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    Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress - Pax Britannica, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1209min
    The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris’s epic story of the British Empire from the accession of Queen Victoria to the death of Winston Churchill. It is a towering achievement: informative, accessible, entertaining and written with all her usual bravura. Heaven’s Command, the first volume, takes us from the crowning of Queen Victoria in 1837 to the Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The story moves effortlessly across the world, from the English shores to Fiji, Zululand, the Canadian prairies and beyond. Totally gripping history!PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roy McMillan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000651/bk_naxo_000651_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Touching Distance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 648min
    Jimmy Suttle has barely got his feet under the desk at his new job. Having flown in the face of his superiors on his first big case he now finds himself trying to track down a hugely skilled killer before another innocent dies and before the media tear the force apart. Jimmy is facing a case that could end his career. And his life. Full of a sense of place, sensitive to the deep rooted agonies of a policeman alone and facing disaster, and with a chilling understanding of the motivations of the killer this is a bravura piece of crime fiction that will secure Hurley's reputation and win new readers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Keeble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/002062/bk_isis_002062_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Beast , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 239min
    Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man alone on an empty moor in the west of England. What he has left behind we don't yet know. What he faces is an existential battle with himself, the elements, and something he begins to see in the margins of his vision: some creature that is tracking him, the pursuit of which will become an obsession. This short, shocking, and exhilarating novel is a vivid exploration of isolation, courage, and the search for truth that continues the story set 1000 years earlier in Paul Kingsnorth's bravura debut novel, The Wake. It extends that book's promise and confirms Kingsnorth as one of our most daring and rewarding contemporary writers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Vance. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/008102/bk_tant_008102_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Élégie op. 30 für Viola und Klavier
    Der unstete Lebensweg des Belgiers Vieuxtemps nahm wie kaum ein anderer im 19. Jahrhunderts den europäischen Gedanken vorweg. Bestes Beispiel ist die 1848 komponierte Élégie: Sie entstand in St. Petersburg, erlebte in Paris ihre größten Erfolge, wurde in Offenbach am Main gedruckt und in London enthusiastisch rezensiert. Besonders hervorgehoben wurden schon damals die ausdrucksvollen Kontraste sowie die Coda im Bravura-Stil, die "ebenso elegant wie brillant" sei. Nach der Sonate op. 36 (HN 577) erscheint mit der Élégie op. 30 ein weiteres Viola-Werk von Vieuxtemps erstmals in einer Urtextausgabe. Erneut konnte Tabea Zimmermann für die Strichbezeichnungen gewonnen werden, das Vorwort stammt von der Expertin Marie Cornaz.
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    Insomnia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 185min
    An intense, lyrical, witty and humane exploration of a state we too often consider only superficially.  With her new memoir, Insomnia, Marina Benjamin has produced an unsettling account of an unsettling condition that treats our inability to sleep not as a disorder but as an existential experience that can electrify our understanding of ourselves and of creativity and love.  Insomnia is a bravura piece of writing. At once philosophical and poetical, the book ranges widely over history and culture, literature and art, exploring a threshold experience that is intimately involved with trespass and contamination: the illicit importing of day into night.With Insomnia, Benjamin aims to light up the workings of our inner minds, delivering a startlingly fresh look at what it means to be wakeful in the dark. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marina Benjamin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/004180/bk_boli_004180_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Fall Revolution 4: The Sky Road , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 719min
    Centuries after the catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. And Clovis, a young scholar working in the spaceship-construction yard, could make the difference between success and failure. For his mysterious new lover, Merrial, has seduced him into the idea of extrapolating the ship's future from the dark archives of the past. A past in which, centuries before, Myra Godwin faced the end of a different space age--her rockets redundant, her people rebellious, and her borders defenceless against the Sino-Soviet Union. As Myra appealed to the crumbling West for help, she found history turning on her own strange past--and on the terrible decisions she faces now. The Sky Road is a fireworks display, a bravura performance, and the most amazing novel yet by one of the powerful new voices in science fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lucy Paterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004293/bk_adbl_004293_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mrs. M , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 574min
    From one of Australia's foremost journalists, Luke Slattery, comes a bravura literary achievement, a rich and intense novel of an imagined history of desire, ambition and dashed dreams, and a portrait of one passionate, unforgettable woman - Elizabeth Macquarie Elizabeth Macquarie, widow of the disgraced former Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, is in mourning - not only for her husband, but the loss of their shared dream to transform the penal colony into a bright new world. Over the course of one long sleepless night on the windswept isle of Mull, she remembers her life in that wild and strange country; a revolution of ideas as dramatic as any in history; and her dangerous alliance with the brilliant, mercurial Francis Greenway, the colony's maverick architect. A stirring, provocative and thrilling novel of passion, ideas, reforming zeal, and desire. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Vuletic. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007165/bk_harp_007165_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Testing of Luther Albright: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 533min
    American Book Award WinnerLuther Albright is a devoted father and a designer of dams, a self-controlled man who believes he can engineer happiness for his family by sheltering them from his own emotions. But when an earthquake shakes his Sacramento home, the world Luther has constructed with such care begins to tilt: His son's behavior becomes increasingly bizarre and threatening, his loving wife seems to grow distant, the house he built with his own hands shows its first signs of decay, and a dam of his design comes under investigation for structural flaws exposed by the tremors. Nightmarish connections begin to whisper at Luther from the most innocent of places as debut novelist MacKenzie Bezos tightens her net of psychological suspense around the reader with bravura skill. This is a harrowing portrait of an ordinary man who finds himself tested and strives not to be found wanting. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Sutherland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013340/bk_adbl_013340_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A People’s History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1784min
    Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these societies have engendered events familiar to every schoolchild - from the empires of antiquity to the world wars of the 20th century. In a bravura conclusion, Chris Harman exposes the reductive complacency of contemporary capitalism, and asks, in a world riven as never before by suffering and inequality, why we imagine that it can - or should - survive much longer. Ambitious, provocative and invigorating, A People's History of the World delivers a vital corrective to traditional history, as well as a powerful sense of the deep currents of humanity which surge beneath the froth of government. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Napoleon Ryan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/008288/bk_tant_008288_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Animal Crackers: Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 310min
    With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses.In these strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals become the litmus test of our deepest fears and longings. In the title story, an elephant keeper courts danger from his gentle charge; in "Miss Waldron's Red Colobus," a headstrong young woman in Africa is lured by the freedom of the monkeys in the trees; in "Talk Turkey," a boy has secret conversations with the turkeys on his friend's family's farm; in "Slim's Last Ride," a child plays chilling games with his pet rabbit; in "Gallus Gallus," a pompous husband projects his anger at his wife onto her prized rooster.This fresh, inventive debut will introduce Hannah Tinti as one of the most gifted writers of her generation. Enter her world at your own risk, and you will come away bewitched. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laural Merlington, Dan John Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/001733/bk_brll_001733_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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