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Between Here and the Yellow Sea , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 538min

Set in a variety of Southern landscapes, these startling stories excavate the ambiguous terrain of the human heart. Pizzolatto finds beauty in loneliness as his characters attempt to bridge the gulfs between themselves and others, past and present, and sometimes the even wider chasms that separate them from their true selves. In this stunning debut, a base-jumping samurai park ranger parachutes off the St. Louis arch. A stained-glass artist struggles over his masterpiece for a castle in Southern Missouri and learns through great loss what his true subject will be. A schoolteacher searches for her missing son, her only clue a mysterious, paint-smeared stencil he left behind. And in the title story, which first appeared in Atlantic Monthly, an orphaned young man and his former high school football coach set out to kidnap the coach's daughter from Los Angeles and bring her back to East Texas. With a forceful and compassionate voice, Pizzolatto places us at the crossroads of memory and desire, longing and loss, somewhere between here and the Yellow Sea. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirby Heybourne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000953/bk_high_000953_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Undercurrents : Orphan's Legacy, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 567min

Ace intelligence operative Lt. Jazen Parker parachutes into Tressel, a planet that resembles Earth in its Paleozoic era, on a mission to bring down the local politicos. He quickly realizes he's been handed a near-impossible task. Tressel is a politically quarantined nightmare world with a culture confined to iron-rivet technology and a ruling regime a bit to the right of Heinrich Himmler. Jazen's inclined to abandon this particular hellhole to its ways - that is, until he uncovers a plot afoot that will throw a 500-planet alliance into the death-throes of anarchy. So the local Nazis must go. Unfortunately, all Jazen's got to work with is a handful of rust-bucket tanks, a retread rebellion, and two strong, beautiful women who love him but think he's tilting at windmills and is about to get himself killed. What they don't know is that, once committed, Jazen Parker is the best there is when it comes to getting a dirty job done on the ground. It's the local bullies who are about to be taught a lesson in losing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: MacLeod Andrews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002956/bk_adbl_002956_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Her Rock Hard Viking: A Paranormal Romance: Her Elemental Viking, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 112min

Rock hard was never so literal. Over 1,000 years ago, a witch hexed four charming Viking brothers, each with one of the four elements. They live with these curses today, doomed to suffer for their past crimes forever. Carr, once a proud Viking warrior, is cursed to be the very island he once invaded. But when a gorgeous woman parachutes into his life, everything changes. Will her sexual healing finally bring him release? Or, will he be forced to choose between his last chance at humanity and saving the woman he loves? Becca never thought to pack lingerie for this trip. She's a botanist desperately hunting for a miracle cure before it's too late. What's a woman to do when she discovers her remote island is actually an extremely passionate Viking? Go with it. This steamy tale for mature listeners contains island romance, sexy waterfall action, and a love passionate enough to make the Earth move. This stand-alone novella is part of the Her Elemental Viking series which can be heard in any order. There are no cliffhangers, and each short ends as it should: happily ever after. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Audrey Lusk. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/048331/bk_acx0_048331_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Falcon Killer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 124min

The Japanese military has turned the once-thriving Chinese city of Nencheng into a reeking pile of blood and ash. And now the Japanese Rising Sun threatens to scorch the ancient - and oil-rich - Kingdom of the Silver Lake. Can the Chinese survive the onslaught? Do they have a prayer? The answer is about to fall out of the sky. He is The Falcon Killer. China’s ace fighter pilot and scourge of the Japanese air force, he is in fact Bill Gaylord, an American orphaned and self-reliant - a man without a country and without fear. Shot down over Nencheng, Gaylord parachutes into the arms of the one woman who can give him reason to live and to rejoin the fight against Japan - as he squares off against their top spy. His prey is in his sights, and catching it will change everything...for The Falcon Killer. Fly high into a world of dogfights and dramatic discoveries as the audio version of The Falcon Killer stirs up the action...in love and war. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R. F. Daley, Chris Emerson, Jim Meskimen, Christina Huntington, Robert Wu, Mark Silverman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gala/000069/bk_gala_000069_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The MK Story - Code Name: The Black Cat (Holocaust/WWII Memoirs by seasidepress.org, Book 13) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 260min

It was against all odds for Allied pilots shot down over Nazi-occupied Europe to evade the enemy. British Intelligence service MI-9 infiltrated their agents into Nazi-occupied Europe to help these stranded pilots behind enemy lines and get them safely back to England. This is the true story of an MI-9 agent, a Dutch Jew, an experienced pilot, a proficient wireless radio operator, and a wanted man by the Nazis in 1941. MK escapes Nazi-occupied territory at great peril, and when he finally reaches London and volunteers his services to the Dutch Intelligence Service in exile, he is severely snubbed. Instead, the British MI-9 eagerly engages him. They train him, and in 1943, he parachutes with his mission chief into Nazi-occupied France. MK soon finds that he can not trust his mission chief, and that he is better off without him. He goes his own way, and sets up an escape line that saves the lives of at least 27 British and American pilots. All along, he maintains illegal radio contact with the War office in London. He is betrayed, imprisoned, tortured, and condemned to death. Yet he lives. This is his story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alex Hyde White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/176640/bk_acx0_176640_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Sketches by Boz: Volume 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 473min

Queen Victoria... and Prince Albert were married in 1840. Dickens uses this event as an ingenious ploy to salute and promote domestic felicity, advising young ladies upon several examples of the different types of male available as partners. There follows a section describing various married couples from whom the young ladies could possibly learn a lesson. The author then entertains with a tale of Nicholas Tulrumble, newly appointed Mayor of Mudfog, with ideas above his station. Mudfog is modelled on the town of Dickens childhood, Chatham, and he continues, with this backdrop, to regale us with a satirical tale about the first meeting of ‘The British Association for the Advancement of Everything [aka Science]’ supposedly held there. Here his imagination runs riot and the authors huge influence and importance in the evolution of humorous writing is once again confirmed.Fantastic ideas such as using cauliflowers as parachutes, theme parks for dissolute nobleman to indulge their rowdy behaviour, an automaton pickpocket that could be utilised by Her Majesties Government- the only disadvantage being it would soon wear out from overwork ! Redolent with the author’s usual swipes at the establishment and his reforming zeal Volume 3 of the Sketches is a Dickensian treat. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000074/bk_assm_000074_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Sniper: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 613min

Poised to stand among the great war novels, the harrowing chronicle of a sniper during the Chechen War.“The saboteurs? Holy Christ, what happened? What did you do to deserve that?” a fellow soldier responds when he hears that Nicolai Lilin has been assigned to an unconventional, ultra-high-risk paramilitary unit of the Russian army. Also nicknamed the “para-bats” for the black parachutes that dropped them behind enemy lines at night, Lilin and his fellow “saboteurs” soon find themselves fighting Islamic insurgents armed with American weaponry in the breakaway province of Chechnya.In vivid, harrowing detail, Lilin relays how, under the mind-bending dangers of heavy fire, on unknown terrain, in unpredictable small villages, the only goal is survival. Under the leadership of corrupt generals profiting from the war, his unit develops a camaraderie that is their best hope for staying alive—and staying human. Ultimately, the return to the bland normality of an impersonal society at “peace” might be the hardest struggle of all.Writing with unhindered directness and power, Lilin combines his own experiences as a sniper in Chechnya together with the stories of those he fought beside to forge an autobiographical novel unique in the literature of war. A bestseller in Europe, this novel will remain an unforgettable account of one of the ugliest conflicts of our time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Whitten. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012348/bk_adbl_012348_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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SEAL Team Bravo: Black Ops - Raid on Afghanistan , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 598min

They are the best of the best, the Navy SEALs. The world's most elite fighting force. A vital kill-mission inside Afghanistan uncovers an unexpected and deadly plot to use a nuclear weapon. A weapon that could cost thousands of American lives. Once more, the Navy SEALs are called into action. Bravo Platoon, SEAL Team 7, parachutes into action. Yet a question mark hangs over Chief Petty Officer Kyle Nolan. A question mark over his health, and his ability to hold the platoon together. Can he still cut it after the murder of his wife tore him apart? If he comes unstuck during the mission, the lives of them all are in danger. With no time to make changes, Nolan stays in place. The mission must continue, the stakes are too high, the enemy vicious and clever enemy. Bravo face a succession of daunting and overwhelming obstacles before they can uncover the truth. When they do find it, even their commanders refuse to believe the damning evidence that Bravo sends back. Alone and unaided, they press forward to pursue their enemy into the snowy wastes of the Afghan borderlands, the Hindu Kush, to try to prevent a catastrophic terrorist attack. This action packed novel explores the shadowy and violent world of the Navy SEALs in a story that is as exciting as the actions of the SEALs themselves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roy Wells. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/062420/bk_acx0_062420_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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