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Shards of a Broken Crown , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1244min
The demon has been defeated and the Kingdom rejoices as the threat to the existence of every living thing on Midkemia has passed, but out of the ashes of war new problems arise, in the brilliant sequel to Rage of a Demon King…The demon is no more…The enemy has been routed, yet peace still eludes the Kingdom. Midkemia lies in smouldering ruins following the Demon King's siege. Many lives have been lost, including that of the brave James, Duke of Krondor. As the people turn their hands to rebuilding their once great nation, a new threat arises from the ashes of war: the fearsome Fadawah, former Commanding General of the Army of the Emerald Queen. He has grasped the fallen reins of command and seeks to forge a personal empire out of the wreckage of the Western Realm. And so it falls to two young men - Jimmy and Dash - grandsons of the late Duke, to gather together the shards of the broken crown and resurrect the Kingdom to its former glory. Shards of a Broken Crown is the fourth and concluding book of the Serpentwar Saga. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001840/bk_hcuk_001840_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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One Summer in Tuscany , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 557min
Rivalries and romance in a Tuscan paradise. A relaxing writers' retreat? If only! Perfect holiday listening from Domenica de Rosa, author of the best-selling Dr Ruth Galloway series under the name Elly Griffiths. Previously published as Summer School. Patricia Wilson's carefully composed ads for the writers' retreat she runs at her 13th-century Italian castle promise so much. But while the splendour of their surroundings and chef Aldo's melanzane never fail to wow the guests, huge maintenance bills and bad news from the bank threaten to close Patricia down. It's make or break time for the Castello. Each of her seven aspiring authors arrives with the inevitable baggage alongside their unpublished manuscripts. But this August something is different, and soon lifelong spinster Mary is riding on the back of Aldo's vespa, and smouldering odd-job man Fabio has set more than one heart racing. As temperatures rise, the writers gossip, flirt and gently polish their prose by the pool. But with ghosts, scorpions and some unexpected visitors to contend with, one thing's for sure: neither the Castello, nor Patricia, has ever seen a summer like this. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jane McDowell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/qpuk/000342/bk_qpuk_000342_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Amy and the OLDGALS , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 468min
If you stumbled on a witch, are you sure you could spot her? What if she came in the form of a sweet old lady sporting sweats? So begins the witchy, wondrous debut novel certain to warm your soul and give it shivers at the same heart-thumping time. With a smouldering cauldron of quirky witches, wayward ghosts, sarcastic pets - and an awkward male sidekick - this tale of two covens offers delightful new ways to separate the good witch from the bad. When Amy and her one-eared, one-eyed cat Scruff escape her abusive great aunt, their getaway car is sent hurtling through a tunnel by a wave of water, and her simple plan goes awry in ways Amy could never have conjured. What follows is a series of curious circumstances, particularly the strange ways of the elderly Milly and her sweatsuit-clad friends. Together, they form the OLDGALS - Old Ladies Doing Good And Loving Sweats. When a trio of evil witches confront them, a fierce battle begins. Can Amy triumph over evil - and perhaps even find superhuman romance? For Amy and friends, it's an action-packed, magical ride that's as bumpy a ride as witch's broom, and always brimming over with spine-tingling surprises. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Abby Elvidge. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/010667/bk_acx0_010667_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Wild Ride to Love
# Rule number one for an undercover... Never fall for the bad guy. Jo Brennan is reluctantly enlisted for a dangerous mission to find her brother's killer within the ranks of a smuggling network working deep inside the rainforest. What she doesn't expect is to come up against a lawless leader on a motorbike who pushes all her buttons at once - the mad ones and the hot ones She needs to ignore his smouldering baby blues and focus on bringing the bad guys to justice, and Axel Stone is definitely a bad guy. Despite what his touch does to her, she will not blow her cover risk and setting a murderer free. But Axel isn't the all-brawn-no-brains guy everyone thinks he is, and when the only chance to save Jo from herself comes in the form of holding her prisoner, remorse doesn't even register. He'll find out who she is and what she's doing there, by any means necessary... Book 1 in the romantic suspense series - All Roads Lead to Love by Brenda May - set in the tropics of Northern Australia against the remote backdrop of a lush rainforest.- Shop: buecher
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Pepys - After the Fire: BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation, Hörbuch, Digital, 67min
Kris Marshall (My Family) stars in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the famous diarist's account of the aftermath of the Great Fire of London. Following on from the acclaimed radio dramatisation of Pepys' complete diaries, this further instalment of his chronicles focuses on events following the cataclysmic inferno that destroyed much of the capital 400 years ago. When the Great Fire of 1666 was finally extinguished, little remained of London but smouldering rubble. Samuel Pepys witnessed first-hand the impact it had on the city and its people, and would be haunted by what he had seen for the rest of his life. Thousands of homes and many key buildings had been destroyed or damaged, including St Paul's Cathedral. Now aged 70, in poor health, and living with his servant Will in Clapham, Pepys remembers the devastation. He recalls burying his prize Parmesan to keep it safe, standing in Moorfield among the homeless as London burned, going out in his carriage to look at the ruins, and viewing the plans for the new city that would rise from the ashes - its centrepiece a magnificent cathedral that would be hailed as a masterpiece. Starring Kris Marshall as Samuel Pepys, this entertaining and enlightening adaptation by Hattie Naylor vividly conjures up the sights and sounds of Pepys' world. Duration: 1 hour 15 mins approx. Language: English. Narrator: Katherine Jakeways, Kris Marshall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002559/bk_rhuk_002559_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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This is not propaganda
**WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2020*** A TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR *'Quietly frightening.' Guardian'Essential reading.' Irish Times'Consistently chilling.' Herald'Shocking and entertaining.' Daily TelegraphWhen information is a weapon, everyone is at war.We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, Trump. We've lost not only our sense of peace and democracy - but our sense of what those words even mean. As Peter Pomerantsev seeks to make sense of the disinformation age, he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, 'behavioural change' salesmen, Jihadi fan-boys, Identitarians, truth cops, and much more. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, he finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia - but the answers he finds there are surprising.'The world's most powerful people are lying like never before, and no one understands the art of their lies like Peter Pomerantsev.' Oliver Bullough'Through our current smog of smouldering bullshit, This is Not Propaganda shines a necessary, humane and dissident light.' Nick Rankin'Far more than just another take on today's chaotic information wars, this book argues that we will have to understand how propaganda seeks to shape our deepest thoughts before we can confront it.' Anne Applebaum- Shop: buecher
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The Spellbound Horses: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation, Hörbuch, Digital, 42min
A BBC Radio 4 drama of mesmerising delicacy from Julia Blackburn, winner of the Pen Ackerley prize for memoir 2009, and daughter of poet Thomas Blackburn. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 29 March 2011. Thomas Blackburn was an alcoholic before he became a poet, but in spite of his drunken rages, his erratic behaviour and his crazy obsession with death, Julia always knew that he loved her. She learnt the transforming power of words from him, and she clung to them, a life raft in a stormy sea. 'Find the metaphor, darling!' he'd say, 'and when you've got that, you're on the way towards facing whatever it is that needs to be faced!'Julia is older now than her father ever became, and here is her son Daniel, about to get married. She worries about the impression she has given Daniel of his grandfather. There are no aunts or uncles to give a different twist on Thomas' life so it has all come from her: stories of bad behaviour and drunken excess, told to make Daniel laugh with disbelief but not to bring him closer to the man who was his grandfather. And what has Daniel inherited as well as that lanky body and those bushy eyebrows? Could there be a locked box of trouble somewhere inside him, a smouldering present from the past? The Spellbound Horses stars Diana Quick as Julia, David Troughton as Tommy and Martin Bonger as Daniel. Also featured amongst the cast are Sally Orrock, Jacqueline Tong and Brian Bowles. Language: English. Narrator: Diana Quick, David Troughton, Martin Bonger, Full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/bbcw/004959/rt_bbcw_004959_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Children of Swan: The Land of Taron, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 326min
The first book of the YA fantasy trilogy of the Goodman children's otherworldly search for their kidnapped parents. It seems that nothing could be worse than waking up one morning to find their parents have disappeared and their young brother Bo bawling his eyes out, but for Jack and Brianna, the squabbling teenage sibling rivals, the worst is yet to come. Much to the bafflement and distress of their children, Marcus and Zelda have actually returned to their home planet, Cygnore. Marcus and Zelda, the runaway prince and princess of Bara and Rion, had a life on Earth. For 12 years, they lived happily and peacefully under the name of "Goodman". Bo is kidnapped. In hot-headed pursuit, Jack and Brianna plunge into a wormhole that takes them to Taron. Little did they know their impetuous arrival in Taron has placed the lives of their parents in peril. Locals catch them and bring them to an arena. In bewilderment and dismay, Jack finds himself fettered to a wall and examined by a smouldering-eyed and blue-skinned young woman of Bara, Lady Cici. Lady Cici, the daughter of Lord Shusha, has come to the arena for one and only reason - to have them killed. She is to be engaged to Prince Marcus, their father, and she cannot afford their existence to jeopardize Marcus' life and her forthcoming engagement. She must have them killed, and the arena, where slaves routinely fight to the death, is the perfect place. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Pirhalla. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/076119/bk_acx0_076119_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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On the Same Page (eBook, ePUB)
For readers of Mhairi McFarlane, Beth O'Leary, Lindsay Kelk and Sally Thorne comes this utterly charming and delightfully funny love story where opposites attract - or do they? By day Miles Franklin, named after the famous author, is a successful lawyer. By night, in secret, she writes historical romance novels under the pen name Emma Browning. When 'Emma's' novels win one of Australia's biggest literary awards, Miles's perfectly ordered life begins to unthread at the bindings. Especially when Lars Kristensen, CEO of the publishing company contracted to publish the prize-winning books, insists on meeting the author.Besides mutual antipathy and sexual attraction, socially anxious Miles and supremely confident Lars have nothing in common. Nothing. But the more time they spend together, the more blurred the lines between fact and fiction and love and hate become.Miles is determined to both protect her privacy and to keep writing-even if it means mastering pole dancing, choreographing a love scene in the back of a horse-drawn carriage, and confronting the prejudices of her parents and publishers.Like the heroines in her books, Miles has the grit to stand her ground. But Lars has the smouldering looks, arrogance and pride of all her romantic heroes rolled into one. And he is good at reading between the lines. Who is going win this battle of wills? Can Miles and Lars ever be on the same page?'Endearingly quirky and utterly charming. Funny and sweet and wonderful.' -Amy Andrews, USA Today bestselling author- Shop: buecher
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The Burning of Atlanta in 1864: The History of One of the Civil War's Most Controversial Events , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 73min
We rode out of Atlanta by the Decatur road, filled by the marching troops and wagons of the Fourteenth Corps; and reaching the hill, just outside of the old rebel works, we naturally paused to look back upon the scenes of our past battles. We stood upon the very ground whereon was fought the bloody battle of July 22d, and could see the copse of wood where McPherson fell. Behind us lay Atlanta, smouldering and in ruins, the black smoke rising high in air, and hanging like a pall over the ruined city. (William Tecumseh Sherman) William Tecumseh Sherman has earned fame and infamy for being the one to bring total war to the South, and it started at Atlanta. Once his men entered the city, Sherman ordered the 1,600 citizens remaining in Atlanta to evacuate as he, in Grant's words, set out to "destroy [Atlanta] so far as to render it worthless for military purposes," with Sherman himself remaining a day longer to supervise the destruction himself "and see that it was well done." Then, on November 14, 1864, Sherman abandoned the ravaged city, taking with him 13,000 mules and horses and all the supplies the animals could carry. One of the most famous movies of all time, Gone with the Wind, depicts the burning of Atlanta after Sherman occupied it in 1864. Over time history came to view Sherman as a harbinger of total war, and in the South Sherman is still viewed as a brutal warmonger. Considerable parts of Atlanta and Columbia did burn when Sherman occupied them in 1864 and 1865, respectively, but how responsible was Sherman for the initial fires? To this day, there is no definitive answer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Piotrasch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/037172/bk_acx0_037172_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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