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The Scot's Quest: Highland Swords, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 359min
She's the fiercest lass in all the Highlands. Can he measure up? Dyna Grant is the fiercest lass in the Highlands, but she has one weakness: her grandsire, the renowned Alexander Grant. So when the English threaten his life - again - she volunteers to escort him to safety, even if she has to accept the company of Derric Corbett to do so. A warrior who moves from place to place, battle to battle, Derric never thought he would marry. And yet, Dyna is no ordinary lass and his feelings for her are undeniable. Derric can’t plan a future with her until he reckons with his past, but he also can’t bring himself to step away. So when he’s given an opportunity to travel with her and Alex, he immediately takes it. Their purpose is simple, but the journey soon spirals out of control, each challenge sparking more contention - and passion - between Derric and Dyna. Fate seems to keep throwing them together, but can two such fierce, solitary souls find a way to coexist? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Woodson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/218648/bk_acx0_218648_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Seeing the Body: Poems
Poems and photographs collide in this intimate collection, challenging the invisible, indefinable ways mourning takes up residence in a body, both before and after life-altering loss. In radiant poems-set against the evocative and desperate backdrop of contemporary events, pop culture, and politics-Rachel Eliza Griffiths reckons with her mother's death, aging, authority, art, black womanhood, memory, and the American imagination. The poems take shape in the space where public and private mourning converge, finding there magic and music alongside brutality and trauma. Griffiths braids a moving narrative of identity and its possibilities for rebirth through image and through loss. A photographer as well as a poet, Griffiths accompanies the fierce rhythm of her verses with a series of ghostly, imaginative self-portraits, blurring the body's internal wilderness with landscapes alive with beauty and terror. The collision of text and imagery offers an associative autobiography, in which narratives of language, absence, and presence are at once saved, revised, and often erased. Seeing the Body dismantles personal and public masks of silence and self-destruction to visualize and celebrate the imperfect freedom of radical self-love.- Shop: buecher
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The Necessity of Wildfire (eBook, ePUB)
Winner of the Wren Poetry Prize selected by Ada Limón, Caitlin Scarano's collection wrestles with family violence, escaping home, unraveling relationships, and the complexity of sexuality. The Necessity of Wildfire begins, "To not harm / each other is not enough. I want to love you / so much that you have no before.” These poems chase a singular, thorny question: how does where and who we came from shape who and how we love? Judge Ada Limón says the resulting collection is "hungry, clear-eyed, tough, and generous.”Scarano's imagination is galvanized by the South where she grew up and by the Pacific Northwest where she now resides—floods and wildfires, the Salish Sea and the North Cascades, and the humans and animals whose lives intersect and collide there. In this collection, Scarano reckons with a legacy of violence on both sides of their family, the death of their estranged father, the unraveling of long-term relationships, the complexity of their sexuality, and the decision not to have children. With fierce lyricality, these poems—"stories without monsters, / stories without morals”—resist both redemption and blame, yet call in mercy.- Shop: buecher
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The PostScript Murders
Murder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this intricate new novel by internationally best-selling author Elly Griffiths, a literary mystery perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz and Agatha Christie. The death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition should not be suspicious. Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing out of the ordinary when Peggy's caretaker, Natalka, begins to recount Peggy Smith's passing. But Natalka had a reason to be at the police station: while clearing out Peggy's flat, she noticed an unusual number of crime novels, all dedicated to Peggy. And each psychological thriller included a mysterious postscript: PS: for PS. When a gunman breaks into the flat to steal a book and its author is found dead shortly thereafter-Detective Kaur begins to think that perhaps there is no such thing as an unsuspicious death after all. And then things escalate: from an Aberdeen literary festival to the streets of Edinburgh, writers are being targeted. DS Kaur embarks on a road trip across Europe and reckons with how exactly authors can think up such realistic crimes . . .- Shop: buecher
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Taming Tori , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 257min, (USK 18)
He's prepared to tame her using painful and humiliating discipline.Fearless, tough-as-nails cowboy Frank Bassett gets thrown from a bucking bronco and injures his leg, leaving him with a severe limp. Not to be defeated, he moves to a new town with plans for a slower-paced life. There he meets a woman more defiant and standoffish than the wildest mustang, and he reckons he's got one more filly to tame before tossing his Stetson aside.Local beauty Victoria Davis longs for a worthy gentleman to court her. Instead, a crippled cowboy limps into her shop and scolds her for being rude. Though outraged, she's also intrigued by the submissive feelings he inspires in her.Victoria learns that Frank is as kind and generous as he is tough, and love blooms. But when a stroke of misfortune once again befalls the cowboy, their feelings for each other are tested. Was Frank's quest to tame Tori a foolish venture, or will it pave a path to healing for them both?Publisher's Note: Taming Tori contains sexual scenes and adult punishment spanking. If that doesn't appeal to you, please don't buy this audiobook. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew Keyes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/202680/bk_acx0_202680_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The White Book , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 79min
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize.From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white.While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds of the blank page and snowy Warsaw. The White Book becomes a meditation on the color white, as well as a fictional journey inspired by an older sister who died in her mother's arms, a few hours old. The narrator grapples with the tragedy that has haunted her family, an event she colors in stark white - breast milk, swaddling bands, the baby's rice cake-colored skin - and, from here, visits all that glows in her memory: from a white dog to sugar cubes. As the writer reckons with the enormity of her sister's death, Han Kang's trademark frank and chilling prose is softened by retrospection, introspection, and a deep sense of resilience and love. The White Book - ultimately a letter from Kang to her sister - offers powerful philosophy and personal psychology on the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit and our attempts to graft new life from the ashes of destruction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Kim. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006652/bk_rand_006652_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Burma Legacy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 601min
Sam Packer, hero of Firehawk and The Lucifer Network, has a new assignment that will combine all his diplomatic and survival skills. An aging, wealthy Japanese businessman, Tetsuo Kamata, wants to rescue an ailing British car company, but the moment the announcement is made, death threats are made against Kamata by a former prisoner-of -war, Peregrine Harrison,. who was tortured on the infamous Burma Railway. For the last five decades, Harrison has been the leader of a British-based cult. Packer can't believe that at the age of 77 Harrison has the strength or will to exact revenge, but he reckons without Harrison's cult adherents, one of whom is a ruthless ex-SAS operative now involved in drug smuggling in the Burma triangle. Packer learns that Kamata will be hit while visiting a new factory site in Burma and is flown out under cover to prevent a tragedy. Kamata is kidnapped and Packer is soon in the jungle, both hunter and hunted as he searches for the missing man and is tracked by his enemies. The Burma Legacy combines Geoffrey Archer's immaculate research with heart stopping action. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nigel Anthony. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001000/bk_rhuk_001000_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sunday Funday: The Billionaires Temptations, Book 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 394min, (USK 18)
Just when you think no one else can fall for one another, they do. Apparently, it's a thing that happens at the clubs. That's what Shona reckons. And I can't tell you how glad I am that it's happened to me. Janey is a gorgeous chick, and she's all over me like a rash! Aha, she's my kinda girl.But I like to dominate things in the bedroom, and I need a girl who likes to take everything in her stride. I'm gonna give her a red-hot go. I deserve a chance at love... and lust. So, does she, actually. We're going to try our hardest to make things work.This time around, it's gonna get strange. There's a Russian woman who has a secret or two, a really interesting makeover, a mystery, and a whole lot of cash just asking to be taken, well, kind of. The last thing is.... Well, I can't tell you that, because then I'd have to kill somebody. We can't have that now, can we? Everything will come to light soon enough. And...apparently, I'm going to be famous! Wooo hoooo!"Everyday is Sunday fun day." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: April Simensen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104826/bk_acx0_104826_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cassandra at the Wedding , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 421min
Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding. Dorothy Baker's entrancing tragicomic novella follows an unpredictable course of events in which her heroine appears variously as conniving, self-aware, pitiful, frenzied, absurd, and heartbroken - at once utterly impossible and tremendously sympathetic. As she struggles to come to terms with the only life she has, Cassandra reckons with her complicated feelings about the sister who she feels owes it to her to be her alter ego; with her father, a brandy-soaked retired professor of philosophy; and with the ghost of her dead mother. First published in 1962, Cassandra at the Wedding is a work of enduring freshness, insight, and verve. Like the fiction of Jeffrey Eugenides and Jhumpa Lahiri, it is the work of a master stylist with a profound understanding of the complexities of the heart and mind. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Morgan Hallett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/012687/bk_reco_012687_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Wrong Heaven , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 377min
Including the story "Horse," as heard on This American Life.For fans of George Saunders and Karen Russell, an "amazing, wildly inventive"* collection of stories that straddles the line between the real and the fantastical. (*Kevin Wilson)In The Wrong Heaven, anything is possible: bodies can transform, inanimate objects come to life, angels appear and disappear.Amy Bonnaffons draws us into a delightfully strange universe, in which her conflicted characters seek to solve their sexual and spiritual dilemmas in all the wrong places. The title story's heroine reckons with grief while arguing with loquacious Jesus and Mary lawn ornaments that come to life when she plugs them in. In "Horse," we enter a world in which women transform themselves into animals through a series of medical injections. In "Alternate," a young woman convinces herself that all she needs to revive a stagnant relationship is the perfect poster of the Dalai Lama.While some of the worlds to which Bonnaffons transports us are more recognizable than others, all of them uncover the mysteries beneath the mundane surfaces of our lives. Enormously funny, boldly inventive, and as provocative as they are deeply affecting, these stories lay bare the heart of our deepest longings. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alex Vaillant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004548/bk_hach_004548_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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