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    The Guardians: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 472min
    Eking out a living as a teacher's aide in a small New Mexican border town, Tía Regina is also raising her teenage nephew, Gabo, a hardworking boy who has entered the country illegally and aspires to the priesthood. When Gabo's father, Rafa, disappears while crossing over from Mexico, Regina fears the worst. After several days of waiting and an ominous phone call from a woman who may be connected to a smuggling ring, Regina and Gabo resolve to find Rafa. Help arrives in the form of Miguel, an amorous, recently divorced history teacher; Miguel's gregarious abuelo Milton; a couple of Gabo's gang-banger classmates; and a priest of wayward faith. Between the ruthless "coyotes" who exploit Mexicans while smuggling them to America and the border officials who are out to arrest and deport the illegal immigrants, looming threats are constant companions on the journey. Ana Castillo brilliantly evokes the beautiful, stark desert landscape and creates vivid characters with strong voices and resilient hearts. The Guardians serves as a remarkable testament to enduring faith, family bonds, cultural pride, and the human experience. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ana Castillo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000985/bk_bkot_000985_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Red Zeppelin: Hilary Manningham-Butler, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 532min
    You'll never get me up in one of those things. They're absolutely lethal. Seville, 1931. Six months after the loss of the British airship the R101, a German Zeppelin is coming in to land in Southern Spain. Hilary Manningham-Butler is an MI5 operative eking out a pitiful existence on the Rock of Gibraltar. The offer of a job in the Americas provides a potential life line, but there are strings attached. First she must prove her mettle to her masters in London, and that means stepping on board the Richthofen before the airship leaves Seville. A cache of secret documents has been stolen from Scotland Yard, and the files must be recovered if British security is not to be severely compromised. Hilary must put her life on the line to discover the identity of the thief. But as the airship makes its way across the Atlantic toward Brazil, it becomes clear that nobody on board is quite what they seem. And there is no guarantee that any of them will reach Rio de Janeiro alive.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angela Dawe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/056422/bk_acx0_056422_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    On Berryhill Road , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 425min
    Fallon McKniere is a person you probably wouldn't favor with a second glance if you saw her on the street. She's not only petite in stature, she's toothpick-thin, and her clothes say "thrift shop". Her stance says "Don't mess with me." But if you take a closer look, you'll see a haunted expression in her eyes. Donovan Pfarr takes a closer look. And can't turn away when he realizes that she goes hungry most of the time. He feels compelled to help her. But he wonders: How did Fallon end up living in a run-down trailer taking care of her mentally-unbalanced mother, barely eking out an existence on her meager paycheck from the convenience store where she works? The answer comes when a man involved in an event from Fallon's childhood learns he is dying. He tries to make peace with his conscience by setting up an anonymous trust fund for Fallon. And unleashes a force that places Fallon and Donovan in deadly peril. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Kuch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/004961/bk_acx0_004961_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Hour of the Star: New Directions Paperbook , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 183min
    The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S. M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly, and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery, Macabéa is inwardly free. She doesn't seem to know how unhappy she should be. Lispector employs her pathetic heroine against her urbane, empty narrator - edge of despair to edge of despair - and, working them like a pair of scissors, she cuts away preconceived notions about poverty, identity, love, and the art of fiction. In her last book, she takes us close to the true mystery of life and leave us deep in Lispector territory indeed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Melissa Broder. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/107612/bk_acx0_107612_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Tokyo Redux
    A novel about one of history's great unsolved mysteries, by one of Britain's most original writers.'Typically brilliant ... A murder mystery set in 1949 Japan during the US occupation it has all of Peace's usual flair for language and characterization.' ADRIAN MCKINTY, author of The ChainTokyo, July 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing just a day after serving notice of 30,000 job losses. In the midst of the US Occupation, against the backdrop of widespread social, political and economic reforms - as tensions and confusion reign - American Detective Harry Sweeney leads the missing person's investigation for General MacArthur's GHQ.Fifteen years later and Tokyo is booming. As the city prepares for the 1964 Olympics and the global spotlight, Hideki Murota, a former policeman during the Occupation period, and now a private investigator, is given a case which forces him to go back to confront a time, a place and a crime he's been hiding from for the past fifteen years.Over twenty years later, in the autumn and winter of 1988, as the Emperor Showa is dying, Donald Reichenbach, an aging American, eking out a living teaching and translating, sits drinking by the Shinobazu Pond in Ueno, knowing the final reckoning of the greatest mystery of the Showa Era is down to him.
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    Laisrathera: Her Instruments, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 797min
    The Queen of the Eldritch has offered Reese Eddings a life out of a fairy tale, one beyond the imagination of a poor girl from Mars who'd expected to spend her life eking out a living with a rattletrap merchant vessel. Unfortunately, the day Reese reached out to accept Liolesa's offer, Hirianthial's enemies betrayed him - and his entire planet - to a race of sociopathic shapeshifters with dreams of conquest. Now the only thing between Reese and a castle of her very own is a maniacal alien despot, his native quisling, and all the Eldritch dead-set on preventing the incursion of aliens at any cost, including the ousting of their current usurper, who happens to be an alien himself.... Reese, Hirianthial, and the crew of the Earthrise have been battling these pirates since Hirianthial's capture inspired their fateful meeting, but to beat them, Reese will have to own the power she's always denied herself, and Hirianthial must make peace with his bloody past and uncertain future. The stakes have never been higher, and this last time will count for all. The final battlefield awaits. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Dorse. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035542/bk_acx0_035542_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Ophelia Prophecy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 528min
    The Ophelia Prophecy is the thrilling new sci-fi romance from the author of 2013 RWA RITA finalist Ghost Planet.... Our world is no longer our own. We engineered a race of superior fighters - the Manti, mutant humans with insect-like abilities. Twenty-five years ago they all but destroyed us. In Sanctuary, some of us survive. Eking out our existence. Clinging to the past. Some of us intend to do more than survive. Asha and Pax - strangers and enemies - find themselves stranded together on the border of the last human city, neither with a memory of how they got there. Asha is an archivist working to preserve humanity's most valuable resource - information - viewed as the only means of resurrecting their society. Pax is Manti, his Scarab ship a menacing presence in the skies over Sanctuary, keeping the last dregs of humanity in check. Neither of them is really what they seem, and what humanity believes about the Manti is a lie.With their hearts and fates on a collision course, they must unlock each other's secrets and forge a bond of trust before a rekindled conflict pushes their two races into repeating the mistakes of the past. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Coleen Marlo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017241/bk_adbl_017241_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sealskin , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 435min
    What happens when magic collides with reality? Donald is a young fisherman eking out a lonely living on the west coast of Scotland. One night he witnesses something miraculous...and makes a terrible mistake. His action changes lives - not only his own but those of his family and the entire tightly knit community in which they live. Can he ever atone for the wrong he has done, and can love grow when its foundation is violence? Based on the legend of the selkies - seals who can transform into people - Sealskin is a magical story evoking the harsh beauty of the landscape; the resilience of its people, both human and animal; and the triumph of hope over fear and prejudice. With exquisite grace, Exeter Novel Prize winner Su Bristow transports us to a different world, subtly and beautifully exploring what it means to be an outsider and our innate capacity for forgiveness and acceptance. Rich with myth and magic, Sealskin is nonetheless a very human story, as relevant to our world as to the timeless place in which it is set. And it is, quite simply, unforgettable. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angus King. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029754/bk_adbl_029754_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    New Settlers: The Documentary, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 686min
    In this concluding sequel of the series The Documentary, 21st-century settlers, eking out a living in a settlement set up like the 19th century, face unexpected challenges when new settlers begin arriving. How should they address the issue of a mayor showing up when they had never voted one in? They have the US Constitution and The Settlement bylaw to govern them in dealing with this. Though a saloon had never been envisioned in the minds of the people, a saloon keeper comes to town and sets up shop. What should they do when miners begin arriving and frequent the saloon? The people are still trying to mold themselves into families but now are being faced with teenage rebellion. The younger children are afraid to go school because their schoolmaster does not like children. In addition to all of this, these ready-made families must learn about Montana winters, illnesses, thievery, and how to make their family members, who had been strangers only months ago, become a real family. And what should the atheist parson do when someone walks the aisle and asks him how to get born again? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Esther Hardcastle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/076349/bk_acx0_076349_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Lady of the Realm: House of DeDe, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 615min
    Bethany Boudreaux is tired of being a damn peasant. Her mother, a born again human who rejects her witch bloodline, has kept Beth secluded and ignorant for most of her life. Beth wants to eat, preferably twice a day. She'd like a grand home, with a fully stocked bar. She's tired of eking out an existence while the rich freaks get all the breaks. She'll do anything to claim what is, by law, hers. She needs help, lots of it, because paperwork can be a bitch. When Beth learns Lord Aleksander is coming to visit her club, she grabs a stiff drink and waits. The dark elf of Losalfar is the perfect solution to her current legal problems. He's obscenely rich, a top member of the hierarchy, about to inherit region two, including New Orleans, but most importantly to her, he's a man. Men are so easy, regardless of race. With his help, she can attain the privileges and powers only those with a title are born with. All she needs to do to gain his assistance is agree to three measly conditions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cheyenne Madison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/076073/bk_acx0_076073_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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