In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How Christopher Johnson McCandless...

Judy Moody is in a jealous mood. Jealous of classmate Jessica Finch, that is, who gets her picture on the front page of the newspaper. When Judy sets off in pursuit of her own fame and happiness, watch out! She's so determined, she just might find it - or she might merely become more INFAMOUS than ever.

There are mysterious thieves in Elvestad. The yeast from the baker's Monsen's warehouse, barrels intended for the construction of the bathing pier and juniper bushes from the park are disappearing. Detective Bureau 2 is investigating the case. Tiril, Oliver, and Otto's tracker dog pursue the culprits. To work!

The painter and poet Fritz Schramm welcomes young people with artistic ambitions to his attic apartment. A friendship develops between him and the music student Ernst Winter, which is put to the test when Ernst falls in love with the opera singer Lanna. Remarque's debut novel: a touching portrait of the artist as a young man and the beginning of a great career as a writer.

This time, someone had dug a large, deep hole in the middle of the path. Oliver does not notice her in time and flies over the handlebars of the bicycle. Who broke the path and why? During the investigation of Tiril and Oliver, an old map with strange signs also appears. Will the pair of young detectives manage to solve the mystery?

The twenty-four stories in Amanat, translated into English from Kazakh and Russian, comprise a groundbreaking survey of women's writing in the Central Asian country over its thirty years of independence, paying homage to the rich but largely unrecorded oral storytelling tradition of the region. Contemplating nostalgia, politics, and intergenerational history in a time altered by modernity,...