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    Blush
    From acclaimed author Jamie Brenner comes a stunning new novel about three generations of women who discover that the scandalous books of their past may just be the key to saving their family's future. For decades, the Hollander Estates winery has been the premier destination for lavish parties and romantic day trips on the North Fork of Long Island. But behind the lush vineyards and majestic estate house, the Hollander family fortunes have suffered and the threat of a sale brings old wounds to the surface. For matriarch Vivian, she fears that this summer season could be their last-and that selling their winery to strangers could expose a dark secret she's harbored for decades. Meanwhile, her daughter, Leah, who was turned away from the business years ago, finds her marriage at a crossroads and returns home for a sorely needed escape. And granddaughter Sadie, grappling with a crisis of her own, runs to the vineyard looking for inspiration. But when Sadie uncovers journals from Vivian's old book club dedicated to scandalous novels of decades past, she realizes that this might be the distraction they all need. Reviving the "trashy" book club, the Hollander women find that the stories hold the key to their fight not only for the vineyeard, but for the life and love they've wanted all along. Blush is a bighearted story of love, family, and second chances, and an ode to the blockbuster novels that have shaped generations of women. Story Locale: Cutchogue, Long Island
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    If You Go Away , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 911min
    Glamorous debutantes, heartbreak and discovering just what is worth fighting for in the new historical novel from Sunday Times best seller Adele Parks. It's 1914. Vivian, a young, impassioned debutante is hurried into a pedestrian marriage to cover a scandal. War breaks out on her wedding day - domestically and across Europe. Quick to escape the disappointment of matrimony, her traditionalist husband immediately enlists, and Vivian has no alternative than to take up the management and running of his estate - after all, everyone is required to do their bit. Even pretty, inadequately educated young wives. Howard, a brilliant young playwright, rushes to the front to see for himself the best and the worst of humanity; he cannot imagine what the horror might be. In March 1916, when conscription becomes law, it is no longer enough for him to report on the war; it's a legal requirement that he joins the ranks. Howard refuses, becoming one of the most notorious conscientious objectors of the time. Disarmingly handsome, famous, articulate and informed, he's a threat to the government. Narrowly escaping a death sentence by agreeing to take essential work on Vivian's farm, it's only then Howard understands what is worth fighting for. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlotte Strevens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/head/000424/bk_head_000424_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Bite Before Christmas , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 549min
    In this extraordinary collection of holiday novellas, vampires turn to Angelina Ricci - vampire matchmaker extraordinaire - to help them find that special someone to curl up with under the mistletoe.... "All I Vant For Christmas": Connor loves trimming the Christmas tree, baking gingerbread cookies, and hanging the mistletoe. But his vampire siblings won't help. His friend Angelina sends party planner Jillian to the rescue. But when Jillian, who's mortal, discovers she's decking the halls for a family of vampires, she must decide between running for her life - or putting Connor's mistletoe to good use.... "A Vampire in Her Stocking": When Vivian learns that her secret crush Sean is terminally ill, she's heartbroken. Confiding in Angelina, Vivian refuses to turn Sean into a vampire. Deciding to play Santa, Angelina changes Sean and leaves him wrapped in a red bow on Vivian's doorstep.... "It's A Wonderful Bite": Although Angelina is happy with her boyfriend Ian, she's ready for a commitment. After drinking eggnog and watching It's a Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve, Angelina falls into a dream where she is mortal and Ian isn't interested in her. Talk about the nightmare before Christmas! But Santa must have checked his list twice because this Christmas Angelina's wishes are coming true.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen Chilton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013635/bk_adbl_013635_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Medusa's Child, Hörbuch, Digital, 294min
    For 30-year-old captain Scott McKay, the transport run from Miami to Denver will give him the money he desperately needs to keep his fledgling air cargo company flying. When a mysterious crate is discovered on his plane, however, McKay is ordered to abandon his present course and fly the crate and its owner, Vivian Henry, to Washington, D.C., before going to Denver. McKay takes the forced detour in stride - until a strange noise comes from deep inside the crate. It is the voice of Vivian's husband, Dr. Rogers Henry, warning that the shipment they are carrying is actually a fully armed Medusa device, a thermonuclear bomb that can destroy every computer chip over an entire continent, and blast the Silicon Age back to the Stone Age. And it is set to go off within hours. As panic spreads from the small community of nuclear scientists who used to work for Dr. Rogers Henry to the White House and eventually to the general public, a group of rogue military officers conspires to disobey the President's orders and secure the technology of the Medusa device, whatever the cost. Will Captain McKay and his crew trust their own instincts to dispose of the bomb, or will they let a misguided government dictate their actions? Language: English. Narrator: John J. Nance. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/001387/bk_brll_001387_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Chimera , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 696min
    The forest is full of secrets. And who knows them better than Nessa Kurland, a 16-year-old cross-country star with a secret of her own: She can transform at will into a werewolf, and her power grows stronger with every moon. Nessa returns home from a run with her pack to find an FBI raid and the shocking news that her mother, Vivian, is being arrested for violations so serious she may be facing life in prison. What did Nessa's mother, a small-town vet tech, do to threaten Homeland Security? Vivian's secret past leads Nessa to discover there is more to her story than she ever imagined. The wolves that are running through Tether's woods are not the same pack Nessa knew before. These are not all natural wolves. And they are breeding. As the lines between science, nature, and magic fade into one another, nothing is as it appears. And the wolves are not the only creatures in the woods. Nessa's transformation is only just beginning.... Filled with romance, tragedy, perseverance, and adventure, C. D. Bell's Chimera is a breathtaking continuation of Nessa's story, as she confronts the truth of who she is, where she comes from, and what she has to do to survive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elizabeth Evans. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/030945/bk_adbl_030945_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Stuck in Manistique , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 601min
    Near the midpoint of the Upper Peninsula, along a Lake Michigan bend of shore, is the town of Manistique, Michigan. Mark had never heard of Manistique before the death of his estranged aunt, but as sole beneficiary of Vivian's estate, he travels there to settle her affairs. As Mark tours his aunt's house for the first time, the doorbell rings.Days after graduating medical school, Dr. Emily Davis drives north, struggling with her illicit rendezvous on Mackinac Island. She never makes it - on the highway near Manistique, her car collides with a deer, shattering the car's windshield. Stranded for the night, Emily is directed to a nearby bed-and-breakfast.Maybe it's a heady reaction, the revelation that his aunt, an international aid doctor, ran a bed-and-breakfast in retirement. Or perhaps he plainly feels pity for the young, helpless doctor. Regardless, Mark decides to play host for one night, telling Emily that he's merely stepping in temporarily while his aunt is away.As a one-night stay turns into another and more guests arrive, the ersatz innkeeper steadily loses control of his story. And though Emily opens up to Mark, she has trouble explaining the middle-aged man who unexpectedly arrives at the doorstep looking for her.Will these two strangers, holding on to unraveling secrets, remain in town long enough to discover the connection between them? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy Arthur. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/139211/bk_acx0_139211_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    I Spy a Duke (Covert Heiresses Book 1) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 609min
    In the first in an adventurous new series, USA Today best-selling author Erica Monroe introduces the Covert Heiresses: women who by day are the talk of the ton, and by night England's top spies.She wants revengeWhen bluestocking Vivian Loren becomes the governess for the wealthy Spencer family, she's hunting for clues about the murder of her brother, not romance. But Vivian didn't count on one thing: James Spencer, the intrepid Duke of Abermont, who has a tortured past of his own.He needs a wifeAs head of Britain's elite intelligence agency, James can't afford the scrutiny the Marriage Mart would bring to his family once the season starts. After discovering Vivian's quest for vengeance has made her a pawn in a treacherous plot of one of Napoleon's most deadly spies, James realizes they can help each other. She'll become his duchess, and he'll keep her safe. What begins as a marriage of convenience quickly becomes anything but as the enemy spy closes in on them. When both husband and wife have dark secrets, love may be the most dangerous mission of all.I Spy a Duke is a dark, sexy Regency romance with suspense elements. While it is book one of the Covert Heiresses series, it can be read as a standalone full-length historical romance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fiona Honan-Bowes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/135525/bk_acx0_135525_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Orphan Train Girl: The Young Readers' Edition of Orphan Train , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 272min
    This young listeners' edition of Christina Baker Kline's New York Times best-selling novel Orphan Train follows a young foster girl who forms an unlikely bond with a 91-year-old woman. Adapted and condensed for a young audience, Orphan Train Girl includes an author's note. Molly Ayer has been in foster care since she was eight years old. Most of the time, Molly knows it's her attitude that's the problem, but after being shipped from one family to another, she's had her fair share of adults treating her like an inconvenience. So when Molly's forced to help an elderly woman clean out her attic for community service, Molly is wary. Just another adult to treat her like a troublemaker. But from the very moment they meet, Molly realizes that Vivian, a well-off 91-year-old, isn't like any of the adults she's encountered before. Vivian asks Molly questions about her life and actually listens when Molly responds. Molly soon sees they have more in common than she thought. Vivian was once an orphan, too - an Irish immigrant to New York City who was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children - and she can understand, better than anyone else, the emotional binds that have been making Molly's life so hard. Together, they not only clear boxes of past mementos from Vivian's attic, but forge a path of friendship, forgiveness, and new beginnings for their future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jessica Almasy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/030498/bk_adbl_030498_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Concerning Breakfast, Hörbuch, Digital, 34min
    A couple of years ago, Annie was volunteering at a public radio station. The reporters who trained her told her that asking people what they had for breakfast was a good way to set your recording levels and make the interview subjects more comfortable. To Annie, what people had for breakfast was the most interesting part of the conversation. In this season of feasting and family, and the anxiety sometimes associated with it, we have a featured program about eating, and not eating-precisely, about Anorexia. Credits: Produced and engineered by Jay Allison; Written and co-produced by Annie Cheney; Editorial help from Christina Egloff; Thanks to Ira Glass and This American Life; Funding for Jay Allison's Life Stories series comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting The teacup illustration on this page is by Annie's mother, Virginia Burns Cheney. Postscripts: On Vivian: Vivian's alive and eating in New York City. Since she was interviewed for this story, she's rediscovered life and is making a lot of progress in her recovery. She's started riding horses again, which she hadn't been able to do for years because of her illness. She's also enjoying all kinds of new foods and restaurants. She and Annie eat out together whenever they get the chance. On Annie: Annie's living in Chinatown in New York City, making radio stories in her studio/bedroom. She received the Emerging Artists Radio/Sound Art Fellowship from The Media Alliance in June of '99 and is working on a story about women transit workers. Although her apartment is too small for a piano, she still plays her parents' grand whenever she visits. Jay Allison is the Peabody Award-winning producer of The Kitchen Sisters. Language: English. Narrator: Annie Cheney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/jaya/000001/rt_jaya_000001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Suspenseful Starts: Historical Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1303min
    Dark, dangerous, emotional historical romance.Join dashing heroes, scandalous scoundrels, and rebellious women in USA Today best-selling author Erica Monroe's suspenseful historical romance series: Covert Heiresses and the Rookery Rogues.Meet the covert heiresses: women who by day are the talk of the ton and by night England's top spies.I Spy a DukeShe wants revenge.When bluestocking Vivian Loren becomes the governess for the wealthy Spencer family, she's hunting for clues about the murder of her brother, not romance. But Vivian didn't count on one thing: James Spencer, the intrepid duke of Abermont, who has a tortured past of his own.He needs a wife.As head of Britain's elite intelligence agency, James can't afford the scrutiny the Marriage Mart would bring to his family once the Season starts. After discovering Vivian's quest for vengeance has made her a pawn in a treacherous plot of one of Napoleon's most deadly spies, James realizes they can help each other. She'll become his duchess, and he'll keep her safe.What begins as a marriage of convenience quickly becomes anything but as secrets surface. When both husband and wife have dark secrets, love may be the most dangerous mission of all.The Rookery Rogues features thieves, metropolitan police officers, and hellions in the gritty London underworld.A Dangerous InvitationShe's given up on love and wants only independence....Torn from her life of privilege by her father's death, Kate Morgan survives in London's dark and depraved rookeries as a fence for stolen goods. The last man she ever expects, or wants, to be reunited with is her first love, who promised to cherish, honor and protect her and instead fled amid accusations of murder.He's the reformed rake determined to win her back.One drunken night cost Daniel O'Reilly the woman he loved. If he ever wants to reclaim Kate - and his old life - h ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fiona Honan-Bowes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/211122/bk_acx0_211122_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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