Summer, sun, vacation time – empty batteries can now be recharged. At the same time, you can finally find the time to read one or two books that have been lying unread on the bedside table. Be it in a deck chair on the beach, in a comfortable armchair on the balcony or lying on a blanket in the grass – good books for your vacation definitely contribute to relaxation. We present seven current new releases from various genres, wish you lots of fun reading and a wonderful summer.
Two sensible adults who have seen each other naked
Nina, soon to be 50, divorced, mother of two, describes her current state as “slight aggression, restlessness, emerging cynicism and breast tenderness”. Age, her ex-husband, role models and other things cause Nina’s mood to drop. But then she falls in love with David, who is twenty years her junior, and causes her fragile life constellation to totter. Because everyone has an opinion on the matter, including herself… And Nina knows that if she wants to be happy, she has to turn her life upside down. Anika Decker’s debut novel is funny, biting and yet full of warmth and emotion – a somewhat different love story.
Provençal light
The eleventh volume in Sophie Bonnet’s highly suspenseful “Pierre Durand” series invites you on a vacation in the south of France. In “Provençal Light”, the lovable investigator comes into contact with the world of fashion: it is the end of June and Sainte-Valérie is the setting for designer Cyril Fontanel’s fashion show. Pierre Durand – in charge of security on site – has trouble calming down the impulsive fashion designer and the villagers, who are upset by the hustle and bustle. When Fontanel receives anonymous death threats, Pierre is alarmed: Is someone trying to damage the designer’s career? Or is Fontanel hiding information from his past? The search for the culprit leads Pierre to Tarascon – and to a dead woman who seems to be connected to everything.
Thomas Mann. A life
Numerous biographies have already been dedicated to the writer, who would have turned 150 on June 6. Now, to mark this anniversary, Tilmann Lahme, who has been working on the Mann family for years, has published another biography of the Nobel Prize winner
and genius, grand bourgeois and family man. In doing so, he shows Mann as never before – thanks to new insights and unpublished sources, with unknown
Diary passages and letters to his best childhood friend, with his memories and with Susan Sontag’s never printed essay “Bei Thomas Mann”.
Red Star over Graz
On the night of May 8-9, 1945, units of the 57th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front liberated Graz. The city on the Mur was handed over to the Red Army without resistance and remained under Soviet occupation until the zone exchange on July 23/24, 1945. The British then took over the administration of the whole of Styria (initially with the exception of Ausseerland). However, the short period of Soviet occupation left deep marks on the population. Barbara Stelzl-Marx, Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Graz and Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War, gives a well-founded, detailed and striking description in Red Star over Graz the social and emotional state of emergency in which the people in the former “city of popular uprising” found themselves in the first eleven weeks after the war – 75 days under the Red Star.
Secret Hideaways
Why not start planning your next vacation now? In “Secret Hideaways”, Christine Gräfin von Pahlen presents the 30 most enchanting and exclusive vacation homes around the Mediterranean. Each chapter takes you to a new paradise, from the idyllic coasts of Italy to the sun-drenched islands of Greece and the hidden oases of Spain and France. The stories behind these hideaways, which are also available to rent, are particularly impressive. Exclusive insider tips for each region on shopping, markets and restaurants round off the home stories. Portraits of the homeowners add a personal touch and show the creative minds behind the secret hideaways.
Free your mind
Did you know that meditation is as important for our brain as muscle training is for our body? And that we can learn to meditate just like swimming or cycling? Because not only our muscles, but also the neuronal systems in our brain need to be trained so that we can find peace and relaxation. Wolfgang Dieter Nagl, a doctor of general medicine, psychosomatics and medical hypnosis, has been studying the influence of thoughts and feelings on our lives for years. In “Free your mind” he shows clearly and with practical tips how we can change destructive thought patterns, train our brain and take new paths.
At the border
For years, former federal police officer Jan Solwyn worked at the German border. In “At the Border”, he writes about this service with unsparing clarity about night-time border controls, hopeless refugees, but also the tension between the “right to asylum” and the dramatic realities on the ground, where humanitarian aid and the legal mandate are often irreconcilably opposed.
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