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Canary Islands - A fascinating Journey: One Week in Canary Islands-Audiotraveller, Hörbuch, Digital, 51min

Far from the mainland, the Canary Islands are the "Islands of Happiness" on the edge of the world:The sun islands in the Atlantic. Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La PalmaLANZAROTE a paradise on the volcano with rugged rocks and manicured beaches.A bitter beauty, born of fire and water with a famous wine-growing area.FUERTEVENTURA is the second largest island in the Canary Archipelago. In the far north is the town of Corralejo, which developed into a ferry port and within a few decades a lively resort.GRAN CANARIALas Palmas is the island's capital and metropolis of the Canary Archipelago, a colorful and multi-cultural city with great history and a wonderful city beach.TENERIFE is known as the island of eternal spring. Santa Cruz De Tenerife, at the north-east end of the island, is the capital, port city and trade metropolis. The Pico del Teide and the surrounding national park are World Heritage Sites.La PalmaOn a trip across the island you will discover small villages, terraced fields, almond groves and the largest volcanic crater in the world. Language: English. Narrator: James T. Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cfsu/000098/bk_cfsu_000098_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 657min

Garlic and Sapphires is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously. There is her stint as Molly Hollis, a frumpy blond with manicured nails and an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque. The result: her famous double review of the restaurant: first she ate there as Molly; and then as she was coddled and pampered on her visit there as Ruth, New York Times food critic. What is even more remarkable about Reichl's spy games is that as she takes on these various disguises, she finds herself changed not just superficially, but in character as well. She gives a remarkable account of how one's outer appearance can very much influence one's inner character, expectations, and appetites. As she writes, "Every restaurant is a theater...even the modest restaurants offer the opportunity to become someone else, at least for a little while." Garlic and Sapphires is a reflection on personal identity and role playing in the decadent, epicurean theaters of the restaurant world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernadette Dunne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000485/bk_bkot_000485_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Mourning Dove , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 553min

An accurate and heart-wrenching picture of the sensibilities of the American South. (Kirkus Book Reviews)The heart has a home when it has an ally. If Millie Crossan doesn't know anything else, she knows this one truth simply because her brother Finley grew up beside her. Charismatic Finley, 18 months her senior, becomes Millie's guide when their mother Posey leaves their father and moves her children from Minnesota to Memphis shortly after Millie's 10th birthday. Memphis is a world foreign to Millie and Finley. This is the 1970s Memphis, the genteel world of their mother's upbringing and vastly different from anything they've ever known. Here they are the outsiders. Here, they only have each other. And here, as the years fold over themselves, they mature in a manicured Southern culture where they learn firsthand that much of what glitters isn't gold.Nuance, tradition, and Southern eccentrics flavor Millie and Finley's world, as they find their way to belonging. But what hidden variables take their shared history to leave both brother and sister at such disparate ends? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Claire Fullerton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/119753/bk_acx0_119753_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Masterminds , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 429min

Eli Frieden lives in the most perfect town in the world: Serenity, New Mexico. In this idyllic place, every lawn is perfectly manicured, and everyone has a pool and a tree house. Honesty and integrity are valued above all else. The 30 kids who live there never lie--they know it's a short leap from that to the awful problems of other, less fortunate places. Eli has never left Serenity. Why would he ever want to? Then one day he bikes to the edge of the city limits, and something so crazy and unexpected happens, it changes everything. Eli convinces his friends to help him investigate further, and soon it becomes clear that nothing is as it seems in Serenity. The clues mount to reveal a shocking discovery, connecting their ideal, crime-free community to some of the greatest criminal masterminds ever known. The kids realize they can trust no one--least of all their own parents.... This is the first book in a thrilling new series from best-selling (noncriminal) mastermind Gordon Korman. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ramon De Ocampo, Kelly Jean Badgley, Tarah Consoli. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004293/bk_harp_004293_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Two Brides Too Many: A Novel, The Sinclair Sisters of Cripple Creek, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 501min

Kat and Nell Sinclair are headed west - away from the manicured lawns of Maine to the boisterous, booming mining town of Cripple Creek, Colorado, to start new lives for themselves as mail-order brides.Aboard the train, romantic dreamer Nell carries a photo of her intended close to her heart and imagines an exciting and love-filled future, while her pragmatic older sister, Kat, resigns herself to marriage as a duty, not a delight.But when the ladies disembark at the train depot, neither fiancé Patrick Maloney or Judson Archer awaits them with open arms. The well-bred Sinclair sisters find themselves unexpectedly alone in the wild, frontier town - a place where fire threatens to reduce the buildings to rubble, the working women strut the streets, rogues will gamble for the shoes on one's feet, and God's grace is found amongst the most unlikely of folks.Two sisters, two missing misters, a shocking welcome to the Wild West that leaves both Kat and Nell Sinclair questioning their dreams and the hope for true love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002255/bk_rand_002255_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Bones of Marianna: A Reform School, a Terrible Secret, and a Hundred-Year Fight for Justice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 71min

With its manicured lawns and well-kept college-style buildings, the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida-the largest reform school in the country-always seemed like a model for how to turn wayward teens back into productive members of society. But for decades, the century-old school's alumni whispered about a nightmarish reality that lurked behind the gleaming facade - a legacy of beatings, sexual abuse, and even murder, the evidence buried in unmarked graves on the overgrown fringes of the property. In The Bones of Marianna, David Kushner tells the story of the unlikely crusaders who pushed Dozier's dark past into the light. A one-time high school football star, haunted by the memory of a departed teammate, spends years quarterbacking the fight to expose the truth, while an anthropologist uses cutting-edge technology to dig up grim secrets. Informed by months of reporting, Kushner delivers a gripping tale of hard-won justice-and exclusive details on more secrets that may be waiting to be unearthed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Kushner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/013081/bk_acx0_013081_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Gardened of the Damned: A Dead Cold Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 331min

When the body of a tramp was found in a dumpster on Lafayette and Bryant in the Bronx, with no papers and no ID, the case was filed as unsolved - another victim nobody cared about, shot by some punk nobody cared about.That was 12 years ago.Then Detective Stone notices that the "tramp" had a 100 dollar haircut and manicured nails. That makes him curious. He wants to know, who dresses a murder victim up as a tramp, then leaves them in full view in a dumpster? But the answers he gets are not the ones he expects, and before long their investigation leads Stone and Dehan to St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, and the darkest recesses of the human soul.It also leads them to some of the most powerful men in New York. Some, like Conor Hagan, head of the Irish Mob, are known criminals. But others are not...Stone's problem is deciding which of them are just criminals, and which are truly evil. That is, until ghosts start appearing from Dehan's past. Then things get complicated.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Carlson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/108764/bk_acx0_108764_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Blood Passage: The Dark Caravan Cycle, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 742min

Blood Passage is the electrifying second book in the Dark Caravan Cycle - a modern jinni fantasy-adventure trilogy from author Heather Demetrios, perfect for fans of Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone series and Leigh Bardugo's Grisha Trilogy. When Nalia arrives in Morocco to fulfill Malek's third and final wish, she's not expecting it to be easy. Especially because Malek isn't the only one after Solomon's sigil, an ancient magical ring that gives its wearer the power to control the entire jinn race. Nalia has also promised to take Raif, leader of the jinn revolution, to its remote location. Though Nalia is free of the bottle and shackles that once bound her to Malek as his slave, she's in more danger than ever before and no closer to rescuing her imprisoned brother. Meanwhile, Malek's past returns with a vengeance, and his well-manicured facade crumbles as he confronts the darkness within himself; and Raif must decide what's more important: his love for Nalia or his devotion to the cause of Arjinnan freedom. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erin Mallon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004915/bk_harp_004915_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Perfect Smile: A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 390min

In The Perfect Smile (book four), criminal profiler Jessie Hunt, 29, fresh from the FBI Academy, is assigned a disturbing new case: a woman in her 30s has been murdered after using a dating website for her affairs with married men.Had she gotten too close to one of the married men?Was she the victim of blackmail? Of a stalker?Or was there some far more nefarious motive at stake?The list of suspects takes Jessie into wealthy, manicured neighborhoods, behind the veil of seemingly perfect lives, lives which are actually rotten to the core. The killer, she realizes, must lie behind one of these fake, plastic smiles.Jessie must plumb the depths of his psychosis as she tries to both catch a killer and hold her own fragile psyche together - with her own murderous father on the loose, willing to stop at nothing until he kills her.A fast-paced psychological suspense thriller with unforgettable characters and heart-pounding suspense, The Perfect Smile is book four in a riveting new series that will leave you listening late into the night.Book five in the Jessie Hunt series is also now available for preorder! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sarah Pavelec. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/177148/bk_acx0_177148_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Fortune's Daughters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 563min

Faith Simpson is born at the dawn of the twentieth century into a dynasty that gives her everything she will ever need - except her parents' love and attention. Often misunderstood, she trusts few as she grows up on the family's manicured Long Island estate. Just twenty-nine miles away, on lower Manhattan's dirty, crowded streets, Hope Lee's world is one of poverty and desperation. The scrappy child of hard-working Irish and Chinese immigrants has learned to fend for herself, until a terrible disaster thrusts her into a strange, new world of privilege. When she meets Faith, Hope has faced enough loss to last a lifetime, and, like Faith, she has built an emotional wall to survive. Compelled by the tragic bonds of very different childhoods, they soon forge a strong alliance. But when Faith's father chooses Hope as his protégé, and, worse yet, both Faith and Hope fall in love with the same man, resentment and betrayal threaten their bond. Caught in the tumult of World War I, Wall Street, union fights, and changing women's roles, these two extraordinary women find that true fortune can't be bought or sold. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/008960/bk_brll_008960_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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