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  • Virtual Law 1
    Brandon Hill
    The year is 2163.After the fracturing, there was war.  After the war came the all-powerful League, subsuming all interdimensional trade, commerce, and travel under its aegis with the I-Link Network, now a ubiquitous presence in the lives of humans and off-planers.  Its paramilitary contingent was known as enforcers. Kate Barnes is one enforcer out of many, a face among the face...
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    6,07 €

  • 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 €

  • Best Damn Hip Hop Writing
    Travis 'Yoh' Phillips
    Best Damn Hip Hop Writing: The Book of Yoh encapsulates one of the defining voices in hip hop music criticism today. Each essay in this collection is written by Yoh (Travis Phillips), a writer whose work has been featured in various leading hip hop publications, including DJBooth, Mass Appeal, and The Hundreds.  Yoh’s writing is engaging, enticing, and often daring.  Edited by ...
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    25,26 €

  • Winnawarra
    Elizabeth M Darcy
    Praise for Winnawarra5 Stars: This is a lovely story, well written and a real page turner. - Pia Moonglow, Goodreads.5 Stars: The suspense woven through the book kept me on the edge of my seat. - Julene Beer, NetGalley 4 Stars: Winnawarra had a well-developed plot that moved along at a good pace. - The Word Nerd Heart pounding suspense and feel good romance set in the Australia...
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    12,49 €

  • Tales from the Tribe
    Aaron Luse
    Tales from the Tribe is a missions-focused devotional book that will inspire, challenge, and educate you through incredible true stories that come to life from the jungle to your home. Get ready to see, feel, and even taste what it’s like to be a missionary living in a tribal village with stories like: ’Twas the Night Before Christmas, and I Was Barefoot Scaring Away the Spi...
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    14,40 €

  • Japan Dreams
    Mark Peters
    There is Japan, and then there is Japan. Follow the author from his first early morning glimpse of Mount Fuji to the deepening realisation that even our most familiar and cherished notions can prove to be insubstantial scraps of nothingness. At times earthy, at times philosophical, ‘Japan Dreams’ is more than a zen-like meditation on life. It is a high-speed criss-crossing of...
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    22,09 €

  • Color and Frame
    Lynn Melchiori
    Inspirational coloring book offering Bible verses on each page. Book includes many detailed drawings of birds, herbs, and flowers.  Each drawing is sized to be suitable for framing. Drawings include yarrow, lavender, tulips, daffodils and more! Coloring pencils, watercolors and markers all would work well with these drawings.  Makes a perfect gift or as a fundraising option fo...
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    6,82 €

  • Being 2.0
    Razique Mahroua / Paloma Vita
    To which degree does said culture define oneself and one’s choices? Can one shed the layers of cultural conditioning past the thickness education creates?Being 2.0 aims to reflect on such questions and offer the reader a transpersonal experience fed by an in-depth work of deconstruction. Being 2.0 is the retelling of the author’s story, son of immigrants who moved from Algeria ...
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    32,76 €

  • Our World
    1000 Tales Co-op Ltd
    Our World is the flagship project of 1000 tales Co-op Ltd. It aims to highlight the diversity of both our lands and its peoples. It is a coffee table book featuring up and coming photographers from around the world. Each photograph is accompanied by a short written piece about the world from the perspective of the Photographer. These pieces were written in the photographer’s na...
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    16,63 €

  • The Berlin Enigma
    D. F. Harrington / DFHarrington
    As John Harrington grew older, he sat down with his daughter to share the story of his life. What she learned made her rethink the man who had raised her. The tale begins with his childhood in the Australian outback, and follows his immigration to England and enrollment in the British Forces in 1914. After being injured in France, he is hired by the British Foreign Office, whic...
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    33,33 €

  • The Berlin Enigma
    D. F. Harrington / DFHarrington
    As John Harrington grew older, he sat down with his daughter to share the story of his life. What she learned made her rethink the man who had raised her. The tale begins with his childhood in the Australian outback, and follows his immigration to England and enrollment in the British Forces in 1914. After being injured in France, he is hired by the British Foreign Office, whic...
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    25,23 €

  • Woo Woo
    Joe Coccaro
    Carter Rossi moves to Cape Charles, Virginia, for the same reasons as many of the town’s residents—to find solitude and reboot his life. Carter quickly discovers an eclectic mix of new arrivals and historic families. Despite political and cultural differences, the groups coexist in harmony. Carter meets the mysterious and beautiful Rose Portman, a parapsychologist  who is attem...
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    14,85 €

  • MEEGOOK
    Jeanhee Kang
    In November, 1982, Jesus asked Kang on the darkest night of her life, 'Why aren't you going to church?' Kang who had broken almost all of the Ten Commandments by age 25, questioned God in disbelief, 'Why me?', ' You must not know of my dark Past...'      Three years after the Korean War ends, Jeanhee Kang is born to poor rice farmers in a predominantly Buddhist culture. A b...
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    11,03 €

  • El Lince
    Victor Nickolich
    Noviembre de 1977. Cuba ha reunido a un poderoso equipo de paracaidistas para competir en los Juegos Panamericanos de ese deporte en México. Su entrenador, un competidor experimentado de la Unión Soviética, está convencido que los cubanos pueden vencer al equipo del ejército de los EE. UU. en esta ocasión. La emoción en los principales círculos del gobierno crece a medida que s...
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    28,53 €

  • Irish Heraldry
    Nicholas Williams
    Few topics are as interesting as heraldry although it is necessary to learn a new vocabulary to enjoy the subject fully. In this book, illustrated by the author, the origin, development and particular nature of Irish heraldry are described; how heraldry was first brought to Ireland by the Anglo-Normans and gradually adopted also by the Gaelic Irish. When describing the various ...
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    31,96 €

  • I Never Came Home
    Robert L. Scheck
    Are you aware of the hour we are in? This 21st Century has been dubbed the “Age of Information.” Our world today is inundated with a sea of information, yet could we still be lacking wisdom? We claim information and knowledge are power, so, why then do nations still fall into the same critical mistakes, generation after generation, regarding being powerless in preventing wars, ...
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    8,54 €

  • A Commentary on Philippians
    David Pawson
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    12,64 €

  • Hallelujah Anyway
    Jean Johnson
    Hallelujah Anyway is the biography of David Johnson: beloved husband, father, and pastor. Hallelujah Anyway traces the Christian conversion of an Englishman who became an evangelist, American citizen, and eventually a pastor in Virginia (USA). Written from the perspective of his lovely wife, Jean Johnson. ...
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    20,73 €

  • ISSUE
    Jan-Willem Dikkers
    Conversations unfold between cover star My Friend Dahmer’s Ross Lynch and Derf Backderf, as well as Brandi Carlile and TORRES’ Mackenzie Scott. Director Jessica M. Thompson discusses her new film The Light of The Moon with lead actor Stephanie Beatriz. Winfried Bullinger details his photobook At The Edges of Power. Collaborators Alex Cameron and Roy Malloy answer questions from...
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    26,62 €

  • Handbook of Research on Mobile Technology, Constructivism, and Meaningful Learning
    Jared Keengwe
    Advancements in technology in modern societies have resulted in an abundance of new educational tools and aids. Analyzing the effects of different mobile educational applications can provide insight into how technology can promote or discourage purposeful learning among students and educators alike. The Handbook of Research on Mobile Technology, Constructivism, and Meaningful L...
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    347,84 €

  • The Triumph of Rosemary
    Marylin E. Atkins / Marylin EAtkins
    Baby Rosemary – born to an Italian teen and a married black man in Detroit in 1946 – is adopted from an agency by a black couple in Saginaw, Michigan  The adoptive mother’s abuse instills in the girl, whom they name Marylin Elnora, ambition to achieve great things on her own.  At age 19, Marylin sparks a racial and religious scandal by marrying former Roman Catholic priest Thom...
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    15,85 €

  • Fortunate Isle
    Ronald Mackay
    Fortunate Isle: A  Memoir of TenerifeIn 1960, with a mere £40 in his pocket, 18-year-old Ronald Mackay hitched from Scotland to Spain then took a tramp steamer to Tenerife, thinking to voyage on to South America. Instead, he discovered the snug village of Buenavista del Norte, where he was welcomed in by the locals as 'El Extranjero'. He lived there for a year, working,...
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    11,64 €

  • Poetry IV, tome 1
    Sri Chinmoy
    “Seventy-seven thousand Service-Trees” is the third major poetry opus by spiritual Master Sri Chinmoy, written from 24 January 1998 until 2007.The seven tomes cover the entire series of 50,000 poems:    Tome 1: Seventy-seven thousand Service-Trees, part 1-7    Tome 2: Seventy-seven thousand Service-Trees, part 8-14    Tome 3: Seventy-seven thousand Service-Trees, part 15-21    ...
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    53,78 €

  • Poetry IV, tome 2
    Sri Chinmoy
    “Seventy-seven thousand Service-Trees” is the third major poetry opus by spiritual Master Sri Chinmoy, written from 24 January 1998 until 2007.The seven tomes cover the entire series of 50,000 poems:    Tome 1: Seventy-seven thousand Service-Trees, part 1-7    Tome 2: Seventy-seven thousand Service-Trees, part 8-14    Tome 3: Seventy-seven thousand Service-Trees, part 15-21    ...
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    53,90 €

  • Poetry IV, tome 4
    Sri Chinmoy
    “Seventy-seven thousand Service-Trees” is the third major poetry opus by spiritual Master Sri Chinmoy, written from 24 January 1998 until 2007.The seven tomes cover the entire series of 50,000 poems:    Tome 1: Seventy-seven thousand Service-Trees, part 1-7    Tome 2: Seventy-seven thousand Service-Trees, part 8-14    Tome 3: Seventy-seven thousand Service-Trees, part 15-21    ...
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    54,07 €

  • Leaves of Morya’s Garden II
    Agni Yoga Society
    Leaves of Morya's Garden II (Illumination) is the second book from the Agni Yoga Series which is composed of fourteen books. In them is found a synthesis of ancient Eastern beliefs and modern Western thought and a bridge between the spiritual and the scientific. Unlike previous yogas, Agni Yoga is a path not of physical disciplines, meditation, or asceticism—but of practice...
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    12,10 €

  • Fiery World III
    Agni Yoga Society
    Fiery World III is the eleventh book from the Agni Yoga Series which is composed of fourteen books. In them is found a synthesis of ancient Eastern beliefs and modern Western thought and a bridge between the spiritual and the scientific. Unlike previous yogas, Agni Yoga is a path not of physical disciplines, meditation, or asceticism—but of practice in daily life. It is the yog...
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    14,47 €

  • The Real Diddy
    Harris Rosen
    Behind the Music Tales is a series which captures the mood and feel of the energy that surged through music and pop culture in the 90s and 2000s. It presents exclusive original interviews as an honest record directly from authentic creative sources, and is an accurate historical document. The Real Diddy, the 12th book in the series, captures the ambitious Sean Combs TWICE in th...
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    17,40 €

  • Laika
    Kate Kort
    You feel watched. It’s nothing new, but the feeling is amplified when the streets are busy. That hum in your head is now a buzz. Laika desperately wishes for a new life. At fourteen, she’s hardened and independent, living on the streets of Southern California. She’s finally free of her volatile home but yearns for true stability.As Graham, a waiter at a local Russian restaurant...
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    12,24 €

  • Andros Island, Travel Guide, and Environmental Information
    Thomson Michael
    Andros Island, Travel Guide and Environmental Information. History, Vacation, Holiday, Environment. Andros, the second-largest island of the Cyclades, has a long and proud seafaring tradition and, conversely, is a walker’s paradise. Its wild mountains are cleaved by fecund valleys with bubbling streams and ancient stone mills. A lush island, springs tend to be a feature of each...
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    37,25 €