Riss im Sein
Translated title: Rupture in Being
Author: Hegerl, Ulrich
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 495 | Origin: GER | ISBN: 9783819295638
More and more people are becoming believers and following a new religious group; natural constants are changing in inexplicable ways. Suddenly, the research of CERN takes center stage. It's as if a crack has run through the foundations of the world. Deeply disturbing, incomprehensible things are penetrating and disrupting people's inner and outer lives. More and more people are having mystical experiences and are feeling the steel mesh of the surveillance state; the orbits of the Earth, the Moon, and satellites are changing; a spacecraft carrying the two astronauts Roy (NASA) and Andrej (Roscosmos) gets lost and drifts into the darkness of space. Do the particle collision experiments at CERN, the spearhead of scientific research, have anything to do with these changes? Is the scientifically influenced worldview crumbling?
Ich spüre dich leben
Translated title: I Feel You Alive
Author: Mothes, Ulla
Genre: Family Saga / Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 420 | Origin: GER | ISBN: 9783962582036
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
Berchtesgaden
Author: Otto, Carolin
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 544 | Origin: GER | ISBN: 9783757700584
A country between repression and awakening - a visually stunning social panorama of a symbolically rich time. Berchtesgaden, May 1945. The Führer's favorite city capitulates, and the Americans take over the government. Despite her limited English, 19-year-old Sophie takes a position with the Military Government, where she is confronted for the first time with the whole truth about German crimes.
There, she meets people who change her perspective on her own family. There is her boss, the Jewish émigré Frank, who returns to his homeland with the GIs, where suddenly everyone claims to have 'knew nothing.' And his girlfriend, the glamorous war reporter Meg, who accompanies the Allied triumph with her camera.
Rudolf Kriss, once sentenced to death, is now mayor. And the black GI Sam, with whom Sophie falls in love. In the shadow of the Obersalzberg, their paths cross in a fateful way...
The thrilling novel debut of the successful screenwriter Carolin Otto on the 80th anniversary of the end of the war
Was ich von dir weiß
Translated title: What I Know About You
Author: Chacour, Eric
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 286 | Origin: GER | ISBN: 9783989410107
Translated
'Call me by your name' meets 'The Alchemist'.
In the shimmering Cairo of the 1980s, the path of a young doctor seems predetermined. Under the strict gaze of his family, Tarek continues his late father's prestigious practice. When he opens an outpatient clinic in a poor neighborhood, it feels like a stroke of liberation.
There he meets Ali, a young man from the neighborhood. Their friendship is as surprising as it is uncompromising. How can someone who has so little give so much to him, who seems to have everything? A wind of freedom will stir up Tarek's certainties and turn his life upside down
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 | ISBN: 9783446282483
'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
Wiederholung
Translated title: Repetition
Author: Hjorth, Vigdis
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 160 | Origin: GER | ISBN: 9783103976908
A woman walks through the forest, and everything she wants to forget returns to her. Breath by breath, she approaches the sixteen-year-old girl she once was. The first kiss at a party. The first overwhelming rush that made her body feel so light. The mother who watches over her with eagle eyes and controls her insatiable hunger for life. The father who distances himself further and further.
In her new novel, which was awarded Norway's most important literary prize, the Critics' Prize, Vigdis Hjorth returns to her major life themes: She tells of a young woman's painful battle with a family secret, of the struggle for her own truth, and of how some memories haunt you until new recognition is possible. An essential, universal book by Norway's most important contemporary author
Die Allee
Translated title: The Avenue
Author: Anders, Florentine
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 352 | Origin: GER | ISBN: 9783869713205
Stirring and full of stories: About the Bauhaus, the GDR's star architect, two women seeking to become emancipated, and the pitfalls of the system.
There is the charismatic idealist Hermann Henselmann, imbued with the ideas of the Bauhaus and the avant-garde, who rose to become East Berlin's chief architect after the war and was expected to compete with the West Berliners around Scharoun & Co. The Berlin TV Tower, the Stalinallee, the Leipzig University Tower are inextricably linked with his name.
The price, of course: he constantly had to maneuver and sometimes grovel to save at least the foundations of his modernist ideas from the stuffy ideas of the political leadership. And above all there is Henselmann's wife Isi, highly gifted, who also wanted to work as an architect but had to struggle with a family growing to eight children
Das Böse sieht alles
Translated title: Evil Sees Everything
Author: Huber, Karlheinz
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Year: 2025 | Pages: 300 | Origin: GER | ISBN: 9783769326307
What do a virologist, a mentally ill patient, a priest, and a programmer have in common? Find out in this nerve-wracking horror thriller, spiced with a pinch of fiction
Trostlos - düstere Erzählungen
Translated title: Bleak - Dark Stories
Author: Kothe, Michael
Genre: Horror
Year: 2025 | Pages: 172 | Origin: GER | ISBN: 9783969371589
In this collection of terrifying short stories, join the author on an abysmal journey through the darkest shadows of human and non-human existence! He takes you on an eerie journey across space and time. Are you ready for the darkness, or do you fear it?
Gestern und morgen
Translated title: Yesterday and Tomorrow
Author: Maniura, Michael
Genre: Horror
Year: 2025 | Pages: 504 | Origin: GER | ISBN: 9783758309229
Michael Maniura's novellas belong to magical realism, a postmodern form of fantasy. They are set not on fictional planets in an indeterminate era, but rather on a rather staid Earth, which occasionally clenches its fist to unequivocally show the microbes on its surface, who, in their excessive self-conceit, believe themselves to be the masters of creation, who truly rules the roost
Das Septemberhaus
Translated title: The September House
Author: Orlando, Carissa
Genre: Horror
Year: 2025 | Pages: 432 | Origin: GER | ISBN: 9783986761950
Translated
Blood is running down the walls of the house again. Why not? It's September, after all. When Margaret and her husband Hal buy the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street, they can't believe they finally own their own home. But then the haunting reveals itself. Every September, blood drips from the walls and the ghosts of previous residents appear. They fear something lurking in the basement. Most people would flee. But Margaret isn't like most people. She stays. It's her house. Four years later, when September approaches again, Hal can't stand it any longer and flees... Or disappears? The longer Margaret tries to find Hal, the worse the haunting becomes, because there are some secrets the house wants to keep
Geschichten aus dem Altbau
Translated title: Stories from the Old Building
Author: Wellbrock, Christoph
Genre: Horror / Short Stories
Year: 2025 | Pages: 206 | Origin: GER | ISBN: 9783690281706
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?
Einfach nur Geschichten ???
Translated title: Just Stories ???
Author: Bissdorf, Daniel
Genre: Horror
Year: 2025 | Pages: 356 | Origin: GER | ISBN: 9783769322774
A man whose life is thrown into disarray by a book realizes that the boundaries between reality and fiction are inexorably blurring. Humanity, at the end of its days, faces a second chance-or its ultimate demise. A flower shop becomes the setting for an encounter that culminates in an unexpected ending. ''Just Stories'' takes you on a dark odyssey through fear, disgust, despair, and a faint glimmer of hope. The stories in this book, which dance on the edge between madness and reality, transport you to a murky world full of terror and unimaginable fantasies. Every page holds a new horror, every line brings you closer to the abyss. What is real, and what springs from madness? Do you dare to fathom the truth, or will the book swallow you whole? This work is not for the faint of heart
Fairy Tale
Author: King, Stephen
Genre: Horror
Year: 2025 | Pages: 880 | Origin: GER | ISBN: 9783453442870
Translated
Seventeen-year-old Charlie Reade hasn't had an easy life. His mother died when he was seven, and his father is addicted to alcohol. One day, on his deathbed, his mysterious neighbor, shunned by everyone, reveals a secret that ultimately leads Charlie on an adventurous journey to another, strange world. There, powerful creatures wreak havoc. The oppressed inhabitants see Charlie as their savior. But to do so, he must first free the princess, the rightful ruler of the fantastic fairytale kingdom, from her cruel suffering
Kein Zurück
Translated title: No Turning Back
Author: King, Stephen
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 640 | Origin: GER | ISBN: 9783453274341
Translated
The police consult private investigator Holly Gibney. An anonymous letter has announced a series of murders. The first victim is an innocent woman, holding a piece of paper in her hand. The name on it refers to a juror who participated in the conviction of an innocent man stabbed to death in prison. The insane perpetrator is randomly killing substitute victims instead of the jurors as an ''act of atonement.'' Those guilty of the innocent's death should suffer,'' it was said. The killing continues. While Holly feverishly pieces together the puzzle, she also has her hands full fending off attacks on a feminist for whom she is acting as a bodyguard. Everything seems to be heading toward one massive catastrophe
