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    The Holybrooke Curse (Regency Gothic Ghost Tale): Regency Tales, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 123min
    It was a ghastly horror of a house party. Miss Penelope Childe and all the others were awaiting the end of the wicked earl's rotten life. The disinherited son, the new heir, the illegitimate son - all of them are there. Murder is done. The centuries-old curse has struck again. Penelope alone heard the supernatural scream and sees the ghosts that no one else can. Penelope is a reluctant bride-to-be, contracted to wed a man she's never met before. She intensely dislikes her betrothed, the rakish Lord Taredell. With a murderer in the haunted house, dare she trust the rogue lord? Is Lord Taredell really her protector? Is he the murderer? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julia Eve. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/184534/bk_acx0_184534_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Awakenings , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 788min
    Awakenings - which inspired the major motion picture - is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world. PLEASE NOTE: Some changes have been made to the original manuscript with the permission of Oliver Sacks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003106/bk_adbl_003106_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sector Eight: Perimeter Defense, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 725min
    A strange body that refuses to obey you; a weird game you can't quit until your contract expires; a world teeming with powerful and very real enemies. The game in which your reputation and faction relationship are the only things that matter. These are the conditions of the agreement Ruslan signs without reading. The only thing he remembers is that he's been contracted to command a space fleet in a brand-new game he knows nothing about. Objective: to survive for six months. After having made some inevitable newbie mistakes, Ruslan has to rethink his strategy, dropping traditional gaming conventions. But what will it cost him? What new trials and tribulations await him that even the game designers have failed to anticipate? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Neil Hellegers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/006197/bk_tant_006197_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Stir of a Thousand Voices , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 151min
    After his surreptitious return from India with his young wife, Antonia, who had contracted leprosy, Doctor Rupert Whitaker (a colonel in the British Army) locks her away in a bedroom at his estate in Devon. Driven by guilt, Doctor Whitaker takes the care of his wife to task while keeping her father and brother at bay and the knowledge of her illness from everyone. As the ghosts from his past return to torment him, and his household retainers discover the truth, Antonia decays in the darkness of her room and the house descends into disorder. While pressures build for Doctor Whitaker, he begins to fall into madness, which ultimately leads to his ghastly demise and the destruction of Whitaker Hall. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elizabeth Livingstone Wallner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/003827/bk_acx0_003827_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Knife Edge , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 763min
    In London, a newly-arrived Kurdish immigrant is brutally murdered by Turkish people-traffickers. The dead man’s wife, Irena, flees to East Anglia where she disappears into the murky world of illegal foreign workers. Reporter Joe Verdi goes undercover as a migrant worker to try to find Irena. But he’s not the only one looking for her – the Turks are also on her trail. Meanwhile, Joe’s colleague, Elli Mason, is following up the story of a typhoid outbreak. Three people have contracted the disease and the only link between them seems to be a supermarket chain. As the two reporters’ investigations come together, they discover there is a price to pay for cheap food – and sometimes that price is people’s lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Seán Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/001517/bk_isis_001517_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Surprise Me! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 582min
    At Surprise Enterprise, Genie Burns creates off-the-wall surprise parties at unorthodox locations. Her job enables her to take crazy risks that are all under her control. Surprise Enterprise has just been contracted to throw a surprise wedding by a client who prefers not to reveal his identity. As Genie works to get her client's bride down the aisle, her own life suddenly feels out of control, and Genie begins to question her relationship with her boyfriend, Jeff. Is he "the one" because he challenges her to heal the wounds from her past? Or is he the wrong one because he repeats them? As Genie works to plan her latest surprise party, she also works at resolving these questions, and the answers are a....surprise! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Trudie Kessler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010484/bk_adbl_010484_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Mystery of Edwin Drood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 609min
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood was Charles Dickens’ final novel. Dickens died before he had a chance to finish the novel, leaving the literary world an undying mystery and speculation. Set in the quaint English village of Cloisterham, The Mystery of Edwin Drood takes the listener down a path of dark intrigue and madness. Although Edwin Drood is contracted to enter into an arranged marriage with the orphan Rosa Bud, the young couple develops a deep respect for each other. During a Christmas Eve storm, Drood goes missing, leaving behind nothing but his personal items and a single suspect, his uncle. Edwin’s uncle, John Jasper, is the number one suspect due to the fact that he is madly in love with Rosa. What could have happened to Edwin and who knows the truth? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Cunningham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/200249/bk_acx0_200249_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Guardians of Stone: The Relic Seekers, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 575min
    The BrainsKendall Morgan, a relic expert born with the family gift for sensing the history and location of ancient artifacts. The BucksNathan Larraby, the enigmatic billionaire who has hired Kendall to locate four powerful relics. The BrawnJake Stone, the tough, sexy mercenary with a mysterious past, contracted to protect Kendall. Every mission Kendall accepts carries certain hazards, but Nathan’s latest is proving to be the most dangerous yet. Kendall’s attraction to Jake - and to Nathan - is making it hard to stay focused, and none of them can afford the distraction. Because there’s someone else hunting the relics, someone who will stop at nothing to put them to his own sinister use. But the dark secrets Nathan’s keeping could cost them the mission, their lives...and the history of mankind. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Renee Raudman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004488/bk_brll_004488_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pontypool Changes Everything , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 502min
    The dark side of humanity is explored in this electrifying science fiction thriller in which an epidemic virus terrorizes the Earth. Causing its inhabitants to strike out on murderous rampages, the virus is caught through conversation and, once contracted, leads its host on a strange journey - into another world where the undead roam the streets of the smallest towns and largest cities, hungry for human flesh. Describing in chilling detail what it would be like if thousands suddenly caught such a virus and struck out on a mass, never-ending, cannibalistic spree, this terrifying narrative is perfect for those who are ready to explore their darkest secret imaginings through a sinister and compelling literary work of art. This new edition includes a new afterword on the making of the new motion picture. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Dikeos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008081/bk_adbl_008081_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Altered Carbon: Altered Carbon, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1034min
    Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course. But some things never change. So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldn't be surprised. Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society. Read by Todd McLaren. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Todd McLaren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000576/bk_orio_000576_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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