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    Hope - Complete and Unabridged: Words by the Wayside Classics Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 44min
    ...The just Creator condescends to write, In beams of inextinguishable light, His names of wisdom, goodness, power, and love, On all that blooms below, or shines above; To catch the wandering notice of mankind, And teach the world, if not perversely blind.... William Cowper (1731-1800) was born in Hertfordshire, England. His hymns and poems are well known all over the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alex Wyndham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/001521/bk_hove_001521_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mr. Bridge , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 712min
    A lawyer with a growing stockpile of securities in the bank, three beautiful children, a compliant and decorative wife, and a lovely house in the suburbs, Walter Bridge has achieved all that is expected of someone of his race and background. But try as he might to control the lives of those around him, they prove perversely independent. In Mr. Bridge and its companion, Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell has brilliantly realized the lives of upper-middle-class Americans living in the years just before and during World War II. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Guidall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/005165/bk_reco_005165_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1787min
    Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers re-creates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Telfer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/033977/bk_adbl_033977_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    My Life as a Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 729min
    At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen’s death, Peter is still trying—and failing—to write his way free of it. Out of desperate inventions and cauterizing truths, acts of weakness, tenderheartedness, and shocking cruelty, Philip Roth creates a work worthy of Strindberg—a fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan John Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/002169/bk_brll_002169_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Going for a Beer: Selected Short Fictions , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 804min
    Robert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as "a writer who has managed, willfully and even perversely, to remain his own man while offering his generous vision and versions of America." Coover finds inspiration in everything from painting, cinema, theater, and dance to slapstick, magic acts, puzzles, and riddles. His 1969 story, "The Babysitter," has alone inspired generations of innovative young writers. Here, in this selection of 30 of his best stories, you will find an invisible man tragically obsessed by an invisible woman; a cartoon man in a cartoon car who runs over a real man who is arrested by a real policeman with cartoon eyes; a stick man who reinvents the universe. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlie Thurston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/001964/bk_high_001964_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Taken , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 406min, (USK 18)
    I'm one of four Willow daughters. He's the first-born son of the Scafoni family. And we have history.For generations, the Scafoni family have demanded a sacrifice of us. A virgin daughter to atone for sins so old that we don't even remember what they are anymore. But when you have as much money as they do, you don't play by the rules. You make them.And Sebastian Scafoni makes all the rules.The moment I saw him, I knew he would choose me. Even though the mark on my sheath declared me unclean. Even though my beautiful sisters stood beside me, offered to him, he still chose me.He made me his. And then he set out to break me."Intensely dark, twisted, and perversely hot! If you loved Pepper Winters's Indebted, you will love Taken." (Anna Zaires, The New York Times best-selling author) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Pauley, MacKenzie Cartwright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/146184/bk_acx0_146184_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    You , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 666min
    NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES     When aspiring writer Guinevere Beck strides into the bookstore where Joe works, he is instantly smitten.     But there's more to Joe than Beck realises and much more to Beck than her perfect facade. And the obsessive relationship quickly spirals into a whirlwind of deadly consequences...     A chilling account of unrelenting, terrifying deceit, Caroline Kepnes' You is a thriller more perversely clever and dangerously twisted than any YOU have ever read.     'I am RIVETED, AGHAST, AROUSED, you name it. The rare instance when prose and plot are equally delicious' Lena Dunham      ‘Brilliant thriller with attitude, guts and true insight into the nature of obsession' Sophie Hannah     'A fantastically creepy thriller... The kind of book you put your life on hold for' Glamour     'Clever and chilling' Elle     'A brilliant tale… It's Gone Girl meets a sinister version of Girls' Marie Claire     'An addictive thriller!' Closer     ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Santino Fontana. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007561/bk_sans_007561_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Gunpowder Plot of 1605: The History of the Famous Conspiracy to Assassinate King James I of England , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 100min
    In 1605, Guy Fawkes was one of over a dozen conspirators in the famous Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to assassinate England's King James I. When the plot was discovered on the fifth of November, Fawkes and other conspirators were quickly convicted and executed, and the king asked his subjects to remember the date as "the joyful day of deliverance". Fawkes was but one of a countless number of failed assassins, but in a perversely ironic way, the king's declaration ultimately turned November 5 into Guy Fawkes Day, a celebratory day that usually had children creating an effigy that would then be burned in a bonfire. While the effigy was usually Fawkes, others made it a custom to burn an effigy of the pope, a tradition that came to the 13 colonies in America as well. Though he was only one of the plotters, Fawkes became the one most associated with the act, and he was viewed as a symbol of treason. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/072440/bk_acx0_072440_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    You
    *** NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES *** 'Thriller of the Year' Daily Mail 'Hypnotic and scary' Stephen King'Examines the fine line between seduction and stalking . . . Ludicrously readable' GuardianWhen aspiring writer Guinevere Beck strides into the bookstore where Joe works, he is instantly smitten.But there's more to Joe than Beck realises and much more to Beck than her perfect facade. And the obsessive relationship quickly spirals into a whirlwind of deadly consequences...A chilling account of unrelenting, terrifying deceit, Caroline Kepnes' You is a thriller more perversely clever and dangerously twisted than any YOU have ever read.'I am RIVETED, AGHAST, AROUSED, you name it. The rare instance when prose and plot are equally delicious' Lena Dunham 'Brilliant thriller with attitude, guts and true insight into the nature of obsession' Sophie Hannah'A fantastically creepy thriller... The kind of book you put your life on hold for' Glamour'Clever and chilling' Elle'A brilliant tale... It's Gone Girl meets a sinister version of Girls' Marie Claire'An addictive thriller!' Closer
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    The Nightwalker , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 479min
    US expatriate Bobby Ives is an aimless Vietnam veteran living in London with his girlfriend. The extremely volatile Ives is obsessed with two strange events in his past: the fact that he was declared dead in Vietnam via administrative error, and the time he experienced a vivid waking dream in which he became a zombie. Ives finds himself becoming more susceptible to uncontrolled rage; he also experiences quasi-fugue states where he lets that rage overwhelm him. In the midst of such a fugue state, he's capable of great violence. His girlfriend dies as the result of one of his rages; other victims soon follow. At first, he perversely revels in the changes that have occurred. Then, realizing that he is swiftly losing control, he seeks help from a clairvoyant who seems to have insight into his condition. She initially refuses, and his rampages continue. Eventually, she relents, and tries to help him by imprisoning him. Her efforts prove unsuccessful, as he escapes confinement, forcing her to take more drastic action. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001857/bk_acx0_001857_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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