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    Total Recall , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 59min
    Philip K. Dick’s classic short story tells the story of Douglas Quail, an unfulfilled bureaucrat who dreams of visiting Mars, but can't afford the trip. Luckily, there is Rekal Incorporated, a company that lets everyday stiffs believe they’ve been on incredible adventures. The only problem is that when technicians attempt a memory implant of a spy mission to Mars, they find that real memories of just such a trip are already in Quail's brain. Suddenly, Quail is running for his life from government agents, but his memories might make him more of a liability than he is worth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phil Gigante. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004111/bk_brll_004111_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Stiffs and Swine: Supper Club Mysteries Series, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 595min
    James Henry and the Flab Five are invited to serve as judges at Hog Fest, a celebrated barbecue festival in the Virginia mountains. But when one of the "pit masters" is found dead and a member of the supper club is accused of the murder, James and his friends have to lick the sauce off their fingers and get to work catching a killer. Amid a fairground filled with colorful people and tempting food, The Flab Five are sure to fall off the diet wagon. But James Henry has more to worry about than his expanding waistline. His bookmobile is dead, suspicious activities are taking place in his beloved library, and his relationship with Murphy Alistair is on the rocks. James needs to focus less on brisket and fried pickles and more on solving problems because Hog Fest is clearly no picnic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/010357/bk_tant_010357_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 603min
    Life is full of choices. Right now, yours is whether or not to buy the autobiography of a mid-grade, kind of hammy actor. Am I supposed to know this guy? you think to yourself. No, and that's exactly the point. The truth is that though you might not have a clue who I am, there are countless working stiffs like me out there, grinding away every day at the wheel of fortune. If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor is my first book, and I invite you to ride with me through the choppy waters of blue collar Hollywood. Okay, so buy the damned book already! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bruce Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/016736/bk_acx0_016736_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blanche on the Lam: Blanche White Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 461min
    Blanche White is a plump, feisty, middle-aged African-American housekeeper working for the genteel rich in North Carolina. But when an employer stiffs her, and her checks bounce, she goes on the lam, hiding out as a maid for a wealthy family at their summer home. That plan goes awry when there's a murder and Blanche becomes the prime suspect. So she's forced to use her savvy, her sharp wit, and her old-girl network of domestic workers to discover the truth and save her own skin. Along the way, she lays bare the quirks of southern society with humor, irony, and a biting commentary that makes her one of the most memorable and original characters ever to appear in mystery fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/008452/bk_tant_008452_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye (Dramatised), Hörbuch, Digital, 87min
    A brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic Raymond Chandler mystery featuring private eye, Philip Marlowe. Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He’s willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe finds himself drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA’s Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn’t kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth? Language: English. Narrator: Toby Stephens, Trevor White, Saskia Reeves, Peter Polycarpou, James Lailey, Simon Bubb, Alun Raglan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/005099/bk_bbcw_005099_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    C Is for Corpse & D Is for Deadbeat
    The third and fourth novels in the #1 New York Times bestselling Kinsey Millhone series by Sue Grafton: C Is for Corpse & D Is for Deadbeat. In "C" is for Corpse, Bobby Callahan approaches PI Kinsey Millhone with a far-fetched story: a murderous assault by a tailgating car on a lonely rural road, a roadside smash into a canyon four hundred feet below, his Porsche a bare ruin, his best friend dead. Bobby, having suffered memory loss in the crash, claims someone had tried to kill him, but doesn't know who or why. And he's convinced Kinsey is the only one who can find out. In "D" is for Deadbeat, a man calling himself Alvin Limardo approaches Kinsey with a job that seems cut-and-dried: locate a kid who'd done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000. It's only later, after he stiffs her for her retainer, that Kinsey finds out his name is actually John Dagget, and his an ex-con, inveterate liar, and now dead. Kinsey soon realizes that Daggett had an awful lot of enemies-but would any of them go as far as murder?
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    Vacation Gone South: A Novella , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 125min
    Two buddies go on vacation for some much-needed R&R. Even those from the tip-of-the-spear Special Operations community of America's elite Tier One units have to go on vacation to destress and decompress like the rest of working stiffs. Not all vacations go according to plan, unfortunately, and this one went from sun, fun, and pretty girls to FUBAR quickly. One man is missing; the other is on the run from unknown assassins. What went wrong? Who targeted them for murder, and why? Was it a random event or a major security breach? Only fast thinking, violence of action, and some luck will see them survive it. The would-be assassins don't realize these are men difficult to kill, and they will take the fight to the enemy; surrender is not an option. This gritty, fast-paced story of a vacation in Central America gone south will entertain fans of hard-boiled, gritty action and adventure yarns. With Panama City, Panama, as the backdrop for this dynamic story, listeners will want more! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Dupuy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/065390/bk_acx0_065390_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Last Encore: Voodoo Rumors 1951 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 250min
    Some men love to hear a woman scream in the middle of the night. But in my line of work, it always means trouble. Tonight is no different. Once I get the dame calmed down, she shows me what all the fuss is about: three stiffs in the dumpster behind Gatsby’s, stacked one on top of the other. Now, I know what you’re thinking - bodies drained of blood, two marks on the side of each neck...all signs point to shenanigans of the vampiric variety. But I’ve been on this beat long enough to know there’s always more to the story, even in a place like this. Hell, especially in a place like this. Music City has a dark side, one teeming with werewolves, demons, and ghosts. Nothing beats the satisfaction of seeing one of these monsters dead at my feet. But sometimes, this job takes something out of me - something I can never get back.  This case is one of those times....Thomas Dietrich and his girl, Natalie, are back on the job to take on the undead and otherworldly in 1950s Nashville for audiobook two of D. Alan Lewis’s genre-bending series, Voodoo Rumors. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Murdoch (Doc) Pennington. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/127818/bk_acx0_127818_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    South Street: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 958min
    A poet in search of reality finds a world of hookers, street preachers, blue-collar workers, and small time hoods that changes him and his outlook Philadelphia's South Street is a world of contradiction. The hardscrabble neighborhood is filled with prostitutes and gangsters; Working stiffs mingle with winos at Lightnin' Ed's bar. But the streetwalkers are nearing retirement, the gangsters are unemployed, and a community is thriving in and around a place written off by officials and politicians as blighted. Black poet Adlai Stevenson Brown makes his way to South Street in search of authenticity in the form of a neighborhood to save. But the world of South Street - beyond its grit and danger - is more than the cultured young fish out of water ever expected... and a lot more than he can handle. PEN/Faulkner Award–winner David Bradley's marvelous debut novel is riotously funny and keenly insightful in equal measure. South Street is a magnificent evocation not only of a vanished time, but of an American archetype in Adlai - a man in search of someone to save, unaware that he himself may need saving. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Cleveland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015882/bk_adbl_015882_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Main Street Murders: Peter English, PI Series, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 460min
    Peter English decided he needed to spend some time with something softer than a loaded 45. After an evening of dining and dancing with the lovely Margo Lee Forrest at the famous Skyway, high atop The Peabody, the evening took a dramatic turn.As they were about the leave The Peabody parking lot, shots rang out nearby, and soon, police cars sped by with sirens blaring and red lights flashing. It's a well-known fact that former cops like to chase police cars as much as little boys like to chase fire engines. Upon reaching the crime scene, Pete found a bunch of cops standing around a stiff lying in his own blood on a Main Street sidewalk. His bloody torso had sustained multiple gunshots, and there was one right in the middle of his forehead.But it didn't end there. Bodies started appearing all up and down Main Street. Shot execution-style. Sometimes, in broad daylight...sometimes, in front of dozens of witnesses. One of the stiffs had a hit list in his bloody shirt pocket, and Peter English's name was on it, along with the names of some other prominent Memphians, including some who were close to him. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Nixon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/176020/bk_acx0_176020_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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