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Lilac Mines: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 761min
Felix Ketay, a 25-year-old Los Angeles dyke, has her foundations shaken when she’s ditched by her pomosexual girlfriend and then gay-bashed on the streets of West Hollywood. Felix’s old-school lesbian aunt, Anna Lisa Hill, ran away from home in 1965 at age 19 and ended up in Lilac Mines, a small town in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills with a small but tight-knit butch/femme community. When Felix joins her aunt in Lilac Mines hoping to discover a place of respite, Anna Lisa proves stand-offish, so Felix devotes herself to investigating the town’s 100-year-old mystery: the disappearance of 16-year-old Lilac Ambrose in the mine shafts that run beneath the mountain. Felix learns that finding an authentic history is never easy, but Lilac Mines - with its abandoned mines, unknowable secrets, and the occasional quirky-cute thrift store employee - might not be such a bad place to try. About the author: Cheryl Klein is a shameless Angeleno, quiet pescatarian, and shameful tabloid reader. She lives in Los Angeles where she is West Coast director of Poets & Writers, Inc. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernadette Dunne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010049/bk_adbl_010049_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Simplicity: A Simple Love Story, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 430min
Wealthy Lanna Davenport has the perfect life, and she hates it. She’s never fit into the mold of upper class “princess". She would rather spend her life painting than let her overbearing mother parade her around for the eligible bachelors of her social circle, even if those suitors include Adam Munroe, the son of California’s most famous art dealer.When a handsome new gardener Luke turns up and shows her there’s more to art than putting color on canvas, Lanna eagerly starts to explore a world outside of what she’s been allowed to know. But the surprisingly down-to-earth Adam makes it easy to be part of her own world and still be her unconventional self.As she grows closer to Adam, but tempted by the freedom Luke can offer, Lanna is faced with the first choice she’s ever made for herself: Does she stay true to herself in the life she’s known, or does she paint beyond the canvas of her past and leave it all behind? Simplicity is a story of life, love, and finding happiness in an increasingly complex world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Samantha Novak. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/196989/bk_acx0_196989_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 94min
A collection of newspaper articles about Dust Bowl migrants in California’s Central Valley by the author of The Grapes of Wrath.Three years before his triumphant novel The Grapes of Wrath - a fictional portrayal of a Depression-era family fleeing Oklahoma during a disastrous period of drought and dust storms - John Steinbeck wrote seven articles for the San Francisco News about these history-making events and the hundreds of thousands who made their way west to work as farm laborers.With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squatters’ camps and Hoovervilles of rural California. The Harvest Gypsies gives us an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration, and provides the factual foundation for Steinbeck’s masterpiece. '”Steinbeck’s potent blend of empathy and moral outrage was perfectly matched by the photographs of Dorothea Lange, who had caught the whole saga with her camera - the tents, the jalopies, the bindlestiffs, the pathos and courage of uprooted mothers and children.” (San Francisco Review of Books)“Steinbeck’s journalism shares the enduring quality of his famous novel.... Certain to engage students of both American literature and labor history.” (Publishers Weekly) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Poe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/057096/bk_adbl_057096_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dark Days of the Apostasy : Dark Days of the After, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 382min
USA TODAY best-selling author and Amazon All-Star Award winner of The Last War series, The Age of Embers series and the Swann series presents the Dark Days of the After series. With hundreds of reviews (series wide) at a 4.8 star average, this high octane, tour de force series is post-apocalyptic fiction at its finest!As the South American army wages war on the Chicom regime inside California’s most populated cities, the San Francisco survivors find themselves out of supplies and caught in the crossfire of the two warring armies. If they hope to escape the downtown ruins, they’ll have to cut a hot trail through the middle of a war zone and pray they can safely make it to the Oregon homestead. The Dark Days Series puts ordinary citizens on the front lines of a domestic conflict that was never supposed to happen, one that will either unify the country or break her for good. This intense new tale of strength, survival and patriotism marks the start of a brand new series critics are calling “jaw-dropping”, “prolific”, and “a post-apocalyptic tour de force”. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Pierce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/223727/bk_acx0_223727_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Faces Behind These Systems: 3 Felonies Without Committing a Single Crime: How the Government Stole My Identity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 226min
A true story about how the government single-handedly stole NK's identity. For NK, life has been anything but a walk in the park. When NK Yahushua set out with her friend and her dog for a sunset hike in LA’s famous Griffith Park, she set out toward her own demise. Before the night was over, NK would be racially profiled by a park ranger, arrested without cause, and falsely imprisoned miles away from her Los Feliz home. And that would only be the beginning. For the next decade-and-a-half, NK finds herself swirling helplessly in the merciless grip of a prideful and discriminatory judicial system. Despite her doctoral degree, she loses her ability to secure gainful employment due to her criminal record's unnamed dark mark, with her home in foreclosure and her future hanging precariously in the balance. NK sets out to determine exactly who placed her on California’s blacklist and why. What she discovers is the shocking evidence of nefarious activity within America’s insidious injustice system. Will she live to see her record cleared and her life restored? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alyson Krawchuk. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/231476/bk_acx0_231476_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Pede , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 574min
A true homage to the creature feature genre!. The once luxurious Mountainview Spa Hotel in the heart of California’s Coachella valley lies decaying, abandoned and heavily boarded up. Its secret; it is the site of a radioactive, "dirty" bomb explosion five years’ previous. Zoology Professor Jane Lucas has a lifelong phobia of Scolopendra gigantea, the Giant Centipede, despite being the world’s leading authority on it. Following the savage deaths of two young lovers who broke into the hotel for its natural underground spa, and the discovery of centipede remains almost three times its natural size, the professor teams up with four of her students to investigate.But their expedition becomes a fight for survival when they are trapped in the hotel with a gang of violent thugs - including the boyfriend of one of the female students with whom the professor has been having an illicit affair.They soon discover a voracious swarm of the oversized centipedes that has spawned within the hotel, but are horrified to learn that another creature even more terrifying hunts in the Mountainview’s deserted hallways - a centipede of seemingly impossibly monstrous proportions; and it is ravenous and desperate to feed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Raymond Lawrence. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/153820/bk_acx0_153820_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Islands, Oceans, and Dreams: The True Story of a Sailor's Seven Year Solo Voyage Around the World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1167min
Islands, Oceans, and Dreams is a true story of a man who, at the age of 33, began dreaming of voyaging with his wife to the South Pacific. He wasn't an adventurer or daring by nature, but he bought a boat and began learning the ways of the sea. Twenty years later, racked with the pain of divorce and still aching to live out his dream, he set off alone for Tahiti. After reaching French Polynesia, he continued cruising for seven years and wound up solo sailing around the world. Islands, Oceans, and Dreams takes the listener on that voyage. From turquoise lagoons to pirates, with plenty of adventure in between, this is a must-read for any sailor or armchair traveler who loves stories of the sea. Michael Salvaneschi has more than 30 years of experience sailing California’s offshore Islands. His two voyages to Mexico, his two-year stint as a commercial swordfisherman and his seven-year solo voyage around the world have taught him much about seamanship. As a guest speaker at yacht clubs, sailing societies, and service groups, Michael tells his stories and shares his experiences as a solo sailor. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew Parker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/open/000033/bk_open_000033_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dead Beautiful , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 753min
After Renee Winters discovers her parents lying dead in California’s Redwood Forest in what appears to be a strange double murder, her grandfather sends her off to Gottfried Academy in Maine, a remote and mysterious high school dedicated to philosophy, “crude sciences,” and Latin: the Language of the Dead. It’s here she meets Dante, a dark and elusive student to whom she feels inexplicably drawn. As they get to know each other better, Dante can’t seem to control his attraction either, and their desires gradually deepen into a complex and dangerous romance. Dangerous because Dante is hiding a frightening secret. A secret so terrible, it has him fearing for Renee’s life. Dante’s not the only one with secrets, though. Turns out Gottfried Academy has a few of its own… Like, how come students keep disappearing? Why are the prefect-like Monitors creeping around campus during the night? And what exactly are the Headmistress and Professors really up to? Renee is determined to find out why. Dead Beautiful is both a compelling romance and thought-provoking listen, bringing shocking new meaning to life, death, love, and the nature of the soul. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Caitlin Davies. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002418/bk_adbl_002418_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 394min
From the best-selling author of The Search for the Green River Killer: the account of the family tragedy that became one of California’s most shocking murder cases. On a picturesque street in Sacramento County, California, three healthy saplings stand side by side. But what they symbolize are the deaths of three innocent people - two of them children. The man who took their lives, then planted trees in their honor, was their own husband and father. Hearts went out to Jack Barron when his wife, Irene, died mysteriously in her sleep. Soon after, his two young children were also found dead in their beds. Barron claimed they suffered from the same rare genetic disorder as their mother. But when his 52-year-old mother died, also of asphyxiation in her sleep, law enforcement officials finally took action: The fatal pattern was impossible to ignore. Was this “devoted” father really a heartless murderer? Did he suffer from a bizarre syndrome known as Munchausen by proxy, whereby a parent kills a child to gain sympathy? With firsthand interviews and exclusive inside information, author Carlton Smith paints a chilling portrait of a man driven to commit the most unspeakable of acts. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dustin Tucker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/053567/bk_adbl_053567_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Midnight in New California , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 687min
Midnight in New California combines relatable, larger-than-life characters, a dreamy atmospheric setting, and a unique, insightful voice into an approachable intellectual pause-resister.Cora Broussard finds herself restless in utopian 2030’s New California until a seemingly chance meeting with Ashley Doral, a sultry free spirit from the Jobber underclass.Ashley has what Cora wants: fire, agency, and the ability to express unfettered desire. Despite the dizzying bliss of a new romance with Ashley, Cora can’t shake the feeling that she is being watched by New California’s tranquilizer gun-armed government protection officers.Lured by a strange phone call, Cora embarks on an ominous journey back to the country of her birth. Will her desire for power be stronger than her contentment in the life she created for herself?Midnight in New California addresses the deep-seated anxiety and thrilling hope of the future, wrapped around toxic romance and cultural identity. Fans of classic sci-fi crossovers like Brave New World and 1984 will love this modern take on the near-future. This bold debut mourns an America not yet lost, questions political extremes, and sounds a dire warning through three fiercely independent, deeply flawed, and ultimately, quintessentially American millennials. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jacki Dee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/205799/bk_acx0_205799_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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