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Samantha Jaynes was first to die. Rosie Trimble was next. A spate of teenage suicides rattles Kirkdale, a rural community in England's Lake District. In the days leading up to their deaths, the girls talked about having seen an angel. That's when Dr Alex Ripley—the so-called Miracle Detective—is asked to help the police. It's Ripley's job to explain the angel sightings and what they had to do with the girls' deaths. Were they hallucinating? Or did they truly encounter a heavenly phenomenon? Angelic...

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A lost diary, a trip to Ireland and the secret of true love Pennsylvania, 2016: Casey Walsh lives in a smalltown. WithIrishancestorsandshehasbeendreamingaboutIrelandfrom her youth. Oneday, her grandfathertells her aboutthediaryoftheemigrantAeryn. Casey isfascinatedbythenotesand her desiretovisittheEmerald Isle growseverstronger. WhenshemeetsthecharmingIrishmanBrayden at thecaféwheresheworks, he offerstobe her touristguide. Casey decidestogettothebottomofthediarywriter‘sstoryandsets off forKillarney....

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What is the price for a life? One frosty morning, the police make a gruesome discovery in a field near Frankfurt: seven children have been murdered. And it looks as if the victims had to suffer a dreadful martyrdom before their death. There are fresh incisions on their bodies. Mara Billinsky is sick to the heart – and at the same time utterly determined. She wants to catch the perpetrator at any cost. In the process, her idiosyncratic investigation methods disgruntle not only her boss, but also the...

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The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair: 27 million visitors and 1 killerThornhill, the protagonist, has succumbed to the delusion that he can absorb people’s life forces by murdering them. He believes it is because he is possessed by a demon he took on at the age of 12 from an Indian dying on the battlefield of Gettysburg. Thirty years later, Thornhill is crossing America on a murder spree using an open razor as his tool. After the deed, he often assumes the identity of his victim. The last person he killed...

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The not-so-creepy crawlerAleeert! Someone broke into Ben’s school and stole the shrinking machine. Ben has been using the ingenious invention by physics teacher Yogeshwar on a regular basis to secretly shrink himself to the size of an ant and visit his friends: Andi, the ant, and Ssuzi, the wasp. And that’s what he did today – before the machine was stolen. Shoot! What now? How are they supposed to find the thieves and get the shrinking machine back? This is when they make the acquaintance of Justus,...

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In the shadow of his brother, he has lost all hope – but then he meets her After getting seriously injured in a fight with the „Fiancé“, Brian „Butch“ Cohen has withdrawn from everyone and everything. Since his brother John left town, he has been staying away from everyone, who has a connection to his old life. But then one night, a little girl trying to escape her pursuers by jumping from a first floor window falls right in front of Butch’s feet. Against his will, the events draw him back into...

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A perplexing mystery novel set against the magnificent backdrop of the island of SyltAutumn, 2016. Between Indian summer and the first autumn storms, the tourist season on Sylt draws to a close. Life on the island winds down and becomes quieter. But the quiet becomes a thing of the past when fire breaks out in a mansion. Since a woman reports the blaze at an early stage, it can be put out before the villa burns down completely. Still, the firefighters are confronted with a horrific scene: they find...

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A sumptuously written Norway novel about two extraordinary womenNorway, 1905. The summer, during which the country is struggling for its independence, has even more in store for two young women: radical changes.In Stavanger, Liv – a girl, who comes from the most humble background – takes up a position as a maidservant and before long, she finds herself faced with the most difficult decision of her life. Does she have the right to stand up against her boss, her own family, and the man that offers...

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Bleak and forbidden: Vanessa Sangue knows what her female readers loveA young heiress with a heart of ice. A bleak world full of intrigues and deadly secrets. A love so dark and unstoppable that everything will unravel. Volume 1 in the dark and steamy romance novel series by Vanessa Sangue.After an attempt on her life that killed her parents and her little brother eleven years ago, young Saphira De Angelis has hardened her heart. As the heiress to one of the two most powerful Mafia families in the...

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We can get through life without art but not without beauty! Beauty is a basic need. Every human being »beautifies« things and doing so makes us feel better. Still, we often do not perceive beauty as an inherent part of our daily lives – we neglect our aesthetic needs and as a result, our awareness of form and shape withers away. In his new book, Frank Berzbach shows us: by sharpening our sense for beauty and by developing awareness for aesthetics, we will also live a happier life. It is our only...

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