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  Dr Thorne: Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1367min

  Dr Thorne, the third novel in Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire, sees Trollope steer away from the clergy and the church politics of The Warden and Barchester Towers and move towards the scandals and prejudice of the upper tiers of Victorian era aristocracies. It tells the tale of Frank Gresham and Mary Thorne, a couple intent on marriage despite their conflicting social backgrounds. Frank is engaged in a fierce battle with his family as his mother vehemently opposes the marriage and pushes him to marry a wealthy heiress; however, Frank shuns her attempts and is determined to accept Mary on her own terms. Dr Thorne contains all of Trollope’s beloved prose: always solicitous, gentle and kind to his audience, Trollope never shies away from poking fun at the pretentions of some of his characters as he peppers the narrative with wonderfully witty observations that will leave you smiling. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Shaw-Parker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/001258/bk_naxo_001258_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Hippolytus, Hörbuch, Digital, 72min

  Euripides (c. 480-406 B.C.E.) is the author of eighteen extant plays and many more only surviving in fragments. He is the youngest of the three great Athenian tragedians with Aeschylus and Sophocles. Hippolytus, bastard son of Theseus and the Amazon Hippolyta, has sworn chaste allegiance to the goddess Artemis, thus severely offending the goddess Aphrodite by failing to revere her. Aphrodite swears revenge and promises that he will die before the day is done, taking with him Queen Phaedra, wife of Theseus. Aphrodite sickens Phaedra with uncontrollable lust for Hippolytus, and when he vehemently spurns her, he sets in motion the events that will seal his doom. Cast Aphrodite - P J Morgan Artemis - Linda Barrans Hippolytus - Russell Gold Phaidra -Erin Louttit Nurse - Lee Ann Howlett Theseus - John Burlinson An Old Huntsman - Ron Altman First huntsman/Messenger - Andy Harrington Second huntsman - Alan Weyman Third huntsman - Alan Weyman Chorus leader - Jennifer Fournier Chorus One - Leanne Yau Chorus Two - Elizabeth Chambers Narrator - Alan Weyman Language: English. Narrator: P. J. Morgan, Linda Barrans, Russell Gold, Erin Louttit, Lee Ann Howlett, John Burlinson, Alan Weyman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001662/bk_mike_001662_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Doctor Who: The Curse of the Peladon, Hörbuch, Digital, 119min

  The TARDIS arrives on the storm-lashed planet of Peladon, just as it is being assessed for its suitability to join the Galactic Federation. Mistaken for Federation delegates from Earth, the Doctor and Jo become involved in a series of dramatic events at the conference. King Peladon's Chancellor has died in mysterious circumstances, and his High Priest is vehemently opposed to the Federation's advances. Amongst the other delegates are hermaphrodite hexapod Alpha Centauri, half-automaton Arcturus, and two Ice Warriors whose species the Doctor knows as old adversaries. Confined together in the Citadel, they struggle to counter myth and superstition with logic and reason. Is the Curse of Peladon about to strike those who form a union with the Federation? Has the Royal beast Aggedor risen to defend the planet's independence? And could one of the delegates actually be working to double-cross the others? The Doctor and Jo must work fast to solve these and other questions, and at the same time stay alive. Language: English. Narrator: Katy Manning, Jon Pertwee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/bbcw/001813/rt_bbcw_001813_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Stolen Child: A Forrest Spencer Novel, Book Two , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 787min

  Eighteen months ago, Divinity Parker mysteriously disappeared from her school playground. Everyone, including the FBI, believes her to have been killed or trafficked. A resident of a Georgia town insists she knows where the missing girl is. Though Forrest Spencer and his law colleagues are dubious about this claim, Divinity's mother tasks them with the identification and recovery of her daughter. They find the child alive and thriving. What troubles Spencer and his team is why Divinity, only one and a half years gone, wishes so vehemently to remain distant from her California home. When the answer comes, the two criminal defense attorneys, the firm's private investigator and an FBI agent on leave grapple with issues well beyond their expertise. How can they perform their duty and still uphold the best interest of the child? In Stolen Child, you will struggle along with Spencer and his group with the meaning of parenthood and with the question of who rightful parents are. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Rowan, Adam Verner, Stacy Carson, Markham Anderson, Ginny Harman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/nvvc/000003/bk_nvvc_000003_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  We Run the Tides

  Smart, perceptive, elegant, sad, surprising and addictive' Nick HornbyTeenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know Sea Cliff's homes and beaches, its hidden corners and eccentric characters-as well as the upscale all-girls' school they attend. One day, walking to school with friends, they witness a horrible act-or do they? Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehemently disagree on what happened, and their rupture is followed by Maria Fabiola's sudden disappearance-a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and threatens to expose unspoken truths. Suspenseful and poignant, We Run the Tides is Vendela Vida's masterful portrait of an inimitable place on the brink of radical transformation. Pre-tech boom San Francisco finds its mirror in the changing lives of the teenage girls at the center of this story of innocence lost, the pain of too much freedom, and the struggle to find one's authentic self. Told with a gimlet eye and great warmth, We Run the Tides is both a gripping mystery and a tribute to the wonders of youth, in all its beauty and confusion.

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  Battered, Broken, Healed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 409min

  When six-week-old Jasmine is placed with foster carer Maggie Hartley, Maggie is delighted to have a baby in the house again. Jasmine has been taken into care over fears for her safety after the police are called to the family's home several times following her birth. Her mother, Hailey, vehemently denies that anything is wrong, however, and social services allow her to have daily supervised visits with Jasmine. Baby Jasmine is a joy to be around, but Maggie suspects that all is not quite as it seems with her mum. Maggie struggles to draw timid and extremely quiet Hailey out of her shell and fears that she may be suffering with postnatal depression.  Then one day Hailey arrives for the contact session with her hair streaked with blood and her body covered in bruises. Breaking down, a terrified Hailey admits that she is being abused by her violent husband and is too afraid to leave him.  Maggie realises that the only way mother and daughter will be reunited is if Hailey admits what's going on behind closed doors and leaves her husband. But after years of physical and psychological abuse, that's easier said than done.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Penny MacDonald. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/001310/bk_orio_001310_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Codex File , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 748min

  Forget everything you think you know about the Internet. If you think nefarious web sites peddling a cocktail of scams, illegal pornography, racial hatred, and vicious computer viruses was all you had to worry about - think again. The government has banned access to the Internet, dubbing it an illegal, unregulated zone. Sounds like good news, doesn't it, until you know that its replacement controls every aspect of your life, from digital content, provision of your gas, water, and electricity, and all your money. With everything and everybody connected, we're all now potential targets if we oppose it. Do you still feel safe? Empowered? Connected? Welcome to the future of the Internet. Welcome to the Codex file. Michael Robertson's family has been murdered to protect the covert project linked to establishing a new Internet. Piecing together what happened leads him to four hackers, vehemently opposed to the new network, who provide the only means to hunt down the killers. But uncovering the truth leads to industrial espionage and a plot that leads right to the heart of government as he seeks the truth behind the Codex file. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vincent Brownlee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/082788/bk_acx0_082788_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Emilia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 595min

  This story is dedicated to all the victims of sexual slavery in German concentration camps, who had to endure inhumane suffering under the Nazi regime. For many years after the atrocities had been committed, both sides - the abusers and the abused - still vehemently denied certain aspects of the Holocaust, and even the victims refused to admit the ugly truth about their incarceration, some out of fear, some out of shame, until several women decided to break an unofficial oath of silence, and brought their stories to life. This book is based on one of those stories. Emilia is a young Jewish woman, whose life slowly turns into a nightmare as she finds herself facing a dreadful choice: to secure her family's very existence by offering herself to one of the men who had put her behind the walls with barbed wire, or perish together with the least fortunate ones. Only, the Krakow ghetto and her very first abuser pale in comparison to what is yet to come, as she's being sent to a place that soon will turn into her own personal hell and that will scar her for life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sofia Willingham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/111922/bk_acx0_111922_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate

  Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were "wiz" (in the know). This hybrid language, dubbed Rotwelsch, facilitated survival for people in flight-whether escaping persecution or just down on their luck. It was a language of the road associated with vagabonds, travelers, Jews, and thieves that blended words from Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Romani, Czech, and other European languages and was rich in expressions for police, jail, or experiencing trouble, such as "being in a pickle." This renegade language unsettled those in power, who responded by trying to stamp it out, none more vehemently than the Nazis. As a boy, Martin Puchner learned this secret language from his father and uncle. Only as an adult did he discover, through a poisonous 1930s tract on Jewish names buried in the archives of Harvard's Widener Library, that his own grandfather had been a committed Nazi who despised this "language of thieves." Interweaving family memoir with an adventurous foray into the mysteries of language, Puchner crafts an entirely original narrative. In a language born of migration and survival, he discovers a witty and resourceful spirit of tolerance that remains essential in our volatile present.

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  Käthe Kollwitz

  Sie war eine Ausnahmekünstlerin mit internationaler Strahlkraft: Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945). In ihren Zeichnungen, Druckgrafiken, Plastiken und Plakaten hat sie wie keine andere Themen wie Krieg, Armut und Tod, aber auch Liebe, Geborgenheit und das Ringen um Frieden in nachdrücklicher Weise zum Ausdruck gebracht. Als Studentin erlebt sie die Münchner Bohème mit allen schillernden Facetten, bevor ihr in Berlin mit ihrem ersten druckgrafischen Zyklus der künstlerische Durchbruch gelang. Zwei Weltkriege und persönliche Tragödien prägten ihr Schaffen, doch ihre Biografie widersetzt sich ebenso wie ihr umfangreiches uvre jeder Voreingenommenheit. Bis heute gilt die Kollwitz als bekannteste deutsche bildende Künstlerin. She was an exceptional artist with international appeal: Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945). In her drawings, graphic prints, sculptures, and posters she, like no other, vehemently gave expression to themes such as war, poverty, and death but also love, security, and the struggle for peace. As a student she experienced Munich Bohemianism with all its colourful facets before her breakthrough in Berlin with her first cycle of graphic prints. Her creative work was informed by two world wars and personal tragedy, yet both her biography and her comprehensive oeuvre defy all prejudice. To this day, Kollwitz is considered the most renowned female German fine artist.

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