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    The Redacted Sherlock Holmes, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 334min
    Volume III of The Redacted Sherlock Holmes presents six more scintillating stories from the pen of Orlando Pearson about the great Baker Street detective. Holmes investigates: Alarming events at the medical practice next door to Dr. Watson Missing autograph manuscripts in Fascist Italy Climate change and a mysterious birth in London in 1894/95 Tax evasion by the London Softwear Company The role of cricket in the rise of Hitler A Kafkaesque plot which foreshadows the banking crash of 2007/08 Mr. Pearson mixes the canon with events from history both very recent and from earlier epochs to showcase the talents of the Baker Street sleuth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/080491/bk_acx0_080491_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Memorabilia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 451min
    When adjunct professor Stephen Paul accidentally discovers the suicide note of his recently deceased friend, he unwittingly trips a wire into his own enigmatic madness. Within hours, the basic characteristics of his life rupture and are transformed by incarceration and psychiatric chaos. As a prisoner of the state and of his own body, Stephen's existence appears absurd, ruthless, and barely stitched together. He must come to embrace that the only way out is through an associative mind, one that is as much invisible as it is material.Memorabilia is a Kafkaesque narrative driven by the existential nature of creation. It’s a novel of self-discovery, exploration, and understanding, risking more and more as it progresses. A.S. Coomer questions the nature of reality and the reliability of the mind. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: A.S. Coomer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/188815/bk_acx0_188815_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mummy Where Are You?: Revised Edition, New , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 901min
    Mummy Where Are You? is the horrifying tale of one woman's attempt to protect her child from child abuse and the extraordinary lengths she goes to keep her child safe. When Charlotte's son tells her what Daddy is doing, a Kafkaesque nightmare begins as she leaves all she knows and loves in an instant, clutching her child's hand and crossing oceans. Have you ever wished you could go back and freeze time? Mummy Where Are You? raises poignant and disturbing issues and cannot fail to speak to mothers everywhere. When Charlotte's son is disbelieved by those who are meant to protect him, she is faced with a Sophie's choice of whether to stay and fight against the odds or embark on a terrifying journey. It will leave mothers searching for the answer and asking themselves - what would I do? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eleanor Dobing. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/049683/bk_acx0_049683_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Land Across , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 655min
    An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards, and then he is detained for not having it. He is released into the custody of a family, but is again detained. It becomes evident that there are supernatural agencies at work, but they are not in some ways as threatening as the brute forces of bureaucracy and corruption in that country. Is our hero in fact a spy for the CIA? Or is he an innocent citizen caught in a Kafkaesque trap? In The Land Across, Gene Wolfe keeps us guessing until the very end, and after. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Woodman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013038/bk_adbl_013038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Room: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 207min
    Funny, clever, surreal, and thought provoking, this Kafkaesque masterpiece introduces the unforgettable Bjorn, an exceptionally meticulous office worker striving to live life on his own terms. Bjorn is a compulsive, meticulous bureaucrat who discovers a secret room at the government office where he works--a secret room no one else in his office will acknowledge. When Bjorn is in his room, what his coworkers see is him standing by the wall and staring off into space, looking dazed, relaxed, and decidedly creepy. Bjorn's bizarre behavior eventually leads his coworkers to try to have him fired, but Bjorn will turn the tables on them with help from his secret room. Debut author Jonas Karlsson doesn't leave a word out of place in this brilliant, bizarre, delightful take on how far we will go--in a world ruled by conformity--to live an individual and examined life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Newbern. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004092/bk_rand_004092_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1022min
    The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories is a bizarre and colorful collection containing the finest short stories by the iconic Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. From the witty and Kafkaesque "The Nose", where a civil servant wakes up one day to find his nose missing, to the moving and evocative "The Overcoat", about a reclusive man whose only ambition is to replace his old, threadbare coat, Gogol gives us a unique take on the absurd. Gogol’s tales of inconsequential civil servants, mixing the everyday with the surreal, foreshadow the work of his later acolytes, Bulgakov and Kafka. None is more cutting than the main story, "The Diary of a Madman", where a government clerk descends to insanity, claiming that he can communicate with dogs and that he is next in line to the throne of Spain. Translator: Constance Garnett.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicholas Boulton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/001930/bk_naxo_001930_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Asleep , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 287min
    The New York Daily News has called Asleep "enchanting, surreal...Yoshimoto brings readers to another powerful, atmospheric place". Demonstrating again the artful simplicity and depth of her vision, Banana Yoshimoto reestablishes her place as a writer of international stature in a book that may be her most delightful since Kitchen. In Asleep, Yoshimoto spins the stories of three young women bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning for a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another, who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. A third finds her sleep haunted by a woman against whom she was once pitted in a love triangle. Sly and mystical as a ghost story, with a touch of Kafkaesque surrealism, Asleep is an enchanting new book from one of the best writers in contemporary international fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Zeller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021882/bk_adbl_021882_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy: Digital Transformation with the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 557min
    Mark Schwartz, author of leadership classics A Seat at the Table and The Art of Business Value, reveals a new (empowering) model for the often soul-shattering, frustrating, Kafkaesque nightmare we call bureaucracy. Through humor, a healthy dose of history and philosophy, and real-life examples from his days as a government bureaucrat, Schwartz shows IT leaders (and the whole of business) how to master the ways of the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler to create a lean, learning, and enabling bureaucracy. For anyone frustrated by roadblocks, irritated the business can't move fast enough, or suffering under the weight of crushing procedures, this book is for you. No matter your role, you need a playbook for bureaucracy. This is it. With this playbook, you can wield bureaucracy as a superpower and bust through it at the same time.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erick Jason Martin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/214502/bk_acx0_214502_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Amerika: The Missing Person: A New Translation by Mark Harman Based on the Restored Text , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 577min
    A Brilliant new translation of the great writer's least Kafkaesque novel, based on a German-language text that was produced by a team of international scholars and that is more faithful to Kafka's original manuscript than anything we have had before. With the same expert balance of precision and nuance that marked his translation of Kafka's The Castle, the award-winning translator Mark Harman now restores the humor and particularity of language to Amerika. Here is the story of 17-year-old Karl Rossman, who, following a scandal involving a housemaid, is banished by his parents to America. With unquenchable optimism and in the company of two comic-sinister companions, he throws himself into misadventure after misadventure, eventually landing in Oklahoma, where a career in the theater beckons. Like much of Kafka's work, Amerika remained unfinished at the time of his death. Though we can never know how Kafka planned to end the novel, Mark Harman's superb translation allows us to appreciate as closely as possible, what Kafka did commit to the page. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Guidall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000249/bk_gdan_000249_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Last Days of the Condor , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 572min
    Look in the mirror: You're nobody anybody knows. You know pursuing the truth will get you killed. But you refuse just to fade away. So you're designated an enemy of the largest secret national security apparatus in America's history. Good guys or bad guys, it doesn't matter: All assassins' guns are aimed at you. And you run for your life, branded with the code name you made iconic: Condor. Everyone you care about is pulled into the gunsights. The CIA star young enough to be your daughter - she might shoot you or save you. The savvy political aide who lets love trump the law. The lonely woman your romantic dreams make a fugitive. The Middle Eastern child warrior you mentored into a master spy. Last Days of the Condor is the bullet-paced, ticking-clock saga of America on the edge of our most startling spy-world revolution since 9/11. Set in the savage streets and Kafkaesque corridors of Washington, DC, shot through with sex and suspense, with secret-agent tradecraft and full-speed action, with hunters and the hunted, Last Days of the Condor is a breakneck saga of America's secrets from muckraking investigative reporter and author James Grady. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Berkrot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001923/bk_aren_001923_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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