Novum: 157 books

Based on true events, The Tunisian Tuck-Up is a story of perseverance and keeping faith that everything will work out. Mainbrace is an experienced yachtsman and ex-military. His home is the ocean. He is on one of these usual trips, when a gale force wind starts to pick up speed and Mainbrace has to decide...

Who or what is she? Trying to be the boy her family desires, Claire Wilson struggles with her gender dysphoria until one day her mother explains that she was born a hermaphrodite, having two genders. Claire was born with a congenital defect but was medically mutilated as a baby at the behest of her father...

Seit vielen Jahren pflegt Herbert M. Frank seine Tradition der "Jahresend-Reimerei", die in diesem Buch zusammengefasst ist. Dabei beschäftigt er sich mit viel Schwung und Humor mit aktuellen Themen, zum Beispiel mit der Einführung des Euro oder der Finanzkrise. Gerne verpackt er auch tiefschürfende...

In der Schule ist Clarissa eine Außenseiterin. Um dem langweiligen Alltag zu entkommen, flieht sie oft in die Welt ihrer Träume. So erlebt sie einen eigentlich normalen Tag auf ihre ganz besondere Weise: Im Geschichtsunterricht rettet sie zusammen mit einer Fee den Feenbaum, in der Schulpause hilft...

Auf einer grünen Wiese, dort wo eine große alte Eiche steht, wohnt Augenauf, ein ganz besonderer Zwerg. Es ist seine Aufgabe, die Kinder daran zu erinnern, dass jeder einen unsichtbaren Begleiter an seiner Seite hat. Und zwar ganz für sich allein. Nachdem Augenauf die kleine Mona besucht hat, glaubt...

Dr. Gabriella Nyéki works in an Austrian sanatorium. There she meets the 82 year old Lisa who is very afraid of Alzheimer's disease. They become friends, start going to dance schools together and help people living in the Alzheimer's home by volunteering there. An inner voice tells her that she has...

Claire is a very unique art model. She possesses the ability to strike and hold severe and arousing poses which stagger the minds of the viewer and which push her to the boundaries of physical pain. Within these self-imposed torments Claire also finds solace and arousal, even as she delights in displaying...

Meet Jayne - A typical teenager, except for one minor thing: Jayne is a witch. Born into a family of witches, Jayne protects a terrible secret. Unable to share it with anyone outside her family, Jayne knows only loneliness. Meet William. He has a loneliness all his own. Hidden by money and power,...

Born to Dorothy and Peter in the post-war years, John is a working-class lad from Wallasey on Merseyside. He grows up with a fanatical interest in science, completes a degree and then a doctorate. After rejecting the opportunity of an academic life, he somehow manages to land a good job with Telecom...

This assorted collection of sixteen thought-provoking short stories has a prevalent futuristic element, beginning with A Male Problem where a mysterious virus has left 99 % of the male population infertile. The exploration of how a variety of people cope with this is both shocking and amusing. As...

Martin Wise dreams of travel in the 4th Dimension. His 'lucky' stone helps him fulfil that dream. But his stone is not the only one. Others exist. Some stones fulfil their owner's dreams while others create their nightmares; time travel has consequences. For those in power, manipulating time represents...

A philosophical "toolkit" on dealing with the complex world we live in. It includes helpful tips and strategies on how to put negative experiences into context rather than jumping off the nearest bridge. The author Luka Diamond has overcome personal obstacles by analysing the relationship...

Find new opportunities, strength, and motivation. Your body can regenerate completely naturally. Your health is the foundation and basis for a happy self. Strengthen your health and stimulate your powers of self-healing! You carry the key to your health within you. Depending on how you align yourself,...

Love Without Theatrics is the story of one woman's mission to find her place in the world and someone to share it with. Follow Lisa as she journeys through life, with people coming and going as she travels around the world in search of happiness. Some of them stay in her life and some are just there...