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    Last Ones Left Alive , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 333min
    Last Ones Left Alive is the enthralling debut novel from Sarah Davis-Goff, sure to grip listeners of dystopian literary fiction such as Station 11 or The End We Start From.  Remember your Just-In-Cases. Beware Tall Buildings. Watch Your Six.Raised by her mother and Maeve on Slanbeg, an island off the west coast of Ireland, Orpen has a childhood of love, rockpools and stories by the fireside. But the stories grow darker, and the training begins. Ireland has been devoured by a ravening menace known as the skrake, and though Slanbeg is safe for now, the women must always be ready to run, or to fight.  When Maeve is bitten, Orpen is faced with a dilemma: kill Maeve before her transformation is complete, or try to get help. So Orpen sets off, with Maeve in a wheelbarrow and her dog at her side, in the hope of finding other survivors and a cure. It is a journey that will test Orpen to her limits, on which she will learn who she really is, who she really loves and how to imagine a future in a world that ended before she was born. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anne-Marie Gaillard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/head/001297/bk_head_001297_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Art, Poetry and WW1: Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 191 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 36min
    In this study, Art, Poetry, and WW1 by Edward Lucie-Smith of writing, poetry, and painting in the centenary year of the outbreak of the First World War, the author considers the historical impact on the general psyche of the calamitous events, reflected in the expression of poets and visual artists. The volume includes Eric Kennington, C. R. W. Nevinson, John Singer Sargent, William Orpen, Stanley Spencer, and Paul Nash; and writers Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, and T. S. Eliot. In Europe, the painters Otto Dix, Max Beckman, Franz Marc, Gino Severini, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Ludwig Meidner. He establishes a continuity to the theme with reference to works by Velázquez, Watteau, Goya, and others, in their treatment of the spectacle of battle and the horrors of war and human conflict. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Micklem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/106466/bk_acx0_106466_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Bolter, Hörbuch, Digital, 203min
    On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off to Africa with a near penniless man. An inspiration for Nancy Mitford's character The Bolter, painted by William Orpen, and photographed by Cecil Beaton, Sackville went on to divorce a total of five times, yet died with a picture of her first love by her bed. Her struggle to reinvent her life with each new marriage left one husband murdered and branded her the 'high priestess' of White Mischief's bed-hopping Happy Valley in Kenya. Sackville's life was so scandalous that it was kept a secret from her great-granddaughter Frances Osborne. Now, Osborne tells the moving tale of betrayal and heartbreak behind Sackvilleï¿¿ï¿¿ï¿¿s road to scandal and return, painting a dazzling portrait of high society in the early twentieth century. Language: English. Narrator: Rosamund Pike. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000222/bk_twuk_000222_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Frame-Up , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 476min
    When Sargent Singer discovers that the paintings in his father’s gallery are alive, he is pulled into a captivating world behind the frame that he never knew existed. Filled with shady characters, devious plots, and a grand art heist, this inventive mystery-adventure celebrates art and artists and is perfect for fans of Night at the Museum and Blue Balliett’s Chasing Vermeer. There’s one important rule at the Beaverbrook Gallery - don’t let anyone know the paintings are alive. Mona Dunn, forever frozen at 13 when her portrait was painted by William Orpen, has just broken that rule. Luckily 12-year-old Sargent Singer, an aspiring artist himself, is more interested in learning about the vast and intriguing world behind the frame than he is in sharing her secret. And when Mona and Sargent suspect shady dealings are happening behind the scenes at the gallery, they set out to find the culprit. They must find a way to save the gallery - and each other - before they are lost forever.   With an imaginative setting, lots of intrigue, and a thoroughly engaging cast of characters, The Frame-Up will captivate fans of Jacqueline West’s The Books of Elsewhere. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bronson Pinchot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007470/bk_harp_007470_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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