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    Denver City Justice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 612min
    J.v.L. Bell, winner of 2018 Will Rogers Medallion Award, Western Humor, Written.Territory of Colorado, 1864. Millie and Dom Drouillard return with more murder, mayhem, and misadventures in J.v.L. Bell's latest novel, Denver City Justice.The newlyweds are barely settled into wedded bliss when their neighbor, the Widow Ferris, is found dead with an icicle piercing her cold heart. Suspects abound - Widow Ferris has been blackmailing most of the upstanding citizens of Idaho Springs, including its sheriff. Millie's new husband, Dom, soon becomes the main suspect and is hauled off to jail for a taste of Denver City justice.Can Millie arrive in Denver City in time? Joined by an unusual ensemble of proper matrons, her best friend Mary - a free black woman - and an Idaho Springs' "fancy girl", Millie heads to Denver City willing to do anything to keep Dom from swinging from the end of a rope.Denver City Justice is a historical novel, rich in frontier lore, interesting Colorado history, and endearingly quirky characters. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nancy Wu. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/158701/bk_acx0_158701_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    His Mail-Order Valentine: Holiday Mail Order Brides, Book 10 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 374min
    Someone in Independence is sending off for mail-order brides and they've struck again! This time Julian Smythe is the culprit's latest victim, and naturally, he hasn't a clue. Throw in the antics of Mercy, Martha, Maude, and their newest partner in crime, Mahulda, and you've got enough chaos to drive any mail-order bride crazy. And that's exactly what the four matrons do! Ellie Sampson came to Independence to get married, but no sooner does she get off the stage, than she's snatched up by the four and thrown into the position of a maid in the Vander household! Shocked to discover her husband-to-be had no idea she was coming, she's even more shocked to discover she's falling in love with not only him, but the town as well. But a secret she holds could bring everything tumbling down, and any chance at happiness would be gone in an instant. What should Ellie do? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Rahhal. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/071541/bk_acx0_071541_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Tea-Olive Bird Watching Society , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 530min
    Coconut cake, grits, poisoned turtle stew and bird-watching...the ladies of tiny Tea-Olive, Georgia, share a lot of interests, including murder. Retired judge L. Hyson Breed, a Yankee, picked the wrong Southern woman to trick, bully and steal from. The members of the Tea-Olive Bird Watching Society plot revenge after the judge's marriage to their friend, Sweet, turns out to be a greedy grab for her land and for control of their town. To the rescue: Beulah, Zion, and Wildwood (all named after hymns, as is Sweet). The only problem? The wannabe murderers are southern matrons from a more civilized generation. How does one remain polite even while planning to kill a man and get away with it? Augusta Trobaugh is the acclaimed author of these southern novels also from Bell Bridge Books: Sophie and the Rising Sun, Music from Beyond the Moon, River Jordan, Resting in the Bosom of the Lamb, Swan Place and Praise Jerusalem. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Connie Terwilliger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/005109/bk_acx0_005109_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Discarded: Dumpstermancer Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 510min
    Magic has been franchised. Magical conveniences are sold everywhere like designer coffee. Everyday life is filled with technical and magical wonders. Only, the magic is murdering people.  Thoth Corp's hot new spell is turning people into ravening monsters. Their only hope to quietly rectify the situation before the epidemic spreads is the spell architect they framed and sent to prison.   El's response to his former partners wasn't polite.  Homeless, forbidden to use government-regulated magic, and barely surviving out of dumpsters, Eli struggles to rebuild his life. Fairytale rats thought long extinct with the rest of the fey rescue Eli from murderous vigilantes, but at a cost. They force him to save fairy matrons stolen away by Thoth's monsters, thrusting Eli between his old company and a shadow war waged against humanity.  To stop the war, cure Thoth's victims, and rescue the city, Eli need only find some way to make magic out of trash. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David S. Dear. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/137221/bk_acx0_137221_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lord of Vice: Regency Romance Novel: Rogues to Riches, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 423min
    Appearances can be deceiving...Vice merchant Maxwell Gideon is wickedly handsome, sinfully arrogant, and devilishly ruthless. Rumor has it, his gaming hell has the power to steal souls and grant miracles. Truth is, Max only owns half of The Cloven Hoof. He’d buy out his silent partner if he knew the man’s identity. But it’s hard to focus on business matters when a fallen angel tumbles right into one’s lap…Miss Bryony Grenville has a well-earned reputation as an unrepentant hoyden. But even the gossipiest of the pinch-faced matrons ruling High Society could never imagine the daughter of a baron secretly financing the ton’s most infamous gambling parlor. Its maddening, sexy proprietor doesn’t suspect a thing…and two can play at temptation!In the Rogues to Riches historical romance series by USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Erica Ridley, Cinderella stories aren’t just for princesses…Sigh-worthy Regency rogues sweep strong-willed young ladies into whirlwind romance.Lord of ChanceLord of PleasureLord of NightLord of TemptationLord of SecretsLord of Vice ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marian Hussey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/147911/bk_acx0_147911_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Nefarious Engagement: A Regency Cozy : Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 476min
    Having long abandoned any hope of making a match, 26-year-old Beatrice Hyde Clare finds herself a little overwhelmed by her engagement to the Duke of Kesgrave. Cloying society matrons clamor for her attention while her aunt reels off an endless list of servants she will have to oversee. Even the most intrepid female would quake at the prospect of managing eight footmen! Fortunately, Bea knows the perfect distraction - an intriguing mystery - and pays a call on the Countess of Abercrombie, who had promised her that very thing only the evening before.  But her ladyship is reluctant to discuss the details with a newly minted duchess-to-be, and it dawns on Bea that the investigation cuts closer to home than she could have ever imagined because this time the murder victims are her own mother and father, who had died 20 years before in a seemingly straightforward boating accident.  Alas, nothing is straightforward, and as Bea digs into her past, she discovers with growing horror that she has no more idea how to be a daughter than she does a duchess.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jill Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/155849/bk_acx0_155849_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Love in Independence: Holiday Mail-Order Brides, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 333min
    They say love covers a multitude of sins, and for matchmakers Mercy, Martha, and Maude, it's a good thing! Fearing the town's new pastor is lonely, they decide to take matters into their own hands and order him a mail-order bride! Imagine his surprise when he finds out. Only he doesn't! Mercy, Martha, and Maude see to that! Winnie Longfellow has spent years caring for her sick mother, and now that she's passed, Winnie has nowhere to go but her aunt Eugina's. But her aunt has other things on her mind, other problems to deal with, and so Winnie accepts a proposal from a pastor out west looking for a mail-order bride. Little does she know, he is looking for so much more - anything more! He has no idea he's sent for one! Now Winnie finds herself at the mercy of three madcap matrons determined that love will find a way. Despite multiple misunderstandings, a horrid bully and gossip, and a woman she's sure her intended will marry instead of her, Winnie discovers some things about herself and finds that love really does find its way.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Rahhal. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/040852/bk_acx0_040852_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Tragic Secret Life of Jayne Mansfield , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 437min
    Having spent 10 years as Jayne Mansfield's press secretary, Raymond Strait knows intimately both the public image and the private person that was Jayne Mansfield. Sitting through hundreds of hours of interviews and private conversations - not only with Jayne but also with her husbands, her lovers, and her children - gave Ray the opportunity to present a revealing portrait of the woman. He records her drive for fame and success and her overpowering need to be loved and to love, needs that led her into numerous affairs with rich and powerful men - including President John F. Kennedy - and with younger men from all walks of life. And he discusses frankly Jayne's ultimately successful plan to become pregnant by Nelson Sardelli because she wanted to have an Italian child. Known to millions as the consummate sex symbol who rivaled Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield received more press coverage than anyone else in Hollywood. The headlines were often sensational, causing society matrons and Baptist ministers to shake their heads and point their fingers. But under those sensational headlines there was a woman of greater complexity than any reporter could hope to understand. Strait goes below the surface to examine Jayne's emotions and motivations, revealing the truth about her many lovers, her three unsuccessful marriages, her love affair with Mickey Hargitay that lasted to the end, and her battle against and her surrender to alcohol and drugs. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey Maas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/060345/bk_acx0_060345_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Liberated Spirits: Two Women Who Battled Over Prohibition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 667min
    A provocative new take on the women behind a perennially fascinating subject - Prohibition - by best-selling author and historian Hugh Ambrose.The passage of the 18th Amendment (banning the sale of alcohol) and the 19th (women's suffrage) in the same year is no coincidence. These two Constitutional amendments enabled women to redefine themselves and their place in society in a way historians have neglected to explore. Liberated Spirits describes how the fight both to pass and later to repeal Prohibition was driven by women, as exemplified by two remarkable women in particular. With fierce drive and acumen, Mabel Willebrandt transcended the tremendous hurdles facing women lawyers and was appointed assistant attorney general. Though never a Prohibition campaigner, once in office, she zealously pursued enforcement despite a corrupt and ineffectual agency.Wealthy Pauline Sabin had no formal education in law or government, but she, too, fought entrenched discrimination to rise in the ranks of the Republican Party. While Prohibition meant little to her personally - aristocrats never lost access to booze - she seized the fight to repeal it as a platform to bring newly enfranchised women into the political process and compete on an equal footing with men.Along with a colorful cast of supporting characters, from rum-runners and Prohibition agents on the take to senators and feuding society matrons, Liberated Spirits brings the Roaring Twenties to life in a brand new way. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, John Schuttler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/004208/bk_peng_004208_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 557min
    The gripping true story of the origins of the Mafia in America - and the brilliant Italian-born detective who gave his life to stop it. Film rights optioned by Paramount Studios, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. The children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped, and dozens of innocent victims were gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened with gruesome deaths. The perpetrators seemed both omnipresent and invisible. Their only calling card: the symbol of a black hand. The crimes whipped up the slavering tabloid press and heated ethnic tensions to the boiling point. Standing between the American public and the Black Hand's lawlessness was Joseph Petrosino. Dubbed the "Italian Sherlock Holmes", he was a famously dogged and ingenious detective and a master of disguise. As the crimes grew ever more bizarre and the Black Hand's activities spread far beyond New York's borders, Petrosino and the all-Italian police squad he assembled raced to capture members of the secret criminal society before the country's anti-immigrant tremors exploded into catastrophe. Petrosino's quest to root out the source of the Black Hand's power would take him all the way to Sicily - but at a terrible cost. Unfolding a story rich with resonance in our own era, The Black Hand is fast-paced narrative history at its very best. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Aiello. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/025738/bk_adbl_025738_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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