Ein Dorf, eine Insel, eine ganze Welt: Karen Köhlers erster Roman erzählt von einer jungen Frau, die als Findelkind in einer abgeschirmten Gesellschaft aufwächst. Hier haben Männer das Sagen, dürfen Frauen nicht lesen, lasten Tradition und heilige Gesetze auf allem. Was passiert, wenn man sich in ei

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When the body of a clerk who worked in the local mint is found in the snow, Templar Bascot de Marins and his young prot **Title:** Murder for Christ's Mass **Author:** Ash, Maureen **Publisher:** Berkley Pub Group **Publication Date:** 2009/12/01 **Number of Pages:** 290 **Binding Type:*

This is her year, Matilda Carmichael can feel it. This is the year she’s going to get her life together and finally start living the life of her dreams. Step one: get organized. Following a cleaning book’s checklist, she begins to make some changes around her home. She runs into problems when she ne

Mr. Bones, a canine companion to a homeless man named Willy G. Christmas, accompanies his dying master on a trip to Baltimore in search of an ex-high school teacher.

The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatn