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  • Frost Line
    Ardath Mayhar / Mary Wickizer Burgess
    A helpless woman is attacked in her home by a ruthless gang of murderers and thieves searching for her brother’s valuable gun collection. They fail in their mission, and now they’re coming back to finish the job…this time determined to leave no eyewitnesses alive. Sheriff Washington Shipp must use all his instincts and expertise to track down the mob before they can strike agai...
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    13,30 €

  • Slaughterhouse World / Knack’ Attack (Wildside Double #7)
    Ardath Mayhar / Robert Reginald
    In the tradition of the old 'Ace Doubles,' two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title), here is the seventh Wildside Double.SLAUGHTERHOUSE WORLD: A Tale of the Human-Knacker War, by Ardath MayharThe Knackers looked like a cross between a spider and a crab, except bigger--much bigger, and meaner--much meaner--and they never stopped coming! Joel Karsh is just a grun...
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    17,42 €

  • The Methodist Bobcat and Other Tales
    Ardath Mayhar
    Twenty-seven scintillating stories of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, all but two of which are published here for the first time. Robert Reginald says: 'Ardath Mayhar is able to evoke eerie, otherworldy settings and creatures with just a few strokes of her subtle pen. Great stuff!' 3 ...
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    16,57 €

  • Born Rebel and the Guns of Livingston Frost - Two Short Novels
    Ardath Mayhar
    Two short novels published for the first time: 'Born Rebel' tells the story of a woman in 1825 who’s sold by her father to the neighboring farmer, and flees to Texas with her beau, with a hunter-killer dogging their every step. 'The Guns of Livingston Frost,' the third Washington Shipp mystery, finds Sheriff Shipp investigating a series of brutal crimes against antique gun deal...
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    16,56 €

  • The Loquat Eyes
    Ardath Mayhar
    Solomon Peat, the wry narrator of Slewfoot Sally and the Flying Mule, returns with 17 more tall tales of Cotton County, Texas, including 'The Day of the Boomers,' 'Fierce as a Banty Hen,' 'The Ring-Tailed Sidewinder,' 'The Skunk Works,' 'The Crooked-Tail Cow,' and 'The Loquat Eyes.' Also featured are two original children’s fantasies, 'The Jeweled Mouse' and 'The Kingdom of Yip...
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    15,51 €

  • The Exiles of Damaria
    Ardath Mayhar
    The Ancient Race of enhanced humans in Damaria has been all but destroyed by a revolt of the New People. The two survivors, Riddle the Poet and his nephew, young King Lute, flee to the City of the Mist. There they and the many other refugees plan to build a great ship to ferry them to safety in the Western Isles, where some of their kin remain. But the evil worm Dinorm, their o...
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    17,12 €

  • Vendetta
    Ardath Mayhar
    When their parents, the owners and performers of the Gannelli Family Circus, are murdered by a Yankee Captain in rural Arkansas during the Civil War, young Gian-Carlo and his cousin Magda barely escape with their lives into the surrounding woods. From then on, they have only one purpose in life: a VENDETTA against the Union officer. Their cat-and-mouse game finally reaches its ...
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    16,40 €

  • High Mountain Winter
    Ardath Mayhar
    When the Stonor family joins the last wagon train to Oregon in the 1840s, little do they realize that disaster awaits. Suddenly 17-year-old Maryla Stonor is left to fend for herself in the mountains of Wyoming, just before the onset of winter. And even if she does survive the endless blizzards and numbing cold, when spring finally arrives, how will she find her way back to civi...
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    16,40 €

  • Shock Treatment
    Ardath Mayhar
    Granary--the breadbasket of the United Worlds--becomes enmeshed in civil war when its Commander, Theron Standish, attempts to impose his will over the independent granges. Only Theron’s elderly grandmother and predecessor, Seleva Karmann, can stop the Commander from destroying his own world! 3 ...
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    16,59 €

  • Strange View from a Skewed Orbit
    Ardath Mayhar
    A delightful memoir of the fantasy, science fiction, mystery, western, and young adult writer, Ardath Mayhar, whose seventy books and hundreds of short stories have charmed readers throughout the world. 3 ...
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    16,65 €

  • The Clarrington Heritage
    Ardath Mayhar
    When Marise Dering marries Ben Clarrington, and moves into the old mansion where the rest of the Clarringtons live, she's ordered to keep out of the closed-off sections of the third floor--but never told why! As the family members begin perishing in odd circumstances, Marise must try to uncover the secret of...The Clarrington Heritage. 3 ...
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    16,54 €

  • The Body in the Swamp
    Ardath Mayhar
    When two bodies are spit out by the local swamp, Police Chief Washington Shipp knows he has a drug problem--and the druglords will do ANYTHING to retrieve their missing stash. Only Wash, together with an unlikely crew of swamp denizens and misfits, stand in their way. They don’t stand a chance--do they? 3 ...
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    16,58 €

  • Death in the Square
    Ardath Mayhar
    The upper-class inhabitants of the locked-gate community called Holroyd Square in Templeton, Texas, are used to their sedate, private lives-and the equally private secrets that each of them keeps hidden from the others. But when a vicious blackmailer rudely interrupts their existence, and then is found murdered in the Square, the police must be called, and only Assistant Chief ...
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    16,59 €

  • Closely Knit in Scarlatt
    Ardath Mayhar
    Olive is the most unlikely of secret agents, a professional assassin in her sixties who’s known only as 'The Knit Lady.' When Islamic terrorists take control of the cruise ship on which she’s traveling, Olive decides to fight back, with knitting needle, scalpel--and plastic explosives. Don’t underestimate Little Old Ladies! 3 ...
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    18,83 €

  • A World of Weirdities
    Ardath Mayhar
    A new collection of 29 scintillating tales of horror and fantasy, many of them never before published. 3 ...
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    18,89 €

  • Strange Doin’s in the Pine Hills
    Ardath Mayhar
    Gripping tales of fantasy, mystery, and horror set in the piney woods of East Texas. 3 ...
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    18,93 €

  • Crazy Quilt
    Ardath Mayhar
    'Ardath Mayhar is a neglected writer, and that is criminal. She is one of those born storytellers and natural writers who has done so much so well that it is easy to take her for granted. Trust me, as the spider said to the fly: read Ardath’s work. Be captivated by her worlds. They will never let you go. Promise.'--from the Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale. 3 ...
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    19,82 €

  • Two-Moons and the Black Tower
    Ardath Mayhar
    Two-Moons-in-the-Sky, an Iroquoian warrior woman and Dreamer, is transported into the strange world of medieval Britain by a dark sorcerer, Lallius, who lives in a black tower. Lallius wants to enslave his captive, whom he regards as primitive, but little does he realize that Two-Moons has magic of her own! 'A highly original fantasy with a strong and capable female protagonist...
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    18,80 €

  • Carrots and Miggle
    Ardath Mayhar
    After the Ramsdens lose their father, Charlotte ('Carrots'), her brother, her young sister, and her mother continue to operate their East Texas dairy farm. Then their cousin from Eastern Europe, Emiglia ('Miggle') is orphaned, and is forced to come live with them. When she arrives, she’s shocked to find her relatives engaging in manual labor, which her late parents considered f...
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    17,67 €

  • The Lintons of Skillet Bend
    Ardath Mayhar
    As the Civil War lurches to a close, the Lintons of East Texas are waiting anxiously for their menfolk to return. But the stranger Finis Krim is attempting to extort land from the local women by claiming fraudulent commitments from their absent husbands. Krim’s agent, Joshua Birdsong, is sent to the Linton home to search for relevant documents to wrest their farm away. Then Fat...
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    17,67 €

  • Deadly Memoir
    Ardath Mayhar
    When Margaret Thackrey, ex-government agent and writer, decides to pen her memoirs, she unwittingly gets the attention of a vicious assassin--a man whose nefarious deeds she’d nearly uncovered during her service. Now he must stop the publication of her book before his true character is revealed. He murders her husband, and stalks her from Oregon to Texas. There she must finally...
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    17,62 €

  • The Absolutely Perfect Horse
    Ardath Mayhar / Marylois Dunn
    When Annie is forced to resettle from Los Angeles to an East Texan farm, she saves her money to buy the 'Absolutely Perfect Horse.' But the nag she actually gets is a 35-year-old Appaloosa nicknamed 'Dogmeat.' In the end, though, this worn-out old steed proves his valor when a pack of wild dogs attacks the farm.'I defy anyone to read this story without a tear springing to one’s...
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    12,07 €

  • The Dropouts
    Ardath Mayhar
    When their parents are killed, Nick and Nita find themselves destitute. Only an uncle they’ve never known offers them a refuge on his East Texas farm. The culture shock is intense for Nita, but Nick takes to farming, learning how to plow with a mule, bale hale, milk cows, and tend gardens.'Mayhar’s roots in East Texas are never more evident than in this lovely tale of teenagers...
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    17,74 €

  • Lone Runner
    Ardath Mayhar
    When Katharine’s father dies in 1864, leaving her destitute, her cousin 'sells' her to the beastly One-Eye Murray. She then flees west into the wilderness, but One-Eye hires Sun-Shot O’Neill to track the girl across the wasteland to 'save' his investment. 'A classic tale of survival against all odds, Lone Runner is a superb cat-and-mouse western suspense tale filled with tensio...
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    18,88 €

  • Makra Choria
    Ardath Mayhar
    The hereditary rulers of Sherath have psychic powers that can bring great good or evil to their people. When the Makra Theora murders her father and seizes his throne, her sister, the Makra Choria, raises an army, captures her sibling, and removes the 'Gift' from both of them. Then Choria tries to undo the damage that her sister has done to Sherath and the surrounding states--a...
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    16,55 €

  • The Fugitives
    Ardath Mayhar
    In prehistoric Europe, Bain of the Hunting Clan flees his people, eventually encountering Arma of the Farming Clan. But the Hunters have followed their lost sheep, and when the two peoples clash, Bain and Arma rescue the Farmers’ clan healer, Kalva, and flee with her to the east. There they must overcome many dangerous challenges to establish a brand new society. 'Another marve...
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    13,44 €

  • Messengers in White
    Ardath Mayhar
    Colonized and left to its own devices, the planet on which Lehnik the horsemaster lives has, over a thousand years, reached a medieval level. Sent with an orphaned child to the hold of the Sisters of Silence, the soldier learns that their order exists to guard the very sophisticated -- and perilous -- weapons left to them by their Terran ancestors.When Garrouche invades Trans-K...
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    17,65 €

  • People of the Mesa
    Ardath Mayhar
    Uhtatse becomes the 'One Who Smells the Wind' for his Anasazi clan, and sends his mind searching outward for enemy tribes in the Great Plains. When he finally senses peril, he fails to convince his Elders to seek shelter. The attack, when it comes, decimates the Anasazi, forcing them finally to build their cliffside cave dwellings at Mesa Verde. 'Ardath Mayhar is superb at crea...
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    13,30 €

  • Lords of the Triple Moons
    Ardath Mayhar
    The Old Lords of Rehannoth have been overthrown by rebel leaders who use the powers generated by the great machines to maintain their brutal rule. Only the two surviving children of the Lords, Johab and Ellora, can restore the balance and free their people. But first they must free themselves from captivity--and find the Chasm of Genlith! Part of the series, Tales of the Triple...
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    17,61 €

  • The Seekers of Shar-Nuhn
    Ardath Mayhar
    The mage Kla-Noh and his foster son, Si-Lun, are 'Seekers After Secrets.' In their fantasy adventures, they aid a woman from another dimension, calm a Weatherwitch, and heal the Beast in the Barrens, among others. Classic fantasy in the tradition of Lord Dunsany and Jack Vance, part of the Tales of the Triple Moons series. 3 ...
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    18,89 €


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