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  • The Time Machine
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    H. G. Well’s classic science fiction masterpiece The Time Machine explores human nature. The Time traveler finds himself in 802,701 A.D., where he meets the Eloi and encounters the violent Morlocks. Well uses these two descendants of man to explore evil and it’s causes. He draws conclusion that might surprise you. A riveting tale that has stood the test of time. ...
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    20,52 €

  • Belinda
    Maria Edgeworth
    Being unwed, Belinda is sent to live with Lady Delacour, whom Belinda considers fascinating and charming. Lady Delacour believes herself to be dying of breast cancer. She hides her emotional distress from Belinda through wit and charm. The first half of the novel is concerned with the blooming friendship between Belinda and Lady Delacour, which is eventually broken, 'I see...th...
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    36,23 €

  • She Stoops to Conquer
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Wealthy countryman Mr. Hardcastle arranges for his daughter Kate to meet Charles Marlow, the son of a wealthy Londoner, hoping the pair will marry. Unfortunately Marlow is nervous around upper-class women, yet the complete opposite around lower-class females. On his first acquaintance with Kate, the latter realises she will have to pretend to be common, or Marlow will not woo h...
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    18,01 €

  • Archibald Malmaison
    Julian Hawthorne
    A must-read for fans of strange or gothic literature!Every seven years, Archibald Malmaison falls into a trance-like state to emerge with one of two alternate personalities. Within these pages you will find insanity, death, ghosts, revenge, duels, star-crossed lovers-everything fans of the gothic will love, written by Julian Hawthorne (June 22, 1846 - July 21, 1934), son of the...
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    27,84 €

  • Maisie & The Music Hall Warriors
    Neil Patrick
    A family of music hall entertainers  – successful on stage but troubled off it by conflict as the younger members strive to break away –  find themselves caught up in a strike against London music hall owners. Their musical comedy act  (complete with performing dog!) looks to be doomed.In the aftermath of the strike, a dramatic incident forces the family to rethink their future...
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    7,64 €

  • Wrongful Termination
    Mike Farris
    Bay Muckleroy is a modern-day Diogenes, looking for an honest man. His problem lies not in the object of his search, but in the venue—he is a partner in Black West & Merriam, the largest law firm in Dallas, Texas, where honest men are scarce. Bay came up through the ranks of the firm at a time when honor and integrity did not constitute character flaws. But times have changed w...
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    14,59 €

  • Not Half Way, Not Your Way, But God’s Way
    Dr. John Beresky / DrJohn Beresky
    Regarding faith, a playwright once said, Men still have faith, but today men do not have faith in God. Men have faith in the doctor. That playwright lived to be ninety-five years old. We need to learn from Gods people who lived long. Ask yourself this question: what did Noah or Abraham or Moses or Joshua do to achieve health and longevity? Im sure they did nothing halfway or th...
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    13,40 €

  • CUM FOR ME 2
    Ca$h
    Crawl in bed, take off your clothes, and let us take you on a stimulating, sexual ride of a lifetime. CUM FOR ME volume 2: NASTY AS CAN BE is an urban erotica compilation that will leave you hot, wet and dripping. Every page will stroke you tenderly. Each story will heightened your desire more and more until your hands go into a frenzy and your heartbeat increases to it's m...
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    11,94 €

  • The Alice ’65
    Kyle Michel Sullivan
    A romantic comedy about an English lad, an American lass, a rare book worth millions, and a lonely guard panther...not your typical day in LA. After his father died in a mugging, Adam Verlain used his love of books to hide from the world as a rare book cataloguer for a small university in London. But then that university acquired a newly discovered 1865 edition of 'Alice’s Adve...
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    18,12 €

  • El Flaco
    D.L. Young / D.LYoung
    A New Threat Emerges, an Old Rival ReturnsFor seventy-eight years, the Republic of Texas has been a dead, isolated nation, cut off from its motherland to the north by a militarized, impenetrable border. That ends today.  Six months after overthrowing the Dallasite regime and taking control of Texas, Ernesto “El Flaco” Guzmán is suddenly forced to cope with a new, unexpected adv...
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    12,51 €

  • If Only
    SR Dale P Rhodes / SR. Dale P. Rhodes / SRDale P Rhodes / SRDale PRhodes
    Guardian Angel, Thaniel, is struggling. His greatest weakness, his love for humans, is also his greatest strength. For centuries, he has cared for and looked after people, trying to lead them to God. Things are not working out the way he believes they should and another funeral is more than he can bear. Failure looms over every step he takes, but things aren't always as the...
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    16,65 €

  • Restraining Order
    Ca$h / Coffee
    CHOPPA is the man A young rich thuggish hustler who has the city on lock All he needs is the right woman to come home to But life has taught him that women are a pleasure They are not to be loved and they definitely can t be trusted until he meets her JULZ has already been hurt and damn near broken by a man Falling in love again is not on her list of things to do She s just try...
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    17,77 €

  • Don’t Look at Me
    J.P. Grider / J.PGrider
    Haven:A diligent hand carved this hole in my face.It stole my confidence, my identity, and ended my short-lived career as a broadcast journalist. I am now unemployed. Alone. Ugly. And expected to get over it and move on. Go on living life as usual—as if the world doesn’t judge the grotesquely unattractive. Quest:It’s been three years since I was kicked out of the Army for nearl...
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    13,15 €

  • Memories Are An Old Man's Toys
    Elayne Tulliani
    When our mortality is dancing on the horizon, our thoughts have the tendency to drift to the type of legacy we will leave behind. Some will leave wealthy estates while others leave voids in the hearts of those who loved them.Billy will leave a little of both but neither will be his legacy. You see, it will be what Billy chooses to take with him rather than what he leaves behind...
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    13,21 €

  • SPIRIT HUNTERS
    John Mizelle
    Spirit Hunters dwell secretly among us, their existence hinted only in legend and flashes of intuition: chills along the spine; disturbing, elusive dreams. They are our kin. They are vampires. They are dying out. To live, they must drink the essence that quickens human blood. Now, to survive, they must befriend their only prey.Lilith longs for her people to endure. A brilliant,...
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    24,42 €

  • The Quieting West
    Gordon Gravley
    This is the story of two cowboys, Billy Colter and Thomas Andrew Benton, out of work in the rapidly changing world of the early 1900’s. Finding jobs in Arizona with a renegade group of silent film makers, they are soon lured to a land of great enchantment and seduction – Hollywood!Their story becomes one of truth, fiction, and disillusionment, woven of humor, romance, and trage...
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    12,78 €

  • Michael K
    Nthikeng Mohlele
    ‘Those in the know claim Michael K disembarked from a diesel-smoke-spewing truck one overcast morning, looked around, and without missing a beat, chose a spot where he set down a small bucket (red, burnt and disfigured) that contained an assortment of seedlings, some fisherman’s twine and a rudimentary gardening tool – probably self-made.’How is it that a character from literar...
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    21,38 €

  • The Perfection of Valor
    Bob Mustin
    Colonel Fletcher Hinton, USMC, Retired, has had a storied career, but one aspect of his life remains wanting as his end approaches: family. Son Cary, a former Marine and now a college professor, is about to marry outside his race, and the old man, suffering a bout of dementia, insults Cary's fiancee. Too, Cary has moved his mother away from Fletcher, fearing the old man has...
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    13,54 €

  • The Three Naked Ladies of Cliffport
    Peter Boffey
    Three single mothers of three bastard children from three generations, each one vitally connected to a ghost town located where sea meets land on Santa Cruz County’s northern coast.In 1959 Kaitlin Lowrie resettles in Cliffport with her mother and her son — the only household hanging on in an all-but-forgotten locale. But in 1965 Janice McLoughlin, long-absentee landlady, shows ...
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    28,41 €

  • Noah Finn & the Art of Suicide
    E Rachael Hardcastle / E. Rachael Hardcastle
    The #1 Amazon bestselling novella by E. Rachael Hardcastle. Look for the sequel, Noah Finn & the Art of Conception, out now!Noah Finn is about to commit suicide. He’s standing on the roof of the World Trade Center’s north tower when American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into the building.Greeted by a man who calls himself Christopher Saint on a NYC subway train, Noah must learn s...
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    11,38 €

  • All For Love
    Cecelia Hopkins
    All For Love By Cecelia Hopkins (Full edition)Contestants rebel on reality television show! The Early Episodes: 'The Charity Dating Show' is a reality television show starring one man, and many women. This appears to be an archaic format, and one season the contestants begin selecting their own prizes. If you have ever wanted to see the women turn their backs on the system - th...
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    14,23 €

  • Nonprofit Girl
    Ann Beltran
    If you had an unwanted pregnancy, what would you decide?When Liv, 21 and about to graduate into a career of nonprofit work, returns from India and discovers she’s pregnant, she needs to make choices that will define her life. What should she tell her live-in boyfriend Devin who is not the father?  Does she want to have an abortion as her best friend Elyse urges? If not, will sh...
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    10,50 €

  • Memoirs of a Tyrant
    L Edward Toole
    The world around you crumbles to the ground. Your wife, child and now civilization has left you alone.  So how do you start everything over again? You were smart enough to be able to survive and as you emerge into a sun-baked arena to face deadly challenges, learn a little more about yourself. Cold. Dark. Dangerous. Psychotic things about yourself.  This is what one man faces i...
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    16,06 €

  • Fresh News Straight from Heaven
    Gregg Sapp
    In a desperate act of faith, Johnny Appleseed promises the people that he can save them. Thus, he dashes off on a midnight run, seeking to spread peace across a land on the brink of war. With so many lives at stake, Johnny must confront the ultimate test of his convictions. WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award - Summer 2018 - Best Novel 'I happen to believe that genius makes...
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    15,72 €

  • Hope
    S.M. Perlow
    In the Dark Ages, in France, the first vampires came to be. Erin knows the accepted version of the story, but she's also heard that there's more to be told.While humanity struggles through ever-darkening nights, an ancient evil wreaks havoc upon the world. Erin feels responsible, yet unsure of its true aim. A disturbing drawing in a centuries-old book adds to her fear t...
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    11,40 €

  • Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai
    Robert Nichols
    In this remarkable tetralogy of short novels, Nichols envisions the nature of our communal, yet highly individualized society in which decentralized democracy, ecological sensibility, bioregional principles, and liberatory technologies are integrated into a traditional culture. It is a vision of utopia emerging out of the rich particularity of history and lived experience. Firs...
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    25,41 €

  • Cardboard Boy
    Michèle Laframboise
    Theo can't come back to his certitudes after talking to Malak   *Theo, a dispirited workplace humanitarian, audits a child working at a cardboard plant in a port city somewhere in Asia. He is impressed by young Malak's grit and fortitude, displaying a maturity beyond his years. When that boy, the same age as his own son, disappears from the sweatshop, Theo cannot let it...
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    5,77 €

  • Aortic Chaos
    Monique Bonds
    Aortic Chaos: Sorrows of the Hopeless Romantic is for : The lover who believes in the existence of true love. A person such as this has the ability to love in the highest of places, but also the darkest of hearts. Sometimes knowing it’s not good for them, but has hope in the chambers of possibilities that they can heal them and be their remedy.   The lover who sees the g...
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    17,17 €

  • Conundrum
    Fae Yang / Isu Yin
    Everything that has happened, is happening, will happen again.In a world where light has taken reign, the Queen’s Dog, Akira, seeks true balance, but only the righteous may thrive. Driven by malice, he fights his need for blood, his desire to live, and his assignment to solve the murders occurring throughout the Empire.Amidst the strife and warring factions, Akira leads a comma...
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    11,72 €

  • K-Town Confidential
    Brad Chisholm / Claire Kim
    'An enjoyable zigzagging plot, though it’s the rather sensational Holly who leaves the strongest impression.' -KIRKUS REVIEWSYoung lawyer Holly Park is hired to defend teenager Naomi Linser - charged with murder in the stabbing death of the local Councilman. The crime takes place in a gritty Koreatown ’room salon’ with Naomi holding the murder weapon.The case is tried in the L....
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    26,15 €


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