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  • Return to the Warehouse District
    Richard Segal
    Return to the Warehouse District is an instalment of rogue avenger’s pinball, tales of self-indulgent street art. Come back deaf dumb and blind kid, this is your time.Return to the Warehouse District conveys stories of The Steve and Larry Show, a cerebral band fond of inside jokes also co-founded by Tom, who buys left of center glossy magazines ’for the pictures,’ while Larry t...
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    23,31 €

  • The Escape Key
    Richard Segal
    Three acquaintances gather at a former classmate’s apartment to fulfil a long-determined promise to create and produce the Great American Dark Comedy, with a mix of reverence for the system which nurtured them, but irreverence for those who game it without shame, leaving as prerequisites naming and taming. However, life becomes unsettled upon the discovery of a grey conspiracy ...
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    23,29 €

  • The Man Who Knew the Answer
    Richard Segal
    The afternoon began innocently enough with a lunch meeting in Tower Hill, but gathered pace when I hesitated upon my departure from the Rotunda, and overheard a quartet of deal-making Continentals: ’The names for an apple are not the fruit itself.’ Code for a transaction they were negotiating or aphorisms for the spewing aside, one picaresque experience leads to another and the...
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    23,22 €

  • The Georgetown Papers
    Richard Segal
    As Kipling wrote: Show now if ye can ride. In response to a mysterious kidnapping in the East of England, a stumped police force drafts in the recently retired Australian detective Andrew Bomfi, fresh off seven career years in New York. Will he be able to unwind their riddle, or will he merely discover two mountains with no top, in which not even the lawyers will make any money...
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    15,64 €

  • Gate Crashers at Dawn
    Richard Segal
    With no regrets, three friends committed to break away for an extended weekend to Scandinavia, the homeland of the newest member of the crew, after an evening of imbibing and conversing, of course. In addition to enjoying late winter sun away from day-to-day responsibilities for a period of time, each has his own motivations for the interlude, and who can’t use a battery rechar...
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    15,66 €

  • Conference Confidential
    Richard Segal
    I typed the word ’cookbook’ on a subject line and 3.6 million suggestions were returned in 0.29 seconds, but when I asked e-Jeeves which conference planner lays on the best buffet, he tosses up his hands. A fly on the wall at an Avalon Room lunch is spellbound as a dozen tablet-bound analysts scribble furiously while the CEO makes his case via PowerPoint, and during Q&A when ad...
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    15,50 €

  • Lot 39
    Richard Segal
    What happens if a Saturday afternoon begins like Thomas Hardy and ends like the evening of Silly Talks, with Erich Segal in between? A chance meeting on the street leads to a quick drink and then another with spouses, partners and fast friends, fervent discussions about topics of the day and life in the sharing economy, the wisdom of domestics with magic sponges and monogrammed...
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    15,54 €

  • Sunday Night at the Races
    Richard Segal
    A series of violent assaults during a politically charged year brings Jay into play, albeit not as he would have planned or predicted. He’s a detective by occupation, and his hobby is—you guessed it—keeping tabs on violent assaults occurring outside his jurisdiction. He is brought together with Andrew, a.k.a. ‘Bomfi,’ an Australian freshly arrived on American shores by way of L...
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    22,91 €

  • Summer of ’16
    Richard Segal
    Summer of ’16 The summer of ‘16 opened with storms of biblical proportions, and this was an ominous backdrop to the June 23 referendum. However, move aside Denmark, something was rotten in a lot of places. As events transpired, Brexit proved a sideshow to a wacky season that included coups that couldn’t shoot straight, no-you-don’t presidential and parliamentary elections in wh...
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    22,89 €

  • Parrot and the Rooster
    Richard Segal
    Capaz! This legendary expression of Southern Brazil couldn’t do justice to my expectations and promises ahead of a two and a half week visit to this country. One university, two football teams, three barbecues, four chimas, five cities, six hotels, seven beds, eight pounds in the real for a pair of alpargatas, the whole nine yarns. The trip was well timed to coincide with the c...
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    21,28 €

  • Birch
    Richard Segal
    A journalist once famously remarked that it is only possible to fall in love with one war, but do cold wars count, and how does it play out if many are too young, or too much time has passed, to really remember? What began with the intention of four good friends to meet for a quiet short gathering at one’s remote retreat quickly became anything but, with a ’we’re not leaving un...
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    22,87 €

  • Polo in the Snow
    Richard Segal
    Polo in the Snow Richard Segal Once upon a time, there was a friendship between Johnny and Mano. Once upon another time, there was a brief rivalry for Johnny’s attention, between Chloe and Rachel. Johnny and Chloe have children of their own now, still bedded down safely in Queens, though a little closer to the river, having turned down an opportunity to relocate to the mid-west...
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    22,89 €

  • Surfing the Urban Wave
    Richard Segal
    Anyone can change the world, we were out to fix it. Four years removed from a successful campaign to steer the United States in a new, more equitable direction, it was time to shake Europe’s entrenched establishment and bring forth leaders for the people, starting with London, and with a foreign-born leader no less. However, in departing at the American apex, not only left behi...
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    21,24 €

  • Uneasy Riding
    Richard Segal
    On or about the 6th of April 2010, the Icelandic volcano known as Eyjafjallajökull began quietly churning and four days later, in an act of super-human magnanimity, Europe’s governments opted en masse to close their air space indefinitely, marking the most-massive interruption to routine transportation in sixty five years and more poignantly, approximating the first time its ma...
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    21,52 €

  • The Day the Muses Died
    Richard Segal
    What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger; I want to become very strong. The Day the Muses Died brings together many themes and elements of my short stories, books and novellas, from special interests, lovers and friends don’t you know, we pray when it counts, we tale-tell for show. But wait, there’s more. Aside from the poetry of life’s true despair, a maxim or two and a vendetta...
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    21,55 €

  • Richard’s Eleven
    Richard Segal
    It is often said that childhood maketh the man. Maybe or maybe not, but it’s definitely good source material for amusing stories. From characters such as pre-teen lumberjack in science class and aunt who doesn’t believe she will age beyond 29, to Richard himself, an accidental insomniac, who was destined for a career as stand-up comic and newspaper humorist, after half a career...
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    18,00 €

  • The Victory Walk
    Richard Segal
    Think yourself alive.The Victory Walk tells the story of one man’s long struggle for the rights of the silent majority, told through the eyes of an idealistic yet practical part-time right hand man, who in the era of digital democracy, performs this role remotely. However, the Movement is but his evening and weekend devotion. Nine to five, he thrives in the dry world of municip...
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    21,43 €

  • Return of the Drama Prince
    Richard Segal
    Return of the Drama Prince is the sequel to 2011’s Nectar of the Lavender, fifteen years down the road. Rather than young, single, and gainfully employed, our main character is married with three children and now freelances, but in a most unexpected industrial pursuit. He has outgrown depression but has been unable to tackle in his mind sources of his inner social and professio...
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    21,41 €

  • Three Days in July
    Richard Segal
    Three Days in July is the tale of a ten-year journey to discover one’s roots. From a London base, I scouted and scoured databases, joined ancestry forums and corresponded with archives in numerous countries, sometimes successfully. However, nothing can compare with understanding the land first hand. Accordingly, when I had time to spare this summer, I flew to Lithuania and rent...
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    21,37 €

  • The Great Art Deco Chase
    Richard Segal
    THE GREAT ART DECO CHASE, part prequel to 2011’s Nectar of the Lavender, traces our main character’s relationships with the best and worst friends from his post formative years, including those also choosing to relocate from their small northeastern city to metro New York. If possible, there are more quirky characters and intense poetry than ever, breeding ground for more adven...
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    22,91 €

  • Cookbook for a New Europe
    Richard Segal
    To serve society or humanity? It’s been fourteen years since the basketball-mad detective Fran Obrien captured the urban bomber Lavi, who has since moved to Spain and rehabilitated himself beyond recognition. Fran is fresh off a two-year sabbatical, during which he tended to 11-year-old Ben, the family comedian, and 17-year-old Alice, with, yes, as much attitude as you’d expect...
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    20,46 €

  • Nectar of the Lavender
    Richard Segal
    A recently unemployed man wracked by the guilt of his best friend’s suicide seeks revenge against those he believes are culpable. Armed with just a hard-drive, he must search for clues to take on the notorious Negatory Nine, the white collar thugs he holds responsible for Jeff’s untimely death.On his emotional journey he addresses his own psychological scars through the cameo a...
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    20,10 €