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Zoe Means Life

Zoe Katharina Zoe Means Life I Risked 20 Years of Prison for Rescuing Hundreds of People at Sea - And Would Do It Again After passing her university-entrance exam and during her training as a boat builder, the 20-year-old Zoe joined the German Jugend rettet (Youth Rescues) organisation to save the...

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Out of the Ordinary

Peter Schmidt Out of the Ordinary Practical Autism Information by Someone Who Knows About It There are many prejudices about autistic people, as conveyed by films like “Rain Man” that still shape the prevailing view of them to this day. But what is autism really and how can we better understand the...

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Let’s Be Honest

Christina Hecke Let´s Be Honest My Glimpse Behind Our Lives The actress Christina Hecke impresses with her sensitive, caring and simultaneously intensive approach, which she also teaches by means of the Hecke Method: Truth in Acting. The background of this attitude is the conviction that we human...

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I Used to be a Snazzy Bird, But Now I´m a Lame Duck

Sigrid Tschöpe-Scheffler I Used to be a Snazzy Bird, But Now I’m a Lame Duck My Old Mother, Her Eastern European Caregivers and I More than four million elderly people in need of care live in the German-speaking regions. In most cases, their sons and daughters assume responsibility and decide what...

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How to Build a Castle from Ruins

Dörte Maack How to Build a Castle from Ruins The Story of How I Went Blind and Regained My Joy in Life Dörte Maack leads the life of a dazzling circus performer – until she is blindsided with the diagnosis of an incurable eye disease. She makes two plans: A: Not to become blind. B: If she does, she...

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Beautiful in a Different Way

Ilka Brühl Beautiful in a Different Way How I Learned to Love Myself Ilka Brühl looks different. She was born with a facial cleft, which is a malformation of the nose, forehead and eyes. As a child, she was berated as a witch. As a young woman, she withdrew from the world and struggled with her...

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The Woman Beyond the Veil

Karoline Roscher-Lagzouli The Woman Beyond the Veil My Path into Salafism and Back Out Again After growing up as an atheist, Karoline Roscher-Lagzouli converted to Islam in her twenties due to a lifelong fascination with Islam. For several years, she was part of a conservative Salafi community. In...

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Late Storm

Thomas Seiterich Late Storm A Story of Love and Resistance in the Third Reich Two young Nazi resisters – the students Charlotte Wolfskehl and Hans Kühner – fall in love on the eve of the Second World War. Both have a beacon in their Munich lives: the German-Jewish poet Karl Wolfskehl, who is...

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Not an Isolated Case

Chrstiane Florin Not an Isolated Case How Heinz Survived a Catholic Children’s Home At the age of six, Heinz was sent to a Caritas home in 1965. He fell into the hands of a sadistic preschool teacher and a sexually violent priest. He was defencelessly exposed to abuse and mistreatment as an orphan....

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Parenting

Parenting Fear Growing Up in Uncertain Times and How We Can Help Our Children Face the World with Courage  Elisabeth Raffauf Further details Love Is Colorful A Guide for Parents of Homosexual and Bisexual Children Udo Rauchfleisch Further details The Coach from the Children’s Room How My Daughter...