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    The Day the Cowboys Quit , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 580min
    Honored by the Western Writers of America (WWA) as one of history's 25 Best Westerns, and based on an actual 1883 Texas cowboys' strike, this Golden Spur Award-winning novel tells the gripping saga of veteran cowboys and upstart cattle lords vying for power and vainly resisting change. Recipient of Golden Saddleman, Lone Star Lifetime Achievement, and Western Heritage awards, Elmer Kelton is WWA's "Greatest Western Writer of All Time". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pete Bradbury. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/001756/bk_reco_001756_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Furnished Room, Hörbuch, Digital, 18min
    One of the famous, and the bleakest short story by O. Henry.The basic ironic plot can be summarized in a sentence - a young man commits suicide in the same room where a young woman for whom he has vainly searched killed herself, but it is the musty atmosphere of the room and the suggestion that every place bears the traces of the lives that have inhabited it that makes the story so compelling. Language: English. Narrator: Markham Anderson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cara/000064/bk_cara_000064_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Assassin Hunter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 133min
    When a high-tech assassin is captured by a lithe little teen and her thugs, Vaya Sage questions his memories and launches the messiest blood bath of his career. But will the reality he unravels be less believable than memories he never questioned? Although short, this novella packs a punch as it explores the inevitable challenges of a futuristic world where memory implants, memory erasures, and maybe even magic are a reality. Action-packed with carefully researched world-building, Assassin Hunter will leave your brain scrambling to vainly guess the ending while hanging on the edge of your seat. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julian Pearson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/143804/bk_acx0_143804_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Book of Common Prayer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 402min
    Writing with the telegraphic swiftness and microscopic sensitivity that have made her one of our most distinguished journalists, Joan Didion creates a shimmering novel of innocence and evil. A Book of Common Prayer is the story of two American women in the derelict Central American nation of Boca Grande. Grace Strasser-Mendana controls much of the country's wealth and knows virtually all of its secrets; Charlotte Douglas knows far too little. "Immaculate of history, innocent of politics," she has come to Boca Grande vaguely and vainly hoping to be reunited with her fugitive daughter. As imagined by Didion, her fate is at once utterly particular and fearfully emblematic of an age of conscienceless authority and unfathomable violence. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marisa Vitali. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005844/bk_adbl_005844_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Miss Seeton Sings: A Miss Seeton Mystery, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 558min
    When a flood of perfectly faked banknotes hits the market, retired art teacher Miss Emily Seeton, the Yard's famed ‘MissEss', is chosen to investigate a respected Geneva bank. Somehow, the forger is also mixed up in the theft of valuable paintings, so it's ‘set an artist to catch an artist.' But Miss S. is new to air travel – surely the names Geneva and ‘Genova' must be the same place? Bamboozling both the crooks and the police who vainly try to keep tabs on her, innocently humming the fraudsters' musical password, she trips gaily along the dangerous trail. Serene amidst every kind of skullduggery, this eccentric English spinster steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles, armed with nothing more than her sketchpad and umbrella! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phyllida Nash. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104265/bk_acx0_104265_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Much Ado About Nothing , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 119min
    In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare created one of the greatest verbal sparring matches in all of literature, echoes of which can be heard in the sophisticated dialogue of such late masters as George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and Noel Coward. Throughout the play, the proud would-be lovers, Beatrice and Benedick, circle each other warily, and as they draw closer and closer to their inevitable union, their scathing witticisms and sly innuendoes reach a feverish intensity that befits the passionate longing they both vainly seek to deny. Much Ado About Nothing is at once a sobering examination of dishonesty and deception, and a boisterous celebration of that overwhelming natural phenomenon we call love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rex Harrison, Rachel Roberts, Full Cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/harp/000035/pf_harp_000035_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Return of the Native , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 906min
    This fine novel sets in opposition two of Thomas Hardy’s most unforgettable creations: his heroine, the sensuous, free-spirited Eustacia Vye, and the solemn, majestic stretch of upland in Dorsetshire he called Egdon Heath. The famous opening reveals the haunting power of that dark, forbidding moor where proud Eustacia fervently awaits a clandestine meeting with her lover, Damon Wildeve. But Eustacia’s dreams of escape are not to be realized - neither Wildeve nor the returning native Clym Yeobright can bring her salvation. Injured by forces beyond their control, Hardy’s characters struggle vainly in the net of destiny. In the end, only the face of the lonely heath remains untouched by fate in this masterpiece of tragic passion, a tale that perfectly epitomizes the author’s own unique and melancholy genius.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jill Masters. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000084/bk_bkot_000084_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Grace Note , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 452min
    Alexander Brogan, New York Philharmonic violinist and Julliard instructor, could not have imagined that his fiancee Charlotte would be murdered at Lincoln Center, nor could he have fathomed abandoning his elite Manhattan lifestyle and retreating to a small town in upstate, New York. Determined to fade away into a quiet, isolated existence as a high school music teacher, he encounters a wily ten-year-old violin prodigy named Kelly, whom he vainly tries to ignore. But through the arm-twisting antics of her straight-shooting, Louisiana-born grandmother, he agrees to teach the child. Ultimately, the experience forces him not only to rediscover his passion for the violin and music, but also to realize that love may very well linger in a heart that only Kelly's beautiful Aunt Grace can open. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregg A. Rizzo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014276/bk_acx0_014276_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    System Error: In Your Favour , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 132min
    The world is in the midst of the worst financial crisis in recorded history. The 24 hour rolling news stations are struggling to keep up with the number of banks collapsing, companies going into administration, and the wider effects these issues are having on the public. Many experts are trying vainly to explain just what is going on, but in London's Canary Wharf district computer specialist Kate Meer understands all too well the cause of these seemingly unconnected problems. A new artificially intelligent computer system called C.A.R.L that she designed is out of her control. As events in the world continue to spin out of control and the global financial markets embark on a rollercoaster ride, Kate has to join forces with James Gold, a notorious hacker, to try and regain control of their renegade system before it's too late. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eila Ulyett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/008279/bk_acx0_008279_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Semper Human: The Inheritance Trilogy, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 776min
    The final conflict. Chaos has erupted throughout the known galaxy, threatening countless colonies and orbital habitats - as the Associative struggles vainly to keep the peace. Extreme measures are called for in these times of dire crisis, and the Star Marines are awakened from their voluntary 850-year cybe-hibe sleep. But General Trevor Garroway and his warriors are about to discover that the old rules of engagement have drastically changed.... The end begins with an old-style assault on rebels at the Tarantula Stargate. But true terror looms at the edges of known reality. Humankind's eternal enemy - the brutal, unstoppable Xul - approaches, wielding a weapon monstrous beyond imagining. Suddenly, not only is the future in jeopardy, but the past is as well - and if the Marines fail to eliminate their relentless xenophobic foe once and for all, the Great Annihilator will obliterate every last trace of human existence. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Dufris (Mind's Eye Productions). Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000113/bk_acx0_000113_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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