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    The Twins , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 83min
    Lady Bessie Kyffin-Taylor was an English writer famous for her outstanding supernatural stories, which were published in a single volume in 1920, just two years before her death. The Twins is one of Kyffin-Taylor's most famous novelettes. It tells the bizarre tale of identical twin brothers. One brother is hell-bent on evil and constantly contrives to ensure his twin is blamed for his ill-doing. The evil twin's deeds become worse and worse until he contrives to force his brother into an engagement to a woman he does not love...and when this woman is later found murdered, her fiancé is convicted of the murder and sentenced to death. But from this point, the story takes a strange twist. One twin is hanged for murder and returns to haunt his brother in the most terrifying manner.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000800/bk_redd_000800_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Book of Human Skin , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1213min
    In 18th-century Venice, Minguillo Fasan, heir to a fortune, contrives to dispatch of his sister, Marcella, condemning her to the fate of a nun. But Marcella Fasan is tougher than Minguillo imagines, and, aided by a servant, a painter, a skin-obsessed doctor, a Scottish merchant and a cigar-smoking pornographer, she pitches her wits against her brother.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlotte Strevens, Peter Noble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/002419/bk_howe_002419_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Story of Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, Hörbuch, Digital, 13min
    All's Well That Ends Well is set mainly in France and at the court of the King in Paris.Helena, the daughter of a talented and reputable doctor, goes to attend to the king who is severely ill. She successfully cures him, and in return, he offers her the hand of any man of her choosing. She asks for Count Bertrand, whom she has always loved. But he is appalled by the match, as she is lowly born. Helena is as resourceful as she is beautiful and contrives to make a good husband of Bertrand. Language: English. Narrator: Ghizela Rowe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/copy/000078/bk_copy_000078_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sabbath's Theater , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1016min
    National Book Award, Fiction, 1995Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Mickey Sabbath at 64 is an aging, raging powerhouse, defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his longtime mistress, Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Haunted by the ghosts of all the people who loved and hated him the most, Sabbath contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction. Acclaimed author Philip Roth is at the very peak of his creative powers in this bold and hilarious novel, a comic creation of epic proportions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Dukes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dove/000434/bk_dove_000434_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    When the Dragon Roars: The Starks Trilogy, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 658min
    Secrets and lies force their way to the surface in Nesly Clerge's newest novel of deception, crime, and buried history. Frederick Starks thought he'd already lost as much as one man could: A beautiful family, the luxurious life wealth provides, success, admiration - all stripped from him in one moment of madness that resulted in a 15-year sentence in a maximum security prison. Certain that life has gotten as bad as it can get, Starks contrives a way to rise to the top of the inmate hierarchy. But his assumption is wrong. Amid stunning revelations, betrayals, and violence, Starks faces one challenge after another, until a life-altering event forces him into the most brutal confrontation of all: the truth about himself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shawn Compton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/095863/bk_acx0_095863_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hidden Between the Lines: A 19th Century Historical Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 647min
    In early 1800s England, the lives of two young women change forever in an unexpected twist of deceit and betrayal. After Lady Rachel Ramsford is promised in marriage to Lord Symington - a disgusting old man - she elopes to the United States with a handsome, young officer. On the voyage, a series of events takes place that drastically affects her future. Meanwhile, Lady Edith Brekmore - her cousin - is blackmailed into taking Rachel’s place. Forced to marry and produce an heir to the dangerous and powerful Lord Symington, she contrives a plan which, if discovered, would mean her certain death. The cousins begin writing letters to each other, learning of each other's lives and hardships. But can they find what hides between the lines? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wendy Wolfson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/197923/bk_acx0_197923_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Scrupulous Father , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 34min
    George Robert Gissing (1857-1903) was a popular English novelist and short-story writer who also worked as a teacher and tutor throughout his life. The Scrupulous Father is an unusual love story set in the world of stifling Victorian propriety. Rose, the only daughter of the highly respectable and class obsessed Mr. Wiston, is drawn to a young, redheaded clerk at an inn while she is on holiday. The young man is outgoing, cheerful, and free of all the petty rules and inhibitions which dominate her own life. When the young man joins Rose and her father in the railway carriage on their way back to London, Rose contrives to have a few moments alone with the young man. During this time she commits the unthinkable...and when her father finds out, Rose is faced with the greatest trial of her life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000560/bk_redd_000560_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lovers' Meeting , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 381min
    Journeys end in lovers’ meetings, every wise man’s son doth know. (William Shakespeare)It is a truth universally acknowledged that the disastrous first meeting of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet at the Meryton Assembly provided each with a ready-made set of prejudices to apply to the other. But when a horrific rural accident reveals Darcy to be a man of active, intelligent benevolence, and Elizabeth, in the absence of her appalling family, to be an extraordinary lady of courage and decision - then, surely, the course of true love will run smoothly.But alas, the lovers' meeting is not the end, but a new beginning. For though they have found each other, a seeming multitude of complications - a catastrophic flood, the last wishes of a dying friend, Lydia’s misfortunes, a dastardly member of parliament, and even their own fears - contrives to come between them and their journey’s end. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Pickering. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/236015/bk_acx0_236015_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Love Unsought , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 593min
    Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy seem determined to misunderstand one another, and after his disastrous proposal, both are eagerly wishing to forget their acquaintance. But fate, with assistance from Darcy’s scheming cousins, contrives to keep them together.  When Miss Darcy is summoned to Kent, the couple has a chance to begin anew, and their budding friendship carries them to London and Hertfordshire. Their feelings deepen but before their new understanding is made known, Elizabeth is sent to Brighton as chaperone to her youngest sister. Her stay there ends in ruin when Darcy’s past comes to call. Upon discovering the situation is worse than he feared, Darcy determines he must be the one to make things right. His departure leaves Elizabeth in doubt and their future in question. Was their love too new to withstand a scandal? A series of missed chances, misdirected letters, and miscommunications keeps the couple apart; it make require the intervention of their nearest relations to bring them back together. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Matthews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/223613/bk_acx0_223613_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Three Great Lies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1000min
    While vacationing in Egypt Jeannette Walker, a cynical scientist jaded by swarms of tour groups and knick-knack shacks, is lured by a teenage tour guide to visit a newly discovered tomb. No other tourists there! Inside the chamber, she tumbles down a shaft and 3,000 years back in time. Now, in a world where deities walk the streets and prophecy stinks up the air, Jeannette is desperate for normal and the simple pleasures of sanitation and refrigeration. However, a slave master hawking a cat-headed girl derails her homebound mission, and Jeannette - penniless in this ancient world - steals the girl, bringing down the tireless fury of the slaver. Saddled with a newly awakened mummy and the cat-headed girl, Jeannette, through her unparalleled experience gained from watching spy movies, contrives a plan to free them from the slaver's ire, but will she have to dive into the belly of the beast to succeed? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Darla Middlebrook. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/059279/bk_acx0_059279_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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