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The Bodyguard

The Bodyguard

Author: Center, Katherine

Genre: Romance

Year: 2025 | Pages: 384 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89592

Translated
She's got his back, he steals her heart

Hannah Brooks looks rather inconspicuous and not like someone who could knock you out easily, but her job is to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his stalker.

Everyone knows Jack Stapleton. But a few years ago, he withdrew from the public eye and disappeared from the scene. When Jack's mother becomes ill, he returns to the family ranch in Texas to help her. There's just one catch: He doesn't want his family to find out about his stalker. Or about the bodyguard thing. And so Hannah - against her will - pretends to be Jack's girlfriend.

But the more time she spends with Jack, the more real the whole thing seems to her. And that's exactly what breaks her heart. Because protecting Jack is easy for Hannah. But protecting her own, long-neglected heart? That's the hardest thing she's ever done
Ruin and Redemption

Ruin and Redemption

Translated title: Preston Academy #2 - Ruin and Redemption

Series: Book 2

Author: Mov, Bianca

Genre: Romance / Fantasy

Year: 2024 | Pages: 320 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 88297

Dark academia meets forbidden love.

Welcome back to Preston Academy. Feeding on your classmates is strictly prohibited and being cursed isn't a reason to stay away from class.

The school year continues with new secrets, a love that lasted for generations and a curse that can't be broken
White Riot

White Riot

Author: Thomas, Joe

Genre: Thriller / Crime

Year: 2025 | Pages: 512 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89610

Translated
At the end of the 1970s, Great Britain was facing a breaking point. Margaret Thatcher's neoliberal policies were leading to social unrest, while at the same time the National Front was on the rise. Resistance was forming when anti-fascist groups, with the participation of well-known punk bands such as The Clash and X-Ray Spex, organized the Rock Against Racism festival in Victoria Park. In this heated atmosphere, Detective Constable Patrick Noble was tasked with solving the racially motivated murder of a Bengali man. But certain forces were trying by all means to prevent the truth from coming to light
Moonlight Academy #1 - Feenzauber

Moonlight Academy #1 - Feenzauber

Translated title: Moonlight Academy #1 - Fairy Magic

Series: Book 1

Author: Kuhn, Julia

Genre: Fantasy / Romance

Year: 2024 | Pages: 415 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 88289

An Irish fairy academy, dark secrets, and a forbidden love

The Moonlight Academy on Ireland's coast is one of the fairy world's most mysterious places. For Elanor, it offers a fresh start, but that becomes complicated when she encounters Elijah - the boy she's forbidden to love.

Then there's the enigmatic Kylian, whose tattoos and charm awaken something new in her. Determined not to be distracted, Elanor focuses on her magical training, but unexpected challenges arise as the balance between good and evil begins to crumble, threatening to upend the entire fairy world
Versprich mir Morgen

Versprich mir Morgen

Translated title: Promise Me Tomorrow

Series: Book 2

Author: Lück, Anne

Genre: Romance

Year: 2024 | Pages: 382 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 88293

Romantic novel
Ich spüre dich leben

Ich spüre dich leben

Translated title: I Feel You Alive

Author: Mothes, Ulla

Genre: Family Saga / Social Novel

Year: 2025 | Pages: 420 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89632

The bad banker and the good wife - it's rarely that simple, and certainly not in this love story. The couple struggles to shed light on the deep undercurrents of their togetherness and, at the same time, our present. In sparkling language, Ulla Mothes tells of looking the other way and being honest with oneself. The inner conflict gets under your skin. Immediately before the birth of her child, Stella receives a farewell letter from her husband Falk, who has evaded conviction as a fraud in his job as an investment banker.

Alone, overwhelmed with the baby, she despairs over the question: Did he really betray her love? How can that be? The two of them, a twin since childhood. She thinks she senses he's still alive and takes refuge in a conspiracy theory: her husband, coaxed by powerful people who are using his talent. Falk has fled to Africa under the guise of Fred to protect his wife and child from social and financial ruin. He critically examines his old self as a banker and starts anew.

Then the two meet again on Zanzibar, but she flees him. The ancient wisdom passed down on the island by people from all over the world ultimately causes both of them to accept failure and grief. They realize what has truly happened to them. And they find the strength to abandon their escape and fight for a responsible relationship with each other and with the world
All the things (s)he said

All the things (s)he said

Author: Lindberg, Inka

Genre: Romance

Year: 2025 | Pages: 400 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89590

An own-voice romance taken straight from real life - Skye is in the middle of her quarter-life crisis and has to ask herself the really important questions: What do I want to do with my life? What will make me truly happy?

Skye is in love with love, but can she also discover love for herself?

Skye is a serial monogamist: her whole life she hops from relationship to relationship and never stays alone for long. But when she splits up with Lukas, everything changes. This time the young woman from Cologne vows to stay single for a year to find out what she really wants in life. Who is she without a partner? What does she really like and what did she only do for her boyfriend's sake? And how on earth do you make new friends in your mid-twenties? Finding the answers to these questions turns out to be anything but easy
Zuhause ist das Wetter unzuverlässig

Zuhause ist das Wetter unzuverlässig

Translated title: At Home the Weather Is Unreliable

Author: Würfel, Carolin

Genre: Social Novel

Year: 2025 | Pages: 213 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89629

'Carolin Würfel tells with anger and verve about us: women, mothers, daughters. About our hunger for freedom and our longing for security, our fear and our courage.' Annabelle Hirsch A woman books a ticket and sets herself a deadline. It's over in the summer, she writes in her diary. In the new city by the sea, under the blazing sun, she wants to escape the expectations she has based her life on for too long.

She doesn't want children, she wants sex, she wants uncompromising freedom. But can she simply cast off the old patterns? What does she know about the resistant, tolerant, and quarreling women in her family, whose lives have become inscribed in hers - about Anna and Rosa, Ella and Viola, about her mother Romy?

Carolin Würfel intertwines the rapid pulse of the present with the history of three generations of women, until the patterns of female life emerge that are breathing down the neck of the main character. A multi-layered novel about the question of whether we can truly be free
Geschichten aus dem Altbau

Geschichten aus dem Altbau

Translated title: Stories from the Old Building

Author: Wellbrock, Christoph

Genre: Horror / Short Stories

Year: 2025 | Pages: 206 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89622

TRUE OR FALSE? That's the one question that runs through all 20 short stories in this book. Short stories packed with gruesome events, mysterious occurrences, and unexplained phenomena. A supposedly cursed bridge, a mysterious stranger in your own four walls, an eerie encounter on the subway, or a fateful hike. But beware! Not every story has a true background. Some stories are complete fabrications, made up from start to finish, and based solely on the dark imaginations of the two authors. Will you let Christoph and Josch lead you astray, or can you distinguish truth from fiction?
The Love Dare

The Love Dare

Author: Bello, Abiola

Genre: Romance

Year: 2025 | Pages: 315 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89593

Translated
It Girl Eva Òjo is used to boys falling in love with her one after the other without her having to lift a finger. When, at the urging of her friend, she dances with a strange boy at the Notting Hill Carnival, she meets someone for the first time who isn't interested in her: Saint Rowe-Falade.

When her father's car is damaged at a party, Eva's friends pressure her into a bet: If she manages to get Saint to ask her out on a date, they will help Eva pay the bill for the car repairs. But just as Saint develops feelings for Eva and Eva feels attracted to Saint, Saint finds out about the bet

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