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Einfach nur Geschichten ???

Einfach nur Geschichten ???

Translated title: Just Stories ???

Author: Bissdorf, Daniel

Genre: Horror

Year: 2025 | Pages: 356 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89621

A man whose life is thrown into disarray by a book realizes that the boundaries between reality and fiction are inexorably blurring. Humanity, at the end of its days, faces a second chance-or its ultimate demise. A flower shop becomes the setting for an encounter that culminates in an unexpected ending. ''Just Stories'' takes you on a dark odyssey through fear, disgust, despair, and a faint glimmer of hope. The stories in this book, which dance on the edge between madness and reality, transport you to a murky world full of terror and unimaginable fantasies. Every page holds a new horror, every line brings you closer to the abyss. What is real, and what springs from madness? Do you dare to fathom the truth, or will the book swallow you whole? This work is not for the faint of heart
Secrets and Seduction

Secrets and Seduction

Translated title: Preston Academy #1 - Secrets and Seduction

Series: Book 1

Author: Mov, Bianca

Genre: Romance / Fantasy

Year: 2024 | Pages: 350 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 88296

Dark academia meets forbidden love

Welcome to Preston Academy - watch your back, the walls have ears. You have been warned.

Avery, a criminal, scarred and haunted by her past, finds herself at the Preston Academy - a boarding school for troubled juveniles.

Alexander, a professor and heir to his parent's legacy, is struck by Avery's dark inner and bright outer beauty - and he hates her for it.

The start of a forbidden romance. A tale full of mysteries and dangers. A love that ignites unknown passion and destroys the soul - especially when Avery discovers Alexander's morbid secret. Will she give in to the seduction of hell itself, or can she save herself from her sealed fate?
Warum willst du jetzt schon gehen?

Warum willst du jetzt schon gehen?

Translated title: Why Do You Want to Leave Now?

Author: Santos de Lima, Gabriella

Genre: Romance

Year: 2024 | Pages: 320 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 88290

Everything that glows burns out eventually.

Helena loves romance novels and excels at writing. Her dream comes true when she enrolls at the prestigious Schloss Sankt Zander artist's boarding school.

There, she meets Arthur, a brooding indie singer with a troubled soul, and her fantasy seems to come to life: beach walks, secret meetings at the castle - everything is enchanting. But why is Arthur sometimes so distant and unresponsive? Romance novels always end happily, don't they?
Riss im Sein

Riss im Sein

Translated title: Rupture in Being

Author: Hegerl, Ulrich

Genre: Social Novel

Year: 2025 | Pages: 495 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89633

More and more people are becoming believers and following a new religious group; natural constants are changing in inexplicable ways. Suddenly, the research of CERN takes center stage. It's as if a crack has run through the foundations of the world. Deeply disturbing, incomprehensible things are penetrating and disrupting people's inner and outer lives. More and more people are having mystical experiences and are feeling the steel mesh of the surveillance state; the orbits of the Earth, the Moon, and satellites are changing; a spacecraft carrying the two astronauts Roy (NASA) and Andrej (Roscosmos) gets lost and drifts into the darkness of space. Do the particle collision experiments at CERN, the spearhead of scientific research, have anything to do with these changes? Is the scientifically influenced worldview crumbling?
Ruin and Redemption

Ruin and Redemption

Translated title: Preston Academy #2 - Ruin and Redemption

Series: Book 2

Author: Mov, Bianca

Genre: Romance / Fantasy

Year: 2024 | Pages: 320 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 88297

Dark academia meets forbidden love.

Welcome back to Preston Academy. Feeding on your classmates is strictly prohibited and being cursed isn't a reason to stay away from class.

The school year continues with new secrets, a love that lasted for generations and a curse that can't be broken
Ihr werdet sie nicht finden

Ihr werdet sie nicht finden

Translated title: You Will Not Find Them

Author: Winkelmann, Andreas

Genre: Thriller / Crime

Year: 2025 | Pages: 384 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89618

Jonas used to be a police officer. Until he brought a suspect to justice for his daughter's disappearance. Franka is a private detective with a talent for digital traces and is searching for a missing person. Her investigation uncovers connections to an old case - that of Jonas' daughter, who was never found. Franka's first suspect: Jonas. But soon the two are investigating together. Because the missing person seems to know something about what really happened back then
Infinity Falling - Bring Me Home

Infinity Falling - Bring Me Home

Series: Book 3

Author: Sprinz, Sarah

Genre: Romance

Year: 2024 | Pages: 503 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 88300

Megan Sutton is thrilled to land a leading role in Infinity Falling and escape Hollywood's harsh rumors in Vancouver. But a press scandal threatens her dream, and Megan sees only one solution: a fake relationship with the charming guy she kissed on impulse last night.

Cole Buchanan has sworn off love, focusing solely on medicine. After a serious medical error leaves him unsettled, he seeks solace in a bar and finds it with a woman he kisses spontaneously. To his surprise, she's a famous actress who needs him to pretend to be her boyfriend. The arrangement seems simple - until feelings start to complicate things and the risk of his mistake being exposed looms
Berchtesgaden

Berchtesgaden

Author: Otto, Carolin

Genre: Social Novel

Year: 2025 | Pages: 544 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89631

A country between repression and awakening - a visually stunning social panorama of a symbolically rich time. Berchtesgaden, May 1945. The Führer's favorite city capitulates, and the Americans take over the government. Despite her limited English, 19-year-old Sophie takes a position with the Military Government, where she is confronted for the first time with the whole truth about German crimes.

There, she meets people who change her perspective on her own family. There is her boss, the Jewish émigré Frank, who returns to his homeland with the GIs, where suddenly everyone claims to have 'knew nothing.' And his girlfriend, the glamorous war reporter Meg, who accompanies the Allied triumph with her camera.

Rudolf Kriss, once sentenced to death, is now mayor. And the black GI Sam, with whom Sophie falls in love. In the shadow of the Obersalzberg, their paths cross in a fateful way...

The thrilling novel debut of the successful screenwriter Carolin Otto on the 80th anniversary of the end of the war
The Bodyguard

The Bodyguard

Author: Center, Katherine

Genre: Romance

Year: 2025 | Pages: 384 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89592

Translated
She's got his back, he steals her heart

Hannah Brooks looks rather inconspicuous and not like someone who could knock you out easily, but her job is to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his stalker.

Everyone knows Jack Stapleton. But a few years ago, he withdrew from the public eye and disappeared from the scene. When Jack's mother becomes ill, he returns to the family ranch in Texas to help her. There's just one catch: He doesn't want his family to find out about his stalker. Or about the bodyguard thing. And so Hannah - against her will - pretends to be Jack's girlfriend.

But the more time she spends with Jack, the more real the whole thing seems to her. And that's exactly what breaks her heart. Because protecting Jack is easy for Hannah. But protecting her own, long-neglected heart? That's the hardest thing she's ever done
The Love Dare

The Love Dare

Author: Bello, Abiola

Genre: Romance

Year: 2025 | Pages: 315 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89593

Translated
It Girl Eva Òjo is used to boys falling in love with her one after the other without her having to lift a finger. When, at the urging of her friend, she dances with a strange boy at the Notting Hill Carnival, she meets someone for the first time who isn't interested in her: Saint Rowe-Falade.

When her father's car is damaged at a party, Eva's friends pressure her into a bet: If she manages to get Saint to ask her out on a date, they will help Eva pay the bill for the car repairs. But just as Saint develops feelings for Eva and Eva feels attracted to Saint, Saint finds out about the bet

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