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    Motion for Murder: Jamie Winters Mysteries, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 446min
    Jamie Winter loathes her job as a secretary in the sleaziest law firm in New Jersey. Trouble is, someone else loathes the whole firm - enough to kill one of the partners, the two-timing, 11-fingered king of lowbrow television commercial spots, Dougie Digits. Now, Jamie is being strong-armed into investigating by Dougie's frosty widow, Hilary. The suspect list is long, including the firm's bookish paralegal, embezzling bookkeeper, ambitious associate, and resentful senior partners. Add to that list a mélange of oddball clients with grudges of their own, and Jamie has her work cut out for her. With assists from her studly landlord and husband-hungry sister, Jamie uncovers enough dirt on her coworkers to launch a tabloid in her hunt to find the killer before he or she strikes again! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lisa Kelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/057583/bk_acx0_057583_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Straight to the Head , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 642min
    It's 1983. Vancouver is on the precipice of transforming itself from a dirty little town to a blandly sophisticated big city. Convertibles cruise beneath runty palm trees, and the air is filled with the delicious tang of ocean breezes, cheeseburgers, and pot smoke. In this fast and furious crime novel set in the midst of a long West Coast summer, an Eastern European immigrant named Irina absconds with a shipment of drugs and $300,000 in dirty money, setting into motion a wild chain reaction involving bounty hunters, corrupt cops, lowbrow scammers, and her bewildered, straitlaced ex-husband. High-end sushi bars, nightclubs, and New Wave art galleries all figure in this stylish neon noir that blows the roof off traditional crime fiction: a slick and sexy tonic that takes listeners on a genre bender of dizzying proportions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Graham Rowat. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009553/bk_reco_009553_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Haunt , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 382min
    Haunt is a tripping-balls Los Angeles noir, where a mysterious dame drags you through a time-warping bizarro hall of mirrors. She's the girl of your dreams - too bad she's dead. Or, is she? In Haunt, "you" are the hapless corporate tool and rock star wannabe turned private dick. Here, even your most inconsequential choices can make all the difference between a Hollywood ending on the beach and sucking cock for clues. This is genial lowbrow high-lit weirdness: the funny, punchy cousin of Danielewski's House of Leaves, a Vonnegut and Salinger paté on a choose-your-own cracker, with a lap dance from Nancy Drew. As much fun to make as it is to eat! Laura Lee Bahr is an award-winning indie actor/playwright/screenwriter with a gift for the hilariously, tragically absurd. Haunt is her first novel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laura Lee Bahr, Kerr Seth Lordygan, Jeremy Broomfield, Cody Goodfellow. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/048996/bk_acx0_048996_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lacking Evidence to the Contrary: A Lowbrow Novel of Questionable Necessity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 629min
    In the thin slice of time between the present day and the dystopian future we've been hearing so much about, Chris Dawkins, a young man of uncertain everything, finds himself in the FBI's crosshairs when he accidentally signs the online Terms and Conditions to join an Islamic extremist group. (And I suppose you read all the fine print?) With the help of his billionaire boss Jasper Wiles and badass attorney Biz Byner, Chris must thread a narrow path to freedom, squeezing through the colliding worlds of law enforcement, the news media, Silicon Valley, entrepreneurial jihadists, teenage dark web nuclear arms dealers, rogue military officers, street hustlers and side hustlers, living their own truths all. One part thriller, one part action-adventure, one part buddy comedy and nine parts social and political satire, Lacking Evidence to the Contrary slices, dices and serves up overflowing portions the contradictions and absurdities of a world where nothing is as it seems. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marty Moran. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/228494/bk_acx0_228494_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Handcuffed to the Werewolf: DeWitt's Pack, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 137min, (USK 18)
    Jason Snowe woke up in a nightmare. Kidnapped and thrown into a cement hole, he is chained to a werewolf, and is to be used for food when the wolf becomes too hungry to go without! Mick Stewart despises the fact that he was caught by a bunch of lowbrow hunters, but there is always a silver lining. The human they chained him to is his mate, and though Jason is wary of him, they both agree that working together is their only chance of escape. For Mick, traveling whilst chained to a human only slows him down, and though Jason tries to keep the silver in the chain from affecting him, he soon comes down with a case of silver poisoning. For Jason, finding out that he has a mate is surreal enough, but now he is faced with the possibility of losing Mick to the hunters before they even have the chance to really know each other. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter B. Brooke. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/026699/bk_acx0_026699_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Demanding Respect: The Evolution of the American Comic Book , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 639min
    How is it that comic books - the once-reviled form of lowbrow popular culture - are now the rage for Hollywood blockbusters, the basis for best-selling video games, and the inspiration for literary graphic novels? In Demanding Respect, Paul Lopes immerses himself in the discourse and practices of this art and subculture to provide a social history of the American comic book over the last 75 years. Lopes analyzes the cultural production, reception, and consumption of American comic books throughout history. He charts the rise of superheroes, the proliferation of serials, and the emergence of graphic novels. Demanding Respect explores how comic books born in the 1930s were perceived as a "menace" in the 1950s, only to later become collectors' items and eventually "hip" fiction in the 1980s through today. Using a theoretical framework to examine the construction of comic book culture - the artists, publishers, readers, and fans - Lopes explains how and why comic books have captured the public's imagination and gained a fanatic cult following. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert A K Gonyo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/056180/bk_acx0_056180_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lost Sound: The Forgotten Art of Radio Storytelling , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 630min
    From Archibald MacLeish to David Sedaris, radio storytelling has long borrowed from the world of literature, yet the narrative radio work of well-known writers and others is a story that has not been told before. And when the literary aspects of specific programs such as The War of the Worlds or Sorry, Wrong Number were considered, scrutiny was superficial. In Lost Sound, Jeff Porter examines the vital interplay between acoustic techniques and modernist practices in the growth of radio. Concentrating on the 1930s through the 1970s, but also speaking to the rising popularity of today's narrative broadcasts such as This American Life, Radiolab, Serial, and The Organist, Porter's close readings of key radio programs show how writers adapted literary techniques to an acoustic medium with great effect. Addressing avant-garde sound poetry and experimental literature on the air alongside industry policy and network economics, Porter identifies the ways radio challenged the conventional distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow cultural content to produce a dynamic popular culture. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Morey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008805/bk_blak_008805_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The First Course: Book One of The Omegas Series, a SuperHarem Adventure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 612min, (USK 18)
    Charles Murphy's superpower is useless. He can turn into a churro. In a world where one percent of the population has powers, he's quite below average; many would say he's completely useless. And they have. At length. For years. Despite his deep-seated desire to be a hero, his ability isn't glamorous and can't be used to fight crime, so he and a small cadre of similarly useless supers are relegated to Omega Team and told explicitly that all they will ever need to do is sit there and look pretty. And while waiting to be called up to the big leagues, they might as well get laid, right? Dangerous secrets will send the Omegas on an adventure none of them could have anticipated. Can they step up to the plate and become the heroes they were meant to be? Warning: This book contains explicit content and ridiculous situations that are suitable only for adults. But not, like, adult-y adults. More like teenagers who have adult bodies. (It's lowbrow, is what I'm saying.) Listener discretion strongly advised. 18+ only. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bradley Ford, Sierra Kline. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/196321/bk_acx0_196321_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How Sausage's Made , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 177min
    How many sausages does it take to change a light bulb? For Jimmy, a fifth-year college senior who dreams of walking the stage to receive his sausage-making diploma, the answer is obvious: Only one, but it's best to have a second just in casing. In his world, where lowbrow humor holds court with high expectations — and pigs live alongside humans as social equals — it's all he can do to reach that lofty goal without stumbling. But stumble he does when, standing in line at the registrar's office, he encounters a vision of loveliness known as Petunia. What begins as a casual slip of fate quickly turns into an infatuation that changes him from the inside out. At first, the two seem entirely mismatched. Jimmy lives for all things sausage, while Petunia is a vegan activist with a dark secret to reveal about his most beloved protein source. The more he learns about her cause, the more he begins to question his own. Will he have the courage to risk everything he has ever known for love, or will the veil remain un-lifted, obscuring his eyes from a possible truth of epic proportions? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Geoff Sturtevant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/233794/bk_acx0_233794_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Seven Years , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 446min
    Alex has spent the majority of his adult life between two very different women - and he can’t make up his mind. Sonia, his wife and business partner, is everything a man would want. Intelligent, gorgeous, charming, and ambitious, she worked tirelessly alongside him to open their architecture firm and to build a life of luxury. But when the seven-year itch sets in, their exhaustion at working long hours coupled with their failed attempts at starting a family get the best of them. Alex soon finds himself kindling an affair with his college lover, Ivona. The young Polish woman who worked in a Catholic mission is the polar opposite of Sonia: dull, passive, taciturn, and plain. Despite having little in common with Ivona, Alex is inexplicably drawn to her while despising himself for it. Torn between his highbrow marriage and his lowbrow affair, Alex is stuck within a spiraling threesome. But when Ivona becomes pregnant, life takes an unexpected turn, and Alex is puzzled more than ever by the mysteries of his heart. Peter Stamm, one of Switzerland’s most acclaimed writers, is at his best exploring the complexities of human relationships. Seven Years is a distinct, sobering, and bold novel about the impositions of happiness in the quest for love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Bel Davies. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017705/bk_adbl_017705_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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