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Raymond Chandler (eBook, ePUB)

The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novelRaymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler's work based on reconstructing both the context in which it was written and the social world or totality it projects. Chandler's invariable setting, Los Angeles, appears both as a microcosm of the United States and a prefiguration of its future: a gigantic city built on deliberately ignoring nature, broken into a multitude of private worlds. But this essentially urban and spatial work seems also to be drawn towards a vacuum, an absence that is nothing other than death. With Chandler, the thriller genre becomes metaphysical.

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The Mark of the Pasha: A Mamur Zapt Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 391min

Gareth Cadwallader Owen is the Mamur Zapt, the Head of the Khedive's Secret Police. However, unlike his British colleagues, Owen works for the Khedive. It's not a comfortable perch, as agitation for political and social restructuring grows. Furthermore, Owen is married to a pasha's daughter, Zeinab, herself straddling a cultural divide. The Khedive has declared a procession. He's going to drive around Cairo with his ministers. Owen, who has spent his career defusing political time bombs, learns from his agents that the streets have been made dangerous by threats of real bombs. The first order of business is to ward them off. The second is to ensure the safety of an impending major European delegation to the capital... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Wallis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/002730/bk_bbcw_002730_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Heiress of the Sea: Kingdom of Fairytales Season Two Little Mermaid, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 176min

What happened after the happily ever after?You all know the story of your favorite fairytale, but did you ever wonder what happened after the fairytale ending? Well we know. Not all afters end up happily, sometimes the real adventure starts much later...With the queen's curse returning, the Anti-Mermaid League are on the warpath and the merfolk aren't helping matters with their jealousy over my relationship with Fish. I'd never thought that enemies could turn to lovers, but my feelings towards my sworn enemy are deepening and I'm not the only one to notice.With my friends straddling both sides of the Anti-merfolk line, I'm going to have to make a decision...and soon!Lighting-fast audiobooks you won’t be able to pause!Fantasy has never been so epic! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Valerie Rose Lohman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/214147/bk_acx0_214147_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Blood Lure: An Anna Pigeon Mystery, Hörbuch, Digital, 355min

In this mystery in Nevada Barr’s New York Times bestselling series, District Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is betrayed by nature itself, as a most unnatural evil stalks its prey in the pristine West…Straddling the border between Montana and Canada lies the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park - Anna’s home away from home when she is sent on a cross-training assignment to study grizzly bears. Along with bear researcher Joan Rand and a volatile, unpredictable teenage boy, Anna hikes the back country, seeking signs of bear. But the tables are turned on their second night out, when one of the beasts comes looking for them. Daybreak finds the boy missing, a camper mutilated, and Anna caught in a grip of fear, painfully aware that her lifelong bond with nature has inexplicably snapped... Language: English. Narrator: Joyce Bean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/001355/bk_brll_001355_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Circle of Jinn: Becoming Jinn, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 704min

Being Jinn is Azra's new reality. As she grants wishes under the watchful eye of the Afrit council, she remains torn between her two worlds: human and Jinn. Soon, secrets spill. Zars are broken. Humans become pawns. And rumors of an uprising become real as the Afrit's reach extends beyond the underground world of Janna. Straddling the line between these worlds becomes impossible. Aware of her unique abilities, Azra must not just face but embrace her destiny. But when the role she must play and those she must protect expand to include a circle of Jinn greater than her own, Azra will be forced to risk everything. A risk that means there's everything to lose, and at the same time, everything to gain - for herself and her entire Jinn race. In this dramatic sequel to Becoming Jinn, Azra's story comes to a heartfelt and thrilling conclusion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca Schwab. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/059696/bk_acx0_059696_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Rowan Wood Legends: The Lost Clan, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 508min

The Vampire Diaries with faeries. Welcome to Rowan.... I wasn’t the sort of girl who believed in fairytales, let alone tales about faeries. But that changed the day Faeries came to my small town and Hunters rose from their graves. On that fateful day, I received a book, a peculiar collection of myths and legends. Turns out it was so much more than stories. And just as I was on the verge of unlocking its secrets, it was stolen from me by someone I called a friend. Now, I don’t know whom I can turn to, whom I can trust. All I know is that there are two sides, and I am straddling the great divide because I am both Faerie and Hunter. And although I swore I would never choose, I am slowly falling for one of those sides.Fans of The Lux Series will adore Wildenstein's Faerie-tale. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephanie Fritz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/214913/bk_acx0_214913_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Flux Destiny: Fortuna's Rings, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 356min

Flux Destiny is the first installment in a coming-of-age series following Marco Mendoza and Hugo Wandschneider - two teenage outcasts with supernatural talents in a universe where destiny itself is a controllable force.When the mysterious Board of Trials orders them and their headstrong Clockbot, Lucky, to investigate a situation at Anderes - an isolated city straddling a gigantic rupture in space-time nicknamed Big Mouth - they discover a plague of blood-thirsty, biomechanical creatures called Cankers that are wreaking havoc on the city. Marco and Hugo must put aside their dislike for each other to try and uncover the source of these mysterious attacks and save Anderes from certain destruction.Legendary voice actor Todd Haberkorn delivers an unforgettable performance in this audiobook adaptation of the young adult fantasy novel written by animation producer Chris Moujaes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Todd Haberkorn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/151592/bk_acx0_151592_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Let the Wind Blow Through You , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 63min

Luke Winters has spent his whole life straddling two worlds, Lakota and White, belonging in neither. He isn't complaining. He feels richer for the twin heritages and for the struggle to be an authentic human being. He has learned to accept himself whether or not he is accepted by anyone else. Enter the murky, dangerous world of a Native American Noir thriller with undercurrents of forbidden love. A meld of Romeo and Juliet and The Godfather as seen through the eyes of a disgraced Lakota psychologist back in his home town. The woman he has loved all his life has become the feared donna of the crime family which controls the state. She has mastered all her enemies but one - the disease that is now killing her. As she fights rival crime bosses sensing her weakness, can the psychologist save her from herself? And at what cost to himself? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Al Peterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/030200/bk_acx0_030200_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Hell on Wheels: Black Knights Inc., Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 558min

Black Knights Inc. - Behind the facade of their tricked-out motorcycle shop is an elite special ops team assigned the jobs too hot for anyone else to handle. Ex-Marine Nate "Ghost" Weller is an expert at keeping his cool - and his distance - which makes him one hell of a sniper. It's also how he keeps his feelings for Ali Morgan in check. Sweet, sexy Ali has always revved his engine, but she's his best friend's baby sister ... and totally off limits. Ali's never seen anything sexier than Nate Weller straddling his custom Harley - or the flash of danger in his eyes when she tells him she's in trouble. First, something happened to her brother, and now she's become the target of a nasty international organization. With Nate, her life is in the most capable hands possible - but her heart is another story altogether. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Abby Craden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/002643/bk_tant_002643_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The End Zone , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 169min

Jolie Louis is a smart girl. She knows that her best friend, Sage Poirier, is a bad idea. He's a walking, talking cliché. The Adonis quarterback with the bulging biceps and harem of fangirls trailing behind him on campus like a stench you can't get rid of. Sadly, that's also the reason she can't stay away from him. Well, that and the fact that they're roommates. Jolie is already straddling the line between friendship and more when Sage comes to her with an offer she cannot refuse: Be his fake girlfriend and live for free for the rest of the semester. She tells herself that she can handle it. He's just the boy she saved 10 years ago, right? Wrong. So very wrong. He is a man now, and she is his captive, heart, body, and soul.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tessa Ellory, Joe Arden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/033265/bk_adbl_033265_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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