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    Modern Gods , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 695min
    A powerful, thought-provoking novel about two sisters who must reclaim themselves after their lives are dramatically upended. Alison Donnelly has suffered for love. Still stuck in the small Northern Irish town where she was born, working for her father's real estate agency, she hopes to pick up the pieces and get her life back together. Her sister Liz, a fiercely independent college professor who lives in New York City, is about to return to Ulster for Alison's second wedding, before heading to an island off the coast of Papua New Guinea to make a TV show about the world's newest religion. Both sisters' lives are about to be shaken apart. Alison wakes up the day after her wedding to find that her new husband has a past neither of them can escape. In a rainforest on the other side of the planet, Liz finds herself becoming increasingly entangled in the eerie, charged world of Belef, the subject of her show, a charismatic middle-aged woman who is the leader of a cargo cult. As Modern Gods ingeniously interweaves the stories of Liz and Alison, it becomes clear that both sisters must learn how to negotiate with the past, with the sins of fanaticism, and decide just what the living owe to the dead. Laird's brave, innovative novel charts the intimacies and disappointments of a family trying to hold itself together, and the repercussions of history and faith. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deirdre O'Connell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002985/bk_hcuk_002985_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Das Ultimatum: Butler Parker 7, Hörbuch, Digital, 171min
    Butler Parker ist ein Amateurdetektiv mit Witz, Charme und Stil, der Verbrechen auf seine ganz eigene Weise bekämpft. Mit ungewöhnlichen Methoden versucht er seine Gegner aus dem Verkehr zu ziehen und nimmt dabei auch schon mal eine mit Stahlblech gefütterte Melone oder seinen Pfeile schießenden Regenschirm zur Hand. Da er von den Übeltätern gerne unterschätzt wird, zieht dies meist unangenehme Folgen nach sich. "Es war schon recht seltsam. Genau um 18.26 Uhr wurde der Verkehr auf der Collins Avenue in Miami Beach wie von einer unsichtbaren Hand gestoppt. Die chromfunkelnden Cadillacs und teuren, ausländischen Sportwagen, um nur einige Beispiele zu nennen, bremsten durchweg jäh ab und fuhren an den Straßenrand. Die versnobten Fahrer in diesen Wagen starrten aus hervorquellenden Augen auf die Mitte des breiten Prachtkorsos. Im Dienst erfahrene und ergraute, clevere Hotelportiers bekamen den Schluckauf und zweifelten an ihrem gesunden Menschenverstand. Auch sie konnten sich vom Anblick, der sich ihnen bot, nicht losreißen..." Günter Dönges (1923-2001) war ein deutscher Journalist und Autor. Geboren und aufgewachsen in Duisburg, wurde er nach dem Abitur zur Wehrmacht einberufen. Nach Kriegsende arbeitete er zunächst als Journalist für eine Düsseldorfer Zeitung und begann parallel dazu eigene Figuren zu erfinden; hierbei entstand unter anderem der Charakter des Butler Josuah Parker. Die Geschichten um den Privatdetektiv schrieb er mit viel Gespür für Ironie und Situationskomik und wurden bald zu einem Publikumserfolg. Insgesamt erschienen 605 Parker-Romane. Butler Parker wurde außerdem von 1972 bis 1973 verfilmt und als Fernsehserie in der ARD gezeigt. Als Autor vieler weiterer Romane und Kurzgeschichten gilt Günter Dönges als einer der fleißigsten Schriftsteller der Nachkriegszeit. deutsch. Thorsten Breitfeldt. https://samples.audible.de/bk/lind/002985/bk_lind_002985_sample.mp3.
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    Lucky Boy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1000min
    A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy. Solimar Castro Valdez is 18 and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US-Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin's doorstep in Berkeley, California, dazed by first love found then lost - and pregnant. This was not the plan. But amid the uncertainty of new motherhood and her American identity, Soli learns that when you have just one precious possession, you guard it with your life. For Soli, motherhood becomes her dwelling and the boy at her breast her hearth. Kavya Reddy has always followed her heart, much to her parents' chagrin. A mostly contented chef at a UC Berkeley sorority house, the unexpected desire to have a child descends like a cyclone in Kavya's mid-30s. When she can't get pregnant, this desire will test her marriage, it will test her sanity, and it will set Kavya and her husband, Rishi, on a collision course with Soli when she is detained and her infant son comes under Kavya's care. As Kavya learns to be a mother - the singing, storytelling, inventor-of-the-universe kind of mother she fantasized about being - she builds her love on a fault line, her heart wrapped around someone else's child. Lucky Boy is an emotional journey that will leave you certain of the redemptive beauty of this world. There are no bad guys in this story, no obvious hero. From rural Oaxaca to Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto to the dreamscapes of Silicon Valley, author Shanthi Sekaran has taken real life and applied it to fiction; the results are moving and revelatory. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Soneela Nankani, Roxana Ortega. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002985/bk_peng_002985_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Love of My Youth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 713min
    From the acclaimed author of Pearl and Final Payments comes a beautifully choreographed novel about first lovers meeting again after more than 30 years and reimmersing themselves in their shared past. Miranda and Adam, high-school sweethearts now in their late 50s, arrive by chance at the same time in Rome, a city where they once spent a summer deeply in love, living together blissfully. At an awkward reunion, the two who parted in an atmosphere of passionate betrayal in the 1960s and haven't seen each other since are surprised to discover that they may have something to talk about. Both have their own guilt, their sense of who betrayed whom, and their long-held interpretation of the events that caused them not to marry and to split apart into the lives they've led since. Both are married to others, with grown children. For the few weeks they are in Rome, Adam suggests that they meet for daily walks and get to know each other again. Gradually, as they take in the pleasures of the city and the drama of its streets, they discover not only what matters to them now but also more about what happened to them long ago. Miranda and Adam are masterfully portrayed characters, intent upon understanding who they are in relation to who they were. A story about what first love means and how it is shattered, and the lessons old lovers may still have to share with each other many years later, The Love of My Youth is also a poignant look back at the hopes and dreams of a generation and what became of them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alice Rosengard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002985/bk_adbl_002985_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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