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    The Old Maid , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 167min
    The story follows the life of Tina, a young woman caught between the mother who adopted her - the beautiful, upstanding Delia - and her true mother, her plain, unmarried ‘aunt’ Charlotte, who gave Tina up to provide her with a socially acceptable life. The three women live quietly together until Tina’s wedding day, when Delia’s and Charlotte’s hidden jealousies rush to the surface. Originally serialized in The Red Book magazine in 1922, The Old Maid is an examination of class and society as only Edith Wharton could undertake. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eleanor Bron. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/003403/bk_bbcw_003403_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Accidental Terrorist: A California Accountant's Coup d'Etat , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 63min
    Yasith Chhun was just a 42-year-old accountant living a comfortable life in California. Then he tried to overthrow the Cambodian government from his humble office in Long Beach. Inspired by films like Braveheart, Chhun planned "Operation Volcano," a scheme replete with espionage, jungle guerrillas, and East German rocket launchers. Could Chhun's quixotic, incredibly risky and potentially bloody coup possibly succeed? And what happens to a man when he leaves the American immigrant dream behind and turns from upstanding citizen into Colonel Kurtz? Former Newsweek editor Adam Piore tells the story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Piore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/003234/bk_acx0_003234_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Firestarter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 890min
    You're a firestarter honey.... just one big zippo lighter. A year ago, he was an upstanding instructor of English at Harrison State College. Now Andy is on the run with his daughter, a pigtailed girl named Charlie. A girl with an unimaginably terrifying gift. A gift which could be useful to corrupt authorities. Soon Charlie will be caught up in the menace of a fateful drug experiment and a sinister government ploy…. Let the listener beware: Firestarter is Stephen King at his most mesmerising…. and menacing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/000386/bk_hodd_000386_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 561min
    The Art of the Infinite takes infinity, in its countless guises, as a touchstone for understanding mathematical thinking. Robert and Ellen Kaplan guide us through the “Republic of Numbers,” where we meet both its upstanding citizens and its more shadowy dwellers; and transport us across the plane of geometry into the unlikely realm where parallel lines meet. The journey is enriched by deft character studies of great mathematicians (and equally colorful lesser ones). And as we go deeper into infinity, we explore the most profound mystery of mathematics: Are its principles eternal truths that we discover? Or ones that we invent? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ray Chase. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015893/bk_adbl_015893_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    My Favorite Major: Heroes Returned, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 262min
    When her longtime fiance returns home from the victory at Waterloo, Amelia Pritchard suspects he's not the noble, upstanding gentleman she's always believed him to be. After breaking their betrothal, she flees to London with the hope of starting her life over and putting the past firmly behind her. Battle weary Major Philip Moore finds himself intrigued by the lovely Miss Pritchard. Though he's recovering from a broken heart of his own, more than just his honor urges him to protect the lady when her nefarious ex-beau arrives in town with the most wicked of intentions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stevie Zimmerman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014808/bk_acx0_014808_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hard Landing: The Echo Platoon Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 547min
    Navy SEAL Brant "Bronco" Adams adores women but never lets himself get too close to any one of them - until he meets sweet, classy Rebecca McDougal. Rebecca is the wife of Mad Max, Brant's commanding officer and safely off-limits - until she confesses that she's desperate to escape her nightmare of a marriage and that Max isn't the upstanding commander they all think. Emboldened to protect her, Brant skids head-long into Mad Max's plot to do him in. Suddenly, the former playboy will assume any risk to give him and Rebecca hope for a future of their own. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Armen Taylor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/042104/bk_acx0_042104_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Even in the Best of Homes: Cooper Collection 037 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 57min
    The man who bought Matt and Amy's house after she was killed 10 years earlier decides to remodel. When workmen pound a hole in the basement wall they find an adult skeleton. But the body has been dead for almost 30 years - since just about the time Matt moved into it with his new wife, Amy. Now Matt's sitting in jail trying to explain what the skeleton was doing there in his house. He hasn't a clue, but his son, Clay, means to find out...and quick. The answer will NOT be what you'd expect from the upstanding Cooper. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Scollin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/009288/bk_acx0_009288_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Thirteen Geese in Flight: One Black Woman's Ascent into Mental Illness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 326min
    The last place Lisa Eley expects to be is a despondent patient in a psychiatric hospital on suicide watch fighting for her life. As an African American single parent from northwest Baltimore, Lisa knows knock-down, drawn-out hardships and resilient comebacks very well. She rises above every land mine life sets, detonating each with her quiet will and unyielding determination to defeat every adversity in her path. Faith and fate lead her to a new job with a leading agency, a pivotal success leap she thinks. What happens next will have this mild-mannered, upstanding citizen and worshiping Christian plot murder. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Natalie Mei. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/099485/bk_acx0_099485_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Portrait on Wicker: The Sequel to Blood on White Wicker , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 208min
    In this sequel to Blood on White Wicker, Judith McCain is now a psychologist and returns to New Orleans in search of her missing sister, Julia, an artist. Judith uncovers a pedophile ring involving several judges and some upstanding pillars of the community, including her former foster father. The psychologist eventually teams up with her FBI friend, John Shepherd, the man who helped her remember her past when she was 16. They attempt to find a judge they can trust. Judith is again forced to face her past, and is in danger of becoming a victim when she trusts the wrong person. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hannah Howzdy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/042877/bk_acx0_042877_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Klopstock, or the Distant Sound , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 81min
    In 1924, hoping to cure his illness, Franz Kafka traveled to a sanatorium in Kierling, Austria, run by a Dr. Hugo Hoffman. He would spend his last days there. In Robert Cohen’s story, we see the end of Kafka’s life through Dr. Hoffman’s eyes. The doctor attempts to decipher the dying man’s enigmatic communications, scribbled on scraps of paper, while being harried by Kafka’s friend, Klopstock, and a young woman who has fallen in love with the then-unknown writer. As the case progresses, the once-practical and upstanding doctor gets pulled deeper and deeper into his strange patient's world.Ploughshares, the literary magazine of Emerson College. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bronson Pinchot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017353/bk_adbl_017353_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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