Das Patriarchat ist kein Mythos. Bestsellerautorin Rebekka Endler macht sich in ihrem neuen Buch auf die Suche nach den Ursachen des Patriarchats und untersucht, welche misogynen Mythen bis heute unser Denken und Handeln bestimmen.   Witches, Bitches, It-Girls ist eine anekdotische Spurensuche, die durch die lange Menschheitsgeschichte führt. Rebekka Endler blickt dabei in den Maschinenraum des Patriarchats, beschäftigt sich mit der Kanonisierung in der Kunst, mit der Epoche der Romantik, mit der sogenannten Normalität und mit feministischen Wellen, mit Cancel-Culture und Transfeindlichkeit – und Was bringt so viele Frauen heute noch dazu, von einem rettenden Märchenprinzen zu träumen? Warum werben sogenannte Tradwives für ein Leben als Hausfrau und Mutter? Was steckt hinter der Mommy-Blogger-Welle, und welche Funktion haben Frauenbilder wie Witches, Bitches und It-Girls? Humorvoll, schlagfertig und kämpferisch zeigt Rebekka Endler, wie wir alle das Patriarchat Tag für Tag am Laufen halten – und wie wir es dennoch verändern können, wenn wir das System dahinter verstehen und angreifen. «Rebekka Endler erzählt […] mit Ironie und Humor von den unhinterfragten Ungerechtigkeiten im Alltag zwischen Frau und Mann.»NDR KULTUR über Das Patriarchat der Dinge

Das Patriarchat ist kein Mythos. Bestsellerautorin Rebekka Endler macht sich in ihrem neuen Buch auf die Suche nach den Ursachen des Patriarchats und untersucht, welche misogynen Mythen bis heute unser Denken und Handeln bestimmen.   Witches, Bitches, It-Girls ist eine anekdotische Spurensuche, die durch die lange Menschheitsgeschichte führt. Rebekka Endler blickt dabei in den Maschinenraum des Patriarchats, beschäftigt sich mit der Kanonisierung in der Kunst, mit der Epoche der Romantik, mit der sogenannten Normalität und mit feministischen Wellen, mit Cancel-Culture und Transfeindlichkeit – und Was bringt so viele Frauen heute noch dazu, von einem rettenden Märchenprinzen zu träumen? Warum werben sogenannte Tradwives für ein Leben als Hausfrau und Mutter? Was steckt hinter der Mommy-Blogger-Welle, und welche Funktion haben Frauenbilder wie Witches, Bitches und It-Girls? Humorvoll, schlagfertig und kämpferisch zeigt Rebekka Endler, wie wir alle das Patriarchat Tag für Tag am Laufen halten – und wie wir es dennoch verändern können, wenn wir das System dahinter verstehen und angreifen. «Rebekka Endler erzählt […] mit Ironie und Humor von den unhinterfragten Ungerechtigkeiten im Alltag zwischen Frau und Mann.»NDR KULTUR über Das Patriarchat der Dinge

A mother struggling to repress her violent past, A son struggling to grasp his violent future, A father blind to the danger that threatens them all. When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength to defend their empire? Or will they tear each other apart before the true enemies even reach their shores? High on a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful warriors in the world, superhumans capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. For hundreds of years, the fighters of the Kusanagi Peninsula have held the Empire’s enemies at bay, earning their frozen spit of land the name ‘The Sword of Kaigen.’ Born into Kusanagi’s legendary Matsuda family, fourteen-year-old Mamoru has always known his purpose: to master his family’s fighting techniques and defend his homeland. But when an outsider arrives and pulls back the curtain on Kaigen’s alleged age of peace, Mamoru realizes that he might not have much time to become the fighter he was bred to be. Worse, the empire he was bred to defend may stand on a foundation of lies. Misaki told herself that she left the passions of her youth behind when she married into the Matsuda house. Determined to be a good housewife and mother, she hid away her sword, along with everything from her days as a fighter in a faraway country. But with her growing son asking questions about the outside world, the threat of an impending invasion looming across the sea, and her frigid husband grating on her nerves, Misaki finds the fighter in her clawing its way back to the surface.

Return to the Thai-inspired world of Suyoram in this vicious follow up to 2024's The Last Phi Hunter, exploring exploring mythology, colonialism, and feminine rage. A perfect read for fans of Iron Widow and The Sword of Kaigen.Ree is born with her eyes open to the Everpresent – a heightened awareness where Phi Hunters pull their magic and can speak to spirits and ghosts. The natural ability is powerful but also hindering, as it makes it hard for her to fit in with normal society.When she is ostracized at school for being too strange, she finds refuge and acceptance in the Phi Hunters guild. But she becomes disenchanted with the simplistic way they view phi and is further frustrated with the community’s deference to a foreign power that threatens to conquer Suyoram.Her path will lead her to abandon her home in search of purpose, but what she finds is greater than she could have ever expected. She will become a champion of spirits and demons alike, a folk hero to the oppressed people of Loram, and the number one enemy to the King of Suyoram… as well as the entire region’s only hope to remain free…

This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing that explores the nature of memoir itself, her story traces the effect of extreme grief on a young woman's developing sexuality that some define as untraditional because of her attraction to both men and women. Her emergence as a writer evolves at the same time and takes the narrator on a journey of addiction, self-destruction, and ultimately survival that finally comes in the shape of love and motherhood.

Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her. Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom of Blunder—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets. But nothing comes for free, especially magic. When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest to cure Blunder from the dark magic infecting it. And the highwayman? He just so happens to be the King’s nephew, Captain of the most dangerous men in Blunder…and guilty of high treason. Together they must gather twelve Providence Cards—the keys to the cure. But as the stakes heighten and their undeniable attraction intensifies, Elspeth is forced to face her darkest secret yet: the Nightmare is slowly taking over her mind. And she might not be able to stop him.

A spellbinding story about two girls whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destroy them, it changes the trajectory of history. Marie Antoine is the charismatic, spoiled daughter of a sugar baron. At 12 years old, with her blond curls and her unparalleled sense of whimsey, she's the leader of all the children in the Golden Mile, an affluent strip of 19th century Montreal. Until one day in 1873, when Sadie Arnett, dark-haired, sly, and brilliant, moves to the neighborhood. Marie and Sadie are immediately united by their passion and intensity, and they attract and repel each other in ways that light each of them on fire. Marie with her bubbly charm sees the light and sweetness of the world, whereas Sadie's obsession with darkness is all consuming. Soon their childlike games take on a thrill of danger and then become deadly. Forced to separate, they spend their teenage years engaged in acts of alternating innocence and depravity--until a singular event unites them once more, with dizzying effects. And after Marie inherits her father's sugar empire and Sadie disappears into the city's gritty underworld, a revolution of the working class begins to foment. Each of them will have unexpected roles to play in events that upend their city--the only question is whether they will find each other once more. Traveling from a repressive finishing school to a vibrant brothel, taking readers firsthand into the brutality of factory life and the opulent lives of Montreal's wealthy, When We Lost Our Heads dazzlingly explores gender and power, sex and desire, class and status, and the terrifying power of the human heart when it can't let someone go.

In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma. Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chivalry Farseer, is a royal bastard, cast out into the world, friendless and lonely. Only his magical link with animals - the old art known as the Wit - gives him solace and companionship. But the Wit, if used too often, is a perilous magic, and one abhorred by the nobility. So when Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old ways and embrace a new life of weaponry, scribing, courtly manners; and how to kill a man secretly, as he trains to become a royal assassin.

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?