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Menschen sterben - wegen der Pandemie. Der nationale Notstand wird ausgerufen. Kanzlerin Heinkel regiert mit harter Hand - aber auch gegen wachsenden Widerstand und immer neue offene und verdeckte Breitseiten der internen und externen politischen Gegner. Weshalb sie sich auch eingestehen muss: Sie hat bis hierher ihre Gegner unterschätzt. Durch die Pandemie gewinnt sie erst einmal Zeit, und damit auch die Herrschaft über den politischen Diskurs.

Con l'avvento delle armi da fuoco, l'organizzazione degli eserciti permanenti, il ricorso a condottieri, mercenari e militari che fanno della guerra una professione, la costruzione degli stati si accompagna a un periodo di bellicosità nuovo. Le forze armate costano sempre di più, condizionano l'economia, la società e la cultura, lasciando tracce di devastazione, ma creando anche notevoli trasformazioni nei ruoli e nel coinvolgimento delle popolazioni.

As an avid watcher of K-dramas, Hana knows all the tropes to avoid when she finally lands a starring role in a buzzy new drama. And she can totally handle her fake co-star boyfriend, heartthrob Bryan Yoon, who might be falling in love with her. After all, she promised the TV producers a contract romance, and that’s all they’re going to get from her.

Ottavia ha quindici anni e all’improvviso si risveglia, spaesata e senza memoria, in luogo misterioso e labirintico: la fortezza di Haresind. Durante la fuga sarà accompagnata da diverse creature, incontrerà altri prigionieri e, come nei migliori videogames, affronterà numerose prove, imbattendosi in esseri mostruosi e personaggi ambigui. Il percorso che la porterà alla salvezza, ricomponendo il puzzle dei suoi ricordi, sarà anche il mezzo per scoprire il significato più profondo della fortezza.

A best-selling and award-winning debut collection from one of South Korea's most prominent young writers. In crisp, unembellished prose, Choi Eunyoung paints intimate portraits of the lives of young women in South Korea, balancing the personal with the political. In the title story, a fraught friendship between an exchange student and her host sister follows them from adolescence to adulthood. In 'A Song from Afar', a young woman grapples with the death of her lover, travelling to Russia to search for information about the deceased.

Dr. Tarak Sarna cannot sleep. Recently from the Mumbai Royal Hospital, he’s taken a job as a telemedicine doctor in Garnet, Texas. No one in India has ever heard of the place! And no wonder - it took Tarak two days and five airports to get to Garnet. Tarak is so tired, yet he cannot sleep at night. His mind and his body still think it’s lunch time in Mumbai.

Ein verträumter Schnäppchenhof auf dem Land mit wildem Obstgarten, Bienenstock und einem eigenen Hofladen - davon träumt Leni schon ihr ganzes Leben, und so wagt sie kurzerhand den Neuanfang. Doch es gestaltet sich schwerer als gedacht, den alten Hof zu renovieren und in der eingeschworenen Dorfgemeinschaft als Imkerin und Hofladenbesitzerin Fuß zu fassen.

I bambini, solo conoscendo il senso delle cose, riescono a spiegarsele. E per capire chiedono, instancabili, sempre. Quando si regge lo stillicidio dei loro perché e ci si sforza di dargli le risposte che meritano, si arriva sempre al cuore delle questioni. La voglia di raccontare la storia già molto conosciuta, ma non ancora da tanti digerita, di Franco Basaglia, del manicomio liberato e del suo superamento, nasce proprio dalle domande dei più piccoli e dal tentativo di provare a ripercorrere fatti già noti con gli occhi e il cuore di una di loro, per darne una lettura inedita.

In the summer of 2002, 19-year-old Kim Hae-on was murdered in what became known as the High School Beauty Murder. There were two suspects: Shin Jeongjun, who had a rock-solid alibi, and Han Manu, to whom no evidence could be pinned. The case went cold.

For rollercoaster designer Theo, living on the edge is just part of the job. He’s used to wandering the world perfecting thrills, his heart immune to commitment. But then a commission in repressive North Korea exposes him to emotions he’s never dared to feel. Tour guide Min has a soul that wants to soar, but she knows it’s safer to build walls around her heart and mind. Skilled in showcasing the mesmerising beauty of capital city Pyongyang without revealing its darker secrets, she introduces Theo to a country he will never forget....

At home, Maggie is the odd one out. Her parents are preoccupied with the new baby they're expecting, and her younger brothers are twins and always in their own world. Maggie thinks a new puppy is the answer, but when she goes to select one on her birthday, she breaks out in hives and rashes. She's severely allergic to anything with fur! Can Maggie outsmart her allergies and find the perfect pet? Megan Wagner Lloyd draws on her own childhood to tell a heartfelt story of family, friendship, and finding a place to belong.

Criminal psychologist Seonkyeong receives an unexpected call one day. Yi Byeongdo, a serial killer whose gruesome murders shook the world, wants to be interviewed. Yi Byeongdo, who has refused to speak to anyone until now, asks specifically for her. Seonkyeong agrees out of curiosity. That same day Hayeong, her husband’s eleven-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, shows up at their door after her grandparents, with whom she lived after her mother passed away, die in a sudden fire.

Every year, tens of thousands of children write to Highlights magazine, sharing their hopes and dreams, worries and concerns, as if they were writing to a trusted friend. From the beginning, the editors at Highlights have answered every child individually. Longtime editor in chief Christine French Cully has curated a collection of this remarkable correspondence (letters, emails, and poems) in Dear Highlights - revealing an intimate and inspiring 75-year conversation between America’s children and its leading children’s magazine.

Now is an extraordinary time. Across the country, people are losing their loved ones, their livelihoods, their homes, and even their own lives to COVID-19. Despite the pandemic, countless protests erupted this summer over the recurring loss of Black lives. Reverberations of shock and outrage remain with us all. There's a Revolution Outside, My Love captures and articulates all of these roiling sentiments unleashed by a profound national reckoning.

Danbi is thrilled to start her new school in America. But a bit nervous, too, for when she walks into the classroom, everything goes quiet. Everyone stares. Danbi wants to join in the dances and the games, but she doesn't know the rules and just can't get anything right. Luckily, she isn't one to give up. With a spark of imagination, she makes up a new game and leads her classmates on a parade to remember!

When Hara Wilson lands in Seoul to find her birth mother, she doesn’t plan on falling in love with the first man she lays eyes on, but Choi Yujun is irresistible. If his broad shoulders and dimples weren’t enough, Choi Yujun is the most genuine, decent, gorgeous guy to exist. Too bad he’s also her stepbrother.

In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward, conservative, and intolerant. Instead, they find that rural China has not only adapted to rapid globalization but has actually innovated the technology we all use today. Wang unravels the ties between globalization, technology, agriculture, and commerce in unprecedented fashion.

In crisp, unembellished prose, Eunyoung Choi paints intimate portraits of the lives of young women in South Korea, balancing the personal with the political. In the title story, a fraught friendship between an exchange student and her host sister follows them from adolescence to adulthood. In "A Song from Afar", a young woman grapples with the death of her lover, traveling to Russia to search for information about the deceased. In "Secret", the parents of a teacher killed in the Sewol ferry sinking hide the news of her death from her grandmother.

As a Korean adoptee, Hara Wilson doesn’t need anyone telling her she looks different from her white parents. She knows. Every time Hara looks in the mirror, she’s reminded that she doesn’t look like anyone else in her family - not her loving mother, Ellen; not her jerk of a father, Pat; and certainly not like Pat’s new wife and new “real” son.

Jenny didn’t get to be an award-winning, classically trained cellist without choosing practice over fun. That is, until the night she meets Jaewoo. Mysterious, handsome, and just a little bit tormented, Jaewoo is exactly the kind of distraction Jenny would normally avoid. And yet, she finds herself pulled into spending an unforgettable evening wandering Los Angeles with him on the night before his flight home to South Korea.