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    Sleeper 13 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 799min
    Smuggled to the Middle East as a child. Trained as one of the most elite insurgents of his generation.  Forced to do things no one should, for a cause he couldn't believe in.  But as his brothers were preparing to kill, he was looking for a way out.  Now, on the eve of the deadliest coordinated attacks the world has ever seen, he'll finally get his chance.  He will break free and hunt down those who made him a monster.  He must draw on all his training to survive. He is Sleeper 13. Sleeper 13 is a fast-paced thriller filled with twists and turns and intrigue that will appeal to fans of big-hitting thrillers such as Nomad, Orphan X, The Bourne Identity and globe-trotting spy thriller I Am Pilgrim. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Thorpe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/001289/bk_orio_001289_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    My Mother's War (eBook, ePUB)
    The extraordinary story of Sabine Zuur, a beautiful, young Dutch resistance fighter who spent over two years in three concentration camps during World War Two, told by her daughter using an astonishing archive of personal letters After her mother's death, Eva Taylor discovered an astounding collection of documents, photos and letters from her time as a resistance fighter in Nazi-occupied Holland. Using the letters, she reconstructed her mother's experience in the underground resistance movement and then as a prisoner in the Amersfoort, Ravensbruck and Mauthausen concentration camps. The letters reveal an amazing story of life during wartime, including declarations of love from her fiancé before his tragic death as a Spitfire pilot, prison notes smuggled out in her laundry, and passionate but sometimes terrifying messages from a German professional criminal who ultimately would save Sabine's life. A one-of-a-kind story of survival, My Mother's War captures a remarkable life in the words of the young woman who lived it.
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    The Rescuer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 101min
    In 1941, a young Harvard-educated classicist named Varian Fry arrived in occupied France on a daring mission to rescue more than 2,000 of Europe's leading writers, artists, and intellectuals from the Nazis. Hounded by the Gestapo, he smuggled Marchel Duchamp, Marc Chagall, Hannah Arendt and dozens of other 20th century cultural luminaries out of France and brought them to America. So why did even the people Fry saved want to forget him? In this fascinating psychological profile, acclaimed novelist Dara Horn, chosen by Granta magazine as one of the 25 best young novelists in America, follows the peculiar life and legacy of an American Oskar Schindler. In the process, she reveals the secrets of a man who risked his life when others were silent - and the unforeseen consequences, personal and cultural, of his bravery. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Diane Piron-Gelman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019669/bk_adbl_019669_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Beyond the Higher Ground , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 737min
    Tasked with an assignment to manage the construction of a prison on a remote Appalachian mountaintop, Tucker Mason sees an opportunity to restart his life past the death of his wife and the recurring demons of his childhood. But strange occurrences at the house that he rented on Bright's Mountain and the suspicion of drugs being smuggled through the prison construction site create distractions that lead to violence, intrigue, and his own imperilment.Struggling under the weight of loss and guilt, he encounters a world that he never knew existed in the shadow of the emerging prison. With a unique perspective on the human condition, Beyond the Higher Ground takes its listener through a historical glimpse of Southwestern Virginia to a powerful exposition of the drug crisis that has devastated the region and the abject brutality of those who deliver it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack de Golia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/182102/bk_acx0_182102_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Beyond Blue , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 463min
    Beyond Blue features a team of unique and intriguing detectives whose only purpose is to help police officers in trouble. The story follows four of the agency's cases, which overlap and intersect: An undercover officer is in danger of really being drawn into a life of crime; a crooked lawyer is destroying police careers by making arresting officers appear to have violated criminals' rights; a cop's wife accuses him of abusing their daughter; and a retired police detective could lose his job in airport security because of drugs being smuggled in through JFK International. Pursuing these cases is a team of unique and intriguing detectives. The agency's director, the enigmatic Paul Gorman, sits at the center of the action, pulling the strings to direct his team to solve their cases and cover each other. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Allan Callaway. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/080580/bk_acx0_080580_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Steel Angel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 318min
    Adam Rait just wants to guide his crew across the state of Texas, deliver his cargo, and get paid. But his convoy is almost immediately joined by mysterious Mexican travelers - the beautiful and mysterious Angel de Acera and her brother, Bernal. When Kurt Hanover, the man running the deal and Rait's employer is murdered, Rait is left wondering what he should do with an entire wagon train of smuggled arms?The Confederate army wants to get their hands on the guns but so do the Mexican royalists and the Mexican Juaristas - revolutionaries who want to take their country back.Rait and his crew make a new deal, but nothing goes as planned, and they soon find themselves on the run, with crazed soldiers and devious spies at every turn. And who is this mysterious Angela de Acera, this angel of steel, and what does she want from Rait? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Ferrone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/011890/bk_blak_011890_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Backstrap: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 453min
    Can you redeem your life in a corrupt world? That's the question for Callie Byrne, a street savvy Iraq vet recently out of drug rehab for heroin addiction, trying to reignite her life and regain custody of her son. Bartending in Philadelphia when a friend gets entangled with her ex-dealer, Callie must navigate the underground world of drug and sex trafficking between the jungles of Guatemala and a shady Manhattan leather import business. When she meets Ixchel, a young Mayan woman who wants to be smuggled to the US, there are no easy answers and no easy way out. Backstrap is a morally complex tale of the ordinary and harrowing decisions that define the lives of two young women connected across America's borders and struggling with their own guilty pasts, dreams of a new life, and the acts of sacrifice required of them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Holly Hudson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/085345/bk_acx0_085345_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 366min
    In Dorothy Gilman’s best-selling mystery series, loveable grandmother Emily Pollifax has captured the hearts of millions with her secret CIA missions. Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist whisks the gray-haired agent into a perilous web of intrigue that spreads across the drifting sands of the volatile Middle East. An old CIA friend, Farrell, must collect an inflammatory manuscript smuggled out of Iraq into Jordan. Farrell has a simple request for Emily—provide cover during his trip to Jordan by posing as his fun-loving elderly cousin. But before the plane even lands, danger begins stalking the sprightly Mrs. Pollifax. Outwitting her wily opponents with her keen eye for the truth and her impeccable karate, Mrs. Pollifax is the lively senior citizen everyone dreams of someday becoming. You’ll feel you know the aging spy and her colorful opponents personally with Barbara Rosenblat’s outstanding narration. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/005982/bk_reco_005982_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Storm Rising , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 502min
    It is 2012 and the United States is at war in three middle-eastern countries after a second terrorist attack on our homeland. Perry Ambrose is an embedded reporter covering the Iran campaign. When Perry tries to convince WNN to go live with his video of the brutal mutiny shootout, he is rebuked after the President warns WNN to squelch the story. Six months later, Perry is a broken man who has been blackballed from media employment except for scant assignments with fringe paparazzi magazines. After blowing an interview with Claire Minton, the nation's first legitimate third party presidential candidate, Perry becomes enthralled with the female gulf war veteran and her grass roots party, the Heartlanders. Perry is so moved by Minton's cry for revolution that he approaches her, offering to provide a smuggled video of the Tehran mutiny. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Foley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bimo/000599/bk_bimo_000599_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fatal Odds: A Novel: A Knight and Devlin Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 667min
    Danger escalates as Michael Knight and Lex Devlin enter into the defense of a Puerto Rican jockey charged with felony murder as a result of a fixed race at Boston's Suffolk Downs. As their investigation exposes the jockey's role, they become embroiled in a conflict between two Puerto Rican crime gangs. One of these gangs is aligned for the first time with Boston's Italian mafia in tapping into almost limitless profits from the illicit trade of exotic and endangered species of wild animals captured in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil and smuggled through the shoreline of the Florida Keys. Working to free their client and to prevent the brutal abuse of these vulnerable animals, Michael and Lex find themselves squarely in the crossfire of rival organized crime gangs, from the barrio of Jamaica Plain, Boston, to the gang-dominated streets of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Nevitt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/103884/bk_acx0_103884_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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