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    That Old Ace in the Hole , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 860min
    Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole is told through the eyes of Bob Dollar, a young Denver man trying to make good in a bad world. Dollar is out of college but aimless, when he takes a job with Global Pork Rind - his task to locate big spreads of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles that can be purchased by the corporation and converted to hog farms. Dollar finds himself in a Texas town called Woolybucket, whose idiosyncratic inhabitants have ridden out all manner of seismic shifts in panhandle country. These are tough men and women who witnessed first-hand tornadoes, dust storms, and the demise of the great cattle ranches. Now it's feed lots, hog farms, and ever-expanding drylands. Dollar settles into LaVon Fronk's old bunkhouse for $50 a month, helps out at Cy Frease's Old Dog Cafe, targets Ace and Tater Crouch's ranch for Global Pork, and learns the hard way how vigorously the old owners will hold on to their land, even though their children want no part of it. Robust, often bawdy, strikingly original and intimate, That Old Ace in the Hole tracks the vast waves of change that have shaped the American landscape and character over the past century. In Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irresistible characters in contemporary fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Stechschulte. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/005528/bk_sans_005528_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Undermajordomo Minor: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 465min
    From the best-selling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers comes a brilliant and boisterous novel that reimagines the folk tale. A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt's long-awaited follow-up to the internationally best-selling and critically acclaimed novel The Sisters Brothers. Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for producing brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the Majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as Undermajordomo, Lucy soon discovers the place harbors many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle's master, Baron Von Aux. He also encounters the colorful people of the local village - thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and Klara, a delicate beauty whose love he must compete for with the exceptionally handsome soldier, Adolphus. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery, and cold-blooded murder in which every aspect of human behavior is laid bare for our hero to observe. Undermajordomo Minor is an adventure, a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behavior, but above all it is a love story, and Lucy must be careful, for love is a violent thing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Prebble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004607/bk_harp_004607_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    That Old Ace in the Hole , Hörbuch, Digital, gekürzt, 381min
    Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole is told through the eyes of Bob Dollar, a young Denver man trying to make good in a bad world. Dollar is out of college but aimless, when he takes a job with Global Pork Rind - his task, to locate big spreads of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles that can be purchased by the corporation and converted to hog farms. Dollar finds himself in a Texas town called Woolybucket, whose idiosyncratic inhabitants have ridden out all manner of seismic shifts in panhandle country. These are tough men and women who witnessed firsthand tornadoes, dust storms, and the demise of the great cattle ranches. Now it's feed lots, hog farms, and ever-expanding drylands.Dollar settles into LaVon Fronk's old bunkhouse for $50 a month, helps out at Cy Frease's Old Dog Cafe, targets Ace and Tater Crouch's ranch for Global Pork, and learns the hard way how vigorously the old owners will hold onto their land, even though their children want no part of it.Robust, often bawdy, strikingly original and intimate, That Old Ace in the Hole tracks the vast waves of change that have shaped the American landscape and character over the past century. In Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irresistible characters in contemporary fiction.Please note: This is the abridged edition. An unabridged version is also available. gekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arliss Howard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000382/bk_sans_000382_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fire in the Mind: Doctor Wise, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 476min
    Leonard "Len" Wise, PhD, tall, attractive, and 29, is lost and aimless in a world he once shared with his deceased fiancée, Cathy. Her death, his telepathic abilities, a fused knee, and stifling guilt are Len's legacy from the car accident where he had been driving. Len has immersed himself in the study of parapsychology to master his strange abilities. He also spent years drowning himself in alcohol. Now, one year sober and one month after securing his PhD, Len has been asked to return to his alma mater to give a lecture. Attending the speech is Detective Bill McGee of the Mountainview Police Department. He wants Len to help investigate a case of spontaneous human combustion - or was it murder? This puts Len in search of a mysterious adversary who is endowed with the ability to manipulate fire. The pursuit of the arsonist/murderer becomes very personal when a woman Len is dating is killed and his best friend's wife is kidnapped. Does Len possess the strength - are his telepathic abilities formidable enough to track down and stop the egomaniac who can create Fire in the Mind? This exciting adventure is captivatingly narrated by the author, Arjay Lewis, a versatile actor and variety performer who has appeared on Broadway and all over the world. This JestMaster Audio presentation is directed by Jon Koons, and recorded at JestMaster Studio. Music by Audionautix.com ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arjay Lewis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/113376/bk_acx0_113376_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    French Exit: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 413min
    From best-selling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration.Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there’s the Price’s aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral litigator and world-class cad whose gruesome tabloid death rendered Frances and Malcolm social outcasts.Putting penury and pariahdom behind them, the family decides to cut their losses and head for the exit. One ocean voyage later, the curious trio land in their beloved Paris, the City of Light serving as a backdrop not for love or romance, but self destruction and economical ruin - to riotous effect. A number of singular characters serve to round out the cast: a bashful private investigator, an aimless psychic proposing a seance, and a doctor who makes house calls with his wine merchant in tow, to name a few.  Brimming with pathos, French Exit is a one-of-a-kind 'tragedy of manners,' a send-up of high society, as well as a moving mother/son caper which only Patrick deWitt could conceive and execute.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lorna Raver. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007890/bk_harp_007890_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Defender of Gallowind: Shyft, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 625min
    When's the last time a game started with a real-life gunfight?In the industrial wasteland of future America, Solomon Herrick spends his days wandering the streets and getting into trouble. Staying one step ahead of the local PD, his life is mostly spent immersed in history or aimless exploring - until Shyft comes along.Whether that's a good thing or not is still up in the air.Shyft 2.0, an immersive, open-world RPG, just entered beta, and though Solomon Herrick wasn't on the list, his friends knew a guy who could get them in. A chase and a gunfight later, Sol is deposited into the world with nothing but a few rags on his back and a nearby stick to defend himself.With his friends gone, no knowledge of the game world, and zero guidance available, Solomon will have to rely on his ability to learn fast if he wants to not only figure out how to play the game but also figure out how to get out - if he even can.Shyft is a new Gamelit / LitRPG series created by Mike Kraus and Justin Bell, writing under the M Kraus and J Donald pen names. Defenders of Gallowind is the first in a three-book, crunchy LitRPG series in the world of Shyft. Though, two more shorts exist and a range of soft and crunchy stories are already planned for this vast, varied, and complex universe. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pavi Proczko. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/148152/bk_acx0_148152_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Personal Trinity: Biological and Scriptural, Hörbuch, Digital, 72min
    Fr. Farrell leads the listener into the heart of the Trinity. He invites us to climb onto the lap of the Father and be enveloped by a divine silence so deep that we can hear the big bang of the creation of the material universe in the past and the heavenly music of paradise in the present. He invites us to truly become a child of God and a sibling of Christ. Out of the silence of the Father we hear the Word of the Son and are filled with the Spirit that gives us the energy for our mission. Fr. Farrell reveals to the listener how with every breath, we are sustained by the Spirit of God and with every heartbeat we give witness to God’s love for us. Out of this awesome encounter comes our own unique song of praising God and our own urgent call to be heroes for the kingdom. The radical disciple of Jesus gives all in the service of others and works for the suffering, the homeless, the oppressed and the afflicted. By not running away from our own goodness and seeing the truth of our own power in God we can do marvels beyond our imagination. Prayer groups, parishes, dioceses, and the Church itself needs to become more and more the body of Christ so that the kingdom of God may be more apparent to a world that is adrift and aimless in its materialism. Language: English. Narrator: Rev. Edward J. Farrell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pssp/000086/bk_pssp_000086_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Shyft Box Set: Books 1-3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1735min
    When's the last time a game started with a real-life gunfight?  In the industrial wasteland of future America, Solomon Herrick spends his day wandering the streets and getting into trouble. Staying one step ahead of the local PD, his life is mostly spent immersed in history or aimless exploring, until Shyft comes along. Whether that's a good thing or not is still up in the air.Shyft 2.0, an immersive open-world RPG, just entered beta, and though Solomon Herrick wasn't on the list, his friends knew a guy who could get them in. A chase and a gunfight later, Sol is deposited into the world with nothing but a few rags on his back and a nearby stick to defend himself.With his friends gone, no knowledge of the game world, and zero guidance available, Solomon will have to rely on his ability to learn fast if he wants to not only figure out how to play the game, but figure out how to get out - if he even can.Shyft is a new gamelit/litRPG series created by Mike Kraus and Justin Bell, writing under the M Kraus and J Donald pen names. Shyft is a crunchy LitRPG series and currently has three full-length novels available to listen to, though two more shorts exist, and a range of soft and crunchy stories are already planned for this vast, varied, and complex universe.This box set contains the first three books: Defender of Gallowind, Stealthcaster, and Shadows of Elderand and is perfect for litRPG and gamelit listeners, both new and seasoned. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pavi Proczko. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/182006/bk_acx0_182006_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    So Say the Waiters (episodes 1-5) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 494min
    Now optioned for TV - this first book is one of three in a series. White-collar Henry is hired by a successful software developer and college friend who has created kidnApp, a cell phone app and social network that allows people to kidnap each other for fun. The app is growing faster than they can handle. His friend wants to groom Henry as the Mid-Atlantic regional manager with part ownership of the company, but he will need to become a seasoned kidnApper first. The problem is, Henry is stuck in his conservative job, suffering from post-fiancée breakup depression, and he definitely sucks at kidnApping. But this is an opportunity he cannot refuse. Danielle (Dani) Hardly is an aimless bartender at a rundown nightclub. She is barely scraping by, but she is one of the first users of kidnApp in Baltimore. She uses the app as an escape from the increasingly difficult world around her, often time pushing the limits of the experience. During a botched kidnApping, she is rescued by newly recruited Henry - someone she has nothing in common with until Henry opens up to her about his less than mediocre kidnapping skills. The last thing Dani expects is to start collaborating with Henry who needs all the help he can get. Throughout the series, Henry ties to balance his normal life and job while kidnApping on the side. Dani transitions from a hardcore kidnApp user to a nearly full time employee, confusing her already fragile sense of identity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pete Mutino. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/027977/bk_acx0_027977_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Worth His Salt: Worth It, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 228min
    I’m doing just fine on my own. Love is for the weak.When Grayson Barker lost his leg during his last deployment with the Marines, he might as well have lost his life. He’s gone aimless and bitter, and even though he knows his friends and family are just trying to help, he’d much prefer it if everyone just left him alone to rot. Having PT isn’t going to help him get his life back - even if his therapist does funny things to his libido."I keep it casual. Not because I don’t love anyone, but because I do. And those you love always hurt you the most."Dylan Wexler doesn’t work with vets. He’d spent too long as a child dealing with his father’s PTSD that spiraled into abuse, and while he might be mended physically, the scars his father left behind still cut deeply every day. But having friends means making sacrifices, and when he’s talked into helping Grayson learn to walk with his prosthetic leg, he’s determined to his best work. Even if the man drives him to distraction.Welcome to Worthington, Texas, where the heat doesn't just rise in the summer - you'll feel it all year long in these stories of older men and their younger lovers. Every audiobook in the Worth It series can be listened to on its own, but with so many familiar characters to love, why stop with just one? This audiobook features a heart of stone, the patience that heals it, and a sensual threat to so many professional ethics. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nikola Muckajev. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/147370/bk_acx0_147370_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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