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Cold City: A Repairman Jack Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 676min
If you've never read a Repairman Jack novel, this is the place to begin. It's 1990. A twenty-one-year-old named Jack has dropped out of college, leaving his old life behind to build a new one in New York City. Manhattan's rough edges are jagged enough to shred any unwary newcomer, but perhaps not one who is determined to stay off the grid, at any cost, in the busiest metropolis on earth. And to do so, he'll have to take jobs of a less than legal nature. An interstate smuggling operation seems to fit the bill perfectly. But Jack's initial foray into the trafficking of illicit goods carries greater risk than he bargained for, putting him afoul of a preteen slavery ring, a group of jihadists, and a pair of vigilante brothers. As if those problems weren't enough, Jack is hunted by some machete-wielding maniacs, and his bartender Julio is harassed by the mob. How these things are linked, and what they have to do with the murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane in Manhattan's East Side Marriott, is a mystery Jack cannot let go of. Cold City is the first of three new novels revealing the early years of one of the most popular characters in contemporary fiction: a self-styled "fix-it" man who is no stranger to the macabre or the bizarre, hired by victimized people who have nowhere else to turn. This is where he begins the metamorphosis from a naïve New Jersey refugee into the urban mercenary known as Repairman Jack. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexander Cendese. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004471/bk_brll_004471_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Phantom Evil, Hörbuch, Digital, 341min
A secret government unit is formed under the oversight of Adam Harrison, famed paranormal investigator. The six members he’s gathered know a little of the otherworldly — each has honed a psychic talent of their own. Jackson Crow, part English, part Cheyenne, heads the group. Haunted by his experience with an ancestral ghost who saved his life as a child, and the recent murders of two previous teammates, Jackson can’t tell if Adam’s demoted him or given him an extraordinary opportunity. Despite his link to the realm of spirits, he’s well aware that the living commit the most heinous crimes, with spiritualist charlatans existing merely to fool and seduce the unwary. To counterbalance Jackson’s careful skepticism, Adam Harrison has paired him with Angela Hawkins, a young woman who learned the painful lesson of loss at an early age. A police officer using her paranormal intuition in Virginia, she already has her hands full. But Adam’s call to New Orleans is strong. The case: In a historic mansion in New Orleans’ French Quarter, a senator’s wife falls to her death from a balcony. Most think she jumped, distraught over the loss of her young son. Some say she was pushed. And yet others believe she was beckoned by the ghostly spirits that inhabit the house — once the site of a serial killer’s grisly work. Whether supernatural or all too human, crimes of passion, greed and desire will cast the pair into danger of losing their lives... and their immortal souls. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey Cummings. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/002849/bk_brll_002849_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Stainer: A Novel of the 'Me Decade' , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 640min
A coming-of-age tale set in 1975 New York during Tom Wolfe's "Me Decade", Stainer follows the misadventures of a naïve Jewish Columbia University student named Benjamin Steiner, who, on the night of his 21st birthday, meets not only the sweet girl of his dreams, a lovely young lady named Rebecca Glaser, but also an unprincipled drug-loving rogue from Princeton called P. T. Deighland. As the days pass, Ben's immature inability to resist temptation and an overwhelming need to be "cool" gradually cause him to fall under Deighland's malign influence until, at an impossibly glitzy Princeton party, he encounters and becomes spellbound by a ravishing but predatory high-fashion model named Anthea Montague. When Rebecca returns from an unexpected overseas trip, Benjamin's unreasoning jealousy over her friendship with another boy casts a shadow on their budding relationship. A series of rashly imprudent decisions abetted by Deighland and the model leave Ben feeling guilty and angry. At an ill-fated summer barbeque, he wrongly explodes at Rebecca and soon plunges headlong into a reckless self-destructive downward spiral, culminating in a horrific confrontation with Anthea Montague that brings his life crashing down in ruins. Against the background of a vanished period in American history, Stainer offers a bittersweet nostalgic trip back to a less complex world, during a time of incautious excesses that, while deceptively fun and carefree, in due course forced many unwary youngsters like Benjamin Steiner to learn some necessary - but terribly painful - lessons about growing up. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Boucher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094377/bk_acx0_094377_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Echo Chamber
'The funniest book I've read in ages. Savage but compelling' Ian Rankin'A fearless romp with big laughs along the way' Graham Norton'Funny, rumbustious, unstinting and wonderfully Hogarthian' The Observer'His relish is infectious' Times_____________________________What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept.The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a 'national treasure' (his words), his wife Beverley, a celebrated novelist (although not as celebrated as she would like), and their children, Nelson, Elizabeth, Achilles, various degrees of catastrophe waiting to happen.Together they will go on a journey of discovery through the Hogarthian jungle of the modern living where past presumptions count for nothing and carefully curated reputations can be destroyed in an instant. Along the way they will learn how volatile, how outraged, how unforgiving the world can be when you step from the proscribed path.Powered by John Boyne's characteristic humour and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity and oblivion. To err is maybe to be human but to really foul things up you only need a phone.'Sharp, funny, and beautifully written, but it's also a brilliant reflection on the landscape we now live in' Sunday Times bestselling author, Joanna Cannon- Shop: buecher
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Divergence: The Heritage Universe, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 550min
For millennia, humankind and the other intelligent races have studied the bizarre and unfathomable constructs of the legendary beings known as the Builders. But for all that study, they are still no closer to figuring out who - or what - the Builders have been, or where they have gone. Then, on the world called Quake, in the midst of the violent planetary upheaval that is Summertide, a small group of humans and aliens witness the culmination of all those years of watching and waiting: the planet Quake opens up, and something comes out - and it looks as if, at long last, the discovery of the Builders themselves is at hand. All her life, Darya Lang has dreamed of finding the Builders, whose artifacts she has single-handedly cataloged for the rest of the universe. Troubleshooter and adventurer Hans Rebka has his own dreams of unraveling the mystery of those artifacts. To Louis Nenda and the Cecropian Atvar H'sial, the Builder artifacts represent a once-in-a-lifetime shot at untold wealth. And close behind them come the others: Councilor Julius Graves, who does not trust anyone else to make first contact unassisted; the slaves J'merlia and Kallik, who crave only a reunion with their masters; and the embodied computer E.C. Tally, charged with finding out just what the rest are up to. The trail that begins at Quake leads to unexpected Builder artifacts full of traps for the unwary and answers for those who know how to ask the questions. But the biggest question of all will remain an enigma, while their search unleashes the greatest threat to civilization ever imagined... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Geoffrey Howard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000536/bk_blak_000536_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The History and Folklore of Vampires: The Stories and Legends Behind the Mythical Beings , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 81min
People have always been afraid of the dead. Since the dawn of humanity, people have both cared for those who are deceased yet also tried to keep them away. There are a myriad of legends and beliefs about the dead coming back, and one of the more persistent ones is of the vampire. Everyone has heard of vampires, but few people are truly familiar with the history and folklore that have made the mythical beings so popular. Indeed, there are so many legends from so many cultures that it is difficult to come up with a hard definition. And folklore is by its very nature unscientific, but most people in the Western world think of vampires as those who come back from the grave to suck the blood or life essence from the living. This common understanding of vampires actually obscures many European and most non-European traditions of bloodsucking monsters. For example, in China, Japan, and the Middle East, there are spirits that will drain the life force of an unwary person, but these magical beings were never mortal humans. In African and Native American traditions, there are monsters that do the same, but while they are supposed to be of this Earth, they, too, are not human beings. Furthermore, folklore changes over time, so the vampires people are familiar with today (and the ones some people claim to actually meet) bear little resemblance to the vampires of early modern Europe. Stories change, fiction turns to fact and vice versa, and beliefs are constantly reinvented. Ideas are adopted, adapted, and presented as true. All the while the legend of the vampire remains. The History and Folklore of Vampires chronicles how vampires became so popular. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Chekijian. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/033067/bk_acx0_033067_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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You Can Be Debt Free , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 45min
Learn how to control you debt and rebuild your finances with this expertly written and timely audiobook. Discover how the system preys on the unwary and vulnerable, and learn how to recognise the warning signs and avoid the pitfalls that lead to unnecessary debt. This easy to follow guide will firstly help you, chapter by chapter, to recognise what's causing your problems, then encourage you to change your habits and finally help put you on a path to restoring your finances. Credit card debt, mortgage debt, secured and unsecured debts are amongst the many topics that are covered in this informative presentation. Now's the time to take back control and we invite you to take advantage of this timely production. The advice in this book is United Kingdom specific. "A man is walking down a street when he falls into a hole. The sides are so deep that he can't get out. A doctor passes by and the man in the hole shouts up 'Hey can you help me out?' and the doctor writes out a prescription, throws it down into the hole and moves on. Then a priest comes along and the guy shouts out, 'Father I'm down in this hole, can you help me out?' the priest writes out a prayer, throws it down the hole and moves on. Then a friend walks by. 'Hey Joe, it's me. Can you help me out?' And the friend jumps in the hole. Our guy says 'Are you stupid? Now we're both down here.' The friend says 'Yeah, but I've been in this hole before and I know the way out.' Photograph by Stockbyte/Getty images ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: uncredited. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/soba/000008/bk_soba_000008_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Mysterious Traveler: Dark Destiny, Hörbuch, Digital, 658min
He takes the same train every week at this time, with tales to thrill you a little and chill you a little! Here's Maurice Tarplin as The Mysterious Traveler, your sardonic seatmate on the fast track to mystery! Rushing you headlong into mistrust, misdeeds, and murder are Phillip Clarke, Staats Cotsworth, Sandra Gould, Santos Ortega, Joseph Julian, Elspeth Eric, Cameron Prud'Homme, and Raymond Edward Johnson, playing the parts of the unwise, the unwary, and the undone. Plus, also from the team of David Kogan and Robert Arthur, enjoy six bonus episodes of The Strange Dr. Weird. Episodes include: Mysterious Traveler: The House of Death 01-30-44; The Good Die Young 02-27-44; The Accusing Corpse 04-16-44; The Queen of the Cats 07-02-44; They Who Sleep 01-06-45; The Case of Charles Foster 03-10-45; Death Is the Visitor 08-25-46; The Symphony of Death 09-08-46; New Year's Nightmare 01-05-47; The Woman in Black 03-09-47; Dark, Dark Destiny 04-13-47; Death Is the Judge 06-15-47; The Locomotive Ghost 07-06-47; Death Is My Caller 10-21-47; The Man Who Died Twice 02-24-48; They Struck it Rich 03-16-48; The Man Who Vanished 07-06-48; Till Death Do Us Part 11-11-48; Survival of the Fittest 01-10-50; The Man Who Tried to Save Lincoln 02-07-50. Strange Dr. Weird: Journey Into the Unknown 11-21-44; Death in the Everglades 11-28-44; The Man Who Talked With Death 12-12-44; Stand-In for Death 12-26-44; The Knife of Death 02-20-45; When Killers Meet 04-10-45. Language: English. Narrator: Phillip Clarke, Staats Cotsworth, Sandra Gould. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/radi/001216/rt_radi_001216_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Chain of Gold: The Last Hours , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1282min
Includes “Fairy Tale of London”, a bonus short story featuring Will and Tessa!Number one New York Times best seller “A pure distillation of fantasy’s enchanting mirror held up to our own truths.” (Entertainment Weekly) “Richly imagined...rife with action, intrigue, and smoldering romance.” (Publishers Weekly)From number one New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Cassandra Clare comes the first novel in a brand-new trilogy where evil hides in plain sight and love cuts deeper than any blade. Chain of Gold is a Shadowhunters novel.Cordelia Carstairs is a Shadowhunter, a warrior trained since childhood to battle demons. When her father is accused of a terrible crime, she and her brother travel to London in hopes of preventing the family’s ruin. Cordelia’s mother wants to marry her off, but Cordelia is determined to be a hero rather than a bride. Soon Cordelia encounters childhood friends James and Lucie Herondale and is drawn into their world of glittering ballrooms, secret assignations, and supernatural salons, where vampires and warlocks mingle with mermaids and magicians. All the while, she must hide her secret love for James, who is sworn to marry someone else.But Cordelia’s new life is blown apart when a shocking series of demon attacks devastate London. These monsters are nothing like those Shadowhunters have fought before - these demons walk in daylight, strike down the unwary with incurable poison, and seem impossible to kill. London is immediately quarantined. Trapped in the city, Cordelia and her friends discover that their own connection to a dark legacy has gifted them with incredible powers - and forced a brutal choice that will reveal the true cruel price of being a hero. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Finty Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/009205/bk_sans_009205_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Korian: The Manian's Spear: The Korian Dark Fantasy Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 816min
A stunning blend of mysticism, myth, nature, and adventure. We all have a dark side. His destroys worlds.Endura is a wondrous world full of mystery and magic. Its citizens - humans and firstlings, a docile humanoid species - are just as wondrous, having no propensity in their nature for hatred, malice, and wrath. In the early new age, a human boy is drawn to a mysterious eight-foot, rectangular-shaped metal object in the desert. Centuries later, an ancient evil emerges from Endura’s underbelly, unleashing a sea of animated corpses, slaves to a shadowy dark figure wielding power over darkness. Two events separated temporally and spatially, but linked, plunge Endura into a dark fate. The vulnerable races, with no capacity for conflict and violence, have no way to resist such wickedness. The gods devise an elaborate scheme and gift the races the Azura: a super-being foretold to restore balance to the spirit world. But under the weight of evil’s influence, even divine plans can go astray.One last hope, hidden in the dying breath of an old sorcerer, thrusts a legacy upon three unwary outcasts: Doric, Will, and Korian. Each boy is hurled into torture, isolation, and segregation, with only themselves and the spirit of love, longing, and hope to drive them. Mysterious guides, a portal, an enchanted spear, epic battles, and betrayal await them as they look to solve the mystery behind the Azura and the metal object. Its truth is a double-edged sword: the key to salvation on one side, a path to ruin on the other. The boys must outwit the shadowy figure, learn the secret to the Azura’s power, and figure a way around their passive nature to mount a resistance - before there won't be anything left to save.Korian: The Manian's Spear is good for young adult and adult listeners. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aaron Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/230616/bk_acx0_230616_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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