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    Star Trek, New Frontier: Excalibur: Restoration, Hörbuch, Digital, 178min
    The Excalibur has been destroyed, the victim of insidious sabotage. Last seen onboard only moments before it was blown to bits, Captain Mackenzie Calhoun was assumed lost with his ship. Now First Officer Elizabeth Shelby has been granted a command of her own, the U.S.S. Exeter, were she will discover exactly what kind of a captain she is meant to become. But what about Calhoun? Unbeknownst to Starfleet, the resourceful Xenexian officer escaped the cataclysmic demise of the Excalibur, only to end up marooned on the primitive outback world of Yakaba. There he eventually befriends Rheda, a woman with the inexplicable ability to summon rain for her parched and struggling frontier community. Rheda's powers, however, have made her the target of jealous and avaricious enemies. They will stop at nothing to seize control of her special gifts - or destroy them forever. Trapped on a hostile world, unable to contact Starfleet or even let Shelby and the others know he is still alive, Calhoun is drawn into a life-or-death struggle against relentless foes. For more Trek titles, browse our special Star Trek section! Language: English. Narrator: Joe Morton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000240/bk_sans_000240_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Web of Evil: A Novel of Suspense, Hörbuch, Digital, 359min
    The highway from Los Angeles to the Palm Springs desert is parched, unforgiving, and deadly. In the suffocating stillness of a car trunk, a man, his mouth and hands bound with duct tape, awaits his fate. What possible enemy could be bitter enough to commit such a heinous crime? And when will the monster make another move? Ali Reynolds is traveling that same blistering, lonesome highway, looking forward to putting her past behind her. But her cheating husband is in a hurry for a divorce, and the television network that wrongfully dismissed her for the sole sin of being over 40 will face her in court as well. As she passes the site of a horrifying accident, Ali is grateful that it's no longer her job to report the news, until she finds out that the news is her own: the victim is Ali's cheating husband. And soon she'll find herself the prime suspect at the center of a terrifying web of evil. A twisted and lethal drama of heart-pounding suspense, Web of Evil asks the question: If hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, just what punishment could that fury unleash? Language: English. Narrator: Karen Ziemba. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000837/bk_sans_000837_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Queen of Chaos: The Fourth Element Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 652min
    As the dark forces of the Undead sweep across what remains of the empire, Nazafareen must obey the summons of a demon queen to save Darius' father, Victor. Burdened with a power she doesn't understand and can barely control, Nazafareen embarks on a perilous journey through the shadowlands to the House-Behind-the-Veil. But what awaits her there is worse than she ever imagined.... A thousand leagues away, Tijah leads a group of children on a desperate mission to rescue the prisoners at Gorgon-e Gaz, the stronghold where the oldest daevas are kept. To get there they must cross the Great Salt Plain, a parched ruin occupied by the armies of the night. A chance encounter adds a ghost from the past to their number. But will they arrive in time to avert a massacre? And in the House-Behind-the-Veil, Balthazar and the Prophet Zarathustra discover that they have more in common than meets the eye. But is it enough to salvage the necromancer's bloodstained soul and thwart his mistress' plans? As a final showdown looms between Alexander the Great and Queen Neblis, the truth of the daevas' origins is revealed and three worlds collide in this thrilling conclusion to the Fourth Element series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Piper Goodeve. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/008014/bk_tant_008014_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 566min
    A brilliant, eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes. The Colorado River is a crucial resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado's headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes listeners on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the US-Mexico border where the river runs dry. Water problems in the western United States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines let on. The story Owen tells in Where the Water Goes is crucial to our future: how a patchwork of engineering marvels, byzantine legal agreements, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert, and the disastrous consequences we face when any part of this tenuous system fails. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fred Sanders. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003125/bk_peng_003125_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hafiz: The Scent of Light: Poetry & Music from the Great Sufi Master and Poet, Hörbuch, Digital, 61min
    In modern-day Persia, the 14th-century poet Hafiz remains the most treasured voice of his homeland - a place where his work outsells Rumi, and even the Koran. Yet only recently have Westerners come to know this wild Sufi mystic's astonishing verses on love and spiritual longing. Now, with Hafiz: The Scent of Light, you will join Daniel Ladinsky - the acclaimed translator of The Gift - to revel in more than 30 of Hafiz's most stirring works. Offered here in the manner that Hafiz composed them, namely spoken or sung spontaneously amid companions and inspired music, each of these exquisite love songs (ghazals) shimmers with a nuance, depth, and passion rarely captured in previous translations. Hafiz once said: "A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful parched holy mouth." From his vision of an all-embracing Beloved who sees beyond our religious beliefs to his revelations on the oneness of worldly ecstasy and spiritual awakening, Hafiz continues to pour the light of his poetry forth today. Music composed and performed by Stevin McNamara (sitar and nylon string guitar), with special guest artists and composers Steve Gorn (bansuri flute), Jeffrey Rodgers (tabla, santoor, ethnic drums, percussion), Annette Cantor (vocals), Pandit S.N. Sopori (drupad/khyal/tarana singing), Bhushan Sopori (tabla), and Aurelia Roze (violin). Read by Nataraja Kallio. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Ladinsky, Stevin McNamara. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/true/000664/sp_true_000664_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Shadow Valley , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 810min
    Great Sky Woman - is set in Africa in 28,000 B.C. and follows a tribal leader who must find a new land for her people.After the catastrophic eruption of Father Mountain, the Ibandi are divided, desperate, and afraid. Most have followed the only person in whom they still believe: young Sky Woman, who was on the great mountain when it exploded and who, along with Frog Hopping, returned to tell the tale. Nurtured by an elder whose searing visions have left her blind, Sky Woman nonetheless doubts her own visionary powers as she follows a path she can hardly discern-across savannah and parched plains-to find a valley of plenty for a people on the brink of collapse.But in fact, Sky Woman and Frog were not the only survivors of the mountain's explosion. Another man has emerged from the destruction, vengeance pulsing in his veins, to lead a separate group of Ibandi into a vicious and reckless act of war. Soon these two strands of survivors will meet, through chance, desperation, and sheer willpower.In a world in which every moment is lived on the edge between life and death, where animal and human predators can strike in an instant, where the gods themselves seem lost, and dreams entwine with reality, a people's destiny rushes toward them. The Ibandi must make a last, violent stand against complete destruction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patricia Floyd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/003963/bk_reco_003963_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Liberty Bound , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 623min
    Society has turned on its head. The "free" hide behind fortifications, and the "imprisoned" roam the wild, barren land beyond.Finbarl-apcula guards the town of Athenia, an oasis in a parched, sparsely populated world. He keeps the citizens safe, ensures those who break the draconian laws lose their freedom, and protects what he prizes above all else: civilization. When Finbarl is made to lie to help convict a mother he once rescued from a bully, it delivers the first crack in his unquestionable faith in the system. As further lies and corruption are exposed, Finbarl's world crumbles, allowing him to finally see that "prison walls" exist everywhere - within himself, throughout society, and in the very landscape he calls home.No one is free, and the civilization he was willing to die for is at the root of the problem.Finbarl begins a thrilling adventure of twists, rebellion, danger, discovery, and tragedy to break the bonds imprisoning a world, himself, and the future. Will he find what he really treasures most: true freedom?In creating a dangerous but exciting inverse world, where the true meaning of freedom is explored and challenged, Wrey invites the listener to consider how their own society and the individuals within are inhibited and restricted by "walls" through fear and ignorance.Speculative fiction to inspire you to think again about the world of today. A book for our time. Winner of Literary Titan Silver Award. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hugh Kermode. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/210241/bk_acx0_210241_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Phone , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 544min
    The invaders came down to Earth in their ships and multi-legged battle armor, and we had no way to stop them from taking the water. Made sense. They looked like massive crabs, after all. The war was over in days. Now, those left behind eke out a parched existence in the scorched rubble, avoiding the hunter-killer teams of crabs as they scour Earth for whatever they deem valuable. Sixteen-year-old Yasmine Whitten is an expert at navigating the wastes; born into this world, she not only survives; she thrives. But she's got a secret: her mother's old cell phone. Kept intact for 13 years of alien invasion and kept charged by a tiny solar panel, these two relics of a dead world give her sanity and a host of tools that allow her to stay ahead of the scavengers, both human and crab alike. It's a flashlight and a camera, and when she can't sleep, she can comfort herself in the cold desert by looking at pictures of her mother and father and by reading their old text messages to one another. She's doing well enough, for a teenager on her own in a ravaged world. Until the phone rings.   The Phone is author W.J. Orion's first young-adult science-fiction novel. First in a planned trilogy of Dry Earth titles, it's suitable for teenagers and adults alike. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bailey Carr. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/051907/bk_adbl_051907_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ties that Bind: Number 3 in the 'Tempted by Her Student' Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 51min, (USK 18)
    There was something slightly apocalyptic in the way the girl was speaking, and Bella felt more than a little frightened now. She watched the girl get up and walk slowly to the kitchen counter where the young visitor grabbed a glass and helped herself to an opened bottle of white wine. "You want one too? Make yourself at home!" the girl joked. Bella was silent. The girl moved to the patio doors at the back of the kitchen and looked out at the garden. "You might as well have a glass," she told Bella with that seductive Spanish accent more to the fore. "I mean this party is happening, and sooner or later you're gonna climb on for the ride." Bella watched, terrified and fascinated. The glimmer of sundown caught the edges of the girl's beautiful body as she stood in that strange jewel-studded, almost illuminated, underwear. Bella couldn't help but notice the delicious little kink between the girl's waist and her hips. As in the train and as in her office, Bella's throat suddenly felt parched. Something lurched in her tummy as if she was soaring on a rollercoaster. "You have a bed upstairs?" the girl said in that matter-of-fact tone that so disoriented the older woman. "Er, yes, naturally. We don't sleep on the floor!" Bella was pleased with this reply: positive, confident, and even a small rebuke there somewhere! "And your husband wears ties?" This time Bella was less confident: "Er, yes.... Er, why do you ask?" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Velvet Campbell Stewart. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/039782/bk_acx0_039782_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Librarian: A Collection of Four Erotic Stories, Hörbuch, Digital, 60min, (USK 18)
    A collection of four erotic stories with mixed themes including lesbian, ménage, and sex with strangers. 'The Librarian' by Eva Hore: A young woman returns early to her shared apartment, to find her scantily clad roommate preparing for a mysterious night-out. Where does a Librarian go after a day in the stacks? 'Wreck-Her' by Lynn Lake: A business woman is unexpectedly delayed as her company car breaks-down, deep in the sun-parched Manitoba prairie. With no cell phone signal and the soaring heat of the surroundings rising, desperation rapidly begins to set in. Help soon arrives in the form of a tow truck that stops to offer assistance. After thoroughly appraising the situation, the truck driver is soon ready to dispense a unique form of roadside assistance that ultimately proves much to the woman’s delight. 'Mixed Blessings' by Phoebe Grafton: Two friends are in need of temporary relief from their respective husbands. With one husband too demanding and the other too languid, both wives decide that a weekend exchange is the best tonic. A plan is hatched, and after a night out together is put into effect, as door keys are exchanged for each other’s home and husband. 'Maggie' by Kay JayBee: Curiosity gets the better of Maggie, as she follows John and Peter, two well-to-do gentlemen from the village deep into the woods. Her world is soon turned upside down when she witnesses both men indulging in a covert act of carnal pleasure, an act which in her world carries a penalty of eternal damnation. Language: English. Narrator: Katy Anderson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/summ/000321/bk_summ_000321_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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