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The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1655min
Stephen King's epic fantasy series, The Dark Tower, is being made into a major movie starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. Due in cinemas February 17, 2017 USA. In the fourth powerful novel in Stephen King's best-selling fantasy quest, The Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road. And, having narrowly escaped one world, they set out on a terrifying journey across the scarred urban wasteland to brave a new world where hidden dangers lie at every junction: a malevolent computer-run monorail hurtling towards self-destruction, Roland's relentlessly cunning old enemy, and the temptation of the wizard's diabolical glass ball, a powerful force in Roland's first love affair. A tale of long-ago love and adventure involving a beautiful and quixotic woman named Susan Delgado. And the Tower is closer.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frank Muller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/000364/bk_hodd_000364_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bubbles Will Pop: Security Through Absurdity, Volume 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 485min
Jocelyn McLaren, a former defense contractor, is now a new mother to twins! As she struggles to maintain what she imagines to be a normal family during the economic turmoil of the US housing collapse, she becomes involved in a political campaign and encounters troubling remnants of her life working for the military-industrial complex. These interactions haunt her, as well as the father of her children, and are ultimately interlinked with the most nefarious psychopaths on the planet. Divided into three books, Security Through Absurdity is the story of corporate shenanigans, an uneasy home life, and a quixotic presidential campaign. These situations propel Jocelyn through a believably bizarre journey and into dangerous psychological territory. In a matrix of life-threatening situations, she is forced to question the very fabric of her Gen-X American upbringing. Bubbles Will Pop is the second book in Jocelyn's journey. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cynthia Hemminger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/056782/bk_acx0_056782_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Great Gatsby , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 347min
Considered one of the greatest American novels ever written, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story of the book primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession to reunite with his ex-lover, the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway sees through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await. Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval and excess, creating a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Doug Haynie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/229528/bk_acx0_229528_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Tropical Depression: Key West Capers, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 557min
When Murray Zemelman, a.k.a. The Bra King, pops another Prozac and heads to the Keys, he has nothing much in mind beyond a quixotic hope of winning back his first wife, Franny, whom he dumped years before. But when he forms an unlikely friendship with Tommy Tarpon, the last remaining member of an obscure Indian tribe, another plan also starts shaping up in his fevered brain. Why not open up Key West's first casino? Why not? Well, how about because the Mafia, in league with some of the nastiest politicians you will ever meet, is determined to kill anyone who tries? Somehow, Murray, Tommy, and Franny didn't think of that until they were in way too deep. Laugh along as they improvise a manic and ever more desperate campaign to keep their casino dreams - and themselves - alive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jem Matzan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/072065/bk_acx0_072065_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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McCarthy for President: The Candidacy That Toppled a President, Pulled a New Generation into Politics, and Moved the Country toward Peace , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 558min
McCarthy for President: The words recall an endeavor both brash and quixotic, unpredicted and unpredictable, a political campaign of permanent interest to voters and historians alike. Even in defeat, the McCarthy movement racked up considerable success: the dramatic toppling of the president, pressure to initiate the Paris peace talks, the political involvement of most of the young generation, and a massive re-examination of the Democratic Party. Arthur Herzog's account is no mere chronicle, and his vivid writing captures all the color and spirit which imbued the "Children's Crusade" from its first startling success in New Hampshire to the chaos and agony of the Chicago anticlimax. Much of what seemed destined to remain unknown about this unprecedented and erratic campaign is brought to life in McCarthy for President, the first authoritative account of a movement that began, in McCarthy's own words, "to give the system a test". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Henderson Norman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/021407/bk_acx0_021407_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Though Heaven Fall , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 503min
A historical fantasy that blends ageless themes of friendship and love into a quixotic tale of mystery and faith. Set in 13th century England, Edric, a man crippled in body and soul, begs, steals, and sometimes plays a pipe to make a living. Against his better judgment, he saves the life of Azriel...a man who claims to be an angel. But is this stranger a divine being or the escaped "Mad Monk" from a nearby monastery? The peasant woman who finds herself attracted to the acerbic Edric isn't certain, nor is the morose knight in desperate search of secrets to the afterlife. Another scheming monk seems to have all the answers...or does he? But circumstances cause the beggar, the monk, and the knight to collide in the same quest, some of whom would see Azriel permanently locked away and Edric hanged for murder. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joel Froomkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/069725/bk_acx0_069725_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Buckled Down: The Mata Morrow Series, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 408min
Mata Morrow, with wonder dog Toby in tow, has made her move to Portland at a pivotal moment for her budding career as a designer of travel clothing. Her entrepreneurial ambitions are threatened when old friend, Jo, appears on the scene with an urgent request for help. Jo has new information about a daughter she was forced to give up decades before. Unsettling details emerge surrounding the daughter's birth story. As the hunt intensifies, a sinister pattern materializes. Buckling down to cut out a place for herself in the local fashion zeitgeist, Mata stitches together a vibrant personal network and enlists her brainy book group in the task of solving these mysteries. Will justice be served by weaving together the powers of the well-read with the well-dressed? The series lovingly explores the Portland environs while entering the psyches of the Pacific Northwest's quixotic and quirky communities. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: JC Brazil. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/087247/bk_acx0_087247_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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If This Then That: Stories of Unintended Consequences , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 234min
Millennial snowflakes clash with baby boomers in this collection of stories.Nineteen tales of human connection and disconnection that collide and subvert the half-crazed romantic contemporary, the not-so-distant rosy past, our dodgy-looking, promised cyberpunk utopia, and our post-apocalyptic dystopian future. Provocative, wistful, melancholic, nightmarish, darkly funny, and satirical, these episodes must surely play out logically. Or not.How far will these characters go for love, understanding, or survival? To Sainsbury’s, the Caribbean, Tibet, up a ladder, under Biotech’s robotic knives, or even to the brink of sanity? A pack of reluctant, hopeful, lone wolves - one builds a cabin, one a bike, and another joins a teen gang. The refugee, the bereaved, the gaslighted child, and the helpful neighbor all wander. The quixotic therapy addict just fibs like hell. And the porn voyeurs? The "always-on" algorithm. Search engine media junkies? Well, they do what they do right now.Welcome to the curious world of If This Then That. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barney Goodall, Leo Goodall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/158545/bk_acx0_158545_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Flannsday: Erinesque, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 86min
Flannsday is the first novelette in the Erinesque series by Mark Will and G.J. Villa. Here we meet Martin Wells and J.G. Vara on day one of their quixotic "literary wank" across Ireland.June 14, 2013. Wells and Vara have arrived in Dublin from opposite sides of the globe to celebrate James Joyce, their “original literary superhero”, during the annual Bloomsday festivities. But Bloomsday is still two days away, and in the meantime Wells has insisted that Irish satirist Flann O’Brien, one of the founders of Bloomsday, be honored with a day of his own.Follow Wells and Vara as the events of this day - and night - take them from Parnell Square to Grogan’s Castle Lounge, from a discotheque on Dawson Street to Sweeney’s Bar, then back to the Northside for a truly climactic ending (at least for one of them). Flannsday is certain to amuse, bewilder, and delight the general reader as well as connoisseurs of Joyce, O’Brien, and the Irish literary tradition. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Bennett, Gary J. Chambers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/209340/bk_acx0_209340_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Take Nothing with You , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 579min
From the best-selling author of A Place Called Winter comes a new novel of boyhood, coming of age, and the confusions of desire and reality. For all readers of Ian McEwan's Atonement or L P Hartley's The Go-Between.1970s Weston-Super-Mare, and 10-year-old oddball Eustace, an only child, has life transformed by his mother's quixotic decision to sign him up for cello lessons. Music making brings release for a boy who is discovering he is an emotional volcano. He laps up lessons from his young teacher, not noticing how her brand of glamour is casting a damaging spell over his frustrated and controlling mother.When he is enrolled in holiday courses in the Scottish borders, lessons in love, rejection and humility are added to daily practice.Drawing in part on his own boyhood, Patrick Gale's new novel explores a collision between childish hero worship and extremely messy adult love lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Gale. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/head/001214/bk_head_001214_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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