Philip Kerr
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Bernhard Gunther, a private investigator in Germany in 1938, is hired by a rich widow to discover who has been blackmailing her, and by the Berlin police to track down a serial killer, and runs into bizarre psychotherapy and medicinal practices and Nazi occultism.
43) Esau
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An expedition is mounted to the Himalayas to capture the Abominable Snowman, believed to be the missing link between ape and man. It follows a mountain climber's discovery of the skull of a recently dead snowman, which scientists claim proves the species actually exists. An adventure story that looks at evolution. By the author of The Grid.
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Children of the lamp volume 3
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Twelve-year-old djinn twins Philippa and John and their friend Dybbuk have further adventures as they travel the world in search of a priceless talisman.
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Children of the lamp volume 4
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After getting help for their father, who is cursed with rapid aging, twelve-year-old djinn twins John and Philippa and friends travel through the spirit world in search of Faustina, the only one who can keep their mother from becoming the Blue Djinn, and discover a link to museum thefts and hauntings throughout the word.
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Children of the lamp volume 5
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English
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Djinn twins John and Philippa, along with their Uncle Nimrod, travel to the Amazon jungle to try to recover a stolen collection of rare Incan artifacts.
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As President Jack Kennedy takes power, the mob decides to succeed where the CIA has failed and take out Fidel Castro. They dispatch a hit man, but it soon turns out that he has his own agenda and target - the President. But is the hitman operating alone, or does someone else want Kennedy dead?
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Children of the lamp volume 6
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Fourteen-year-old djinn twins John and Philippa travel from the Himalayas to Yellowstone National Park seeking to uncover and protect five holy men before the wicked djinn responsible for upsetting the balance of the world's luck finds them.
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Children of the lamp volume 7
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While volcanoes spew golden lava around the world, djinn twins John and Philippa, with their parents, Uncle Nimrod, and Groanin, face evil more powerful than ever before when they try to stop the wicked djinn trying to rob the grave of Genghis Khan.
55) One small step
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In 1969 Houston, Texas, thirteen-year-old Scott learns to fly from his father, an Air Force flight instructor, but when NASA needs him for a secret space mission, Scott's elation is tempered by concern that his mother, who has moved to Florida, will find out.
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Polish
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In A German requiem, the private eye has survived the collapse of the Third Reich to find himself in Vienna. Amid decaying imperial splendor, he traces concentric circles of evil and uncovers a legacy that makes the wartime atrocities seem lily-white in comparison.
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Bernie Gunther novel volume 11
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In 1956, former detective Bernie Gunther is living on the French Riviera. He has been invited to the Villa Mauresque by none other than the celebrated writer W. Somerset Maugham, who is being blackmailed and needs his help. It might involve a personal matter or it could be related to his time in the British Secret Service.
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Desde hace décadas, las novelas de John Houston se venden por millones. Su obra mueve tanto dinero que hasta tiene un equipo de negros literarios para sostener su alto ritmo de publicación. Todo se tuerce cuando el célebre autor decide disolver el grupo de escritores y los planes de muchas personas empiezan a derrumbarse. No mucho después, encuentran a la mujer de Houston con un tiro en la cabeza. Él ha desaparecido y se ha convertido en el principal...