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    Jack Glass , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 812min
    Winner of the Bsfa Award for Best Novel Jack Glass is the murderer. We know this from the start. Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of three murders committed by Glass, the listener will be surprised to find out that it was Glass who was the killer and how he did it. And by the end of the book, our sympathies for the killer are fully engaged. Riffing on the tropes of crime fiction (the country house murder, the locked room mystery) and imbued with the feel of golden age sci-fi, Jack Glass is another bravura performance from Roberts. Whatever games he plays with the genre, whatever questions he asks of the listener, Roberts never loses sight of the need to entertain - and Jack Glass has some wonderfully gruesome moments, is built around three gripping whodunits and comes with liberal doses of sly humour. Roberts invites us to have fun and tricks us into thinking about both crime and sci-fi via a beautifully structured novel set in a society whose depiction challenges notions of crime, punishment, power and freedom. It is an extraordinary novel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elliot Chapman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oras/000020/bk_oras_000020_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Love on Call , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 449min
    Some people work to pay the bills or send the kids to school or afford playtime. Ex-army medic physician assistant Glenn Archer works, as much as she possibly can, to atone for all the lost lives on her conscience. No matter how many patients she helps save at the Rivers Community Hospital, it will never be enough, but it helps her look at herself in the mirror in the morning. Mariana Mateo needs to make a new life, one without the daily reminders of all she's lost and far away from the suffocating sympathies of her well-meaning family, and moving to a place as different as possible from the bustling LA she grew up in seems like a good idea. A cousin she didn't know she had is the only person who knows her in the tiny upstate New York farming community, and that's just the way she wants it. When working side by side with Glenn Archer in the ER makes Mari remember what desire feels like, Mari determines to ignore the feelings, which isn't all that difficult since Glenn is as unapproachable as the beautiful but remote mountains. A Rivers Community novel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paige McKinney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/073538/bk_acx0_073538_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dead Storm: The Masters CIA Thriller Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 555min
    Hackers can access your bank accounts, take control of your car, or read your personal files. What if one gripped your beating heart? Whatever. Clint's got his own problems. As his city smolders from a saboteur's plot to destroy him, Clint's company sinks deeper in the morass. Every waking moment he struggles to keep the operation alive. As the stock price tanks and his best talent leaves for companies on the rise, it's not a problem he wants to face sober. When a medical hacker seizes control of the First Lady's heartbeat regulator, Clint's products pose a new threat. With one of their own on the line, the Washington elite won't let Clint rest until they get answers. They expect him to search for the one man Clint doesn't want to find, but his normal sympathies won't extend beyond his own misery. After he reluctantly agrees to join the overseas mission, Clint returns to face a greater terror. Greater than his enemies. Greater even than his own demons. This time it's personal. But can he stop a bomber determined to commit mass murder? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Nolan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/074786/bk_acx0_074786_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Abdication , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 649min
    England, 1936. A beloved king is dead, and by year’s end, the charismatic new monarch will give up his throne for love. The world is on the brink of war. And in the tumultuous intervening months, three outsiders will find themselves embroiled in the hidden truths, undeclared loves, unspoken sympathies, and covert complicities of a glittering high society in the throes of upheaval. After a long journey from her home in Barbados, May Thomas secures a position as a secretary and driver and opens her heart to a man seemingly beyond her reach. Outwardly affable American spinster Evangeline Nettlefold finds her place in the uppermost social circles, but her growing resentment toward her childhood friend Wallis Simpson predicts disaster. A friendship catapults Julian Richardson from his mother’s middle-class parlor to luxurious dinners with the king, yet he cannot forget those who struggle outside the gilded gates, nor his uneasy affection for May. As addictive as Downton Abbey, as poignant as The Remains of the Day, renowned historian Juliet Nicolson’s debut novel is a breathtaking story inspired by a love affair that shook the world at a time when order and chaos battled for supremacy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carole Boyd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/020992/bk_adbl_020992_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Europeans , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 466min
    One of Henry James’ main themes was the interaction between the Old World and the New. Restless Baroness Eugenia Munster and her charming bohemian brother Felix are visiting their American cousins in Boston, New England. The effect these two extravagant characters have on their austere Puritan relations forms the substance of the book and is told in a series of scenes or ‘sketches’. The author writes with subtly observed good humour which accelerates and escalates into higher comedy as Felix, the main protagonist, manipulates his cousin’s emotional affiliations. James is most impartial and so the wit is at the expense of neither faction, although one suspects that his sympathies lie more with the European temperament rather than the cloistered sensibilities of New England, a suspicion given credence by the fact that, after living in Britain for twenty years, he eventually obtained citizenship. In a letter to the publisher, outlining his plan for the novel, James wrote; ‘I agree to squeeze my buxom muse… I will lace her so tight that she shall have the neatest little figure in the world. It shall be a very joyous little romance..’ He succeeded brilliantly. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000056/bk_assm_000056_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Accidental Agent: A Jimmy Nessheim Novel, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 662min
    The spellbinding conclusion to the Jimmy Nessheim trilogy, by the author of Fear Itself. Fall, 1942. In the midst of war, Special Agent Jimmy Nessheim has asked for extended leave from the FBI. Becoming a law student at the University of Chicago seems like the perfect way to reenter normal civilian life. But the University of Chicago is home to more than an erstwhile FBI agent. Deep under the stands at Staff Field, renowned scientist Enrico Fermi is beginning work on what will become known as the Manhattan Project, research that could not only change the course of the war but change the face of war itself. Perfectly placed to assist, Nessheim is persuaded by his superiors to return to duty to guard this precious research. Soon he begins to suspect a Nazi infiltrator has gained access to the project, and he must track down the traitor. Almost simultaneously, Nessheim's old flame, Madison, an heiress with left-wing sympathies, finds him in Chicago. But is her reappearance a coincidence? Drawn once again into a web of international intrigue, Nessheim faces his most deadly threat yet. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tristan Morris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004699/bk_rand_004699_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Richard III: A Fully-Dramatized Audio Production From Folger Theatre, Hörbuch, Digital, 202min
    The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection, brings Richard III to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition. In Richard III, Shakespeare invites us on a moral holiday. The play draws us to identify with Richard and his fantasy of total control of self and domination of others. Not yet king at the start of the play, Richard presents himself as an enterprising villain as he successfully plans to dispose of his brother, Clarence. Richard achieves similar success in conquering the woman he chooses to marry. He carves a way to the throne through assassination and executions. But Richard also meets resistance, most threateningly from Queen Margaret, widow of King Henry VI, whom he killed before the play’s beginning. Margaret issues a stream of curses, including one on Richard. Gradually the curses are fulfilled, suggesting the curse on Richard may come true, too. Increasingly the play directs our sympathies away from Richard. His supporters desert him; his victims pile up. We may begin to share in the desire for vengeance voiced by Margaret. This new unabridged audio recording of the well-respected edition of Shakespeare's classic, expertly produced by the Folger Theatre, is perfect for students, teachers, and the everyday listener. Language: English. Narrator: full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/006971/bk_sans_006971_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    For Such a Time , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 801min
    In 1944, blonde and blue-eyed Jewess Hadassah Benjamin feels abandoned by God when she is saved from a firing squad only to be handed over to a new enemy. Pressed into service by SS Kommandant Colonel Aric von Schmidt at the transit camp of Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia, she is able to hide behind the false identity of Stella Muller. However, in order to survive and maintain her cover as Aric's secretary, she is forced to stand by as her own people are sent to Auschwitz. Suspecting that her employer is a man of hidden depths and sympathies, Stella cautiously appeals to him on behalf of those in the camp. Aric's compassion gives her hope, and she finds herself battling a growing attraction for this man she knows she should despise as an enemy. Stella pours herself into her efforts to keep even some of the camp's prisoners safe, but she risks the revelation of her true identity with every attempt. When her bravery brings her to the point of the ultimate sacrifice, she has only her faith to lean upon. Perhaps God has placed her there for such a time as this, but how can she save her people when she is unable to save herself? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Durante. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/005236/bk_tant_005236_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Revelation: A Matthew Shardlake Novel, Hörbuch, Digital, 415min
    Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. But this time the object of his affections is resisting. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. Matthew Shardlake, meanwhile, is working on the case of a teenage boy, a religious maniac who has been placed by the King's council in the Bedlam hospital for the insane. Should he be released as his parents want, when his terrifying actions could lead to him being burned as a heretic? When an old friend is horrifically murdered, Shardlake promises his widow, for whom he has long had complicated feelings, to bring the killer to justice. His search leads him to connections not only with the boy in Bedlam but with Cranmer and Catherine Parr - and with the dark prophecies of the Book of Revelation. As London's Bishop Bonner prepares a purge of Protestants, Shardlake, together with his assistant, Jack Barak, and his friend, Guy Malton, follow the trail of a series of horrific murders that shake them to the core, and which are already bringing frenzied talk of witchcraft and a demonic possession. For what else would the Tudor mind make of a serial killer? Language: English. Narrator: Anton Lesser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/000397/bk_macm_000397_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Story of Barry: or Dmitri , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 426min
    Barry, age 35, moves from a western state to the Midwest after having spent time in jail for being accused of raping an underage girl, who played him for a fool, making him believe she was in her mid-20s. He meets Patsy, who plays on his sympathies as the abused ex-wife of a small-town farmer. He thinks they have a lot in common, and she gets him a job at a retirement home as an assistant director, which is what he studied for while in prison, but Barry and Patsy falsify his records a bit. After a few months, he learns that she was the town whore. Barry also learns that while he was in prison, his father appointed his nephew Frankie to take over his business, Hemsworth Hardware. Little did he know that Frankie was doing his parents harm, taking whatever he could out of the business; the business ended up failing, which was too much for Mr. Hemsworth, triggering his death. Barry, with the help of an inmate friend who has outside connections, conspires to catch Frankie and have him put away for good. It turns out that Frankie's partner is the husband of Barry's former girlfriend. This story has many twists and subplots that keep your emotions at their peak. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert W. Davis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/049184/bk_acx0_049184_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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