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The Steel Traveler of Urth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 499min

Set in the far, far future, Steel Traveler Of Urth is a wild combination of The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (the sunburned landscape, the characters who take it for granted that everybody's out to cheat and/or kill everyone else as they vie for treasure)and The Road Warrior (the hard-to-kill hero has suffered so many losses, he's trying to be as big a bastard as everyone else, but he keeps being tripped up by his own innate decency). The heroine may or may not have a heart of gold, but she definitely has a long, fluffy tail; the hero's best friend and worst enemies are all giant, sentient insects. (If you suffer from arachnophobia, this book may work as therapy for you.) The action ricochets from one vivid landscape (sun-blasted desert, frozen mountains, arcane laboratory, eons-dead city) to another, just as the characters' relationships ricochet from business to pleasure, from love to hate. The author has a wild, cinematic imagination. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/023323/bk_acx0_023323_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Spurn: A Walker Saga, Book Two , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 564min

A paranormal romance series. An epic journey. If the Seventine are released, will anyone survive? Book two in the Walker Saga follows Abigail and her friends as they tame the world of Spurn. Go to Spurn, she was told. Oh, and by the way the planet is 95 percent water and the inhabitants are hybrid fish. Of course, no one seems to care that Abigail can't swim. Surprisingly, jetting off to a water planet is not the weirdest thing to happen this week. But she's on a deadline to the find the first half-Walker girl, as the very essences of the seven worlds are starting to unravel. And with each Seventine release, the chaos ricochets further. Of course, with her Walker energy causing havoc and the savage Spurns...well, it's safe to say nothing so far has gone to plan. And on top of that, a bombshell she did not see coming. Secrets are revealed and loyalties challenged, but with her best friend and soul mate by her side, can she really lose out? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eva Kaminsky. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/080311/bk_acx0_080311_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Future Furies: Endless Fire, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 646min

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein's warning ricochets inside Robert Goodfellow's thoughts as he races to stop the cyber and robotic murders of American and Russian leaders propelling the United States and Russia into war. Part-time cyber-warrior and conflict-avoiding cerebral soldier, Robert has been ordered to locate and protect Pion, the autistic, cyber-savant US officials believe is their best, and maybe only, chance to prevent catastrophe. Reluctantly joining him in his quest is Mugavus Komfort, a female partner from his past. From the highly advanced, newly independent State of SPEA to the ancient African nation of Ethiopia, Robert and Mugavus battle their way through a near-future, dystopian world ravaged by the endless fire of climate change, chaos and conflict. US and Russian assassins, predator robots, terrorists, and rebels surround and imperil Robert and Mugavus as they struggle to save the world from itself. It's a race against time. In the end will they be too late? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angelo Di Loreto. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/065050/bk_acx0_065050_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Conflict : Singularity's Children, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 646min

Conflict: action adventure and techno-utopian manifesto. Book three of Singularity's Children is compelling and provocative - a romp through the alien landscape of our not-so-distant future. The balance is shifting. The Forward Coalition is losing relevance, and the world is slipping through its fingers. But Nebulous and the Kin are still too weak to confront the old bulls, who, cornered and confused, are at their most deadly. Will the fantastic technologies emerging from the Klan Fabs bring utopia as the optimists claim, or only speed the planet toward its inevitable appointment with annihilation?Cold wars are growing hot as governments lash out at what they don’t understand. Mankind’s million-year stint will finally take it to the brink of an abyss, where oceans of darkness await above and below.The fast-paced action ricochets the listener between neon-stained riots of urban flesh and idyllic tropical islands where humans and their BugNet companions have built a pan-species utopia. Conflict crackles with the energy of an approaching storm as plutocrats and blue-eyed idealists face off across a planet bristling with micro-nukes, devilish bio-machines, and weaponized hallucinations. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Kenny. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/233838/bk_acx0_233838_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Koolaids: The Art of War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 451min

One of the Middle East’s most celebrated voices, Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller, The Hakawati, with an enchanting story of a book-loving, obsessive, seventy-two-year-old "unnecessary" woman. Aaliya Saleh lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, childless, and divorced, Aaliya is her family's unnecessary appendage. Every year, she translates a new favorite book into Arabic, then stows it away. The thirty-seven books that Aaliya has translated over her lifetime have never been read by anyone. In this breathtaking portrait of a reclusive woman's late-life crisis, readers follow Aaliya's digressive mind as it ricochets across visions of past and present Beirut. Colorful musings on literature, philosophy, and art are invaded by memories of the Lebanese Civil War and Aaliya's own volatile past. As she tries to overcome her aging body and spontaneous emotional upwellings, Aaliya is faced with an unthinkable disaster that threatens to shatter the little life she has left. A love letter to literature and its power to define who we are, the prodigiously gifted Rabih Alameddine has given us a nuanced rendering of one woman's life in the Middle East. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019960/bk_adbl_019960_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Fallout: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 793min

Four young people in 1970s London race toward the future, fueled by love, betrayal, and creative ambition. Luke Kanowski is a young playwright - intense, magnetic, and eager for life. He escapes a disastrous upbringing in the northeast and, arriving in London, meets Paul Driscoll, an aspiring producer, and the beautiful, fiery Leigh Radley, the woman Paul loves. The three set up a radical theater company, living and working together; a romantic connection forged in candlelit rehearsal rooms during power cuts and smoky late-night parties in Chelsea's run-down flats. The gritty rebellion of pub theater is fighting for its place against a West End dominated by racy revue shows and the giants of 20th-century drama. Nina Jacobs is a fragile actress, bullied by her mother and in thrall to a controlling producer. When Luke meets Nina, he recognizes a soul in danger - but how much must he risk to save her? Everything he has fought for - loyalty, friendship, art - is drawn into the heat of their collision. As Luke ricochets between honesty and deceit, the promise of the future and his own painful past, the fallout threatens to be immense. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/003918/bk_harp_003918_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 744min

In this audiobook, Sands Hall chronicles her slow yet willing absorption into the Church of Scientology. Her time in the Church, the 1980s, includes the secretive illness and death of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, and the ascension of David Miscavige. Hall compellingly reveals what drew her into the religion - what she found intriguing and useful - and how she came to confront its darker sides. As a young woman from a literary family striving to forge her own way as an artist, Hall ricochets between the worlds of Shakespeare, avant-garde theater, and soap opera, until her brilliant elder brother, playwright Oakley Hall III, falls from a bridge and suffers permanent brain damage. In the secluded canyons of Hollywood, she finds herself increasingly drawn toward the certainty that Scientology appears to offer.In this candid and nuanced memoir, Hall recounts her spiritual and artistic journey with a visceral affection for language, delighting in the way words can create a shared world. However, as Hall begins to grasp how purposefully Hubbard has created the unique language of Scientology - in the process isolating and indoctrinating its practitioners - she confronts how language can also be used as a tool of authoritarianism.Hall is a captivating guide, and this audiobook explores how she has found meaning and purpose within that decade that for so long she thought of as lost; how she has faced the "flunk" represented by those years, and has embraced a way to "start" anew. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sands Hall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/011453/bk_blak_011453_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Peacock Feast (eBook, ePUB)

From "one of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction in America...immensely talented and brave" (Michael Schaub, NPR), a historical saga about love, class, and the past we never escape.The Peacock Feast opens on a June day in 1916 when Louis C. Tiffany, the eccentric glass genius, dynamites the breakwater at Laurelton Hall-his fantastical Oyster Bay mansion, with columns capped by brilliant ceramic blossoms and a smokestack hidden in a blue-banded minaret-so as to foil the town from reclaiming the beach for public use. The explosion shakes both the apple crate where Prudence, the daughter of Tiffany's prized gardener, is sleeping and the rocks where Randall, her seven-year-old brother, is playing.Nearly a century later, Prudence receives an unexpected visit at her New York apartment from Grace, a hospice nurse and the granddaughter of Randall, who Prudence never saw again after he left at age fourteen for California. The mementos Grace carries from her grandfather's house stir Prudence's long-repressed memories and bring her to a new understanding of the choices she made in work and love, and what she faces now in her final days.Spanning the twentieth century and three continents, The Peacock Feast ricochets from Manhattan to San Francisco, from the decadent mansions of the Tiffany family to the death row of a Texas prison, and from the London consultation room of Anna Freud to a Mendocino commune. With psychological acuity and aching eloquence, Lisa Gornick has written a sweeping family drama, an exploration of the meaning of art and the art of dying, and an illuminating portrait of how our decisions reverberate across time and space.

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The Killer Coin: Jack Vu Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 368min

Kick off your shoes, pour yourself a glass of something good and open the page on your next great adventure. The Killer Coin is a nimble little mystery featuring sights and sounds from New Orleans to the Pacific Northwest. This road-trip adventure features a new and unique Vietnamese investigator, Killing Fields survivor, and now Air Force sergeant, Jack Vu. His eyes have witnessed every horror imaginable, making him a cool-headed investigator for the average murder. But what Jack encounters on this investigation is unique – he is chasing another soldier of war, Jim Lyman, who is listed as MIA, but whose thumbprint appears on a gold coin, embedded in the slender neck of a burned female corpse.This thumbprint peels back the veneer on a tangle of intrigue and deception that threatens to destroy military investigator Jack Vu’s sense of order and his career. As his hunt for the killer unravels, Vu ricochets from the Big Easy to the cool, mysterious waters of the Pacific Northwest. Along the road, he encounters unlikely allies and unforeseen enemies. The chase heats up when reinforcements appear in the form of cantankerous swamp rats, intrepid bush pilots and more than a few shots of bourbon. Love, betrayal, honor and a final sense of justice play out as this case crashes on the mossy rocks. This first in the Jack Vu series sets the tone for the next three books, Wolf’s Remedy, Snip and Riff Raff,, which reunites Jack with his original fugitive, now soldiering on in Costa Rica. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jerry Lyden, Giz Coughlin, Elizabeth O'Hara. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/floa/000002/bk_floa_000002_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Legend of the Lost Maori: A Ghost Tribe Series, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 176min

200 years ago...Men, women, and children flee for their lives as gunfire ricochets all around them. Aranui, chief of the Ghost Tribe, realizes his people are trapped as they arrive at the end of the narrow trail surrounded by rock walls too steep to climb. The British soldiers will reach them soon, and the tribes' hand-held weapons, although formidable, are no match for the soldiers' advanced fire power. Aranui knows there's only one option to ensure his peoples' safety. When the soldiers come to the same dead-end moments later, the Ghost Tribe isn't there. Present day Auckland"Your sister is dying." Kupe, a 10-year-old, is devastated when he hears the grim news about Cecelia, his little sister. That was a while ago, and a bunch of doctors and their modern medicine hasn't been able to help her, so Kupe leaves Auckland. The Maori boy heads to the countryside to seek comfort and advice from Tipuna, his grandfather. Tipuna still believes in many of the old ways of the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand and tells Kupe that Cecelia may be cured of her cancer. However, the boy must find the Ghost Tribe, a group of ancient Maoris, who are rumored to have magical powers which let them live without the threat of disease or death. But nobody has seen the Ghost Tribe for over 150 years, no one except....Tipuna gives Kupe a beautifully carved amulet found by a hunter, who claims he witnessed people dressed in 18th century clothes and holding spears in a remote forest that supposedly is haunted. When the warriors realize they are being spied on, they vanish before the hunter's eyes. The only evidence of the mysterious men's presence is the amulet, with a carving of a giant Moa bird, the symbol of the Ghost Tribe. Alone, armed with nothing but a flashlight, spear, and the amulet, Kupe wastes little time and ventures into the primeval forest at night in search of the Ghost Tribe. He is afraid like he has neve ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Wrenlock of Island Audio. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/180878/bk_acx0_180878_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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