After the success of »Piccola Sicilia«, the new novel by bestselling author Daniel Speck. A villa by the sea under palm trees: Berlin archaeologist Nina travels to Palermo to inherit her missing grandfather Moritz. There she meets her Jewish aunt Joëlle - and a mysterious man who claims to be Moritz's son. Elias, a Palestinian from Jaffa. Haifa, 1948: The Jewish girl Joëlle finds a new home under the trees on Jaffa Road. For the Palestinian girl Amal, her father's orange groves become a memory of a lost homeland. Both of them have no idea of ​​the secret that binds them together in an extraordinary journey through life around the Mediterranean: Three families, three generations, three cultures - and a shared, moving fate: With the bestseller ' Piccola Sicilia ', Daniel Speck takes us on a journey into the heart of the Mediterranean. He expands this polyphonic panorama of cultures in his new family novel 'Jaffa Road'.

During the renovation of a farmhouse, the residents discover a skeletonized skull in the basement. Commissioner Pia Korittki is leading the investigation. She comes across the case of a young woman who disappeared nine years ago. The main suspect at the time is still living in the small town. But all of this becomes irrelevant when Pia receives the news that her son Felix has had a serious accident. She realizes too late that it was a trap - and that the cold case in which she is investigating is anything but "cold" ... A case that puts Pia Korittki in mortal danger

Expedition leader Markus Rex about his year in the ice - with exclusive photos from the expedition, lots of graphics and maps

On September 20, 2019, the largest Arctic expedition of all time started: The »Polarstern« left the port of Tromso to freeze at the North Pole. She has scientists from 20 nations on board who will spend a year studying the effects of climate change in the Arctic. Markus Rex, the head of the research mission called "MOSAiC", tells the story of this unique expedition in his book: He reports on everyday life under the extreme conditions of the Arctic, on the logistical and planning challenges and on the scientific findings that the researchers made in the ice could collect. "Frozen at the North Pole" is the story of a great research adventure and at the same time a haunting look at the dramatic consequences of climate change.

“There is no inevitability in politics. Energetic action can lead to an ambitious goal. «It was not an intact, ideal, safe world that the corona pandemic broke into. Even before that, normality was in crisis. In his clever and thoughtful new book, Robert Habeck explores the reasons for the loss of the self-evident and devises a policy that is appropriate to the problems of our time. Nothing seems to be taken for granted or certain any longer. Not the way we will do business and work, not the values ​​of democracy and human rights, not even what private happiness will be in the future. And the old promise of stability will not bring new security. The urgent question therefore arises What are the reasons for the uncertainty and increasingly rapid crises. Based on personal experiences of the last few years, which have been shaped by successes, but have also turned him into a projection screen for hatred, Robert Habeck seeks answers in his new book to the question, why the success of liberal democracy threatens to fail. Self-critically, he gropes his way up to the blind spots in politics of the last few decades and their contradictions. And drafts a policy that no longer just wants to repair, but rather that prevents the problems and losses of progress from arising in the first place. Because, according to Habeck: If we want to counteract the erosion of democracy, the loss of confidence in politics, the breakup of Europe, the climate crisis, then we can do that.