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    The Last Painting of Sara de Vos , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 597min
    This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the story's told. In this extraordinary audiobook, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Australian writer Dominic Smith brilliantly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the Golden Age, an inheritor of the work in 1950s Manhattan, and a celebrated Australian art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth. In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted to the Guild of St. Luke in Holland as a master painter, the first woman to be so honoured. 300 years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain - a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the Manhattan bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. An Australian grad student, Ellie Shipley, struggling to stay afloat in New York, agrees to paint a forgery of the landscape, a decision that will haunt her. Because now, half a century later, she's curating an exhibition of female Dutch painters, and both versions threaten to arrive. As the three threads intersect with increasing and exquisite suspense, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos mesmerises while it grapples with the demands of the artistic life, showing how the deceits of the past can forge the present. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/002796/bk_boli_002796_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    De Potter's Grand Tour: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 465min
    A gripping novel about a seemingly charmed marriage and a mysterious disappearance at sea. In 1905 a tourist agent and amateur antiques collector named Armand de Potter mysteriously disappears off the coast of Greece. His body is never recovered, and his wife is left to manage his affairs on her own. But as she starts to piece together his life, she realizes that everything was not as he had said. Infused with details from letters and diary entries, the narrative twists forward and backward through time, revealing a lost world of fake identities, underground antiques networks, and a husband who wasn't what he seemed. Originally from Belgium, young Armand de Potter went to New York without a penny in his pocket. With cunning ambition, he quickly made a name for himself as both a worldwide travel guide and a trusted--if illegal--antiques dealer. After marrying he moved the family to a luxurious villa in Cannes and embraced an aristocratic life. But as he grew increasingly entangled in the antiques trade, and his touring business began to falter, Armand's control started to fray. As the world closed in, he believed he had only one option left. Told with masterful narrative agility, De Potter's Grand Tour is a tale as grand as the tour guide at its center. Drawing on real letters, legal documents, and a trove of diaries only recently discovered, Joanna Scott points delicately toward the story's historical basis and unfolds a detective tale of the highest order. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: P. J. Ochlan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/020680/bk_adbl_020680_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Cinderella / Aschenputtel (Bilingual Edition: English - German / Zweisprachige Ausgabe: Englisch - Deutsch) (eBook, ePUB)
    This edition contains the English translation and the original text in German. "Cinderella", or "The Little Glass Slipper" (French: "Cendrillon, ou La petite Pantoufle de Verre", Italian: "Cenerentola", German: "Aschenputtel"), is a European folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression in "Histoires ou contes du temps passé" published by Charles Perrault in 1697, and by the Brothers Grimm in their folk tale collection "Grimms' Fairy Tales". Although both the story's title and the character's name change in different languages, in English-language folklore "Cinderella" is the archetypal name. The word "Cinderella" has, by analogy, come to mean one whose attributes were unrecognized, or one who unexpectedly achieves recognition or success after a period of obscurity and neglect. The still-popular story of "Cinderella" continues to influence popular culture internationally, lending plot elements, allusions, and tropes to a wide variety of media. The Aarne-Thompson system classifies Cinderella as "the persecuted heroine". The story of Rhodopis about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt is considered the earliest known variant of the "Cinderella" story and many variants are known throughout the world. "Aschenputtel" (bei Bechstein "Aschenbrödel") ist eine im europäischen Kulturraum weit verbreitete Märchenfigur, die im deutschsprachigen Raum vor allem durch die Märchensammlung der Brüder Grimm in Erinnerung geblieben ist. Das Märchen gehört zu Märchentyp 510a nach Aarne und Thompson. Es steht in den Kinder und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm an Stelle 21 (KHM 21) und geht durch mündliche Weitergabe auf Charles Perraults "Cendrillon ou la Petite Pantoufle de verre" ("Aschenputtel oder der kleine Glasschuh") von 1697 zurück. Ludwig Bechstein übernahm es in sein Deutsches Märchenbuch als "Aschenbrödel" (1845 Nr. 70, 1853 Nr. 62). Perraults Fassung mit den in Apfelschimmel verwandelten Mäusen und dem Kürbis, der mit Hilfe der Fee zur Kutsche wird, prägte maßgeblich Walt Disneys Zeichentrickfilm "Cinderella" von 1950.
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    The Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 927min
    Utterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory is quite simply the most successful account of the physical universe ever devised. Its concepts underpin much of the 21st-century technology that we now take for granted. But at the same time it has completely undermined our ability to make sense of the world at its most fundamental level. Niels Bohr claimed that anybody who is not shocked by the theory has not understood it. The American physicist Richard Feynman went further: he claimed that nobody understands it. The Quantum Story begins in 1900, tracing a century of game-changing science. Popular science writer Jim Baggott first shows how, over the space of three decades, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and others formulated and refined the theory--and opened the floodgates. Indeed, since then, a torrent of ideas has flowed from the world's leading physicists, as they explore and apply the theory's bizarre implications. To take us from the story's beginning to the present day, Baggott organizes his narrative around 40 turning-point moments of discovery. Many of these are inextricably bound up with the characters involved--their rivalries and their collaborations, their arguments and, not least, their excitement as they sense that they are redefining what reality means. Through the mix of story and science, we experience their breathtaking leaps of theory and experiment, as they uncover such undreamed of and mind-boggling phenomenon as black holes, multiple universes, quantum entanglement, the Higgs boson, and much more. Brisk, clear, and compelling, The Quantum Story is science writing at its best. A compelling look at the 100-year history of quantum theory, it illuminates the idea as it reveals how generations of physicists have grappled with this monster ever since. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Pollock. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003264/bk_adbl_003264_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Long Night of Winchell Dear , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 241min
    The steady tick of an aged Regulator wall clock and the squeak of an overhead fan turning slowly are soft but insistent, counting down the night, while the high desert thrums like a half-remembered Victrola song. The sounds are below the consciousness of Winchell Dear, an old-time gambler, a Texas poker player on the southern circuit, as he waits for something...something vague that his life of chance tells him is evil and moving his way. In Diablo Canyon, a distant part of Winchell Dear's ranch, Peter Long Grass squats by a campfire, contemplating the profile he saw moving along the ridge of Guapa Mountain an hour ago, thinking about the gambler's housekeeper, Sonia Dominguez, about the small, quiet world he has fashioned far from civilization and what undefined presence might now be threatening it. He gathers his tools and begins to run across the desert floor. And boring toward all of them is a cream-colored Lincoln Continental with two men aboard. Traveling from Los Angeles on a mission they've been given, they are professionals, cool and implacable at the start, but becoming steadily more confused by the strange landscape they are passing through. 40 minutes from their task, they ready themselves, while a kitchen wall clock ticks its way through the long night of Winchell Dear. The Long Night of Winchell Dear finds master storyteller Robert James Waller at his best as he takes us into the shadowy world of high-stakes poker fought in the back rooms of Amarillo and Little Rock, and headlong toward the story's stunning finale of chaotic terror, where an unexpected hero emerges. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard McGonagle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000965/bk_rand_000965_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Terminal Justice: Mystery and Suspense Crime Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 680min
    What would you do if you had only three months left to live? And what if all of your money had gone to pay for your medical treatment? And you had nothing to leave for your loved ones? Think about it...what would you do? Now a mysterious stranger has approached you with an intriguing offer.... Four million dollars will be inherited by your family upon your death,if you will strap plastic explosives around your waist and blow yourself to bits along with someone who has just been acquitted of a heinous crime. Would you do it? You're going to die anyway. Think about it.... Most terminally ill patients spend their last days and hours sharing that most precious time with their families and friends. In Lyle Howard's new pulse-pounding thriller, Terminal Justice, terminally ill patients spend their last few hours tracking down murderers and felons who have walked free on technicalities or horrible miscarriages of justice. Then the patients become violent avengers - killing the murderers in explosive suicide bombings. A Mafia kingpin, a homicidal televangelist, and a handful of others...none of these acquitted transgressors is safe from the explosive retribution of the evil mastermind behind this brand of terminal justice. When Gabe Mitchell, an ex-police detective who has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, is enlisted by the mysterious organization responsible for the suicide bombings, he will have to choose pulling the trigger on his own suicide bomb or risking everything to expose the deadly conspiracy. From the opening detonation in Las Vegas to the surprise ending that won't be revealed until the story's very last sentence, Terminal Justice is a character-driven story that will keep the listener cheering for more. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joseph Morton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/052679/bk_acx0_052679_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Sinking of PT-109: The History of the Controversial Incident That Made John F. Kennedy a War Hero , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 103min
    There's nothing in the book about a situation like this. A lot of you have families, and some of you have children. What do you want to do? I have nothing to lose. (John F. Kennedy after the collision with a Japanese destroyer) On the night of August 1, 1943, and in the early morning hours of the next day, one of America's many patrol torpedo boats in the Pacific, PT-109, with her crew of 12 men, was performing its usual role in the Pacific Islands: a night patrol of the Blackett Strait in search of enemy convoys transporting large numbers of Japanese troops to Southern Guadalcanal and other strategic locations. However, on this dark, moonless night, PT-109, with its engines idling to avoid creating wake, was severed in two by a collision with a Japanese destroyer, the Amagiri. With only seconds to respond after sighting the destroyer, the crew was unable to get the boat out of the Japanese destroyer's path, and it's unclear whether the Japanese destroyer even knew the other boat was there. While the destroyer suffered minimal damage, two crew members on PT-109 were instantly killed, and the other 10 who initially survived would have to struggle for their lives. In many ways what happened following the collision is remembered better than the actual sinking, in part because the survivors' tale was so harrowing, and their survival was marked by their own bravery. Though the role and effectiveness of PT boats continues to be a topic of debate, the crew's survival is a story of undisputed valor and providence. Of course the story's association with a future president never hurts, and like so much of John F. Kennedy's life, the PT-109 incident is controversial. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R. Keith Miles. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/032949/bk_acx0_032949_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fairview Felines , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 200min
    Fairview is a quiet town. Nothing strange ever happens. Certainly nothing so weird and sinister as the disappearance, one by one, of its cats. But it is happening, and Thomas Weston, eight-grade wannabe reporter and inveterte snoop, is going to find out why. If, that is, he doesn't get grounded for bringing home a string of grades that give new meaning to the term D-. It's not that Thomas is stupid; he's just not interested in anything that doesn't pertain to getting a story. But in addition to solving the mystery of Fairview's disappearing cats, Thomas has a new ambition - one that dosn't go with a GPA that can be expressed in negative numbers (one of many mathematical concepts Thomas doesn't get) he wants to launch a school newspaper - and he's got good reason to expect that, without a B average at least, he'll never be made its editor. At least Thomas isn't alone in his problems. He has Quinn, his ultra-smart science nerd girl friend (not girlfriend) and Leland, the closest thing to Thelonious Monk any eighth-grade class has ever had, to help him find the cats and maybe even bring up his grades. Together the three consider a roster of of very suspect suspects: Mr. Klim, the cat-hating neighbor; Mrs. Adams, the mad science teacher with an army of flesh-eating beetles at her command; - and is there a sinister gang of burglars using the cats as bait for watchdogs? The answer, when it comes, is a twist as surprising as a good Agatha Christie story's, and solving it gets Thomas the inside track on the editorship he wants so much. If he can just keep his grades up... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jerry Fischer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/015078/bk_acx0_015078_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Her Smoke Rose Up Forever , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1435min
    These 18 darkly complex short stories and novellas touch upon human nature and perception, metaphysics and epistemology, and gender and sexuality, foreshadowing a world in which biological tendencies bring about the downfall of humankind. Revisions from the author's notes are included, allowing a deeper view into her world and a better understanding of her work. The Nebula Award-winning short story "Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death", the Hugo Award-winning novella The Girl Who Was Plugged In, and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novella Houston, Houston, Do You Read? are included. The stories of Alice Sheldon, who wrote as James Tiptree Jr. (Up the Walls of the World) until her death in 1987, have been heretofore available mostly in out-of-print collections. Thus the 18 accomplished stories here will be welcomed by new listeners and old fans. ''The Screwfly Solution'' describes a chilling, elegant answer to the population problem. In ''Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death,'' the title tells the tale - species survival insured by imprinted drives - but the story's force is in its exquisite, lyrical prose and its suggestion that personal uniqueness is possible even within biological imperatives. ''The Girl Who Was Plugged In'' is a future boy-meets-girl story with a twist unexpected by the players. ''The Women Men Don't See'' displays Tiptree's keen insight and ability to depict singularity within the ordinary. In Hugo and Nebula award-winning ''Houston, Houston, Do You Read?'' astronauts flying by the sun slip forward 500 years and encounter a culture that successfully questions gender roles in ours. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dina Pearlman, Adam Grupper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/054650/bk_adbl_054650_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How to Train Your Baby Enderdragon: An Unofficial Minecraft Book (Diary of a Minecraft Teenage Spy, Book 3) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 56min
    Are you ready for a Minecraft dragon adventure? Sounds like you need the village teenage spy by your side! In this funny action series, we get to hear the adventures of a Minecraft school spy, Sammy.Sammy Cooper is 14 years old, and his village isn't like anything you have ever seen before.You see; he lives in a Minecraft village, where everything is made from blocks and dangerous creatures roam the land. He is just your normal, average teenager until events lead to wars, golems, and jungle tours.But can he and his friends survive the terror that follows the Endermen wherever they go? Do they stand a chance of protecting the baby Enderdragon they have been entrusted with? Will the dragon be able to fly and defend himself?Get ready to dive into the crazy world of Minecraft to find out!If he fails, his village will be destroyed for good.So what are we waiting for? Let's get stuck in! How to Train Your Baby Enderdragon will have any kid who loves Minecraft, video games, spies, and school adventures be on the edge of their seats. If you have a superhero in training who loves a hilarious, action-packed adventure, then this story's a surefire way to keep any young kid enthralled.For an adventure that truly understands what it's like to be a kid, buy right now.Be warned: This book contains burps!This book is not an official Minecraft product, and has not been approved by or associated with Mojang. Author Sammy Spy, CAT Publishing International, and Caroline Treanor International Books are not part of Mojang and are not associated with Mojang and are not supported by Mojang.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Justin Hewitt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/234026/bk_acx0_234026_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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