Wer bin ich und wenn ja, wieviele? Die junge Ich-Erzählerin des jüngst im Nachlass aufgetauchten und bislang noch unveröffentlicht gebliebenen Romans von Maria Lazar weiß es nicht zu sagen. Ist sie vielleicht Grete, die behütete Professorentochter, der aufgrund ihrer Schönheit alle Herzen zufliegen und die für verliebte junge Männer doch unerreichbar bleibt? Oder Ulla, intelligent und unabhängig, die auch unter widrigsten Umständen ihre hohen moralischen Prinzipien nicht vergisst? Sieht Sie sich nicht auch stark in Anette wieder, die sich mit reißerisch-schnulzigen Kinokomödien vom prekären Alltag zuhause ablenkt? Vielleicht wird ja alles klarer werden, wenn unsere Protagonistin die Geschichte der Abenteuer und Verstrickungen Ihrer drei höchst unterschiedlichen Freundinnen im Wien der 1920er Jahre niederschreibt… Wenn da bloß nicht die geisterhafte Fremde wäre, die ihr fortwährend aus Spiegeln entgegensieht, immer dann, wenn sie die Welt um sich herum nicht mehr versteht!  Maria Lazars psychologisch raffiniert konstruierten Jugend- und Adoleszenzroman Viermal ICH, Ende der 20er Jahre in Wien verfasst und zu Lebzeiten niemals veröffentlicht, präsentieren wir zum 75. Todestag der Autorin am 30. März 2023 zum ersten Mal der Weltöffentlichkeit.

Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, didn't expect to find its former tenant refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. As Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of Jared, a human who still lives in hiding, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she's never met. Reluctant allies, Wanderer and Melanie set off to search for the man they both love. Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] ACE #1 - ACE #2

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incredibly simple) logisitical breakthrough that made Internet commerce secure, The Code Book tells the story of the most powerful intellectual weapon ever known: secrecy. Throughout the text are clear technical and mathematical explanations, and portraits of the remarkable personalities who wrote and broke the world’s most difficult codes. Accessible, compelling, and remarkably far-reaching, this book will forever alter your view of history and what drives it. It will also make you wonder how private that e-mail you just sent really is.

DATA CONSCIENCE ALGORITHMIC S1EGE ON OUR HUM4N1TY EXPLORE HOW D4TA STRUCTURES C4N HELP OR H1NDER SOC1AL EQU1TY Data has enjoyed ‘bystander’ status as we’ve attempted to digitize responsibility and morality in tech. In fact, data’s importance should earn it a spot at the center of our thinking and strategy around building a better, more ethical world. It’s use—and misuse—lies at the heart of many of the racist, gendered, classist, and otherwise oppressive practices of modern tech. In Data Algorithmic Siege on our Humanity, computer science and data inclusivity thought leader Dr. Brandeis Hill Marshall delivers a call to action for rebel tech leaders, who acknowledge and are prepared to address the current limitations of software development. In the book, Dr. Brandeis Hill Marshall discusses how the philosophy of “move fast and break things” is, itself, broken, and requires change. You’ll learn about the ways that discrimination rears its ugly head in the digital data space and how to address them with several known algorithms, including social network analysis, and linear regression A can’t-miss resource for junior-level to senior-level software developers who have gotten their hands dirty with at least a handful of significant software development projects, Data Conscience also provides readers Discussions of the importance of transparency Explorations of computational thinking in practice Strategies for encouraging accountability in tech Ways to avoid double-edged data visualization Schemes for governing data structures with law and algorithms

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want Kathleen Hanna’s band Bikini Kill embodied the punk scene of the 90s, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like “Rebel Girl” and “Double Dare Ya” are more powerful than ever. But where did this transformative voice come from? In Rebel Girl, Hanna’s raw and insightful new memoir, she takes us from her tumul­tuous childhood to her formative college years and her first shows. As Hanna makes clear, being in a punk “girl band” in those years was not a simple or safe prospect. Male violence and antagonism threatened at every turn, and surviving as a singer who was a lightning rod for controversy took limitless amounts of determination. But the relationships she developed during those years buoyed her, including with her bandmates Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, JD Samson, and Johanna Fateman. And her friendships with musicians like Kurt Cobain, Ian MacKaye, Kim Gordon, and Joan Jett reminded her that, despite the odds, the punk world could still nurture and care for its own. Hanna opens up about falling in love with Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys and her debilitating battle with Lyme disease, and she brings us behind the scenes of her musical growth in her bands Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin. She also writes candidly about the Riot Grrrl movement, documenting with love its grassroots origins but critiquing its exclusivity. In an uncut voice all her own, Hanna reveals the hardest times along with the most joyful—and how they continue to fuel her revolutionary art and music.

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude. John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost.Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining island archipelagos, pores over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the lost poem, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well.What We Can Know is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe, and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.

Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.

A BBC must-read book of 2026—”Sharp, dark and humorous, it’s a real nail-biter.” Go gay. Go sad. Go dark. A washed-up author will stop at nothing to claw her way back to relevancy—even if it means appropriating a young gay man’s tragic story. Mallory Maddox is buried under seven years of writer’s block. With her status as a literary sensation fizzling, she’ll do anything she can to resurrect her career. Inspiration needs to strike—and fast. Enter Leo. He’s a struggling addict sleeping under bridges and trading sex for survival. He’s vulnerable. He’s enigmatic. He’s exactly what Mallory has been looking for. Mallory needs Leo if she wants another bestseller. The world needs Leo’s story right now, and Mallory believes she deserves to tell it. Really, it’s her story—she’s the one who wrote it, after all. But as secrets threaten to unravel more than just her career, Mallory must decide how far she will go to pen the perfect story. A razor-sharp satirical thriller, Fruit Fly will appeal to fans of R. F. Kuang’s Yellowface and Yomi Adegoke’s The List.

Die Gefährten sind versammelt … Der schwarze Tyrann ist bereit … Der Tag der Entscheidung ist da. Die Völker Alagaësias haben sich zusammengeschlossen und stehen bereit zum alles entscheidenden Kampf gegen Galbatorix, den grausamen Herrscher des Imperiums. Treue Freunde streiten an Eragons Seite, allen voran die wunderschöne Elfe Arya. Die bisher geschlagenen Schlachten haben den Gefährten zwar Siege beschert, aber auch schreckliche Verluste zugefügt. Und Eragon weiß, dass die größte Auseinandersetzung noch vor ihnen liegt – wenn er und Saphira Galbatorix gegenüberstehen. Unbezwingbar scheint der finstere Tyrann, denn er besitzt die Macht zahlloser Drachen, deren Seelenhort er an sich gerissen hat. Werden die Gefährten stark genug sein, gegen eine solche Kraft zu bestehen? Quälende Zweifel nagen an Eragon. Und helfen kann ihm nur eine alte Prophezeiung: Wenn alles verloren erscheint, so heißt es, liegt Rettung im Verlies der Seelen … 

Treue und Verrat … Freiheit und Tyrannei … Licht und Dunkelheit … Die Schlacht auf den Brennenden Steppen haben die Rebellen gewonnen – aber der Sieg hätte Eragon und seinen Drachen Saphira fast das Leben gekostet. Doch schon lauern im finsteren Helgrind neue Gefahren, wo Rorans geliebte Katrina gefangen gehalten wird. Allerdings fordert nicht nur Roran seine Unterstützung, auch die Rebellen brauchen Eragons Stärke und magische Fähigkeiten verzweifelt wie nie. Als unter den verbündeten Zwergen Clan-Kriege auszubrechen drohen und Galbatorix einmal mehr versucht, ihn zum Spielball seiner finsteren Interessen zu machen, muss der junge Drachenreiter handeln: Seine Mission führt ihn bis über die Grenzen des Königreichs, als ein schreckliches Opfer alles verändert … Eragon ist die letzte Hoffnung der freien Völker Alagaësias. Doch kann er allein die Elfen, Varden und Zwerge einen und den schwarzen Tyrannen stürzen?

Sie weiß alles, sie kriegt alles, sie durchschaut jeden. Nur sich selbst durchschaut sie nicht: Eine Geistesgestörte, wie es sie noch nicht gegeben hat: hochkomisch und zutiefst manipulativ. Die Polizei hat sie hergebracht, in die psychiatrische Abteilung des alten Wiener Spitals. Nun erzählt sie dem Chefpsychiater Doktor Korb, warum es so kommen musste. Sie spricht vom Aufwachsen in der erzkatholischen Kärntner Dorfidylle. Vom Zusammenleben mit den Eltern und ihrem jüngeren Bruder Bernhard, den sie unbedingt retten will. Auf den Vater allerdings ist sie nicht gut zu sprechen. Töten will sie ihn am liebsten. Das behauptet sie zumindest. Denn manchmal ist die Frage nach Wahrheit oder Lüge selbst für den Leser nicht zu unterscheiden. In ihrem fulminanten Debüt lässt Angela Lehner eine Geistesgestörte auftreten, wie es sie noch nicht gegeben hat: hochkomisch, besserwisserisch und zutiefst manipulativ.