Here we present reading material that no bookshelf – or e-book library – should be without. Grab one of our ten new releases by local – but also foreign – authors from different genres and subject areas, lean back and immerse yourself in foreign worlds. The editors wish you lots of reading fun!
The café without a name – Robert Seethaler, ClaassenVienna in 1966. Robert Simon earned his living as a casual worker at the Karmeliter market. He is content with his life, but twenty years after the end of the war, the city has risen from its ruins. Robert leases an inn and opens his own café. The offer is manageable, but the people from the neighborhood come and they bring their stories with them – of longing, of loss, of unexpected happiness. They come in search of companionship, some even hoping for love, and as the city awakens around them, so does Simon’s own life. Still awake? – Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre, Kiepenheuer&Witsch Berlin: A young woman talks about her new job at a large television station, about her new boss, her new life. She seems happy, inspired, hopeful, it sounds good. Too good? Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, the world is coming to an end. A man who brags that being a celebrity is anything to go by with women becomes President of the United States. Shortly thereafter, the Weinstein scandal shook Hollywood, and Rose McGowan was one of the first women to publicly disclose sexual harassment by the film producer, who had been courted by all of Hollywood. Rose disappears, but she leaves the narrator with a cryptic message – or is it an errand? Why is she turning to him of all people? His Excellency the Android – Leo Gilbert, EDITION WArtificial intelligence in the run-up to the First World War: In 1907, the Viennese science journalist Leo Silberstein-Gilbert published a “fantastically satirical novel”, which today can be considered one of the first works of science fiction and was removed from all libraries by the Nazis. The novel’s protagonist, the brilliant physicist Frithjof Andersen, constructs a perfect android. But the creature emancipates itself from its creator – the android makes a career as a big industrialist and is appointed minister by the king.Parents’ evening: No thriller – Sebastian Fitzek, DROEMERSascha Nebel chose the wrong car at the wrong time and in the wrong place for a theft. Hardly has he sat down behind the wheel of an SUV than a horde of demonstrating climate activists pulls through the street. Above all, a young woman. When the police appear on the scene, Sascha and the stranger flee and crash into a 5th grade parents’ evening. In order not to spend the night in police custody, they have no other choice: They have to slip into the roles of Christin and Lutz Schmolke, the parents of 11-year-old Hector, who have so far missed every school event. Two complete strangers pretend to be the father and mother of a child they do not know Boundlessness: Since time immemorial, the eagle has fascinated like no other bird and has been elevated to a symbol of bold power. Nature photographer Willi Rolfes portrayed the hunter with the broad wings in the lake landscapes of East Germany and the Norwegian fjords, captured his bold flight maneuvers on camera and observed his survival tactics in ice and snow. The Viking – Helga Glaesener, Rütten & Loening BerlinSolvejg is a young Viking . Her father, King Harald Fairhair, believes that his dead wife put a spell on him and blames his daughter for it. Solvejg has to flee. Dressed in men’s clothing, she signs up with foreign Vikings who want to go on a raid to Ireland. But the Norwegians are defeated and she is imprisoned – along with Dhoire, a druid who studies magic and mathematics, who seduces her in one night. Pregnant, Solvejg manages to escape to the Frankish kingdom, but she has powerful pursuers… The inmate – Elisabeth Norebäck, Heyne Linda Andersson has been in prison for several years and is charged with murder. She is said to have stabbed her husband Simon. All the evidence points against Linda: her marriage to Simon had ended and she was found by the police with her clothes soaked in blood in the same room as her husband’s body. Linda is convinced that she is innocent. Only: She can’t remember anything. How is she supposed to find out what really happened on the night of the murder? She would have to break out of prison first. And what if the truth is even more cruel than you previously thought? The definition of happiness – Catherine Cusset, EISELE Two lives, two women who seem to have a lot in common. Clarisse is an adventuress, loves traveling and men. Ève, on the other hand, has been running a luxury catering service for years and has a stable marriage with her husband. One lives in Paris, the other in New York. Over the decades, we have been told the life stories of the two women, learned about the secret bond that unites them, and take an enlightening look at our time, a whole generation of women, their longings, loves, abysses, motherhood and aging. And understand how many ways there are to define happiness.Somewhere and back – Heinrich Thaler, EDITION ROESNERThe diary of the young Othmar from Baden near Vienna takes us into a terrible time and a rough life. Because of Hitler’s war, he, who had just graduated from high school, ended up on the Eastern Front. His medical studies, which he has just started, protect him from service with a weapon and thus save his life. Seriously ill at the end of the war, fate led him across Austria to Bad Gastein, later to Innsbruck and finally back to his beloved hometown of Baden, which he found badly destroyed by the Red Army. Heinrich Thaler fashioned a gripping and harrowing book from the notes of a close relative. Can We Surf Gravitational Waves? – Tim Ruster,Komplett Media The latest travel trend is taking tourists into space. Between galaxies, black holes and exploding stars, there is a holiday destination for every taste. What are the must-see sights of the dwarf planet Pluto? Should a supernova explosion only be admired from a safe distance? Do you need a guide to tour a wormhole? In this book, cosmic tourists will find answers to all these questions, so that their next space vacation will be a galactic success – and reading this book also offers exciting insights into the universe for travelers who prefer not to travel, who prefer to stay on earth. What is your favorite book? You are a fan a book that didn’t make it into our selection? Then tell us your favorite book in the comments! 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