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    Straight White Male , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 651min
    Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman you meet. He's writing film scripts in LA, fucking, drinking and insulting his way through Californian society but also suffering from writer's block and unpaid taxes. Then a solution presents itself - Marr is to be the unlikely recipient of the W. F. Bingham Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Modern Literature, an award worth half a million pounds. But it does not come without a price: he must spend a year teaching at the English university where his ex-wife and estranged daughter now reside. As Kennedy acclimatises to the sleepy campus, inspiring revulsion and worship in equal measure, he's forced to reconsider his precarious lifestyle. Incredible as it may seem, there might actually be a father and a teacher lurking inside this ‘preening, narcissistic, priapic, sociopath'. Or is there? Straight White Male is a no-holds-barred look into the midlife crisis and the contemporary male sexual psyche. It is a brilliant new satire from one of Britain's sharpest writers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Cormack. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002148/bk_rhuk_002148_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Silent Running: My Years on a World War II Attack Submarine , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 613min
    In this riveting personal account, an authentic American hero relives the perils and triumphs of eight harrowing patrols aboard one of America's most successful World War II submarines. Courageous deeds and terror-filled moments - as well as the endless hard work of maintaining and operating a combat sub - are vividly recalled in Calvert's candid portrait. From rigorous training and shakedown cruises off the coast of New England to tense patrols within shouting distance of Japan's major cities, the progress of the newly commissioned USS Jack parallels Calvert's own growth from callow ensign to charter member of one of the sharpest attack teams in the fleet. Silent Running is more than a masterful collection of war stories. The greatest drama takes place within Jim Calvert himself, as his values, his training, and his courage are put to test daily, both at sea and ashore. He must come to terms with a forbidden love, overcome fear and self-doubt, cope with the loss of comrades, and face the constant reality that each and every day at sea might be his last. Jim Calvert has created one of the most remarkable World War II memoirs to date. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Patrick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000420/bk_blak_000420_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ray Allen: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Greatest Shooters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 144min
    Learn the incredible story of NBA star shooter and All-Star Ray Allen! In Ray Allen: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Greatest Shooters, you'll hear about the inspirational story of basketball star Ray Allen. Ray Allen will go down in the history of basketball as one of the sharpest and most talented shooters to ever play the game. With an incredible ability to roll off screens and release the ball with an elite level of accuracy, Ray Allen struck fear in the eyes of hundreds of defenses throughout his NBA career. A two-time NBA champion with the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat, it's easy to say that Ray Allen has had a storied career. Ray represents many things that coaches love: a consummate professional who has a relentless work ethic to be the best at his craft. Years before the latest generation of talent like Stephen Curry entered the league, Ray Allen was the man kids around the world would emulate, shooting threes from their backyard aspiring to be like Ray. In this book, we'll explore Ray's journey into the NBA, his career, as well as his legacy on the game of basketball. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: BJ Fessant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/067937/bk_acx0_067937_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In the Light of the Garden: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 641min
    In the Light of the Garden is a novel about unearthed family secrets, the enchantment of past loves, and the indelible power of forgiveness. Inheriting her grandparents' island estate on Florida's Gulf coast is a special kind of homecoming for thirty-one-year-old Charity Baxter. Raised by a narcissistic single mother, Charity's only sense of a loving home comes from childhood summers spent with Gramps and Grandma. But piercing her fondest memories is her sharpest grief - the death of her beloved grandmother, when Charity stopped believing in the magical healing power of the weeping willow that still casts a shadow on their property. Now that Charity has returned, she's full of longing and regret, until she befriends her neighbor Dalton Reynolds, who has come to Gaslamp Island carrying his own heartache. As other exiles arrive - a great uncle harboring secrets, a teenage runaway - Charity begins to reconsider what makes a family. When her own estranged mother shows up in crisis, Charity is challenged to search her heart for forgiveness. But forgiving herself may require a little magic from the last place she'd expect to find it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amy Landon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/008677/bk_brll_008677_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Chronicles of Clovis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 375min
    The Chronicles of Clovis, published in 1911, was the third in Saki (H. H. Munro)'s series of very funny and very vicious stories. As an insider, Saki was ideally poised to eviscerate the Edwardian middle class way of life, and his pitiless and magnetic sense of humour - teamed with an ability to wield that sharpest of writer's tools, the (very) short story - makes these some of the funniest and most quotable of tales. All of the running themes in Saki's work are here: the ghastly maiden relatives, plucked directly from Munro's experiences as a boy with a pair of overly disciplinarian aunts and delivered up to retribution in such famous stories as "Sredni Vashtar"; the somewhat dodgy attitude to female emancipation, shown very short shrift by the newly crowned fictitious King of England in "Hermann the Irascible"; and the ease with which nature, red in tooth and claw, overcomes the seeming power of the Edwardian sense of its own civilisation in the merciless hunting story "Esmé". There are 29 stories in this collection, each one exquisitely crafted, totally vicious and very, very funny. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ian Richardson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/slks/000012/bk_slks_000012_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fossils (eBook, PDF)
    The clearest and sharpest recognition guide to over 500 invertebrate, vertebrate, and plant fossils from around the world. This comprehensive e-guide is the perfect introduction to finding, identifying, and collecting fossils. It features more than 500 species of plant and animal fossils, from trilobites and megafauna to dinosaurs and ancient trees. This ebook cuts through the complicated identification process with expertly written and thoroughly vetted text that features precise description, enabling you to recognize a species instantly. Over 1,000 photographs, with illuminating annotations, help you to pick out a fossil's chief characteristics and distinguishing features, while a colour illustration shows the fossil as a living plant or animal. The detailed introduction explains what a fossil is and how they are classified. Start building your own collection with advice on where to look for fossils, what tools and safety equipment are needed for collecting, and how best to organize a fossil collection. To help you in the initial stages of identification, this book provides a visual identification key that makes it easy to recognize a fossil and place it in its correct group. Finally, a concise glossary gives instant understanding of technical and scientific terms.
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    Dogs
    An extensive guide to more than 300 dog breeds, with detailed entries featuring high-quality photography and precise text. The clearest and sharpest recognition guide to more than 300 dog breeds from around the world. Authoritative text, crystal-clear photography, and a systematic approach make this the most comprehensive and concise pocket guide to dogs of the world. Packed with more than 1,000 full-color photographs of over 300 dog breeds, this handy reference book is designed to cut through the process of identification and help you to recognize a breed quickly and easily. Expertly written and thoroughly vetted, each entry combines a precise description with annotated photographs to highlight the characteristics and distinguishing features of each breed, while bands provide at-a-glance facts for quick reference. The introduction traces the evolution of the domestic dog, explains the difference between pedigrees and non-pedigrees, looks at how breeds are classified, and examines their characteristics in detail. Designed to delight and inform dog lovers of all ages - new owners, established enthusiasts, and envious admirers eager to tell terriers apart - the DK Handbook: Dogs offers a quick, easy way to hone your knowledge of hounds.
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    Blood, Sweat, and Fears , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 512min
    Visit a world where a wild-land firefighter must use his mysterious powers to save his crew from a roaring inferno. Follow an eco-tourist's frantic efforts to escape an African quarantine zone ravaged by a deadly virus. Meet a gumshoe journalist as she tracks down a figure that'sable to predict the future with terrifying accuracy. And tune into Texas station KRAP (don't touch that dial, there's KRAP on it!) as a pair of down-home country deejays try their damnedest to stop a murder...while they're still on the air. The 18 Short Stories Included in this Audiobook include: "A Talent for Fire" "The Pusher's List" "The Most Wanted Woman" "Blood Heist" "My First Date with Jolene and her Cousin, Billy-Bob" "A Road Painted in Scarlet" "Never Mind the Princess, Save the Dragon" "Quarantine on the Black Nile" "Which Way to the Dragon" "Three Scars" "A Most Helpful Text" "Cantaloupes and Wild Shoshone" "Slumgullion Sector" "I Got Some Bad Muse For You" "Shadow on the Sea" "Sharpest Tool in the Shed" "An Assassin in the Vatican" "Strangelets with a Side of Grilled Spam" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Matic, Katrina Carmony, John Podulka, Keith L. O' Brien, Michael Angel, Derek Perkins, Jon Goeffna, Jason Jackson, Bill Royal. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/002258/bk_acx0_002258_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Princess Elizabeth's Spy: A Maggie Hope Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 663min
    Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed debut, Mr. Churchill's Secretary. Now Maggie returns to protect Britain's beloved royals against an international plot - one that could change the course of history. As World War II sweeps the continent and England steels itself against German attack, Maggie Hope, former secretary to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, completes her training to become a spy for MI-5. Spirited, strong-willed, and possessing one of the sharpest minds in government for mathematics and code-breaking, she fully expects to be sent abroad to gather intelligence for the British front. Instead, to her great disappointment, she is dispatched to go undercover at Windsor Castle, where she will tutor the young Princess Elizabeth in math. Yet castle life quickly proves more dangerous - and deadly - than Maggie ever expected. The upstairs-downstairs world at Windsor is thrown into disarray by a shocking murder, which draws Maggie into a vast conspiracy that places the entire royal family in peril. And as she races to save England from a most disturbing fate, Maggie realizes that a quick wit is her best defense, and that the smallest clues can unravel the biggest secrets, even within her own family.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Duerden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003294/bk_rand_003294_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Strands of Silk and Fire: The Dreamcatcher Fallacy Cycle, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 520min
    To what extremes would you go to return humankind to its full creative potential after generations of game-leveling genetic tampering? For the followers of a martyred genetic engineer named James Illion, the answer is obvious - all the way to the very edge of the death of civilization itself. Joshua 1011, the artificially created son of Illion, finds he is the carrier of a deadly and life-altering viral weapon. As his lover, Matthew Dennon, and his sometimes-enemy Adam struggle to find a way to save Earth and themselves, an old intelligence stirs in the depths of a vast interstellar computer network. It has worn many masks, evolving and changing over the course of centuries. But its time to act has come because it, too, knows that the only way forward for all of life, both biological and man-made, will be a path both breathtaking and destructive, and that the cost may be the end of nearly everything that came before. From sensitive m/m romance to high adventure, from a love-sick artificial life form to young men who begin to bridge multiple realities, Strands of Silk and Fire will lead you into a time where intuition must become the best defense, and imagination, the sharpest weapon of all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory Peyton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/050416/bk_acx0_050416_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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