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    Opening Night, Hörbuch, Digital, 225min
    Dreams of stardom had lured Martyn Tarne from faraway New Zealand to make the dreary, soul-destroying round of West End agents and managers in search of work. The Vulcan Theatre had been her last forlorn hope, and now, driven by sheer necessity, she was glad to accept the humble job of dresser to its leading lady. And then came the eagerly awaited Opening Night. To Martyn the night brought a strange turn of the wheel of fortune - but to one distinguished member of the cast it was to bring sudden and unforeseen death... Language: English. Narrator: Anton Lesser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000245/bk_twuk_000245_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Lost Girl , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 918min
    Under-appreciated until now, The Lost Girl is perhaps D.H. Lawrence's most beautiful, thoroughly contemporary, love story. This captivating novel charts the journey of a woman caught between two worlds and two lives, one mired in dreary, industrial England and a life of convention, the other set in the vibrant Italian landscape holding the promise of sensual liberation. Alvina Houghton is fading into spinsterhood when she meets Naples-born Cicio, a vaudeville dancer who draws her into a dance of seduction, reawakening her desire as she defies her stifling upper-class life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Johanna Ward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000992/bk_blak_000992_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The History of Mr Polly , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 451min
    Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as a gentleman's outfitter in a small town. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to escape his frustrating existence is by burning his shop to the ground and killing himself. Unexpected events, however, conspire at the last moment to lead the bewildered Mr Polly to a bright new future - after he saves a life, fakes his death, and escapes to a world of heroism, hope, and ultimate happiness. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Shelley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/005989/bk_bbcw_005989_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Respawn: An Epic Fantasy LitRPG: Killstreak, Book One , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 519min
    Lord Kadorax Darkarrow was born on Earth, but in Agglor, he's the highest-level assassin anyone can find. The leader of the famed Blackened Blades, he's made a name for himself, built a kingdom of sorts, and only had to respawn once along the way. Then a rogue band of jackals sends him all the way back to a dreary tavern in a tiny village to start over at level one. Hellbent on revenge, Kadorax sets out on a path littered with bodies - level up, find the jackals, slay their god! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J. Scott Bennett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/122563/bk_acx0_122563_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Unquiet House , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 659min, (USK 18)
    Mire House is dreary, dark, cold, and infested with midges. But when Emma Dean inherits it from a distant relation, she immediately feels a sense of belonging. It isn't long before Charlie Mitchell, grandson of the original owner, appears claiming that he wants to seek out his family. But Emma suspects he's more interested in the house than his long-lost relations. And when she starts seeing ghostly figures, Emma begins to wonder: Is Charlie trying to scare her away? Or are there darker secrets lurking in the corners of Mire House? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Penelope Rawlins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/qpuk/000125/bk_qpuk_000125_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Let the Right One In
    The international bestseller and the book behind the film and play Let Me In 'The new Stephen King' The Times Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself. Oskar is a 12-year-old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city's edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, and wets himself when he's frightened. Eli is the young girl who moves in next door. She doesn't go to school and never leaves the flat by day. She is a 200-year-old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, and condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood. John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel, a huge bestseller in his native Sweden, is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend. And a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty.
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    Hedgewitch
    'Magical in every sense of the word' Eoin Colfer First in a five-book series for readers of Nevermoor, The Worst Witch and The Dark Is Rising.Cassie Morgan has run away. After seven years spent waiting for her mother to return, she flees her dreary boarding school and sets out to find her. But the world outside her school is full of hidden magic and children have been going missing.With the help of a talking cat and a flying broom, Cassie escapes to the enchanted village of Hedgely. There she will begin her training in the practical skills of witchcraft with the Hedgewitch, who watches over the Hedge, the vast forest that marks the border between England and Faerie.'There are only two sorts of fantasy story: the ones that feel fake and the ones that feel real. It's hard to explain the difference but you know the real ones when you read them, and Hedgewitch is one of them' Philip Reeve
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    Fates, Flowers: A Comedy of New York , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 152min
    Sara Smith is one of the most monstrous characters you can hope to meet. She lives in Greenwich Village on life insurance, courtesy of her late husband, but she has fallen into a dreary routine: work in a card shop by day, where she is the rudest sales clerk imaginable, and weary evenings passed in the same cellar bar night after night with the same old people. But when she meets and seduces a gorgeous boy called Steve, she has no idea what she is getting herself into. Neither has he. Neither will you. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew Waterhouse. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/020902/bk_acx0_020902_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Under His Control: Submission (Billionaire Erotica) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 70min, (USK 18)
    Chloe Simmons is in a bind; she's late on her rent and needs a job fast. She gets her chance after a mysterious stranger offers her a way out. Things go wrong and she finds herself at the attention of Bastian Hastings, a handsome but domineering billionaire media tycoon. He gives her a choice, submit to him to pay off her debts or go back to her dreary existence. When she finds herself blindfolded, shackled and riding a Sybian, she wonders if she has made a mistake or the best decision of her life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alana Wells. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/031406/bk_acx0_031406_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Pout-Pout Fish , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 10min
    A New York Times best seller. Deep in the water, Mr. Fish swims about with his fish face stuck in a permanent pout. Can his pals cheer him up? Will his pout ever end? Is there something he can learn from an unexpected friend? Swim along with the pout-pout fish as he discovers that being glum and spreading “dreary wearies” isn’t really his destiny. Playful rhymes make this a fun fish story that’s sure to turn even the poutiest of frowns upside down. The Pout-Pout Fish is a 2009 Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexander Gould. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001418/bk_aren_001418_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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