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    Hopalong Cassidy: Bullets on the Range, Hörbuch, Digital, 460min
    A soft-spoken paragon of virtue on the range, Hopalong Cassidy brought law, order, and justice to the frontier. He was a model of integrity, courage, hard work, tolerance, patriotism, chivalry, and good-natured decency - and he attempted to instill these values in his young listeners - all while delivering action-packed entertainment. Cassidy, the creation of Clarence E. Mulford, who dreamed of the West he had never visited, was brought to life by former silent-movie matinee idol William Boyd. Dressed all in black (in contradiction to convention), armed with two pearl-handled six-shooters, and riding a white horse, Boyd's Hoppy roamed the radio range. As the foreman of Buck Peters' Bar-20 ranch, and as a concerned citizen, Cassidy's adventures led him on cattle drives and game hunts, called him to face down killers and crooked politicians alike, and found him brokering peace and clearing obstacles from the paths of the true-hearted romances of his fellow frontiersmen. Episodes Include: The Failure 01-26-50, The Killers of Sandy Gulch 04-09-50, The Red Death 04-16-50, Bullets for Ballots 04-30-50, Range War 05-21-50, Letter from the Grave 05-28-50, Death Paints a Picture 06-04-50, Border of Nowhere 06-11-50, The Medicine Man 06-18-50, Flying Outlaw 06-25-50, The Plague of Parson's Folly 12-09-50, The Case of the Last Word 01-06-51, Bad Medicine at Rimrock 01-13-51, Kidnapper's Trail 05-05-51, The Lawyer of Laredo 12-01-51, Gambler's Luck 01-12-52 Language: English. Narrator: William Boyd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/radi/001850/bk_radi_001850_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Assassin's Fate: Fitz and the Fool, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2702min
    The much-anticipated final conclusion to the Fitz and the Fool trilogy. Prince FitzChivalry Farseer's daughter, Bee, was violently abducted from Withywoods by Servants of the Four in their search for the Unexpected Son, foretold to wield great power. With Fitz in pursuit, the Servants fled through a Skill-pillar, leaving no trace. It seems certain that they and their young hostage have perished in the Skill-river. Clerres, where White Prophets were trained by the Servants to set the world on a better path, has been corrupted by greed. Fitz is determined to reach the city and take vengeance on the Four, not only for the loss of Bee but also for their torture of the Fool. Accompanied by FitzVigilant, son of the assassin Chade; Chade's protégé, Spark; and the stableboy Perseverance, Bee's only friend, their journey will take them from the Elderling city of Kelsingra, down the perilous Rain Wild River and on to the Pirate Isles. Their mission for revenge will become a voyage of discovery as well as of reunions, transformations and heartrending shocks. Startling answers to old mysteries are revealed. What became of the liveships Paragon and Vivacia and their crews? What is the origin of the Others and their eerie beach? How are liveships and dragons connected? But Fitz and his followers are not the only ones with a deadly grudge against the Four. An ancient wrong will bring them unlikely and dangerous allies in their quest. And if the corrupt society of Clerres is to be brought down, Fitz and the Fool will have to make a series of profound and fateful sacrifices. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Avita Jay, David Thorpe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002794/bk_hcuk_002794_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How to Become a Lady: The London Ladies Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 263min
    Emmaline Clarke, the daughter of a penniless baron with no influence, had been left behind once again. With her father's passing, everything was taken to pay off the debt and she had been left without a place to live. Her only hope is her sister that she had not seen in eight years, her sister that her father had disowned when she was only 14. Desperate just to have a home, Emmaline was willing to do anything, even beg for her sister to take her in. Derek Ashford, the 18th Duke of Montrose, was a distinguished lord of the realm and was well known for being a paragon of society. He was as strait-laced and austere as a duke should be and held his duties above all else. And that 'else' included his impending duty of marriage. Derek would need to find a lady who came from good breeding, a sizeable dowry, and the manner suited to a duchess this Season. The last thing he needed was a scandal like the one his parents had created. The first time Emma walked into a ball, she experienced something she never would have expected, and could not imagine this would be the new world in which she lived. The first lady to capture Derek's eye brushed him off and his interest was sparked. She seemed nothing like any other lady he had encountered in his years roaming the London Seasons and she sparked something in him he didn't even know he could feel. Could Emma be his future duchess? Or would she be the one to get away? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Preece. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/088440/bk_acx0_088440_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Human Universe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 447min
    Human life is a staggeringly strange thing. On the surface of a ball of rock falling around a nuclear fireball in the blackness of a vacuum, the laws of nature conspired to create a naked ape that can look up at the stars and wonder where it came from. What is a human being? Objectively, nothing of consequence. Particles of dust in an infinite arena, present for an instant in eternity. Clumps of atoms in a universe with more galaxies than people. Yet a human being is necessary for the question itself to exist, and the presence of a question in the universe - any question - is the most wonderful thing. Questions require minds, and minds bring meaning. What is meaning? I don't know, except that the universe and every pointless speck inside it means something to me. I am astonished by the existence of a single atom and find my civilisation to be an outrageous imprint on reality. I don't understand it. Nobody does, but it makes me smile. This book asks questions about our origins, our destiny, and our place in the universe. We have no right to expect answers; we have no right to even ask. But ask and wonder we do. Human Universe is first and foremost a love letter to humanity - a celebration of our outrageous fortune in existing at all. I have chosen to write my letter in the language of science, because there is no better demonstration of our magnificent ascent from dust to paragon of animals than the exponentiation of knowledge generated by science. Two million years ago we were apemen. Now we are spacemen. That has happened, as far as we know, nowhere else. That is worth celebrating. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Samuel West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002337/bk_hcuk_002337_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hopalong Cassidy: Bullets on the Range, Hörbuch, Digital, 459min
    A soft-spoken paragon of virtue on the range, Hopalong Cassidy brought law, order, and justice to the frontier. He was a model of integrity, courage, hard work, tolerance, patriotism, chivalry, and good-natured decency - and he attempted to instill these values in his young listeners - all while delivering action-packed entertainment. Cassidy, the creation of Clarence E. Mulford, who dreamed of the West he had never visited, was brought to life by former silent-movie matinee idol William Boyd. Dressed all in black (in contradiction to convention), armed with two pearl-handled six-shooters, and riding a white horse, Boyd's Hoppy roamed the radio range. As the foreman of Buck Peters' Bar-20 ranch, and as a concerned citizen, Cassidy's adventures led him on cattle drives and game hunts, called him to face down killers and crooked politicians alike, and found him brokering peace and clearing obstacles from the paths of the true-hearted romances of his fellow frontiersmen. Includes 16 digitally restored and remastered episodes. Episodes include: "The Failure", 01-26-50; "The Killers of Sandy Gulch", 04-09-50; "The Red Death", 04-16-50; "Bullets for Ballots", 04-30-50; "Range War", 05-21-50; "Letter from the Grave", 05-28-50; "Death Paints a Picture", 06-04-50; "Border of Nowhere", 06-11-50; "The Medicine Man", 06-18-50; "Flying Outlaw", 06-25-50; "The Plague of Parson's Folly", 12-09-50; "The Case of the Last Word", 01-06-51; "Bad Medicine at Rimrock", 01-13-51; "Kidnapper's Trail", 05-05-51; "The Lawyer of Laredo", 12-01-51; and "Gambler's Luck", 01-12-52. Language: English. Narrator: William Boyd, Clyde Andy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/radi/000845/rt_radi_000845_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    King of the Badgers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 893min
    After the success of The Mulberry Empire and The Northern Clemency, which was short-listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Philip Hensher brings us the peaceful civility and spiralling paranoia of the small English town of Handsmouth. Usually a quiet and undisturbed place situated on an estuary, Handsmouth becomes the centre of national attention when an eight-year-old girl vanishes. The town fills with journalists and television crews, who latch onto the public's fearful suspicions that the missing girl, the daughter of one of the town's working-class families, was abducted. This tragic event serves to expose the range of segregated existences in the town, as spectrums of class, wealth, and lifestyle are blurred in the investigation. Behind Handsmouth's closed doors and pastoral façade the extraordinary individual lives of the community are exposed. The undisclosed passions of a quiet international aid worker are set against his wife, a woman whose astonishing aptitude for intellectual pursuits, such as piano-playing and elaborate cooking, makes her seem a paragon of virtue to the outside world. A recently widowed old woman tells a story that details her late discovery of sexual gratification. And the Bears - middle-aged, fat, hairy gay men, given to promiscuity and some drug abuse - have a party. As the search for the missing girl elevates, the case enables a self-appointed authority figure to present the case for increased surveillance, and, as old notions of privacy begin to crack, private lives seep into the public well of knowledge. Handsmouth is a powerful study of the vital importance of individuality, the increasingly intrusive hand of political powers, and the unyielding strength of Nature against the worst excesses of human behaviour. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Rogers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000785/bk_hcuk_000785_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In Byron's Wake , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1089min
    In 1815, the clever, courted and cherished Annabella Milbanke married the notorious and brilliant Lord Byron. Just one year later, she fled, taking with her their baby daughter, the future Ada Lovelace. Byron himself escaped into exile and died as a revolutionary hero in 1824, aged 36. The one thing he had asked his wife to do was to make sure that their daughter never became a poet.Ada didn't. Brought up by a mother who became one of the most progressive reformers of Victorian England, Byron's little girl was introduced to mathematics as a means of calming her wild spirits. Educated by some of the most learned minds in England, she combined that scholarly discipline with a rebellious heart and a visionary imagination.As a child invalid, Ada dreamed of building a steam-driven flying horse. As an exuberant and boldly unconventional young woman, she amplified her explanations of Charles Babbage's unbuilt calculating engine to predict, as nobody would do for another century, the dawn today of our modern computer age. When Ada died - like her father, she was only 36 - great things seemed still to lie ahead for her as a passionate astronomer. Even while mired in debt from gambling and crippled by cancer, she was frenetically employing Faraday's experiments with light refraction to explore the analysis of distant stars.Drawing on fascinating new material, Seymour reveals the ways in which Byron, long after his death, continued to shape the lives and reputations both of his wife and his daughter. During her life, Lady Byron was praised as a paragon of virtue; within 10 years of her death, she was vilified as a disgrace to her sex. Well over a 100 years later, Annabella Milbanke is still perceived as a prudish wife and cruelly controlling mother. But her hidden devotion to Byron and her tender ambitions for his mercurial, brilliant daughter reveal a deeply complex but unsuspectingly sympathetic personality.Miranda Seymour has written a masterf ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sandra Duncan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/053958/bk_adbl_053958_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Parthenon Enigma , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 730min
    Built in the fifth century BC., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model for our most hallowed civic architecture. But how much do the values of those who built the Parthenon truly correspond with our own? And apart from the significance with which we have invested it, what exactly did this marvel of human hands mean to those who made it? In this revolutionary book, Joan Breton Connelly challenges our most basic assumptions about the Parthenon and the ancient Athenians. Beginning with the natural environment and its rich mythic associations, she re-creates the development of the Acropolis - the Sacred Rock at the heart of the city-state - from its prehistoric origins to its Periklean glory days as a constellation of temples among which the Parthenon stood supreme. In particular, she probes the Parthenon’s legendary frieze: the 525-foot-long relief sculpture that originally encircled the upper reaches before it was partially destroyed by Venetian cannon fire (in the 17th century) and most of what remained was shipped off to Britain (in the 19th century) among the Elgin marbles. The frieze’s vast enigmatic procession - a dazzling pageant of cavalrymen and elders, musicians and maidens - has for more than two hundred years been thought to represent a scene of annual civic celebration in the birthplace of democracy. But thanks to a once-lost play by Euripides (the discovery of which, in the wrappings of a Hellenistic Egyptian mummy, is only one of this book’s intriguing adventures), Connelly has uncovered a long-buried meaning, a story of human sacrifice set during the city’s mythic founding. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019786/bk_adbl_019786_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Risen: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 321min
    New York Times best-selling author Ron Rash demonstrates his superb narrative skills in this suspenseful and evocative tale of two brothers whose lives are altered irrevocably by the events of one long-ago summer - and one bewitching young woman - and the secrets that could destroy their lives. While swimming in a secluded creek on a hot Sunday in 1969, 16-year-old Eugene and his older brother, Bill, meet the entrancing Ligeia. A sexy, free-spirited redhead from Daytona Beach banished to their small North Carolina town until the fall, Ligeia will not only bewitch the two brothers but lure them into a struggle that reveals the hidden differences in their natures. Drawn in by her raw sensuality and rebellious attitude, Eugene falls deeper under her spell. Ligeia introduces him to the thrills and pleasures of the counterculture movement, then in its headiest moment. But just as the movement's youthful optimism turns dark elsewhere in the country that summer, so does Eugene and Ligeia's brief romance. Eugene moves further and further away from his brother, the cautious and dutiful Bill, and when Ligeia vanishes as suddenly as she appeared, the growing rift between the two brothers becomes immutable. Decades later their relationship is still turbulent, and the once close brothers now lead completely different lives. Bill is a gifted and successful surgeon, a paragon of the community, while Eugene, the town reprobate, is a failed writer and determined alcoholic. When a shocking reminder of the past unexpectedly surfaces, Eugene is plunged back into that fateful summer and the girl he cannot forget. The deeper he delves into his memories, the closer he comes to finding the truth. But can Eugene's recollections be trusted? And will the truth set him free and offer salvation...or destroy his damaged life and everyone he loves? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Ferrone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005484/bk_harp_005484_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mary: Ten Test Questions for the World's Finest Woman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 413min
    Maybe It's Time You Learned the Truth.... The community of Christian faith worldwide knows her as the finest woman who ever lived. Born in obscurity to a distant descendant of Israel's magnificent King David, Mary, the mother of Jesus of Nazareth, was honored by the Creator of the Universe to be the person through whom God himself would visit his own Creation. No matter what you may have thought you knew before about this first-century paragon of virtue and faith, there's a good possibility that you've been misinformed about her. In fact, chances are you've been wrong from the start about the most remarkable woman who ever walked the dusty roads of first-century Israel at the height of the Roman Empire's power. No, Mary isn't who you think she is. More than 20 centuries have come and gone since a teenage virgin became the mother of God's incarnate Son. As a result far too much myth has grown up around the person and story of the woman who became one of the foundational figures of human history. But what the New Testament records tell us about the life of Mary, the mother of Jesus, is fascinating enough in its own right that accumulated legends seem to embellish the story. So today, more than 20 centuries later, biblical scholar and theologian Dr. William Welty pulls back the dusty curtain of historically inaccurate tradition and introduces you to the very human but utterly magnificent character of Mary, the mother of the Messiah, as she struggles to pass Ten Test Questions for the World's Finest Woman. In this analysis of every passage recorded in the New Testament in which she is mentioned, you'll learn why Mary, the mother of the rabbi from Nazareth, rose from literal obscurity to become one of the most pivotal figures in all of human history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/063976/bk_acx0_063976_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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