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    The Holly Tree , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 461min
    Sasha, the attractive inspiring tutor of a watercolour evening class, is tired of a sterile relationship. Among her students is Caroline, a soldier’s wife desperately anxious about her. Alice, the oldest of the group, has unexpectedly found a new life and forms a deep friendship with Moira, recently widowed, who is racked with worry about her daughter Vanessa. Roger is looking for new love, and Pauline is afraid of being left on the shelf. The talented Martin, who mysteriously comes and goes, is an unsettling and almost ominous presence. Love and friendship is the theme of this engrossing novel about a group of people whose lives over the course of a single year become interwoven in often surprising and unexpected ways. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Liz Holliss. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/001367/bk_isis_001367_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Flyaway , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 442min
    Lucy Christopher’s debut novel Stolen was an international hit and was recognized with a Printz Honor. In Flyaway, Christopher crafts a touching novel about hope, friendship, and family. When her father collapses from heart problems and is taken to the hospital, 13-year-old Isla is racked with guilt and fear. She was the one who insisted her father take her out that morning to look at the wild swans, and now she could lose him forever. But then she meets Harry, a boy with leukemia, who seems to understand her like no one else. Together, Isla and Harry embark on a quest to save a swan that cannot fly - and discover that perhaps miracles really can happen. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Harriett Carmichael. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/005272/bk_reco_005272_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Hotel Years
    The hotel that I love like a fatherland is situated in one of the great port cities of Europe, and the heavy gold Antiqua letters in which its banal name is spelled out shining across the roofs of the gently banked houses are in my eye metal flags, metal bannerets that instead of fluttering shine out their greeting.In the 1920s and 30s, Joseph Roth travelled extensively in Europe, leading a peripatetic life living in hotels and writing about the towns through which he passed. Incisive, nostalgic, curious and sharply observed - and collected together here for the first time - his pieces paint a picture of a continent racked by change yet clinging to tradition. From the 'compulsive' exercise regime of the Albanian army, the rickety industry of the new oil capital of Galicia, and 'split and scalped' houses of Tirana forced into modernity, to the individual and idiosyncratic characters that Roth encounters in his hotel stays, these tender and quietly dazzling vignettes form a series of literary postcards written from a bygone world, creeping towards world war.
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    The Suicide Academy: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 332min
    A dark and beautiful tale of a most unusual school. Wolf Walker is the director of the Suicide Academy. Troubled individuals come to his school for just one day and must decide whether to end their lives. As for Wolf himself, he is suffering a kind of death-in-life. The Academy’s board members have involved him in a policy skirmish, and the depressed employee he had an affair with is not getting any better. When his ex-wife, Jewel, and her husband come on the scene, ostensibly to make a film about the Academy, he is racked by old jealousies - and he also wonders, might she secretly be checking in? Packed with meaning, The Suicide Academy is a gripping existential parable about souls adrift in modern life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Parks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016038/bk_adbl_016038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Center of Gravity: Star Carrier, Book Two , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 795min
    In the evolution of every sentient race, there is a turning point when the species achieves transcendence through technology. The warlike Sh'daar are determined that this monumental milestone will never be achieved by the creatures known as human. On the far side of known human space, the Marines are under siege, battling the relentless servant races of the Sh'daar aggressor. With a task force stripped to the bone and the Terran Confederation of States racked by dissent, rogue Admiral Alexander Koenig must make the momentous decision that will seal his fate and the fate of humankind. A strong defensive posture is futile, so Koenig will seize the initiative and turn the gargantuan Star Carrier America toward the unknown. For the element of surprise is the only hope of stalling the Sh'daar assault on Earth's solar system - and the war for humankind's survival must be taken directly to the enemy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Sullivan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000249/bk_acx0_000249_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Best of Car Talk, The Mechanic in the Redwood, November 7, 2015, Hörbuch, Digital, 54min
    This week on The Best of Car Talk, Nathan is living in a redwood tree to protest deforestation. He's noticed that one of the trucks that passes his perch every day is running rough, so he's decided to take "shade tree mechanic" to a whole new level, and try to help his nemesis smooth out his ride. Elsewhere, after 30 years of clean driving, Esther has racked up three speeding tickets in the last six months. She's convinced it's the carvs fault. Can she convince Tom and Ray to write her a Get Out of Traffic Court Free letter? Also, Chris insists on turning off his Subaru's AC at Stop signs. He thinks hevs saving the engine. Chris' wife thinks he's a wimp. What do Tom and Ray think? Find out, this week on The Best of Car Talk. [Broadcast Date: November 7, 2015] Language: English. Narrator: Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/cart/151107/rt_cart_151107_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Waiting for the End of the World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 667min
    A photographer descends into New York City’s chaotic and brutal underground in this sweeping story of the Big Apple at its seediest. It’s 1982, and Clarence Dmitri Larkin is working as a photographer at Bellevue hospital in Manhattan. The job offers a painfully clear perspective on a city sick with madness, fraught with crime, and coming apart at the seams. Larkin’s curiosity soon leads to a subterranean world of all the city’s secret dangers, including domestic terrorists with a nuclear device, a serial killer inspired by an occult past, and a disfigured arsonist who just might be the one to burn the whole city down. Waiting for the End of the World is a gritty portrait of 1980s New York, and an engrossing look at the battle of good versus evil in a city racked with violence and paranoia. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marc Vietor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012658/bk_adbl_012658_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Day After Darkness: A Grid Down Survival Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 776min
    A devastating attack destroys the power grid, plunging the country into chaos.Nate Bauer and his pregnant wife Amy are bracing for the worst winter storm in a century, when a terrorist attack takes out the power grid, crippling the country at the worst possible moment.With temperatures plummeting and law and order unraveling all around them, news soon emerges that the local nuclear power is on the brink of a meltdown.Separated during the chaotic evacuation that follows, Nate soon finds himself alone in a frozen world racked by chaos and mounting levels of radiation. Traveling through this dangerous new world to reach his family and get them to safety will require guts, cunning, and every survival skill at his disposal.The Day After Darkness is a nail-biting, post-apocalyptic ride perfect for fans of EMP and survival fiction. Previously published as books one and two of America Offline. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Tiedemann. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/233870/bk_acx0_233870_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Devil's Novice: The Eighth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 507min
    Outside the pale of the Abbey of Saint Peters and Saint Paul, in September of the year of our Lord 1140, a priestly emissary for King Stephen has been reported missing. But inside the pale, what troubles Brother Cadfael is a proud, secretive 19-year-old novice. Brother Cadfael has never seen two men more estranged than the Lord of Aspley and Meriet, the son he coldly delivers to the abbey to begin a religious vocation. Meriet, meek by day, is so racked by dreams at night that his howls earn him the nickname the Devil's Novice. Shunned and feared, Meriet is soon linked to the missing priest's dreadful fate. Only Brother Cadfael believes in Meriet's innocence, and only the good sleuth can uncover the truth before a boy's pure passion, not evil intent, leads a novice to the noose. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vanessa Benjamin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000411/bk_blak_000411_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Walking Drum , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 990min
    Louis L’Amour has been best known for his ability to capture the spirit and drama of the authentic American West. Now he guides his listeners to an even more distant frontier - the enthralling lands of the 12th century.   Warrior, lover, and scholar Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge, danger, and revenge. Across Europe, over the Russian steppes, and through the Byzantine wonders of Constantinople, Kerbouchard is thrust into the treacheries, passions, violence, and dazzling wonders of a magnificent time.   From castle to slave galley, from sword-racked battlefields to a princess’ secret chamber, and ultimately, to the impregnable fortress of the Valley of Assassins, The Walking Drum is a powerful adventure in an ancient world that you will find every bit as riveting as Louis L’Amour’s stories of the American West. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Curless. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002465/bk_rand_002465_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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