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The Longbourn Quarantine: A Pride & Prejudice Variation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 230min

Refugees flood the roads. The feared specter of smallpox has escaped London’s grimy docklands and now threatens the wealthy districts. Amongst that ragged stream is a single carriage jostling its way toward Meryton. Inside are the Darcy siblings along with Charles and Caroline Bingley. They desperately seek the safety of Netherfield Park. For all their riches, they cannot evade the plague’s dark hand. Bingley’s leasehold has been reduced to rubble as roving bands rape, pillage, and burn. The only sanctuary is Longbourn where, once installed, the Darcys and Bingleys are barred from leaving by a fortnight’s quarantine. Events converge with disease in The Longbourn Quarantine. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy abandon old prejudices in the face of grief and mourning. Pride is set aside as Death hovers nearby. The couple forges ahead, knowing that love unexplored is love lost — that words must be said lest they remain unspoken in the time of epidemic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stevie Zimmerman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/224620/bk_acx0_224620_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Soprano: A Haunting Supernatural Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 445min

It is 1951 and a remote mining village on the North Staffordshire Moors is hit by one of the worst snowstorms in living memory. Cut off for over three weeks, the old and the sick will die; the strongest bunker down; and those with evil intent will bring to its conclusion a family vendetta spanning three generations. Inspired by a true event, The Soprano tells the story of Grace Holland - a strikingly beautiful, much admired local celebrity who brings glamour and inspiration to the grimy moorland community. But why is Grace still here? Why doesn't she leave this staunchly Methodist, rain-sodden place and the isolated farmhouse she shares with her mother? Riddled with witchcraft and tales of superstition, the story is mostly narrated by the Whistler family who own the local funeral parlour, in particular six year old Louise - now an elderly lady - who recalls one of the most shocking crimes imaginable. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Henrietta Meire. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/009161/bk_tant_009161_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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In the Stormy Red Sky: RCN Series, Book 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 869min

Daniel Leary is Cinnabar's most successful space captain; his friend, Lady Adele Mundy, is its most efficient spy - but they've got their hands full as they face: A Cinnabar Senator furious at losing an election - and still powerful enough to make her anger deadly The boy ruler of a star cluster who thinks he's a god - and who can sign the death warrants of even Cinnabar officials if a mad whimsy tells him to A world of slaves and escaped slaves, where the most savage beasts in the jungle used to be human An enemy base that could shrug off attack by powerful battlefleets - but which must fall to a single cruiser if Cinnabar is to surviveFrom palace to reeking jungle, from gunfights in grimy hangars, to the flagship's bridge during a sprawling space battle, Leary and Mundy are in the thick of it again. Watch the galaxy explode In the Stormy Red Sky. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Drake, Victor Bevine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/000804/bk_adbl_000804_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Buried Alive, Hörbuch, Digital, 351min

Buried Alive (1908) is a witty satire by Arnold Bennett about a shy painter. Excerpt from the book:"The peculiar angle of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic - that angle which is chiefly responsible for our geography and therefore for our history - had caused the phenomenon known in London as summer. The whizzing globe happened to have turned its most civilized face away from the sun, thus producing night in Selwood Terrace, South Kensington.No. 91 was one of about ten thousand similar houses between South Kensington Station and North End Road. With its grimy stucco front, its cellar kitchen, its hundred stairs and steps, its perfect inconvenience, and its conscience heavy with the doing to death of sundry general servants, it uplifted tin chimney-cowls to heaven and gloomily awaited the day of judgment for London houses, sublimely ignoring the axial and orbital velocities of the earth. You felt that No. 91 was unhappy." Language: English. Narrator: David Beed. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/010128/bk_edel_010128_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Immortalists

'Once I started reading The Immortalists, I resented every moment I had to spend away from the book until I'd finished' Stylist'A compelling and utterly absorbing read with virtuoso storytelling on display' Sunday ExpressIt's 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York's Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young for what they're about to hear, sneak out to learn their fortunes.Such prophecies could be dismissed as trickery and nonsense, yet the Golds bury theirs deep. Over the years that follow they attempt to ignore, embrace, cheat and defy the 'knowledge' given to them that day - but it will shape the course of their lives forever.Readers love The Immortalists:'I read this book over three days and will remember it for a lifetime' *****'This is a book that I never wanted to finish reading. I truly enjoyed each single word of it' *****'A book of epic proportions. . . mystical and hugely memorable . . . I can't praise it highly enough. A must read!' *****'Deserves all the noise around it' *****'One of those books I wish I could un-read so I could read it all over again for the first time' *****'A perfect book club read' *****

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The Manifold: Tsun-Tsun TzimTzum, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2056min

My name's Noah Kilmartin. I'm from Ruddock, Ohio, and I'm just about 50 percent unqualified to save the universe from the slavering demonic hordes of the super evil bitch queen Lilith.But just when I thought things were starting to look up...My companions and I arrive in Tagimron, the sphere of discordance. It's a hellscape on wheels, and every aspect of this claustrophobic and grimy world is intent on tearing my companions and I apart. Our only chance of resisting corruption and failure is to hold fast to the bonds that unite us, the love and faith that keep us strong.But Tagimron is a world designed to exploit our greatest weaknesses, to weaponize our fears, doubts, and traumas. As perilous as our foes may be, the greatest danger in this sphere may very well be ourselves.Wish me luck. We're all going to need it.Warning and minor spoilers: The Manifold is an 18+ book intended for mature listeners. It contains graphic sex and copious amounts of medieval violence. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Leo Barnabas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/050813/bk_adbl_050813_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Snowman of Zanzibar , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 782min

Ex-Rhodesian soldier Jason Green was frustrated and mildly depressed. The winter in London had been long and bitterly cold. The steady work as a freelance insurance fraud investigator was mundane and repetitive. This tedious monotony suddenly changes early on a frigid February morning when he is summoned to the offices of a wealthy investment banker in the City. The brief: to ascertain the source of the unanticipated wealth of the man's high-flying young son. The time frame, urgent. The payout, enormous. Inspired and rejuvenated, Green takes the job immediately. The roller-coaster ride that follows takes Jason Green from the grimy streets of London to the beaches of Cape Town and ultimately to the dark tropical jungles of the spice island of Zanzibar. Intrigue, chaos, murder, betrayal, and revenge follow swiftly as a series of unfortunate events unfold. Events far beyond Green's control. Events that result in unspeakable violence and horror. The action comes hard and fast in this addictive audiobook and culminates in an ending that will leave the listener breathless. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Sharp. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/123151/bk_acx0_123151_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Dark Forces: The 13th Spider Shepherd Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 800min

When you're caught between two evils, only the most decisive will survive. The 13th audiobook in action supremo Stephen Leather's Spider Shepherd series is his most pulse-pounding yet.... A violent South London gang will be destroyed if Dan 'Spider' Shepherd can gather enough evidence against them while posing as a ruthless hit man. What he doesn't know is that his work as an undercover agent for MI5 is about to intersect with the biggest terrorist operation ever carried out on British soil. Only weeks before, Shepherd witnessed a highly skilled IS sniper escape from a targeted missile strike in Syria. But never in his wildest dreams did he expect to next come across the shooter in a grimy East London flat. Spider's going to have to proceed with extreme caution if he is to prevent the deaths of hundreds of people, but at the same time, when the crucial moment comes he will have to act decisively. The clock is ticking, and only he stands between us and Armageddon.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Thornley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/001002/bk_hodd_001002_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Orphan Zoo: The Rise and Fall of the Farm at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 75min

Sabine Heinlein spent almost a year reporting at "The Farm", a program for mental patients at the notorious Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens. Originally designed to teach its "members" confidence and skills by caring for animals and plants, the Farm had long become a dysfunctional hoarder's den. The patients sat idly on chairs in a grimy dayroom filled with the therapist's "collectibles" and garbage. The room was crawling with roaches, and a neglected bunny lived in its own feces and urine under the couches. The farmland had been fallow for years, and at dawn drug dealers gathered around the nearby picnic tables. Heinlein interviewed the members of the Farm until the program finally collapsed in the summer of 2013. Augmented with audio snippets, photos, and historic newspaper articles, The Orphan Zoo chronicles the repercussions of deinstitutionalization, the administration's decades-long lack of constructive involvement and the tragic fall of a once-promising program.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susanna Vause. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021359/bk_adbl_021359_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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I Have Something to Tell You: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 509min

On the eve of Christmas and a proposal, Natalie Appleton discovers she doesn't want to settle for sevens and starts over. So, she abandons everything in Alberta for Bangkok. Along the way, with startling illumination, honesty, and humor, Natalie unpacks the past that caused her to flee: cheating hearts, small-town suffocation, a tattered family, and a genetic disposition to madness. In Bangkok, Natalie kills an albino gecko, crawls into bed with a lamp seller, and nearly calls off her quest when she's almost attacked by a leather vendor. And then, at a grimy guesthouse one year after arriving in Thailand, everything changes.I Have Something to Tell You is a lyrical, vulnerable exploration of the meaning of love, family, home, and the magic of the universe. It's also a captivating window into two equally exotic worlds - the oil-patch-laden prairies and the resplendent Thailand.This is a story for anyone who remembers feeling lost in their 20s, for anyone who has been afraid to leave - a crummy partner or town or job - and for anyone who has ever wondered, "What if?" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Leslie Howard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/144996/bk_acx0_144996_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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