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Run Jackie Run , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 271min

Jack is a down-on-his-luck retired NYPD detective who is living in a flophouse and going through a nasty divorce. He's distraught over his missing daughter and suicidal. He gets asked to look into the unsolved murder of his childhood friend. Jack's investigation takes him to the dark side of the local skin clubs, and he butts heads with the local crime boss, who has a bigger secret to hide. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Van Doren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/127598/bk_acx0_127598_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Novella of Youth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 205min

Fifteen-year-old Hutch tells us his story about growing up as a kid of free-spirited, drug-addicted parents, to hustling on the streets of New York City, to befriending misfits in a Bowery flophouse where he’s forced to fight predators and face the brutalities that lurk in the darkest corners of a runaway’s world. Through his determination, and by fate, he’s given an opportunity to change his life, and the lives of others. Embracing his future, finding redemption in literature, he must say farewell to his haunting past. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Carter Aimone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/122994/bk_acx0_122994_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 675min

Thunder at Twilight is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna - and in the life of the 20th century. It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first collided with Trotsky. It was in Vienna that the failed artist Adolf Hitler kept daubing watercolors and spouting tirades at fellow drifters in a flophouse. Here, Archduke Franz Ferdinand had a troubled audience with Emperor Franz Joseph - and soon the bullet that killed the archduke would set off the Great War that would kill 10 million more. With luminous prose that has twice made him a finalist for the National Book Award, Frederic Morton evokes the opulent, elegant, incomparable sunset metropolis - Vienna on the brink of cataclysm. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Morey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004375/bk_rand_004375_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Not Taco Bell Material, Hörbuch, Digital, 479min

In his second book, Adam Carolla - chart-topping podcaster and author of New York Times best seller In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks - reveals all the stories behind how he came to be the angry middle-aged man he is today. Funnyman Adam Carolla is known for two things: hilarious rants about things that drive him crazy and personal stories about everything from his hardscrabble childhood to his slacker friends to the hypocrisy of Hollywood. He tackled rants in his first book, and now he tells his best stories and debuts some never-before-heard tales as well. Organized by the myriad "dumps" Carolla called home as a child - through the flophouse apartments he rented in his 20s, up to the homes he personally renovated after achieving success in Hollywood - the anecdotes here follow Adam's journey and the hilarious pitfalls along the way. Adam Carolla started broke and blue collar and has now been on the Hollywood scene for over 15 years. Yet he never lost his underdog demeanor. He's still connected to the working class guy he once was, and delivers a raw and edgy, fish-out-of-water take on the world in which he lives (but with which he mostly disagrees), telling all the stories, no matter who he offends - family, friends or the famous. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Carolla. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003106/bk_rand_003106_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Case of the Cursed Dodo: The Endangered Files, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 155min

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World meets The Maltese Falcon with plenty of jokes and gags to keep you laughing out loud. If you loved Who Framed Roger Rabbit or Zootopia this is the audio adventure for you! The Case of the Cursed Dodo is a hilarious throwback to old time radio serials starring a hardboiled Winnie-the-Pooh. His name's Jake G. Panda, and he's a wildlife investigator. He works at a flophouse for endangered critters called the Last Resort. He's the hotel snoop. The resident fuzz. It's his job to keep these unusual guests safe and out of harm's way. This first installment of The Endangered Files is a wild and woolly mystery involving a missing guest, a green bird, and a bunch of double-crossing critters all hot on the trail of a valuable artifact called The Cursed Dodo. This audiobook is designed to introduce young listeners to the subject of endangered species in a fun and informative way. So join this tough talking panda detective and a cast of endangered creatures on a globe-trotting audio adventure that will appeal to the kid in all of us. The complete list of narrators includes: Michael McConnohie, J.W. Terry, Dave Mallow, Molly Brandenburg, Antoinette Attell, Ian Whitcomb, Barbara Watkins, and Bobb Lynes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael McConnohie, J.W. Terry, Dave Mallow, Molly Brandenburg, Antoinette Attell, Ian Whitcomb. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/097273/bk_acx0_097273_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Medicine Walk , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 481min

By the celebrated author of Canada Reads Finalist Indian Horse, a stunning new novel that has all the timeless qualities of a classic, as it tells the universal story of a father/son struggle in a fresh, utterly memorable way, set in dramatic landscape of the BC Interior. For male and female listeners equally, for readers of Joseph Boyden, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas King, Russell Banks, and general literary. Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father Eldon. He's 16 years old and has had the most fleeting of relationships with the man. The rare moments they've shared haunt and trouble Frank, but he answers the call, a son's duty to a father. He finds Eldon decimated after years of drinking, dying of liver failure in a small town flophouse. Eldon asks his son to take him into the mountains, so he may be buried in the traditional Ojibway manner. What ensues is a journey through the rugged and beautiful backcountry, and a journey into the past, as the two men push forward to Eldon's end. From a poverty-stricken childhood, to the Korean War, and later the derelict houses of mill towns, Eldon relates both the desolate moments of his life and a time of redemption and love and in doing so offers Frank a history he has never known, the father he has never had, and a connection to himself he never expected. A novel about love, friendship, courage, and the idea that the land has within it powers of healing, Medicine Walk reveals the ultimate goodness of its characters and offers a deeply moving and redemptive conclusion. Wagamese's writing soars and his insight and compassion are matched by his gift of communicating these to the listener. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Stechschulte. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/008540/bk_reco_008540_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Mockingbird Bible

Here's some early press reaction to Mockingbird Bible: 'Mockingbird Bible is a soulful, quiet and absolutely brilliant collection of songs from one of Canada's premier musical talents. Decroo has yet again proven himself to be one of the country's best songwriters.' - 24 Hours 'Put the gruff-but-sensitive singer-songwriter in just about any other Canadian city besides Vancouver and you're looking at a sold-out show and maybe even a little bit of hysteria over one of the finest tunesmiths out there. Run, don't walk, in other words, before they all piss off to Montreal or something!' - Georgia Straight His songs seem like a threadbare suit that feels good to wear, and he sings meaning every word. Folk-rock that's pushing the boundaries. - The Province 'He's earned the right after his previous records to step back some, maybe turn on a light and breath easy for a while, but he doesn't, instead wondering if it's rain falling or gasoline, at the same time striking a match to learn the truth.' - Vue Weekly Rodney Decroo's War Torn Man was a monolithically dark enterprise, lifted out of it's pervading sense of despair by a sizzling band caught live and on fire after weeks on the road. As thrilling as it was to hear the upbeat clash so heroically with the downbeat on that universally acclaimed piece of work, Rodney's new Mockingbird Bible offers no such protection. It's a kind of straight-ahead depression session, the like of which draws a certain kind of listener like a suicidal moth to an open flame. It's quiet, and meditative, with none of the rollicking will to dance on the lip of the abyss we heard from War Torn Man. And ever since that record set a high-water mark for the artist and opened doors all over Canada, US, and Europe for Rodney's acutely honest vision, his circle of friends and colleagues have watched Mockingbird Bible unfold like a slow-motion demolition. Like Berlin by Lou Reed, or The Marble Index by Nico, or pretty much anything by Townes Van Zandt, here is a record so exhaustively bleak that you fear for it's health, even while the sadness seizes and lifts you. True to Rodney's unfailingly poetic sensibilities- which provide such a ringing contrast to the shaggy creature that produces them, he spares us an explicit account of feelings. Reticence at war with honesty, that's the source of his mojo. And so abstract phrases jump out of the music, 'junkies on fire', 'shooting stars and battle scars', loneliness compared to the soul of a spider, and the oddly disturbing question, 'Is that rain coming down, or is that gasoline?' Lines that pile up and shake us, even if we're not sure what they mean, exactly. Rodney's life is in these random-feeling allusions, and you feel that a more explicit account of the blight they address would be too much to bear. As the record winds to a close, so does Rodney's voice. In The Captain's Tower Song, he is wheezing into his hand it seems, asking, against his own nature, and with a clarity that suddenly brings everything into focus, 'Oh my mother, oh my father, will we be reconciled...?' As ever, Rodney's collaborators are on point for this long, dark, acoustic album of the soul. Ida Nilsen (Great Aunt Ida, Buttless Chaps) and Sam Parton (Be Good Tanyas) hover like angels of mercy, while Jon Wood (Flophouse Jr., Herald Nix) dials in just enough embellishment. A single, authoritative bass note from the piano braces Sacred Ground, electric guitar acts like distant thunder on Gasoline, lap steel brings humidity to Memories of Snow, Memories of Dust, Meredith Bates' fiddle brings melancholy grace notes to Spinning Wheel, an entire vocabulary of anxiety is conjured up in the simple organ parps and distant kettle drum of Long White Road, the whole of St. Augustine becomes shrouded in it's own Carnival of Souls dream-time. And through it all Rodney opens his wounds for our listening pleasure. And it is a pleasure to be sure, while the implicit message it carries- we ignore these accounts of human desolation at our peril- rings louder and louder, through the suffocating quiet that surrounds us.

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