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    Zombie Rush: Books 3 and 4 : Banished from Hell , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 706min
    The morning after....Hair of the dog - as people used to say after an all-night binge - but prayin’ to the porcelain gods was the one Lisa enjoyed saying back in the day - back in the days when someone could afford to lose consciousness without fears of ending up in a stomach of the dead. No. Those days were gone - the good old days as they would come to say. Today, the morning after meant the day after you saw your friends and neighbors eaten, or the day after your mom or brother turned into a demon and tried to feast upon your flesh. Or it could even be the morning after you witnessed a quarter of a million dead human bodies being blown to bits over the course of an hour. That was the day a blood mist from the disease floated upon the breeze, as a mist clinging to everything it touched. Cars, windows, and clothing were coated with blood, leaving your hair and skin sticky with residue. Eyes looked through a thin veil of red as the lungs of the unwitting breathed in and out. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anna Crowe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/134716/bk_acx0_134716_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hero: The Hero Rebellion, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 435min
    Centuries ago, humans colonised Jørn, a lonely planet on the far side of the galaxy. Arriving in five great colony ships, they quickly settled the surface only to discover, after a few short years, that the planet was killing them. The culprit, a native spore, carried on every wind to every corner of the globe.Genetic engineering, blending DNA from Earth and Jørn species, saved their crops and livestock, but for humans there was no cure. Instead they took to the skies, turning their colony ships into cities that floated above the spore's reach.Hero Regan is special, and not in a way she likes. She hears voices, voices in her head that other people can't. Surrounded by butlers, bodyguards, and tutors, insulated from the outside world, her only solace is Fink, a 600-kilogram, genetically engineered ruc-pard. They share lives, thoughts, triple-chocolate marshmallow ice-cream, and the burning desire for freedom.Their chance comes when Hero is allowed to attend school in Cumulus City. Here, along with making unexpected friends, Hero discovers she is an unwitting part of a master plan set into motion by the first colonists, a plan she must either help or foil if she's ever to attain the freedom she craves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jean Mahoney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/155707/bk_acx0_155707_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Coyote Summer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 275min
    Ben O’Rourke, his best friend Clint, and their classmate Claire were supposed to grow up to be wealthy, prominent people like their parents. They were private school kids, raised in the belief that they were obliged to turn expensive educations into prestigious positions in society.Actually, more than that. They were entitled to prestigious positions — at the top.  Clint had done that by winning his dad’s seat in Congress. Benny didn’t know anything about Claire, except she’d never married and she still lived in Camden. Right there in Clint’s district. Ben was nervous. His voice had to reach across the Rocky Mountains, across the Great Plains, and all the way to Wisconsin. And it had to reach across nearly 40 years and who-knows-what changes and pain, as well. Did it mean anything that Claire never got married? Girls who went to Saint Anne’s were brought up to get married. As the phone rang, Ben’s memory returned to the past…and the two girls who’d rerouted his life the summer before college. An assault on Claire right after their high school graduation had led Ben to struggle with right, wrong, and his place in society; while his first love, Puppy, taught him there was much more to life than a prep school upbringing...maybe even things that floated beyond the realm of human understanding. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew Wear. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/200810/bk_acx0_200810_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 551min
    Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win. (Gary Lineker) On 13 July 2014, World Cup Final, the last 10 minutes of extra time: Germany forward Mario Götze, receiving a floated pass from his international teammate André Schürrle, jumps slightly to meet the ball and cushion it with his chest. Landing on his left foot, he takes a step with his right, swivels, and in one fluid motion, without the ball touching the ground, volleys it past the onrushing Argentine goalkeeper into the far corner of the net. The goal wins Germany the World Cup for the first time in almost twenty-five years. In the aftermath Götze looks dazed, unable to comprehend what he has done. In Das Reboot, journalist and television pundit Raphael Honigstein charts the return of German football from the international wilderness of the late 1990s to Götze's moment of genius and asks: how did this come about? How did German football transform itself from its efficient but unappealing and defensively minded traditions to the free-flowing, attacking football that was on display in 2014? The answer takes him from California to Stuttgart, from Munich to the Maracaná, via Dortmund and Durban. Packed with exclusive interviews with the key protagonists, Honigstein's book lifts the lid on the secrets of German football's success. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlie Anson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002178/bk_rhuk_002178_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Germany
    From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no otherFor the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental Europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people now understand themselves?Neil MacGregor argues that uniquely for any European country, no coherent, over-arching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both geography and history have always been unstable. Its frontiers have constantly floated. Königsberg, home to the greatest German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, is now Kaliningrad, Russia; Strasbourg, in whose cathedral Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany's greatest writer, discovered the distinctiveness of his country's art and history, now lies within the borders of France. For most of the five hundred years covered by this book Germany has been composed of many separate political units, each with a distinct history. And any comfortable national story Germans might have told themselves before 1914 was destroyed by the events of the following thirty years.German history may be inherently fragmented, but it contains a large number of widely shared memories, awarenesses and experiences; examining some of these is the purpose of this book. Beginning with the fifteenth-century invention of modern printing by Gutenberg, MacGregor chooses objects and ideas, people and places which still resonate in the new Germany - porcelain from Dresden and rubble from its ruins, Bauhaus design and the German sausage, the crown of Charlemagne and the gates of Buchenwald - to show us something of its collective imagination. There has never been a book about Germany quite like it.
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    Silverwood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 336min
    In a land of eternal moonlight, light is life. The silver beams of the five moons are all that stand between the people and the dark demons known as the Shadows. The Shadows absorb the life force of anyone unfortunate enough to be caught in their midst, using a person's own fear to consume them. For 300 years, the five moons have floated safely above the land, protecting everyone from the dangers of the Shadows. But now something has gone amiss. The moons have slowly begun being extinguished one by one as an ancient demon awakens from its slumber. With each hour of darkness, the Shadows grow stronger and their reach grows further as they consume more innocent lives each night. Even the three Guardians of the Light do not understand how the darkness is growing, but they know it will mean the end of their world if the darkness cannot be stopped. Only a lone sorceress named Lismella seems to know why the moons are disappearing and she's not about to reveal her suspicions. The only one she seems willing to talk to is Ericahs, a homeless, sword-wielding outlaw from Silverwood. The longer Ericahs is with her, however, the more he begins to wonder if the sorceress is merely using him to gain her own ends.... "Without darkness there can be no light, for there would be nothing to illuminate." (Lismella) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amber Reifsteck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/192789/bk_acx0_192789_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sleeping Giants , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 508min
    An inventive debut in the tradition of World War Z and The Martian, told in interviews, journal entries, transcripts, and news articles, Sleeping Giants is a literary thriller fueled by a quest for truth - and a fight for control of earthshaking power. A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand. Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved - its origins, architects, and purpose unknown. Its carbon dating defies belief; military reports are redacted; theories are floated, then rejected. But some can never stop searching for answers. Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top-secret team to crack the hand's code. And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the provenance of relic. What's clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unraveling history's most perplexing discovery - and figuring out what it portends for humanity. But once the pieces of the puzzle are in place, will the result prove to be an instrument of lasting peace or a weapon of mass destruction? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004456/bk_rand_004456_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    City of Dragons: The Rain Wild Chronicles, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 779min
    Return to the world of the Liveships Traders and journey along the Rain Wild River in the third installment of high adventure from the author of the internationally acclaimed Farseer trilogy. Kelsingra waits for those brave enough to enter… The dragons and their keepers have discovered Kelsingra but so far only Heeby has succeeded in flying over the river to enter the fabled city. The other dragons, with their deformed wings and feeble muscles, are afraid to risk failure and humiliation. But wondrous things wait in Kelsingra, a city built for dragons and their Elderling keepers. Alise, overwhelmed by the treasures she finds there, records her finds for posterity. Once the rest of the world knows about the riches the city contains, nothing will ever be the same again. Already, rumours of the city’s discovery have floated down the Rain Wild River and reached envious ears in Bingtown and beyond. Adventurers, pirates and fortune hunters are coming in droves to pillage what they can from the city. As is Hest Finbok, Alise’s husband… Meanwhile, Selden Vestrit finds himself a prisoner of the ailing Duke of Chalced, who believes him to be some sort of dragon-man whose flesh and blood may work miracle cures. Where is Tintaglia, the great sapphire-blue dragon, when all have such need of her? Has she really abandoned her beloved Selden and the fledgling dragons forever? Or will she too return to seek the wonders of Kelsingra? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Saskia Butler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001032/bk_hcuk_001032_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Maya Angelou: Understanding the Life and Teachings of a True American Author, Poet, and Civil Rights Leader , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 52min
    When we think of poetry and writing, a few names come to mind. Shakespeare, of course. Robert Frost, certainly. Emily Dickinson, without a doubt. Oh, and let's not forget Edgar Allan Poe. However, it is impossible to think of this pantheon of talent without bringing up the name Maya Angelou. Come on, we have all heard her name. If you have ever taken a writing or English class in your life, Maya Angelou's work has floated around your classroom and from the mouths of your teachers and professors. Indisputably, her writings have changed the literary world forever - and for the better. Maya Angelou was more than a poet; she wrote several autobiographies, specifically a beautiful memoir called I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. She also wrote numerous essays and books for children. Further, she was a civil rights activist and even recited her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning", at former president Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993. This poem called for harmony and peace (both racial and worldly) while also demanding acceptance, equality, and justice for people of differing incomes, ancestry, sexualities, orientations, and genders. Clearly, Maya Angelou paved the way for writers and dreamers everywhere, never restricting herself to one genre or even one job. She was an inspiration in every sense of the word. If we must label her, let's call her an author-historian-poet-playwright-dancer-actress-songwriter-producer-singer-director and civil rights crusader. That is quite the title, isn't it? Well, it is surely the title she deserves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sandra Dyson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/063551/bk_acx0_063551_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Flanagan: A Short Filibustering Adventure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 36min
    Flanagan is a story not dissimilar from "The Open Boat", except that the captain dies in "Flanagan" but not in the "Open Boat". Flanagan is hired to take a ship, aptly named the Foundling, down to Cuba to run guns and people into that country. He does so in a rickety old boat and does a good job. A gun boat finds them and barrels at them at top speed. Rather than just running, the natural instinct, Flanagan turns his ship towards the small gun boat, an unexpected chess move, and runs down the surprised small gun boat and sinks her. Afterward, his men make sure to gun down the survivors in their life boats to assure no followup. After this great victory, Flanagan sees a storm whirling up in the distance. It comes upon him and is about to destroy his ship, even after they try heading as far towards the Florida coast as possible. They can't make it and so abandon ship. This is during a great party on shore, at which people, upon hearing of the shipwreck, come down to the shore to gawk. "Later there floated to them a body with a calm Irish face (presumably Flanagan). The expedition of the Foundling will never be historic." The story ends in a dull thud, exhibiting the classic irony of a Crane short story. Every bit as interesting as "The Open Boat", this is a companion piece with somewhat similar results. As with all Simply audio books, we provide a commentary in an afterword for those interested. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deaver Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/smag/000091/bk_smag_000091_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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