1922: Hulda Gold ist gewitzt und unerschrocken und im Viertel äußerst beliebt. Durch ihre Hausbesuche begegnet die Hebamme den unterschiedlichsten Menschen, wobei ihr das Schicksal der Frauen besonders am Herzen liegt. Der Große Krieg hat tiefe Wunden hinterlassen, und die junge Republik ist zwar von Aufbruchsstimmung, aber auch von bitterer Armut geprägt. Hulda neigt durch ihre engagierte Art...

Lily Karsten ist Tochter einer der erfolgreichsten Reederfamilien Hamburgs. Sie lebt in einer Villa an der Bellevue und träumt von der Schriftstellerei. Und sie glaubt, dass sie ihren Verlobten Henry liebt.

So kennen wir das Berlin Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bisher nicht. Der große Auftakt der historischen Kriminalserie um Ermittler Gabriel Landow, Ermittler wider Willen im turbulenten Berlin des Deutschen Kaiserreichs, verbindet Spannung, Zeitkolorit, Atmosphäre.

Jonas Heidbrink, ein Erfolgsmensch. Schon vor dem dreißigsten hat er sein Start-up versilbert; arbeiten muss er sein Leben lang nicht mehr. Aber es geht Heidbrink nicht gut, überhaupt nicht. Und so fährt er eines kalten Januartages los Richtung Osten, in die mecklenburgische Einöde, wo inmitten von Sümpfen ein schlossartiger Bau emporragt: das Sanatorium.

Year 2023 marked 120 years of the Lazarus Jewish Hospital in Lviv (Lwów/Lemberg). This richly illustrated book is a tribute to its place in the once-vibrant Jewish community of the city and in the society at large during the period 1903-1939. Visionaries from Lviv presents the hospital’s history and its fascinating architecture, its doctors, and its founder, a prominent local Jewish...

This history-drenched city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century, she has come to see it as a touchstone for her interests and preoccupations: cities, seas, empires. It has even come to reflect her own life in its loves, disillusionments, and memories. Her meditation on Trieste is...

In The Door, in Iza’s Ballad, and in Abigail, Magda Szabó describes the complex relationships between women of different ages and backgrounds with an astute and unsparing eye. Eszter, the narrator and protagonist of The Fawn, may well be Szabó’s most fascinating creation.

‘Trajectories of Returns’ is a collection that includes poems written from the early eighties to the present day. In addition to a large number of new poems, it also features selected texts from the author's previous books, the print runs of which have already sold out: the collection ‘Returns’, which went through two editions in Kyiv in 2002 and 2005, and the collection ‘Trajectories’, printed...

Even though the geography of where the poems have been written tends to be quite vast, ranging from New York to Moscow, Kiev, Paris, London and Prague, the author appears to be spiritually connected to a certain metropolis on the South-Western tip of Lake Michigan, which became his American home in the early 1980's, and where he always appears to find his way back, at least for the time being.

Well into his third decade as a poet Gari Light uses his mature voice in Confluences to translate multicultural images and locales… These English poems by Gari have the same energy and elegance as his Russian poems, and they are enriched by his multilayered, polyphonic use of the English language to express thoughts and feelings with sophistication and humor… These poems are like seascapes, or...

The uniqueness of the method is that memorization of words and expressions occurs due to their repetition, without memorization and the need to use a dictionary. This book will help you overcome an important barrier: you will gain vocabulary and get used to the logic of the language, saving a lot of time and effort.