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Take You Wherever You Go , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 344min
You can do whatever you want to do. The only limits are the ones you set yourself. You have all you need in you right now. When Kenny Leon's grandmother told him to "take you wherever you go", she could hardly have anticipated that he would establish himself as one of Broadway's most exciting and acclaimed directors. But through years of hard work, Kenny would migrate from a small wooden house in rural Florida to the Tony Awards' stage, where he would win Best Direction of a Play for his 2014 revival of "A Raisin in the Sun". In Take You Wherever You Go, Leon reflects on the pillars of wisdom he learned every step of the way from the most important people in his life - from his grandmother's sagacious and encouraging motivations to the steady hand of his mother to the deep artistic and social influence of iconic American playwright August Wilson. Take You Wherever You Go is a poignant, ruminative, and inspirational memoir that empowers you to be true to yourself as you navigate your own path. 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: Kenny Leon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004503/bk_hach_004503_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 88min
Leon flies a crop duster. He also drinks a bit, and so he figures he'd better find a place outside of town to take off and land, just to avoid investigations. He stumbles across an abandoned government airfield deep in the Great Dismal Swamp, not far from Old Mill, North Carolina. He also discovers a lot of barrels filled with something - and being the paranoid type - eventually he starts to worry they'll find him with those barrels, and it will be trouble. He decides to get rid of it by "dusting" it over the local fields. Who will know? The problem is - the chemicals in that barrel have some interesting effects on people. They start to eat at Leon's already troubled mind, and - since Leon accidentally sprayed them over the local marijuana crop, they start to eat at a lot of other minds as well. The timing proves fateful for Jess, who just wants to get away from the tired, country life of Old Mill, NC and his tired old friends, like Teeter, who can't stand still, but bobs back and forth like a metronome. Only Mabel seems worth saving - the question is, will the two of them survive the night? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aaron Shook. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001317/bk_acx0_001317_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Beastly Things: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery, Book 21, Hörbuch, Digital, 274min
When a man is found stabbed to death floating in the canal, Commissario Brunetti is convinced he recognises him from somewhere. But with no identification on the body and no reports of people missing from the Venice area, it seems as if he has appeared from nowhere, and the case is at a dead end. It doesn't take long for Brunetti to realise why he remembers the dead man - he saw him at a demonstration a couple of years ago, where farmers were protesting about European milk quotas. But what was his involvement with the protest? And could it have anything to do with his murder? Having nothing to go on but the distinctive shoes the man was wearing and a disease that had left his body strangely deformed, Brunetti and Inspector Vianello set out to try and discover the man's identity. Their investigation eventually takes them to a slaughterhouse at Preganziol, on the mainland. It is there that Brunetti discovers the dead man's connection with the slaughterhouse and the world of blackmail and corruption that surrounds it. With a gripping case set before a harrowing exploration of the meat industry, Donna Leon's latest novel is a dark and compelling addition to the Brunetti series. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew Sachs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001245/bk_rhuk_001245_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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About Face: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery, Hörbuch, Digital, 255min
At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Comissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He's charmed - perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola - by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance. A few days later, Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera. As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region, Guarino wants information about the owner of a trucking company who has been found murdered in his office. He believes the man's death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse - and more sinister material - in his company's trucks. No stranger to mutual suspicion and competition between rival Italian police departments, Brunetti is nevertheless puzzled by the younger man's paranoid behaviour. Eventually Guarino agrees to email a photo of his suspect, but by the time the photograph arrives, he himself is dead. Was he killed because he got too close? And why is it that Franca Marinello has often been seen in company of the suspect, a vulgar man with Mafia connections and a violent past? Donna Leon's new novel is as subtle, gripping and topical as ever, bringing the sights, sounds and smells of Venice flooding to life. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew Sachs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/000414/bk_rhuk_000414_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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By Its Cover: Commissario Brunetti, Book 23 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 419min
By Its Cover is the much anticipated twenty-third instalment in Donna Leon's bestselling crime series, where Commissario Brunetti is better than ever as he addresses questions of worth and value alongside his ever-faithful team of Ispettore Vianello and Signorina Elettra. When several valuable antiquarian books go missing from a prestigious library in the heart of Venice, Commissario Brunetti is immediately called to the scene. The staff suspect an American researcher has stolen them, but for Brunetti something doesn’t quite add up. Taking on the case, the Commissario begins to seek information about some of the library’s regulars, such as the ex-priest Franchini, a passionate reader of ancient Christian literature, and Contessa Morosini-Albani, the library's chief donor, and comes to the conclusion that the thief could not have acted alone. However, when Franchini is found murdered in his home, the case takes a more sinister turn and soon Brunetti finds himself submerged in the dark secrets of the black market of antiquarian books. Alongside his ever-faithful team of Ispettore Vianello and Signorina Elettra, he delves into the pages of Franchini’s past and into the mind of a book thief in order to uncover the terrible truth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Rintoul. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001692/bk_rhuk_001692_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Romance: Dirty Paws , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 39min
Come on, Leon, let me walk you to your car. Shelia's makeup was smeared and her white shirt drenched, her nubile perky pink nipples visible through her shirt. She looked down and the two started laughing. "Sure. I've got a black T-shirt in my car. I promise I won't look." They both giggled with delight at the thought, because even at 21, no one except Leon and Ian had the honor of having seen her body. She had freely given herself to Leon multiple times and naturally felt completely at ease with Leon. Once the two made it to the old Toyota Tercel, Shelia joined him in the passenger seat. The windows quickly fogged up as the two passionately kissed. "Lee, baby, I can't do this. You know I'll always love you, and I'm always thinking of you, but my life is so different now, and I haven't even seen you in three years. You haven't called, you haven't come by - nothing. I can't," Shelia said as she changed into one of Leon's T-shirts, leaving the other in the passenger seat as she hurriedly got out of the car and ran back to her sorority house. That was the last time they saw each other..." Warning: This content is not suitable for all ages. 18+ ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca Wolfe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/041822/bk_acx0_041822_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Voyage Long and Strange, Hörbuch, Digital, 531min
On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university - a history major, no less! - he's reached middle age with a third-grader's grasp of early America. In fact, he's mislaid more than a century of American history, the period separating Columbus' landing in 1492 from the arrival of English colonists at Jamestown in 160-...something. Did nothing happen in between?Horwitz decides to find out, and in A Voyage Long and Strange he uncovers the neglected story of America's founding by Europeans. He begins a thousand years ago, with the Vikings, and then tells the dramatic tale of conquistadors, castaways, French voyageurs, Moorish slaves, and many others who roamed and rampaged across half the states of the present-day U.S. continent, long before the Mayflower landed.To explore this history and its legacy in the present, Horwitz embarks on an epic quest of his own - trekking in search of grape-rich Vinland, Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth, Coronado's Cities of Gold, Walter Raleigh's Lost Colonists, and other mysteries of early America. And everywhere he goes, Horwitz probes the revealing gap between fact and legend, between what we enshrine and what we forget.An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves. Language: English. Narrator: Tony Horwitz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001402/bk_rand_001402_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Book of Leon: Philosophy of a Fool , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 312min
2018 Audie Award Finalist for HumorEveryone's favorite houseguest who never left, Leon Black (played by award-winning comedian JB Smoove from HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm), drops his wisdom and good-bad advice for the masses. Learn the secrets Larry David has gleaned from the Falstaff of television. Live your best Leon. Bring the ruckus. Aristotle. Gandhi. Lao Tzu. Dr. Ruth. Amateurs. For centuries, bespectacled dorks have pored over the scrolls of the ancients, read tea leaves, and looked to the stars for philosophy, wisdom, and advice. While some people have probably offered good advice, and others offer bad advice, Leon is here to offer his brand of good-bad advice. These are the musings of a master genius spitting out the secrets of the universe - to help you become just like him. Be forewarned: in opening this audiobook and Leon's mind, you need to be prepared for straight talk. The kind of unfiltered blunt straight talk that pounds on your door; invites itself in; makes itself at home; helps itself to your food, your security pass code, and your expensive organic beet juice; and finally makes itself comfortable on that twin bed in your guest room. All the while you think you're helping it - but really it's helping you help yourself! Because that's how this book doozit. Leon Black: He ain't wrong...he just ain't right. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Leon Black. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008078/bk_sans_008078_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Trace Elements
'Donna Leon's appreciation of her adopted city's sublime yet fragile magnificence is as fresh (and invigorating) today as it was when Death at La Fenice was published in 1992. However, her anger at the damage caused by tourism and pollution has grown stronger over the years ... Should anyone still doubt that Leon is a superb novelist, let them consider the scene in which Guido gently questions a woman during the last few minutes of her life. You can feel the tension, fear, horror - and wonder.' The TimesA New York Times Bestseller__________________________________'They killed him. It was bad money.' A dying hospice patient gasps these cryptic words about her recently-deceased husband. Brunetti softly promises he will look into what appears to be a private family tragedy. He discovers that her husband worked for a company that monitored the cleanliness of Venice's water supply and that he had died in a motorcycle accident.Distracted briefly by Vice Questore Patta's obsession with youth crime in Venice, Brunetti turns to the remarkable research skills of Patta's secretary, Signora Elettra Zorzi. With her help, Brunetti comes to realize the perilous meaning in the dying woman's accusation and the threat it reveals to the health of the entire region.'Atmospheric, clever, witty and amusing. If I were only allowed to read one crime series again it would be that of Donna Leon.' The Times- Shop: buecher
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Editing Emma: The Secret Blog of a Nearly Proper Person , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 459min
Move over, Georgia Nicolson. Say goodbye to Geek Girl. Meet Emma Nash. When 16-year-old Emma is ghosted by love of her life Leon Naylor, she does what any normal girl would do. She spends the entire summer lurking in her bedroom, avoiding all human contact (and the shower), surrounded by the collection of Chewits wrappers she saved from packs Leon gave her, back when he actually acknowledged her existence.... But seeing Leon suddenly 'in a relationship' on Facebook with the perfect Anna spurs Emma into action, and she embarks on a mission to make positive changes to her life (or 'edits', if you will), vowing to use the Internet for more than obsessively stalking Leon's activities! Instead she will use it for good and noble causes like finding someone who will actually be nice to her and recording her findings for the rest of the world to see (i.e., BFF Steph and her mum) on her new Editing Emma blog. But Emma soon discovers her habit is harder to break than she first thought - turns out she's not the only one editing herself online (thank you, Tinder, for finding her mum's profile - age 35, really?) and that life through an Instagram filter isn't always what it's cracked up to be. But it could be worse: she could have outed her best friend, accidentally chatted up a 12-year-old boy and revealed to the world why Leon Naylor is worth no girl's time or virginity.... Oh no, wait, that's exactly what happened.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlie Sanderson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/003012/bk_hcuk_003012_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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