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Albeon: Stone Circle: The Nomadic Dreamer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 389min

Most nights, Kea has inexplicable, terrifying dreams of being a magical creature called Hatter, who is part dwarf, part dragon, and part elf in the form of a human. Hatter is hunted through Albeon, an enchanted world with an alternative timeline, by an evil witch and a bloodthirsty tribe, the Karwers. When Kea discovers that the fate of Earth and of Albeon depends on him, he finally understands his dreams. His two parallel existences unite when the prodigious gnome Lea crosses over to Earth from Albeon, launching him on a series of adventures and fateful encounters with fantastic beings of various races who have known him in another incarnation. A wild, mind-bending epic of adventure and self-discovery, Albeon: Stone Circle: The Nomadic Dreamer is a thrilling beginning to Hatter’s story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marian Hussey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/172777/bk_acx0_172777_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Silver Swan , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 427min

Alexander Feldmann is a revered and sought-after performer whose prodigious talent, striking good looks, and worldly charm prove irresistible to all who hear and encounter him. After years of searching, he acquires a glorious cello, the Silver Swan, a rare Stradivarius masterpiece long lost to the world of music. Mariana is Alexander’s only child and the maestro has large ambitions for her. By the age of 19 she emerges as a star cellist in her own right, and is seen as the inheritor of her father's genius. There are whispers that her career might well outpace his. Mariana believes the Silver Swan will one day be hers, until a stunning secret from her father’s past entwines her fate and that of the Silver Swan in ways she could never have imagined. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amanda Leigh Cobb. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/novl/000510/bk_novl_000510_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Black Elfstone: Book One of the Fall of Shannara , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 637min

The Black Elfstone is the first book in the Fall of Shannara, the epic four-part conclusion to the wildly popular Shannara series by Terry Brooks - one of the all-time masters of fantasy. The Four Lands has been at peace for generations, but now a mysterious army of invaders is cutting a bloody swath across a remote region of the land. No one knows who they are, where they come from, or what they are after - and most seem content to ignore these disturbing events. The only people who sense a greater growing threat and wish to uncover the truth are society's outcasts: an exiled High Druid, a conflicted warrior, a teenage girl struggling to master a prodigious magic...and a scrappy young orphan, improbably named Shea Ohmsford. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Vance. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/001357/bk_twuk_001357_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Maelstrom (eBook, ePUB)

The world is at the brink of ruin . . . or is it salvation? Astaroth has been weakened, and the demon Prusias is taking full advantage of the situation to create an empire of his own. His formidable armies are on the move, and Rowan is in their sights. Rowan must rely on Max McDaniels and David Menlo and hope that their combined powers can stop Prusias's war machine before it's too late. But even as perils loom, danger stalks their every move. Someone has marked Max for death and no one is above suspicion. Should the assassins succeed, Rowan's fate may depend on little Mina whose abilities are prodigious but largely untested. And where is Astaroth? Has he fled this world or is he biding his time, awaiting his next opportunity? In the Tapestry's fourth book, author-illustrator Henry H. Neff boldly raises the stakes in an epic tale of mankind's struggle to survive in a world now populated by demons and demigods and everything in between!

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Nature's Mutiny

Hailed as an "arresting" (Lawrence Klepp, New Criterion) account, Nature's Mutiny chronicles the great climate crisis of the seventeenth century that totally transformed Europe's social and political fabric. Best-selling historian Philipp Blom reveals how a new, radically altered Europe emerged out of the "Little Ice Age" that diminished crop yields across the continent, forcing thousands to flee starvation in the countryside to burgeoning urban centers, and even froze London's Thames, upon which British citizens erected semipermanent frost fairs with bustling kiosks, taverns, and brothels. Highlighting how politics and culture also changed drastically, Blom evokes the era's most influential artists and thinkers who imagined groundbreaking worldviews to cope with environmental cataclysm. As we face a climate crisis of our own, "Blom's prodigious synthesis delivers a sharply-focused lesson for the twenty-first century: the profound effects of just a few degrees of climate change can alter the course of civilization, forever" (Laurence A. Marschall, Natural History).

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Here Goes Nothing (eBook, ePUB)

A GUARDIAN SATURDAY MAGAZINE, TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW and IRISH TIMES "Book of 2022" pick A firecracker of a novel by the Booker-shortlisted author of A Fraction of the Whole - a scathingly funny and affecting tale of life, death, love and the questionable existence of God. Angus Mooney is not happy - he's been murdered, cut off in the prime of his life. He feels humiliated - he's never even believed in an afterlife. (How wrong he'd been). He's confused - death has provided more questions than answers. And he desperately misses his audacious and fiery wife, Gracie, who's expecting their first child. The only upside is that Angus has found a way to see what his murderer is up to, and how Gracie is faring. The downside: Gracie and his murderer are getting uncomfortably close, and a worldwide pandemic means the afterlife is about to get very crowded . . .'What a joy to surrender oneself to a writer of such prodigious talent' Peter Carey

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The Life and Times of Rebbetzin Rivkah: Historical Sketches , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 166min

From his early childhood onward, R. Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch heard a prodigious number of narratives chronicling early Chasidic and family history from his grandmother Rebbetzin Rivkah Schneersohn (1834 - 1914), wife of R. Shmuel Schneersohn, fourth Lubavitcher Rebbe (1834 - 1882). He recorded many of these in his diary and eventually shared them with the Chasidic community. Thus, Rebbetzin Rivkah became a critical link in the chain of Chasidic oral tradition.This installment of Historical Sketches focuses on the events of her life. We listen to her illustrious ancestry and bitter orphanhood and how, later when she became the wife of R. Shmuel of Lubavitch and daughter-in-law of the Tzemach Tzedek, she broke out of her earlier period of adversity and experienced a life of tranquility, honor, and glory, building a serene household with her distinguished husband, which was admired by all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shlomo Zacks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/209782/bk_acx0_209782_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Millionaire Next Door Summary & Analysis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 33min

The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy is a 1996 book by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko. This audiobook is a compilation of research done by the two authors in the profiles of millionaires. In this case they used the term "millionaire" to denote US households with net worths exceeding one million dollars. The authors compare the behavior of those they call UAWs (Under Accumulators of Wealth), and those who are PAWs (Prodigious Accumulators of Wealth). Their findings, that millionaires are disproportionately clustered in middle-class and blue collar neighborhoods, and not in more affluent or white-collar communities, came as a surprise to the authors - who anticipated the contrary. Stanley and Danko's audiobook explains why, noting that high-income white-collar professions are more likely to devote their income to luxury goods or status items, thus neglecting savings and investments. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Kollins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/095325/bk_acx0_095325_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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16 poems by Charles Baudelaire, Hörbuch, Digital, 25min

Charles Baudelaire is one of the greatest French poets. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du Mal(The Flowers of Evil), was deemed scandalous at the time because of its themes of sex and death, lesbianism, corruption, wine, and the oppressiveness of living. The effect on fellow artists was "immense, prodigious, unexpected, mingled with admiration and with some indefinable anxious fear", while the regime of the Second Empire had Baudelaire prosecuted and fined for his "insult to public decency". Baudelaire's style had a tremendous influence on French poetry, and also on English writers; he was a pioneering translator, and created strong ties with the Anglo-Saxon literature. We have selected for you 16 of his most striking poems, indispensable masterpieces of passion that will take your breath away: Correspondences, Exotic Perfume, The Sick Muse, The Tempation, and many others. Language: English. Narrator: Katie Haigh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cids/000515/bk_cids_000515_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 617min

In this luminous novel, Dominic Smith reinvents the life of one of photography's founding fathers. In 1839, Louis Daguerre's invention took the world by storm. A decade later, he is sinking deep into delusions brought on by exposure to mercury, the very agent that allowed his daguerreotype process. Believing the world will end within one year, he creates his "Doomsday List", 10 items he must photograph before the final day. It includes a woman he has always loved but has not seen in half a century. Paris in 1847 was a city of Bohemian excess and social unrest. Into this strange and beguiling world, Louis Daguerre sets off to capture his doomsday images, with the help of the womanizing poet Baudelaire and a beautiful prostitute named Pigeon, in this moving story of ruined love, fame unraveling, and a prodigious mind coming undone. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Hoye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001734/bk_blak_001734_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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