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    Where Wolves Run: A Novella of Horror , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 115min
    The dense Bavarian forest outside the town of Rattenberg has long been rumored to harbor something sinister, something wild - mythical beasts that vanish into the shadowy woods after each attack, leaving carnage as the only evidence of their existence. Many villagers turn a blind eye to what is happening, but those who believe tremble at the mere whisper of the word: werewolf. There are those who stand and fight, however. Konrad is one such boy. Too poor to live in the village, he and his mother fend for themselves in their forest hovel alone for months at a time, his father preoccupied with mysterious business abroad. After a vicious assault on their homestead, Konrad finds himself buried beneath his mother's mutilated body, escaping death only due to his father's chance return. Alive, but taking no comfort in the presence of the man who had left him and his mother to face death on their own, Konrad soon discovers that his father's work has followed him home...and it's hungry. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Ip. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/077777/bk_acx0_077777_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Maud Martha (Faber Editions) (eBook, ePUB)
    The stunning only novel by the celebrated poet and first Black author to win a Pulitzer Prize, introduced by Margo Jefferson.'Such a wonderful book. Utterly unique, exquisitely crafted and quietly powerful. I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary treasure.' Bernardine Evaristo'The quotidian rises to an exquisite portraiture of black womanhood in the hands of one of America's most foundational writers.' Claudia Rankine 'Maud Martha reveals the poetry, power, and splendor of an ordinary life.' Tayari JonesWhat, what, am I to do with all of this life?Maud Martha Brown is a little girl growing up on the South Side of 1940s Chicago. Amidst the crumbling taverns and overgrown yards, she dreams: of New York, romance, her future. She admires dandelions, learns to drink coffee, falls in love, decorates her kitchenette, visits the Jungly Hovel, guts a chicken, buys hats, gives birth. But her lighter-skinned husband has dreams too: of the Foxy Cats Club, other women, war. And the 'scraps of baffled hate' - a certain word from a saleswoman; that visit to the cinema; the cruelty of a department store Santa Claus- are always there .Written in 1953 but never published in Britain, Maud Martha is a poetic collage of happenings that forms an extraordinary portrait of an ordinary life: one lived with wisdom, humour, protest, rage, dignity, and joy.
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    Rhats Too!: A Takamo Universe Novel : The Muto Chronicles, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 388min
    As battles rage and allegiances shift, the muto Frohic returns home an unlikely hero. Now rich beyond measure, fat from the spoils of conquest, he takes his place among the Emperor’s honored champions. His symbol is raised over the Black Wall and his name inscribed into the Book of Remembrance. Yet Frohic’s heart is troubled. His destiny unfulfilled. For somewhere in the dark reaches of....who is writing this stuff? That isn’t how it is at all. Frohic again. Listen, I got home to find squatters living in my family’s hovel and no clue as to where father, mother, and the rest of the family went. The only help I have is from someone I just met, and I half suspect she’s looking for a sire to start her own family. I don’t trust her, and I certainly don’t like her. Least, not like that. Meanwhile, an old friend shows up with a fantastic offer. Lose years of my life on another scavenging mission! And this time we’re going to a part of the galaxy that no muto has ever seen. Much less returned from. Did I mention there might be ants? Giant, ugly ants. Plus, a crew of lunatics. Always fighting or fussing. If I survive, I might get to see my family again. Do I want that? Do I want any of this? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Buzonas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/213229/bk_acx0_213229_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Family , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 619min
    The follow-up novel to the hugely successful debut, The Street. In this dank corner of town, you have to keep your friends close and your enemies closer – even if those enemies are your family. Jimmy Wild saunters around the streets of Campbell Road, and among the people he used to terrorise. Even though the years have passed, he’s still a tyrant. The sight of his lanky frame is enough to terrify the inhabitants of this close-knit community, who reside in this villainous corner of London. Jimmy’s beautiful step-daughter Faye and his downtrodden wife Edie eek out a meagre existence for their family, having left behind their lives in Kent. What devastating act was so bad that it drove them away from the place they called home to this hovel of a house in Campbell Road? Robert and Steven Wild thought they’d moved on. It was hard enough coming to terms with the death of their mother – and now their abusive father, presumed dead, has returned. One thing you can bet on, Jimmy Wild’s not returned to start playing happy families….How can young Faye make a life for herself and carve a future for young siblings? Who is this aged woman that Jimmy Wild has come back to see? And can a romance between Faye and Rob blossom amidst a family at War? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Penelope McDonald. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000980/bk_hcuk_000980_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Stray Sod Country , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 547min
    It is 1958, and as Laika, the Sputnik dog, is launched into space, Golly Murray, the Cullymore barber's wife, finds herself oddly obsessing about the canine cosmonaut. Meanwhile, Fonsey "Teddy" O'Neill is returning, like the prodigal son, from overseas, with Brylcreem in his hair and a Cuban-heeled swagger to his step, having experienced his coming-of-age in Skegness, England. Father Augustus Hand is working on a bold new theatrical production for Easter, which he, for one, knows will put Cullymore on the map. And, as the Manchester United football team prepares to take off from Munich airport, James A. Reilly sits in his hovel by the lake outside town, with his pet fox and his father's gun, feeling the weight of an insidious and inscrutable presence pressing down upon him. As these imperiled characters wrestle with their identities, a mysteriously powerful narrator plucks, gently, at the strings of their fates, and watches the twitching response. This novel is a devil's-eye view of a lost era, a sojourn to the dark side of our past, one we may not have come back from. With echoes of Peyton Place and Fellini's Amarcord, and with a sinister narrator at its heart, this is at once a story of a small town - with its secrets, fears, friendships, and betrayals - and a sweeping, theatrical extravagance from one of the finest writers of his generation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gerard Doyle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009724/bk_adbl_009724_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Beyond the Pale: A Fantasy Anthology , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 551min
    Beyond the Pale is an anthology of 12 dark fantasy and paranormal stories that skirt the border between our world and others. Was that my imagination, or did I hear something under my bed? What was that blurred movement in my darkened closet? There is but a thin veil separating the real and the fantastic and therein dwell the inhabitants of these stories. Beyond the Pale's award-winning and The New York Times best-selling authors present: "Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela" by Saladin Ahmed (author of Throne of the Crescent Moon)"The Children of the Shark God" by Peter S. Beagle (author of The Last Unicorn series) "Misery" and "Shadow Children" by Heather (Zac) Brewer (author of the Vladimir Tod series) "Even Hand" by Jim Butcher (author of the Dresden Files series)"Death Warmed Over" by Rachel Caine (author of the Weather Warden series)"Red Run" by Kami Garcia (coauthor of Beautiful Creatures)"Pale Rider" and "The Adventures of Lightning Merriemouse-Jones" by Nancy Holder (author of Wicked)"Frost Child" and "South" by Gillian Philip (author of the Rebel Angels series)"A Knot of Toads" by Jane Yolen (author of Owl Moon)The noun “pale” refers to a stake (as in, one used for impaling vampires) or pointed piece of wood (as in, a paling fence). “Pale” came to refer to an area enclosed by a paling fence. Later, it acquired the figurative meaning of an enclosed, and therefore, safe domain. Conversely, "beyond the pale" means foreign, strange, or threatening. You are about to go beyond the pale.Cover art by Abigail Larson. Edited by Henry Herz. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jarret Lemaster. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/182048/bk_acx0_182048_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Palace and Hovel; Or Phases of London Life
    Palace and Hovel; Or Phases of London Life: ab 2.49 €
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