Trizeps Royal

Cécil Ludwig Röski

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Women Without Men

Shahrnush Parsipur

"Using the techniques of both the fabulist and the polemicist, Parsipur continues her protest against traditional Persian gender relations in this charming, powerful novella." —Publishers Weekly This modern literary masterpiece follows the interwoven destinies of five women—including a wealthy middle-aged housewife, a prostitute, and a schoolteacher—as they arrive by different paths to live together in an abundant garden on the outskirts of Tehran. Drawing on elements of Islamic mysticism and recent Iranian history, this unforgettable novel depicts women escaping the narrow confines of family and society, and imagines their future living in a world without men.

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Orca

Franziska Gänsler

Die Fleischtheke des Supermarkts am Tag, Stille bei Nacht: So sieht Coras Leben aus. Bis ihre Kindheitsfreundin Olympia verhaftet wird und alles zurückkommt. Der Sommer, in dem sie sich wiedergetroffen haben, in dem alles gesummt hat in ihr, das Seewasser noch auf der Haut, der Glitzer auf der Cap, die verzierten Fingernägel. Die langen Tage im großen, leeren Haus mit Olympia, die Cora erkennt, wie sie ist. Und wie schnell sie Olympia nicht mehr nur für sich hat nach der illegalen Party, auf der sie zum ersten Mal eine Grenze überschreiten und nach der Olympia so viel Zeit mit Ariel und ihrer Aktivistengruppe verbringt. Während Cora versucht, in der Schule und zu Olympia den Anschluss zu halten, schlägt eine radikale Idee ihre Triebe aus – und Cora verstrickt sich in ein Lügengespinst, aus dem es kein Entkommen zu geben scheint.

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The Fortnight in September

R.C. Sherriff

The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for – domestic life at 22 Corunna Road in Dulwich, the train journey via Clapham Junction to the south coast, the two weeks living in lodgings and going to the beach every day. The family’s only regret is leaving their garden where, we can imagine, because it is September the dahlias are at their fiery best: as they flash past in the train they get a glimpse of their back garden, where ‘a shaft of sunlight fell through the side passage and lit up the clump of white asters by the apple tree.’ This was what the First World War soldiers longed for; this, he imagined, was what he was fighting for and would return to (as in fact Sherriff did). He had had the idea for his novel at Bognor Regis: watching the crowds go by, and wondering what their lives were like at home, he ‘began to feel the itch to take one of those families at random and build up an imaginary story of their annual holiday by the sea...I wanted to write about simple, uncomplicated people doing normal things.’

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Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen bei Erwachsenen

Andreas Riedel

Hochfunktionaler Autismus bei therapeutisches Grundwissen Autismus-Spektrum-Storungen werden vor allem als eine Entwicklungsstorung bei Kindern wahrgenommen. Es liegt aber in ihrer Natur, dass sie in späteren Lebensphasen andauern. Das vorliegende Buch gibt einen kompakten Überblick über Ausprägungen, Diagnostik und Therapie von Autismus im Erwachsenenalter und hilft psychiatrisch, psychotherapeutisch und psychosozial Tätigen bei der Begegnung und den Umgang mit erwachsenen und auch möglicherweise nicht diagnostizierten Autisten. Praxisnah reflektieren zwei ASS-Experten die vorherrschenden Konzepte von Krankheit, Störung und Behinderung und bieten so einen überaus produktiven Zugang zu den Lebenswelten von Autisten, ihren Schwierigkeiten und Ressourcen. Sozialrechtliche Informationen und konkrete Hilfen für schwierige Therapiesituationen im Umgang mit Erwachsenen mit einer hochfunktionalen Autismus-Spektrum-Störung runden den Band ab. PD Dr. med. Dr. phil. Andreas Riedel ist Oberarzt an der Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie des Universitätsklinikums Freiburg und leitet die Spezialsprechstunde für Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen im Erwachsenenalter.

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O Pioneers!

Willa Cather

O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier—and the transformation of the people who settled it. Cather's heroine is Alexandra Bergson, who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, as a girl and grows up to make it a prosperous farm. But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss, and Alexandra's devotion to the land may come at the cost of love itself. At once a sophisticated pastoral and a prototype for later feminist novels, O Pioneers! is a work in which triumph is inextricably enmeshed with tragedy, a story of people who do not claim a land so much as they submit to it and, in the process, become greater than they were.

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Ode to the Half-Broken

Suzanne Palmer

Forty years ago, the world nearly ended. Be is an old robot who was there, and doesn’t want to think about what happened, or what role they played in that conflict. They have settled into a life of isolation in the abandoned ruins of an old mill in the former New York Botanical Gardens, disinterested in what has happened in the outside world since they stepped away from the war. Someone out there, though, has not forgotten about them, and when they are attacked, their person vandalized, and one of their leg stolen, they set out to find the thief accompanied by a cyborg dog and a human mechanic. The world has changed, but the recovery from the war is uneven and faltering, and Be begins to suspect a malicious hand trying to rekindle the old conflict and finish what was started. In order to stop them, Be needs to come to terms with both their own past and who they have become, and how everything and everyone else they knew has changed in their absence. Being left alone is no longer an option, and peace may be impossible. This is a story about coming to terms with your past, with who you’ve become and who you still want to be: a tale of resilence and hope, an ode to those struggling to become whole in a world half-broken.

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