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  • Parables of the Cross
    I. Lilias Trotter / ILilias Trotter
    Isabella Lilias Trotter was an artist and a Christian missionary for over 38 years to the Muslims of Algeria. After serving God in England for a time with the YWCA, she went with her own funding to Algeria to serve God there. In 1888 she founded the Algiers Mission Band. In 1964 the Algiers Mission Band became incorporated into Arab World Ministries. ...
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    14,28 €

  • Fractal Despondency
    Trent Zelazny
    Was she an angel from above, or a walking time bomb of doom?His life having crumbled, Blake Gladstone returns to his hometown of Santa Fe, and tries to settle back into the unsatisfying life he’d had before he left for Florida.When he meets Denise, a pretty young blonde with a bag full of tricks, his sad routine breaks, and the more they get to know each other, the more Blake c...
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    20,58 €

  • Flower Fables
    Louisa May Alcott
    Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women. In the mid-1860s, Alcott wrote passionate, fiery novels and sensational stories. She also produced wholesome stories for children, and after their positive reception, she did not generally return to creating works for adults. Alcott continued to write until her death. ...
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    17,94 €

  • A Little Princess
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    Sara Crewe is a very intelligent, polite, and creative young girl. Born to a wealthy soldier in India, Sara was brought all the way to London in Victorian-era England for a formal education. At the upscale boarding school, Sara is forced to tolerate the haughty, disdainful headmistress, Miss Minchin. It only gets worse for poor Sara Crewe when a distressing event unfolds to lea...
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    20,23 €

  • A Book of Merlin
    Lord Alfred Tennyson
    Before there was Gandalf and Dumbledore there was Merlin the legendary adviser to King Arthur. Shrouded in the magical mist of time Merlin is the wizard that all other wizards are measured against. Collected here in one edition are the stories and legends that inspired a tradition including Merlin’s Youth by George Parker Bidder; The Prophecies of Merlin, and the Birth of Arthu...
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    20,31 €

  • Falcons of Narabedla
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Bodiless, blind, I drifted and swayed and swung in the sound of the voices. The humming, like a million high-tension wires, sang around me and I felt myself cradled in the pull of a great magnet that held me suspended surely on nothingness and drew me down into the field of some force beneath. Far below me the voices faded. I swung free-fell-plunged downward in sickening motion...
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    28,44 €

  • Adventures in Time and Space
    Frederik Pohl
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    20,37 €

  • Deathworld 2
    Harry Harrison
    Jason dinAlt has been kidnaped and is being returned to the planet Cassylia to stand trial for his crimes. But on route the space ship he is on crash lands on a planet inhabited by men who have lost much of their technology. It is up to Jason to find a way to stay alive and get off planet. Can he succeed in leaving this new Deathworld? ...
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    28,28 €

  • A PLACE IN PARADISE
    Wilson Roberts
    As Anna Delinny, a central character in A Place in Paradise says, 'There are places of power on the earth. Some of great import to the entire world, others of local interest. Talk to someone who has been to Delphi. Ask what kinds of feelings the place engenders. Or Stonehenge. In such places the sense of power is so strong people regard it as evidence of the holy. In other plac...
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    36,76 €

  • Pudd’nhead Wilson
    Mark Twain
    Two men switched at birth discover the truth about their heritage and neither will ever be the same. A novel about fate and racism, this was Twain’s late important novel. There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. ...
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    22,94 €

  • Lead With Your Left
    Ed Lacy
    It was a few minutes before eleven when I unlocked our door. The dumb lamp we had in the two-by-four 'foyer' was on. The lamp looked like a drippy flower and cost fifty-seven bucks strictly because it was imported from Denmark. If all their lamps are like this job they must be blind over there. I could just about make out the couch opened as a bed, was surprised Mary was in the...
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    28,09 €

  • King John
    William Shakespeare
    War and Betrayal--France threatens war with England unless King John renounces his claim to the throne in favor of his nephew Arthur. John refuses and war ensues. John is excommunicated by the Pope, and his nephew Arthur dies under mysterious circumstances. Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail,And say there is no sin, but to be rich;And being rich, my virtue then shall be,To...
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    20,51 €

  • Ochumaré Takes On the Black Snake
    Dr. Kat Williams
    Part current events and part myth, this storybook was inspired by the 2016 protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Reservation. It imagines the unseen forces at play in that historic gathering; portraying the mythical beings that come to the aid of the Water Protectors in their fight against the Black Snake. Ochumaré the Rainbow Serpent, the two-spirit orisha...
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    13,92 €

  • Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
    Jacob Burkhardt
    The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy is an 1860 work on the Italian Renaissance by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Together with his History of the Renaissance in Italy (1867) it is counted among the classics of Renaissance historiography. ...
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    36,51 €

  • Absolute Surrender
    Andrew Murray
    I desire by God’s grace to give to you this message-that your God in heaven answers the prayers which you have offered for blessing on yourselves and for blessing on those around you by this one demand: Are you willing to surrender yourselves absolutely into His hands? Every one of us is a temple of God, in which God will dwell and work mightily on one condition-absolute surren...
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    20,57 €

  • Homicide Johnny
    Steve Fisher
    Homicide Johnny West has been called in to solve the murder of Harry Waters whose newspaper columns have ruined many men. But the web of violence grows, and murder follows murder, until Johnny and his co-worker, Penny Lane, find out they are next in line. ...
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    20,33 €

  • On Being Human and When a Man Comes to Himself
    Woodrow Wilson
    'Before he became the 28th President of the United States (1913-21), the 34th Governor of New Jersey (1911-13), or even the 13th President of Princeton University (1902-10), Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was a scholar and professor. In 1885, he received his Ph.D. in history and political science from Johns Hopkins University, and in 1897, he was granted tenure at Princeton Univers...
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    15,52 €

  • Have Faith in Massachusetts
    Calvin Coolidge
    'Calvin Coolidge is generally remembered as our most laconic President, to the point that most jokes about him revolve around the silence of ''Silent Cal.'' But the President of Amherst College, while conferring on Coolidge an honorary Doctor of Laws, praised him for teaching the lesson of ''adequate brevity.''Before he went to Washington as Vice President, and then succeeded t...
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    17,76 €

  • President Wilson’s Addresses
    Woodrow Wilson
    'These addresses of President Woodrow Wilson are almost entirely concerned with political affairs, and more specifically with defining Americanism. Yet they also show that even as he moved from academia to the heights of politics, Wilson retained something of the teacher’s interest in showing the relation between specific instances and the general forms of thought or action of ...
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    20,03 €

  • Lady Chatterly’s Lover
    D. H. Lawrence / DHLawrence
    Constance, the young Lady Chatterly, is married to a handsome, well-built man. Clifford, her husband, was wounded in the war, and is paralyzed from the waist down. His physical limitations lead him to emotionally neglect Constance, and for comfort, she turns to the gamekeeper, Oliver. In his arms, she finds the passion she needs, even as she struggles with the class differences...
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    23,58 €

  • Nightfall
    David Goodis
    He could remember the gun in his hand, the man in front of him, the shock of the explosion, and then the blood. He could remember the flight though the woods, and the satchel with the money, and now the gang of killers, closing in.But what he couldn’t figure was the woman. She had been there, once, when the killers caught him, and beat him half to death. And he had found her o...
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    20,34 €

  • Go for the Body
    Ed Lacy
    It was my first day in Paris but the feeling was still with me: like I was getting ready to explode, as if my guts were a lit fuse racing up to my brain.Being cooped up gets me that way, although I was camped in a big room in this swank hotel. Twelve bucks a night and it was the best hotel room I’d ever been in. I’d docked at Le Havre the afternoon before, came straight to this...
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    28,05 €

  • Civil War Stories
    Ambrose Bierce
    Bierce was considered a master of pure English by his contemporaries, and virtually everything that came from his pen was notable for its judicious wording and economy of style. He wrote in a variety of literary genres. His short stories are held among the best of the 19th century, providing a popular following based on his roots. He wrote realistically of the terrible things h...
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    20,43 €

  • Optimism
    Helen Keller
    Who better than Helen Keller to write about optimism? Helen Keller became blind when she was nineteen months old. At the time children who were deaf and blind were simply given up on. But Helen’s mother read that a deaf blind person had been educated and decided to explore that possibility for her daughter. As a result of this Helen Keller was the first deaf blind person to ear...
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    14,24 €

  • Off on a Comet
    Jules Verne
    'When the comet Gallia impacts Earth, the results are catastrophic… but only for a given few. After the glancing blow, Earth continues in its stately course, but a few chunks of the planet’s outer shell are taken up by the comet, along with several dozen people. Thus begins Jules Verne’s vision of a voyage through planetary space.Those caught up on the comet—representing severa...
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    20,61 €

  • Pyrrhus
    Jacob Abbott
    Jacob Abbott was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. Check out the following list of books to take and exciting, informative, and easy to understand stroll through history ...
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    20,21 €

  • Mary, Queen of Scots
    Jacob Abbott
    Hopefully, these books will be found, perhaps, after all, to be useful mainly in entertaining and amusing the youthful readers who may peruse them, as the writing of them has been the amusement and recreation of the author in the intervals of more serious pursuits. ...
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    20,30 €

  • Fantastic Stories Presents the Worlds of If Super Pack #1
    K Dick Philip / K. Dick Philip
    Worlds of If was a three-time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. Worlds of If discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. Here are more than 250,000 words of some of the best stories ever published in its pages.The Snowbank Orbit by Fritz LeiberThe Victor by Bryce WaltonBreeder Reaction by Winston MarksTurning Point by Al...
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    40,90 €

  • Fantastic Stories Presents the Weird Tales Super Pack #2
    Robert E. Howard
    Weird Tales launched in March of 1923 and the world was never the same again. While Pulp magazines had been around for some time Weird Tales was the first pulp magazine to specialize in super natural fiction. Weird Tales single handedly created the field of genre fiction as we know it. No longer did readers of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror have to seek out single stories...
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    34,83 €

  • A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court
    Mark Twain
    After a blow to the head, American, Hank Morgan wakes up in England. Specifically King Arthur’s England of 528. With no other options Morgan uses his knowledge of science to pass himself off as a great wizard. This earns him the enmity of Merlin. Biting social commentary and laugh out loud humor make this book a classic. ...
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    27,58 €