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  The Summerhouse by the Sea , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 566min

  A brand-new summery story about returning to your past and finding a new beginning, from best-selling author Jenny Oliver! Every Summer has its own story.... For Ava Fisher, the backdrop to all her sun-drenched memories - from her first taste of chocolate-dipped churros to her very first kiss - is her grandmother's summer house in the sleepy Spanish seaside town of Mariposa. Returning for one last summer, Ava throws herself into a project her grandmother would be proud of. Café Estrella - once the heart of the sleepy seaside village - now feels more ramshackle than rustic. Just like Ava, it seems it has lost its sparkle. Away from the exhausting juggle of London life, Ava realises somehow her life has stopped being...happy. But being back at the summer house by the sea could be the new beginning she didn't even realise she needed.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Camilla Rockley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002883/bk_hcuk_002883_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Skellig , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 184min

  When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain. Then, one Sunday afternoon, he stumbles into the old, ramshackle garage of his new home and finds something magical. A strange creature - part owl, part angel, a being who needs Michael's help if he is to survive. With his new friend Mina, Michael nourishes Skellig back to health, while his baby sister languishes in the hospital. But Skellig is far more than he at first appears, and as he helps Michael breathe life into his tiny sister, Michael's world changes forever.… Skellig won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award and is now a major Sky1 feature film, starring Tim Roth and John Simm. David Almond is also winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen award. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Almond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hkid/000096/bk_hkid_000096_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Paradise Lodge , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 553min

  This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in a ramshackle old people's home in the English suburbs. It is the late 1970s and the place is in chaos - there's a much swisher old people's home nearer the supermarket with better parking which is taking all the best patients; Matron seems to be utterly without qualifications, and Lizzie has no idea what she's doing. But, the longer Lizzie stays the more she discovers about the patients and the staff - she uncovers a love affair and a plot to kidnap one of the patients, as well as discovering how not to wash false teeth or give an old lady a bath. Very funny, tender and wonderfully gripping, Paradise Lodge is a celebration of chaos, love and old people. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Helen Baxendale. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/000769/bk_pauk_000769_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Things They Lost (eBook, ePUB)

  A Vulture 'Book We Can't Wait to Read in 2022' From the 2014 Caine Prize winner comes an astonishing new novel, riven through with mystery and magic, about a daughter's quest to save her mother The Manor Mabel Brown looms high over Mapeli Town, its rickety gate flanked by stone angels with severed heads, its yard full of tangled thorns and wildflowers. Inside these ramshackle walls lives Ayosa, twelve years old and the loneliest girl in the world. With her mother prone to frequent disappearances, Ayosa's only companions are the ghosts and spirits who wander through her Kenyan village. She craves escape, but more than that she longs for the love of her fearsome mother, Nabumbo Promise. When a new friend arrives in the shape of Mbiu, Ayosa is forced to choose between protecting her mama and seizing a life of her own. Okwiri Oduor's stunningly original debut novel sings with Kenyan folklore and myth as it traces the fragile, intoxicating bond between a mother and daughter like no other.

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  Palace of Flies (eBook, ePUB)

  "One of those rare biographical novels that bring a whole world to life in a way that lingers in memory."-Jay Parini, author of Borges and MeThis absorbing, sensitive novel portrays a famed author in a moment of crisis: an aging Hugo von Hofmannsthal returns to a summer resort outside of Salzburg that he visited as a child. But in the spa town where he once thrilled to the joys of youth, he now feels unproductive and uninspired, adrift in the modern world born after World War One. Over ten days in 1924 in a ramshackle inn that has been renamed the Grand Hotel, Hofmannsthal fruitlessly attempts to complete a play he's long been wrestling with. The writer is plagued by feelings of loneliness and failure that echo in a buzz of inner monologues, imaginary conversations and nostalgic memories of relationships with glittering cultural figures. Palace of Flies conjures up an individual state of distress and disruption at a time of fundamental societal transformation that speaks eloquently to our own age.

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  Exodus in Confluence , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 85min

  Exodus in Confluence is mass-murderer Stephen Hart's haunting account of the December 21, 2013 tragedy in Cinder Heights, Maine. Five months into the zombie apocalypse, 17-year-old Stephen Hart lived in a society where rules and humanity had left him for dead. The remaining survivors clung feverishly to whatever hope remained-maybe it was a family member, or a religion, or a destination. But in less than one week, everything changed. A year later, his ramshackle settlement has been compromised, as evidenced by the hordes of the undead swarming inside the gates... and Stephen is to blame. Instead of running, he takes to the airwaves, using the transmission in the now-abandoned radio station to broadcast his story via speakers to his fleeing citizens. This way, maybe he won't look like such a total monster. With the clock running out, venture into Stephen's post-apocalyptic world, where circumstances can make us become something other than ourselves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brendan McCay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/054645/bk_acx0_054645_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Wild Cowboy Ways , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 579min

  Sometimes All Love Needs Is a Little Luck Allie Logan isn't the type to land a hot hunk of cowboy. Truth is, she's given up on dating since shedding her no-good ex. But the new owner of the most ramshackle ranch in Texas might just change her mind about that. He's six-foot-plus of tall, dark, and charming - the kind of guy who could make a girl throw caution to the wind...or the kind of guy who could break her heart. Blake Dawson hopes he can make Lucky Penny Ranch finally live up to its name, but the property needs a ton of work. Allie and her carpentry skills are his best shot at getting things in order. Besides the fact that her brown eyes and dangerous curves have him roped and tied. Now Blake only needs to convince her that a wild cowboy can be tamed by love - and she's just the one to do it.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chelsea Hatfield. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/002388/bk_hach_002388_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Shadow Valley: A Novel of Horror , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 307min

  Shadow Valley is a small, isolated farming community known to few. There is little there to attract the attention of passers-by, but within one of the ramshackle old farmhouses, set in a swale some distance from the rest, there dwells a power that threatens death and destruction to any who might broach its secrets. Now, decades of tenuous stability are at risk when young Lila Ellis arrives to make the final arrangements for a project that will culminate in Shadow Valley being flooded to create a reservoir. She alone must enter the old Stevenson place, and she alone must face its terrors-beginning with a pile of seventy boxes of chocolates, one piece missing from each, delivered to the front door of the decaying house each and every year on St. Valentine's Day. Can Lila escape the evil that haunts the old place? Or will the curse continue for another generation? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Heather Henderson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000734/bk_acx0_000734_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Dances and Dreams on Diamond Street , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 677min

  An offbeat, funny and heartwarming romantic novel from the fabulous King of Strictly, Craig Revel Horwood.Set against the colourful boho backdrop of London's Camden in the 1990s, Craig Revel Horwood's first novel, Dances and Dreams on Diamond Street, tells the story of an unlikely family of friends who each rent a room in a ramshackle six-bedroom, four-storey townhouse. Like any family, the residents of Diamond Street sometimes fight and often act up, but when the chips are down, they're there for each other in an instant - usually brandishing a cheap bottle of booze and the offer of an impromptu kitchen disco. Presided over by the wise-cracking but warm-hearted patriarch of the family Danny Hall, a professional dancer turned choreographer, the novel follows a year in the life of the inhabitants of Diamond Street, rough diamonds one and all, as they try to achieve their dreams - with unexpected, heart-warming and sometimes hilarious results. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ewan Goddard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/056949/bk_adbl_056949_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Eden Gardens , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 719min

  Eden Gardens, Calcutta, the 1940s. In a ramshackle house, streets away from the grand colonial mansions of the British, live Maisy, her Mam and their ayah, Pushpa. Whiskey fuelled and poverty stricken, Mam entertains officers in the night - a disgrace to British India. All hopes are on beautiful Maisy to restore their good fortune. But Maisy's more at home in the city's forbidden alleyways, eating bazaar food and speaking Bengali with Pushpa, than dancing in glittering ballrooms with potential husbands. Then one day Maisy's tutor falls ill. His son stands in. Poetic, handsome and ambitious for an independent India, Sunil Banerjee promises Maisy the world. So begins a love affair that will cast her future, for better and for worse. Just as the Second World War strikes and the empire begins to crumble.... This is the other side of British India. A dizzying, scandalous, dangerous world where race, class and gender divide and rule. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jo Woodcock, Bharti Patel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/head/000475/bk_head_000475_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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