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Martin Chuzzlewit: Penguin English Library, Hörbuch, Digital, 324min

Penguin Classics presents the audiobook adaptation of Martin Chuzzlewit, a tale of inheritance and destiny and the story Dickens considered his best. Read by John Wells. The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to seek his fortune in America. In depicting Martin’s journey - an experience that teaches him to question his inherited self-interest and egotism - Dickens created many vividly realized figures: the brutish lout Jonas Chuzzlewit, plotting to gain the family fortune; Martin’s optimistic manservant, Mark Tapley; gentle Tom Pinch; and the drunken and corrupt private nurse, Mrs Gamp. With its portrayal of greed, blackmail and murder, and its searing satire on America Dickens’ novel is a powerful and blackly comic story of hypocrisy and redemption. Part of a series of abridged, vintage recordings taken from the Penguin Archives. Affordable, collectable, quality productions - perfect for on-the-go listening. Language: English. Narrator: John Wells. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/000223/bk_pauk_000223_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Lady Dearing's Masquerade , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 530min

Finally free after a desperately unhappy marriage, widowed Lady Dearing goes to a masquerade. She thinks it's just a lark, but matters turn serious when she kisses a costumed stranger who protected her from a drunken lout. Word leaks out, scandal escalates and she becomes the town's most infamous widow. Shunned by society, she retreats to her country estate. Having no children of her own, she finds joy in caring for children she's taken in from London's Foundling Hospital. But every night, she is haunted by the memory of the gallant stranger, whose seductive voice and gentle touch awakened desires she'd thought long dead. Two years later, Sir Jeremy Fairhill still hungers for the lady from the masquerade. She felt like his match, more than his saintly deceased wife, more than any of the respectable ladies his friends urge him to marry. Failing to find her, he throws his energies into the cause of the Foundling Hospital, where he serves on the Board of Governors. Hearing that a notorious woman has some of the foundlings in her charge, he is impelled to investigate. He has no idea that she is the lady he seeks, but soon his sense of honor is at odds with his dangerous passion for the elusive, alluring Lady Dearing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Rowan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/010858/bk_acx0_010858_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Sorcha: The Highland Clan, Book 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 404min

Sorcha Ramsay is as willful as she is beautiful, and she has mastered the art of convincing others to do her bidding. She coerces a few guards to bring her on a hunting trip, but when an unidentified archer targets them, Sorcha is restricted to the castle grounds. Worse, she's assigned a lout of a guardian - Cailean, the maddeningly handsome guard who saved her from the archer - until her sire returns from a visit to the Grants. How can she show her sire, the infamous Logan Ramsay, she's grown up if she's not allowed her freedom? Though he intends to never marry, Cailean finds himself captivated by Sorcha's beauty and brash charm. He's determined to keep her safe from the archer, whether she wants him to or not. Then Sorcha's sire returns with news that has the potential to ignite the Highlands: Laird Alexander Grant has been badly injured. Trouble is brewing, and the archer, who may or may not be connected to a larger plot against the Ramsays and the Grants, continues to target Sorcha. As the danger mounts and Cailean and Sorcha are brought together again and again, their heated attraction becomes a deeper connection. But can Cailean convince Logan, the most fearsome man in the Highlands, that he is a worthy match for his firstborn daughter? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Woodson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/089015/bk_acx0_089015_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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What Every Lord Wants , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 200min

A woman with beauty, charm, and grace. Isn’t that what every lord wants? The lady makes a proposal. It took nothing more than her father’s death for Prudence Roxbury and her sisters to fall on hard times. The only flicker of hope in their bleak future is that their beautiful sister, Sarah, will marry and save them all from a life of destitution. But when Prudence hears that their father’s distant relation and heir has finally taken up residence in their old family home, Hagley Manor, she concocts a plan to rescue them from their miserable fate. After all, what lord wouldn’t want a beautiful wife on his arm? The gentleman offers a bargain. A hundred years have passed since a bitter feud tore the Roxbury family apart. But now Max, Lord Roxbury, has an opportunity to right the mistakes of the past. When he moves into Hagley Manor he has no idea the former residents live but a mile away. That is until he finds an intriguing young woman on his front steps, wrestling with a drunken lout and a potted plant. Indeed, Prudence Roxbury might be the answer to his problems. Captivated by her wit and beguiling smile, passion soon ignites. The stipulations of his father’s will means he must marry within three months. But what is a gentleman to do when he swore never to marry for anything less than love? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Penny Scott-Andrews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/103322/bk_acx0_103322_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Mail Order Bride: Savannah's Cowboy (Westward Wanted) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 263min

Miss Savannah Winter leaves Georgia for the small town of Dovetail, Texas to be a mail order bride. This big step seems her best chance to find a husband. After all she is 24 and a schoolmarm on the fast track to spinsterhood. Wearing her best hat and her bravest face, she steps off the train expecting to find a respectable marriageable man waiting for her. Specifically she expects to be met by "a fine-looking bachelor rancher of 26 years of age in need of a cheerful, sturdy and well-mannered wife." Instead she is met by a rangy looking cowhand who is 50 years old if he is a day. When she refuses to marry him and rebukes him for misrepresenting himself he tries to force her to go with him. A handsome cowboy strides over and confronts the lying creep who lured her out West. He is every inch her idea of the perfect cowboy, strong and handsome, confident and heroic. After he runs off the lout, she thanks him. She remembers him from the train. The moment he boarded she noticed his striking gray eyes and his charismatic way. Unfortunately since a woman and three small children were with him she took him for a married man. But he isn't. He is looking after his widowed sister and little nephews. Good news. Savannah, resigns to wait a week for the Georgia bound train to come, but soon learns the school teacher is seriously ill and volunteers to substitute for as long as she is needed, even though it will delay her departure. As sickness spreads through town and her relationship with the cowboy becomes more complicated, it becomes unclear whether she will find love in Dovetail or return home content to be a spinster schoolmarm. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amy Gramour. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/019335/bk_acx0_019335_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Grace & Mercy Find Peace on the Prairie 3-Book Boxset: Grace and Mercy Find Peace on the Prairie Series, Book 1-3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 266min

Voyage of GraceGentle spirited Grace Oakes, a monster in the eyes of her own mother, is driven mercilessly from her own home in hope of finding love on the Frontier prairie.Her journey to Cheyenne, Wyoming, together with her sister and friend, is plagued with self-doubt. Her fears of rejection are confirmed when the man who invited her as a mail-order bride immediately refuses her hand, instead preferring that of Grace’s travelling partner.A terrible but timely accident then throws Grace into unexpected proximity with a man who sees through her scarred mask, and who falls in love with the tender heart beneath. But can Grace accept true love, or will her fears drive him away forever?Emma's EscapeForbidden by her parents to marry the man she loves, Emma Johnson is forced into a society marriage with a monster. With the birth of their first child she fears not only for her own life, but that of her newborn also.Fate intervenes, leaving Emma with the prospect of another forced marriage, or a daring escape to the arms of the Frontier rancher whom she has always loved.Will he be willing to embrace her after all these years? Will he be ready to forgive her, and accept another man’s child as his own?Traveling MercyMercy Oakes’ mother is stricken to discover that her artistic daughter is besotted with a man she considers a ‘country lout’. Her high-society aspirations demand a man of culture and fame, so she finances Mercy’s trip to Paris to study under a great painter. Mercy’s own ambition agrees to the trip.Little does Mercy realize that the designs of a charming French suitor are not what they first appear to be.When circumstance forces her hand she returns to Cheyenne, Wyoming, guilt-ridden and brokenhearted, only to discover the man she loves is engaged to be married the following day.Is there indeed mercy for Mercy? Or will her wilful travels lose the very thing s ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kelly Drennen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/191683/bk_acx0_191683_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Reeling Backwards (eBook, ePUB)

'Raymond writes of all he has loved in a backwards-travelling anthology that brings together the great events of Brisbane history and the small events of daily life. He writes about wars and extermination and convicts on the triangle in Queen Street. He writes about a possum like a "friendly lout" and boiled eggs and honey on the breakfast table. Old, wild love affairs begin and end in these poems. We meet Bob Dylan and remember Enid Blyton and creaming soda and afternoon matinees with Danny Kaye. It is a mixture of joy, sadness, rage, laughter and passion, celebrating a life that has been full of surprises. Give yourself a treat and read Reeling Backwards slowly.' - Sandra Hogan, author of With My Little Eye 'With the mind of a historian and the soul of an artist, Evans turns his gaze back over a life lived large and fierce - determined to resist the hidebound milieu and humid statis of his home city, Brisbane. Reeling Backwards plays at the knotty edges of nostalgia, bending and folding time around place, while pausing to catch all the fleeting, sensory moments that make up an abundant life. Each poem is a skipping stone, a gentle disturbance, nicking the surface and rippling outwards.' - Melanie Myers, award-winning author of Meet Me at Lennons'Careful readers of Raymond Evans's histories always sensed he was a poet at heart. In this collection, he demonstrates this truth. The poems, which "arrived out of the blue", are personal and historical - a moving lesson in how to understand who we are and where we come from - individually and collectively. Read and savour.' - Julianne Schultz, author and former editor of Griffith Review'Raymond Evans writes of history, home and heart with wisdom and warmth. From an empty house to a childhood home filled with love. Travelling backwards through time across a life portrayed in sensuous images. So lovely to read - highly recommended.' - Edwina Shaw, author and editor of Bjelke Blues'A rollicking ride...and fun! Piercing in its emotional description of intangible realities we can all relate to. Such powerful, astute observations about secrets of the heart, granting permission to own and acknowledge one's often discarded sensibilities - written with intellect and artistry. Bravo! Contemporary and enthralling!' - Sue Smithers, international model, actress and jazz chanteuse

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The Nightcomers

Brutal, sensual drama, set as a "prequel" to Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw," stars Marlon Brando as Peter Quint, a drunken lout hired by a Victorian family as a gardener. He proceeds to seduce the governess (Stephanie Beacham) and gives the children some very unusual lessons on loving others. Thora Hird, Harry Andrews, Verna Harvey, Christopher Ellis also star, directed by Michael Winner. 96 min. Widescreen, Soundtrack: English, Subtitles: English, audio commentary by Winner, theatrical trailer.

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Sven Vaeth In The Mix-The So

Bis heute repräsentiert Sven Väth die elektronische Musik wie kaum ein anderer DJ. In den Neunzigern war er Mentor und Schamane. Er führte uns in die Welt der elektronischen Musik ein. Nach dieser verrückten, extrovertierten Zeit schuf Väth in den 2000ern seinen familiären Cocoon als globale Plattform für seine Musik und die seiner Mitstreiter. Schon immer war Väth für die Szene der "Baba", der Papa. Heute, in der 2010ern, ist er der Baba für eine neue Generation junger DJs, die von ihm lernen, dass es in der Musik nicht auf Nischendenken ankommt. Es ist nicht wichtig, ob eine Platte New Release Information angesagt ist. Es geht darum, ob du sie spürst und was du in deinem Set aus der Musik machen kannst. Bis heute spielt Väth Tracks, die man nicht von ihm erwartet und er bringt sie in Zusammenhänge, mit denen man nicht gerechnet hat. So gelingt ihm wie kaum einem anderen DJ, die gesamte elektronische Musik von verhaltenem Deephouse bis zu euphorischem Techno zu einer einzigen, großen Erzählung zu verarbeiten. Neben Frankfurt am Main ist Ibiza Väths musikalisches Zuhause. Nach 18 Jahren im Amnesia zog er und seine Crew ins Pacha, um dort ein neues Ibiza-Kapitel zu beginnen. Ob er sich an diesem neuen Ort erst zurechtfinden musste, hört man "The Sound of the 19th Season" nicht an. Väth eröffnet sein Set mit gut gelaunten Downbeats von Nightmares On Wax, die ihre humorvolle Stimmung mit gefilterten Bläsern und cartoonartigen Vocals unterstreichen. Von da geht Väth in den souveränen, schillernden Club Soul von Love Over Entropy über. Mit Adam Port wird Väth elektronischer und repetitiver, er klingt aber mit den sparsamen, jazzigen Pianotönen, einem elektronischen Gluckern und sanften Streichern, die die Poesie von Jazz und Elektronik verschmelzen, noch ziemlich gelassen. Als perfektes Gegenstück zu dem etappenreichen Arrangement von Adam Port arbeitet Emanuel Satie mit einer kurzen, geloopten Orgelfigur, die sich nach und nach in unsere Synapsen eingräbt. Florian Hollerith setzt diesem Minimalismus einen satten, flinken, akustischen Bass entgegen. Hollerith lässt Trompeten und Stimmen durch den Klangraum wandern: witzig, freaky und sämtliche Grenzen sprengend. Väth mixt die schmetternde Snaredrum von Talaboman im Remix von Luke Slater in diesen spielerischen Groove. Slaters subtile Bassline, die mit nuancierten Orgeltönen kommuniziert, erinnert an Meilensteine der House Music, denen hier mit flirrenden, elektronischen Sounds ein moderner Twist verpasst wird. Die hüpfenden Arpeggios verbreiten aber keine Nervosität, sondern eine tiefe Entspanntheit, wie sie nur dieser Jahrhundertsommer bringen konnte. Diese Ruhe wird vom agilen, unberechenbaren, dreidimensionalen Funk von French-House-Maverick I:Club weggefegt. Dann sorgt Väth mit einer monoton pulsierenden Bassline von Edward schon wieder für Gelassenheit. Mit dem sinnlichen, verführerischen Vocal zieht er uns tiefer in die Welt der elektronischen Klänge. Dann spielt er noch ein Stück von Luke Slater, der den Housesound mit einer unerwarteten Pianoimprovisation aufbricht. Deren Dynamik wird von einem zeitlosen Stück von Shufflemaster &amp, Chester Beatty von einem Streicherloop auf die Spitze getrieben, der wie ein Fetzen aus dem Soundtrack eines alten Schwarzweißfilms klingt. Mit den entkoppelten, trippigen Klängen von Patrice Bäumel deutet Väth die Stimmung des zweiten Teils seines Mixes an, bevor er Teil 1 mit Red Axes¿ afrikanisch anmutenden Tribal-Klängen beendet. Im zweiten Set setzt Väth ganz neu an. Mit dem gewaltigen, dunklen, fordernden Bass von Nicolas Masseyeff, der sich wie eine unberechenbare Echse durch den Raum schlängelt, sind wir mitten in der Nacht angekommen, Tom Pooks &amp, Joy Kitikonti nehmen diese Dynamik und Lebendigkeit mit spacigen, raumgreifenden Fusion-Klängen auf, die bei Butch wenig später noch selbstbewusster und kantiger klingen. Butch verbindet sägende Synths mit majestätischen Streichern zu einem Techno-Epos. Fabrice Lig kontert mit einer augenzwinkernden Acidfigur, die dieser dramatischen Stimmung ein humorvolles Gelächter entgegensetzt. Mit Robag Wruhmes heruntergekochtem Signature Groove wird Väth kurzatmiger, die humorvolle Note wird in Wruhme Stimmmodulationen weitergeführt. Dann öffnet Väth das Set mit einem swingenden, organischen Groove von Stimming. Mit Ejeca nimmt er den Chicago-lastigen Housesound des ersten Teils wieder auf, klingt dabei aber bedingungsloser und fordernder. Koze bricht den Groove mit ganz und gar unerwarteter, so surrealer wie lustiger Radiomoderation. Ilario Alicante übernimmt diesen Ball mit einer Reihe von Vocal-Samples, die eine geisterhafte und unheimliche Atmosphäre verbreiten. Mit Alicantes grollendem Groove und angriffslustigen, agilen Synths setzt Väth einen ersten Höhepunkt. Mit Anna reduziert Väth die Spannung, eine coole, distanzierte Stimme wiederholt immer wieder das Wort "Time". Der zweite Höhepunkt dieses Sets ist Michael Mayers "Lout". Dessen fokussierter, gradliniger Technogroove wird für einen kurzen Moment von einem unwahrscheinlichen, strudelartigen Break verschluckt. Mit Benny Rodrigues verpasst Väth dieser Gradlinigkeit ein überschwängliches, durch und durch positives Italo-Disco-Feeling, das in Krystal Klears "Neutron Dance" mündet, einen der großen Hits des Jahres. Mit dessen bezaubernd unbefangenen Melodien verabschiedet sich Väth auch schon. Zeit, wehmütig zu sein, gibt er uns und auch sich selbst nicht. Nach dem furiosen Closing auf Ibiza im Oktober zieht er sich zu seiner Ayurveda-Kur zurück. Dann bricht er zur "Sound of the Season"-Tour auf, die ihn bis nach Südamerika bringen wird. Nach Silvester macht er wie jedes Jahr Urlaub in Asien. Da wird er nochmal den Jahrhundertsommer 2018 vor seinem inneren Auge vorbeiziehen lassen und dann einen Plan aushecken, wie der zwanzigste Geburtstag von Cocoon auf Ibiza gebührend zu feiern ist. Wir sind auf jeden Fall gespannt auf die 20th Season!

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