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    Stormbreaker / Alex Rider vol.1 (English edition)
    Alex Rider will soon be a star in his very own TV series! Meet the orphan turned teen superspy who's saving the world one mission at a time-from #1 New York Times bestselling author! They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. But Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in the windshield prove it. Yet he never suspected the truth: his uncle was really a spy for Britain's top secret intelligence agency. And now Alex has been recruited to find his uncle's killers . . . Alex Rider's is debut mission is packed with bonus material - including an extra Alex Rider short story, a letter from Anthony Horowitz, and much more! From the author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty. "Slam-bang action, spying and high-tech gadgets . . . a non-stop thriller!"-Kirkus Reviews
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    There There: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 480min
    One of the 10 Best Books of the Year - The New York Times Book ReviewWinner of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize One of the best books of the year: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, GQ, The Dallas Morning News, Buzzfeed, BookPage, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews.New York Times Best SellerTommy Orange's "groundbreaking, extraordinary" (The New York Times) There There is the "brilliant, propulsive" (People Magazine) story of 12 unforgettable characters, Urban Indians living in Oakland, California, who converge and collide on one fateful day. It's "the year's most galvanizing debut novel" (Entertainment Weekly).As we learn the reasons that each person is attending the Big Oakland Powwow - some generous, some fearful, some joyful, some violent - momentum builds toward a shocking yet inevitable conclusion that changes everything. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle's death and has come to work at the powwow to honor his uncle's memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and will perform in public for the very first time. There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and loss. There There is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few o ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Ceurvo, Kyla Garcia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006034/bk_rand_006034_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Love Transformed: Sapphire Brides, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 594min
    Widowed and penniless, with two small children, Clara Vespers returns to her uncle's ranch in Montana, the only place she has ever been happy. As she tries to find that feeling again, she encounters a suitor from her past and is soon followed by her brother-in-law, who will stop at nothing to bring her back to the family business. The riveting final story in the Sapphire Brides series. When Clara Vesper's husband, Adolph, dies suddenly, Clara is stunned - but not grief-stricken. Her marriage to Adolph had been arranged, their primary interaction revolving around the sapphire jewelry Clara designed and Adolph produced and sold. Widowed and penniless, with two small children, Clara decides to return to her aunt and uncle's ranch in Montana, the only place she has ever been happy. Curtis Billingham, injured in a sapphire mine collapse, is recuperating at the ranch of his friends, Paul and Madeline Sersland. But when the Serslands' niece returns from New York City, Curtis curses both his broken body and his broken past. Clara, the love of his life, has come back to him, but he is no longer worthy of her love. Clara's brother-in-law Otto Vesper, Adolph's business partner, fears that the loss of Clara's design skills will doom the company's prospects. Following her to Montana, Otto is prepared to do whatever it takes to get Clara to return with him to New York. As Clara fights for love and freedom, a dangerous secret in her late husband's life comes to light, threatening everyone she loves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Melissa Hurst. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009693/bk_reco_009693_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Wilding , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 692min
    It is 1672, a generation after the English Civil War, and England is still struggling to return to normal after the bloody conflict. In the village of Spadboro, Jonathon Dymond, a cider maker who lives with his parents, has enjoyed a quiet and harmonious life. But the death of his uncle leads Jonathon to secrets which have lain dormant since the war. When Jonathon discovers his dying uncle's letter to his father, hinting at inheritance and revenge, Jonathon becomes determined to unravel the mystery in his family. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Bishop. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/000271/bk_oakh_000271_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pee-Wee Harris, Hörbuch, Digital, 192min
    The diminutive but debonair Pee-Wee visits his aunt and uncle's farm, and partners with an orphan girl under their care to start a refreshment shack along the country road. Sales are slow until the highway bridge mysteriously burns down and the road becomes a thoroughfare, leading to a series of madcap adventures. Pee Wee Harris is the first audiobook by multi-million selling author Percy Keese Fitzhugh, whose books emphasize adventure, responsibility and service to others, while presenting clever plots marked with humor and innocent fun. Language: English. Narrator: Erik Sellin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/clcd/000007/bk_clcd_000007_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Red (Ever After, #3) (eBook, ePUB)
    Collect the girl. Speak some vows. Inherit the fortune. Nowhere in the requirements did it say anything about falling in love. Melinda thinks she's just coming to grandma's for dinner, but she's wrong. She's wrong about a lot of things. None of which is my business. The only business I have is to settle the open accounts on my uncle's books, so I can collect my inheritance and move on with my life. Collecting Melinda in order to cross off her grandfather's debt wasn't hard, but she's not exactly marching gracefully up to the auction block for me. I'm not the monster here. I'm not the one who sold her to my uncle, I'm just the collector. My hands are as bound as hers thanks to the whims of our families. But with her red hair, and fiery spirit, Melinda's giving me more trouble than I anticipated.
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    Strays , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 429min
    Rodney, abandoned by his mother at his weird uncle Ray's, encounters a demon named Birthless and must figure out his uncle's secret while preserving himself, his newfound friends, and a sleepy Alabama town from destruction. Strays is an unusual YA adventure story that's part C. S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters and part Tom Sawyer. The focus of the audiobook isn't on simple lessons but is instead the story of a lonely boy realizing that there is more to the heavens than stars, more to books than facts, and more to his uncle Ray than tie-dye shirts and honeybees. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Remy Wilkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/165427/bk_acx0_165427_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Giving of Things Cold & Cursed: A Baker Johnson Tale (Single Shot Short Story Series, Book 9) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 42min
    The Giving of Things Cold & Cursed is a haunting tale by critically acclaimed horror author Terry M. West. Baker Johnson is a flawed parapsychologist in the year 1925. After the death of Richard Johnson, Baker inherits his uncle's estate and moves into the legendary psychic researcher's home. But he soon discovers that the Black Room of the property, the place where haunted items are safely contained, has been emptied. This is a brand-new and never-before-published short story. Included is a lengthy preview of a brand-new Baker Johnson story, "Servant of the Red Quill", which is coming soon! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Mills. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/029391/bk_acx0_029391_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Dead Men Stood Together , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 229min
    In a harbour town long ago, a boy is entranced by his uncle's stories of adventure in lands far away. Ignoring the crazy talk of the harbour pilot's son about the uncle being the Devil, the boy boards a ship with his uncle. But the uncle soon makes enemies of the captain and crew and, in frustration at their superstition, kills an albatross that has befriended the ship. As the ship sails on, madness and death ensue, and the boy and the crew face unimaginable horrors. A superbly gripping and haunting tale for fans of all classic horror. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Hawkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/007345/bk_bbcw_007345_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Red Thumb Mark , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 479min
    The Red Thumb Mark, by R. Austin Freeman. Narrated by Graham Scott.    In their first case together, "scientific investigator" Dr. John Thorndyke and his assistant, Dr. Jervis, work to clear young Reuben Hornby, accused of stealing a parcel of diamonds from his uncle's safe - and of leaving behind him a bloody thumbprint. Can Thorndyke prove that the new science of fingerprints is not quite the magic bullet that the authorities believe and clear his young client? And in the meantime, can he frustrate the attempts against his own life by some ingenious unknown adversary? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Graham Scott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/003048/bk_mike_003048_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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