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    Gil Hodges: The Brooklyn Bums, the Miracle Mets, and the Extraordinary Life of a Baseball Legend , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 853min
    Due to his achievements as a player and manager, as well as his sterling character, Gil Hodges deserves to be in the Hall of Fame more than any other player. A towering figure during the Golden Era of the 1950s, Hodges was the Brooklyn Dodgers’ powerful first baseman who, alongside Jackie Robinson, helped drive his team to six pennants and a thrilling World Series victory in 1955. Fans never booed the beloved home run hitter from Indiana who married a Brooklyn girl and settled in their borough, and they famously prayed for him when he slumped. Dutifully following the Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1958, Hodges longed to return to New York City. He joined the original Mets team in 1962, and he finished his playing career with them. In 1968, he took over the manager’s spot on their bench. Under his steady hand, the Mets went from a joke to World Champions in 1969—the Miracle Mets. Yet behind his stoic demeanor lay a man prone to anxiety and worry. Hodges was scarred by combat on Tinian and Okinawa during World War II, and his inner turmoil was exacerbated by tight pennant races and excruciating defeats. His sudden death in 1972 shocked his friends and family, and left a void in the hearts of baseball fans everywhere. Acclaimed authors Tom Clavin and Danny Peary delve into one of baseball’s most overlooked stars, shedding light on a fascinating life and career that even his most ardent fans never knew. An exciting biography that paints a portrait of an amazing era of baseball as much as it does an admirable player, Gil Hodges is sure to please fans of America’s pastime. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kris Koscheski. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/007600/bk_adbl_007600_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Green Rider , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 962min
    Karigan G'ladheon always seemed to be getting into a fight, and today was no exception. But as she trudged through the forest, using her long walk home to contemplate her depressing future - and the expulsion it was bound to hold - a horse burst through the woodland and charged straight for her. The rider was slumped over his mount's neck with two arrows embedded in his back. Wherever his horse was taking him, he would be dead before they got there. There's nothing Karigan can do, as the young man lies dying on the road. He had sworn to carry out his mission as a Green Rider - one of the legendary messengers of the king - and he has a life or death message that must reach King Zachary. Karigan may be unable to save him, but she can deliver his message. He makes her swear to it, to keep it secret and, with his last breath, he warns her to 'beware the shadow man… 'Pursued by an unknown assassin, following a path only her horse seems to know, and accompanied by the silent spectre of the original messenger, Karigan is going to become a legendary Green Rider herself. Caught up in a world of deadly danger and complex magic, compelled by forces she cannot understand, her simple promise to deliver a letter is about to become a race against time… and a race for her life… Read by Ellen Archer. Ellen Archer is an acclaimed audiobook narrator and winner of a coveted Audie Award for For the Love of a Dog. Her recent audiobooks include the New York Times bestseller Smashed by Koren Zailckas, Unhooked by Laura Sessions Stepp, and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ellen Archer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000515/bk_orio_000515_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Suspicious Mimes: A Blue Suede Memphis Mystery, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 697min
    The Elvis impersonators were dead ringers for the King. Very dead. Harley Jean Davidson's job as a Memphis tour guide is about to get even stranger than usual. "Hey," she called, "last stop for all Elvi. This is it, sir. Sir?" He didn't respond, just remained in his seat on the bus, staring out the window. Maybe he'd gotten cold feet about the Elvis contest. With a sigh, Harley walked to the back. "Hey, buddy," she said when she reached his seat, "we're here. Time to go on stage and sing your heart out. Knock 'em dead." When he still didn't respond, Harley put a hand on his shoulder to give him a slight shake. He slumped forward, his head hit the back of the seat in front of him, and she jumped into the aisle. The hilt of a knife protruded from his back. She froze. This couldn't be happening. Not to him, not to her, again. She leaned closer, and the rusty smell of blood made her stomach lurch. Backing slowly away, she fumbled at her waist for the cell phone that she now kept tethered to her with a chain, and hit speed dial. The police dispatcher answered quickly. "Nine-one-one?" Harley said in a voice that sounded a lot calmer than she felt. "We have another dead Elvis." Virginia Brown is the author of more than 50 novels, including the best-selling Dixie Divas Mysteries and now, the Blue Suede Memphis Mysteries, starring Harley Jean Davidson. Look for new books in both series, coming in 2012 and 2013. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen Commins, Drew Commins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/004382/bk_acx0_004382_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Flinch Factor: A Rachel Gold Mystery, Book 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 535min
    Several years have passed since we last saw Rachel Gold. The stunning and savvy attorney was then engaged to be married. Since that time she has become a mother and a much-grieving widow, and now she is embroiled in a lost cause - the Frankenstein case - representing a blue-collar neighborhood fighting a powerful developer intent on bulldozing their homes to erect a swanky gated community. Who’s pushing her here? Her mother, of course. Rachel’s strategy will be based on a wild card: the judge on the case - a judge so wacky that he’s known to the Saint Louis bar as the Flinch Factor, as in the spawn of Judge Judy and Pee-wee Herman. Rachel has also gained a new client: Susannah, sister of Nick Moran, heartthrob of every woman whose kitchen he remodeled. Nick has been murdered, found slumped on the front seat of his pickup along an isolated lane known to the vice squad as Gay Way, his pants unzipped, a coil of rubber tubing on the seat, an empty syringe on the floor. His female groupies are stunned, to say the least - Nick gay? No way. Susannah seeks out Rachel, convinced that her brother wasn’t gay or a druggie and that his death was not an accident. Although Susannah seems the classic blindly adoring younger sister, a skeptical Rachel agrees to check it out. To her surprise, she turns up facts and witnesses suggesting that maybe, just maybe, Nick’s death was staged to look like an overdose during sex. Things then rapidly grow darker in what increasingly becomes a real Frankenstein of a case. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hillary Huber. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005703/bk_blak_005703_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: A Memoir of Humor and Healing , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 639min
    Written with humor and personality, this debut memoir recounts a woman's spiritual quest of experiencing thirty religions before her thirtieth birthday. Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome is for questioners, doubters, misfits, and seekers of all faiths, and tackles the universal struggle to heal what life has broken. On her twenty-ninth birthday, while guests were arriving downstairs, Reba Riley was supposedly upstairs getting dressed. In actuality, she was slumped on the floor sobbing about everything from the meaning of life to the pile of dirty laundry on the floor. Life without God was crashing in on her. And she was sick and tired of feeling sick and tired. She uttered a desperate prayer, and then the idea came to her—thirty by thirty. And thus she embarked on a year-long quest to experience thirty religions by her thirtieth birthday. During her spiritual sojourn, Riley: Was interrogated about her sex life by Amish grandmothers Disco danced in a Buddhist temple Fasted for thirty days without food—or wine Washed her lady parts in a mosque bathroom Was audited by Scientologists Learned to meditate with an urban monk Snuck into a Yom Kippur service with a fake grandpa in tow And finally discovered she didn't have to choose a religion to choose God In a debut memoir that is funny and earnest, Riley invites questioners, doubters, misfits, and curious believers to participate in the universal search to heal what life has broken. Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome takes you by the hand and reminds you that sometimes you first have to be lost in order to be found. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Reba Riley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007161/bk_sans_007161_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Going Down?: A Sex With Stranger Erotica Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 13min, (USK 18)
    Samantha is having a horrible day. She snags her stockings at work and then, right outside of her apartment she slips and needs to change all of her clothes. Her husband is at work, so she can't even complain about it! To top it all off, the handsome Henry helps her up only to get stuck in an elevator with her. Her luck is about to change, though, because Samantha can be very resourceful when up against a wall...and elevator wall. Warning: This audiobook contains graphic depictions of sexual activity including sex with strangers, oral sex, and rough sex. It is intended for mature readers who won't be offended by explicit descriptions of sexual activity between consenting adults. Here is a preview: She looked at his broad chest, and felt her panties grow moist. Flushed, she tried to look anywhere but at him. The only trouble was, he didn't seem to mind looking right at her with those bright blue eyes. A few moments passed and the unlikely two stood motionless in the elevator, she slumped against the metal wall, and he standing erect and tense, examining her slender body. He was certain that she could hear his heart beating furiously as his thoughts ran wild and he considered pressing his body against hers, running his hand up her neck and jaw, and kissing her full lips. The tension was building and Samantha was unable to resist any longer. She arched her neck back and bit her lip, looking at him with the most innocent expression. He stepped toward her with catlike quickness and stood mere inches from her. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vivian Lee Fox. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/017355/bk_acx0_017355_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fortune Favors the Dead
    "Razor-sharp style, tons of flair, a snappy sense of humor, and all the most satisfying elements of a really good noir novel, plus plenty of original twists of its own."-Tana French A wildly charming and fast-paced mystery written with all the panache of the hardboiled classics, Fortune Favors the Dead introduces Pentecost and Parker, an audacious new detective duo for the ages. It's 1942 and Willowjean "Will" Parker is a scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of New York's best, and most unorthodox, private investigator, Lillian Pentecost. When the dapper detective summons Will a few days later, she doesn't expect to be offered a life-changing proposition: Lillian's multiple sclerosis means she can't keep up with her old case load alone, so she wants to hire Will to be her right-hand woman. In return, Will is to receive a salary, room and board, and training in Lillian's very particular art of investigation. Three years later, Will and Lillian are on the Collins case: Abigail Collins was found bludgeoned to death with a crystal ball following a big, boozy Halloween party at her home-her body slumped in the same chair where her steel magnate husband shot himself the year before. With rumors flying that Abigail was bumped off by the vengeful spirit of her husband (who else could have gotten inside the locked room?), the family has tasked the detectives with finding answers where the police have failed. But that's easier said than done in a case that involves messages from the dead, a seductive spiritualist, and Becca Collins-the beautiful daughter of the deceased, who Will quickly starts falling for. When Will and Becca's relationship dances beyond the professional, Will finds herself in dangerous territory, and discovers she may have become the murderer's next target.
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    Tell Me Lies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 630min
    Fans of Lee Child and David Baldacci will be gripped by this heart-racing FBI thriller from best-selling author Ed James.Megan Holliday opens her eyes and finds herself slumped on her doorstep. The last thing she remembers is being in the car with her two kids. She sees a handwritten note on her lap - Don’t call the police. It’s then that she realizes her car is missing, and her children are gone....Leading the FBI’s Child Abduction Rapid Deployment team, FBI agent Max Carter will stop at nothing to find children taken from their families. After all, he was once one of those taken children, so he knows exactly what’s at stake. When he hears that a young senator’s two children have been abducted and their mother left for dead, he races to the Holliday family home in Washington State.Facing a wall of police cruisers and blacked-out SUVs, Carter quickly uncovers the facts. Megan Holliday was ambushed by a man with a gun as she returned home from taking her kids out for ice cream. Bound and drugged, the attacker left her unconscious on the doorstep with the sinister note on her lap.As Senator Christopher Holliday walks through the halls of the US Federal Building in Seattle, his phone beeps with an alert. Frustrated by the interruption, he takes a cursory glance and is horrified by the image on the screen - his two children, Brandon and Avery, unconscious. The message he gets simply reads, Meet me or they die.When Agent Carter tries to make contact with the busy senator, it seems the politician has gone missing, fleeing from the Federal Building and abandoning his distraught wife. If Carter knows one thing, it’s that Holliday has something to hide. And he just became Carter’s prime suspect. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jared Hendrickson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/178779/bk_acx0_178779_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hunter's Game: An Alex Hunter Story: Hunter's Saga, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 68min
    Book one of the Hunter's Home Anthology. Newly edited and updated!As Alex Hunter watched in outrage through the scope of his rifle, a large uniformed man threw his mother from the porch of their homestead and into the yard. She landed hard, kicking up dust from the hard-packed earth. She gathered herself quickly as the man walked down the steps and stood over her. She made it to her knees, hands raised imploringly to the man.Outrage quickly became boiling anger as he watched his mom’s rough treatment. He could see her pleading with the man as he approached to stand over her. His face was a mask of rage as he glared down at her. The man, the leader of this group at a guess, barked a few short angry seeming words down at his mother in reply. The next instant, Alex's hot anger became sickening horror as the man quickly stepped back and drew his sidearm.With no hesitation, the muzzle flashed and Alex heard the distant report of the chemical-powered pistol that ended his mother’s life. His horror became unthinking shock as his mother’s body slumped to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut. This couldn’t be happening.“What? Why?”Alex’s head was spinning incoherently as the man holstered his weapon and started barking orders to his people. They immediately started to fan out to search the barn and the surrounding area. Shock became stone-cold rage. Alex watched the leader turn and start walking toward the house.Something cold and dark was swelling in Alex’s chest. The man was just crossing the threshold back into the house when his head exploded in a fine red mist. The cold eyes of a killer looked out at the world from Alex’s face as he jacked the next round into the chamber.Hunter's Game is the first book in the Hunter's Saga series. A work of military science fiction by Art DeForest. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Art DeForest. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/203489/bk_acx0_203489_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Killing President Lincoln , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 33min
    Have you ever wanted to know more about history, but don't have time for the long version? This book brings you a short account of the Lincoln Assassination. In less than 60 minutes you will meet the key players, learn the pertinent facts of Booth's plot, and discover the fate of the individual conspirators. Lincoln's bodyguard that night was John Parker, an undistinguished Washington, D.C. policeman. Parker was supposed to be stationed in the little passageway outside of the entrance to the Presidential Box guarding Lincoln. Apparently Parker abandoned his post several times during the performance, once to watch the play from the first gallery, and after the intermission he disappeared altogether with Lincoln's footman and coachman to visit a nearby tavern. As a result, the Presidential Box was left unattended when Booth arrived. Booth crept in through the unguarded door. After entering the passageway to the Presidential Box, he grabbed the block of wood Spangler left there for him, and barred the doorway shut. From there he moved down the passageway, coming upon the two doors to the box Lincoln was in. At 10:20 PM Booth peeked in through the door with his Derringer raised and leveled. He fired a ball into the back of President Lincoln's head. Lincoln slumped forward, motionless. Inside the box it was clouded with white smoke from the powder and shot. Mary Lincoln let out a screech when she realized what happened. Major Henry A. Rathbone jumped to his feet and began struggling with Booth. Booth lashed out at him with his dagger. He thrust at Rathbone's heart. Moving quickly Rathbone parried the blow with his arm. The dagger dug several inches deep into his arm, and tore into his chest. Booth broke free and attempted to escape. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Rieman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/028562/bk_acx0_028562_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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