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    Started Early, Took My Dog: Jackson Brodie 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 731min
    It's a day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a purchase she hadn't bargained for. One moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy's humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn. Witnesses to Tracy's Faustian exchange in the Merrion Centre in Leeds are Tilly, an elderly actress teetering on the brink of her own disaster, and Jackson Brodie who has returned to his home county in search of someone else's roots. All three characters learn that the past is never history and that no good deed goes unpunished. Kate Atkinson dovetails and counterpoints her plots with Dickensian brilliance in a tale peopled with unlikely heroes and villains. Started Early, Took My Dog is freighted with wit, wisdom and a fierce moral intelligence. It confirms Kate Atkinson’s position as one of the great writers of our time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicholas Bell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001157/bk_rhuk_001157_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Whale Hunt in the Desert: Secrets of a Vegas Superhost , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 623min
    Whale Hunt in the Desert divulges the unbridled lengths to which casinos go to bag the world's biggest gamblers - the whales. This definitive exposé reveals the shrouded world of ultra-high rollers and the Faustian pacts they forge with their hosts, the casino representatives whose job it is to part them from their fortunes. Private jets, penthouses, personal chefs, show-up money, rebates on losses, and the most beautiful women on Earth - nothing is too excessive. This is the only book ever to examine the lifestyles and motivations of this rarest of breeds, as well as the highly guarded inner workings of the most money-oriented culture known to man. This third edition includes a foreword by Anthony Curtis and an extensive update about Las Vegas, the "greening" of gambling, the nightclub and dayclub scenes, the evolving host position, and much more - all in the words of the superhost, Steve Cyr. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ed Walters. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/120375/bk_acx0_120375_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    TFS Ingenuity: The Terran Fleet Command Saga, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 368min
    It's the year 2277. For 50 years, Earth has received mysterious data transmissions from random locations in deep space. The streams include advanced technology, allowing humans to achieve faster-than-light travel virtually overnight. As we prepare to take our first tentative steps into interstellar space, we know almost nothing about our alien benefactors, and their motivations remain unexplained. While completing their shakedown cruise, Captain Tom Prescott and the crew of the first Terran Fleet Command starship, TFS Ingenuity, stumble into a first contact situation. They learn that Earth is not the first civilization granted access to the stars before their time - and how this Faustian gift has inevitably led to centuries of interstellar war. Humanity's existence hangs in the balance as a powerful alliance assembles a preemptive military strike, believing it to be their only option to protect themselves...from us. Prescott and his small, initially unarmed starship must serve as our only line of defense. Ingenuity is our only hope. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/podm/000219/bk_podm_000219_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Last Resort
    If Less by Andrew Sean Greer left a hole in your life, good news: Last Resort will fill it. Fast and funny, it feels like a backstage pass to the book world' MEG MASON I finished it in a day' NELL ZINK 'A sharply written, headlong romp' LIONEL SHRIVER Caleb Horowitz is twenty-seven, and his wildest dreams are about to come true. His manuscript has caught the attention of the literary agent, who offers him fame, fortune and a taste of the literary life. He can't wait for his book to be shopped around to every editor in New York, except one: Avi Dietsch, a college rival and the novel's 'inspiration.' When Avi gets his hands on Caleb's manuscript, he sees nothing but theft?and opportunity. And so Caleb is forced to make a Faustian bargain, one that tests his theories of success, ambition and the limits of art - and as he fights to right his mistakes and reclaim his name, he must burn every bridge and finally see his work from the perspective of those locked inside.
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    The Art Forger , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 600min
    On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art, today worth over $500 million, were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there's more to this crime than meets the eye. Making a living reproducing famous artworks for a popular online retailer and desperate to improve her situation, Claire is lured into a Faustian bargain with Aiden Markel, a powerful gallery owner. She agrees to forge a painting - a Degas masterpiece stolen from the Gardner Museum - in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But when that very same long-missing Degas painting is delivered to Claire's studio, she begins to suspect that it may itself be a forgery. Her desperate search for the truth leads Claire into a labyrinth of deceit where secrets hidden since the late 19th century may be the only evidence that can now save her life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Xe Sands. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000684/bk_high_000684_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    What Came Before He Shot Her , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1531min
    The shocking conclusion of Elizabeth George's previous bestseller, With No One As Witness, saw the wife of New Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley gunned down in the street outside her home. Under arrest for the crime is a twelve-year-old boy, Joel Campbell. What possible motive could he have? What chain of events could have led such a child from the housing estates of North Kensington to the elegant streets of Belgravia with such deadly intent? The answer to these questions is a complex mixture of fate and circumstance. Abandoned (albeit involuntarily) by his parents, Joel and two siblings are dumped on the doorstep of his aunt's house. Kendra, childless and with two marriages behind her, is doing her best to turn her life around; responsibility for three troubled children is not what she had in mind. Drugs, neglect, violence and poverty are commonplace in North Kensington. Joel does his best to look out for his family, but that involves a Faustian pact. And the Devil will have his pay. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Inika Leigh Wright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/000294/bk_hodd_000294_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mech Zero: The Dominant , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 111min
    Death awaits the curious! Out along the rim of the galaxy hangs a loose configuration of some 60 stars known as the Faustian Chain. This whorl of sparkling suns is rich in planets and occupies an irregular volume of space some 20 light years in diameter. From an external viewpoint, the Chain presents a colorful display of plasma-streams, luminous nebulae and sparkling pinpoints of light. The human colonists who settled the Chain were aware the region had recently been populated by other species - beings that had all but vanished after waging devastating wars thousands of years in the past. Little was known of them, but certain areas in which their artifacts still persisted were proscribed by interstellar law. Mech: Zero is a novella by best-selling author B. V. Larson. Set at the beginning of the Imperium Series, this story is a prequel to the outbreak of war. The series involves early human colonies in a region of space previously occupied by a vicious alien species. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mirron Willis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005682/bk_adbl_005682_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Strays , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 459min
    Winner of the 2015 Stella Prize. Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript 2013, the Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction 2015, the Dobbie Literary Award 2015, and the NSW Premier’s UTA Glenda Adams Award 2015. Longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Prize 2015. On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like-minded artists to live and work at their family home. Lily becomes infatuated with this wild, makeshift family and longs to truly be a part of it. As the years pass, Lily observes the way the lives of these artists come to reflect the same themes as their art: Faustian bargains and spectacular falls from grace. Yet it's not Evan but his own daughters who pay the price for his radicalism. The Strays is an engrossing story of ambition, sacrifice and compromised loyalties from an exciting new talent. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vanessa Coffey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/024748/bk_adbl_024748_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Twice Damned: An Uncanny Kingdom Urban Fantasy: The Spectral Detective Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 263min
    All Jake wants is to buy his way into Heaven, so why is he about to walk into Hell?Ever since Jake became a ghost he’s made a career out of solving London’s grisliest murders and helping fellow phantoms pass on to the other side. This case is about to lead him into some unfamiliar territory though....Some very unfamiliar territory.The person Jake’s helping this time has already passed on, and when he did, he went south. A Faustian pact landed Jake’s client in Hell, and the only way to get him home is to perform an inter-dimensional jailbreak.Rescuing a lost soul from damnation promises to be the most dangerous undertaking of Jake’s career. Can he pull him out of Hell, and himself too, or is the Devil about to claim a new soul?Mystery, scares, and the paranormal collide in this bizarre noir. Fans of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files will love this pause-resisting detective story with a supernatural twist. Note: All of the books in the Spectral Detective series can be listened to as standalone novels. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Restuccia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/127236/bk_acx0_127236_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    When a Stranger Comes: A Gripping Psychological Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 626min
    2019 Florida Author Project Winner for adult fiction!2018 Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal Winner!Read Freely 50 Best Indie Books of 2019!Unputdownable Faustian thriller! Greed, entrapment, and the world of book publishing."Riveting" (Kirkus Reviews)Author Alexa Wainwright is losing her mojo. Her latest works aren't selling like her internationally best-selling debut. She vows to do whatever it takes to get back to being number one. But is she really?As she makes this vow, suddenly a lightning bolt cracks across the cloudless sky transporting the clueless Alexa to an alternate universe. Here, the characters in her books are given the breath of life and she meets media mogul, publisher, and possibly the devil himself, King Blakemore, who offers her a lucrative but ironclad book contract that will guarantee her comeback. Alexa slowly realizes it might be more than just a contract for a book deal. Desperate to get her life back, she devises schemes to untether herself from this hellish existence.Buy this book if you're a listener who loves a pause-resisting, heart-stopping, psychological thriller with some magical realism thrown in. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen S. Bell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/174650/bk_acx0_174650_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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