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Are there real boundaries between life and death?Sasy confronts the greatest monster of his era, looking for himself in the abyss. What lies behind the cruel and mysterious appearance and actions? Is it worth fighting for ideas and principles whose results we can no longer see?Darkness is hidden deep in our hearts, patiently waiting for us to face it. Can a cruel warrior have an extremely pure soul that only those like him can feel?In the novel, we encounter countless questions, faith, and moral dilemmas.Is there a right way? At the end of the story, we can get an answer.

The novel interweaves dreams and nightmares, eerie encounters and strange occurrences in the everyday life of writer and professor Carl Frank. Then suddenly his deceased father sits down next to him. The two engage in intense, empathetic conversations about life before and, above all, after death. When the father asks his son to go with him to the moorland where Carls novel about the destruction of the environment is set, they embark on a journey that ultimately leads them to the realm of the dead: a parallel world full of contradictions and devoid of logic. Billions of shadows fear the erasure of their memories. Carl meets his deceased wife, his mother, and friends. In the end, he does not return to his old life right away, but spends several years in the Middle Ages...

What dark secret surrounds Bad Feilnbach, and who is "the girl with no name"? A murder without a body or motive...; a mysterious story that keeps the reader captivated. Why does Jan lose his cool in "Jenseits vom Verstand" (Beyond Reason) on his business trip to Cologne of all places? And what does Klara experience during her strange vacation? Is it the crunchy pralines that change her life? "1:0 for crunchy pralines," or who is the winner here? Dont have any plans for New Years Eve yet? We recommend "Die Perle Odenwalds" (The Pearl of the Odenwald), guaranteed to be a special experience. Simply unforgettable!These four stories are each exciting and strange in their own way, and they keep the reader spellbound.

Luca just wanted to apologize. While skating, he had bumped into a wheelchair user: Theodor Langhans, the director of the city museum, who suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta.But it doesnt stop at one visit. Theodor opens up a magical world for Luca. At each meeting, he has a story ready that takes them back to distant times and strings together colorful personalities as if on a string.What is Luca supposed to do with this? He has enough problems of his ownat school, at home, and at his sports club.Theo gently picks up on Lucas worries and reflects them back to him through past events. Until Luca takes matters into his own hands.But the secret of the magic string is only revealed at the end.

Seventeen-year-old Henry has one adventure after another during his vacation!With his friends, he gets a rusty handcar up and running. They explore a disused railway line and discover a mysterious tunnel. Girls have never played a role in Henrys lifeuntil the pretty, disabled Karen appears on the scene... Will he manage to lure her out of her shell? During a short vacation with his grandparents in the small seaside resort of Reddingbourne, he happens to meet his "cousin by marriage," Lizzy. The initial dislike between two very different characters develops into a beautiful friendshipor is it something more? Before he knows it, Henry finds himself in a world of new, exhilarating feelings!

Betrayal! Herbert, a nineteen-year-old enthusiastic member of the Hitler Youth, is torn from his life and home when his former friends suddenly become his enemies. On the run, he must not only ensure his survival, but also come to terms with the fact that his entire worldview is crumbling and falling apart. A novel about friendship and betrayal, love and crime, the death of family, and new beginnings.

After the brutal murder of her sister and her family, Sunny flees to her people, who live in hiding. Pursued by an organization that calls itself "The Order," she must trust a stranger who saves her and her grandfather from an enemy agent at the last second. Together, they reach her people, who call themselves "The Community" and hide themselves and their supernatural powers from the world. But even there, they are not welcome by everyone, and the enemy agent is not giving up so easily. Sunny and her companion face several dangers to protect their families and their people. Will they succeed, or will there be no future for them and the community?

Fennya and Maya are excited. New people are moving into the old watermill next door! The two quickly become friends with Janko and his family. But what are these strange ivy leaf symbols that can be found everywhere in the mill? What are the medals and trophies that the three of them find together with their friend Lydia? And why is their old neighbor Grandma Rosamunde so mysterious when they ask her about it?The butterfly friends become increasingly entangled in an old mystery that they are determined to solve. To do so, however, they must work together, solve puzzles, and embark on a great adventure...

Times have changed! The once mighty Roman Empire is on the brink of collapse. Germanic tribes are dividing the provinces of the empire among themselves, while ruthless generals and politicians fight for power. The dream of Rome seems to be over, but a few have not yet given up hope. Brave men such as Majorian, Ricimer, and Marcellinus are trying to lead the dying giant to a new era of prosperity. But the task seems impossible...

A successful Viennese entrepreneurial family, a company steeped in tradition. For Emilia and Rudi Kruger, life is synonymous with the company. Their children pay a high price for their parents ambition. Gitta commits herself to the company, while Monika emigrates to San Francisco and breaks off contact with her family.Dani Statham, an American entrepreneur, is invited to a conference in Vienna. For many years, his mother has prevented her son from traveling to her old home.Why shouldnt Dani go to Vienna, what happened back then, what secret surrounds the family, what dangers lurk in Vienna? Tom, the likeable event manager, stands by Dani, but he too is certain that this family secret will change everything.

What options remain if we accept neither religious faith nor the theory of evolution? If the Big Bang is not a realistic explanation, as our research has now proven it to be completely untenable, then what remains?The many dogmas, whether religious or scientific, leave us with unanswerable questions. The search for reality begins with the recognition of false theories. This recognition provides a foundation on which real knowledge can be built.It is mans task to understand the world, to learn its laws, to learn what really exists. For us, everything is relative, as Einstein so aptly put it, but what really exists is not relative at all. The perceptible world is the result of precisely defined laws.

Bash Three darkly brilliant one-act plays, unblinking portraits of the evils abroad in everyday life, first performed in 1999. You dont need to be familiar with Greek tragedy to admire LaButes ability to illuminate the dark corners of the human mind . . . He writes with unblinking candour, unvarying incisiveness and the ear and eye for the tiny, telling fact that reveals a character floundering on the edge.The TimesReasons to Be Pretty Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play, Reasons to Be Pretty explores love, language and power with fresh wit and insight.Neil LaBute at his best. It says things about love and betrayal that are rarely put on stage . . . The play has the transfixing nastiness that has made LaBute one of the most disturbing theatrical presences of the last decade. Yet it also has an unexpected ingredient: a beating heart.Observer Now collected with its sequel, which follows the same four loveable characters - Reasons to Be HappyA richly entertaining shard of tragicomedy . . . a snap survey of American masculinity in crisis.Daily TelegraphIf I Needed Someone A drunken first date becomes an acutely observed dance of desire, expectation and consent. For all of its misunderstandings, misperceptions, and bristles, for all the insecurities and past hurt it opens for both characters, If I Needed Someone is the kind of first date that people looking for love dream of having.Broadway WorldHow to Fight Loneliness A married couple call on a third man to help them make a desperate decision, in this compelling and unsettling drama. How to Fight Loneliness received its UK premiere at the Park Theatre, London, in April 2025. A play that will force you to consider your own sense of mortality . . . starkly devastating.Spectrum

Southern France in the summer of 2008. A family of three is traveling in a camper van: Pastor Clemens Birnenlohn, 58, from the Bernese Seeland, his wife Gerlinde, 56, and their son Lukas, 18. On a whim, Gerlinde decides to go to Lourdes. The two men are stunned, but go along with her plan. Gerlinde spends her time in the mobile home writing and dies of heart failure a few days later. Just what she wanted in Lourdes remains as much a mystery as the end of her first career as an actress. Lukas begins to investigate and unearths some incredible facts. But what is true and what is fiction?

"Thinking is a bold and risky game," writes Michel de Montaigne in Philosophizing means learning to die:In the midst of life, the author is confronted with a fatal diagnosis and the short time left to her. She looks back on her life, her great love and her family and tries to see our world in a new light in order to learn to die. In doing so, she realizes that true beauty is only visible in the light of impermanence and that life in all its depth can only be experienced in the face of death. She understands that in our universe, not only is everything connected to everything, but also that all life in all its forms and differences is worthy of life and love, interdependent and interrelated in life and in death.

What happens when the parents die? Both within 6 weeks. What happens when the bond breaks? The positions in the nuclear family, including the social environment, have to be realigned. A life event, in the present time made more difficult by Corona and the war in Ukraine. The desire for peace becomes more acute than ever. The story describes the time after death, after the funeral, and the first Christmas without parents. Sadness and the pain of loss take hold. Ultimately, however, so does the greed for the inheritance. What remains is a soul full of question marks...

Você está numa encruzilhada e tem de escolher. Livre, desassombradamente, tem de escolher. Por mais difícil, por mais penoso que seja, tem de decidir o seu destino, se não quiser chegar de novo àquel

Wassermann foi um dos poucos autores alemes modernos de renome universal. Tinha genio inventivo como poucos outros. Otto Maria Carpeaux Quando Joseph Kerkhoven descobriu que as duas pessoas em que mais confiava no mundo o haviam apunhalado pelas costas, no viu inicialmente mais nenhuma possibilidade de continuar levando sua vida habitual. Para encontrar-se novamente, ele precisara passar por uma metanoia: no podera negociar nem transigir, mas tera de permanecer fiel a si mesmo contra todas as circunstancias, contra todas as adversidades e seduçes.Ao narrar a busca de Joseph Kerkhoven por uma nova existencia, Jakob Wassermann mostra sua notavel capacidade de sondar a alma humana e estudar os seus misterios, exercendo em plenitude a tarefa da sua vocaço de romancista: revelar a unidade dos trajetos humanos por tras das consciencias fragmentadas. A terceira existencia de Joseph Kerkhoven e o ultimo volume de uma trilogia iniciada com O processo Maurizius e Etzel Andergast.

De todos os romances de Jakob Wassermann, Etzel Andergast representa inequivocamente o ápice da força criadora e da capacidade de análise psicológica do romancista.Ao narrar a história do confuso Etzel Andergast, jovem de um passado familiar tragico que, a procura de uma figura paterna, elege desesperadamente o professor Joseph Kerkhoven como seu mestre, Wassermann apresenta um panorama da Alemanha durante a Republica de Weimar, um pais prostrado pelas dividas de guerra e oprimido pela crescente onda de odio nacionalista.O romance ainda mostra que em uma sociedade espiritualmente doente, pronta para ser seduzida pela mistica de um demagogo, a relaço entre as geraçes tende a ter um desfecho tragico e imprevisivel.Etzel Andergast e o segundo volume de uma trilogia que começa com O processo Maurizius e termina com A terceira existencia de Joseph Kerkhoven.Traduço: Octavio de Faria e Maria Helena Amoroso Lima SeniseSobre o autorJakob Wassermann (18731934) foi um romancista e contista judeu alemo, considerado um dos maiores escritores da literatura alem do seculo xx. Nascido em Furth, cidade industrial proxima de Nuremberg, filho de um modesto comerciante, abandonou cedo a vida comercial imposta pelos pais para se tornar escritor.Em Munique, travou amizade com Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke e Hugo von Hofmannsthal, e publicou suas primeiras obras: Melusine (1896), Os judeus de Zirndorf (1897) e A historia da jovem Renata Fuchs (1900), O Moloc (1902) e Alexandre em Babilonia (1904).Sua prosa psicologica e o estilo narrativo realistico, fortemente influenciado por Dostoievski, alçou-o ao posto de um dos escritores mais lidos e traduzidos dos anos 192030, com as obras Kaspar Hauser (1908), O espelho de ouro (1911), O homem dos gansos (1915), Christian Wahnschaffe (1919), sua autobiografia Meu caminho como alemo e judeu (1921), para culminar com sua obra-prima: a trilogia composta por O processo Maurizius (1928), Etzel Andergast (1931) e A terceira existencia de Joseph Kerkhoven (1934).Com a ascenso do nazismo, teve seus livros banidos na Alemanha e, apesar dos agravos financeiros e do exilio na Austria, no deixou de cumprir com a sua vocaço de escritor, granjeando a alcunha de "Dostoievski do seculo XX".

This story begins in Wonnegau in Rheinhessen which is also where the title of this book comes from. It is the life story of a person who has to overcome many obstacles in the course of time, but who, through faith and ambition, through humility and perseverance, through discipline and confidence, but also through the sometimes quite active help of his guardian angel, manages to overcome many obstacles and ultimately finds fulfillment in both his private and professional life.

Grandparents, as children could not wish for better and whom their grandson had the good fortune to experience for many years. These grandparents tell him their life stories. From their youth and wartime in Germany. World War II, post-war period, reconstruction. Everything becomes part of the family history. Events and episodes, now written down by the grandson, before they fade and are forgotten. Because our children have a right to know. Far removed from any glorification of war or trivialization of the Nazi era. And without hatred for the enemies of that time. But with heartfelt gratitude for the many evenings spent with our grandparents listening to their stories, which were never boring and which we could never get enough of...