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    A Girl Called Justice: The Spy at the Window
    Justice Jones, super-smart super-sleuth, is back for her fourth spine-tingling adventure! For fans of Robin Stevens, Katherine Woodfine and Enid Blyton.It's 1939 and war has broken out. Everything has changed at Highbury House school. The pupils have to help cook, clean and wash up, for a start! Then a boys' school is evacuated to Highbury House, and the girls have to share the building. Justice and her friends are delighted that there are still mysteries to solve, however. Like: why can they hear voices coming from an empty room? And how can there be a face at the window two storeys up?Then Justice faces her biggest challenge yet. Could there be a spy in their midst?Elly Griffiths is a bestselling, prize-winning adult crime writer best known for the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries.
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    The Stolen Child , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 766min
    St Brigid's Island lies off the west coast of Ireland, and by 1960 it is a community in decline. It possesses no modern conveniences; there are also no doctors, priests, running water or electricity. The government wants the island evacuated, but those who have refused to go cling hard to their traditions. Among those remaining families are two sisters, Rose and Emer. Rose is beautiful, blessed with fertility and a deep love for her husband, but her sister, Emer, is cursed with both being unlovely and possessing a punishing gift - the power to harm with the touch of her hands. Having been attacked by a swarm of bees as a child, she was blinded in one eye, and the islanders viewed the attack as an act of malice by the spiritual Other World, and Emer is forever marked. Their lack of compassion and her resulting isolation have left her bitter and mistrusting. Her loveless marriage is tolerable only because it produced her one cherished son, Niall, whose safety she obsesses over. When a stranger comes to the island in the form of a dazzling American named Brigid, the islanders are immediately suspicious of her and go out of their way to make her feel unwelcome. She and Emer strike up a surprising friendship. But tragedy strikes, and Emer betrays Brigid, who is ruthlessly persecuted by the locals. In the end, while the island is begrudgingly evacuated by its people, its inherent magic provides salvation for both women in a fabulous and breathtaking denouement. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Caroline Lennon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/001021/bk_orio_001021_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Above Us the Sky , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 832min
    June 1940, and newly qualified teacher Phyllis Saunders is evacuated with her school to Dorset. Here she encounters prejudice and suspicion, but she is determined to make the best of life for herself and the children in her care. All the while her fiancé, submariner Sammy, is facing danger out at sea. On a visit to London, Phyllis gets caught up in the Blitz but manages to escape. Shaken but alive, she returns to the relative peace of the countryside - but soon she is nursing a secret she can tell no-one about. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maggie Mash. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/000795/bk_oakh_000795_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The School of Night: Creeping Terror , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 242min
    The village of Templeton was evacuated during World War II - but something terrible stayed behind. Now even the ghosts are leaving. Ben and his new friends at the School of Night must find out what’s going on. But they are soon trapped in the village, where even the trees and plants turn against them. Could you survive against all the odds? Could you free the village from a curse that threatens the whole world? If you could, then maybe you have what it takes to join the School of Night… ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Toby Longworth. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/004956/bk_bbcw_004956_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Miracle of Dunkirk , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 604min
    The full inside story of one of the golden moments of World War II. On May 24, 1940, Hitler's armies were on the brink of a shattering military victory. Only 10 miles away, 400,000 Allied troops were pinned against the coast of Dunkirk. But just 11 days later, 338,000 men had been successfully evacuated to England. How did it happen? Walter Lord's remarkable account of how "the miracle of Dunkirk" came about is based on hundreds of interviews with survivors of all nations who fought among the sand dunes of northern France. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Cummings. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/003427/bk_blak_003427_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Woman on the Bridge, Hörbuch, Digital, 65min
    Chatsworth House during the Second World War. The Devonshire family make way for an evacuated girls' school, Chatsworth's grand interiors now converted to dormitories and classrooms. Pupils Ceri and Gwyneth explore these new surroundings and their history, above and below stairs. But a ghost story about a screaming woman on the bridge in the grounds seems disturbingly true - and all the more disturbing for the parallels it presents with the secret love affair they discover their charismatic teacher, Miss Cairns, is involved in.... Production Personnel: Gareth Brown Language: English. Narrator: Ceri Gifford, Jessica Dennis, James Parkes, Sarah Whitehouse. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010477/bk_blak_010477_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Letters from the Lighthouse , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 289min
    February 1941. After months of bombing raids in London, 12-year-old Olive Bradshaw and her little brother, Cliff, are evacuated to the Devon coast. The only person with two spare beds is Mr Ephraim, the local lighthouse keeper.  Desperate to be helpful, Olive becomes his post girl, carrying secret messages (as she likes to think of the letters) to the villagers. But Olive has a secret of her own. Her older sister, Sukie, went missing in an air raid, and she’s desperate to discover what happened to her. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Victoria Fox. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/001316/bk_oakh_001316_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Transfer of Power: Mitch Rapp Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1003min
    On a busy Washington morning, the stately calm of the White House is shattered in a deadly terrorist attack on the executive mansion. The president is evacuated to an underground bunker, but not before nearly 100 hostages are taken. Mitch Rapp, the CIA’s top counterterrorism operative, is sent in to take control of the crisis and determines that the president is not as safe as Washington’s power elite had thought. Indeed, Rapp has made a chilling discovery that could rock Washington to its core: someone within his own government wants his rescue attempt to fail. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Sullivan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/005553/bk_sans_005553_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Light a Penny Candle, Hörbuch, Digital, 165min
    Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, shy and genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the boisterous O'Connors in Kilgarret, Ireland. It is the beginning of an unshakeable bond between Elizabeth and Aisling O'Connor, a friendship which will endure through 20 turbulent years of change and chaos, joy and sorrow, soaring dreams and searing betrayals... Writing with warmth, wit and great compassion, Maeve Binchy tells a magnificent story of the lives and loves of two women, bound together in a friendship that nothing could tear asunder - not even the man who threatened to come between them forever.  Language: English. Narrator: Kate Binchy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bant/000206/bk_bant_000206_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fresh Air, Nicholas de Torrente, Hörbuch, Digital, 46min
    On this edition of Fresh Air, host Terry Gross speaks with Nicholas de Torrente, the executive director of the USA division of the French medical relief organization Doctors without Borders. During August, he was in the Northern Territory of Afghanistan checking on the work of the organization. Doctors without Borders had to negotiate with the Taliban to do their work. After the terrorist attacks, the organization evacuated all foreign workers from the country, leaving their Afghani staff behind. Other guests on the program includer new U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. His new collection of poems is Sailing Alone Around the Room. Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/010926/rt_whyy_010926_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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