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Vixen: The Flappers, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 725min
Jazz... Booze... Boys... It’s a dangerous combination. Every girl wants what she can’t have. Seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody wants the flapper lifestyle—and the bobbed hair, cigarettes, and music-filled nights that go with it. Now that she’s engaged to Sebastian Grey, scion of one of Chicago’s most powerful families, Gloria’s party days are over before they’ve even begun... or are they? Clara Knowles, Gloria’s goody-two-shoes cousin, has arrived to make sure the high-society wedding comes off without a hitch—but Clara isn’t as lily-white as she appears. Seems she has some dirty little secrets of her own that she’ll do anything to keep hidden. Lorraine Dyer, Gloria’s social-climbing best friend, is tired of living in Gloria’s shadow. When Lorraine’s envy spills over into desperate spite, no one is safe. And someone’s going to be very sorry. From debut author Jillian Larkin, Vixen is the first novel in the sexy, dangerous, and ridiculously romantic new series set in the Roaring Twenties... when anything goes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Abby Craden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/001238/bk_lili_001238_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Love Is a Missing Person , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 278min
A Long Island teenager reunites with her older sister in a novel about family, sibling rivalry, and the love you didn’t know you were missing. Fifteen-year-old Suzy Slade’s parents are divorced. Now Suzy lives with her mother in a beautiful house on the ocean in Seaville, Long Island. Her gorgeous older sister, Chicago, lives with their father in New York City. At least, shedid. Chicago just roared into town on her brand-new Harley.With her sister’s return, Suzy’s whole world changes. She becomes caught up in Chicago’s life - and a secret affair she wishes she didn’t know about. Her dad’s been keeping secrets, too, and soon Suzy discovers the reason for the bad blood between him and her sister: his new girlfriend, Enid, who’s only two years older than Chicago. Then there’s Suzy’s teacher, Miss Spring, who’s pining for a lost love. Somewhere in the mix is Suzy herself, who’s in danger of losing her own identity. It isn’t until someone close to Suzy disappears that she realizes it’s time to start living her own life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jessica Kaufman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016754/bk_adbl_016754_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Bad Night’s Sleep: The Joseph Kozmarski Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 394min
Michael Wiley’s third mystery—following The Bad Kitty Lounge and the Shamus-nominated The Last Striptease Working late-night surveillance at a luxury condominium development in a city world famous for corruption, Chicago private detective Joe Kozmarski encounters a burglary crew. Two of the crew members show up in a police cruiser. In the chaos that follows, Kozmarski shoots and kills a thief, who is also one of Chicago’s finest. Kozmarski is in for many a bad night’s sleep. Kozmarski joins the criminal crew, working as an inside agent for his old friend Lieutenant Bill Gubman. Facing dangerous suspicions from both the criminal gang and the uncorrupted ranks of the police department, uncertain who wishes him to stay alive and who wishes him dead, Kozmarski takes a wild, dangerous ride. In the high-end spa club for gentlemen and couples, during a showdown with a consortium of Chicago street gangs, and in a breakneck rooftop chase, A Bad Night’s Sleep pushes full throttle to a stunning conclusion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Johnny Heller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004376/bk_blak_004376_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Days of Rage: Smokey Dalton, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 740min
Nominated for The Best Private Eye Hardcover Novel of the Year Chosen as one of the top ten books of the year by Kirkus. Chosen as one of the best mystery novels of the year by Deadly Pleasures Magazine Winner, Spotted Owl Award for Best Mystery by a Northwest Writer. Shamus nomination for Best Private Eye Hardcover Novel. Chicago, 1969: The trial of eight protestors from the Democratic Convention the previous year has the whole world watching - and all of Chicagoland on edge. Smokey Dalton feels the pressure: more cops on the streets, more FBI in his neighborhood. But when the landlord at one of Sturdy Investments’ South Side properties dies alone in his apartment, Smokey agrees to investigate. He finds old human bones in the basement, along with hints of more. Smokey and his girlfriend, Sturdy’s CEO Laura Hathaway, worry that Laura’s father knew who used that basement and why. Without involving law enforcement, they decide to hold a thorough investigation and discover secrets they never ever imagined - secrets that could threaten Smokey, Laura, Sturdy, and one of Chicago’s greatest institutions. Secrets worth killing for. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mirron Willis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012889/bk_adbl_012889_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Third Rail , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 425min
A woman is shot as she waits for her train to work. An hour later, a second woman is gunned down as she rides an elevated train through the Loop. Two hours after that, a church becomes the target of a chemical weapons attack. The city of Chicago is under siege, and Michael Kelly, cynical cop turned private investigator, just happens to be on the scene when all hell breaks loose.Kelly is initially drawn into the case by the killers themselves, then tasked by Chicago’s mayor and the FBI to hunt down the bad guys and, all things being equal, put a bullet in them. Kelly, of course, has other ideas. As he gets closer to the truth, his instincts lead him to a retired cop, a shady train company, and an unnerving link to his own past. Meanwhile, Kelly’s girlfriend, Rachel Swenson, becomes a pawn in a much larger game, while a weapon that could kill millions ticks away quietly in the very belly of the city.The Third Rail is stylish, sophisticated, edge-of-your-seat suspense from a new modern master. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Hoye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002261/bk_rand_002261_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ecstasy in Darkness: Alien Huntress, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 788min
New York Times best-selling sensation Gena Showalter enthralls with a dark, tantalizing world of humans, otherworlders, powers beyond imagining, and a seductive vampire undone by his insatiable hunger for one woman... Growing up poor on New Chicago’s meanest streets, Ava Sans had two options: Be the predator or be the prey. No contest. Now, working for Alien Investigation and Removal, she’s been ordered to capture the biggest, baddest warrior of all - a vampire too beautiful to be real, with the ability to manipulate time. Once the leader of the entire vampire army, McKell has been deemed savage and unstable, spurned even by his own kind. To McKell, humans should be nothing more than sustenance. Yet the petite, golden-skinned Ava is a fascinating contradiction - vicious yet witty, strong yet vulnerable, lethal but fiercely loyal. Against his better judgment, McKell craves that loyalty, and much more. When the chase leads to seduction, McKell and Ava will race to discover the truth about his past. But the answers will come at a price, even for a woman who thought she had nothing left to lose... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Justine Eyre. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/006677/bk_sans_006677_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dagger in the Sea , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 911min, (USK 18)
“The velvet tongue”That’s what they hear “The silent fixer”That’s what they whisper“Turo DeMarco can slice you with that smile”It’s been known to happenBut the one truth they don’t know could get me killed. It’s already gotten me thrown into the fire.I may be the rising dark star of Chicago’s criminal underworld, but I’ve been warned, and I have one chance to make things right, flying halfway around the world to do it.Until one hot AF heiress gets in my way with an unforgettable kiss and a blast of gunfire, hurling us both into the eye of a Mediterranean hurricane, snaring us in the ultimate high stakes games.Our impulsive escape to a Greek island exposes cruel lies, sour truths, explosive passion…and bares our bitter souls.I was always told that actions speak louder than words, and Adriana proved it to me.Yet there’s one thing that speaks even louder - blood - in my heart, on my hands.Blood never lies, blood never plays games. And neither do I.This Mafia Romantic Suspense novel is intended for mature listeners only. It contains adult language, violence, and graphic sex. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Pallino, Carmen Rose. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/011172/bk_brll_011172_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Stand by Me: A SouledOut Sisters Novel, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 690min
Sometimes the person you most need is the one least like you. Kathryn Davies is a bright young woman form a prominent Phoenix family. But after making a leap of faith at a Christian music fest, dropping out of med school, and moving to inner city Chicago, her family all but disowns her. When Kat discovers SouledOut Community Church, she longs to become a part of the multicultural church family. But her tendency to immediately say whatever she’s thinking steps on the toes of nearly everyone she meets—especially Avis Douglass. Avis has a strong faith, is the principal of one of Chicago’s highest performing elementary schools, and is a founding member of SouledOut. But the country’s economic downturn has thrown both her and her husband’s jobs in question. And Avis hasn’t heard from her youngest daughter in months—an estrangement that gnaws at her every day. Where is God in this? Kat’s flamboyant zeal for living a “radical” Christian life is a stark contrast to Avis’s more reserved faith. But in God’s timing, the two women discover they need each other in ways neither of them expected. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jackie Schlicher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tnwd/000275/bk_tnwd_000275_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Family Man (Dreamspinner Press) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 460min, (USK 18)
Sometimes family chooses you. At 40, Vincent “Vinnie” Fierro is still afraid to admit he might be gay - even to himself. It’ll be a problem for his big, fat Italian family. Still, after three failed marriages, it’s getting harder to ignore what he really wants. Vinnie attempts some self-exploration in Chicago’s Boystown bars, far from anyone who knows him. Naturally, he runs smack into someone from the neighborhood. Between working two jobs, going to school, taking care of his grandmother, and dealing with his mother’s ongoing substance abuse, Trey Giles has little time for fun, let alone dating someone who swears he’s straight. Yet after one night of dancing cheek-to-cheek, Trey agrees to let Vinnie court him and see if he truly belongs on this side of the fence - though Trey intends to keep his virginity intact. It seems like a solid plan, but nothing is simple when family is involved. When Vinnie’s family finds out about their relationship, the situation is sticky enough, but when Trey’s mother goes critical, Vinnie and Trey must decide whose happiness is most important - their families’ or their own. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Darcy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/117689/bk_acx0_117689_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Manwhore , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 603min, (USK 18)
Is it possible to expose Chicago’s hottest player - without getting played? The New York Times best-selling author of REAL brings you the first in a sexy new series. This is the story I’ve been waiting for all my life, and its name is Malcolm Kyle Preston Logan Saint. Don’t be fooled by that last name, though. There’s nothing holy about the man except the hell his parties raise. The hottest entrepreneur Chicago has ever known, he’s a man’s man with too much money to spend and too many women vying for his attention. Mysterious. Privileged. Legendary. His entire life he’s been surrounded by the press as they dig for tidbits to see if his fairytale life is for real or all mirrors and social media lie. Since he hit the scene, his secrets have been his and his alone to keep. And that’s where I come in. Assigned to investigate Saint and reveal his elusive personality, I’m determined to make him the story that will change my career. But I never imagined he would change my life. Bit by bit I start to wonder if I’m the one discovering him...or if he’s uncovering me. What happens when the man they call Saint makes you want to sin? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grace Grant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007016/bk_sans_007016_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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