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    1984 (eBook, ePUB)
    THE AUTHORATITIVE TEXT "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."The year is 1984. War and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brother. Mass surveillance is everything and The Thought Police ensure no individual thinking is allowed. Winston Smith works at The Ministry of Truth, carefully rewriting history. But Winston dreams of freedom, and of rebellion. It is here that he falls in love with Julia, and starts a secret, forbidden affair with her - but in this world nothing can be kept secret, and they are forced to face consequences more terrifying than either of them could have ever imagined.A dystopian masterpiece, this is the powerful and prophetic novel that defined the twentieth century. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT HARRIS
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    Bird's-Eye View , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 859min
    The novels of New York Times best-selling author J. F. Freedman combine gritty realism with gripping suspense. Bird’s-Eye View is a vivid thriller that will keep listeners enthralled from start to finish. Ex-collegiate professor turned loner, Fritz Tullis dropped out of academia for all the right reasons. He now spends his time thinking, drinking, fishing, and photographing birds from a sweltering, screen-windowed shack at the edge of a swamp in southern Maryland. One morning, spying on birds with his telephoto lens, Fritz spots a plane landing on an airstrip across the bay. When he witnesses a deadly gunfight erupt outside the plane, Fritz, against his better judgement, is compelled to investigate further. Narrator Tom Stechschulte deftly navigates through Freedman’s winding story as the stakes get higher and higher and Fritz’s once-quiet life is transformed into chaos. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Stechschulte. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/008003/bk_reco_008003_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Nineteen Eighty-Four, Hörbuch, Digital, 113min
    Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster and the Thought Police uncover each act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101.... Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime. Christopher Eccleston, Tim Pigott-Smith and Pippa Nixon star in this new drama, part of BBC Radio 4's The Real George Orwell season - a Radio 4 journey that explores the disjuncture between the man who was Eric Blair and the writer who was George Orwell. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/006609/bk_bbcw_006609_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Die a Stranger: Alex McKnight #9 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 532min
    Late one night, a plane lands on a deserted airstrip. Five dead bodies are found there the next morning. And now Vinnie LeBlanc is missing. Vinnie is an Ojibwa tribal member, a blackjack dealer at the Bay Mills Casino, and he just might be Alex McKnight’s best friend. He’s come through for Alex more than once in the past, and he never ever misses a day of work. So Alex can’t help but be worried. There’s a deadly crime war creeping into Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, leaving bodies in its wake, and Alex wouldn’t think for a minute that his friend could be involved. But when an unexpected and unwelcome stranger arrives in town, Alex will soon find out that the stakes are higher than he ever could have imagined. Two-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Steve Hamilton returns with this outstanding new novel - perhaps his boldest book yet. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan John Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/003963/bk_brll_003963_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Death of a Second Wife: A Dotsy Lamb Travel Mystery, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 508min
    When her son says he and his fiancee want to marry "in the shadow of the Matterhorn," Dotsy Lamb doesn't realize it means she'll be staying in the same remote Swiss chalet as her ex-husband and his new wife. But rather than spoil the young ones' plans, Dotsy puts on a brave face and heads to Switzerland, determined to make the best of it.Then the new wife turns up dead, and Dotsy is suspect number one. To make matters even worse, the police confiscate the passports of the house guests, so the members of the wedding party are now stuck living together. With familial conflicts making life complicated inside the house, a glider from a nearby airstrip keeps flying overhead, while a shadowy Russian and a man in red shoes keep popping up. Fortunately, Dotsy's friend Marco, a high ranking Carabinieri official from Italy, arrives to help Dotsy find the real killer and free herself from this not-so-cozy mountain retreat. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nancy J. Alexander. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/015731/bk_acx0_015731_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Wake of the Hornet: The Nicolette Scott Mysteries, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 592min
    A mission to murder… Fifteen miles long, bordered by pristine white beaches, Balesin is an emerald paradise in the blue waters of the South Pacific and home to a bizarre religious cult. Since World War II, the people of Balesin have worshiped airplanes and the rich cargo they carry. Hoping to obtain the spoils of the modern world, they have spent decades trying to lure aircraft down out of the sky with a homemade airstrip and mock planes. But for those who know it, Balesin has an even darker side - one shrouded in a legend of death and cannibalism. For Nicolette Scott, an expedition to Balesin brings together her life's twin passions: archaeology and airplanes. But soon two members of the expedition are dead, and from thousands of miles away, a powerful noose of intrigue is tightening around natives and visitors alike. Now Nicolette's life is in danger too, as her research brings her closer to uncovering this strange island's long-held mysteries, secrets from the past that have the power to kill. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angela Brazil. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006993/bk_blak_006993_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Radiance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 683min
    Keiko Kitigawa disembarks from a plane on a New York airstrip in June 1952, turning one scarred cheek away from the pop and flare of news photographers’ cameras. On the surface, she is impeccably composed, an 18-year-old survivor of the atomic blast that destroyed Hiroshima and vaporized the people she loved best. But the committee who is sponsoring her visit to America for charitable reconstructive surgery want to crack that surface. America is obsessed with the atom bomb, and to achieve its political ends, the committee expects Keiko to become the poster child of the ban the bomb movement, peddling her story to the American public in all its searing, guilt-inducing detail. Daisy Lawrence, Keiko’s suburban hostess as she recuperates, is assigned to soften up the girl and pry her story out of her. With McCarthyism in full swing and the Hydrogen bomb on the brink of completion, Radiance traces the story of the deepening relationship between Daisy and the girl. Wary manoeuvres, whispered intimacies and wrenching betrayals dance the two women - 'host mother' and 'Hiroshima maiden' - unbearably close to the burning stories at each other’s hearts. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tara Ward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000325/bk_twuk_000325_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Skyjack: A Thea Paris Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 659min
    International kidnap expert Thea Paris is escorting two former child soldiers on a plane from an orphanage in Kanzi, Africa, to adoptive parents in London when the Boeing Business Jet is hijacked and forced to land on a deserted airstrip in the Libyan desert. On the ground, Thea comes face-to-face with a former nemesis, a Sicilian don who wants something, or someone, on that plane. Her old foe imprisons her in the hangar and takes to the air with the boys and the passengers still aboard, mysteriously demanding that Thea use the resources of Quantum International to hijack a truckload of Syrian refugees bound for Budapest. He makes it clear he will return the passengers only when the truck and its contents are in his possession. Thea, Rif, and the Quantum team must race against the clock to discover the don's true motives before any harm comes to the two boys and their fellow passengers. Revealing a deadly conspiracy that connects the dark postwar legacy of World War II to the present, this case will bring all parties to an explosive conclusion that will decide the fate of millions across Europe and the Middle East. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Therese Plummer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029311/bk_adbl_029311_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Road to Armageddon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 785min
    Fact: It's the 21st century, and every day the world's largest crop of opium is harvested from the fertile fields of war-torn Afghanistan. It is rushed through Iran to processing labs in Turkey, where it is turned into what is, pound for pound, one of the most valuable substances on earth: pure-grade heroin. Fact: The incredible amounts of cash generated from this dark enterprise are deposited in the West's largest banking systems. From London, New York, and Washington to Paris, Amsterdam, and Istanbul, our banks wash and protect the profits from prisonous enterprise. Fact: "Businessmen" from Iran have purchased an airstrip north of Hamburg, Germany, for their "exporting" needs. Fact or fiction? With the profits from these dealings, Iran has acquired six nuclear weapons of mass destruction from a retreating Russian army and stands poised as the newest player in the deadly poker game of world domination. The line between fact and fiction is so tight in Larry Collins' thriller, The Road to Armageddon, that listeners will find themselves short of breath trying to separate the reality of this tense yarn from the evening's headlines. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Brick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000811/bk_pnix_000811_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Papa Goose: One Year, Seven Goslings, and the Flight of My Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 345min
    “Anyone who has ever loved will relate to this book as I did. I read it through the night, twice.” (Stacey O’Brien, author of Wesley the Owl)The charming true story of one man’s journey to raise seven goslings in the name of science.In Papa Goose, Michael Quetting shares the hilarious and moving true story of how he became a father to seven rambunctious goslings - and the surprising things he learned along the way. Starting right at the beginning, with the eggs, his journey takes him from the incubator all the way to the airstrip, where he must attempt to teach the geese to fly as part of an ambitious scientific research initiative for the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, which tracks animal migrations around the world.For the next 11 months, we follow the newly minted dad as he takes the goslings on daily swims in the lake, tracks them down when they go astray, and watches their personalities develop: feisty, churlish, and lovable. Packed with charm and humor, Papa Goose quickly draws us into the adventure as Gloria, Nemo, and the rest of the crew conquer land, water, and air. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael David Kirby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/051601/bk_adbl_051601_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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