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  • The Storykiller
    Humfrey Hunter
    Some secrets are worth killing for... Jack Winter was once an idealistic and brilliant news reporter who broke the biggest stories around. But after wrongly blaming himself for a young girl’s murder he changed sides and began killing stories for the rich and powerful, protecting them from exactly the kind of journalist he used to be. When a new client drags Jack into a lethal...
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    15,67 €

  • Killer Market
    Margaret Maron
    The first Deborah Knott mystery, Bootlegger’s Daughter, swept the top mystery awards in 1993 with a down-home judge dedicated to justice, driven by private demons, and prone to decide with her heart. From the first though, the books have given us an insider’s look at North Carolina—from its western mountains to its Crystal Coast. Now in the series’ fifth book, Judge Deborah inv...
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    36,45 €

  • The Eliza Doll
    Tracey Scott-Townsend
    Ellie lives in a campervan with her dog, Jack, selling her handmade dolls at craft fairs. There is one doll that she can't bear to finish until she comes to terms with the truth of what has happened.Uncompromising family drama involving communes, twisted family relationships, childbirth and breastfeeding while living on the dole in 1980s England.Set in East Yorkshire and Ic...
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    18,30 €

  • A Little Wisdom for Growing Up, Second and Expanded Edition
    John C. Morgan / John CMorgan
    A Little Wisdom for Growing Up is an ancient form of storytelling, of passing on wisdom between generations. In this delightful collection of fables from the natural world (in the style of Aesop’s famous fables), the author seeks to pass on to his young son, Jonathan, what he has learned from life. Characters in these brief fables run the gamut---from skunks and fish, to trees ...
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    29,31 €

  • Where the Dead Men Lie
    Hugh Capel
    Barcroft Boake’s star blazed briefly and brightly as an Australian bush poet for little more than a year before he took his own life by hanging himself by his stockwhip in 1892 on the shore of Sydney Harbour. Barcroft’s life was touched by romance, adventure and, finally, tragedy. In Where the Dead Men Lie, his story is told as an imaginative work of fiction, to bring the chara...
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    23,51 €

  • Who Knows How We Are Made?
    Jerry M Self
    This prequel to Who Says How She Died? challenges Lance and Willow Carroll to provide comfort to the Thompson family in their crushing grief over losing their 19 year old son/brother to a senseless beating. The tragedy compounds as they learn his beating came at the hands of young men acting out their hatred of gays. Lance Carroll begins his ministry in the Texas Hill Country w...
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    8,66 €

  • Walland
    Andrea Thome
    Can broken hearts risk love again?India’s life has always gone according to plan. But when she decides to call off her high-profile wedding and take time off from her network television job, everything turns upside down. A tranquil resort in the moody Smoky Mountains was supposed to be a place she could hide out and lick her wounds. Instead she finds herself questioning everyth...
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    11,71 €

  • Arm in Arm with the Holy Spirit
    Patrick Day
    Arm In Arm with the Holy Spirit is more than an engaging story; it is a theological narrative on the presence and leading of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer.  Those who are looking for a better understanding of what it means to be led by the Holy Spirit and hearing the voice of God will learn, along with the book's main character Paul Chambers, to grow in the pu...
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    14,89 €

  • LOOKING THROUGH DARKNESS
    AIMÉE THURLO
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    19,09 €

  • The Young Garden Manifesto
    Cameron Lambright
    The Young Garden Manifesto tells the story of a young man named Justin who moves to New York City at the beginning of the 21st Century. A series of story vignettes portray individual moments of Justin's life in New York. Interwoven with these vignettes is the allegorical fable of a boy named Adam who must leave his village to wander in uncharted forest, and a girl named Eve...
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    12,80 €

  • Double Talk
    Sherban Young
    Warren Kingsley has retired from bodyguarding.  (Or maybe he hasn’t.)  Leaving his violent past behind—or not—he enters the dog-eat-dog world of politics.  (Or perhaps he doesn’t.)  One thing we can say for certain: the Warren we know and love is back and ready for anything.  (Or as ready as he’ll ever be.) ...
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    19,79 €

  • The Only Witness
    Pamela Beason / TBD
    A MISSING BABYSeventeen-year-old Brittany Morgan dashed into the store for just a minute, leaving her sleeping baby in the car. Now Ivy's gone and half the town believes Brittany murdered her daughter.A HAUNTED DETECTIVEDetective Matthew Finn, a big-city fish out of water in small-town Evansburg, Washington, struggles with his wife's betrayal as he investigates Ivy Morg...
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    20,64 €

  • The Room Downstairs
    Brian C Johnson
    Sam is a twenty-something who never quite grew out of her tomboy phase. Rejected by her own mother, Sam is taken in by Miss Bea, her best friend’s mother, who gives her a room in the basement and promises to protect her, even from her own lesbian ways. Following Miss Bea’s unexpected death, a young couple buys the home. Their newborn son faces numerous health concerns, includin...
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    26,54 €

  • Morgan 512
    H. C. Schaffer
    Paul Morgan had lived in the shadow of his older brother Lewis for most of his life. But when Lewis graduated from high school, something happened that altered the direction of the entire Morgan family. Paul suspected that his brother had been influenced by their uncle, a priest and the highest ranking official in the Vatican's Financial Center. Father Morgan had traveled from ...
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    14,48 €

  • New Halem Tales
    Catherine (Cat) Kigerl / Kate E Thompson / L C Mcgee
    'New Halem...I wanted to move there...'   Nestled around a bay at the base of a mountain on the Oregon Coast, New Halem is a strangely exciting place created by a group of writers who live in the Pacific Northwest. Each tale, set in this quirky community, gives a peek into the lives and secrets of its townspeople.      William Cooke, publisher of the FishWrap Bugle, moved to ...
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    10,33 €

  • A Goblin's Mind
    J.D. Dresner
    Doctor Harlow is a therapist for some of the most peculiar patients in the Skarsgaard Kingdom: A wizard perfectionist with a big secret, a prince and princess who are having marital issues behind closed doors, a woman-unicorn hybrid with hoarding issues, and a goblin teenager who prefers the company of his imaginary friends over real people. On a mysterious island somewhere in ...
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    9,44 €

  • Bad Reception
    Shannen Wright
    Listening to your parents is hard work. As a teenager, you're always right, of course, but to them everything you do comes up short. Kana is nearing the end of her teenage years and is already a young woman. With no career prospects, no goals in life, she just can't seem to attain her family's expectations. On her nineteenth birthday, an accident caused by her own s...
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    27,05 €

  • All That Glitters Is Not Gold
    Alexander Marais
    Brutal. Beautiful. Uncompromising. All That Glitters Is Not Gold: A Compilation is the epic anthology from the imagination of author Alexander Marais. It binds together four stories connected by themes relating to loss, heartbreak, sexuality, and suicide. It unwaveringly explores what people will do in the face of their own personal Armageddon. Most of all, it challenges the co...
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    26,41 €

  • All About the Greater Good
    Teri Ames
    Vermont Mother Falsely Accused of Child Abuse What if you were falsely accused of abusing your child? Sarah and James Bennett are well-respected professionals raising their three children in a small Vermont community. Like most working mothers, Sarah is dealing with a less-than-perfect marriage, a challenging job, and children who don't always do what they are told. Whe...
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    11,55 €

  • Jack the Lad
    Frank English
    A tale based loosely in reality, this story traces the fortunes of the Ingles family in the West Riding coal fields around Wakefield. Theirs is a saga that could be replicated time after time in an area where scratching a living wasn't easy, and where coal, drink, and occasional infidelity played integral parts in the life of the community. Their story starts in the mid-194...
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    12,40 €

  • 36 Hours to Save the President
    Alan L Trock
    The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is still one of the great tragedies of American history. Lincoln’s heroic life and untimely death has inspired many to dream of going back in time to save him from the assassin John Wilkes Booth. For Alex Linwood this dream becomes reality. A lifelong admirer of President Lincoln, Alex decides to visit both Springfield, Illinois and Washing...
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    9,97 €

  • HOVER
    ANNE A. WILSON / ANNE AWILSON
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    20,88 €

  • Keira’s Story
    Bunny Shulman
    Beautiful and talented Keira’s career comes to a screeching halt by the shocking and untimely death of her parents. Thrust into the role of motherhood, she must give up her perfect life in Manhattan to care for her sister, Morgan, a wild and self-centered twelve-year-old.After sacrificing years of her life, Keira breathes a sigh of relief when Morgan becomes engaged to be wed. ...
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    21,29 €

  • Collateral Damage and Stories
    Bob Mustin
    The stories in this collection examine the ways we use imagination to set aside human anguish and move on with our lives. Here baseball opens a passageway to life after death, obsession transforms romantic complexities into a corrupted form of happiness, conquest and empire begets guilt and a healing sacrifice, and the recipients of medical technology deal with the well-meant h...
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    20,91 €

  • What's the Word?
    Lawrence Gordon
    This is a work of non-fiction. The events penned herein reflect real life situations; great times and terrible times; which my family, my friends, and I endured.      This work will reflect the spiritual aspects of my family. I was born and raised in our family church. The name of the church was God’s Universal House of Prayer and my Uncle, James Henderson was the Pastor until...
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    7,19 €

  • Meritocrats
    Stuart Evans
    Stuart Evans’s first novel is a comedy-of-ill-manners set in a nouveau riche milieu: a fantastic satirical performance and hyper-referential homage to masters past and present. Paul Keller is the Stephen Dedalus of the piece, the son of Robert and Sylvie, whose internal monologue is spliced into the action, and whose incestuous feelings for his sister lead to an increase in his...
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    18,06 €

  • Hexagon Dilemma
    L.P. Suzanne Atkinson / L.PSuzanne Atkinson
    Book II of the Regarding Hayworth Series:Gaby Ridgway is forty and widowed. She moves to the small town of Hayworth, Alberta the summer of 1977 in an attempt to rebuild, restore, and renew her life.Her career as a family counsellor for the Alberta government Department of Health and Welfare is jeopardized by a suspicious disappearance, a Nova Scotia murder, and the complication...
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    15,62 €

  • Hard Job
    Jeffery Craig
    In this second Reightman & Bailey Thriller, Detective Melba Reightman is distraught over the murder of her friend and partner, Sam Jackson. The Guzman murder case has been closed, but she knows the real killer is still out there somewhere. Toby Bailey’s discovery of a set of incriminating photos proved there were more people involved in Geri Guzman’s death than just Dr. Lieberm...
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    14,30 €

  • All the World Drowning
    Benjamin Allen Preston
    Kazimir Jonah Godwin is named for his great-great-great-great-grandfather, founder of the rural Wisconsin town of New Eden where Kazimir is growing up. Taught by his father to seek the prophetic gifts of his ancestors and by his uncle to follow the paths of nature, Kaz must ultimately probe the line between spiritual revelation and insanity. By his side will be his best friend ...
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    15,71 €

  • Frank Kruk
    Petras Cvirka / Elizabeth Novickas
    In this imaginary biography, Petras Cvirka follows every detail of Pranas Krukelis’s transformation from a barefoot Lithuanian village boy with a dead-ringer imitation of a squealing pig to the American businessman Frank Kruk, proprietor of a Brooklyn funeral parlor. On the way, Cvirka slings satire and slapstick in all directions, at just about every aspect of Lithuanian life ...
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    17,04 €


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