street Books, Ventura Press, Viz Media, Waterhouse Press, Weldon Owen and Wild Dog Books.
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February 2020Rebellious knowledge
Diderot's battle for the Great French Encyclopedia
by Klaus Möckel
France, middle of the 18th century. In a time of feudal rule, moral decline and fierce religious disputes, the still little known philosopher Diderot and his publisher Le Breton decide to publish an encyclopedia of knowledge and thus of spiritual enlightenment. But this "Great Encyclopedia" met with bitter resistance. The prefect of police and his informers, the archbishop of Paris, the courts of justice, and dark men of all stripes fight the work. While Diderot rallies comrades-in-arms around him (d'Alembert, Voltaire, Rousseau), he is exposed to constant threats. Intrigues are instigated, the affair of a young abbé and an assassination attempt on the king conjure up the highest dangers. The allies fall out, and in the end the work is betrayed, almost causing it to fail.In this historically well-founded, exciting novella by the author and Romanist, who was already successful with "The King's Playgirls", "Gold and Galleys" and "Hot Goods under the Lily Banner", the contrasts of an entire epoch collide. Not only the mentioned persons, but also the king himself and his mistress, the famous Pompadour, intervene in the events. Nobles of different colors, clergymen, rich citizens like the publisher Le Breton, but also craftsmen, lackeys, prostitutes, populate an exciting event filled with contradictions.The controversies surrounding the "Great French Encyclopedia", hitherto little noticed by literature, are full of drama and challenge comparison with the religious and secular conflicts of our day.
