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    The Girls of Slender Means , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 224min
    It is 1945; a time of cultural and political change, and also one of slender means. Spark's evocative and sharply drawn novel focuses on a group of women living together in a hostel in Kensington who face new challenges in uncertain times. The novel is at once dramatic and character-based, and shows Muriel Spark at the height of her literary powers. Juliet Stevenson reads with her customary wit and intelligence this powerful masterpiece. Rediscover The Girls of Slender Means in audiobook on the 100th anniversary of Muriel Spark's birth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Juliet Stevenson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cnon/000096/bk_cnon_000096_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    George Washington: The Founding Father (Eminent Lives) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 230min
    By far the most important figure in the history of the United States, George Washington liberated the 13 colonies from the superior forces of the British Empire against all military odds, and presided over the production and ratification of a constitution that (suitably amended) has lasted for more than 200 years. Yet today, Washington remains a distant figure to many Americans, a failing that acclaimed author Paul Johnson sets out to rectify with this brilliantly vivid, sharply etched portrait of the great hero as a young warrior, masterful commander in chief, patient lawmaker, and exceptionally wise president. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Drummond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000226/bk_acx0_000226_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pam Ayres Poetry Collection, Hörbuch, Digital, 128min
    Warm and witty, direct and droll, the sharply funny Pam Ayres has been amusing and entertaining her many fans for years. Her humorous observations of daily life touch a chord with anybody who's ever been bewildered by the exercise craze or has yearned after the vanished Spotted Dick. In this collection, Pam reads over 50 of her best-known and loved poems, including such favourites as "Oh I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth", "I'm a Starling...me Darling", "Will I have to be Sexy at Sixty?", and "St. Tesco". Many of the poems include a personal introduction by Pam. Language: English. Narrator: Pam Ayres. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/bbcw/000987/pf_bbcw_000987_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fools' Gold: A Library of America Audiobook Classic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 430min
    Two teenagers fresh out of stir set their sights on what looks like easy money in Dolores Hitchens' Fools' Gold (1958) - and get a painful education in how quickly and drastically a simple plan can spin out of control. The basis for Jean-Luc Godard's film Band of Outsiders, Fools' Gold is a sharply told tale distinguished by its nuanced portrait of a sheltered young woman who becomes a reluctant accomplice and fugitive. This classic novel is one of eight works included in The Library of America's two-volume edition Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & '50s, edited by Sarah Weinman. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Brick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004276/bk_rand_004276_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Locket: Short Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 6min
    In The Locket, a confederate soldier declines his fellow soldiers’ request to reveal the contents of the locket around his neck. The locket, which holds pictures of his fiancée’s parents and the date of their wedding is found on the battlefield after a battle.Later, the soldier’s fiancée visits the battlefield with the soldier’s father, both shaken with grief. The soldier’s father asks his son’s fiancée to remove her veil, as it contrasts too sharply with the beautiful day and adds that on such a day miracles seem ready to happen.Returning home, something extraordinary happens to make her believe he may be right. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susie Berneis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/003683/bk_drms_003683_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hairs in the Palm of Your Hand , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 108min
    These wickedly funny, wickedly realistic stories are set inside schools where chaos is the name of the game. 'Time and the Hour' takes place in a boys’ school, where one class decides to conduct some research and have a bit of fun on the subject of how much time is wasted during each school day. 'Chutzpah', on the other hand, is set in a mixed comprehensive school, where Eileen seems bent on causing as much disruption as possible on the first day of term, in the interests of democracy and women’s rights. Two sharply-observed school stories from best-selling author Jan Mark. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tony Robinson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/003926/bk_bbcw_003926_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 640min
    Here, There, Elsewhere draws together for the first time William Least Heat-Moon's greatest short-form travel writing. Taking us from Japan, England, Italy, and Mexico to Long Island, Oregon, Arizona, and more, , Here, There, Elsewhere is a sharply observed, funny, and touching series of uncommon adventures narrated by America's keenest writer of place, people, and sublime connection. For decades, William Least Heat-Moon's readers have been clamoring for him to gather his shorter pieces; now, that wait is over. A perfect treasury of prose and wry provocation for readers old and new, Here, There, Elsewhere is further confirmation of Least Heat-Moon's status as an American master. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/001122/bk_hach_001122_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Keynes Vs. Hayek, Hörbuch, Digital, 42min
    What caused the financial mess we're in? And how do we get out of it? Two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th century had sharply contrasting views. John Maynard Keynes believed that government spending could create employment and longer-term growth. His contemporary and rival Friedrich Hayek believed that investments have to be based on real savings rather than increased public spending or artificially low interest rates. Keynes's biographer, Professor Lord Skidelsky, takes on modern-day followers of Hayek in a debate at the London School of Economics. Paul Mason, economics editor of Newsnight, is in the chair. Speakers include George Selgin, Duncan Weldon, and Jamie Whyte. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Mason. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/005501/bk_bbcw_005501_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Names , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 723min
    Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book that began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jacques Roy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007889/bk_sans_007889_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Midsummer Night in the Workhouse: Selected Stories by Diana Athill, Hörbuch, Digital, 180min
    This new selection of Diana Athill’s stories, Midsummer Night in the Workhouse, provides a subtle counterpoint to her memoirs because the focus of the stories is autobiographical: although not in the first person, they are about facets of a life which Diana knew through and through, either because she was, as she has said, writing about herself (the story about her first kiss or the one about an Oxford undergraduate and her boyfriend) or because she had sharply observed those around her (an Englishwoman on holiday having an affair, a married couple bickering at a dinner party). Diana herself has recently recorded these perceptive, touching and funny stories. Language: English. Narrator: Diana Athill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/psph/000005/bk_psph_000005_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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