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    Power Ballads , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 367min
    Real musicians don’t sign autographs, date models, or fly in private jets. They spend their lives in practice rooms and basement clubs or toiling in the obscurity of coffee-shop gigs, casino jobs, and the European festival circuit. The 10 linked stories in Power Ballads are devoted to this unheard virtuoso: the working musician. From the wings of sold-out arenas to hip-hop studios to polka bars, these stories are born out of a nocturnal world where music is often simply work, but also where it can, in rare moments, become a source of grace and transcendence, speaking about the things we never seem to say to one another. A skilled but snobby jazz drummer joins a costumed heavy metal band to pay his rent. A country singer tries to turn her brutal past into a successful career. A vengeful rock critic reenters the life of an emerging singer-songwriter, bent on wreaking havoc. The characters in Power Ballads - aging head-bangers, jobbers, techno DJs, groupies, and the occasional rock star (and those who have to live with them) - need music to survive, yet find themselves lost when the last note is played, the lights go up, and it’s time to return to regular life. By turns melancholy and hilarious, Power Ballads is not only a deeply felt look at the lives of musicians but also an exploration of the secret music that plays inside us all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brandon Massey, Meaghan Sullivan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013165/bk_adbl_013165_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Park of Darkness: Where the Dreams Become Nightmares , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 201min
    The theme park was protected by a high security fence, rusty with age and topped with razor wire. Behind this was a row of thorny rose bushes and trees as an extra deterrent. Over the tops you could see the arching skeletons of the roller coaster and chair-O-planes, the spiky turrets of the Royal Palace. At night, you could imagine a twisted world of nightmares silhouetted in the moonlight. A dark roller-coaster of a story about a team of people who dress up as costumed characters as the employees of a theme-park. Marco the protagonist has been working there for many years and the novelty of the fantasy world they create has worn off. Howard Hitchman is one of many obsessed fans who delights in the escape this fantasy world provides. He becomes sexually obsessed with the girls who dress up as princesses to entertain the children and rains his terror and vengeance out on the employees of the park when his fantasy world comes to an end. Marco who is assisted by a giant rat, Rico, the star character have to save the park and the Princesses. This was after all their world and they where its inhabitants. Give a man a mask, and he'll tell ya the truth! The fantasy kingdom, a playground for adults that became popular with adolescents: A strange fantasy world with characters from disturbing cartoons, violent and creepy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alex Pollard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/133487/bk_acx0_133487_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    This Brilliant Darkness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 433min
    A brooding monster. A quirky professor. A small Indiana town with a soul of its own.Nothing is as it seems to be, and no one behaves in ways characters are "supposed" to act. How will it end? It's anyone's guess, in a book that keeps you turning pages, racing to find out what will happen next.Christine Grace finds her predictable scholarly life comforting, if a bit boring. Her live-in boyfriend presses her for marriage, but she's too philosophically inclined to take an interest. So, really, why does she suddenly start imagining things in the window's reflection? Is time truly starting and stopping all around her, or is she inexplicably cracking up?Greachin is an age-old being so tortured by his own karmic cycle that he no longer knows how to connect, except to identify potential threats through the cosmic ripples of space. When he zeroes in on Christine Grace, he experiences second thoughts for the first time in millenia. Will he go through with his grisly plan of murder and destruction?And what of these other characters - an aging physicist of ill-repute, a stubborn monk who takes his vow of silence too far, and a time-shifting star visible only from Bloomington? What a tangled web we weave, when monsters practice to deceive. Dive into This Brilliant Darkness, and follow the journeys of these characters, from Britain to the Heartland, from January's snowfall to Halloween's costumed festivities.This Brilliant Darkness is a smart, karmic mystery populated by lovable brainy characters. Climb on, strap in, and hold tight. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Wallen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/016088/bk_acx0_016088_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Cart Before The Corpse (The Merry Abbot Carriage-Driving Mystery) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 562min
    Hitch your imagination to an intriguing new mystery series set in the world of competitive carriage driving - an elegant yet cut-throat realm in which gorgeously costumed drivers and their magnificently harnessed horses vie for championships in the challenging obstacle course of the show ring. Jane Austen, meet Mad Max. Fans of the long-running Mossy Creek Hometown Series will gallop to bookstores for this spin-off equine mystery series by veteran Mossy Creek author Carolyn McSparren, a nationally known novelist and expert carriage driver, who owns and shows carriage-driving horses in her home state of Tennessee. Open your barn doors and fasten your (buggy's) seatbelts for The Cart Before the Corpse Famous southern carriage-horse trainer Hiram Lackland, a handsome widower, dies mysteriously after retiring to a farm outside Mossy Creek. His estranged daughter, Merry Abbot, also a horse trainer, arrives to settle his estate. But Merry quickly plunges into bit-chomping dilemmas when her father's friend and landlord, mystery-novel maven Peggy Caldwell, insists he was murdered. Before Merry can so much as snap a buggy rein, a handsome and annoying GBI investigator, Geoff Madison, is on her case. Then there's the troublesome donkey: Don Qui. Short for Don Quixote. And the fact that Hiram was teaching all of Mossy Creek's lonely women how to - ahem - drive his carriage. Can Merry rein in the truth? What kind of horse play was her rakish dad involved in, and why would someone want to giddy-yup him into an early grave?Stay tuned for the answers in this first episode of, "As the Carriage Wheel Turns". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erin Novotny. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001557/bk_acx0_001557_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Scott Joplin: The Life and Legacy of the King of Ragtime , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 81min
    “What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians.” (Scott Joplin) Despite a general dearth of African American names rising to musical prominence during the years of Reconstruction, black talent existed in good measure for both popular and classical genres. And among the most notable musicians celebrated in the present day is composer Scott Joplin, who in his day earned the moniker “King of Ragtime”.Joplin’s use of ragtime as a piano genre was as natural to African American dances as the waltz was to Europeans. The new African-based musical language grew to such popularity that piano rags were programmed on formal classical programs. Originally employed as a verb, as in to “rag” a rhythm, the genre was first referred to as the “jig-piano” style. Ragtime features off-beat rhythms, a heavily accented first beat with the left hand making fast leaps to include the harmony. Pieces of the genre are as visually distinctive as they are in sound. Popular with honky-tonk pianists working along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, ragtime became the “predominant style of American popular music” by the end of the 19th century. Dance steps like the cakewalk, inspired by minstrel shows featuring modes of black banjo playing, were unlikely to be incorporated into white dance for many years to come, but white musicians incorporated the sound into their own daily repertoires as a pleasing style of melody and rhythm. The days of minstrel performances, in which white performers costumed themselves in black face without societal backlash, were eventually replaced by black performers such as Joplin and others like him. Once free from such mockery, black artists were free to produce musical offerings from the authentic culture. The term “rag”, according to Joplin’s use of the term, represented a musical evolution - an abrupt, edgy approach to the musical phrase, suggesting a “ ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Hare. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/185711/bk_acx0_185711_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Tale of Two Besties: A Hello Giggles Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 511min
    Best friends. BFFs. Soul twinsies. Whatever you want to call them, Harper and Lily were born to be besties. With high school just around the corner, casual-cool Cali girl Harper and awkward, always-costumed Lily make sure to text each other every day about their bond: Harper: I love you so much that I am going to sneak out of detention to pay that guy from Craigslist $100 to cut off all your hair for my secret collection. Lily: I love you so much I'm going destroy everyone in your life that matters and force you to depend on and love only me. Harper: That sounds beautiful. I love you. Not even the threat of different high schools could throw this BFFship off course, even if Lily begs her parents not to send her to the "dreaded Pathways", a special school for creative types, while effortlessly popular Harper attends Beverly High with the rest of their class. But in a city where fitting in means standing out and there's nothing more uncool than being cool, it's the naturally charismatic Harper - with her blond hair and perfect bone structure - who finds herself fighting the tide of American Apparel'd teens who rule the school. Meanwhile it's the perpetually "gawkward" Lily - who accessories every ensemble with a pair of tattered fairy wings - who finds herself flying alongside the queen bees of Pathways. Can BFF-ship survive the tidal wave of HS drama, or does growing up mean leaving some friends behind? Inspired by the HelloGiggles community of likeminded best friends, founded by IRL besties Zooey Deschanel and Sophia Rossi, and set in a hilarious insider's version of Los Angeles, A Tale of Two Besties will make you giggle and cry...and then tell you how cute you look with runny mascara. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anna Brisbin, Nora Hunter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/001840/bk_lili_001840_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Slaying in the Orchard: A Danger Cove Farmers' Market Mystery (Danger Cove Mysteries, Volume 16) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 381min
    From USA Today best-selling authors Gin Jones and Elizabeth Ashby comes "fresh" new mystery....  Labor Day weekend starts with a bang in Danger Cove when a dead body is found in the orchard of Maria Dolores' mentor and maybe-boyfriend, Merle!  While it's clear the murder took place long ago, the police are still keeping Merle tied up, leaving Maria on her own to run the local farmers' market. She's prepared for the petty squabbles, disorganized vendors, and even a rowdy group of costumed pirates - it comes with the territory. But she isn't prepared for the fresh body found in an isolated corner of the market!  Maria would like to leave the investigation to the local homicide detective, but he's stretched thin with two separate murders, and her nemesis - the farmer who lost out to her for the manager's job - is demanding quick answers or else.  With a nearly endless array of suspects, since the victim had upset just about everyone at the market, Maria has her work cut out for her! Can she prevent another murder in the market...or will she end up the next victim?  The Danger Cove series:  Secret of the Painted Lady (a Danger Cove Renovation Mystery)  Murder and Mai Tais (a Danger Cove Cocktail Mystery)  Death by Scones (a Danger Cove Bakery Mystery)  Four-Patch of Trouble (a Danger Cove Quilting Mystery)  Deadly Dye and a Soy Chai (a Danger Cove Hair Salon Mystery)  Killer Closet Case (a Danger Cove B&B Mystery)  Tree of Life and Death (a Danger Cove Quilting Mystery)  A Killing in the Market (a Danger Cove Farmers' Market short story in the "Killer Beach Reads" collection)  Killer Colada (a Danger Cove Cocktail Mystery)  Passion, Poison & Puppy Dogs (a Danger Cove Pet Sitter Mystery) A Novel Death (a Danger Cove Bookshop Mystery)  Robbing Peter to Kill Paul ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Darlene Allen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/117046/bk_acx0_117046_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Even More Depraved: Becky's Depravity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 22min, (USK 18)
    Becky's Halloween has already been filled with sex. An encounter with the old man next door, sex in the backyard with costumed men - but she's still ready for more. Now, she pushes herself even deeper into the filth. Dressed in a sexy French maid outfit, she finds a complete stranger and lets him have her - not just in an alleyway but in a dumpster! Warning: This audiobook contains explicit and extreme descriptions of sexual activity including stranger sex and only mature adults who won't find such content offensive should listen to this audiobook. Here is a preview:She marched out the front door in her appealing French maid costume. Becky held her ostrich feather duster in one hand and a handful of lollipops in the other. As luck would have it, it didn't take very long for Becky to find something worthy of her interest. A dirty homeless man was rummaging in a trash can outside a Chinese restaurant. He was eating rice and noodles directly from the trash with his fingers. Grains of rice and other debris dotted his long scraggly beard like maggots on rotting flesh. In fact, Becky couldn't be sure that those white specks in his beard weren't maggots after all and not the fried rice that he shoveled from the garbage into his nearly toothless mouth. When she approached him, the man's odor told her that he hadn't bathed in months. She inhaled his essence and found it fascinating. He smelled worse than a backed up public toilet on a hot summer day. She inhaled again and smiled. This was something interesting. The man didn't even hesitate from his project when she drew close to him. Becky stared with open appreciation until he finally looked up from his fistfuls of rice and noodles. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dana Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014717/bk_acx0_014717_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 616min
    Field notes from an age of extinction, tracking the ever-shifting meaning of America’s animals throughout history to understand the current moment. Journalist Jon Mooallem has watched his little daughter’s world overflow with animals - butterfly pajamas, appliquéd owls - while the actual world she’s inheriting slides into a great storm of extinction. Half of all species could disappear by the end of the century, and scientists now concede that most of America’s endangered animals will survive only if conservationists keep rigging the world around them in their favor. So Mooallem ventures into the field, often taking his daughter with him, to move beyond childlike fascination and make those creatures feel more real. Wild Ones is a tour through our environmental moment and the eccentric cultural history of people and wild animals in America that inflects it - from Thomas Jefferson’s celebrations of early abundance to the turn-of-the-last-century origins of the teddy bear to the whale-loving hippies of the 1970s. In America, Wild Ones discovers, wildlife has always inhabited the terrain of our imagination as much as the actual land. The journey is framed by the stories of three modern-day endangered species: the polar bear, victimized by climate change and ogled by tourists outside a remote, northern town; the little-known Lange’s metalmark butterfly, foundering on a shred of industrialized land near San Francisco; and the whooping crane as it’s led on a months-long migration by costumed men in ultralight airplanes. The wilderness that Wild Ones navigates is a scrappy, disorderly place where amateur conservationists do grueling, sometimes preposterous looking work; where a marketer maneuvers to control the polar bear’s image; and Martha Stewart turns up to film those beasts for her show on the Hallmark Channel. Our most comforting ideas about nature unravel. In their place, Mooallem forges a new and affirming visio ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fred Sanders. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002107/bk_peng_002107_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Double-D Avenger Meets the Horny Howlers
    The Double-D Avenger Meets the Horny Howlers is the sexy action-comedy sequel to William Winckler's famous 2001 cult movie classic, The Double-D Avenger, starring Russ Meyer film icons Kitten Natividad (Russ Meyer's Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens), Haji (Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) and Raven De La Croix (Russ Meyer's Up!). When werewolves appear all over Driftwood Valley and attack beautiful women, the Double-D Avenger - busty costumed crime-fighter - must stop them! The superhero with super-breasts uncovers a diabolical extortion plot hatched by a 1970's style street pimp named King Hoochi ! Why do guys transform into lustful wolf-men after making whoopee with Hoochi's prostitutes? Does the werewolf antidote the cunning pimp offers actually work? Can Double-D solve the riddles, defeat the monsters, and bring Hoochi and his Hoes to justice? Author William Winckler's bra-busting story is outrageously entertaining, humorous erotica! ABOUT THE AUTHOR WILLIAM WINCKLER was born in Van Nuys, California. During his prolific career, he has written, produced, and directed nearly fifty feature films, several TV series, pilots and English language Japanese movies and anime. Select credits include; Tekkaman the Space Knight, Gaiking, Danguard Ace, Starzinger, The Double-D Avenger (reuniting the Russ Meyer film stars), the award-winning Frankenstein vs. the Creature From Blood Cove, Capcom's Zombrex: Dead Rising Sun based on the famous zombie video game Dead Rising, Ultraman X the Movie (the 50th Anniversary film of the iconic Japanese Ultraman superhero character/brand), Ultraman Ginga S the Movie, and Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy (a Warner Bros. Japan release). Winckler has also authored several works of fiction, including the western-horror novel Demon Head of Tucson, and the humorous titles The Double-D Avenger Meets the Horny Howlers and The Double-D Avenger and the Dirty Movie House Mystery based on his cult film classic The Double-D Avenger. He currently resides on the east coast of the U.S., after spending most of his life in Southern California.
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