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Ulysses , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1755min
Ulysses takes us on the journey of two men, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, through an hour-by-hour account of their lives for one day. These men cross paths in a series of coincidental events and listeners learn how interconnected they are even though they are not friends. Dedalus, a teacher, is dissatisfied with life. He spends the morning avoiding mocking friends, listening to a mundane lecture from his superior on life, and walking alone while reflecting on his younger self. Bloom, at the same time, is discovering his wife's affair (although he is having one of his own under a pseudonym), and pursuing an unsuccessful attempt at getting an advertisement ran for a client. Bloom feels like an outsider amongst acquaintances and reminisces on a time when things between he and his wife were good and happy. Dedalus and Bloom continue to be in the same place at the same time throughout the novel as the story continues into themes of xenophobia, the quest for paternity, heroism in compassion, and many other of life's questions. Ulysses was written to mimic The Odyssey by Homer in a modern day retelling of the poem and has many parallels between the characters and plot events making the novel an epic adventure through two very ordinary lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Philippe Duquenoy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/067927/bk_acx0_067927_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Luminaries , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1755min
Longlisted – Baileys Women’s Prize 2014 Man Booker Prize, Fiction, 2013 Canadian Governor General's Literary Award, 2013. It is 1866 and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky. The Luminaries is an extraordinary piece of fiction. Written in pitch-perfect historical register, richly evoking a mid-19th-century world of shipping and banking and goldrush boom and bust, it is also a ghost story, and a gripping mystery. It is a thrilling achievement for someone still in her mid-20s, and will confirm for critics and listeners that Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international writing firmament. Eleanor Catton was born in 1985 in Canada and raised in New Zealand. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University in 2007 and won the Adam Prize in Creative Writing for The Rehearsal. She was the recipient of the 2008 Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship to study for a year at the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop in the US and went on to hold a position as Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing there, teaching Creative Writing and Popular Culture. Eleanor won a 2010 New Generation Award. She now lives in Wellington, New Zealand. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Meadows. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016313/bk_adbl_016313_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Titan Series: Set Two : Titan Box Set, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1755min
Five romantic suspense and military romance novels by New York Times bestselling author Cristin Harber.Savage Secrets: Covert agents work under the guise of a fake marriage to stop a terrorist attack before their secrets blow their cover--break and cool their sizzling connection.Hart Attack: A CIA agent's socialite cover offers the perfect ruse when she teams up with her best friend's older brother to infiltrate the black market.Sweet One: A pregnant Titan operative's secret witness protection background is exposed as her husbands is trapped by an explosion.Black Dawn: An elusive hacker requires security protection from Titan Group after she leaves an abusive relationship and discovers the plans for a terrorist attack.This bestselling series is packed with alpha men and their strong women as they fall in love and defy death. Each of the high-stakes love stories has a happily ever after! No cliffhangers! Tropes include enemies to lovers, fake marriage, friends to lovers, rescue and adventure, second chance romance, and more. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/156646/bk_acx0_156646_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Voice of the Prophets: Wisdom of the Ages, Islam , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1755min
The Voice of the Prophets: Wisdom of the Ages, Islam: Including - "The Five Pillars", "Portions of the Qur'an", "The Hadith", "Portions of the Hadith of Bhukari", "A Manual of Hadith", "How Divine Revelation Came to the Prophet", "Principles of the Sufi's", "Doctrine's of the Sufi's", "Sufi Ascetics, Ecstatics, Antimonians, Poets, Dervishes", "Rumi and the Masnavi", and "The Songs of Kabir". The purpose of this series of texts is very simple. We have striven to compile the best of the better known and the least known of the ancient sacred texts from religions throughout the world and throughout time. It is our hope that this series of volumes makes it possible for a lay listener to truly access some of the most important world literature in religion. Encyclopedia of Ancient Sacred Texts. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jay Mawhinney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/032451/bk_acx0_032451_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1755min
In Days of Fire, Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, takes us on a gripping and intimate journey through the eight years of the Bush and Cheney administration in a tour-de-force narrative of a dramatic and controversial presidency. Theirs was the most captivating American political partnership since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger: a bold and untested president and his seasoned, relentless vice president. Confronted by one crisis after another, they struggled to protect the country, remake the world, and define their own relationship along the way. In Days of Fire, Peter Baker chronicles the history of the most consequential presidency in modern times through the prism of its two most compelling characters, capturing the elusive and shifting alliance of George Walker Bush and Richard Bruce Cheney as no historian has done before. He brings to life with in-the-room immediacy all the drama of an era marked by devastating terror attacks, the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, and financial collapse. The real story of Bush and Cheney is a far more fascinating tale than the familiar suspicion that Cheney was the power behind the throne. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with key players, and thousands of pages of never-released notes, memos, and other internal documents, Baker paints a riveting portrait of a partnership that evolved dramatically over time, from the early days when Bush leaned on Cheney, making him the most influential vice president in history, to their final hours, when the two had grown so far apart they were clashing in the West Wing. Together and separately, they were tested as no other president and vice president have been, first on a bright September morning, an unforgettable "day of fire" just months into the presidency, and on countless days of fire over the course of eight tumultuous years. Days of Fire is a monumental and definitive work that will rank ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Deakins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003656/bk_rand_003656_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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