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    Just Julie, Hörbuch, Digital, 202min
    Here is the astonishingly colourful, fascinating life of the world's most famous barmaid, read by the author. For 25 years, Julie Goodyear became part of everyone's family when she played Bet Lynch, the loveable brassy barmaid of the Rovers Return in Coronation Street. Now, at 64 (the age her mother was when she died), Julie feels the time is right to tell her amazing life story. Her father walked out on the family soon after Julie's birth, and Julie was brought up by her mother, Alice, and stepfather. Her upbringing in Manchester was impoverished, but Julie coped, largely through her love for her spiritualist grandmother, whom Julie would accompany when she was called upon by the local community to lay out the dead. At just 13, Julie had to deal with her beloved grandmother's death when her body was found in a canal. Julie fell pregnant at 16, bringing shame and embarrassment, before marrying Ray Sutcliffe. The marriage only lasted three years. In 1966 Julie made a six-week appearance in Coronation Street as Bet Lynch from Elliston's Raincoat Factory, a role that made her Britain's best-loved barmaid and a cultural institution. In 1979, during a routine check up, Julie discovered she had cervical cancer and had two operations. At the time, she was given a year to live. Various liaisons during the ensuing decade included Julie's first foray into a same sex relationship with her housekeeper. In 1987 Julie left Coronation Street for a while to nurse her mother, who was dying of cancer. Julie finally quit the series on 2 October 1995 after walking away with a lifetime Achievement Award at the first National Television Awards. In 1996 she was awarded an OBE. Julie's much anticipated autobiography reveals, for the first time and with incredible candour, the truth, sadness, and spirit behind this larger than life woman. Language: English. Narrator: Julie Goodyear. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/000179/bk_macm_000179_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Cakes and Ale: or The Skeleton in the Cupboard , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 397min
    Of all Somerset Maugham’s novels this is the most entertaining and arguably his best ever. Rosie is a barmaid with a heart of gold and a skeleton in her closet. Maugham’s portrait of her makes his novel fairly glow with witty observations of the contemporary literary scene. Features Willie Ashenden, who resurfaces in Maugham’s Ashenden. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Neil Hunt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/005424/bk_reco_005424_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Beware the Books , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 128min
    There are many unseen threats in the ancient City of Bedley: disease, poverty, being absorbed by a book.... Anna Worthy, barmaid and secret scholar of the magical arts, finds herself in a race against time to find out why the books are behaving badly and what she can do to stop them. Will she succeed before the entire city becomes just one massive library? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Jones, Recording Tales. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/114737/bk_acx0_114737_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How to Seduce a Spy: Potions and Passions, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 809min
    2019 PRISM award winner for best steampunk book.Where potions run technology and passions run deep.A barmaid with a rare talent.Paris, 1882. Barmaid and potions expert Elle Deschamps knows a worrying secret: The supply of the magic serum that gives her potions their potency is running dangerously low. When a mysterious gentleman hires her to help search out new sources for serum, she jumps at the chance to earn her way to a life of less drudgery.A spy on a mission.Agent of the British crown Henry Ainsworth has a simple directive: End the potions crisis, by any means necessary. Posing as a bodyguard, he joins the beguiling potions expert on her continent-hopping expedition, determined to protect her from the unknown foes who wish to thwart her.A love neither can resist.With time of the essence, Elle and Henry must rely on one another to avert disaster. As enemies close in, they find the greatest danger of all may not be to their their lives, but to their hearts.How to Seduce a Spy is a standalone romance in the Potions and Passions series. Full of humor, heat, and heart-pounding action, this around-the-world adventure will whisk you away into a Victorian world of magic and love.Buy it today and join Elle and Henry on the road to happily ever after. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Lane Pusey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/196914/bk_acx0_196914_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    We'll Meet Again: Part 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 177min
    Its the summer of 1944 and British soldier Frank Marshall awaits his orders. As he tries his best to forget the war at the local village pub, drinking his favorite pint Archers Ale he meets the young barmaid June Jefferson. They soon fall in love. Unexpectedly, Frank is told his division is heading to Portsmouth for the liberation of Europe. Fearing he will never see her again, he rushes to her father's pub and promises "We'll Meet Again". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sajad Hussain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/169676/bk_acx0_169676_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Meet Mr Mulliner , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 329min
    In the Angler’s Rest, drinking hot scotch and lemon, sits one of Wodehouse’s greatest raconteurs. Mr Mulliner, his vivid imagination lubricated by Miss Postlethwaite the barmaid, has fabulous stories to tell of the extraordinary behaviour of his far-flung family... One of them concerns Wilfred, who lights on the formula for Buck-U-Uppo, a tonic given to elephants to enable them to face tigers with the necessary nonchalance. Its explosive effects on a shy young curate and then the higher clergy is gravely revealed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Cecil. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/003208/bk_bbcw_003208_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Mother's Love , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 613min
    The George pub in the backstreets of Liverpool lost its landlord when he ran off with the barmaid. Now his wife Eve runs the pub with the help of her three daughters and together they face up to all that life can throw at them. Warm-hearted, full of nostalgic descriptions of life in an earlier era, Lyn Andrews' latest has all the ingredients that her many thousands of fans look for and find in each new novel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anne Dover. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/head/000182/bk_head_000182_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Jancy's Justice: A GnomeSaga Tale , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 57min
    Jancy's Justice was published in the anthology Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues. About this story, author Kenny Soward says, "Jancy is a secondary character in the GnomeSaga series, but for Blackguards I felt she deserved a bit of the spotlight. 'Jancy's Justice' takes place some years prior to the Battle of Hightower (as told in GnomeSaga). Working as a barmaid in the rough-and-tumble city of Half Town, Jancy the Quick keeps her true profession a secret but is poised to respond whenever injustice is found. In this instance injustice has found her. But this time Jancy may have bitten off more than she can chew." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Aiello. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023366/bk_adbl_023366_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lad of Evesham Vale , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 346min
    Fred Archer, the master of the rural tale, has gathered together a fine collection of Worcestershire country folk. From the alluring barmaid Amy Lights - a "rural Venus" - to the Reverend Vernon, who rides a tricycle religiously and excels at funerals, all the characters embody earthy warmth and ruddy humour. Central to the tale is Sacco, a builder’s apprentice, who seduces the local girls and startles older folk with his much-prized motorbike. With a witty remark and a quick answer to all of life’s perplexing questions, Sacco is a scoundrel, but a likeable one. He is indeed a true "lad" of Evesham Vale. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vincent Brimble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/002153/bk_isis_002153_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Betrayed: Rosie Gilmour, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 583min
    Rosie Gilmour is chasing an explosive new story that will take her deep into Glasgow's sectarian underworld. But has she got in over her head? Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour is on the trail of missing barmaid Wendy Graham. Wendy's boyfriend is a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force - and before she vanished, she levelled a horrifying accusation against one of his mates. Determined to get justice for a woman she is sure has paid the ultimate price for breaking the silence of the UVF brotherhood, Rosie will find herself at the mercy of the most vicious gangsters she's ever encountered. Has she met her match this time? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sarah Barron. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/qpuk/000135/bk_qpuk_000135_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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