Children's Books / Young Adults Autumn 2021

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Jenny-Mai Nuyen

Cold as Snow, Hard as Steel

A magical elvish fantasy

Date of publication: August 9, 2021

Paperback | 400 pages | Recommended age group: 14+

Cast out by her father and betrayed by her mother, Princess Kanemô grew up in a convent far from her father’s palace. When her father dies, the rebel leader Heganen wants to marry her in order to...

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Martina Steinkühler

The Girls’ Bible

Date of publication: September 27, 2021

Hardcover | 320 pages | With illustrations from: Angela Gstalter | Recommended age group: 12+

Only few girls and women are actually named in the Bible – they’re often only described as ‘the daughter of…’, ‘wife of…’, ‘maid of…’. But they all had names, even if the Bible won’t tell us what...

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Nena Tramountani

Play & Pretend

Novel

Date of publication: July 12, 2021

Paperback | 464 pages | Recommended age group: 14+

On stage Briony can be everything she is not in real life. The acting student loves to slip into other people's roles, but hardly anyone knows the real reason why. Only her attractive acting coll...

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Claudia Praxmayer

A Taste for Life

A gripping futuristic novel

Date of publication: October 18, 2021

Hardcover | 416 pages | Recommended age group: 14+

When seventeen-year-old Nini inherits her godmother’s home in Cornwall, she wavers between excitement and uncertainty: what is she, a Londoner, supposed to do with a countryside cottage? But her ...

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Manfred Theisen

The Chip

Date of publication: December 13, 2021

Paperback | 224 pages | Recommended age group: 12+

Berlin in the near future: 15-year-old Kim, daughter of a Dutch diplomat and single mother, is a pupil at the controversial elite boarding school Galileo. There, cameras and implanted chips trans...