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THOMAS
THIEMEYER
DAVID UND JUNA
8 Phantasy / Young Adult
True life stories 9
Sandra Melli
The Goddess’s Star
512 pages, 3-426-50416-2
December 2011
DAVID UND JUNA
Roman
Thomas Thiemeyer
The Forbidden Eden.
David and Juna
464 pages, 3-426-28360-3
August 2011
Lynn Raven
Curse of the Witch
368 pages, 3-426-50560-6
March 2012
Sandra Melli is the pseudonym of a wellknown husband-and-wife author team that has been
writing very successful historical novels for several years. However, the duo got its start writing
short stories for fantasy anthologies for major publishers, and it now returns to that
genre.
Fantasy: A completely new world with its own mythology
More than a millennium ago, a battle raged between the six gods of the world. Before the
battle was ended and the world was cleft into two parts, a powerful artifact called the goddess’s
star was lost. Now, a thousand years later, the agents of the old gods again seek that
powerful item, because owning it can make the difference between victory and defeat.
The young cat girl Laisa is sent by the goddess Irisea to find the artifact and to protect it.
Laisa learns the story of the six gods and the enmity between colors. Also that a certain people
is marked by a certain color (cat people are usually blue, for instance) but there are exceptions
like Laisa, who though a cat girl, is permeated by the color white. But powerful
forces work against Laisa and her friends, and a race against time begins …
Thomas Thiemeyer has earned comparisons to Michael Crichton and the Douglas Preston /
Lincoln Child team. His previous novels include Medusa, Magma, and The Sky Disc of Nebra.
This is his first young adult novel for PAN.
Es gab Warnungen, doch sie wurden
nicht ernst genommen: Vor Generationen
führte ein manipulierter Impfstoff
zu tödlicher Feindschaft zwischen
den Geschlechtern. Nach Jahren der
Vernichtung und Zerstörung hat sich
das Antlitz der Welt verändert: Männer
und Frauen leben streng voneinander
getrennt, Kinder gibt es kaum noch.
Und die gelegentlichen Zusammentreffen
von »Hexen« und »Teufeln«,
wie sie einander nennen, verlaufen
immer gewalttätiger – obwohl sie
einst dem Austausch lebenswichtiger
Güter dienten.
So kommt es, dass die 17-jährige
Kriegerin Juna ausgesandt wird, einen
Gefangenen zu nehmen. Er soll unter
Folter das nächste üble Vorhaben der
Männer verraten. Und sie gerät ausgerechnet
an den jungen Mönch David,
der nichts lieber tut, als sich in verbotene
Bücher der alten Zeit zu fl üchten:
Romeo und Julia von Shakespeare ist
seine Bibel.
Als die beiden sich leibhaftig gegenüberstehen,
erschrecken sie bis ins
Mark. Juna weiß, dass David keine
Chance hat zu überleben – doch im Innersten
erkennt sie zutiefst überrascht,
dass dieser Junge anders ist. In einem
Strudel verbotener Gefühle trifft sie
eine schwerwiegende Entscheidung …
A post-apocalyptic love story, for girls (and boys) 14-and-up
The end is near for mankind. There were warning signs, but no one paid attention: about two
generations ago, a mutated virus led to men and women becoming bitter enemies. While men
dwell in the ruins of the old cities, women have set up a simple life in the country. The ruins
of Cologne, Germany, and its blackened Cathedral are the seat of government, home to a
hateful inquisitor who rules the men and has declared the women to be witches.
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While men control the weapons, vehicles, and fuel depots, they can’t find enough food in the
contaminated cities, so they go get some from time to time in the women’s villages. On these
occasions the nubile women present themselves to the men in what they call a »circle of
shame« and thus ensure that now and then children are born.
On one of these occasions, 17-year-old Juna, daughter of the high priestess, gets a look at the
19-year-old monk David …
Lynn Raven lived in New-England, USA, before she came to Germany for several years. She
writes both urban and high fantasy. The author is well known for her popular all-age-novels
Kiss of the Demon, Heart of the Demon and Blood of the Demon.
High-romantic love story between a young witch and a magician
In the life of the doctor Ella Thorens there is nothing much besides her profession. Since her
mother died, Ella keeps her heart carefully locked up. She does not suspect that her mother
has left her a particular inheritance, until one evening she becomes witness of a terrible
crime: A group of disguised figures beat up a man. When she touches the injured man, she
feels a new power running through her, for Christian Havreux is a magical being and powerful
warlock, who got under the thumb of a demon princess.
Unexpectedly, Ella has got involved in a war between demons from the twilight zone and the
witches and wizards of our world. At the moment when Ella touched Christian after the attack,
he felt the amazing maelstrom of her gift. Together with her he could break the power
of the demon princess.The only problem is that Ella has to help him voluntarily. In order to
achieve this she shall fall in love with him.
Lilly Lindner was born in 1985 in Berlin. She began writing at an early age and previously
wrote a novel, Shattered which was published in 2008.
Dutch rights sold to Meulenhoff Boekerij
A moving, powerful memoir by a child abuse survivor
Lilly Lindner is six years old when a neighbor molests her for the first time
The man ends up moving away, but Lilly’s life has long since been thrown off course. She cuts
herself off from others and behaves differently from other children. She falls victim to eating
disorders. Her parents can’t handle this »difficult« child. At 17 she moves into her own apartment,
but her life is still in shambles. She only weighs 80 pounds and knows she’ll die if she
keeps starving herself.
Finally she begins to work in a high-class brothel in Berlin – since her body is no longer her
own anyway, why not use it to make money? And so the tender young woman, who’s wellspoken,
intelligent and sensitive, becomes a sought-after whore. However, here of all places
is where Lilly slowly finds herself again, and writes an impressive, provocative book with
great narrative power.
Urmila Chaudhary, born 1989, is from the Tharu tribe and thus one of the poorest in Nepal.
She was set free in 2007. In addition to being leader of her anti-slavery movement, she is finally
fulfilling her dream and getting a school education.
Dutch rights sold to Uitgeverij de Boekerij;
Russian rights sold to Family Leisure Club (Bertelsmann, Ukraine)
The moving story of a Nepalese girl
Urmila is six years old when she meets the fate of all girls of the Tharu, a Nepalese tribe: she
is sold as a Kamalari – a slave girl – and has to spend the next 12 years serving well-to-do
families in the capital city Katmandu.
This centuries-old practice continues in the present day, despite the fact that human bondage
is against the law in Nepal. It continues because the parents of the tribe are so poor:
Urmilas parents sold her for just 40 euros per year. She was forced to work 17 hours a day.
She was humiliated, ordered around, got scraps to eat, was never allowed to go to school.
At 18, Urmila regains her freedom and becomes the great hope of all the Kamalari. She resolves
to fight this injustice until the last Kamalari has been freed.
Bettina Landgrafe, born 1976, came to Africa for the first time ten years ago. Originally a
pediatric nurse, she founded the organization »Madamfo Ghana« in 2007. She spends about
six months of every year in Ghana.
Bettina Landgrafe, geboren 1976, kam vor
zehn Jahren zum ersten Mal nach Afrika.
2007 gründete die gelernte und examinierte
Kinderkrankenschwester den Verein
Madamfo Ghana. Zunächst arbeitete sie
die Hälfte des Jahres in Deutschland und
verbrachte die restliche Zeit in Ghana. Seit
2010 widmet sie sich hauptsächlich ihrem
Verein. Nebenher hält sie Vorträge und
hat einen Lehrauftrag an der Technischen
Universität Dortmund. Weitere Infos unter:
www.madamfo-ghana.de
The moving and inspirational story of a modern-day heroine
»Immer wieder werde ich gefragt, warum ich
mein Leben den Menschen in Afrika widme.
Man muss ihnen nur einmal in die Augen
sehen – das ist es, was ich darauf antworte.«
Kinder, die als Sklaven arbeiten müssen, hochschwangere
Frauen, die von medizinischer Versorgung
nur träumen können, und Leprakranke, die von ihren
Familien verstoßen werden. Als die deutsche Kinderkrankenschwester
Bettina Landgrafe zum ersten Mal
nach Ghana kam, ließ sie das Schicksal der Menschen
dort nicht mehr los. Sie beschloss, nach Afrika zurückzukehren
und zu helfen. Und so wurde aus einmal für
immer: Mittlerweile ist Ghana für Bettina Landgrafe zur
zweiten Heimat geworden – und sie selbst zur Weißen
Nana, einer Königin der Ashanti.
It was supposed to be a one-time trip, but when Bettina Landgrafe, a pediatric nurse, traveled
to Ghana ten years ago, she didn’t imagine that this experience would transform her life.
The conditions there were shocking: no pharmaceuticals, no clean drinking water, and hardly
anything to eat. She saw the suffering, the hunger, and the poverty, as well as the fate of
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the children who were sold into slavery by their own parents. All of this reminded her of her
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own painful childhood without parents to take care of her. Her mother was alcoholic and she
never knew her father.
The situation in Ghana was something she couldn’t let go of, and she founded a society that
frees children from slavery, builds schools and hospitals, and gives the poorest of the poor
what they need to survive. It’s the fascinating story of an impressive woman.
© Fernuniversität Hagen
Bettina
Landgrafe
nana
weiße
Knaur
LILLY LINDNER
Splitter
FASer
NACKt
DRoEmER
Lilly Lindner
Stark Naked
400 pages, 3-426-22606-5
September 2011
Urmila Chaudhary and
Nathalie Schwaiger
Slave Girl: Sold and
Forgotten
320 pages, 3-426-65497-0
March 2011
nana
weiße
Bettina
Landgrafe
Mein Leben
für Afrika
Knaur
Bettina Landgrafe bringt Hoff nung nach
Afrika: Die gelernte Kinderkrankenschwes
ter aus Hagen kam vor zehn Jahren zum
ersten Mal nach Ghana, um dort in einer
Buschklinik zu arbeiten. Vom ersten Moment
an fühlte sie sich in dem afrikanische
Land zu Hause, doch sie ahnte nicht, dass
dieser Aufenthalt ihr ganzes Leben verändern
würde. Sie begegnete Kranken, die
keine Aussicht auf medizinische Versorgun
hatten. Kindern, die nicht zur Schule gehe
konnten und nicht genug zu essen hatten.
Und Frauen, die für ihre Familien Wasser
aus dem Fluss holten, das verunreinigt und
voller Krankheitserreger war.
Die Armut und das Leid dieser Menschen
ließen sie nicht mehr los, und so beschloss
sie zu helfen. Zurück in Deutschland,
gründete sie den Verein Madamfo Ghana e. V.
Freunde Ghanas. Mit diesem Verein baut
sie heute Schulen und Brunnen, eröff net
Kindern die Chance auf Bildung und
entwickelt Selbsthilfeprojekte, um den
Ärmsten der Armen ein menschenwürdige
Leben zu ermöglichen.
In diesem Buch erzählt Bettina Landgrafe,
warum ein Blick in die Augen dieser Menschen
für sie wertvoller ist als alles, was sie
in Deutschland je hatte. Und wie es kam,
dass ein Dorf der Ashanti sie zur Weißen
Nana, zu ihrer Königin, machte.
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Bettina Landgrafe and
Beate Rygiert
White Nana: My Life for
Africa
250 pages, 3-426-65509-8
October 2011