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    The Day of the Tiger: And Other Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 277min
    This is my latest collection of short stories. As with the previous books, most of these 11 tales are set in Thailand. You can hear about a domestic cleaner who despairs of her feckless husband, a junior bank teller who tries to convince her boss there's been a murder, a lady in a hurry who won't stop to help an old man who's lost his shorts, a butcher and a restaurateur discussing farming techniques, and a lady-boy searching for love. You'll also find the diary of one of the last two people on Earth, a market-stall tableau, one man's vision of peaceful eternity, and more. It all adds up to a pretty varied package. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Shrewsday. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/033447/bk_acx0_033447_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Marrying Up , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 660min
    Scheming social climber Alexa may be humbly born. But only a title, mansion and family tiara will do. Befriending feckless aristo Florrie (three surnames plus black hole where her brain should be) means the grandest doors swing open and the prince of her dreams is in sight. But has Florrie’s mother, the formidable Lady Annabel, rumbled what Alexa is up to? Beautiful but penniless student Polly, meanwhile, is in love. Is Max, the handsome young vet she’s found in a country lane, quite as ordinary as he seems, however? Passionate love, eye-widening snobbery and more than naked ambition abound in this contemporary Cinderella tale. Jilly Bond reads Wendy Holden’s deliciously satirical novel of the upwardly mobile. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jilly Bond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/005456/bk_bbcw_005456_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Old Curiosity Shop , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1339min
    Death, innocence, sacrifice and corruption - The Old Curiosity Shop is vintage Dickens. Provoking an unprecedented outpouring of public grief when it was first published, it follows the story of Little Nell and her feckless grandfather. Forced to leave their magical shop of curiosities in London, they are pursued across the English countryside by the grotesquely evil dwarf Quilp. They escape - but at what cost? Part tragedy, part allegory, this is Dickens at his most intense; drawing on his own experiences, he weaves a story of extraordinary emotional power. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anton Lesser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000537/bk_naxo_000537_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rhiannon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 543min
    The year is 1909, and 15-year-old Rhiannon Hughes and her young stepsister, Mair, find themselves abandoned and alone. They are forced to leave their colliery cottage in the Welsh Valleys and take refuge with Rhiannon’s aunt, Florence Desmond, a popular music hall star. Rhiannon is instantly dazzled by this glamorous, exciting new world, and by the handsome young master of ceremonies, Gus Davenport. But Mair’s feckless mother, Nellie, unexpectedly returns and lures Mair into Cardiff’s sleazy underworld. Rhiannon is torn between making a career in the theatre and keeping her promise to Mair, who needs her now more than ever. As for Gus Davenport, who has a reputation as a womaniser - will he prove to be a friend or an enemy? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anne Cater. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/001272/bk_isis_001272_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Saying Goodbye is Never Easy: The Motorcycling Diary of First Time TT Competitor Axel Warlow , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 35min
    For motorcycle ace Axel Warlow it takes a journey to the Isle of Man TT races to find that the apple never falls far from the tree. Saying Goodbye is Never Easy transports the listener to the world famous circuit, vividly bringing to life both the motorcycle festival and its many attractions. As Axel unknowingly retreads his feckless fathers footsteps a blond is not the only bombshell waiting just round the next corner.In this the first of Axel's adventures we join the TT's latest young gun as he arrives in Manx waters. Fulfilling a lifetime ambition, the unique challenge offered by the TT allows Axel to both test his mettle and to learn more about himself that he'd ever imagined. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Faud Conroy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/summ/000087/bk_summ_000087_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Red Country
    They burned her home.They stole her brother and sister.But vengeance is following.Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old stepfather Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own, and out in the lawless Far Country, the past never stays buried.Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. Even worse, it will force them into alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust...The past never stays buried...
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    Charlotte Brontë: A Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 927min
    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Charlotte Brontë: A Life, written and read by Claire Harman. Raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors, watching five beloved siblings sicken and die, haunted by unrequited love: Charlotte Brontë's life has all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. Charlotte was a literary visionary, a feminist trailblazer and the driving force behind the whole Brontë family. She pushed Emily to publish Wuthering Heights and took charge of their precarious finances when her feckless brother turned to opium. In Jane Eyre she introduced the world to a brand new kind of heroine, modelled on herself: quiet but fiercely intelligent, burning with passion and potential. This is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best loved writers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Claire Harman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/000681/bk_pauk_000681_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Freeing Grace , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 804min
    Warm, insightful and poignant, Freeing Grace tells the story of David, curate of an inner-city parish, and Leila, his Nigerian-born wife. Unable to have children of their own, they're desperate for a family. When they finally hear they've been approved to adopt a baby, Grace, they can scarcely believe their good fortune. There's just one problem for which David and Leila cannot plan: Grace's birth family - the enigmatic, charismatic Harrisons. Enlisting their friend, the feckless, charming New Zealander, Jake Kelly - who's half in love with all of them, one way or another - the Harrisons send him on a quest that will force a confrontation. Ultimately, each has a terrible decision to make. Everyone only wants what's best for Grace - but who can say exactly what that is? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Hood. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/001904/bk_boli_001904_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 521min
    Featured title in the 2018 PBS Great American Reads Mark Twain’s classic coming-of-age novel that captured the imagination of America Generations of readers and listeners have enjoyed the ingenuous triumphs and feckless mishaps of boyhood days on the Mississippi. This classic of American wit and storytelling introduced Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, Aunt Polly, the Widow Douglas, and many other characters to the world, including, of course the boy who “was cordially hated and dreaded by all the mothers of the town because he was idle and lawless and vulgar and bad—and because all their children admired him so”: Huckleberry Finn. This novel is part of Brilliance Audio’s extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dick Hill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/006781/bk_brll_006781_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Twopence to Cross the Mersey , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 358min
    This major best-selling memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool is one of the most harrowing but uplifting books you will ever hear. When Helen Forrester's father went bankrupt in 1930, she and her six siblings were forced into utmost poverty and slum surroundings in Depression-ridden Liverpool. The running of the household and the care of the younger children all fell on 12-year-old Helen. With very little food or help from her feckless parents, Helen led a life of unrelenting drudgery and hardship. Writing about her experiences later in life, Helen Forrester shed light on an almost forgotten part of life in Britain. Written with good humour and a lack of self-pity, Forrester's memoir of these grim days is as heart-warming as it is shocking. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Liane-Rose Bunce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/028124/bk_adbl_028124_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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