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    The King and the Slave , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 540min
    Ten years after the fall of Babylon, Cyrus's army is on the march again. His slave Croesus, no longer a young man, accompanies him as always, as does the king's son and heir Cambyses, who has inherited none of his father's diplomacy or charisma and all of his vanity and violence. When the warriors of Persia are unexpectedly crushed in battle Cyrus is put to death, and Cambyses assumes the throne. Croesus, once a king himself, is called upon to guide the young man; but the young man cannot be guided, and after taking offence at an insult by an Egyptian ruler, Cambyses takes the full force of his father's empire to Africa for bloody and brutal vengeance... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barnaby Edwards. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021173/bk_adbl_021173_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Duke and the Lady in Red , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 724min
    Sparks fly in the finale of the Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James Place series, as the last wicked rogue meets his match. When Rosalind Sharpe gains the attention of the deliciously wicked duke of Avendale, she's torn between her distracting attraction to the notorious rogue and the knowledge that he - rich as Croesus - is the perfect target for a deception that will put her swindling days behind her. However, Avendale is no fool. After he discovers the tantalizing lady packing up to leave London with his coins in tow, he confronts her with a scandalous proposition: She can have all the money she requires - for a week in his bed. Desperate for the funds, Rose agrees but on one condition: He must never question her motives. Avendale quickly sees beneath her mask and discovers she is more than passion and pleasure - she is everything he has ever desired. But claiming her requires he unveil her secrets and lose her forever. Unless he can put his own dark past aside and risk everything for a chance at love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Helen Lloyd, James Adams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004439/bk_harp_004439_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Wallflower: The Old Maids' Club, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 623min
    The choice between adhering to a long-held pact and finally accepting love could prove Lady Tabitha Shelton's unhinging. She is plump, plain, pleasant... and thoroughly unappealing to any of the men of the ton - apart from fortune hunters. A self-appointed wallflower, she has every intention of remaining one. Tabitha made a vow of spinsterhood with her cousins when they were girls, and she refuses to go back on her word. So far, she's proven herself quite adept at warding off the blasted fortune hunters' pursuits. Noah deLancie, Marquess of Devonport, would prefer to marry for love and companionship - he's a gentleman through and through - but circumstances have forced his hand: he needs money as badly as he needs a bride. When Noah's brother-in-law suggests pursuit of his sister, Tabitha, a woman with a dowry large enough to cause even Croesus to blush and who is tantalizingly good company to boot, Noah stumbles into the future he hopes to secure. He'll stop at nothing to convince Tabitha to marry him. Nothing, that is, except perhaps the barrel of a dueling pistol, held to his face by his ladylove. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sherill Turner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/007571/bk_acx0_007571_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Kidnapped: The Tragic Life of J. Paul Getty III , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 562min
    Previously published as Uncommon Youth, Charles Fox's Kidnapped examines the glamorous life, gilded family, and tragic times of J. Paul Getty III, whose kidnapping made headlines in 1973. J. Paul ("Little Paul") Getty III, the grandson of Getty Oil founder J. Paul Getty, may have been cursed by money and privilege from the moment he was born. Falling in with the wrong people and practically abandoned by his famous family, Getty was a child of his international jet-set era, moving from Marrakesh to Rome, nightclubs to well-appointed drug dens. His high-profile kidnapping defined the decade - and was permanently memorable for the ear that was mailed to his mother as evidence of the kidnappers' intentions. Kidnapped is richly reported and includes many interviews with Getty himself, conducted from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, that raise new angles about the case. How much did Getty acquiesce to the kidnappers? Why wouldn't his rich-as-Croesus grandfather pay the ransom, which began at the equivalent of $550,000 in lire and bulged to 3.6 million as the months dragged on? Charles Fox began following and researching this story in the days shortly after Getty's disappearance. This fascinating audiobook captures the voices of models and maids, mistresses and mothers, carabinieri and club owners, drug dealers and drivers, alongside the Getty family members themselves to paint an evocative portrait of an era and one of its most misunderstood participants. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Kramer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002767/bk_aren_002767_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hugo das Dschungeltier Staffel 1 Folge 2
    Hugo und Rita verstecken sich auf dem Kreuzschiff so gut sie können. Doch hin und wieder müssen sie an Deck, um Essbares aufzutreiben. Ständig laufen sie dabei einer seltsamen Gangsterfamilie über den Weg. Wie sich herausstellt, will das verbrecherische Gespann das Baby des Croesus-Clans entführen. Hugo und Rita können den Plan vereiteln. Doch dabei landen sie in einem Rettungsboot samt Baby und dümpeln fortan auf dem Ozean ... Rechte: Your Family Entertainment
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    The Oracle of Delphi: The Ancient World's Most Famous Seer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 69min
    Not often nor regularly, but occasionally and fortuitously, the room in which they seat the god's consultants is filled with a fragrance and breeze, as if the adyton were sending forth the essences of the sweetest and most expensive perfumes from a spring. - Plutarch "[T]he seat of the oracle is a cavern hollowed down in the depths... from which arises pneuma [breath, vapor, gas] that inspires a divine state of possession." - Strabo, Geography 9.3.5 The Oracle of Delphi was one of the greatest religious institutions in Ancient Greece. It played a significant role not only in the formation and collective decisions of Hellenic localities and city-states but also in the personal lives of Greeks known and unknown. The site was dedicated to the god Apollo, and the Greeks believed the god spoke his oracles through his prophetess known as the Pythia. The judgments and decisions rendered by the oracle were so important to the Greeks that they often put them above all other interests, even security threats posed by the likes of the Persians. Delphi was popular even amongst outsiders. The Pythia delivered the god's oracles to such famous persons as Midas and Croesus, and it provided consultations during such important historical moments as the Persian War and the Peloponnesian War. Many authors of antiquity mention the oracle for one reason or another, and there even survive epigraphic collections that preserve the god's words on stone. The ancient Greeks called Delphi the omphalos ("navel") of the Earth. The black rock that symbolized this imagined center stands at the site to this very day. Sitting at the foot of Mt. Parnassos, Delphi overlooks the Gulf of Corinth, so it is no wonder why the setting mesmerized contemporaries. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joseph Chialastri. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/034274/bk_acx0_034274_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hugo das Dschungeltier Staffel 1 Folge 4
    Hugo hat langsam die Nase voll vom Leben als Kuscheltier der Millionäre. Und auch Rita möchte endlich wieder zurück in die Freiheit. Doch alle Versuche, den Croesus' zu entkommen, scheitern. Das stellen auch die Gangster fest, die das Anwesen bewachen. Als ein General aus Hugos Heimat auftaucht, um das Kuscheltier zu kaufen, wittern die Banditen ihre große Chance. Sie verhelfen Hugo und Rita zur Flucht, schnappen sich die beiden aber, kaum dass sie draußen sind ... Rechte: Your Family Entertainment
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    Lydia
    Lydia ab 16.49 € als Taschenbuch: Arzawa Battles involving Lydia Kings of Lydia Lydian language Niobe Sardis Alyattes II Croesus Gyges of Lydia Asia Thyatira Tmolus Hipponax Omphale Eunapius Laodicea on the Lycus. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Kunst & Musik,
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    Unmasked: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 994min
    You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you've had the sort of career, ups and downs, warts and all that I have in that wondrous little corner of show business called musical theatre. One of the most successful and distinguished artists of our time, Andrew Lloyd Webber has reigned over the musical theatre world for nearly five decades. The winner of numerous awards, including multiple Tonys and an Oscar, Lloyd Webber has enchanted millions worldwide with his music and numerous hit shows, including Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera - Broadway's longest running show - and most recently, School of Rock. In Unmasked, written in his own inimitable, quirky voice, the revered, award-winning composer takes stock of his achievements, the twists of fate and circumstance which brought him both success and disappointment, and the passions that inspire and sustain him. The son of a music professor and a piano teacher, Lloyd Webber reveals his artistic influences, from his idols Rodgers and Hammerstein and the perfection of South Pacific's "Some Enchanted Evening", to the pop and rock music of the 1960s and Puccini's Tosca, to P. G. Wodehouse and T. S. Eliot. Lloyd Webber recalls his bohemian London youth, reminiscing about the happiest place of his childhood, his homemade Harrington Pavilion - a make-believe world of musical theatre. A record of several exciting and turbulent decades of British and American musical theatre, Unmasked is ultimately a chronicle of artistic creation. Lloyd Webber looks back at the development of some of his most famous works and illuminates his collaborations with luminaries such as Tim Rice, Cameron Mackintosh, and Trevor Nunn. Taking us behind the scenes of his productions, Lloyd Webber reveals fascinating details about each show, including the creative and logistical challenges and ar ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Derek Perkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006604/bk_harp_006604_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    As It Is on Telly , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 396min
    Bunty McKenna's very ordinary husband has had a vasectomy - behind her back. Having found the invoice for said vasectomy, she starts to notice other things, too: like how much time her husband is spending at the gym, his new-found interest in clothes...and are his teeth looking whiter? In Bunty's mind, there can only be one explanation: he's having an affair. Naturally, the only solution is for Bunty to find a new husband before her old one leaves her. And so begins "Operation Sugar Daddy". After a string of bad dates set up through the illustrious Croesus Club, Bunty finally meets Ben, a handsome yachtie from Auckland who is, most importantly, fabulously wealthy. Surely this is a match made in heaven.... Hiding her own affair from her adulterous husband and sullen teenage daughter makes it all the more exciting, until suddenly Ben returns to Auckland with no explanation. To distract her from the disappearance of her future second-husband (not that he knew it yet), Bunty turns her mind to finding out exactly what her first husband is up to. When all evidence seems conclusive, and since Bunty's childhood best friend, Cally, also happens to live in Auckland, she decides to make a spontaneous visit to track down the illusive Ben. But when she arrives, all is not as it seems. Bunty has made a big mistake. But is it too late to reunite her family, or has she taken a step too far? As It Is on Telly is a gripping story of romance and adventure from a master storyteller. Jill Marshall is the author of the best-selling Jane Blonde series for children, published in more than 20 countries and 10 languages. In addition to her writing, Jill is a writing consultant and trainer, and has two master's degrees, in history and creative writing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michelle Ford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/044271/bk_acx0_044271_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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