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  • Listen To The River
    Susan A Rodgers
    ‘Close your eyes, and listen to the river. Open your heart, and let the water flow.’A wish was in those eyes – Jessie could see it plain as day, hovering just beneath the surface. It was accompanied by genuine sorrow and a sprinkle of peace.Idyllic Prince Edward Island has always been touted as a land of healing, a place of rest. For the Sawyers, the land of the bright red mud ...
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    21,93 €

  • Six Feet Under and Killing It
    Erik Shoquist
    John Helmsman was once an established English professor and celebrated author with a family that he loved even more than his work. But when a brutal accident takes the life of his son his world falls apart. Five years after his son’s death, John has managed to alienate and distance himself from almost every person in his life. None more so than his now ex-wife and daughter due ...
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    29,11 €

  • Balzac's Coffee, DaVinci's Ristorante
    Mark Axelrod
    In Mark Axelrod’s new book, marketplace crudity and the immortal artist intersect in a riotous and outrageous fashion. Discover the chain of restaurants run by Flaubert’s researchers Bouvard and Pecuchet; how an iconic fragrance arose from the erectile dysfunction of J.S. Bach; where Octave Mirabeau consummated his masterpiece L’Erotic Biblion; General Pinochet and Borges’s con...
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    18,44 €

  • A Garden Wall in Provence
    Carrie Jane Knowles
    A Love story about good bread, good neighbors, and the fickle winds of the mistral. (Recipes included). A chaotic week of mishaps and misunderstandings in Avignon, France. In this light-hearted story of family and love, Madame Reynaud reigns at the helm of her neighborhood. Her daughter Monique, who years ago was maimed by the violent mistral wind, is determined to break free f...
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    24,51 €

  • Surviving Cyril
    Ramsey Hootman
    When Robin Matheson’s husband is killed in Afghanistan, she finds herself suddenly alone: an outsider in a community grieving for the hometown hero it never really knew. Though the thought of spending the rest of her life without Tavis is exhausting, Robin has no choice but to pull herself together for the sake of their son. She finds some satisfaction in cutting ties with Tav’...
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    12,17 €

  • Eat, Drink, and Be Wary
    Maggie Pill
    When the FBI asks the Sleuth Sisters to attend a retreat for “Love-Able Ladies,” Barb opts out, unwilling to spend a weekend celebrating the joys of being some man’s “little wife.” Retta is eager to go, since the venue is a swanky vineyard/inn on the Leelanau Peninsula, north of Traverse City, Michigan. Never a fan of large groups of strangers, Faye would just as soon stay home...
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    12,54 €

  • Starting the Slowpocalypse (Books 1-3 Omnibus)
    James Litherland
    Everything will change.  But the moment has been prepared for.When Director Jonathan Miles seals the compound containing the first Federal University and Research Complex to keep the facilities out of the hands of a secessionist governor, he sets off a chain of events hastening the collapse of an already crumbling civilization. Facing threats from without and within, the imperi...
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    25,64 €

  • Harold Hardscrabble
    G. D. Dess
    Harold Hardscrabble, by G. D. Dess, is a sympathetic novel filled with philosophical musings on the state of society and our place within it. The story captures the feelings of frustration and helplessness that many of us experience in our daily lives. These sentiments are embodied in the contemplative, quietly charming protagonist, Harold, who, like Walter Mitty, lives largely...
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    19,85 €

  • Goodbye, Bird
    Aram Pachyan / Nairi Hakhverdi
    For a twenty-eight-year-old young man who returned from the army several years ago but has yet to reacclimatize to ordinary life, every step, gesture, word, and vision is a revelation, which takes him back to the beginning, to a time when reality had lost its shape, and turned into a new and imperceptible world. In his imagination, he embodies a number of different characters, ...
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    23,00 €

  • Monkey's Wedding
    Rossandra White
    Adolescents Elizabeth and Tururu—she’s white, he’s black—share an uneasy friendship on a sisal plantation in Colonial Zimbabwe when Britain declares the country part of a Federation without consulting the natives. Festering resentment to white rule is about to erupt. Elizabeth can’t wait for the birth of her baby brother, while Tururu reluctantly helps his witchdoctor grandmoth...
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    9,38 €

  • Della's Diary
    Renee Darcy
    If you’ve ever watched one of those ‘prepper’ reality TV shows, you might think that the people they portray are crazy – or you might secretly agree with them. Della’s Diary is the story of how Della – a normal wife, mother and writer – slowly finds herself slipping into the prepper lifestyle. All she wants to do is protect the people she cares about, but instead she faces a g...
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    6,99 €

  • Lucky Catch
    Deborah Coonts
    “Evanovich…with a dash of CSI.” – Publishers Weekly (review of Lucky Stiff)Even a Blind Dog Finds a BoneFor Lucky O’Toole, she finds killers.As the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas’s most over-the-top destination, murder is a bit outside of her normal.But, armed with a wicked wit and an even more wicked right-cross, Lucky takes it all in stride.But tonight taxes ...
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    25,12 €

  • Jasmin
    Karin Allaby
    As a white blossom unfolds in the shade, so a young girl with a floral name, Jasmin emerges unscathed by the overshadowing drama of WWII. The American soldiers patrolling the suburban streets in Germany, address the child as “Blondie” while giving goodies to her. Jasmin, now a teenager, spends her apprenticeship years in the Rhine river valley where the famous Riesling grapes a...
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    26,44 €

  • Requiem of the Human Soul
    Jeremy R Lent
    Eusebio Franklin, a school teacher from a small community, is faced with the most terrifying dilemma imaginable: should he carry out an act of mass terrorism in order to save the human race?  Eusebio has been chosen to defend our human race in a special session of the United Nations.  It's the late 22nd century, and most people are genetically enhanced; Eusebio is among the...
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    15,55 €

  • 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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    15,65 €

  • Tennis Hobo
    John K Gruberg
    Your favorite tennis book may have to step aside for this semi-autobiographical novel.  A tennis coach and a writer, John Gruberg has been mentioned on the Tonight Show and in Playboy Magazine. “There are tears in my eyes as I finish this book. Wow, I am really stunned!” … Roger Kahn, USPTA“What a great, entertaining and FUN read! John Gruberg has nailed this one. Don’t miss ...
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    10,31 €

  • The Empty Chair
    Penny Goetjen
    o A steamy Caribbean islando A missing female photographero A daughter’s relentless search and her entanglement in the island’s twisted subculture Don’t expect an umbrella in your drink when you escape to the Virgin Islands in this heart-pounding suspense novel as young Olivia Benning desperately searches for her photographer mother who has gone missing during a covert assignme...
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    12,62 €

  • Aftertaste
    Jennifer Shapcott
    Stories of love, kindness, desire and revenge. Frank sets off on his bike to help people in his coastal village and stumbles upon a scene that changes his life. A journalist reflects on his betrayal of a colleague in Korea and resolves to make amends. Two former lovers reunite unexpectedly in Japan and visit the place that holds the secret of their past. Sometimes quirky, often...
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    13,89 €

  • calm to chaos
    Garth Wade
    Syd Worthington is a student paramedic in Brisbane who is not only having difficulties with the studies involved with his new job, but tonight, is also forced to adapt to some freshly exposed personal troubles. His girlfriend Amber, is a nurse who is always on the look-out for herself and whose strange behaviour is increasing. Syd's partner and mentor Cameron, is a kind Sco...
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    15,87 €

  • Jarvisfield
    Gretta Curran Browne
    A mixture of the Arabic blood of her father, and the English blood of her mother, Elizabeth (Beth) Jarvis grows up on the estate of Jarvisfield in Scotland. A dark-haired, dark-eyed girl of uncommon beauty who enslaves the hearts of two young men, while loving only one.Lachlan Macquarie Junior, rich and golden, and the heir to his famous father’s estate, is the joy of his mothe...
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    20,45 €

  • President Michelle, or Ten Days that Shook the World
    Manu Herbstein
    Manu Herbstein's short tale is a political logbook of the days following Michelle Obama's inauguration as the first female president of the United States. Having been catapulted to the presidential post by a zealous electorate in search of stability and reassurance following the untimely death of President Obama, the mourning Mrs. Obama arrived without campaigning, owin...
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    5,67 €

  • Bunyan’s Guide To The Great American Wildlife
    Quentin Canterel
    'A compellingly readable contemporary fantasia set in a vivid New York of the mind.' - KirkusJohn, part radicalised anarchist, part ticking time bomb, is haunted by a particular story, that of Willow, a 9-year old mute who flees to New York after her brutal rape. The only way his girlfriend, Felicity, can stop the clock counting downis by disentangling the riddle of their pasts...
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    16,26 €

  • Vital Spark
    Leah Devlin
    After eking out a living as an adjunct professor in Washington DC, fisheries ecologist Alex Allaway lands a job running a small marine station back in her hometown. Arriving in River Glen to surprise her grandfather with her the good news, Alex is horrified to discover him dead, a bloody dagger in his heart. His clenched fist grasps a piece of pirate gold and a cryptic map with...
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    16,46 €

  • The Sand Dollar
    Maggie Christensen
    What if you discover everything you believed to be true about yourself has been a lie? Stunned by news of an impending redundancy, and impelled by the magic of a long-forgotten sand dollar, Jenny retreats to her godmother in Oregon to consider her future.  What she doesn’t bargain for is to uncover the secret of her adoption at birth and her Native American heritage. This rev...
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    18,62 €

  • Thalia
    Frances Faviell
    ‘You are a virgin?’‘Yes.’‘How dull! What’s the use of being a woman if you’re a virgin?’‘One has to begin sometime,’ I agreed.Recovering from an illness, Rachel, an 18-year-old art student at the Slade in London, is advised to spend a year in a warm climate. She agrees to go to France to act as companion to Cynthia, a delicate, temperamental woman whose husband is in India, and...
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    13,14 €

  • Suburban Stew
    Irving Schwartz
    A gripping novel dripping with wit, mockery, and well-manicured lawns, Suburban Stew: A Blood Soaked Satire tells the story of an out of control family whose secrets and killing sprees are only the beginnings of their troubles. Throughout an idealistic white-picket-fence landscape, the Kramer family finds inventive and shadowy ways to deceive each other and everyone else. But ...
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    23,76 €

  • The Storykiller
    Humfrey Hunter
    Some secrets are worth killing for... Jack Winter was once an idealistic and brilliant news reporter who broke the biggest stories around. But after wrongly blaming himself for a young girl’s murder he changed sides and began killing stories for the rich and powerful, protecting them from exactly the kind of journalist he used to be. When a new client drags Jack into a lethal...
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    15,67 €

  • Killer Market
    Margaret Maron
    The first Deborah Knott mystery, Bootlegger’s Daughter, swept the top mystery awards in 1993 with a down-home judge dedicated to justice, driven by private demons, and prone to decide with her heart. From the first though, the books have given us an insider’s look at North Carolina—from its western mountains to its Crystal Coast. Now in the series’ fifth book, Judge Deborah inv...
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    36,45 €

  • The Eliza Doll
    Tracey Scott-Townsend
    Ellie lives in a campervan with her dog, Jack, selling her handmade dolls at craft fairs. There is one doll that she can't bear to finish until she comes to terms with the truth of what has happened.Uncompromising family drama involving communes, twisted family relationships, childbirth and breastfeeding while living on the dole in 1980s England.Set in East Yorkshire and Ic...
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    18,30 €

  • A Little Wisdom for Growing Up, Second and Expanded Edition
    John C. Morgan / John CMorgan
    A Little Wisdom for Growing Up is an ancient form of storytelling, of passing on wisdom between generations. In this delightful collection of fables from the natural world (in the style of Aesop’s famous fables), the author seeks to pass on to his young son, Jonathan, what he has learned from life. Characters in these brief fables run the gamut---from skunks and fish, to trees ...
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    29,31 €


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