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KLAUS D WAGNER
THE BOOKS
Something for everyone: historic fiction, thrillers, tragedies, music & poetic dramas, cultural satire, fantasy novels and children's books of course...
CHARLEMAGNE - The legendary king
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The Charlemagne Trilogy in one book
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• 1250 years of Carolus Rex •
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Einhard’s prudent reply to Charlemagne‘s question about truth in a biography simply was: ‘The truth, my blessed Lord, can be a beautiful or a terrible thing, and therefore must be treated with extreme caution. One man’s truth is another man’s lie.’
Many years later, when Einhard had finally finished Charlemagne’s biography and handed it over to Waldo, he said: ‘Half of writing history is hiding half of the truth. Which half is the big question. And, as my fellow scribe Godsbert once said, “Those who believe the past cannot be changed have not yet written a biography.”’
Waldo - Charlemagne's Priest
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A document written in Latin on sheepskin in the early middle ages verifies the donation of a Christian Church by a certain Waldo in Seeburg, a small village in southern Germany.
Charlemagne¹s Christianisation of the barbaric pagans during his reign was brutal enough.
It could have been far worse without Waldo, a more considered Christian, by his side.
Read about the historic, mythical resurrection of Charlemagne¹s life in this fascinating trilogy.
Godsbert - Charlemagne's Scribe
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Charlemagne and his childhood friend Waldo, promoted Godsbert to become one of their favourite scribes, not only to copy the Holy Scriptures, but to write a hagiography of their favourite teacher Othmar, who was the first Abbot of St. Gall, a Benedictine monastery in the early Middle Ages.
The pious Othmar lived a life of holy work and miracles, but was doomed to a tragic fate.
Read about the historic, fictional resurrection of Charlemagne¹s life in this compelling trilogy.
Carolus - Charlemagne's Life
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Charlemagne was obsessed with how history would judge and portray him. One of his greatest desires was to be counted among the just.
He asked his childhood friend and Imperial Abbot Waldo, to find the scribe who could best set his atrocities, committed against the medieval pagans, in a good light.
But did he succeed?
Read about the historic, fictional resurrection of Charlemagne¹s life in this intriguing trilogy.
PANGAIA - Thriller
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Though few would admit it, concealed deep in the hearts of many scientists is the belief that the human soul is not a supernatural spirit but a physical, organic entity hidden within each one of us.
In this profound and disturbing new thriller, two brilliant scientists share that belief - but they have very different ideas of what the mortal soul is made of, and where it resides in the human body. Both are on their own passionate, individual journeys of discovery, which take them into the deepest secret domains of nature - into the very heart of Earth¹s dark matter.
The two scientists are forced to rethink everything they have come to understand about the reality of life, and what it means to be human.
This astonishing quest of danger and discovery exposes a sinister hidden threat to the very survival of the human species. It also reveals the secret existence of the mortal human soul.
PURE SIN - Polemic Tragedy
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Can pure love be pure sin?
Father Franz Maschke, a Catholic priest and monk fell in love and sired a child with Karoline, his childhood sweetheart. Now they were in the same deep trouble as the Blessed Virgin Mary was, when she had to explain to her parents that she got pregnant by an angel.
Did the Maschkes manage to save the family¹s Christian honour?
PURE FIRE - Tragedy
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The soul is where dreams hide until the heart reveals them.
But does the pure fire of the heart, burn the soul?
Anton Dahede had two great dreams - to escape the life of a woodcutter in the dark forests of Southern Bohemia, and to settle in his beloved homeland with the beautiful woman he loved.
Pure fire shone brightly on one dream, but burned the other to ashes.
PURE ANGST - Tragedy
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Can pure angst be overcome?
“In the end, war does not determine who is right – only who is left,” the voice on the radio said.
Hildegard and several of her nursing colleagues who heard it exchanged glances that were equally desolate and distressed.
Each had loved ones away fighting in the war who they constantly prayed would be among those who are left.
The anguish and anxiety was relentless and almost unbearable because in the end they knew survival in war was a horrifying lottery and their prayers would have no bearing on who the winners and losers would be.
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A gratitude for fate, or a force of the universe, or some deity, or whatever it was that had brought Kurt to this point of survival and resurrection after WWII.
He knew his good luck to be a Prisoner of War with the Britts in Munster Lager was a precious gift, wherever it came from, and he would treasure it for the rest of his life.
PURE PASSION
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CAN PURE PASSION FOR LIFE CONQUER EVERYTHING?
Passion is what gives you boundless energy, intense almost single-minded focus and the willpower to overcome even the most daunting obstacles.
A passion gives you a reason to keep learning and to work toward mastery. It can often give you a reason to travel, and therefore to have the new experiences so key to happiness. It gives you something in common with other people, and so fosters social bonds. It gives you purpose in life.
Therefore, passion can help you attract other passionate people. And your passion can attract other passionate people to you too. This is why successful people have and make friends with other successful people.
This is one of the most important keys to success.
REVOLUTION #10 - Conspiracy Thriller
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‘Capitalism is killing this planet, that’s why we have to kill it first.’
The mantra of Neki Lin-Mao, a compelling character in Revolution#10. She stridently preaches this radical doctrine at a time when the world’s economic balance is about to be turned on its head.
The Chinese have embarked on an aggressive crusade to trigger a meltdown of the US financial system and take over as the world’s great economic superpower.
A hidden cohort of powerful people in the US Government decides enough is enough and launch a secret, but unofficial, counter-offensive.
Embroiled in this financial war between the US and China are two brilliant economists, one an American professor, Paul Sengasa, and the other a stunningly beautiful expatriate Chinese stockbroker, Jade King, who is celebrated on Wall Street as The Empress.
Sengasa is a whistle-blower who flees America to asylum in China. He and King work together in China to make the ponzi scheme Evolution#9 a reality and bring down the US economy.
However, all is not as it seems, and other sinister factors and forces conspire to turn both King’s and Sengasa’s lives into frightening and despairing ordeals.
At stake are not only their lives but the survival of capitalism itself.
YESHUA - Sacred Cantatas
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Yeshua was the first born son of Joseph the carpenter and his wife Mary of Nazareth. Every year they travelled to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover festival with family and friends. Once their son was 12 years old, they decided to take him with them.
After carrying out their religious duties at the Temple as usual, Mary and Joseph set off to return to Nazareth but soon realised that they left their son behind.
After a long search they found him in one of the Temple courtyards with a group of Rabbi teachers enthusistically asking them intricate questions about the Jewish Law.
Back in Nazareth life returned to normal at the carpenter¹s workshop until one day when Joseph became gravely ill. On his deathbed he instructed Yeshua to make this world a better place.
'Be the fisherman of souls by becoming the vessel for all their sins.'
Yeshua was overwhelmed with his father¹s wisdom and promised to uphold his wishes. And so the old man died and the story of the Chosen One begins.
Spreading the message of love became his calling.
GODSON - CARPENTER TO FISHERMAN
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'When the fullness of time came, God sent forth His son, born of a woman.' so Paul tells us in his letter to the Galatians.
What did God mean by 'son'? Paul doesn't say, exactly. But he does declare that God predestined all of us to adoption as His sons. (And daughters, presumably.)
Adoption by God is not a birthright. Only those who believe in the 10 Commandments will God adopt as His sons and daughters. (Paul was clear on that.)
We become children of God only by the grace of Devine adoption. Without that great and gracious gift from God we are just spawn of the Devil.
When God called Jesus His 'son' did he mean His actual offspring, or an adopted son? A Devine Godson, perhaps? Specially chosen? Or randomly selected, from all the world's sons of God?
But why Jesus of Nazareth and not Jerez of Necochea? Or Jayesh of Nizamabad? Or a million others? God works in mysterious ways ...
For His purpose it makes no difference whether Jesus was his actual son or not. What matters is that we believe it to be true.
Of course, we don't know for certain, either way. What we do know, for a fact, is that Jesus was a good and holy man, who passionately believed in the World of God and devoutly obeyed and preached His 10 Commandments, even when he knew God would sacrifice him on the cross.
A man like that even the Almighty Lord Himself would be proud to call His Godson.
EUPHORIA OF UNHAPPINSS
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IT'S STUPID NOT TO BE HAPPY
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It is 2120 and the world has turned into a miserably serious and humourless place after 100 years of rampant political correctness and grasping materialism.
From a wonderfully secret location that even Google Earth couldn't find, a remarkable group of people set out to help mankind lighten up and regain its sense of humour.
Cut off from the stressful outside world, they are culturally laid back and unpretentious but technologically far more advanced than the rest of humankind.
Their mission is to help people stop taking themselves and life too seriously before the human race tops itself from misery and depression.
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'Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe.' said Albert Einstein
GLORIA AND HER SINGING BOWL
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‘Good God … this world is in a mess!’ Gloria cried. ‘Please do something … now!’
BUT WHAT SHOULD GOD DO?
Gloria is a Hindu girl of thirteen who despairs of the state of Earth and humanity.
She sees that the world is in a mess and that mankind is on a path of self-destruction, both environmentally and in human values.
Gloria knows Earth must change dramatically but she is not sure what kind of Earth a new one should be. Through her spirituality and meditation she connects one-to-one with God who takes her on a tour of the universe and shows her many different kinds of Earth she can choose from.
She connects with God through a seemingly magical singing bowl that she uses in her daily meditation.
On her tour of alternative Earths in the universe Gloria has many incredible and weird adventures. She also discovers that God too despairs of the state of Earth and is unhappy with humanity.
To fix it, He plans to issue a new Ten Commandments called the Ten Ultimatums. Gloria tells Him that threatening demands won’t work in today’s modern society. She advises him to change them to the Ten Suggestions. God reluctantly agrees. But what are His Ten Suggestions?
JUMP!
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‘YOU HAVE TO JUMP WITH 35.’ was the headline of a magazine article when I was young, back in Germany, my country of birth.
I climbed the proverbial ladder, first at school, then at University and finally, very fast at my first job in an advertising agency in Frankfurt.
To climb further and even faster I knew I had to be more proficient in English than what school could teach.
The first big jump at age 29 was to move to the other side of the world, Sydney Australia. They speak English with a funny accent but at least there’s sunshine and a beach.
The second big jump came 6 years later, when I decided to try self-employment, a dream to run my own show. It proved more successful than I could have ever imagined.
The third big jump was to retire from advertising at age 55 and start a new venture, authoring 14 books with great success.
The final big jump is hopefully many years in the future, the best and most caring doctors look after me. I hope to die with a smile on my face having achieved more in life than I could have ever dreamed of.
Read all about it and perhaps learn how you could achieve your dream with passion and determination.
SAGACITA - GREEK GODDESS
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A secret goddess from Greek mythology inspires a modern age manifesto for world unity.
As a young Greek goddess, Sagacita was fascinated with the Earth below. But even stronger than her fascination was her sense of despair and sadness that Earth was in such chaos and its inhabitants living in misery and turmoil.
‘Why can the mortals not make life better for themselves?’ she constantly asked herself.
Though it was strictly forbidden for her to go to Earth without a good reason, and the permission of Zeus himself, Sagacita decided to go anyway and see if she could answer her burning question.
WHAT IF I WAS BORN AN ELEPHANT, A GIRAFFE OR EVEN A BIRD?
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How lucky you are to be born a human, you are beautiful, you are clever and you are so up yourself...
Animals are happy too and deserve our respect for their funny happy life.
WHAT IF I WAS BORN AN ELEPHANT?​​
Just imagine your parents would be elephants. What would you do?
Blow your trunk of course, very loud so that the whole herd could hear you.
Your friends would be the other elephant children and perhaps an antelope too...
But what if you were born an ant or a crocodile?
Read all about it in this children's book that has great fantasy in mind.
NUTTY NUTCASE
​The Squirrel who couldn’t eat nuts.
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When Nutty was a baby squirrel and ate his first nut he became violently ill. It made him twitch and twist … and gag and throw up. He was lucky he didn’t die.
What he wasn’t so lucky about was that all nuts made him very sick … so he could never eat them again.
All the other squirrels thought this was hilariously funny. They shrieked with laughter when they found out about it:
“Ha! ha! ha! A squirrel who can’t eat nuts! What a joke!’
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A real nutcase indeed.
NUTTY NUTCASE
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The squirrel that couldn't find the hidden nuts.
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When Nutty was a little bit older he could eat nuts after all but when young he never learned how to find the nuts he was hiding in the bushes for winter.
So he always asked his squirrel friends for help. They thought this was hilariously funny. They shrieked with laughter when they found out about it:
“Ha! ha! ha! A squirrel who can’t find its nuts! What a joke!’
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A real nutcase indeed.