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    Powder Smoke
    York railway station, December, 1925. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer is enjoying a pint in the Parlour Bar before accompanying his wife, Lydia, to a charitable function. But when the couple meet at their regular spot near the footbridge, Jim is alarmed to see a man pointing a revolver in his direction. His thoughts go spinning back to a hot day at the end of August, when he attended the York Summer Gala in company with his boss, Superintendent Saul Weatherill, aka 'the Chief'. The Chief, a lover of guns, had insisted on taking Jim into a Wild West sideshow. The star of the show was a moody young sharpshooter called Kid Durrant, who spoke like someone who'd come from Arizona via Sheffield (or vice versa). As Jim watched Durrant displaying his deadeye skills, he little realised how this would be the start of his most dangerous investigation yet. POWDER SMOKE heralds the return of Andrew Martin's much-loved railway policeman, Jim Stringer.
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    The Circus. 1870s-1950s
    In seiner Glanzzeit war der amerikanische Zirkus die größte Unterhaltungsindustrie, die die Welt je gesehen hatte. Von Mitte des 19. bis Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts traten Wanderzirkusse vor bis zu 14.000 Zuschauern pro Vorstellung auf, beschäftigten bis zu 1600 Männer und Frauen und legten in nur einer Saison per Eisenbahn 30.000 km zurück. Das Spektakel todesmutiger Turner, starker Superhelden, furchtloser Dompteure und furchterregender "Freaks" schlug die Amerikaner in seinen Bann und überflügelte sogar Theater, Vaudeville, Comedy und Minstrelshows in ihrer Gunst.Dieses Buch wirft ein neues Licht auf das Phänomen Zirkus. Anhand von frühen fotografischen Schätzen, Originalplakaten, Lithografien, Sideshow-Bannern und Kupferstichen aus dem 16. bis 19. Jahrhundert, die die weltweiten Wurzeln des Zirkus illustrieren, wird der Leser in eine Welt voller Gefahr und Geschicklichkeit, Glanz und Elend transportiert. Zu den Highlights gehören die ikonischen Zirkusfotos von Mathew Brady, Cornell Capa, Walker Evans, Weegee und Lisette Model sowie kaum bekannte Bilder von Stanley Kubrick und Charles und Ray Eames.
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    Monster Erotica Mega Bundle: Weird As It Gets Vol. 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 142min, (USK 18)
    Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, from lustful demons of the deep, to horny creatures from another world. This particular mega bundle collects six sinful tales of the weirdest, strangest creatures that are ready to ravage anything that crosses their path. All at the same time! The Leprechaun Wedding It's the day of Lindsey's wedding and, thanks for her losing gambler boyfriend, they've got no way of covering the expenses. It wouldn't be so bad if they hadn't gone with an extravagant, and expensive, destination ceremony in Ireland. The Merman School After a year of traveling the world, Jillian has one final stop, to visit her aunt and uncle in Australia, before heading home. But what begins as a peaceful week in their secluded beachfront cabin turns wild quickly. The Unicorn Stampede As the young owner of a worldwide security and safety firm, Ana gets all kinds of strange calls. But, when the owner of an island wildlife park asks for her help under mysterious circumstances, Ana finds herself on her strangest adventure yet. The Freak Sideshow After literally running off to join the circus, Ally couldn't be happier, but when her traveling band of carnies start losing business fast, things start to unravel. They look for help in a strange bunch of sideshow freaks who mysterious join up on the road one night. The Chupacabra Posse Johanna isn't the best ranch hand at Rattlesnake Canyon, her uncle's Texas resort for city folk who want a weekend of roughing it country style, but she tries her best. With a whole gang of legendary Chupacabras on the loose, Johanna takes matters into her own hands, heading off into the desert in nothing but some lingerie, a cowboy hat and her trusty boots. The Sharkman Tank Lindy is a criminal by trade, a professional thief and swindler with her sights set on one last score before turning her life around and going legit. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hannah Wilde. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/039104/bk_acx0_039104_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Terminus Cut , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 431min
    Mercenaries with a mission. Logan Conner has given up the life of a warrior prince to become Jonathan Slaughter, a mercenary captain of a rough-and-ready band of mech-jocks for hire. Already legendary throughout the Periphery, their next job brings them head to head with the Jeuta, militant aliens who seek to loot and plunder isolated human colony worlds. The fearsome Jeuta raiders will task Logan to his limits, but they’re only a sideshow to Wholesale Slaughter’s real operation objective - locating a treasure trove at the legendary Terminus Cut outpost containing enough ancient Imperial technology to give his people a fighting chance. Don’t miss book 2 in this explosive new military sci-fi series! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marc Vietor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052378/bk_adbl_052378_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Valkyrie Returns: The Kurtherian Endgame, Book 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 464min
    Mixing Bethany Anne and politics is inevitably going to cause an explosion. Unfortunately for the Federation council, she’s the only one with the power to take the fight to the Kurtherians.But not for long...Gödel wants her revenge for Qu’Baka. Unbeknownst to Bethany Anne, the Seven are approaching Devon. Gödel’s bold move has far-reaching consequences for everyone playing the game.While coming to a solution to the sideshow on Red Rock, an old friend returns, reminding Bethany Anne of a time when things were simpler. See enemy. Kick enemy’s ass. Sit back and drink a Coke because she isn’t stopping to take names.Note: This book contains cursing. Perhaps humorous cursing, but cursing nevertheless. If this offends you, I don't suggest listening to this book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Beresford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/181386/bk_acx0_181386_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Phineas Taylor Barnum: The Greatest Humbug on Earth: Great Biographies, Book 38 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 93min
    Phineas Taylor Barnum was a successful small business owner, entrepreneur, newspaper editor, museum owner, sideshow operator, touring promoter for opera singers, theatrical producer, circus owner, congressman, mayor, and philanthropist. He had an influence on virtually every aspect of American life and it cannot be underestimated.You will listen about...Well-Spent Youth The Variety Shows The American Museum The Attractions Jenny Lind After Jenny Lind Politics The Barnum LegacyThe Quotable BarnumHow We Can Use P. T. Barnum in Our LivesAnd much more!Phineas Taylor Barnum’s name has been associated with circus sideshows and freaks and jokes for more than a century, but the truth is that he was a great man and a visionary who shaped the country he loved so much.Do not hesitate, get your copy now! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jerry Beebe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/172247/bk_acx0_172247_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Valley of Shadows , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 518min
    A raid on a Pakistan Al-Qaeda cell recovers two laptops. When the computers' booby-traps are defused and the computers decrypted and translated, they indicate that Al-Qaeda has planned a series of simultaneous attacks in five U.S. cities involving potential dirty bombs, biological weapons and maybe even a nuclear weapon - on Election Day. Derek Stillwater, troubleshooter for the Department of Homeland Security, is assigned to a multi-jurisdictional Special Terrorism Activity Response Team (START) to locate the weapon and terrorists in Los Angeles and prevent the attack. They have two days. But as they close in on their targets, Derek begins to think that the intelligence they gathered is a sideshow to distract them from the real target - one of the two candidates for President of the United States. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/002114/bk_acx0_002114_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Walking into the Ocean: A Peter Cammon Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 988min
    Introducing veteran Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Peter Cammon, this novel finds Cammon journeying to the Jurassic Coast to solve a seemingly ordinary domestic crime. At first glance, the perpetrator appears to have murdered his wife before drowning in the English Channel, but Cammon soon learns that his case is merely a sideshow. A broader series of murders has been unfolding along the cliffs, baffling the local police. Realizing that his assignment cannot be completed without figuring out the serial killings that threaten the region, the detective travels from London, Dorset, and Devon to the island of Malta, relentlessly following the overlapping threads of the two cases to their shocking climax. The first installment in a series of three, this cliffhanger sets a chilling tone for the British sleuth's forthcoming mysteries. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gerard Doyle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008103/bk_adbl_008103_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Crazy Little Thing: Why Love and Sex Drive Us Mad , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 433min
    Crazy Little Thing is a look at why we want to be in love and the burbling, boiling soup of endorphins, hormones, and neurotransmitters that spill from our brain to make us do things that would otherwise be viewed as insane. Investigative journalist Liz Langley traveled the country to research and interview singularly love-mad folks who maimed, murdered, and married. Langley reveals the science of love and lust, as well as very human stories: a spouse who can't stop loving her criminally psychotic husband, even after he threw acid in her face; the sweet romance between alligator-skinned sideshow performers; and a man whose neurons drive his necrophilia. Langley reveals the control our chemicals have over us in a hilarious, confounding - and too strange to be anything but true - look at love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laura Jennings. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/004812/bk_acx0_004812_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Nine Pound Hammer: Book 1 of The Clockwork Dark , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 621min
    What if John Henry had a son?Twelve-year-old Ray is haunted by the strangest memories of his father, whom Ray swears could speak to animals. Now an orphan, Ray jumps from a train going through the American South and falls in with a medicine show train and its stable of sideshow performers. The performers turn out to be heroes, defenders of the wild, including the son of John Henry. They are hiding the last of the mythical Swamp Sirens from an ancient evil known as the Gog. Why the Gog wants the Siren, they can't be sure, but they know it has something to do with rebuilding a monstrous machine that John Henry gave his life destroying years before, a machine that will allow the Gog to control the will of men and spread darkness throughout the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John H. Mayer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/001064/bk_lili_001064_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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