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    A Question of Guilt , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 510min
    Following a skiing accident, journalist Sally Proctor is recuperating at her parents' rural Somerset home when she hears about a local man, Brian Jennings, who's been jailed for arson. His sister, convinced of his innocence, is campaigning for his release - and Sally decides to help her by conducting her own enquiries. As she starts to uncover serious discrepancies in the original investigation, Sally and her family are threatened by a series of increasingly menacing incidents. It soon becomes clear that someone will go to any lengths to stop her finding out the truth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patience Tomlinson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/002023/bk_isis_002023_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Colorado Justice (eBook, ePUB)
    Can he protect her…and keep her heart? Saved by the Sheriff Sheriff Travis Walker doesn't blame Lacy Milligan for hating him-he jailed her for murder. But now he's exonerated her, and the handsome lawman needs her to find the real killer. Will she overcome her hatred to help? As she relents, violence explodes-someone wants her dead. With time running out, their investigation deepens…and ignites sparks of attraction neither ever expected. Deputy Defender Deputy Dwight Prentice has secretly loved Brenda Stenson since they were teenagers. Now the auctioning off of a rare book has thrust the widowed museum curator into harm's way. Keeping his Colorado town safe is the lawman's most heartfelt mission. But protecting Brenda from a deadly threat will test all of Dwight's limits. Previously published as Saved by the Sheriff and Deputy Defender
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    You Must Be This Happy to Enter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 316min
    Whether breathlessly enthusiastic serenely calm, or really concentrating on their personal zombie issues, Crane's happy cast explore the complexities behind personal satisfaction. You Must Be This Happy to Enter exists in a world very much like our own but infused with more joy and magic. It's a place where the happy are jailed, the sincere cause confusion, and pop culture so seamlessly melds with real life that characters can walk right out of the television and come live with you.Crane's third collection, aims to convey something fresh in literature: utter sincerity. With a trademark mix of hyperreality, humor, and heartfelt emotion, You Must Be This Happy to Enter asks readers to connect with the loopy ways of her characters. Because even though they're occasionally severed from reality, they still seem to know something you don't about keeping upbeat in a strange and crumbling environment.The opening story features a woman who can speak only in exclamations. Betty may be a zombie on a reality TV show, but she's a woman willing to work on herself. Sally is just plain old freaking happy. (You shouldn't even read this story.) Another woman gives birth to a baby who turns into Ethan Hawke, but by golly, she's not going to let that stop her from being a good parent. What happens when a town turns transparent overnight? Do people run away just because they're basically naked? No. What would you do if your perfect man was jailed for being happy? What would you do if you had words on your forehead? You'd use it to your advantage, that's what! How does a couple manage their differences over bananas? They freak out, and then they laugh. Do you have a better idea? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cris Dukehart. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/007356/bk_adbl_007356_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Death in the Loch , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 261min
    During a Christmas party, Euphemia Martins - together with Bertram Stapleford and manservant Rory McLeod - is tasked by the slippery government agent Fitzroy with doing a little snooping at the Staplefords' Highland Lodge. When Euphemia discovers the purposes of the charade for which she has been demoted back to a maid, she is furious. There are plans afoot - plans which involve signing the Official Secrets Act.... Meanwhile, Rory still isn't speaking to her, and Bertram is more interested in growing his awful new beard. When the inevitable dead body turns up, they must all work together or find themselves jailed for murder. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen Cass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/003012/bk_isis_003012_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The King: The Dark Elf of Syron, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 118min
    King Gelleran is facing a dilemma. The dangerous dark elf he holds captive and uses as his protection from the neighboring country of Kerbia has drawn the attention of Welmar, a kingdom even more powerful. The Welmarians have offered a generous sum for the prisoner; refusing the offer could mean war. As the king tries to find a way to handle this, he learns a devastating news: Things are not as they appeared, and the prisoner he thought securely jailed is playing a game of his own, threatening vengeance if it's not played by his rules. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: A. T. Chandler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/003796/bk_acx0_003796_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    If Beale Street Could Talk (eBook, ePUB)
    The inspiration for the film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins'Achingly beautiful' Guardian Harlem in the 1970s: the black soul of New York City. Tish is nineteen and the man she loves - her lifelong friend and the father of her unborn child - has been jailed for a crime he did not commit. As their families come together to fight for his freedom, will their love be enough?'Soulful . . . Racial injustice may flatten "the black experience" into one single, fearful, constantly undermined way of life - but black life, black love, is so much larger than that . . . It's one of the signature lessons of Baldwin's work that blackness contains multitudes' Vanity Fair'If Beale Street Could Talk affirms not only love between a man and a woman, but love of a type that is dealt with only rarely in contemporary fiction - that between members of a family' Joyce Carol Oates
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    The Imposter's Inheritance: Glass and Steele, Book 9 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 557min
    A sordid scandal rocks the Glass household and threatens to ruin Matt's family unless he can suppress it. But after word gets out, and a rare magical coronet is stolen, he and India find themselves scrambling to recover the heirloom and suppress the gossip before reputations are ruined. To make matters worse, someone is sending threatening letters to the magicians of London, stirring up trouble between the artless and magicians. Tensions are rising, but India and Matt choose not to investigate - until the author of the letters is assaulted. As if they don't have enough on their plate, Willie is jailed. The reason for her arrest is...complicated. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marian Hussey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/181975/bk_acx0_181975_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rath's Deception: The Janus Group, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 661min
    On the cut-throat streets of Tarkis, orphaned teens like Rath end up jailed...or dead. So when the shadowy Janus Group offers Rath a chance to earn riches beyond his wildest dreams, he seizes it. But the Janus Group is as ruthless as the elite assassins it controls. Rath will have to survive their grueling, off-world training, and fulfill all 50 kills in his contract before a single cent comes his way. And ending so many lives comes with a price Rath can't anticipate. It'll certainly cost him what's left of his innocence. It may well cost him his life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Fouhey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/048866/bk_acx0_048866_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Red Sorrow: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 568min
    At the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, 13-year-old Nanchu watched Red Guards burst into her home and arrest her parents, whom they tortured and jailed. She was left to fend for herself and her younger brother on the streets of Shanghai, enduring poverty and near-starvation. As she grew older she herself became a Red Guard and was sent down to the largest work camp in China. There she faced primitive conditions, predatory officials, a viper's nest of party jealousies, and near-fatal injury before she finally won admittance to Madame Mao's university in Shanghai. Her testimony is essential for anyone interested in China or human rights. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Corrie James. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008544/bk_adbl_008544_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Inside Alcatraz: My Time on the Rock , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 647min
    Each day we saw the outside world in all its splendour, and each day that view served as a reminder that we had wasted and ruined our lives. Jim Quillen, AZ586 - a runaway, problem child and petty thief - was jailed several times before his twentieth birthday. In August 1942, after escaping from San Quentin, he was arrested on the run and sentenced to forty-five years in prison, and later transferred to Alcatraz. This is the true story of life inside America's most notorious prison - from terrifying times in solitary confinement to daily encounters with 'the Birdman', and what really happened during the desperate and deadly 1946 escape attempt. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Harding. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001950/bk_rhuk_001950_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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