To all Danube Swabians, their descendants, and the readers of the messages on this List: Have a wonderful Christmas and a very happy new year 2018! My latest book in the Danube-Swabian dialect of Alexanderhausen was published recently in Temeswar/Timişoara. Being sponsored by the local Democratic Forum of the Germans, it is not sold commercially. For anybody who might be interested, the details are published at www.dvhh.org/alexanderhausen Most of the little stories gathered in the book have been previously published in one or both of the newspapers Banater Post (München/Munich) and Banater Zeitung (Bucureşti/Bukcharest). On the website specified above you can read some of the stories in their original dialect, as well as some translations into English. Unfortunately, the specific nuances or character is lost in translation. Nick Tullius