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    The Death of Ivan Ilyich , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 171min
    The subject of this well-known Tolstoy novella is a high court judge in St. Petersburg who lives a carefree life. One day, without warning, he is beset by pains and soon has to come to terms with the fact that he is going to die. The judge has to learn to face death without fear and yet feel compassion for the family he is leaving behind. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Oliver Ford Davies. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000422/bk_naxo_000422_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Devils , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1683min
    Exiled to four years in Siberia, but hailed by the end of his life as a saint, prophet, and genius, Fyodor Dostoevsky holds an exalted place among the best of the great Russian authors. One of Dostoevsky’s five major novels, Devils follows the travails of a small provincial town beset by a band of modish radicals - and in so doing presents a devastating depiction of life and politics in late 19th-century Imperial Russia. Both a grotesque comedy and a shocking illustration of clashing ideologies, Dostoevsky’s famed novel stands as an undeniable masterpiece. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Guidall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/006770/bk_reco_006770_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Last Seen Wearing: Inspector Morse Mysteries, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 529min
    Morse was beset by a nagging feeling. Most of his fanciful notions about the Taylor girl had evaporated, and he had begun to suspect that further investigation into Valerie's disappearance would involve little more than sober and tedious routine.... The statements before Inspector Morse appeared to confirm the bald, simple truth. After leaving home to return to school, teenager Valerie Taylor had completely vanished, and the trail had gone cold. Until two years, three months and two days after Valerie's disappearance, somebody decides to supply some surprising new evidence for the case.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Samuel West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/001156/bk_macm_001156_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Typhoon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 192min
    Typhoon is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest and of the captain whose dogged courage is tested to the limit. Captain MacWhirr was an ordinary man. However, when his steamer Nan-Shan blunders into a hurricane, he and his crew must pull together to survive. The steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain and the imaginative readiness of his young first mate becomes a partnership vital to human survival as they are challenged from without by the elements, and from within by human doubts and fears. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roger Allam. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/003528/bk_bbcw_003528_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    DBT Therapy: Your Guide to Happiness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 95min
    Life entails inevitable challenges. To surmount these battles, we each seek for various mechanisms. This particular audiobook on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is developed for those who are struggling with borderline personality disorder (BPD), depression, anxiety, and other psychiatric disorders. It will also be a great resource for those who have loved ones beset by the same issues. Mindfulness: no longer living life in your absence; increasing self-awareness Interpersonal effectiveness: actively interacting with others and managing conflicts Emotion regulation: discerning, describing, and regulating emotions Distress tolerance: coping strategies for distressing crises ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Gisi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/103039/bk_acx0_103039_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Boy's Own Story: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 537min
    Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality. The audiobook's unnamed narrator, growing up during the 1950s, is beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless mocking from his peers, compelling him to seek out works of art and literature as solace-and to uncover new relationships in the struggle to embrace his own sexuality. Lyrical and poignant, with powerful evocations of shame and yearning, this is an American literary treasure. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Backman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018646/bk_adbl_018646_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Righteous Maleficia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 296min
    England, 1392. As the Black Death quickly spreads through the kingdom, the little hamlet of Blythe's Hallow suffers under the yoke of a sadistic lord. Desperate, the villagers decide to seek out the magical help of a local witch, causing the wrath of the church. Torture and murder befall on those accused of being in league with the devil, adding more sorrow to the beset folk of Blythe's Hollow. Yet, one man will rise against the tyranny; a man willing to learn black magic to fight back. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Timothy Kennedy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/073515/bk_acx0_073515_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Two Towers
    Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in the battle with an evil spirit in the Mines of Moria; and at the Falls of Rauros, Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape the rest of the company were attacked by Orcs.Now they continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.The text of this edition has been fully corrected and revised in collaboration with Christopher Tolkien and is accompanied by sixteen watercolour paintings from Alan Lee.
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    Dust Falls On Eugene Schlumberger/Toddler on the Run (eBook, ePUB)
    These vivid novellas show Shena Mackay's inimitable skill in recording the lives of the urban dispossessed - the young women and men who kick against authority. Abigail pines for her lover during school assemblies where nuns preach sacrifice, but romance is snatched from them when he crashes the car stolen for their joy ride. With Eugene sent down for two years, she has ample opportunity to pursue adolescent angst and to contemplate his escape...Morris, twenty-three years old and only three feet nine inches tall, is often mistaken for a child, though the events that entangle him are far from childish. On the run from the law, he takes refuge in a beach hut with Leda. Camouflaged by donkey rides and festive holidaymakers, they scramble through the days, fortified by salty tea, beset with fear and desperation.
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    Scandal's Splendor , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 476min
    A determined Scottish lady Seonaid Ferguson, a lady of Craiglocky Keep, is through with London's Marriage Mart. After learning she has the second sight, the haut ton attempts to exploit her abilities. Even though it means she condemns herself to spinsterhood, Seonaid sets a desperate course to rid herself of her gift turned curse. As she rushes home from England, a snowstorm strands her in a crowded inn with the last man she ever wished to see again. A handsome French baron who once thought her a courtesan. And just her misfortune, only he stands between her and certain harm.   An honorable French noblemanJacques, Monsieur lebaron de Devaux-Rousset, ventures to Scotland to oversee his new investment; a silver mine near Craiglocky. Only a handsome profit will save his family's destitute estate in France. But when the mine is beset with one problem after another, Jacques must instead search for an heiress to wed. He certainly should not be falling in love with the lovely, spirited sister of Laird Ewan MacTavish, a lass whose dowry is insufficient to restore his ancestral home. Nor should he consider, even for a moment, her risqué, but deliciously tempting scheme to rid her of the second sight. A danger most direMatters are torn from their hands when a dangerous adversary vows to expose Seonaid as a witch, just as Jacques's problems at the mine escalate into deadly violence. Is it by chance, or a dark design, that both of them are beset at once? Dare Jacques and Seonaid throw caution aside and forge a future together?  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Monteath. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100394/bk_acx0_100394_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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