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    The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 555min
    A '"skillful, literate'" (New York Times Book Review) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer. To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was cut short. As an openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal in England, he was convicted and forced to undergo a humiliating "treatment" that may have led to his suicide. With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity - his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor - and elegantly explains his work and its implications. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Powers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006665/bk_blak_006665_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Cottage , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 476min
    Sometimes, the past is best left undisturbed...as Megs and Char discover. An old cottage by the beach proves more than photogenic to the magazine photographer and her writer friend. They become entangled in nightmares (complete with, perhaps, psychic wounds, perhaps not) and ghostly visions they cannot explain. Nor can they explain the eccentricities of their colleague as he spies an antique toy fire truck the women bring back after a return trip to the cottage. They wonder as he makes a hasty exit from their boss's office only to turn up later and disrupt their lives forever. Unknown to them, their eccentric colleague shares a common past with the cottage and its decades-old history of tragedy - a history that continues to accumulate as the body count rises. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christine Brewer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/171456/bk_acx0_171456_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Perfection of the Glass Lemons , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 318min
    A vacation is a tremendous ordeal for Emma, who doesn't like to venture outside her comfort zone. It is no comfort to her that the backdrop of that vacation is the glorious Italian city of Naples and the breath-taking Amalfi coastline. Emma is particular about hygiene, nutrition, and the safeguarding of her personal space. In fact, unlike Jay, her husband, Emma is not too crazy about people in general.  Jay is Emma's greatest admirer. He is an incorrigible optimist, as well as an ardent world traveler. For the most, Jay is naively blind to the depths of Emma's quirkiness and eccentricities. However, even he is beginning to understand that the never-ending obstacles that she constantly sets up for herself are getting increasingly out of control. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lillie Ricciardi, Danny Hughes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/112966/bk_acx0_112966_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Uncle Fred In The Springtime, Hörbuch, Digital, 382min
    Once again we find ourselves at that idyllic country seat, Blandings. This time it's debonair charmer, Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, fifth Earl of Ickenham (known to most as 'Uncle Fred') who has been lured to the castle by affable Lord Emsworth. His lordship requires an expert in human behaviour to prevent the egg-throwing Duke of Dunstable from stealing Emsworth's treasured pig, Empress of Blandings. The plot's eccentricities naturally include love and romance and, crucially, three imposters. Add to the cocktail some 'Mickey Finn's', a brace of financially embarrassed nephews and a private investigator, 'Mustard Pott'. As the mixture boils there are shot guns in the night time - plus redoubtable Lady Constance, Emsworth's sister, who could halt a cavalry charge merely with her voice. A happy and appropriate ending is of course on the cards. Language: English. Narrator: Martin Jarvis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/csaw/000166/bk_csaw_000166_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach (Fiction Without Frontiers) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 519min
    It's Ray and Sandra's first family holiday in Greece, on the island of Vasilema. The skies are cloudier than anywhere else in Greece, and the family is intrigued by local eccentricities -the lack of mirrors, the outsize beach umbrellas, the saint's day celebrated with an odd nocturnal ritual.Why are there islanders who seem to follow the family wherever they go? Why do Sandra and the teenage grandchildren have strangely similar dreams? Has Sandra been granted a wish she didn't know she made? Before their holiday is over, some of the family may learn too much about the secret that keeps the island alive.Flame Tree Press is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launching in 2018, the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established, the award winners and exciting original voices. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Millar. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/125632/bk_acx0_125632_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Under the Table Books: A Novel of Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 766min
    Under the Table Books is a funny, sexy, thought-provoking novel of stories. Underscored by his original piano compositions, Todd Walton's dramatic reading of his novel brings to life the inviting and mysterious world of a one-of-a-kind bookstore, haven to a fascinating family of social outcasts, visionaries, and cutting-edge artists. This mythically real bookstore is both community center and grand experiment in pragmatic mysticism. The cast includes poets, musicians, master chefs, a 10-year-old genius, a former movie star, 88-year-old identical twins, and a homeless savant who may have once been the richest man on earth. Yet for all their eccentricities, each character is an authentic and lovable soul with whom readers and listeners will identify and care deeply about as this first volume of an ongoing saga builds to its myriad dramatic conclusions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Todd Walton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redw/000012/bk_redw_000012_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Nero: Life of a Roman Emperor, Hörbuch, Digital, 94min
    Suetonius' most important surviving work is known as the De Vita Caesarum, a set of twelve biographies of the successive Roman rulers. The emperor Nero's reign is one weird tale of sexual depravity and extravagant sadism. He was a gifted musician, and is said to have given great concerts of which attendance was compulsory; women were said to have given birth during the performance, and men were driven to fake death to escape. Nero kicked his pregnant wife to death and then had a young boy castrated to replace her as his spouse; then, during the great fire of Rome, he is said to have played the lyre to emphasize the beauty of the destruction. His eccentricities are a continuation of the tradition of his predecessors, only more perverted; Suetonius' account portrays a strange man in strange times. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Waite. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cids/000511/bk_cids_000511_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Downright Dencey: Young Adult Library , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 444min
    This treasure of a novel is set on the island of Nantucket just before the War of 1812. Much more than a tale of whaling ships and gentle Quaker eccentricities, it is a tale of friendship - the kind most truly espoused by these "plain" folk, with all the struggle and complexity one should expect. Dionis (Dencey) Coffyn is a mystery to her mother, Lydia, whose stern exterior hides a heart that breaks every time her husband Captain Tom goes to sea. Within a context of outward simplicity of living and inward intricacy of relationship, Dencey matures from the little girl who, in unquakerly violence of temper, throws a rock that wounds the town outcast. She becomes a young woman ready to bear her part in life with grace and courage. A probing portrayal of the power of love to overcome social barriers and religious strictures. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pearl Hewitt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/214285/bk_acx0_214285_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Pizza Monster , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 22min
    Olivia Sharp, cousin to super sleuth Nate the Great, is a detective too! Rather than solve mysteries like Nate, Olivia helps friends with their problems by detecting what's wrong beneath the surface. You'll be won over by Olivia's spunk, eccentricities, and can-do spirit.I, Nate the Great, have something to say. My cousin, Olivia Sharp, is almost (but not quite) the world's best detective. I solve mysteries. She's an agent for secrets. You won't forget Olivia. She won't let you.Meet Olivia Sharp. She's bold. She's eager to help people. She's a special kind of detective. She's an agent for secrets. Duncan is Olivia's first case. He believes that the world is coming to an end. And he wants her help. So, Olivia puts on her feather boa. Her driver brings the limo. Soon enough, Olivia knows just what to do. But how will 50 pizzas make Duncan happy? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Eiden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/003037/bk_lili_003037_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Atlas of Unknowns , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 794min
    Sometimes the hardest journey of all is finding your way back home…In the wake of their mother’s mysterious death, Linno and Anju Vallara are raised in Kerala by their father and grandmother. When seventeen-year-old Anju wins a scholarship to study in New York, she jumps at the chance to embrace all that America has to offer, but in so doing commits an act of betrayal that severs her relationship with her sister. When Anju’s lies catch up with her, she runs away, helped by a kindly stranger who somehow knows things about Anju’s past. Meanwhile, Linno has begun a journey of her own: towards her sister, towards the memory of their mother, and towards a future she could never have imagined. Atlas of Unknowns is an unforgettable tale of two sisters whose bonds are powerfully tested, and the secret histories and hilarious eccentricities of families everywhere. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sonya Suares. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/002147/bk_boli_002147_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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