In her new novel, Antje Rávic Strubel gives us a highjacked plane and a difficult, if not impossible, quest for the truth. She has taken a real story as her inspiration: in 1978 a Tupolew 134 was hijacked by two citizens from East Germany who were on a flight from Gdansk to West Berlin. The ...

Sixteen-year-old Annamaria will never forget that "Dirty Thursday": A harmless Carnival tradition spells doom for the young girl. And yet no one is willing to believe what happened to Annamaria, who has been living with a negligent and unloving foster mother since her parents' untimely deaths.

It is 1959, and friends Ruth and Christa are enjoying their last summer holidays before the school leaving exams. During a lunchtime swim they meet Erich, a young man who is a member of a group of evangelical Christians. Little do they know Christa will soon secretly be accompanying Erich to ...

After spending twenty years in a marriage in which she primarily just "functioned," Sonja R. falls head over heels in love. As emotionally starved as she is, Frank gives her everything she has been missing for years. However, Sonja has found herself in the arms of a narcissist, a man who wants ...

This book has the power to change your life

She actually has everything she has ever dreamed of, but the young woman is, nonetheless, increasingly discontent. She frequently has no idea how to manage the daily balancing act between career and family. One day, while walking through ...

Zippelzefix - there has never been a ghost like this one!

Zippel is a little keyhole ghost. Who ever said that ghosts had to haunt spooky old castles? No, Zippel lives with Paul and his parents - in one of the keyholes in their old apartment. Paul discovers him there the ...

Fantastic creatures and where to find them in space and on Earth!

Nelly and her best friend Julius are eyewitnesses when an actual space rocket heads for their yard and abducts Julius' guinea pig Bommel from the lawn. When the rocket gets tangled up in a garden swing, the two ...

What would happen if someone sold your dreams?
Leon discovers that he can secretly slip into other people's dreams without being noticed. And not only that - he finds himself immersed in a secret, hidden world. For many millennia, Morpheus and his two siblings have been ...

A somewhat different ghost story

As Lenny arrives at the Castle Röckenpöppel Boarding School in the middle of the night, he can hardly believe his eyes. The students are in the process of gathering for a meal, of which there is nothing to be seen except empty plates and glasses.

What a start to Lilly's seventh grade year! She's been saddled with the responsibility of running the school blog. Of course there's no way she can write about what's really going on. So she runs a parallel version-a Top Secret one!-in which she keeps note of who's top of the boys' hotlist, how ...

Ten-year-old Penny Pepper has three big wishes-and about a million smaller ones! But the main ones are:

• a dog

• becoming a detective and solving crimes

• getting out of having to go to that stuck-up show-off Flora's party

Sadly, the third ...