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  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Where's My Dinner
    J. Cornell Michel
    Take a step back in time to a bygone era: a time of white picket fences, and rotary phones when in husbands in their suits, ties, and button-down shirts come home after their long days at the office, step through their front doors with briefcases in their hands, and exclaim more than do they ask, 'Where's my dinner?' Quaint as this scene may appear to some women, it was th...
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    8,42 €

  • Judge Crater Takes a Powder
    Glenn Lazar Roberts
    The most mysterious disappearance of the 20th century is solved as New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Crater goes undercover for the FBI in this hilarious satire set in mid-century America, with an eccentric cast of characters including Amelia Earhart, J. Edgar Hoover, Orson Welles, German spies, Japanese submarines, space-folding transvestites, Mormon mafia, and recipe-obse...
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    8,85 €

  • Southern Discomfort
    Margaret Maron
    Deborah Knott may have lost the district election, but a bigoted judge's sudden death--and some old-fashioned political horse trading--have won her a governor's appointment. True to Southern form, her swearing-in is followed by a raucous reception that brings out every elderly aunt and cousin in the county. Unfortunately, Lu Bingham, the force behind WomenAid, is at th...
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    36,60 €

  • Sex, Snow & Mistletoe
    Laura Barnard
    Melinda is already having a crappy Christmas. Forced to attend some snotty bitch's wedding is not the way to start out the holidays. But when a car crash pushes her into the path of a handsome stranger she's glad to follow his snowy, sexy and seductive path. But is he too good to be true? And will she make it to the wedding before her best friend loses her mind with wor...
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    6,12 €

  • The Eyes Have It
    Julie Allan
    One thing every southern girl knows-if you are lost, your inner compass will point you home. For Lizzie Long, home is the beautiful South Carolina Lowcountry, where a close-knit community welcomes her with open arms and nurtures her spirit after her world implodes. As Lizzie tries to hit the reset button and put the pieces of her shattered life back together, the magic of the...
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    9,83 €

  • The E Ticket
    Lawler Kang
    War. Genocide. Rape. Poverty. Climate disruption. Weapons of mass destruction. Inadequate education and healthcare. Hunger. Corruption. Crime. Injustice. Inequality. Is there a common denominator underpinning these pervasive crimes? Heidi Delisle, CEO of Illumina, a technology powerhouse, believes there is. From her vantage point, testosterone is at the core of all of these i...
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    11,81 €

  • After the Scrum
    Dahlia Donovan
    Caddock 'The Brute' Stanford lost his brother and rugby career within the same year. The once man-about-town is now a has-been and guardian to his young nephew. Not sure where life will go after the scrum, he decides to purchase a pub in the Cornwall village of Looe. He never expects to fall in lust—and then love. Francis Keen hides his crippling anxiety behind his eccentric ha...
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    16,58 €

  • Exordium of Tears
    Andrew P Weston
    Fight or Die…Victorious in a star-flung battle against the inhuman Horde, Earth’s fabled 9th Legion of Rome; the U.S. 5th Company’s 2nd Mounted Rifles; and a Special Forces anti-terrorist team settle on Arden, their adopted planet, to raise families and live in peace.But soon, state secrets are revealed: The greatest of the inhuman Horde didn’t join the battle, but yet lurk amo...
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    31,93 €


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