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    The Hunt for Red Fluffy : Brimstone, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 290min
    Someone abandons a pedigree hellcat right where Shax can conveniently claim her and sets off a cataclysmic domino line of events. It's time for the other shoe to drop since the Brimstone has a shadow cabal after them - partly due to Shax's own, er, interesting decisions and partly due to the presence of Agent Julian Parallax onboard. As ship security officer, Ness has a lot on his mind - a dangerous new pet, even more dangerous criminals tracking the Brimstone, and yet another unexpected rescued guest. The last thing he needs is a distraction and Julian, who confuses and confounds him more every moment, is exactly the distraction he doesn't need. Between Shax's reckless gambits and Julian's disregard for his own safety, how is Ness supposed to keep anyone safe? The Brimstone and her intrepid crew do all they can to stay one step ahead, but this time the hunters are closing in. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vance Bastian. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/172129/bk_acx0_172129_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Raging Star: Dust Lands, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 667min
    The gut-wrenching third book in the highly praised Dust Lands trilogy, which MTV’s Hollywood Crush blog called "better than The Hunger Games." Saba is ready to seize her destiny and defeat DeMalo and the Tonton...until she meets him and he confounds all her expectations with his seductive vision of a healed Earth, a New Eden. DeMalo wants Saba to join him, in life and work, to create and build a healthy, stable, sustainable world…for the chosen few. Jack’s choice is clear: To fight DeMalo and try to stop New Eden. Still uncertain, her connection with DeMalo a secret, Saba commits herself to the fight. Joined by her brother, Lugh, anxious for the land in New Eden, Saba leads an inexperienced guerilla band against the powerfully charismatic DeMalo, in command of his settlers and the Tonton militia. What chance do they have? Saba must act. And be willing to pay the price. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Heather Lind. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/006735/bk_sans_006735_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Every Move Must Have a Purpose: Strategies from Chess for Business and Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 103min
    Fluid and elegant, yet rigorous and rule-bound, chess is a game that seduces, confounds, and hooks. Now, world-renowned chess master and Fortune 500 business consultant Bruce Pandolfini shows readers how chess principles can be simply and logically applied to any business or life situation. No specific chess knowledge is needed, but after reading Every Move Must Have a Purpose, you will share with the most astute chess players the secret to thinking on your feet. From the celebrated "chairman of the board" comes the secrets of strategy that everyone will find useful: Be aggressive, but don't take any unnecessary chances. Play the board, not the player. Answer all threats with a counter-threat. When exchanging, always get at least as much as you give up. Crisply and engagingly written, with entertaining examples and chess anecdotes, Every Move Must Have a Purpose will improve your strategic thinking so you'll never again debate your next move. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bruce Pandolfini. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/live/000075/bk_live_000075_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Tales , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 628min, (USK 18)
    Lesbian vampires - the quintessential bad girls - indulge in their perverse pleasures in this red-hot collection. The female vampire is so deliciously wicked that her powerful sexual nature was hidden for centuries. But the vampire story has always been one of submerged eroticism. The vampire emerges from the shadows, seduces her intended victim, and feeds on her, defying all rules in her pursuit of pleasure. In Daughters of Darkness, editor Pam Keesey brings the eroticism of the female vampire front and center with explicit tales from some of the finest contemporary queer writers. Patrick Califia’s "The Vampire" confounds conventional views of the subject as he uncovers Sapphic bloodlust in the S/M netherworld. Katherine V. Forrest imagines the lesbian vampire cruising the galaxies in search of bed-and-blood partners in the witty sci-fi adventure "O Captain, My Captain." In "Louisiana: 1850," Lambda Award-winner Jewelle Gomez delights readers with a curious mnage in the antebellum South. Also included is the first major lesbian vampire tale, J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s "Carmilla" (1871). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kaylee West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000434/bk_acx0_000434_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Strictly a Loner: My Life and Times with Plattsburgh's Poorest Millionaire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 149min
    We met Earl in 1990; we parted seven years later. So many little events had to fall into place before we met him that it seemed decreed above for him to become "our" Earl. He'd just chuckle to hear that, though. "Those jokers," he'd say about us. "They knew I was strictly a loner." What we also knew was his biggest secret.In this often humorous, true story, two homeowners go head-to-head with their tenant Earl, a quiet old loner and military retiree from the South. Sometimes just an amusing curmudgeon, Earl confounds them with his obsessive hoarding and miserly habits. Always dignified, nonetheless he retained an air of secrecy about his past, keeping his distance from the people who saw him every day along the streets of Plattsburgh, a small city nestled above the Adirondacks.Truly, he was a man that everyone saw and no one really knew. With the drama, suspense, and poignancy only a true story can evoke, Strictly a Loner also serves as a vehicle to examine society's attitudes toward money, family, mental illness, and aging. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Klaus Baumgarten. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/229077/bk_acx0_229077_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Heart-Shaped Stone , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 630min
    Caila, like most dreamers, just wants to be wanted. Unlike most dreamers, she's wanted by the CIA. When the last decade of 32-year-old Caila Domenici’s life disappears, destroyed in a car accident, she is forced to begin again. Defying doctor’s orders to slow-go-it, she sets out to navigate the world on her own. It's not going well. Coddled from birth, everything from a bus schedule to how to boil water confounds her. Worse yet, she's about to accept her meddling mother's offer to pay for food and rent. With just a hunch her talents extend beyond that of daughter of privilege, Caila searches for her past. Before she can find it, it finds her. And the handsome azure-eyed stranger who’s saying he knows her is somehow part of it.  Caila always believed there had to be more, but now, on the verge of discovering the truth, she must decide which is worse - never knowing who she really is or knowing too much. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Corry Reynolds. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/114555/bk_acx0_114555_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1037min
    From the author of the acclaimed novel Watergate comes a galvanizing new novel about the tumultuous administration of the most consequential and enigmatic president of modern times - Ronald Reagan. Finale takes listeners to the political gridiron of Washington in 1986, the wealthiest enclaves of Southern California, and the volcanic landscape of Iceland, where the president engages in two almost apocalyptic days of negotiation with Mikhail Gorbachev. Along with Soviet dissidents, illegal arms traders, and antinuclear activists, the novel's memorable characters include Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter, Pamela Harriman, John W. Hinckley, and even Bette Davis, with whom the president long ago appeared on screen. Several figures - including a humbled, crafty Richard Nixon; the young, brilliantly acerbic Christopher Hitchens; and an anxious, astrology-dependent Nancy Reagan - become the eyes through which listeners see the last convulsions of the Cold War, the AIDS epidemic, a clash of ideologies, and a political revolution. At the center of it all - but forever out of reach - is Reagan himself, whose genial remoteness confounds his subordinates, his children, and the citizens who elected him. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Lane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008006/bk_blak_008006_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Everything Matters!: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 779min
    In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy: A comet will obliterate life on Earth in 36 years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question: Does anything I do matter? While the voice that has accompanied him since conception appraises his choices, Junior's loved ones emerge with parallel stories - his anxious mother; his brother, a cocaine addict turned pro-baseball phenomenon; his exalted father, whose own mortality summons Junior's best and worst instincts; and Amy, the love of Junior's life and a North Star to his journey through romance and heartbreak, drug-addled despair, and superheroic feats that could save humanity. While our recognizable world is transformed into a bizarre nation at endgame, where government agents conspire in subterranean bunkers, preparing citizens for emigration from a doomed planet, Junior's final triumph confounds all expectation, building to an astonishing and deeply moving resolution. Ron Currie, Jr., gets to the heart of character, and the voices who narrate this uniquely American tour de force leave an indelible, exhilarating impression.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Abby Craden, Hillary Huber, Mark Deakins, Lincoln Hoppe, Arthur Morey, Doug Wert. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/001301/bk_peng_001301_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Soul for a Soul : The Masters Reimagined, Vol. 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 102min
    A Masters Reimagined novelette Before St. Augustine earns his position as bishop, he and his teenage son must save the good name of the early Christian Church and rescue an altar boy from the clutches of a soul-capturing daemon. To do so, one of the two must travel to an unknown spiritual realm called the Neither, which lies between Purgatory and Hell, risking their eternal soul in the process. This Masters Reimagined tale is written as if Gothic painter Michael Pacher painted his St. Augustine Confounds the Devil masterpiece specifically for the story. The painting depicts a daemon-like creature in all its bizarre detail interacting with a human St. Augustine of Hippo. Soul for a Soul posits Augustine meeting up with the daemon bearing the Book of Vices in fourth century northern Italy during a tumultuous period of the Christian Church. Amongst backstabbing, spiritual mysticism, murder, and unspeakable acts within the confines of the early Church, this fast-paced novelette is a gripping parable that interweaves historical fact with spine-tingling fantasy and attempts to answer what really happened to Augustine’s son.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Mo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/210876/bk_acx0_210876_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Slightly Dangerous: Bedwyn Saga, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 714min
    All of London is abuzz over the imminent arrival of Wulfric Bedwyn, the reclusive, cold-as-ice Duke of Bewcastle, at the most glittering social event of the season. Some whisper of a tragic love affair. Others say he is so aloof and passionless that not even the greatest beauty could capture his attention. But on this dazzling afternoon, one woman did catch the duke's eye - and she was the only female in the room who wasn't even trying. Christine Derrick is intrigued by the handsome duke...all the more so when he invites her to become his mistress. What red-blooded woman wouldn't enjoy a tumble in the bedsheets with a consummate lover - with no strings and no questions asked. An infuriating lady with very definite views on men, morals, and marriage, Christine confounds Wulfric at every turn. Yet even as the lone wolf of the Bedwyn clan vows to seduce her any way he can, something strange and wonderful is happening. Now for a man who thought he'd never lose his heart, nothing less than love will do. Contains mature themes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rosalyn Landor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/007467/bk_tant_007467_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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