Admittedly, autumn was a long time coming this year. But now cool nights, golden – or rainy – days and cozy evenings await us again. Of course a book shouldn’t be missing! We present you reading material that no bookshelf – or eBook library – should be without. Grab one of our new releases from local – but also foreign – authors from different genres and subject areas, snuggle up in a blanket – ideally on the sofa, in the thermal baths or in the winter garden – and immerse yourself in foreign worlds. The editors hope you enjoy reading!
The Little Lies of Ivy Lin – Susie YangIvy Lin is an extremely talented liar. But no one would ever guess that. Her lies allow Ivy to leave her unwanted past behind forever and slip into a life that is richer and much more beautiful than her own. No one embodies the future she longs for better than Gideon Speyer. And so Ivy works with every lie to finally become Gideon’s wife. Until suddenly a man from her past appears and questions her life…The Iron Marquis – Thomas WillmannVienna, in the year of the Lord 1753. A young boy from the provinces enters the service of the watchmaker Servasius Weisz as an apprentice. All his efforts aim to grasp the world and life and recreate them according to the laws of mechanics. When he falls in love with the count’s daughter Amalia, a terrible tragedy occurs that forces him to flee Vienna. He joins the army of the Prussian king and goes to war under a new name as Jacob Kainer. In the hospital he makes the acquaintance of a mysterious marquis who is impressed by his technical skills. The Marquis takes Jacob to Paris, where he is supposed to support him in the fight against his progressive illness…Hildur – The Trace in the Fjord – Satu RämöWhat happened to her sisters, who have been missing for over twenty years? Detective Hildur Rúnarsdóttir asks herself this question every day when she heads the missing children unit in the remote Westfjords. But when an avalanche hits the area and a man appears with his throat cut, Hildur soon has to deal with a series of gruesome murders that demand everything from her. Little does she know: the search for her sisters has only just begun…The gravedigger and the murder in the crypt – Oliver PötzschVienna, 1895: In the crypt under St. Stephen’s Cathedral, tourists find a male corpse among the bones and skulls: his face in horror distorted, otherwise intact. Did the man die of fear? Parallel to the investigations led by Leopold von Herzfeldt, the gravedigger Augustin Rothmayer becomes aware of something else through his adopted daughter Anna: Children keep disappearing in the city’s orphanage…Henriette smiles – Andrea HeinischHenriette prefers to stay at home while life is in front of her window takes place. Her mother, who lives in the apartment above her, wants to control the life of her fifty-year-old daughter; she doesn’t leave her alone, comments on every food order and every clothing choice that Henriette makes. Because Henriette weighs 190 kilos and that dominates her existence. The only bright spot is her work colleague. Henriette falls in love with him. When she meets her pregnant young neighbor one day, Henriette begins to open up about herself and her world. Will she be able to take a step into the future? I have a few questions for you – Rebecca Makkai Bodie Kane actually wanted to leave her time at boarding school in New Hampshire behind her forever. The memory of the murder of her roommate Thalia Keith is too painful. Nevertheless, Bodie returns to the college as a lecturer in media studies. As one of her students begins, the question becomes more and more clear as to whether the real perpetrator was caught in the person of sports coach Omar Evans… Rebecca Makkai’s new novel is about a murder case that is in the news every day – and is exactly the same Captivating campus crime thriller like Pychogram of a woman coming to terms with her past. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau – Silvia Moreno-GarciaMexico, late 19th century: Carlota Moreau grows up far from the civilized world in the jungle of the Yucatán Peninsula. She is the daughter of a gifted scientist who conducts secret experiments on his estate. When Eduardo Lizalde, the son of Doctor Moreau’s financial backer, arrives and pays court to Carlota, her path into high society seems predetermined. But the dark laboratories hide countless secrets – and the most dangerous of them is Carlota herself. Doom (Millennium 7) – Karin Smirnoff to Stieg Larsson Mikael Blomkvist travels from Stockholm to the far north for his daughter’s wedding. On the train he learns about developments that make the investigative journalist curious: Away from the media spotlight, a battle between international companies for natural resources and cheap electricity is raging up there. At the same time, Lisbeth Salander goes to northern Sweden to get to know her niece. After years, Salander and Blomkvist meet again and soon find themselves in the eye of a storm.The Yellow Elephant – Heinz StrunkThe stories in this book tell of a seniors’ organization called “Voluntary over the Cliff” and of a car trip into prehistory. In Markus Lanz’s show, an expert experiences a catastrophe, a farmer in the big city and a tourist having a Thai massage on the beach. Some of the texts sound like newspaper reports, some like horror stories, some are in letter form, one even has bullet points. I was the girl from Auschwitz – Tova FriedmanTova Friedman was just four years old when she was deported to a concentration camp with her mother At six she was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. What she experiences there will shape her for the rest of her life: unspeakable suffering, but also unshakable hope and a love whose strength achieves unimaginable things. She is one of the few people who knows what it means to have seen the inside of a gas chamber and to be able to report on it today. What it means to hide among the dead in order to survive yourself. As frightening as it is touching and inspiring, she talks about how she experienced the war as a child, found her parents again after it was over and since then dedicated her life to the fight against forgetting. What is your favorite book? You are a fan of a book that is not in made our selection? 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