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    Lyra's Oxford , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 47min
    A beguiling new episode from the universe of His Dark Materials. Lyra's Oxford opens two years after the conclusion of Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass in the comfort and familiarity of Jordan College, where Lyra and her daemon, Pantalaimon, sit on the sun-drenched roof looking out over all of Oxford. But their peace is shattered when a strange bird - a witch's daemon, on it's own - tumbles out of the sky, in search of a healing elixer to cure his witch of a strange new disease. Lyra and Pan decided to help - witches are friends, of course - but the closer their winding walk leads them towards the infamous Oxford alchemist, the stronger Lyra's sense that something is amiss. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Philip Pullman, Full Cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001507/bk_rhuk_001507_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Galileo's New Universe: The Revolution in Our Understanding of the Cosmos , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 395min
    The historical and social implications of the telescope and that instruments modern-day significance are brought into startling focus in this fascinating account. When Galileo looked to the sky with his perspicillum, or spyglass, roughly 400 years ago, he could not have fathomed the amount of change his astonishing findings a seemingly flat moon magically transformed into a dynamic, crater-filled orb and a large, black sky suddenly held millions of galaxies would have on civilizations. Reflecting on how Galileo's world compares with contemporary society, this insightful analysis deftly moves from the cutting-edge technology available in 17th-century Europe to the unbelievable phenomena discovered during the last 50 years, documenting important astronomical advances and the effects they have had over the years. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Stransky. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001803/bk_adbl_001803_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Boxcar Baby: Steel Roots, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 471min
    Born in a boxcar on a train bound for Georgia. At least, that is what Papa Steel always told AB'Gale. But now, 15 years later, the man who adopted and raised her as his own is missing, and it's up to AB'Gale to find him. Aided only by a motley gang of friends, AB'Gale train hops her way across the United States in a desperate attempt to find her papa and put her life and family back the way it was.Her only guide is a map given to her by a mysterious hobo, with handwritten clues she found hidden in her papa's spyglass. Here is the great American adventure in an alternate steampunk dystopian world, where 15-year-old AB'Gale Steel learns that nothing is as it seems, but instead is shrouded in secrets and mysteries...and that monsters come in all shapes and forms.The Boxcar Baby is the first book of the Steel Roots series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Brodowsky. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/206326/bk_acx0_206326_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    His Dark Materials 3: The Amber Spyglass (Gift Edition)
    The final volume in Philip Pullman's incredible HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy, in a stunning gift edition, to publish alongside the major HBO/BBC TV series in autumn 2019.
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    The Magic World, Hörbuch, Digital, 426min
    The Magic World shows us the worlds of 12 incredible fantasy stories: "The Cat-hood of Maurice" (a boy abuses the family cat, and learns to see things from the feline point of view), "The Mixed Mine" (two boys find a magic spyglass, and use it to make their fortunes), "Accidental Magic" (Quentin falls asleep on the altarstone at Stonehenge, and wakes in Atlantis), "The Princess and the Hedge-pig" (King Ozymandias and Queen Eliza plan a secret christening for their Princess Ozyliza, to avoid a wicked fairy's curse), "Septimus Septimusson" (he is the seventh son of a seventh son, who can see fairies and hear the beasts speak), "The White Cat" (a boy finds a china ornament in the attic - a magic talisman), "Belinda and Bellamant", "Justnowland", "The Related Muff", "The Aunt and Amabel", "Kenneth and the Carp & The Magician's Heart". These stories had the massive influence on J. R. R. Tolkien and have been the inspiration for C. S. Lewis's first Narnia novel, "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe". Language: English. Narrator: Edith Harson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/011279/bk_edel_011279_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lyra's Oxford (eBook, ePUB)
    This book contains a story and several other things. The other things might be connected with the story, or they might not; they might be connected to stories that haven't appeared yet . . . Two years after the conclusion of The Amber Spyglass, Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon sit high on the roof of Jordan College, gazing down on the streets of Oxford. But their peace is shattered by a flock of enraged starlings, who seem intent on knocking another bird out of the sky - a bird that Lyra and Pan quickly realise is a witch's daemon. The daemon carries worrying tidings of a terrible sickness spreading in the north, and claims that only Lyra can help him - but is he really friend, or foe?Illustrated throughout with exquisite wood-cut engravings by John Lawrence, this beautifully packaged story also contains an extract of Pullman's second short story set in the His Dark Materials world, Once Upon a Time in the North, a map and other missives that seem to have slipped from Lyra's world into our own.
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    The Book Of Liberals A Book For Liberals And Anti-Liberals
    The Book Of Liberals A Book For Liberals And Anti-Liberals ab 27.49 € als Taschenbuch: Being A Looking Glass For The Former And An Eyeglass Or Spyglass For The Latter (1849). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    To the Best of Our Knowledge: Losing Religion, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
    In this hour, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born woman who later settled in the Netherlands and was elected to the Dutch Parliament. Her latest book is Nomad: From Islam to America, A Personal Journey through the Clash of Civilizations and argues that fundamentalist Islam poses a serious threat to the West. Hirsi Ali tells Anne Strainchamps that her fierce criticism of religion grows out of her own shattering personal experience.Next, Philip Pullman is one of England's most famous atheists. Author of the best-selling fantasy novels The Amber Spyglass and The Golden Compass, Pullman's latest novel tackles the story of Jesus. Pullman talks with Steve Paulson about The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ and the role supernatural miracles play in his life. Then, sociologist Phil Zuckerman talks with Jim Fleming about his book Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment. Zuckerman spent a year in Scandinavia and found that most Danes and Swedes he spoke with are happy to get along without religion.After that, Rhoda Janzen talks with Anne Strainchamps about the life experiences behind her successful book Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home. And finally, Tony Dushane talks with Steve Paulson about his novel based on his childhood as a Jehovah's Witness. The book is called Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk. [Broadcast Date: Augst 27, 2010] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/100827/rt_tbon_100827_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    His Dark Materials Trilogy
    Now a major critically acclaimed BBC series This special collection features all three titles in the award-winning trilogy: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.Northern Lights Lyra Belacqua lives half-wild and carefree among the scholars of Jordan College, with her daemon familiar always by her side. But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle - a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, witch clans and armoured bears.The Subtle Knife Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted otherworld - Cittàgazze, where soul-eating Spectres stalk the streets and wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. But she is not without allies: twelve-year-old Will Parry, fleeing for his life after taking another's, has also stumbled into this strange new realm.On a perilous journey from world to world, Lyra and Will uncover a deadly secret: an object of extraordinary and devastating power. And with every step, they move closer to an even greater threat - and the shattering truth of their own destiny.The Amber Spyglass Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have been violently separated. But they must find each other, for ahead of them lies the greatest war that has ever been - and a journey to a dark place from which no one has ever returned . . .
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    Treasure Island , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 417min
    First conceived during a rainy summer holiday in the Highlands of Scotland in an attempt to amuse his stepson, Treasure Island began with the map. Young Lloyd Osbourne had drawn a crude version of an island, and Stevenson, looking over the boy's shoulder, began to elaborate, christening various curves and smudges the famed names of Skeleton Island and Spyglass Hill and finally adding the three red crosses marking the buried treasure. From this gentlest of beginnings has come one of the fiercest and best-loved novels of piracy and fortune in the history of literature. It is Lloyd's lasting legacy that he insisted there be no girls in the story! It tells the story of Jim Hawkins, who, having acquired a map to the vast treasure of the fabled Captain Flint, sets out with a sponsor, Squire Trelawney, who has been tricked into crewing up his ship with the remaining members of the notorious Flint's band of pirates. Mutiny, maroonings and treasure follow, with the wonderful character of Long John Silver, not only providing a truly sophisticated analysis of the fact that morality is never simple but also forever fixing peg legs and parrots as the only uniform of the true bucaneer. Initially sold to a boys' magazine called Young Folks, Treasure Island began Robert Louis Stevenson's phenomenal success as a novelist. The British Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone was reputed to have read until two in the morning in order to finish it. It has a similar grasp today, and we are firmly convinced that Tim West's Silver will be heard growling and chuckling long into the night. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Timothy West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/slks/000058/bk_slks_000058_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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