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    The Sheikh’s Tamed Bride: The Sharif Sheikhs Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 164min
    Rashid Sharif has never apologized for his wild lifestyle, but after one scandal too many, his family is fed up with his playboy ways. He’ll agree to his brother’s outrageous demand that he marry, but it won’t be to some wallflower as his conservative family would prefer. If he’s going through with this farce, there’s only one woman he’ll take as his wife - his sister-in-law’s American friend Mila. She’s a rebellious little thing, with fiery passion simmering beneath her icy exterior. Although Mila’s never been more than coldly polite to him, Rashid will do what it takes to win her over. Mila’s always been a wild child, but when she chose to follow her dreams to Dubai, it wasn’t to work as a glorified waitress. She needs a chance to get ahead, but when that opportunity comes, it’s not a job she’s offered - it’s a marriage. Rashid Sharif is ridiculously handsome, richer than sin…and a complete player. Mila wants nothing to do with the womanizer, even when he offers her more money than she could make in a lifetime. But when the notorious bad boy begins to play nice, Mila finds it hard to resist temptation. As Rashid works to woo Mila, a simple seduction suddenly seems like something more. But can she ever trust the sinful sheikh, or will Mila always worry that Rashid is only playing games with her heart? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erin Coker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/115418/bk_acx0_115418_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Drone Incident , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 194min
    The Drone Incident centers on two men - miles apart geographically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally - whose lives collide in a dramatic confrontation. Fighter pilot Tom (Iceman) Belton is coldly indifferent, even when killing hundreds in the first Gulf War. It isn't until witnessing the birth of his son that he is able to feel, or to show sensitivity and compassion. A decade later in Kansas City, after seeing leukemia take his wife's last breath, he reverts to cold-hearted indifference - at his son's expense. Meanwhile, in Mexico City, 18-year old aeronautical engineering student Juan Vasquez is guilt-ridden after being involved in an automobile accident that leaves a five-year-old dead. Vasquez grudgingly lets his brother persuade him to convert to Islam. He finds peace - until the love of his life and his brother are slaughtered in a drone attack in Pakistan. Juan Vasquez becomes Abdul Mansur, a vengeance-besotted killer, vowing to use his skin color and Spanish heritage as camouflage. The lives of the two personality-conflicted men intersect when Captain Belton discovers the autopilot, not the crew, is controlling his NFL charter flight bound for Washington D.C. He learns that Vasquez/Mansur has reprogrammed the plane's autopilot to crash into the National Security Agency and destroy its eavesdropping capability. Fighter jets and the programmed flight path directly into a violent electrical storm add to the tension. The Drone Incident is a fast-paced tale of courage versus human frailty. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ellery Truesdell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/006916/bk_acx0_006916_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Andersonvilles of the North: The Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 619min
    Andersonvilles of the North, by James M. Gillispie, represents the first broad study to argue that the image of Union prison officials as negligent and cruel to Confederate prisoners is severely flawed. This study is not an attempt to "whitewash" Union prison policies or make light of Confederate prisoner mortality. But once the careful listener disregards unreliable postwar polemics, and focuses exclusively on the more reliable wartime records and documents from both Northern and Southern sources, then a much different, less negative, picture of Northern prison life emerges. While life in Northern prisons was difficult and potentially deadly, no evidence exists of a conspiracy to neglect or mistreat Southern captives. Confederate prisoners' suffering and death were due to a number of factors, but it would seem that Yankee apathy and malice were rarely among them. In fact, likely the most significant single factor in Confederate (and all) prisoner mortality during the Civil War was the halting of the prisoner exchange cartel in the late spring of 1863. Though Northern officials have long been condemned for coldly calculating that doing so aided their war effort, the evidence convincingly suggests that the South's staunch refusal to exchange black Union prisoners was actually the key sticking point in negotiations to resume exchanges from mid-1863 to 1865. History/Military Book Club Selection. The book is published by University of North Texas Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Randall R. Berner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094053/bk_acx0_094053_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Life Is What You Make It: A story of love, hope and how determination can overcome even destiny , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 348min
    What would you do if destiny twisted the road you took? What if it threw you to a place you did not want to go? Would you fight, would you run or would you accept? Set across two cities in India in the early '80s, Life Is What You Make It is a gripping account of a few significant years of Ankita's life. Ankita Sharma has the world at her feet. She is young, good-looking and smart and has tonnes of friends and boys swooning over her. College life is what every youngster dreams of, and she also manages to get into a premier management school for her MBA. Six months later she is a patient in a mental health hospital. How did Ankita get here? What were the events that led to this? Will she ever get back her life again? Life has cruelly and coldly snatched that which meant the most to her, and she must now fight to get it all back. It is a deeply moving and inspiring account of growing up, the power of faith and how determination and an indomitable spirit can overcome even what destiny throws at you. A tale that is at its core a love story that makes us question our beliefs about ourselves and our concept of sanity and forces us to believe that life is truly what one makes it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Smita Singh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029251/bk_adbl_029251_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 666min
    A delicious account of a murder most gallic - think CSI Paris meets Georges Simenon - whose lurid comibation of sex, brutality, forensics, and hypnotism riveted first a nation and then the world. Little Demon in the City of Light is the thrilling - and so wonderfully French - story of a gruesome 1889 murder of a lascivious court official at the hands of a ruthless con man and his pliant mistress and the international manhunt, sensational trial, and an inquiry into the limits of hypnotic power that ensued. In France at the end of the 19th century a great debate raged over the question of whether someone could be hypnotically compelled to commit a crime in violation of his or her moral convictions. When Toussaint-Augustin Gouffé entered 3, rue Tronson du Coudray, he expected nothing but a delightful assignation with the comely young Gabrielle Bompard. Instead, he was murdered - hanged! - by her and her companion Michel Eyraud. The body was then stuffed in a trunk and dumped on a riverbank near Lyon. As the inquiry into the guilt or innocence of the woman the French tabloids dubbed the "Little Demon" escalated, the most respected minds in France debated whether Gabrielle Bompard was the pawn of her mesmerizing lover or simply a coldly calculating murderess. And, at the burning center of it all: Could hypnosis force people to commit crimes against their will? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003767/bk_rand_003767_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Evidence , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 541min
    When a killer’s podcast reveals more than the truth....Esme is a start-up success who runs her own successful media company and heads up a series of investigative podcasts. She also has a beautiful home, where she lives with her sister, Michelle, and her son, Zachary. Sure, there’s an ex-husband hanging around - Owen likes to pop round a bit too often - but everything is civilised and amicable. She has life all tied up.But Esme knows that any successful podcaster is only as good as her last story, so she sets out on a new series of interviews to get to the truth behind Simone Fischer’s high-profile murder of her husband. Self-defence, crime of passion or coldly pre-meditated?She emerges after one jail visit to discover that her sister has been viciously attacked and is in a coma. And so begins the unravelling of Esme’s life. Where she thought there was trust and loyalty, she slowly discovers deceit and betrayal. No one is quite who they seem - not even her closest family. As the podcast interviews plunge deeper into revealing the unnerving psychology of a murderer, Esme must try to keep her own sanity intact. The truth - about Simone and Esme’s own family - is there, if Esme can only find it. But will her investigations reveal more than she ever wanted to know?This taut psychological thriller is perfect for fans of Serial and Kathleen Barber’s Truth Be Told. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Clare Corbett, Rachel Atkins, Alexandra Afryea, David Holt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aopu/000094/bk_aopu_000094_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    To the Limit of Endurance: A Battalion of Marines in the Great War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 545min
    Scholars and historians offer several theories for the crippling losses suffered by the American Expeditionary Forces on the battlefields of World War I: inexperience, poor leadership, hasty expansion of duties, and others. But until now, most of these studies have focused at the division level or higher. Now, with To the Limit of Endurance, Peter F. Owen offers a tautly worded, historically rigorous, and intensely human survey of the agonizing burden shouldered by the Second Battalion of the Sixth Regiment of U.S. Marines from its formation in Quantico, Virginia, in 1917 until the cessation of hostilities in November of the following year. In places like Belleau Wood and Soissons, these young men, led by dedicated officers, died in staggering numbers - primarily because of the outmoded tactics they had learned. Owen shows how the battalion regrouped after these campaigns, however, and embarked on a period of intense retraining. By the time of the closing weeks of the war, the adjustments they had made allowed them to mold themselves into a coldly efficient military machine. Drawing on a treasure trove of surviving first-hand accounts, Owen expertly combines these individual observations with military records and archival sources to create a mosaic that provides not only a case study of how one organization grappled with transformation but also a tightly focused, ground-level view of the lives - and deaths - of these courageous American military men. The grueling, ultimately triumphant odyssey of the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines will appeal to military historians, professional soldiers, and interested general listeners. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Wayne Stageman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/008232/bk_acx0_008232_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Warlord Wants Forever: Immortals After Dark, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 267min, (USK 18)
    The Warlord Wants Forever...the sensually charged novella that started it all, now with an exclusive excerpt from MacRieve! In this scorching series opener, New York Times best seller Kresley Cole introduces the captivating Immortals After Dark series. The book also includes an exclusive extended excerpt from MacRieve, the highly anticipated next installment in the series. The Warlord Nikolai Wroth, a ruthless vampire general, will stop at nothing to find his bride, the one woman who can "blood" him, making his heart beat and filling him with strength. Coldly interested only in the power his bride will bring, he can hardly believe when Myst the Coveted awakens him body - and soul. The Seductress Famed throughout the world as the most beautiful Valkyrie, Myst has devoted her life to protecting a magical jewel and to fighting the vampires. Wroth provides her with the perfect opportunity to torment her sworn enemy - for with his new heartbeat comes a consuming sexual desire that can be slaked only by her. Denying him, she flees, struggling to forget his searing, possessive kiss. The Hunt is on She eludes him for five years, but he has finally chased her to ground and stolen her enchanted jewel, giving him absolute power over her. Now that she's his for the taking, he intends to make her experience firsthand the agonizing, unending lust she subjected him to for half a decade. Yet when Nikolai realizes he wants far more than vengeance from Myst and frees her, will she come back to him? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Petkoff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007649/bk_sans_007649_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Closer Than You Know: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 825min
    Brad Parks delivers another riveting, emotionally powerful stand-alone domestic suspense thriller perfect for fans of The Couple Next Door and What She Knew.  Disaster, Melanie Barrick was once told, is always closer than you know. It was a lesson she learned the hard way growing up in the constant upheaval of foster care. But now that she's survived into adulthood - with a loving husband, a steady job, and a beautiful baby boy named Alex - she thought that turmoil was behind her. Until one Tuesday evening when she goes to pick up Alex from childcare only to discover he's been removed by Social Services. And no one will say why. It's a terrifying scenario for any parent, but doubly so for Melanie, who knows the unintended horrors of what everyone coldly calls "the system". Her nightmare mushrooms when she arrives home to learn her house has been raided by sheriff's deputies, who have found enough cocaine to send Melanie to prison for years. The evidence against her is overwhelming, and if Melanie can't prove her innocence, she'll lose Alex forever. Meanwhile, assistant commonwealth's attorney Amy Kaye - who has been assigned Melanie's case - has her own troubles. She's been dogged by a cold case no one wants her to pursue: a serial rapist who has avoided detection by wearing a mask and whispering his commands. Over the years, he has victimized dozens of women. Including Melanie. Yet now her attacker might be the key to her salvation...or her undoing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Rankin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003316/bk_peng_003316_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Girl in the Woods , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 647min
    Multiple murders. Multiple suspects. No proof.Rebekah and Mark Walker find themselves in every parent’s worst nightmare when their dazzling, talented daughter Kezia vanishes after a night out. Soon, they are propelled into the vortex of a fraught missing person inquiry.In a family torn apart by the disappearance of an apparently captivating teenager, we discover a tangled web of intrigue: mutual suspicion, sibling struggles, and the vain attempt of Kezia's parents to maintain a normal life in the face of almost unendurable pressures.As the days progress, the mystery deepens. Strange and terrifying clues come to light, raising even more questions, while long-buried secrets of Kezia's friends, family, and acquaintances - including a best-selling author - are uncovered, with devastating consequences.But Kezia’s disappearance is only the first in a series of apparently unconnected crimes. Detective Inspector Barbara Forster, heading the enquiry, must discover the pattern and reveal the chilling truth, aided by an investigative journalist Alice Myers, whose own life is put at risk. But haunted by secrets of her own and an unshakable belief that she knows the identity of the prime suspect - an obsession that threatens to end her career - Barbara faces a frantic race against time, following a treacherous path that leads all the way to a dark and explosive climax.A gripping crime thriller with shocking twists you won't see coming that ultimately forces you to question everything in this coldly harrowing exposé of the depths of human nature. Revenge and unspeakable crimes converge on a small Peak District village in The Girl in the Woods. Next in the popular, gritty Alice Myers psychological crime thriller series and the best yet!  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rayner Bourton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/190405/bk_acx0_190405_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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