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    The Disappearing Dwarf: Balumnia, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 566min
    Life as a man of leisure was becoming a bit dull for Jonathan Bing, Master Cheeser, so he welcomed Professor Wurzle's invitation to visit the empty castle of Selznak, the Evil Dwarf. There they chanced upon a treasure map. Soon Jonathan, his wonderpooch Ahab, the Professor, and Miles the magician set off by boat for the location of the treasure - the unknown city called Landsend. But between them and their goal lay the Case of the Missing Squire, the Attack of the Headless Oarsmen, a mysterious witch, some evil goblins - and the Secret of the Purloined Globe. This second volume in a fantasy trilogy is a sequel to The Elfin Ship and is by the winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Malk Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016247/bk_adbl_016247_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The House Of The Sorcerer
    The House Of The Sorcerer ab 24.99 € als Taschenbuch: Being An Account Of Certain Things That Chanced Therein (1899). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 378min
    Many a day we rowed together on that quiet stream…and many a fairy tale had been extemporized…yet none of these tales got written down: they lived and died…each in its own golden afternoon until there came a day when, as it chanced, one of the listeners petitioned that the tale might be written down for her. Thus, in 1864, Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (under the pen name of Lewis Carroll) presented family friend Alice Liddell with the first edition of what would become an inimitable classic, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Seven years after Alice’s success, Carroll published Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, the equally beloved sequel. Freshly and imaginatively narrated, listeners will be delighted to accompany Alice on her journey into a world where nonsense and mayhem would reign supreme, but for the satirical practicality of a child. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Field. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/000581/bk_hove_000581_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The House in the Mist, Hörbuch, Digital, 109min
    In "The House in the Mist", weary traveler Hugh Austin arrives, seeking food and lodging for the night. "Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive, but the others cannot be far behind", he is told. "What others?" he wonders, gazing at a stern portrait hanging on the wall. He finds he has chanced upon the gathering of friends and relatives of the man in the portrait. An inheritance is to be divided, all concerned must be present by the appointed hour. And this inheritance is so substantial that violence, murder, and vengeance from beyond the grave all await among the heirs. Anna Katharine Green was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. She is credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing the series detective. Language: English. Narrator: Carolin Kaiser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lind/001335/bk_lind_001335_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Memnoch the Devil, Hörbuch, Digital, 240min
    The Vampire Lestat - outsider, canny monster, hero-wanderer - is at last offered the chanced to be redeemed. He is brought into direct confrontation with both God and the Devil, and into the land of Death. We are in New York. The city is blanketed in snow. Through the whiteness Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic daughter of a drug lord, the woman who arouses Lestat's tenderness as no mortal ever has. While torn between his vampire passions and his overwhelming love for Dora, Lestat is confronted by the most dangerous adversaries he has yet known. He is snatched from the world itself by the mysterious Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil. He is invited to be a witness at the Creation. He is taken like the ancient prophets into the heavenly realm; he is ushered into Purgatory. He must decide if he can believe in the Devil or in God. He must decide which, if either, to serve. Memnoch the Devil is Volume 5 of The Vampire Chronicles. For a full selection of Anne Rice programs available at audible.com and to hear the author answering fan mail, visit the Anne Rice store. Language: English. Narrator: Roger Rees. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000056/bk_rand_000056_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Different Flesh , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 624min
    This novel by the New York Times best-selling "master of alternate history" explores an America reshaped by a twist in prehistoric evolution (Publishers Weekly).  What if mankind's "missing link", the apelike Homo erectus, had survived to dominate a North American continent where woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers still prowled while the more advanced Homo sapiens built their civilizations elsewhere? Now imagine that the Europeans arriving in the New World had chanced on these primitive creatures and seized the opportunity to establish a hierarchy in which the sapiens were masters and the "sims" were their slaves.   This is the premise that drives the incomparable Harry Turtledove's A Different Flesh. The acclaimed Hugo Award winner creates an alternate America that spans 300 years of invented history. From the Jamestown colonists' desperate hunt for a human infant kidnapped by a local sim tribe, to a late 18th-century contest between a newfangled steam-engine train and the popular hairy-elephant-pulled model, to the sim-rights activists' daring 1988 rescue of an unfortunate biped named Matt who's being used for animal experimentation, Turtledove turns our world inside out in a remarkable science-fiction masterwork that explores what it truly means to be human. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Woodson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/014164/bk_tant_014164_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Paper Cranes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 446min
    I had always been the type of girl that followed the rules. "Stick to the plan, Kat," is what I always told myself. I was never a risk taker or chanced anything to fate. That's until I was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. All of my hopes, dreams, and aspirations fell by the wayside. I was dying. What else did I have to look forward to? Definitely not love. That's until Lee Daniels came tapping at my window. Determined to push him away, the jerk kept coming back, over and over and over. There was no way I was going to give my heart to a man that would eventually leave me worse then I already was. But he didn't see it that way. He saw strength, determination, and a stubborn woman ready to give up on love. Why wouldn't he just let me give up? For one very simple reason. Love, my friends. An unimaginable love. A love that didn't require rules, stipulations, or even expectations. A love filled with dancing on Mardi Gras floats, three a.m. breakfast sessions, and swimming with pigs in the Bahamas. That's my kind of love, and it all started with a stupid paper crane. Perhaps it was time to take chances because...if not now, then when? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Claire Gresham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/080466/bk_acx0_080466_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Intelligencer, Hörbuch, Digital, 417min
    On May 30, 1593, London's most popular playwright was stabbed to death. The royal coroner ruled that Christopher Marlowe was killed in self-defense, but historians have long suspected otherwise, given his role as an "intelligencer" in the queen's secret service. In 16th century London, Marlowe embarks on his final intelligence assignment, hoping to find the culprits behind a high-stakes smuggling scheme. In present-day New York, grad student turned private eye Kate Morgan is called in on an urgent matter. One of her firm's top clients, a London-based financier, has chanced upon a mysterious manuscript that had been buried for centuries, one that someone is desperate to steal. What secret lurks in those yellowed ciphered pages? And how, so many years later, could it drive someone to kill? As Kate sets off for England, she receives a second assignment. An enigmatic art dealer has made an $11 million purchase from an Iranian intelligence officer. Is it a black-market antiquities deal, or something far more sinister? Like Marlowe, Kate moonlights as a spy, her P.I. firm doubles as an off-the-books U.S. intelligence unit, and she is soon caught like a pawn in a deadly international game. As The Intelligencer's interlocking narratives race toward a stunning collision, and Kate closes in on the truth behind Marlowe's sudden death, it becomes clear that she may have sealed a similar fate for herself. Language: English. Narrator: Jan Maxwell, Alfred Molina. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000493/bk_sans_000493_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Long Way Home: On the Trail of Steinbeck's America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 538min
    We do not take a trip; a trip takes us, John Steinbeck noted in his 1962 classic, Travels with Charley. In the summer of 2008, Bill Barich stumbled upon a used copy of Travels in Ireland, where he has lived for the past eight years, and it inspired him to explore the mood of the United States as Steinbeck had done almost a half century before. With a hotly contested election looming, and in the shadow of an economic meltdown, Barich set off on a 5,943-mile cross-country drive from New York to his old hometown in San Francisco via Route 50, a road twisting through the American heartland. Long Way Home is the stunning result of his pilgrimage, an illuminating and perceptive portrait of America at a dramatic point in its history. Where Steinbeck returned from the road depressed about the country's soul, Barich - while not uncritical of the narrow-mindedness and incivility of our present culture - finds brightness among the dark and rekindles his belief in the long view, as exemplified by the unbridled optimism of some high school kids in Hutchinson, Kansas, and by the undaunted spirit of an 80-year-old barber he chanced upon in Jefferson City, Missouri. "The world truly does renew itself while we're looking the other way," he observes. From the Eastern Shore of Maryland to the spectacular landscape of Moab, Utah, to Steinbeck's own Salinas Valley, filled with memorable encounters and redolent with history and local color, Long Way Homeis a truthful, inspiring account of the country at a social and political crossroad. "The highway snakes into a tunnel," Barich writes about a stretch of Route 50 in West Virginia, "then erupts into the light with the force of revelation." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: JJ Write. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009707/bk_adbl_009707_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Think Your Way to Wealth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 651min
    Finally back in print, this true lost classic records Napoleon Hill's first, fateful encounter with industrialist Andrew Carnegie, where the young Hill learned the secrets to winning at life. Returned to print after many years of unavailability, here is the one-and-only trade edition of a treasury of wisdom. Think Your Way to Wealth captures Napoleon Hill's initial encounter with Andrew Carnegie, who revealed the money-attracting strategy that Hill later popularized in classic books like Think and Grow Rich and The Law of Success. While working as a reporter for an inspirational magazine in 1908, Napoleon Hill chanced upon an opportunity that gave direction to his life. The young writer landed an interview with industrial giant Carnegie. Hill had just one key question for the magnate: What is the secret to your success? Carnegie's response electrified Hill and launched him on a lifelong mission to distill the steps to success into a clear, definite protocol that could be used by any motivated man or woman. Think Your Way to Wealth is Hill's vivid account of that seminal meeting. It captures Carnegie's initial advice, how-to's, practical steps, and concrete directions-all of which formed the basis for Hill's groundbreaking books, and jump-started the field of business motivation. Originally published in 1948, Think Your Way to Wealth has been out of print and unavailable for many years. This new Tarcher Success Classics edition reproduces the complete, original text just as Hill first presented it. The dialogue between Hill and Carnegie represents an invaluable, irreplaceable playbook of success strategies that can change the life of any reader, just as they changed Hill's life that day. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joel Fotinos, Mitch Horowitz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/001751/bk_peng_001751_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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