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Witches
A bewitching novel by Brenda Lozano, one of the most prominent voices of the new generation of Latin American writers. 'You can't really know another woman until you know yourself.' Weaving together two parallel narratives, this is the story of Feliciana, an indigenous curandera (healer), and of Zoë, a journalist: two women drawn together by the murder of Feliciana's cousin Paloma. In the tiny village of San Felipe in Jalisco province, where traditional ways of life and belief are a present reality, Feliciana tells the story of her life, her community's acceptance of her as a genuine curandera (healer) and the difficulties faced by her cousin Paloma who is a muxe (both male and female), in her case a trans woman. Growing up in Mexico City, the heart of modern Mexico, Zoë attempts to find her way in a hostile world made for men, as she reflects on what drew her to Feliciana and Paloma, and her own relationship with the innate powers of a curandera. This extraordinary novel envisions the writer as healer, one who uses El Lenguaje (Language) to read El Libro (The Book) that contains the mystery of the world, and offers a generous and distinctly female way of understanding the complex world we all inhabit. Translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary- Shop: buecher
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Family Camp: Daddy Dearest, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 430min
When Geo signs up for Family Camp, he envisions nature hikes, s’mores, and a chance to win over his recalcitrant new foster kids, Jayden and Lucy. He’s tried to become a dad for so long, and he hopes the three of them can be the family he’s always wanted. What he doesn’t anticipate is the prickly and gorgeous camp counselor who constantly comes to his rescue.Travis spends a week every year at Camp Evermore, the camp his adoptive parents own. As a pro baseball player, his presence guarantees a full campground and excited campers. He has one rule: Never, ever mess around with anyone at camp. His profession demands he stay in the closet. But one sweet and funny new dad is about to test all his resolve.Sparks fly for Geo and Travis, and not because of the nightly campfire. Having been a foster kid himself, Travis is drawn to Geo’s sincerity and big heart and to his kids. The four of them just fit. But will this be a summer romance? Or can they find a way to be a family long after Family Camp is over?About the Daddy Dearest seriesThe Daddy Dearest series will consist of stand-alone contemporary novels focusing on single gay dads who find hot romance. Expect laughs, sweet and sexy slow-burn romance, and lots of family feels! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew Shaw. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160764/bk_acx0_160764_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Romancing the Weird: Weird Short Fiction, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 405min
What if love awaits not around the corner but in a parallel reality at the edge of the universe or through the looking glass? In this collection of short stories, explore love from eight different angles of weird, fantastical, and out-of-this-world."Tiny Moments": A woman envisions her lover in the reflections surrounding her, and must choose between his memory and the life she created after his death."Our Song": The smallest moments contain a lifetime of hope."Brian": Sometimes, love exists right under our noses. We just need a push to find it."A Mutual Feeling": Killed every day for a crime she didn't commit and reborn again the next. Alice Humboldt has a perfect life, but that perfect life is beginning to crumble around the edges, revealing truths about herself that she must find the courage to face."A Lover's Kiss": Even death needs love."Time After Time": After discovering a love note in the margins of a book, Lula is torn between the plans she's made for herself, and the love of a mysterious stranger."Intersections": One man. A thousand different futures. Livy has run from her destiny for so long, she has no idea what to do when fate forces her hand."Small Talk in Elevators": AI 1032 just wants her favorite human to be happy. What harm could a little matchmaking do? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca Winder. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173085/bk_acx0_173085_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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White Picket Fences: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 560min
When her black sheep brother disappears, Amanda Janvier eagerly takes in her 16-year-old niece, Tally. The girl is practically an orphan: motherless, and living with a father who raises Tally wherever he lands - in a Buick, a pizza joint, a horse farm - and regularly takes off on wild schemes. Amanda envisions that she, her husband Neil, and their two teenagers can offer the girl stability and a shot at a "normal" life, even though their own storybook lives are about to crumble.Seventeen-year-old Chase Janvier hasn't seen his cousin in years, and other than a vague curiosity about her strange life, he doesn't expect her arrival will affect him much - or interfere with his growing, disturbing interest in a long-ago house fire that plagues his dreams unbeknownst to anyone else.Tally and Chase bond as they interview two Holocaust survivors for a sociology project and become startlingly aware that the whole family is grappling with hidden secrets, with the echoes of the past, and with the realization that ignoring tragic situations won't make them go away.Will Tally's presence blow apart their carefully-constructed world, knocking down the illusion of the white picket fence and reveal a hidden past that could destroy them all - or can she help them find the truth without losing each other? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernadette Dunne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002041/bk_rand_002041_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dusk: A Re-Imagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: The Frankenstein Saga, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 126min
A broken heart. An infamous holiday gone wrong. A deadly curse brought to life. A holiday in Switzerland is supposed to lift Mary Wollstonecroft Godwin’s spirits. She wants to forget the past and have fun. In fact, everyone in her party is running away from one indiscretion or another — from her fiancé Percy Shelley to Lord Byron to Mary’s stepsister, Claire. But from the moment Mary arrives at Byron’s villa, she knows something is wrong.He rushes her indoors and forbids all of them to go out at night, claiming that the horrible weather has driven wild animals down from the mountains. The only person who doesn’t seem to be running away from anything is a handsome, young Italian doctor, John Polidori. Instead, he is fervently pursuing local folk legends and a new scientific theory that claims people can be raised from the dead. But it’s not until they all challenge one other to write ghost stories that the real danger begins. In a nightmare, Mary envisions a patchwork man animated by Galvanism and she begins writing Frankenstein. Likewise, fueled by local legends, John writes The Vampyre — one of the first vampire stories ever written. What neither one of them knows is that they are conjuring a dark evil. Before long, all of their lives will be in danger — for neither of these characters are imaginary. Far from it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katherine Holt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/227356/bk_acx0_227356_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dawn: A Re-Imagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein : The Frankenstein Saga, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 209min
A broken heart. An infamous holiday gone wrong. A deadly curse brought to life. A holiday in Switzerland is supposed to lift Mary Wollstonecroft Godwin’s spirits. She wants to forget the past and have fun. In fact, everyone in her party is running away from one indiscretion or another — from her fiancé Percy Shelley to Lord Byron to Mary’s stepsister, Claire. But from the moment Mary arrives at Byron’s villa, she knows something is wrong. He rushes her indoors and forbids all of them to go out at night, claiming that the horrible weather has driven wild animals down from the mountains. The only person who doesn’t seem to be running away from anything is a handsome, young Italian doctor, John Polidori. Instead, he is fervently pursuing local folk legends and a new scientific theory that claims people can be raised from the dead. But it’s not until they all challenge one other to write ghost stories that the real danger begins. In a nightmare, Mary envisions a patchwork man animated by Galvanism and she begins writing Frankenstein. Likewise, fueled by local legends, John writes The Vampyre — one of the first vampire stories ever written. What neither one of them knows is that they are conjuring a dark evil. Before long, all of their lives will be in danger — for neither of these characters are imaginary. Far from it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katherine Holt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/232173/bk_acx0_232173_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Pay It Forward , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 482min
Catherine Ryan Hyde’s international sensation, Pay It Forward, is the moving story of Trevor McKinney, a twelve-year-old boy who accepts his social studies teacher’s challenge to come up with a plan to change the world. Trevor’s idea is simple: Do a good deed for three people and ask them to "pay it forward" to three others who need help. He envisions a vast movement of kindness and goodwill spreading beyond his small California town and across the world. However, when Jerry, a bum to whom Trevor gave his allowance, returns to a life of dissolution, the project seems valuable only as a lesson on the dark side of human nature. But ultimately Trevor is vindicated. At first people don’t know how to explain the odd dip in crime rates across the nation, but a journalist with a story of his own tracks down the source of the epidemic of random acts of kindness and makes Trevor a celebrity. Yet Trevor has problems closer to home: he wants his pretty, hardworking mother to see the softer side of his beloved teacher, Reuben St. Clair, a scarred Vietnam veteran who seems to come alive only when he’s in front of his class. Anyone who has ever despaired of one person’s ability to effect change will rejoice in Trevor’s courage and his determination to see the good in everyone. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Dufris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/005773/bk_sans_005773_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Hope of Refuge: Book 1 in the Ada's House Amish Romance Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 708min
The first book in the Ada's House series, The Hope of Refuge is a moving story of love, hope, and new beginnings from New York Times best-selling author Cindy Woodsmall. The widowed mother of a little girl, Cara Moore is struggling against poverty, fear, and a relentless stalker. When her stalker ransacks her home, Cara and her daughter, Lori, flee New York City for an Amish community, eager for a fresh start. But she discovers that long-held secrets about her family history ripple beneath the surface of Dry Lake, Pennsylvania, and it’s no place for an outsider. One Amish man, Ephraim Mast, dares to fulfill the command he believes that he received from God - “Be me to her” - despite how it threatens his way of life. While Ephraim tries to do what he believes is right, will he be shunned and lose everything, including the guarded single mother who simply longs for a better life? A complete opposite of the hard, untrusting Cara, Ephraim’s sister Deborah also finds her dreams crumbling when the man she has pledged to build a life with begins withdrawing from Deborah and his community, including his mother, Ada Stoltzfus. Can the run-down house that Ada envisions transforming unite them toward a common purpose - or will it push Mahlon away forever? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cassandra Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001937/bk_rand_001937_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Amped: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 522min
Technology makes them superhuman. But mere mortals want them kept in their place. The New York Times best-selling author of Robopocalypse creates a stunning, near-future world where technology and humanity clash in surprising ways. The result? The perfect summer blockbuster. As he did in Robopocalypse, Daniel Wilson masterfully envisions a frightening near-future world. In Amped, people are implanted with a device that makes them capable of superhuman feats. The powerful technology has profound consequences for society, and soon a set of laws is passed that restricts the abilities - and rights - of "amplified" humans. On the day that the Supreme Court passes the first of these laws, 29-year-old Owen Gray joins the ranks of a new persecuted underclass known as "amps." Owen is forced to go on the run, desperate to reach an outpost in Oklahoma where, it is rumored, a group of the most enhanced amps may be about to change the world - or destroy it. Once again, Daniel H. Wilson's background as a scientist serves him well in this technologically savvy thriller that delivers first-rate entertainment, as Wilson takes the "what if" question in entirely unexpected directions. Fans of Robopocalypse are sure to be delighted, and legions of new fans will want to get "amped" this summer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robbie Daymond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003075/bk_rand_003075_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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To the Best of Our Knowledge: The Course of Time, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
In this hour, Steve Paulson interviews Brian Swimme, mathematical cosmologist at the Center for the Story of the Universe at the California institute of Integral Studies, about the origins of the universe, and how cosmology can help us reconnect with the natural world.Next, Anne Strainchamps interviews Thebe Medupe, astrophysicist at the University of Capetown in South Africa, about African views of astrology and creation. He produced the documentary, Cosmic Africa. Then, Jim Fleming interview with Jim Crace, author of The Pesthouse. The book envisions the end of time -- a post-apocalyptic America, after an un-named eco disaster destroys civilization. Nan A. Talese, 2007.After that, Anne Strainchamps interviews Ron Mallet, a theoretical physicist at the University of Connecticut, about his boyhood dream of building a time machine and rescuing his own father. Mallett also explains current research into time travel and says the ability to go back and forth in time may be closer than we think. His book is called Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality.Finally, Fleda Brown reads her poem, “For My Daughter’s Fortieth Birthday” which connects space and time in an entirely different way. Brown is the author of many books, including Reunion and Breathing In, Breathing Out. Brown also served as the poet laureate of Delaware, from 2001 to 2007. [Broadcast Date: December 29, 2010] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/101229/rt_tbon_101229_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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