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    An Olympick Vision (Radio 3 Sunday Feature), Hörbuch, Digital, 43min
    The story of how Britain's Olympic journey started 400 years ago - in the Cotswolds. It was once thought that the modern Olympics was the brainchild of Baron Pierre de Coubertin alone and put into action in Greece in 1896. The man himself encouraged the myth. But in this programme former England cricketer Ed Smith goes back to the real rebirth of the Olympic, or rather the 'Olympick', idea and the games held by Captain Robert Dover on the hill above the Cotswold town of Chipping Campden - exactly four hundred years ago, in 1612. With the former Olympic sprinter and historian Peter Radford as his guide, Ed picks his way through the Cotswold games story and questions why Robert Dover's name is only the merest footnote in the Modern Olympic story. And, he asks, why was it that Britain should nurture both the ideas and events that took place every year on Kingcombe Plain, later to be renamed Dover's Hill? Producer: Tom Alban. Language: English. Narrator: Ed Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/006335/bk_bbcw_006335_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Once and Future Duchess: Royal Entourage, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 540min
    A duchess in time saves a noble line.… In theory, the Duke of Candover is the most eligible peer in the realm. But in truth, he has a deep aversion to the merest hint of marriage, not to mention two botched engagements which have marked his jaded soul. Now, after a debauched bachelor party that causes public outcry, the Prince Regent is demanding that it's Candover's turn to be brought to heel. And Prinny secretly believes that Isabelle Tremont, the Duchess of March, is precisely the lady up to the challenge. Isabelle must marry, but a day of reckoning with the man she's loved for years is her greatest fear. If Candover insists she's too young and innocent for a seasoned world-weary man like him, there's no shortage of other candidates. Gentlemen of prestige and position. Gentlemen whose attentions are driving Candover to jealous distraction. Yet one abandoned moment under the stars hints that if they can put aside pride and duty, then a love once denied might just be their destiny. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barrie Kreinik. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/003977/bk_harp_003977_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Gallows Thief: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 664min
    The year is 1820 and England has fought its last victorious battle against the French. Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo, has finally returned to London to wed his young bride. But instead of being able to settle down to his fame and glory, he finds himself penniless in a country where unemployment and social unrest are raging high, and where men - innocent or guilty - are hung for the merest of crimes. Thus, when the Home Secretary offers him a job as private investigator - to re-open the case of a death-row candidate accused of murder - Sandman readily accepts, as much for the money as for a chance to see justice being done in a country gone to ruins. Soon, however, he is up to his elbows in grisly a murder plot that keeps thickening as Sandman makes his way through gentleman’s clubs and shady taverns, aristocratic mansions and fashionable painters studios, unerringly determined to rescue the innocent young man from the rope. But someone doesn’t want the truth revealed... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Keeble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004220/bk_harp_004220_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts, Hörbuch, Digital, 376min
    In this book can be heard the merest edge of an enormous conversation. As they never were in life, we can imagine the speakers all gathered in some vast room, wearing name tags in case they don't recognize each other (although some recognize each other all too well, and avoid contact). "My heroes and heroines are here. The reader will recognize some of their names, while other names will be more obscure. My intellectual betes noires are here too, and the same division might apply." An almanac combining a comprehensive survey of modern culture with an annotated index of who-was-who and what-was-what, Cultural Amnesia is Clive James' unique take on the places and the faces that shaped the 20th century. From Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Charlie Chaplin, this varied and unfailingly absorbing book is both story and history, both public memoir and personal record - and provides an essential field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics, and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now. Language: English. Narrator: Clive James. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/000395/bk_macm_000395_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Limits of Power: Paladin's Legacy, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1215min
    Elizabeth Moon is back with the fourth adventure in her best-selling fantasy epic. Moon brilliantly weaves a colorful tapestry of action, betrayal, love, and magic set in a richly imagined world that stands alongside those of such fantasy masters as George R. R. Martin and Robin Hobb. The unthinkable has occurred in the kingdom of Lyonya. The queen of the Elves - known as the Lady - is dead, murdered by former elves twisted by dark powers. Now the Lady’s half-elven grandson must heal the mistrust between elf and human before their enemies strike again. Yet as he struggles to make ready for an attack, an even greater threat looms across the Eight Kingdoms.Throughout the north, magic is reappearing after centuries of absence, emerging without warning in family after family - rich and poor alike. In some areas, the religious strictures against magery remain in place, and fanatical followers are stamping out magery by killing whoever displays the merest sign of it - even children. And as unrest spreads, one very determined traitor works to undo any effort at peace - no matter how many lives it costs. With the future hanging in the balance, it is only the dedication of a few resolute heroes who can turn the tides...if they can survive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angela Dawe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/005074/bk_brll_005074_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Kithseeker: The Bookminder, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 789min
    France, 1680 AD. Liara’s defense of the Wizard Nagarath has rendered Anisthe incantate - bereft of all magick - but even this has failed to guarantee Liara’s safety. The death of the war mage would seal Liara’s own fate, and so the wizard and his bookminder must keep him in their sites and yet as far away from themselves as possible.With nothing but a storybook and a hunch, Anisthe has set off on a journey across Europe, aided by his half-fey manservant, in search of a legendary mirror that contains the most powerful magick ever known. Although the stuff of fairytales, the merest possibility of its truth embarks Nagarath and Liara on a race to discover the mirror before it falls into the hands of Nagarath’s lifelong foe. Both know should he lay claim to that power, Liara would be at the mercy of her father-in-magick and his lust for power, and not even Nagarath could save her.Thus, the pair find themselves at the court of the Sun King, a world hostile to magick users, hopelessly surrounded by agents whose sole purpose is destroy them. Uncertain who is friend or foe, with Anisthe nipping at their heels, they must unearth the mirror before its evil is released, or worse, lays claim to Liara’s magick as well and brings doom upon them all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernard Faricy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/167320/bk_acx0_167320_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Forgive or Kill? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 200min
    Would you kill or forgive your enemy? What if you were bullied for 10 years and forgiveness didn't work, would you want to kill them? If the love of your life started killing others, could you forgive them? If any of your family were sexually assaulted, could you forgive the perpetrator, or would you want to kill them? All of these questions and more were answered from the Internet, and with some startling and chilling responses! Find out what consequences there could be for those transgressing against everyday people! See the actions many would or wouldn't take for even the smallest of transgressions! We live in a society where murder for the merest of things, like disputes over parking spaces, can flare up into major incidents. See what actions you can take to elevate above all of this, and even on how to seek forgiveness if you acted out of turn, because the consequences of such negative actions could carry on into your everyday life! Here, in Forgive or Kill?, top self-help expert Stephen Richards takes you down a path whereby the consequences of not forgiving can be very dire or whereby, you can learn what forgiveness is all about. See for yourself some of the mind-numbing actions people said they would take if transgressed against! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey A. Hering. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/059930/bk_acx0_059930_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Newcastle United's Worst Ever Players , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 208min
    Did Wayne Fereday ruin your life? Was Silvio Maric directly responsible for your high dentist bills due to the constant gnashing and grinding of your molars? Did Billy Askew's hair give you nightmares, or did the merest mention of Alain Boumsong's name have the same effect as the aftermath of a Vindaloo? Then this is the book you've been waiting for. Relive all your least favorite Newcastle United moments by taking a journey back through the labyrinth of frustration, disillusionment, and failure that is Newcastle United's worst ever players. Grimace, cringe, and wince as you take a trip down the derelict end of memory lane, through a history of Newcastle United's most inept, incompetent, and overpaid exponents of the beautiful game. Players who panicked whenever the ball came within 20 yards of them, players who would struggle to make the bench for St. Joseph's School under-sevens team and players who surprised you by managing to put their boots on the right feet. If you've ever watched a Newcastle United player and wondered how they managed to turn professional and you didn't, if you were left speechless as they were allowed to continue spreading their misery well into the second half or dumbfounded at the fact they'd managed to convince someone to pay them a wage to stumble around the field and offer nothing more to the cause than the corner flag, you'll find them all here. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andy Patterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/033702/bk_acx0_033702_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Saint John Bosco , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 26min
    “When you speak or preach, always insist on frequent communion and devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.”The Lord sends us special people to handle special needs at crucial times in the history of our Church and our world. From the time of Jesus, the little ones - the children - have been dear to the heart of the Father.We recall the words of Jesus in Scripture, “Let the little ones come unto me, and do not hinder them. It is to such as these that the Kingdom of God belongs.” (Mk 10:15)Again, he spoke of the children as being important in God’s Plan. “For what you have hidden from the learned and the clever, you have revealed to the merest children.” (Mt 11:25) Children have always been uppermost in the mind of the Father, as they have been helpless and in need of protection. There have been orphans and street urchins from the beginning of time. Over the centuries, the Lord has provided for these little ones, by sending men and women to take care of them.An epidemic of exploitation of children began at the end of the 18th century, with the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Inventions, such as machines for spinning thread, the power loom, and the steam engine, created a new way of manufacturing goods. It also created a need for massive cheap labor. Families were lured off the farms and brought into the cities to work in factories, under the deception of living a better life.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Lord, Penny Lord. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/197616/bk_acx0_197616_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Circle of Blood Book Two: Lover's Awakening , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 546min
    Is she the hunter or the hunted? A week ago, Trynn thought she had the best job in the world. By day, she’s a globetrotting corporate security consultant. By night, she and her fellow hacktivists in the anonymous group MASQUE hunt down the worst criminals the underworld has to offer. Now, those underworld criminals are hunting her. Chaos is gathering around her, even as she’s hot on the trail of the biggest and most terrifying weapons deal in history. But who is the dark, mysterious stranger who keeps appearing to save her? Why does the merest brush of his skin ignite her passion, and fill her restless sleep with dreams of the distant past? Trynn has always been a practical woman. She has no time for fantasy. And yet, when fantasy and reality collide, her willingness to believe in the unbelievable may be all that stands between humanity and cataclysm. The Circle of Blood Series In another lifetime, six vampires lost their mates - and their mortality - to an unimaginable evil power. Now, if they can’t reunite with the reincarnated souls of their lost loves soon, it may just mean the end of the world. From USA Today best-selling author R. A. Steffan and fresh new voice Jaelynn Woolf comes a steamy paranormal romance series perfect for adult fans of vampire fiction. Download Circle of Blood Book Two: Lover’s Awakening today and continue the heart-stopping journey that explores the power of love in a world gone mad with hate. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gwendolyn Druyor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104919/bk_acx0_104919_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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