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  • The Minister’s Wife
    Michael Cantwell
    The minister’s lovely young wife receives no love from him, but is subject to a life of servitude to his wishes. She enters upon a love affair with a fellow hospital therapist.Their love is very intense and leads to extraordinary consequences. ...
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    8,68 €

  • The Black Hole Express
    Michael Cantwell
    The Perfect World exists in the far distant future and is ruled by an old man called the Grand Exterminator. In this heavily polluted world people wear oxygen masks and silver vinyl jump suits. They’ve never seen flowers or grass. Robots do their work and their thinking. Many laws exist, but the chief prohibition is against passion. Anyone who talks of love or acts on feelings ...
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    11,11 €

  • Max the Mouse and the Secret of Mars
    Michael Cantwell
    Max the mouse didn’t mean to run away from home. He had a good gig with his owner, Melissa. He was well fed, and he liked riding on the little girl’s shoulder when she walked around the house. But Max was really curious to see what was on the other side of the fence in the backyard.Once over the fence, Max joins a group of endangered mice to found a new colony in a deserted fie...
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    11,44 €

  • My Friend Casey
    Michael Cantwell
    After moving from town to town, Philip Nason and his family finally settle in a working-class neighborhood in Detroit. It’s the summer of 1937, shortly after Philip turns eleven. A lonely child, he inhabits a world of daydreams, filling notebooks with his cartoon fantasies. He discovers he’s unable to compete in the rough-and-tumble games that are a boy’s rite of passage. Then ...
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    10,38 €

  • Graven Images
    Michael Cantwell
    No one is more surprised than Philip Nason when an uprising occurs within the walls of a New York rehabilitation hospital. Moments after Phil, director of recreation, hears that a group of mostly paraplegic patients have staged a rebellion, he learns that the hospital’s director is furious and thinks the patients were inspired by Phil’s current-events reading program. Now with ...
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    16,30 €

  • Rosa’s Gift and Other Stories
    Michael Cantwell
    From a young writer trying to win a girl to a boy grappling with confusion about sin, each protagonist in this collection of nine short stories experiences a journey, an encounter, or a revelation that transforms them.In Rosa’s Gift and Other Stories, author Michael Cantwell presents these stories reflecting the joys and sorrows of all stages of human life. In the title story, ...
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    9,59 €

  • The Halls of Montezuma
    Michael Cantwell
    Fourteen-year-old Peter Collins cannot help but wonder if it was all just a dream. Even though it has been two years since he traveled back in time to ancient Mexico with his friend, Rosa Guzman, two questions continue to haunt him: Why hasn’t Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent who guided Rosa and him through their time travels, returned as he had promised? Who is his real father...
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    8,80 €

  • The Rising of the Fifth Sun
    Michael Cantwell
    Peter Collins and Rosa Guzman, having passed their first round of tests in ancient Mexico, are again summoned by the Plumed Serpent who flies them back in time to the first morning of the world. There, the sixth graders witness the origins of human sacrifice as gods throw themselves into the sluggish sun that refuses to rise despite receiving divine fuel.Finally, Quetzalcoatl, ...
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    8,82 €

  • The Secret of the Smoking Mirror
    Michael Cantwell
    Peter Collins is a shy sixth-grader who thinks his worst problems are being bullied by his stepfather and his classmates-until he awakens one night to see a giant feathered serpent hovering over his bed. Terrified beyond belief, he has no idea that he and his classmate, Rosa Guzman, are about to time travel to ancient Mexico on the back of Quetzalcoatl, the god of life and peac...
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    11,10 €

  • The Labyrinth of Love
    Cantwell Michael Cantwell
    The Labyrinth of Love is a love story set amid the social and political upheavals of contemporary Mexico. The legend of the plumed serpent runs through the book, illuminating the theme of love and sacrifice and guiding the protagonist, Thomas Ryan, an aging American photographer, in his quest for love and artistic success. The hero's struggle takes place in the context of his...
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    25,18 €

  • The Labyrinth of Love
    Cantwell Michael Cantwell
    The Labyrinth of Love is a love story set amid the social and political upheavals of contemporary Mexico. The legend of the plumed serpent runs through the book, illuminating the theme of love and sacrifice and guiding the protagonist, Thomas Ryan, an aging American photographer, in his quest for love and artistic success. The hero's struggle takes place in the context of his...
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    14,87 €

  • Musings with Mary & Michael
    Mary C. Cantwell / Mary CCantwell / Michael R. Grego / Michael RGrego
    Musings If you look it up in the dictionary, it will tell you that ’musing’ means: • noun: a calm lengthy intent consideration • adjective: persistently or morbidly thoughtful; pensive; pondering If you check your thesaurus you’ll get synonyms like:• (n) thought• consideration• deliberation• rumination• refle...
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    23,18 €

  • Chasing Mayan Dreams
    Michael Cantwell
    Explorers search for a lost Mayan city-and love-in this lush romantic adventure. Recently sprung from a Nazi concentration camp, Swiss photojournalist Erika Boeshure lands in southern Mexico to cover a wilderness expedition led by Claus Boehm, a charismatic but washed-up archaeologist hunting for the legendary Mayan capital of Menche. Claus may be an alcoholic has-been, but th...
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    13,34 €