Wolfgang Neuhaus Books

A world-wide bestseller, major motion picture and upcoming "Director's Cut" TV mini-series exclusively for the U.S!For a thousand years her existence has been denied. She is the legend that will not die–Pope Joan, the ninth-century woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to become the only female ever to sit on the throne of St. Peter. Now in this riveting novel, Donna Woolfolk Cross paints a sweeping portrait of an unforgettable heroine who struggles against restrictions her soul cannot accept.Brilliant and talented, young Joan rebels against medieval social strictures forbidding women to learn. When her brother is brutally killed during a Viking attack, Joan takes up his cloak–and his identity–and enters the monastery of Fulda. As Brother John Anglicus, Joan distinguishes herself as a great scholar and healer. Eventually, she is drawn to Rome, where she becomes enmeshed in a dangerous web of love, passion, and politics. Triumphing over appalling odds, she finally attains the highest office in Christendom–wielding a power greater than any woman before or since. But such power always comes at a price . . .In this international bestseller, Cross brings the Dark Ages to life in all their brutal splendor and shares the dramatic story of a woman whose strength of vision led her to defy the social restrictions of her day.

It is 1982. In the Vatican, priestly vultures gather around the dying Pope, whispering the names of possible successors. In a forgotten monastery on Ireland's gale-swept coast, a dangerous document is hidden, waiting to be claimed. And in a family chapel in Princeton, New Jersey, a nun is murdered at her prayers. Sister Valentine was an outspoken activist, a thorn in the Church's side. When her brother, lawyer Ben Driskill, realizes the Church will never investigate her death, he sets out to find the murderer himself--and uncovers an explosive secret.The Assassini. An age-old brotherhood of killers. Once they were hired by princes of the Church to protect it in dangerous times. But whose orders do they now obey? The Assassini marks the triumphant retum of a master at the peak of his powers--the first novel in more than a decade from the acclaimed author of The Wind Chill Factor.

"With his widely acclaimed debut, 28-year-old William Kowalski emerged as one of the most exciting and distinctive new American writers in years. In his hew book, Kowalski once again proves himself an extraordinarily gifted writer as he follows his hero Billy Mann on his search for the mother who deserted him as a baby. Now 20 years old, Billy travels atop his beloved motorcycle to the last known address he has for her ot a side street named Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is a journey that will teach him many things about family, friends, love and death. Filled with wondrous imagery and lyricism, Somewhere South of Here has a lightness of touch that belies how very much it has to say about life s greatest themes of all. "

Die 39. Ausgabe von DAS SCIENCE FICTION JAHR untersucht die Rolle der künstlichen Intelligenz in der Science Fiction und deren Einfluss auf unseren Alltag, insbesondere auf kreative Berufe. Renommierte Autor:innen wie Judith und Christian Vogt sowie Uwe Neuhold, Lena Richter und Simon Spiegel bieten vielseitige Perspektiven und Analysen, die die Verbindung zwischen technologischem Fortschritt und künstlerischem Schaffen beleuchten. Die Beiträge regen zur Reflexion über die Zukunft von KI und deren Auswirkungen auf die Gesellschaft an.

Román německého spisovatele líčí na pozadí hrůz konce války v Německu příběh 16tiletého chlapce, který je jako řada jeho kamarádů, nasazen na frontu, zažije peklo bojů o Berlín, kde se začíná hroutit jeho víra v Hitlera, která mu byla štěpována školou a organizací Hitlerjungend. Ztrácí zcela víru v lidi a velmi těžko nachází v složité situaci poválečného Německa správnou životní cestu.