• Paradais

  Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor-an attractive married woman and mother-while Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme. Written in a chilling torrent of prose by one of our most thrilling new writers, Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society-with its racist, classist, hyperviolent tendencies-and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.

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  Meeting Him in Summerland , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 76min

  Tech nerd Fiona agrees to test out an experimental piece of dating app hardware that temporarily allows the user to live in another person’s body. It isn’t long before the hopeless romantic finds herself falling for the alpha-male surfer Jesse. Even though he thinks she’s someone else. Jesse falls obsessively in love with the beautiful and innocent Fiona, too. But the complicated way in which they met means that being together will be dangerous. Turns out, the hardware Fiona used was stolen. And, now its owners want to rip her from her beautiful, new life with Jesse in Summerland.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R. A. Richard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/232286/bk_acx0_232286_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Moby Dick , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1421min

  Widely considered one of the great American novels, Herman Melville's masterpiece went largely unread during his lifetime and was out of print at the time of his death in 1891. Called the greatest book about the sea ever written by D.H. Lawrence, Moby Dick features detailed descriptions of whale hunting and whale oil extraction as well as beautiful, incisive writing on race, class, religion, art, and society. The story, loosely based on a real whaling shipwreck, features the unforgettable, vengeful Captain Ahab, who obsessively hunts a great white whale who bit his leg off below the knee. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pete Cross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/003713/bk_drms_003713_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Game of Ghosts: A Charlie Parker Thriller, Book 15 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 789min

  It is deep winter. The darkness is unending. The private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished, and Charlie Parker is dispatched to track him down. Parker's employer, Edgar Ross, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has his own reasons for wanting Eklund found. Eklund is no ordinary investigator. He is obsessively tracking a series of homicides and disappearances, each linked to reports of hauntings. Now Parker will be drawn into Eklund's world, a realm in which the monstrous Mother rules a crumbling criminal empire, in which men strike bargains with angels, and in which the innocent and guilty alike are pawns in a game of ghosts. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Harding. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/001104/bk_hodd_001104_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Alibi , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 715min

  Secrets, lies and revenge brim to the top in this gritty thriller. Perfect for fans of Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers. A perfect crime needs a perfect alibi.... Crime reporter Beth Chambers is committed to uncovering the truth - and she's not afraid of bending the rules to get there. When troubled soap star Megan Fuller is found stabbed to death in her South London home, all eyes are on her ex-husband - the notorious gangster Danny Shapiro. Determined to expose Danny as a cold-blooded killer, Beth obsessively pursues him. But in her hunt for the truth, her family are set to pay the ultimate price. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Genevieve Swallow. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002704/bk_hcuk_002704_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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• None of This Is Serious

  Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They've got everything figured out, and Sophie feels left behind as they all start to go their separate ways. She's overshadowed by her best friend Grace. She's been in love with Finn for as long as she's known him. And she's about to meet Rory, who's suddenly available to her online. At a party, what was already unstable completely falls apart and Sophie finds herself obsessively scrolling social media, waiting for something (anything) to happen. None of This Is Serious is about the uncertainty and absurdity of being alive today. It's about balancing the real world with the online, and the vulnerabilities in yourself, your relationships, your body. At its heart, this is a novel about the friendships strong enough to withstand anything.

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  The Virgin Suicides

  First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters-beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys-commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.

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  Martin Eden

  The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame. London, dissatisfied with the rewards of his own success, intended Martin Eden as an attack on individualism and a criticism of ambition; however, much of its status as a classic has been conferred by admirers of its ambitious protagonist. Andrew Sinclair's wide-ranging introduction discusses the conflict between London's support of socialism and his powerful self-will. Sinclair also explores the parallels and divergences between the life of Martin Eden and that of his creator, focusing on London's mental depressions and how they affected his depiction of Eden.

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  Ring Fenced: A Novel About Power and Control , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 326min

  Benjamin enjoys sex, likes money, loves power, and is addicted to control. If you think your life's complicated then spare a thought for him as he obsessively juggles and controls his five independent lives. One man, five lives, ring fenced and separated: Bennie, loving husband and father; Benjie, beloved youngest son; Ben, successful corporate banker; Benjamin, millionaire author and publisher of pornography; and Jamie, dynamic part-time lover of a beautiful musician. Relying on his Blackberry to keep all his personae separate, his life is perfect. But what if holes begin to appear in the divisions? When a sequence of events throws his life into chaos, his separate words collide with explosive consequences. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew Werner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/040869/bk_acx0_040869_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Deserted: Retelling Bible Stories Without an Angry God , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 268min

  What would the earliest stories of the Bible be like without an angry God smiting humans with floods, fire, frogs, and brimstone? They might become the story of a mother surviving a snake bite and a dangerous pregnancy. Architects and dreamers building towers and boats to save themselves from the harsh desert. A doctor who obsessively cleans. Young gay lovers seeking refuge in the sanctuary cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Estranged brothers planning 10 terrorist attacks to free their people from slavery. Without an angry God, the Bible might become a fictional collection of stories about deeply human men, women, and children from a small nomadic tribe deserted in an ancient Hebrew desert. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nathan Roberts. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/170029/bk_acx0_170029_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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