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  • Cirque du Phantastique
    Claire Marie Clements
    The Ringmaster had been through this routine many times before, seeing his troupe nervously waiting around him, bursting to get onto the stage, hungry for an audience, hearts beating fast, blood rushing through their quivering, rubber-like bodies. And yet, every time, his heart swelled with pride and happiness, at his little band of travellers, all bonded by the same insatiable...
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    23,60 €

  • Down West
    Lorin Morgan-Richards
    All new comics of The Noodle Rut and The Goodbye Family plus Orphie sets off overseas to play camp in a land of dandy and deadly outlaws. Her abilities as a tough sheriff prove useful in tracking the likes of Trigger Happy Hoppy and the Apple Juice Kid. Meanwhile, Otis and Pyridine grow restless as the house begins to fall apart without their daughter's aid. ...
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    6,21 €

  • Her Blood and Bone
    Angela Boyle
    Ladies, as we know, are amazing. And complex. Just as all humans. And complex humans have complex secrets. Well, maybe not so much complex as dark. And within the confines of these pages, we learn the dark secrets of some amazing, anthropomorphic women.This collection of art and flash fiction twines through dark and depraved humor with a peculiar sweetness. Each short story is ...
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    6,82 €

  • Temporary
    Sandra Ann Miller
    Helen Clark won the lottery and lost everything. While it wasn't the 'mega' jackpot, it was enough to change her life—quit her job as a starlet's assistant, start a new business and have success. However, her partner’s poor decisions brought that dream to an end, and Helen was left with less than nothing. But Helen Clark is a lucky lady. With a job offer from a former ...
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    8,14 €

  • The Teahouse of the August Moon
    Vern Sneider
    American-style democracy and capitalism come to the sleepy village of Tobiki in this uplifting comedy of cultural conflict set on Okinawa at the end of World War II.The hapless Captain Fisby, with the help of his local interpreter, Sakini, is implementing the U.S. Army’s Plan B, which includes establishing a Women’s League for Democratic Action and building a pentagon-shaped sc...
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    19,27 €

  • Greenwich
    Deborah Bradseth / Stephen Goldhahn
    What happens when time lines and family lines converge, and history and sanity are preserved only to the extent that one is willing to embrace madness? On the eve of the new millennium, John Samuel Weston, owner of a small biotech engineering firm in Haddonfield, New Jersey, is about to find out.Centered around the historic Greenwich Tea Burning of December 22, 1774, the narrat...
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    16,31 €

  • Blackfire
    James Daniel Eckblad
    Blackfire: The Girl with the Diamond Key (Volume III of the trilogy) concludes the story of four unlikely teenagers who are summoned by a mysterious stranger to save another world being destroyed by evil. Elli Adams and her friends Beatriz, Jamie, and Alex must overcome challenges of blindness, self-confidence, and Down syndrome as they struggle together to fulfill their myster...
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    23,11 €

  • Believing Love
    Betsy Horvath
    Sometimes you need a second chance to make things right...June Esperanza really hates making mistakes. And if a man burns her so badly he almost destroys her, she damn well learns her lesson about letting anyone get that close again.Too bad that Calvin Hardy, June’s biggest mistake, just moved back to Hardy Falls and plans to stay.Calvin knows how profoundly he screwed up when,...
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    15,05 €

  • The Age of the Child
    Kristen Tsetsi
    It’s the worst time in the nation’s history of reproductive legislation for someone like Katherine, who doesn’t want a child, to learn she’s pregnant. The ratification of the pro-creation Citizen Amendment has not only criminalized the birth control that would have prevented Katherine’s accidental pregnancy, but abortion and most miscarriages are illegal, too.In this environmen...
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    10,73 €

  • Sin Against the Race
    Gar McVey-Russell
    Alfonso Rutherford Berry III—son of a city councilman, grandson of the state’s first African American legislator—believes that history has ordained for him but one life, and it ain’t his first love: dancing. But after a series of tragedies, starting with the death of his fierce, out cousin Carlton, his assumptions explode in his face along with his closet door.Alfonso emerges i...
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    15,50 €

  • Twisted Faith
    Victoria Schwimley
    Abby was young, only a junior in high school. Her entire life waited before her, with big plans to go to college. Her parents were strict, stricter than most parents, and sex before marriage was not tolerated in her church. Jimmy was a high-school senior with a basketball scholarship to an ivy-league college. When they meet at a party, one that Abby snuck out of the house to at...
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    20,06 €

  • White Event
    Desmond Fox / Ken Hoover / Reese Hogan
    In a time of blood and myth, humanity used its nuclear weapons to crack the world. In the year of blinding white light which followed, gods of death and cruelty poured in through the gap and staked their claims, fueled by the relentless smothering of human lives. Welcome to the New West. Welcome to the world you deserve.You have in your hands an introduction to the lavish White...
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    17,05 €

  • The Immortal Universe
    Matti Silver / Vito Andrews
    When an entire planetary system is about to fall apart, an indecisive Ambassador Slydin is given the task of keeping it together — but the solution is far greater than he could imagine.Betrayed and pressed to make alliances with his naysayers, Slydin's journey will take him to places with little hope of survival. Armed with only his crew and technology he doesn't unders...
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    10,74 €

  • The Last Outrageous Woman
    Jessica H Stone
    Eighty-six-year-old Mattie Snorgenson has had enough!  She's spent most of her life caring for family and fitting into polite society.  Now, she is ready to follow her dream. Inspired by Mattie's courage, four other senior women join her in escaping the boredom of life in their retirement home. Together they travel the world, each seeking to fulfill the one, secret desi...
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    12,95 €

  • Catatopia
    J. L. Addicoat
    How far would you go for the one you love? Conrad longs to give his wife the child she desperately craves. Rendered infertile by a mutated virus in early childhood, Conrad has undergone numerous tests and trials only to fail time after time. Learning of an experimental fertility serum trial taking place at the university where he works, he races to the department to be placed o...
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    12,44 €

  • Death in Panama
    William H. Venema
    “Allows us to see life in all its strange, rich complexity through the eyes of a very human and believable protagonist. . .”“Swept me back to another time and place. . .”“As good a legal thriller as those of Scott Turow and John Grisham. . .”Captain Robert E. Clark arrives in Panama on his first tour of duty as a lawyer. He struggles to reconcile his Southern upbringing and Wes...
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    13,70 €

  • The Recipe
    Charles M Carroll / John David Mann
    “Always be hungry, Owen,” the Chef said softly. “Don’t ever let life just wash over you. Savor it—every smell, every taste, every sound. That’s Rule One, Owen: Taste everything.”Owen Devon used to have a pretty good life. At least until a few months ago, when disaster struck his family. Now his grades are plunging and his life is spiraling out of control. To make matters worse,...
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    19,80 €

  • Televangelist
    Ron Johnson
    Wearing a tailored suit and holding a bible, Bart Baxter walks out of prison with one goal in mind--to make money and lots of it.Follow along as Bart exploits religion and manipulates his followers for personal gain. Question your own moral code as you're drawn into Bart's world. Meet Mrs Christianson, Bishop Ronny, Mitch the Finance Guy, Bassist Joey and other memorabl...
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    10,37 €

  • Totlandia - Book 7 (The Twosies, Spring)
    Josie Brown
    IN BOOK 7 OF THE TOTLANDIA SERIES:For the women of Totlandia, spring brings new life and emotional renewal. The births of Lorna's twins brings depression—over Dante's future. The decision she makes will drive a wedge between her and Matt. As for Jillian, she's working harder than ever in launching Life of Pie. The good news: Caleb has taken to his new role as über-d...
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    17,20 €

  • Solid Ground
    Jeff McKown
    As Conor McLeish’s fortieth birthday approaches, the life he’s always dreamed of has finally taken shape. He has a steady day job, a debut novel, and Will, his Buddhist boyfriend of nearly a decade. He should be happy. The trouble is, Conor wouldn’t know happy if it smiled, winked, and offered to buy him a drink. With a hard-earned penchant for self-sabotage and an unfortunate ...
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    12,46 €

  • Twelve Hours Later
    Twelve Hours Later is a must-read for fans of steampunk.--Paige Lovitt for Reader ViewsMyth! Intrigue! Dirigibles! Literacy!Support public libraries and explore a world of steampunk fiction! Immerse yourself in this steampunk and alternate history anthology packed with pairs of stories set 12 hours apart.In Twelve Hours Later, each story occupies a single hour of time. Together...
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    13,71 €

  • The Four Tantras of Blue Beryl
    David Padgham
    Tubten Norbu wants nothing. Literally. Not death. That doesn’t solve anything. With death you just have to do it all over again. No, what he wants is dissolution into the cosmic void: nirvana. And with the thangka and its four mystic incantations maybe he had what he needed to get there. Until someone stole it.    Brian Ericson, on the other hand, wants it all. Sex, money and e...
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    13,88 €

  • Punch Drunk Kisses
    Alan Cowsill
    Sex, football, beer and kebabs – Billy Cade is happy, or so he believes. But when single mum Becky Swan arrives on the scene Billy is forced to ask the ultimate question – is it true love or just another hangover?“They say it’s grim up north but it’s not  – especially if you drink enough.” Billy Cade. This Northern lovestory from award winning writer and editor Alan Cowsill, fo...
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    8,34 €

  • The Ghastling
    This issue is full of women. Women lost, disappeared, heroic, misguided, spurned, haunted, wicked, put-upon, neglected, misunderstood, bedraggled, ghostly and preoccupied. In Bryan Marshall’s ‘the Grin Thief’, grief plants a black seed into the mind of a woman who loses her family to a terrible accident and so begins a ‘frightful scheme’… Callum McAllister’s story ‘the Smog Gei...
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    20,94 €

  • The Warlord’s Concubine
    J.E. Keep / J.EKeep / M. Keep / MKeep
    A dark warlord. A middle aged handmaiden. A stubborn princess.The warlord has plans for the dainty young future-queen. As an indentured servant to the princess for much of her life, Mirella sees the conquest of the land as an opportunity to elevate herself. A life of callous disregard has made her hard, but as she battles the princess' will for the first time and finds new ...
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    11,88 €

  • The Big Sugarbush
    Ana B Good
    The Big Sugarbush is a lesbian romantic comedy, set in a drug rehab center in Vermont. The book was awarded a 2017 Goldie Award for Best Dramatic Literary Novel. Ten wealthy lesbians have thirty days to get their lives back on track. Sugarbush, a private rehab center seems just the place, quiet and therapeutic, until the dykes arrive, and the drama begins. The Big Sugarbush is ...
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    15,75 €

  • All My Love Old Pal,
    Carol Kern
    Is life just a matter of happenstance and coincidence...or is there something more at play in peoples' lives? That is what you are asked to decide as you follow the life of a charismatic young man born to immigrant parents in 1908 that sees him through a strict upbringing, with unusual interests that lead him to an unwanted marriage ending in divorce. He subsequently falls...
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    22,66 €

  • The Pismo Calamity
    T. J. Rafferty
    When Dugan Byrnes saw the fishing boat moving slowly into the Pacific sunset, backwards, his natural curiosity was stoked. Recounted the incident to other patrons of Harry's Beach Bar and Night Club, he came to learn of other curious events in the local waters. Gradually the Pismo Eight is formed, a variegated group of young and old seekers committed to the health of the oc...
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    10,63 €

  • Buried Secrets Can Be Murder
    Connie Shelton
    It’s Christmas in Albuquerque; Charlie and her family are ready for a quiet holiday at home. But right away, her hopes for that scenario fade when Charlie’s brother and PI business partner, Ron, brings in two new cases, one of which made national headlines. Five years earlier, in a tide of media attention and despite public sentiment against her, Tali Donovan was acquitted of k...
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    13,75 €

  • Oratorio in Ursa Major
    David Dalton
    A global catastrophe has returned earth to the Iron Age and killed six billion people. Even the billionaires were tricked and eliminated. An Oxford intelligentsia have taken over the planet. Can such smart people rebuild the world in a better way? With help from the galactic federation, perhaps there is hope. But first, earth's new elite must retrieve from the past some thi...
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    19,72 €


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