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    The To-Do List , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 493min
    Between unending housework and thankless efforts to appease a loutish husband and acid-tongued teens, Ginny Cooper's to-do list never seems to get done. Her guilty pleasure - fantasizing about her husband's demise - her weakness - the drive-thru at Arby's. On the job as head librarian at the county's obsolete library, tedium reigns. One afternoon Ginny innocently stumbles upon a dating website, where the rabbit hole awaits. Who is Ginny Cooper? She is every woman who knows the exact number of calories in a Snickers bar, every woman who has ever struggled with her weight. She is every woman who has grappled with the gray areas, every woman who has wanted to escape her own life. At times the listener will want to shake her and talk some sense into her. But Ginny will have to navigate her own road. And through it all, we root for her. Ginny's childhood memories of her fading hometown provide a bittersweet backdrop for The To-Do List. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sara K. Sheckells. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/079675/bk_acx0_079675_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Only War We Had: A Platoon Leader's Journal of Vietnam , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 575min
    In my year in Vietnam, I walked the booby-trapped rice paddies of the Delta, searching for the elusive Viet Cong, and later macheted my way through the triple-canopy jungle, fighting the North Vietnamese Regulars…I sweated, thirsted, hunted, killed. Somewhere in all my experiences, I overlapped the situations of nearly every infantryman and many others who served. Michael Lee Lanning's journal of his first tour of duty in Vietnam provides an unvarnished daily account of life in the field. The blood, fear, camaraderie, and tedium of combat and maneuver. Fleshed out with narrative and detail years later, the pages of this memorable book, first published in 1987, show an eager young recruit growing before the reader's eyes into a proud but bloodied combat veteran. Subsequent volumes in his Vietnam Trilogy will detail Lanning's tour as a company commander and his post-war investigation into the mind of the enemy. Through his eyes, readers see the reality of a war that did not always receive glory but was, in his words, "the only war we had." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexander MacDonald. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/010233/bk_acx0_010233_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Swing Shift , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 856min
    Reports to write, forms to fill, coffee to drink, leads to run down. Gus’s life was a tedium and boredom he’d grown comfortable with. One that he sought out after he’d come back from his tour of duty.A detective in the paranormal investigations department. A job he could work day in and day out in relative peace. One cold and forgotten cup of coffee at a time. It was an environment that made some sense to him. At least in comparison to civilian life where almost nothing did. On top of that, it gave him a chance to hide what he was from the rest of the world. An apex predator that made the entirety of the paranormal world fear him. His very species was often killed as soon as they were found out. By government and citizen alike. He’s a Boogieman. A name that made humans laugh, and vampires curse. It was a strange life to be sure. Now though, Gus’s stable non-life is about to be kicked over. Whether he likes it or not, he’s about to be handed a case that’s going to mess up his already screwed up life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrea Parsneau. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/157225/bk_acx0_157225_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Bricks That Built the Houses , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 596min
    The Sunday Times best seller. Award-winning poet and rapper Kate Tempest's electrifying debut novel takes us into the beating heart of the capital in this multigenerational tale of drugs, desire and belonging. It gets into your bones. You don't even realise it until you're driving through it, watching all the things you've always known and leaving them behind. Young Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are leaving town in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money. They are running from jealous boyfriends, dead-end jobs, violent maniacs and disgruntled drug dealers, in the hope of escaping the restless tedium of life in Southeast London - the place they have always called home. As the story moves back in time, to before they had to leave, we see them torn between confidence and self-loathing, between loneliness and desire, between desperate ambition and the terrifying prospect of getting nothing done. In The Bricks That Built the Houses, Kate Tempest explores contemporary city life with a powerful moral microscope, giving us irresistible stories of hidden lives and showing us how the best intentions don't always lead to the right decisions. Cover designed by Greg Heinimann. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Tempest. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/028081/bk_adbl_028081_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Deities , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 525min
    Whatever happened to all those classical gods and goddesses after those pesky mortals tossed them by the wayside? They didn’t just vanish, you know.Goddesses of the Light such as Athena and Freya continue waging a never-ending war against the Anubis-led Darkness as they vie for a portal controlling time and space. Not being one to trifle with such tedium, Apollo sips nectar and chases togas with his friend Bacchus in the VIP section of Heaven’s hotel bar.But life turns on a dime when Apollo finds himself trapped on modern-day Earth. A wonderful “new Earth” filled with electric guitars and street tacos and a morally flexible tour guide named Coyote. But Apollo soon learns he’s lost his powers and immortality and, to make matters worse, he’s being stalked to feed an ancient Sumerian demon who grows stronger each time it consumes a god’s essence.When the war in Heaven takes an unexpected turn, more gods are exiled to Earth. They must overcome their distrust of one another to get return tickets to Heaven - even if means saving humanity to do so. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Mace. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/197734/bk_acx0_197734_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Those Rosy Hours at Mazandaran , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 729min
    A young woman confronts her own dark desires and finds her match in a masked conjurer turned assassin. Inspired by Gaston LeRoux's The Phantom of the Opera, Marion Grace Woolley takes us on forbidden adventures through a time that has been written out of history books. "Those days are buried beneath the mists of time. I was the first, you see. The very first daughter. There would be many like me to come. Svelte little figures, each with saffron skin and wide, dark eyes. Every one possessing a voice like honey, able to twist the santur strings of our father's heart." It begins with a rumor, an exciting whisper. Anything to break the tedium of the harem for the shah's eldest daughter. People speak of a man with a face so vile, it would make a hangman faint, but a voice as sweet as an angel's kiss. A master of illusion and stealth. A masked performer known only as Vachon. For once the truth will outshine the tales. On her birthday the shah gifts his eldest daughter, Afsar, a circus. With the circus comes a man who will change everything. Note: Mature subject matter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emma Newman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/030939/bk_acx0_030939_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blue Night , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 370min
    After convicting a superior for corruption and shooting off a gangster's crown jewels, the career of Hamburg's most hard-bitten state prosecutor, Chastity Riley, has taken a nosedive: she has been transferred to the tedium of witness protection to prevent her making any more trouble. However, when she is assigned to the case of an anonymous man lying under police guard in hospital - almost every bone in his body broken, a finger cut off, and refusing to speak in anything other than riddles - Chastity's instinct for the big, exciting case kicks in. Using all her powers of persuasion, she soon gains her charge's confidence and finds herself on the trail to Leipzig, a new ally and a whole heap of lethal synthetic drugs. When she discovers that a friend and former colleague is trying to bring down Hamburg's Albanian mafia kingpin single-handedly, it looks like Chas Riley's dull life on witness protection really has been short-lived.... Fresh, fiendishly fast-paced and full of devious twists and all the hard- boiled poetry and ascerbic wit of the best noir, Blue Night marks the stunning start of a brilliant new crime series, from one of Germany's best-selling authors. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gabrielle Baker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/032189/bk_adbl_032189_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Living , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 323min
    In this tender, lyrical and often funny novel, Anjali Joseph, author of Saraswati Park, shines a light on everyday life, illuminating its humour, beauty and truth. There is a certain number of breaths each of us has to take, and no amount of care or carelessness can alter that. This is the story of two lives. Claire is a young single mother working in one of England's last remaining shoe factories, her adult life formed by a teenage relationship. Is she ready to move on from memory and the routine of her days? Arun makes hand-sewn chappals at his home in Kolhapur. A recovered alcoholic, now a grandfather, he negotiates the newfound indignities of old age while returning in thought to the extramarital affair he had years earlier. These are lives woven through with the ongoing discipline of work and the responsibility and tedium of family life. Lives laced with the joys of friendship, the pleasure of sex, and the redemptive kindness of one's own children. This is the story of the living. In this tender, lyrical and often funny novel, Anajli Joseph, author of Saraswati Park, shines a light on everyday life, illuminating its humour, beauty and truth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Harriet Kershaw, Sartaj Garewal. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002317/bk_hcuk_002317_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Drama Teacher , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 740min
    By the New York Times best-selling author of Mother, Mother and Smashed comes a propulsive new thriller: the story of a desperate and devious woman who will do anything to give her family a better lifeGracie Mueller is a proud mother of two and devoted wife, living with her husband Randy in upstate New York. Her life is complicated by the usual tedium and stressors - young children, marriage, money - and she’s settled down comfortably enough. But when Randy’s failing career as a real estate agent makes finances tight, their home goes into foreclosure, and Gracie feels she has no choice but to return to the creatively illegal and high-stakes lifestyle of her past in order to keep all that she’s worked so hard to have. Gracie, underneath all that’s marked her life as average, has a lot to hide about where she’s from, who she is, and who she’s been. And when things inevitably begin to spin out of her control, more questions about the truth of her past are raised, including all the ones she never meant to, or even knew to, ask. Written with the style, energy, and penetrating insight that made her memoir Smashed a phenomenon, Koren Zailckas's next novel confirms her growing reputation as a psychological novelist that can stand up to the best of them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006296/bk_rand_006296_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Nonbeliever's Guide to the Book of Mormon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 212min
    Even for the most ardent skeptic, it's hard not to be curious about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Maybe you've seen the hit musical comedy The Book of Mormon. Maybe you've heard about Holocaust victims and deceased celebrities like Elvis being posthumously baptized in Mormon churches. Or maybe you've come across some other belief or facet of the Mormon faith and can't help but wonder whether the religion is actually as wild as it seems. Sure, the young Mormon missionaries who knock on your door with promises of a book that will change your life are happy to speak with you about their religion and provide their own answers. But if you accept their offer, you'll likely be heavily recruited, repeatedly contacted, pressured to become a church member, and perhaps even told you're going to be tortured in hell if you don't accept their claims. Enter The Nonbeliever's Guide to the Book of Mormon, which offers an easily accessible, entertaining introduction to Mormonism. For those with a curious but skeptical mind, it also provides a no-pressure, no-strings-attached way to learn about what's contained in Mormonism's sacred text, without the tedium of having to read the whole thing - or the risk of being pestered in this life (or the afterlife, for that matter). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rich Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/082133/bk_acx0_082133_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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