Two young men, friends since early child-hood, speed away on their trip into life. Until the accident. Uli believes fiercely that Hannes will awake from his coma, soon. He visits him daily, even though his community service at the "Bird's Nest", a mental health clinic, is ...

Tim is in borstal - a twenty month sentence. Instead of the thrills of parties, mates and girls, his life consists of suspicion, loneliness, and monotony. On top of it all, he faces the daily struggle for acceptance by his fellow prisoners and continuous fear of violence and brutal assault. ...

If Muriel ever had anything like a real friend, then it was Precious. But no one has seen Precious since their class trip up to the Baltic coast. She might even be dead - and Muriel has a horrifying theory about why and, above all, about who might be behind it. In order to finally find answers and ...

Standing on the sidelines isn't an option

One day in his apartment block, seventeen-year-old Robin witnesses the murder of a far-right German Alternative Party member, whose leader, Fred, is one of Robin's childhood friends. The party followers place the blame on repeat ...

A profoundly stirring and unnerving novel

18-year-old Jakob intervenes when a girl wearing a traditional hijab headscarf is molested by right-wing hooligans-and promptly falls in love with the anonymous girl's blue eyes. He discovers that Samira is a member of a Salafist movement ...

Can love really conquer all?

As Joyce gets to know Elias, a young refugee from Ethiopia, the unexpected happens: fascinated by his ethereal beauty and enigmatic nature, she falls head over heels in love with him. But despite all the wonderful moments they share, the ...

Cap is 17, good-looking, and thinks the world owes him. He wants it all - parties, girls, fun: the sort of cool lifestyle other boys have. It's just too bad that he grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in Hamburg-Veddel, a multi-cultural island on the River Elbe where his African ...

What makes a person who they are? What would have become of them if they'd had a different start in life?

Sunny, the school's head boy, is not only fantastically handsome but also incredibly popular. Everyone likes Sunny, so Laura simply can't believe it when her ...

The two girls are like chalk and cheese. You'd expect Yamina's shy and retiring nature to clash with Zip's maladjusted eccentricity - yet they become best friends more or less overnight. Yamina is over the moon: at long last there's something going on in her boring life.

Greenland in 2020: the eternal ice has loosened its grip and the island is beginning to live up to its name. Budding young sculptor Jonathan Querido has left Germany to return to the land of his birth, where he is forced to confront the dark secret hidden in his past. The things that happened ...

The caretaker of the building where Christoph's girlfriend Isabel lives has been murdered. One thing is immediately clear: Isabel and her mother must go into hiding. They are illegal immigrants, and if the police find out they will be deported. It's just as well Christoph knows of a ...

»In our world, the world of girls and boys from children's homes, there was no room for dreams, there was no time for dreaming. We lived like battery-powered dolls. As long as there was life left in the battery, we kept going, but when the battery was flat, we were dead too.«

The ...