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    Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium (eBook, PDF)
    This book is the first comparative study of novels by Patrick Modiano, W. G. Sebald, and Antonio Muñoz Molina. Drawing on many literary figures, movements, and traditions, from the Spanish Golden Age, to German Romanticism, to French philosophy, via Jewish modernist literature, Ian Ellison offers a fresh perspective on European fiction published around the turn of the millennium. Reflecting on what makes European fiction European, this book examines how certain novels understand themselves to be culturally and historically late, expressing a melancholy awareness of how the past and present are irreconcilable. Within this framework, however, it considers how backwards-facing, tradition-oriented self-consciousness, burdened by a sense of exhaustion in European culture and the violence of its past, may yet suggest the potential for re-enchantment in the face of obsolescence.
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    It's Good to Know Peace Is Just a Prayer Away , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 12min
    The cares of the world often silence the peace that the Lord freely gives. When we experience life's times of stress and chaos, we too often forget to pray, lay our burdens down at the Cross, and gain our strength from above. Instead, sadly, we end up suffering more. In It's Good to Know; Peace is just a prayer away Debra shows you how to live a peaceful and less burdened life. The solution is available to all... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kathy Poelker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/026938/bk_acx0_026938_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ethan Frome , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 209min
    Burdened by poverty and spiritually dulled by a loveless marriage to Zeena, his older and ailing wife, Ethan Frome is emotionally stirred by the arrival of their youthful cousin, Mattie Silver, who becomes employed as household help. Mattie's presence not only brightens a gloomy house but also stirs long-dormant feelings in Ethan. However, their growing love for each other is discovered by the embittered Zeena, and it presages an ending to the tale that is both shocking and savagely ironic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pete Cross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/001841/bk_drms_001841_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Out
    In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives. A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband. She confesses her crime to her colleagues and unexpectedly, they agree to help. But then the dismembered body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions and more dangerous enemies begin to close in.OUT is a psychologically taut and unflinching foray into the darkest recesses of the human soul, an unsettling reminder that the desperate desire for freedom can make the most ordinary person do the unimaginable.'Grimly satisfying - like no one you've ever read before' Kirkus ReviewsVINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.
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    The Sun Also Rises
    The Sun Also Rises is both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless American expatriates drinking, dancing, and chasing their illusions in post-World War I Europe. The man at its centre, world-weary journalist Jake Barnes, is burdened both by a wound acquired in the war and by his utterly hopeless love for the extravagantly decadent Lady Brett Ashley. When Jake, Brett and their friends leave Paris behind and converge in Pamplona for the annual festival of the running of the bulls, tensions among the various rivals for Brett's wayward affections build to a devastating climax. Hemingway, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, has exerted a lasting influence on fiction in English. His signature prose style, tersely powerful and concealing more than it reveals, arguably reached its apex in this modernist masterpiece.
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    Old Sins
    On a clear, moonlit night, DCI Kelso Strang hears the unmistakable howl of a wolf. A disturbing sound, but not the only unsettling thing about the remote town of Inverbeg, where he is taking a break with an old army friend.Sean Reynolds is obsessive about rewilding his Auchinglass estate and there are rumours that he has taken illicit steps to hurry that on, much to the anger of local farmers. There are other tensions too. An elderly lady died some months before, officially in a tragic stumble off a cliff path, but she was burdened with many secrets and her closest friend believes it was murder.When horror strikes in Inverbeg, Strang fears further retribution is at work and as he gets closer to uncovering the ugly truth, he finds himself in more danger than ever before.
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    Billionaire's Threat: Never Never Man Series, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 138min
    Consumed by lust for Grey and burdened by my secret, I find my life spiraling out of control. It seems as though nothing good will come of the changes inside me. In fact, the likely outcome is too terrible to consider. Instead of face it, I've decided to hide away from Grey and anyone else who might hurt me or, worse yet, judge me. But, if he finds me, I worry about what he'll say or the decision he'll demand I make. What am I going to do? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Felicia Faraday. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/055229/bk_acx0_055229_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Passion Bay: Moon Island, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 427min
    Two women from different ends of the earth encounter destiny, and one another, on a South Pacific paradise. When Boston securities broker, Annabel Worth inherits remote Moon Island, she travels there to solve a mystery that has haunted her family. Dumped by her lover, laid off from her job, New Zealander Cody Stanton flees to the island seeking solace and solitude. Both women are burdened with secrets that could destroy the passion that ignites between them. When Hurricane Mary strikes, each must make a choice that will change her life forever. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brittni Pope. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/099126/bk_acx0_099126_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Coal Run , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 704min
    With her eagerly awaited second novel, Tawni O'Dell takes readers back to the coal-mining country of western Pennsylvania. Set in a town ravaged and haunted by a mine explosion that took the lives of 96 men, Coal Run explores the life of local deputy and erstwhile football legend, "The Great Ivan Z.", as he prepares for a former teammate's imminent release from prison. As the week unfolds and Ivan struggles to confront his demons, he reveals himself to be a man whose conscience is burdened by a long-held and shocking secret. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Passer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/000487/bk_peng_000487_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Age of Myth: Book One of The Legends of the First Empire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1015min
    Since time immemorial, humans have worshipped the gods they call Fhrey, truly a race apart: invincible in battle, masters of magic, and seemingly immortal. But when a god falls to a human blade, the balance of power between humans and those they thought were gods changes forever. Now only a few stand between humankind and annihilation: Raithe, reluctant to embrace his destiny as the God Killer. Suri, a young seer burdened by signs of impending doom. And Persephone, who must overcome personal tragedy to lead her people. The Age of Myth is over; the time of rebellion has begun. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Gerard Reynolds. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/008959/bk_reco_008959_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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