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    Widely acknowledged as the first detective novel, this story is narrated by insurance investigator Ralph Henderson, who is building a case against the sinister Baron “R**”, suspected of murdering his wife in order to obtain significant life insurance payments. Henderson descends into a maze of intrigue including a diabolical mesmerist, kidnapping by gypsies, slow-poisoners, a rich uncle’s will and three murders. Presented in the form of diary entries, family letters, chemical analysis reports and interviews with witnesses, the novel displays innovative techniques that would not become common features of detective fiction until the 1920s.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Wickham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/003793/bk_isis_003793_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Natalie is a young Gold Coast mother with a loving husband, two small children, and a happy lifestyle. While helping her mother move house, she finds a little box containing a Burmese artifact. When Natalie learns its unique history through a letter left by her great-great uncle, it ignites her interest in its origins and her uncle’s unfulfilled plans for this curio. Her investigations collide with her own dramatically changing circumstances and create a dilemma that challenges the core of her marriage as she finds herself immersed in two very different golden lands. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Tredinnick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/001452/bk_boli_001452_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    From NY Times and USA Today best-selling author Jana DeLeon.  Mallory Devereaux is known throughout the town of Royal Flush, Louisiana, as a walking disaster, and her luck just got worse. She needs to raise $10,000 in one week to keep the IRS from seizing her adoptive father’s business, where she works as the demolition foreman.   When the opportunity to cool cards at her uncle’s casino comes up, Mallory hopes her luck is changing. But when she realizes her uncle has assembled a tournament of criminals, she wonders what she’s stepped in the middle of. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Johanna Parker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/051186/bk_adbl_051186_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    John Fairgate is torn by the fact that he'll inherit the title of baron upon his uncle’s death. Especially given that his uncle insists that he give up ornithology and marry a childhood acquaintance. The first request, John will honor no matter how much he hates the idea. But marrying a shrew who makes his skin crawl, he simply cannot do. Meeting Miss Francesca Hartwell at the zoo has given him other ideas for a wife. But she’s not titled or wealthy. How will John be able to convince his uncle that she’s the woman of his heart?  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julie Hinton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129809/bk_acx0_129809_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Three days after arriving in Zimbabwe, Natalie discovers an abandoned newborn baby on a hill near her uncle’s farm.       115 years earlier, the hill was home to the Mazowe village where Chief Tafara governed at a time of great unrest. Faced with taxation, abductions and loss of their land at the hands of the white settlers, Tafara joined forces with the neighbouring villages in what became the first of many uprisings.        A Child Called Happiness is a story of hope, resilience and reclamation, proving that the choices made by our ancestors echo for many generations to come. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Natasha Magigi, Connie M'Gadzah. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/034270/bk_adbl_034270_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    This week on The Best of Car Talk, why do Tom and Ray think Heather is crazy for believing that starter fluid is solving her Subaru’s starting problem?Elsewhere, grad student Rebecca is considering driving from Connecticut to Indiana in a car that likely won’t make it to the New York border; Frances’s love for her Miata is being tested by the chance to inherit her uncle’s Porsche; and did Chris’s brother find love in a hyperbaric chamber after he and his girlfriend passed out from CO poisoning?All this, and more, this week on The Best of Car Talk. [Broadcast Date: November 10, 2018] Language: English. Narrator: Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/cart/181110/rt_cart_181110_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Annie Hershberger’s engagement doesn’t last 24 hours before her fiancé backs out and dumps her. Devastated and humiliated, she flees to Hollybrook to work in her uncle’s toy shop. Maybe this move will give her the new start she desperately needs.But Annie doesn’t count on an accidental shooting and the painful loss of one of Hollybrook’s youngest. She doesn’t count on meeting the victim’s grieving brother or the compassion for him that stirs in her heart. She doesn’t count on her father insisting she come home to attend her former beau’s wedding to his new fiancée.In this tender and heart-warming romance, Annie discovers that joy and happiness are possible on the heels of tragedy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gwendolyn Stone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/181848/bk_acx0_181848_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A fun, gay romantic romp, within a cozy mystery setting: When Jack moves into the vintage carriage house he inherits, he has no idea that his book-dealer uncle’s suicide might have been murder: not until a handsome detective comes knocking at his door to ask questions, where the powerful attraction between the two young men leads to much more than just a murder investigation. Nottinghill Lane is situated in a beautiful old neighborhood in a charming small town on Rainbow Lake. The lane is a cul-de-sac inhabited by interesting historic homes and eccentric characters, a literary enclave where everyone has a devotion to a favorite author. But can books lead to murder? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Guy Veryzer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/155647/bk_acx0_155647_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Wales, 1817. After refusing every offer of marriage that comes her way, Isolde Farrington is packed off to a spinster aunt in Wales until she comes to her senses. Rhys Williams, there on business, is turning over his uncle’s choice of bride for him. The last thing he needs is to fall for an impertinent miss like Izzy, who takes Rhys for a yokel.Izzy’s new surroundings make her look at life, and Rhys, afresh. But when Lord Bedley, her father, discovers that the situation in Wales is not what he thought, and that Rhys is in trade, a gulf opens for a pair who’ve come to love each other.Will a difference in class keep them apart? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ana Clements. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194757/bk_acx0_194757_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sheena Sullivan Morelli and her sisters, Darcy and Regan, work to complete their Uncle Gavin’s challenge of turning his rundown hotel into a profitable operation within one year. Winning means earning a share in their uncle’s sizable estate. More than that, it determines how they’ll spend the rest of their lives. Sheena wants to stay on at the hotel, overseeing the hotel operation. But Darcy and Regan want to move on with their lives - Darcy writing a novel and Regan going into the interior decorating business with Mo. But life has other plans for them. And in the end, all three realize that the only thing that really matters is finding - and keeping - family. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angela Dawe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/135710/bk_acx0_135710_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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