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    The Brightonomicon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 437min
    This is the tale of two incredible people - one who knows he is incredible and the other who learns to be incredible. Set in 1960 in the UK south-coast resort of Brighton, self-styled guru and magus Hugo Rune rescues a young man from drowning and persuades him to become his assistant and partner in solving 12 mysteries.Rizla (for such is the young man’s assumed name) agrees to help as he has lost his memory and has nowhere else to go. There then follows 12 of the most baffling, surreal, exciting, head-scratching and downright far-fetched mysteries ever written...all based in and around the suburbs of Brighton.  In between the adventures our heroes are able to enjoy the bizarre surroundings of Fangio’s pub, where the bar lord is always happy to talk some old toot and occasionally some exposition as well.  Across the mysteries Rizla and the audience learn about the Brighton zodiac, the chronovision, time travel, centaurs, a dastardly plot where the NHS kidnap vagrants for body parts, space pirates, the real history of Victorian Britain, Brighton pirates and the fate that awaits mankind should Hugo Rune fail in his task.  And of course, there’s a very bad man involved indeed - Hugo Rune’s archnemesis of the ages, Count Otto Black - who wants to rule the world (what else!) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Warner, Rupert Degas, Andy Serkis, Martin Jarvis, Jason Isaacs, Sarah Douglas, Mark Wing-Davey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lbrk/000627/bk_lbrk_000627_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Silver Shoes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 290min
    When Donald Gardner's parents tell him they’ll be taking an exciting road trip through Kansas, he openly cringes. He is sure it will be a boring summer vacation. But at one of their final roadside stops on the way home, they are approached by a poor woman offering to sell a curious item—an antique silver shoe. While Donald’s mother is initially reluctant, she is ultimately smitten with the shoe and buys it. Donald is skeptical that the shoe is anything more than a relic, but when the new school year starts, he brings it in for show-and-tell, attempting to impress his classmates. His friends liken it to something out of The Wizard of Oz, and his teacher agrees the idea is not far-fetched considering author L. Frank Baum wrote about silver shoes, not ruby slippers, which were strictly in the movie. Yet when he accepts a dare from his two best buddies to try it on, frightening and incredible things begin to happen. Strange animals cry out in the night. Dark, shadowy shapes lurk in distant corners. Scratching sounds are heard just outside his bedroom window. And when he meets George Clarke, a reclusive man who has been in hiding and on the run for many years, Donald finds out there is a lot more to Baum’s story than he thinks.  Join Donald as he unravels Baum’s earth-shattering secret in Silver Shoes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Miles Schneider. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/197364/bk_acx0_197364_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Staff of True Magic: Relic Diver, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1413min
    Zahn believed that magic existed. He even knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that leftover relics of magic existed in the world. He owned a few, after all. But he always considered himself a rational sort of guy. When he went on "relic-dives" to uncover lost magic, he did his research. He didn't believe fanciful myths. He scraped away the garbage and only went after magical items that had a good chance of actually existing.And yet, even though the myths surrounding the powerful Staff of Merlin had always seemed too far-fetched to be true, suddenly a windfall of tempting information fell in his lap. Even worse? There was a deadly mercenary who was trying to find it first. If it was real, and if the psychopathic killer possessed it, then the world could be in serious danger.Along with his new-found lovers, Zahn had no choice but to put aside his doubts and dive into the quest. If they succeeded, they would possess a treasure unlike anything the world had seen in a thousand years. If they failed, magic...even the remnants left over in the relics...might be eradicated from the world forever.A Fair Warning!This novel contains action, adventure, violence, and copious amounts of intense sex. The sexy fun contains harem elements and intense sexual descriptions that will make the innocent blush for sure.For the entertainment of adults only! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erin Bateman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/195287/bk_acx0_195287_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls: Brentford Trilogy, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 559min
    It has always been John Omally's secret ambition to become a rock star. In his youth he mastered air guitar and wardrobe-mirror posing, but he lacked that certain something. Talent. But at last an opportunity has arisen for John to get into 'The Industry'. A band called Gandhi's Hairdryer are looking for a manager, so all John has to do is persuade them that he is the new Brian Epstein. It should be a piece of cake. But - and there's always a but - there is something rather odd about this band. Something other-worldly. It might be the lead singer, whose voice has the power to heal. Might she be an angel, perhaps? Or could she be the Devil in disguise? Because, after all, the Devil does have all the best tunes. And this is Brentford. Robert Rankin describes himself as a teller of tall tales. The Morning Star describes him as 'The Master of Silliness', and his publisher describes him as ‘The Master of Far Fetched Fiction’. He is the author of more than thirty novels, of which he has sold millions of copies, and he makes people laugh around the world. Robert loves going on tour, signing books for readers, and his appearances at signings and conventions are legendary, often including a stand-up routine, a song (accompanied by his 'air-ukulele'), and an always-entertaining question-and-answer session. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Rankin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014460/bk_adbl_014460_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    East of Ealing: Brentford Trilogy, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 440min
    Ahead, where once had been only bombsite land, the Lateinos and Romiith building rose above Brentford. Within its cruel and jagged shadow, magnolias wilted in their window boxes and synthetic Gold Top became doorstep cheese... Something sinister is happening east of Ealing. The prophecies of The Book of Revelation are being fulfilled. Lateinos & Romiith, a vast financial network, is changing all the rules with a plan to bar-code every living punter and dispense with old-fashioned money. A diabolical scheme, which would not only end civilisation as we know it, but seriously interfere with drinking habits at the Flying Swan. Can Armageddon, Apocalypse and other inconveniences of the modern age be stopped by the humble likes of Pooley and Omally, even with the help of Professor Slocombe and the time-warped Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street...? Robert Rankin describes himself as a teller of tall tales. The Morning Star describes him as 'The Master of Silliness', and his publisher describes him as The Master of Far Fetched Fiction. He is the author of more than thirty novels, of which he has sold millions of copies, and he makes people laugh around the world. Robert loves going on tour, signing books for readers, and his appearances at signings and conventions are legendary, often including a stand-up routine, a song (accompanied by his 'air-ukulele'), and an always-entertaining question-and-answer session. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Rankin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014457/bk_adbl_014457_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Mound Builder Myth: Fake History and the Hunt for a "Lost White Race" , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 668min
    The Mound Builder Myth is the first book to chronicle the attempt to recast the Native American burial mounds as the work of a lost white race of “true” native Americans. Thomas Jefferson’s pioneering archaeology concluded that the earthen mounds were the work of Native Americans. In the 1894 report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Cyrus Thomas concurred, drawing on two decades of research. But in the century in between, the lie took hold, with presidents Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, and Abraham Lincoln adding their approval and the Mormon Church among those benefiting.Built upon primary sources and first-person accounts, the story that The Mound Builder Myth tells is a forgotten chapter of American history - but one that sounds like the Da Vinci Code as it plays out at the upper reaches of government, religion, and science. And as far-fetched as it now might seem that a lost White race once ruled prehistoric America, the damage done by this “ancient” myth has clear echoes in today’s arguments over white nationalism, multiculturalism, “alternative facts", and the role of science and the control of knowledge in public life.The book is published by University of Oklahoma Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.“The Mound Builder Myth shows that the battle between science and superstition never ends.” (David La Vere, author of Looting Spiro Mounds: An American King Tut’s Tomb) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Henderson Norman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/223967/bk_acx0_223967_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Tomorrow-Land: The 1964 - 65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 742min
    Motivated by the idea of turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses - New York's "master builder" - brought the World's Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and '65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964/65 World's Fair was a sixties flash point in areas from politics to pop culture, technology to urban planning, and civil rights to violent crime. In an epic narrative, Tomorrow-Land shows the astonishing pivots taken by New York City, America, and the world during the fair. It fetched Disney's empire from California and Michelangelo's La Pietà from Europe and displayed flickers of innovation from Ford, GM, and NASA - from undersea and outer-space colonies to personal computers. It housed the controversial work of Warhol(until Governor Rockefeller had it removed) and lured Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Meanwhile, the fair - and its house band, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians - sat in the musical shadows of the Beatles and Bob Dylan, who changed rock and roll right there in Queens. And as southern civil rights efforts turned deadly, and violent protests also occurred in and around the fair, Harlem-based Malcolm X predicted a frightening future of inner-city racial conflict. World's Fairs have always been collisions of eras, cultures, nations, technologies, ideas, and art. But the trippy, turbulent, Technicolor, Disney, corporate, and often misguided 1964/65 fair was truly exceptional. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006247/bk_blak_006247_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Our Lady of Ocotlan : Many Faces of Mary, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 20min
    Small pox struck and it accomplished what no conqueror was able to bring about. Nine out of every ten members of a family were struck down by this deadly plague. Everyone was helpless! Their trusted medicine men were not familiar with this sickness that threatened to annihilate 90 percent of the population. Consequently, they were helpless to stem the whirlwind kiss of death that was striking everyone in its path. The natives plunged their feverish bodies into the rivers, believing the water could heal them. Their loved ones flocked to the Rio Zahuapan, which was popularly believed to possess curative powers to heal skin diseases. Juan Diego Bernardino enters the picture. This is not the Juan Diego to whom Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared in 1531. Juan Diego Bernardino's family was stricken with small pox. Juan went to the friars of the Franciscan Convent in Tlaxcala and asked permission to go and fetch water from the Rio Zahuapan for his relatives in Xiloxostla. Having received his desired permission, he fetched a water jar and headed for the Rio. After he filled the jar with the alleged healing water, he rushed to his family in Xiloxostla, by way of Cerro de San Lorenzo. (St. Lawrence Mountain) Coming down from the mountain, he plodded through a thick forest filled with ocote trees, native to this area, when all of a sudden there before him was a beautiful, regal young woman. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Luz Elena Sandoval-Lord. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/229987/bk_acx0_229987_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    This Heart's Yours, Cowboy (Enhanced Edition): Texas Matchmakers, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 368min
    From award-winning author Debra Clopton comes the Texas Matchmakers series - about three older women who set off a nationally advertised "Wives Wanted Campaign" to bring women to their small town of Mule Hollow to marry the lonesome cowboys. A far-fetched idea that's working - look out fellas, the women are coming one car at a time!Bound for California, candymaker Dottie Hart can’t turn her back on a teenage girl hitchhiking her way to Mule Hollow, Texas. Fearful for the girl, Dottie changes directions and heads toward the tiny town that’s advertising for wives for its lonesome cowboys.Sheriff Brady Cannon has enough trouble on his hands with the chaos the matchmaking ladies in town have caused with their off-the-wall scheme to save the tiny town. When the gorgeous candymaker with a heart as sweet a sugar shows up, he’s suddenly dreaming of candy kisses and forever...but he’s got his own reasons for staying single.Can the Texas Matchmakers - or “posse”, as some are starting to call them - rope him into the herd of lonesome cowboys bound for love?Note: This story was previously published as No Place Like Home. This edition includes some fun extras.Audiobooks in the Texas Matchmakers series:Dream with Me, CowboyBe My Love, CowboyThis Heart's Your, CowboyHold Me, CowboyBe Mine, CowboyMarry Me, CowboyCherish Me, CowboySurprise Me, CowboySerenade Me, CowboyReturn to Me, CowboyLove Me, CowboyRide with Me, CowboyDance with Me, Cowboy ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cici Dee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/127647/bk_acx0_127647_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Go Ask Ali: Half-Baked Advice (and Free Lemonade) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 233min
    New York Times best-selling author Ali Wentworth offers her hilarious and unique advice on surviving the absurdity of modern life in her third collection of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.  Ali Wentworth's first two books, Ali in Wonderland and Happily Ali After, were lauded by listeners, critics, and fellow comedians alike. Entertainment Weekly included Happily Ali After on its "Must List" and hailed it as "hilarious.... Her glass isn't half full - it's empty and cracked", while Cosmopolitan praised it as "razor-sharp." Chelsea Handler called Ali in Wonderland "truly hilarious", and Kathy Griffin christened it "Chicken Soup for the Vagina." Alec Baldwin has described Ali as "funny and warm and crazy all at once. Like Barbara Eden. But on something. Like crystal meth", and Jerry Seinfeld has raved, "Everything that comes out of Ali Wentworth's mouth is funny!"  At once endearing and hilarious, thoughtful and far-fetched, this third collection offers Ali at her wisest and wittiest as she delivers tips, pointers, and quips on a host of life's conundrums and sticky situations, including the funny, sometimes embarrassing yet unforgettable situations that have shaped her inimitable world view as a wife, mother, actress, comedian, and all around bon vivant. Thoroughly entertaining, Go Ask Ali is packed with thoughts and musings from "the girlfriend you want to have a glass of wine with, the one who makes you laugh because she sees the funny and the absurd in everything" (Huffington Post).  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ali Wentworth. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006617/bk_harp_006617_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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