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    Players , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 337min
    In this remarkable novel of menace and mystery, Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their 'ideal' life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory "satisfaction" than pleasure. And still they remain untouched, 'players' indifferent to the violence that surrounds them - and that they have helped to create.  Originally published in 1977, Players is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonstrates the razor-sharp prose and thematic density for which Don DeLillo is renowned today.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jacques Roy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/001291/bk_macm_001291_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Journal from Ellipsia: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 842min
    A humorous satire and loving tribute to science fiction that delves into the tenuous relationship between science and the humanities by asking, What does it mean to be human? A genderless alien from Ellipsia, a planet whose inhabitants have no concept of individuality, comes to Earth on an intergalactic exchange program to learn how to become human. To live here, the traveler must study and understand our inclinations for seeing people as distinct beings - the nature of gender, and at the heart of identity, the word I. At once funny and serious, Journal from Ellipsia offers a starkly objective view on our own humanity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Dikeos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014878/bk_adbl_014878_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sense and Sensibility , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 669min
    Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, is a wonderfully entertaining tale of flirtation and folly that revolves around two starkly different sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. While Elinor is thoughtful, considerate, and calm, her younger sister is emotional and wildly romantic. Both are looking for a husband, but neither Elinor's reason nor Marianne's passion can lead them to perfect happiness - as Marianne falls for an unscrupulous rascal and Elinor becomes attached to a man who's already engaged.Startling secrets, unexpected twists, and heartless betrayals interrupt the marriage games that follow. Filled with satiric wit and subtle characterizations, Sense and Sensibility teaches that true love requires a balance of reason and emotion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wanda McCaddon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/000729/bk_tant_000729_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and other Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 435min
    First published in 1893, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is the first published fiction work of American author Stephen Crane. A harrowing depiction of a pretty young girl's life in the slums of turn-of-the-century New York City and her eventual decline into prostitution, Crane's novel is a starkly realistic examination of poverty and the challenges brought about by the rapid industrialization the United States underwent in the late 1800s. An enduring classic, Maggie is often regarded as the first example of naturalism in American fiction, a literary movement that included such authors as Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair. This edition also includes three of Crane's short stories: "The Monster," "The Blue Hotel," and "His New Mittens." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dick Hill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/002047/bk_tant_002047_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Better Angels: A Science Fiction Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1270min
    With his astonishing future vision, Howard V. Hendrix has emerged as one of the new masters of science fiction, drawing extraordinary praise for his debut novel, Lightpaths, "a taut...space-age slice of life." (Publishers Weekly), and its "brilliant" (Locus) follow-up, Standing Wave. Now Hendrix meshes virtual reality, deep-space exploration, and human nature in a novel starkly breathtaking in its portrayal of the quest for meaning against a backdrop of scientific and spiritual chaos. Spanning the first part of the 21st century, Better Angels revolves around the mystery of an ancient, alien artifact resembling an angel's shoulder blade, and the transcendent effect it has on five people, whose lives and relationships lead to - and are forever altered by - its discovery. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: L.E. Scott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/015174/bk_acx0_015174_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In the Footsteps of Greatness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 240min
    Having attempted and failed to traverse the entire 212-mile John Muir Trail twice before, Josh Mathe decided to brave the Sierra Nevada wilderness one last time. And to up the ante, this time he would try to run! In the Footsteps of Greatness is an inspirational and refreshingly authentic account of what Josh found while exploring his limits on the edge of the world. From the shady depths of Yosemite Valley to the top of 14,505-foot Mount Whitney through some of the most treacherous and starkly beautiful terrain on the planet, this memoir is both a thrilling adventure (complete with bear encounters and snowstorms) as well as a poignant look into the mind and spirit of an athlete who is nothing if not human. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Josh Mathe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/025248/bk_acx0_025248_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Young Man and the Sea , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 228min
    Skiff Beaman has a boatload of problems. Ever since his mother died, his father doesn't want to get up off the TV couch - even when the Mary Rose, his fishing boat, sinks at the dock. Twelve-year-old Skiff's been bailing out Rose by himself for months, getting up before dawn to pump out the bilge and keep her floating - just in case his dad decides to put his beer aside and get up and go fishing. But once a boat has gone under, you can't bail it out. With a nod to Hemingway, award-winning novelist Rodman Philbrick presents a starkly dramatic yet poignant story about a determined boy who refuses to give up despite overwhelming odds. Skiff Beaman makes a choice to take on the world - but can he possibly beat the odds and win? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirby Heyborne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004688/bk_rand_004688_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Angels on the Night Shift , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 420min
    Combined sales of over 250,000 copies demonstrate the terrific impact Robert Lesslie's first three books have had on listeners. In Angels on the Night Shift, the fourth book based on his 30 years' experience in the ER, Dr. Lesslie draws open the curtain on the lives, the dramas, even the loves hidden away behind hospital walls - events that, day and night, reveal nurses, doctors, patients, friends, even strangers to be "angels" in disguise. Hope, beauty, love, warning, and faith all intermingle in these fast-paced stories as listeners: Witness belief and trust during tragedy and triumph; Observe hearts and motives starkly revealedcatch glimpses of miracles as they unfold; See demands for split-second actiondiscover life lessons for themselves; and Gain a window on some of life’s greatest wonders and mysteries as they share intimate joys and struggles of people just like them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lloyd James. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/000914/bk_hove_000914_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fall of Princes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 396min
    With the literary chops of Bonfire of the Vanities and the dizzying decadence of The Wolf of Wall Street, The Fall of Princes takes listeners into a world of hedonistic highs and devastating lows, weaving a visceral tale about the lives of these young men, winners all...until someone changes the rules of the game. Goolrick paints a magnificently authentic portrait of an era, tense and stylish, perfectly mixing adrenaline and melancholy. Stunning in its acute observations about great wealth and its absence, and deeply moving in its depiction of the ways in which these men learn to cope with both extremes, the novel travels from New York to Paris to Los Angeles to Italy to Las Vegas to London on a journey that is as startling as it is starkly revealing - a true tour de force. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R.C. Bray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000979/bk_high_000979_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Country of Ash: A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 1939-1945 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 495min
    Country of Ash is the starkly compelling, original chronicle of a Jewish doctor who miraculously survived near-certain death, first inside the Lodz and Warsaw ghettoes, where he was forced to treat the Gestapo, then on the Aryan side of Warsaw, where he hid under numerous disguises. He clandestinely recorded the terrible events he witnessed, but his manuscript disappeared during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After the war, reunited with his wife and young daughter, he rewrote his story. Peopled with historical figures like the controversial Chaim Rumkowski, who fancied himself a king of the Jews, to infamous Nazi commanders and dozens of Jews and non-Jews who played cat and mouse with death throughout the war, Reicher’s memoir is about a community faced with extinction and the chance decisions and strokes of luck that kept a few stunned souls alive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Suzanne Toren, Robert Blumenfeld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017833/bk_adbl_017833_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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