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  A Game of Persuasion: Scandalous Spinsters, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 300min

  A night she'll never forget. Miss Lucy Lancester has loved her brother's best friend, Roman Alexander, for as long as she can remember. So devotedly, she's vowed never to marry anyone else. But her beloved libertine is hardly aware of her existence, and not the least deserving of her affection. Deciding her cause is lost, she makes plans to open a girls' school in Bath. There's just one thing she needs to do before she confirms her spinsterhood forever: spend one blissful night in Roman's arms. But her handsome rogue isn't ready to have the tables turned. It will take more than a coquettish smile to turn his head. She must play a game of persuasion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marian Hussey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/060128/bk_acx0_060128_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Marriage Under Discipline: A Femdom Steampunk Story: The Eradication of Vice, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 60min, (USK 18)

  Entrapped by a curious codicil in his great-aunt’s will into a cruel regime of sexual denial, the hapless Archie Duntisbourne continues to suffer at the hands of the British Women’s Association for the Eradication of Vice. Locked into chastity by cruel tormentrix Evelyn Harper and teased mercilessly by his coquettish fiance Alyssa Bucklesham, Archie finds himself an unlikely hero of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation, bitter enemies of the Association.As the date of his enforced nuptials draws near, Archie wonders if he can escape his arranged marriage to Miss Bucklesham, or if must he look forward to a lifetime of sexual torment and flagellation from his wife-to-be and mother-in-law?A headlong gallop through a neo-Victorian retro-futurist world in which fiercely determined women hold the whip hand. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Teresa-May Whittaker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/149001/bk_acx0_149001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Keep What Remains , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 360min

  It’s 1985. MTV and big hair are in full force, and 16-year-old Megan is navigating her mediocre life inside the bubble her overprotective dad created for her. Just when she thinks her social life’s dead, her best friend Tessa -a coquettish risk-taker - moves to a new school, and Megan embarks on a journey with Tessa that changes everything for them. When Megan meets a boy named Jason, who’s a charming misfit, she’s pulled into his world capturing her heart and luring her away from her old, safe life. Diving headfirst into an all-encompassing new love, she soon gets caught up in the lies she’s told while experiencing emotions only first love brings. Tragedy strikes, bringing Megan heartbreak and yet, a new beginning. Megan’s left to make the hardest decision she’s ever faced. Will she choose to go back to life before she met Jason or choose love over everything else? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jessica Bellinger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/222449/bk_acx0_222449_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Action : Murmur Inc, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 580min

  Pete Griflow is the last person anyone would suspect of being a porn star. He’s quiet, gawky, and can’t even talk to guys without turning red. But on camera, he’s a different person. In the porn world, he’s Jaden Prime, a coquettish power bottom who’s been tantalizing fans for over a year now. Pete is in a rut, though, and he knows it. And what’s worse, his boss knows it. If he can’t reignite his passion for the biz, he’s going to have trouble paying his none-too-cheap college tuition. When Pete is given the opportunity to star in a huge summer production, sparks fly between him and his costar, Kyle Darko. Kyle is Pete’s opposite: He’s daring, achingly sexy, and in love with the sex industry. Their chemistry is palpable on and off screen, but dating on a porn set is tricky. Even pros struggle to separate fantasy from reality, especially with a script dictating their seduction. But what’s building between them can’t be ignored, and it’s so much more than getting some “action”.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick J. Russo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129107/bk_acx0_129107_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Duchesse of Langeais (eBook, ePUB)

  In this tale the Duchesse de Langeais leads General Armande de Montriveau by the nose in her distinct coquettish yet grandiose manner. But as a member of the Thirteen, Armande kidnaps the Duchesse and threatens to have her branded as a criminal. However, he returns her unscathed.Suddenly the Duchesse develops feelings for Armande, who now will have nothing to do with her. After sparking rumours in Paris that she is visiting him, she disappears. Then Armande realises that he wants her more than ever before...A romantic and greatly tumultuous tale with an unexpected ending. A perfect fit for readers seeking a romance novel infused with notes of irony and the supernatural. A critically-acclaimed film adaptation of the same name was released in 2007, starring Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Michel Piccoli and Bulle Ogier. Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist and playwright, most famous for his collection of novels and plays, collectively called 'The Human Comedy'. His detailed observation of humanity and realistic depiction of society makes him one of the earliest representatives of realism in Europe. He was a master-creator of complex characters that often found themselves in ambiguous moral dilemmas.

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  Dancing with Mr. D. Der Tod in Popmusik und Kunst

  Ein guter Song, tanzbar, drei Minuten, vergänglich. Das Ende ist gewiss und so unausweichlich wie der Tod. Der Beat ist eingängig und doch, in den Lyrics wird gestorben, gemordet und getrauert. Die Vergänglichkeit und das Sterben, aber auch ein koketter Umgang mit dem Tod, sind in der Rock- und Popmusik der Jugendkultur der 1950er und 1960er-Jahre omnipräsent. Die Themen ähneln denjenigen der Bildenden Künste aus der Tradition der Totentänze und Vanitas-Darstellungen. Der vorliegende Band führt die beiden Stränge zusammen: Exemplarisch werden Songs und Bands vom Beat der 1960er-Jahre, dem Classic Rock, Punk und Reggae bis hin zum Pop und Hip Hop vorgestellt und mit Abbildungen aus der Graphiksammlung Mensch und Tod der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf sowie zeitgenössischen Kunstwerken verknüpft.A good song, danceable, three minutes, and then it's over. The beat is catchy, and yet the lyrics tell a tale of death, murder and mourning. Transience and mortality - but also a coquettish way of dealing with death - are omnipresent in the rock and pop music of the youth culture of the 1950s and 60s. The themes are similar to those of the fine arts from the tradition of the 'dance of death' and vanitas motifs. The present volume brings the two strands together.

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  Gods and Monsters: The Metamorphoses Series, Book Three , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1128min

  A stand-alone companion to Of Moths and Butterflies and Cry of the Peacock.As a widower, Nathanial Durham has the monumental responsibility of finding suitable husbands for his two daughters. Flirtatious and changeable, Bethany might have nearly anyone, but she seems determined to toss her suitors away almost the moment they arrive. Laynie, on the other hand, far behind her sister in looks and charm, is of especial concern to her father. And so, when Harold Vaughn returns home to inherit, it seems the problem, at least for one of his daughters, is solved. Only which daughter will it be?Even his girls cannot quite decide, and so, to cool the rivalry, the sisters are sent to an aunt’s, where they are thrown into the path of other young and eligible gentlemen - and a new rivalry begins. Meanwhile, Mr. Durham, lonely for intelligent companionship, hires a gentleman to read to him several nights a week, but Mr. Holbrook is off limits to his coquettish girls. With varying degrees of reluctance, they honor the agreement. At least Beth does for herself, but if it's possible, Mr. Holbrook might provide a distraction for her sister while she decides which gentleman she prefers for herself. What harm can there be? Some, it seems. When Laynie, accident prone and determined to get herself into any fix that comes her way, falls from a horse, she sets in motion a series of events that expose Mr. Holbrook as a man of questionable integrity. Is it possible Mr. Durham’s hired companion is capable of the wrongs laid at his door? Is it possible Laynie has been mistaken in esteeming him as a man of character?Is it possible to know anyone truly? Between the manufactured innocence of a young woman and the championed exploits of every man, what happens when the two opposing doctrines collide?  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stacey Patrone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/146325/bk_acx0_146325_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Can You Forgive Her? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1688min

  Exclusively from Audible Can You Forgive Her? is the first of the six in the Palliser series. Trollope inextricably binds together the issues of parliamentary election and marriage, of politics and privacy. The values and aspirations of the governing stratum of Victorian society are ruthlessly examined, and none remains unscathed. But above all Trollope focuses on the predicament of women. 'What should a woman do with her life?' asks Alice Vavasor of herself, and this theme is echoed by every other woman, from her friend, the uncomfortably married Lady Glencora, to her aunt, the coquettish Mrs. Greenow, as well as her clear-headed cousin, Kate. Alice is torn between marrying her ambitious but violent cousin George or the bland but gentlemanly John Grey, ending up both accepting and rejecting each of them in turn and thus transgressing from the Victorian moral code. In contrast, her friend Lady Glencora is forced to marry the rising politician Plantagenet Palliser to prevent the worthless Burgo Fitzgerald from wasting her vast fortune. Trollope was considered one of the most successful and respected English writers of the Victorian era. With more than 40 published novels, they are regarded by some as among the greatest of 19th-century fiction. Many of his works covered political, social and gender issues. Fans of his work have included former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir John Major. Narrator Biography Timothy West is prolific in film, television, theatre and audiobooks. He has narrated a number of Anthony Trollope’s classics, including the six Chronicles of Barsetshire and The Pallisers series. He has also narrated volumes of Simon Schama’s A History of Britain and John Mortimer’s Rumpole on Trial. Timothy West’s theatre roles include King Lear, The Vote, Uncle Vanya, A Number, Quarter, and i ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Timothy West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/003288/bk_bbcw_003288_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1063min

  With his usual storytelling flair and unparalleled research, Tom Fleming offers a compelling, intimate look at the founders—George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison—and the women who played essential roles in their lives. From hot-tempered Mary Ball Washington to promiscuous Rachel Lavien Hamilton, the founding fathers’ mothers powerfully shaped their sons’ visions of domestic life. But lovers and wives played more critical roles as friends and often partners in fame. We learn of the youthful Washington’s tortured love for the coquettish Sarah Fairfax, wife of his close friend; of Franklin's two “wives,” one in London and one in Philadelphia; of Adams’s long absences, which required a lonely, deeply unhappy Abigail to keep home and family together for years on end; of Hamilton’s adulterous betrayal of his wife and their reconciliation; and how the brilliant Madison was jilted by a flirtatious fifteen-year-old and went on to marry the effervescent Dolley, who helped make this shy man into a popular president. Jefferson’s controversial relationship to Sally Hemings is also examined, with a different vision of where his heart lay. Fleming nimbly takes us through a great deal of early American history, as the founding fathers strove to reconcile their private and public lives, often beset by a media every bit as gossip-seeking and inflammatory as ours today. He offers a powerful look at the challenges women faced in the late eighteenth and early 19th centuries. While often brilliant and articulate, the wives of the founding fathers all struggled with the distractions and dangers of frequent childbearing and searing anxiety about infant mortality. All the more remarkable, then, that these women loomed so large in the lives of their husbands—and, in some cases, their country. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Morey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/003940/bk_blak_003940_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1039min

  Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for FictionIn 1780s London, a prosperous merchant finds his quiet life upended when he unexpectedly receives a most unusual creature - and meets a most extraordinary woman - in this much-lauded, atmospheric debut that examines our capacity for wonder, obsession, and desire with all the magnetism, originality, and literary magic of The Essex Serpent.One September evening in 1785, Jonah Hancock hears an urgent knocking on his front door near the docks of London. The captain of one of Jonah’s trading vessels is waiting eagerly on the front step, bearing shocking news. On a voyage to the Far East, he sold the Jonah’s ship for something rare and far more precious: a mermaid. Jonah is stunned - the object the captain presents him is brown and wizened, as small as an infant, with vicious teeth and claws, and a torso that ends in the tail of a fish. It is also dead.As gossip spreads through the docks, coffee shops, parlors and brothels, all of London is curious to see this marvel in Jonah Hancock’s possession. Thrust from his ordinary existence, somber Jonah finds himself moving from the city’s seedy underbelly to the finest drawing rooms of high society. At an opulent party, he makes the acquaintance of the coquettish Angelica Neal, the most desirable woman he has ever laid eyes on - and a shrewd courtesan of great accomplishment. This meeting sparks a perilous liaison that steers both their lives onto a dangerous new course as they come to realize that priceless things often come at the greatest cost.Imogen Hermes Gowar, Britain’s most-heralded new literary talent, makes her debut with this spellbinding novel of a merchant, a mermaid, and a madam - an unforgettable confection that explores obsession, wonder, and the deepest desires of the heart with bawdy wit, intrigue, and a touch of magic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Juliet Stevenson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007788/bk_harp_007788_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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