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    • Romance & relationships stories (Children's/YA)x
    • Trusted Partner
      Children's & YA

      Royal Horses (2). Crown Dream

      by Jana Hoch

      Paparazzi, a blaze of flashlights, scandals – day by day, Greta’s life is being turned upside down. And only one person is responsible for this: Edward. Or to be more precise, Prince Tristan. Greta still feels that he has deceived her with his lies. Why didn’t he tell her who he really was? But when Edward suggests that she should come to Caverley Green in order to escape from the media circus, she can’t say no. Especially because her heart always beats faster when she sees Edward working with the horses. Or when he looks at her in that special way…But is Greta really ready to become part of his world?

    • Trusted Partner
      Children's & YA

      Royal Horses (1). Crown Heart

      by Jana Hoch

      His world is that of the Royals – full of scandals and secrets. Falling in love with him was never part of her plan. Their paths cross at the royal stud farm... Greta just wants to get away: away from her school and away from the friends who have so endlessly disappointed her. The holiday job at the royal stud farm comes at just the right time for her. She might not have any interest in horses – and even less in princes and princesses – but the royal family’s palace still makes her heart beat faster. But on the very first day she quarrels with Edward, the horse trainer. He guesses that she is hiding a secret and wants to do whatever it takes to bring it out in the open. When, shortly afterwards, Prince Tristan appears at the stud farm, Greta’s life is completely turned upside down. She notices all too late that she is in the process of falling in love – and specifically with the boy that she actually wants to stay away from. Humorous and romantic, glamorous and exciting: ‘Royal Horses’ is the perfect love story for all readers from 12 to 99 years-old. Greta and Edward‘s story continues! Volume 2, ‘Crown Dream’ will be out in autumn 2020.

    • Trusted Partner
      Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
      2018

      The New Girl Code

      by Niki Smit

      Tumi Letsatsi is a 13-year old melanin kween living in Rondebosch, Cape Town. Her favourite colour is yellow, she's still trying to figure out how not to dent her afro on the bus, and how one goes about (ahem!) “french kissing”. She’s a little awkward and a lot uncertain about her future, friendships and how to put together a cool outfit! But then she stumbles across the magic of coding and creates an app called “Project Prep” that goes viral and rockets her and her friends to fame. Then everything starts to fall apart, as she deals with a catfish who befriends her and steals her code, nasty rumours at school and the newfound attention of a crush. The New Girl Code (by Niki Smit, locally edited by Buhle Ngaba) is about the wonders of working in tech, aimed at girls and young women aged 9-15. The project is an initiative of Inspiring Fifty and based on an idea by Janneke Niessen.

    • Trusted Partner
      Children's & YA
      February 2022

      Alles, was ich in dir sehe

      New Adult-Roman mit viel Liebe und Humor

      by Kyra Groh

      All That I See In You All I See, All You Know, All You Have Been ...Anna, Polly and Anouk all have very different goals after graduating high school, but this does not harm their friendship. Quite the opposite: they have to stick together more tightly than ever. As there are a lot of things about life as an adult that no one has prepared them for – to not even mention their love lives! All these experiences are shared on a joint Instagram account, and each book tells the story of one of the girls.Two weeks in a luxury resort in Portugal - the perfect gift for graduation. Not for Anna, who would rather spend the summer at home with her two best friends. But because she always puts her own wishes on hold, she is now in the Algarve, lost between models and photographers. After escaping to a café, she befriends Helena, who invites her to help out on her dog farm. There, Anna meets the guy again who she bumped into at Frankfurt airport - not a good memory for both of them, as they instantly disliked each other. Fynn is not Anna‘s type at all and sees nothing more in her than a fashion doll. So, definitely not a dreamboat she could be falling for (she thinks) …• Original and modern twist on New Adult fiction – touching and an extra dose of humor• Girl power: 3 self-confident sisters as role models who stand up for themselves• Stories about first steps towards independence: Career choices, fear of the future, knowing and accepting yourself

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      Children's & YA

      Changeling

      by Kotryna Zylė

      Changeling is a rebellious novel about creativity, youth and the raging intensity of teenage emotional life. The gripping story plunges the reader into the depths of a mystical town, a haunting and haunted place, where boundaries between the real and the otherworldly become dangerously blurred. A strange and electrifying tale of teenage disenchantment, Changeling is a work of stunning emotional force that captures the twisted complexities of family relationships and friendships, first love, and the quest for self-definition. Guided by short introductions to Baltic mythology, readers will find themselves in an urban landscape steeped in pagan and post-Soviet history.

    • Trusted Partner
      Children's & YA
      September 2021

      Wen immer wir lieben

      New Adult-Roman mit Bad-Boy-Challenge und Liebe auf den zweiten Blick

      by Michelle Schrenk

      Whomever We Love Three sisters, three challenges, three winners of hearts?Although they are sisters, Lina, Kaya and Nika couldn‘t be more different. While Lina enjoys her life to the fullest, Kaya is a full-time perfect student. Nika, on the other hand, always falls for heartbreakers – but together the three of them fight against all odds. In life and in love!Tattoos, leather jacket and unbelievably charming: a bad boy from the books. In a bar, Lina and her two best friends rate guys on Tinder on a scale from 1 to heartbreaker. The reason is Lina‘s little sister Nika, who has once again fallen into the bad boy trap. When the very guy on Lina‘s display just walks through the door – clearly identified by them as a womanizer – her friends challenge her: Lina is to prove to them that she can resist him, effortlessly. That‘s how the Bad Boy Challenge begins... the stakes: nothing less than Lina‘s heart. • Second encounters can defeat first impressions, the heart always wins ...• Original and modern twist on New Adult fiction – touching and an extra dose of humor• Girl power: 3 self-confident sisters as protagonists and role models• Stories about first steps towards independence: Career choices, fear of the future, parental pressure, exploring roots to find your place

    • Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
      January 2017

      That One Night

      Novel

      by Arunika Senarath

      Love at first sight: Amina and Sten run into each other in Dresden. After a romantic dinner in a back room of the Semper Opera House, they see each other more often. But something stands between them. Not only Amina's past, but also Sten's racism. Against the backdrop of Dresden's Elbe Baroque, the pretty Amina falls in love with Sten with the ice-blue eyes. But do they really fit together? Because he belongs to a racist movement, and she hates prejudices. She also carries a heavy package of a bad party night during her school days, in which he seems to be somehow involved.In her debut novel, the young author Arunika Senarath creates a contemporary staff of young people who study, love, argue, celebrate between Neustadt and the Frauenkirche. And who is not unaffected by the political jolt to the right. With a sample translation into English of the first chapters.

    • Children's & YA

      GOING MY WAY?

      by SALLY

      An ordinary day, a packed commuter train and an usual friendship blooms between a securities trader heading for his first day at a new job and an exhausted research student heading to his part-time job. Fate, it turns out, strikes in strange ways on ordinary days.

    • Children's & YA
      May 2020

      Déjame soñar contigo

      by Arianna Saurith Fernández

      Keaton Austin Wood's addiction to alcohol has taken everything away from him: family, friends, aspirations, and even a part of his life. He is an uninhibited young man who falls deeper every day into an endless pit from which there is no apparent way out, until he meets Luna de Africa Ross, an innate artist with a beautiful smile, and her godmother at the Lovely Parks help center. Together they will learn the true meaning of love, friendship and second chances when they are wrapped in a touching story in which dreams do come true.

    • Romance & relationships stories (Children's/YA)
      March 2021

      What Love Looks Like

      by Jarlath Gregory

      Ben Brennan, is 17, gay, and lives in a working-class suburb of Dublin with his mum, his Jamaican stepdad, and his younger halfsister, Jamie. Can Ben navigate the pitfalls of modern gay dating, with all its highly sexualised expectations, and be true to himself?

    • Children's & YA
      December 2019

      Im Land der vergessenen Erinnerungen

      by Gina Chiabudini

      Am Morgen ihres achtzehnten Geburtstages findet Gwendolyn Darling eine kleine Kette mit einem merkwürdigen Anhänger. Sie ahnt nicht, dass diese ein magischer Schlüssel zu einer anderen Welt ist, in die sie unerwartet gerät. Plötzlich findet sie sich in den Armen von Peter Pan wieder. Er behauptet, dass Gwendolyn schon einmal bei ihm war und doch kann sie sich nicht daran erinnern. Wer ist dieser mysteriöse Junge, der fliegen kann und sie angeblich beschützen will wirklich? Und warum ist der grausame Captain James Hook auf der Suche nach ihr? Gwendolyn bleibt nur sehr wenig Zeit, die Wahrheit herauszufinden, bevor es für immer zu spät ist, um jemals wieder nach Hause zurückzukehren.

    • Children's & YA

      A Dragonbird in the Fern

      by Laura Rueckert

      When Scilla, the eldest princess of Azzaria is murdered by an assassin, her vengeful spirit is doomed to remain with the living, tormenting her loved ones until her killer is brought to justice. While the entire kingdom mourns, Scilla’s betrothed arrives and requests her seventeen-year-old sister Jiara take her place as his bride to confirm the alliance between their countries.Marrying the young king intended for her sister and traveling to his distant home is distressing enough, but with years of scholarly struggles with her own language, Jiara abandoned any hope of learning other languages long ago. She's terrified of life in a foreign land where she'll be unable to communicate. Then Jiara discovers evidence that her sister's assassin comes from the king's own country. If she marries the king, Jiara can hunt the murderer and release her family from Scilla's ghost, whose thirst for blood mounts every day. To save her family, Jiara must find her sister’s killer . . . before he murders her too

    • Romance & relationships stories (Children's/YA)
      September 2020

      Lost Place - Jellas Geheimnis

      by Simone Holthaus

      Hals über Kopf muss Jella ihr altes Leben zurücklassen und in das Heimatdorf ihrer Mutter ziehen, zu lauter Fremden, die ihre Eltern nie auch nur mit einem Wort erwähnt haben. Bald entdeckt Jella, dass nicht alles so ist, wie es scheint, und Geheimnisse an die Oberfläche kommen, wenn man beginnt, nach ihnen zu suchen ...Was hat der geheimnisvolle Außenseiter Josh, der sich in verlassenen Kasernen herumtreibt und Jella manchmal ganz nah kommt, dann aber wieder kühl und distanziert ist, mit alledem zu tun? Warum will Jellas Vater nicht, dass sie etwas über die Vergangenheit erfährt? Und welche Rolle spielt der mysteriöse Beobachter, der immer wieder in Jellas Nähe auftaucht? Ist er der Schlüssel zu allem? In Jella kommt ein schrecklicher Verdacht auf ... Gemeinsam mit Josh macht Jella sich auf die Suche nach etwas, das nicht nur in der Vergangenheit liegt, sondern auch ihre Zukunft bestimmen könnte.

    • Children's & YA

      Colossus

      by Riccardo Francaviglia

      The theme of diversity and acceptance in the metaphor of love between a mother and her cumbersome child.When he was born he was small like everyone else. Then he grew up and became a colossus. A colossus is a problem and nobody wants to have any problems. An album to tell how to be too big, or just different, can be a problem, and nobodywants problems. But for mothers, no child is a problem and perhaps there is a placewhere they aren’t giants. An album about the acceptance and love of mothers, and countries that know how to open their doors.

    • Children's & YA

      Stories from Shahnameh

      The Book of Kings

      by Rewritten: Atoosa Salehi

      Among the Iranian literary works, the Shahnameh is a masterpiece especially due to its epical nature. The rich Persian prose and language of Shahnameh, written by the great Persian poet, Ferdousi, is still a reliable literary source for researchers and professors of the Persian Literature. This epic enjoys several stories within itself, which can be hard for a young adult to read. The author of this series has adapted Shahnameh with having the keen young adults in mind as the major audience of these six books. The author has avoided repetition of the fairy tales in order to create them through a new point of view.

    • Romance & relationships stories (Children's/YA)
      2018

      You Think the World Falls Apart, but it’s Just You, Who’s Breaking

      by Armin Kaster

      Leo’s parents have just split up and Leo is supposed to live alternately with his father and his mother. However, as his parents focus on their ego trips and are out and about, they don’t notice that Leo has been commuting alone between their empty apartments for quite a while. He hangs around with his friends Sami and Luk, they smoke weed and get drunk. Leo hardly sleeps. In shorter and shorter intervals he sees videos on his cellphone which he has never filmed that way. Is somebody hacking his phone? Is somebody stalking him? Leo’s life becomes more and more oppressive, he loses himself between delusion and reality to find himself again in the end.

    • Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
      2020

      The Sky took its Birds and Went Away

      by Armin Kaster

      The 16-year-old twins Karl and Jim have grown up with Frida, almost like siblings. They spend the holidays with their parents by the sea in Portugal. But nothing is the same as it always was: the innocent friendship of the children is changing, a new form for their relationship has yet to be found. This makes them insecure, frightened and carries the risk of losing the intimate relationship between them altogether. Sexuality has become important, but who wants/does what with whom? On the beach the three meet Lilli, a student, Karl falls in love with. Frida plays with Jim and Karl and is constantly on the edge between sisterly love and sexual coquetry. Secrets, confusion and jealousy keep the teenagers busy even long after they've returned home to Düsseldorf. But finally the transformation succeeds and in the end Karl, Jim and Frida find each other in a new stability: reliable yet independent.

    • Children's & YA
      April 2022

      Sogni in Briciole

      by Francesco Spada

      Jake is a small-town boy from the U.S. He has a beautiful voice and a dream: to enroll at the Juilliard School in New York, a temple of music from which complete performers emerge. Although his family is skeptical, Jake is supported by his childhood friends, among whom there is Stella, the girl he has always loved. But something changes from the day Jake passes the auditions for the "To be a Star!" talent show. His relationship with Stella evolves, and Jake's group is introduced to the mysterious and disturbing Daniel, another contestant on the show. Who really is Daniel Adler? A demon with an angel's voice or a fragile and somewhat bizarre artist? Accompanied by the cathartic power of music, along with lyrics studded with emotional songs, Jake will discover the price of growing up through a toxic and destructive friendship, the trials a love must go through to become mature, and the defeat that leads to ultimate victory.

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