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  The Princess Test , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 77min

  Gail Carson Levine charmed the world with Ella Enchanted, her spirited retelling of the Cinderella story. Now this award-winning author turns her attention to two more classic fairy tales, and deftly turns them upside down and inside out with her trademark wit and hilarity. In The Fairy's Mistake, two very different sisters have two very different encounters with the fairy Ethelinda. Rosella is kind and helpful. Her reward: Jewels and gems tumble out of her mouth whenever she speaks. Myrtle is rude and spiteful. Her punishment: Bugs and vipers slither out of her mouth. The fairy Ethelinda feels she's meted out justice just right - until she discovers Rosella has been locked up by a greedy prince and Myrtle is having the time of her life! In The Princess Test, King Humphrey has decided its time for his son, Prince Nicholas, to marry. But he must make sure the bride is a real princess. So he devises a series of princess tests, designed to weed out the phonies and the fakes. Meanwhile, Nicholas has fallen in love with Lorelei, a mere blacksmith's daughter. She's no princess, but he wants to marry her all the same - but how will she ever pass the terrible tests? In these first two delightfully entertaining, laugh-out-loud Princess Tales, Gail Levine gently spoofs the notion that fairies are always right and that tests can never prove a person's worth, but holds fast to the notion that true love will always win in the end. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jorjeana Marie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015017/bk_adbl_015017_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Devil Who Tamed Her , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 527min

  Ophelia Reid is an incomparable beauty with a reputation for starting rumors and spreading them. Having purposely wrecked her engagement to Duncan MacTavish, a future marquis, which her social-climbing father arranged, Ophelia wants to return to London's marriage mart and make her own choice of a wealthy husband. But on her journey home, something unexpected happens. The heir to a dukedom, Raphael Locke, Viscount Lynnfield is - in spite of his disinterest in marriage - the most sought-after young lord in England. He instantly disliked Ophelia when she caused a scandal to avoid marriage to his friend MacTavish, but having comforted her in a tearful moment, he begins to wonder if she's not all bad. So when MacTavish claims that Ophelia will never be anything but a spiteful beauty, Rafe bets his best friend that he can turn her into a kind-hearted lady who will one day make a good match, just not with him. With her parents' blessing, Rafe commandeers Ophelia's coach and whisks her - chaperoned, of course - to his remote estate in the countryside. There, as he tries to show his furious, sharp-tongued "guest" the error of her ways, he discovers the surprising reasons for her bad behavior. Soon his daily lessons with Ophelia take effect and he finds himself irresistibly attracted to her. When Rafe champions the new and improved Ophelia's re-entry to London society, marriage proposals pour in. Only then does Rafe start to wonder whether he hasn't gone and fallen in love with Ophelia himself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laural Merlington. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/000601/bk_brll_000601_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Ordinary Decent Criminals: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 982min

  A new edition of one of best-selling author Lionel Shriver's early novels, reissued 25 years after first publication - an engrossing commentary on the intersection of politics and human relationships, set in turbulent Northern Ireland. For 10 years Estrin Lancaster has fled Philadelphia. From the Philippines to Berlin, she's been a traveler without a destination, an expatriate without a motherland. In each of the cities Estrin favors, she manages an apartment, a job, and a lover and never tarries past the first signs of ennui. Her latest destination is Belfast in Northern Ireland. After 20 years of ritualized violence, this city, too, is exhausted - a town where when one more bomb explodes in the city center, old ladies blow the dust off their treacle cakes and count their change. Here the lanky and spiteful Farrell O'Phelan, former purveyor of his own bomb-disposal service, technically Catholic but everyone's aggravation, wrangles through the maze of factions in the North by despising every side. Farrell's affair with the curious Estrin is nonetheless a meeting of two loners; like hers, Farrell's marathoning around the planet has become a running in place. In deadlocked Northern Ireland, it has become harder and harder to believe that anything is happening at all. A grand tragi-comedy - one of the earliest displays of the ambition and intelligence that has since earned Lionel Shriver worldwide acclaim - Ordinary Decent Criminals is about conflict groupies, people terrified of domesticity, who stir up anguish in their lives and their countries to avoid the greater horror of what lies closest to home. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Melanie MacHugh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004575/bk_harp_004575_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Wicked Wager: Avenging Lords, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 503min

  Two lonely people discover that true love doesn’t have to be perfect.The gentleman makes a wager. Devlin Drake is out for revenge. Since his brother’s mysterious death, the cruel and devious Miss Bromfield has taken to spouting vicious lies, spreading vile gossip - and he vows to make her pay. How better to punish the lady than to make her his wife? A lifetime of misery is what she deserves. Knowing the lady would never accept him, Devlin devises a plan to get her to the altar - he’ll win her hand in a bet. In choosing to marry the spiteful lady, Devlin must accept he will never know true love. But his fortunes turn when he’s offered another tempting option. A surprise announcement. Miss Juliet Duval, the illegitimate daughter of Baron Bromfield, was taken into the lord’s house after the death of her mother. The baron finds her an embarrassment, and her half-sister’s jealous tirades see Juliet banished to the role of servant. That is until her father makes a foolish wager and needs a daughter to satisfy his debt. An unsuitable match.Thrown together in an odd twist of fate, Devlin and Juliet are mismatched in every regard. He is a hulking figure of a man, powerful, commanding. She is dainty and petite, used to obeying her father, and despising of masterful men. Yet both quickly become what the other needs and together must battle against those determined to tear them apart. Features:Regency historical romance novelA novel of approx 70,000 wordsContains some descriptive sex scenes ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Liisa Ivary. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/134021/bk_acx0_134021_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Engagements , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1010min

  From the New York Times best-selling author of Commencement and Maine comes a gorgeous, sprawling novel about marriage - about those who marry in a white heat of passion, those who marry for partnership and comfort, and those who live together, love each other, and have absolutely no intention of ruining it all with a wedding. Evelyn has been married to her husband for 40 years - 40 years since he slipped off her first wedding ring and put his own in its place. Delphine has seen both sides of love - the ecstatic, glorious highs of seduction, and the bitter, spiteful fury that descends when it’s over. James, a paramedic who works the night shift, knows his wife’s family thinks she could have done better; while Kate, partnered with Dan for a decade, has seen every kind of wedding - beach weddings, backyard weddings, castle weddings - and has vowed never, ever, to have one of her own. As these lives and marriages unfold in surprising ways, we meet Frances Gerety, a young advertising copywriter in 1947. Frances is working on the De Beers campaign and she needs a signature line, so, one night before bed, she scribbles a phrase on a scrap of paper: "A Diamond Is Forever". And that line changes everything. A rich, layered, exhilarating novel spanning nearly 100 years, The Engagements captures four wholly unique marriages, while tracing the story of diamonds in America, and the way - for better or for worse - these glittering stones have come to symbolize our deepest hopes for everlasting love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kimberly Farr. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003514/bk_rand_003514_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Mirror Mirror: Frieze Masters London: CV/Visual Arts Research, Book 237 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 20min

  Frieze Masters, London October 6, 2019Into the broad arena of the covered awnings of this enormous tented gathering of leading art dealers and the first gallery space is Aquavella, with a variety of exhibits; and come face-to-face with an absolutely spiteful acid green and fluorescent pink abstract by Keith Haring (1958-1990). It’s on canvas dated 1982 and signed lower left. The green is painted in a random ventilated grid over the hyper-intense pink with a bold line of a green stripe on the top edge of the work, which is encased in a glass vitrine. Next to this, Wayne Thiebaud, pop painter of the primary movement in the 1960s. Always a strongly composed small-scale panel shows an aerial view of a highway and sports arena. Its neighbor, a classic signature Thiebaud of an array of cakes and pastries, described in mouthwatering swirls of oil paint.Jean Dubuffet figures frequently in the art fair; here is a piece dated 1963. Abstract expressionist slash marks of brown revealed through patches of pink, cream, and white in vigorous calligraphic swirls. A powerful and early Francis Bacon "Study for a Figure", 1950. An intensely felt statement, carrying the conviction of the post-war period before his vision became dandified, repetitive, and formulaic. The ground is charcoal grey in thinly washed vertical strokes. The male body emerges convulsively, a bulging tangle of pecs and biceps and hunched powerful shoulders. The figure is imprisoned in the familiar white outline cage, and there is a counterpoint thin red line identifying the lower edge of the canvas. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Selbie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/171055/bk_acx0_171055_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Unfinished Business, Part 1: The McKinnon Legends, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 460min

  Fate can be kind. She can also be a spiteful bitch. That is something Connor Holden, earl of Featherstone, has discovered through firsthand experience. But if he thinks Fate's a witch...just wait. He's about to meet her sisters - Destiny and Luck. They will make Fate's deeds look like child's play. Just because time travel is possible does not mean time stands still. Connor doesn't care if it stands still or not. For him time no longer holds any meaning. Much has happened in the five years since Reagan disappeared through the curtain of time, taking Cullen McKinnon with her in the hope of saving the young knight's life. The least of those events is Henry's awarding Connor the titles of duke of Featherstone and earl of Rockport. Upon Connor's request, the earldom was passed into his care to hold until the rightful heir could take possession. No one but Nic, Morgan, and he knew that the heir is Reagan O'Riley. He just has to keep the faith that she will eventually return. Connor has always been a prime catch, but this latest news sends his stock soaring to new heights. The titles did not come without stipulation from the king. "You must marry, Connor, and make it soon. I, like you, have little patience these days." Henry is quite emphatic. Conjecture is rampant, and expectation is running high in the ranks of the nobility. All are anxiously awaiting the announcement. Who exactly is to become his duchess? Connor is running out of time. In this instance he prays time will stand still. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cait Frizzell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/049635/bk_acx0_049635_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Young Lita: Part 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 43min, (USK 18)

  Today was my 19th birthday, and I felt like a brand new woman. My best friends threw me a surprise party at one of their houses and I bought alcohol for the first time. It was wonderful to feel so liberated for a change. The girls convinced me to let them give me a makeover, changing my style from sweatpants and sweaters to a short skirt and tank top and a push-up bra. I didn't think I'd actually enjoy this, but after a few drinks, I embraced my new, grown-up look. I was surprised at my new level of confidence and even noticed myself walking differently. I suppose I had to with these uncomfortable shoes they made me wear.  After returning home, I noticed Jack, my mother's boyfriend, gazing at me differently. We drank together for the first time, joked around, and casually flirted in the kitchen. I loved the fact that a 40-something-year-old was finally treating me like an adult and not a teenager for once. I daydreamed of us together, making love under the stars and waking up in the morning next to each other. I honestly didn't feel guilty thinking about him since my mother only used him for his money. He claimed to love her, but there was something so artificial about their relationship. The more I drank, the more spiteful I became towards her as I continued to flirt with the man I considered to be my stepfather. This whole situation felt so wrong but so right at the same time, which made it even more exciting. I wanted him badly, and I was willing to bet he wanted me too. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lila Kerry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/211692/bk_acx0_211692_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Jane Steele , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 734min

  A reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer, from the author whose work The New York Times described as "riveting" and The Wall Street Journal called "thrilling". "Reader, I murdered him." A sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her. After years of hiding from the law while penning macabre "last confessions" of the recently hanged, Jane thrills at discovering an advertisement. Her aunt has died, and her childhood home has a new master: Mr. Charles Thornfield, who seeks a governess. Burning to know whether she is in fact the rightful heir, Jane takes the position incognito and learns that Highgate House is full of marvelously strange new residents - the fascinating but caustic Mr. Thornfield, an army doctor returned from the Sikh Wars; and the gracious Sikh butler, Mr. Sardar Singh, whose history with Mr. Thornfield appears far deeper and darker than they pretend. As Jane catches ominous glimpses of the pair's violent history and falls in love with the gruffly tragic Mr. Thornfield, she faces a terrible dilemma: Can she possess him - body, soul, and secrets - without revealing her own murderous past? A satirical romance about identity, guilt, goodness, and the nature of lies by a writer who Matthew Pearl calls "superstar-caliber" and whose previous works Gillian Flynn declared "spectacular", Jane Steele is a brilliant and deeply absorbing book inspired by Charlotte Brontë's classic Jane Eyre. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susie Riddell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002792/bk_peng_002792_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Virtual Entity: Part 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 134min

  If you’re looking for a riveting paranormal novel with malevolent ghosts jumping out of every chapter, then The Virtual Entity by prolific writer Richard Street is for you!For David and Danielle, moving to the quaint town of Bakewell, United Kingdom is the fresh start they’ve always wanted.The countryside seems like the perfect place to break free from the hustle and bustle of the city. Quaint shops and pubs with unbeatable offerings line the streets. Locals live a simple, carefree life. For the young couple, Bakewell is a dream come true.They bought an old Victorian home for a steal and they have enough money to make it their own. Finally, they have a place they can call home and raise a family in.Little do they know that this new, seemingly perfect country life will be short-lived. Their Bakewell home would soon be filled with malevolent secrets waiting to be discovered.It starts with mysterious shufflings coming from different parts of their new home. Slowly but surely, the horrors the house contained are coming to light.A spiteful entity lurks in the shadows. And David and Danielle are in for one rude awakening.Will they survive the terrors that await them?Find out for yourself in The Virtual Entity by prolific writer Richard Street!Throughout this titillating story, you will:Immerse yourself in a paranormal thriller that will leave you gasping for breath and wanting more.Live out the horrors that our protagonists experience as you listen.Lose yourself in Richard Street’s masterful storytelling and drive your imagination into overdrive.And so much more!The Virtual Entity is a horror story like no other. With massive twists and turns, every listener would surely find their hunger for the paranormal satisfied. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Geoffrey Boyes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/229573/bk_acx0_229573_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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