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    Grey Stone , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 845min
    In the land of the great red sun, dogs sing, wolves kill, humans serve, and wolf-shifters rule with magic and menace. Pietre is a human boy who has spent the last 13 years afraid of the sunset, the Blødguard, and the wolf-shifting masters who rule his world. Wittendon is a werewolf prince who has spent the last 19 years afraid of his father, his inability to do magic, and the upcoming tournament he's sure to lose. But when Pietre finds an orphaned pup in the woods and Wittendon is forced to arrest the boy's father soon after, both of them begin to realize that keeping the rules might be just as terrifying as breaking them. Now serf and master must learn to cut through their own prejudices and work together in order to turn their world before it turns on them. Grey Stone is a story of dogs who talk, wolves who kill, and a stone that - for better or worse - can change all that. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Howery. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/133380/bk_acx0_133380_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ivan Turgenev Box Set: Mumu & Fathers and Children , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 546min
    Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. Fathers and Sons (1862), a.k.a. Fathers and Children, one of the most acclaimed Russian novels of the 19th century, deals with the growing cultural divide between two generations or mindsets of Russians. Both the nihilists (the "sons") and the 1830s liberals (the "fathers") sought Western-style social change. These two ideologies were contrasted with a third, the Slavophiles, who believed that Russia's future lay in its traditional spirituality. Turgenev’s novel was responsible for popularizing the use of the term nihilism, which became widely used after publication of the book. "Mumu" (1854) is the story of Gerasim, a deaf-mute serf whose life of poverty is thrown into stark relief by his rescue of the dog Mumu. Gerasim’s wealthy old mistress wants the dog but Mumu bares her teeth at her, with tragic results. The story exposed the cruelty inherent in the system of Russian serfdom. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Museum Audiobooks cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/002180/bk_yurt_002180_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lugon: Truth Unearthed: A False Dawn Saga of The Tales of Lugon, Book One , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 691min
    The Tales of Lugon are a collection of high fantasy stories set in the world of Lugon at various points in its history. The saga A False Dawn follows the elf Vera from her brash and reckless decision after receiving a vision from the Sea as a young elf-maiden to dealing with the consequences of that decision, both for herself and others, as a mature elf-woman.  Truth Unearthed follows the immediate aftermath of that decision and its impact on three citizens of The Dawn and their loved ones: Arun, born into the serf-like Yeomanry but declared "Gifted" and elevated to the Court, is obsessed with pre-Dawn history and seeks to find artifacts of that forgotten time as his graduate task.Baran, a favored Son of the Court, who is Arun’s best friend, bodyguard, and roommate with lofty military ambitions.Athaz, an aging, out-of-favor Warden pressed to serve the Son of Bälech because his family is held hostage.All three are unaware of the collision course with their homeland Vera set them on, 12 years ago. Even Vera herself knows not the full consequence of her actions. But they are all about to learn. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aaron De Freitas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/162688/bk_acx0_162688_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Archer's Castle: Archers Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 228min
    The Archer's Castle is the second book in an exciting action-packed saga of 11 books set in medieval England during the days of King Richard and King John, prior to the Magna Carta. It is the tale of an English serf who rises to become the captain of a company of archers and leads its survivors as they fight their way back to dangerous and brutal feudal England after King Richard suddenly abandons his crusade - and what happens to him and his archers when they return. Most of the archers do not return as a result of intense fighting, but some of the former serfs and free men do return - as battle hardened veterans determined to improve their lot in cruel and brutal feudal England. This exciting novel combines action-packed historical fiction with a family saga set in an era of non-stop war and action. The Archer's Castle is the second novel in the saga. William, his brother Thomas, and William's son George finally reach feudal England with the surviving archers and become embroiled in a war with the Earl of Cornwall that will change England forever. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shaun Grindell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/010354/bk_tant_010354_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    England, Arise: The People, the King, and the Great Revolt of 1381 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 899min
    The dramatic and shocking events of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 are to be the backdrop to Juliet Barker's latest book: a snapshot of what everyday life was like for ordinary people living in the middle ages. The same highly successful techniques she deployed in Agincourt and Conquest will this time be brought to bear on civilian society, from the humblest serf forced to provide slave-labour for his master in the fields, to the prosperous country goodwife brewing, cooking, and spinning her distaff and the ambitious burgess expanding his business and his mental horizons in the town. The book will explore how and why such a diverse and unlikely group of ordinary men and women from every corner of England united in armed rebellion against church and state to demand a radical political agenda which, had it been implemented, would have fundamentally transformed English society and anticipated the French Revolution by 400 years. The book will not only provide an important reassessment of the revolt itself but will also be an illuminating and original study of English medieval life at the time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carole Boyd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000848/bk_twuk_000848_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Note to Self , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 510min
    A witty, keenly observant look at our Internet-obsessed culture. Anna Krestler is adrift. The Internet has draped itself, kudzu-like, over her brain, which makes it even more difficult to confront the question of what to do when she is dismissed from her job as a cubicle serf at a midtown law firm. Despite the exhortations of Leslie, her friend and volunteer life coach, Anna seeks refuge in the back alleys of Craigslist, where she connects with Taj, an adherent of a nebulous movement known as Nowism that occupies the most self-absorbed fringes of the art world. Art, Anna decides, is what will provide the meaningful life she’s been searching for and knows she deserves. She joins Taj’s “crew” and is drawn into his grand experimental film project. But making art is hard and microwaving pouch foods is easy. Soon enough Anna finds herself distracted by myriad other quests: remembering to ask Leslie “How are you?,” reducing her intake of caloric drinks, and parrying her mother’s insistence that she attend hairdressing school. But when Anna’s 27-year-old roommate - a terminal intern named Brie - announces her pregnancy, it forces Anna to confront reality, setting off a chain of events that lead to a horrifying climax of betrayal.Alina Simone’s Note to Self is a shrewdly perceptive, hilarious, moving tale about friendship, art, and the search for a meaningful life in an era of rampant narcissism. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aimee Castle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013144/bk_adbl_013144_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1763min
    History on a grand scale - an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizations.A People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did 'more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know'.Now, in Natasha's Dance, internationally renowned historian Orlando Figes does the same for Russian culture, summoning the myriad elements that formed a nation and held it together.  Beginning in the 18th century with the building of St. Petersburg - a 'window on the West' - and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself - its character, spiritual essence and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works - by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall - with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world. Figes' characters range high and low: the revered Tolstoy, who left his deathbed to search for the kingdom of God, as well as the serf girl Praskovya, who became Russian opera's first superstar and shocked society by becoming her owner's wife.  Like the European-schooled countess Natasha performing an impromptu folk dance in Tolstoy's War and Peace, the spirit of 'Russianness' is revealed by Figes as rich and uplifting, complex and contradictory - a powerful force that unified a vast country and proved more lasting than any Russian ruler or state. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ric Jerrom. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/033978/bk_adbl_033978_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    European History and European Lives: 1715 to 1914, Hörbuch, Digital, 1098min
    Meet 35 of the most influential people who lived during the 200 most difficult years in the history of the West. Between the years 1715 and 1914, the lives of these artists, writers, scientists, and leaders shaped our times and reflected their own. You'll meet such figures as Charles Darwin, Sir Robert Walpole, David Lloyd George, Mary Wollstonecraft, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, Napoleon Bonaparte, and others whose lives represent the crucial forces that shaped European history during two decisive centuries. You'll also examine the transformation of Europe from a world of lord and serf, horse and carriage, superstition and disease into today's modern state of boss and worker, steam and steel, science and medicine. As you grow to understand the living context of European history, you appreciate the great transforming themes embodied by the people who populate this fascinating march. The two most important themes are the movement toward democracy-culminating in the French Revolution-that dominated the first of the two centuries covered, and the Industrial Revolution with the explosion of science and technology that dominated the second. In choosing the characters whose lives most reflect these themes, Professor Steinberg has not confined himself to those who are most often studied-monarchs, politicians, military leaders-but has included scientists, artists, philosophers, and industrialists, and even an entire population threatened with starvation-the Irish.With a fascinating approach to European history, the biographical approach of these 36 lectures provides a fun way to look at the great changes of the period and to educate ourselves about the world. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Steinberg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000089/bk_tcco_000089_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sex & Submission Selections Three, Hörbuch, Digital, 74min, (USK 18)
    A selection of four varied erotic short stories. Andrea and Monique by N Vascoe. Andrea and Monique are best friends, although Andrea has fantasised many times that one day their relationship will turn into something more. When Andrea splits up with her boyfriend, Rene, the girls decide to experiment with a love closer to home and Andrea finds that her fantasies are even better than reality. The Closest Thing to Heaven by Antonia Adams. Only those in search of the ultimate sensual experience should step over the threshold. Or so says the sign on the door. Demi has her doubts, but soon she realises that her afternoon of pleasure is going to turn out to be a longer lasting sensual experience than she expects! A Master and a Slave by Mark Steinhardt. In 1883 Russia, youth is fleeting and Anna may be a servant girl Serf to an aristocratic family, but she knows that soon she will be married off to a haggard old man so must take her pleasures where she can. Ivan, the young master of the house, is a willing pupil when she initiates him into the joys of love making, and both of them will carry the memory of her teachings for all of the hard future ahead. Counting to Three in French by Bryn Allen. When Kurt first sets eyes on Marie he decides he doesn’t want her: he is an athlete, she is a smoker. But Marie has other ideas. She seduces him and takes him back to her French home. Here he becomes her pet, capable of doing nothing but submitting to the blissful smoke-filled haze of her desires and those of her lust-driven friends. Language: English. Narrator: Katy Anderson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/summ/000352/bk_summ_000352_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    New Start , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 811min
    By 2106, the overpopulated, heated-up world's a mess. Disorder brings an oppressive "Brotherhood" to power in the northern hemisphere. The party believes in male superiority, the privileges of property, and dictatorial rule. Science has produced faster-than-light space ships, however. Jan Sussinissen, the son of a rebel leader, sneaks on board one such ship. He will pretend to scout a portion of an earthlike planet that troubled discoverers named New Start. The Brothers plan to implant there a feudal economy with Brotherhood bosses and serf-like, agricultural workers. Jan, in escaping, also hopes to infect such a society with civilized values. He lands in the forested north of the planet with a member of the Brotherhood. "Insect men," eight-foot creatures that jump like grasshoppers and climb trees, but can't swim or survive severe cold, immediately attack them. Gunshots don't stop the horrors, which strip Jan's companion of his flesh. Our protagonist escapes them by swimming to an island. There, he uses survival skills he acquired as a youth in his native Northern Canada. He builds a canoe and, finally, a cabin on an island in the far north. Jan struggles to reconstitute the technology developed by mankind over thousands of years. He figures out how to insulate a drafty log shelter, cure skins and make warm clothes, and how to concoct soap, vinegar, bread, smelting coke, and other essentials. Jan learns at a Brotherhood administrative center that fission explosives have been detonated in the ports of America and Europe. Also, the Senior Brother identifies him as a rebel "ringer." Thus, Jan must flee the center to avoid execution. Later, he returns for a short time to lead a rebellion of refugee serfs. Barbara Levy, a highly resourceful entertainer helps. After victory, a small cadre of skilled men and women join Jan at his homestead. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew Firda. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/028111/bk_acx0_028111_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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