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The Wizard's Promise: The Doomspell Trilogy, Book 3, Hörbuch, Digital, 225min
The final volume in Cliff McNish's best-selling debut trilogy. The magic of all children has been released. Throughout the skies of Earth they swoop, crossing continents, changing shape, diving to the ocean depths and playing the deadly new spell-games. Rachel bides her time, watching the skies for what she knows will happen - the invasion of the Witches. But when it comes it is not in the way anyone expects, and there is also a new enemy - the huge, terrifying Gridda-breed. To confront them will require all of Rachel's and her brother Eric's skill and courage, as they embark on a journey that takes them to Ool, home of the Witches - a world where mountains move and breathe, the sun never pierces the clouds and the snows are alive. Read by Siân Phillips Music by Peter Rinne with Andrew Butler Abridged by Patricia Saunders Original text © Cliff McNish 2003 Language: English. Narrator: Siân Phillips. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/162124/bk_acx0_162124_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Still Life: Chief Inspector Gamache Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 638min
The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police force. But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere behind the white picket fences and that, if he watches closely enough, Three Pines will start to give up its dark secrets.... Coming soon: Book 2 in the Chief Inspector Gamache series, Dead Cold. Winter in Three Pines, and the sleepy village is carpeted in snow. It's a time of peace and goodwill - until a scream pierces the biting air. A spectator at the annual Boxing Day curling match has been fatally electrocuted. Despite the large crowd, there are no witnesses and - apparently - no clues. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Sims. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000775/bk_twuk_000775_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dance on a Sinking Ship , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1093min
A foreign correspondent discovers the scoop of a lifetime onboard a doomed ocean liner. C. Jamieson Spencer is sipping cognac when Paris starts to burn. As Communists and Fascists battle in the streets below his hotel balcony, this world-weary foreign correspondent does not bother taking notes. He's too busy falling in love with an enchantingly beautiful stranger. The reporter is just working up the courage to ask the woman her name when a stray bullet pierces her skull. In Paris, love comes quickly, and life ends fast. After Spencer files his story on the riots, his editor recalls him to the United States and assigns him to sail on the new luxury liner Wilhelmina, which carries some of the world's most scandalous figures: from Prince Edward and Wallis Simpson to the Nazi-sympathizing Charles Lindbergh. As the royals play bedroom games, Spencer digs up plenty of gossip - but the real story starts when the lifeboats hit the water. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Benjamin Isaac. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/025869/bk_adbl_025869_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Angel, Hörbuch, Digital, 179min
A captivating story of family and friends, innocence and corruption. Four friends swore eternal friendship when all they had was each other. Now their dazzling careers, their seemingly successful lives, are to be disrupted by a devastating singer - and by the shadow of their past. Rosie Madigan is the angel… an Award-winning costume-designer; she is blessed with worldly goods yet troubled by personal commitments. Gavin Ambrose is the Hollywood megastar: talented and idolized, true love has eluded him. Nell Jeffrey is the glamorous head of an international PR company: her secret love for Rosie’s brother Kevin pierces her usual shrewdness. Kevin Madigan, undercover cop, inhabits a world of danger from which he tries to shelter his friends - but evil has a way of spreading. Angel is the stunning novel of family and friends, of love and loss, of innocence and corruption. It will captivate you from the first page. Language: English. Narrator: Diana Quick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001128/bk_hcuk_001128_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Answer to Blue
A masterful new collection by award-winning poet Russell Thornton. In "Greek Fire," one of the poems in Russell Thornton's astonishing new collection, the central image is of fire burning through water: "water is a bridge / for a fire to come into the world." This image also illuminates the driving force that animates the poems in Answer to Blue. The stillness and quiet depth characteristic of Thornton's poetry are here shot through with an irresistible vitality, a flame of mythic resonance. The past, both ancient and recent, exerts a gravitational pull throughout the collection, with Greek myths, family histories and biblical passages unearthed and examined, forgotten and returned to, giving way in a cyclical rhythm to the transient presence of young children and the death of a parent. With a clarity that pierces through the mist of daily routine, Thornton gives attention to transitional states, pausing at the often rushed-through moments of change, and also examines the phenomenon of perception itself. This collection's response to D.H. Lawrence's question-"Oh what in you can answer to this blueness?"-is both an answer and a challenge, an achievement of beauty that contains the seed of something more enduring and sacred.- Shop: buecher
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Monster, Hörbuch, Digital, 275min
Peretti’s New York Times best-selling novel where things that go bump in the night are only a heartbeat away.Miles away from the hectic city, Reed and Rebecca hike into the beautiful Northwester woods. They are surrounded by gorgeous mountains, waterfalls, and hundreds of acres of unspoiled wilderness. During their first night of camping, an unearthly wail pierces the calm of the forest. Then someone - no, something - emerges from the dense woods and begins pursuing them. Everything that follows is a blur to Reed - except for the unforgettable image of a huge creature carrying his wife into the darkness.Enter into deep wilderness where the rules of civilization no longer apply. A world where strange shadows lurk. Where creatures long attributed to overactive imaginations and nightmares are the hunters...and people are the hunted.“Colleen Coble always raises the notch on romantic suspense, and One Little Lie is my favorite yet! The story took me on a wild and wonderful ride.” (Diann Mills, best-selling author)Full length, standalone novelIncludes discussion questions for book clubs Language: English. Narrator: uncredited. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tnwd/000134/bk_tnwd_000134_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Nothing Mage: The Saga of the Nothing Mage, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 652min
Beware, oh friend, the Nothing Mage,The man himself a blight,With magic cursed and spells unseen,That none can stand and fight.Beware, oh King, the Nothing Mage,A force that pierces all,The tolling bell that sings of death,‘Till lords and empires fall.Beware, oh love, the Nothing Mage,A vengeful man is he,So if you dare to draw his wrath,Then nothing ye shall be."There’s nothing there." The words may as well have been a death sentence to young Declan. Without mana, there could be no studying at the sky-piercing Pinnacle Towers, there could be no great monster hunts, and there could be no following in his father’s legendary footsteps.He’d be a cripple.But when a terrible accident forces him to flee, Declan learns the true nature of his mana. Just because it doesn’t resonate at any known frequency doesn’t mean it isn’t magic. Just because he can’t cast the same spells as everyone else doesn’t mean he isn’t a mage. And just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it isn’t there. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Spencer Dillehay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/211874/bk_acx0_211874_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Kingdom by the Sea , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 362min
The air raid siren that pierces the English night sky comes as no surprise to young Harry Baguely. Ever since Hitler began sending his warplanes to raid London, Harry has become an old hand at running to his family’s bomb shelter and waiting for the attacks to end. This time, though, Harry’s family doesn’t make it to the shelter. A war orphan with nowhere to go and only a lonely dog for a friend, Harry decides to make a courageous journey up the English coast. He is looking for a place to call home, a safe place far away from the danger and confusion of the city. But when he finds it, will it be worth the struggle? In Harry’s encounters with the frightened civilians and weary soldiers of war-torn England, Robert Westall draws a compelling portrait of the devastating effects of war on children. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults and an American Booksellers Pick of the Lists, The Kingdom by the Sea is both a powerful historical record and a moving tale of one boy’s adventure. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ron Keith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/006716/bk_reco_006716_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Francesca: A Chester Drum Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 323min
As prom approaches, a killer targets the most popular girls in school Margaret Dunne’s afternoon job at her mother’s dress shop is usually tranquil, but in the weeks leading up to prom, her work is nonstop. She wouldn’t mind helping the popular girls try on dresses if she had a date too, but boys hardly look at Margaret. After a particularly grueling day taking abuse from three popular girls, Margaret finds a strange package in the alley behind the shop. Inside are the three girls’ dresses - mangled, muddied, and completely ruined. Plenty of people hate the popular clique, but why take it out on their prom dresses? A few days later, Margaret sneaks off from the senior picnic to enjoy the view from the old lighthouse. A scream pierces the air, and Margaret sees one of the popular girls, Stephanie, dead at the bottom of a cliff. It seems someone at her school has her eye on Stephanie’s perfect date, and will kill to get her hands on him.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pete Larkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005956/bk_adbl_005956_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Fatal Grace: Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 735min
Winter in Three Pines, and the sleepy village is carpeted in snow. It's a time of peace and goodwill - until a scream pierces the biting air. A spectator at the annual Boxing Day curling match has been fatally electrocuted. Despite the large crowd, there are no witnesses and - apparently - no clues. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache discovers a history of secrets and enemies in the dead woman's past. But he has enemies of his own, and as he is frozen out of decision-making in the Surete du Quebec, he has to decide who he can trust.... Coming soon: Book 3 in the Chief Inspector Gamache series, The Cruellest Month. It's Easter, and on a glorious Spring day in peaceful Three Pines, someone waits for night to fall. They plan to raise the dead. When Chief Inspector Gamache of the Surete du Quebec arrives the next morning, he faces an unusual crime scene. A séance in an old abandoned house has gone horrifically wrong and someone has been seemingly frightened to death. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Sims. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000779/bk_twuk_000779_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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