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    Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1377min
    Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship - Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre was the original German title - was Goethe’s second novel, published 1795-6, almost two decades after The Sorrows of Young Werther. It again focuses on a young man but this time on his growing understanding and maturity as he makes his way in the world. As such, it is regarded as the founding work in the ‘coming of age’ genre: the ‘bildungsroman’ ( a term actually coined some 30 years later), which characterised a philosophical novel tracing the cultural, emotional and educational development of an individual from youth to adulthood. Disdaining to follow his father’s advice to pursue a bourgeois life in business and disappointed in love, Wilhelm Meister searches for a more fulfilling path - and is initially drawn to the arts.  He becomes involved in a theatre troupe, the works of Shakespeare and specifically Hamlet beckon. But his artistic life is interrupted when mundane brutality in the form of an attack by bandits intrudes. Wilhelm, despite being wounded, survives the encounter, which leads him to another level of understanding, and his personal journey to maturity continues. The novel was hugely influential throughout the 19th century and beyond and remains a key work in classic European literature. Thomas Carlyle’s admired but slightly archaic translation has been lightly revised for this recording which features a sensitive reading by Leighton Pugh. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Leighton Pugh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dhrm/000267/bk_dhrm_000267_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Montana Mail Order Bride Box Set, Books 19-21: Westward Box Sets, Book 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1737min
    Books 19-21 in the series that critics describe as "a wonderful blend of hope, humor, passion, romance, and forgiveness". Book 19: Westward Fate Edwina Bradbury, sole heiress of a vast fortune has finally agreed to come to Dawson to visit her family. She has been further enticed by an advertisement from a handsome English butler, Randall Cranston, who works for Dawson's mayor, Joe Dwyer. Randall is instantly charmed by Edwina's wit and independence. Each of them are at a point in their lives when they feel they may be ready to settle down - with the right person, of course. Their attraction is immediate and they embark on a romance that blossoms even amid tragedy and shocking events with the community of Dawson. Will their relationship survive or will they be torn asunder by the horrible truths and stunning secrets learned? Book 20: Westward Hope Penny Winslow, a divorced woman comes to Dawson under strange circumstances, meeting Matt Mackenzie, the town preacher. They embark on a romance, hoping for a bright future. Fear intrudes on that hope. Can they secure the happy future they seek? Book 21: Westward Wild When refined, handsome Tom Sebastian and wild child Ivy Danvers meet, their attraction is immediate. They don't care about social class, but others do. Can they battle outside influences or will lack of faith doom their love? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Ellis, Alan Taylor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/091114/bk_acx0_091114_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Kissing Jenna: The Big Sky Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 395min
    From New York Times best-selling Author Kristen Proby comes the newest installment in her beloved Big Sky seriesJenna Hull owns and manages vacation rentals in her hometown of Cunningham Falls, Montana. She's just completed the construction of her most exhausting project, the one she’s put her heart and soul into. The inviting, opulent Snow Wolf Cottages are the first ski-in/ski-out tree houses in the world. Her biggest dream is about to come true, and she can’t let anything distract her.Christian Wolfe is Hollywood’s "It" actor. If the magazines are to be believed, he’s the sexiest man on earth. He’s preparing for the biggest movie role of his life, and his agent has booked him in a hot new ski lodge in Montana, tucked away from crazy fans. He can’t wait for the break.But what Christian isn’t prepared for is Jenna. With a face that could easily co-star with him in a movie and her ambition to put her stamp on Cunningham Falls, he can’t stay away. But even more intriguing than her beauty is the fact that she’s not at all impressed with his celebrity status, only turned on by the man behind the fame.The love they’ve found is perfect - but time is running out before real life intrudes. Can they survive with both their dreams - and hearts - intact?  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joan Delware, Lee Samuels. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124882/bk_acx0_124882_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1221min
    Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries--but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households. Analyzing the political and banking history of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil through several centuries, Fragile by Design demonstrates that chronic banking crises and scarce credit are not accidents due to unforeseen circumstances. Rather, these fluctuations result from the complex bargains made between politicians, bankers, bank shareholders, depositors, debtors, and taxpayers. The well-being of banking systems depends on the abilities of political institutions to balance and limit how coalitions of these various groups influence government regulations. Fragile by Design is a revealing exploration of the ways that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation. Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber combine political history and economics to examine how coalitions of politicians, bankers, and other interest groups form, why some endure while others are undermined, and how they generate policies that determine who gets to be a banker, who has access to credit, and who pays for bank bailouts and rescues. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Basil Sands. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018232/bk_adbl_018232_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Once a Runner , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 513min
    Once a Runner captures the essence of what it means to be a competitive runner; to devote your entire existence to a single-minded pursuit of excellence. It has become one of the most beloved sports novels ever written. Originally self-published in 1978 and sold at road races out of the trunk of the author's car, reading the book became a rite of passage for many runners, and tattered copies were handed down like sacred texts from generation to generation. Once a Runner is the story of Quenton Cassidy, a collegiate runner at fictional Southeastern University whose lifelong dream is to run a four-minute mile. He is less than a second away when the political and cultural turmoil of the Vietnam War era intrudes into the staid recesses of his school's athletic department. After he becomes involved in an athletes' protest, Cassidy is suspended from his track team. Under the tutelage of his friend and mentor, Bruce Denton, a graduate student and former Olympic gold medalist, Cassidy gives up his scholarship, his girlfriend, and possibly his future to withdraw to a monastic retreat in the countryside and begin training for the race of his life: a head-to-head match with the greatest miler in history. This audiobook is a rare insider's account of the incredibly intense lives of elite distance runners; an inspiring, funny, and spot-on tale of one man's quest to become a champion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Lawlor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/001795/bk_brll_001795_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Party Games: A Fear Street Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 374min
    R.L. Stine's hugely successful young adult horror series Fear Street is back with the first new book in almost two decades. With more than 80 million copies sold around the world, Fear Street is one of the bestselling young adult series of all time. Now, with Party Games, R.L. Stine revives this phenomenon for a new generation of teen readers, and the announcement of new Fear Street books caused a flurry of excitement both in the press and on social media, where fans rejoiced that the series was coming back. Her friends warn her not to go to Brendan Fear's birthday party at his family's estate on mysterious Fear Island. But Rachel Martin has a crush on Brendan and is excited to be invited. Brendan has a lot of party games planned. But one game no one planned intrudes on his party - the game of murder. As the guests start dying one by one, Rachel realizes to her horror that she and the other teenagers are trapped on the tiny island with someone who may want to kill them all. How to escape this deadly game? Rachel doesn't know whom she can trust. She should have realized that nothing is as it seems…. on Fear Island. R.L. Stine makes his triumphant return to Shadyside, a town of nightmares, shadows, and genuine terror, and to the bestselling series that began his career writing horror for the juvenile market, in the new Fear Street book Party Games. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brittany Pressley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001853/bk_aren_001853_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dekker's Dozen: The Last Watchmen , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 547min
    Following the Intergalactic Singularity War, Dekker Knight, mercenary and collector of arcane artifacts, works for the highest bidder - but he doesn't take just any job. One in particular, transporting Austicon - the assassin who stalked his family for generations - to a max-lock detention, was supposed to close a dark chapter in Dekker's life. After Earth's constables botch Austicon's incarceration, Dekker's team is forced to hunt down the galaxies' most heinous criminal all over again when a mysterious man claiming to be an ancient, time-traveling prophet intrudes on them. Ezekiel claims Dekker will soon annihilate of all reality - and he knows all of Dekker's secrets: that he wields an ancient, celestial weapon, was once married to a terrorist, and is the last member of the Watchmen - an ancient secret society with roots tracing back to Solomon. Following Austicon's theft of a superweapon, Dekker and his team must do the unthinkable to prevent the Earth's annihilation. Worse yet, a demon-possessed tree is attempting to bring "the divine engines of reality" to a grinding halt, destroying all of existence with the death of the planet, annihilating all that is, will be, and ever was! Steampunk time-travel, cyborg ninjas, deep space unicorn zombies, ghostly rocket-ships, and star destroying Hassidic superweapons converge in one epic story! How long can The Dozen escape death, and how far can Dekker go to in defiance of fate and pursuit of love before his actions break the universe? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Coombs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/063229/bk_acx0_063229_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Calypso: The Harry Starke Novels, Book 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 405min
    There are four basic reasons why someone commits murder. The first and most powerful is love. The second - equally powerful - is hate. Almost equally compelling is revenge. The fourth is profit. Money. When one family member kills another, one or more of them is almost always the motive, and the murders on Calypso Key were no exception. - Harry Starke It was one of those beautiful, balmy days on Calypso Key in the US Virgin Islands. The sky was blue and a cool breeze was blowing in off the ocean as Harry and Amanda took their vows. All of their friends were there and all was well with the world...and then the sky fell. Harry draws the line at getting involved when the death of one of his father's friends intrudes upon his wedding day, until he finds out he owes the girl's father a debt he can never repay. And so he is dragged into an investigation of not just one murder, but two - and the wealthiest, most dysfunctional family he's ever met. The cast of characters includes a former Navy Seal - now a butler - a man up to his eyes in shady financial dealings, and the woman at the heart of it all, who was pushed to her death from a third-story balcony. Harry clears a few hours to enjoy the good life on Calypso Key, but as for the investigation...well, we all know that when Harry's involved, nothing is ever quite what it seems. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Lennon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/072371/bk_acx0_072371_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Palisades Park , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1041min
    Best seller Alan Brennert's spellbinding story about a family of dreamers and their lives within the legendary Palisades Amusement Park. Growing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey - especially for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting on the unladylike nickname Toni, and her brother, Jack. Toni helps her parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, at the stand where they sell homemade French fries amid the roar of the Cyclone roller coaster. There is also the lure of the world’s biggest salt-water pool, complete with divers whose astonishing stunts inspire Toni, despite her mother's insistence that girls can't be high divers. But a family of dreamers doesn't always share the same dreams, and then the world intrudes: There's the Great Depression, and Pearl Harbor, which hits home in ways that will split the family apart; and perils like fire and race riots in the park. Both Eddie and Jack face the dangers of war, while Adele has ambitions of her own - and Toni is determined to take on a very different kind of danger in impossible feats as a high diver. Yet they are all drawn back to each other - and to Palisades Park - until the park closes forever in 1971. Evocative and moving, with the trademark brilliance at transforming historical events into irresistible fiction that made Alan Brennert’s Moloka'i and Honolulu into listener favorites, Palisades Park takes us back to a time when life seemed simpler - except, of course, it wasn't. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark McCarthy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/006893/bk_reco_006893_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Floyd Dell: A Collection of Plays , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 255min
    Floyd Dell: A Short Play Collection Presented by The Online Stage  Floyd Dell has been called "one of the most flamboyant, versatile, and influential American Men of Letters of the first third of the 20th century". Though he was primarily a newspaper and magazine editor, most prominently of the radical left-wing magazine The Masses, he also published many best-selling feminist works. As a staunch advocate of feminism, socialism, psychoanalysis, and progressive education, his writing greatly shocked the American bourgeoisie at the time, to the point where it became so controversial, he was put on trial twice for his subversive literature.  This is a complete collection of all 11 of his short plays, which include many delights, such as a dialogue musing upon the curiosities of human nature, fights between lovers, a tragic fantasy story, and even a comedic take on a popular biblical tale.  1 Human Nature 2 The Chaste Adventures of Joseph 3 The Angel Intrudes 4 Legend 5 Sweet-And-Twenty 6 A Long Time Ago 7 Enigma 8 Ibsen Revisited 9 King Arthur's Socks 10 The Rim of the World 11 Poor Harold  Featuring the voices of Leanne Yau, Anna Grace, Tomas Peter, Marty Krz, Tom Fisher, Tom Saer, Michelle Marie, Ben Stevens, Lee Ann Howlett, Sarah Mitchell, John Burlinson, Graham Scott, Denis Daly, Andy Harrington, Chris Marcellus, Jennifer Fournier, Sarah Bacaller, Larry Wilson, Amanda Friday, Alan Weyman, Joseph Tabler, Ted Wenskus, Nancy German, Mark Crowle-Groves, Shirley Savage, and PJ Morgan.  Audio edited by Leanne Yau and Denis Daly  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Leanne Yau, Anna Grace, Tomas Peter, Marty Krz, Lee Ann Howlett, Andy Harrington, Graham Scott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/002758/bk_mike_002758_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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