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    Letters from the Trenches , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 442min
    Harry Lamin was born in Derbyshire in 1877 and left school at 13 to work in the lace industry. But by December 1916 he had been conscripted into the 9th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, and sent to war. Harry's letters home to his family describe the conflict with a poignant immediacy, even 90+ years on, detailing everything from the action in battle to the often amusing incidents of life amongst his comrades. Throughout the letters, Harry's tone is unwaveringly stoical, uncomplaining and good-humoured. "Letters from the Trenches" is a fitting tribute to the unsung heroes of the Great War who fought and endured and returned home, and the one in six who did not. The letters describe the war through the eyes of those who really lived it, bringing the horrors and triumphs to life for the 21st-century listener.Edited by Harry's grandson, Bill, Letters from the Trenches tells the moving story of a brave, selfless, and honourable man who endured everything that the war could throw at him, and still came up smiling. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Geoff Annis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/000664/bk_howe_000664_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Manipulate: Alien Cadets , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 527min
    Forcibly conscripted into an alien training program as a child, nineteen-year-old Sam Locklear has grown up on an alien planet. Smart and charismatic, he has become one of their favorite cadets, but although he's come to trust a few of the aliens, he isn't blind to their harsh treatment of Earth. Now he's on his way back to Earth to work in their Los Angeles headquarters, and to find the line between being used... and using them. When Sam's homecoming speech sets off a string of violence, he realizes his words carry more weight than he realized. First there's a hate message scrawled in blood, then a drive-by attack, and a riot that ends in fire. When Sam's girlfriend is abducted, he'll dare anything to get to the bottom of the intrigue surrounding the cadet program. From the streets of Los Angeles to a treacherous space station, Sam must uncover the real enemy threatening his life, and just what kind of sanity is requred for the earth's survival. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sergei Burbank. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/013354/bk_acx0_013354_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Minecraft Tale of Life & Death: Back to Life, Hörbuch, Digital, 23min
    Liam had studied long and hard for the Librarians exam - it was the ticket to getting out of his house, out of his village and into the great, wide, Minecraftia World... yet the day of the exam, fate took a turn for the worse and he failed by no fault of his own. Distraught and embarrassed, he hid away from his friends and family. Unfortunately, that compulsion to hide sent him to the one place he shouldn't have hidden when his little sister decided to invade his room with her friends - an air tight chest that locked him in! When Liam next opened his eyes, it was five years later and he was strapped to a table in a laboratory - a laboratory that had apparently brought him back from the dead. What should have been his end has become Liam's beginning. Conscripted into a secret organization, Liam finds himself at the center of intrigue and activities - ones that will change his life, and all of Minecraftia, forever. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/003183/bk_edel_003183_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Black Cloud: The Deadly Hurricane of 1928 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 623min
    The deadly hurricane of 1928 claimed 2500 lives, and the long-forgotten story of the casualties, as told in Black Cloud, continues to stir passion. Among the dead were 700 black Floridian men, women, and children who were buried in an unmarked West Palm Beach ditch during a racist recovery and rebuilding effort that conscripted the labor of blacks much like latter-day slaves. Palm Beach Post reporter Eliot Kleinberg has penned this gripping tale from dozens of interviews with survivors, diary entries, accounts from newspapers, government documents, and reports from the National Weather Service and the Red Cross. Immortalized in Zora Neale Hurston's classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, thousands of poor blacks had nowhere to run when the waters of Lake Okeechobee rose. No one spoke for them, no one stood up for them, and no one could save them. With heroic tales of survival and loss, this book finally gives the dead the dignity they deserve. The new, updated edition of this important book is published by the Florida Historical Society Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lee Ann Howlett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/079492/bk_acx0_079492_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Sea-Wolf
    The Sea-Wolf (1904) is an adventure novel by American writer Jack London. Inspired by his acquaintance Captain Alex MacLean, a sailor from the Pacific Northwest, London sought to write a novel of the high seas with psychological and philosophical underpinnings. An intelligent scholar named Humphrey van Weyden boards a ferry in San Francisco. Lost in the fog, the Martinez collides with another ship, and van Weyden is tossed overboard. Afloat in the Bay, he is discovered and rescued by Wolf Larsen, a gruff captain of a seal-hunting vessel. Aboard the schooner Ghost, van Weyden finds himself conscripted as a cabin boy, and must quickly adjust to the rough nature of seafaring life while immuring himself to the rages and peculiarities of Larsen. When his disgruntled crew stages a mutiny in response to his abuses, the savvy and powerful captain overwhelms them, and van Weyden, now known as Hump, is promoted to mate. With a depleted crew, the Ghost continues on through the hunting season, but its troubles are far from over. The Sea-Wolf is a story set in some of Earth's harshest environments that brings two men from opposite positions in life together with one goal in mind: survival. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Jack London's The Sea-Wolf is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
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    Kitsuneko: A Companion Novella to The Realms Beyond the Rainbow , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 92min
    Trouble is brewing in the realms beyond the rainbow....Kitsuneko has always done her best to honor her duty. As a young fox-cat changeling, she was conscripted into slavery by King Dario and Queen Arianna of Toulacoeur to serve as the surrogate for Princess Cari, their daughter who was kidnapped 17 years ago.But when Kiro, Cari's younger brother and the heir to the throne, proclaims his love for her, Kitsuneko is torn between her duty to the kingdom and her desire for the virtuous prince.And when Kiro's kisses leave her breathless, Kitsuneko finds herself - and the kingdom - in mortal danger.For the peace that Toulacoeur enjoys, maintained through the blessing of Kleon, the Unicorn Guardian, is at risk, and to maintain their rule, the king and queen have arranged for Kiro to marry Ariella, a Warlord's daughter from a tribe of Gryphon Riders.Can Kitsuneko and Kiro find a way to be together and keep the kingdom's peace? Or is their love destined to only lead to destruction?Kitsuneko is a companion novella to The Realms Beyond the Rainbow, a fantasy romance adventure from award-winning, genre-hopping author C. S. Johnson. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Faith Moore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/157785/bk_acx0_157785_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Occupation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 553min
    A pause-resisting historical saga that will pull at your heartstrings! For fans of Freda Lightfoot, Pam Jenoff, Sebastian Faulks, and Kate Atkinson.One woman’s secret war against the Nazis. One man’s war against himself.1940, Jersey. When Nazi forces occupy Jersey in the English Channel Islands, Céline Huber, who is married to a German, must decide where her loyalty lies. Love for her island and fear for her Jewish friend Rachel soon propel her into a dangerous double life.Meanwhile, Céline’s husband Fred is conscripted into the Wehrmacht in occupied France. Horrified by Nazi acts of atrocity and torture, he soon becomes a double agent for the French Resistance. But when things go wrong, and his Nazi masters discover his true allegiance, he finds he has the whole of the German Army on his tail.How far will Céline go for her best friend? Will Fred make his way home to her? Or, will their lives be changed forever by the brutality of war?The Occupation is a moving war and military saga following the separate stories of a young man and woman through the years of the Second World War as they fight to survive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stevie Zimmerman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/200146/bk_acx0_200146_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Red Queen , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 759min
    Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood - those with red and those with silver. Mare and her family are lowly Reds, destined to serve the Silver elite whose supernatural abilities make them nearly gods. Mare steals what she can to help her family survive, but when her best friend is conscripted into the army she gambles everything to win his freedom. A twist of fate leads her to the royal palace, where, in front of the king and all his nobles, she discovers a power of her own - an ability she didn't know she had. Except...her blood is red. To hide this impossibility, the king forces her into the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. As Mare is drawn further into the Silver world, she risks her new position to aid the Scarlet Guard - the leaders of a Red rebellion. Her actions put into motion a deadly and violent dance, pitting prince against prince - and Mare against her own heart. From debut author Victoria Aveyard comes a lush, vivid fantasy series where loyalty and desire can tear you apart and the only certainty is betrayal. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amanda Dolan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004271/bk_harp_004271_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Crown's Dog: Golden Guard Trilogy, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 340min
    Book one in an Air Awakens prequel trilogy. A coastal summer is turned upside down by a violent murder, and a quest for lost pirate treasure turns into a hunt for the killer. Jax Wendyll is the crown's dog. As punishment for the unspeakable crimes that torment him to this day, his life has been conscripted to the Empire Solaris. However, in an empire afflicted by peace, his duties are relegated to unquestioningly aiding the antics of the youngest prince, Baldair. Erion Le'Dan, a nobleman's son, expects a quiet summer visit to the Imperial Palace, his only agenda to visit with his unlikely friends. But Jax's discovery of the legendary pirate Adela Lagmir's old workroom inspires a hunt for her long lost treasure. The pursuit of Adela's truth takes the three men to the imperial summer manor, built along the old pirate mainstays. When Adela's trident is branded into a murdered servant, Prince Baldair's summer amusement of treasure-hunting becomes a hunt to find the killer. But, as mysteries compound, the ghosts of Jax's past may not be the only things haunting them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Zachary Johnson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/074784/bk_acx0_074784_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fire Aloft: Revenge of the Aero-Pyrates , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 852min
    As soon as they stepped off the boat in New York, Irish immigrants Jim Leary and his brother Billy were conscripted into the Union Aero Corps, forced to fight in a civil war they had no interest in. Ten years later, with the war finally over and America divided into two nations, each brother believes the other died in combat. Jim Leary, now calling himself "Captain Gallagher", has taken to the air over the southwestern American territories in a stolen airship, leading the life of a pirate, raiding trains, stage coaches, and even other airships, the bane of both the Union and the fledgling Confederate States of America. A consortium of businessmen, tired of losing money and goods to Gallagher and his pirate cohorts, has hired a former Confederate air admiral to hunt them down. Now Gallagher finds himself pursued by an overwhelming force led by the infamous Garrett "Butcher" Prescott, the man he blames for his brother's death, and the beautiful and accomplished Justine Arthurs, an airship pilot, former Pinkerton agent and Union spy. Gallagher thinks he's got a plan that will bring down the Valkyrie, Prescott's massive dreadnaught. What he doesn't know is that the chief engineer on the Valkyrie is his long-lost brother. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: LC Kane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/242392/bk_acx0_242392_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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