Libor Štukavec Books

Die Schrecken des Dreißigjährigen Krieges sind über Jahrhunderte im kollektiven Gedächtnis präsent geblieben. Millionen von Menschen kamen ums Leben, manche Gegenden im heutigen Deutschland und seinen Nachbarstaaten wurden regelrecht entvölkert. Ausgehend vom Schicksal eines schwedischen Zeitgenossen schildert Peter Englund, wie der Krieg die Kultur, die Gesellschaft und die Geschichte in Europa geprägt hat und wie er die Menschen formte, die in seinen Mahlstrom hineingezogen wurden. «Englund vollbringt das Kunststück, die Ereignisse dieses ersten europäischen Krieges von den Staubwolken zu befreien, um sie dem Leser fast greifbar nahezubringen.» Deutschlandfunk

Soon to be MOOMINVALLEY, a MAJOR ANIMATED SERIES on SKY ONE starring Taron Egerton and Rosamund Pike! 'This is snow,' Moomintroll whispered to himself. Moomins always sleep through the winter - or they did until the year Moomintroll woke up and found he couldn't go back to sleep again. All the clocks had stopped, there was nothing to eat and no one to talk to at home, so he went out - straight into the first snowdrift he had ever seen. The valley wasn't green any more, it was white and silent and very scary. But then Moomintroll spied some tracks in the snow and decided to follow them. Maybe he wasn't the only one awake in Moominvalley after all?

Here are nine delightfully funny stories about the citizens of Moominvalley.

Moomintroll is cheerful and chubby and lives in the magical Moominvalley with his mother, Moominmamma, his father, Moominpappa and all of their friends. Throughout the winter the Moomins hibernate, but before they go to sleep they fill their tummies full of pineneedles. In spring they wake up, ready for their fun-filled summer adventures. This is the story in which Moomintroll finds a big hat - a magical Hobgoblin hat, no less . . .

Leave Moominvalley? Is it possible? Yes, even the Moomin family need a change of scenery sometimes, so they're off to live in a lighthouse on a tiny island. Here they find space to grow, and to do things they couldn't in their comfortable, cluttered valley home. As they discover their new home, the family also discover surprising, and wonderfully funny, new things about themselves.

A huge wave has crashed through the valley, flooding the Moomins out of their home! With their usual resilience, the Moomins and their friends move into the first house that comes bobbing along. It's strange-looking, like a big cave with curtains hanging on either side. And when the house bumps into dry land and Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden decide to spend the night on shore--then the adventure really begins. Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden get lost, and Moominpappa decides to write a play which they will perform in the house, in the hope that Moomintroll will hear about it and find his way home. "Moominsummer Madness," the fourth in Tove Jansson's classic series of books about Moominvalley, is enchanting and full of exciting adventures and surprises, some of them odd even by Moomin standards!

"When all the people of the forest started making the same secret sign (a star with a tail on it) Moomintroll, who was a thoughtful fellow, recognised it as a warning. So he and Sniff, the small animal, set out for the Observatory on the Lonely Mountains to ask the Professor if a comet was really on its way to destry the Earth. And on their way they met some interesting people, and had some narrow escapes"--Jacket.

Moominpappa's adventures as described by himself!

Moominmamma and young Moomintroll search for the long lost Moominpappa through forest and flood, meeting a little creature (an early Sniff) and the elegantly strange Tulippa along the way.

Smidge is used to Karlson, the funny little man with a propeller on his back, living on the roof. They are firm friends. Now, anytime Karlson pops in, Smidge knows that there's fun and adventure in store. In this collection of stories, they flood the bathroom, celebrate Karlson's birthday, and prompt a newspaper to offer a reward when Karlson is mistaken for a spy!