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Wings Over the Watcher , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 591min

Dedicated to her profession, DI Joanna Piercy has built her imposing reputation on thorough investigative police work. However, the job that once excited and intrigued her has now fallen into a familiar pattern of form filling and snide office banter. Distracted from her duty by her recent miscarriage and split with her partner, Matthew, Joanna is battling through this painful emotional period alone. She finds solace in her work, yet her focus and coherency are out of sync. She resorts to formulaic solutions to resolve her cases, having seen the same situations time and again. So when Arthur Pennington enters her office in a state of confused distress and reports that his wife, Beatrice, is missing, Joanna does not reciprocate with the same emotion. Convinced that his wife is merely involved in an extra-marital affair, Joanna is dismissive of Arthur's concerns. But when Beatrice's strangled body is discovered recklessly dumped on the Leek moorlands, she is forced to revaluate her stance. Unbeknown to even her closest family, Beatrice had been harbouring a secret and dangerously obsessive infatuation, which stemmed from her deep-rooted insecurities and low self esteem. And Joanna knows well that unrequited love can not only be hurtful, but fatal! Continuing the DI Joanna Piercy mystery series, Wings over the Watcher delves deep within the complex puzzle of the female psyche, examining the warped impact marital neglect can have on a woman's mental stability. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Judith Boyd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/000052/bk_howe_000052_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Other People's Clothes

'A sparkling debut...this is a very good plot-driven thriller dressed in a glittery jumpsuit.' GUARDIAN'I couldn't stop turning the pages . . . a debut you won't want to miss' MEGAN ABBOTT'A wild, energetic gem of a novel' DAILY MAIL Intoxicating, compulsive and blackly funny, Other People's Clothes is the thrilling novel from Berlin-based American artist Calla Henkel.2009. Berlin.Two art students arrive from New York, both desperate for the city to solve their problems.Zoe is grieving for her high school best friend, murdered months before in her hometown in Florida.Hailey is rich, obsessed with the exploits of Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears and wants to be a Warholian legend.Together they rent a once-magnificent apartment from eccentric crime writer Beatrice Becks. With little to fill their time, they spend their nights twisting through Berlin's club scene and their days hungover. Soon inexplicable things start happening in the apartment and the two friends suspect they are being watched by Beatrice. Convinced that their landlord is using their lives as inspiration for her next thriller novel, they decide to beat her at her own game. The girls start hosting wild parties in the flat and quickly gain notoriety, with everyone clamouring for an invite to 'Beatrice's.' But ultimately they find themselves unable to control the narrative and it spirals into much darker territory . . .'Thrilling' Cosmopolitan'Full of delicious layers . . . I felt drunk reading it.' Emma Jane Unsworth'Other People's Clothes feels like reading a thriller by your most acerbic friend' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

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Paradise City , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 646min

An audacious, compassionate state-of-the-nation novel about four strangers whose lives collide with far-reaching consequences.Beatrice Kizza, a woman in flight from a homeland that condemned her for daring to love, flees to London. There, she shields her sorrow from the indifference of her adopted city and navigates a nighttime world of shift work and bedsits.Howard Pink is a self-made millionaire who has risen from Petticoat Lane to the mansions of Kensington on a tide of determination and bluster. Yet self-doubt still snaps at his heels, and his life is shadowed by the terrible loss that has shaken him to his foundations.Carol Hetherington, recently widowed, is living the quiet life in Wandsworth with her cat and The Jeremy Kyle Show for company. As she tries to come to terms with the absence her husband has left on the other side of the bed, she frets over her daughter's prospects and wonders if she'll ever be happy again.Esme Reade is a young journalist learning to muck-rake and doorstep in pursuit of the elusive scoop, even as she longs to find some greater meaning and leave her imprint on the world.Four strangers, each inhabitants of the same city, where the gulf between those who have too much and those who will never have enough is impossibly vast. But when the glass that separates Howard's and Beatrice's worlds is shattered by an inexcusable act, they discover that the capital has connected them in ways they could never have imagined. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Melissa Woodbridge. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/004325/bk_hcuk_004325_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Leonardo's Swans, Hörbuch, Digital, 353min

Isabella d'Este, daughter of the Duke of Ferrara, born into privilege and the political and artistic turbulence of Renaissance Italy, is a stunning black-eyed blonde and a precocious lover and collector of art. Worldly and ambitious, she has never envied her less attractive sister, the spirited but naive Beatrice, until, by a quirk of fate, Beatrice is betrothed to the future Duke of Milan. Although he is more than twice their age, openly lives with his mistress, and is reputedly trying to eliminate the current duke by nefarious means, Ludovico Sforza is Isabella's match in intellect and passion for all things of beauty. Only he would allow her to fulfill her destiny: to reign over one of the world's most powerful and enlightened realms and be immortalized in oil by the genius Leonardo da Vinci.Though Isabella weds the Marquis of Mantua, a man she has loved since childhood, Beatrice's fortunes rise effortlessly through her marriage to Ludovico. The two sisters compete for supremacy in the illustrious courts of Europe, and Isabella vows that she will not rest until she wrestles back her true fate and plays temptress to the sensuous Ludovico and muse to the great Leonardo. But when Ludovico's grand plan to control Europe begins to crumble, immortality through art becomes a luxury, and the two sisters must choose between familial loyalty and survival in the treacherous political climate.Leonardo's Swans is an exceptionally vivid evocation of the artist during his years in the glittering court of Milan, re-creating the thrilling moments when he conceived The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. It portrays a genius ahead of his time who can rarely escape the demands of his noble patrons long enough to express his own artistic vision. Language: English. Narrator: Elizabeth Sastre. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000767/bk_rand_000767_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Neverworld Wake , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 527min

A 'clear your calendar' kind of one-day read. (Melissa Albert, New York Times best-selling author of The Hazel World) Five friends. Only one can survive the Neverworld Wake. Who would you choose?From the acclaimed New York Times best-selling author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics and Night Film comes an absorbing psychological suspense thriller in which fears are physical and memories come alive."A thriller that will grip readers from the start." (Hypable) Once upon a time, back at Darrow-Harker School, Beatrice Hartley and her five best friends were the cool kids, the beautiful ones. Then the shocking death of Jim - their creative genius and Beatrice's boyfriend - changed everything. One year after graduation, Beatrice is returning to Wincroft - the seaside estate where they spent so many nights sharing secrets, crushes, plans to change the world - hoping she'll get to the bottom of the dark questions gnawing at her about Jim's death. But as the night plays out in a haze of stilted jokes and unfathomable silence, Beatrice senses she's never going to know what really happened. Then a mysterious man knocks on the door. Blithely, he announces the impossible: Time for them has become stuck, snagged on a splinter that can be removed only if the former friends make the harshest of decisions. Now Beatrice has one last shot at answers...and at life. And so begins the Neverworld Wake. A Chicago Public Library best book of the year."Beautifully creepy." (The New York Times)"You wont be able to stop reading until the mystery is unraveled." (Refinery29)"A dark and twisty tale brimming with psychological suspense." (Bustle) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phoebe Strole. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/003070/bk_lili_003070_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 962min

Spirited and lively, Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter is richly packed with arguments, intrigues, scandals, and secrets, and is a vivid portrait of a princess desperate to escape her inheritance. The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumor and gossip than hard facts? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate, often thwarted by inexplicable secrecy, she discovered a fascinating woman, modern before her time, whose story has been shielded for years from public view. Louise was a sculptor and painter, friend to the Pre-Raphaelites and a keen member of the Aesthetic movement. The most feisty of the Victorian princesses, she kicked against her mother's controlling nature and remained fiercely loyal to her brothers - especially the sickly Leopold and the much-maligned Bertie. She sought out other unconventional women, including Josephine Butler and George Eliot, and campaigned for education and health reform and for the rights of women. She battled with her indomitable mother for permission to practice the "masculine" art of sculpture and go to art college - and in doing so became the first British princess to attend a public school. The rumors of Louise's colorful love life persist even today, with hints of love affairs dating as far back as her teenage years, and notable scandals included entanglements with her sculpting tutor Joseph Edgar Boehm and possibly even her sister Princess Beatrice's handsome husband, Liko. True to rebellious form, she refused all royal suitors and became the first member of the royal family, since the 16th century, to marry a commoner. She moved with him to Canada when he was appointed Governor-General. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer M. Dixon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/011433/bk_tant_011433_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Sprinkles, Secrets & Other Stories: It's Raining Cupcakes; Sprinkles and Secrets; Frosting and Friendship

This delicious paperback bind-up brings together three middle grade novels about young aspiring bakers chasing their sweetest dreams! In It's Raining Cupcakes, twelve-year-old Isabel would love to escape her boring town of Willow, Oregon, and realize her dream of seeing more of the world and showing off her own sweet recipes. But she's stuck at home, helping her mom open a cupcake shop in town. When Isabel finds out about a baking competition that sends the finalists on an all-expense paid trip to New York City, she realizes this might be her big chance! But her BFF, Sophie, has her own sights on the competition—and Isabel's mom has her own ideas on what her daughter should enter for her big debut. Can Isabel find the winning recipe to keep everyone—including herself—happy as she pursues her dreams? Lily is invited to be a part of The Baking Bookworms with some of her classmates and friends in Frosting and Friendship. The only problem? Lily is much more comfortable making music than making delicious treats. And when she is asked to make a show-stopping, mouthwatering dessert for one of the fellow Baking Bookworms, has Lily bitten off more than she can bake? In Sprinkles and Secrets, Sophie has always dreamed of becoming an actress. So when she's offered an opportunity to audition for a TV commercial spot—and a chance to make her dreams come true—she's over-the-moon happy! But then she finds out what exactly she'll be advertising: the super popular Beatrice's Brownies—a.k.a. number one competitor to It's Raining Cupcakes, the shop owned by her best friend Isabel's family! This wonderful three-books-in-one bind-up includes: It's Raining Cupcakes Frosting and Friendship Sprinkles and Secrets

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