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  • Adso The Gull Who Quacked
    John G. Manuel
    Adso the Gull - Who Quacked tells the story of a stormy night when a gull’s egg tumbles into a duck’s nest. He knew, from that moment onward, that Adso grew up believing himself an odd one in the backwaters of life. He waddled and quacked along with his duck family, but deep down inside, he knew he was different.As time passes, Adso begins to notice the small ways he stands apa...
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    21,00 €

  • In Pursuit of the Giant Sable Antelope
    John Manuel
    Eighteen-year-old Walker Scoville is in the midst of a safari in Southern Africa when his tour leader, Cecil Covington, catches wind of the sighting of a rare and beautiful antelope on the volatile border between Namibia and Angola.Despite the looming threat of war between the two countries, and hoping to secure a measure of fame, Cecil decides to reroute the group in pursuit o...
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    14,37 €

  • Puthaiyal / புதையல்
    மனுவேல Manuel John Robert
    பானைகளில் அல்ல, பண்டைய ஏடுகளில்தான் நிஜமான புதையல் ஒளிந்துகொண்டிருக்கிறது. ஆத்திச்சூடி மிக நல்ல உதாரணம். இயற்றப்பட்டு 2,000 ஆண்டுகள் ஆகிவிட்டன என்றாலும் இன்றும் நம்மை வியக்க வைக்கும், இன்றும் நம்மை உத்வேகம் கொள்ள வைக்கும் பல அரிய கருத்துகள் அதற்குள் பொதிந்து கிடக்கின்றன.ஔவையாரின் ஆத்திச்சூடியை இன்றைய தலைமுறையினருக்கு, அவர்களுடைய இன்றைய தேவைகளைக் கருத்தில் கொண்டு, அவர்களுக்குப் ...
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  • Sistematización de experiencias en agricultura protegida en la costa de Ecuador
    Alfonso Llanderal Quiroz / Ángel Triana Tomalá / John Franco Rodríguez / Manuel Donoso Bruque / María Lao Arenas / Noelia Caicedo Coello / Pedro García Caparrós / Rosa de Nazaret Pérez Giménez / Rosa Pérez Giménez
    La importancia de la producción de cultivos hortícolas está relacionada con su capacidad de generar altos rendimientos productivos y por ende económicos por unidad de superficie. Cuando la producción de cultivos hortícolas se realiza en campo abierto, se generan mayores mermas productivas que cuando se cultivan en condiciones de protección. Además, el desarrollo de la horticult...
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    26,00 €

  • Solitario
    John Manuel
    A changing climate brings heavy rains to West Texas and gives river guide, Robbie Ducharme, the opportunity to take his clients down a never-before-run desert arroyo.The landscape they enter, the people they encounter, and the relics they find, give these modern-day explorers the thrill of a lifetime. They also threaten Robbie’s relationship with the woman he loves and the life...
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    14,37 €

  • No Sign
    John Manuel
    One evening, Amanda left work as usual. Then she disappeared. No one saw anything. No one knew what had happened to her. There was simply no sign of her.When she allows her estranged birth-father back into her life, 22 year-old Amanda thinks it could only lead to better prospects, and maybe a slightly better bank balance. Yet she is unprepared for just what an effect he was goi...
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    28,76 €

  • The Lower Canyons
    John Manuel
    Robbie Ducharme is pursuing his dream, leading clients in canoes down the remote Lower Canyons of the Rio Grande on the Texas/Mexico border. Newly-divorced Janey Hart decides Robbie's week-long trip will be just the thing to help her bond with her distant teenaged daughter. Others find themselves fording these treacherous waters for even greater stakes. Fifteen-year-old Say...
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    14,19 €

  • The Crete Connection
    John Manuel
    In rural Wiltshire, England, a six month-old baby disappears from a stroller while its mother is inside a store for just two minutes.A young Englishman begins a summer of adventure on the Greek island of Crete.By pure chance, the two events, although separated by over twenty years, are irrevocably linked by the taverna where the young Englishman ends up helping out.The result i...
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    15,98 €

  • Murder on The Malta Express
    Carlo Bonini / John Sweeney / Manuel Delia
    If we are judged by the nature of our enemies, then Daphne Caruana Galizia should be remembered as a hero of our time.She was Malta’s most fearless journalist until someone with money and power decided that she should be silenced forever.Her assassination on 16th October 2017 was a brutal blow to anyone who cares about the truth.MURDER ON THE MALTESE EXPRESS...
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    21,52 €

  • Stonewall Strong
    John-Manuel Andriote
    Stonewall Strong uses research, history, and firsthand accounts to examine gay men’s remarkable resilience as it’s been established and built over the years after the Stonewall riots. John-Manuel Andriote shows how the gay rights movements has contributed to personal resilience and a platform that promotes community, understanding, and good health. ...
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    26,38 €

  • Panayiota
    John Manuel
    Two teenage sisters, growing up in the Plaka district of Athens, Greece. Life seems idyllic, and the girls can’t think of anything that they ought to worry about, except for having a good time.The only problem is, this is the late 1930’s, and things are about to change in ways they could never have imagined.An old woman lies dying in a hospice in the UK. She has an incurable ca...
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    16,47 €

  • Two in the Bush
    John Manuel
    Adrian Dando has a good marriage, and a steady, if somewhat pedestrian life in the West of England. Without warning it all goes horribly wrong and he is left alone and bereft. Having two friends who have already moved out to Greece, he decides, with their encouragement, to do likewise. After all, a new start, a new life, new experiences, all of these should enable him to kic...
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    15,49 €

  • A Jay in the Jacaranda Tree
    John Manuel
    This is a frank, amusing, poignant, hard-hitting, controversial yet always absorbing take on over a decade of life on a Greek island. ...
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    13,37 €

  • Hope Valley
    John Manuel
    Hurley Cates, the 70-year-old protagonist of Hope Valley, is a retired factory worker who lives with his wife, Opal, on a hilltop farm on the edge of Durham, NC. Durham in the 1980s is undergoing rapid change from dying Southern factory town to a land of opportunity for new age entrepreneurs and unconventional youth. Hurley is determined to hold on to the heart of his world—his...
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    11,53 €

  • Sometimes You Just Can't Tell
    John Manuel
    When Lewis and his Greek wife Katerini return to the island of her birth for a visit, neither could have predicted the series of events that would unfold, resulting in both of them coming to wonder if they'll ever see each other again. Katerini, though, wonders if she'll even live to see anyone at all. From the author of 'The View From Kleoboulos', 'A Brief Moment of Sunshine...
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    17,56 €

  • Tough Love
    John-Manuel Andriote
    Tough Love is a collection of weekly newspaper columns, front-page feature articles, and other commentary by a longtime Washington, DC reporter who returned home to Norwich, Connecticut. Planning a second career and a new life, the author instead found his journalist’s instincts at full alert as he watched--often incredulously--as the city’s leaders grasped at one plan after an...
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    19,27 €

  • Eve of Deconstruction
    John Manuel
    Chippenham UK, present day. Eve Watkins is a fairly average modern woman in her early forties with two teenage kids, a loving husband with a steady job and career of her own. It looks like her average life is fairly uneventful, yet secure. Following the death of her mother she discovers things about her own past that come as a complete surprise to Eve. These lead her eventuall...
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    15,14 €

  • The View From Kleoboulos
    John Manuel
    In this, John Manuel's first full-length novel after having written four very successful travel memoirs about Greece, he again takes the reader into the tiny whitewashed streets of the village of Lindos on the island of Rhodes. Dean and Alyson are two young people who come together in a bar one evening in their home city of Bath, UK. Alyson's mother once worked with Brian, a m...
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    16,83 €

  • A Brief Moment of Sunshine
    John Manuel
    Claire Mason's life seemed to be on track. She was a successful artist and she had a good marriage to a loving husband. Then, almost overnight, a succession of events turn her entire life upside down. How will she deal with it? Will she emerge from the maelstrom that threatens to destroy her mind, or will she succumb and thus implode emotionally and mentally? How do vi...
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    16,76 €

  • A Plethora of Posts
    John Manuel
    Volume 4 of the 'Ramblings From Rhodes' series, comprising over 40 of the most humorous and informative stories gleaned from six years of living on the Greek island of Rhodes and originally posted on the 'Ramblings From Rhodes' blog. Books 1-3 of the series have been hailed for their humour and insight into the Greek psyche. This volume continues the odyssey. ...
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    21,56 €

  • Victory Deferred
    John-Manuel Andriote
    Compelled by his own 2005 HIV diagnosis, journalist John-Manuel Andriote revisits his acclaimed chronicle of the AIDS epidemic in this updated and expanded edition of the University of Chicago Press 1999 hardcover original.Andriote examines the impact of AIDS on individuals and on the gay civil rights movement, from the coming-out revelry of the 1970s to the post-AIDS gay commu...
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    22,71 €

  • Tzatziki For You to Say
    John Manuel
    Part three of a trilogy of memoirs spanning not only almost forty years of visiting Greece, but also five years of living there. As with the first two books in the 'Ramblings' series, this is packed with laughs and even a few tears as the reader is taken on the usual roller coaster ride through the author’s amazing experiences of the sunshine country. ...
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    22,46 €

  • Moussaka to My Ears
    John Manuel
    John and his half-Greek wife Yvonne-Maria moved from the UK to Rhodes in 2005, the account of which was told in his first book, FETA COMPLI! MOUSSAKA takes up where FETA COMPLI! leaves off, with Yvonne and John settling into life on Rhodes and coming into contact with some great characters who live around them out there. Plus, there’s another helping of reminiscences from past ...
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    22,94 €

  • Feta Compli!
    John Manuel
    How meeting a girl with a Greek mother in a smoky bar in Bath, UK, eventually led to living in Greece. Only it took the best part of 30 years! If you like lighthearted yet informative travel books, this is right up your street. Travel writing at its best. FETA recounts how the author and his wife drove from the UK to Rhodes with all they possessed in a white van, then set up ho...
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    22,08 €

  • Life Observed
    John Johnson / Manuel Mayor / Marck Rossy
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    22,74 €