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  • The Family Diamond
    Edward Schwarzschild
    Beginning with Milly and Charlie Diamond, a long-married couple facing the world hand in hand, The Family Diamond lays bare the lasting imprint our families make on us—for better and for worse. In these nine stories we see glimpses of our own families: when Charlie offers advice to his lovesick grandson; when a young man tries to repair his relationship with his estranged brot...
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    14,80 €

  • Stitches in Time
    Leba Wine
    Leba Wine on Her Novel,Stitches in TimeISBN 978-09773070-2-9 312 pp'I realized, in my middle years,' says Leba Wine, 'that I was of the last generation to hear first- hand Jewish Eastern European immigrant history from the lips of those who had made the trip to America. My head was full of tales told to me by my grandmother. I had my mother’s diaries full of stories. Best of al...
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    15,68 €

  • No Mercy
    Jaye Cheríe
    No Mercy follows the growing conflict between rich music producer, Byron Mercy, and his troubled, twenty-one year-old daughter, Erica. Their rift has deepened over the years due to her promiscuous behavior and the persistent rumors about her. The family tension reaches a boiling point when Erica becomes pregnant from a man she refuses to identify. Byron finally gives her an ult...
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    11,17 €

  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Dr Jekyll, a 'large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty', occasionally feels he is battling between the good and evil within himself, thus leading to the struggle between his dual personalities of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. He has spent a great part of his life trying to repress evil urges that were not fitting for a man of his stature. He creates a potion in an attempt to mask t...
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    20,64 €

  • Alone
    Lilly Iamson
    Alone is the story of a young woman with a secret. When she recieves a vision she does everything in her power to help those she's come to care about. As an oprhan it had always been difficult to make connections with people, until Tibur. Against his wishes she must push forward with a plan to save them all.Will she be capable of becoming the hero she never wanted to be or ...
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    9,21 €

  • Making Contact
    Tom Romita
    Nine-year-old William Dobbs has only one thing to remember his biological father by, a picture of him wearing a New York Yankees hat. When Will’s adoptive parents inform him that his father did not die in a car accident eight years earlier as he had always believed, he resolves to make contact the only possible way he can think of, by becoming a New York Yankee. He succeeds, bu...
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    6,88 €

  • Quick and Quirky
    Fred Onymouse
     In his debut collection of short stories, Fred Onymouse takes a humorous and light-hearted glance at life. Quick and Quirky draws from Fred’s unique sense of humour to produce a read that leaves readers chuckling as they enjoy the quips inside the book. In the book, Fred writes hilarious stories about all aspects of life, each with a memorable protagonist and accompanied by fu...
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    13,09 €

  • Trans Tasman Wars
    Neville Nazzari
    SCROLL 2 allows Neville Nazzari to transport readers back to the bleak times when the majority of Australian and New Zealand women had not yet turned their backs on male chauvinism and misogyny.  The dark and midnight era before some of these women discarded their brassieres, petticoats, skirts and dresses to take up men’s sports such as football, rugby and cricket.  This is a ...
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    14,52 €

  • Cirque du Phantastique
    Claire Marie Clements
    The Ringmaster had been through this routine many times before, seeing his troupe nervously waiting around him, bursting to get onto the stage, hungry for an audience, hearts beating fast, blood rushing through their quivering, rubber-like bodies. And yet, every time, his heart swelled with pride and happiness, at his little band of travellers, all bonded by the same insatiable...
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    23,60 €

  • Down West
    Lorin Morgan-Richards
    All new comics of The Noodle Rut and The Goodbye Family plus Orphie sets off overseas to play camp in a land of dandy and deadly outlaws. Her abilities as a tough sheriff prove useful in tracking the likes of Trigger Happy Hoppy and the Apple Juice Kid. Meanwhile, Otis and Pyridine grow restless as the house begins to fall apart without their daughter's aid. ...
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    6,21 €

  • Her Blood and Bone
    Angela Boyle
    Ladies, as we know, are amazing. And complex. Just as all humans. And complex humans have complex secrets. Well, maybe not so much complex as dark. And within the confines of these pages, we learn the dark secrets of some amazing, anthropomorphic women.This collection of art and flash fiction twines through dark and depraved humor with a peculiar sweetness. Each short story is ...
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    6,82 €

  • Temporary
    Sandra Ann Miller
    Helen Clark won the lottery and lost everything. While it wasn't the 'mega' jackpot, it was enough to change her life—quit her job as a starlet's assistant, start a new business and have success. However, her partner’s poor decisions brought that dream to an end, and Helen was left with less than nothing. But Helen Clark is a lucky lady. With a job offer from a former ...
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    8,14 €

  • The Teahouse of the August Moon
    Vern Sneider
    American-style democracy and capitalism come to the sleepy village of Tobiki in this uplifting comedy of cultural conflict set on Okinawa at the end of World War II.The hapless Captain Fisby, with the help of his local interpreter, Sakini, is implementing the U.S. Army’s Plan B, which includes establishing a Women’s League for Democratic Action and building a pentagon-shaped sc...
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    19,27 €

  • Greenwich
    Deborah Bradseth / Stephen Goldhahn
    What happens when time lines and family lines converge, and history and sanity are preserved only to the extent that one is willing to embrace madness? On the eve of the new millennium, John Samuel Weston, owner of a small biotech engineering firm in Haddonfield, New Jersey, is about to find out.Centered around the historic Greenwich Tea Burning of December 22, 1774, the narrat...
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    16,31 €

  • Blackfire
    James Daniel Eckblad
    Blackfire: The Girl with the Diamond Key (Volume III of the trilogy) concludes the story of four unlikely teenagers who are summoned by a mysterious stranger to save another world being destroyed by evil. Elli Adams and her friends Beatriz, Jamie, and Alex must overcome challenges of blindness, self-confidence, and Down syndrome as they struggle together to fulfill their myster...
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    23,11 €

  • Believing Love
    Betsy Horvath
    Sometimes you need a second chance to make things right...June Esperanza really hates making mistakes. And if a man burns her so badly he almost destroys her, she damn well learns her lesson about letting anyone get that close again.Too bad that Calvin Hardy, June’s biggest mistake, just moved back to Hardy Falls and plans to stay.Calvin knows how profoundly he screwed up when,...
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    15,05 €

  • The Age of the Child
    Kristen Tsetsi
    It’s the worst time in the nation’s history of reproductive legislation for someone like Katherine, who doesn’t want a child, to learn she’s pregnant. The ratification of the pro-creation Citizen Amendment has not only criminalized the birth control that would have prevented Katherine’s accidental pregnancy, but abortion and most miscarriages are illegal, too.In this environmen...
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    10,73 €

  • Sin Against the Race
    Gar McVey-Russell
    Alfonso Rutherford Berry III—son of a city councilman, grandson of the state’s first African American legislator—believes that history has ordained for him but one life, and it ain’t his first love: dancing. But after a series of tragedies, starting with the death of his fierce, out cousin Carlton, his assumptions explode in his face along with his closet door.Alfonso emerges i...
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    15,50 €

  • Twisted Faith
    Victoria Schwimley
    Abby was young, only a junior in high school. Her entire life waited before her, with big plans to go to college. Her parents were strict, stricter than most parents, and sex before marriage was not tolerated in her church. Jimmy was a high-school senior with a basketball scholarship to an ivy-league college. When they meet at a party, one that Abby snuck out of the house to at...
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    20,06 €

  • White Event
    Desmond Fox / Ken Hoover / 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 gap and staked their claims, fueled by the relentless smothering of human lives. Welcome to the New West. Welcome to the world you deserve.You have in your hands an introduction to the lavish White...
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    17,05 €

  • The Immortal Universe
    Matti Silver / Vito Andrews
    When an entire planetary system is about to fall apart, an indecisive Ambassador Slydin is given the task of keeping it together — but the solution is far greater than he could imagine.Betrayed and pressed to make alliances with his naysayers, Slydin's journey will take him to places with little hope of survival. Armed with only his crew and technology he doesn't unders...
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    10,74 €

  • The Last Outrageous Woman
    Jessica H Stone
    Eighty-six-year-old Mattie Snorgenson has had enough!  She's spent most of her life caring for family and fitting into polite society.  Now, she is ready to follow her dream. Inspired by Mattie's courage, four other senior women join her in escaping the boredom of life in their retirement home. Together they travel the world, each seeking to fulfill the one, secret desi...
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    12,95 €

  • Catatopia
    J. L. Addicoat
    How far would you go for the one you love? Conrad longs to give his wife the child she desperately craves. Rendered infertile by a mutated virus in early childhood, Conrad has undergone numerous tests and trials only to fail time after time. Learning of an experimental fertility serum trial taking place at the university where he works, he races to the department to be placed o...
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    12,44 €

  • Death in Panama
    William H. Venema
    “Allows us to see life in all its strange, rich complexity through the eyes of a very human and believable protagonist. . .”“Swept me back to another time and place. . .”“As good a legal thriller as those of Scott Turow and John Grisham. . .”Captain Robert E. Clark arrives in Panama on his first tour of duty as a lawyer. He struggles to reconcile his Southern upbringing and Wes...
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    13,70 €

  • The Recipe
    Charles M Carroll / John David Mann
    “Always be hungry, Owen,” the Chef said softly. “Don’t ever let life just wash over you. Savor it—every smell, every taste, every sound. That’s Rule One, Owen: Taste everything.”Owen Devon used to have a pretty good life. At least until a few months ago, when disaster struck his family. Now his grades are plunging and his life is spiraling out of control. To make matters worse,...
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    19,80 €

  • Televangelist
    Ron Johnson
    Wearing a tailored suit and holding a bible, Bart Baxter walks out of prison with one goal in mind--to make money and lots of it.Follow along as Bart exploits religion and manipulates his followers for personal gain. Question your own moral code as you're drawn into Bart's world. Meet Mrs Christianson, Bishop Ronny, Mitch the Finance Guy, Bassist Joey and other memorabl...
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    10,37 €

  • Totlandia - Book 7 (The Twosies, Spring)
    Josie Brown
    IN BOOK 7 OF THE TOTLANDIA SERIES:For the women of Totlandia, spring brings new life and emotional renewal. The births of Lorna's twins brings depression—over Dante's future. The decision she makes will drive a wedge between her and Matt. As for Jillian, she's working harder than ever in launching Life of Pie. The good news: Caleb has taken to his new role as über-d...
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    17,20 €

  • Solid Ground
    Jeff McKown
    As Conor McLeish’s fortieth birthday approaches, the life he’s always dreamed of has finally taken shape. He has a steady day job, a debut novel, and Will, his Buddhist boyfriend of nearly a decade. He should be happy. The trouble is, Conor wouldn’t know happy if it smiled, winked, and offered to buy him a drink. With a hard-earned penchant for self-sabotage and an unfortunate ...
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    12,46 €

  • The Four Tantras of Blue Beryl
    David Padgham
    Tubten Norbu wants nothing. Literally. Not death. That doesn’t solve anything. With death you just have to do it all over again. No, what he wants is dissolution into the cosmic void: nirvana. And with the thangka and its four mystic incantations maybe he had what he needed to get there. Until someone stole it.    Brian Ericson, on the other hand, wants it all. Sex, money and e...
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    13,88 €

  • Twelve Hours Later
    Twelve Hours Later is a must-read for fans of steampunk.--Paige Lovitt for Reader ViewsMyth! Intrigue! Dirigibles! Literacy!Support public libraries and explore a world of steampunk fiction! Immerse yourself in this steampunk and alternate history anthology packed with pairs of stories set 12 hours apart.In Twelve Hours Later, each story occupies a single hour of time. Together...
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    13,71 €


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