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    Fearsome Magics: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 654min
    From sorcerous bridges that link worlds to the simple traditions of country folk; from the mysterious natures of twins to the dangerous powers of obligation and contract. Laden with perils for both the adventurous and the unsuspecting, magic is ultimately a contradiction: endlessly powerful but never without consequence, and rigidly defined by rules of its own making. Award-winning Jonathan Strahan brings together some of the most exciting and popular writers working in fantasy today to dig into that contradiction, and present you with the strange, the daunting, the mathematical, the unpredictable, the deceptive and above all the fearsome world of magic. Includes stories by Garth Nix, K J Parker, Tony Ballantyne, James Bradley, Isobelle Carmody, Frances Hardinge, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Ellen Klages, Justina Robson, Christopher Rowe, Robert Shearman, Karin Tidbeck, Genevieve Valentine, and Kaaron Warren. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jay Rodan, Lauren Irwin, Chris MacDonnell, Ros Gentle, Alexandra Harris, Michael Welch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/010577/bk_reco_010577_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Always a Maiden: The Belles of Beak Street , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 405min
    Lady Susanah Poole is everything a gentleman should want in a bride. She's pretty enough, the heir to her father's considerable estate, and she's perfectly behaved. Except she keeps losing her suitors one right after another to the Belles of Beak Street. When a completely unacceptable rake catches her in a rare fit of pique and suggests he could teach her what the belles have, she is determined to do whatever it takes to land a lord before her exasperated father forces her to marry an old man, even if it means accepting the guidance of a notorious womanizer. The last thing Evan Cooper expects is for the rigidly proper Lady Susanah to accept his off-the-cuff offer to teach her about passion. While she is not in his usual vein of bored widows or neglected wives, he is intrigued by her. But she makes it perfectly clear, while she may welcome his kisses, she'll never accept his proposal, not that he has any plan to marry, or fall in love for that matter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tyler Ryan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/109511/bk_acx0_109511_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    IFLA Library Building Guidelines: Developments & Reflections
    The information society and the information age are changing library services as well as library premises. This raises questions about what needs to be considered when planning and designing new library buildings in order to achieve attractive, efficient and future-oriented new library spaces.This new publication provides information and guidelines for the building planning process, whether you are planning a new public or academic library building. It reflects on fundamental issues, on new development trends and on the planning process. The library building process is seen from both the library manager's perspective as well as that of the architect and designer. Issues covered include what to consider when investigating the need for space, library design from a marketing viewpoint, green management and sustainability relating to library buildings and a layman's guide to reading plans. This publication and the IFLA guidelines provided are not seen as a traditional set of recommendations to be rigidly adhered to since this would be unrealistic in a fast-changing and global context. Rather, library managers and architects should read them in order to inform their thinking on key issues and establish a planning programme. They must then relate them to their own countries and circumstances by making the relevant local adjustments.
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    Divine Error , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 86min
    A story about an Demonic Angel in Heaven and an Angelic Demon in Hell.Damon always felt out of place in his surroundings and at his work. Most would consider it an ordinary problem but Damon was an angel working in Heaven.When Damon is redeployed to work on a mission on Earth, things start to become interesting. He is however dismayed to find out that he has been assigned as a shoulder Angel to the most boring man on Earth, Joe Smith.Joe Smith is decidedly neutral, neither good nor bad, and both Heaven and Hell send their representatives to try and tip the balance one way or the other.Damon's counterpart sent to Earth is a hopeless demon named Saynt. Saynt is not like the other demons at all. He feels helpless on Earth without written instructions on what to do from his Manager.Together both Damon and Saynt are on a mission to turn Joe Smith and try to change his rigidly affixed neutral moral compass so that he becomes qualified to get into either Heaven or Hell. Instead of just changing Joe Smith, however, they will discover that the mission will have transformed all three of them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Melnychuk. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/217953/bk_acx0_217953_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Creative Fire: Book One of Ruby's Song , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 807min
    Character-driven, social science fiction inspired by the life of Evita Peron.Nothing can match the power of a single voice....Ruby Martin expects to spend her days repairing robots while avoiding the dangerous peacekeeping forces that roam the corridors of the generation ship the Creative Fire. The social structure of the ship is rigidly divided, with Ruby and her friends on the bottom. Then a ship-wide accident gives Ruby a chance to fight for the freedom she craves. Her enemies are numerous, well armed, and knowledgeable. Her weapons are a fabulous voice, a quick mind, and a deep stubbornness. Complicating it all—an unreliable AI and an enigmatic man she met—and kissed—exactly once—who may hold the key to her success. If Ruby can't transform from a rebellious teen to the leader of a revolution, she and all her friends will lose all say in their future.Like the historical Evita Peron, Ruby rises from the dregs of society to hold incredible popularity and power. Her story is about love and lust and need and a thirst for knowledge and influence so deep that it burns. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Yetta Gottesman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/006916/bk_adbl_006916_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Plus One , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 597min
    A dying wish. A family divided. A love that defies the law. Sol Le Coeur is a Smudge - a night dweller in an America rigidly divided between people who wake, live, and work during the hours of darkness and those known as Rays, who live and work during daylight. Impulsive, passionate, and brave, Sol concocts a plan to kidnap her newborn niece - a Ray - in order to bring the baby to visit her dying grandfather. Sol's violation of the day/night curfew is already a serious crime, but when her kidnap attempt goes awry, she stumbles on a government conspiracy to manipulate the Smudge population. Sol escapes the authorities with an unexpected ally: a Ray who gets in her way, a boy she might have hated if fate hadn't forced them on the run together - a boy the world now tells her she can't love. Set in a vivid alternate reality and peopled with complex, deeply human characters on both sides of the day/night divide, Elizabeth Fama's Plus One is a brilliantly imagined drama of individual liberty and civil rights, and a fast-paced romantic adventure story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julia Whelan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/047515/bk_acx0_047515_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lady of Ashes: Lady of Ashes, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 947min
    Only a woman with an iron backbone could succeed as an undertaker in Victorian London, but Violet Morgan takes great pride in her trade. While her husband, Graham, is preoccupied with elevating their station in society, Violet is cultivating a sterling reputation for Morgan Undertaking. She is empathetic, well-versed in funeral fashions, and comfortable with death's role in life - until its chilling rattle comes knocking on her own front door. Violet's peculiar but happy life soon begins to unravel as Graham becomes obsessed with his own demons and all but abandons her as he plans a vengeful scheme. And the solace she's always found in her work evaporates like a departing soul when she suspects that some of the deceased she's dressed have been murdered. When Graham's plotting leads to his disappearance, Violet takes full control of the business and is commissioned for an undertaking of royal proportions. But she's certain there's a killer lurking in the London fog, and the next funeral may be her own. Equal parts courage, compassion, and intrigue, Christine Trent tells an unrestrained tale of love and loss in the rigidly decorous world of Victorian society. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Polly Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018031/bk_adbl_018031_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    An Erie Halloween , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 165min
    Templeton Reed has been hiding his inner polecat since he was a child. Keeping his animal secreted is hard for a shifter, especially when one is living in a secret community of mystical beings. It's the wolf shifters that cause Templeton the most trouble with their darned sensitive noses. Templeton has a run-in with the Lake Erie pack and their alpha, Mikel Lupei, at the Office for Transmogrification Registration (OTTER). Templeton has a desk job checking registration papers and dealing with wolf shifters is not part of his job description. After that upsetting meeting, the meek and mild office worker suddenly finds himself in the center of not only civil unrest among the shifter community, but a violent plan for a coup aimed at rousting Mikel. Templeton and Mikel, a skilled tracker of rogue shifters, are soon not only fighting for their lives, they're also fighting the rigidly archaic rules of their kind, as well as the person responsible for trying to take over Mikel's pack from the inside. Can this magical odd couple turn a passionate attraction into a full-fledged love affair? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ron Welch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/068102/bk_acx0_068102_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Do the Gods Still Dance in Waterfalls?: The New Adventures of Lorewyn & Company, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 270min
    Khendryll, a young Acolyte from the rigidly theocratic realm of Khelyria, has an experience when he’s a boy. He witnesses something wonderful and magical that changes his life and drives him to want to explore a deeper understanding of spiritual and mystical truth, an understanding that is forbidden by the Clerics of Jurryk. His trust in his progressive mentor shaken and his best friend alienated by an impulsive decision on his part, Khendryll eventually gives up and accepts the traditional interpretations of the Temple, becoming a Cleric himself and denying what he once believed.But the arrival of Lorewyn and her companions in Khelyria rekindles the young man’s desire to seek the truth, unpopular as it may be, and inspires Lorewyn, Rhianyn, Tristyn, and Blythe to join him (along with a wayward ally from the past) in helping a troubled realm come to understand who Jurryk really is, and what his teachings are truly about.Do the Gods Still Dance in Waterfalls? is the first in a new series of adventures featuring Lorewyn and a few other familiar characters from the Cordysian Chronicles. Look for even more chapters of this “spin off” saga to come, including the upcoming second audiobook, The Brighter Snow Falls in the Dark. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sarah Haley Burfoot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/231752/bk_acx0_231752_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Annabel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 704min
    In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador in the far north-east of Canada, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once. Only three people share the secret – the baby’s parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to go through surgery and raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows up within the hyper-male hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self – a girl he thinks of as ‘Annabel’ – is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life. As Wayne approaches adulthood, and its emotional and physical demands, the woman inside him begins to cry out. The changes that follow are momentous not just for him, but for the three adults that have guarded his secretHaunting and sweeping in scope, this is a first novel as much concerned with its characters as it is with their predicament, as much about humanity as it is about a rigidly masculine culture that shuns the singular and the unique. Told with great elegance and empathy, Annabel is the powerfully moving story of one person’s struggle to discover the truth and the strength to change, to find tenderness in a severe and unforgiving land. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurence Bouvard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001042/bk_rhuk_001042_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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