Godforsaken

Sinister Magic: An Urban Fantasy Dragon Series: Death Before Dragons, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 575min

I’m Val Thorvald, and I’m an assassin. When magical bad guys hurt people, I take care of them. Permanently. This doesn’t make me popular with the rest of the magical community — as you can tell from the numerous break-ins and assassination attempts I’ve endured over the years. But thanks to my half-elven blood, a powerful sword named Chopper, and a telepathic tiger with an attitude, I’ve always been able to handle my problems with aplomb. Maybe some cursing and swearing, too, but definitely aplomb. That changes when my boss is afflicted with a mysterious disease, a government agent starts investigating me, and a godforsaken dragon shows up in the middle of my latest job. I’ve taken down vampires, zombies, and ogres, but dragons are way, way more powerful. And it doesn’t look like this one is going to like me. Worse than that, he wants to use his magic to compel me to do his bidding, as if I’m some weak-minded minion. That’s not going to happen. I’d die before being some dragon’s slave. But if I can’t figure out a way to avoid him, save my boss, and get rid of the government spook, I’m screwed. Or dead. Or screwed and dead. And that’s never comfortable. Pick up Sentient Magic today to see if I make it. Even if you don’t care about me, I promise the tiger is cool. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vivienne Leheny. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/195571/bk_acx0_195571_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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At the Mercy of the Sea: The True Story of Three Sailors in a Caribbean Hurricane , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 423min

The tale of Carl Wake and the hurricane that was waiting for him goes straight to the heart of the greatest sea stories: they are not about man against the sea, but man against himself. John Kretschmer's audiobook is as perfectly shaped and flawlessly written as such a story can be. In addition to being the best depiction I have ever listened to of what it is like to be inside a hurricane at sea, At the Mercy of the Sea is as moving a story of a man's failure and redemption as can be found anywhere in the literature of the sea. This audiobook is surely destined to become a classic. (Peter Nichols, author of Sea Change and A Voyage for Madmen). "John Kretschmer has transformed this story of three men on a collision course with a hurricane into a modern seafaring classic." (Peter Nielsen, editor of SAIL magazine). "With expert analysis and taut writing, he draws listeners into that mad storm. You can't turn away. You keep listening until it breaks your heart." (Fred Grimm, columnist for the Miami Herald). "Once begun, his vivid and powerful narrative is impossible to stop listening." (Derek Lundy, author of Godforsaken Sea and The Way of a Ship). "I felt I knew Carl Wake, because John Kretschmer found in him an archetype - an aging sailor with an age-old dream." (Jim Carrier, transatlantic sailor and author of The Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome). "A remarkable audiobook, impossible to stop listening to." (Herb McCormick, sailing journalist). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Conn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/013839/bk_acx0_013839_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Comstock Lode (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures): A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 936min

The classic Western, now newly repackaged as part of Bantam's Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures program - with never-before-heard material from Louis and his son, Beau L'Amour. It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures - they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth. Val Trevallion, a loner haunted by a violent past. Grita Redaway, a radiantly beautiful actress driven by an unfulfilled need. Two fiercely independent spirits, together they rose above the challenges of the Comstock to stake a bold claim on the future. Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures is a project created to release some of the author’s more unconventional manuscripts from the family archives. In Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures: Volume 1 and Volume 2, Beau L’Amour takes the listener on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short stories, novels, and treatments that his father was never able to publish during his lifetime. L’Amour’s never-before-heard first novel, No Traveller Returns, faithfully completed for this program, is a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. Additionally, many beloved classics will be rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring previously unpublished material, including outlines, plot notes, and alternate drafts. These postscripts tell the story behind the stories that millions of audiences have come to know and cherish. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erik Singer, Jason Culp, Dan John Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003071/bk_rand_003071_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Dead Man’s Cañon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 298min

The trouble began for Sheriff Claude Rainey when the Hightower Ranch cowboys discovered a mummified man and his horse in a desert canyon near Springville, Arizona - both shot in the head. Ordinarily that should have been the end of it. Few men riding the outlaw trail up out of Mexico make it through that godforsaken country. What troubled Rainey and the townsmen, however, was what Hightower foreman Al Trail had brought into town and given to the sheriff. Near the body, the cowboys had dug up a box that contained five bloodstained packets of $100 bills, amounting to $10,000. This only deepened the mystery. After all, who kills a man and leaves behind $10,000? The only clue to the identity of the dead man is the shriveled-up brand on the horse, which he sketches and sends to the registrar. The money is stowed in the only steel safe in Apache County while the sheriff and the townsmen wait to see who will ride in to Springville to claim it. It is Sheriff Rainey's hope that the town can keep the money and build a proper schoolhouse. Then two men arrive within weeks of each other. The first, Fernando Bríon, informs Rainey that US Marshal Jonas Gantt and his horse have been found shot in the head on his land across the border in Mexico. He gives him Gantt's personal effects. The circumstances are similar to those of the dead man and his horse found in the canyon. The second man is Deputy US Marshal Arch Clayton, who informs Rainey that the dead man was his partner back in Raton, New Mexico. Both men arouse Rainey's suspicion and add to the mounting questions about the identity of the bushwhacking killer - foremost whether he will show up in Springville and what it is he's really after. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Traber Burns. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009920/bk_blak_009920_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Heloise and Bellinis: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 169min

This charmingly inventive, deliciously improbable seriocomic novel opens at 11 o’clock, on the morning of July 14, in the year 2000, on the Avenue d’Angleterre in Beirut. Private George Smith of the American Peace-Keeping Forces in Lebanon is breathlessly chasing a hand grenade - which he threw in the line of duty - down the street. It seems he forgot to pull the pin. At that very moment, one Heloise Svejk is crossing the street from east to west, bearing an empty coffin on her shoulder. From this unlikely encounter is born one of the great love stories of the first year of the 21st century, not completely unworthy of that of Heloise’s namesake nine centuries earlier. Private Smith is a reasonably sane soldier, as sane at least as any oversized American of mixed Swedish and Austro-Hungarian descent from Alabama who has not been with a beautiful woman for two years can be. Now Smith knows, inevitably and irrevocably, why fate has posted him to this godforsaken city. He disappears with Heloise for all the right reasons, but for General Custer, Private Smith’s commanding officer, when you’re gone for five days you’re gone for good, fella, and Washington is so informed. When news spreads that Smith is not dead but only hopelessly in love, the plot does not merely thicken but gets downright sticky. What will Custer tell the President? What will he tell George’s next of kin, and how will he get back the posthumous award for unusual bravery he sent her? And yes, what about this Heloise they are all drooling over? In page after page, chapter after chapter, these and countless other cosmic questions are discussed and dealt with - with mixed results, as the author is quick to point out. Interspersed with the chapters are intermezzi in which the author muses and comments on George; Heloise; life; love; Harry’s Bar; his father, Giuseppe; peach-nectar-and-champagne cocktails (aka bellinis); and Cousin Wanda - not to mention Abelard himself, the inquisitiv ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elenna Stauffer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008392/bk_adbl_008392_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Ice Covered Stars: Rachel Russel Mystery Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 68min

The opportunity of a lifetime!When Rachel Russel heard she had been selected for her college’s Antarctic-astronomy research program, she was flabbergasted. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity would make her childhood dream of visiting Antarctica come true! She had no idea the thick snow and ice of this secluded region would become the scene for the most terrifying adventure of her lifetime. Hiding her faith from the world!Rachel believed in God with all her heart, but in order to participate in this program, she had to hide her faith. According to the scientists responsible for the program, faith is the opposite of science, so Rachel had to keep her love for Jesus for herself. This was heartbreaking because she felt like she was lying to herself. That’s when Jacob, one of her classmates, stood up for her even though he didn’t believe in God. Rachel was amazed by his courage and immediately fell for him. Finally, she had someone she could trust in this godforsaken place. But not for long....A murder in the snow!One of the scientists manning the research station had been found dead, and nobody knew who did it. He had been brutally stabbed in the back and suddenly...everyone was a suspect. Rachel now has to find the killer before he or she commits another gruesome murder. It’s a battle against an evil presence that will put Rachel’s faith to the test. Who could have possibly done it? Now it’s up to Rachel to bring justice....Are you ready for a spine-tingling Antarctic mystery? This breathtaking Christian romance mystery novel will take you on a thrilling adventure through the ice and snow of Antarctica, where a small group of scientists and college students have to survive. Rachel Russel, a new Christian, comes face-to-face with a horrible murder, and she is the only one who knows how to find the killer. Will she find the murderer? Will Jacob come to faith? Will Rachel make it out of Antarctica alive? You will have t ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julie Marshall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/121707/bk_acx0_121707_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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