Funeral director Friedrich Ehrlich has an unusual profession, but also an unusual family. His own and adopted children stick together and would go through fire for their parents. The Ehrlichs are not shaken by crises such as the reappearance of a 25-year-old wax corpse and blackmail by an ex-terrorist. Ewald Arenz weaves the most beautiful family chronicle in a long time from the life stories of three generations in a poetically cheerful tone.

While Elle Bishop spends a lazy August day with family and friends in her summer house on Cape Cod, her life, overshadowed by a traumatic incident, is revisited in flashbacks.

When Kat wakes up after six years in a coma, a stranger tells her that her consciousness has been transferred into the body of another woman. And this woman is Megan Taylor of all people, stepsister of Noah Taylor, heir to the largest medical corporation in the world. But the stranger, who introduces himself as Dr. White, has a perfidious plan: Kat is to get close enough to Noah to kill him and inherit the family's immense fortune. White wants to use it to finance his research into eternal life. Kat has no choice - White threatens to murder her sister. And so Kat becomes Megan. She is determined to do everything she can to save her sister's life. Until she meets Noah and falls in love with him ...

Linda is fifteen and would love to run in front of a car. But two people are still holding her back: her only friend Kevin, who despairs that the world is on the brink. And Hubert, eighty-six years old, a retired lifeguard who hardly leaves his apartment, toasts carrots and waits for his wife, who died seven years ago. Three times a week, Linda spends the afternoon with Hubert to relieve Ewa, the Polish caregiver, who carries out her job with quite unconventional means. Linda deals sensitively and playfully with Hubert's advancing dementia and tries to keep the old lifeguard alive. Until fate thwarts her plans ...

A night full of unrest. A young gang leader, who everyone calls "Bad Castro", on the run. And Judy, a young policewoman who no longer knows right from wrong.

When the police car is ambushed, Judy and Castro manage to escape from the car without being recognized. Together they flee from the unleashed mob, which is equally dangerous for them. It is no longer clear where the boundaries between friend and foe lie - and that they actually have more in common than they realize ...

A gruesomely beautiful journey through the abysses of medical history - without prescription and with goosebumps guaranteed!

Weasel testicles as a contraceptive, bloodletting for blood loss or red-hot irons for lovesickness: from today's perspective, such treatment methods may seem completely absurd. But there were times when people firmly believed in their effectiveness. Either because scientific findings were deliberately ignored or because medicine was simply not yet ready. This richly illustrated book is an informative and entertaining collection of what has been falsely promised to people over the centuries as a cure - and often had the exact opposite effect.

Tilda's days are strictly timed: studying, working at the supermarket checkout, looking after her little sister Ida and, on bad days, looking after their mother too. The three of them live in the saddest house on Fröhlichstrasse in a small town that Tilda hates. Her friends are long gone, living in Amsterdam or Berlin, only Tilda has stayed. Because someone has to be there for Ida, earn money, bear the responsibility. There are no fathers worth mentioning, her mother is an alcoholic. One day, however, things start to change: Tilda is offered a doctorate in Berlin, and there is a flash of a future that promises freedom. And Viktor turns up, the older brother of Ivan, with whom Tilda used to be friends. Viktor, who, like her, always swims 22 lengths. But just as Tilda is about to believe that everything might turn out all right, the situation at home spirals out of control.

Are parents allowed to read my cell phone messages? Can the teacher take my cell phone away from me? Can sales clerks look in my bag? Can my older siblings make decisions about me? Can I play games with a USK 18 rating even though I am younger? Can I be on first-name terms with police officers? Tim Hendrik Walter, known on Tiktok as "Mr. Lawyer", knows the answers to these and many other everyday questions from young people. Using many examples, he explains the law for a young target group in an entertaining way, gives tips and answers the most frequently asked questions from his community.

Venice in 1725: a brutal murder of a beautiful young woman, a gifted painter commissioned by the Doge to perform espionage services, occult celebrations in secret rooms of glamorous palaces, conspiratorial meetings of Freemasons, a devastating smallpox epidemic, pronounced hatred of Jews and ardent love affairs ....

It is difficult to find the right attributes to describe the book "Ceremony of Life" by Japanese bestselling author Sayaka Murata:

abstruse, quirky, extraordinary, attractive and disreputable, ...

Jan Weiler has already delighted his readers with very entertaining books. The journalist commented and philosophized humorously yet seriously about growing children, ...

"Crooked Dog" doesn't sugarcoat and shakes you awake. It is a book about an irritated boy searching for meaning, ...

Re-education in the GDR - the fates of children and young people

I had great doubts about wanting to read this book. After the last page I know that it was right and important to have read this book...

Our Reckless Oath is a suspenseful romance novel with a difference, written by New York Times bestselling author Bryn Greenwood....

At first glance, Florian Wacker's new novel can be categorized as an adventure novel, but it is much more complex. It's not just about an expedition into the ice...

"Tara's Eyes" is a wonderfully touching story set against a dramatic backdrop. It is a story about power and powerlessness...

The West has been looking at the East for 30 years. Turning and turning the East Germans like schnitzel in a frying pan. It's time to look back ...

First volume of the cosy crime series about the charming pastry chef and amateur detective Hannah Swensen.

What is a €5 singer, why is sex like flour and who says "go milk your granny"? Whether these questions have been on your mind for a long time or have just piqued your curiosity, read on here

Two 18-year-olds take part in a psychological experiment. They are asked to answer 36 questions to find out whether dealing with these questions ...

There are moments in life when time runs backwards, as it does for Nils, Benjamin and Pierre, three brothers who travel together to their parents' summer house in the Swedish countryside to collect the ashes of ...

Matou, the French word for tomcat, is the ME narrator of this book. Matou was taught to speak by very famous gentlemen. He sat with Georg Büchner ...

"Liar's Daughter" is a harrowing story about a girl who grows up in a sect and can barely grasp the lie of her life ...

The birthday party of a group of young people in a shared flat is coming to an end. The last guests are frustrated by the behavior of a couple who have already left - conspiracy theorists ...

Set in the spring of 2021, the novel begins somewhat confusingly with the serial killer Blake at the beginning, then various ...

It was the title that inspired me to read this book. "Schlamassel" - what a word. Of Yiddish origin, according to the Duden dictionary, it describes a "messy situation that someone gets into due to an annoying mishap".

John Segall has a mitzvah, a religious duty to fulfill....

The essence of a book is to let you look into another world. I let Leona Stahlmann take me into a world of male - dominant and female - submissive, into which Mina, .......

A glance at the cover and the title suggests that this is a biography or portrait of Grace Kelly.

As the future Princess of Monaco, she actually plays ...

Curse or blessing? What will happen to people when artificial intelligence dominates life and humans first become the plaything of technology and ultimately superfluous? ....

From one day to the next, November is torn from her life and ends up at a school where
a school where everything, but also everything is different from what November knows from home.
....

Allen Eskens has landed a direct hit with his first book. "The Life We Bury" won all the literary prizes in the USA and made the author famous overnight ...

In the biographical novel "The Angel of Harlem", author Kuwana Haulsey writes about the fascinating life of a woman who fights determinedly for her rights in New York at the beginning of the 20th century, when racism was rife...

The killer and the girl. That's a good way to summarize Stephen King's new novel, but it wouldn't do it justice, because "Billy Summers" is more than that....

The Italian author of this book writes under the pseudonym Elena Ferrante, the author would like to ....

A girl wants what is reserved only for boys - equality and a career - and great love. This girl Maia is trapped in her endless love for her family.....

In "Wir bleiben noch", Daniel Wisser tells the story of 4 generations of an Austrian family, their completely contrasting attitudes ...

Christian Piskulla has written his second novel. After the historical crime novel "Das Stahlwerk", Christan Piskulla turns his attention to the present day and the North American east coast. A brutal, ruthless killer ....

The author of the book I am presenting to you here is Helga Schubert. Helga Schubert was born in Berlin in 1940, studied psychology at Humboldt University, worked as a psychotherapist and freelance writer in the GDR ...

Christoph Hein is regarded as the chronicler of GDR history. He said of himself that he was a reporter without a message. He does indeed tell his stories ...

For anyone upset by the #MeToo movement, Mary Gaitskill's 113-page book is a must-read....

What drives a young journalist to overthrow an obviously gifted, brilliantly fabulous reporter who has won numerous prestigious awards?

I belong to the generation that was spared the experience of the last world war. But I also belong to the generation that is dismayed by this chapter in history...

"Betrayed" paints a picture of German history that is unbelievable, shocking and yet it happened. Grit Poppe describes events that common sense refuses to acknowledge ....

Many people may automatically attach the words "everyone has the right..." to the two words "everyone". This is exactly what Ferdinand von Schirach's 31-page book is about....

The title refers to the main protagonist of the novel, Karin Remy, mother, grandmother and recent widow. It also begins with a nightmare of hers, ...

When a journalist performs word acrobatics, it is extraordinarily entertaining, instructive and entertaining. I have rarely read such condensed information about language and words....

Markus Ostermair, the author of the book "Der Sandler", did his community service in a Munich station mission and then worked for years as a volunteer helping the homeless. He is therefore familiar with life in homelessness ...

"We've always lived in the castle" is an atmospheric horror novel from 1962. The American author Shirley Jackson, who is probably known to many for her novel "The Haunting of Hill House", writes about fate and ....

I became aware of Passenger's music through my daughter. She liked to play Mike Rosenberg's songs when we were driving together.

And we went to one of his club concerts. Ever since I experienced Mike Rosenberg live ....

Sophie Passmann's latest book "Completely Goosebumps" is about the so-called Generation Y or Millennials. This is the name given to those born in the 1980s and up to the end of the 1990s....

The mother of 16-year-old Sequoia, called Jess, dies in a car accident. Jess is seriously injured and is expected to live with her father, who left her and her mother early on, so that Jess can barely remember him....

One move. One box. In it, among other things, a knife, a pair of sunglasses, a broken iPhone, two chocolate-flavored condoms, a superhero story on folded paper.....

The river around which the entire story revolves is the Thames, just over 100 years ago, and it has so much to tell that you won't want to put the book down....

The series comprises four books until further notice. The first three books in the series are a self-contained trilogy about Niels Oxen's fight against the secret power elite Danehof. The fourth book, LUPUS, is a stand-alone story that can be read without prior knowledge...

Runners hunt for secret treasures. They play an exciting and dangerous game because the treasures are hidden in places that are difficult to reach. The rules of the game are similar to those of geocaching, except that you have to solve a tricky puzzle to find the location....

Just the introduction to the book "Cryptos" and thus to the plot is gripping:

People live from dawn to dusk in virtual worlds - in computer games, so to speak. They can - as they wish - experience adventures, live in historical times, relax in beautiful places, be creeped out, unwind - whatever....

When a specialist author writes a thriller, it's something special. Christian Piskulla is a successful specialist book author, has a connection to the steel city of Salzgitter and presents his first novel with the title "Stahlwerk"....

The well-known comedian Stan Laurel meets the medieval philosopher and most important Catholic theologian in history Thomas Aquinas - this constellation promises a bizarre story!....

A good school friend recommended that I read this small and slim book.

"Nevertheless" reproduces two conversations on March 30, 2020 between the criminal defence lawyer, writer and playwright Ferdinand von Schirach and the filmmaker and philosopher Alexander Kluge....

The cover is characterized by an elegant woman in a black sheath dress with a three-row pearl necklace and a cigarette holder in her hand. And of course this reminds me of the American party girl Holly Golightly from the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's", played by the wonderful Audrey Hepburn....

The first thing that appealed to me about the title was the unusually designed cover, which made me curious about the content. You see a woman in a long red evening dress from behind, standing in front of a huge book. On the book is a burning castle (...)