A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a “stable-state” ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, this isolated, mysterious nation is welcoming its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston.Skeptical yet curious about this green new world, Weston is determined to report his findings objectively. But from the start, he’s alternately impressed and unsettled by the laws governing Ecotopia’s earth-friendly agenda: energy-efficient “mini-cities” to eliminate urban sprawl, zero-tolerance pollution control, tree worship, ritual war games, and a woman-dominated government that has instituted such peaceful revolutions as the twenty-hour workweek and employee ownership of farms and businesses. His old beliefs challenged, his cynicism replaced by hope, Weston meets a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman and undertakes a relationship whose intensity will lead him to a critical choice between two worlds.

Ursula K. Le Guin’s magnificent work of imagination, a visionary, genre-crossing story about a future utopian community on the Northern California coast. A masterly, hypnotic and her most consistently lyric and luminous book. This new edition includes an introduction by Shruti Swamy, author of A House is a Body. Midway through her career, Ursula K. Le Guin embarked on one of her most detailed, impressive literary projects, a novel that took more than five years to complete. Blending story and fable, poetry, artwork, and song, Always Coming Home is this legendary writer’s fictional ethnography of the Kesh, a people of the far future living in a post-apocalyptic Napa Valley. Having survived ecological catastrophe brought on by relentless industrialization, the Kesh are a peaceful people who reject governance and the constriction of genders, limit population growth to prevent overcrowding and preserve resources, and maintain a healthy community in which everyone works to contribute to its well-being. This richly imagined story unfolds through a series of narrated “translations” that illuminate individual lives, including a woman named Stone Telling, who travels beyond the Valley and comes to reside with another tribe, the patriarchal Condor people. With sharp poignancy, Le Guin explores the complexities of the Kesh’s unified society and presents to us—in exquisite detail—their lives, histories, adventures, customs, language, and art.  In addition to poems and folk tales, Le Guin created verse dramas, records of oral performances, recipes, and even an alphabet and glossary of the Kesh language. The novel is illustrated throughout with drawings by artist Margaret Chodos and includes a musical component—original recordings of Kesh songs that Le Guin collaborated on with composer Todd Barton—bringing this utterly original and compelling world to life.

After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie Ramos is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a utopian future of sexual and racial equality and environmental harmony. But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a dystopian society of grotesque exploitation. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow...

Seventeen-year-old Phil has felt like an outsider as long as he can remember. All Phil has ever known about his father is that he was Number Three on his mother’s long list—third in a series of affairs that have set Phil’s family even further apart from the critical townspeople across the river. As for his own sexuality, Phil doesn’t care what the neighbors will think; he’s just waiting for the right guy to come along.But Phil can’t remain a bystander forever. Not when he’s surrounded by his mother, Glass, who lives by her own rules and urges Phil to be equally strong; his sister, Dianne, who is abrupt and willful, with secrets to share; his uncle Gable, a restless mariner, defined by his scars; his best friend, Kat, who is generous but possessive. And finally, there is distant Nicholas, with whom Phil falls overwhelmingly in love—until he faces the ultimate betrayal and must finally find his worth . . . and place in the world.From the Hardcover edition.

Ein fesselnder Roman über den wohl bekanntesten deutschen Hexenprozess gegen Katharina Kepler, die Mutter des Astronomen und Physikers Johannes Kepler, erzählt aus der Sicht einer starken, unabhängigen Frau.  Leonberg, 1618: Die Pest grassiert, Krieg wird ausbrechen, Angst und Misstrauen herrschen. Der kaiserliche Astronom und Protestant Johannes Kepler ist mit den gewagten Thesen seines heliozentrischen Weltbildes bei den württembergischen Herrschern nicht sonderlich beliebt und muss ins Exil. In der Zwischenzeit hält man sich in Leonberg an seiner Mutter Katharina schadlos. Rivka Galchen schreibt aus Sicht «Kätherlin» Keplers, der Sicht einer unabhängig denkenden, im besten Sinne «eigenwilligen» Frau von dem historisch belegten, langjährigen Hexenprozess (1615-21), und stellt sich und uns die Frage, wie wirkmächtig selbständig handelnde Frauen in der Historie waren. In Galchens neuem Roman prallen Welten aufeinander, politisch, religiös und gesellschaftlich, an einem historischen Wendepunkt vor dem Dreißigjährigem Krieg, Pest und einsetzender Renaissance. «Dieser Roman enthält zahlreiche Lektionen für unsere eigene Zeit, über die Macht von Furcht und Aberglauben, Böses entstehen zu lassen. Dabei verzücken Galchens spielerisch poetische Sätze wie die Magie in Märchen.» Oprah Winfrey  «Eine weise Meditation über das hysterische Spiel mit abstrusen Schuldzuweisungen, das uns im Internetzeitalter so vertraut ist.» Lauren Groff

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Seventeen-year-old Phil has felt like an outsider as long as he can remember. All Phil has ever known about his father is that he was Number Three on his mother’s long list—third in a series of affairs that have set Phil’s family even further apart from the critical townspeople across the river. As for his own sexuality, Phil doesn’t care what the neighbors will think; he’s just waiting for the right guy to come along.But Phil can’t remain a bystander forever. Not when he’s surrounded by his mother, Glass, who lives by her own rules and urges Phil to be equally strong; his sister, Dianne, who is abrupt and willful, with secrets to share; his uncle Gable, a restless mariner, defined by his scars; his best friend, Kat, who is generous but possessive. And finally, there is distant Nicholas, with whom Phil falls overwhelmingly in love—until he faces the ultimate betrayal and must finally find his worth . . . and place in the world.From the Hardcover edition.

Die Sommer gehören Lou und seinem charismatischen Freund Raf, dessen Anziehungskraft sich niemand entziehen kann, am allerwenigsten Lou. Doch diesmal ist es Auch die blonde Nora steigt mit ins Auto an die dänische Küste. In einem alten Ferienhaus in den Dünen leben die drei in den Tag hinein, springen in die Wellen, rauchen, kochen, streichen umeinander herum. Was von außen wie ein unbeschwerter Urlaub scheint, eröffnet in dieser neuen Konstellation langsam dunkle Abgründe. Lou ist sich auf einmal nicht mehr Will Raf noch seine Nähe oder verachtet er ihn für seine Ergebenheit? Und warum verschwindet Nora eines Nachmittags ohne ein Wort? Ann-Christin Kumms Debüt ist ein psychologisch meisterhaft konstruiertes und erotisch flirrendes Spiel mit Macht, Manipulation und Begehren.

Die Sommer gehören Lou und seinem charismatischen Freund Raf, dessen Anziehungskraft sich niemand entziehen kann, am allerwenigsten Lou. Doch diesmal ist es Auch die blonde Nora steigt mit ins Auto an die dänische Küste. In einem alten Ferienhaus in den Dünen leben die drei in den Tag hinein, springen in die Wellen, rauchen, kochen, streichen umeinander herum. Was von außen wie ein unbeschwerter Urlaub scheint, eröffnet in dieser neuen Konstellation langsam dunkle Abgründe. Lou ist sich auf einmal nicht mehr Will Raf noch seine Nähe oder verachtet er ihn für seine Ergebenheit? Und warum verschwindet Nora eines Nachmittags ohne ein Wort? Ann-Christin Kumms Debüt ist ein psychologisch meisterhaft konstruiertes und erotisch flirrendes Spiel mit Macht, Manipulation und Begehren.

Seventeen-year-old Phil has felt like an outsider as long as he can remember. All Phil has ever known about his father is that he was Number Three on his mother’s long list—third in a series of affairs that have set Phil’s family even further apart from the critical townspeople across the river. As for his own sexuality, Phil doesn’t care what the neighbors will think; he’s just waiting for the right guy to come along.But Phil can’t remain a bystander forever. Not when he’s surrounded by his mother, Glass, who lives by her own rules and urges Phil to be equally strong; his sister, Dianne, who is abrupt and willful, with secrets to share; his uncle Gable, a restless mariner, defined by his scars; his best friend, Kat, who is generous but possessive. And finally, there is distant Nicholas, with whom Phil falls overwhelmingly in love—until he faces the ultimate betrayal and must finally find his worth . . . and place in the world.From the Hardcover edition.

Die Sommer gehören Lou und seinem charismatischen Freund Raf, dessen Anziehungskraft sich niemand entziehen kann, am allerwenigsten Lou. Doch diesmal ist es Auch die blonde Nora steigt mit ins Auto an die dänische Küste. In einem alten Ferienhaus in den Dünen leben die drei in den Tag hinein, springen in die Wellen, rauchen, kochen, streichen umeinander herum. Was von außen wie ein unbeschwerter Urlaub scheint, eröffnet in dieser neuen Konstellation langsam dunkle Abgründe. Lou ist sich auf einmal nicht mehr Will Raf noch seine Nähe oder verachtet er ihn für seine Ergebenheit? Und warum verschwindet Nora eines Nachmittags ohne ein Wort? Ann-Christin Kumms Debüt ist ein psychologisch meisterhaft konstruiertes und erotisch flirrendes Spiel mit Macht, Manipulation und Begehren.