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    The Tethering: Bound by Blood, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 136min
    Tiger has lost almost everything. Her village. Her community. Her father. But her brother, Tarren, who has been kidnapped by the deadheads that razed her village, still lives. With only the loyal but enigmatic old man, Sai, to guide her into the nightmare-jungle that was once North America, Tiger must face her greatest fears in a race to save her brother before he is lobotomized, even while the world around her is bled dry by Those That Watch. The Watchers are in the end-stages of stripping the planet of its mineral resources - but as Tiger travels deeper into the lush inner-band, she learns that a far more dangerous biological resource is being cultivated on her dying world for a war that defies human comprehension. The race to save her brother’s life takes on a new dimension as she uncovers the truth about her family, the sly old man she travels with and the uncanny beings she meets on her journey. Tiger must question the invisible threads that bind her to her world, her brother, and her hidden past - but she will also discover that she is tied to a frightening and perhaps inevitable future and that she may not control her destiny. She will come to know The Tethering. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grace Nichols. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/112076/bk_acx0_112076_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Urk - Book 2 (URK 1 True Story of Coronavirus and the Universe, URK 2 The Battle of Rangelia, The Free Zone and th, #2) (eBook, ePUB)
    Here I am, looking at the complete darkness of the Free Zone, trying to calm my anxiety without being able to reason about anything.Perhaps, nothing was reasonable in these moments, where my entire Universe, as I had known it, since my origin, was rapidly crumblingIt was safe now, I had been deceived and when I was no longer helpful, discarded.I imagine I would have been easily eliminated if it were not for the lucky coincidences that happened to me in these last bars of my story.To distract me, I would soon meet Tillyani in one of the laboratories of the communication center, and see that ancient device, which should allow us to know the coordinates of the Sanctuary of the Ancients.Will that exist?Is it just an illusion?Tillyani said he had arrived but no proof was brought with him, it is only his word.In the Universe, meanwhile, war drums are beating on all sides, there are deaths, entire planets razed to the ground in a party of violence unleashed by my former bosses, the Creators, with ships and troops everywhere, making theirs, and looking for us to eliminate us as quickly as possible.The reward for our elimination or capture grows exponentially with each moment we are still on the run, there have already been skirmishes in the main entrances of the Free Zone, they know we are here.
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    Halsey Street , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 725min
    A modern-day story of family, loss, and renewal, Halsey Street captures the deeply human need to belong—not only to a place but to one another. Penelope Grand has scrapped her failed career as an artist in Pittsburgh and moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. She's accepted that her future won't be what she'd dreamed, but now, as gentrification has completely reshaped her old neighborhood, even her past is unrecognizable. Old haunts have been razed, and wealthy white strangers have replaced every familiar face in Bed-Stuy. Even her mother, Mirella, has abandoned the family to reclaim her roots in the Dominican Republic. That took courage. It's also unforgivable. When Penelope moves into the attic apartment of the affluent Harpers, she thinks she's found a semblance of family—and maybe even love. But her world is upended again when she receives a postcard from Mirella asking for reconciliation. As old wounds are reopened, and secrets revealed, a journey across an ocean of sacrifice and self-discovery begins. An engrossing debut, Halsey Street shifts between the perspectives of these two captivating, troubled women. Mirella has one last chance to win back the heart of the daughter she'd lost long before leaving New York, and for Penelope, it's time to break free of the hold of the past and start navigating her own life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bahni Turpin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009723/bk_brll_009723_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Persepolis: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Persian Empire's Capital City , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 63min
    Lying in the middle of a plain in modern-day Iran is a forgotten ancient city, Persepolis. Built two and a half thousand years ago, it was known in its day as the richest city under the sun. Persepolis was the capital of Persia, the largest empire the world had ever seen, but after its destruction, it was largely forgotten for nearly 2,000 years, and the lives and achievements of those who built it were almost entirely erased from history. Alexander the Great's troops razed the city to the ground in a drunken riot to celebrate the conquest of the capital, after which time and sand buried it for centuries. It was not until the excavations of the 1930s that many of the relics, reliefs, and clay tablets that offer so much information about Persian life could be studied for the first time. Through archaeological remains, ancient texts, and work by a new generation of historians, a picture can today be built of this remarkable civilization and their capital city. Although the city had been destroyed, the legacy of the Persians survived, even as they mostly remain an enigma to the West and are not nearly as well understood as the Greeks, Romans, or Egyptians. In a sense, Persepolis and the Persian Empire are some of the most enduring mysteries of ancient civilization. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/073269/bk_acx0_073269_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Haunting of Perry Property , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 98min
    In 1970 Houndsvillle, Virginia, the charismatic Victor Perry had quite an impressive following of his insidious cult, and their deceptively unchristian gatherings grew in number in that historic little clapboard church. Except that Victor was not the celibate, "Righteous Warrior" leader the cult members believed him to be. One too many of the attractive young lady "indoctrines" became with child under him, and Victor's executed punishment for this sin was sacrificial death. But the leader had fallen in love with this one. And then came the cleansing at the hands of the Maura Community Church members. The 120-year-old little church was razed to wipe out the evil that was committed on that hallowed ground. Amberley Simmons, successfully fostered but never adopted, is now 20 and pregnant. Abandoned and without support, with only the small but distinctive silver cross on a thin sterling chain that she had started off her life with, Amberley successfully adults up. She secures a good job and a heaven-sent cottage set in a natural copse. As Amberley's confinement draws to an end, the house makes sure of a familial reunion. A night of terror, confusion, and indescribable pain leads to a file of revelations, and yet another abandonment. Fate has an unconventional family situation lined up for Amberley and her newborn. Can mom and baby pull off this cross-dimensional relationship? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patricia Oliszynski. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/109463/bk_acx0_109463_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    What the Dead Know , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 688min
    Thirty years ago, two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found, and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls? Who or what could have lured the two sisters away from a busy mall on a Saturday afternoon without leaving behind a single clue or witness? Now a clearly disoriented woman involved in a rush-hour hit-and-run claims to be the younger of the long-gone Bethany sisters. But her involuntary admission and subsequent attempt to stonewall investigators only deepens the mystery. Where has she been, why has she waited so long to come forward? Could her abductor truly be a beloved Baltimore cop? There isn't a shred of evidence to support her story, and every lead she gives the police seems to be another dead-end: a dying, incoherent man; a razed house; a missing grave; and a family that disintegrated long ago, torn apart not only by the crime but by the fissures the tragedy revealed in what appeared to be the perfect household. In a story that moves back and forth across the decades, there is only one person who dares to be skeptical of a woman who wants to claim the identity of one Bethany sister without revealing the fate of the other. Will he be able to discover the truth? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Linda Emond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001420/bk_harp_001420_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 813min
    Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary nonfiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project. Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to 23 towers and a population of 20,000 - all of it packed onto just 70 acres a few blocks from Chicago's ritzy Gold Coast. Cabrini-Green became synonymous with crime, squalor, and the failure of government. For the many who lived there, it was also a much-needed resource - it was home. By 2011, every high-rise had been razed, the island of black poverty engulfed by the white affluence around it, the families dispersed. In this novelistic and eye-opening narrative, Ben Austen tells the story of America's public housing experiment and the changing fortunes of American cities. It is an account told movingly though the lives of residents who struggled to make a home for their families as powerful forces converged to accelerate the housing complex's demise. Beautifully written, rich in detail, and full of moving portraits, High-Risers is a sweeping exploration of race, class, popular culture, and politics in modern America that brilliantly considers what went wrong in our nation's effort to provide affordable housing to the poor - and what we can learn from those mistakes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ron Butler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006541/bk_harp_006541_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    WAR: Visionary Tales of Human Conflict from the Middle East , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 68min
    For millennia, the Middle East has been plagued by war. This millennium has been no different, with wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Devastation has been wreaked on ordinary, innocent people. Children have been indiscriminately killed. Young men have had their lives terminated before they have had the chance to live their lives to the full. War orphans abound. Widows and Widowers weep at their spouses' graves. Grandparents have lost generations of their families. Whole communities have been destroyed and villages razed to the ground. I have lived in the Middle East for 25 years now, and the constant undercurrent of these conflicts is ever present. I remember reading one news report that said an entire village and its inhabitants were destroyed after a wedding celebration resulted in the village men firing their rifles into the air. A long tradition in village celebrations, it was viewed as an act of aggression, and the village and inhabitants were all destroyed. I kept hearing words such as "collateral damage", "carpet bombing", etc. - words used by the media to deflect the true horror of the reality of war. It was at this time that I began to have troubled dreams and horrific nightmares about what was really happening in these theatres of war. These vision-like dreams inspired me to write the stories that are contained in this work. The messages in these stories are not just relevant to the Middle East, but to the world at large. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Commodore James. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/020675/bk_acx0_020675_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The House I Loved , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 356min
    From the New York Times best-selling author of Sarah’s Key and A Secret Kept comes an absorbing new novel about one woman’s resistance during an époque that shook Paris to its very core. Paris, France: 1860’s. Hundreds of houses are being razed, whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussman has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently alter the face of old Paris, moulding it into a “modern city.” The reforms will erase generations of history - but in the midst of the tumult, one woman will take a stand. Rose Bazelet is determined to fight against the destruction of her family home until the very end; as others flee, she stakes her claim in the basement of the old house on rue Childebert, ignoring the sounds of change that come closer and closer each day. Attempting to overcome the loneliness of her daily life, she begins to write letters to Armand, her beloved late husband. And as she delves into the ritual of remembering, Rose is forced to come to terms with a secret that has been buried deep in her heart for thirty years. The House I Loved is both a poignant story of one woman’s indelible strength, and an ode to Paris, where houses harbor the joys and sorrows of their inhabitants, and secrets endure in the very walls.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Reading. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001374/bk_aren_001374_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Innocent Sleep: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 590min
    When a couple's lost child resurfaces they are forced to embark on a journey into their shared past - one rife with dark secrets and lies. Tangiers. Harry is preparing his wife's birthday dinner while she is still at work and their son, Dillon, is upstairs asleep in bed. Harry suddenly remembers that he's left Robin's gift at the café in town. It's only a five minute walk away and Dillon's so tricky to put down for the night, so Harry decides to run out on his own and fetch the present. Disaster strikes. An earthquake hits, buildings crumble, people scream and run. Harry fights his way through the crowd to his house, only to find it razed to the ground. Dillon is presumed dead, though his body is never found. Five years later, Harry and Robin have settled into a new kind of life after relocating to their native Dublin. Their grief will always be with them, but lately it feels as if they're ready for a new beginning. Harry's career as an artist is taking off and Robin has just realized that she's pregnant. But when Harry gets a glimpse of Dillon on the crowded streets of Dublin, the past comes rushing back at both of them. Has Dillon been alive all these years? Or was what Harry saw just a figment of his guilt-ridden imagination? With razor-sharp writing, Karen Perry's The Innocent Sleep delivers a fast-paced, ingeniously plotted thriller brimming with deception, doubt, and betrayal. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aaron Abano, Michelle Ferguson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001750/bk_aren_001750_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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