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    On the Seas of Destiny: Tales of Nedao, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 684min
    In this, the third tale of the Nedao people, Nisana the AEldra of the cat-kind narrates her experience among the beleaguered humans. She wishes that there were others left to speak of such a story, yet she is the only witness able to tell of it. Sharing both the agonies and the victories of her companion, the warrior queen Ylia, Nisana is determined to see things through to their conclusion. As Ylia faces insurmountable odds while trying to survive, it is up to Nisana to nurture the magical powers within the young queen and teach her how to lead her people. Nisana the AEldra does not leave her side, even when the terrifying army of seemings marches on her people, even when the very air hangs heavy with the blood of the Nedao. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005325/bk_adbl_005325_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Death from a Top Hat: Merlini Mystery, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 594min
    When a necromancer is murdered, a magician takes the caseFreelance scribe Ross Harte is working on an essay about the sad state of the modern mystery novel when a scream comes from the hallway: “There is death in that room!” Harte finds a trio of conjurers trying to get into the apartment of his neighbor, the mysterious Dr. Cesare Sabbat, famed occultist and, for the past few minutes, a corpse. They break down the door to find Sabbat lying in a pentagram, face twisted from the agonies of strangulation, but with no bruises on his neck. All the doors were locked, and the windows drop straight down to the river below. Only an escape artist could get out of that room, and Sabbat knew quite a few. To make sense of this misdirected muddle, the police bring in the Great Merlini, an illusionist whose specialty is making mysteries disappear. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory Gorton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005917/bk_adbl_005917_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Milkshakes and Morphine , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 817min
    This is a singular memoir: an excavation of mother love, a candid account of the agonies and absurdities of the cancer experience and a doggedly optimistic paean to life. When Genevieve Fox finds a lump in her throat, she turns up for the hospital diagnosis in a party frock and fancy hair. I can't have cancer, she thinks. I've done my hair. But there is another reason she can't countenance cancer. Genevieve was orphaned to it at the age of nine. Genevieve's story weaves together past and present as she recalls her rackety, unconventional childhood while also facing the spectre of being lost to her young boys. Yet she confronts her treatment with the same sassy survival instinct that characterised her childhood misadventures. Through an extraordinary alchemy, Genevieve takes life's precariousness and turns it on its head. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rachel Atkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/033705/bk_adbl_033705_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Kurdish Bike: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 667min
    Gold Medal: Best Regional Fiction e-Book, Independent Publishers Book Awards 2017First Place: Best Fiction of 2017, North Street Book ContestWith her marriage over and life gone flat, Theresa Turner responds to an online ad and lands at a school in Kurdish Iraq. Befriended by a widow in a nearby village, Theresa is embroiled in the joys and agonies of traditional Kurds, especially the women who survived Saddam's genocide only to be crippled by age-old restrictions, brutality, and honor killings.Theresa's greatest challenge will be balancing respect for cultural values while trying to introduce more enlightened attitudes toward women - at the same time seeking new spiritual dimensions within herself.The Kurdish Bike is gripping, tender, wry, and compassionate - an eye-opener into little known customs in one of the world's most explosive regions - a novel of love, betrayal, and redemption. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alesa Lightbourne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/120647/bk_acx0_120647_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Towards Another Summer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 408min
    Towards Another Summer is a meditation on the themes of exile and return, homesickness and not knowing where home really is. It is suffused with beauty and tenderness and shot through with self-deprecating humour and frailty.Grace, the protagonist, is taking a break from writing a long novel and seems to be losing her grip on daily life in London. She feels more and more like a migratory bird as the pull of her native New Zealand makes life in England seem transitory. The desire to leave behind the social human agonies of appearing neither too clever nor too stupid, too helpful or too lazy, becomes overwhelming for Grace.Frame's observational prowess is apparent in Towards Another Summer in the vivid and heartbreaking passages about children and childhood and in Grace's growing awareness of the demanding forces of social convention. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Heather Bolton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/000569/bk_boli_000569_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Snake Eye, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 426min
    Wales. 1955. Sixteen-year-old Janine's wrenching screams shatter the stillness of night as she gives birth to her illegitimate child. Still struggling to take its first breath the newborn is snatched away by the teen's father and they disappear into the dark. London. 1965. Paul, a kind gentleman Janine meets the night she runs away professes his unrequited love. After he becomes aware of the suffering caused by the haunting memories of her past, he convinces her to make peace with her estranged father, now dying. In her attempt at reconciliation, happenstance unexpectedly reunites her with her orphaned daughter, who has endured her share of unbearable emotional agonies. This story of a mother and daughter who overcome anger and loathing through perseverance and courage tells of the powerful human experience of surrender and forgiveness. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Melanie Crawley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/078646/bk_acx0_078646_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Should the Tent Be Burning Like That?: A Professional Amateur's Guide to the Outdoors , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 553min
    Maybe the best way to explain Bill Heavey's writing is to note that both Ted Nugent and the Wall Street Journal - two entities rarely seen in the same sentence - like it. For more than 20 years, Heavey has staked a claim as one of America's best sportsmen writers. In feature stories and his Field & Stream column A Sportsman's Life, he has taken audiences across the country and beyond to experience his triumphs and failures as a suburban dad who happens to love hunting and fishing. This new collection gathers together a wide range of his best work - tales that are odes to the notion that enthusiasm is more important than skill and testaments to the enduring power of the natural world. Whether he's hunting mule deer in Montana, draining cash on an overpriced pistol, or ruminating on the joys and agonies of outdoor gear, Heavey always entertains and enlightens with honesty and wit. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Harding. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/001945/bk_drms_001945_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1702min
    The first new collection of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004, Arguably offers an indispensable key to understanding the passionate and skeptical spirit of one of our most dazzling writers, widely admired for the clarity of his style, a result of his disciplined and candid thinking. Topics range from ruminations on why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men to the haunting science fiction of J.G. Ballard; from the enduring legacies of Thomas Jefferson and George Orwell to the persistent agonies of anti-Semitism and jihad. Hitchens even looks at the recent financial crisis and argues for the enduring relevance of Karl Marx. The book forms a bridge between the two parallel enterprises of culture and politics. It reveals how politics justifies itself by culture, and how the latter prompts the former. In this fashion, Arguably burnishes Christopher Hitchens' credentials as - to quote Christopher Buckley - our "greatest living essayist in the English language." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Prebble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/000694/bk_hach_000694_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Wah-Wah Diaries: The Making of a Film , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 431min
    Here are the very personal diaries of Richard E. Grant's debut behind the camera, as writer and director of his autobiographical movie of the same name.It is both a fascinating insight into the intrigues and agonies he encounters along the way, and also a deeply moving portrait of his childhood and his love affair with Swaziland, where he was born and brought up during the last throes of the British Empire. Through the mayhem - never-ending financial pressures; hostilities, and finally breakdown of communication with his producer; the nerve-racking quest to persuade the King of Swaziland to grant permission to film in his country; the assembly of a stellar cast including Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, and Julie Walters - Richard E. Grant has written and reads, with characteristic humour and charm, an extraordinarily honest and revealing account of a labour of love and the realisation of a dream. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard E. Grant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/000425/bk_macm_000425_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Warring States: Jurisdiction Universe, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 936min
    The Ragnarok's legal status has been ambiguous since it shot its way out of Taisheki Station to escape a threat against the lives of its innocent crew. Ship's Inquisitor Andrej Koscuisko hopes to take advantage of this period of chaos and unrest to see his bond-involuntary Security slaves somehow freed and sent to Gonebeyond space. The personal conflict he is experiencing has surprised and distressed him, and yet he cannot afford to let his private agonies interfere with his purpose. But an incident that happened years ago in a dark cold street in Port Rudistal - the site of the Domitt Prison - has bound Koscuisko to a man who, all unknowingly, holds the key to a murder that's changed the course of history. More alone than he has ever been in his life, Andrej must face the deadliest threat he has ever encountered - the unknown enemy who murdered the First Secretary at Chilleau Judiciary, and set all of Jurisdiction Space into anarchy and horror. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009560/bk_adbl_009560_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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