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    The Hotel New Hampshire
    'The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.' So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they 'dream on' in this funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel.
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    Dead Tide , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 751min
    There are no contingency plans for this! The dead are coming back to life, filled with a single-minded urge to devour the living. While the power was on, some people followed the bigger picture on television; but the news media is little more than a chronicler of the disaster. Sadly, most people are better at becoming part of the problem than finding a way to solve it. "The most important question becomes: Are there enough resilient survivors left to stem the rising dead tide of humanity?" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brad Lawrence. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011291/bk_adbl_011291_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Mad Judge: Sherlock Holmes Uncovered, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 285min
    The third Sherlock Holmes Uncovered Tale finds Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in the countryside on a rare holiday, but matters at a nearby estate draw the great detective and his faithful chronicler from their rest. Holmes and Watson weave their way through a complicated, bewildering crime scene to flush out the perpetrator. But of what crime? This is a novel-length story typical of the Holmes tales. The Sherlock Holmes Uncovered Tales are a series of original stories based upon the immortal characters, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Conn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014323/bk_acx0_014323_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Shadow and Sword (Chronicles of Terrasohnen, #1) (eBook, ePUB)
    Run!The word was just below a whisper, yet in sixteen-year-old Reith's ears, it rang louder than he could have ever imagined. Reith had his life in order: apprentice under his mentor, Master Chronicler Vereinen, and follow in his footsteps. Until a shadowy figure appeared in his village, burning everything to the ground, including Reith's future. Now Reith's mentor is missing and Reith is on the run from the mysterious Shadow. Reith adventures through magical forests, ancient ruins, and the lands of prejudiced elves to find his mentor, learn the secret of his sword and unravel the mystery of the Shadow. Will Reith discover the truth of will the Shadow continue to fall over all of Terrashonen?
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    Shylock is My Name (eBook, ePUB)
    A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life. 'Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?' With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire's Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It's the beginning of a remarkable friendship ...'Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream' Evening Standard'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday
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    Strange Sights and Sporting Scenes: Eccentric Oddities of 18th and 19th Century England , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 139min
    The much-loved chronicler and observer of all that is unusual, John Timbs describes a selection of the oddest sights and anecdotes of the 18th and 19th centuries.The Wonder of All the Wonders That the World Ever Wondered AtThe Princess CarabooFat Folks: Lambert and BrightA Cure for CorpulenceEpitaphs on Fat FolksCount Borulawski, the Polish DwarfThe Irish GiantBirth ExtraordinaryWilliam Hutton’s Strong WomanWildman and his BeesLord Stowell’s Love of SightseeingJohn Day and Fairlop FairA Princely HoaxSir John Waters’ EscapeColonel Mackinnon’s Practical JokingA Gourmand PhysicianDick England the GamblerBrighton Races 30 Years SinceColonel MellishDoncaster EccentricsWalking StewartYouthful Days of the Hon. Grantly BerkeleyWhat became of the Seven Dials ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000126/bk_redd_000126_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    James Baldwin: Living in Fire: Revolutionary Lives , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 455min
    In the first major biography of Baldwin in more than a decade, Bill V. Mullen celebrates the personal and political life of the great African American writer who changed the face of Western politics and culture.As a lifelong anti-imperialist, Black queer advocate, and feminist, Baldwin (1924-1987) was a passionate chronicler of the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, the US war against Vietnam, Palestinian liberation struggle, and the rise of LGBTQ rights.Mullen explores how Baldwin's life and work channel the long history of African American freedom struggles, and explains how Baldwin both predicted and has become a symbol of the global Black Lives Matter movement. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Douglas Storm. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/221804/bk_acx0_221804_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Elementary: 4 Mysteries from the Case Files of Sherlock Holmes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 283min
    Follow Sherlock Holmes on four mysteries that his best friend and Chronicler, Dr. Watson, has decided to publish after some years.In the first story, an irritating and unsuccessful suit salesman plummets to his death from one of the highest cliffs in England...only he didn't jump. The second story recounts a chemistry professor found shot to death in his laboratory after having dabbled in alchemy and seemingly turning lead into gold. The third story finds a wealthy businessman bludgeoned to death in his locked and guarded hotel room. Finally, poison has mysteriously found its way into the sacramental wine at a Mass in a rural village with deadly consequences. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ben Werling. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/224245/bk_acx0_224245_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Best of Sherlock Holmes
    Faithfully supported by his chronicler, Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes pits his wits against 'Napoleon of Crime' Professor Moriarty, assists European royalty threatened by disgrace, helps to solve the mysterious death of a young woman due to be married, and investigates intrigues that have defeated the detectives of Scotland Yard. Packed with excitement and mystery, this collection showcases the legendary sleuth at his very best.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an afterword by David Stuart Davies, and accompanying each tale are Sidney Paget's fantastic original illustrations from The Strand magazine.
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    A Factotum in the Book Trade
    * Contemporary resonance: in an era of growing anti-Amazon sentiment and the widespread effects of COVID-19 on bookshop employees, Factotum takes up the unsung anthem of the bookseller. While there are quite a few memoirs of the book trade, Kociejowski's is told not from the perspective of those who run the trade but from its ticklish underbelly-the factotum 'as watcher, spook, chronicler of the mundane.' * This book originated as an essay in The Pebble Chance (2014). Publisher Dan Wells requested it be turned into a full book, and it joins our growing list of bookish books: * Kociejowski's previous work (poetry, essays, travel writing) has garnered rave reviews in Washington Post, TLS, the Globe and Mail, Library Journal, and elsewhere.
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