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    The Anatomy of Melancholy
    Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Burton's masterpiece, this fully edited, modern edition is published as a landmark hardback volume in Penguin Classics. Robert Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to 'anatomize and cut up' every aspect of the condition of melancholy, from which he had suffered throughout his life. Ranging over beauty, digestion, the planets, alcohol, demons, kissing, poetry and the restorative power of books, among many other things, The Anatomy of Melancholy has fascinated figures from Samuel Johnson to Jorge Luis Borges since the seventeenth century, and remains an incomparable examination of the human condition in all its flawed, endless variety.Edited with an introduction and notes by Angus Gowland'The best book ever written' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
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    The Phantom of the Opera, Hörbuch, Digital, 158min
    This 19th century French thriller tells of the mysterious Erik, grotesque and elusive "phantom," who hides himself from the world in the labyrinthine bowels of the Paris Opera and entices with his angelic voice the beautiful opera singer Christine. Her abduction prompts a dramatic search not only for her, but also for the truth about her strange captor.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy Nicholas, Peter Yapp. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000052/bk_naxo_000052_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn: Inspector Morse Mysteries, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 432min
    Morse had never ceased to wonder why, with the staggering advances in medical science, all pronouncements concerning times of death seemed so disconcertingly vague. The newly appointed member of the Oxford Examinations Syndicate was deaf, provincial and gifted. Now he is dead.... And his murder, in his north Oxford home, proves to be the start of a formidably labyrinthine case for Chief Inspector Morse, as he tries to track down the killer through the insular and bitchy world of the Oxford Colleges.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Samuel West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/001160/bk_macm_001160_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dangerous Games: Sinclair & McCallum, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 659min
    A killer is using labyrinthine storm drains to dispose of his victims, who are found handcuffed and drowned, washed out of the rain-filled drainage lines like garbage. The crimes compel FBI Agent Tess McCallum to crack the case, but they're touching a nerve in Personal Security Consultant Abby Sinclair. She fears it's the same madman who invaded her nightmares once before. As the two women work with each other to solve the case, tensions rise and tempers flare. And as sure as the rain, a new killing season begins. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Suehyla El Attar. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004201/bk_adbl_004201_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Purple Death , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 457min
    A series of murders leads Detective Inspector Sean Connor and his team into a labyrinthine investigation. The victims are dispatched using a poison previously associated with the notorious Borgia family.As the murders multiply at an alarming rate, Connor finds clues hard to come by, and every lead takes him down yet another blind alley. The killer seems to be one step ahead of him at every turn.Together with Sergeant Lucy Clay, they must piece together the shreds of evidence and find the mastermind behind the murders that become known as Purple Death. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Derrick B Perry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/180498/bk_acx0_180498_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Tower , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 535min
    Ellie's new case takes her far out of town to a historic but crumbling 19th-century skyscraper in downtown Atlanta. The reclusive, once-prominent family living at the top of the tower are experiencing paranormal disturbances that grow more threatening by the day.  Ellie and Stacey must unravel the hidden history of the tower and the ancestors of the family who occupy it - a history full of crime, corruption, wealth, and power. With floor after floor of dark, haunted spaces, the labyrinthine, antique tower presents one of the greatest ghost-trapping challenges Ellie has ever faced. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carla Mercer-Meyer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/050052/bk_adbl_050052_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Troubler , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 572min
    P.I. Bertrand McAbee, a former classics professor, has a knack for finding dangerous cases. This time a misanthrope, with a satirical sense of humor, is discovered hanging under an Interstate 55 overpass. Suspects seem to be almost infinite and the Chicago P.D. disengages. As McAbee enters this labyrinthine affair, he begins to see that an extraordinary cast of groups with notoriously short tempers might have taken aim at this victim. With the assistance of his team and the play of events his focus turns to the one group he didn't want to encounter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott R. Pollak. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/096711/bk_acx0_096711_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    On the Fifth Day , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 849min
    The mysterious death of a Catholic priest has been met with suspicion by his brother, Thomas Knight - and the grave silence of church authorities. All Thomas knows is that his brother died in the Philippines, the last stop of an international trek researching the history of Christian symbols. But Thomas and curator Deborah Miller aren't alone in retracing the priest's perilous and labyrinthine path. Their every move is being shadowed by a fanatical cabal of agents who are desperate to hide the astronishing secret Thomas's brother stumbled upon - and willing to kill to keep it buried in shadows of history forever. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Sullivan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002983/bk_adbl_002983_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Serpent's Tooth: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 782min
    A man walks into a trendy Los Angeles restaurant - a disgruntled ex-employee with an automatic weapon - and seconds later, thirteen people are dead and 32 more have been wounded. It is a heinous act of mass slaughter that haunts Homicide Detective Peter Decker. But, though eyewitnesses saw only the lone gunman - who apparently took his own life after his bloody work was done - evidence suggests more than one weapon was fired. It is a disturbing inconsistency that sends Decker racing headlong into a sordid, labyrinthine world of Southern California money and power, on an investigation that threatens to destroy his reputation and his career. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mitchell Greenberg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002761/bk_harp_002761_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Princesse de Clèves , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 363min
    'Always be civil to the girls. You never know whom they might marry.' (Nancy Mitford, from her introduction to The Princess de Clèves)When the young, beautiful Mademoiselle de Chartres comes to court, her primary objective is to find herself a husband. Upon her mother's recommendation, she accepts the advances of the Prince de Clèves, a rather average sort of a man. Unfortunately, soon after the wedding she finds herself to be in love with the dashing Duc de Nemours.... Against a backdrop of labyrinthine court politics, the naïve Madame de Clèves' pursuit of true love is a riveting and timelessly tragic tale. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Polly Edsell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/qpuk/000935/bk_qpuk_000935_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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