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    Raised by Vampires , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 286min
    The death of Romaine Goth brings his three children, long estranged, back to the estate where they were raised. Neal -- the eager heir consumed by jealousy and selfishness. Annette -- an inquisitive, fierce, and willful supernatural scholar. Anna -- sexy, spontaneous, ravenous, and now among the living dead. The siblings' entanglement with Neal's new wife and their obsequious desire to possess her unborn baby weave a haunting tale of family and the things we do for them in both life and death. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hallie Miguez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/096052/bk_acx0_096052_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Doctor Who - Flip-Flop, Hörbuch, Digital, 130min
    Christmas Eve in the year 3060, and the planet Puxatornee is home to a prosperous human colony. A spacecraft has arrived in orbit carrying the Slithergees, a race of obsequious alien slugs. Their home world has been destroyed, and they are humbly requesting permission to settle on the first moon. And if they don't get permission, then they are humbly threatening to declare all-out war. The future hangs in the balance. The decision rests with Bailey, the colony's president - but she has other things on her mind. Christmas Eve in the year 3090, and the planet Puxatornee has changed beyond all recognition. The Doctor and Mel arrive on a completely unrelated mission to defeat a race of terrible monsters and soon discover that something rather confusing has been happening to history. Written by Jonathan Morris and directed by Gary Russell. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bgfn/000175/bk_bgfn_000175_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Assumptions & Absurdities: A Pride and Prejudice Variation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 472min
    A witty and cleverly crafted Pride and Prejudice variation, Absurdities and Assumptions retells the story of the courtship between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy. This classic couple’s romance is shaken off course when, shortly after leaving Hertfordshire, Darcy receives word that one of the Bennet sisters is engaged to the obsequious Mr. Collins. Darcy, a rich and powerful landowner, knows Elizabeth is not a suitable match, but having already lost the battle with Cupid, he finds himself rushing back to the countryside. He is relieved to discover it is Mary Bennet who is destined to become Mrs. Collins. But his path to happiness is still far from assured. Darcy may have resolved his internal struggle to accept Elizabeth as she is, but he must now overcome a rival and his own inability to interpret events around him. Filled with hilarious misunderstandings and mishaps, Assumptions and Absurdities is sure to entertain. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nikki Delgado. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129569/bk_acx0_129569_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Little Princess (AmazonClassics Edition) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 419min
    To prepare his daughter, Sara, for society, wealthy widower Captain Ralph Crewe enrolls her in Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies. Unspoiled and genial, Sara is given all the luxuries her father can afford - and the obsequious Miss Minchin is happy to indulge. But when her father dies and his fortune is lost, Sara is forced into servitude, stripped of her privileges and possessions, and subjected to Miss Minchin's true cruel nature. But as A Little Princess proves, with cleverness, resilience, selfless goodwill, and true friends, a child can be rewarded with infinite riches. AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to read a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature's most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds. Revised edition: Previously published as A Little Princess, this edition of A Little Princess (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Justine Eyre. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009800/bk_brll_009800_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Games of God (eBook, ePUB)
    About the book:This is the novel about the historical partnership between Lantin and Mark Jr. and how hapless events unfurl which lead to the break up of this partnership. This fictional novel is about an heir of God, Mark Jr. All his grandfathers were prominent figures in the advancement of the universe and had achieved for themselves the title of God. Mark Jr. was also entitled to do the same. He was always looking forward to impressing his forefathers. While he was attempting to impress his father, by keeping his word to guard a temple, he gets distracted to save an old woman who implores and calls out for him. When he leaves the temple alone, to save the old woman, he finds his archnemesis tricking him. His father reluctantly curses his son for what he had done to live in the harshest forest for his life. The obsequious son obeyed his father. The son asked God to give him a companion with whom he could spend his life. God created another species of creatures, which were named, 'The Manjhanas'. God then gave him the immaculately built king of the Manjhanas to be his permanent companion. A series of events took place in the life of our protagonist before his death.
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    King of the Castle , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 327min
    Ignored by his dad, bullied by the teachers at his posh school, and picked on by the gang of kids who roam the stairways of his tower block home, Roland Wright thinks he has it pretty bad. Then, a broken lift hurls him into a strange kingdom where fantasy and reality meet, and Roland finds that his nightmare has only just begun. Who can Roland trust in this bizarre new world? The obsequious caretaker with his rattling keys and cryptic advice? The enchanting Lady who just wants to care for him? The King of the Castle himself? Roland soon realises that he will need to have all his wits about him if he wants to escape the mysterious Castle.... A brand new novelisation, based on the eerie 1977 children's TV classic starring Talfryn Thomas, Fulton Mackay and Milton Johns. Bob Baker, co-writer of three Oscar and BAFTA winning Wallace & Gromit films, creator of K9, and writer of numerous Doctor Who episodes. A stalwart of HTV, Bob has worked with Sir Laurence Olivier, Leonard Rossiter, Ron Moody, Toyah Willcox and Trevor Eve. Among his many TV credits, Bob wrote a number of episodes of Doctor Who with co-writer Dave Martin, several episodes of Bergerac starring John Nettles and the smash hit children's show Into the Labyrinth; Bob also script-edited the popular crime series Shoestring. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Banks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lbrk/000050/bk_lbrk_000050_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Tragedy of King Lear, Hörbuch, Digital, 230min
    King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It tells the tale of a king who bequeaths his power and land to two of his three daughters, after they declare their love for him in an extremely fawning and obsequious manner. His third daughter gets nothing, because she will not flatter him as her sisters had done. When he feels disrespected by the two daughters who now have his wealth and power, he becomes furious to the point of madness. He eventually becomes tenderly reconciled to his third daughter, just before tragedy strikes her and then the king.Derived from the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological pre-Roman Celtic king, the play has been widely adapted for the stage and motion pictures, with the title role coveted by many of the world's most accomplished actors.The first attribution to Shakespeare of this play, originally drafted in 1605 or 1606 at the latest with its first known performance on St. Stephen's Day in 1606, was a 1608 publication in a quarto of uncertain provenance, in which the play is listed as a history; it may be an early draft or simply reflect the first performance text. The Tragedy of King Lear, a revised version that is better tailored for performance, was included in the 1623 First Folio. Modern editors usually conflate the two, though some insist that each version has its own individual integrity that should be preserved.Among the most significant works William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Orpheus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, The Tempest, Venus and Adonis, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale and many more. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bowen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/015397/bk_edel_015397_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Churchill and Empire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 845min
    One of our finest narrative historians, and journalist for the Sunday Times and Literary Review, Lawrence James, has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, set within a fully detailed historical context, but solely focusing on his relationship with the British Empire. As a young army officer in the late 19th century, Churchill's first experience of the Empire was serving in conflicts in India, South Africa and the Sudan. His attitude towards the Empire at the time was the stereotypical Victorian paternalistic approach - a combination of feeling responsible and feeling superior. Conscious even then of his political career ahead, Churchill's natural benevolence towards the Empire was occasionally overruled for political reasons, and he found himself reluctantly supporting - or at least not publicly condemning - British atrocities. As a politician he consistently relied on the Empire for support during crises, but was angered by any demands for nationalisation. He held what many would regard today as racist views, in that he felt that some nationalities were superior to others, but he didn't regard those positions as fixed. His (some might say obsequious) relationship with America reflected that view. America was a former colony where the natives had become worthy to rule themselves, but - he felt - still had that tie to Britain. Thus he overlooked the frequently expressed American view that the Empire was a hangover from a bygone era of colonisation, and reflected poorly on Britain's ability to conduct herself as a political power in the current world order. This outmoded attitude was one of the reasons the British voters rejected him after a Second World War, in which - it was universally felt - he had led the country brilliantly. His attitude remained Victorian in a world that was shaping up very differently. However, it would be a mistake to consider Churchill merely as an anachronistic soldier. He grasped the ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gareth Armstrong. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000676/bk_orio_000676_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Intruder in the Dust
    Who shot Vinson Gowrie in the back? The jailhouse at Jefferson, Mississippi, may not hold the actual killer, but it does have the suspect an angry lynch mob wants: Lucas Beauchamp, who has long refused to exhibit the obsequious attitude expected of black people in Jefferson. Based on William Faulkner's novel and filmed in his hometown of Oxford, Intruder in the Dust is both a gripping whodunit and a milestone of social-conscience filmmaking. Claude Jarman, Jr. (reunited with director Clarence Brown of The Yearling) plays the youth whose troubled sense of right makes him a catalyst in solving the mystery. And Juano Hernandez is memorable as Lucas: proud, perceptive, strong ' words that also describe this superb film named one of 1949's 10 Best by the National Board of Review.
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