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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.
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!
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?
The tour bus stopped and I was there. Lodz, my temporary home. In the middle of Poland. I had one year as a volunteer ahead of me. And then there was this polish language. Tongue twisters. The endless consultation of the dictionary. And one word was my daily companion: Obidad. Without knowing what this word meant in the beginning, it became the title of my year. It opened doors for me and allowed me a view on the German/Polish history through my job with survivors of various ghettos and concentration camps. Facts, like anonymous dates, which I only knew from books, became clear and more concrete with every visiting service. Why is silence the language of pain? Which historic hypothec do I carry as a young person? To reduce Poland on its history, the holocaust, does not do justice to these beautiful neighbors. I packed my bag, traveled as a volunteer and learned to love this country. I wrote monthly letters about various topics concerning my impressions and encounters to friends and family. Today I know that Obidad means more than just lunch!
This antiquarian bookshop is not like other bookshops! The failed bookseller Beatrice has to realize this, as well, when she takes a job in the dusty old shop owned by Mr. Plana who seemes equally dusty. Soon she notices, though, that some things do not seem to be quite right there: Who are the antiquated regular customers “Eddie” and “Wolfgang”? And which role plays Mr. Plana himself, whose relationship to books obviously overcomes any epic distance? Before Beatrice is able to find out these secrets, her husband Ingo gets into great danger and Beatrice makes every effort to save him. She and Mr. Plana set off for an adventurous journey through the mysterious Bookland. There they do not only meet the blind bookbinders, Greek goddesses and a few bookworms, but also Death himself crosses their path. Soon it is certain: All of this is about much more than saving Ingo. Instead, it is about preventing the doom of literature itself. Markus Walther, who has already published two collections of short stories, presents his first novel. He takes the reader into the fantastic world of Bookland. A must/read for every booklover!
1942. The 20/year/old Walter Richter is stationed as a German corporal in Norway when he witnesses the end of the Second World War. From this moment on an odyssey between internment and work assignment begins for him until he finally has the chance to head homewards. Gunnar Walter Richter Johansen tells the story of his father,which he met in 1989 for the first time. Unlike some other "reunions" between Norwegian children and German fathers, this was a happy one. Using the reports and photos of his father, he tells the story of a soldier who is no longer needed after a lost war and is not tolerated in a foreign country. He embarks on a long and arduous journey back to Senftenberg. But even there he is a soldier, nobody wants and that can not replace the dead sons, brothers or lovers. Despite the pain, it is an important book about the person behind the uniform.
How much distance can closeness stand? How much time does love take? How beautiful can a beautiful place be when what is actually beautiful is 18.000 kilometers away? New Zealand. A dream which is no longer only dreamt, but finally lived. The other end of the world allures with its beauty of nature, its contrasts and the image of an incomparable feeling of freedom. So, Clara leaves her home town Hamburg for three month to travel the home of the Maori. Her journey starts on the northern island in Auckland and ends on Stewart Island, the most southern place of New Zealand. During this time Clara and her big love Gabriel only have their written words. Numerous messages cross the continents. For Clara they are her travel journey and they tell all the stories New Zealand gives her: about encounters with huge Huhu/bugs, cute possums and similar exotic camp side acquaintances. Above all every single line wants to prove that distance cannot change love, if it is what it was promised to be… A story about two people who meet, because they wanted to meet, and who love, because they wanted to love, but who also forget that actually they are strangers.
Duisburg in the 14th century A.D.: The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation is shaken by the rage of the plague. The search for a remedy for the Black Death leads the monk and former Knight of the Temple Lucien de Courogny straight into the barren Plagueland, where death and violence are constantly present. His only companions: 16/year/old Simon and his dog. Together they traverse a swath of land almost completely depopulated by the disease and have to witness what people are capable of when staring death in the face. But the dangers of the Plagueland are not the only challenges Lucien has to face. It is not long before the shadow of his past catches up with him, because the pope’s henchmen are on his heels. A race against perdition begins, which pushes Lucien and Simon to the breaking point, but Lucien can never escape his worst enemy; it is omnipresent, even in the future. Will Lucien and Simon escape the time and conquer the Black Death? And what is the mysterious ringing that haunts Lucien into his nightmares?
The Hessian Wetterau 400 A.D: The shadow of a new war overcasts the Glauberg Hill. The death of her father forces Dunaan, the Celt ruler’s niece, to finally face the decision of the knights and defend the title of the military leader from her traitorous competition. Meanwhile Hahles and the ruler’s brother unintentionally discover a secret which the ruler tried to hide for years. Hahles receives an old heirloom of the ruler’s family from a stranger which was considered lost and which is denied by the ruler. At the conflict’s vertex finally the first battle occurs. But who is the stranger that suddenly took over the allied tribe of the ram/people? And will he be able to get luck to their side of the battlefield? In the battle’s confusion an old trade reveals itself that destroys the balance between the tribes and eventually decides the fate of an entire country.
Usually when we hear the word abuse, we think of brutality, rape, spanking, violence, torture, force and perversion. But that is only the tip of the iceberg. Depp down there are many souls hidden that have experienced something different. The experienced an abuse that is equally horrible as strains the victims’ psyches far beyond the endurable – an abuse that hardly anyone talks about. Because the children do not feel any pain they often fail to realize that they are being harmed. In her autobiography the author describes the experiences of her childhood and the dramatic consequences that ensued. The first time the nice uncle from next door uses Sandra’s early sexual curiosity to satisfy his own desires, she is four years old. Because she has pleasant sensations and is not feeling pain, Sandra does not realize that what she is made to do is bad. Again and again older teenagers acquaint the child with sexuality, and she does not tell for fear of punishment. When during puberty she realizes what happened in her childhood, she is ashamed and judges herself. As an adult she stumbles from one relationship to the next without ever being truly satisfied. Read about the physical and mental agonies Sandra has to go through before finally realizing that they originate in her childhood. Is it too late now, or can she free herself from her past and her feelings of guilt?
Japan! A dream comes true for 29/year/old Anna from Frankfurt, Germany, when she gets the chance to spend a year in Osaka teaching at a language institute. But in spite of having studied Japanese culture at the university, Anna does not feel at home with the people, the culture and the customs, and she is (almost) sure that she will never feel at home in Japan … if it weren’t for the fact that she met the man of her dreams there. Far off from her teaching life and romantic adventures, Anna experiences a whole other side of Japan through her Australian friend Karen, who works as a hostess and introduces her to the red light districts and the prostitution industry – which is closely entangled with the Yakuza, the Japanese mafia. Anna’s initial fascination with this new world evaporates when one of Karen’s colleagues is found dead and a sex crime cannot be ruled out. Why did Laura have to die?
