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    The Vampire's Tomb Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 558min
    Funerals; for most of us the trappings of the funeral parlor and the finality of the cemetery commemorates the end, but for an actor like Armand Tesla, who was best remembered for his vampire roles, a funeral is only the beginning. Armand Tesla was to be buried in his vampire costume, but obviously the aged star of stage and screen horror was not yet ready to ring down the final curtain. No, it would not be nearly so easy to bury such a restless corpse. So be prepared for a case of a body that won't stay put and the tale of a struggling young movie director with more ambition than talent who turns up missing at the vampire's last bow. Indeed, my friends, this will prove to be just the kind of case that only a psychic Hollywood detective like Charles Criswell King, aided by Famous Monster Forrest J Ackerman, can solve. So, gentle reader, be prepared for a tale of creaking doors and empty coffins, of gunshots in the night and damsels in distress, all part of "The Vampire's Tomb Mystery." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sam Burns, Helen Stirling. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/109346/bk_acx0_109346_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Horse Crazy: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 411min
    This story, if it is one, deserves the closure of a suicide, perhaps even the magisterial finality of what is usually called a novel, but the remnants of that faraway time offer nothing more than a taste of damp ashes, a feeling of indeterminacy, and the obdurate inconclusiveness of passing time. So writes the unnamed narrator of Horse Crazy, looking back on a season of madness and desire. The first novel from the brilliant, protean Gary Indiana, Horse Crazy tells the story of a 35-year-old writer for a New York arts and culture magazine whose life melts into a fever dream when he falls in love with the handsome, charming, possibly heroin-addicted, and almost certainly insane Gregory Burgess. In the derelict brownstones of the Lower East Side in the late 80s, among the coked-out restauranteurs and art world impresarios of the supposed "downtown scene", the narrator wanders through the fog of passion. Meanwhile, the AIDS epidemic is spreading through the city, and New York friendships sputter to an end. Here is a novel where the only moral is that thwarted passion is the truest passion, where love is a hallucination and the gravest illness is desire. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Pabon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052879/bk_adbl_052879_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Nine Journeys of Wonder: The Last Secrets, the Final Mysteries of Exploration , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 340min
    The first two decades of the 20th century will rank as a most distinguished era in the history of exploration, for during them many of the great geographical riddles of the world have been solved. This book contains a record of some of the main achievements. What Nansen said of Polar exploration is true of all exploration; its story is a "mighty manifestation of the power of the unknown over the mind of man." The unknown, happily, will be always with us, for there are infinite secrets in a blade of grass, and an eddy of wind, and a grain of dust, and human knowledge will never attain that finality when the sense of wonder shall cease. But to the ordinary man there is an appeal in large, bold, and obvious conundrums, which is lacking in the minutia of research. Thousands of square miles of the globe still await surveying and mapping, but most of the exploration of the future will be the elucidation of details. The main lines of the earth's architecture have been determined, and the task is now one of amplifying our knowledge of the groins and buttresses and stonework. There are no more unvisited forbidden cities, or unapproached high mountains, or unrecorded great rivers.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: ChasMandala. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/211908/bk_acx0_211908_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Not Our Children! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 166min
    A gripping tale of fiction that explores the dark and terrifying truth about man's ability and willingness to sacrifice human's greatest asset for greed, our children. A trafficker puts forth a well-crafted series of events that will draw the moths to the flame. His victims will come to him voluntarily without realizing the danger and finality of their innocent decisions. From his villa fortress on the Pacific Ocean in Mexico, he operates an export business unlike any other. He exports children and young women. A small country community in Texas is ripped apart and filled with fear and despair as the homicidal trafficker watches his plans of riches and revenge bear fruit at the expense of the innocent. Every parent and grandparent will shutter as they hear how easy it could be to lose their children. Every parent to be will rethink the age-old belief that they can protect their children from the predators of this world. The cast of characters from Conchita's Eyes all return in this suspenseful story that leaves us all to wonder what really happens to the millions of children that become missing each year. Although harrowing throughout, the story is also about love and mankind's constant struggle against evil in our world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Stamper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/021998/bk_acx0_021998_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Falling Water: Stories & Poetry , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 215min
    Most of the stories and poems in this audiobook were compiled from handwritten notes in journals I've been keeping for several years. The title story, "The Waterfall", is a powerful study of loss, acceptance, and growth. In "Butterflies", a young boy learns a lesson about acceptance and appreciation of what he has been given. "The Lighthouse" is a moving tale that's as close to poetry as prose and offers a beautifully upbeat ending. "Grandma Brown" is a nostalgic and emotionally moving tale of familial love. "A Boy and His Dog" tells the story of a young boy learning to accept that nothing is ever truly lost. "Waiting" is an incredibly powerful and moving tale of a man's love and acceptance in the face of the finality of dying. "The Source" is a classic short horror story. "And When I Got Home" features a young man finding his own path to spiritual enlightenment. A short collection of poems range from the unusual to the more traditional and beautiful. And "Wisteria" is a moving story of a man visiting his now abandoned childhood home and realizing that nothing ever truly dies. I think there's something here for every taste and hope that all who listens to these words will find meaning in them! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Kahlenberg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/033964/bk_acx0_033964_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Family: Firstborn Series #4, Hörbuch, Digital, 291min
    A sensational trial.... Katy Hart travels to Los Angeles to testify against the knife-wielding fan who tried to kill her. She is hunted by paparazzi, who figure out that she is the mystery woman photographed with Hollywood movie star Dayne Matthews. Tension and pressure build to a dangerous level as Katy and Dayne seek private moments amidst the frenzy. In the end, Dayne's celebrity life makes Katy certain that a future with him is all but impossible. A life-changing decision.... As the trial comes to a close, Dayne searches for answers he cannot seem to find. Not until he talks to his childhood friend does he realize his desperate need for wisdom and direction. Ultimately his journey leads him to an isolated beach where God makes Dayne's future as clear as the waters of Cancun. But can he live with the decision God places before him? A stunning discovery.... Landon and Ashley Baxter Blake are celebrating the happiest days of their lives, enjoying Cole and their newborn son. But Ashley cannot find peace until she finds her older brother - the firstborn Baxter sibling. Her constant questions to her father, John Baxter, have netted nothing. Now she receives news that rocks her world and threatens to end her search in heartbreaking finality. Language: English. Narrator: Sandra Burr. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/001343/bk_brll_001343_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    After They're Gone (eBook, ePUB)
    'Wise, challenging and offering some unexpected laughter in the dark, this is a rational and insightful account of the sixth great extinction event. Peter Marren is a brilliant writer and a national treasure.' PATRICK BARKHAM'Thoughtful, fascinating and very timely.' STEPHEN MOSS'Important and thought-provoking.' CAROLINE LUCAS, GREEN PARTY MP'Essential reading. Marren makes a page-turner out of Armageddon.' SIMON BARNES'In his characteristic style Peter Marren has humanised the story of wildlife losses with humour and wit but also with his enormous knowledge and deep love for the living world.' MARK COCKERWe are in the midst of an extinction event: the sixth mass extinction on earth and one entirely caused by mankind. All species become extinct sooner or later, but we have accelerated that natural process several hundredfold and now, it is happening right in front of our eyes. Extinction has a terrifying finality to it. And many species have already been lost to us forever; there is little we can do about that.What we can do, however, is reflect, remember, and ultimately acknowledge the unvarnished truth. We must see the natural world as it is, and not as we might want it to be. Our trajectory is one that has benefited one species alone - humankind. For all other beings, from mammals to fish, from birds to insects and coral, from plants to lichens and fungi, the future, for better or worse, is in our hands.
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    Secrets of Eden: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 677min
    From the best-selling author of The Double Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice. "There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism, and just before going home to the husband who will kill her that evening and then shoot himself. Drew, tortured by the cryptic finality of that short utterance, feels his faith in God slipping away and is saved from despair only by a meeting with Heather Laurent, the author of wildly successful, inspirational books about ...angels. Heather survived a childhood that culminated in her own parents' murder-suicide, so she identifies deeply with Alice's daughter, Katie, offering herself as a mentor to the girl and a shoulder for Stephen - who flees the pulpit to be with Heather and see if there is anything to be salvaged from the spiritual wreckage around him. But then the State's Attorney begins to suspect that Alice's husband may not have killed himself...and finds out that Alice had secrets only her minister knew. Secrets of Eden is both a haunting literary thriller and a deeply evocative testament to the inner complexities that mark all of our lives. Once again Chris Bohjalian has given us a riveting novel in which nothing is precisely what it seems. As one character remarks, "Believe no one. Trust no one. Assume all of our stories are suspect." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bramhall, Susan Denaker, Rebecca Lowman, Kathe Mazur. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002163/bk_rand_002163_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Brick Lane, Hörbuch, Digital, 368min
    Nazneen's inauspicious entry to the world, an apparent stillbirth on the hard mud floor of a Bangladeshi village hut, imbues in her a sense of fatalism that she carries across continents when she is married off to Chanu. Her life in London's Tower Hamlets is, on the surface, calm. For years, keeping house and rearing children, she does what is expected of her. Yet Nazneen walks a tightrope stretched between her daughters' embarrassment and her husband's resentments. Chanu calls his elder daughter the little memsahib. "I didn't ask to be born here," says Shahana, with regular finality. Into that fragile peace walks Karim. He sets questions before her, of longing and belonging; he sparks in her a turmoil that reflects the community's own; he opens her eyes and directs her gaze, but what she sees, in the end, comes as a suprise to them both. While Nazneen journeys along her path of self-realization, a way haunted by her mother's ghost, her sister Hasina, back in Bangladesh, rushes headlong at her life, first making a "love marriage", then fleeing her violent husband. Woven through the novel, Hasina's letters from Dhaka recount a world of overwhelming adversity. Shaped, yet ultimately not bound, by their landscapes and memories, both sisters struggle to dream themselves out of the rules prescribed for them. Beautifully rendered and, by turns, both comic and deeply moving, Brick Lane establishes Monica Ali as one of the most exciting new voices in fiction. Language: English. Narrator: Ayesha Dharker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000058/bk_hcuk_000058_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Death Begets , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 218min
    Some say death is the end, the ultimate finality. Others believe there is more that death begets. Herein are tales of life, death, and the horror of what comes after. Do you have what it takes to look beyond the now and peer into the darkness? Hop on the roller coaster of evil with these five tales."Laurel Mountain": Frank Daggets is a simple plumber living a simple life. His only problem is his irrational fear of asylums. When the crappers stop up at Laurel Mountain Sanitarium, Frank has to plunge into his fear head-on."Bellum Sacrum": Wil Wheaton always said, “Don’t be a dick.” Have you ever seen what happens when the victim has had enough? When Mark finally loses control, his soul is in jeopardy.  "The Storm": 1992. Hurricane Andrew is rushing for the Florida coast. The Hampton kids are home alone, and their mom should have been home by now. The local church is offering its use for shelter, but not for the reason you think."The Perfect Present": Christmas is a time for love and gifts. When Darren gets his gifts from mom, it pushes him over the edge. Let the slay ride begin!  "I Was a Legend": Rock’s hottest new band Raging Wrath hits Las Vegas. The party is on. When lead singer Tyler needs a break from the madness, he stumbles upon a fortune teller, and all his dreams come true.Praise for the book:"Death Begets is a finely crafted and deeply unsettling collection of fictions." (Clive Barker, author of Imajica, Cabal, The Damnation Game, and creator of Hellraiser series) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nate C. Maughan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/178592/bk_acx0_178592_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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