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  Baudolino , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1133min

  As Constantinople is being pillaged and burned in April 1204, a young man, Baudolino, manages to save a historian and a high court official from certain death at the hands of crusading warriors. Born a simple peasant, Baudolino has two gifts: his ability to learn languages and to lie. A young man, he is adopted by a foreign commander who sends him to university in Paris. After he allies with a group of fearless and adventurous fellow students, they go in search of a vast kingdom to the East - a kingdom of strange creatures, eunuchs, unicorns and, of course, lovely maidens. Fusing historical events with myths and fables, this is a lighthearted, splendid tale. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Guidall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/006314/bk_reco_006314_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Echoes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1133min

  This is the story of two very different children growing up in a small Irish seaside town in the '50s and '60s. Shouting their hearts' desires into the echo cave, praying that their destiny will lead them far away from the town in which they live. Castlebay, in winter empty and grey with wind and sea spray, becomes all bustle and colour in the gaudy days of summer. The paths of these two characters are destined to criss-cross in a quite unforeseen way, and eventually both roads will lead back to Castlebay. The end of this long drama of ambition, betrayal, and love is played out in the seaside town where it began, against a backdrop of whispered family gossip and the tangled skein of past friendships. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Binchy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/002860/bk_bbcw_002860_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Everybody's Fool , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1133min

  An immediate national best seller and instant classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls.  Everybody’s Fool picks up roughly a decade since we were last with Miss Beryl and Sully on New Year's Eve 1984.  The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist’s estimate that he has only a year or two left, and it’s hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years; the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren’t still best friends; and Sully’s son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee figure (and now a regretful one). We also enjoy the company of Doug Raymer, the chief of police who’s obsessing primarily over the identity of the man his wife might’ve been about to run off with before dying in a freak accident. Bath’s mayor, the former academic Gus Moynihan, whose wife problems are, if anything, even more pressing. Then there’s Carl Roebuck, whose lifelong run of failing upward might now come to ruin. And finally there’s Charice Bond - a light at the end of the tunnel that is Chief Raymer’s office - as well as her brother, Jerome, who might well be the train barreling into the station.  Filled with humour, heart and hard-luck characters you can't help but love, Everybody's Fool is a crowning achievement from one of the great storytellers of our time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bramhall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/004019/bk_boli_004019_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Valley of Genius , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1133min

  A candid, colorful, and comprehensive oral history that reveals the secrets of Silicon Valley - from the origins of Apple and Atari to the present day clashes of Google and Facebook, and all the start-ups and disruptions that happened along the way.Rarely has one economy asserted itself as swiftly - and as aggressively - as the entity we now know as Silicon Valley. Built with a seemingly permanent culture of reinvention, Silicon Valley does not fight change; it embraces it, and now powers the American economy and global innovation.So how did this omnipotent and ever-morphing place come to be? It was not by planning. It was, like many an empire before it, part luck, part timing, and part ambition. And part pure, unbridled genius...Drawing on over 200 in-depth interviews, Valley of Genius takes listeners from the dawn of the personal computer and the Internet, through the heyday of the web, up to the very moment when our current technological reality was invented. The audiobook interweaves stories of invention and betrayal, overnight success and underground exploits, to tell the story of Silicon Valley like it has never been told before. These are the stories that Valley insiders tell each other: the tall tales that are all, improbably, true.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pete Larkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004459/bk_hach_004459_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Proud Servant , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1133min

  James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, the soldier-poet who fought so magnificently and so fruitlessly for his King, Charles I. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King." Margaret Irwin's novels of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries have been popular for decades. The author's particular hall-mark is the way she blends exciting adventure, romance and penetrating character-study with scrupulous historical accuracy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Monteath. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/022203/bk_adbl_022203_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Quillifer: Quillifer, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1133min

  In Quillifer, Williams has presented us with a picaresque novel in the grand tradition of Fielding's Tom Jones, big as life and three times as amazing and affecting. (Locus Magazine) From New York Times best-selling and award-winning author Walter Jon Williams comes an adventurous epic fantasy about a man who is forced to leave his comfortable life and find his fortune among goddesses, pirates, war, and dragons. Quillifer is young, serially in love, studying law, and living each day keenly aware that his beloved homeport of Ethlebight risks closure due to silting of the harbor. His concerns for the future become much more immediate when he returns from a summery assignation to find his city attacked by Aekoi pirates, leading to brigands in the streets and his family and friends in chains. First he has to survive the night. Then he has to leave his home behind and venture forth into the wider world of Duisland, where he can find friends and allies to help avenge his losses and restore Ethlebight to glory. His determination will rock kingdoms, shatter the political structure of Duisland, and change the country forever. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ralph Lister. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027782/bk_adbl_027782_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Everybody's Fool: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1133min

  Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath in upstate New York and the characters who made Nobody's Fool (1993) a "confident, assured novel" according to the San Francisco Chronicle back then. "Simple as family love, yet nearly as complicated." Or, as The Boston Globe put it, "a big, rambunctious novel with endless riffs and unstoppable human hopefulness". The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he has only a year or two left, and it's hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years...the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren't still best friends...Sully's son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee figure (and now a regretful one). We also enjoy the company of Doug Raymer, the chief of police who's obsessing primarily over the identity of the man his wife might've been about to run off with before dying in a freak accident...Bath's mayor, the former academic Gus Moynihan, whose wife problems are, if anything, even more pressing...and then there's Carl Roebuck, whose lifelong run of failing upward might now come to ruin. And finally there's Charice Bond - a light at the end of the tunnel that is Chief Raymer's office - as well as her brother, Jerome, who might well be the train barreling into the station. Everybody's Fool is filled with humor, heart, hard times, and people you can't help but love, possibly because their various faults make them so stridently human. This is classic Russo - and a crowning achievement from one of the greatest storytellers of our time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bramhall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004515/bk_rand_004515_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Das Jahrhundertversprechen: Jahrhundertsturm-Serie 3, Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1133min

  Berlin in den Zwanziger Jahren: Der atemlose Tanz auf dem Vulkan. Die Weimarer Republik 1921: Der erste Weltkrieg ist seit drei Jahren zu Ende und wirft dennoch lange Schatten, auch auf die Familie von Briest. Otto und Hermine von Briest stehen kurz vor dem Bankrott. Ihre Tochter Luisa hofft auf eine Karriere beim Film. Trotz Inflation und Wirtschaftskrise strömen die Menschen in die Varietés, die Lichtspielhäuser und auf die neu entstandenen Autorennstrecken. Dort versucht sich Max Brandow zu beweisen, der Ziehsohn der Briests.Otto und Hermine haben ihn vor einem Ende in der Gosse bewahrt. Max bindet ein Versprechen an die Briests und vor allem an Luisa, dem er alles unterordnet - auch sein persönliches Glück. Den Rausch der Geschwindigkeit sucht auch Sigurd von Cramm, dessen Familie mit den Briests seit Generationen verfeindet ist. In den extremen politischen Strömungen der Zeit findet er eine neue Heimat - und eine Möglichkeit, den Untergang der Briest voranzutreiben. Der fulminante Höhepunkt von Richard Dübells "Jahrhundertsturm"-Trilogie. Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung genießt du exklusiv nur bei Audible. ungekürzt. deutsch. Reinhard Kuhnert. https://samples.audible.de/bk/adko/004515/bk_adko_004515_sample.mp3.

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  Dark Fire: Shardlake, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1133min

  The second Shardlake novel in C. J. Sansom's remarkable historical crime series. It is 1540 and the hottest summer of the 16th century. Matthew Shardlake, believing himself out of favour with Thomas Cromwell, is busy trying to maintain his legal practice and keep a low profile. But his involvement with a murder case, defending a girl accused of brutally murdering her young cousin, brings him once again into contact with the king's chief minister - and a new assignment . . . The secret of Greek Fire, the legendary substance with which the Byzantines destroyed the Arab navies, has been lost for centuries. Now an official of the Court of Augmentations has discovered the formula in the library of a dissolved London monastery. When Shardlake is sent to recover it, he finds the official and his alchemist brother brutally murdered - the formula has disappeared. Now Shardlake must follow the trail of Greek Fire across Tudor London, while trying at the same time to prove his young client's innocence. But very soon he discovers nothing is as it seems . . . ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Crossley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/000770/bk_macm_000770_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1133min

  The story finds David as an astute, intelligent and well-groomed business man in his late 50s. While his upbringing was extraordinarily difficult due to the death of his father when David was eight, a hardworking mother of faith and a wise aunt groomed by her own hardships shape David into a young man of robust vision and deep determination, all of which is undergirded by a spirited faith. He emerges in his late teens seeing the world as bristling with opportunity and brimming with hope.  However, the road of life takes a devastating turn. Well into 13 years of marriage and with two endearing children, David sees his life as being the picture of everything he had ever dreamt of. Yet, entirely unbeknownst to him, his wife has been engaged in a prolonged and illicit affair. Through lies, deceit, and devious trickery, she quietly stages a divorce designed to destroy him, wreck his career, and rob him of his children. The results are nothing short of catastrophic.David’s world implodes. His belief in hope, in faith, and in other people is smashed, leaving him unable to live anything but a toxically jaded life. As opposed to his younger self, he now views life as a cruel joke played on naive people who create myths around hope and faith because they don’t exist in the real world. David compensates for his pain by constructing a stellar career. Yet, it is a band aid and nothing of a cure. Actually hoping for a cure was to ‘hope’, and hope was infinitely too risky. So he didn’t. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Garrett Howard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/137351/bk_acx0_137351_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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