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  Lea , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 466min

  A tender, impassioned and unforgettable story of a father's love and a daughter's ambition in the wake of devastating tragedy. It all starts with the death of Martijn van Vliet's wife. His grief-stricken young daughter, Lea, cuts herself off from the world, lost in the darkness of grief. Then she hears the unfamiliar sound of a violin playing in the hall of a train station, and she is brought back to life. Transfixed by a busker playing Bach, Lea emerges from her mourning, vowing to learn the instrument. And her father, witnessing this delicate spark, promises to do everything and anything in his power to keep her happy. Lea grows into an extraordinary musical talent - her all-consuming passion leads her to become one of the finest players in the country - but as her fame blossoms, her relationship with her father withers. Unable to keep her close, he inadvertently pushes Lea deeper and deeper into this newfound independence, and, desperate to hold on to his daughter, Martin is driven to commit an act that threatens to destroy them both. A revelatory portrait of genius and madness, Lea delves into the demands of artistic excellence as well as the damaging power of jealousy and sacrifice. Mercier has crafted a novel of intense clarity, illuminating the poignant ways we strive to understand ourselves and our families. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/003254/bk_boli_003254_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Clashes of Kings and Emperors Claiming the Crown , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 261min

  On the horizons of many warring tribes, Roman warriors, knights from chivalric orders, and the devoted penniless appeared on a divine mission ready to conquer with an appetite for destruction, salvation, and a higher purpose. Pax Romana. Had the world ever seen the magnitude of empires as it did in the Roman Empires that would unhinge themselves from their very foundation in their attempt to dominate over kings, lords, and tribes? What caused the Romans to proclaim themselves worthy of answering a seemingly providential call to spread the Roman way? This is the story of their shifting identity over the course of a mind-boggling history in their steep ascents and defiant schisms transfixed with glory and virtue that lasted for thousands of years. It is the story of Rome's lingering origin and Rome's spirit of conquest as their enemies encircled them. The perilous protection they would offer to a papacy, besieged by perpetual land grabs of powerful nobles and distant tribes, was often compromised by their own faults, negligence and the nature of where their empire stopped and their Romanness began. They fought their own with just as much fervor as those who appeared at their fronts. Did their very spirit and ascent imperil that which united them, dividing them, as the world around them embraced or rejected their very foundation? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kenneth Maxon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/068279/bk_acx0_068279_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Zone One: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 597min

  In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuild­ing civilization under orders from the provisional govern­ment based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street - aka Zone One - but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected, teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out a more innocuous variety - the “malfunctioning” stragglers, who exist in a catatonic state, transfixed by their former lives. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams work­ing in lower Manhattan. Alternating between flashbacks of Spitz’s desperate fight for survival during the worst of the outbreak and his present narrative, the novel unfolds over three surreal days, as it depicts the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and the impossible job of coming to grips with the fallen world. And then things start to go wrong. Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One bril­liantly subverts the genre’s conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Beresford Bennett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002797/bk_rand_002797_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  American Legends: The Life of Sharon Tate , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 78min

  A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In 1969, things were looking up for one of Hollywood's most marketable actresses. After appearing as a model in fashion magazines and having bit parts on shows during the early part of the decade, Sharon Tate was a star in the making. That summer, she was pregnant with her first child by director Roman Polanski, who had just recently become her husband, and a few months earlier, she had just finished filming The Thirteen Chairs, co-starring Orson Welles. Tragically, superstardom would never come, and even today, over 45 years later, most details of Sharon's life and career are completely overlooked by people who continue to be morbidly curious about her murder at the hands of the Manson Family on August 9, 1969. The murders committed by Charlie Manson's followers transfixed America, and Tate has been inextricably linked to one of 20th century America's most notorious criminals. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/080605/bk_acx0_080605_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Empty Horizon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 46min

  Paul Terence Carney won the Live Canon first collection prize with this extraordinary sequence of poems, written in the voice of Roisin - a children's writer losing her sight. Poet Barbara Marsh comments on Paul's work: "Paul Carney's poetry is airborne, delicately balanced between soaring, full flight and hovering just above ground. In his striking debut collection, we move through currents of the imagination of both the poet and the narrator-character of these poems, Roisin, a writer of children's books, as she navigates her way through the changing vista of her increasingly impaired vision. She fleshes out her fictional world, creating, in the publisher she has never met, a desired figure to share her solidary life. The detail is rich and fresh, the language moving and surprising. These are poems envisioned through the acute eye of an illustrator; Carney keeps the reader aloft, transfixed on the image."Paul's work has previous been published in Acumen, Poetry London and Live Canon's anthologies. Many poems in this collection were were part of Paul's Final Portfolio for his Master's Degree in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmith's College, University of London, which received the Pat Kavanagh Award, given by United Agents in conjunction with Goldsmith's. "Rich and detailed...exhilarating skill...I keep noticing Paul Carney's poems, and I believe you will, too." (Glyn Maxwell, judging the 2016 Poetry London Competition) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicole Bird, Simon Muller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124707/bk_acx0_124707_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  My Kind of Man: HeavyLoad! Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 438min

  Michael knows what he wants. He wants a daddy.When yet another attempt at a relationship fails, Michael decides to find himself his daddy. The one man that will care for him, nurture him, and love him for who he is. Twenty-six years old and successful in his career, Michael knows he’s missing out on life. He’s a quiet, introverted man with desires that seem too far out of his reach. Until he goes to Escape, one night.Callum is tired of being lonely. He has everything to offer the right man. When 40-year-old Callum is encouraged to visit Escape, his hopes are high, but his expectancy of finding the perfect man is low...until he sees a young man nervously looking around the club. Everything about him ticks Callum’s boxes. Shorter than his six-foot frame with blond curls that cry out to be stroked and a look of anxious longing on his face. Callum is transfixed. With only a few words exchanged, the two men are hooked, eager to explore everything they have ever dreamed of. Is this a life they can fulfill, or will they find too many obstacles in their way? My Kind of Man is an MM romance, with an age gap, a very caring daddy, and a boy who craves it. Mild domination/ submission with ABDL and full to the brim with love. This book was previously released as by AG Silver. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Solon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/192537/bk_acx0_192537_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Maybe a Miracle: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 759min

  In this disarming debut, Brian Strause has written a vastly entertaining novel about an American family transfixed by a series of mysterious events. From a comfortable suburb of Columbus, Ohio, emerges a story of rebellion, faith, and hope, bridging the cultural gap between those who believe in miracles and those who wish they could. Monroe Anderson, as quiet on the outside as he is sardonic and alive on the inside, has spent most of his 18 years trying to fly beneath the radar. If he can remain invisible, he believes, his sadistic older brother, a rising golf star, might not torment him, his workaholic father, a renowned litigator, might not notice him long enough to be disappointed, and his mother might not have to struggle so hard to find a hopeful word. The only people who glimpse the real Monroe are his girlfriend, Emily, and his 11-year-old sister, Annika.On the night of his senior prom, Monroe finds Annika floating facedown in the family pool. He dives in and rescues her, but not quickly enough to prevent her from slipping into a coma. As the family copes with this crisis, Monroe's mother turns to religion, his father turns to liquor, and Monroe himself must decide what's worth believing in, what's worth fighting for, and, finally, who he wants to be.By turns humorous and heartbreaking, personal and sweeping, familiar and extraordinary, Brian Strause's mesmerizing novel takes listeners on an unforgettable emotional journey into America's heartland. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jesse Berns. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000564/bk_bkot_000564_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 889min

  What happens when a society is run by people who are antisocial? Welcome to baby boomer America. In A Generation of Sociopaths, Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity. A former partner in a leading venture capital firm, Gibney examines the disastrous policies of the most powerful generation in modern history, showing how the boomers ruthlessly enriched themselves at the expense of future generations. Acting without empathy, prudence, or respect for facts - acting, in other words, as sociopaths - the boomers turned American dynamism into stagnation, inequality, and bipartisan fiasco. The boomers have set a time bomb for the 2030s, when damage to Social Security, public finances, and the environment will become catastrophic and possibly irreversible - and when, not coincidentally, boomers will be dying off. Gibney, whose 2011 essay "What Happened to the Future?" transfixed the investment world, argues that younger generations have a fleeting window to hold the boomers accountable and begin restoring America. Distilling deep research into a witty, colorful indictment of the boomers and an urgent defense of the once-unquestioned value of society, A Generation of Sociopaths is poised to become one of the most controversial books of the year. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wayne Pyle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/002999/bk_hach_002999_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Tales of Al (eBook, ePUB)

  From the author of Swimming to Antarctica ("Thrilling, vivid, and lyrical"-Oliver Sacks) and Grayson ("Wondrous, unforgettable"-Carl Hiaasen)-the moving, inspiring story of Al, the ungainly, unruly, irresistible Newfoundland puppy who grows up to become a daring rescue dog-part of Italy's elite, highly specialized corps of water rescue dogs who swoop out of helicopters and save lives. Lynne Cox, internationally famous for swimming the world's most difficult waterways without a wet suit, and able to endure water temperatures so cold that they would kill anyone else, recognizes and celebrates all forms of athleticism in others, human or otherwise. And when she saw a video of a Newfoundland dog leaping from an airborne helicopter into Italian waters to save someone from drowning, Cox was transfixed by the rescue, and captivated by the magnificence, physicality, and daring of the dog. Tales of Al is the moving, inspiring story of Cox's adventures on Italy's picturesque Lake Idroscalo, as witness to the rigorous training of one of these spectacular dogs at SICS, the famed school that has taught hundreds of dog owners how to train their dogs-Newfoundlands, German shepherds, and golden retrievers-for this rescue operation. Cox writes about coming to know the dog at the book's center, Al herself, from puppyhood, an adorable but untrainable chocolate Newfoundland-about the dreams, expectations, disappointments, and vision of her trainer and about realizing the dog's full potential; striving with all of her canine might to become an expertly trained, highly specialized water rescue dog.

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  Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog

  From the author of Swimming to Antarctica ("Thrilling, vivid, and lyrical"-Oliver Sacks) and Grayson ("Wondrous, unforgettable"-Carl Hiaasen)-the moving, inspiring story of Al, the ungainly, unruly, irresistible Newfoundland puppy who grows up to become a daring rescue dog-part of Italy's elite, highly specialized corps of water rescue dogs who swoop out of helicopters and save lives. Lynne Cox, internationally famous for swimming the world's most difficult waterways without a wet suit, and able to endure water temperatures so cold that they would kill anyone else, recognizes and celebrates all forms of athleticism in others, human or otherwise. And when she saw a video of a Newfoundland dog leaping from an airborne helicopter into Italian waters to save someone from drowning, Cox was transfixed by the rescue, and captivated by the magnificence, physicality, and daring of the dog. Tales of Al is the moving, inspiring story of Cox's adventures on Italy's picturesque Lake Idroscalo, as witness to the rigorous training of one of these spectacular dogs at SICS, the famed school that has taught hundreds of dog owners how to train their dogs-Newfoundlands, German shepherds, and golden retrievers-for this rescue operation. Cox writes about coming to know the dog at the book's center, Al herself, from puppyhood, an adorable but untrainable chocolate Newfoundland-about the dreams, expectations, disappointments, and vision of her trainer and about realizing the dog's full potential; striving with all of her canine might to become an expertly trained, highly specialized water rescue dog.

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