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    Madame Claude: Her Secret World of Pleasure, Privilege, and Power , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 674min
    Madame Claude, by renowned social historian William Stadiem, is a magnificent audiobook about the brilliant, complicated, and utterly amoral woman behind the most glamorous and successful escort service in the world. In post-WWII Paris, Madame Claude ran the most exclusive finishing school in the world. Her alumnae married more fortunes, titles, and famous names than any of the Seven Sisters. The names on her client list were epic - Kennedy, Rothschild, Agnelli, Onassis, Niarchos, Brando, Sinatra, McQueen, Picasso, Chagall, Qaddafi, the Shah, and that's just for starters. By the 1950s, she was the richest and most celebrated self-made woman in Europe, as much of a legend as Coco Chanel. Born Fernande Grudet, a poor Jewish girl in the aristocratic chateau city of Angers, the future Madame led a life of high adventure - resistance fighter, concentration camp survivor, gun moll of the Corsican Mafia, and erstwhile streetwalker - before becoming the ultimate broker between beauty and power. She harnessed the emerging postwar technology of the telephone to create the concept of the call girl. But Madame Claude wasn't just selling sex - she was the world's ultimate matchmaker, the Dolly Levi of the Power Elite. She was also one of the most controversial - and most wanted - women in the world. Now, through his own conversations with the woman herself and interviews with the great men and remarkable women on whom she built her empire, social historian and biographer William Stadiem pierces the veil of Claude’s secret, forbidden universe of pleasure and privilege. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eliza Foss, Keith Sellon-Wright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/003514/bk_aren_003514_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Man Without a Shadow: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 813min
    In this taut and fascinating novel, the New York Times best-selling and National Book Award-winning author of The Sacrifice, The Accursed, and Lovely, Dark, Deep examines the mysteries of memory, personality, and identity and pierces the enigmatic force that drives human lives - love. In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets the attractive, charismatic Elihu Hoopes - the "man without a shadow" - whose devastated memory, unable to store new experiences or to retrieve the old, will make him the most famous and most studied amnesiac in history. Over the course of the next 30 years, Margot herself becomes famous for her experiments with E. H. - and inadvertently falls in love with him, despite the ethical ambiguity of their affair and though he remains forever elusive and mysterious to her, haunted by mysteries of the past. The Man Without a Shadow tracks the intimate, illicit relationship between Margot and Eli as scientist and subject embark upon an exploration of the labyrinthine mysteries of the human brain. Where does "memory" reside? Where is "love"? Is it possible to love an individual who cannot love you, who cannot "remember" you from one meeting to the next? Made vivid by her exceptional eye for detail and her keen insight into the human psyche, The Man Without A Shadow is a unique story of forbidden love, a kind of secret, evolving marriage, depicted in Joyce Carol Oates' tight, impassioned prose. It is an uncanny, ambitious, and structurally complex novel that penetrates the mind and illuminates the heart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Hanfield. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004866/bk_harp_004866_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Psychothriller-Paket mit Jessie Hunt: Das perfekte Lächeln (#4) and Die perfekte Lüge (#5) (eBook, ePUB)
    Blake Pierces spannende Psychothriller-Reihe bestehend aus Buch #4 (DAS PERFEKTE LÄCHELN) und Buch #5 (DIE PERFEKTE LÜGE). Dieses Paket umfasst Buch vier und fünf in einer praktischen Datei mit über 100.000 Lesewörtern. In DAS PERFEKTE LÄCHELN (Buch #4) wird der Kriminalprofilerin Jessie Hunt ein beunruhigender neuer Fall zugewiesen: Eine Frau Mitte 30 wurde ermordet, nachdem sie sich mit Männern eingelassen hatte, die sie auf einer Dating-Plattform kennengelernt hatte. Ist sie einem der verheirateten Männer zu nahe gekommen? War sie das Opfer einer Erpressung? Von einem Stalker? Oder ging es um ein viel schändlicheres Motiv? Die Liste der Verdächtigen führt Jessie in wohlhabende, gepflegte Viertel, hinter den Schleier scheinbar perfekter Leben. Leben, die eigentlich zutiefst erbärmlich sind. Sie merkt, dass der Mörder hinter einem dieser gefälschten, plastischen Lächeln versteckt sein muss. Jessie muss die Tiefen seiner Psyche ausloten, während sie versucht, sowohl einen Mörder zu fassen als auch ihre eigene zerbrechliche Psyche zu schützen - mit ihrem eigenen mörderischen Vater auf freiem Fuß, der bereit ist, vor nichts Halt zu machen, bis er sie tötet. In DIE PERFEKTE LÜGE (BUCH #5) wird eine schöne, beliebte Fitnesstrainerin in einer wohlhabenden Vorstadt ermordet aufgefunden. Die Kriminalprofilerin und FBI-Agentin Jessie Hunt, 29, wird hinzugezogen, um herauszufinden, wer sie getötet hat. Doch die Geheimnisse, die diese von Affären geprägte Stadt birgt, sind anders als alles, was ihr bisher begegnet ist. Mit wem hat diese Frau geschlafen? Wie viele Ehen hat sie zerstört? Und warum musste sie sterben? Die spannenden Psychothriller mit Jessie Hunt sind geladen mit Emotion, Kleinstadtatmosphäre und unvergesslicher Spannung - eine fesselnde neue Serie, die Sie bis spät in die Nacht lesen werden.
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    Terminal Velocity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 485min
    In 1970 I realized that the Sixties were passing me by. I had never even smoked a joint, or slept with anyone besides my husband. A year later I had left Nicky, changed my name from Ellen to Rain, and moved to a radical lesbian commune in California named Red Moon Rising, where I was playing the Ten of Hearts in an outdoor production of Alice in Wonderland when two FBI agents arrived to arrest the Red Queen....So begins Blanche McCrary Boyd's brilliantly raucous account of self-styled feminist outlaws, their desperate adventures and extraordinary fates. Ellen, the narrator of Boyd's previous novel, The Revolution of Little Girls, this time pierces the heart of the sexual revolution in her quest to find a woman hero or - by default - to become one.Ferociously paced, Terminal Velocity delineates six wonderfully engaging characters: Artemis Foote, for whom being rich, talented, and beautiful is a kind of game; Jordan, a messianic fugitive who becomes Ellen's lover; Amethyst Woman, a Marxist/Leninist dentist; Ross, a red-diaper baby and now a columnist for Ramparts; and Pearl, an art history professor turned hippie. At the center of this vortex is Ellen, prior to her transformation happily married and a rising young editor at a genteel publishing house in Boston. Together with these women, she is caught in the political and moral tailspin of the Sixties, living in a sexualized world without boundaries that leads them, eventually, to destruction, acceptance, and even redemption.Deadpan funny and exquisitely moving, Terminal Velocity brings Boyd's lyricism, humor, and depth to material largely unexplored in American literature. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052905/bk_adbl_052905_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Jessie Hunt Psychothriller im Doppelpack: Die perfekte Frau (band 1) und Der perfekte Block (band 2): Ein spannender Psychothriller mit Jessie Hunt , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 928min
    Ein Doppelpack der Bücher Nummer 1 (Die perfekte Frau) und Nummer 2 (Der perfekte Block) von Blake Pierces Jessie Hunt Psychothriller-Serie! Dieser Doppelpack bietet Buch eins und zwei in einer praktischen Datei. In Die perfekte Frau ist sich die auszubildende Profilerin Jessie Hunt sicher, dass sie ihre düstere Kindheit endlich hinter sich gelassen hat. Sie und ihr Ehemann Kyle sind gerade aus einer beengten Wohnung in Downtown L.A. in eine Villa in Westport Beach gezogen. Dank Kyles Beförderung schwimmen sie förmlich im Geld. Und Jessie ist gerade dabei, ihr Masterstudium in forensischer Psychologie und damit den letzten Schritt zu ihrer Traumkarriere als Profilerin für Kriminalfälle abzuschließen. Aber schon kurz nach ihrer Ankunft beginnt Jessie ein paar seltsame Entwicklungen festzustellen. Die Nachbarn - und ihre Au Pairs - scheinen alle Geheimnisse zu haben. Der mysteriöse Jachtclub, dem Kyle unbedingt beitreten möchte, steckt voller Ehebrecher und hat selbst auch einige beunruhigende Regeln. Und der berüchtigte Serienkiller, der in der psychiatrischen Klinik verwahrt wird, in der Jessie ihr Studium absolviert, weiß mehr über ihr Leben, als normal ist - oder sicher. Als ihre Welt ins Wanken gerät, beginnt Jessie alles um sich herum zu hinterfragen - sogar ihren eigenen Verstand. Hat sie tatsächlich eine beunruhigende Verschwörung tief vergraben in der sonnigen Küstenstadt Kaliforniens aufgedeckt? Weiß der Massenmörder, den sie studiert hat, tatsächlich über ihre ganz persönlichen Albträume Bescheid? Oder holt sie nun endlich ihre schreckliche Vergangenheit ein?In Der perfekte Block versucht die neue Profilerin Jessie Hunt, 29, die Scherben ihres zerbrochenen Lebens aufzusammeln und verlässt die Vorstadt, um ein neues Leben in Downtown L.A. zu beginnen. Doch als eine wohlhabende Prominente ermordet wird, muss Jessie den Fall übernehmen und findet sich erneut in der Welt der so makellos erscheinenden Vorstadt wieder. ungekürzt. deutsch. Ina Leva. https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194345/bk_acx0_194345_sample.mp3.
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    Moonlight Equilibrium: Preternatural Chronicles, Book 3.5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 330min
    We all harbor beasts who hunger from the inside, trapped within a prison of flesh as we claw at the walls of our humanity.Jose had made the unfortunate decision to work with the cartel under the guise of providing a better life for his loving wife, five-year-old son, and newborn daughter. All too late, Jose learns that we are free to make any decision in life that we want, but it’s the consequences we cannot avoid.An eerie howl reminiscent of a haunted train pierces the night, signifying that the hunt has begun....Feel the pull of the Moonlight Equilibrium and get lost in a visceral world of unrelenting terror, exquisitely detailed gore, and the existential sorrow of regret.If you like Jim Butcher, Shayne Silvers, Cameron O’Connell, Kevin Hearne, Steve McHugh, Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Shannon Mayer, or K.F. Breene, you won't be able to put down the highly addictive Preternatural Chronicles.“Hunter Blain is my spirit animal.” (Shayne Silvers, Amazon Top 25 best-selling author)Nine out of ten people who recommend things loved Hunter Blain’s books, according to a rigged and heavily-biased research study overseen by Argento Publishing....Note from the sick and twisted author: This novel can be listened to as a standalone horror book. It can also be a sweet, delectable treat for those who are already engrossed in the Preternatural Chronicles as it fills in some backstory between books 3 and 4. From the perspective of a human…. I do so hope you enjoy the ride…because the humans definitely don’t.Insert evil laugh while twirling the ends of my mustache. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joel Richards. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/218508/bk_acx0_218508_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Green Eyed Monster: The Shanda Sharer Murder , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 50min
    It starts with a thrumming in Shanda's ears, a sound very much like the thick, coursing current of a river swelling its banks. Gradually she becomes aware that the frantic pulse is not water but blood rushing through her veins, echoing in the pitch-black cavern of her inner ear. The deafening thunder grows louder, terror wrapping its icy fingers around her pounding heart until she fears she may drown in her own blood. Louder and fiercer, it doubles and triples in intensity. "Abruptly, all falls silent. "Except for the laughter. "Still entombed in flames, she gasps for breath, but instead of fresh air she swallows fire. "And then it starts. "A scream pierces her to the core. "And then another. Another. 'Her own screaming as she knows she is burning alive. "And in the distance, but still audible, the laughter again. "Then, mercifully, she lapses into unconsciousness." The nightmare that 12-year-old Shanda Sharer had to endure was beyond horrifying. Kidnapped and beaten, stabbed, tortured, and then burned alive by her assailants, one can only imagine the horror she suffered in the last moments of her life. Her attackers, four teenagers who, following the instructions of a girl who was motivated just by pure, selfish jealousy - gladly joined in the horrible murder plot, without even an inkling of sorrow or remorse for their victim. Based on the true story of 12-year-old Shanda Sharer, whose murder gained nationwide notoriety, Green Eyed Monster provides a terrifying glimpse into the minds of her killers, young girls who had led such horrible home lives, themselves victims of sexual and ritual abuse, and eventually descended into a life of sexual promiscuity, drugs, alcohol, self-harm, and physical violence. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Troy McElfresh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/086509/bk_acx0_086509_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Europe Under the Old Regime: Power, Politics, and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 180min
    Behind the glittering facade of 18th century European civilization lurked some of the most brutal and cynical power brokers ever to practice the art of diplomacy, and ironically it was their blueprint for conquest that the French Revolution was to utilize so well. Europe Under the Old Regime is actually the preface to Sorel's tremendous and magnificently elaborate work, Europe and the French Revolution. In this brief introduction to his mighty history, Sorel gives us a sweeping and incisive understanding of the workings of court diplomacy as practiced from the time of Louis XIV up to the Revolution itself. It is an ugly picture of beautifully dressed women and gentlemen behaving in the most barbarous fashion, while doing so with grace and in a mannered style that was so brilliant and compelling that we can only wonder how they could carry out their perfidy and remain outwardly so cavalier. And yet, in the midst of sordid intrigue and heinous butchery, they did just that. Never in European history has such elaborate courtesy and refined behavior so thoroughly masked a vile intent. No one could be trusted. Thrones and kingdoms were partitioned and absorbed willy-nilly and their rulers sent packing...if they were lucky. Wars were frequent and horrible. Revenge, secret agreements, assassination: all in a day's work for an 18th century enlightened despot. When it came to "reasons of state", no kingdom was secure and no treaty sacrosanct. Diplomatic and military success were the only things that counted, and they were pursued with deadly zeal. This miniature masterpiece pierces the veil of 18th century manners and refinement to reveal the shocking truth of a "polite" aristocracy on the verge of self-immolation. Even after a hundred years, Europe Under the Old Regime remains one of the greatest historical essays ever written. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlton Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acon/000033/bk_acon_000033_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1121min
    A narrative thriller about the battle royale surrounding Barack Obama's quest for a second term amid widespread joblessness and one of the most poisonous political climates in American history. The election of 2012 will be remembered as a hinge of history. With huge victories in the 2010 midterm elections, the Republican Party had blocked President Obama at every turn and made plans to wrench the country sharply to the right. The 2012 contest offered the GOP a clear shot at controlling all three branches of government and repealing much of the social contract that dated back to the New Deal. Facing free-spending billionaires, Fox News, and a concerted effort in 19 states to rig the election by suppressing Democratic votes, Obama repelled the assault and navigated the nation back toward the center. In The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, Jonathan Alter uses his unmatched access and deep knowledge of politics and history to produce the first full account of America at the crossroads. He pierces the bubble of the White House and of the presidential campaigns with exclusive reporting and rare historical insight. More than a campaign book, this is the epic story of an embattled president facing a historic moment he considered more pivotal than 2008. Alter relates the untold story behind Obama's highs and lows, from his daring decision to raid Osama bin Laden's compound to the frustration of the debt ceiling fiasco to his run-ins with black and Latino activists he expected to be his firm allies. There are fresh details about the Koch brothers, Grover Norquist, Roger Ailes, and the online haters who suffer from "Obama Derangement Syndrome". Alter takes us inside the GOP "clown car" primaries as well as Obama's disastrous preparation for the first debate. We meet Obama's analytics geeks working out of "The Cave" and the man who secretly videotaped Mitt Romney's infamous comments on the "47 percent". The Center Holds, ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Alter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/006325/bk_sans_006325_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Keri Locke Mystery-Doppelpack: Eine Spur von Tod (Buch 1) und Eine Spur von Mord (Buch 2) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 743min
    Von dem Bestsellerautor im Mystery-Genre Black Pierce kommt ein großartiger, neuer Psychothriller.Ein Doppelpack der Bücher Nummer Eins (Eine Spur von Tod) und Nummer Zwei (Eine Spur Von Mord) von Blake Pierces Keri Locke Mystery-Serie!In Eine Spur von Tod (Ein Keri Locke Mystery, Buch 1) wird Keri Locke, die in der Mordkommission der LAPD für vermisste Personen zuständig ist, von der Entführung ihrer eigenen Tochter auch Jahre später noch verfolgt, denn sie wurde nie gefunden. Keri ist immer noch besessen davon, sie zu finden, und kann ihre Trauer nur auf eine Art bewältigen: Indem sie sich in ihre Arbeit stürzt und die Fälle vermisster Personen in Los Angeles behandelt. Ein Routineanruf der besorgten Mutter einer Schülerin, die erst seit zwei Stunden abgängig ist, sollte ignoriert werden. Doch etwas in der Stimme der Mutter trifft einen Nerv bei ihr und Keri entscheidet sich dazu, den Fall zu untersuchen. Was sie findet, ist erschreckend. Die verschwundene Tochter eines prominenten Senators hat Geheimnisse verborgen, von denen keiner wusste. Als alle Hinweise darauf deuten, dass es sich um eine Ausreißerin handelt, wird Keri von dem Fall abgezogen. Obwohl sie dem Druck von ihren Vorgesetzten und den Medien ausgesetzt ist und alle Spuren ins Nichts führen, hört die brillante und versessene Keri nicht auf weiterzusuchen. Sie weiß, dass nach 48 Stunden die Chancen enorm sinken, das Mädchen noch lebendig zu finden.In EINE SPUR VON MORD (Ein Keri Locke Mystery, Buch Zwei) wird Keri Locke durch einen neuen Hinweis - den ersten seit Jahren - wieder ermutigt, nach ihrer verschwundenen Tochter zu suchen und sie zurückzubringen. Zur selben Zeit erhält Keri den Anruf eines aufgebrachten Ehemanns, einem bekannten Schönheitschirurgen aus Beverly Hills, dessen Frau seit zwei Tagen verschwunden ist. Da sie eine wohlhabende Prominente ohne Feinde ist, die wenig Grund hätte, ihr Leben verlassen zu wollen, befürchtet er bereits da ungekürzt. deutsch. Birgit Arnold. https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/192603/bk_acx0_192603_sample.mp3.
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