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    Epic Fantasy Adventure: The Sands of Time: Holy Paladin's Quest: Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 125min
    The storm has come! The Angel's Blessings had faded and Kell and Longo find themselves stranded on a lonely deserted island. The world was facing global destruction in the form of a mighty curse that gave never-ending rain to the planet. It wouldn't be long before the population of the world would be decimated, leaving easy pickings for the demon and its powerful master. Kell has no choice but to contact his long-dead ancestors for guidance. "My Master did not become the great warrior that he is by being soft and indecisive. While he was a man prone to thought and considering, moving slow like a master general on the battlefield, always pondering his next move, he could also be quick as a cobra when needs pressed. But that night on the island, when we were with the Angel of Glory, I saw in Kell a slow and burning anger as the woman in the cistern's mist took the form of our beloved Anna, mocking him, and threatening the world with 99 days and nights of rain, floods, and a slow but very real destruction." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Damron. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/062898/bk_acx0_062898_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    This Old Body: And 99 Other Reasons to Laugh at Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 164min
    Personal essays on the ridiculousness of aging. It’s clean, it’s clever, it’s anything but clichéd, This Old Body speaks to all of us who aren’t what we once were. With such witty titles as, “Where, Oh, Where Has My Little Waist Gone?” and “The World Is Round But my Feet Are Flat,” Barbara Greenleaf will get you laughing at the everyday humiliations and aggravations that befall people of a certain age. In addition, she treats you to quick takes by other funny people. Here's one from Carrie Fisher: "As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't."In the book’s first section, “Aging: Why Didn’t Anybody Warn Me,” Barbara pokes fun at our physical decline. In the second section, “Married Since the First Crusade”, she kids around about her eons of marital bliss. And in the third section, “Muddling Through the Modern World”, she good-naturedly lampoons family occasions, airplane seatmates, oldies concerts, and dietary fads. When Barbara reads out loud from This Old Body, audience members rave: “I feel she is speaking just to me.” “Entertaining as hell.” “Makes us feel we’re all in this aging thing together.” Wonderful birthday, host, and holiday book for all the Baby Boomer and above men and women in your life. One for them, one for you.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barbara Greenleaf, Don Ollis, Phil Mayes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173062/bk_acx0_173062_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Temple Secrets Series: Southern Fiction Box Set , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1208min
    Two audiobooks in one volume: Temple Secrets (1000+ reviews) and Gullah Secrets Temple SecretsA town held together with secrets. A wealthy widow looking for an heir. One choice could shame high society into submission.Eighty-year-old Southern aristocrat Iris Temple’s health may be failing, but her wit is as sharp as ever. Before she joins her ancestral ghosts, she must pick an heir to take over her sprawling estate - and the book of secrets that's kept her family in power for generations. But between her scheming son, her estranged daughter who abandoned Savannah years ago, and her illegitimate half-sister, she’s working with slim pickings. If you like Southern humor, headstrong women, and twisty mysteries, then you’ll love Temple Secrets, a compelling tale of an unconventional inheritance. Gullah SecretsA family legacy in danger. A stranger in their midst. Do they have the strength to survive the gathering storm of secrets? For the Temple women, the winds of change are blowing. And if they’re not careful, it could sweep them all away....With a storm of trouble brewing across the island, the Temple women will have to survive more than a force of nature to put their ghosts to rest.Enjoy Gullah Secrets, the sequel to the best-selling novel Temple Secrets and a hilarious and warmhearted saga. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Holly Adams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235164/bk_acx0_235164_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Russians and the Beast: The Assassin, the Grey Man and the Surgeon Series, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 356min
    This is a standalone story that can be read without reference to any other novel but it includes the main characters from The Assassin, the Grey Man and the Surgeon series by D C Stansfield...With the demise of John Sea, the criminal mastermind who ran the North of England, the UK is wide open and considered easy pickings. The Russian mafia, guided by a senior member of the UK Secret Service, are now moving a huge criminal operation into position using a mixture of violence, extortion and bribery. Within months England will be under their control. They must be stopped. But The Assassin, the Grey Man and the Surgeon have their own problems. A one million pound contract has been put out on Surge. He is in serious trouble and must go on the run while trying to protect an innocent school teacher, the sister of his one true love. Together they will be hunted across England, moving from one safe house to another while the rest of the team tries to establish who is behind the contract and how they can strike back against the Russians. This time they face not one but two serious enemies and have to travel from St. Petersburg, Russia, to Montana, USA, in a desperate race against overwhelming odds with only their fading skills and the resources of the Firm to help. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Jenkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/130415/bk_acx0_130415_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Act of Revenge: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 718min
    What happens when a Navy SEAL comes home from war - with a mission? Garrett Walker is a warrior. For the last decade and a half he's been continuously at war - combat rotation after combat rotation. He's a veteran of the close fight, and he's taken a great many lives. Yet, all that combat and all those deaths were in the service of his country. Now, that's about to change. Since their college days, Garrett and his identical twin, Brandon, have been estranged. They were both in love with the same woman, and she chose Brandon. So Garrett chose the Navy SEALs. Then, following the death of their younger brother, yet another tragedy strikes the Walker family: Brandon is caught in the web of a Russian Mafia organ-theft ring. He's just another business man in Las Vegas on just another business trip - until strange men enter his hotel room and crudely remove his kidneys after he's been drugged. It's a rare crime, but one that happens more than is reported. For those in the black-market organ trade, it's easy pickings, right? But they didn't count on the resiliency of the one twin, or the rage of the other. Together, Garrett and Brandon embark on a mission. Together, they put all the rules aside and bring about the ultimate Act of Revenge. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Will Damron. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006817/bk_blak_006817_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Those Who Went Remain There Still , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 280min
    Heaster Wharton is dead, and his passing might mean an end to hostilities between the Manders and the Coys. If the the elderly patriarch showed the kindness and foresight to split his land cleanly between his feuding descendants, then a truce could be arranged. But his final request is a strange one, delivered across the country to the straggling remnants of his tribe. Representatives from both families must visit a cave at the edge of his property in the hills of Kentucky. There, he promised, they would find his last will and testament. But there's more than paperwork waiting underground, as vindictive old Heaster was well aware. In 1775, Daniel Boone and a band of axe-wielding frontiersmen struggled to clear a path through the Cumberland Gap into the heart of Bluegrass country, and they did not work unopposed. Hounded and harried by an astonishing monster, the axe-men overcame the beast by sheer numbers and steel. They threw its body into a nearby cave.It was not dead. And now, it is not alone. Crippled and outraged, for 100 years something terrible has huddled underground, dreaming of meat and revenge. But its newest callers are heavily armed, skeptical of their instructions, and predisposed to violence.With their guns and their savage instincts, Heaster's grandchildren will not make for easy pickings. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marc Vietor, Eric Michael Summerer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002844/bk_adbl_002844_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dry County: A Tale of Afterward: Devil Twins, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 14min
    Michael and Barton Blink are back, and this time, their bounty takes them to, of all places, a town without a drop of alcohol for sale. The devil twins are here for a bounty that should be easy pickings, if they could just find a way to get a drink, first.Here is a preview:Michael holstered his gun and giving one last glare Barton’s direction, he opened his bags.“There’s a full bottle of whiskey and a 12-pack in there. That should keep you covered till we leave.”Michael let the flap fall down and started his horse back up on the trail. “Clever f--king monk, ain’tcha?”Barton just shook his head and started his own horse up. “We’ll be there shortly and no word to Swanson about your feelings on his name...he’s touchy.”“I bet.”“Just don’t say anything.”They rode on in silence minus a few curses and chuckles - the curses from Michael and the chuckles from Barton. They reached the gate to the city before the hour was out. There, they were greeted by a short but slender man whose hair looked like it hadn’t been touched by the desert and had robbed the grease from an eel.“That’s him,” said Barton. “Remember, no lip about his name.”Michael just shook his head. “I knew it. I knew he’d look like that, didn’t I, Monk?” ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Koprowski. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/170072/bk_acx0_170072_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    To the Best of Our Knowledge: Back to the Land, Again, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
    In this hour, Melissa Coleman spent the formative years of her chilldhood roaming the lands of her family's farm in rural Maine. Melissa, her sister Heidi, and their parents, Eliot and Sue Coleman, lived off the grid, grwe their own organic food, and became media darlings when the Wall Street Journal ran an article about her father. Coleman writes about that time in her memoir This Life is in Your Hands. The piece begins with a reading from the book's beginning, by Sheila Shigley.Next, Jeremy Seifert fed his wife and son on pickings from the local dumpsters in Los Angeles California. The adventure awakened him to the immense waste of food going on in America every day. The result is his documentary Dive! which urges stores and individuals to work together to find solutions to food waste and hunger. Then, William Powers had returned home from abroad to find himself in shock at the excess of American culture. Then he found a woman he calls Dr. Jackie Benton, living sustainabily in a 12 x 12 foot house in rural North Carolina. He tells her story and what it can teach the rest of us in the book Twelve by Twelve. And finally, devastated at the unexpected death of her morther, Cheryl Strayed embarked on a three-month solo trip along the rugged Pacific Crest Trail. Those 94 days changed her life in ways she could never have imagined. She writes about that transformative time in her memoir Wild. [Broadcast Date: May 4, 2012] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/120504/rt_tbon_120504_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Bone Doll's Twin: Tamir Triad, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 996min
    Long ago, during the dark days of the Great War with Pleinmar, King Thelatimos journeyed to the Oracle of the God Illior at Afra to save his warn-torn kingdom. Here he was presented with a prophecy 'So long as a daughter of Thelatimos's line defends and rules, Skala shall never be subjugated.' And that is how the line of queens ruling over Skala was established... However, as generations went by, the male heirs to the throne became intensely resentful of the prophecy that emasculated their claim to power. Finally Queen Agnalain took the throne and the people of Skala suffered under her erratic and selfish command. Prompted by the people's outcry over this mad queen, her son Prince Erius claimed primogeniture, and seized the throne. Erius's ascent may have pleased the people of Skala, but a faction of the population, one who had not forgotten the prophecy, were worried. Plague, drought and famine spread throughout the kingdom weakening it's defences and offering easy pickings to Skala's old enemy and neighbour, Plenimar. As people start to recall the Oracle's prophecy, Erius begins to quietly kill off his female relatives who pose the only threat to his monarchy. Constantly in fear for her life, Princess Ariani the King's sister, gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. But Ariani is married to Lord Rhius, the patron of the powerful wizard Iya, and Iya has sinister plans for the babes. BONUS AUDIO: Includes an exclusive introduction written and recorded by author Lynn Flewelling. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Victor Bevine, Lynn Flewelling. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/000665/bk_adbl_000665_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Peeves , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 426min
    “Gremlins meets Inside Out in this sneaky parable about courage and self-control. Fun, funny, and surprisingly heartfelt." (Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One) Steven (Slim) Pickings is on the edge of a breakdown - but then, it always feels like Slim is teetering on the edge of something. The difference this time is that something’s caused Slim’s worries to come alive!  He’s set loose a bunch of annoying, pesky, outrageously contagious creatures - and they’re infecting everyone they meet and massing to take over the town!  Slim’s problems began when he and his sister, Lucy, visited their dad's work and Slim was hit in in the face with an experimental medicine, a previously not-yet-human-tested anti-anxiety spray called Personal Vexation Zoners, PVZ. No one knew the side effects before, but certainly none of the experts imagined that the spray would cause anyone infected to literally sneeze out their biggest peeves.  Now Slim and the rest of the town are trailed by the things that annoy them most. Noisy Peeve, Lazy Peeve, Asking Peeve - they all stick with Slim at all times and left untreated, they’re quickly getting worse and way, way more destructive.  To stop them, Slim will have to do more than just team up with his family and friends - he’ll have to face his fears, literally.  Debut author and award-winning screenwriter Mike Van Waes brings original intelligence and wit to a magical coming-of-age story in Peeves, where you have to face your feelings before your feelings have faces. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Josh Hurley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029145/bk_adbl_029145_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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