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  • Quantum Events
    George Opacic
    Employing rich language and tight narratives, George has provided us with a collection that offers a unique, perhaps even at times other worldly, perspective. Utilising styles ranging from poetry to screen plays, and everything in between, these slice-of-of life tales are punctuated throughout with George's dry sense of humour. As to be expected, he covers ground both philo...
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    13,08 €

  • Just Another Sleeping Beauty
    Susan Kohler
    When a young woman, Cynthia Wright Snowden, is overcome by the struggles and upheavals in her life she is distracted enough to be careless. She steps off a curb in front of a bus. Or was she pushed? As she lays in a coma in her hospital bed, she finds her spirit alone with a handsome stranger, Robbie McDougal, talking to him without actual words.He tells her he is a Highlander ...
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    21,51 €

  • Owl girl
    Jerald Pope
    A long-form, wordless novel in color. In the world of fairy tales, a little girl wanders alone in a dark wood. Suddenly a huge owl swoops down, picks her up and takes her to its nest! There she joins the owl family and grows up as an owl – with magical fairy-tale results. One day she sees a woodsman and follows him back to his village. Will she be accepted for who she is? Will ...
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    11,82 €

  • Violets Are Red
    Mylo Carbia
    From the #1 bestselling author­ that brought millions of readers Ava DeSantis, comes the heart-stopping, psychological thriller about a Manhattan housewife who captures her husband’s young mistress and quietly keeps her prisoner in the basement of their Upper East Side townhouse . . . VIOLETS ARE RED.“She’s the next Stephen King.” – Horror Society“The best horror-thriller novel...
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    19,88 €

  • Nectar and Ambrosia
    E. M. Hamill / EMHamill
    Callie, a Classics major, flees home to protect her family from a monster straight out of mythology.  Visions lead her to Nectar and Ambrosia: the weirdest pub on Earth, where inter-dimensional travelers with attention seeking issues get drunk in between the A-list celebrity lives they create. They can't pretend to be gods anymore—not since a treaty with the current Supreme...
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    9,90 €

  • Bessie Bell and the Goblin King
    Charlotte E. English / Charlotte EEnglish
    The Lincolnshire Wolds, 1812. When housemaid Bessie Bell is thrown out into a cold October night, her prospects could scarcely seem worse. With nowhere to go and no one to help her, how will she survive? But on the road she meets a mysterious gentleman, and her fortunes take an immediate turn for the… strange. For the nightmare horse Tatterfoal stalks the fog-drenched Wolds, an...
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    14,63 €

  • Miss Ellerby and the Ferryman
    Charlotte E. English / Charlotte EEnglish
    Tilby, Lincolnshire, 1812. Born into modest wealth and impeccable respectability, Miss Isabel Ellerby is expected to make an advantageous marriage. But an encounter with a Faerie Rade brings changes thick and fast, and Isabel's safe and conventional life changes forever.When she meets the handsome Ferryman of Aylfenhame, Isabel knows there is no going back. Condemned and fo...
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    14,56 €

  • Miss Landon and Aubranael
    Charlotte E. English / Charlotte EEnglish
    Tilby, Lincolnshire, 1811. Miss Sophia Landon is the unremarkable daughter of an impoverished clergyman. Her father’s health is failing fast, but who wants to marry a woman without birth, beauty or wealth? Her prospects are limited indeed - until her friendship with the town’s fae denizens earns her passage to the otherworldly realm of Aylfenhame. Could her fate truly lie beyon...
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    14,57 €

  • Cucaracha
    Ali Zaak
    When the author published the fictional biography book 'Are you brown name in a black list?', he was portraying the war on Iraq from a non-American perspectives. He presented a personal unique perspective for an Iraqi scientist living under International sanctions, wars and occupation. This time, the author blends facts with lots of fantasies to create an amusing book that suit...
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    15,14 €

  • Furious
    Aaron Shaver
    Reese and Emma are a young couple struggling to make ends meet while raising their four-year-old son. They've got a lot of love, but love doesn't pay the bills. Things only get worse when their house is burned to the ground during what appears to be an attempted robbery. When Reese asks his dad for help and a place for his family to stay, his dad offers only one, urgent...
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    31,75 €

  • Thus Speaks Mother Simorq
    Azadeh Azad
    In this collection of short stories, we follow a Persian mythological bird woman, Mother Simorq, who appears in many stories as a wise woman or a nanny. We read about teenage girls experiencing their coming of age within authoritarian or male-dominated environments and one little girl facing questions of life and death. We enter the world of a woman who transgresses oppressive ...
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    26,69 €

  • Thus Speaks Mother Simorq
    Azadeh Azad
    In this collection of short stories, we follow a Persian mythological bird woman, Mother Simorq, who appears in many stories as a wise woman or a nanny. We read about teenage girls experiencing their coming of age within authoritarian or male-dominated environments and one little girl facing questions of life and death. We enter the world of a woman who transgresses oppressive ...
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    17,77 €

  • Holding the Ashes, Season One
    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 gaps and staked their claims. Now, two hundred years later, the city of Black Angel struggles to survive. The souls of the dead are burned into ash, smeared in books, then burned as offerings to th...
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    16,56 €

  • Furious
    Aaron Shaver
    The pharmacist, Carolynn, pushes her glasses against her nose and looks over the prescription. “Mr. Little, you have taken these before, correct?”“Yes.”She takes a closer look at the prescription.“Wow,” she says under her breath. “That’s quite a heavy daily dose.”“Um, yes. Yes, it is.”“And, this is for… anxiety,” she says just as I say…“Anger.'Reese and Emma are a young couple ...
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    20,21 €

  • The Helm of Darkness
    A. P. Mobley / APMobley
    The Greek gods are real, and they’ve come back with a vengeance. Andy and Zoey are two normal teenagers living in the modern day - that is, until they’re knocked unconscious in a freak storm sweeping the United States. When they wake up, the world they know has been tossed away. Their city is in ruins, strange creatures walk the earth, and worst of all, everyone is gone. They s...
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    18,48 €

  • Simply His
    Bárbara A. Insfrán B. / Bárbara AInsfrán B. / Bárbara Insfrán
    Meadow is an average woman having a less than average day. Things are going wrong for her in a profound way. Her old reliable truck is acting up, causing her to be late for a regular visit to her Mother’s grave. Little does she know, the events of this visit will be the turning point of her life. Meadow is about to be confronted with the supernatural on a level she has never ...
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    22,59 €

  • The Boogeyman’s Intern
    Matt Betts
    Not everyone lands their dream job.Take Abe: He’s bottomed out as an Imaginary Friend and has to find a new job before his bosses assign him a truly crappy one. Just as he’s about to resign himself to a life of making toys in a workshop, he’s given a reprieve—of sorts. Now he has the opportunity to be the first policeman on the Hill and solve an impossible murder.For assistance...
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    17,56 €

  • The First Fairy Tale
    Susan Highsmith
    The First Fairy Tale: Book II  is the second book in a trilogy that creatively tells the story of our beginnings in a way that delights children and parents alike.  Everyone has been born, so we have each taken this journey described in classic fairy tales, fables, allegories, legends, and myths across cultures and generations. Now you can share this magnificent journey with th...
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    33,78 €

  • The First Fairy Tale
    Susan Highsmith
    The First Fairy Tale: Book II  is the second book in a trilogy that creatively tells the story of our beginnings in a way that delights children and parents alike.  Everyone has been born, so we have each taken this journey described in classic fairy tales, fables, allegories, legends, and myths across cultures and generations. Now you can share this magnificent journey with th...
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    20,64 €

  • The Queen of Clocks and Other Steampunk Tales
    Bess Goden / Phoebe Darqueling
    "Once upon a time" is a phrase that immediately conjures images of enchantment. Royal balls, magical creatures, love at first sight... We are taken to a fantasy world where anything is possible. The Queen of Clocks and Other Steampunk Tales brings together the magic of fairytale and the allure of cogs and gears. Within these pages, find dancing automatons, industrial age fairie...
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    6,29 €

  • Mr. Drake and My Lady Silver
    Charlotte E. English / Charlotte EEnglish
    Lincoln, 1812. Grieving for a long-dead sister, Ilsevel is elated to learn that her twin may yet have survived — and angry, for at the centre of this decades-old tale is the traitor Wodebean. A cheat he may be, but he holds the key to her sister’s life, and Ilsevel will travel the length and breadth of England to find him. But can she do it alone?Son of a disgruntled baker, Phi...
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    14,53 €

  • Once Upon a Fact
    'Once upon a time' is a magical phrase; an incantation that conjures stories into being and gives them life. What we now call 'fairy tales' outlived their original creators, outlasted their descendants, and one day might very well survive the death of our species. When, and if, humanity leaves this planet, fairy tales will make the journey too -- into the far-flung reaches of t...
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    13,19 €

  • Druid Enforcer
    M.D. Massey
    DRUID ENFORCERBook 6 In The Colin McCool Paranormal Suspense SeriesAfter I became the druid justiciar for the central Texas area, I thought for sure I’d get a breather. All I wanted was a little time to lick my wounds after a long hard fight with a rogue wizard and his crew.But like my Uncle Ed always said, wish in one hand and… well, you get the picture.As it turns out, being ...
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    9,74 €

  • The Legend of Sweet Tree Water
    Whitney Anruth
    Long before books were made the history and rules of man were taught by the older members of society. The inquiring minds of youth sought to learn about their way of life and how thing came to be a part of their way of life. Thus the stories of the elders were far more than amusements. They taught the history of the group and the traditions that guided their behavior, thoughts,...
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    12,37 €

  • Aesop’s Fables
    Aesop / V.S. Vernon Jones / V.SVernon Jones
    Aesop is famous for his fables, each containing a nugget of insight and wisdom or moral which Aesop draws for the reader.  This 1912 translation includes beautiful full color illustrations alongside ones rendered in black and white.  Making this edition even more desirable is its foreword by G.K. Chesterton, the author of "The Everlasting Man."  ...
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    24,52 €

  • Realm of the Forgotten
    Emma Shelford
    What do you choose when there is no choice?​After two harrowing adventures in an Otherworld of magic and mystery, Gwen Cooper thought she would never go back. Friends, university classes, and a blossoming relationship with her boyfriend Aidan fill her days. But when Gwen returns to England to visit a relative, her estranged Breenan mother appears on the doorstep and announces t...
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    13,21 €

  • A Shadow Away
    Joan K Lacy
    Get Ready to Journey into a Supernatural Adventure.When British archaeologist Andrew Seaton discovers a jewel-encrusted golden statue, he realizes he may have uncovered the key to the lost city of El Dorado. The statue disappears before he can verify his findings, and Andrew must rely on private detective Alex Cort to recover the prized artifact.The two men find themselves caug...
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    14,00 €

  • Dundonald Tales
    Suzy A. Kelly
    Enter this short collection and immerse yourself in the dark side of an ancient Scottish village: where the Baba Witch hunts for lost children in the forest, where spiders torment sinners in the castle dungeon, where the Devil rides with the Highlees Witches, where dead smugglers seek revenge on the living, and where Lady Eglinton of Auchans trains her rats to dance The...
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    4,36 €

  • Nagaland
    Ben Doherty
    The diary arrived addressed to me, bearing a message: We live forever through our stories. Tell ours. And so began the author’s journey into the life and legends of the Naga — a forgotten people living in the far north-east of India, struggling to survive in the modern world. With sensitively poetic prose, Doherty deftly draws the reader into worlds of parallel realities. The l...
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    14,04 €

  • Kane’s Scary Tales Vol. 1
    Paul Kane
    Once upon a time... A young woman runs through a snowy wasteland, fearing for her life, only to find help from an unexpected source... A whole town falls asleep, resulting in a joint US/UK military and scientific expedition to find out what happened... A serial killer with a penchant for severed feet strikes again... A teenage girl seeks refuge in a strange house, only for its ...
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    146,67 €


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