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    Solar
    Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster. Ranging from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of New Mexico, SOLAR is a serious and darkly satirical novel, showing human frailty struggling with the most pressing and complex problem of our time.A story of one man's greed and self-deception, it is a profound and stylish new work from one of the world's great writers.
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    Road Brothers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 464min
    A volume of short stories by the best-selling author of The Broken Empire series, Mark Lawrence This is a collection of 14 stories of murder, mayhem, pathos, and philosophy, all set in the world of the Broken Empire. Within this audiobook, you will find tales of men such as Red Kent, Sir Makin, Rike, Burlow and the Nuban, telling of their origins and the events that forged them. There is Jorg himself - as a child of six, as a teenage wanderer and as a young king. And then there is a tale about Prince Jalan Kendeth - liar, cheat, womaniser and coward. To the new listener: welcome to a lawless world, where wit and sword are the most useful weapons, and danger lurks as much in candlelit palaces as in dark alleys and dense woodland. To those who have already journeyed with Jorg, we hope you will enjoy renewing old acquaintances with your favourite characters. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Ohlendorf. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/003203/bk_hcuk_003203_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fields of Gold , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1110min
    A gripping story of love and rivalry from the internationally best-selling author of The Lavender Keeper. Charismatic womaniser Jack Bryant has the world at his feet, but when trouble catches up with him he's forced to flee Penzance for good. Honest Ned Sinclair is on a family adventure in Rangoon when he is dealt a bitter blow. With all the odds against him, he risks his life in a desperate bid to escape. Both men hope to start their lives anew, seeking their fortune in India's fields of gold. Their paths collide in the colourful city of Bangalore, where they form a friendship like no other. In the years that follow, they remain inextricably bound by a dark secret while their love for the same woman threatens to tear them apart. From the windswept cliffs of the Cornish coast to the gold mines of Southern India, this is a story of high adventure, devastating tragedy and enduring love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Jameson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/002660/bk_boli_002660_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Midlife Misgivings of Edward Marsh (The Imperfect Lives series, #4) (eBook, ePUB)
    The Midlife Misgivings of Edward MarshBook 4 in the Imperfect Lives series #1 best-selling New Zealand author"Catherine Robertson is a new national treasure." Edward 'Ned' Marsh has upturned his entire life for love. He's exchanged sunny Italy and steady work for unemployment and a dismal flat in London.Regrets, he has a few. But his best woman friend, Darrell, encourages him to look wider, and he scores an interview for a plum gardening job in the Buckinghamshire estate of wealthy Anne Reynolds. It comes with a cottage. It's Ned's idea of heaven.Of course, nothing can be that perfect. Anne's son has come home. Ned met Marcus Reynolds in Italy and pegged him as a feckless womaniser. Marcus has his eye on his Darrell and if he doesn't back off, Ned may have to kill him and bury his body under the prize magnolias. And what about Ned's own girlfriend. Will she support him? Or will a new start for Ned mean an end to the whole reason he left his old life in the first place?(105 pages approx)
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    Clara's War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 779min
    On 21 July 1942, the Nazis invaded Poland. In the small town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, Clara and her family hid perilously in a hand-dug cellar. Living above and protecting them were the Becks. Mr Beck was a womaniser, a drunkard, and a self-professed anti-Semite, yet he risked his life throughout the war to keep his charges safe. Nevertheless, life with Mr Beck was far from predictable. From the house catching fire, to Beck’s affair with Clara’s cousin, to the nightly SS drinking sessions in the room just above, Clara’s War transports you into the dark, cramped bunker, and sits you next to the families as they hold their breath time and again. Sixty years later, Clara Kramer has created a memoir that is lyrical, dramatic, and heartbreakingly compelling. Despite the worst of circumstances, this is a story full of hope and survival, courage and love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rula Lenska. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/000924/bk_rhuk_000924_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Solar , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 710min
    Features the author in converstation with his editor, Dan Franklin. Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. When Beard’s professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for him to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career, and save the world from environmental disaster. Ranging from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of New Mexico, Solar is a serious and darkly satirical novel, showing human frailty struggling with the most pressing and complex problem of our time. A story of one man’s greed and self-deception, it is a profound and stylish new work from one of the world’s great writers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roger Allam. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/000565/bk_rhuk_000565_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Prince of Fools: Red Queen's War, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 790min
    From the critically-acclaimed author of The Broken Empire series comes a brilliant new epic fantasy series, The Red Queen's War. The Red Queen is old but the kings of the Broken Empire fear her as they fear no other. Her grandson Jalan Kendeth is a coward, a cheat, and a womaniser; and 10th in line to the throne. While his grandmother shapes the destiny of millions, Prince Jalan pursues his debauched pleasures. Until he gets entangled with Snorri ver Snagason, a huge Norse axe man, and dragged against his will to the icy north. In a journey across half the Broken Empire, Jalan flees minions of the Dead King, agrees to duel an upstart prince named Jorg Ancrath, and meets the ice witch, Skilfar, all the time seeking a way to part company with Snorri before the Norseman's quest leads them to face his enemies in the black fort on the edge of the Bitter Ice. Prince of Fools is the first book in the series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Ohlendorf. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001658/bk_hcuk_001658_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 820min
    On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover in Washington's Lafayette Square, just across from the White House. This is the story of that killing and its repercussions. Thomas Keneally brilliantly recreates an extraordinary period, when women were punished for violating codes of society that did not bind men. And the caddish, good-looking Dan Sickles personifies the extremes of the era: As a womaniser, he introduced his favourite madam to Queen Victoria while his wife stayed at home; as minister to Spain, he began an affair with the Queen while courting one of her ladies in waiting; and in his later years, he installed his housekeeper as his mistress while his second wife took up residence nearby. The brio with which Thomas Keneally tells the tale is equal to the pace and bravado of Sickles' life. But, more than this, American Scoundrel is the lens through which the listener can view history at a time when America was being torn apart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Humphrey Bower. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/001531/bk_boli_001531_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In the Name of the Family , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 852min
    In the Name of the Family - as Blood and Beauty did before - holds up a mirror to a turbulent moment of history, sweeping aside the myths to bring alive the real Borgia family: complicated, brutal, passionate and glorious. Here is a thrilling exploration of the House of Borgia's doomed years, in the company of a young diplomat named Niccolo Machiavelli. It is 1502, and Rodrigo Borgia, a self-confessed womaniser and master of political corruption, is now on the papal throne as Alexander VI. His daughter Lucrezia, aged 22, already thrice married and a pawn in her father's plans, is discovering her own power. And then there is Cesare Borgia: brilliant, ruthless and increasingly unstable; it is his relationship with the diplomat Machiavelli which offers a master class on the dark arts of power and politics. What Machiavelli learns will go on to inform his great work of modern politics, The Prince. But while the pope rails against old age and his son's increasing maverick behavior, it is Lucrezia who will become the Borgia survivor, taking on her enemies and creating her own place in history. Conjuring up the past in all its complexity, horror and pleasures, In the Name of the Family confirms Sarah Dunant's place as the leading novelist of the Renaissance and one of the most acclaimed historical fiction writers of our age. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicholas Boulton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/001262/bk_twuk_001262_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Creed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 709min
    A grim picture. Joseph Creed is a paparazzo, one of that un-illustrious band of photographers whose sole purpose in life is to chase and harass celebrities for candid shots, preferably of the seedier kind. Creed, himself, is a sleaze of the first order, but good at his job; nothing will stop him getting the right shot. He's a coward, a liar and a would-be blackmailer. He's also a womaniser and a divorcée. He looks a little like the actor Mickey Rourke (and is aware of it). After the funeral ceremony of a major Hollywood actress, he photographs a man of ravaged appearance desecrating the grave. Creed himself is observed and there follows a series of horrific events designed to intimidate him into handing over the film. The person he has photographed bears a remarkable resemblance to a man hanged in the 1930s for murder and the mutilation of children. Creed eventually discovers his antagonists are the Fallen Angels of Europe, whose origins can be traced to Biblical sources. Their powers are waning, the centuries and the evil they have perpetrated have taken their toll. The demons are weary. James Herbert was one of Britain’s greatest popular novelists and our number-one best-selling writer of chiller fiction. Widely imitated and hugely influential, he wrote 23 novels which have collectively sold over 54 million copies worldwide and been translated into 34 languages. Born in London in the '40s, James Herbert was art director of an advertising agency before turning to writing fiction in 1975. His first novel, The Rats, was an instant best seller and is now recognised as a classic of popular contemporary fiction. Herbert went on to publish a new top-10 best seller every year until 1988. He wrote six more best-selling novels in the 1990s and three more since: Once, Nobody True and The Secret of Crickley Hall. Herbert died in March 2013 at the age of 69. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Damian Lynch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014364/bk_adbl_014364_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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