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Der kojote

Der kojote

Translated title: Jack Reacher #26 - Better off Dead

Series: Book 26

Author: Child, Lee

Genre: Thriller / Crime

Year: 2024 | Pages: 363 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 88286

Translated
Reacher never backs down from a problem. And he's about to find a big one, on a deserted Arizona road, where a Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. Under the merciless desert sun, nothing is as it seems. Minutes later Reacher is heading into the nearby border town, a backwater that has seen better days. Next to him is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent, who is trying to find her twin brother. He might have got mixed up with some dangerous people. And Reacher might just need to pay them a visit. Their leader has burrowed his influence deep into the town.

Just to get in and meet the mysterious Dendoncker, Reacher is going to have to achieve the impossible. To get answers will be even harder. There are people in this hostile, empty place who would rather die than reveal their secrets. But then, if Reacher is coming after you, you might be better off dead
Infinity Falling - Mess Me Up

Infinity Falling - Mess Me Up

Series: Book 1

Author: Sprinz, Sarah

Genre: Romance

Year: 2024 | Pages: 542 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 88298

Actress Aven Amenta feels most alive when she's stepping into other people's lives. But after a stalker invades her privacy, the 20-year-old is eager to hide away. The move to Vancouver for the blockbuster Infinity Falling seems like the perfect escape. However, she's surprised when Hayes Chamberlain, a former boy band star with a media frenzy, is cast in the male lead role. While Aven hoped to avoid the spotlight, she finds it increasingly hard to stay away from Hayes. But as their connection deepens, Hayes realizes that being with Aven could put her in danger
Credence - Sie ist tabu, doch Liebe kennt keine Regeln

Credence - Sie ist tabu, doch Liebe kennt keine Regeln

Translated title: Credence - She Is Taboo, but Love Knows No Rules

Author: Douglas, Penelope

Genre: Romance

Year: 2025 | Pages: 602 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89589

Translated
It's easy to break rules when no one's watching...

Tiernan is used to a life of luxury. But after the death of her parents, she finds herself in the remote Colorado wilderness in the care of Jake, Her father's stepbrother, who lives in the mountains with his two sons. Tiernan must assert herself in this harsh environment while wrestling with loss, loneliness, and her place in the world. But then winter comes, and Tiernan realizes what family truly means and that the only rules that matter are the ones she dares to break
Das Geheimnis des roten Hauses

Das Geheimnis des roten Hauses

Translated title: The Secret of the Red House

Author: Milne, A. A.

Genre: Thriller / Crime

Year: 2025 | Pages: 256 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89617

Translated
When Mark Ablett, writer and patron of the arts, invites people to the ''red house,''his picturesque country residence, they don't take long to ask. This time, the English summer retreat is interrupted by a surprise guest: Mark's good-for-nothing brother Robert, who has spent the last fifteen years in Australia. None of those present knew of his existence, and the siblings can't possibly be very close. And the idyll is finally over when Robert, the black sheep of the family, is murdered and Mark subsequently disappears without a trace. With the police in the dark, two of his friends, Antony Gillingham and Bill Beverley, decide to solve the case-in their own way
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
Demon Under Your Skin

Demon Under Your Skin

Series: Part 1

Author: Frank, Anna E.

Genre: Romance

Year: 2025 | Pages: 488 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89594

Living smoke. Extraordinary powers. Fights to the death. Five years have passed since meteorites plunged Sarah's world into chaos. Since then, she's tried to survive, ignoring the gossip on the street. When her brother disappears and she's captured while searching for him, the rumors catch up with her: Through a tattoo, one of the smoke demons from the meteorites is embedded in her. To regain her freedom, she must compete in cage fights with the monster beneath her skin-and win 100 of them. Her only support in this maelstrom of violence and smoke is Charlie, her fellow prisoner with the night sky eyes. Her little finger oaths give her hope for escape and a better future. But then the ruler of the fighting offers her a deal, and Sarah must decide: How far is she willing to go to survive and find her brother again? Part 1 of the dystopian romantic fantasy trilogy between living smoke, tender feelings, and the search for one's own strength
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
White Riot

White Riot

Author: Thomas, Joe

Genre: Thriller / Crime

Year: 2025 | Pages: 512 | Origin: GER | BA Seq Num: 89610

Translated
At the end of the 1970s, Great Britain was facing a breaking point. Margaret Thatcher's neoliberal policies were leading to social unrest, while at the same time the National Front was on the rise. Resistance was forming when anti-fascist groups, with the participation of well-known punk bands such as The Clash and X-Ray Spex, organized the Rock Against Racism festival in Victoria Park. In this heated atmosphere, Detective Constable Patrick Noble was tasked with solving the racially motivated murder of a Bengali man. But certain forces were trying by all means to prevent the truth from coming to light
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
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

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