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    The Hit: Rosie Gilmour, Book 9 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 566min
    A money-laundering accountant disappears in Romania. The hitman hired to disappear him is found dead in a Glasgow flat. And the owner of the flat, the accountant's widow, claims she knows nothing about it. Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour isn't convinced by Helen Lewis' innocent facade - she is convinced Helen was the one who ordered the hit on her husband, and she's going to prove it. But when she discovers that Helen's husband worked for a ring of gangsters selling babies from Romanian orphanages, her focus shifts. Now she has two sets of criminals to bring to justice - she'd better pray they don't catch up with her first. A nail-biting thriller for fans of Kimberley Chambers, Dreda Say Mitchell and Jessie Keane. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sarah Barron. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/qpuk/000355/bk_qpuk_000355_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Anne of Green Gables , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 580min
    Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by the Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The setting is the fictional town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island in the late 19th century, where the 11-year-old orphan girl Anne Shirley is sent to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, after a childhood spent in strangers' homes and orphanages. The novel recounts Anne's joys and challenges in settling in to her new - and first real - home Green Gables, the country school, and the town. The narrative is a chain of delightful episodes about Anne’s friendship with Diana Barry, her rivalry with her classmate Gilbert, her literary ambitions, and her conflicts with the horrible Pye sisters. Anne of Green Gables has become a children’s classic, and has been translated into more than 30 languages. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Keira Grace. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/001237/bk_yurt_001237_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 59min
    Until the 1960s infants were plucked from orphanages and maternity wards and used as "practice babies" in college home economics department across the country. Award-winning writer Jill Christman was determined to find out what happened to them. Along the way, five months pregnant herself, with her hormones (and anxiety) raging, she also hoped to discover what it means to be a mother. Jill Christman's memoir, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, won the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction. Recent essays have appeared in Barrelhouse, Brevity, Fourth Genre, Iron Horse Literary Review, and other journals, magazines, and anthologies. She teaches creative nonfiction writing in Ashland University's low-residency MFA program and at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where she lives with her husband, writer Mark Neely, and their two children. This is a short audiobook published by Shebooks - high-quality fiction, memoir, and journalism for women, by women. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angela Starling. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023625/bk_adbl_023625_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blossom: A Burke Novel #5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 481min
    In the figure of Burke, Andrew Vachss has given contemporary crime fiction one of its most mesmerizing characters. An abused child raised in orphanages, foster homes, and prisons, Burke is a career criminal and outlaw who steals and scams for a living. But he draws the line at the psychopaths and predators who stalk children. Sometimes he draws that line in blood.In Blossom, an old cellmate has summoned Burke to a fading Indiana mill town, where a young boy is charged with a crime he didn't commit and a twisted serial sniper has turned a local lover's lane into a killing field. And it's here that Burke meets Blossom, the brilliant, beautiful young woman who has her own reasons for finding the murderer - and her own idea of vengeance. Dense with atmosphere, savagely convincing, this is Vachss at his uncompromising best. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phil Gigante. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/002135/bk_brll_002135_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Earwig and the Witch , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 71min
    Everyone knows that orphanages are horrible places. But Earwig has a surprising amount of power over everyone else at St Morwald’s Home for Children, and loves it there. So the last thing she wants is to be sent to live with the very strange Bella Yaga…. Earwig was left at St Morwald's as a baby. Unlike the other children, she loves it there, mostly because she has the run of the place and seems to be able to persuade people to do as she wants. Then, one day Earwig is chosen to live with a very strange couple: Bella Yaga, her new 'mother', is actually a horrible witch. Earwig will need all her ingenuity (and some help from a talking cat) to survive. This witty, magical story is sure to appeal to a new generation of fans. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julia Barrie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000828/bk_hcuk_000828_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mail-Order Kid: An Orphan Train Rider's Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 554min
    The massive orphan train exodus whisked three-year-old Teresa from the safety of her New York orphanage, where the worst thing the Foundling nuns did was wash her curly black hair, to a desolate house and cold-hearted "parents" in Kansas. There, she entered a small and strange Volga German world whose inhabitants spoke a language she had never heard. In this odd world, she encountered whippings and sexual abuse. Perhaps half a million children, like Teresa, were plucked from orphanages and shipped by rail (or "relocated") to nearly every state in the Union from 1854 to 1929. Mail-Order Kid looks at the orphan train movement through the eyes of one small child who yearns to know her "real" mother, survives a tortured childhood, and ultimately, as an adult, comes to terms with her past, her faith, and herself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marie Hoffman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/109380/bk_acx0_109380_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Spy for Hire: A Mark Sava Spy Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 443min
    Ex-CIA station chief Mark Sava has a new life in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, making easy money as a spy for hire. But then his girlfriend, Daria Buckingham, discovers the private intelligence company Sava works for has smuggled a mysterious young boy into one of the orphanages for which she arranges funding - and Saudi and CIA forces show an unhealthy interest in the child. Sava calls on old friend and ex-Navy SEAL John Decker to keep the child safe as he and Daria search for the truth. Soon, Sava uncovers a secret war being waged for control of the Middle East - and the boy is somehow the key to victory. But can Sava find the child’s rightful home before his own broken past proves his undoing?The third novel in the thrilling Mark Sava series, Spy For Hire explores new heights of global espionage and heroic sacrifice. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Lane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/005884/bk_brll_005884_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    They Cage the Animals at Night: The True Story of an Abandoned Child's Struggle for Emotional Survival , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 553min
    The heartbreaking, iconic true story of an abandoned little boy's horrific journey through the American foster care system. One misty evening, Jennings Michael Burch's mother, too sick to care for him, left her eight-year-old son at an orphanage with the words, "I'll be right back." She wasn't.... Shuttled through a bleak series of foster homes, orphanages, and institutions, Jennings never remained in any of them long enough to make a friend. Instead, he clung to a tattered stuffed animal named Doggie, his sole source of comfort in a frightening world. Here, in his own words, Jennings Michael Burch reveals the abuse and neglect he experienced during his lost childhood. But while his experiences are both shocking and devastating, his story is ultimately one of hope - the triumphant tale of a forgotten child who somehow found the courage to reach out for love and found it waiting for him. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Meskimen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003937/bk_peng_003937_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    C.H. Spurgeon's Autobiography, Volume II: The Full Harvest , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1149min
    Spurgeon's last 30 years, from the building of the Metropolitan Tabernacle to his death in 1892, saw long years of the full harvest of his youthful efforts. With a congregation of nearly 6,000 in the heart of London and a wider audience of perhaps a million to be addressed weekly through his printed sermon, Spurgeon not only sustained his productivity but even increased the quality of his work. But there is more to Spurgeon than the preacher: we see him also as author, as editor of a monthly magazine, as founder and director of his Pastors College, and organizer of two orphanages. Throughout the autobiography, Spurgeon records those aspects of life that only an autobiography can: his family circle, the daily labor behind his public works, and the feelings which led him to resist the reformation of the Faith of the Churches. Above all, he records his experiences of God's grace. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Whitfield. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/002997/bk_blak_002997_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Girl at Rosewood Hall: A Lady Jane Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 714min
    On his death bed, Lord Pembroke took great care to try to ensure the future of his beautiful, unconventional niece, Lady Jane. Her debutante ball featured the most eligible bachelors of London society. But when the night of the dance arrives, things do not go as planned. To escape the superficial drama of the party, Jane seeks refuge in the garden of Rosewood Hall, where she discovers a gravely injured girl. With her last breath, the child beseeches Jane to find another girl, Mary, and to save her from the same fate she has suffered. Lady Jane vows to fulfill this final wish, a promise that will entangle her in a dangerous intrigue and take her from the safety of home to the hard streets of London. With the faded inscription in a tattered novel as her only physical clue, Jane sets out to investigate the region's orphanages and infiltrate London's most elegant homes. Can she save young Mary from a swiftly approaching doom? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sue Pitkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/007493/bk_brll_007493_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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