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Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred the Vampire Accountant
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The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 422min
Some people are born boring. Some live boring. Some even die boring. Fred managed to do all three, and when he woke up as a vampire, he did so as a boring one. Timid, socially awkward, and plagued by self-esteem issues, Fred has never been the adventurous sort. One fateful night - different from the night he died, which was more inconvenient than fateful - Fred reconnects with an old friend at his high school reunion. This rekindled relationship sets off a chain of events thrusting him right into the chaos of the parahuman world: a world with chipper zombies, truck driver wereponies, maniacal necromancers, ancient dragons, and now one undead accountant trying his best to "survive". Because even after it's over, life can still be a downright bloody mess. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirby Heyborne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/004502/bk_tant_004502_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Adventurous Spirit , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 419min
At 41 - with two teenagers and a contentedly unadventurous life - Heather Hawkins made a doctor's appointment. Diagnosed with stage one ovarian cancer, within nine days she had surgery to remove an 18cm tumour and a full hysterectomy. Instead of chemotherapy, she chose a noninvasive surveillance treatment. The experience reignited Heather's adventurous and invincible spirit. At 47 she pulled on an old pair of shorts and runners and struggled to the end of a four kilometres mothers' day fun run with her kids. Five years later she has 17 marathons and three ultra-marathons under her belt, including the North Pole Marathon and the extraordinary World Marathon Challenge - a gruelling seven marathons in seven days on seven continents. She topped that off by trekking 1,700 km in the thin air of Nepal's Great Himalaya Trail. And she's only just getting started.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Heather Hawkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031710/bk_adbl_031710_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Clump: An American Splatire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 680min
Clump is a man with no known name, no known past and, most importantly, no head. The huge, heavily muscled giant lacks any awareness of the world around him but miraculously becomes the most popular entertainer in America. Clump's medical and media handlers must manage his skyrocketing career as a music video star and create a wholesome, family-friendly public image...while concealing the inconvenient fact that the headless man is homicidally dangerous when touched. A so-called "splatire" owing to the mix of razor-sharp comedy and graphic violence, Clump's satiric targets include the entertainment industry, medicine, journalism, corporate greed and ineptitude, politics, and a morally vacuous culture that increasingly and enthusiastically embraces the brainless. Stylistically, Clump is like a head-on collision between Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Chuck Palahniuk. It is not for the faint-hearted, the thin-skinned, or the unadventurous, but is an all-you-can stomach buffet for those who like their comedy dark and their social commentary barbed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack de Golia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/047704/bk_acx0_047704_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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St Urbain's Horseman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 816min
St. Urbain’s Horseman is a complex, moving, and wonderfully comic evocation of a generation consumed with guilt - guilt at not joining every battle, at not healing every wound. Thirty-seven-year-old Jake Hersh is a film director of modest success, a faithful husband, and a man in disgrace. His alter ego is his cousin Joey, a legend in their childhood neighbourhood in Montreal. Nazi-hunter, adventurer, and hero of the Spanish Civil War, Joey is the avenging horseman of Jake’s impotent dreams. When Jake becomes embroiled in a scandalous trial in London, England, he puts his own unadventurous life on trial as well, finding it desperately wanting as he steadfastly longs for the Horseman’s glorious return. Irreverent, deeply felt, as scathing in its critique of social mores as it is uproariously funny, St. Urbain’s Horseman confirms Mordecai Richler’s reputation as a pre-eminent observer of the hypocrisies and absurdities of modern life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert MacNeil. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003961/bk_adbl_003961_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Lady and the Duke: The Imperial Regency Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 176min
Miss Audrey Ellis has failed to catch a wealthy, titled husband in her two London Seasons,and merely wishes to return to her quiet country life, leaving high society behind her for good. But when an unexpected encounter brings the Duke of Halford into her life, she will have to decide if she has the courage to change her prudent, unadventurous plans and reach for something more. William Langston, the Duke of Halford, wasn't looking for love. He came to Town to track down his sister's blackmailer, hoping to head off a scandal in the making. But the Viscount Claremont is more elusive than the duke was prepared for, and leads him on a chase through society's drawing rooms and balls. Will soon finds himself distracted from his mission by Audrey's fresh beauty and lack of pretension, something scarce in his rarefied world. The pair are drawn together despite their differences, but as scandal looms and rumors spread, danger is closer than ever before. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dawn Hyde. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/012819/bk_acx0_012819_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Four Horses Dead Ringer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 499min
As a result of a chance meeting, aging U.S. Marshal Alistair B. Taggart recruits an unadventurous, middle-aged blacksmith, John McKinney as his deputy. Out of Taggart's final act of mentoring, a steadfast friendship develops between the two men. Six years later, having stayed at his post longer than most lawmen, Taggart is eyeing the end of his career while McKinney has settled into his new job as sheriff of the mostly quiet town of Winfield, Kansas. Trading his hammer for a badge late in life, the quiet McKinney has always envied the storied career of his 81-year-old friend, regretful of having missed his chance to help tame the frontier as Tagggart had in the wilder days of the West. But fate sometimes lays bare the foolishness of regrets and McKinney is about to face the two biggest challenges of his career, ones which will hold life or death consequences for him and his aging mentor. Now only friendship stands between them and a bullet.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J. D. McCall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/003199/bk_acx0_003199_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Come Dance: Transgender First Time , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 184min, (USK 18)
Simon's love life is in need of a serious revamp. Ever since his wife left him because he was too unadventurous in bed, he's completely lost his mojo. In his public life, Simon is a popular celebrity chef, known for his friendly demeanor. When he's invited to take part in a live television show called Come Dance with the Stars, he decides this might just be the left-turn he's been looking for. But when he meets his dance partner - a young, shy, French beauty called Nancy - he has no idea just how much of a jump-start his tired old love life is about to get! Dancing with Nancy means having to get extremely close to those beautiful thighs and skin-tight leggings. Then, Simon begins to feel things in his heart - and in Nancy's pants - that he wasn't expecting. Nancy tries to hide her big, thick secret, but dancing a sexy rumba with her favorite celebrity chef proves much too exciting for her, and before long Simon's in for a huge shock...and then a big treat. But can he handle it? Romance. Gender-bending heat. One heck of a happy ever after. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roy Wells. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/201008/bk_acx0_201008_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 170min
Alice's rather wild adventures in Wonderland begin on an unadventurous picnic, when her attention, wandering off from the lesson it was supposed to be glued to, is caught by a passing white rabbit who happens to be wearing a waistcoat and muttering to himself, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" As he disappears down a rabbit hole, and Alice, for want of anything better to do, follows him, a tale of almost hallucinogenic wildness unfolds as she finds herself in Wonderland - a fantastical world where the characters Alice meets and the situations in which she finds herself have the whiff of symbol and allegory about them but are too whimsical to be pinned down as such. The story of how Alice's Adventures in Wonderland came to be written, and the author’s association with the Liddell family - and Alice Liddell in particular - is now the stuff of legend. One summer afternoon in 1862, the author, in the company of the Reverend Robinson Duckworth, took the three Liddell sisters, Lorina Charlotte, Alice Pleasance and Edith Mary, out in a rowing boat on the River Thames, near Oxford. On that boat trip, he entertained the girls by telling them a story about a bored little girl called Alice who goes looking for an adventure. Two years later, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published - and sold out rapidly. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julia McKenzie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/slks/000001/bk_slks_000001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Howl's Moving Castle
In which a witch bewitched the hatter's daughter -- and then some. . . . Sophie lived in the town of Market Chipping, which was in Ingary, a land in which anything could happen, and often did -- especially when the Witch of the Waste got her dander up. Which was often. As her younger sisters set out to seek their fortunes, Sophie stayed in her father's hat shop. Which proved most unadventurous, until the Witch of the Waste came in to buy a bonnet, but was not pleased. Which is why she turned Sophie into an old lady. Which was spiteful witchery. Now Sophie must seek her own fortune. Which means striking a bargain with the lecherous Wizard Howl. Which means entering his ever-moving castle, taming a blue fire-demon, and meeting the Witch of the Waste head-on. Which was more than Sophie bargained for. . . .Die Hutmacherin Sophie hätte es wissen müssen: Als älteste von drei Schwestern hat man immer Pech, wenn man auszieht, um das Glück zu suchen. Das weiß in Ingari schließlich jedes Kind. Und so wird Sophie auch alsbald von einer eifersüchtigen Hexe in eine alte Frau verwandelt. Was tun? Sophie heuert als Hausdame bei dem gefürchteten Zauberer und Herzensbrecher Howl an. In seinem fliegenden Schloss hat sie alle Hände voll damit zu tun, 1. den Feuerdämon Calcifer bei Laune zu halten, 2. dem Lehrling Michael bei dessen kläglichen Zaubereiversuchen zu helfen und 3. Howl daran zu hindern, ihrer Schwester Lettie das Herz zu brechen. Dabei wollte sie doch eigentlich nur ihre eigene Gestalt zurückerlangen...- Shop: buecher
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