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  • Never Buried
    Edie Claire
    First in the USA-Today bestselling Leigh Koslow Mystery Series!'A funny, fast-paced, clever, and unusual mystery that will have readers clamoring for more. Sheer delight.' --Carolyn HartThe truth about what happened in 1949 went to Paul Fischer's grave... Too bad his body didn't!Advertising copywriter Leigh Koslow doesn't pack heat--just a few extra pounds. And she ...
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    10,94 €

  • Where's My Dinner
    J. Cornell Michel
    Take a step back in time to a bygone era: a time of white picket fences, and rotary phones when in husbands in their suits, ties, and button-down shirts come home after their long days at the office, step through their front doors with briefcases in their hands, and exclaim more than do they ask, 'Where's my dinner?' Quaint as this scene may appear to some women, it was th...
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    8,42 €

  • Judge Crater Takes a Powder
    Glenn Lazar Roberts
    The most mysterious disappearance of the 20th century is solved as New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Crater goes undercover for the FBI in this hilarious satire set in mid-century America, with an eccentric cast of characters including Amelia Earhart, J. Edgar Hoover, Orson Welles, German spies, Japanese submarines, space-folding transvestites, Mormon mafia, and recipe-obse...
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    8,85 €

  • Southern Discomfort
    Margaret Maron
    Deborah Knott may have lost the district election, but a bigoted judge's sudden death--and some old-fashioned political horse trading--have won her a governor's appointment. True to Southern form, her swearing-in is followed by a raucous reception that brings out every elderly aunt and cousin in the county. Unfortunately, Lu Bingham, the force behind WomenAid, is at th...
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    36,60 €

  • Sex, Snow & Mistletoe
    Laura Barnard
    Melinda is already having a crappy Christmas. Forced to attend some snotty bitch's wedding is not the way to start out the holidays. But when a car crash pushes her into the path of a handsome stranger she's glad to follow his snowy, sexy and seductive path. But is he too good to be true? And will she make it to the wedding before her best friend loses her mind with wor...
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    6,12 €

  • The Eyes Have It
    Julie Allan
    One thing every southern girl knows-if you are lost, your inner compass will point you home. For Lizzie Long, home is the beautiful South Carolina Lowcountry, where a close-knit community welcomes her with open arms and nurtures her spirit after her world implodes. As Lizzie tries to hit the reset button and put the pieces of her shattered life back together, the magic of the...
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    9,83 €

  • The E Ticket
    Lawler Kang
    War. Genocide. Rape. Poverty. Climate disruption. Weapons of mass destruction. Inadequate education and healthcare. Hunger. Corruption. Crime. Injustice. Inequality. Is there a common denominator underpinning these pervasive crimes? Heidi Delisle, CEO of Illumina, a technology powerhouse, believes there is. From her vantage point, testosterone is at the core of all of these i...
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    11,81 €

  • After the Scrum
    Dahlia Donovan
    Caddock 'The Brute' Stanford lost his brother and rugby career within the same year. The once man-about-town is now a has-been and guardian to his young nephew. Not sure where life will go after the scrum, he decides to purchase a pub in the Cornwall village of Looe. He never expects to fall in lust—and then love. Francis Keen hides his crippling anxiety behind his eccentric ha...
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    16,58 €

  • Exordium of Tears
    Andrew P Weston
    Fight or Die…Victorious in a star-flung battle against the inhuman Horde, Earth’s fabled 9th Legion of Rome; the U.S. 5th Company’s 2nd Mounted Rifles; and a Special Forces anti-terrorist team settle on Arden, their adopted planet, to raise families and live in peace.But soon, state secrets are revealed: The greatest of the inhuman Horde didn’t join the battle, but yet lurk amo...
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    31,93 €

  • Worthy
    Carla G Harper
    Seventeen-year-old Worthy lives in a house full of secrets. In the summer of 1945, her father is accused of a sensational murder. Her plans to get out of Hogan’s Creek suddenly become tied up in a reckless yet exciting pursuit of truth and ultimately justice. She’ll nearly lose her life, but along the way she finds love, hope, and the truth about her family in unlikely places.W...
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    14,08 €

  • 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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    17,53 €

  • Carry on the Flame
    Jodine Turner
    Born into a lineage of priestesses in modern day Glastonbury, England, Sharay is chosen by the Goddess of the Stars and the Sea to help humankind move through the fear and chaos of today's world. To do so, she has to face her grief, loss, and her own dark side. Her way is blocked by her jealous Aunt Phoebe,who uses black magic against Sharay to steal her fortune and her mag...
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    11,60 €

  • The Girl With Hearts
    Savannah Blevins
    Henrik Rylander doesn't just participate in Manhattan's dating scene-he owns the exclusive rights to it... As the newly-minted captain of the New York Rangers hockey team, Henrik's coach wants him to clean up his reputation. But Henrik isn't quite ready to give up charming panties off co-eds, so he decides to indulge in one last night of uninhibited freedom. Leila Blakely has...
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    9,87 €

  • Next Year in Jerusalem
    John Kolchak
    A brutal re-imagining of the Gospel story, Next Year in Jerusalem follows the footsteps of Yeshua Bar-Yosif—an illiterate, epileptic, bastard son of a Roman soldier on his ill-fated life journey through a land racked by terror.     As first century Judea bleeds from the oppression of Roman rule and the violent uprisings against it, Yeshua, tormented by familial guilt for abando...
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    10,60 €

  • In Praise of the Bees
    Kristin Gleeson
    Ireland 590 A.D.A woman is found by a track, nearly dead from appalling wounds and remembers nothing. Her terror and her injuries are so great that she is given sanctuary in Mother Gobnait's unusual community of nuns, while all around her a war is being waged in which she is a pawn. The women name her Aine.Disturbing fragments of Áine’s memory begin to surface, and in despe...
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    11,46 €

  • The Lafayette Campaign
    Andrew Updegrove
    America is rushing headlong into another election year, but something is wrong - the polls don't match reality. It's up to cybersecurity super sleuth Frank Adversego to find the Black Hats who are trying to hack the presidential election, and stop them before they do. The action begins when a nameless government agency recruits Adversego to find out who's manipulati...
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    13,49 €

  • Cleaning Out the Closet
    Mary Pomfret
    Cleaning out the closet is typically a woman's task. It is also a perfect metaphor for the creative endeavour as it rummages through junk - items long discarded or abandoned - for signs of renewal. In the tradition of the great female storytellers - Alice Munro, Doris Lessing, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf - Mary Pomfret reveals the dramatic, consequential and often painf...
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    13,43 €

  • Cover Story
    Carol Burns
    'We need to get you out of London, somewhere safe.' 'Witness protection?' 'No, but this might be a good time to take a long holiday in the country.' 'I have a job, a home, I live in London. What do you mean go to the country?' When a body part turns up on the desk of London-based journalist Victoria Manders, it's not just her story that gets spiked. As parts of her interviewee...
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    11,79 €

  • Urban Millionaires
    Willie Smith
    Akbar Smit and George Oteras are childhood friends. Over the years and as they became men, their bond grew stronger. Both men end up getting arrested for a case that ultimately sends one to prison, and the other into the folds of a dangerous dope game. George Oteras had always been well connected and had plans of making he and his childhood friend, Akbar, very rich. Just on...
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    19,62 €

  • The Schnoz of the Rings
    John J Osterhout
    Froyo Bagpants, a halfbit of the Mire, must destroy the Schnozring by tossing it into the fire pit of Mount Drool to prevent the Great Schnoz from conquering Central Oith. But you knew that. This parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings has the obligatory funny names and the twisted plot but it also has a special charm all its own. You needn't have read the bo...
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    14,04 €

  • Harry Danced Divinely
    Marian D. Schwartz
    There is a myth that the 1950s were a simple time.Family life on Giffort Street was never simple.The Whittakers are stunned when their trusted nanny, Meddie, suddenly leaves without giving notice. Meddie always knows everything before everyone else. What does she know that she isn’t willing to tell them?The trouble between Stan and Adele Heussler might have started when Adele b...
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    12,66 €

  • Dead World Bk. 2
    Jordan Summers
    Welcome to the near-future where prejudice is no longer tied to the color of your skin, but the purity of your blood. To be accused of taint is tantamount to a death sentence. Thrust into a world of creatures Gina 'Red' Santiago never knew existed, she does her best to fit in while trying to come to grips with the fact that she's a werewolf. The transition from International P...
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    8,95 €

  • The Humming Bee
    Victoria Kain
    The Humming Bee is a story about being happy with who you are. ...
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    16,96 €

  • T-Bull and the Lost Men
    Paul Moser
    Have you heard the one about the lesbian pixie called Tinker Bull, who takes on a shipload of Roman Catholic pirates without the help of her old friend Peter Plan, who has become an investment banker? Or the one about the Crocodazzi, an insatiable investigative journalist who happens to be a crocodile? The punch lines are in the story called T-Bull and the Lost Men, a funhouse...
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    6,28 €

  • Adventures with the Master
    Gary Edward Gedall
    This is an inspirational book, about a young boy and his master. Both have lived through trauma, of different sorts, at different times. Both will find peace and wholeness. Here are their stories .... Dhargey was a sickly child or so his parents treated him. His only hope for his future was to explain to the head of the local monastery why he should be accepted into the o...
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    13,86 €

  • Uncle Rocky, Fireman #2 Something’s Missing
    James Burd Brewster
    Rocky Hill has been a firefighter for only three weeks but cannot get it out of his head that something is missing at the station. But what is it? His thoughts about this mystery are interrupted by the visit of his two nephews, Ben and Luke. The interruption does not last long however as Luke’s insightful question points Rocky in the right direction. -- Called 'Good Books ...
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    8,00 €

  • Uncle Rocky, Fireman #1 Fire!
    James Burd Brewster
    New firefighter, Rocky Hill, arriving at his first fire is confronted by a frantic mother shouting, 'Save my Baby, Save My Baby.' While his crew attacks the fire, Rocky, his heart pounding with the urgency of the situation, crawls through the upstairs searching for the baby trapped in her crib. Called 'Good Books for Young Boys' Uncle Rocky, Fireman is a series of children’s i...
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    11,53 €

  • The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac
    Kris D'Agostino / Kris D’Agostino
    In the spirit of novels by Nick Hornby and Tom Perrotta, a smart, funny debut about a disillusioned young man whose fledgling leap from postadolescence to adulthood lands him back in an already overburdened family nest.Calvin Moretti can’t believe how much his life sucks. He’s a twenty-four-year-old film school dropout living at home again and working as an assistant teacher at...
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    11,48 €

  • The Road Trip Dialogues
    Jass Richards
    Rev and Dylan are intelligent, sensitive, idealistic, enthusiastic, and -- utter failures. When they reconnect some twenty years after teacher’s college, Rev is en route to Montreal to see the fireworks festival. (Something with great social and political import.) (Oh shut up. I tried. For two frickin’ decades. So to hell with it.). Dylan goes along for the ride. (Typical.) S...
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    11,54 €

  • Dorothy on the Rocks
    Barbara Suter
    In Maggie Barlow’s world, reality is overrated. So what if her singing career has hit a sour note or she’s no longer the ingénue that she used to be? So what if she drinks and smokes a bit too much or likes to chat with a fairy godperson who appears to her from time to time? She’s the queen of denial and an actress to boot—she can just take on the role of someone she likes bet...
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    11,54 €