International rights 2014

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015

Brunnen Verlag Giessen and `fontis Brunnen Basel Rights List 2014/2015 If your are interested in receiving reading copies of the listed titles please contact: Mr Ralf Tibusek at ralf.tibusek@brunnen-verlag.de Ms Gabriele Herling at gabriele.herling@brunnen-verlag.de

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Tanja Schurkus

Sister Melissa

The Nun of Cologne. A Biographical Novel  Historical: Story of the former nun that made Spirit of Melissa a health product for the poor  Deconsecration: from being a Nun to being a Businesswoman Target group: readers who like historical novels based on real persons 240 pp.

Hard cover, 14 x 21 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-1804-1 € 14.99

During Napoleon‘s reign, monasteries throughtout Europe are secularized, among them the monastery where Maria Clementine Martin lives and works as a nun. In the battle of Waterloo, she cares for the wounded at the risk of her own life. Later, she moves to Cologne and makes use of her knowledge of healing herbs and medical care. Her „Spirit of Melissa“ becomes the medicine of the poor. The more sucess she has the greater becomes the inner conflict for the former nun who had made a pledge of poverty. What is God‘s plan for her future?

Historical Biographies

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Ursula Koch

Edith Stein

To Tell a Small, Simple Truth Biographical Novel  An important testimony for courage and honesty  An important topic for our times: the individual in the maelstrom of contemporary history Target group: All readers who are interested in exciting life’s stories

176 pp.

Soft cover, 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-4242-8 € 9.99

Edith Stein: Jewish intellectual and member of a Christian order. Born in 1891 in Breslau as the youngest of seven siblings, Edith loses faith in the God of her fathers early in life. At age 14 she calls herself an atheist – the search for the truth is the driving force in her life.

She studies philosophy. One of her teachers is Professor Edmund Husserl in Göttingen.

She wins intellectual acceptance but not the fulfillment she is searching for.

Ursula Koch portraits in her book a courageous and dedicated woman who stands up for her beliefs and is committed to the welfare of others: as an educationalist, a nurse in a military hospital, a feminist and member of a Christian order. She lived a life full of changes that ended in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Historical Biographies

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Hermann Jantzen

Far Away in Turkestan

The Dramatic Story of a German Mennonite  The autobiography of an unusual man

Target group: readers interested in biographies of missionaries

352 pp.

Soft cover, 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-4227-5 € 9.99

At age 14, Hermann Jantzen travels with his family to Central Asia. At age 17, he becomes a translator at the court of the Khan of Xiva. In the service of the Tsar and dressed as a Tatar, he barely foils an uprising in the Russian part of Turkestan. Just prior to the Russian Revolution, Kazakh rebels ask for his advice and he can stop a massacre. Under the rule of the Soviets, he is sentenced to death three times but can escape his captors …

Historical Biographies

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Brigitte Troeger

Seven Suitcases and a Pram

Memoirs of a Childhood in the Post-War-Era  A Childhood in the 40s and 50s of the 20th century  Gives many details that let this time come alive again Target group: readers of biographies, readers who are interested in this period

128 pp.

Soft cover, 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-4246-6 € 8.99

With seven children, seven suitcases and a pram, Brigitte Troeger‘s mother flees from the Sovjet occupied zone into the part of Germany controlled by the western allies. They find a new home with the grandparents. They can eat „good butter“ and drink „Lindeskaffee“ and receive care packages. The children take coal to school to heat the classroom.

Saturday is bathing day …

Now retired, Brigitte Troeger retuns to the place of her childhood and starts to remember many things she had long forgotten …

Historical Biographies

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Paula Köhler

Barley Coffee and Zoeschen Maple Honey The Memoirs of a Peasant Woman  Insights into times gone by  More than 80,000 copies sold Target group: women, readers of biographies and real life stories

112 pp.

Hard cover, 14 x 21 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-0894-3 € 9.95

Hard and not very comfortable – that was life in a small village in Upper Hesse at the beginning of the 20th century. And still, Paula Köhler does not want to miss one moment of these times. Inspite of all the hardships it was a good life – with its village festivals and the closeknit community. With heart and a lot of humor, the author relates stories for her children and grandchildren and all others who want to know what life was like in the old days …

Historical Biographies

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Wolfgang Seehaber

Eva Bildt, Helmut Gollwitzer’s Fiancée  The story of a great love during difficult times  Shows how Jews were restricted in living their lives during the Third Reich Target group: Women and men of all age groups; readers, who are interested in the history of active resistance during the Third Reich 400 pp.

Hard cover with jacket, 13.5 x 21 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-1814-0 € 16.99

Eva Bildt (1916–1945) is the daughter of a Jewess. Her father, a popular actor in the Third Reich, works at the Prussian National Theater, which is directed by Gustav Gründgens. The brave director guards those of his actors who are related to Jews against the prosecution of the Nazi State. But highly talented Eva – because of being of mixed race – may not pursue her dream job as singer and actress. When the befriended poet Jochen Klepper and his Jewish wife kill themselves, Eva is in despair. Her faith helps her to get over the worst doubts. Just as much as her love for the insurgent pastor Helmut Gollwitzer, to whom she becomes engaged …

Historical Biographies

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Uwe Siemon-Netto

Duc, the German

My Vietnam. Why the Wrong Side Won  Vietnam reporter for Axel Springer SE (one of the largest multimedia companies in Europe).  Poignant memoirs of a highly gifted journalist.  Foreword by Peter Scholl-Latour.

Target group: Readers who are interested in history / political geography / East Asia / Marxism-Leninism / media science; Christians who want to read about one of the few Christians in the secular media. Lovers of memoirs.

288 pp.

Soft cover, 13.5 x 20.5 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-2024-2 € 15.99 Rights are sold for the following languages: English and Vietnamese English review copy available

Uwe Siemon-Netto’s memoirs are a declaration of his love for the South Vietnamese people. For 5 years, the reporter and professing Christian reported as journalist about this oppressed people, who nicknamed him “Duc” (the German). In this book he describes them humorously and passionately and outlines how they both loved and suffered. He presents us with the cruel fate of those who fall victim to their communist “liberators” and courageously states: The wrong side won. With regard to Afghanistan he poses the agonizing question: Are western democracies on political and psychological levels unable to win a long guerrilla war?

Historical Biographies

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Albrecht Kaul

In Consequence of Disturbing the Socialist Peace

Christians in the German Democratic Republic

 Moving testimonies of coping with adversity and persecution as Christians in a Communist Society  Great examples for the Power of Faith Target group: readers who are interested in biographies and European history 128 pp.

Hard cover, 14 x 21 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-1781-5 € 11.99

Betrayed by a friend to the State Security Service. Sentenced to penal servitude in Siberia at age 19. First a ringleader now an honorary citizen. Made an enemy of the state while still in school but against all odds she managed to study medicine.

The 14 stories of Christians that Albrecht Kaul presents here are as different as only life can be.

In the German Democratic Republic, all of them were pressured or threatend because of their Christian Faith. They were spied on or incarcerated. But they experienced God‘s help and even miracles.

Historical Biographies

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Cornelia Haverkamp (Ed.)

Footprints – Traces in My Life Personal Stories  Well-known Poem

 Shows how the poem „Footprints“ influenced people Target group: Fans of the Poem „Footprints“

Fifty years ago, Margaret Fishback Powers wrote the well-loved and well-known poem „Footprints“. Men and women relate their „history“ with the poem.

96 pp.

Hard cover, 14 x 21 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-0906-3 € 9.99

Biographies

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Katharina Suppan

I Hate Lukewarm My 180-Degree-Story

 If the woman Jesus met at Jacob‘s well in Samaria lived today – this would be her story  An uncompromising search for acceptance, happiness and love  Female readers can identify with the longings of the author Target group: Readers who enjoy real life stories 192 pp.

Hard cover, 14 x 21 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-0904-9 € 14.99

To be the odd (wo)man out is nothing new for Kathi. Inspite of all her efforts, she is not accepted at school. But one day, she shows everyone what she has got. Together with Flip, the punk with the Mohican haircut, she leaves her boring village. She meets Flip‘s friends, discovers drugs and what a police station looks like on the inside. And then the downward spiral starts. She begins a relationship with the much older George in the hope of having a real home. But she never finds what she is looking for … until she discovers God. Biographies

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Klaus Deckenbach / Miram Hurler

Across The World

Five Years Without A Return Ticket  Insights into the life of a journeyman  Describes encounters with people from many different cultures Target group: readers of biographies and real life stories

208 pp.

Hard cover, 14 x 21 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-0896-7 € 14.99

The young craftsman Klaus Deckenbach decides to follow the old tradition of journeyman. With little money in his pocket he starts out, wants to gain experience in life and job. His journey leads him through Europe, Africa and the Near East. He spends nights with homeless people in public restrooms and makes furniture for the High Society in South Africa. He falls in love several times, suffers from worms and malaria and a nightly invasion of ants into his tent. He experiences life threatening dangers and ends up in prison … The trip turns his life around. A thrilling life story and an unsual way to God.

Biographies

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Helma Bielfeldt / Romy Schneider

Helma – if you hit the break you loose The Story of a Radical Turnabout

 An unbelievable conversion story along the lines „from Saul to

Paul“  Insights into the Biker scene

Target group: readers of true stories, Christians, Bikers

192 pp.

Hard cover, 14 x 21 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-0907-0 € 14.99

Helma grows up in a loveless home in northern Germany. Soon, she learns to get respect through her fists. As the president of her own Biker Club she has finally reached the pinacle of power. But on the inside she feels dark and empty. Only when she meets the love of her life and finds God, her life makes a radical turnabout …

Biographies

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Irene Günther / Katharina Weyandt

Home Is Where God Wants Us To Be

The Unusual Story of A Courageous Family  A story of trusting God and risking everything

 The unusual experiences of a normal woman

Target group: readers, especially women, who enjoy moving true stories 160 pp.

Hard cover, 14 x 21 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-1805-8 € 12.99

Irene, a nurse, falls in love with the attractive Joseph: that is the start of an exciting family story. Putting their trust in God, the two risk everything, leaving behind steady jobs and the rented house. And they see God doing miracles in their lives. Their love for others, their courage and hope inspire others.

Their biggest project: founding a Christian Family Center in Hainichen, Saxony with „Youth with a Mission“. Costs: 300,000 Euro. Their capital: nothing buth faith …

A fascinating story – honest and full of humor.

Biographies

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Anja Cornelis

Suddenly I knew Why

A Hopeful Story of Inner Healing  Fascinating and honest account of a strong woman  Offers hope to women in similar situations Target group: women, readers of moving real life stories

144 pp.

Soft cover, 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-4235-0 € 9.99

Anja Cornelis seems to have it all. She is sucessfull in her job and well-liked. If life would just go on that way! But then Peter Mueller starts to work in her department and Anja dislikes him on sight without knowing why. They have never met before but she can‘t stand it when he comes close to her. Anja starts to have nightmares. She has to do something or she will go crazy.

She relates how she starts to dig into her memories. Bit by bit it becomes apparent that she was sexually abused when she was very young. She reaches a point where she is seriously considering suicide. But then she remembers God‘s promise: „Call upon me in the day of trouble …“ Step by step she uncovers the truth and with the help of God and her future husband she can forgive the perpetrator.

Biographies

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Raphael Müller

I’m flying with torn wings  A great tool to understand the world view of people with autism or other disablements  Faith from a new perspective  True Life Story Target group: Readers of all ages interested in people with autism and how they see the world.

ca. 192 pp Soft cover with flaps, 13 x 20.5 cm ISBN 978-3-03848-008-2 € 10.99

Something like this has been rarely seen, heard and read before: This book was written by a now 14-year old boy. Because of an prenatal stroke, Raphael is a boy with autism and epilepsy, he can’t talk, but he can utter sounds. He is profoundly disabled and sits in a wheelchair since his birth, but has an enormous IQ, believes in God and could – without anyone teaching him and without anyone knowing – already read and write as a toddler.

Until the age of 6 everyone believed him to be “dumb”. Thanks to assisted writing he now writes poems and whole novels since he is 7 years old, goes to secondary school and sometimes attends the university of Augsburg where he is regularly “interviewed” by the students. Everyone is in awe. We are too. His book is wonderful, it is an account of another, unknown world. They are texts out of a parallel universe, striking, close, existential. Rarely could someone build a bridge like this. A revelation!

Biographies

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Dan Izzett with Daniel Gerber

One Man, One Leg: Dan Izzett!

A Bearer of Hope for Many People – in Spite of Leprosy  Story from the point of view of a person affected by leprosy  Today one of the most important fighters against leprosy. He encourages many Target group: Everyone interested in strong life-stories and in the consequences of and the fighting against leprosy 256 pp., with 8 colored photo pages Soft cover, 13.5 x 20.5 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-2025-9 € 13.99

One man, one leg: Dan Izzett! One leg amputated, the foot of the other leg, the arms and hands insensitive, the spiritual need profound: Dan Izzett reports – from the point of an affected person – on an illness which still arouses fear and rejection. Over decades, he kept his illness a secret – for fear of stigmatization and exclusion. Only his family was in the know about it. But this has changed! Because despite his hindrance, Dan hasn't lost the zest for life. After his cure, Dan worked as a pastor in the east of Zimbabwe for years.

And until this day he commits himself to the international leprosy mission. Dan has a great aim: He wants to give sick people hope for their life after leprosy.

Biographies

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Georg Lehmacher

Fear not, we will come

Unbelievable Stories from the Rescue Service  Incredible and gripping stories.  Background information about the work of paramedics and emergency doctors Target group: Readers of all ages who are interested in the work of a paramedic. Readers of real life stories.

ca. 272 pp.

Soft cover with flaps, 13 x 20.5 cm ISBN 978-3-03848-005-1 € 12.99

For 30 years, Georg Lehmacher has been an honorary paramedic of the emergency medical service. But he began helping before that time: He came to a little rescue station in Friedberg as someone doing civilian service in 1982, when medical care and facilities were considerably worse than today. The consequence was that every staff member with only basic training had to carry more individual responsibility back then. In a time when Lehmacher turned his back on the Christian faith, he was confronted with extreme experiences which reformed his world view. “I experienced things where there was apparently no hope. Believe me: I learned to pray again.”

Biographies

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Regina Rosenkranz

Never Was I Worth As Much As Today Messages with Benefits

ďƒ˜ Encouraging messages are something that everybody needs Target group: women Often we hear or read sentenses that get stuck in our minds. They are messages from heart to heart. Regina Rosenkranz has collected 20 such messages and delivers them as part of inspiring stories.

96 pp.

Soft cover, 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-4245-9 â‚Ź 6.99

Biographies

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Marieluise Bierbaum

Marie – the Dark-eyed Girl  Colorful and gripping story-telling

 Shows rural customs at the end of the 19th century  Unique story – based on true events

Target group: women who enjoy gripping and moving historical novels

160 pp.

Hard cover, 14 x 21 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-1631-3 € 12.99

Marie is not like the other members of her family living on the farm in a small village in Westphalia. She is warm-hearted, lively, loves music and finds it hard to be still. Everyone else in the village is blond with blue eyes, only Marie has black hair and warm brown eyes.

Even spiritually, she takes a different path. She joins the believers that meet at Mother Schulten‘s house. There the focus is on personal faith and joy in God. Her family is very suspicious of this way of practicing Christianity.

One day, a family secret is unearthed. A story that is only known by her grandfather. This story has to do with an old wooden box containing a fiddle …

Historical Fiction

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Ursula Schröder

Who Calculates on Love?

A Novel

 Witty dialogues, entanglements and comical situations

Target group: Women who love novels with a lot of humor sprinkled with a pinch of Faith 336 pp.

Soft cover, 13.8 x 20.8 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-2022-8 € 12.99

Help me! My boss has problems! And they are not the kind that can be solved through an accounting treatment. The marriage of Jenny‘s charming boss Simon is in trouble. The break room rumor is that Jenny has something to do with it. But she just wanted to help him. Suddenly, everything is going in an unplanned direction, and Jenny and Simon‘s funloving brother Daniel have to deal with unexpected problems. And now, there are two men pursuing Jenny …

Fiction

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Melvin J. Sandström

The Intruder A Novella

 Excellently structured allegory  Moving and challenging  Speaks to both the head and the soul

Target group: Readers of all ages, Christians as well as those interested in the Christian Faith 208 pp.

Hard cover, with jacket, 13.5 x 21 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-1820-1 € 12.99

A stranger appears to an old man, a theology professor, a blind girl, a bishop, a preacher of the prosperity gospel and a prostitute in a bar. He enters their lives, asks uncomfortable questions – and reveals himself as being Jesus.

The Intruder is theological fiction enriched with historical events, which transfers Dostoevsky’s famous text “The Grand Inquisitor” into the 21st century. Jesus appears incognito to see whether he finds faith on earth or not. In the meetings – which are mysteriously interwoven into each other – not just the six main protagonists but also the readers themselves will start to ask: What would I do if Jesus would appear today?

Fiction

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Ursula Koch

Everyday Angel Short Stories

 Witty and inspiring entertainment

Target group: women who like short, inspirational stories

64 pp., Soft cover, 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-4220-6 € 5.99

Sometimes, you‘ll find him sitting on the edge of the bed or riding shotgun. He‘ll whisper in your ear or remain ominously silent … He is the Everyday Angel. Right on hand when he is needed, especially when the going gets tough. But he also questions beloved habits and reminds you of what is really important.

Ursula Koch‘s stories introduce a friendly heavenly messenger who manages to keep faith, joy and serenity afloat in the stormy sea of everyday life.

Fiction

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Ulrike Strätling / Petra Ottkowski

Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter

Stories of the Seasons for Reading to Dementia Patients  The books by Ulrike Strätling have sold over 100,000 copies altogether  The stories are field tested

44 pp.

Hard cover, 4-color illustrations, 24.5 x 24.5 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-1686-3 € 14.99

There are several stories for every season in this lovingly illustrated book. They deal with cutting grass, baking pancakes oder building snowmen – actions that are familiar to dementia patients.

Artist Petra Ottkowski has especially painted the pictures that compliment the stories and has included many details that can be discovered together.

Fiction

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Volker Linhard

In the Tomb of the Pharao / The Cry from the Cistern An Interactive Journey into the Past

 Single volumes sold more than 20,000 copies  The book can be read from the front and the back Target group: children age 9-14 On vacation in Egypt. On a school trip to Berlin … and suddenly you are transported back in time. You meet the Egyptian Prince Moses, and meet the enslaved Israelites. You get to know Jospeh and his jealous brothers who sold him into slavery.

In these interactive books, the reader decides how the story will go on.

320 pp., b/w-illustrations Soft cover, 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-4244-2 € 9.99

Juvenile Fiction

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Bettina Poock

Sasha – The Treasure of the Old Abbey  Boarding School setting  Shows the young readers the effects of alcohol abuse in their age group Target group: boys and girls from age 10-12

224 pp.

Soft cover, 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-4222-0 € 9.99

13-year-old Sasha is thrilled. In the boarding school library, she browses through an old book and finds an inconspicious note saying that there is a treasure hidden in the cellar of the former abbey that houses the school. Together with her friend Paul, she goes on a treasure hunt. But someone does not want them to succeed …

What they find is not a treasure but a store of alcohol hidden by one of their fellow students …

Juvenile Fiction

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Tanja Jeschke

With illustrations by Constanze Spengler

Paulina from the Pumpkin Street  Stories explain Church traditions and rituals throughout the year Target group: Children from 7 to 9 and their parents.

128 pp.

Hard cover, 18.5 x 24.4 cm, with many b/w illustrations ISBN 978-3-03848-016-7 € 12.99

Paulina is 8 years old and lives in the Pumpkin Street. The twelve stories in this book form a garland of lights with the yearly Church festivals as the string. On January, 6 for example, the “Three Wise Men” come to visit and eat pasta in Paulina’s kitchen. And during Lent Paulina refrains from riding her bike to school, but walks instead, whereas her sister confuses “fasting” with loosing weight and doesn’t want to eat supper anymore.

What is it with all the customs and festivities of the church year? What does Good Friday mean when Paulina’s aunt dies? What is it with Easter when the thing with forgiveness doesn’t go so well? Paulina is alert and asks questions. She wants to know whether the Christian life and faith forms are real and hold up. And she finds out that the faith in God has a lot to do with her life as a child.

Juvenile Fiction

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Carlo Meier

With illustrations by Matthias Leutwyler

The Kaminski-Kids: Hit and Run  16th volume of the youth book series!  Addresses up to date, well researched issues.  Recommended by pedagogues and official youth works.

Target group: Kids and teens between 9 and 15. Ideal for youth groups and school classes. Because every volume contains a complete story, it can be read without knowing the others.

176 pp.

Hard cover, 13.5 x 21 cm, with many b/w illustrations ISBN 978-3-03848-017-4 € 12.99

Maik is the victim of a hit and run accident. The driver disappears unrecognized. The Kids get to know him later, when he is already bound to a wheelchair. The question who did this to him badgers him and the Kids. The police soon dismissed the investigation because the trail ran cold. With Maik’s support, the Kids reinvestigate the case. And soon they find clues that the Police weren't aware of. Will they manage to find the culprit?

This book is like all other Kaminski-Kids adventures thoroughly researched by the author.

He questioned the police and also received support from someone mastering everyday obstacles in a wheelchair.

Juvenile Fiction

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Carlo Meier

The Kaminski-Kids: Short Story 1 / 2

Mega-Trouble! / When push comes to shove  Especially recreated for emerging readers and latecomers  Addresses up to date, well researched issues.  Recommended by pedagogues and official youth works.  Interactive material, b/w pictures.

Each volume: 100 pp.

Soft cover, 12 x 19 cm, with many b/w illustrations € 6.99 ISBN 978-3-03848-019-8 (SS1) ISBN 978-3-03848-020-4 (SS2)

These two early volumes of the Kaminski-Kids were especially recreated for emerging readers and older Kids who have problems with reading. The chapters are short, and in between there are questions, abstracts of what happened until that point, and also puzzle pictures and such.

Juvenile Fiction

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Susanne Wittpennig

Maya and Domenico: Love Heals Many Wounds  Plenty of feedback from the readership.  Exciting youth fiction, splendid entertainment.  Vol. 1 to 8 sold over 270,000 times.

Target group: Teenagers (especially girls) and young women, who are interested in exciting, true-to-life and extraordinary stories.

Great as a gift.

384 pp.

Soft cover, 12 x 19 cm ISBN 978-3-03848-001-3 € 11.99 Rights are sold for the following languages: Dutch

Wintertime. And Maya is on her way to Norway. She wants to see Domenico one last time before he will surely vanish from her life. Her heart is stirred up by a thousand agonizing questions. Questions that need answers. How could a deep friendship like this break apart? Whose fault was it? How will they go on? Can the break be mended? What will happen to Domenico, what will happen to her?

For the time being, their ways part after a touching good-bye at their old street light. With no hope left, Maya looks for new goals: Should she stay in Berlin or return to her old hometown? Should she study medicine? And how can she build her life as a single?

Should she look for a new love? But can anyone ever take the place of Domenico? Step by step Maya takes her life into her own hands and finds her way. Until one day her life is turned upside down by a call from Sicily ...

Juvenile Fiction

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Martina Kessler / Michael Hübner

Profiting From Criticism Without Being Hurt  Well founded and easy to read

Target group: all those who have to accept criticism on the job, at church or at home, people in leadership positions 112 pp.

Soft cover, 13.8 x 20.8 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-2019-8 € 9.99

Criticism has manly a negative connotation. It is not something that we love to receive.

But very often, criticism is important and justified but poorly presented. And there is criticism that is neurotic and wrong.

Martina Kessler and Michael Hübner show how to differentiate between justified and wrong criticism and the positive effect good criticism can have on your personal development.

Non Fiction

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Uwe Schulz

Just One More Door

Last Conversations at the Threshold of Death  Serious conversation about the meaning of life  Difference between a believer and an agnostic close to death Target group: Reader of all ages interested in life before and after death.

ca. 200 pp.

Soft cover, 13 x 20.5 cm ISBN 978-3-03848-009-9 € 12.99

Death is one of the most talked about taboos of the present age: On one side it seems to happen in a parallel world: in hospital beds, on palliative stations and in hospices. On the other side death is a spectacular part of everyday culture: dramatized in murder mysteries, distributed in the news, popularized in first-person shooter games, trivialized with stylish clothes. Repression has given way to a “talkativeness of death”, which leaves us alone with the question how we want to encounter our own ending. This book confronts us with questions that death asks us: What happens after death? What can the dying hope or believe? 18 people discuss these questions because they face death. The dying and the terminal carer, believer, agnostics and sceptics – they all tell interviewer and journalist Uwe Schulz what they are moved by. And at the same time they ask us: What is the meaning of life? Which goals do we have? What is important? And what is it with the faith in resurrection?

Non Fiction

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Christian Pestel

Your Faith Has Healed You

Healing in the New Testament and Today  Balanced and biblically founded view on a controversial topic  Helpful for all who are interested in this topic

Target group: all those who are interested the topics of sickness and healing 128 pp.

Soft cover, 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-4224-4 € 7.99

One of the great mysteries of life is sickness. Why do some get sick and others don‘t? How is that compatible with God‘s love? Didn‘t Jesus heal all sick? What can I do to be healed? „Healing“ is a topic with many false perceptions. Based on the biblical accounts, Christian Pestel gives an unemotional and practical orientation for people longing to be healed, people praying for the sick and counselors.

Non Fiction

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Jörg Kailus

The Trouble Making Monk A Short History of the Reformation

 An entertaining and lively depiction of the Reformation Time  Historically sound, with an introductory story into each chapter

Target group: readers interested in history, especially the time of the reformation 336 pp.

Soft cover, 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-4225-1 € 12.99

This monk was looking for a merciful God and wanted to know everything to a T … and that caused a lot of trouble.

Jörg Kailus brings to life the world of the late Middle Ages and the time of the Reformation. He tells about the burning of heretics and the sales of letters of indulgence and how a number of very ordinary disputation hypotheses from a Professor of Theology from Wittenberg changed the world. Every chapter opens with a fictitious story that offers insights into the period under discussion.

Non Fiction

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Horst Afflerbach / Ralf Kaemper / Volker Kessler

Live The Good Life 15 Virtues Rediscovered

 Virtues are having a renaissance  Every virtue is described in a compact and motivating way Target group: people in leadership positions, everyone interested in the topic

144 pp.

Soft cover, 13.8 x 20.8 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-2028-0 € 11.99

Virtues are being rediscovered and gain a new relevance. They are sorely missed in many celebrities and politians. Do you want to do what is right? And not because you have to but because it is the good and right thing to do? As evey good thing comes from God, virtues can be called the language of heaven: Wisdom – Righteousness – Courage – Prudence – Humility – Brotherly Love – Love of Enemies – Willingness to Forgive – Faithfulness – Courtesy – Hospitality – Generosity – Frugality – Thankfulness – Simplicity – Hope.

Non Fiction / Christian Living

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Ulrich Giesekus

Love that Succeeds and Survives Daily Routine  Realistic and field-tested  Nice and short, concentrating on the basics

Target group: couples at the beginning as well as further along in their relationship 128 pp.

Soft cover, 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-4221-3 € 7.99

A stable relationship helps both partners to develop their personalities, says Ulrich Giesekus. Marriage is the perfect framework where this can happen.

He discusses topics from everyday life and also „hot potatoes“ in short chapters, keeping it open, realistic, encouraging and practical.

Non Fiction / Christian Living

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Regula Lehmann

The MarriageDisplay-Book

77 Thoughts and Quotes for Life as a Couple  Fresh layout and handy format  Short and inspirational thoughts and quotes ca. 80 pp.

Spiral binding, 14.5 x 10 cm ISBN 978-3-03848-006-8 € 9.99

Target group: Men and women who want to work at their marriage. Great as a gift.

Whoever risks the adventure of marriage, risks a leap into the dark. The graduate social worker, ethicist, wife and mother Regula Lehmann has one goal with her collection of thoughts and quotes: She wants to support couples to work confidingly and with a pinch of ease at their relationship. To take a break once in a while, to look into each others eyes, to rediscover each other and to be able to laugh about slip-ups and the comedy of daily life? Yes, this “Marriage-Display” is exactly for this purpose! Strong texts and inspiring pictures out of the everyday life of couples turn this book into a valuable companion for the most important and most beautiful of all adventures. Growing together, loving deeper, forgiving willingly and starting new every day, enjoying closeness and intimacy, overcoming hard times together – the “Marriage-Display” wants to reassure and show new ways.

Non Fiction / Christian Living

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Bernhard Meuser

Being a Christian for Beginners  No spiritual clichés or hard to understand churchyness Target group: Readers of all ages who are new or near to the Christian faith and want to know more about what it means to be a Christian.

Revised edition, ca. 316 pp.

Hard cover with jacket, 13 x 20.5 cm ISBN 978-3-03848-003-7 € 12.99

“The Christian faith takes nothing and gives everything” (Pope Benedikt XVI.). Is that true?

Is it reasonable and fulfilling to believe? Or will believing lead you to a brushwood of irrational dogmas and abstruse demands?

Bernhard Meuser doesn’t avoid these questions. He explains the thing about Jesus to the modern man, how faith works and what we can receive from it, shortly, distinctly and without grandiloquence. While doing so, he resorts to a 1500 year old powerful text by the monk Benedict of Nursia. With his “tools of the spiritual craft” Benedict of Nursia offers 74 practical tools for Beginners in the Christian faith. Meuser puts these tools to the test.

He illuminates the meaning, the beauty and the ethical power of faith so freshly and directly that the reader is touched by this traditional power, which always won the best minds in its 2,000 year old history.

Non Fiction / Christian Living

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Renate und Georg Lehmacher

The Little Frustration Extinguisher  Great gift  Spiritual helper for the everyday life Target group: Reader of all ages who are always on the run and often in the danger of forgetting the little things.

Great for someone who doesn’t like to read a lot.

24 pp.

Hard cover plus 8 cards in a box, ca. 13 x 13 cm ISBN 978-3-03848-014-3 € 9.99

It is often not the big things that make a day worse, but the small moments of frustration which keep on smouldering. “The little frustration extinguisher” meets these frustrations with spiritual extinguishing agents: for example with humour – because hidden in humour is the ability to accept and forgive the little weaknesses in us and in others. Or with wisdom, because wisdom is a form of love for life, where you can take the good and leave the bad. Or with thankfulness, because thankfulness opens the eyes for the beauty in our own life and in creation.

Non Fiction / Christian Living

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Regula Lehmann & Pascal Gläser With illustrations by Claudia Weiand

Rocket Ready for Take-off!  Great guide for young boys

 With many illustrations

Target group: Parents of preadolescent boys and the boys themselves. Also youth workers.

96 pp.

Soft cover, 18.5 x 24.4 cm ISBN 978-3-03848-015-0 € 13.99

Boys have to find their way in a complex and heavily sexualized world. To prepare them shortly before they're entering puberty for the challenges of growing up is the goal of this book. It emerged from the cooperation of graduate social worker, wife and mother Regula Lehmann and the sex pedagogue, philosopher and theologian Pascal Gläser. Claudia Weiand illustrated the book in a way that is appreciated by boys and in this she opens ways into issues that boys from 10 to 13 are mostly uncomfortable with and which they find embarrassing. Contents like “searching for identity”, “dealing with feelings”, “communication” as well as the chapter “Best friends: God and you” put the book into a holistic context. Boys should be able to know the facts: about themselves, and also about girls in puberty. As results from brain research show, preadolescence is the best time to approach boys with these issues in a humorous and age-appropriate way.

Non Fiction / Christian Living

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Reinhard Deichgräber

His Life Was Not In Vain A Voice For Those Who Failed

 A true story is related as an example for many  Failure is a topic that concerns many but is not often talked about Martin died at age 48 from an intestinal rupture. Eating was his joy and addiction. If he had been healed, his story would have been written about in books and magazines. But Martin was not healed. Is he a failure worth mentioning only as an deterring example?

Reinhard Deichgräber was Martin‘s counselor. He describes the spiritual ways he walked along with Martin, all the questions about why he was not healed, the challenges and the failures. And as a counselor he helps us to see deeper into the life of a believer who did not experience God‘s healing hand.

64 pp.

Soft cover, 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-5464-3 € 4.95

Non Fiction / Spirituality

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Hartmut Bärend

Growing and Maturing in Faith Aspects of Dicipleship

 Encouragment to live your faith consistently

Target group: Christian who are interested in the topics of Growth and Maturity in Faith 96 pp.

Soft cover, 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-5463-6 € 6.95

Growing and maturing in Faith – that‘s something every Christian aspires to. Spiritual growth does not mean to know the right doctrines or to behave in a certain way. Spiritual growth depends on following Jesus. Is he the center of our lives and do we allow him to fill our hands?

Non Fiction / Spirituality

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Leo Bigger

Eagle Eye

A Book about Vocation, Vision and Focus  Refreshing, humorous language, yet thoughtful.  Passionately written, in an uncomplicated style.

Target group: Christians of all ages, but particularly the young, visually-driven generation from age 17 up 160 pp., fully illustrated Soft cover, 20.5 x 26 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-5229-8 € 14.99

The Eagle is a powerful bird distinguished by its vigorous flight, its wide field of vision and its keen eyesight. It is emblematic of a clear vision, focus and strength. The Bible often uses the image of the Eagle to help people to look at their lives from a divine perspective.

Bigger encourages his readers to stick to their vision and their focus. They are like an Eagle, which never gives up, but always comes back from depths to soar at high altitudes again. Because God holds far more in store for them than they could ever think and dream of.

Non Fiction / Spirituality

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Reinhold Ruthe

You Talk To Me

Daily Encouragements  Answers in the Bible easily accessible  Great gift Target group: Christians who want to grow in their relationship with God

ca. 388 pp.

Flex cover, 13 x 19.2 cm ISBN 978-3-03848-012-9 € 14.99

Where do we find support, orientation, encouragement and assurance in the everyday hustle and bustle? With whom can we rest? Who gives us the answers we need? Reinhold Ruthe’s devotional book invites us to look to our creator for answers. Because: He talks to us! He gives us reliable, binding and lasting impulses in his word for every moment of our existence. In this way can we discover the relevance of God’s word for our life. We like to be changed by someone who is nothing less than the way, the truth and the life.

The author describes 366 times with a bible verse and experiences of different kinds of people what advice and help the bible gives us and how we can be changed through it.

Every devotion ends with an exemplary answer in prayer as an inspiration for a conversation with God.

Non Fiction / Spirituality

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Werner Thiede

The Truth Is Exclusive

Disputes of Interreligious Dialogue  Provides arguments for discussions of members of other religions  „Religion“ is a popular topic in societal discussion  Shows what the basis for interreligious dialogue can be

288 pp.

Soft cover, 13.8 x 20.8 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-9119-5 € 30.00

Target group: Theologians, all those who have contact with members of other religions and want to talk about faith In our pluralistic society the different religions have to live together in peace and therefore keep the lines of communication open. But when you talk about religion, the question of truth becomes vitally important. Members of a specific religion stand for a certain claim of truth and they have to reflect their point of view in the light of the beliefs of their discussion partners. Werner Thiede explains the background of interreligious dialogue and then covers questions for the various religions.

Theology

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Klaus Jürgen Diehl

Father, Son and Holy Spirit

The Apostles‘ Creed Explained For Today  Shows readers of today what the Apostles Creed contains Target group: Christians, all those who want to know more about the tenets of the faith

256 pp.

Soft cover, 13.8 x 20.8 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-2018-1 € 14.99

„Born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pointius Pilate“ – does a Christian have to believe that? And if so – what is the meaning behind these phrases?

Klaus Jürgen Diehl goes through every passage of the Apostles‘ Creed – after the Bible the second basis that connects the Christian Churches – and explains what they stand for and what the mean for life in the 21st century.

Theology

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Renate und Georg Lehmacher

ISBN 978-3-03848-022-8 ISBN 978-3-03848-023-5 Each volume: 44 pp., hard cover, 11.5 x 11.5 cm, € 6.99

 Modern, but warm-hearted design  A successful couple created and wrote the books Target group: Everyone who want to give joy and who enjoys good gift books

ISBN 978-3-03848-024-2

ISBN 978-3-03848-025-9

“Gift books are in fact book gifts. They are a success if they come from the heart. They have to have a personal touch, and give firstly secret joy to the giver. Beautiful gifts can’t be invented at the drafting table and be economically safe and sound. That’s the reason why there are so many gift book failures on the market. And that is also the only secret behind our many sold volumes. We enjoy our gift books, before we give them to anyone!”, says Georg Lehmacher, who designed gift books, non-books and displays for big German publishing houses – with more than 1,5 million copies sold.

The successful duo Renate and Georg designed and wrote now for 4 books with a modern, but still warm-hearted design. Books where you can see the joy that went into creating them.

Gift Books

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sheltered and Comforted Every Day 2015  70th anniversary of Bonhoeffer‘s Death in 2015  A good gift for Bonhoeffer fans  All quotations are taken from „The Psalms – Prayerbook of the Bible“

13 pp.

Fully illustrated calendar with spiral binding, 22 x 18 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-8065-9 € 11.99

Calendar

Brunnen Bestsellers 2014 - Fiction When the Coffee Grinder Went on Strike 128 pp., soft cover 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-4123-0 € 8.99 9th print run

Today We Are Going on A Picknick 144 pp., soft cover 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-4196-4 € 8.99 2nd print run

Sister Melissa 240 pp., hard cover 14 x 21 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-1804-1 € 14.99

Grandma‘s Cake is The Best 144 pp., soft cover 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-4155-1 € 8.99 5th print run

I Have Seen God 272 pp., hard cover 14 x 21 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-1757-0 € 14.95 7th print run Rights sold for English, Spanish

Never Was I Worth As Much As Today 96 pp., soft cover 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-4245-9 € 6.99

In Consequence of Disturbing the Socialist Peace 128 pp., hard cover 14 x 21 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-1781-5 € 11.99

Marie – The Dark-eyed Girl 160 pp., hard cover 14 x 21 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-1631-3 € 12.99

Footprints – Traces in My Life 96 pp., hard cover 14 x 21 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-0906-3 € 9.99

Brunnen Bestsellers 2014 – Non Fiction You‘ll Never Walk Alone 96 pp., soft cover 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-4218-3 € 4.99, 2nd print run New edition for European Soccer Championship in 2016 planned

Love That Succeeds and Survives Daily Routine 128 pp., soft cover 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-4221-3 € 7.99

Are You Still Running Or Have You Started Living?

80 pp., soft cover 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-3853-7 € 5.99 6th print run

Profiting From Criticism Without Being Hurt 112 pp., soft cover 13.8 x 20.8 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-2019-8 € 9.99

The Trouble Making Monk 336 pp., soft cover 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-4225-1 € 12.99

Father, Son and Holy Spirit 256 pp., soft cover 13.8 x 20.8 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-2018-1 € 14.99

His Life Was Not In Vain 64 pp., soft cover 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-5464-3 € 4.95

Live The Good Life 144 pp., soft cover 13.8 x 20.8 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-2028-0 € 11.99

If You Are Always The One Giving …

80 pp., soft cover 12 x 18.6 cm ISBN 978-3-7655-3798-1 € 5.95 7th print run

Brunnen International Rights 2014/2015 Brunnen Verlag Giessen 1919 1921 1943 1948 1970 1981 1994 1996 2000 2001 2002 2004 2009

Official foundation of the company Setting up of the Swiss partner company in Basel Ban of publishing work through the Nazi party NSDAP A new start for the publishing house after World War II Wilfried Jerke became managing director The enlargement of the publishing house was followed by the move into the present building 75th anniversary of the company Enlargement of the building to improve the service for our customers Enlargement of the building Detlef Holtgrefe became managing director Setting up of the logistic center ChrisMedia For the first time among the 100 biggest publishing houses in the German speaking area. Biggest protestant publisher in Germany (ranking “Buchreport” 2004).

90th anniversary of the company

Biographies ● Novels ● Short Stories ● Counseling ● Family ● Books for youngsters ● Children’s books and tapes ● CD-ROM ● Audio books ● Music ● Bibles ● Calendars ● Academic books ● Greeting cards ● Gift articles In 2014 we published about 400 new titles and new editions; we now have about 2,000 titles available altogether.

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Brunnen Verlag Giessen Gottlieb-Daimler-Str. 22 35398 Giessen, Germany Main line: +49 641-6059-0 Facsimile: +49 641-6059-100 www.brunnen-verlag.de E-Mail: info@brunnen-verlag.de Publisher/CEO Detlef Holtgrefe E-Mail: geschaeftsleitung@brunnen-verlag.de Director of Sales and Marketing Reinhard Engeln E-Mail: reinhard.engeln@brunnen-verlag.de Director of Production Eva Joneleit E-Mail: eva.joneleit@brunnen-verlag.de Accounting Department Thomas Sczigiol E-Mail: thomas.sczigiol@brunnen-verlag.de Editor Academic Books / Theology Uwe Bertelmann E-Mail: uwe.bertelmann@brunnen-verlag.de

Editor Adult Fiction Eva-Maria Busch E-Mail: eva.busch@brunnen-verlag.de Editor Children‘s and Gift Books Irmtraut Fröse-Schreer E-Mail: irmtraut.froese-schreer@brunnen-verlag.de Editor Adult Non Fiction Women Petra Hahn E-Mail: petra.hahn@brunnen-verlag.de Editor Adult Non Fiction Spirituality Renate Hübsch E-Mail: renate.huebsch@brunnen-verlag.de Editors Adult Fiction and Non Fiction Alexa Länge E-Mail: alexa.laenge@brunnen-verlag.de Konstanze von der Pahlen E-Mail: konstanze.pahlen@brunnen-verlag.de Editorial Manager / International Rights Gabriele Herling E-Mail: gabriele.herling@brunnen-verlag.de International Rights / Public Relations Ralf Tibusek E-Mail: ralf.tibusek@brunnen-verlag.de