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    The Fashion in Shrouds , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 758min
    Both the skeleton and the corpse have died with suspicious convenience for Georgia Wells, a monstrous but charming actress with a raffish entourage. Georgia's best friend just happens to be Valentine, a top couturière and Campion's sister. In order to protect Valentine, Campion must unravel a story of blackmail and ruthless murder.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Francis Matthews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/006038/bk_bbcw_006038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Uncle Dysfunctional: Uncompromising Answers to Life's Most Painful Problems , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 245min
    From 2011 up until his death at the end of 2016, the inimitable AA Gill reigned supreme as Uncle Dysfunctional, Esquire's resident advice columnist. In this raffish, hilarious, scathing yet often surprisingly humane collection, Gill applies his unmatched wit to the largest and smallest issues of our time. Whether you're struggling to satisfy your other half, having a crisis over your baldness, don't like your daughter's boyfriend or need the definitive rules on shorts, leather jackets and man-bags, AA Gill has all the answers - but you'd better brace yourself first. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexander Armstrong. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/030388/bk_adbl_030388_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Paper Princess: Regency Royal, Book 13 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 285min
    London was all on edge and astir to have in its midst the exquisite Princess Felicity of Brasnia. What scandal would ensue should society discover that the bejeweled heir to a royal throne was in truth Miss Felicity Channing of Cornwall, fleeing a match she did not want and that had been arranged by her conniving stepfather! But how long could Felicity carry off this lively masquerade before she would falter? Especially since the dark, raffish eyes of Lord Arthur Bessamy seemed to look right through her disguise - and set her spirited heart to pounding?  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emma Powell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/001512/bk_twuk_001512_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Half a Sack of Cats
    Half a Sack of Cats ab 21.49 € als Taschenbuch: Jim Cook's Version of His Raffish Youth. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Belletristik, Briefe & Biografien,
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    My Life & Loves: Volume 2, Hörbuch, Digital, 179min
    My Lives and Loves Volume 2 covers Frank Harris's friendship and encounters with the Prince of Wales, Oscar Wilde, Guy De Maupassant, Lord Randolph Churchill, William Parnell and others. He sets the Evening News on its feet and comes to know the minds of Shakespeare and Goethe and the bodies of Elaine and Laura. He comes to realize the virtue of chastity and that it must be practiced - at least from time to time. Leslie Grantham is of course known to millions for his portrayal as Dirty Den in 'Eastenders'. The raffish edginess of his voice makes him the perfect vehicle to read our production. He has also appeared in starred in many other TV dramas such as 'The Detectives' and 'The Paradise Club and of course '99-1' Language: English. Narrator: Leslie Grantham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/copy/000053/bk_copy_000053_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Victoria and the Rogue, Hörbuch, Digital, 199min
    Growing up in far-off India, wealthy young heiress Lady Victoria Arbuthnot is accustomed to handling her own affairs. But in her sixteenth year, Vicky is unceremoniously shipped off to London to find a husband. She may be in a strange new city, but Vicky knows one thing: her own mind. And she has decided that handsome, worldly Hugo Rothschild will suit her needs admirably in the matrimonial department. But raffish young ship captain Jacob Carstairs disagrees. Vicky is mystified by Jacob's insistence that Hugo is not for her, that is, until it becomes clear that Hugo is not all he professes to be. Not only has Vicky misjudged Hugo, she has misjudged Jacob...and the reason for his interference. Will Vicky be forced to admit that, for the first time in her life, she might actually be wrong? Language: English. Narrator: Serena Gordon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/000220/bk_lili_000220_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Goldfish , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 32min
    Elinor Mordaunt (1872-1942) was an English author, writer and traveller. She lived extensively in Mauritius, Australia and the East Indies, which provided the inspiration and background for many of her works. 'The Goldfish' is a strange tale set in the murky underworld of the London docklands. Dor, a raffish petty criminal in London, has a treasured goldfish in a bowl, which his lover, Rosa, reluctantly takes care of, although she is secretly insanely jealous of the attention he lavishes on the fish. The goldfish was given to Dor by a Chinese man who conducted a strange ceremony over the two of them and declared that Dor cannot die while the goldfish still lives. And truly it seems that Dor has a charmed life, for several incidents occur, each of which should have resulted in his death. And then Rosa suspects that Dor is seeing another woman...and her rage knows no bounds.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/001025/bk_redd_001025_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 707min
    I can imagine few more enjoyable ways of thinking than to read this book. —Sarah Bakewell, New York Times Book Review, front-page review Tackling the "darkest question in all of philosophy" with "raffish erudition" (Dwight Garner, The New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This runaway best seller, which has captured the imagination of critics and the public alike, traces our latest efforts to grasp the origins of the universe. Holt adopts the role of cosmological detective, traveling the globe to interview a host of celebrated scientists, philosophers, and writers, "testing the contentions of one against the theories of the other" (Jeremy Bernstein, Wall Street Journal). As he interrogates his list of ontological culprits, the brilliant yet slyly humorous Holt contends that we might have been too narrow in limiting our suspects to God versus the Big Bang. This "deft and consuming" (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times) narrative humanizes the profound questions of meaning and existence it confronts. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Menasche. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012411/bk_adbl_012411_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Irish-American Autobiography: The Divided Hearts of Athletes, Priests, Pilgrims, and More , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 317min
    Irish-American Autobiography opens a new window on the shifting meanings of Irishness over the 20th century, by looking at a range of works that have never before been considered as a distinct body of literature. Opening with celebrity memoirs from athletes like boxer John L. Sullivan and ballplayer Connie Mack - written when the Irish were eager to put their raffish origins behind them - later chapters trace the many tensions, often unspoken, registered by Irish Americans who've told their life stories. New York saloonkeepers and South Boston step dancers set themselves against the larger culture, setting a pattern of being on the outside looking in. Even the classic 1950s TV comedy The Honeymooners speaks to the urban Irish origins, and the poignant sense of exclusion felt by its creator Jackie Gleason. Catholicism, so key to the identity of earlier generations of Irish Americans, has also evolved. One chapter looks at the painful diffidence of priest autobiographers, and others reveal how traditional Irish Catholic ideas of the guardian angel and pilgrimage have evolved and stayed potent down to our own time. Irish-American Autobiography becomes, in the end, a story of a continued search for connection - documenting an "ethnic fade" that never quite happened. The book is pubished by The Catholic University of America Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julian Casey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/109099/bk_acx0_109099_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Knock Four Times , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 557min
    This, unlike most of Margaret Irwin's books, is not an historical novel. It is a peep-show at recent times, so fantastically gay that this, our London, appears as the iridescent scene of a pantomime or holiday charade. What happened behind the door at which one had to knock four times? Many wildly incongruous happenings, but chiefly an attack on other doors, the 'everlasting doors' of Prince's Gate, Queen's Gate, Emperor's Gate, to make them open wide to the rash young adventurer Dicky who had once gatecrashed them, but was resolved to 'spurn Kensington, march on Mayfair,' and conquer both the New World and the Old. How Dicky fought his way to fortune, and how Celia fought hers to freedom from behind the Gates of Kensington, by knocking four times on Dicky's door, is told in this story, which dances along as irresponsibly as a soap bubble against its brilliantly realized background, shading from the raffish to the respectable. For all its laughter and absurd situations, it is marked with the humorous sympathy and integrity that have distinguished all Margaret Irwin's work. Margaret Irwin (1889-1969) was educated at Clifton High School in Bristol, and then at Oxford University. She began writing books and short stories in the early 1920s. She married children's author and illustrator John Robert Monsell in 1929. Irwin was praised for her historical accuracy in her novels, and she wrote passionately about the English Civil War. In The Proud Servant she caused generations to fall in love with the ill-fated but charismatic Earl of Montrose, Charles I's Commander in Scotland. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Zara Ramm. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/022201/bk_adbl_022201_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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