Das deutsche Adelsgeschlecht von der Borch war nicht minder einflussreich und machtgierig als ihre italienischen Verwandten, die berühmten Borgia. An der Schwelle zwischen Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit kämpft Bernhard von der Borch, Landmeister des Deutschritterordens, in Livland um den Erhalt seiner Macht, er will einen neuen Kreuzzug ins Leben rufen – doch die Zeiten der Ritterlichkeit sind vorbei. Undiné Radzevičiūtė, in deren Adern das blaue Blut der Borchs fließt, folgt ihrer eigenen Familiengeschichte und erzählt fesselnd und gewitzt vom Kampf der letzten Ordensritter um ihre Vormachtstellung. Wird es Bernhard von der Borch gelingen, sich mit Putsch und Intrige in einer Welt zu behaupten, die bereits in Auflösung ist?

Stanisławów around 1900: a Galician town at the outskirts of the Habsburg Empire. Two sisters, Adelja and Stefa, "entwined in each other like two tree trunks", support each other, suffocate each other, grow up together. When Adelja marries Petro the stonemason, the entwinement turns into a triangle from which Stefa futilely tries to escape. When Torn the magician comes to town with his circus, Felix, a boy contortionist, who looks like an angel suddenly appears in Petro's workshop. The boy is mute, extremely flexible, and a fragile as paper. "The Paper Boy" is a rich story full of color and detail. It brings us closer to a long forgotten time as it tells a fascinating tale of love and betrayal.

Philine has a mom with a fickle love life and a bunch of changing dads. Instead of going to school she prefers going around the school and in water she turns into a fish. Then she also looses her foothold on land. After a breakdown, Philine moves to a quiet village, where she meets Planta – Planta-who-has-a-plan. Planta who serves her the best scrambled eggs ever at dawn and whose eyes are as blue as a shark pool. He shows her all there is to see, the highest and lowest places, and the bottle house at the lake, where everyone is welcome. Another life seems within reach, a happy, care-free life. But when winter comes and the bottle house commune breaks up, Philine decides not to break and holds on to everything that was, everything that wasn't, and everything that can't be held on to because it's somewhere between the lines and slips through your fingers like the quickest fish in the world: like everything you need to know.