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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Rhythm of Hope is a deeply emotional, character-driven novella about a mother's resilience and a child's quiet bravery in the sterile confines of a hospital dialysis ward. Eleanor, a woman haunted by past choices and suffocating guilt, finds herself clinging to the steady beeps of a dialysis machine as her 10-year-old son, Leo, fights a life-threatening illness.As days bleed into nights filled with anxiety and fragile hope, Eleanor is forced to confront her past-including a strained relationship with her mother-and redefine what it truly means to protect someone you love. Through the support of unlikely allies, the healing power of storytelling, and the unbreakable bond between mother and child, Eleanor learns that hope is not passive-it's an act of courage.Set almost entirely within a single hospital room, this intimate narrative explores love, guilt, healing, and the profound strength found in the smallest human moments.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1836, Savannah, a physician, arrives in response to a desperate plea from a close acquaintance and is drawn into a growing disturbance centered around a strange lullaby emerging from within a historic church. What begins as a medical curiosity quickly becomes something far more unstable: a pattern of sound that appears to move through the city itself, carried by buildings, river currents, and human sleep.As the melody spreads, the physician discovers that the phenomenon is not a haunting in the traditional sense, but a structured force embedded within the environment. The lullaby behaves like a living system-one that responds to observation, adapts to disruption, and reorganizes reality around its continuity. Death, disappearance, and memory become part of its preservation process, as the city begins to synchronize with its influence subtly.Attempts to resist or interrupt the phenomenon only deepen its complexity. The physician's efforts reveal that the melody is not merely heard but integrated: it records those who listen and incorporates their actions into its evolving structure. Whitaker House, the central site of the disturbance, ultimately collapses inward as the system adapts, dispersing into the river beneath Savannah rather than being destroyed.In the aftermath, the lullaby is no longer openly audible. Instead, it persists beneath silence-within water, sleep, and memory-waiting for resonance rather than attention. The city remains intact, but altered, as if tuned to a frequency just below perception.The story closes on an unresolved note: the system is not defeated, only reconfigured. And in its quiet state, it continues to exist as a latent presence, capable of reactivation whenever it is once again heard.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After the death of her estranged grandfather, Yvonne Wyngarde inherits a weathered wooden box filled with decades-old letters hidden beneath the floorboards of a forgotten family home. Burned out by corporate life and emotionally adrift, she begins reading the correspondence between two artists whose lives were shaped by love, sacrifice, regret, and unfinished dreams.As the letters pull her deeper into the past, Yvonne uncovers painful truths about her family-and about herself. What begins as curiosity slowly becomes transformation. The words left behind by a man she barely knew awaken the artistic passion she abandoned long ago in exchange for stability and survival.But rediscovering creativity means confronting fear, grief, loneliness, and the terrifying uncertainty of starting over.Set between rain-soaked city streets, fading family memories, and a tiny art studio struggling to come alive, Letters Beneath the Floorboards: The Life He Left Behind is a deeply emotional literary novel about inherited pain, quiet resilience, and the ways art can preserve the parts of us the world tries to erase.It is a story about ghosts that do not haunt houses.They haunt unfinished lives.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When a cosmic audit targets the most unqualified trio in the universe, Arty, Cecil, and Bernard do what they do best-ignore it completely.Unfortunately, the universe doesn't take that well.Between reality-breaking shrimp, sentient paperwork, and a jar that refuses to behave, the Geezers accidentally trigger a full-scale bureaucratic meltdown across existence. Now cosmic auditors want answers, the universe wants order, and the Geezers just want breakfast.Too bad they're the problem.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When Arty McAllister, Cecil Handle, and Bernard Thompson sign up for a relaxing senior Caribbean cruise, they expect lukewarm buffets, mild sunburn, and arguments over shuffleboard.What they get instead: glowing pickled eggs in every dish, passengers turning into polite cardboard cutouts, a raccoon with a cybernetic eye, and a seven-foot Bigfoot in a Hawaiian shirt claiming the ship is harvesting human souls.As reality bends, the ocean turns to liquid mercury, and a fleet of porcelain teapot UFOs arrives to 'process' humanity's life experience into fuel, the Geezers face an uncomfortable truth: They cannot win.So they do what they do best-They break everything.Armed with a barely functional RV, a weaponized snore, and absolutely no respect for the laws of physics, the Geezers launch one final, catastrophic plan to save Florida from becoming an intergalactic charging station.It's bingo for the fate of reality.And the house is cheating.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When conspiracy enthusiast Arty McAllister uncovers a decades-old tabloid claiming reptilian infiltrators have taken over the Grand Canyon, he does what any reasonable retiree would do-he drags his reluctant friends Cecil Handle and Bernard Thompson across the desert in their barely functional RV, Rolling Thunder, to investigate.What begins as another ridiculous wild goose chase quickly spirals into a full-blown subterranean war. Beneath the canyon lies a hidden reptilian civilization harnessing geothermal power, enslaving Bigfoot, and preparing to unleash a climate-altering superweapon. Armed with nothing but stubbornness, questionable judgment, six highly unpredictable raccoons, and Bernard's dangerously fermented 'Dragon-Breath' pickled eggs, the Geezers stumble into a battle that could reshape the planet.As tunnels collapse, monsters awaken, and the line between genius and insanity completely disintegrates, the trio must outwit lizard overlords, survive a rampaging Earth-Eater, and prevent total planetary meltdown-all while arguing about snacks, retirement, and the smell of vinegar.They might save the world.They will absolutely destroy everything else.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When a retirement-community shrimp special triggers a quantum-level geologic awakening, three stubborn old men-Arty, Bernard, and Cecil-find themselves at the center of Earth's overdue performance review of humanity.A sinkhole with a mind of its own, raccoons forming a labor union, and Bigfoot showing up as a 'Territorial Liaison' are only the start. As timelines buckle and the desert begins selecting which humans are worth keeping, the Geezers must use humor, pickled eggs, and sheer stubbornness to negotiate with a sentient planet before the next phase of 'ecosystem restructuring' resets everything. permanently.Absurd, cosmic, heartfelt, and wildly inventive, Quantum Arty and the Shrimp Incident is a surreal sci-fi adventure where laughter isn't just medicine-it's the only thing keeping the world from collapsing. Literally.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fifteen guests. One isolated mansion. And a past that refuses to stay buried.When a group of strangers receives an invitation to the remote Harrow Estate, curiosity outweighs caution. Perched on a windswept cliff and cut off by a violent storm, the mansion offers luxury, mystery. and no way out.Their host, reclusive billionaire Tobias Harrow, promises an unforgettable night-an 'experiment' in human perception.Then the lights go out.In the suffocating darkness, something begins to move.When the power returns, one of them is dead.A message is left behind: The darkness knows you.As fear takes hold, secrets begin to surface-lies buried for decades, crimes hidden behind wealth and influence, and a single tragedy that binds them all together.Someone among them isn't a guest.Someone knows exactly why they're here.And one by one, they're being hunted.Now trapped in a mansion where sight can't be trusted and every shadow hides a threat, the survivors face an impossible choice: Expose the truth.or become the next victim.Because at Harrow Estate-The lights aren't the only thing that will go out.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sixteen-year-old Leo Vaughan has always noticed things others don't-shadows that linger too long, silences that feel too full. When a strange light leads him behind the town's old clock tower, he stumbles into the Nocturne Bazaar-a hidden night market where spirits trade memories, regrets, and pieces of the soul.Drawn to a mysterious vendor, Leo purchases a fragment of 'lost truth,' unknowingly binding himself to the final moments of a murdered girl named Anya. As her memory takes hold, Leo becomes the target of powerful forces within the market-especially the entity that built his power on her death.As the truth unravels, Leo discovers something worse: his own family's legacy is tied to the crime.Hunted by spectral enforcers and tempted by dangerous bargains, Leo must navigate the brutal politics of the Ghost Market and make an impossible choice-protect his family's past or expose a truth buried for centuries.In the end, silence has a price.And truth has consequences.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Black Archives: Memory Is the Deadliest Weapon is a dark historical espionage thriller blending psychological horror, wartime conspiracy, noir suspense, and identity fragmentation.Set during the final years of World War II, the novel follows Evelyn Vale, a gifted OSS archivist working inside the hidden intelligence corridors of Washington, D.C. Possessing near-photographic memory recall, Evelyn is assigned to decode fragmented enemy communications tied to a covert network operating beneath the war itself.But the deeper she investigates, the more reality begins unraveling.Secret archives vanish overnight. Intelligence operatives are murdered before interrogation. Politicians, judges, military officers, and journalists appear linked through invisible systems of blackmail and surveillance. Then Evelyn discovers classified files suggesting her own childhood memories were artificially constructed through experimental wartime conditioning programs.Her real name may not even be Evelyn Vale.As suppressed memories resurface-from burning train stations in Europe to hidden facilities buried beneath intelligence compounds-Evelyn uncovers 'The Archivist,' a human intelligence weapon designed to unconsciously decode and transmit hidden information across entire government systems.That weapon is her.Caught between rival factions seeking authoritarian control of the postwar world, Evelyn unleashes classified truths capable of collapsing governments overnight. Yet even after exposing the machine, she discovers its final evolution has already occurred inside her own fractured mind.Because some programs never end.They simply continue writing themselves.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When retired troublemakers Arty McAllister, Cecil Handle, and Bernard Thompson roll into the Florida Everglades aboard their aging Winnebago, the Rolling Thunder, they expect little more than fishing, sunshine, and questionable diner food.Instead, they discover a bizarre chain of events involving glowing pickled eggs, mysterious UFO sightings, missing methane reserves, and a growing army of unusually organized raccoons.As strange lights appear over the swamp and gravity itself begins malfunctioning, Bernard uncovers evidence of a secret Martian operation hidden beneath the Everglades. The aliens are attempting to harvest massive quantities of methane to restart a failing reactor on a hidden lunar base. Unfortunately for everyone involved, their plans collide with Florida wildlife, eccentric locals, rebellious raccoons, and three stubborn geezers who refuse to mind their own business.Soon the state is plunged into chaos. Lawn chairs float into the sky. Alligators drift sideways. UFO enthusiasts flood the swamp. A disco-themed flying saucer appears over the Everglades. And somewhere beneath it all, a dimensional catastrophe threatens both Earth and the Moon.To stop an interplanetary disaster, the geezers must survive exploding inventions, alien machinery, flaming methane eruptions, and one final showdown involving violet eggs, ham radios, and the largest UFO ever seen over Florida.Can three retirees save the world one more time Or will Florida finally become too weird-even for them.…

All three items good, on lightly-aged paper. All bifoliums. Letter One (1 July 1901): 12mo, 4 pp. 42 lines. He is pleased to have received Childers' life of his father (published that year). 'I knew your Father well, [.] I was in the House in the Parliaments of 68 & 80 when he had his most serious work'. Praises his 'amazing pluck in going out as he did to Australia [Childers was first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne] & in his conduct there in the early days & during the gold discoveries time, the story of which in his letters is very curious'. He is interested to learn that he 'had Jewish blood in his veins'. He finds it 'evident that he was very doubtful as to Gladstone's wisdom on several points & in that I agree with him'. He believes that, though 'most anxious to help Ireland', he was not 'really happy about Home Rule', wanting to 'separate the Imperial from the Local', which 'could not be done'. Ends: 'Where should we have been in 99, if we had given Ireland over to an Irish Parlmt in 93?' Letter Two (4 July 1901): 12mo, 4 pp. 33 lines. Having received Childers' reply, he is pleased he wrote. Childers' 'Jewish blood' is 'very interesting to me'. Praises Disraeli's comments on the subject in his biography of Lord George Bentinck - 'a most interesting book & written by a most remarkable specimen of that famous nation'. Attacks Gladstone's handling of the Home Rule question. The recipient is 'right that Gladstone acted in a hurry [.] but he did more - He broke faith with his old friends to whom in Septr 1885 he sent a message utterly opposed to the plans which he developed, even before the Election of that year. He was not straight & he had his reward. And he destroyed the Liberal party. - Where is it now?' Letter Three (8 July 1901): 12mo, 3 pp. 31 lines. He thanks him for 'the Copy of that very remarkable letter - It does the Father credit'. Until the recent case of 'Mr J. E. Backhouse of Darlington' he had 'never heard before of a boy being made a Baronet'. He does not 'altogether agree with your history as to 79-80 - I remember well saying after that terrible Afghan disaster, at end of 79, that it would finish the Govmt - that & the Zulu war were too much for the Electors.'.…