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  • Playback Effect
    Karen A. Wyle / Karen AWyle
    In the near future, new technology records the highlights of emotional experience for others to share. Buy a helmet and you can feel the exhilaration of an Olympic ski jumper, or the heat of a lucid dreamer’s erotic imaginings. Commit a crime, and you may be sentenced to endure the suffering you inflicted on others. But such recordings may carry more information than the public...
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    11,59 €

  • That The Dead May Rest
    Karen A Wyle
    Bodies are rising from the grave and unleashing carnage. Can their departed spirits do anything to stop them?After a life of peril and fear, Millie has reached the peace, beauty, and security of the afterlife. But one day, when she is performing her glad duty of welcoming a new spirit, that spirit recoils from her in horror - because her body had become a zombie, and had bruta...
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    14,34 €

  • A Boy Who Made Music
    Karen A. Wyle
    Joaquin Rodrigo was a brilliant Spanish composer, writing music for piano, violin, chorus, and guitar. He was also, from the age of three, almost completely blind.This picture book follows Joaquin from carefree early childhood through his life-altering illness, his discovery of classical music, and his successful career and family life. Joaquin’s story can inspire children to d...
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    11,88 €

  • Where Fireflies Sleep
    Karen A. A. Wyle
    What is sweeter than the special times a parent and child spend together?In this picture book, Molly and her father sit on the porch as a summer day moves into evening. They’re waiting for fireflies. The reader shares Molly’s excitement and delight as first one and then more of the glowing insects appear. Molly has questions about fireflies, and her father does his best to answ...
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    6,87 €

  • Far From Mortal Realms
    Karen A. Wyle
    The many wondrous realms the Fair Folk inhabit offer tempting opportunities for mortals hoping to benefit from faerie magic. But making bargains with the Fair Folk is a dangerous business, for the fae have a habit of leaving loopholes to snare the unwary. Father-and-daughter lawyers Abe and Adira have made a career out of helping their fellow humans reach such agreements safely...
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    11,49 €

  • What Wakes the Heart
    Karen A. Wyle
    Explore how two young people try to find their way to love in spite of the obstacles posed by immigrant status, religious differences, and past trauma.Susannah looks forward to a rewarding career as a teacher in St. Louis, until a traumatic encounter with the president of her teacher’s college drives her to seek a job elsewhere. Karol, a Polish Catholic immigrant living in Cowb...
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    13,12 €

  • When It’s Winter
    Karen A. Wyle / Karen AWyle
    What makes winter special? This picture book celebrates the many fun activities and sensory experiences of the season. Follow a girl and her dog through the play and discoveries of a snowy day, and on toward bedtime.The first person narrative will encourage new readers to claim it as their own. The repetition of the phrase 'When it’s winter . . .' will encourage children to chi...
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    6,87 €

  • Closest to the Fire
    Karen A. Wyle
    The legal landscape can be a minefield.Here’s a map.Most people don’t know all that much about the framework of the American legal system,nor about details that haven’t touched their lives or become major news stories. Thatlack of knowledge can be dangerous, in ways one has to know more about the system to understand and appreciate.Also, the world of law and lawyers, with its s...
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    18,91 €

  • You Can’t Kiss A Bubble
    Karen A Wyle
    Bubbles don’t last long.But bubbles are lovely,Full of colors, floating on the breeze.What can you do with a bubble?How many children - and adults - find bubbles fascinating, enchanting? And yet they’re so different from most things we enjoy, lasting only a few moments. This little book, with its lovely and whimsical illustrations, looks at both the charm and the transitory nat...
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    9,55 €

  • What Shows the Heart
    Karen A. Wyle
    After Jake, son and grandson of preachers, tried and failed to protect Mamie from small town cruelty, Mamie left town to fend for herself. Neither expected to see each other again. Now, many years later, Jake is a bitter man with little beside regrets, and Mamie, after much struggle and hazard, runs the thriving parlor house in Cowbird Creek. Can they make a future together, or...
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    8,90 €

  • What Frees the Heart
    Karen A. Wyle
    Can they set each other free?Cowbird Creek has its share of troubled souls. For Tom, a farmer’s son, losing his leg felt like losing his future. Jenny, a young prostitute at Madam Mamie’s parlor house, has never thought she had much future to lose.But the job Tom is able to get leads him to rediscover a long neglected talent. And both Tom and Jenny have a knack for hitting on n...
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    8,89 €

  • What Heals the Heart
    Karen A. Wyle / Karen AWyle
    Can they help each other heal?Joshua Gibbs survived the Civil War, building on his wartime experiences to become a small town doctor. And if he wakes from nightmares more often than he would like, only his dog Major is there to know it.Then two newcomers arrive in Cowbird Creek: Clara Brook, a plain-speaking and yet enigmatic farmer’s daughter, and Freida Blum, an elderly Jewis...
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    11,48 €