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    Son of the Storm: Tales of Tellest Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 195min
    The dwarves of Clan Thunderfury toiled away at the dirt beneath the Goldenscale Cliffs. Day by day, they mined the stone and by night they drank away their aches and pains with a mug of frothy mead or ale. All the while, Dorn Thunderfury felt the outcast among his people. More comfortable among the grass and clean air than the mines below, he was often relegated to banal tasks. His whole world was shaken by the appearance of the human babe upon the hammer of their ancient king. But when Bolt was adopted by the clan, under his care, his place in it was bound to change. When Dorn sat down to tell the tales of his son, they often grew in size and shape. Though there were bound to be some inconsistencies, one thing was true: Even among the dwarves, Bolt was a hero. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brandon McKernan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/041069/bk_acx0_041069_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Flesh Elementalist: Book One of the Flesh Elementalist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 292min
    In the ice mines of the demon's prospect, Zack Maecker has toiled his entire life as a slave. The hope of of taking his best friend Yemiri away from the frigid Astorian snow to the mythical Farland is only a dream. Until one day, he stumbles upon a legendary Tesseract, the magical item that bestows him the opportunity to be an elementalist. But rather than choose the normal elements of the world like fire, ice, or wind, Zack chooses flesh. But like all forms of power, it comes at a cost. Follow Zack Maecker as he grows into his powers as the world's first flesh elementalist so he might finally gain the freedom he has desired for so long, even if he has to take it by force. Story Does Contain: Male lead, fast pace, slightly overpowered protagonist, hero saves the girl, right of passage, simple magic system. Story Does Not Contain: Harem, ultraviolence, horror, mopey protagonist. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J.D. Blackburn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/167745/bk_acx0_167745_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Bookkeeper's Guide to Practical Sorcery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 623min
    Henry Noble carries a heavy load. For the two years since the disappearance of his father, he has toiled as the family's chief breadwinner. Protector of his mother and two obnoxious younger brothers, he finds himself trapped in the drudgery of a boring job counting the King's gold, all the while dreaming of a life of magic and wizardry. When a glimmer of light appears, he snatches at it only to stumble into treachery and deceit. Henry and his timid friend Peter are forced to embark upon the scariest journey of their lives. Secretly wishing their fearless friend D.C. was with them, their dread is overshadowed only by the sticky ending they know lurks around every corner. An epic fantasy about courage and passion, friendship and ingenuity, A Bookkeeper's Guide to Practical Sorcery delivers such a no-nonsense description of the mechanics of magic, you'll wonder why you weren't taught it at school. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Collingwood. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/087888/bk_acx0_087888_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Elina: Blaze of Glory Companion Books, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 253min
    A mother will always do what's best for her children, even if it means giving up her own chance at happiness.A decade ago, Elina's life was derailed by a smooth-talking charmer. Since then, she's toiled endlessly to create a better life for her children, putting thoughts of romantic love aside. But when handsome, intimidating Declan wins her over with his timely help and old-fashioned notions of love, Elina has a decision to make.Her long-awaited financial success requires a move to Montreal, a city too far away to keep new love alive, and Declan runs his family's equestrian business - he can't move. How can Elina find happiness when her heart is pulling her one way and her children's futures are pulling in another?Discover the story behind the Blaze of Glory trilogy readers have come to love. You don't know everything about a man until you know his history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Heather S. Auden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/102268/bk_acx0_102268_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Bitter Pill , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 344min
    A Taut Story of Terrifying Credibility The Bitter Pill is a novel of the near future as seen from 1974, extrapolating contemporary political and sociological trends to develop with frightening plausibility to growing importance of youth as a political power. To Paul Clayton, obscure shipping clerk, his forty-fifth birthday was not an occasion for celebration. It meant the achievement of status of Senior Citizen, and with it several dubious privileges - not least of which was voluntary euthanasia, facilitated by the government issue suicide pill. Those who changed their minds, once they had broken the capsule containing the lethal pill, faced the prospect of forced labor camps in the Australian desert of the penal colony on Mars, where convicts toiled to make more space fit for Earth’s over-spilling populations. Under the supervision of the corrupt and brutal Mars Corps, Clayton crosses paths again with others he once knew on distant Earth. They find themselves caught up on a maelstrom of terror and political intrigue. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Marantz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/007767/bk_adbl_007767_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    My Brother, the Druggist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 298min
    While on vacation in DC, Marty must outwit kidnappers at a magicians’ convention. Marty Gold deserves a vacation. For years he has toiled behind the pharmacy counter at Spector’s, a Manhattan institution whose classic soda fountain makes it a magnet for every overstuffed rear end on the West Side. Among his most devoted customers is Mase O’Dwyer, a chunky young magician who treats Marty as a captive audience for hour upon hour of poorly executed magic tricks. When Marty finally saves up enough money for a jaunt down to Washington, DC, Mase insists on tagging along to attend a magic convention. But as soon as he arrives, the hapless magician finally manages to make one trick work: He disappears. Mase has been kidnapped, and as much as he dislikes the kid, Marty feels obligated to rescue him. It will take magic to save the portly illusionist, but the druggist has a few of his own tricks up his sleeves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anthony Haden Salerno. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014795/bk_adbl_014795_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Terror of the Machine, Hörbuch, Digital, 27min
    In this autobiography, the American industrialist Henry Ford wrote, "Repetitive labor... is a terrifying prospect to a certain kind of mind... but to other minds, perhaps I might say the majority of minds, repetitive operations hold no terrors." Pushing the "efficiency of movement" system of Frederick Winslow Taylor to its ultimate realization, Ford tirelessly toiled to reduce factory and assembly line work to its essential operations. This, in turn, reduced factory workers to automatons, seemingly nothing more than extensions of the machines for which they labored.Ford was not bothered by the prospect of reducing people to machines, since he firmly believed that it did not bother them and that they could do no better. But, paradoxically, and like all the great American industrialists, Ford feared the prospect that these 'mindless automatons' might get organized and demand their rights. So along with efficiency of movement came a system of indoctrination and punishment to insure that workers obeyed orders. In short, the industrialized west was built on the systematic oppression of its working people. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Scott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/008366/bk_edel_008366_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Two Rings: A Story of Love and War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 458min
    Trapped in Poland in 1941, like many Jews, Millie Werber went from the Radom Ghetto to slave labor in an armaments factory, survived Auschwitz, and toiled in a second factory until liberation came on April 1, 1945. She faced death many times but lived to marry a good man and fellow survivor. Meanwhile, she concealed a photograph in her closet and carried a secret in her heart. Many years later, Millie began telling her story to writer Eve Keller. Together, the two women rediscovered the teenage girl Millie had been during the war - and the man to whom she was married for a few brief months. Betrayed by a fellow Jewish guard, he died, leaving Millie with their wedding rings and a single photograph. Nothing else remained to prove that he ever existed. Millie never told her family about him, but she never abandoned his memory. A worthy addition to the bestselling tradition of Holocaust coming-of-age memoirs, this is a spare, unsentimental, and indelibly poignant tale of a history reclaimed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Yelena Shmulenson, Eve Keller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000634/bk_high_000634_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Zero Trace: The Arsenal, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 767min
    Don’t get noticed.Zoey “Zero D” Danson thought it was an easy rule to follow. For years, she toiled in cubicle 12A of the NSA’s data farm compiling security briefings and intelligence reports. But she put her neck on the line and burned a dirty government operation to keep a covert ops team alive.Now, she’s “one of them". She’s not a nameless, faceless civilian anymore. She’s part of The Arsenal - and in way, way over her head.Trust no one.Gage Sanderson recognizes a threat when he sees it, and the newest geek in The Arsenal’s back office is trouble. She’s smart, secretive, sexy, and everything he shouldn’t want. They risked their necks to keep her safe, but she’s hiding something, and it’s up to him to figure out what.He’s sworn to never trust another crew at his back, but his team is worth the risk. He won’t make the same mistake twice - even if it means killing the only woman who’s ever made her way past his defenses. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Olivia Amayo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/222709/bk_acx0_222709_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain
    'A rich social history ... Paxman's book could hardly be more colourful, and I enjoyed each page enormously' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES'Vividly told ... Paxman's fine narrative powers are at their best' THE TIMESCoal is the commodity that made Britain. Dirty and polluting though it is, this black rock has acted as a midwife to genius. It drove industry, religion, politics, empire and trade. It powered the industrial revolution, turned Britain into the first urban nation and is the industry that made almost all others possible.In this brilliant social history, Jeremy Paxman tells the story of coal mining in England, Scotland and Wales from Roman times, through the birth of steam power to war, nationalisation, pea-souper smogs, industrial strife and the picket lines of the Miner's Strike.Written in the captivating style of his bestselling book The English, Paxman ranges widely across Britain to explore stories of engineers and inventors, entrepreneurs and industrialists - but whilst coal inevitably helped the rich become richer, the story told by Black Gold is first and foremost a history of the working miners - the men, women and often children who toiled in appalling conditions down in the mines; the villages that were thrown up around the pit-head.Almost all traces of coal-mining have vanished from Britain but with this brilliant history, Black Gold demonstrates just how much we owe to the black stuff.
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