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    Head barman Collin was also known as "The Birdman" in Aviary, the premier nightspot uptown. He knew everyone who came and how they liked their drinks. They gave him tips and dished their stories, but he never got involved.Sam, the intoxicatingly attractive trans-man DJ, looked the part, played the part, and lorded over the music. Women threw themselves at his feet, but men were equally fascinated with her, and she went for anyone who waited. Then, Julien came along and turned it all upside down. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer M. Bisgard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/206517/bk_acx0_206517_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Charity Mupanga, the resilient and maternal proprietor of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot) faces her toughest challenge in Dizzy Worms, the final novel in Michael Holman’s acclaimed trilogy set in the African slum of Kireba. Faced with a Health and Safety closure, Charity has a week to appeal and the chances of success seem negligible: Elections are imminent, and Kireba is due to become a showcase of President Josiah Nduka's "slum rehabilitation program", backed by gullible foreign donors. But before taking on Nduka and the council, she has a promise to keep - to provide a supply of her famous sweet doughballs to a small army of street children, as voracious as they are malodorous.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jerome Pride. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/001845/bk_boli_001845_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A former police officer turned private investigator, Nick Nowak is haunted by his abrupt departure from the department, as well as, the traumatic end of his relationship with librarian Daniel Laverty. In these three stories set in Chicago during the early eighties, Nick locates a missing young man for a mysterious client, solves a case of arson at a popular nightspot, and goes undercover to prove a dramatic suicide was actually murder. When he isn't detecting, and sometimes when he is, Nick moves through a series of casual relationships. But his long suppressed romantic side surfaces when he meets Detective Bert Harker. Will he give love another chance? Or, will he continue to bury himself in the arms of strangers? Finalist for Lambda Literary Award - Gay Mystery 2012 ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brad Langer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/009382/bk_acx0_009382_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Student Grey Hutchins comes to Tokyo seeking answers to what happened during the notorious Nanking Massacre in which, in one city, the Imperial Japanese Army killed up to 300,000 civilians. Only one man can help her, a survivor of the Massacre, and now a visiting professor at the prestigious university of Todai in Tokyo; a man who is rumoured to possess documentary evidence of Nanking. But first Grey must gain his trust. Increasingly desperate and alone, she accepts a job as a hostess at the "Some Like It Hot" club, an upmarket nightspot catering for Japanese businessmen and wealthy gangsters. One gangster dominates, an old man in a wheelchair guarded by a nurse with sharpened teeth, said to rely on a powerful elixir for his continued wealth and well-being. It is an elixir which other members of the club want for themselves, at any price. Language: English. Narrator: Bert Kwouk, Emily Woof. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/000126/bk_rhuk_000126_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sometimes wrong is extra right. Mallory Spencer is in charge. As the face of Soho Savvy, the advertising firm she owns with her three best friends, it's important that she's poised, polished, and put together. However, as she watches her friends couple up and settle down, she wonders about her own happily ever after. One thing's for sure. It's not going to happen with that blue-eyed bartender from Showplace. It's irritatingly clear they couldn't be more wrong for each other...or have more chemistry. Hope Sanders wants nothing more than to keep her head down and craft a better life for herself running everyone's favorite nightspot. That means ignoring the groupies that flock to the bar to stare at her all night. However, an uptight brunette has snagged Hope's attention, and she knows a challenge when she sees it. A Soho Loft Romance ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Felicity Munroe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/024599/bk_adbl_024599_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    1920s Cairo: singers were pressing hit records, dramatic troupes were springing up and cabarets were packed a counterculture was on the rise. In bars, hash-dens and music halls, people of all backgrounds came together as a passionate group of artists captivated Egyptian society. Of these performers, Cairos biggest stars were female, and they asserted themselves on the stage like never before. Two of the most famous troupes were run by women; Badia Masabnis dancehall became the hottest nightspot in town; Aziza Amir, a pioneer of Egyptian cinema, made her stage debut; and legendary singer Umm Kulthum first rose to fame. It is these women, who knew both the opportunities and prejudices that this world offered, who best reveal this cosmopolitan and raucous citys secrets. Midnight in Cairo tells the thrilling story of Egypts interwar nightlife and entertainment industry through the lives of its most pioneering women. Introducing an eccentric cast of characters, it brings to life a world of revolutionary ideas and provocative art one which laid the foundations of Arab popular culture today. It is a story of modern Cairo as we have never heard it before.
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    Charity Mupanga is the widowed owner of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot) - a favourite meeting place for the movers and shakers of Kibera. While she can handle most challenges, from an erratic supply of Worcestershire sauce, the secret ingredient in her cooking, to the political tensions in East Africa's most notorious slum and a cholera outbreak that follows the freak floods in the state of Ubuntu, some threatening letters from London lawyers are beginning to overwhelm her. Well-meant but inept efforts to foil the lawyers by Edward Furniver, a former fund manager who runs Kibera's co-operative bank and who seeks Charity's hand in marriage, bring Harrods International Bar to the brink of disaster, and Charity close to despair. In the nick of time an accidental riot, triggered by the visit to the slum of World Bank President Hardwick Hardwicke, coupled with some quick thinking by Titus Ntoto, the 14-year-old leader of Kibera's toughest gang, the Mboya Boys United Football Club, help Charity-and Harrods-to triumph in the end. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jerome Pride. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/000349/bk_boli_000349_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ferdinand Mlambo, the youngest boy ever to become senior kitchen toto at State House, is in deep trouble. Disloyalty to Kuwisha's Life President Nduka has not only cost him his prestigious job: the sinister chief steward to the president, Lovemore Mboga, has humiliated Mlambo by stripping him of his name. Word goes out: henceforth, he will be known as Fatboy. But with the help of Titus Ntoto, leader of the notorious Mboya Boys gang of street children, Mlambo sets out on a quest to recover his name and dignity.In this sequel to the acclaimed Last Orders at Harrods, Michael Holman again combines the insights of someone brought up in Africa with the experience of nearly 20 years as the Financial Times' Africa editor. With a sharp observant pen, he describes a world of abandoned street children, corrupt politicians, well-meaning aid workers, celebrity outsiders, self-deceiving donors, and the resilient residents of Kireba - Kuwisha's worst slum - where the worldly but compassionate Mrs Charity Mupanga presides over the popular rendezvous, Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jerome Pride. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/000547/bk_boli_000547_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    After a stalker breaks into her home, internet entrepreneur Bee Langston decides Kelly Connolly is the only man who can help her - but seeking help from the former Marine isn't easy, especially after she made a spectacular fool of herself trying to kiss the sinfully sexy bodyguard. When Kelly spots Bee weaving her way through the Houston nightspot where he's working security, all those feelings he's desperately tried to deny for his best friend's sister come flooding to the surface. He'll do anything to keep her safe, even if it means getting up close and personal with the one woman he simply can't have. Soon, Bee's stalker isn't his only problem. His gambling addict father is tangled in a mess of debts to two of Houston's toughest loan sharks. With the family gym on the line, there's only one way for Kelly to make everything right. He agrees to fight for the Albanian mob in an underground bare-knuckle tournament. But winning the tournament and saving his family's legacy comes at a high price - one that just might cost Bee her life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Clementine Cage. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/025646/bk_acx0_025646_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Cassian March, the public face of Tampa's most exclusive nightspot, Club X, has a great life. Women, sex, and money are his for the taking, and no man indulges his desires more. Life is short, and he plays hard. He lives by only one rule - never let a woman get close. Olivia Lucas needs a job, and if that means working at a club that specializes in making members' wildest fantasies come true, then that's what she'll do. A girl's got to pay the rent, right? She never expected to fall for the gorgeous owner of Club X, though, but a man like him would never go for someone like her. Or would he? And don't miss the new K. M. Scott release The Sexy Silk Serial! Ian's a sexy, dirty-talking author and former addict searching for his next addiction. Kristina's a young actress who wants a man who lives only for her. Together their needs explode into something darker and more powerful than either of them planned on. Get the Silk serial and become addicted to their story! Look for other books by K. M. Scott, and if you love sexy paranormal romance, don't miss her books under the name Gabrielle Bisset! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carrie Piper, David Drummond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023703/bk_adbl_023703_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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