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Outside the Hospital , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 33min

If all you have is hope and a tentative hold of a drainpipe, perhaps its time to call on St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes. But if others let you go, shouldn't you let go too?A darkly funny tale foraged from the heart of the city. This short story is included in the compilation called Tales of Urban Encounters. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gerry Marsh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/121604/bk_acx0_121604_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Tales of Urban Encounters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 182min

Short stories foraged from the heart of the city. When your existence threatens to implode with the struggle of urban domesticity; the pointlessness of switching, swopping and up-grading - taste some feral freedom. Set in cafes, streets, supermarkets and pubs; these tales drag the debris of messy lives out from their familiar urban locations. Why is Irene clinging to a drainpipe outside the hospital? Will David be trapped forever stirring the stick in his latte? And is your local boozer worse than Raoul's Saturday night watering hole? Abridged short stories. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gerry Marsh, Dave Moore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/120856/bk_acx0_120856_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Paris Architect , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 670min

Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews. So when a wealthy industrialist offers him a large sum of money to devise secret hiding places for Jews, Lucien struggles with the choice of risking his life for a cause he doesn't really believe in. Ultimately he can't resist the challenge and begins designing expertly concealed hiding spaces - behind a painting, within a column, or inside a drainpipe - detecting possibilities invisible to the average eye. But when one of his clever hiding spaces fails horribly and the immense suffering of Jews becomes incredibly personal, he can no longer deny reality. Written by an expert whose knowledge imbues every word, this story becomes more gripping with every life the architect tries to save. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bramhall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003637/bk_rand_003637_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Black Echo: Harry Bosch Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 829min

An LAPD homicide detective must choose between justice and vengeance as he teams up with the FBI in the first novel of the "thrilling" Harry Bosch series (New York Times Book Review).For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal...because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit. Pitted against enemies inside his own department and forced to make the agonizing choice between justice and vengeance, Bosch goes on the hunt for a killer whose true face will shock him. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dick Hill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/000251/bk_brll_000251_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Polly Mae: The Old Suitcase , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 99min

Polly Mae finds it's impossible to leave next door's cat alone, especially if the cat happened to be up the tree Polly Mae wanted to climb herself, and the neighbour, Mrs. Donkin, was on the war path. After been banished to her room, she shimmies down the drainpipe and runs off to the beach with her friend William and finds an old suitcase hidden behind a wall in an old ice cream cabin by the beach. The contents of the suitcase take her on an incredible journey, experiencing the plights of a polish family's escape from war-torn Poland, which had been occupied by the Nazis in 1942. A time when families were torn apart on one man's whim! Polly Mae finds herself confronted with feelings and adventures she never thought she would have. What was in the suitcase to start all this off? Learning from first-hand accounts about the holocaust and the damage it did was an experience for Polly Mae. One she would never forget! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Cassidy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/087187/bk_acx0_087187_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Libya: Murder in Benghazi and the Fall of Gaddafi , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 107min

In the brutal hours before and after Gaddaﬁ's overthrow and throughout the revolutionary aftermath of the past year, Luke Harding and Martin Chulov have reported for the Guardian from inside Libya. In this Guardian Short, brand-new reportage gives in vivid, personal detail, an eyewitness account of the moment of Gaddaﬁ's capture and the current state of Libya. The end for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi when it came, after 42 years of dictatorial power, was ignominious and violent. After months of bloody fighting, the Libyan revolutionary forces had driven their former leader from Tripoli before capturing him in a drainpipe in the city of Sirte. The gory images captured on the mobile phones of the victors were reproduced on newspaper front pages around the world, marking the end of a cruel regime. In the capital, ordinary Libyans explored the once forbidden compound that housed Gaddafi and his family. In the days that followed, they queued in the streets of the broken city for their chance to see the dead bodies of their oppressors. Chulov and Harding tell the story of their conversations with Libyans from both sides of the conflict, the culmination of the revolution and its tumultuous aftermath with color and intensity. From the uncertain, threatening days following Gaddafi's deposal, to the storming of the US consulate and the death of the US Ambassador on September 11, 2012, Libya is an immediate, gripping account that explores the events and global political influence of the Arab Spring as it continues to unfold. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Philip Rose. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019357/bk_adbl_019357_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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At the Birth of Bowie , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 489min

It is 1965, and Swinging London is coming into its prime years. The streets are alive with mods and rockers, playboys and good-time girls, all revelling in the blossoming artistic, creative and cultural energies of the decade. Amid the colour and chaos is a boy sporting drainpipe jeans, an immaculately tailored sports coat and a half-inch wide tie. A devoted fan of The Who, he looks the part in his pristine mod gear. As the lead singer of the Lower Third, his talent is shaping itself into something truly special. His name is Davie Jones. In 10 years, he will be unrecognisable as fresh-faced boy of 1965, and in just over 50 years, his death will be mourned by millions, his legacy the story of the greatest rock star of all time. And, all through the years of the late '60s, Phil Lancaster was by his side. As the drummer in Bowie's band the Lower Third, Phil was there as the singer's musical stripes began to show and was witness to his early recording techniques, his first experimental forays into drug taking and the band's discovery of his bisexuality in shocking circumstances. In this riveting - and often very funny - memoir, Phil tells the story of life alongside the insecure yet blazingly talented boy who became Bowie, at a critical crossroad of time and place in music history. What follows is an intimate, personal and important perspective on the genesis of one of the most iconic musicians of the 20th century - one that gets under the skin of the man himself, before the personas and alter egos masked the fascinating figure beneath them. At the Birth of Bowie is essential listening for anyone who knows what happened on Bowie's journey but wants to understand how and why it ever began. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phil Lancaster. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bonn/000071/bk_bonn_000071_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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