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    No Safe Place , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 655min
    The past. The present. The terror.DI Barbara Forster returns home to Cumbria for the first time since a personal tragedy shattered her small Lake District village. Tragedy strikes again when her teenage goddaughter Katya vanishes under circumstances that mirror the disappearance of Barbara’s teenage friend 10 years earlier, during a charity fun run on bonfire night - still an unsolved case. Convinced there is a link, Barbara is determined to find the missing girl and answers to the past. But what at first seems an isolated case of a teenager’s disappearance soon becomes a conspiracy of secrets and lies, with tentacles that stretch far into the community. A missing teenager, increasingly presumed dead. A family ripped apart by growing suspicions.Not only does Barbara have to outmaneuver the agendas of powerful men, including a famous movie actor - and some manipulative women - she also has to confront the demons of her own past.Drawn into a terrifying web of deceit, Barbara faces a frantic race against time, following a treacherous path that leads all the way to the fast-paced, explosive climax of tragedy, terror, and despair. A gripping crime thriller with a shocking double twist that ultimately forces you to question everything in this relentlessly chilling and harrowing portrait of evil.  False memories, false confessions, false accusations converge on a small Lake District village in No Safe Place. Latest in the popular, gritty psychological crime thriller series and the best yet!  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rayner Bourton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/215188/bk_acx0_215188_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 604min
    In this imaginative novel rooted in the rich soil of early 19th-century German Romanticism, beloved New York Times best-selling author Gregory Maguire twins an origin legend of the famous Nutcracker with the life of Drosselmeier, the toymaker who carves him. Gregory Maguire's novels have been called "bewitching", "remarkable", "extraordinary", "engrossing", "amazing", and "delicious". Having brought his legions of devoted listeners to Oz in Wicked, Wonderland in After Alice, and Dickensian London in Lost, Maguire now takes us to the Black Forest of Bavaria and Munich of the Brothers Grimm and E. T. A. Hoffman. Hiddensee recreates the backstory of the Nutcracker, reimaging how this entrancing creature came to be carved and how it magically guided an ailing little girl named Klara through a dreamy paradise on a snowy Christmas Eve. It also brings to life the mysterious godfather Drosselmeier - the ominous, canny, one-eyed toymaker made immortal by Petipa and Tchaikovsky's ballet - who presents the once and future Nutcracker to Klara, his goddaughter. But Hiddensee is not just a retelling of a classic story. Maguire discovers in the flowering of German Romanticism a migrating strain of a Hellenic mystery-cult and ponders a profound question: how a person who is abused by life, short-changed, and challenged can access secrets that benefit the disadvantaged and powerless. Ultimately, Hiddensee offers a message of hope. If the compromised godfather Drosselmeier can bring an enchanted Nutcracker to a young girl in distress, perhaps everyone, however lonely or marginalized on the eve of a winter holiday, has something precious to share. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Crossley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006300/bk_harp_006300_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Little Thieves
    Kids' Indie Next pick for November/December! Amazon Best Book of October 2021! A scrappy maid must outsmart both palace nobles and Low Gods in a new YA fantasy by Margaret Owen, author of the Merciful Crow series. Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl... Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love-and she's on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja's otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back... by stealing Gisele's life for herself. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while Vanja uses an enchanted string of pearls to take her place. Now, Vanja leads a lonely but lucrative double life as princess and jewel thief, charming nobility while emptying their coffers to fund her great escape. Then, one heist away from freedom, Vanja crosses the wrong god and is cursed to an untimely end: turning into jewels, stone by stone, for her greed. Vanja has just two weeks to figure out how to break her curse and make her getaway. And with a feral guardian half-god, Gisele's sinister fiancé, and an overeager junior detective on Vanja's tail, she'll have to pull the biggest grift yet to save her own life. Margaret Owen, author of The Merciful Crow series, crafts a delightfully irreverent retelling of "The Goose Girl" about stolen lives, thorny truths, and the wicked girls at the heart of both.
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    The Berghof Betrayal: A Winston Churchill 1930s Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 857min
    Winston Churchill receives startling news from a German aristocrat in early 1933 after Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. The aristocrat has learned of a plot to stage a fake assassination attempt on the new German leader that the Nazis will use as a pretext to declare martial law and liquidate their political opponents. Unknown to Hitler, however, his enemies within the Nazi party - the Black Front - are conspiring with renegade elements of his own SS to turn the fake assassination attempt into a real one. Churchill tells the American newspaper titan, William Randolph Hearst, of the fake plot, and together, they persuade Mattie McGary, Hearst's top photojournalist and Churchill's adventure-seeking Scottish goddaughter, to investigate. Mattie readily agrees, in large part because exposing the fake plot may help her finally shed the unfortunate reputation she has in Germany as "Hitler's favorite foreign journalist". Soon after she leaves for Germany, Mattie's fiancé, the American lawyer and former MID agent, Bourke Cockran, Jr., also travels to Germany to help his publisher client, Freedom House, acquire the rights to Rear Area Pig, an expose of Hitler's less-than-heroic wartime service. Once in Germany, both Mattie and Cockran find themselves in peril at the hands of the SS loyal to Hitler who will stop at nothing to keep Cockran from acquiring the book and Mattie from learning the truth about the fake plot. Threats to Mattie multiply when SS agents working for the Black Front attempt to coerce her into joining the real plot to kill Hitler. When Cockran learns the Black Front intends to kill Mattie along with Hitler at his alpine retreat, the Berghof, he reluctantly seeks the help of Reichspresident Herman Göring and Kurt von Sturm, a top Göring aide who is also one of Mattie's former lovers. The one-time rivals for Mattie's affection quickly conclude that there is only one way to protect Mattie. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mr. Robert Lindsell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105716/bk_acx0_105716_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 465min
    From one of Vanity Fair’s rising stars comes a brilliant, star-studded portrait of the glamorous and brazen Hollywood artist, muse, and writer Eve Babitz.Los Angeles in the 1960s and '70s was the pop cultural capital of the world - a movie factory, a music factory, a dream factory. Eve Babitz was the ultimate factory girl, a pure product of LA.The goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky and a graduate of Hollywood High, Babitz posed in 1963, at age 20, playing chess with the French artist Marcel Duchamp. She was naked; he was not. The photograph, cheesecake with a Dadaist twist, made her an instant icon of art and sex. Babitz spent the rest of the decade rocking and rolling on the Sunset Strip, honing her notoriety. There were the album covers she designed: for Buffalo Springfield and the Byrds, to name but a few. There were the men she seduced: Jim Morrison, Ed Ruscha, Harrison Ford, to name but a very few. She was a sun-kissed Edie Sedgwick.Then, at nearly 30, her "It girl" days numbered, Babitz was discovered - as a writer - by Joan Didion. She would go on to produce seven books, usually billed as novels or short story collections, always autobiographies and confessionals. Her prose achieves that American ideal: art that stays loose, maintains its cool, and is so sheerly enjoyable as to be mistaken for simple entertainment. And yet, during her career, Babitz was under-known and under-read. She’s since experienced a breakthrough, and is now, 20 years after her last published work, on the cusp of literary stardom, and recognition as a - as the - essential LA writer.For Babitz, life was slow days, fast company until a freak fire in the '90s turned her into a recluse, living in West Hollywood, where Lili Anolik tracked her down in 2012. Anolik’s elegant and provocative new audiobook is equal parts biography and detective story. It is also on dangerously intimate terms with its subject: artist, writer, ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jayme Mattler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/009007/bk_sans_009007_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Living with Time to Think
    Living with Time to Think - The Goddaughter Letters: ab 3.99 €
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    The Good Fight: Season One
    Three DVD set. Reprising her role from "The Good Wife," Christine Baranski stars as attorney Diane Lockhart in this legal drama that debuted in 2017. Broke and out of a job after being caught up in a financial scandal, Diane must go to work at a rival Chicago law firm, bringing young lawyer and goddaughter Maia Rindell (Rose Leslie) along with her. With Erica Tazel, Sarah Steele, Delroy Lindo, Justin Bartha, and Cush Jumbo (also making the jump from "The Good Wife").
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    For You
    "For You" I conceived of as musical portraiture for the solo piano. Each piece was composed for a specific family member or dear friend of mine and entitled accordingly. All except Kachaturian's beautiful "Ivan Sings," which presumable follows my theme (and I couldn't resist taking some liberties with) and "Missing You" which I wrote while my wife was in graduate school. What follows is my attempt at saying something that is both specific and rife with metaphor for each person I am interpreting. I hope you enjoy! The album begins with: "For Loren" which phonetically sounds like it portends to be melancholy but in actuality it has an irresistible quirky sense of humor and classically handsome features. Can you see a resemblance? He is, after all, my nephew. "For Maxx," my mercurial goddaughter dancing her way through a musical childhood. Can you see her twirl? "For Isabel," a precious child from courageous and gifted artistic parents. Isabel is blessed with an ebullient song carrier for a father and a graceful, vertically integrated trapeze artist for a mother. Weeks before she was born and androgynous angel appeared to me in a dream singing this song. "For Melissa," my adorable wife, partner and a lifelong learner, a mysterious yet compelling ostinato that aspires to be irresistibly endearing regardless of occasional harmonic sophistication that can lead to challenging yet intriguingly rewarding intentional dissonance. She is endlessly stimulated by voluntary complexity in most things: recipes, friendships and thinking. By embracing internal contradictions, understanding and even welcoming her shadow, she radiates the beauty of wholeness while the limitless generosity of her spirit dances around our minds and hearts like a bubbling fountain or a hidden spring that can quench the terrible thirst of the ignorant even if they lack the courage to drink. "For Gwen" a ravishing beauty of lyrical simplicity juxtaposed with compositional density, the confluence of which opens a window into a multi-dimensional art-scape that seductively invites us to constantly be surprised. As she effortlessly traverses vast distances in the sea of synethesia, she collects ocular honey as well as both polished and edgy stones that she will magically, and sometimes menacingly, incorporate into one of her many masterpieces that she gratefully shares with us all. "For Judy" my sonic sister, a vibrating tuning fork meandering easily along, who almost always takes time to enjoy the ride and appreciate the view. She knows the secret of elegant simplicity that calls attention to timbre profundity. She plays with space and relationships, adding depth and dimension while simultaneously weeding out the toxic ticks of digital detritus. She's a sonic gardener who meticulously relishes in grooming her fruits yet is always eager to share a sumptuous harvest with anyone willing to imbibe and partake. "For Teresa," my wonderfully sweet mother-in-law, a poignant odyssey of self-discovery that travels a circuitous route, eventually winding up where it began, in a peaceful and contemplative place at home in the trees. If you squint you can see her chasing deer out of her rose garden. "For Dorothy" my dear sister who in spite of conspiring circumstances earlier in her life, prevails, survives and thrives. She's an organic evangelist and a politically progressive stalwart who tirelessly tirades against the ravenous beast of exploitation and commodification. Here I offer her a bittersweet interlude that hopefully, or at least temporarily, relieves her from her struggle allowing her a moment of precious and abiding peace with the unmistakable perfume of sadness. "For Andre" a jewel mind moving too fast for words. Luckily, as our devotion to each other has deepened, we increasingly don't need them. Our upstream telepathy more than suffices and affords us the adventuresome opportunity of free diving into each other's imaginations and harvesting only the most deserving and innovative of sounds and insights. Percolating with rhythmic nuance, syncopated with subtle, shifty, sneaky and communicable grooves, Andre is a champion of balancing diligent work ethics, spontaneous play and an unrivaled editing acumen. And let us not forget the fun-loving family man and dearest of friends. "For Emily" she had kindness in her heart and trouble in her soul. She was a devoted and dearest of friends, always quick to laugh. An unfathomable sadness, however, was lurking behind her smile, sometimes surfacing in anguished turmoil. For forty-one years she managed to keep the haunted voices at bay, succumbing eventually to the tragic cacophony. Here is a loving epitaph of a heroic goddess. Rest in peace, dear one. "For Mike" my beloved brother-in-law, as strong and close a friend in death as he was in life, maybe even more so. His anthem is a triumphant return after a vigorous and tumultuous journey. His heart so big and his mind so keen as to leave no doubt to his majestic magnificence for all who were lucky enough to know him. This mighty, understated testimony to strength concludes this recording with all the grandeur I could conjure.
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    The Good Fight: Season Two
    Reprising her role from "The Good Wife," Christine Baranski stars as attorney Diane Lockhart in this legal drama that debuted in 2017. Broke and out of a job after being caught up in a financial scandal, Diane must go to work at a rival Chicago law firm, bringing young lawyer and goddaughter Maia Rindell (Rose Leslie) along with her. With Erica Tazel, Sarah Steele, Delroy Lindo, Justin Bartha, and Cush Jumbo (also making the jump from "The Good Wife").13 episodes on 4 discs. 10 3/4 hrs. Widescreen, Soundtrack: English.
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