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  • Eagle Rising
    Shelly Greenhalgh Davis
    In Eagle Shadow, the half-Cheyenne Nate Hunter found acceptance among his people. Now, in the gripping sequel, Eagle Rising, his standing among his people rises sharply, even as the cavalry hunts him for treason. Under the protection of a powerful Cheyenne chief, he searches for an unseen enemy among both the cavalry and his people, unaware of how very close by danger lurks. ...
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    22,68 €

  • Staring Back at Me
    Tony Bianchi
    Tracing life from a childhood in an Italian-English family on Tyneside to becoming a Welsh-speaking freelance writer in Cardiff, Eisteddfod-winning author Tony Bianchi leads the reader through a series of increasingly bizarre vignettes. Each section is a free-standing short story but read together they form a ludic, untrustworthy autobiography where the rug of humdrum normality...
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    16,18 €

  • Death of the Snake Catcher
    Ak Welsapar / Lois Kapila / Youssef Azemoun
    This book features people from one of the most closed countries of today's world, where the passage of time resembles the passage of a caravan through the waterless desert. This world has been recreated by a true-born son of that mysterious country, a Turkmen who, at the will of fate, has now  been living for a quarter of a century in snowy Scandinavia. Is that not why two ...
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    20,58 €

  • Eden’s Charm
    C.G. Furst
    Eden Blue is a sentimental disaster.Ex-boyfriend RJ Stoke is back in town resurrecting painful memories that could threaten to derail her carefully reconstructed life, including her blossoming on-line western wear career. Her only hope from being pulled back into the past is recruiting a fun, sexy acquaintance to pose as her boyfriend during Stampede. To her surprise, sparks fl...
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    11,93 €

  • The Bathwater Conspiracy
    Janet Kellough
    Nothing about this case makes sense.      Detective Carson “Mac” MacHenry can’t figure out why the Darmes are so interested in this one dead girl or why the secretive federal police have rushed the autopsy or why, a few days later, the records of the dead girl's murder have been erased from all official government channels.Even stranger to the detective is the manner of dea...
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    10,70 €

  • The Patch Project
    Brittni Brinn
    When most of the world inexplicably disappears overnight, only small patches of civilization remain. May and Isak live on what used to be Holly Street.Since the Event, however, they have found themselves totally isolated, surviving day to day on what they can find in their pantry and their memories. May thinks that everything is going fine: apart from Isak’s weird disappearance...
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    8,78 €

  • Vanishing House
    Javad Taghavi
    This is a story about a family whose house, through magic, gets transported to 2000 BC in the middle of the desert, leaving them with no water, no electricity and absolutely no idea what to do. Will they survive in this barren, inhospitable place? Or will the family fall apart under the pressure? ...
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    12,22 €

  • TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE
    Mark Twain
    Here is the fourth book in the Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn series. Tom and Huck are once again in the thick of things. This time investigating an unlikely murder case.Strange as the incidents of this story are, they are not inventions, but facts-even to the public confession of the accused. I take them from an old-time Swedish criminal trial, change the actors, and transfer...
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    18,04 €

  • English as She Is Spoke
    Jose De Fonseca
    This book was intended as a Portuguese-English conversational guide or phrase book, but is regarded as a classic source of unintentional humour, as the given English translations are generally completely incoherent. The humour appears to be a result of dictionary-aided literal translation, which causes many idiomatic expressions to be translated wildly inappropriately. Mark Twa...
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    18,12 €

  • Journey To The Centre Of The Youniverse
    Douglas Edison Harding
    "I'm a traveller from a very long way off. It's not that I'm lost. But it's a long story..."And then, suddenly, from the side pocket of his long overcoat, he produced that fabulous thing. It came out small, a mere bud which immediately opened out in his hand like a flower. He set it up on the table between us. It was a flower with curious and gorgeous petals, an...
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    17,95 €

  • The Canyons
    Ben Kostival
    The Canyons combines the naturalism of Frank Norris' McTeague with the modernist techniques of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, yielding a work of historical noir that Howard Zinn called 'an ingenious blending of fact and fiction.' Based on the Colorado coalfield war of 1913-14, The Canyons borrows the zeitgeist of a century ago to allegorize contemporary conditions of ...
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    9,94 €

  • Docksteder Tales
    Paul Buchanan
    It’s 1995. When famous author Barron Docksteder moves to the Carolina foothills, the locals don’t know what to make of it. Why did this hotshot writer, whose works have been made into Hollywood films, move to the middle of nowhere? Despite living in North Carolina, Docksteder regularly drives across the border to South Carolina for a late breakfast at a comfortable small-town c...
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    7,87 €

  • Rescuing Rose
    Isabel Wolff
    Rose Costelloe LOVES problems!  Other people's problems that is.  As an agony aunt she adores dishing out advice on everything from dizziness to divorce.  But this rather thorny Rose is not so good when it comes to her own life. Her new marriage is in shreds, she's had to move house, and the bills are piling up.  But then her best friends,  twins Bella and Bea, suggest ...
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    12,84 €

  • What Goes on Tour
    Claire Boston
    What goes on tour, stays on tour … or does it?Few people know that socially awkward Adrian Hart is actually rock God, Kent Downer, and that's the way Adrian likes it. His privacy is essential, especially now that he has guardianship of his orphaned, ten-year-old niece, Kate. But when the nanny quits in the middle of his Australian tour Adrian finds himself in a bind.Until L...
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    16,17 €

  • The Prophetic Works of Ingersoll Lockwood
    Ingersoll Lockwood
    Ingersoll Lockwood’s two books, Baron Trump’s Marvellous Underground Journey & 1900; Or, The Last President, have seen a resurgence in interest since Donald Trump’s election to President of the United States in 2016. Both books were written before the turn of the 20th Century, but both contain eerie similarities with modern day political events. For the first time, both works a...
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    21,56 €

  • The Belinda Triangle
    Dick Hoffman
    In 2031, the Statue of Liberty lifts her lamp beside the Exit door. When Doyle Beckett and pregnant wife Geneva Rose are both forced out of their jobs, he has no choice but to accept work on a cruise ship full of passengers who aren’t coming back. He has no idea he will be leaving his wife and unborn child at the mercy of a renegade militia. And he has no clue how to deal with ...
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    10,39 €

  • Drive
    Don Tassone
    Nick Reynolds is a highly successful food company executive.  He’s also a bully, feared by his employees and estranged from his wife and children.  After his latest blow-up at work, Nick’s boss orders him to take the summer off and sort himself out.  Angry and despondent, Nick sets off, alone, from his home in Chicago for Bar Harbor, Maine.  This is the story of what Nick exper...
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    16,20 €

  • The Unrequited Love Circus
    Jim Nash
    From the age of 16 to 40, the narrator never overcame his undying unrequited love for his first love whom he knew since age 5 and  he measured all other women against her which led to them constantly falling short in his estimation although many were as extraordinary in their own right as his first but he could not see that and always thought he could do better whether they wer...
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    39,17 €

  • Awake Under the Night Sky
    Vanya Sharma
    A Twenty-year-old Andre is found unconscious on a raft off the coast of Murano, Italy. Rescued by his father, Andre realizes his downward spiral over the past few months and strives to emerge from the clutches of his past. Witness to the ravages of poverty and neglect, an Eighteen-year-old Vivian is driven by a purpose, in a world that seems to have lost its conscience.One unkn...
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    10,43 €

  • The House by the Marsh
    William Blyghton
    One morning just before lunch, Caroline stopped breathing. Bereft and alone, a small madness fell upon William. Fleeing to his flat in London, he locked himself away and grew a beard. Some months later, whilst reluctantly attending a dinner party, William saw her, and felt that perhaps Providence had plans for him after all. Jennifer, however, saw things differently.Then, quite...
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    14,22 €

  • Hot Dogs are Diet Food
    Jennifer Bogart
    Roxanne is taking her back her life!Ready to put grief and guilt behind her, Roxanne embarks on a mission to embrace a new and improved life. She is tired of hiding from the world while pandering to her older sister, Chris, caring for her daughter, Calleigh, and mourning the loss of her spouse. She wants to change, and she is willing to try anything to meet her goals, including...
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    15,52 €

  • The Chalky Sea
    Clare Flynn
    Two troubled people in a turbulent world.In July 1940, Gwen Collingwood drops her husband at the railway station, knowing she may never see him again. Two days later her humdrum world is torn apart when the sleepy English seaside town where she lives is subjected to the first of many heavy bombing attacks.In Ontario, Canada, Jim Armstrong is debating whether to volunteer. His d...
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    19,54 €

  • The Discharge
    Gary Reilly
    The Discharge is the third novel in a trilogy about military life and its aftermath by the late writer Gary Reilly. The novels are based on Reilly’s service as an MP in Vietnam and his experiences before and after the war. Private Palmer, Reilly’s protagonist, has trained to become a military policeman (The Enlisted Men’s Club,) served a year in the Southeast Asian war zone (Th...
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    11,74 €

  • Lumby on the Air
    Gail Fraser
    2017 Edition!  Book #5 of the Lumby series. What Garrison Keillor did for Lake Wobegon and Jan Karon did for Mitford, Gail Fraser has done for Lumby - a town so heartwarming and endearing, you'll be forever transported. When Pam and Mark Walker’s relatives descend on Montis Inn for a week of vacation and an anniversary celebration, surprises abound that make this family reu...
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    18,67 €

  • Liberating Tomas
    David A Marty
    Thomas grows up in a conservative Midwest family and wonders about his sexuality. At nineteen years old, he is still a virgin and desires to find other men like himself. Tomas decides to spend the summer hitchhiking and camping in Europe. Along the way, he meets a variety of people who lead him to the conclusion that he is gay. When it comes time to return home, he has second t...
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    16,89 €

  • Pereprosmotr
    Shmidt Aleksandr
    Central'naja tema romana - sud'ba  cheloveka, ostro perezhivshego   udushajushhuju pustotu «jepohi zastoja», absurdnost' svoej sluzhby v organah MVD,  oshhutivshego na sebe ves' tragizm «Fedorchukovskoj volny» i posledujushhih sobytij, razvorachivajushhihsja na fone dramaticheskih perelomnyh preobrazovanij v zhizni naroda, vsej strany, mutnyj potok devjanostyh i...
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    34,64 €

  • Apocalypse All The Time
    David S Atkinson
    Doesn’t it seem as if someone issues a new apocalypse prediction every week? Y2K? The Mayan apocalypse? The Rapture? Doesn’t it seem endless? As opposed to the traditional trend of post-apocalyptic literature, Apocalypse All the Time is post-post-apocalypticism. Marshall is sick of the apocalypse happening on a weekly (if not daily) basis. Life is constantly in peril, continu...
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    10,08 €

  • The Butterfly Storm
    Kate Frost
    Four years ago life for Sophie Keech was perfect. A new start in Greece with Alekos, her boyfriend of just six weeks, removes Sophie from a mundane 9-5 job, takes her away from the difficult relationship she has with her mum, and gives her the opportunity and belief that she is finally doing something positive and exciting with her life.  But a lot can change in four years. An...
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    12,44 €

  • The Hidden Truth
    Katie Rogers
    Anne Wentworth paced the elegantly appointed apartment that had been a haven from her overbearing mother for most of her twenty-two years. Soon everyone would know of her disgrace, and the fear of her familys reaction terrified her. What was she going to do? Never in her life had she felt so alone or ashamed. Three months pregnant, unmarried, and in love with Jack Carney, a man...
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    20,36 €

  • Never Buried
    Edie Claire
    First in the USA-Today bestselling Leigh Koslow Mystery Series!'A funny, fast-paced, clever, and unusual mystery that will have readers clamoring for more. Sheer delight.' --Carolyn HartThe truth about what happened in 1949 went to Paul Fischer's grave... Too bad his body didn't!Advertising copywriter Leigh Koslow doesn't pack heat--just a few extra pounds. And she ...
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    10,94 €


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