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    Refuge: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 607min
    Does true evil exist in the world? Are people really what they seem? Abandoned by each of her children’s fathers, Shelley Tremayne’s having a tough time raising six kids alone. When she sees a TV newscast about five boys committing a horrible crime and recognizes her eleven-year-old son Joey in the surveillance camera footage, her life becomes infinitely worse. Although Joey swears he only witnessed the incident, the other boys point to him as the instigator, a charge supported by the evidence. But Shelley simply can’t accept that her Joey could be responsible for such a heinous act. Shelley and her children can’t return to their grubby home, where their neighbors are waiting to express their outrage. Fortunately, good Samaritans John and Eunice Bolton volunteer to shelter the family at their farm, and offer them the help and caring that they’ve given to so many others in desperate straits. But who will believe Shelley when she discovers that the Boltons are not as kind as they appear? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jacqueline Davis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015865/bk_adbl_015865_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Unbecoming: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 811min
    A major new debut thriller about a small-town girl who charms her way into the world of international art fraud. On the grubby outskirts of Paris, Grace restores bric-a-brac, mends teapots, re-sets gems. She calls herself Julie, says she's from California, and slips back to a rented room at night. Regularly, furtively, she checks the hometown paper on the Internet. Home is Garland, Tennessee, and there, two young men have just been paroled. One, she married; the other, she's in love with. Both were jailed for a crime that Grace herself planned in exacting detail. The heist went bad - but not before she was on a plane to Prague with a stolen canvas rolled in her bag. And so, in Paris, begins a cat-and-mouse waiting game as Grace's web of deception and lies unravels - and she becomes another young woman entirely. Unbecoming is an intricately plotted and psychologically nuanced heist novel that turns on suspense and slippery identity. With echoes of Alfred Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith, Rebecca Scherm's mesmerizing debut is sure to entrance fans of Gillian Flynn, Marisha Pessl, and Donna Tartt. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Catherine Taber. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002517/bk_peng_002517_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    We Know You Know , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 777min
    The gripping new psychological suspense novel from the best-selling author of breakout hit He Said/She Said. This novel was previously published as Stone Mothers.Gripping, terrifying and moving back through time to reveal twists you'll never see coming, We Know You Know delivers shocks and suspense from a master of thriller writing.'I heard the swish of falling paper. I grazed my knuckles retrieving a beige folder, its grubby white ribbon loose. Looping doctor's handwriting. Addresses. Dates. Names. Photographs! I had found the patients whose notes would bring the past back to life.'A lifetime ago, a patient escaped Nazareth mental asylum. They covered their tracks carefully. Or so they thought.Thirty years ago, Marianne Smy committed a crime then fled from her home to leave the past behind. Or so she thought.Now, Marianne has been forced to return. Nazareth asylum has been converted to luxury flats, but its terrible hold on her is still strong. A successful academic, a loving mother and a loyal wife, she fears her secret being revealed and her world shattering.She is right to be scared. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Polly Edsell, Jane McDowell, Fenella Fudge. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/002008/bk_hodd_002008_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Deadfolk: The Mangel Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 438min
    As dodgy English towns go, Mangel doesn’t look like much; but it’s everything to Royston Blake. In Mangel, Blake is head doorman at Hoppers Wine Bar and Bistro, drives a Ford Capri 2.8i, and generally has no trouble getting laid. On any given day, he can walk the streets of his town knowing he’s respected by one and all. That is, until a rumor begins to circulate that Blake’s "lost his bottle", and everything goes to hell. Even his best mates, Fin and Legsy, have heard the talk that the formerly hard-living bruiser has gone soft, lost his edge, and become a pushover in a town where he can ill afford it. To make matters worse, the Munton brothers are after him, and the thought of ending up in the back of their notorious Meat Wagon is almost too much to bear. Something’s gotta give, but it sure as hell won’t be Blake. What ensues is an outrageously bloody showdown that will leave a permanent scar on the grubby face of Blake’s beloved West Country town. Deadfolk is a brutal black comedy that introduces a wholly original voice to the ranks of literature’s most memorable protagonists. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Clamp. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004369/bk_brll_004369_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Mighty Boy: A Mother's Journey Through Grief , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 624min
    What would you do if a stranger told you your son was going to die? Silas is 10 years old when the headaches start. When the diagnosis arrives, his parents are told they have until Christmas...maybe. And so begins Sarah Pullen's battle to save her son, against doubting doctors and insurmountable odds. This story about love and loss traces her family's journey from that first day at the hospital, battling a tumour they named Bob, through Silas' death and beyond. This profoundly moving and honest account shows that it is possible to find the strength for a journey that no mother should ever go on; that it is possible to find a new way to live, even when death is knocking on the door. It is about confronting grief - raw, ugly, incomprehensible grief. It is a book about wrapping a small boy in love but still letting him get grubby knees. It is about learning to savour every moment of the here and now, yet also learning to let go. At its heart, A Mighty Boy is a story of the love between a mother and a son. It is a book about seizing the moment and somehow managing to survive the death of a child. But most of all it is a book about a small, mighty, smiling boy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Antonia Beamish. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031195/bk_adbl_031195_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Save Yourself: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 700min
    A gripping novel full of suspense and pathos that Dennis Lehane calls an "electrifying, tomahawk missile of a thriller". Patrick Cusimano’s life can’t get much worse. His father is in jail, he works the midnight shift at a grubby convenience store, and his brother’s girlfriend, Caro, has pushed their friendship to an uncomfortable new level. On top of all that, he can’t shake the attentions of Layla Elshere, a goth teenager who befriends Patrick for reasons he doesn’t understand, and doesn’t fully trust. The temptations these two women offer are pushing Patrick to his breaking point. Meanwhile, Layla’s little sister, Verna, is suffering through her first year of high school. She’s become a prime target for her cruel classmates, and not just because of her strange name and her fundamentalist parents. Layla’s bad-girl rep casts a shadow too heavy for Verna to bear alone, so she falls in with her sister’s tribe of outcasts. But their world is far darker than she ever imagined…. Unless Patrick, Layla, Caro, and Verna can forge their own twisted paths to peace - with themselves, with each other - then they’re stuck on a dangerous collision course where the stakes couldn’t be higher. Kelly Braffet has written a novel of unnerving power - darkly compelling, compulsively addictive, and shockingly honest. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Goldstrom. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003588/bk_rand_003588_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Coal Black Mornings , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 261min
    Listen to the end for an audiobook exclusive: Brett Anderson in conversation with Matt Thorne, author of Prince. Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in Coal Black Mornings he traces the journey that took him from a childhood as 'a snotty, sniffy, slightly maudlin sort of boy raised on Salad Cream and milky tea and cheap meat' to becoming founder and lead singer of Suede. Anderson grew up in Hayward's Heath on the grubby fringes of the Home Counties. As a teenager he clashed with his eccentric taxi-driving father (who would parade around their council house dressed as Lawrence of Arabia, air-conducting his favourite composers) and adored his beautiful, artistic mother. He brilliantly evokes the seventies, the suffocating discomfort of a very English kind of poverty and the burning need for escape that it breeds. Anderson charts the shabby romance of creativity as he travelled the tube in search of inspiration, fuelled by Marmite and nicotine, and Suede's rise from rehearsals in bedrooms, squats and pubs. And he catalogues the intense relationships that make and break bands as well as the devastating loss of his mother. Coal Black Mornings is profoundly moving, funny and intense - a book which stands alongside the most emotionally truthful of personal stories. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brett Anderson, Matt Thorne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/001448/bk_twuk_001448_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sarong Party Girls: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 679min
    A brilliant and utterly engaging novel - Emma set in modern Asia - about a young woman's rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism. On the edge of 27, Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends, Sher, Imo, and Fann. Before the year is out, these Sarong Party Girls will all have spectacular weddings to rich ang moh - Western expat - husbands, with Chanel babies (the cutest status symbols of all) quickly to follow. Razor-sharp, spunky, and vulgarly brand-obsessed, Jazzy is a determined woman who doesn't lose. As she fervently pursues her quest to find a white husband, this bombastic yet tenderly vulnerable gold digger reveals the contentious gender politics and class tensions thrumming beneath the shiny exterior of Singapore's glamorous nightclubs and busy streets, its grubby wet markets and seedy hawker centers. Moving through her colorful, stratified world, she realizes she cannot ignore the troubling incongruity of new money and old-world attitudes that threaten to crush her dreams. Desperate to move up in Asia's financial and international capital, will Jazzy and her friends succeed? Vividly told in Singlish - colorful Singaporean English, with its distinctive cadence and slang - Sarong Party Girls brilliantly captures the unique voice of this young, striving woman caught between worlds. With remarkable vibrancy and empathy, Cheryl Tan brings not only Jazzy but her city of Singapore to dazzling, dizzying life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angela Lin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005335/bk_harp_005335_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Treasure at El Dorado: Revised Edition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 534min
    The story takes place in Wyoming territory in the 1870s. Will Roberts, a drifting cowboy wanders into the little sleepy town of El Dorado. He stops at the local saloon for a drink and maybe a tip on where he can find a job. While reluctantly sharing a table with a grubby stinky prospector he is drawn into a gunfight and saves the man's life. Salty, the prospector, rewards Will with half interest in his gold mine. Later that day will meets Victoria and falls madly in love with her. She too falls for Will and after a week of courting they want to get married but Will is broke with only his horse and saddle to his name. He is skeptical about the mine but he decides to tag along with Salty to see if it is real. Meanwhile the notorious Lard man brother outlaw gang is looking for Will and Salty to avenge their two brothers who Will and Salty killed during the saloon gunfight. The chase is on from the mine to Cheyenne then to Laramie. The Lardman gang will stop at nothing to find Will but the worst brother, Jude is a woman hating sadistic killer and he is on his way to El Dorado to take out his hatred and lust on Victoria. Will finds out and races to save Victoria but many obstacles stand in his way. Will he save Victoria? Is the Gold mine real? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andy Babinski. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/013163/bk_acx0_013163_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Unseen Academicals: An Audible Original Drama, Hörbuch, Digital, 272min
    Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt, which worries him, too).As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed for ever. Because the thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.This Audible Original multicast dramatisation is directed by the multiaward-winning Dirk Maggs, best known for his adaptations of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere for the BBC.Starring Tom Alexander, Samantha Béart, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Mark Benton, Stephen Briggs, Stephen Critchlow, Jon Culshaw, Phil Davis, Ray Fearon, Tony Gardner, Edward Harrison, David Holt, Mathew Horne, David Jason, Josie Lawrence, Toby Longworth, Harry Myers, Maggie Service, Andrew Spooner, Steven Webb, Keith Wickham and Jaime Winstone. Language: English. Narrator: David Jason, Jon Culshaw, Mathew Horne, Josie Lawrence, Jaime Winstone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/or/orig/000177/or_orig_000177_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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