"I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of their morbid solemnity, not an inexact summing up of the brief career during which,...

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Parution : 2018-12-05

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Once upon a time there were two little boys who lived chiefly in the front garden, because their villa was a model one. The front garden was about the same size as the dinner table; it consisted of four strips of gravel, a square of turf with some mysterious pieces of...

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Parution : 2018-10-26

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A few months before a federal election ARD and ZDF are paralyzed by hackers. What are the consequences for the election? In the series "Events and Expectations", scenarios for the near future are developed.

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Parution : 2018-04-01

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260,000 nautical miles of sailing: North Sea, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean, Black Sea, North Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific. In more than 40 sailing short stories Rudolf Neumann, called Lofoten-Rudi, takes us along on his trips, into a world full of sailing adventures and...

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Parution : 2018-03-19

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After a devastating wave of influenza, a few men move through a largely depopulated country. Only in a few places are there remains of civilization. Conventional notions of custom and morality are no longer valid. In the series "Events and Expectations", scenarios for...

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Parution : 2018-02-12

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They are a constant nuisance, harass their fellow men and drive wherever they should not. We are talking about ruffian cyclists, also known as combat cyclists or bicycle hooligans. Their preferred victims are the weaker ones, preferably children or old people. The...

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Parution : 2018-02-09

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THE VOYAGES OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE, PART ONE by Hugh Lofting and illustrated by Hugh Lofting The Atlantic Monthly: "The children in years an children in heart, to whom Hugh Lofting dedicates his biography of Animals own Doctor, will delight in every page of this demurely...

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Parution : 2018-01-18

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"you will have lived If you loved " tells the story of a love, a road trip, tree hearts, a slice of life. Don't wait anymore to discover ThEo, Thomas and RaphaEl, life is too short. Bonus : "Elle" , a very short story about transgender.

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Parution : 2017-11-20

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Imagine it's Christmas Eve. It's snowing. It's getting dark quickly. You're in a hurry. Your car veers off the road. It's Christmas Eve and nobody answers your calls. Except...

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Parution : 2017-11-18

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Lyman Frank Baum (1856 - 1919) was an American author, famous for his children's books, especially for his book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and its sequels. He wrote a total of 55 novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts.

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Parution : 2017-10-16

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An omnipresent issue, under which many young people are suffering: mobbing within the virtual world of the internet. Usually, it is connected to real-life mobbing attacks at school. While many people stand helpless to the attacks, the young teenager David feels like...

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Parution : 2017-08-10

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An omnipresent issue, under which many young people are suffering: mobbing within the virtual world of the internet. Usually, it is connected to real-life mobbing attacks at school. While many people stand helpless to the attacks, the young teenager David feels like...

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Parution : 2017-07-11

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Trashbus is a place where random objects, things unused, weird people and stories long forgotten live their peculiar lives. Anecdotes about a grandmother who once met the devil and a failed boat trip, a lost kitten and a wild dog, a gloomy hotel and a fortunate gypsy...

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Parution : 2017-03-29

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Hans regret the choices he made in life and have grown tired of their everyday lives. Behind a hole in a toilet cubicles in a public bathroom, he finds something that will make him feel alive again.

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Parution : 2017-01-04

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"A Christmas Carol" tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to...

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Parution : 2016-11-08

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In this moving story Manuela Bösch narrates the missions of Seraphina, a helping guardian angel, on earth. Together with her sisters, Seraphina is part of the celestial army to benefit the humans. However, one day Seraphina notices that the help for the humans is not...

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Parution : 2016-09-29

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For the first time Laura is allowed to accompany her parents to the Bulgarian orphanage. Lots of parcels, sent from a foreign country, have arrived for the children. The orphans are to receive them at the Christmas celebration. There Laura meets Gergana. But why does...

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Parution : 2016-09-21

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A collection of short stories about the meaning of Christmas today. Every year we approach the miracle and the mystery of Christmas: God became human for us. This is what we celebrate, even if we sometimes forget it in the stress and hectic of the advent season. But how...

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Parution : 2016-06-23

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Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man (original French:Dialogue entre un prêtre et un moribond) is a dialogue written by the Marquis de Sade while incarcerated at the Château de Vincennes in 1782. The work expresses the author's atheism by having a dying man (a...

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Parution : 2016-04-18

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Peter Schlemihl is the title character of an 1814 novella,Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (Peter Schlemihl's Miraculous Story), written in German by exiled French aristocrat Adelbert von Chamisso. In the story, Schlemihl sells his shadow to the Devil for a...

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Parution : 2016-04-15

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