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  Dombey and Son , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2450min

  It was after the publication of Dombey and Son that the literary reputation of Charles Dickens as a world-class writer was finally and irrevocably established. And what had served to stimulate this unparalleled imaginative genius was the very city he lived in: London. Dickens routinely walked anywhere from 10 to 20 miles every day through the narrow, winding streets of the great city on the Thames. And what a city! London in the mid-19th century was easily the largest, most spectacular metropolitan area in the world. By Dickens' day there were four million souls living there. The novel centers around Mr. Dombey, a wealthy merchant who struggles to cope with the death of his wife and the care of his infant son as the story opens. He hires a nurse to bring up little Paul. Meanwhile, other new characters are brought into the story, including Captain Cuttle, Sol Gills, and Walter Gay. As their lives come into contact with the Dombey household, complications arise. When Dombey discovers that Walter, a lowly clerk in his office, is infatuated with his daughter, Florence, he sends him to the West Indies to prevent any possibility of a romance developing, and, with the disappearance of the lad in a storm, his purpose is apparently fulfilled. But destiny deals Mr. Dombey a fatal blow in his quest to glorify the firm Dombey & Son. The rest of the novel deals with Dombey's reaction to his unforeseen tragedy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlton Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acon/000149/bk_acon_000149_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Bend of the World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 499min

  In the most audacious literary debut to come out of the Steel City since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, we meet Peter Morrison, twenty-nine and comfortably adrift in a state of not-quite-adulthood, less concerned about the general direction of his life than with his suspicion that all his closest relationships are the products of inertia. He and his girlfriend float along in the same general direction, while his parents are acting funny, though his rich, hypochondriac grandmother is still good for admission to the better parties. He spends his days clocking into Global Solutions (a firm whose purpose remains unnervingly ambiguous) and his weekends listening to the half-imagined rants of his childhood best friend, Johnny. An addict and conspiracy theorist, Johnny believes Pittsburgh is a "nexus of intense magical convergence" and is playing host to a cabal of dubious politicians, evil corporate schemes, ancient occult rites, and otherwise inexplicable phenomena, such as the fact that people really do keep seeing UFOs hovering over the city. Against this strange background, Peter meets Mark and Helen, a slightly older couple, new to town, whose wealth and glamour never fully conceal the suggestion of something sinister, and with whom he becomes quickly infatuated. In The Bend of the World, Philip K. Dick meets Michael Chabon, and Jacob Bacharach creates an appropriately hilarious, bizarre, and keenly observed portrait of life on the edge of thirty in the adolescent years of twenty-first-century America. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jacob Bacharach. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019238/bk_adbl_019238_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Highest Tide: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 421min

  A spellbinding first novel about a young boy's fascination with the wonders of the seashore during a summer that will change his life. One moonlit night, 13-year-old Miles O'Malley slips out of his house, packs up his kayak, and goes exploring on the flats of Puget Sound. But what begins as an ordinary hunt for starfish, snails, and clams is soon transformed by an astonishing sight: a beached giant squid. As the first person to ever see a giant squid alive, the speed-reading, Rachel Carson-obsessed insomniac instantly becomes a local curiosity. When he later finds a rare deepwater fish in the tidal waters near his home, and saves a dog from drowning, he is hailed as a prophet. The media hovers and everyone wants to hear what Miles has to say. But Miles is really just a teenager on the verge of growing up, infatuated with the girl next door, worried that his bickering parents will divorce, and fearful that everything, even the bay he loves, is shifting from him. While the sea continues to offer up discoveries from its mysterious depths, Miles struggles to deal with the difficulties that attend the equally mysterious process of growing up. In this unforgettable, beguiling novel, we witness the dramatic sea change for both Miles and the coastline that he adores over the course of a summer, one that will culminate with the highest tide in 50 years. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fisher Stevens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/000494/bk_aren_000494_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  White Doves at Morning , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 676min

  In a startling departure, James Lee Burke has written an epic story of love, hate, and survival set against the tumultuous background of the Civil War and Reconstruction. At the center of the tale are James lee Burke's own ancestors, Robert Perry, who comes from the slave-owning family of wealth and privilege, and Willy Burke, born of Irish immigrants, a poor boy who is as irreverent as he is brave and decent. Despite personal and political conflicts, both men join the Confederate Army, determined not to back down in their commitment to their moral beliefs, to their friends, and to the abolitionist woman with whom both are infatuated. Willie's friend, Flower Jamison, a beautiful young black slave is owned by - and fathered by, although he will not admit it - Ira Jamison. Owner of Angola Plantation, Ira Jamison returns after the war and transforms his plantation into a penal colony which houses prisoners he rents out as laborers to replace the emancipated slaves. Against all local laws and customs, Willie teaches Flower how to read and write. She receives the help and protection of Abigail Dowling, the Massachusetts abolitionist who has attracted both Willie and Robert Perry's attention. These love affairs are fraught with danger and compromised by the great and grim events of the Civil War and its aftermath. With unforgettable battle scenes at Shiloh and in the Shenandoah Valley, White Doves at Morning is an epic masterpiece of historical fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ed Sala. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/006049/bk_sans_006049_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  White Doves at Morning, Hörbuch, Digital, 411min

  In a startling departure, James Lee Burke has written an epic story of love, hate, and survival set against the tumultuous background of the Civil War and Reconstruction. At the center of the tale are James Lee Burke's own ancestors, Robert Perry, who comes from a slave-owning family of wealth and privilege, and Willie Burke, born of Irish immigrants, a poor boy who is as irreverent as he is brave and decent. Despite personal and political conflicts, both men join the Confederate Army, determined not to back down in their commitment to their moral beliefs, to their friends, and to the abolitionist woman with whom both are infatuated. Willie's friend Flower Jamison, a beautiful young black slave, is owned by - and fathered by, although he will not admit it - Ira Jamison. Owner of Angola Plantation, Ira Jamison returns after the war and transforms his plantation into a penal colony which houses prisoners he rents out as laborers to replace the emancipated slaves. Against all local law and customs, Willie teaches Flower how to read and write. She receives the help and protection of Abigail Dowling, the Massachusetts abolitionist who has attracted both Willie and Robert Perry's attention. These love affairs are fraught with danger and compromised by the great and grim events of the Civil War and its aftermath. With unforgettable battle scenes at Shiloh and in the Shenandoah Valley, White Doves at Morning is an epic masterpiece of historical fiction. Language: English. Narrator: Will Patton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000379/bk_sans_000379_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Secrets That We Keep: Truths, Lies and Secrets Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 453min

  Agent Mallory Anderson has been infatuated with detective Jared Abrams ever since she worked a case with him involving his brother, Jack. Working as an Oregon State Police Detective, Jared refuses to give up his bachelor lifestyle or his home in Portland, Oregon, in order to make a commitment. A case involving a State Representative from Washington state throws them together into a world involving a heinous serial rapist and killer. Mallory, who is trained in behavioral analysis, knows how to hunt a killer but when secrets from her past begin to unravel, the truth will make her forget everything she knows and turn to the one person she thought she swore she was done longing for, Jared Abrams.Detective Jared Abrams hasn't been able to get agent Mallory Anderson out of his head despite his best efforts, but the idea of committing fully to someone scared the hell out of him. Suddenly thrown together on a case, Jared finds that the feelings he has for her have grown and he could imagine them having a future together. But the coast killings have escalated and the newest one is more familiar than anyone could possibly understand.A hunt between Washington and Oregon will lead them to a dark past where dark secrets begin to come out in the light. Can they catch a killer or will their lives and the lives of their friends and family be in danger from the sins of the past? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Liz Krane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/130527/bk_acx0_130527_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Departure from the Script , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 828min

  Sheila Katz has it all: a successful amateur theater debut, a husband who looks like a movie star and performs in bed like a man twenty years his junior, plus two wonderful grown children. True, her son became Catholic when he married - not a Jewish mother's dream. But Sheila is sure that any day now her daughter will announce her engagement to a wonderful Jewish boy. When the announcement comes though, there's one small change to Sheila's script. Jenny's intended is a wonderful Jewish girl. With assistance from a support group, Sheila rises to the occasion and helps Jenny plan a blowout lesbian wedding. Even as she calls caterers, Sheila is keeping the affair secret from her disapproving spouse. But another secret disturbs her far more: She has become infatuated with a striking lesbian artist. Now Sheila is dreaming of an affair of her own, one that could alter her life forever. More than an "issues" book, this is a great read, filled with humorous twists and laugh-out-loud scenes. Yet though Jenny and Tamara are not seeking legal recognition of their love, this groundbreaking novel may have played its part in the growing acceptance of marriage equality. A Departure from the Script was a choice of InsightOut Book Club, and a featured selection of Reading Group Choices: Selections for Lively Book Discussions; suggested discussion questions for book groups are included in the book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sheri Pigott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/024505/bk_acx0_024505_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Recovered , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 570min

  Affton I hated Cable James McCaffrey. He was entitled, spoiled, a user...and an addict. He was out of control and didn't bother trying to hide it. He had everything anyone could want but still seemed miserable and lost. Every move he made, every mistake he stumbled his way through, rubbed me the wrong way. However, I couldn't stop myself from trying to save him from himself when no one else would. In the sweltering heat of the summer, Cable taught me that having it all means nothing if you can't have the one thing you want more than anything else. Cable I was obsessed with Affton Reed. She was rigid, uptight, and no fun. There was something about her innate goodness that called to me. She acted like she was above all the normal faults and failures that clung to the rest of us like the scent of smoke after a fire. I was infatuated with her, but that didn't stop me from acting like she didn't exist. In the scorching heat of summer, Affton taught me that there is always a way back from the brink of despair. She showed me that the trick to having it all was realizing that it was already there, in my hands. All I had to do was hold on to it. The road to recovery is full of twists and turns no matter who is in the driver's seat. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lucy James, Lance Greenfield. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/033207/bk_adbl_033207_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Love" Poems for Kathy : Green. Laced. Leaves. , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 86min

  These love poems interlink and tell the troubled story of obsessional love. Lyrical and elegiac, they will please poetry lovers and will also interest people who wish to plumb the psychological depths of obsessional passion. Over a mere, few months, the poet Jonathan Finch wrote more than 100 love poems for and to his femme fatale. "Love" Poems for Kathy: Green. Laced. Leaves. is a sequence of interrelating love poems that tell the story of the poet's love and then hate for the woman who infatuated him. Tracing his early intense feelings for Katharine, the poems quickly descend into a maelstrom of contradictory passions which leave the poet exhausted but creatively embroiled. The listener is free to trace the violent emotions that were born out of this love, the jealousy the poet feels for his woman's past, the negative tirades which plumb misogynistic depths, the pathetic realization he has lost her, his plans to murder, his hallucinations, and his heartbreak. Throughout the trauma, love resurfaces weeping and is then buried once more under an avalanche of emotions that will leave the sensitive listener upset and anxious. "La belle dame sans merci" distances herself and the poet sees a man walking down a street "Where no street was, where no man was". In the 1970s and 80s, Jonathan Finch was singled out by editors and poets who published a great number of his poems in small magazines, pamphlets, and anthologies. He won prizes in British poetry competitions. When he was 33 he left the UK and has never been resident since. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anthony Schliesman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/111615/bk_acx0_111615_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Younger Woman and the Older Couple: Me, My Husband, and Elsa , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 29min, (USK 18)

  The moment I saw our new tenant, I was infatuated, and I'd never been with a woman before. Nonetheless, I needed Elsa. I wasn't suave or sophisticated when I tried to broach the subject with her, but Elsa was definitely up for it, and before I knew it I was right in the middle of my first lesbian sex experience. My husband joined in shortly thereafter, and before long I was having a threesome with a younger woman! Warning: This audiobook contains very explicit descriptions of sexual activity and includes first lesbian sex, MILF, FFM Ménage a trois, older couple/younger woman, and more. Only mature adults who won't find that offensive should listen to this story. Here is a preview: Holy shit. I was going to go for it. I was actually going to try to seduce a younger woman. It was an odd realization, of course, but there was also some pretty damned surprising excitement that went along with it. Ultimately, I wasn't going to sit around and fantasize about Elsa. I was going to f--k her. Well, I was going to try to f--k her anyway. I tried to consider the best way to do that when the doorbell rang. I made my way to the door and there she was holding onto a box. "Honey," I said, "You don't need the doorbell anymore. You can just walk in." She smiled and said, "Okay but I don't have a key yet." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sophia Chambers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/078406/bk_acx0_078406_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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