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    The Odyssey
    The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage, family and identity; and about travellers, hospitality and the changing meanings of home in a strange world. This vivid new translation-the first by a woman-matches the number of lines in the Greek original, striding at Homer's sprightly pace. Emily Wilson employs elemental, resonant language and an iambic pentameter to produce a translation with an enchanting "rhythm and rumble" that avoids proclaiming its own grandeur. An engrossing tale told in a compelling new voice that allows contemporary readers to luxuriate in Homer's descriptions and similes and to thrill at the tension and excitement of its hero's adventures, Wilson recaptures what is "epic" about this wellspring of world literature. Specially bound paperback edition, with deckle-edging (rough-cut) pages and French flaps.
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    Way Station , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 421min
    In this Hugo Award-winning classic, Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. But what his neighbors must never know is that, inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars. More than a hundred years before, an alien named Ulysses had recruited Enoch as the keeper of Earth's only galactic transfer station. Now, as Enoch studies the progress of Earth and tends the tanks where the aliens appear, the charts he made indicate his world is doomed to destruction. His alien friends can only offer help that seems worse than the dreaded disaster. Then he discovers the horror that lies across the galaxy. BONUS AUDIO: Way Station includes an exclusive introduction by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Mike Resnick. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/000210/bk_adbl_000210_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Walking Great Britain (eBook, ePUB)
    63 walks packed with local history, cultural and literary highlights, ecological and geological tidbits, and more Brief descriptions of gateway towns and services 75 full-color photos and detailed walk maps At-a-glance chart featuring trail information and amenities Walking Great Britain guides walkers and hikers of all levels and interests to the region's superlative trails. From easy riverside strolls to challenging mountain summits, these beautiful, classic routes span the most scenic parts of England, Scotland, and Wales. They lend themselves to a good day's walking with detail about local history, cultural and literary highlights, plus ecological and geological tidbits sprinkled throughout.Join in Great Britain's national pastime while visiting varied and stunning landscapes--hidden waterfalls, wild beaches, long lochs, deep gorges, dramatic cliffs, striking sea stacks, high peaks, picturesque peninsulas, colorful gardens, Roman ruins, turreted castles, and more. Most trails are easy day trips close to popular towns and destinations, making this a perfect guide for a quick outing between museum visits or a week's worth of robust striding.
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    The Last Continent: Discworld, Book 22 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 597min
    This is the Discworld's last continent, a completely separate creation.  It's hot. It's dry...very dry. There was this thing once called The Wet, which no one believes in. Practically everything that's not poisonous is venomous. But it's the best bloody place in the world, all right?And it'll die in a few days, except.... Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Champion sheep shearer, horse rider, road warrior, beer drinker, bush ranger and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober? A man in a hat whose luggage follows him on little legs, who's about to change history by preventing a swagman stealing a jumbuck by a billabong?Yes...all this place has between itself and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, the inept wizard who can't even spell wizard. Still...no worries, eh?Also, Terry Pratchett would like it to be known that The Last Continent is not a book about Australia. It's just vaguely Australian.Please note: This is a vintage recording. The audio quality may not be up to modern day standards. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nigel Planer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/000251/bk_rhuk_000251_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lord Peter Wimsey: The Complete Short Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1001min
    Discover Dorothy L. Sayers' inimitable Golden Age detective in this complete collection of the complete Lord Peter Wimsey stories, together in one volume for the first time. Presented in chronological order, these short stories see Lord Peter Wimsey bringing his trademark wit and unique detection skills to all manner of mysteries. From poisoned port to murder in fancy dress, Wimsey draws on his many skills - including his expertise in fine wine and appreciation of fine art - to solve cases far and wide, some even taking him to foreign countries and unexpected hiding places in pursuit of miscreants and murderers. Containing 21 stories taken from Lord Peter Views the Body, Hangman's Holiday, In the Teeth of the Evidence and Striding Folly, now published together for the first time in one volume, this is the ultimate collection for fans of classic detective fiction and Dorothy L. Sayers. 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: Jane McDowell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/001396/bk_hodd_001396_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    BattleTech Legends: Decision at Thunder Rift: The Gray Death Legion Saga, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 606min
    The epic first novel of the legendary science-fiction series.Thirty meters tall, 70 tons of quick-striding death and destruction, the armored war machines called BattleMechs are the frontline forces of the crumbling star empire locked in the horror of the endless Succession Wars. Their pilots are MechWarriors, 31st-century knights riding armored machines powerful enough to take a city apart.Grayson Death Carlyle had been training to be a MechWarrior since he was 10 years old, but his graduation came sooner than expected. With his friends and family dead and his father's regiment destroyed, young Grayson finds himself stranded on a world turned hostile. Now he must learn the hardest lesson of all: It takes more than a BattleMech to make a MechWarrior....But to claim that title, all Grayson has to do is go out and capture one of those giant killing machines...if it doesn't kill him first.About BattleTech:Decision at Thunder Rift is one of the first of more than 90 novels set in the BattleTech universe, a 31st-century setting of constant war between planets, nations, and peoples. A ‘Mech is a 12-meter-tall, 100-ton walking war machine. Only another ‘Mech can face one. Mercenary armies battle for pay, for honor, and for causes innumerable. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tren Sparks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/229734/bk_acx0_229734_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Down Under in the Top End: Penelope Heads North , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 604min
    Tim Bowden loves traveling with his wife Ros, their four-wheel drive and camping trailer, and setting up camp under bush skies. In Down Under in the Top End, he combines all three to take us on one of the world's greatest road trips, from Australia's east coast to the Top End and into the heart of the outback. Told with wry humor, an infectious enthusiasm for history, and a nose for finding great stories, Tim lays bare the hardships of bush life and celebrates the joys and freedoms of being on the road. He takes us to a pub with no beer at Gregory Downs, has us paddling a kayak between the red granite cliffs of Lawn Hill Gorge, teases us with the pleasures of being an overnight guest in Darwin's Government House, and leaves us wondering what a statuesque and topless German tourist was doing striding down the Stuart Highway. Along the way, he introduces us to characters only the outback could throw up, fellow travelers, and extraordinary tales of exploration and unexpected immigration. With Tim Bowden as your guide, Down Under in the Top End will have you packing your bags, putting your belongings into storage, and taking to the road. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Bowden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/041406/bk_acx0_041406_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ghosts, Werewolves and Vampires , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1507min
    A terrifying collection of classic Victorian short stories about ghosts, werewolves and vampires. The Wolf Book by Henry Chapman Mercer Number Ninety by B. M. Croker Ken's Mystery by Julian Hawthorne The Piano Next Door by Elia W. Peattie The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains by Frederick Marryat The Horla by Guy de Maupassant Absolute Evil by Julian Hawthorne Mrs. Amworth by E. F. Benson The Ghost Club by John Kendrick Bangs A Pastoral Horror by Arthur Conan Doyle The Ghost at the Blue Dragon by William J. Wintle The Death of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce The Other Side by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock Good Lady Ducayne by Mary E. Braddon The Dolls' Castle by Henry Chapman Mercer The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling Count Magnus by M. R. James The Wolf by Guy de Maupassant The Sad Story of a Vampire by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock To Let by B. M. Croker The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton The White Dog by Fedor Sologub Will by Vincent O'Sullivan The Cold Embrace by Mary E. Braddon The Diary of Mr. Poynter by M. R. James Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker The Black Dog by Stephen Crane The Devil of the Marsh by H. B. Marriott-Watson Room Number Ten by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor Pomegranate Seed by Edith Wharton...and more spinechilling tales.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000823/bk_redd_000823_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 397min
    Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975, Mark Kermode decided that musical superstardom was totally attainable. And so, armed with a homemade electric guitar and very little talent, he embarked on an alternative career - a chaotic journey which would take him from the halls and youth clubs of North London to the stages of Glastonbury, the London Palladium and The Royal Albert Hall.How Does It Feel? follows a lifetime of musical misadventures which have seen Mark striking rock star poses in the Sixth Form Common Room, striding around a string of TV shows dressed from head to foot in black leather, getting heckled off stage by a bunch of angry septuagenarians on a boat on the Mersey, showing Timmy Mallet how to build a tea-chest bass - and winning the International Street Entertainers of the Year award as part of a new wave of skiffle. Really. Hilarious, self-deprecating and blissfully nostalgic, this is a riotous account of a bedroom dreamer's attempts to conquer the world armed with nothing more than a chancer's enthusiasm and a simple philosophy: how hard can it be?PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio on our Desktop Site. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Kermode. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/001867/bk_orio_001867_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Tales of Life and Death , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 711min
    The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Never more so than in this collection of 30 weird and macabre tales. 'The Stolen Body' by H. G. Wells 'The Young Lady in Black' by Amyas Northcote 'On the Brighton Road' by Richard Middleton 'When I Was Dead' by Vincent O'Sullivan 'A Vision of Judgement' by H. G. Wells 'This Is All' by Barry Pain 'A Dead Finger' by Sabine Baring-Gould 'Under the Knife' by H. G. Wells 'Rattle of Bones' by Robert E. Howard 'Kerfol' by Edith Wharton 'The Downs' by Amyas Northcote 'Story of an Obstinate Corpse' by Elia. W. Peattie 'The Coffin Merchant' by Richard Middleton 'The Cold Embrace' by M. E. Braddon 'The Death of Halpin Frayser' by Ambrose Bierce 'The Everlasting Club' by Arthur Gray 'The Ghost Club' by John Kendrick Bangs 'Wailing Well' by M. R. James 'Will' by Vincent O'Sullivan 'The Striding Place' by Gertrude Atherton 'The Vampire' by Jan Neruda 'Mrs. Raeburn's Waxwork' by Eleanor Smith 'Miss Mary Pask' by Edith Wharton 'On the Northern Ice' by Elia W. Peattie 'Sea Curse' by Robert E. Howard 'The Snow' by Hugh Walpole 'Number Ninety' by B. M. Croker 'From the Loom of the Dead' by Elia W. Peattie 'The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number' by Gertrude Atherton 'Never Bet the Devil Your Head' by Edgar Allan Poe ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000905/bk_redd_000905_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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