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  • Twilight Christmas
    Normandie Fischer
    Two orphans. A big sister with Down Syndrome. And a community in need of miracles.It’s up to ten-year-old Louis to protect Linney from the bad men. He knows what can happen to handicapped kids. He’s seen it before.Only, it’s getting harder and harder to keep her warm and safe in this old storage barn as Christmas celebrations unfold around them. And then there’s Annie Mac and h...
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    11,45 €

  • Thunder in the Rumble Seat
    Karl Connell
    What a witty look at Continuing Care Retirement Communities! It laughs at their schizophrenic business model. The faster you die the more money they make, yet  they really do try to keep you alive! Can such Communities survive if, like purple jelly fish and eight other organisms, humans learn to live forever. If we do, will we jump off into outer space like lemmings into the se...
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    13,56 €

  • The Education of Doctor Montefiore
    Emmet Hirsch
    Robert Montefiore graduates from medical school and plunges into the sink-or-swim world of a residency in obstetrics and gynecology.He sinks.As if his fears of inadequacy were insufficient, he receives plenty of external validation in the form of dying patients, critical supervisors and incapacitating fatigue. And then there is his love-life. Robert he has fallen in irrational ...
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    10,64 €

  • Vilnius Poker
    Ricardas Gavelis / Elizabeth Novickas
    A dark, enigmatic, and visceral examination of the psychology of repression, Vilnius Poker dives into the minds of four narrators whose contradictory memories challenge the very idea of truth. In this masterpiece written “for the drawer,” Vilnius itself becomes a presence possessing a will, a consciousness and, worse, an intent. First published in 1989 when Lithuania was on the...
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    15,72 €

  • Night in Jerusalem
    Gaelle Lehrer Kennedy
    A bewitching love story that is also an extraordinary portrait of Jerusalem, its faith, spirituality, identity, and kaleidoscope of clashing beliefs, Night in Jerusalem is a novel of mystery, beauty, historical insight, and sexual passion.David Bennett is invited to Jerusalem in 1967 by his cousin who, to the alarm of his aristocratic British family, has embraced Judaism. He in...
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    27,96 €

  • Trouble in Paradise
    Christina Berry
    What happens when the person you’re in love with turns out to be not-so-lovable—will you give up or will you fight for it?  In this power packed sequel, Alicia finds herself in a new friendship and a new marriage that becomes complicated when a sexy new suitor catches her eye.  Meanwhile her little brother is facing problems of his own with the mother of his son, Julian.  When ...
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    8,80 €

  • THOT
    Alah Adams
    Games are only fun until the cops get involved. Then, they're exhilarating. Chasity is a self-proclaimed THOT. The Internet is her chessboard and other men's money are the kings she so terribly loves to capture. It was never a big deal, nor was it ever complicated for Chasity. Find lonely men, exchange a couple favors, and walk away a wealthier woman. She never anticipa...
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    18,47 €

  • The City of Quartz
    Ian Irvine (Hobson)
    Rowan Sweeney is a thirty-three year old perpetual student with relationship and vocational issues. Out of desperation he takes a job with Douglass Green - a Doctor of 'something or other', publisher of 'curios', and New Age therapist living in Central Victoria. Rowan soon discovers Green has a hidden agenda involving Neo-Druidism, Alchemy, cricket, music, obscu...
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    19,23 €

  • Gretel's Cross
    Meredith Wayne Price
    From1914 to 1945, Gretel and her German family confront upheaval as WWI and WWII erupt in this historical fiction based on true facts and family relationships. The bullying, gossip, shame, and guilt of suicide, adultery, and forbidden romance accompany death and acts of heroism as Nazi Germany evolves.   ...
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    18,15 €

  • Gathering Storm
    Toni House
    If there’s one thing Maddie knows well, it’s a life of excess. Doted on by her wealthy father and grandfather, there’s nothing she’s ever wanted for in life. But her beloved grandpa’s health is failing, and that means everything she knows and loves is about to be thrown off course. In the midst of fighting her growing feelings for a boy who works there, she uncovers a dark secr...
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    8,21 €

  • Not Just Another Pretty Face
    The stories, poems, and essays in this collection have a single element in common that unites their wide range of literary styles and genres: they all spring directly from photographs of go-go boys. An ideal go-go boy is the perfect erotic object: slick, vacant, tantalizing, charged. We may imagine him as lost or broken so that we might rescue him, or as potent and agressive s...
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    24,11 €

  • The Shop of Shades and Secrets
    Colleen Gleason
    “Saucy, sexy, and suspenseful. A must-read!” —Liliana Hart  'Fun and exciting romance...with a ghostly touch. Nancy Drew for grown-ups!” —Mara Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author  This book isn’t as creepy as it looks! It’s funny, sexy, suspenseful and a little spooky. Think Nancy Drew all grown up, meeting a sexy, oh-so-proper attorney who needs to loosen up a little—a...
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    10,66 €

  • The Cards of Life and Death
    Colleen Gleason
    '...There's nothing better than a book by Colleen Gleason!' -- Robyn Carr  'Fun and exciting romance...with a ghostly touch. Nancy Drew for grown-ups!” —Mara Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author  This book isn’t as scary as it looks! It’s funny, sexy, suspenseful and a little spooky. Think Nancy Drew all grown up, meeting a super-hot guy and encountering a ghost!  '...
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    10,57 €

  • You're Not Dead
    Geoff Ward
    Geoff Ward's glitteringly funny and scary novel sends his hero Miles on a wild pursuit, through this world and the next, of one of only three known copies of the rarest book in existence. Like the object of his obsessive quest, You're Not Dead is both supreme fiction and grail, a one-off exemplar of a lost original. – John Ashbery, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetr...
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    26,93 €

  • Newvember
    Jennifer Bogart
    1 dare, 30 days, 30 new things... The dare was simple, but it turned into a life-altering journey. This is inspirational thinking in disguise. When Willow decides to take the stairs, instead of the elevator, she runs into Sawyer, who knocks her off her feet, and something in her psyche shifts. She is propelled into the adventure that is her own life. Filled with twists and turn...
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    15,86 €

  • Meanwhile on a Roof in Chinatown
    Ingrid Rudefors / Schattin Odella
    MEANWHILE ON A ROOF IN CHINATOWN--in the early 1990s, Alice, a middle-aged Swedish professor, stuffs her husband’s ties into the dishwasher and leaves their pleasant suburban villa outside of Stockholm, suitcase in hand, on a blind exodus towards a city she knows only from glossy travel brochures. Meanwhile, her daughter Babylonia is perched on the roof of her shabby Chinatown ...
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    11,72 €

  • Pie and Whiskey
    Stella Wallace
    In the heart of 1990’s New York City excess, a working girl is in danger, at the mercy of a renowned but now failing writer sprinting towards her own demise. This book is an exposé of the dark underbelly of the sex trade, one layer below 'polite' society, from the real women entrenched in it.This is a twisted coming of age story that takes readers down the rabbit hole into the ...
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    10,45 €

  • Tek-Fall (The After Eden Series)
    Austin Dragon
    A "dark dystopian society depicts our possible future!"Tek-Fall (The After Eden Series) is the complete two-part mini-series including both Metal Flesh (Episode I) and Hell’s Menagerie (Episode II).It is a companion novel in the After Eden science fiction and international thriller series by Austin Dragon—a dramatic mix of politics, religion, technology, and intrigue. It all le...
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    17,35 €

  • The Music of Jimmy Ojotriste
    Arturo Hernandez-Sametier
    A lush, nostalgic barrio romance reminiscent of Marquez and Allende. An orphaned boy with long hair to cover scars and a bewitched glass eye is raised by a collective of mariachis in East Los Angeles. Since childhood, Jimmy Ojotriste (sad eye) has busked the teeming Mexican restaurants of the Eastside with violinist Ray Chin and green-eyed tenor Victor Salcedo. At twenty, all t...
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    11,58 €

  • The Secret and the Sacred
    Erin K. Parker
    Erin K Parker’s The Secret and the Sacred is a collection of short stories that will linger long after you’ve closed the book.  What happens when your new friend confesses that he has a terminal illness?  When the people in the next apartment make you feel like you’re never alone?  When you discover you have hidden powers to right the wrongs?  When you receive a message from th...
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    8,86 €

  • There's Nothing Romantic About Washing the Dishes
    Katrina Joyner
    Collection of short stories inspired by real life. Most represent a mundane side from science fiction and fantasy writer, Katrina Joyner, that people don't get to see often. Silver - Redemption can come in many ways, depending on how you find it and where you look. Over It - Sometimes when faced with your evil stepmother, leaving bread crumbs on the trail is not enough. ...
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    10,43 €

  • Azimuths
    R.A. Morean
     Raceway Trailer Park sits on the lip of the Mojave. What sifts under the sand are mysteries—a  fossilized whale, a particle accelerator, and calculated dreams of escape. Above live five unique women: Hattie, who tries to find her dead mother’s face in her own; Kinni, the veiled survivor of Nagasaki; Melody, the orphan who nurses wayward children;  Lani, who uses a camera to cr...
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    14,91 €

  • Are We A Band Yet?
    Alexander Francis
    Brenna and Daniel discover their mutual interest in music and would like to perform with a band.  Quickly realizing that their preference in music is not what the other band members can play, they are forced to seek out professional help to develop their skilAs Brenna is coached by a former well-known singer, who also manages to guide her into a spectacular beginning for her si...
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    18,31 €

  • The Book of Ten
    Paul Cotterell
    A Collection of Short Stories A man at a fete is kidnapped… A demon is trapped in a washroom… A travel agency deals in time travel… A man is befriended by bees… The Book of Ten is a collection of fifty short stories, loosely linked by the theme of quirky thrillers with a twist. A man tries to give away money on a train… A cat befriends a young woman in a chemists sh...
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    11,44 €

  • Next
    Christine Brooke-Rose
    Next is, like Ulysses, a novel of (post)modern urban life in which characters circulate on foot and by public transport around the city (London here instead of Dublin), intersecting with each other, then parting, reacting continuously to the urban pleasures and perils that press in upon them. Introduction by Brian McHale. 3 ...
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    20,62 €

  • Along the Far Shores
    Kristin Gleeson
    A 12th century Irish woman sets out on the legendary voyage to America of Prince Madog of Wales.Aisling, despite her best efforts has failed to become the seer her mother desired, so when her mother dies leaving her alone, she departs Ireland for Wales to be with her brother, Cormac, at the royal court at Gwynedd. There she finds he is joining Prince Madog’s voyage to the west...
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    11,38 €

  • The Notorious Dream of Jesus Lazaro
    Terence Clarke
    Infamous Mexican muralist Jesús Lázaro comes to San Francisco from Mexico--where he had painted the exteriors of churches despite objections by the Catholic Church and the Mexican government. The artist sees the massive cathedral of Saint Mary of The Assumption of San Francisco, at the corner of Gough and Geary Streets, and determines he must paint the entire exterior with gran...
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    10,50 €

  • After The Sucker Punch
    Lorraine Devon Wilke
    “A realistic and profound journey of realization and forgiveness…a solid novel that admirably explores the fragile, fraught relationship between parent and child.” —Publishers Weekly "Wilke writes with razor-sharp wit and radiant flair, and the prose's high quality is the novel's principal strength. She also sensitively portrays how real love and affection can survive a...
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    10,44 €

  • Confessions of the Editor Brigand
    Cori Nicole Smith
    Zhanna-a grammarian, compulsive spellchecker, and young copy editor-simmers when her expert redlines are questioned. As her agitation grows, she begins making editorial corrections outside the publishing house. On a lunch break, she confronts the cashier about quotation marks indicating 'free' coffee and finally abolishes them from the chalkboard herself. She broods about carel...
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    12,89 €

  • Rymellan 3
    Sarah Ettritch
    Lesley and Mo's relationship is tested when Mo develops feelings for Jayne and the arrangement the triad struck in Rymellan 2 comes to an end. The three women know they must adapt to the inevitable changes for the triad to thrive, but the triad's shifting dynamics would challenge the strongest of Rymellans--and does. Rymellan 3 contains the following stories: No Going B...
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    16,08 €


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