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    The Treacherous Imagination: Intimacy, Ethics, and Autobiographical Fiction , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 492min
    Many authors have been accused of betraying their loved ones by turning them into fictional characters. In The Treacherous Imagination, Robert McGill examines the ethics of writing such stories. He argues that while fiction has long appealed to audiences with its narratives of private life, contemporary autobiographical fiction channels a widespread ambivalence about the value of telling all in a confessional age - an age in which fiction has an unprecedented power to leave people feeling libeled or exposed when they recognize themselves in it. Observing that the interests of authors and their loved ones in such cases are often less divergent than they appear, McGill assessed strategies by which both parties might use fiction not to hurt each other but to revise and revitalize intimacy. Discussing authors such as Philip Roth, Alice Munro, A. S. Byatt, and Hanif Kureishi, McGill questions whether people should always require exclusivity of each other with regard to the stories they tell about private life. Instead, authors and their intimates might jointly embrace fiction's playful, transgressive qualities, even while reexamining the significance of that fiction's intimations. In treating autobiographical fiction as both a willful public indiscretion and a mediator of intimate relations, The Treacherous Imagination provides a comprehensive account of the various potentials that fiction holds to harm and to help those who write it, those who read and listen to it, and those who see themselves in it. The book is published by The Ohio State University Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joseph Steenburgh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/051860/bk_acx0_051860_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Keeper of Dreams, Volume 3: Feed the Baby of Love and Other Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 564min
    This huge new collection of the short stories of one of science fiction's most beloved and popular writers is sure to please his millions of fans. The volume contains 24 stories, Card's new introductions for each story, and commentary on his life and work. Like the earlier Maps in a Mirror, this collection is a definitive retrospective of the short fiction career of the writer that the Houston Post called "the best writer science fiction has to offer". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/000848/bk_aren_000848_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Keeper of Dreams: Volume 2: In the Dragon's House and Other Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 458min
    This huge new collection of the short stories of one of science fiction's most beloved and popular writers is sure to please his millions of fans. The volume contains 24 stories, Card's new introductions for each story, and commentary on his life and work. Like the earlier Maps in a Mirror, this collection is a definitive retrospective of the short fiction career of the writer that the Houston Post called "the best writer science fiction has to offer". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/000849/bk_aren_000849_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Mind Readers: An Albert Campion Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 571min
    Fact catches up with fiction when the secret of telepathic communication is discovered. But the device at the centre of the mystery is in the possession of two schoolboys and whether they stole it or invented it, there are powerful interests who will kill to get hold of it. Albert Campion faces as deadly a challenge as any in his career. As urbane as Lord Wimsey.as ingenious as Poirot. Meet one of crime fiction's Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Thorpe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008227/bk_adbl_008227_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Only Story
    **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he's proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention.As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen.Tender and wise, The Only Story is a deeply moving novel by one of fiction's greatest mappers of the human heart.
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    The Retreat #2: Slaughterhouse , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 372min
    Episode two of the highly acclaimed The Retreat series, from three of zombie fiction's most popular authors!   With laughter, comes death...  Emerging from the smoking ruins of Boston, Lieutenant Colonel Harry Lee leads the First Battalion, 55th Infantry Regiment on a perilous trek to its besieged home post of Fort Drum. Along the way, the unit must battle through the legions of diseased killers lying in wait, evading clever ambushes and fighting through terrifying attacks. Lee struggles to hold the battalion together while epitomizing its motto, "Bounding Forward".   ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R.C. Bray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/116835/bk_acx0_116835_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy
    The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy ab 14.99 € als epub eBook: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Science Fiction,
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    Dramatis Personae: Character Flaws, Volume 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 490min
    Half human. Half fiction. All action and adventure. Diogenes Ra, Joseph Lamere's breakout character of 2013, returns in Dramatis Personae: Character Flaws. Diogenes Ra is using his unique talents as a half-fictional character, working for an auction house that deals with the disembodied consciousness of famous - and infamous - fictions. Up for sale is the consciousness of Praed Pontine, so-called Master of Detection and heir to the memories and inner workings of the Great Detective himself, Sherlock Holmes. Security is tight. Tensions are high. All the most famous thieves of the past half-century are on hand, looking for weak spots in the security. When the auction goes awry and Pontine's consciousness winds up in the hands of a master thief named Baffle, Ra has to travel into fiction's past in order to catch him. This time, he has company: the implanted "back seat driver" who calls himself the Narrator, the voice of conscience that has issues of his own. While visiting fiction's past, Ra crosses paths with his father, Seamus the Shamus, a trans-temporal collision that has unforeseen consequences for them both. Dramatis Personae: Character Flaws sees Joseph Lamere's extremely popular concept return for a second volume. In a world where a man can be both real and fictional, human and character, anything can happen. Mystery, drama, action, and humor all come together in the follow-up to Dramatis Personae: Public Domain. Find out more than the denizens of your fiction ever wanted you to know about them in Dramatis Personae: Character Flaws by Joseph Lamere and from Pro Se Productions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alex Beckham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/053132/bk_acx0_053132_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Old Venus: A Collection of Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1337min
    Sixteen all-new stories by science fiction's top talents, collected by best-selling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award-winning editor Gardner Dozois. From pulp adventures such as Edgar Rice Burroughs' Carson of Venus to classic short stories such as Ray Bradbury's "The Long Rain" to visionary novels such as C. S. Lewis' Perelandra, the planet Venus has loomed almost as large in the imaginations of science fiction writers as Earth's next-nearest neighbor, Mars. But while the Red Planet conjured up in golden-age science-fiction stories was a place of vast deserts and ruined cities, bright-blue Venus was its polar opposite: a steamy, swampy jungle world with strange creatures lurking amid the dripping vegetation. Alas, just as the last century's space probes exploded our dreams of Mars, so too did they shatter our romantic visions of Venus, revealing, instead of a lush paradise, a hellish world inimical to all life. But don't despair! This new anthology of 16 original stories by some of science fiction's best writers - edited by number-one New York Times best-selling author George R. R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois - turns back the clock to that more innocent time, before the hard-won knowledge of science vanquished the infinite possibilities of the imagination. Featuring all-new stories by: Eleanor Arnason Elizabeth Bear David Brin Tobias S. Buckell Michael Cassutt Joe Haldeman Matthew Hughes Gwyneth Jones Joe R. Lansdale Stephen Leigh Paul McAuley Ian McDonald Garth Nix Mike Resnick Allen M. Steele Lavie Tidhar And an Introduction by Gardner Dozois ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Diana Rigg, Full Cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004078/bk_rand_004078_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Emma, Hörbuch, Digital, 145min
    “Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.” Emma is one of English fiction's most loved heroines. Her liveliness and quick wit, constant meddling and matchmaking between her acquaintances in the village of Highbury, and her own eventual falling in love are a delight. Anna-Juliana Clare graduated from Bristol Old Vic School Theatre School 1988. Her career has ranged from West End musicals to television and radio appearances. Language: English. Narrator: Belinda Lang. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/copy/000145/bk_copy_000145_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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