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Undressed by the Earl: Secrets in Silk, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 695min
A man shrouded in grief… David Hartford, the Earl of Castledon, is tormented by the death of his wife. Though everyone expects him to remarry and beget an heir, he is a man living in shadows, unwilling to break out of his prison of sorrow. A spirited young woman who embraces life… Impulsive Amelia Andrews befriends Lord Castledon and decides that he would make the perfect match for her prim older sister. Though she tries to bring the pair of them together, Amelia cannot help but see the lonely man behind David’s grim exterior. Even worse, she finds herself caught beneath his piercing stare…and she wonders how to melt his icy heart. An unlikely match No woman can ever replace his first wife…but when Amelia is caught in a web of ruin, David cannot stand aside and let her suffer. Can an unexpected marriage bring about a love even greater than the one he lost? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sue Pitkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/006291/bk_brll_006291_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Rose Red Bride: The Jewels of Kinfairlie, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 794min
More cherished than gold are the Jewels of Kinfairlie, and only the worthiest may fight for their love. The Laird of Kinfairlie has unmarried sisters, each a gem in her own right. And he has no choice but to see them all wed in haste. Like a heroine in an ancient tale, Vivienne waited in the highest chamber of Kinfairlie's tower for her fated lover. In the darkness he came for her, cloaked and hooded so that she would not see his face. He loved her sweetly, thoroughly...and Vivienne knew she had met her destiny. But in the morning light, her dream is shattered. Erik Sinclair of Blackleith is no romantic hero but a disinherited warrior who arranged her abduction to regain his own legacy. Outraged by Erik's insistence that he needs her solely to beget a son, yet ensnared by the passion he awakens, Vivienne realizes that there is more merit in her taciturn spouse than he would admit. Erik is skeptical of her growing faith in his honor and her desire to recapture his stolen birthright. Little does he suspect that his rare gem of a bride intends to capture his barricaded heart as well. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/030381/bk_acx0_030381_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Evil and the Mask , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 551min
The second book by prize-winning Japanese novelist Fuminori Nakamura to be available in English translation, a follow-up to 2012’s critically acclaimed The Thief—another fantastically creepy, electric literary thriller that explores the limits of human depravity—and the powerful human instinct to resist evil. When Fuminiro Kuki is eleven years old, his elderly, enigmatic father calls him into his study for a meeting. “I created you to be a cancer on the world,” his father tells him. It is a tradition in their wealthy family: a patriarch, when reaching the end of his life, will beget one last child to dedicate to causing misery in a world that cannot be controlled or saved. From this point on, Fuminori will be specially educated to learn to create as much destruction and unhappiness in the world around him as a single person can. Between his education in hedonism and his family’s resources, Fuminori’s life is one without repercussions. Every door is open to him, for he need obey no laws and may live out any fantasy he might have, no matter how many people are hurt in the process. But as his education progresses, Fuminori begins to question his father’s mandate, and starts to resist. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirby Heyborne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbca/001419/bk_bbca_001419_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Neanderthal Marries Human: A Smarter Romance: Knitting in the City, Book 1.5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 836min
There are three things you should know about Quinn Sullivan: 1) He is madly in love with Janie Morris 2) He's not above playing dirty to get what (or who) he wants 3) He doesn't know how to knit. After just five months of dating Janie, Quinn - former Wendell and unapologetic autocrat - is ready to propose marriage. In fact he's more than ready. If it were up to Quinn, he would efficiently propose, marry, and beget Janie with child all in the same day - thereby avoiding the drama and angst that accompanies the four stages of prematrimony: engagement; meeting the parents; bachelor/bachelorette party; and overblown, superfluous wedding day traditions. But Janie, much to Quinn's dismay, tosses a wrench in his efficacious endeavors and challenges him to prove his devotion by going through the matrimonial motions, no matter how minute and mundane. Will Quinn last until the wedding day? Or will he yield to his tyrant impulses? Regardless, one thing is for certain: Quinn Sullivan will have to learn to expect the Spanish Inquisition (i.e., the unexpected) if he plans to have and keep Janie Morris as his wife. You must listen to Neanderthal Seeks Human first before listening to this book. This book is written in first person with alternating POVs (Janie Morris and Quinn Sullivan, but more Janie than Quinn). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Grace, Sebastian York. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/059530/bk_acx0_059530_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Blind Eye: An Adam Kaminski Mystery, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 471min
Blood ties have an American police detective in Poland investigating a suicide that may have been murder....“An astutely crafted, action-packed read.” (Kirkus Reviews)In this darkly atmospheric suspense, a Philadelphia police detective visiting Poland gets involved when murder is suspected, and the local police turn away. Adam Kaminski, with a delegation to Philadelphia's sister city, is meant to be a polite observer only. But a good man doesn't walk away when he sees wrong being done, and he's not about to start now. Visiting his family's homeland, Adam's been warned by his superiors to be on his best behavior. In a country that has known centuries of wars and occupation, politics are complex and layered with old prejudices and loyalties impossible for foreigners to understand. But when Adam meets a Polish cousin in Warsaw who believes his daughter was murdered, Adam is troubled by the indifference of the police...and by the strange behavior of the delegation's Polish liaison. Adam begins uncovering clues that point to the killer, clues that lead him inexorably into an investigation of the intricate web of Polish politics and the legacy of the Secret Police. But the past isn't always black and white, as Adam is forced to accept as he learns more about the killer and about his own family legacy. Will looking into the murder only beget more murder? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150966/bk_acx0_150966_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Nordic Aliens and the Amazon Queens: Giant Warrior Women Who Ruled the World (Through the Wormhole, Book 6) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 492min
In a remote age of human history, women ruled kingdoms so vast that you might even say that women ruled the world. These giant warrior women were born of the gods, and in battle, one woman fought as fiercely as 10 men. They led armies into war, built cities, roads, canals, bridges, and irrigation systems. Amazons established botanical gardens with freshwater fountains along major roadways to provide food and water for weary travelers. Kings wanted to beget sons by the Amazons, so they kidnapped and enslaved these women, and if husbands existed, they were summarily killed. Soldiers who “caught” an Amazon and gifted her to a king were rewarded handsomely. It’s no wonder that Amazons formed women-only colonies in which men were forbidden to live. No more would men steal these giant women as trophies or force them into marriage. Amazon accomplishments have often been credited to men, presumably by the same historians who were so incredulous as to deem the “extraordinary” and “unnatural” exploits of the Amazons “impossible to believe” as one described it. And yet, Amazon colonies spanned three-quarters of the world. They were the Rakshasi demons of India, the Candace queens of Africa, the Gorgons of Greek legend, the white-haired queens and yellow-haired giants of America, the genii of Chinese legend, and one was born of a mermaid in a flying egg. All carried the genes of Nordic extraterrestrials whom we once worshipped as gods. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter L. Delloro. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/196707/bk_acx0_196707_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lady of Eve: A Medieval Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 468min
Fallen On the eve of her profession as a nun, Lady Graeye Charwyck is called home to Medland by the father who disavowed her years earlier for the devil's mark she bears. Desperate to escape the convent, she agrees to wed a man she detests to provide an heir for her family's holdings. But when the king declares the Charwyck lands forfeit and awards them to their enemy, Graeye once more finds herself discarded. Grieved by her father's plans to return her to the convent, she yields to impulse and casts aside her virtue only to discover that the knight with whom she sinned is the new lord of Medland. Relentless Baron Gilbert Balmaine is a man nearly eaten through with desire to see the end of the Charwyck line for all the ills the family has visited upon his own. With the heir dead, the only remaining survivor too aged to beget another, and their lands forfeited for the atrocities committed against the Balmaines, light lies ahead--until Gilbert learns there is a daughter. And his world darkens further when he realizes she is the one who, on a starry night, tempted him past temptation. Certain she intended to trap him into marriage, he vows he will not rest until she is back within the walls of her abbey. Now if only he can forget her. If only that night did not have such far-reaching consequences... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mary Sarah Agliotta. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/029158/bk_acx0_029158_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 789min
The gripping story of 200 freed Mississippi slaves who sailed to Liberia to build a new colony - where the colonists' repression of the native tribes would beget a tragic cycle of violence. When a wealthy Mississippi cotton planter named Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the proceeds from the sale be used to pay for his slaves' passage to the newly established colony of Liberia in western Africa. Ross' heirs contested the will for more than a decade in the state courts and legislature - prompting a deadly revolt in which a group of slaves burned Ross' mansion to the ground - but the will was ultimately upheld. The slaves then emigrated to their new home, where they battled the local tribes and built vast plantations with Greek Revival mansions in a region the Americo-Africans renamed "Mississippi in Africa." The seeds of resentment sown over a century of cultural conflict between the colonists and tribal peoples would explode in the late 20th century, begetting a civil war that rages in Liberia to this day. In the award-winning tradition of Slaves in the Family, this enthralling work traces an epic legacy that sweeps from the slave quarters of the antebellum South to the war-ravaged streets of modern-day Monrovia. Tracking down Prospect Hill's living descendants, deciphering a history ruled by rumor, and delivering the complete chronicle in riveting prose, journalist Alan Huffman has rescued a lost chapter of American history whose aftermath is far from over. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew L. Barnes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/021995/bk_acx0_021995_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Happy as a Rat in a Trash Can , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 83min
On a scale of one to 10, with one being not happy at all and 10 being very, very happy, how happy would you say you are right now, before listening to this book? Now remember that number. Inside Happy As a Rat In a Trash Can Don challenges the listener to raise that number just as a student would be challenged to raise up school grades. Don says this book is about you! It is about you becoming A little more faithful A little more grateful A little more understanding A little more forgiving A little more thoughtful A little more caring And a lot more loving Why? Because these are the things that beget happiness. In early 2008 Don's Mom went to be with the Lord. She was a person just like your Mom, very loving and invariably, always in your corner. Her Christian values were instilled in him and are presented to the listeners throughout this book. He'll explain why faith is necessary and how the law of sowing and reaping is creating the world you live in. This book's objective is to raise your level of happiness even if you are already a happy person. Don't be surprised if those around you start to wonder what got into you! This book can be your little secret happiness project. You'll learn how and why we all need to pay more attention to others and why that will result in a better future for yourself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Taverna. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/066379/bk_acx0_066379_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Apollo's Raven , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 716min
Can a curse control ancient Britannia? The world is in turmoil. Celtic kings hand-picked by Rome to rule are fighting each other for power. King Amren's former queen, a powerful druid, has cast a curse that foretells Blood Wolf and the Raven will rise and destroy him. When Roman envoys unexpectedly arrive with a cohort of legionaries and demand King Amren's fealty, his rule begins to implode. King Amren reveals to Princess Catrin, the grim prophecy that his former queen pronounced at her execution for treason to him: The gods demand the scales be balanced for the life you take. If you deny my soul's journey to the Otherworld by beheading me, I curse you to the same fate as mine. I prophesize your future queen will beget a daughter who will rise as a Raven and join your son, Blood Wolf, and a mighty empire to overtake your kingdom and to execute my curse. As his daughter, Catrin is trained as a warrior and discovers she is the Raven and must find a way to block the curse of the evil former queen. Torn between her forbidden love for her father's enemy Marcellus, the great-grandson of Mark Antony, and her loyalty to her people, she must summon the magic of the ancient druids to alter the dark prophecy that awaits her. Will Catrin overcome and eradicate the ancient curse? Will she be able to embrace her forbidden love with Marcellus? Will she cease the war between Blood Wolf and King Amren? Will she save ancient Britannia? Apollo's Raven sweeps you into an epic Celtic tale of love, magic, adventure, intrigue, and betrayal in ancient Rome and Britannia. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kristin James. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/087165/bk_acx0_087165_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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