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Stiletto: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1384min

In this spirited sequel to the acclaimed The Rook, Myfanwy Thomas returns to clinch an alliance between deadly rivals and avert epic - and slimy - supernatural war. When secret organizations are forced to merge after years of enmity and bloodshed, only one person has the fearsome powers - and the bureaucratic finesse - to get the job done. Facing her greatest challenge yet, Rook Myfanwy Thomas must broker a deal between two bitter adversaries: The Checquy - the centuries-old covert British organization that protects society from supernatural threats, and... The Grafters - a centuries-old supernatural threat. But as bizarre attacks sweep London, threatening to sabotage negotiations, old hatreds flare. Surrounded by spies, only the Rook and two women who absolutely hate each other can seek out the culprits before they trigger a devastating otherworldly war. Stiletto is a novel of preternatural diplomacy, paranoia, and snide remarks from an author who "adroitly straddles the thin line between fantasy, thriller, and spoof" (Booklist). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Moira Quirk. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/002501/bk_hach_002501_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Midnight Taxi Tango: Bone Street Rumba, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 543min

The author of Half-Resurrection Blues returns in a new Bone Street Rumba Novel - a knife-edge, noir-shaded urban fantasy of crime after death. The streets of New York are hungry tonight...Carlos Delacruz straddles the line between the living and the not-so alive. As an agent for the Council of the Dead, he eliminates New York's ghostlier problems. This time it's a string of gruesome paranormal accidents in Brooklyn's Von King Park that has already taken the lives of several locals - and is bound to take more. The incidents in the park have put Kia on edge. When she first met Carlos, he was the weird guy who came to Baba Eddie's botánica, where she worked. But the closer they've gotten, the more she's seeing the world from Carlos's point of view. In fact, she's starting to see ghosts. And the situation is far more sinister than that - because whatever is bringing out the dead, it's only just getting started. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel José Older. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/025113/bk_adbl_025113_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Solo Dance

. Kotomi's is an important queer voice from East Asia's millennial generation and Solo Dance depicts the painful coming-of-age of a gay person in Taiwan and corporate Japan. . Solo Dance is our first translation from the Japanese. . Li Kotomi is a bilingual Japanese-Chinese writer, translator, and interpreter. She was born in Taiwan in 1989 and moved to Japan in 2013. Solo Dance was written in Japanese, her second language. . The way the authors straddles two languages and cultures is very interesting. . "With her powerful voice, Kotomi blows a fresh, new breeze into the often introverted world of contemporary Japanese literature." -JAPANESE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, CULTURE, SPORTS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY . Buzz is already building a year prior to publication. Words Without Borders ran an excerpt for Pride Month 2021, and LGBTQ Reads announced the book deal, creating excitement on social media. . The LGBTQ community is embracing the novel already, and we're publishing the novel in June in celebration of Pride Month 2022. . The author has an online presence and is active on social media, but unfortunately speaks no English. We'll rely on the translator to help promote the novel.

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The Parable of the Mustard Seed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 441min

The past never stays buried forever.John Faimu is an Australian-Samoan police officer who deals with hurt kids every day. He loves what he does, but he’s tired of the grind of shift work, and of trying to find a balance between his job, his family, and the young man who straddles the increasingly blurry line between both.Caleb Fletcher was the teenager John saved from a cult eight long years ago, and he’s now the young man John wants in ways that neither of them should risk.Eight years after his rescue, Caleb is still struggling with PTSD and self-harm. John has always been his rock, but now Caleb wants more. Can he convince John to cross a line and love him the way they both crave? And when the monsters from Caleb’s past come back seeking to silence him for good, will John’s love be enough to save him?The Parable of the Mustard Seed is an MM gay romance featuring hurt/comfort, first times, found family, and angst with a happy ending. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Glen Lloyd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/202098/bk_acx0_202098_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 360min

Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: The only predominantly Muslim nation to be a member of NATO and an ally of Israel, it straddles both Europe and Asia. Turkey is the link between Islam and Western democracy, between Europe and the Middle East. In this concise introduction, Andrew Finkel, who has spent twenty years in Turkey writing about the country for publications such as The Economist and Time magazine, unravels Turkey's complexities. He sets the complications and transformations of present-day Turkey against the historical background of the Ottoman Empire, the secular nationalist revolution led by Kemal Atatürk, and repeated political interventions by the military, which sees itself as the guardian of Atatürk's legacy. Finkel reveals a nation full of surprises. Where else but in Turkey, Finkel writes, would secularist liberals have supported a prime minister who was once jailed for promoting religious extremism? From the Kurdish question to economic policy, from Turkey's role in Iraq to its quest for EU membership, Finkel illuminates the past and present of this unique, and uniquely consequential, country. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Maxon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011612/bk_adbl_011612_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Lake City: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 489min

The setting is Seattle's Lake City neighborhood during the 2001 holiday season. In the wake of the 9/11 tragedy and at the peak of Seattle's first wave of tech-boom gentrification - a wave that never quite made it to his neighborhood - Lane Bueche schemes how to win back his wife (and her trust fund). In his childhood bedroom in his mother's decrepit old house, the idealistic but self-serving striver Lane licks his wounds and hatches a plot. He discovers a precarious path forward when he is contracted by a wealthy adoptive couple to seduce and sabotage a troubled birth mother from his neighborhood. Lane soon finds himself in a zero-sum game between the families as he straddles two cultures, classes, and worlds. With the well-being of the toddler at stake, Lane must choose between wanting to do the right thing (if he could only figure out what that is) and reclaiming the life of privilege he so recently had and, he feels, so richly deserves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bronson Pinchot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/012869/bk_blak_012869_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Shortcake , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1027min

Many years ago, a young boy prophesized that one day, a great power would emerge from the mysterious woods known as Soul Wind Forest. It would descend upon the neighboring city of Eden in an event called The Falling of the Tides and, on that day, few would survive. Now, that prophecy is on the verge of coming true, as two children bred from science become engulfed in a psychopath's game, a game which holds the very fate of Eden as its stakes. But will these children, who have been isolated from the outside world for so much of their lives, come to understand the value of that which might be lost? Or will their newly found self-awareness lay the groundwork for Eden's doom? Destruction is looming in this modern day thriller of love and loss, of acceptance and understanding, and of the ultimate battle between what's right and wrong...as well as the evolution of the intelligent mind which often straddles the fine line between them. Welcome to Eden. Welcome to Shortcake. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chiquito Joaquim Crasto. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/051599/bk_acx0_051599_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1806min

The best-selling author of the acclaimed House of Cards and The Last Tycoons turns his spotlight on to Goldman Sachs and the controversy behind its success. From the outside, Goldman Sachs is a perfect company. The Goldman PR machine loudly declares it to be smarter, more ethical, and more profitable than all of its competitors. Behind closed doors, however, the firm constantly straddles the line between conflict of interest and legitimate deal making, wields significant influence over all levels of government, and upholds a culture of power struggles and toxic paranoia.And its clever bet against the mortgage market in 2007 - unknown to its clients - may have made the financial ruin of the Great Recession worse. Money and Power reveals the internal schemes that have guided the bank from its founding through its remarkable windfall during the 2008 financial crisis. Through extensive research and interviews with the inside players, including current CEO Lloyd Blankfein, William Cohan constructs a nuanced, timely portrait of Goldman Sachs, the company that was too big - and too ruthless - to fail. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Shapiro. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002589/bk_rand_002589_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Sweet Beginnings: Indigo Bay Sweet Romance Series, Book 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 321min

A little hope changes everything...Hope Ryan dreams of seeing her work displayed in top galleries again, but after a devastating betrayal destroys her career, she spends her days creating unique items for tourists and wedding couples in her hometown of Indigo Bay. To keep her heart safe, Hope refuses to venture from her comfort zone, even if she longs for more.Sportscaster Josh Cooper never overcame his bitterness after a football injury sidelined him for good. Finding his solace in alcohol made matters worse, until he finally hit rock bottom. Now, he wants to make amends. After flying cross-country as a favor to someone he’s wronged, Josh’s path to redemption leads him to Hope.Hope finds a kindred spirit in the former quarterback. Josh's journey to sobriety inspires her to take charge of her own life - something she's put off doing for far too long. But as their relationship straddles the line between friendship and romance, can Hope and Josh find the strength to overcome their pasts and build a life together? Or, will the fear of repeating mistakes drive them apart? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew Eiden, Stella Hunter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/205112/bk_acx0_205112_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Magic Words: The Tale of a Jewish Boy-Interpreter, the World's Most Estimable Magician, a Murderous Harlot, and America's Greatest Indian Chief , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 788min

In a riveting novel of love and adventure, young Julius Meyer comes to the New World to find himself acting as translator for the famed Indian chief, Standing Bear. Young Jewish immigrant Julius comes of age surrounded by the wild world of 1867 Nebraska. He befriends the mysterious Prophet John, who saves his life when the two are captured by the Ponca Indian tribe. Living as a slave, Julius meets the noble chief Standing Bear and his young daughter, Prairie Flower, with whom he falls in love. Becoming the tribe’s interpreter - its “speaker” - his life seems safe and settled.But Julius has reckoned without the arrival of his older cousin, Alexander - who, as the Great Herrmann, is the most famous young magician in America. Nor does he suspect the ultimate consequences of Alex’s affair with Lady-Jane Little Feather, a glamorous - and murderous - prostitute destined to become the most scandalous woman on two continents. Filled with adventure, humor, and colorful characters, Magic Words is a riveting adventure about the nature of prejudice, the horror of genocide, and a courageous young man who straddles two worlds to fight for love and freedom. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Goldstrom. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013848/bk_adbl_013848_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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