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    Going Postal: Discworld, Book 33 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 657min
    Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into...a government job?By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may prove an impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office.Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, greedy Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty, piratical headman.But if the bold and un-doable are what's called for, Moist's the man for the job, to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every being, human or otherwise, requires: hope.Please note: This is a vintage recording. The audio quality may not be up to modern day standards. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Briggs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/000246/bk_rhuk_000246_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Owner: Albert Pabek Thriller, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 740min
    It's the first day of summer.Aboard his technologically advanced 60-foot sailboat yacht, Albert Pabek sails under the Golden Gate Bridge. He pushes a large container overboard and watches as it sinks to the bottom of the San Francisco Bay. Albert's revenge is now underway. He had five years to prepare. Now, he has three days to complete the mission. Before the day ends, Albert ends up face to face with multibillionaire Karl Remons, the founder of Remons Global. Karl Remons is a murderer, swindler, womanizer, and money launderer. He will do anything, to anyone, at any time. No one can stop him. Karl Remons is The Owner. After that meeting, the plan immediately goes awry. A new friend betrays Albert. Two Remons facilities explode on opposite sides of the country. Someone dies. Finally, the black helicopter disappears. Then, there's the Homeland Security fiasco. Success was unlikely. He knew that beforehand. The Owner is a suspense thriller taking it's listeners on a nonstop, heart pounding, thrill ride through each and every chapter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Marvel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/065465/bk_acx0_065465_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Hundred Little Lies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 400min
    Everyone in the sleepy little town of Bodey, Colorado knows Jack Tulle as a widower, a doting father, and the honest owner of the general store. He sits on the town council. He dotes upon his eight-year-old, headstrong daughter, Abigail. But when the local saloon announces plans to host a poker tournament, Jack realizes it could spell trouble. One of the many secrets he's been hiding is that he used to be a swindler - mainly cheating at poker, but he had done worse when a situation presented itself. A contest like the one his town is planning is sure to draw some old business acquaintances - fellows Jack would really rather not admit to knowing. But the one man Jack is truly worried to see again is the one that knows more of Jack's past than any other: Tom Jude, who was not merely his partner-in-crime; Jude was also the love of his life. When your world is built on so many lies, exposing a single one of them can bring a man's life crashing down. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: JP Handler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/025786/bk_acx0_025786_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Honor at Daybreak , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 954min
    From one of the West's greatest living storytellers, winner of numerous awards, including the Spur, the Golden Saddleman, and the Western Heritage Award, here is Elmer Kelton's magnificent new novel of the wildcat West Texas oil boom of the 1920s. It used to be that the worst crime in Caprock was moonshining or lying about your Saturday night date on Sunday morning - until someone struck oil. Now the scent of the stuff has brought every dreamer, drifter, and two-bit swindler to town. Among them is the frontier mobster Big Boy Daugherty, who warns any who'd stand in his way: Get out or die. One man will do neither. Sheriff Dave Buckalew is a man too proud to give up and too stubborn to give in. He liked his town the way it was - before the bootleggers, brothels, and fortune-seeking roustabouts - and so did a lot of other hardworking, decent folk. Together they'll fight to win back their town - and their future. This is the story of their heroic stand. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Garrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/012266/bk_reco_012266_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Physician: The Cole Trilogy, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1481min
    An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" (Library Journal). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift - an acute sensitivity to impending death - never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer. Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world's most renowned physician, Avicenna. How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival - medicine - makes a riveting modern classic. The Physician is the first book in New York Times best-selling author Noah Gordon's Dr. Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with Shaman and concludes with Matters of Choice. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Higgins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031080/bk_adbl_031080_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Flirtation Walk , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 582min
    Trying to escape the shambles her con-man father has made of their reputation, Lucinda Curtis arrives in West Point, New York, determined to land a husband from the military academy. Campbell Conklin is first in his class and preparing to embark upon a storied career in the US Army. Lucinda thinks Campbell will make the perfect husband...as long as he does not find out about her father. Seth Westcott also has taken a liking to Lucinda. He's kind, smart...and working extremely hard to graduate last. Tradition states that the worst cadets are assigned to the cavalry out west. And west is where Seth must head to track the swindler who stole all of his mother's money. Seth is smart enough to vie for the top spot, but life isn't fair, and this is his chance to catch the man who ruined his family. It's too bad Campbell is all shine and no substance, but Lucinda will surely see through all of that, won't she? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Morgan Hallett, Graham Halstead. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009276/bk_reco_009276_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 569min
    It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Speakeasies thrived, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld domination, Chicago's corrupt political leaders fraternized with gangsters, and the frenzy of stock market gambling was rampant. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people (who should have known better) to invest as much as $30 million - upwards of $400 million today - in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama. When Leo's scheme finally collapsed in 1923, he vanished, and the Chicago state's attorney, a man whose lust for power equaled Leo's own lust for money, began an international manhunt that lasted almost a year. When finally apprehended, Leo was living a life of luxury in Nova Scotia under the assumed identity of a book dealer and literary critic. His mysterious death in a Chicago prison topped anything in his almost-too-bizarre-to-believe life. Empire of Deception is not only an incredibly rich and detailed account of a man and an era; it's a fascinating look at the methods of swindlers throughout history. Leo Koretz was the Bernie Madoff of his day, and Dean Jobb shows us that the dream of easy wealth is a timeless commodity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Berkrot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000940/bk_high_000940_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pearl: Cowboys and Debutantes: Historical, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 220min
    Her father lost everything to a swindler in New York, and now, she's been sent west as a mail-order bride.Pearl Stout is angry. Her parents put her on a train to the Arizona frontier to marry a man she's never met and didn't agree to marry. Feeling betrayed and alone, at first, she goes along with their plan. But before long, she discovers the freedom that can accompany a pioneering life and grabs onto it with both hands.Pearl's intended is Hilton Pullman, a local reporter for the Tucson Gazette. He's tired of being alone - his parents died when he was young, and his older brother abandoned him after losing his own fiancée. But when that trouble-making brother, Hank, returns right before the wedding, Hilton’s carefully laid plans are thrown into question.Will Pearl marry her intended? Or will she forge her own path along the Western frontier and discover love along the way?Listen to this final installment in the historical Cowboys & Debutantes series from a best-selling author and learn once and for all the fate of our fallen-from-grace debutantes.Inspired by true events. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meghan Kelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/135786/bk_acx0_135786_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Rise of Mr. Ponzi , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 426min
    In 1920 Charles Ponzi perfected a “rob Peter to pay Paul” investment scam and stole millions of dollars from unsuspecting, gullible investors. As a result of his illegal activities Ponzi spent most of his adult years in an American prison. Upon release Ponzi was deported to Italy where he became associated with the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Eventually Ponzi lost his government job and landed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he died on a charity ward in 1949. It was reported that the only item Ponzi left behind on his nightstand was his autobiography. In his own words Charles Ponzi tells the story of how he came to America, dreamed up his scheme, and perfected the now infamous Ponzi scheme still used today by other famous swindlers like Bernie Madoff. The Rise of Mr. Ponzi was privately published over 50 years ago and copies of that earlier edition are quite rare, if not impossible to find. The release of this audio version is the first time Charles Ponzi’s book has been professionally produced for a large listening audience. It is an amazing journey into the mind of the world's most famous swindler. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R F McCoy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/147554/bk_acx0_147554_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Never Have I Ever with a Duke: The Spitfire Society, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 432min
    From the USA Today best-selling author of The Untouchables series comes your next Regency obsession: The Spitfire Society.Meet the smart, independent women who’ve decided they don’t need society’s rules, their families’ expectations, or, most importantly, a husband. But just because they don’t need a man doesn’t mean they might not want one.Graham Kinsley is shocked when he inherits a debt-ridden dukedom, and now he has just one month to repay a loan. He needs an heiress or find a way to recoup the former duke’s losses. When he meets the alluring Arabella, he’s entranced. Unfortunately, she’s as bankrupt as he is, but if they work together, they may be able to recover their fortunes. Though, if they keep stealing kisses, they may lose their hearts, instead.Arabella Stoke can’t afford an attraction to the penniless duke who has vowed to help rescue her family from financial devastation. She needs to find a wealthy husband before her father succumbs to the stress of losing everything. However, as Graham brings them closer to finding the swindler who stole their money, the war between what they want and what they need may ruin them both. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marian Hussey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/171230/bk_acx0_171230_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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