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  • She Stoops to Conquer
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Wealthy countryman Mr. Hardcastle arranges for his daughter Kate to meet Charles Marlow, the son of a wealthy Londoner, hoping the pair will marry. Unfortunately Marlow is nervous around upper-class women, yet the complete opposite around lower-class females. On his first acquaintance with Kate, the latter realises she will have to pretend to be common, or Marlow will not woo h...
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    18,01 €

  • A Child’s Journey Through a Broken World
    Lydia Elise Salvatore / Melodee Benner
    How have I become the person that I am today? Come take the journey through the eyes of me languishingly climbing up the steps of my childhood. Take a peek and explore the travails and triumphs as I was formed like a lump of clay is formed by a potter. The bend that forged my being was the unconditional love of my beloved Gramps and Granny. The chaos that surrounded my life sta...
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    8,89 €

  • Tales of the Jazz Age
    F. Scott Fitzgerald / FScott Fitzgerald
    F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of America’s greatest writers. His novel The Great Gatsby remains on the bestseller lists 70 years after his death. Tales of the Jazz Age defined a generation. It was Fitzgerald himself who coined the phrase. He and his wife lived a decadent, fast-paced lifestyle that is reflected in his writing. ...
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    27,74 €

  • Work
    Louisa May Alcott
    It is one of several nineteenth-century novels which uncovers the changes in women’s work in the new industrial era, as well as the dilemmas, tensions, and the meaning of that work. The story depicts the struggles of a young woman trying to support herself. The main character, Christie Devon, works outside the home in a variety of different jobs, but the end of her story marks ...
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    36,78 €

  • The Moorland Cottage
    Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
    A touching portrait of a complicated family. The Moorland Cottage is a story about a woman asked to give up her hopes and dreams to further her bother’s Gaskell expertly confronts the mores and social problems faced by Victorian women while highlighting their strength and grace. ...
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    20,50 €

  • The Lost Princess
    George MacDonald
    A wise woman kidnaps a spoiled Princess. As a result the Princess and her parents learn what is truly important. A story that asks whose fault is it when a child grows up to be selfish adult. ...
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    20,57 €

  • Maisie & The Music Hall Warriors
    Neil Patrick
    A family of music hall entertainers  – successful on stage but troubled off it by conflict as the younger members strive to break away –  find themselves caught up in a strike against London music hall owners. Their musical comedy act  (complete with performing dog!) looks to be doomed.In the aftermath of the strike, a dramatic incident forces the family to rethink their future...
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    7,64 €

  • Bridge in the Fog
    Shuping Chen
    《雾桥》是卜兰子的一部自传体的校园青春爱情悬疑小说。写的是北大女生杨亦兰的两段校园爱情，和一段阴差阳错的现实姻缘。 小说中的杨亦兰，是中国版的郝斯佳（美国小说《飘》中的女主）——为心目中的爱人卫斯理(虞美人)而对现实中的爱人白瑞德（李聪林）视若无睹。 很多女人在少女时代都或多或少有这样的心理吧，但随着年龄渐趋成熟，她心中的爱人逐渐和现实中的爱人重叠在一起，她终于发现，原来自己一直寻觅的那个人，就在身边。原来神给你的另一半，就是最适合你的人。而最适合你的人，就是最好的那一个。 醒悟过来的杨亦兰，鸡肋婚姻最终变为鸡汤婚姻（犹如圣经新约中耶稣变水为酒的神迹——蒙神祝福的婚姻也是一个水变为酒的过程）。从这点意义上，它是一部女性心灵情感的成长和觉醒之作， 一部治愈系暖伤青春小说。 ...
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    22,25 €

  • Not Half Way, Not Your Way, But God’s Way
    Dr. John Beresky / DrJohn Beresky
    Regarding faith, a playwright once said, Men still have faith, but today men do not have faith in God. Men have faith in the doctor. That playwright lived to be ninety-five years old. We need to learn from Gods people who lived long. Ask yourself this question: what did Noah or Abraham or Moses or Joshua do to achieve health and longevity? Im sure they did nothing halfway or th...
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    13,40 €

  • Wrongful Termination
    Mike Farris
    Bay Muckleroy is a modern-day Diogenes, looking for an honest man. His problem lies not in the object of his search, but in the venue—he is a partner in Black West & Merriam, the largest law firm in Dallas, Texas, where honest men are scarce. Bay came up through the ranks of the firm at a time when honor and integrity did not constitute character flaws. But times have changed w...
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    14,59 €

  • CUM FOR ME 2
    Ca$h
    Crawl in bed, take off your clothes, and let us take you on a stimulating, sexual ride of a lifetime. CUM FOR ME volume 2: NASTY AS CAN BE is an urban erotica compilation that will leave you hot, wet and dripping. Every page will stroke you tenderly. Each story will heightened your desire more and more until your hands go into a frenzy and your heartbeat increases to it's m...
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    11,94 €

  • The Alice ’65
    Kyle Michel Sullivan
    A romantic comedy about an English lad, an American lass, a rare book worth millions, and a lonely guard panther...not your typical day in LA. After his father died in a mugging, Adam Verlain used his love of books to hide from the world as a rare book cataloguer for a small university in London. But then that university acquired a newly discovered 1865 edition of 'Alice’s Adve...
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    18,12 €

  • El Flaco
    D.L. Young / D.LYoung
    A New Threat Emerges, an Old Rival ReturnsFor seventy-eight years, the Republic of Texas has been a dead, isolated nation, cut off from its motherland to the north by a militarized, impenetrable border. That ends today.  Six months after overthrowing the Dallasite regime and taking control of Texas, Ernesto “El Flaco” Guzmán is suddenly forced to cope with a new, unexpected adv...
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    12,51 €

  • If Only
    SR Dale P Rhodes / SR. Dale P. Rhodes / SRDale P Rhodes / SRDale PRhodes
    Guardian Angel, Thaniel, is struggling. His greatest weakness, his love for humans, is also his greatest strength. For centuries, he has cared for and looked after people, trying to lead them to God. Things are not working out the way he believes they should and another funeral is more than he can bear. Failure looms over every step he takes, but things aren't always as the...
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    16,65 €

  • Restraining Order
    Ca$h / Coffee
    CHOPPA is the man A young rich thuggish hustler who has the city on lock All he needs is the right woman to come home to But life has taught him that women are a pleasure They are not to be loved and they definitely can t be trusted until he meets her JULZ has already been hurt and damn near broken by a man Falling in love again is not on her list of things to do She s just try...
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    17,77 €

  • Don’t Look at Me
    J.P. Grider / J.PGrider
    Haven:A diligent hand carved this hole in my face.It stole my confidence, my identity, and ended my short-lived career as a broadcast journalist. I am now unemployed. Alone. Ugly. And expected to get over it and move on. Go on living life as usual—as if the world doesn’t judge the grotesquely unattractive. Quest:It’s been three years since I was kicked out of the Army for nearl...
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    13,15 €

  • Memories Are An Old Man's Toys
    Elayne Tulliani
    When our mortality is dancing on the horizon, our thoughts have the tendency to drift to the type of legacy we will leave behind. Some will leave wealthy estates while others leave voids in the hearts of those who loved them.Billy will leave a little of both but neither will be his legacy. You see, it will be what Billy chooses to take with him rather than what he leaves behind...
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    13,21 €

  • SPIRIT HUNTERS
    John Mizelle
    Spirit Hunters dwell secretly among us, their existence hinted only in legend and flashes of intuition: chills along the spine; disturbing, elusive dreams. They are our kin. They are vampires. They are dying out. To live, they must drink the essence that quickens human blood. Now, to survive, they must befriend their only prey.Lilith longs for her people to endure. A brilliant,...
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    24,42 €

  • The Quieting West
    Gordon Gravley
    This is the story of two cowboys, Billy Colter and Thomas Andrew Benton, out of work in the rapidly changing world of the early 1900’s. Finding jobs in Arizona with a renegade group of silent film makers, they are soon lured to a land of great enchantment and seduction – Hollywood!Their story becomes one of truth, fiction, and disillusionment, woven of humor, romance, and trage...
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    12,78 €

  • The Perfection of Valor
    Bob Mustin
    Colonel Fletcher Hinton, USMC, Retired, has had a storied career, but one aspect of his life remains wanting as his end approaches: family. Son Cary, a former Marine and now a college professor, is about to marry outside his race, and the old man, suffering a bout of dementia, insults Cary's fiancee. Too, Cary has moved his mother away from Fletcher, fearing the old man has...
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    13,54 €

  • Michael K
    Nthikeng Mohlele
    ‘Those in the know claim Michael K disembarked from a diesel-smoke-spewing truck one overcast morning, looked around, and without missing a beat, chose a spot where he set down a small bucket (red, burnt and disfigured) that contained an assortment of seedlings, some fisherman’s twine and a rudimentary gardening tool – probably self-made.’How is it that a character from literar...
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    21,38 €

  • The Three Naked Ladies of Cliffport
    Peter Boffey
    Three single mothers of three bastard children from three generations, each one vitally connected to a ghost town located where sea meets land on Santa Cruz County’s northern coast.In 1959 Kaitlin Lowrie resettles in Cliffport with her mother and her son — the only household hanging on in an all-but-forgotten locale. But in 1965 Janice McLoughlin, long-absentee landlady, shows ...
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    28,41 €

  • Noah Finn & the Art of Suicide
    E Rachael Hardcastle / E. Rachael Hardcastle
    The #1 Amazon bestselling novella by E. Rachael Hardcastle. Look for the sequel, Noah Finn & the Art of Conception, out now!Noah Finn is about to commit suicide. He’s standing on the roof of the World Trade Center’s north tower when American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into the building.Greeted by a man who calls himself Christopher Saint on a NYC subway train, Noah must learn s...
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    11,38 €

  • All For Love
    Cecelia Hopkins
    All For Love By Cecelia Hopkins (Full edition)Contestants rebel on reality television show! The Early Episodes: 'The Charity Dating Show' is a reality television show starring one man, and many women. This appears to be an archaic format, and one season the contestants begin selecting their own prizes. If you have ever wanted to see the women turn their backs on the system - th...
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    14,23 €

  • Nonprofit Girl
    Ann Beltran
    If you had an unwanted pregnancy, what would you decide?When Liv, 21 and about to graduate into a career of nonprofit work, returns from India and discovers she’s pregnant, she needs to make choices that will define her life. What should she tell her live-in boyfriend Devin who is not the father?  Does she want to have an abortion as her best friend Elyse urges? If not, will sh...
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    10,50 €

  • Fresh News Straight from Heaven
    Gregg Sapp
    In a desperate act of faith, Johnny Appleseed promises the people that he can save them. Thus, he dashes off on a midnight run, seeking to spread peace across a land on the brink of war. With so many lives at stake, Johnny must confront the ultimate test of his convictions. WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award - Summer 2018 - Best Novel 'I happen to believe that genius makes...
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    15,72 €

  • Memoirs of a Tyrant
    L Edward Toole
    The world around you crumbles to the ground. Your wife, child and now civilization has left you alone.  So how do you start everything over again? You were smart enough to be able to survive and as you emerge into a sun-baked arena to face deadly challenges, learn a little more about yourself. Cold. Dark. Dangerous. Psychotic things about yourself.  This is what one man faces i...
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    16,06 €

  • Hope
    S.M. Perlow
    In the Dark Ages, in France, the first vampires came to be. Erin knows the accepted version of the story, but she's also heard that there's more to be told.While humanity struggles through ever-darkening nights, an ancient evil wreaks havoc upon the world. Erin feels responsible, yet unsure of its true aim. A disturbing drawing in a centuries-old book adds to her fear t...
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    11,40 €

  • Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai
    Robert Nichols
    In this remarkable tetralogy of short novels, Nichols envisions the nature of our communal, yet highly individualized society in which decentralized democracy, ecological sensibility, bioregional principles, and liberatory technologies are integrated into a traditional culture. It is a vision of utopia emerging out of the rich particularity of history and lived experience. Firs...
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    25,41 €

  • Cardboard Boy
    Michèle Laframboise
    Theo can't come back to his certitudes after talking to Malak   *Theo, a dispirited workplace humanitarian, audits a child working at a cardboard plant in a port city somewhere in Asia. He is impressed by young Malak's grit and fortitude, displaying a maturity beyond his years. When that boy, the same age as his own son, disappears from the sweatshop, Theo cannot let it...
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    5,77 €


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