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    A Long Time Coming , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 554min
    It takes a real artist to solve a crime this big - in a brilliant, engrossing mystery by Edgar Award winner Aaron Elkins....Art curator Val Caruso is not a happy camper. His promotion has just been nixed, his divorce has become final, and he’s dug himself into a nice little rut for his fortieth birthday. The uplift? A trip to Milan to help Holocaust survivor Sol Bezzecca recover a pair of cherished sketches by Renoir. They’d once been given to Sol’s family by the then-unknown artist, looted by the Italian Fascist militia, and now after decades in hiding have turned up for auction. It’s Val’s job to get them back.Unfortunately, his Italian adventure takes a dangerous turn when he becomes trapped in an intricate web that reaches back to World War II - and is still very sticky with art thieves, forgers, and somebody who wants Val out of the picture permanently. When the lost Renoirs are stolen yet again, Val is more determined than ever to hunt them down. The reward for reuniting an old man with his rightful past? Priceless.But doing it is going to be murder. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Colacci. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010814/bk_brll_010814_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Passenger
    A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER "A jewel of a rediscovery . . . . A riveting, noirish, intensely filmic portrait of an ambivalent fugitive, cornered but not captured, safest when in motion, at greatest risk when forced to rest." -The Wall Street Journal Berlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted, synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his door, Otto Silbermann, a respected businessman, is forced to sneak out the back of his own home. Turned away from establishments he had long patronized, and fearful of being exposed as a Jew despite his Aryan looks, he boards a train. And then another. And another . . . until his flight becomes a frantic odyssey across Germany, as he searches first for information, then for help, and finally for escape. Taut, immediate, infused with acerbic Kafkaesque humor, The Passenger is an indelible portrait of a man and a society careening out of control. Twenty-three-year-old Ulrich Boschwitz wrote The Passenger at breakneck speed in 1938, fresh in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, and his prose flies at the same pace. Long considered lost, the original manuscript was only recently discovered in the German archives and has now been published throughout the world and universally hailed as a masterpiece.
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    The Trojan Plague: Countdown to Armageddon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 994min
    As the Second World War turned in favor of the Allies, Germany became a sinking ship. Nazi rats started to plan ways to escape inevitable revenge at the hands of the victorious forces and partisans. Looted wealth was hidden around the world to finance personal lifestyles and to fund future plans to restore the Nazis to power. The ultimate evil man of the centure fakes his suicide, escapes from his bunker and settles in southern Argentina, physically altered, where he produces an heir to carry on his plans for a new Fourth Reich.This son succeeds him and uses his father’s accumulated wealth to develop a bioweapon that can be hidden before an attack on the general population. The weapon causes severe neurological symptoms, resulting in populations of zombie like creatures. Standing in the way of this is a team of CDC-trained USDA veterinarians, French investigators from the prestigious Pasteur Institute, and a young Lakota Sioux Indian from Fort Peck Montana. These friends were "commissioned" by the young man’s late Shaman great-grandfather to find satanic "destroyers" of life.Now they are on a course to find the man who has developed a hidden plague that threatens the very existence of the civilized world.Can they stop The Trojan Plague? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dennis J. Baxter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/238908/bk_acx0_238908_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mannequin: A St-Cyr and Kohler Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 607min
    A St-Cyr and Kohler investigation set in Occupied Paris during World War II. St-Cyr of the Sret and Kohler of the Gestapo are ordered to investigate a bank robbery, but they would prefer to look for a missing neighbor, Joanne LaBelle. She responded to an advertisement seeking a beautiful girl between the ages of 18 and 22, with long hair and brown eyes, to be a model-mannequin. Now Joanne has vanished. The robbery of the Crdit Lyonnais and the case of the missing girl begin to dovetail. Was Joanne kidnapped because she witnessed the theft? Or is there something even more sinister involved? Photographs scattered in the attic of an empty house overlooking the Palais Royal gardens show many girls similar to Joanne, naked, tortured, murdered. And do these crimes relate to Hermann Gring's imminent auction of looted art at the Jeu de Paume? Or to a mutilated World War I veteran who once lived in the abandoned house and who was rejected and betrayed by his fiancé, a beautiful brown-eyed model? J. Robert Janes's Sandman was selected as a Notable Book of 1997 by The New York Times and was one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 1997. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jean Brassard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/006011/bk_adbl_006011_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Gemini Virus , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 497min
    Bob Easton thinks he has a cold. Before he dies in agony, four days later, he infects dozens of people. Local health agencies become quickly overwhelmed by the sick and dying, and beg the CDC for help. Dr. Michael Beck and Cara Porter, a member of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, race to identify the deadly bug. They can't cure it until they know what it is. Dennis and Andi Jensen and their children are terrified. Schools and offices close. Fresh food disappears from store shelves. Three of their children's friends die. Their neighbors are dying or running away, fleeing the unstoppable infection. Desperate, the Jensens join the exodus, making a nightmarish journey to their isolated mountain cabin along empty roads, through abandoned towns, past looted shopping malls. The superbug - and the panic - quickly spreads beyond America’s borders. On a packed plane, someone coughs - and at their destination, the pilots are told, "You can’t land here." US military bases are quarantined. Yet the virus continues to spread. Some believe the plague is man-made. Others see it as a sign of the end times. In the lab, Cara Porter makes a potentially fatal mistake. In the mountains, Andi Jensen tells her husband that she doesn’t feel well. The world is running out of time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wil Mara. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001504/bk_aren_001504_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Victim's Fortune (eBook, ePUB)
    Imagine a book with the narrative force and the behind-the-scenes revelations of Barbarians at the Gate. Now imagine that what's at stake isn't just which rich investment banker gets richer, but rather is one of the great moral issues of our time, restitution for Holocaust survivors. Imagine no more, because John Authers and Richard Wolffe have written just such a book in The Victim's Fortune. Samuel G. Freedman, author of Jew vs. JewA riveting account of what went wrong in the battle over compensation for Holocaust survivorsFifty years after World War II, a small group of Americans launched a campaign to confront the world with the fact that many assets looted by the Nazis had never been returned to their owners. Backed by class-action lawsuits and threats of economic sanctions, they mounted a vigorous challenge against some of the world's largest corporations and governments to demand billions of dollars. But what began as a moral crusade soon became a bare-knuckle battle that opened up painful debates about whether money can ever compensate for the horrors of the Holocaust.John Authers and Richard Wolffe offer a spellbinding investigative account of this momentous international struggle. The Victim's Fortune captures the personalities, ruthless tactics, and moral dilemmas surrounding the fight over compensation -- all unfolding against the backdrop of one of the darkest moments in human history.
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    False Idols , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 875min
    Million-dollar art deals and glittering parties hide a world of deadly relic-running in this high-stakes international thriller written with input from Robert K. Wittman, FBI, and according to the London Times, “the most famous art detective in the world”. When a tanker ship laden with illicit cargo lands in Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, a highly- trained group of government agents must pinpoint where, and more importantly who, the shipments are coming from. Could these shipments, full of looted art and antiquities, be tied to funding a group of Middle Eastern extremists? FBI Agent Layla El-Deeb escaped a childhood in the slums of Egypt for a new life in the US. But the Bureau sends her back to pose undercover as an heiress in a Cairo she barely recognizes. City high-rollers' dealings in the art world may be the key to infiltrating the terrorist network that threatens the history of Layla's native home and the safety of her adopted nation. The mission seems straightforward - trace priceless relics from their millionaire owners back to illegal digs and the terrorist groups profiting from their sale - but Layla becomes entangled in the opulent world she's infiltrated, and she's falling for the son of a major suspect. When a terrorist plot threatens both Egyptian and American lives, Layla is forced to decide where her loyalties truly lie. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lauren Ezzo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/114292/bk_acx0_114292_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In the Heat of the Summer: The New York Riots of 1964 and the War on Crime (Politics and Culture in Modern America) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 850min
    On the morning of July 16, 1964, a white police officer in New York City shot and killed a black teenager, James Powell, across the street from the high school where he was attending summer classes. Two nights later, a peaceful demonstration in Central Harlem degenerated into violent protests. During the next week, thousands of rioters looted stores from Brooklyn to Rochester and pelted police with bottles and rocks. In the symbolic and historic heart of black America, the Harlem Riot of 1964, as most called it, highlighted a new dynamic in the racial politics of the nation. The first "long, hot summer" of the 60s had arrived. In this gripping narrative of a pivotal moment, Michael W. Flamm draws on personal interviews and delves into the archives to move briskly from the streets of New York, where black activists like Bayard Rustin tried in vain to restore peace, to the corridors of the White House, where President Lyndon Johnson struggled to contain the fallout from the crisis and defeat Republican challenger Barry Goldwater, who had made "crime in the streets" a centerpiece of his campaign. In the Heat of the Summer spotlights the extraordinary drama of a single week when peaceful protests and violent unrest intersected. The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marlin May. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/108980/bk_acx0_108980_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Black World: Masterful Saga of a Female Space Pirate , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 236min
    This SF pulp magazine classic of a female space pirate was a huge hit with readers when it was first serialized in Amazing Stories during the early 1940s. Golden Age pulp editor and author Raymond A. Palmer's masterwork mixes romance, interplanetary conflict, space piracy, and exotic alien worlds into the unique blend that is so emblematic of the science fiction of the period. Black World begins when John Carver of the Stellar Patrol falls for playgirl heiress Ina Malden on the luxury spaceliner Josephine, en route to the outer worlds. After Ina disembarks at Titan, the ship is attacked and looted by a mystery ship, and John realizes the pirates' masked leader is Ina. John is ordered to capture her, but when he learns the motives behind her piracy, John falls more in love than ever. He also discovers another secret, one that would make Earth helpless before a superweapon that could not be stopped. To warn Earth, he knows he will have to betray his love for Ina; and to save someone else she loves, Ina knows she will have to betray her love for John. Battling space fleets, interstellar espionage, futuristic glamour, the tough men and even tougher women of the planetary frontiers, Black Planet is a pulp age masterpiece now available as an audiobook! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Reid. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/204244/bk_acx0_204244_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Death on the Aegean Queen: A Dotsy Lamb Travel Mystery, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 497min
    George Gaskill, a car salesman from Indiana, goes missing from the stern deck of the Aegean Queen, leaving only a pool of blood and a strange note behind. Ollie Osgood, the husband of Dotsy Lamb's best friend Lettie, is the last person to have seen him and one of three men who lost a bundle to George in a Texas Hold'em poker game. Then the ship's photographer turns up murdered on the beautiful island of Mykonos. Dotsy wants only to unwind and to renew her promising relationship with Marco Quattrocchi, the Carabinieri captain she met in Italy three years ago, but since Ollie is the prime suspect in George's disappearance and Marco is embroiled in the photographer's murder, she can't. The Aegean Queen is a ship with a theme - archaeology. Dotsy strikes up a friendship with the ship's guest lecturer, famous archaeologist, Dr. Luc Girard, and introduces him to the ship's klutziest dancer, Sophie Antonakos. With the help of Lettie Osgood's amazing powers of observation, Dotsy, Sophie, and Luc discover antiquities in the ship's display cases that have been looted from museums or smuggled from their homelands. The trails of murder and theft converge on the island of Crete, where Dotsy finds herself dodging bullets from the gun of a man she doesn't even know. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen Krause. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000997/bk_acx0_000997_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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