Elias: 509 books

Köln 1908: Caspar Marquardt herrscht in seinem Kaufhaus wie ein König über die Welt des Luxuskonsums. Da er keine Söhne hat, soll ein entfernter Verwandter sein Erbe werden – eine Provokation für seine älteste Tochter Louisa, die das Geschäft gerne selbst führen möchte. Doch nicht nur ihr...

Ostpreußen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts: Die hübsche Kaufmannstochter Adela liebt den reichen Gutsbesitzererben Carl von Reichenbach. Doch dann wird sie von ihrem Vater in eine Ehe mit dem Adligen Leonhard von Schletter genötigt. Die Verbindung steht unter keinem guten Stern. Zwar versucht sich Adela...

Ostpreußen Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts: Victoria, Tochter des Gutsbesitzers Carl von Reichenbach, genießt ein mondänes Leben, bis sie an den falschen Mann gerät und ihr Leben eine tragische Wendung erfährt. Leonhard von Schletters Tochter Helene hingegen versucht sich als Pferdezüchterin und...

Frankfurt in den Goldenen Zwanzigern: Der Großindustrielle Günther Conrad befindet sich auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Macht. Doch während seine älteste Tochter Clara alle Erwartungen erfüllt und den Unternehmer Eduard Jungblut heiratet, entpuppt sich Conrads Sohn und künftiger Nachfolger Raiko als...

Nine year-old Florin is a thirsty vampire. The reason? Most of his blood has been sucked out by his friend, Nicu. Florin rampages through the town of Biertan, drinking as much blood as he can. Soon everyone in Biertan is low on blood, and seeking revenge on all vampires. Nicu faces a big challenge. Keeping Florin in check and stopping the angry townspeople from killing vampires.  

Nine year-old Florin is a thirsty vampire. The reason? Most of his blood has been sucked out by his friend, Nicu. Florin rampages through the town of Biertan, drinking as much blood as he can. Soon everyone in Biertan is low on blood, and seeking revenge on all vampires. Nicu faces a big challenge. Keeping Florin in check and stopping the angry townspeople from killing vampires.  

American-English Edition Skateboarder Michel is freaking out as his cousin Romain has gone missing. Michel sticks his head through a hole in the garden fence and is sucked into a giant vortex. He ends up in a mysterious corridor, with doors leading to strange worlds. He also meets Duke, a...

American-English Edition ​​​​​​​ Skateboarder Michel is freaking out as his cousin Romain has gone missing. Michel sticks his head through a hole in the garden fence and is sucked into a giant vortex. He ends up in a mysterious corridor, with doors leading to strange worlds....

Since the 1960s, the field of victimology has developed into a variegated discipline with its own theoretical and methodological traditions. In the early 1990s two texts were published—Towards a Critical Victimology (Fattah, 1992) and Critical Victimology (Mawby and Walklate, 1994)—that concretized...

When Aaron meets Jayson Brunsdon, one of Australia’s leading fashion figures, they both dream of becoming fathers one day – a difficult and risky prospect few same-sex couples at the time dare. Together they build the Jayson Brunsdon brand from nothing into one of the most eponymous labels...

Bullying and harassment threaten academic achievement and mental health in our schools. Look beyond your work with individual students to address these problems in their larger context! This book presents enlightening empirical studies and reviews of the literature on peer harassment, bullying,...

Green Smoothie Joy for Nutribullet teaches you how to create an array of delicious and healthy green smoothies using your Nutribullet (the recipes will also work in other blenders). Additionally, this book gives you the tools to invent your own great-tasting green smoothies. The health benefits of...

During the past two decades, our understanding of the molecular genetics of inherited eye diseases, their classification, and management has undergone a huge expansion as the field of human genetics has benefited from technological advances and increased interest by physicians and scientists in all...

Which dessert is named after the heroic third-century Queen Zenobia of Palmyra? Which luscious rice pudding shares its name with the eighth-century Abbasid Caliph al-Ma'mun? How does one make the perfect Baqlawah? Blending cookery with culture and recipes with history, this is the fascinating and...