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    One Mountain Away: Goddesses Anonymous, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 885min
    With nothing but brains, ambition, and sheer nerve, Charlotte Hale built a career as a tough, do-anything-to-succeed real estate developer. She's at the top of that mountain - but her life is empty. Her friends are as grasping and insincere as she has become. Far worse, she's alienated her family so completely that she's totally lost touch with her only daughter. One terrifying day, facing her own mortality, she realizes that her ambition has almost destroyed her chance at happiness. So Charlotte vows to make amends, not simply with her considerable wealth but by offering a hand instead of a handout, putting in hours and energy instead of putting in an appearance, opening her home and heart instead of her wallet. With each wrenching, exhilarating decision, Charlotte finds that climbing a new mountain - one built on friendship, love, and forgiveness - will teach her what it truly means to build a legacy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006751/bk_blak_006751_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Trip , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1113min
    The Duncan brothers just wanted to get away - so they decided to take a stress free trip to the South Pacific Islands. Their six month trip turned into both a blessing and a curse. In what seemed like the blink of an eye, the world turned completely upside down. The events of "The Day" transpired out of their comprehension and control and changed the course of history and the world as they've always known it. Their trip to the remote island of Rahiti seemingly saved their lives, but also alienated them from the life they once knew. On the upside, they're living in paradise; on the downside, they may never see their family, friends, or home ever again. They simply wanted to escape the pressures of business and society for a while and take a sabbatical to surf, relax, and enjoy island life. They got way more than they bargained for. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Donovan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/012061/bk_acx0_012061_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Runaway: An Airhead Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 421min
    Meg Cabot—the mastermind behind the best-selling Princess Diaries novels— pens delicious tales eagerly devoured by teens. In Runaway, Emerson Watts continues her fight against the twisted Stark Enterprises while her brain remains trapped inside the body of super model Nikki Howard. Whisked away to Brandon Stark’s secluded love nest, Em has alienated her true love Christopher and her parents, while hoping to learn the terrifying secret Nikki—in her own new body—harbors. Brandon wants this secret too, so he can use the information to take over his dad’s corporate empire. Now with everyone upset with her, Em struggles to find a way out of her situation—and the easiest solution may just be to run away from it all. A brilliant cat-and-mouse tale, Runaway is a fitting conclusion to Cabot’s Airhead series. Providing a voice for Em, narrator Stina Nielsen keeps the energy high with a thrilling performance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stina Nielsen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/004125/bk_reco_004125_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    St. Nick , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 486min
    When Santa Claus is a cop, you better watch out.It’s not looking like a very merry Christmas for San Diego cop Nick Pappas. Suspended from his job, alienated from his family, and persecuted by the press, he’s sorely tempted to turn his gun on himself. Except for his first name, he couldn’t possibly have less in common with jolly old St. Nicholas. But when a local mall decides it needs a secret Santa to help collar some vicious muggers preying on its holiday shoppers, Nick’s persuaded to red-suit up so as to take the naughty punks down and avert a ho-ho homicide. For a chance to bust bad guys, Nick’s willing to deal with crying kids, pushy parents, and a chronically cheerful “elf” sidekick. But the biggest challenge for this cop-turned-Claus is one that would confound even the real Kris Kringle: Making a pair of next-to-impossible Christmas wishes come true for two children in need…before it’s too late. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Lawlor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/005900/bk_brll_005900_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Three Weeks in December , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 699min
    In 1899 Jeremy, a young engineer, leaves a small town in Maine to oversee the construction of a railroad across East Africa. In charge of hundreds of Indian laborers, he soon finds himself the reluctant hunter of two lions that are killing his men in almost nightly attacks on their camp. Plagued by fear, wracked with malaria and alienated by a secret he can tell no one, he takes increasing solace in the company of the African who helps him hunt. In 2000 Max, an American ethnobotonist, travels to Rwanda in search of an obscure vine that could become a lifesaving pharmaceutical. Stationed in the mountains, she closely shadows a family of gorillas, the last of their group to survive the encroachment of local poachers. Max bears a striking gift for understanding the ape's non-verbal communication, but their precarious solidarity is threatened as a violent rebel group from the nearby Congo draws close. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: P.J. Ochlan, Yetide Badaki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017244/bk_adbl_017244_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Not a Chance in Helen: A River Road Mystery, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 355min
    In the third River Road Mystery from USA Today best-selling author Susan McBride, Helen Evans knows her friend is not guilty of murder - she just has to prove it! When 80-year-old Eleanora Duncan is found dead on her kitchen floor, Sheriff Frank Biddle suspects it isn't from natural causes. Eleanora wasn't exactly your average senior citizen. She was a widow worth millions, although all her money couldn't buy her happiness - not after losing both her husband and son. Eleanora's bitterness alienated those around her, but did that bitterness make her the victim of foul play? Soon Jean Duncan, Eleanora's daughter-in-law, becomes the prime suspect. But the sheriff gets more than he bargained for when Helen Evans comes to the aid of her friend. Helen knows that Jean didn't murder Eleanora, despite the very bad blood between them. So she uses every means at her disposal in order to clear Jean's name and track down Eleanora's killer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joyce Bean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004773/bk_harp_004773_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Crash , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 359min
    The definitive cult, post-modern novel - a shocking blend of violence, transgression, and eroticism. When our narrator smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the dead man's wife, he finds himself drawn, with increasing intensity, to the mangled impacts of car crashes. Then he encounters Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, who has gathered around him a collection of alienated crash victims and experiments with a series of erotic atrocities, each more sinister than the last. But Vaughan craves the ultimate crash: a head-on collision of blood, semen, engine coolant, and iconic celebrity. First published in 1973, Crash remains one of the most shocking novels of the second half of the 20th century and was made into an equally controversial film by David Cronenberg. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alastair Sill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000852/bk_hcuk_000852_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Who Killed My Father , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 99min
    This bracing new nonfiction audiobook - read by its young superstar author Édouard Louis - is both a searing j’accuse of the viciously entrenched French class system and a wrenchingly tender love letter to his father.Who Killed My Father rips into France’s long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French - at the minimum - of negligent homicide.The author goes to visit the ugly gray town of his childhood to see his dying father, barely 50 years old, who can hardly walk or breathe: “You belong to the category of humans whom politics consigns to an early death.” It’s as simple as that.But hand in hand with searing, specific denunciations are tender passages of a love between father and son, once damaged by shame, poverty, and homophobia. Yet tenderness reconciles them, even as the state is killing off his father. Louis goes after the French system with bare knuckles but turns to his long-alienated father with open arms: This passionate combination makes Who Killed My Father a heartbreaking book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Edouard Louis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/155076/bk_acx0_155076_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Eminent Hipsters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 278min
    A witty, revealing, sharply written work of memoir and criticism by the cofounder of Steely Dan. Musician and songwriter Donald Fagen presents a group of vivid set pieces in his entertaining debut as an author, from portraits of the cultural figures and currents that shaped him as a youth to an account of his college days and of life on the road. Fagen begins by introducing the "eminent hipsters" that spoke to him as he was growing up in a bland New Jersey suburb in the early 1960s, among them Jean Shepherd, whose manic nightly broadcasts out of WOR-Radio "enthralled a generation of alienated young people"; Henry Mancini, whose swank, noirish soundtracks left their mark on him; and Mort Fega, the laid-back, knowledgeable all-night jazz man at WEVD who was like "the cool uncle you always wished you had." Acclaimed for the elaborate arrangements and jazz harmonies of his songs, Fagen proves himself a sophisticated writer with a very distinctive voice in this engaging book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Donald Fagen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002225/bk_peng_002225_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 877min
    In the second half of the 19th century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of their state, using the processes and mechanisms of democracy to secure land and resources for themselves and their private interests. The murder, rape, and enslavement of thousands of Native people were legitimized by notions of democracy - in this case mob rule - through a discreetly organized and brutally effective series of petitions, referenda, town hall meetings, and votes at every level of California government. Murder State is a comprehensive examination of these events and their early legacy. Preconceptions about Native Americans as shaped by the popular press and by immigrants' experiences on the Overland Trail to California were used to further justify the elimination of Native people in the newcomers' quest for land. The allegedly "violent nature" of Native people was often merely their reaction to the atrocities committed against them as they were driven from their ancestral lands and alienated from their traditional resources. Murder State calls attention to the misuse of democracy to justify and commit genocide. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Wentland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/052190/bk_acx0_052190_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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