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Photo Finish: A Jack Doyle Mystery, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 487min

Jack Doyle, former advertising man, amateur boxer, and Chicago racetrack publicist, undertakes a new job in the world of Thoroughbred horse racing: jockey agent. His client is Mickey Sheehan, a seventeenyearold female riding phenomenon from Ireland, who has decided to try her luck in the States. She and Doyle prove an effective team, until someone secretly begins administering dangerous illegal medications to horses.In his quest to identify the culprit, the shrewd, irreverent, and always opinionated Doyle gets help from his friends Moe Kellman, furrier to the Mob; trainer Ralph Tenuta, himself the target of a blackmailer; and young veterinarian Ingrid McGuire, a greatly talented horse communicator. Meanwhile, Jack and Moe become coowners of a promising, bargainpriced horse named Plotkin, who provides several thrills, not all of them welcome. Then as Plotkin is entered in a big race, the milliondollar Heartland Downs Futurity, the sibling rivalry between Mickey and her occasionally racemanipulating brother Kieran, one of Ireland’s top jockeys, flares up and comes to a climax with Mickey aboard Plotkin.From Chicago’s Heartland Downs racetrack to New York’s famed Saratoga Race Course, Doyle is detoured to Mob chieftain Fifi Bonadio’s lavish yacht in Chicago’s Belmont Harbor. Will the favor he agrees to do for Fifi get him killed, or will it be his persistent push for answers to the horse doping?As an amateur investigator in the world of American racing, Doyle is sometimes mistaken but always dogged in his search for answers. The challenges he faces in attempting to halt the horse drugging and the threat to Tenuta’s life are the most daunting of his colorful career. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Weiner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005114/bk_blak_005114_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Come Undone Cityscape Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 460min, (USK 18)

Olivia Germaine has already found love. Devoted wife, loyal friend, determined career woman - she’s created the life she always envisioned...until she locks eyes with a handsome stranger across a crowded room.David Dylan, alleged playboy and Chicago’s most eligible bachelor, awakens a passion in Olivia she buried long ago. He challenges her to confront the perfect life she’s built and to ask herself questions that could lead to either happiness...or regret.Because David knows who she is. He knows what she wants. And he can give it to her. If only she’ll give in.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andi Arndt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/045939/bk_acx0_045939_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Game of My Life: Chicago Cubs: Memorable Stories of Cubs Baseball , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 493min

Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, and other legendary Cubbies share their greatest moments - newly updated! Whether they wore white stockings or blue helmets, the baseball players of Chicago’s North Side have always had great stories to tell. Now fans of this loveable franchise will finally get to hear from 28 of the best players as they relive that singular moment which defined their Cubs career. In this newly updated edition of Game of My Life: Chicago Cubs, veteran sportswriter Lew Freedman brings listeners off the bench and onto the field with such greats as Billy Williams, Ernie Banks, Ferguson Jenkins, and more. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Culp. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008695/bk_adbl_008695_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Move into More , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 345min

Abundant life. Does that describe the life you’re living now? Or do words like busy, overwhelming, disappointing, and exhausting come to mind instead? Today, more than ever, we long for satisfaction in our lives and fulfillment in our faith but come up empty. We are lacking, and that hole can’t be filled by money, prestige, or stuff. Pastor Choco, author of Move into More, knows what it feels like to want more from life. Raised by a single mother after his alcoholic father left, he grew up as a poor Puerto Rican kid in Humboldt Park, one of Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods. He grew up never having enough. However, God had so much more for him. Pastor Choco rose to become senior pastor of New Life Covenant Church (one of Chicago’s fastest growing churches) and one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. In Move into More, with conviction and earnestness, Pastor Choco explains that God has promised a life of more - joyful contentment that comes from living passionately with a purpose - to anyone who follows him in obedience. It’s not who you are, he says, it’s what Jesus can do if you will let him. Choco breaks down popular yet untrue thinking that God’s “more” is about wealth or material possessions, fame or power, and shows listeners that God’s more is far better than anyone could ever imagine. If you’re willing to Move into More, your eyes will be opened to the all-powerful, all-loving God who wants more for you than you can imagine in your wildest dreams. When you follow him faithfully and obediently, you will find peace in your problems, rest in your weariness, order in circumstantial chaos, and joy in trials. Don’t settle for less than God has for you - it’s time to Move into More! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eddie Lopez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/zond/002860/bk_zond_002860_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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By Invitation Only: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 624min

The Lowcountry of South Carolina is where By Invitation Only begins, at a barbecue engagement party thrown by Diane English Stiftel, her brother Floyd, and her parents to celebrate her son’s engagement. On this gorgeous, magical night, the bride’s father, Alejandro Cambria, a wealthy power broker whose unbelievably successful career in private equity made him one of Chicago’s celebrated elite, discovers the limits and possibilities of cell phone range. While the mother of the bride, Susan Kennedy Cambria, who dabbles in the world of public relations and believes herself deserving of every square inch of her multimillion-dollar penthouse and imaginary carrara marble pedestal, learns about moonshine and dangerous liaisons. Soon By Invitation Only zooms to Chicago, where the unraveling accelerates. Nearly a thousand miles away from her comfortable, familiar world, Diane is the antithesis of the bright lights and super-sophisticated guests attending her son Fred’s second engagement party. Why a second party? Maybe it had been assumed that the first one wouldn’t be up to snuff? Fred is marrying Shelby Cambria, also an only child. The Cambrias’ dearest wish is for their daughter to be happy. If Shelby wants to marry Frederick, aka Fred, they will not stand in her way - although Susan does hope her friends won’t think her daughter is marrying more than a few degrees beneath her socially. At the same time, Diane worries that her son will be lost to her forever. By Invitation Only is a tale of two families, one struggling to do well, one well to do, and one young couple - the privileged daughter of Chicago’s crème de la crème and the son of hardworking Southern peach farmers. Dorothea Benton Frank offers a funny, sharp, and deeply empathetic novel of two very different worlds - of limousines and pickup trucks, caviar and pigs, skyscrapers and ocean spray - filled with a delightful cast of characters who all have something to hide ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Bennett, Courtney Patterson, Sarah Naughton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007278/bk_harp_007278_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Church Girls: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 445min

Sheridan S. Davis, author of Saved Sex, Pretty for a Dark-Skin Girl, and I’m Nobody’s Ruth is all too familiar with Chicago’s church scene. The city, mostly known for its heavily portrayed violence in media, is also the birthplace of Gospel music and has a rich history in God. As a church girl herself, Sheridan decided to pen a fictional tale about the friendship between five church girls. Join Shyanne, Selena, Kyra, Miriam, and Lisa as they plow through the ups and downs of friendship. Their positions in the church do not exempt them from drama and disappointment. Through their lenses, you will see that the church girls are just like your girls! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kaley Rone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/168218/bk_acx0_168218_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Designated Survivors: A Post-Apocalyptic Thriller: Blood Runners, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 347min

Whether hunter or prey, survival doesn't come easy on the other side of the wall. After escaping from New Chicago, Marisol and Elias take shelter in the quarantine zone only to be stalked by nightmarish, blood-enhanced creatures called Threshers. But that’s not the worst of it as they find themselves struggling to survive against Longman’s assassins and weaponized Reaper mechs who are hunting them down.All is not lost, however, as Marisol’s enhancements keep them in the clear long enough to find a small group of survivors. Joining forces with the potential allies, they're forced to confront their fears and work together to find a way to topple New Chicago’s brutal dictator before he discovers a secret weapon to destroy the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Bennett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173619/bk_acx0_173619_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Screen Door Slam, Hörbuch, Digital, 128min

What’s the best way to spend a summer evening?For many of us, it’s playing softball with friends, under the lights, a cooler of beer in the dugout. In the late 1980s, author Rich Cohen, then a senior in high school, assembled a team of ne’er-do-wells - gear heads, burnouts, goof balls, and the possibly gifted - to compete in what Cohen considered the best 12-Inch softball league in the Lower 48. Think Field of Dreams, but, instead of a cornfield in Iowa, these games were played behind a grade school in Glencoe, Illinois, on Chicago’s North Shore.Cohen named the team The North Shore Screen Doors, hence the fight song, “Screen Door Slam”, inspired by 1985’s "Super Bowl Shuffle". (“We ain’t out there just to get a tan / we’re out there doing the Screen Door Slam.”) The Screen Doors played just two seasons. The first was glory, but the second, by which time the kids had begun to grow apart, was an error-filled mess, which is why, in late July, Cohen called on his father, famed negotiator Herb Cohen (“Herbie”) to fix the team. A titanic struggle followed, as Herbie, using all his grown-up shrewdness, negotiating prowess, and sports knowledge, wrested control and remade the team in time for a pennant run. Along the way, several timeless questions come up: What’s more important, fun or winning? Family or friends? Speed or power? This is a story of perfect seasons, friends, games that only seem important, and how a long summer night ends in the cool dawn of adulthood. In it, Cohen has attempted to create a new genre of sports journalism (“Cosmic Little League”) and also add to his greater project of doing for Chicago’s North Shore what Faulkner did for Yoknapatawpha County and Springsteen did for Asbury Park. It’s got softball, fields where the dirt blows, heroes and villains, trickery and negotiation, fathers and sons, and characters, each of whom could anchor his own John Hughes movie. This is The Bad News Bears had those punks re Language: English. Narrator: Rich Cohen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/or/orig/000629/or_orig_000629_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Thin Walls: Smokey Dalton, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 806min

Smokey Dalton and Jimmy, the young boy he protects, have settled into a new life on Chicago’s South Side. But when Smokey gets hired to investigate the death of a black man in a local park, he realizes that the murder might not be an isolated case. The Chicago Police Department doesn’t really investigate black deaths, particularly near the South Side. Smokey thinks the case easy, until he digs deeper into the history of the area, a history that includes gangs, racism, and secrets so dark they threaten his very existence. Chosen as one of the top 10 mystery novels of the year by the Chicago Tribune, Thin Walls shows why Publisher's Weekly gave it a starred review, and Booklist calls it "another fine entry in an outstanding series." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mirron Willis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012886/bk_adbl_012886_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Mysterious Cases of Mr. Pin , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 54min

Like other rock hopper penguins, Mr. Pin enjoys the icy weather in the South Pole. But he loves eating chocolate and solving mysteries more. When he moves to Chicago to be a detective, his new home is wonderful! Snowflakes swirl in the wind, and Sally from Smiling Sally’s diner gives him all the chocolate ice cream he can eat. Soon Maggie, Sally’s young niece, becomes his new friend. But Sally and Maggie are worried. Gangsters are threatening to blow up the diner. Will Mr. Pin be able to help them? In The Mysterious Cases of Mr. Pin, Chicago’s delightful new penguin detective is up to his beak in problems and clues. Mr. Pin will entertain young readers with his tasty solutions to three puzzling cases and provide thoughtful lessons in friendship. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John McDonough. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/003915/bk_reco_003915_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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