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Selected titles from our German program, now translated into English. All 35 e-books have been submitted to Google Play Books and will be available there soon.

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Novels

The Manuscript

Evan J. Moore

One rainy evening in Berlin, magazine editor Adrian Kessler finds a black notebook on the street. Soon afterward, handwritten pages describe his life with a precision that should be impossible. A quiet, hypnotic literary mystery about grief, memory, and what remains when the line between a story and reality begins to disappear.

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The Friendly Catastrophe

Konstanze Frey

Michelle Kirstensen can’t keep quiet. When something is wrong and everyone else nods along, she says so, politely, reasonably and with devastating consequences. Then she notices that behind many of her small town’s misfortunes stands the same charming man. A satirical novel about power, going along and civil courage.

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KARMA

A Novel

Konstanze Frey

Primary school teacher Maggie Hollweg wants to make the world a little better, but her good deeds keep ending in chaos. Her suspicion: her karma works in reverse. A humorous small-town novel full of comedy and heart.

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LUCK

A Novel

Konstanze Frey

Manni Ackermann works at the lost-and-found office of a small town. As inexplicable coincidences pile up, everyone starts calling him the “Lucky Man”. A warm-hearted novel with gentle humor about kindness and the small encounters that change a life.

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ORDER

A Novel

Konstanze Frey

Since the death of his wife, order has been Gerd Bollmann’s only reliable companion. But suddenly things and people stop keeping to what was agreed. A wise, warm-hearted novel about control, loss and letting go.

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BAD LUCK

A Novel

Konstanze Frey

Rosi Diekmann has a plan for everything: spare keys, an emergency kit, smoke detectors. Until someone enters her life who sees possibilities wherever she sees risks. A warm-hearted novel about fear, control and life as a risk.

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The Manuscript

Evan J. Moore

One rainy evening in Berlin, magazine editor Adrian Kessler finds a black notebook on the street. Soon afterward, handwritten pages describe his life with a precision that should be impossible. A quiet, hypnotic literary mystery about grief, memory, and what remains when the line between a story and reality begins to disappear.

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Black Water

Juna Morel

Lena Vargas is a ghostwriter in Vienna. When the reclusive investor Nikolaj Voss hires her to write his memoir, she travels to his estate in the Austrian mountains, where a small black lake lies among the firs. An atmospheric dark romance about control and trust, about what we hide and what we let someone see.

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To Sicily

Alessandro Noto

Yoshi has everything, Jamie carries things he talks to no one about. Two twelve-year-olds meet in a fight on a basketball court and set off for Sicily without their parents, without a plan and with far too little money. A moving coming-of-age novel about friendship, family and the long road to the place you have been dreaming of.

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The Friendly Catastrophe

A Novel

Konstanze Frey

Michelle Kirstensen can’t keep quiet. When something is wrong and everyone else nods along, she says so, politely, reasonably and with devastating consequences. Then she notices that behind many of her small town’s misfortunes stands the same charming man. A satirical novel about power, going along and civil courage.

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Crown of Concrete

A Novel

Sandro Urban

Robert grows up in a concrete housing estate on the edge of Hanover with nothing but a notebook full of rhymes. As the rapper Rodeo he climbs to gold records and sold-out arenas, and loses more with every step. A novel about the way up and the harder way back to yourself.

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Where the Maps End

Alessandro Noto

Geologist Frank Kern follows an unexplained magnetic anomaly into the Tian Shan mountains of Kazakhstan and wakes up below a city that appears on no map. A novel about home, belief and the price of a single truth.

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Project Aurora

Do You Know Who You Are?

Judith Bahlmann

Neuropsychologist Hannah Kordt leads a study on cognitive bias until inconsistencies appear: a wrong date, confidential files, people who know things about her life she never told anyone. A psychological thriller about memory, identity and control.

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Kings of Ash

A Crime Novel

Evan J. Moore

Milan Bakker grows up in the coal harbor of Novahaven, where the money never stretches far enough. At sixteen he delivers his first backpack, at twenty he meets the man who gives him recognition and access. From bottle collector to money launderer: a dark crime novel about power, money and betrayal.

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Between Light and Shadow

Sandro Noto

Emilia, daughter of one of Hamburg’s most influential families, flees an expensive dinner into the rain and meets Adrian in a pub in Hammerbrook. Something begins between them that should not be. Two worlds, one decision.

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Between Blood and Asphalt

A Sky Devils MC Novel

Juna Morel

Roman has been the enforcer of the Sky Devils MC for eight years. Nora fixes engines and asks no questions she doesn’t need answered. When the club heads toward a fateful deal, Roman stands between the family he would sacrifice everything for and the woman who makes him doubt it all. A dark MC romance.

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Jabari

A Novel

Amari Diallo

Jabari Omondi is eleven when he promises the rain he will one day buy his mother a real house. From reselling batteries in Kibera and a cramped repair workshop to a scholarship at the University of Nairobi: a novel about education, ambition and the courage to believe in a bigger future.

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The Game Never Stops

How Incentives Shape Societies — and Who Writes the Rules

Friedhelm Westerkamp

Why do politicians, corporations and the media act the way they do? Because people respond to incentives, not ideals. Friedhelm Westerkamp combines game theory, psychology and economics to show how the rules of the game shape entire societies, and who writes those rules.

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Why Beauty Is Power

The Modern Art of Feminine Radiance and Impact

Katharina Bruns

An honest look at beauty as a social force: how attractiveness shapes dating, friendships and the workplace, and which mechanisms run in the background that nobody names openly. Every chapter ends with a practical exercise.

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The Big Book of Spiritual Practice

Leonard Kramer

A workbook and reference guide for people who are searching but don’t want a doctrine. It keeps three things strictly apart: what research supports, what traditions teach, and what people report from their own experience. With 56 guided exercises and a 90-day integration program.

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Psychology in Everyday Life

Friedhelm Westerkamp

A complete tour of the science of the human mind, written for curious readers rather than specialists. Forty chapters, from the brain, perception and memory to emotions, stress, relationships, sleep, work and aging, with an honest account of how the famous studies have held up.

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DRUGS

History, Effects, Addiction and Policy

Alessandro Noto

A sober, fact-based account of psychoactive substances and their place in human history, from a thirteen-thousand-year-old brew to today’s synthetic opioids. With a reference lexicon of substances. Abridged English edition.

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Body Cult

Scars, Ink and Identity

Samuel Dorn

Long before people wrote, they began to change their skin. Body Cult follows this impulse across more than 100,000 years, from Stone Age body paint and the tattoos of Ötzi the Iceman to Polynesian tattooing, Japanese irezumi and modern body modification.

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ASTROLOGY

The Big Book of Zodiac Signs, Planets, Houses, and Your Personal Birth Chart

Vivian Dahl

Your zodiac sign is only the first word of a much richer language. This book takes you from the basics to reading your own birth chart, step by step and without dogma, and is honest about what astrology is and isn’t.

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Artificial Intelligence

Understand It. Use It. Shape It.

Friedhelm Westerkamp

A clear, practical guide for beginners, professionals and businesses: what AI assistants actually do, how to write prompts that get results, and where AI saves real time and where it doesn’t. Revised and updated English edition.

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Digital Exhaustion

How Constant Digital Stimulation Drains and Empties Us—and What We Can Really Do About It

Friedhelm Westerkamp

Why do you feel exhausted after a day in which you did almost nothing? Friedhelm Westerkamp shows how the attention economy works, what it does to concentration, sleep and relationships, and how to win back attention and rest. Revised and updated English edition.

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Coffee

From the Ritual of Sufi Monks to a Global Commodity

Sandro Noto

From a legend about dancing goats in the Ethiopian highlands and the Sufi monks of Yemen to the coffeehouses of the Enlightenment and today’s commodity exchanges: the improbable, contradictory history of the little brown bean in your cup.

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Beer

From the Song of Ninkasi to Alcohol-Free Beer

Sandro Noto

Nearly four thousand years ago, a Sumerian hymn to the goddess Ninkasi described how to brew beer. In 34 chapters this book follows beer from Mesopotamia and the monastery breweries to the Pilsner revolution, craft beer and alcohol-free beer.

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SHAMANISM

The Big Book of Traditions, Rituals, Power Animals, and the Shamanic Journey

Vivian Dahl

A drumbeat in the night and a world of very different people behind it. In 73 chapters Vivian Dahl travels through the history of shamanism and living traditions around the world, and explains the shamanic worldview, power animals and the shamanic journey.

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The Optimized Human

Testosterone, HGH, Peptides, Weight-Loss Injections, and the New Era of Self-Optimization

Viktor Cross

A critical, evidence-oriented history and analysis of human enhancement: from the first doping agents to testosterone, growth hormone, peptides, the GLP-1 revolution, nootropics and longevity protocols.

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What Is a Human Being?

Between Science, Consciousness, and the Question of Reality

Michael Rabenau

Are we a chance product of matter that has become aware of itself, or something more? This book sets out materialism, dualism and idealism as fairly as their best advocates would and tests them against the evidence, from consciousness to free will and quantum physics.

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Learned Invisibility

Why Most People Aren’t Shy, Just Out of Practice

Konstantin Reeder

Most people who feel socially invisible are not shy by nature. Over the years they have learned a behavior that keeps them from standing out. It feels like character, but it is a habit, and habits can be changed.

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Is This Still Love?

A Compass for Women in Difficult Relationships

Friedhelm Westerkamp

“Am I being too sensitive, or is something really wrong here?” This book gives a clear distinction to work with: normal relationship friction, unhealthy but changeable patterns, and toxic or abusive behavior.

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How I Found My Way Back to Life

An Honest Guide Through Grief, Pain, and the Quiet Return to Yourself

Clara Winter

Not a set of instructions for healing and not a promise that everything will be fine again, but a companion through grief. In seventeen short chapters Clara Winter walks with you through what loss does to you and how it can be carried.

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The Big Fitness Book

From Beginner to Pro — Everything for Your Body

Alessandro Noto

Fitness is a question of consistency, knowledge and patience. Training principles, the Big 5 compound lifts, complete plans for every level and the nutrition you need, in one book.

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The Big Book of Self-Sufficient Gardening

From Seed to Harvest — Everything for Your Garden

Alessandro Noto

Grow your own vegetables, fruit and herbs, from the first seed to the harvest: soil, sowing, watering and fertilizing, companion planting and crop rotation, plus detailed plant profiles.

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Emigrate, But Where To?

The Honest Compass to 15 Countries – Between Dream and Daily Life

Mika Solberg

Most guides to emigrating say: just take the leap. This book says: look closely first. Fifteen countries compared honestly, with the Emigration Compass to find out which one fits your life fifty weeks a year, not two.

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