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East Bay Grease , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 455min

Eric Miles Williamson has collected glowing critical praise for this novel, which Newsday hailed as "exceptional" and "a remarkable literary debut". East Bay Grease is an authentic look at surviving an impoverished and neglected childhood by whatever means necessary. In late 1960s Oakland, young T-Bird Murphy's life is more miserable and frightening than most kids can imagine. His mother spends her time with the local Hell's Angels, drenched in alcohol and drugs. His father is a volatile ex-con. Struggling in a community plagued by gang violence and racial feuding, T-Bird picks up a trumpet and finds solace in the soulful wailing of jazz music. This powerful novel pulls no punches, offering a rare glimpse into a world typically ignored. Narrator Johnny Heller beautifully captures the transformation of T-Bird from a scared kid into a confident, trumpet-blowing young man. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Johnny Heller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009063/bk_reco_009063_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Alvin Ho Super Collection: Books 1-4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 560min

Everyone's favorite neurotic second-grader is back, with a complete collection of the funniest and most touching Alvin Ho books to date. Lenore Look’s touching, drop-dead-funny audiobook about an Asian American second-grader has tons of boy appeal and is great for reluctant readers/listeners. The previous books in the series, Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things and Alvin Ho: Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters, have received rave reviews. “Alvin’s a winner,” declares the New York Post, and Newsday says, “The novel... shares with Diary of a Wimpy Kid the humor that stems from the hero’s Herculean efforts to manipulate the world around him in his favor, without all the facts at his disposal.” Perfect for beginning and reluctant readers/listeners alike, Alvin Ho perfectly captures the trials and tribulations of boyhood. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Everette Plen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/001378/bk_lili_001378_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Hero of France , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 498min

The latest war novel from the New York Times best-selling author and "modern-day master of the genre" (New York Newsday) Alan Furst. Alan Furst's latest novel takes place in the secret hotels, nightclubs, and cafes of occupied Paris and the villages of France during the spring of 1941, when Britain was losing the war. Many of the characters are resistance fighters who run an escape line for British airmen down to Spain; they include men and women, old and young, all strong - an aristocrat, a Jewish teacher - and the hero is a hero, has a gun, and uses it. Some of Furst's former characters - including S. Kolb, the spy; and Max de Lyon, former arms dealer, now a nightclub owner - return. A Hero of France is sure to please existing Furst fans and attract new ones. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Gerroll. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007456/bk_sans_007456_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Mission to Paris , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 552min

From the New York Times best-selling author and the "modern-day master of the genre" (Newsday) comes a gripping novel of espionage and deception in 1938 pre-war Paris. At the center of the intrigue is Hollywood star Frederic Stahl. September 1938. On the eve of the Munich Appeasement, Stahl arrives in Paris, on loan from Warner Brothers to star in a French film. He quickly becomes entangled in the shifting political currents of pre-war Paris - French fascists, German Nazis, and his Hollywood publicists all have their fates tied to him. But members of the clandestine spy world of Paris have a deeper interest in Stahl, sensing a potential asset in a handsome, internationally renowned actor. Ranging from the high society of glittering Paris to film set locations in far-away Damascus and Budapest, Alan Furst's new novel confirms his status as a writer whose stories unfold "like a vivid dream" (The Wall Street Journal). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Gerroll. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/005955/bk_sans_005955_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Sonny (eBook, ePUB)

"Couldn't put it down." -Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy (Goodfellas) and Casino The extraordinary life and times of a legendary crime boss who refused to squeal-but who finally agreed to talk to an award-winning New York Newsday reporter shortly before his death at age 103 . . . John "Sonny" Franzese reportedly committed his first murder at the age of fourteen. As a "made man" for the Colombo crime family, he operated out of his Long Island home specializing in racketeering, fraud, loansharking, and other illicit deeds he would deny to his dying day. His career in organized crime spanned over eight decades-and he was sentenced to fifty years in prison for robbery charges. But even behind bars, Sonny Franzese never stopped doing business . . . This is the true story of an old-school mafioso as it's never been told before. Newsday reporter S. J. Peddie interviewed Franzese in prison-and uncovered a lifetime of shocking secrets from the legend himself: * Why FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a very personal interest in Sonny. * How Sonny managed to juggle numerous affairs with women, including a famous model. * How Sonny spent a third of his life in prison-and still managed to earn untold millions for the mob. * How Sonny accidentally revealed some of his worst crimes-to a "friend" wearing a wire. Through it all, Franzese refused to break the Mafia's code of silence. Authorities believe he may have murdered, or ordered the murders of, forty to fifty people. Yet he earned a grudging respect from law enforcement and an absolute reverence from his fellow gangsters. Eventually he managed to outlive them all-until his death in 2020 of natural causes, a rare event in the Mafia. Thanks to a series of exclusive firsthand interviews, the astonishing life story of John "Sonny" Franzese can be told in all its bold, brutal, and blood-spattered glory. This is a must-read for anyone fascinated with Mafia history-and a rare look inside a criminal mind that has become the stuff of legend.

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Tricks

Alice Munro, die große Dame der kanadischen Literatur, ist eine der wenigen Autorinnen, deren Weltruhm sich fast ausschließlich der Kunstform der Short Story verdankt. Imponierend bekräftigen auch die acht Erzählungen ihrer jüngsten Sammlung »Tricks« wieder Munros geradezu legendären Ruf als Meisterin der subtilen Erkundung weiblicher Seelenregungen. Dabei erweist sichdie besondere Subtilität der Autorin vor allem bei der Annäherung an den geheimen, unerschließbaren Wesenskern ihrer Figuren, jenen rätselhaft-dunklen Bereich, wo Selbstbetrug und Lebenslügen, gefährliche Illusionen, aber auch die Möglichkeit zu triumphalem Eigensinn ihren Ausgang nehmen und wo all jenes seinen Grund in uns hat, das stärker ist als der eigene Wille. »Alice Munro wird einfach immer besser. Ihre Erzählungen reichen hinab in die tiefsten Schichten menschlichen Erlebens ... Sie verfügt über eine solche Meisterschaft, daß ich ihr selbst dann noch glauben würde, wenn sie sich einfallen ließe, in der Ich-Form vom Leben nach dem Tode zu berichten.« Polly Shulman, Newsday

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The Witches of Eastwick: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 729min

“John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works.... [A] comedy of the blackest sort.” (The New York Times Book Review)Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream. Their happy little coven takes on new, malignant life when a dark and moneyed stranger, Darryl Van Horne, refurbishes the long-derelict Lenox mansion and invites them in to play. Thenceforth scandal flits through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwick - and through the even darker fantasies of the town’s collective psyche.“A great deal of fun to read...fresh, constantly entertaining.... John Updike [is] a wizard of language and observation.” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)“Vintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have.” (Newsday) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Reading. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001601/bk_rand_001601_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Dead Girls , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 207min

A savage murder, committed the same day Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. A young black man is falsely accused. In the style of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Erik German's Kindle Single Dead Girls picks up where the reporters left off - just in time for the 50th anniversary of a crime that captivated the nation. On August, 28, 1963, two young white women were found slain and mutilated in their apartment on New York's Upper East Side. Dubbed the "Career Girls Murders," the case inspired the television series "Kojack" and was cited in U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Miranda ruling, which required police to read suspects their rights before interrogations. German's novella re-imagines this captivating drama, highlighting long-ignored aspects of the case and offering a glimpse inside lives that changed U.S. history. Erik German began his career covering crime, local politics and corruption as a staff writer for Newsday, before working as a foreign correspondent for GlobalPost and roving national correspondent for The Daily. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Deboy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014723/bk_adbl_014723_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Dangling Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 375min

An essential masterwork by Nobel laureate Saul Bellow Expecting to be inducted into the army during World War II, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction, he finds himself facing a year of idleness. Written in diary format, Bellow’s first novel documents Joseph’s psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice. Saul Bellow (1915–2005), author of numerous novels, novellas, and stories, was the only novelist to receive three National Book Awards. He also received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. During the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict, he served as a war correspondent for Newsday. He taught at New York University, Princeton, and the University of Minnesota and served as chairman of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirby Heyborne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004764/bk_blak_004764_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Mornings on Horseback , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1162min

From the number-one New York Times best-selling author of John Adams Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as a masterpiece by Newsday, it is the story of a remarkable little boy - seriously handicapped by recurrent and nearly fatal attacks of asthma - and his struggle to manhood. His father - the first Theodore Roosevelt, "Greatheart" - is a figure of unbounded energy, enormously attractive and selfless, a god in the eyes of his small, frail namesake. His mother - Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt - is a Southerner and celebrated beauty. Mornings on Horseback spans 17 years, from 1869, when little "Teedie" is 10, to 1886, when he returns from the West a "real life cowboy" to pick up the pieces of a shattered life and begin anew, a grown man, whole in body and spirit. This is a tale about family love and family loyalty... about courtship, childbirth and death, fathers and sons... about gutter politics and the tumultuous Republican Convention of 1884... about grizzly bears, grief and courage, and "blessed" mornings on horseback at Oyster Bay or beneath the limitless skies of the Badlands. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nelson Runger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/005411/bk_sans_005411_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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