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The Willoughby Chronicles , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 205min
The Willoughby Chronicles is a collection of short nonfiction stories that form a mosaic of the author's lovably bizarre family in the 1960s and 1970s. From being put on a ledge as an infant (saved by the instincts of his lizard brain), to being left at the circus intentionally, to digging a real life Hobbit-hole, to a brother who (surprisingly) turned out not to be the Unabomber, to a thing that happened with a puppy and his mother that the author would rather not talk about, to the final horrific event that put everything in perspective, The Willoughby Chronicles combines hilarity with heart and grace to bring a family - and a time - to life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ted Page. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/096881/bk_acx0_096881_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Gulliver's Travels: A Signature Performance by David Hyde Pierce , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 592min
Four-time Emmy Award winner David Hyde Pierce is famous for playing the lovably self-important Dr. Niles Crane in the hit TV series Frasier. Now, he brings the same wit and charming arrogance to his Signature Classics performance of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. More than just a mock travel book and fabulous adventure, Gulliver’s Travels is a character study and social satire that skewers politics, science, religion, philosophy, and pretentiousness with a bite and resonance that remains as fresh today as the day it was published. Maybe that’s why it hasn’t been out of print in nearly 300 years. Set sail with David Hyde Pierce for a smart, fun, new Gulliver’s Travels experience that’s unlike any other. And stay tuned for more one-of-a-kind performances from actors Leelee Sobiesky, Casey Affleck, Tim Curry, and more, only from Audible Signature Classics. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Hyde Pierce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002575/bk_adbl_002575_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Him & Me , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 551min
Jack and Michael Whitehall perform their laugh-out-loud autobiography Him & Me as a unique dual-voiced comedy audiobook, filled with ad-libs, asides, and comic dialogue to create a uniquely funny listen. Jack and Michael open up the rich and plentiful family lore archives on topics such as Jack’s nanny’s enormous feet, Michael’s lifetime touchline ban from Jack’s prep-school and the Whitehall collection of downright weird and eccentric relatives. With family photographs and sketches by Jack himself, the result is a hugely entertaining insight into a hilarious and sometimes bumpy journey of self-discovery and into the unique relationship between a father and a son. The devotees that adore and worship Jack are already embracing his lovably grumpy father, who is rather enjoying his newfound fame. Watch out, fans of Reeves & Mortimer, Walliams & Lucas, Morecambe & Wise, there’s a new comedy duo in town. This edition features an extra final chapter, recorded exclusively for Audible listeners. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Whitehall, Michael Whitehall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/000424/bk_pauk_000424_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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From Garden to Grave : The Leafy Hollow Mysteries, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 492min
Murder. It’s a perennial problem. Verity Hawkes is a shut-in. After two years bunkered in her apartment, the only thing that gets her out is the disappearance of her beloved but eccentric aunt. As she takes over her aunt’s landscaping shop, she’ll need to go from hoarder to horticulturist in a hurry....Her new home of Leafy Hollow is quaint, except for her most obnoxious client. When a series of freak accidents kills the customer, all signs point to Verity as the killer. The hunt for answers is on, and Verity must question a tipsy carpenter, a bacon-peddling vegan restaurateur, and her dreamy landscaping competitor to keep her new life afloat. Failure to find the truth could put her back in a confined space for much more than two years....From Garden to Grave is the first book in a series of delightfully funny cozy mysteries. If you like lovably quirky characters, deceptively idyllic Canadian villages, and twists you won’t see coming, then you’ll love Rickie Blair’s Leafy Hollow Mysteries series. Buy From Garden to Grave to plant a new seed of mystery today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Petrea Burchard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/177361/bk_acx0_177361_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Jack Benny: Picture Parodies, Hörbuch, Digital, 349min
Lights! Microphone! Action! Hilarious Hollywood spoofs were a beloved feature on many classic Jack Benny radio shows. Regular cast members and guest stars alike were recruited to send up cinema classics like Casablanca, High Noon, and Sunset Boulevard. Celebrities could count on large laughs - and, looking good next to Jack's lovably vainglorious and miserly self - while poking fun at their most famous films. Even without guests, the movie mockery continued. Jack would simply announce a sketch and proclaim that he would be playing the lead! The rest of the cast, of course, was not to be out done - note Rochester's rendition of As Time Goes By and Mel Blanc's "Sleepy Mexican" routine. A treasure trove for both Benny-philes and film fans, this set includes 12 digitally restored and remastered episodes, performances by the likes of Bob Hope and Edward G. Robinson. Episodes Include: The Hunchback of Notre Dame 03-17-40 Mr. Benny Goes to Washington 01-24-43 Casablanca 10-17-43 The Killers 11-24-46, It's a Wonderful Life 02-02-47 Dark Passage 11-02-47 The Treasure of Sierra Madre 05-01-49 Sunset Boulevard 03-25-51 Captain Horatio Hornblower 09-23-51 High Noon 09-28-52 Road to Bali 01-11-53 The Snows of Kilimanjaro 03-08-53 Language: English. Narrator: Jack Benny. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/radi/000841/rt_radi_000841_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Iris & Lily: Book One , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1187min
In Book One, Iris and Lily are the lovably ingenuous youngest daughters in a family of 14, starving for attention as they struggle to survive in the chaotic Capotosti household. The explosive rage of Carlo, their hot-blooded father; the submissiveness of Betty, their overwhelmed mother; the abuse meted out by half a dozen domineering brothers; the inaccessible ken of their older sisters; all join forces to make the home a minefield of emotional pitfalls for the two neglected girls, whose natural exuberance is squelched by the fear of punishment and the dictates of Catholicism. As Iris and Lily scrape their way through puberty to adolescence, outside forces begin driving a wedge between them. The favoritism of an aunt, the shame of sexual abuse, the socioeconomic shifts and eruption of the women's movement of the '70s become the catalysts that lead to the disintegration of what little security was once offered by their family. Desperate for love, Iris and Lily naively take refuge in marriages that push them worlds apart, altering their relationship as sisters dramatically. Told in alternating chapters in the voices of the two protagonists, sprinkled with episodes of comedy and tragedy that will make you laugh and cry, this is the story of every woman who has memories of what it is like to be a little girl, then a young woman on the cusp of adulthood, filled with hope and expectations. Iris & Lily: Book One is the first in a three-volume series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julie Scipioni, Angela Scipioni. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/097989/bk_acx0_097989_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Living the Dream: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 517min
A cheeky, charming debut about 20-something best friends in London navigating their careers and love lives past postcollegiate turmoil and into adulthood, with lots of pints along the way. Emma is a rising star at the marketing firm she works at as a "creative" but would have trouble describing what exactly it is she does all day. She pours most of her actual creative energy into a popular blog that all of her friends agree is brilliant, but she has yet to make a cent on it. Clem is a massively talented screenwriter just back from New York, where she picked up a fancy graduate degree in film. But until she convinces an agent to take on her masterpiece script, she's stuck hostessing at the bar she frequented as an undergrad, and the only calls she's getting are about bills past due and overdrawn bank accounts. In their ironclad friendship, both girls find a reliable break from the postcollegiate absurdities and indignities that seem to abound in life right at the moment they feel they should finally be getting it all together. With a rotating cast of lovably insufferable friends, from Emma's fabulous DJ and ladies' man roommate to Clem's painfully ordinary and predictable childhood chum, the girls wind their way through the twists and turns of aging parents and terrible bosses and regrettable one-night stands, of unforeseen setbacks and blessings that present as anything but, and remind each other that while their ships might not have come in yet, the after-work drinks are cold, and the company can't be beat. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002614/bk_aren_002614_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Life on the Leash
In this "witty celebration of dogs, romance, and taking chances" (Stacey Ballis, author of Wedding Girl), a woman who is a master at training her four-legged friends discovers that she still has a lot to learn about love. Cora Bellamy is a woman who thrives on organization. She's successfully run her own dog training business for years, perfectly content with her beloved rescue pitbull as the main man in her life. She's given everything to her business, and her lack of social life (or slobber-free clothes) has been completely worth it. But all that changes when she meets Charlie Gill, the hottest client she's ever had. The only problem? Charlie's taken. Luckily, Cora's new friend—the sweet, lovably geeky Eli Crawford—is always there to help Cora with her problems, including her love life. That's why she's shocked to realize that even as things start heating up with Charlie, there might just be a more-than-friends spark between her and Eli, too. As Cora's life gets more tangled up than a dogwalker's leashes—and as she prepares to audition for a dog-training TV show that may irrevocably change her entire life—she has to figure things out before it all goes straight to the dogs. "Playful, lovable, and heartwarming" (Amy E. Reichert, author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake), Life on the Leash will inspire you to cheer for every underdog looking for love.- Shop: buecher
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Know Your Beholder: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 509min
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist comes a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about a musician climbing back from rock bottom. As winter deepens in snowbound Pollard, Illinois, 30-something Francis Falbo is holed up in his attic apartment, recovering from a series of traumas: his mother's death, his beloved wife's desertion, and his once-ascendant rock band's irreconcilable break-up. Francis hasn't shaved in months, hasn't so much as changed out of his bathrobe - "the uniform of a Life in Default" - for nine days. Other than the agoraphobia that continues to hold him hostage, all he has left is his childhood home, whose remaining rooms he rents to a cast of eccentric tenants, including a pair of former circus performers whose daughter has gone missing. The tight-knit community has already survived a blizzard, but there is more danger in store for the citizens of Pollard before summer arrives. Francis is himself caught up in these troubles as he becomes increasingly entangled in the affairs of others, with results that are by turns disastrous, hysterical, and ultimately healing. Fusing consummate wit with the seriousness attending an adulthood gone awry, Rapp has written an uproarious and affecting novel about what we do and where we go when our lives have crumbled around us. Sharp-edged but tenderhearted, Know Your Beholder introduces us to one of the most lovably flawed characters in recent fiction, a man at last able to collect the jagged pieces of his dreams and begin anew, in both life and love. Seldom have our foibles and our efforts to persevere in spite of them been laid bare with such heart and hope. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Rapp. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/001933/bk_hach_001933_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Kitchen Decorations: Super Speed Sam, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 27min
Protector, friend, digger of bones - Sam plays all of these roles. Yet, he stands out from other dogs with his super top-secret, super-special powers that include speed, sleuthing, and cleaning to name a few! With these powers, Sam can do things like clean up a massive mess, using rubber gloves and spray, in a matter of minutes instead of hours! Living with the McClaine family, including Mom, Dad, six-year-old Jack, and baby sister Molly, Sam takes it as his serious duty to keep the kids safe, sound, and clean. Yet he keeps his 'super-power' skills well hidden from the family's eyes. Well, from everyone except for Molly - it's their own little secret! Jack is especially notorious for getting into scrapes and messes that he can't get out of - pretty much all the time. And it's no exception as Jack, Mom, and Molly set out to bake a cake one rainy day. As the lovably mischievous boy helps Mom, with Molly as the audience, Sam is able to keep up, cleaning minor messes. That is, at first. When Mom is called away to the ringing doorbell and Sam's made sure all is safe at the front door, he returns to the kitchen to get a shock. Left to his own devices, Jack has managed to create a monumental mess! To make matters worse, when Jack attempts to use the electric mixer on his own, disaster hits! Jack flees the scene, and it's up to Sam, and Sam alone, to do everything, as Molly watches with glee! But, even with his incredible abilities, can Sam clean this mess in time - before Mom comes back? Find out in this warm, playful tale - a story children will both love and learn from. It makes a great springboard for parents and teachers to broach topics of sanitation and cleanliness in a fun and gentle way. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Millian Quinteros. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/063424/bk_acx0_063424_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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