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port as promised. Contrary to the well-meant
advice from his best friend Paula, Ben decides
to stay in Los Angeles. »Happy endings only
exist in Hollywood«, says Paula who would definitely
prefer if Ben finally came back to Berlin.
»I am in Hollywood«, Ben replies. He doesn‘t
want to leave. He still sees a chance. And that
is how Ben‘s L.A. affair begins - and it doesn‘t
turn out quite the way he had expected it. But it
could have been worse.
Kathleen Winter: Annabel.
USA 2010, 465 pp., brochure, € 12.69
This debut novel is an
intimate portrait of the
family of a mixed-gendered
child born into a
remote, blue-collar seaside
town in Eastern
Canada. In 1968, into
the devastating, beautiful
landscape of Labrador,
a child is born: a
baby who appears to be
neither fully boy nor fully girl, but both at once.
Only three people are privy to the secret -
the baby‘s parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and
their trusted neighbor and midwife, Thomasina.
Though Treadway makes the difficult decision
to raise the child as a boy named Wayne, the
women continue to quietly nurture the boy‘s
female side. And as Wayne grows into adulthood
within the hypermasculine hunting society
of his father, his shadow-self, a girl he thinks
of as »Annabel«, is never entirely extinguished.
When Wayne finally escapes the confines of his
hometown and settles in St.John‘s, the anonymity
of the city grants him the freedom to confront
his dual identity.
John Green & David Levithan:
Will Grayson, Will Grayson.
USA 2010, 313 pp., hardbound, € 15.95
It‘s not that far from
Evanston to Naperville,
but Chicago suburbanites
Will Grayson and Will
Grayson might as well
live on different planets.
When fate delivers them
both to the same surprising
crossroads, the Will
Graysons find their lives
overlapping and hurtling
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in new and unexpected directions. One cold
night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago,
these two strangers meet. From that moment
on, their worlds collide and lives intertwine.
With a push from friends new and old - including
the massive, and massively fabulous, Tiny
Cooper, offensive lineman and musical theater
auteur extraordinaire - Will and Will begin building
toward respective romantic turns-of-heart
and the epic production of history‘s most awesome
high school musical.
K.M. Soehnlein: Robin and Ruby.
USA 2011, 295 pp., brochure, € 12.39
20-year-old, Robin Mak-
Kenzie is waiting for his
life to start. Then, one
hot June weekend, Robin
gets dumped by his boyfriend
and quickly hits the
road with his best friend
George to find his teenaged
sister, Ruby, who‘s
vanished from a party
at the Jersey Shore. For
years, the friendship with George has been
the most solid thing in Robin‘s life. But lately
there are glimpses of another George, someone
Robin barely knows and can no longer take for
granted. Ruby is on an adventure of her own,
dressing in black, declaring herself an atheist,
pulling away from the boyfriend she doesn‘t
love. Then a chance encounter puts Ruby in
pursuit of a seductive but troubled boy. As their
paths converge, Robin and Ruby confront the
sadness of their shared past and rebuild the
bonds that still run deep.
Paul Waters: The Philosopher Prince.
UK/CAN 2010, 374 pp., brochure, € 13.95
355 AD. In a late-Roman
world of ambitious
bureaucrats and powerhungry
courtiers, two
young friends from
Britannia, the young
nobelman Drusus and
his Roman lover Marcellus,
have fallen foul of
the emperor‘s authority.
Charged with treason by
their nemesis, the emperor‘s dark and terrifying
agent Paulus, they must face the might of the
corrupt Roman state. For Drusus and Marcel-