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    Agnes Grey , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 419min
    Agnes Grey is the debut novel of English author Anne Bronte (writing under the pen name of Acton Bell), first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Bronte suggest the novel is largely based on Anne Bronte's own experiences as a governess for five years. Like her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, it addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young woman. The choice of central character allows Anne to deal with issues of oppression and abuse of women and governesses, isolation and ideas of empathy. An additional theme is the fair treatment of animals. "Agnes Grey" also mimics some of the stylistic approaches of bildungsromans, employing ideas of personal growth and coming to age, but representing a character who in fact does not gain in virtue. The Irish novelist George Moore praised Agnes Grey as "the most perfect prose narrative in English letters", and went so far as to compare Anne's prose to that of Jane Austen. Modern critics have made more subdued claims admiring Agnes Grey with a less overt praise of Bronte's work than Moore. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Libby Gohn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/076695/bk_acx0_076695_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Beautiful Ones (eBook, ePUB)
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance rich with love and betrayal, with more than a dash of magic.'One of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time' MJ Rose, New York Times bestselling author of the Reincarnationalist seriesThey are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail's most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina's chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well-connected cousin and his calculating wife. But the Grand Season has just begun and already Nina's debut has gone disastrously awry. She has always struggled to control her telekinesis: the haphazard manifestations of her powers have long made her the subject of gossip - malicious neighbours even call her the Witch of Oldhouse.But Nina's life is about to change, for there is a new arrival in town: Hector Auvray, the renowned entertainer, who has used his own telekinetic talent to perform for admiring audiences around the world. Nina is dazzled by Hector, for he sees her not as a witch, but ripe with magical potential. Under his tutelage, Nina's talent blossoms - as does her love for the great man.But great romances are for fairy-tales, and Hector is hiding a secret bitter truth from Nina - and himself - that threatens their courtship.The Beautiful Ones is a charming tale of love and betrayal and the struggle between conformity and passion, set in a world where scandal is a razor-sharp weapon.
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    The Bridesmaid Gets Lucky: A Second Chance Romantic Novella: Sweet Dreams Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 164min
    Two members of a wedding party and polar opposites in every way are forced to share a room for a night. What begins as a disastrous reservation mix-up may just end up being a date with destiny.  The newly jilted Ginny is feeling awkward as ever at the ritzy Napa Valley wedding. Her tight bridesmaid’s dress isn’t helping matters, and neither is the presence of a perfect-looking groomsman, who wants to dance with her of all things.  Sam has been admiring the quirky beauty all night. He’s got a feeling about her that won’t quit. She’s not his usual type, but maybe that means she’s the one he’s been waiting for. When fate takes a turn and the two are forced to bed down together, Sam can’t believe his luck. But the stubborn and difficult Ginny isn’t in the mood for a rebound or a one-night-stand. And she certainly isn’t in the mood for true love.   The debonair Sam has exactly one night to convince his bespectacled (as well as skeptical) goddess that they are meant for one another.   This particular bridesmaid is going to get very lucky. That is if she can let go of her fears and allow this modern-day prince to give her the fairy tale ending she deserves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Logan McAllister. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/158189/bk_acx0_158189_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Isabel (A Regency Romance): Families of Dorset, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 425min
    A gentleman‘s impulsive wager to marry a stranger. A young woman’s determination not to marry the man she wants.When Isabel Cosgrove is informed by her father that he lost her hand in marriage while playing cards with Charles Galbraith - the gentleman she’s been admiring from a distance for years - she is filled with dismay. How can she agree to wed a man whose reason for marriage is part-revenge, part-indifference? Intent on avoiding a painful union where her regard cannot be returned, she concocts a plan.Charles Galbraith didn’t intend to become engaged as a result of a drunken wager at cards, but after the woman he loves spurns him, what does it matter whom he marries? But even Miss Cosgrove, the fiancée he won by wager, seems intent not to marry him - a fact that both relieves and piques him. She instead suggests a plan that has the potential to temporarily appease her father’s demand of marriage while also winning back the love of the woman Charles truly wants.But when Charles and Isabel are thrown into the midst of a brewing scandal and another man’s potential disinheritance, their plan begins to unravel thread by thread, challenging what Galbraith thinks he wants - and just how much more time with him Isabel’s heart can stand. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eleanor Caudill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/195483/bk_acx0_195483_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Meant for Me, Second Chances , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 616min
    If you like sexy MMA fighters then this is the audiobook for you! After a night of raw passion with the man Claire O'Briene had been secretly admiring for years, she thought their time together had come once and for all. Fate had finally brought them back to each other, but unfortunately nothing had changed. He was still the same man who ran away from relationships. Against his better judgment, Mason Bradley gave in to the temptation and allowed himself one night with the one woman he'd been too afraid to want - and too afraid to need. Four months after leaving Claire and regretting every minute of it, Mason gets called in for an undercover mission that's not only dangerous, but brings back a past he spent years trying to forget. A past of fighting...of getting in the ring and using his fists to get what he wanted: money, women, and drugs. Now there are fighters turning up dead, and it's Mason's job to find out the truth. Knowing he might not come out of the mission alive, Mason seeks out Claire to tell her how he truly feels, only to find another man competing for her love as well. Fighting is what he's good at, and for once he will be fighting not only for justice... but for love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jodie Bentley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/017518/bk_acx0_017518_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    O My America!: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 654min
    A delightfully funny and moving novel about the singular life of a cantankerous Jewish-American writer and anarchist troublemaker, as remembered by his daughter. In 1972, sixty-four-year-old Ezra Slavin's heart gives out at an anti-war rally. A contentious and irascible Jewish-American writer, anarchist, and inadvertent guru to discontented youth, he leaves behind a large extended family of ex-wives, lovers, and children, most of whom had cut all ties with the infuriating intellectual provocateur years earlier. Out of the entire family, only one daughter, Merry, a journalist, can remember her father with her own critical, conflicted understanding, a saddened sympathy approaching love. As the day of his memorial approaches, she attempts to make sense of the puzzle of Ezra's life before all of its disparate, discordant elements come crashing together at the service. The award-winning author of Other People's Lives, Johanna Kaplan creates a vivid cast of unforgettable characters who reveal the disparity between Ezra's long-suffering, neglected family, his admiring friends, and the youthful hangers-on - and, most notably, in the outrageously enigmatic Ezra himself. At once hilarious and poignant, O My America! offers a fascinating evocation of a time and place in America, a satiric history of the immigrant Jewish experience, and a wonderful portrait of an exasperating yet endearing anti-hero pursuing his unique vision of the American dream. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Romy Nordlinger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013798/bk_adbl_013798_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Perfecting Kate: A Head Over Heels Contemporary Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 652min
    Kate’s creed: Thou shalt embrace singledom and be unbelievably, inconceivably happy. Yeah, right.Kate Meadows, a successful San Francisco artist, is this close to giving up on finding a nice, solid man with whom to spend her life. So when not one, but two eligible bachelors enter her orbit in rapid succession, it seems too good to be true. And it may be.Michael Palmier, a nationally-known makeup artist, is actually flirting with Kate, rather than her physically flawless housemate. Trouble is, he seems more intent on doling out the business cards of beauty professionals and plastic surgeons than discovering Kate’s inner beauty. Is he trying to stamp out every last bit of self-esteem she has?As for Clive Alexander, the good doctor sends Kate’s pulse skittering every time he’s near. Too bad the man is only interested in her work - and doesn’t think she’s much to look at. It’s enough to send a girl running for her paint-splattered, relaxed-fit jeans, and swearing off men altogether. But after undergoing a makeover from Michael’s staff, Kate suddenly finds herself the recipient of admiring glances. Maybe she should try contacts, consider some fancy dental work, and - you know - that mole really could stand to go.The question is, what kind of work will Kate do on herself? And who is she really trying to please? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mary Sarah Agliotta. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/149126/bk_acx0_149126_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 771min
    Louisa May Alcott portrays a writer as worthy of interest in her own right as her most famous character, Jo March, and addresses all aspects of Alcott's life: the effect of her father's self-indulgent utopian schemes; her family's chronic economic difficulties and frequent uprootings; her experience as a nurse in the Civil War; and the loss of her health and frequent recourse to opiates in search of relief from migraines, insomnia, and symptomatic pain. Stories and details culled from Alcott's journals; her equally rich letters to family, friends, publishers, and admiring readers; and the correspondence, journals, and recollections of her family, friends, and famous contemporaries provide the basis for this lively account of the author's classic rags-to-riches tale. Alcott would become the equivalent of a multimillionaire in her lifetime based on the astounding sales of her books, leaving contemporaries like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Henry James in the dust. This biography explores Alcott's life in the context of her works, all of which are to some extent autobiographical. A fresh, modern take on this remarkable and prolific writer, who secretly authored pulp fiction, harbored radical abolitionist views, and completed heroic service as a Civil War nurse, Louisa May Alcott is also the story of how the all-time beloved American classic Little Women came to be. This revelatory portrait will present the popular author as she was and as she has never been seen before. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Harriet Reisen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/001186/bk_tant_001186_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    American Cyclone: Theodore Roosevelt and His 1900 Whistle-Stop Campaign , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 667min
    When Theodore Roosevelt entered national politics as the Republicans' nominee for the vice presidency in 1900, he was only 41 years old. However, he had caught the public's attention with the popular version of his life story. Few candidates for the presidency or vice presidency have enjoyed the elevated level of admiration accorded Roosevelt in the waning days of the 19th century. Biographers have chronicled every significant period of Roosevelt's life with one exception, and American Cyclone fills that gap. His nomination for the vice presidency was Roosevelt's debut as a candidate for national office. American Cyclone presents the story of his campaign, a whirlwind effort highlighted by an astounding whistle-stop tour of 480 communities across 23 states. Eighteen of those states gave a plurality of votes to the McKinley-Roosevelt ticket, a gain of five states for the Republicans over 1896. Everywhere Roosevelt went, admiring throngs and dramatic events helped forge him into the man who would soon be the 26th president of the United States. Returning from the war, Roosevelt was familiar to millions of people across the country as a determined leader. As he interacted with crowds of hundreds, thousands, and even tens of thousands, Roosevelt felt their eagerness to see and hear him. Accordingly, for the first time, this whistle-stop campaign marks the development of the confidence and maturity that would transform Roosevelt into a national leader. The book is published by University Press of Mississippi. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Douglas R. Pratt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/065243/bk_acx0_065243_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Virgin Club: A Romantic Comedy: Club Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 447min
    Emma Parker has it all. A great job (which comes complete with a boss from hell), a super cute apartment in the city (more like a third-floor studio), a popular blog (is 738 subscribers popular?), and two best friends she wouldn’t trade for the world. Love? Okay, maybe she didn’t have it all, but what's the rush? At the tender age of 23 (almost 24), Emma knows she has plenty of time to find the perfect guy.That is, until her two best friends enter the dating scene and fall in love, leaving Emma to spend most weekends alone, binge-watching Netflix or playing the dreaded role of fifth wheel. Panic set in at the realization she was officially an outcast. The lone single virgin who sucked at reading signals and had more experience admiring from afar than being in an actual relationship. After a night of one too many appletinis, a semi-meltdown, and a Lose My Virginity Challenge post, Emma’s little blog goes viral. When Emma's co-worker crush, Logan - gorgeous and not interested - finds out that she is the anonymous blogger, Emma's besties come up with a brilliant plan to finally win over the untouchable Logan.Perfect! Things are finally looking up again, but then Emma's hot new billionaire boss, Alex, comes into the picture with plans of his own and a surprising secret she is totally unprepared for.Warning: Although a romantic comedy, the subject of sex addiction is included in the story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J. Noel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/211325/bk_acx0_211325_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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