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    New York Orphan
    From fleeing the Irish Potato Famine, to losing his parents on the ship to New York, seven-year-old Daniel Flynn knows about adversity. As Daniel sings the songs of home to earn pennies for food, pick-pocket Thomas Reilly becomes his ally and friend, until he too is cast out onto the street. A destitute refugee in a foreign land, Daniel, together with Thomas and his sister Molly, are swept up by the Orphan Train Movement to find better lives with families across America. For Daniel will the dream prove elusive? How strong are bonds of loyalty when everything is at stake? Based on real history, the strength of the characters in New York Orphan will move you with their desperate plight to survive. A gripping story of love, loss, betrayal and bonds of kinship.
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    Never Defy a Vixen
    What's a lady to do when her parents' death leaves her family destitute? For Lady Wilhelmina Neverhartt that means marriage to a much older man. One that also agrees to support her four younger siblings. Unfortunately her new husband dies on their wedding night and leaves her fate in charge of his heir, Zachary Ward, the new Duke of Graystone. Zachary finds Lady Wilhelmina vexing, and enchanting at the same time. At first he believes she married his uncle for his money and title, but that doesn't stop his growing desire for her. He wants her, but cannot trust her, and along the way his original beliefs no longer matter. He changes tactics and uses their battle of wills to win the lady's heart. Only a compromise will bring these two together, but their differences might be too impossible to overcome.
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    A Child of the Rain , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 9min
    Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935) was a prolific American author, journalist and critic. Although she left school at 14, she was enormously talented, and by her 20s she was well established as a writer of short stories. 'A Child of the Rain' is an eerie, poignant, supernatural tale about a strange, destitute child who appears spectrally on a late-night streetcar. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000734/bk_redd_000734_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Conspiracy: Giordano Bruno, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 975min
    Paris, 1585: Giordano Bruno has come to Paris, a city on the edge of catastrophe. Alone and near destitute, Bruno turns to old friend and zealous preacher Paul Lefevre. But when the priest is murdered, Bruno is pulled into a dangerous world. If Bruno can't uncover the truth, not only is the future of the de Valois monarchy threatened - but his own life will be the forfeit. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Philpott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/002824/bk_howe_002824_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Snow Angel Cove , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 580min
    Nothing short of a miracle can help Eliza Hayward. Precariously close to being destitute, Eliza needs a hero, but she's not expecting one who almost runs her down with his car! Rescuing Eliza is pure instinct for tech genius Aidan Caine. At first, putting the renovation of his lakeside guest lodge in Eliza's hands assuages his guilt. But is he willing to risk his heart on a yuletide romance that could lead to forever? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Celeste Ciulla. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/002681/bk_howe_002681_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Touch of Magic + The Story of My Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 605min
    Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, is not only fascinating and inspiring, but it also includes wonderful description, an elevated vocabulary, and deep insights into life. Accompanying this autobiography is a beautifully written biography, The Touch of Magic, about Helen Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan. As a destitute, misbehaving orphan who is going blind, Annie experiences and overcomes the extreme trials in her life, which prepare her for the great work she does with Helen Keller. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Muse. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150747/bk_acx0_150747_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Chance of Love (Sweet Grove Stories, #2) (eBook, ePUB)
    Katherine Morrison's elopement at 16 ended badly - and there's only one occupation for a fallen woman in 1841. Too ashamed to return to her family and too destitute to avoid the work that shames her, she puts her faith in the Lord that he will save her from her own mistakes. But when a customer collapses before her work is done, she has a chance of returning back to the life that she wanted. But that life is gone. Her sister Elizabeth has moved on, and Thomas Bryant has his own agenda. He's fallen for the delicate yet fierce woman who seems to have a past that even he cannot untangle. When a chance letter reveals the location of Katherine's sister at Thomas' family orchard, they cannot help but grasp at the opportunity to find their families again. Could the chances that continue to come their way be more than just coincidence? And can either of them find any happiness in the lives that they have chosen?
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    Orchid: The Garden Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 330min, (USK 18)
    A young man overhears his destitute family plan to sell him to the Yakuza to make ends meet. In a desperate attempt to escape, he runs away. As he is starving on the street, he is approached by a wealthy gentlemen who offers him a home and a job in the luxurious Garden.Is Rin able to come to terms with the decadent life styles of the flowers in the Garden? Find out in this first installment of The Garden Series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Zoe Richards. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173562/bk_acx0_173562_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Apartment in Rome , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 632min
    Gina's life is good. She loves her adopted home in Italy, and she is passionate about her work as a photographer. She's all wrapped up in her latest artistic project, shots of the young men who arrive in Italy as refugees, destitute and vulnerable. One day Sasha, a lonely British teenager at summer school, crosses Gina's path. Sasha's innocent romance creates complications neither of them could have imagined, leading Gina to wonder, can she come to terms with her past? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jilly Bond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/002424/bk_howe_002424_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Christmas Past: An Angel's Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 78min
    Travel back to 1958 with an angel on a mission to a Christmas Past, as we're shown a heart-rending story of a destitute family who happiness and Christmas had all but passed over. Do the impoverished deserve kindness, generosity, or love? Striving to survive life's frigid and bitter winds, a jilted mother and her four, young children will be tested like never before. Despite the crushing odds, will one boy's prayers be answered? Only time and an angel's story will tell. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: T.J. Allen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/095404/bk_acx0_095404_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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