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When a prominent family's daughter flees sleepy Sussex to seek a career on the stages of a glittering West End, Harry and Kat are asked to check in on the young woman. But the two of them soon discover that there is a much bigger danger to the woman and her family than mere acting dreams being crushed.
Anna Basener (Author), Evelyn Neuss (Illustrator)
His Best Fashion and Lifestyle Tips
The perfect gift for Lagerfeld aficionados and fashion fans‘A woman without style has no style even in a dress with style.’ ‘Nothing makes you older than trying to look young.’ ‘We only learn from our mistakes. Success never helped anybody.’ Karl Lagerfeld is a creative fashion designer, a style icon – and renowned for his salty remarks. Touching on everything from fashion to personal attitudes to career success, Anna Basener takes Lagerfeld’s best quotes and uses them as the basis for her enlightening...
Marie Graßhoff (Author)
The year is 2101. The world is dominated by a global government - and by a technological virus that infects humans and turns them into hyper-functional cyborgs that obey the will of the artificial intelligence KAMI. Originally, the technology was developed to enable nanocomputers to create super soldiers, but the experiment spun out of control. Although people infected with the virus are currently being hunted down, locked up in restricted zones, or simply eliminated, KAMI continues to gain strength....
Ulf Schiewe (Author)
A historical thriller about the murder of Franz-Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throneJune 1914. There have been repeated political crises in recent years, but most people still have no idea what is brewing in Europe. The major European powers are competing against one another. The German emperor is expanding his fleet, which is particularly worrisome for England. France and Germany are quarrelling over Alsace-Lorraine and, in a general sense, many Frenchmen harbour thoughts of revenge for the Franco-Prussian...
Matthias Weik (Author), Marc Friedrich (Author)
The Economy, Politics, and Society. How You Can Still Protect Your Money Now
From exorbitant rents and the crisis of the European Union to the failure of the elites – Friedrich and Weik address troublesome issues While the politicians are keeping a lookout, we citizens are being ripped-off by the economy and the world of finance. Those who create the crises have become the ones who profiteer from them. The rich are becoming ever richer and richer - the super-rich even absurdly so - while the middle class continues to shrink and the underclass expands. There is a small elite...
Exceptional talents, secret identities and a terrible conspiracy An exciting new voice in our science fiction program: Laura Heller draws a frighteningly realistic near-future scenario that deals with topics such as social injustice, agitation and the optimization of people. 2045: The USA has sealed itself off from the rest of the world to protect itself against terror. But now so-called changed people are causing fear and terror in the country. Seraphina Winter is such a changed person. She has...
Tina Schilp (Author), Thorsten Saleina (Illustrator)
The toughest secret agents the world has ever seen! Defeating dastardly villains? Defusing overhead bombs? No sweat for top secret agents Finn and Mia – in theory, at least. If only Finn’s parents weren’t so overprotective! They turn every mission into such a drama, and it’s doing his career as a secret agent no good at all. So when four animals who’ve lost their way turn up in Finn’s room one night – a hamster, a chameleon, a cockatoo and a tortoise – it’s perfect timing. And not only can they talk:...
Cherringham is a serial novel à la Charles Dickens set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham. The detective series brings together an unlikely sleuthing duo: English web designer Sarah and American ex-cop Jack. Thrilling and deadly - but with a spot of tea - it's like Rosamunde Pilcher meets Inspector Barnaby. Each of the self-contained episodes is a quick read for the morning commute, while waiting for the doctor, or when curling up with a hot cuppa.When a hiker falls from a cliff edge while...
Kim Nina Ocker (Author)
The moment Jamie and Carter lay eyes on each other for the first time, sparks are flying. But they both know they have to keep their hands off each other: Jamie has just started her new job as an assistant movie director and Carter is the star of the show and cannot show up with a woman by his side. Still, with every day they spend together, the sexual tension between them gets more intense. And then they succumb to their passion – without knowing that this decision will turn their lives upside down....
Ruben Laurin (Author)
The eventful life and love story of a merchant in the heyday of the Hanseatic League1275: Construction on the Heiliger Geist Hospital in Lübeck is nearing completion. As respected merchant Bertram Morneweg examines the final stages of the work, he notices that one of the painters is behaving strangely. Indeed, Morneweg is able to prevent the suicide of the painter Johannes at the very last second. To give the desperate man hope, the merchant tells him his life story. Orphaned at age seven, he struggled...
