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    Us , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 599min
    They were never an obvious group of friends. Julian came from the most staid of county families. Jake's passage from unassuming suburbia to the dreaming spires of Oxford happened only by chance, and at great cost. And Adrienne, daughter of one of New York's wealthiest and most glamorous families, grew up more used to appearances in Vogue than to Oxford's cold and dusty lecture halls. When the three of them arrive at university, it is Julian's sister, Maggie, who brings them together. It is her idea to teach Jake's childhood tormentor a lesson. But what begins as a game has life-changing consequences for them all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nancy Black, Nicholas Bell, Humphrey Bower. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/000094/bk_boli_000094_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Barclay: Bachelors & Babies, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 372min
    No bachelor could be prepared for what happens to the Givens brothers one stormy night in 1876. Finding a pregnant woman on their road, they take her in. Before they can learn anything about her, she gives birth to triplets and disappears. Luckily, the doctor supplies a much-needed wet-nurse - Cynara, a recent widow who lost her baby. Her sad eyes and gentle acceptance awaken something in Barclay's staid soul. But she's not ready for a new man in her life. She'll stay at the ranch and tend the babies, but that's all.Meanwhile, where is the babies' real mother? Who and where is the father? And what will become of these helpless infants? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jenny Ward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194214/bk_acx0_194214_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Napoleon of Notting Hill , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 364min
    In 1904, Great Britain was at the height of its prosperity; but G. K. Chesterton saw the drudgery of capitalism and bureaucracy eating away at the eccentricity and spontaneity of the human spirit. In The Napoleon of Notting Hill, his first novel, Chesterton creates a witty satire of staid government, set in a London of the future. Auberon Quinn, a common clerk who looks like a cross between a baby and an owl and is often seen standing on his head, is one day told that he has been randomly selected to be His Majesty the King. He decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement - with delightful results. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frederick Davidson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009437/bk_blak_009437_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Gulliver's Travels , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 657min
    Lemuel Gulliver, a slightly staid ship’s doctor, relates the tales of his astonishing travels. He encounters the tiny, warring Lilliputians; the giant, sceptical Brobdingnagians; the ludicrously intellectual Laputans; and the idealistic - if rather stolid - Houyhnhnms and their bestial servants, the Yahoos. An immediate best seller when it was first published in 1726, Gulliver’s Travels has remained a favourite ever since. It was an attack on the politics and society of Swift’s day, but it is also a polemical, inventive, surreal, vitriolic, and wonderfully imaginative masterpiece, whose powerful satire continues to strike home.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jasper Britton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000596/bk_naxo_000596_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Flying Boot , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 209min
    Brian Hart lived a mundane, structured life in London, England, with enough qualifications to secure a job at his local bank as a teller, which suited his staid, organized temperament just fine. Now a 45-year-old bachelor, he saw a distinct possibility of living out the rest of his life alone, without even causing a ripple on the planet. Then the dreams began! To his own astonishment, he acted with firm conviction! He sold his house in the capital and bought an old boatyard by the South coast. In his dreams, he saw what looked like an oceangoing boot that had to be built, and it would take him on an astonishing 'round-the-world race. Brian’s new life had begun!  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rae Dornan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/128560/bk_acx0_128560_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Market for Virgins , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 60min
    From award-winning author Paul Jaskunas comes a glimpse into the decadent, amoral world of the expats who make Hong Kong their playground. Junior exec Ben thought working for a prestigious bank in Hong Kong would be a career-building adventure and an exotic change from his staid Long Island upbringing. In the complex splendor of Hong Kong, he finds himself in a position of extreme privilege - a position in which everything is seen as a commodity. When he and his colleagues take an outing on the South China Sea to escape the city smog, a sordid secret is revealed. Sickened, Ben questions what sort of man he has become in this glittering, seedy world where even human beings can be converted into currency. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Lane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/007098/bk_brll_007098_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Holiday Affair , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 276min
    Staid professor Lissy McIntyre believes that choosing a mate should be based on common sense, not runaway passion. And she would certainly never pick a rolling stone like Nick Richards for long-term love. But a red-hot, tropical romance? Oh, yeah. He's got a body just made for sinning, and his sizzling kisses leave her senseless. When Nick blows into town, he's stunned to discover that his no-nonsense new neighbor and coworker is the same sultry creature he seduced for one night of forbidden island pleasure. He's unaccustomed to staying in one place for long, but he just can't seem to keep his hands off the multifaceted woman. Will Nick break loyal Lissy's heart, or will she be the one woman from whom he simply can’t walk away? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: India Plum. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021621/bk_adbl_021621_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Antic Hay , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 546min
    Young Oxford tutor Theodore Gumbril has become thoroughly dismayed by the formality of college life and the staid British institutions of learning. An impetuous need for celebration, even rebellion, possesses him. He and his bohemian companions embark on wild and daring "bacchanalian" adventures that steer them resolutely away from stifling conventions of behavior.Antic Hay, first published in 1923, is one of Aldous Huxley's earlier novels, and like them is primarily a 'novel of ideas' involving conversations which disclose viewpoints rather than establish characters; its polemical theme unfolds against the backdrop of London's post-war nihilistic Bohemia. This is Huxley at his biting, brilliant best -- a novel, loud with derisive laughter, which satirically scoffs at all conventional morality and at stuffy people everywhere -- a novel that's always charged with excitement. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Whitfield. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000473/bk_blak_000473_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Viscount Breckenridge to the Rescue: A Cynster Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 914min
    You are cordially invited to the wedding of Miss Heather Cynster... but not before she encounters kidnappers, danger, and a daring rescue at the hands of Viscount Breckenridge. Determined to hunt down her very own hero, one who will sweep her off her feet and into wedded bliss, and despairing of finding him in London’s staid ballrooms, Heather Cynster steps out of her safe world and boldly attends a racy soiree. But her promising hunt is ruined by the supremely interfering Viscount Breckenridge, who whisks her out of scandal - and straight into danger, when a mysterious enemy seizes her, bundles her into a coach, and conveys her out of London. Now it’s up to the notorious Breckenridge to prove himself the hero she’s been searching for all along.... p ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew Brenher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002603/bk_harp_002603_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Tempest in Eden , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 335min
    A renowned artist’s model, Shay Morrison has posed nude to inspire great works of art. But hidden inside her, where no one can see, is the pain of a failed marriage. Then she accidentally walks in on Ian Douglas – as he steps from the shower. His embarrassment and disapproval of Shay are immediately apparent. What isn’t so obvious is his profession: Ian is a minister in a very staid community. Challenged and hurt, Shay decides to try to make him fall in love with her. Yet as she plans to capture Ian, her best-laid plans take her into emotional territory where she’s never been... Now a woman with a troubled past tries to understand a man different from anyone she has known before, and the new feelings rising from her heart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Renée Raudman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/002697/bk_brll_002697_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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