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    The Pine Tree at St. Martin , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 4min
    From the internationally best-selling author of The Alchemist comes The Pine Tree at St. Martin, a never-before-published Christmas parable for the ages. Fans of Paulo Coelho will immediately recognize the master storyteller's incomparable voice, and will treasure this story's simplicity and poignancy for many Christmas seasons to come. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jill Larson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001754/bk_harp_001754_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hodel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 32min
    After some time of not meeting him, Tevye the Milkman meets Sholom Aleichem, the story's primary narrator as well as its author, and begins to tell of the troubles that have come on him (turning his hair gray) because of his gullibility, fatalism, and obedience to God, which make him an easy target for misfortune. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Ian Davies. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/onvo/000209/bk_onvo_000209_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Mark of the Beast , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 30min
    Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads Kipling’s The Mark of the Beast, where the Indian deity Hanuman confronts an Englishman mocking an idol and begins to metamorphose the man into an animal. The story's title alludes to the Antichrist in the Book of Revelation, suggesting the colonial rulers must eventually pay for desecrating Indian beliefs. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Vendetti. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/002378/bk_mike_002378_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Orientalist Semiotics of »Dune«
    Frank Herbert's »Dune« (1965) is considered to be one of the most successful Science Fiction novels of the 20th century. It introduces its readers to a future universe, in which the production of the most valuable resource of the universe - 'spice' - is only possible on one vast desert planet called Arrakis. »Dune« offers many different motifs, including a hero that eventually turns into a superhuman being. However, the novel is also rich of orientalist semiotics and relates to a sign system existent when Herbert wrote his book. Frank Jacob discusses these semiotics in detail and shows how much of »Lawrence of Arabia« is present in the story's plot.
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    The Orientalist Semiotics of »Dune« (eBook, PDF)
    Frank Herbert's »Dune« (1965) is considered to be one of the most successful Science Fiction novels of the 20th century. It introduces its readers to a future universe, in which the production of the most valuable resource of the universe - >spice< - is only possible on one vast desert planet called Arrakis. »Dune« offers many different motifs, including a hero that eventually turns into a superhuman being. However, the novel is also rich of orientalist semiotics and relates to a sign system existent when Herbert wrote his book. Frank Jacob discusses these semiotics in detail and shows how much of »Lawrence of Arabia« is present in the story's plot.
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    The Metamorphosis: The Illustrated Edition
    Acclaimed graphic artist Peter Kuper presents a brilliant, darkly comic reimagining of Kafka's classic tale of family, alienation, and a giant bug. Kuper's electric drawings—which merge American cartooning with German expressionism—bring Kafka's prose to vivid life, reviving the original story's humor and poignancy in a way that will surprise and delight readers of Kafka and graphic novels alike. "A brilliant illustrated adaptation of Franz Kafka's famous story. It's a real pleasure to read and one in which everyone will recognize the existential drama and uncanny wit of the original text."—Susan Bernstein, associate professor of comparative literature and German studies, Brown University
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    The Adventures of Pinocchio, Hörbuch, Digital, 274min
    The Adventures of Pinocchio is a story about an animated puppet, boys who turn into donkeys, and other fairy tale devices. The setting of the story is the Tuscan area of Italy. It was a unique literary marriage of genres for its time. The story's Italian language is peppered with Florentine dialect features, such as the protagonist's Florentine name. Language: English. Narrator: Frank Phillips. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/008882/bk_edel_008882_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Spirit of Sweetwater, Hörbuch, Digital, 121min
    The story's hero, Clement, is a man with a past. Should he reveal to his newly found love his secrets? Will it be worth jeopardizing the happiness of the short time they will have together, since the young woman is, presumably, fatally ill? A romance set in a border mining town in Colorado, this novel is for those of us who are incorrigible romantics at heart. Language: English. Narrator: James Holt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/013094/bk_edel_013094_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Soak , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 371min
    A searing crime novel that introduces an exhilarating new voice in noir fiction that's as sharp, cruel, and relentless as the story's unforgettable hero. Hobbs is an aging, professional thief who chases one last, big score into the eye of a Florida hurricane. He emerges hell-bent on outrunning his own mortality and a ruthless FBI agent with a deadly agenda of her own. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick McLean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/085249/bk_acx0_085249_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Human: War of the Seasons, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 610min
    Eirnin's silver eyes, now showing hints of bright yellow, widened in astonishment as he stared, transfixed, at the red blood dripping from the wound on Story's foot. "What are you? A simple question with a not-so-simple answer for 17-year-old Story, who finds herself, a lone human, thrust in the middle of a war between creatures she once thought only existed in faerie tales. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patricia Albrecht. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/002015/bk_acx0_002015_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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