As of: April 5, 2024, 9:54 a.m
By: Carina Blumenroth
New books are constantly coming onto the market. Are you looking for new releases in April? Here you will find a selection.
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Whether for distraction, to dream away or to learn – many people like to pick up books. Do you want to give a book fan a gift and don't know what to get because there is too high a risk that the person has already read the book? How about new releases? Then you are on the safe side. These four books will be released in April.
New releases in April: Claire Léost “The summer where it all began”
New books are constantly coming onto the market. Here is a selection. (Symbolic image) © Zoonar.com/Yuri Arcurs/Imago
Three women, three generations, three stories? The book “The Summer Where It All Began” is about the lives of Hélène, Marguerite and Odette, whose lives are intertwined. The setting is in the northwestern end of France.
Hélène is sixteen and lives in a small village in rocky Finistère. She loves her harsh homeland, her boyfriend Yannick and the peaceful village life. But the arrival of Marguerite, the new elegant French teacher from Paris, and her husband Raymond, a charming writer with writer's block, shakes everything up. Hélène feels attracted to Raymond, while Marguerite secretly looks for her mother, who is said to come from this area. And then there is Odette, widow and village shop owner, whose father was murdered during the German occupation. She was sent to Paris in the 1940s, where she was raped as a housemaid, had to give up the child and only returned to her home village years later. The lives of these three women are closely intertwined and lead to the roots of Breton history.
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Claire Léost “The Summer Where It All Began”
Translated by Stefanie Jacobs and Jan Schönherr.
April 11, 2024 Kiepenheuer&Witsch, ISBN: 978-3-462-00387-1
Price: 22.00 euros hardcover, 5.99 e-book, 240 pages
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Claire Fuller “Jeanie and Julius”
Selling what you grow in the garden, keeping yourself afloat with odd jobs - that's the life of the siblings Jeanie and Julius. But it's not that simple:
Wiltshire, in the southwest of England: The twins Jeanie and Julius live with their mother Dot on the edge of society in a crooked cottage. Jeanie cannot read or write; in the village she sells what she grows in her wild garden. Julius fights his way through with odd jobs. Their life is simple, they don't have much, but what they have is theirs. But then Dot dies and secrets about the cottage, their father and Jeanie's weak heart come to light, robbing the twins' lives of their simplicity.
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Claire Fuller “Jeanie and Julius”
Translated by Andrea O'Brien.
April 15, 2024 Kjona, ISBN: 978-3-910372-23-8
Price: 25.00 euros hardcover, approximately 388 pages
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Kathy Reich's "The Hand of Death"
A new thriller from the Tempe Brennan novels will be released in April. The focus is on the forensic anthropologist of the same name and a case that takes on large dimensions. It is the 22nd volume in the series:
A series of bizarre murder cases leads forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan to the Caribbean Turks and Caicos Islands. Are the gruesomely mutilated bodies of young American tourists linked to gang violence? The deeper Tempe investigates, the more disturbing the case takes on. And suddenly she finds herself at the center of a conspiracy that could cost hundreds of lives...
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Kathy Reich's "The Hand of Death"
Translated by Klaus Berr.
April 24, 2024 Heyne, ISBN: 978-3-453-27476-1
Price: 22.00 euros hardcover, 368 pages
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Mila Summers “Summer happiness in Villa Sehnsucht”
Do you want to prepare for your summer vacation in advance? How about a novel that takes place on the island of Rügen?
Lotte's offer from her grandmother to represent her at her hotel in Binz on Rügen is rather inconvenient. The Hamburg graphic designer takes on the position of hotel manager without any experience. Luckily, the good-looking caretaker Felix is at her side to help her deal with the pitfalls of the traditional house. At first he acts distant, but that only makes him more interesting. Lotte tries to find out his secret, while her grandmother is on the trail of a love from a long time ago.
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Mila Summers “Summer happiness in Villa Sehnsucht”
April 24, 2024 Fischer paperback, ISBN: 978-3-596-71002-7
Price: 13.00 euros paperback, 4.99 e-book, 320 pages
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