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    Miguel Street , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 347min
    A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say 'Slum!' because he could see no more. But to its residents, this derelict corner of Trinidad's capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There's Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build "the thing without a name". There's Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion, and the dreaded Big Foot, the bully with glass tear ducts. There's the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband. In this tender, funny early novel, V. S. Naipaul renders their lives (and the legends their neighbors construct around them) with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion.Set during World War II and narrated by an unnamed - but precociously observant - neighborhood boy, Miguel Street is a work of mercurial mood shifts, by turns sweetly melancholy and anarchically funny. It overflows with life on every page. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ron Butler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/011816/bk_blak_011816_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Firefly: River Run Hc
    It's time for TWO Firefly Specials: a dangerous rescue mission undercover, followed by a Dickensian look at Jayne in the most classic Christmas tale in the 'Verse! Simon Tam will do anything to save his little sister from the Alliance. It'll cost him everything— his wealth, career, parents, and a perfect life on the Central Planets. But the love between them, a love more dangerous than madness, will persevere as Simon goes undercover into the Alliance to get her away from those that hurt her at any cost. In addition, it's time for a Christmas Carol, Firefly style! Jayne's selfish behavior receives the unwanted attention of three visiting spirits who reveal the hidden past, present and future of Serenity's most… miserly crew member. Acclaimed writers David M. Booher (Canto) and Jeff Jensen (Green River Killer: A True Detective) as well as artists Andrés Genolet (Runaways), Vincenzo Federici (Red Sonja), Jordi Pérez (Xena: Warrior Princess), and Fabiana Mascolo (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance), finally reveal the origin of the greatest sibling bond in a story no Browncoat can afford to miss, as well Firefly's take on Dickens' beloved cautionary tale. Collects Firefly: River Run #1 and Firefly: Holiday Special #1.
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    An Off-White Christmas , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 398min
    An Off-White Christmas features a dozen stories all set on or around Christmas, though, with little to no clear religious emphasis. Instead, these stories explore life changes and choices and chaos in times of heightened drama, when family and friends and life partners merge to form cohesive units, happy or otherwise. The stories range from a gambling spree in Las Vegas to a caravan traveling to Baraboo; from a teepee hotel in Kentucky to a retro movie theatre in Arizona; from a jolly Santa lookalike to a frustrated Dickensian actor; from students to retirees.Christmas, in these stories, is a character as much as a setting - it acts upon and with plot to create tension, but each story is unique. It’s hardly all sugar plums and pure white flakes, but always, there’s that hope. Just as the notion of a “white Christmas” evokes well-worn traditions of the holiday, these dozen “unwhite Christmas” stories introduce potential traditions that could expand and augment the Christmas spirit. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Theis, Savanna Rae, Bryan Wakefield, Belinda Bremner, Matt Gall, Jhenai Mootz, Don Evans. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/167644/bk_acx0_167644_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Clockwork Magician , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 518min
    A street urchin with a mysterious gift. A nightmarish enemy hunting over the gaslit streets of London. Dark magic rising.It’s a cold winter’s night when Jake Shillingsworth, serving boy at The Tattered Crow, finds himself running a task for his monstrous master Silas Grumble. Jake’s errands are never fun, but this one is worse than most. This one’s for a witch...When Jake’s best friend is snatched by a terrifying creature, he’s forced to seek help from Professor Thistlequick: an eccentric man known as the "clockwork magician".Soon, Jake finds himself in strange, shadowed streets and soaring over clouds in a race to stop the gravest of threats. London Bridge is falling down and so will the entire city if Jake and his unlikely companions fail.The Clockwork Magician is what would happen if Sherlock Holmes met Doctor Who with a Dickensian cast of grotesques, nail-biting adventures, and shadowy heroines who aren’t what they seem.Buy The Clockwork Magician today and embark on this thrilling adventure today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hannibal Hills. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/165015/bk_acx0_165015_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Tailor of Salisbury: A True Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 153min
    Re-released. Geoffrey James Hurford, a tailor who worked in Salisbury, England, was born in 1921 in Damerham, Hampshire, at a time when Crown Prince Hirohito, aged 20, had just been named Regent of Japan, when the cinema was erupting with excitement at the arrival on screen of Italy's most glamorous star, Rudolph Valentino, and when, in the United Kingdom, a 45-mile-to-the-gallon, brand-new Rover two-seater car could be bought for 230 guineas. As a child, Geoffrey contracted osteomyelitis, a chronic bone infection, and subsequently spent several years in hospital undergoing traumatic operations. By the time he was 21, he voluntarily made the decision to have his leg amputated. This fascinating account of Geoffrey's life - childhood, tailoring college, marriage and an extensive working career - is given a sensitive and humorous "talking head" performance by Martin Jarvis. It is an aspirational and entertaining true story of a tailor who, until his death in his early 80s, carried on working from the Dickensian tiny front room of his house in Salisbury's city centre. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Martin Jarvis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rksw/000004/bk_rksw_000004_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Oversight , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 888min
    Only five still guard the borders between the worlds. Only five hold back what waits on the other side. Once the Oversight, the secret society that polices the lines between the mundane and the magic, counted hundreds of brave souls among its members. Now their number can be tallied on a single hand. When a drunkard brings a screaming girl to the Oversight's London headquarters, it seems their hopes for a new recruit will be fulfilled - but the girl is a trap, her appearance a puzzle the five remaining guardians must solve or lose each other, and their society, for good. As the borders between the natural and the supernatural begin to break down, brutal murders erupt across the city, the Oversight are torn viciously apart, and their enemies close in for the final blow. This dark Dickensian fantasy spins a tale of witch-hunters, magicians, mirror-walkers, and the unlikeliest of heroes drawn from the depths of British folklore. Meet the Oversight, and remember: when they fall, so do we all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Prebble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000792/bk_twuk_000792_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    This House Is Haunted , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 532min
    Written in Dickensian prose, This House Is Haunted is a striking homage to the classic 19-century ghost story. Set in Norfolk in 1867, Eliza Caine responds to an ad for a governess position at Gaudlin Hall. When she arrives at the hall, shaken by an unsettling disturbance that occurred during her travels, she is greeted by the two children now in her care, Isabella and Eustace. There is no adult present to represent her mysterious employer, and the children offer no explanation. Later that night in her room, another terrifying experience further reinforces the sense that something is very wrong. From the moment Eliza rises the following morning, her every step seems dogged by a malign presence that lives within Gaudlin's walls. Eliza realizes that if she and the children are to survive its violent attentions, she must first uncover the hall's long-buried secrets and confront the demons of its past. Clever, captivating, and witty, This House Is Haunted is pure entertainment with a catch. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alison Larkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/003333/bk_tant_003333_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 939min
    No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together". To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it". To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias. In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel West-a city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity. In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city's current status. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/010736/bk_tant_010736_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    London: 10 Best Restaurants in London , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 10min
    Discover the best restaurants in London. You want to exactly know where to go and what to eat? You've found the right audiobook.Forget everything you think you know about British food - the boiling, the kidney pies, the Dickensian gruels. The nation has suffered a rather disparaging reputation (which has not been entirely undeserved - Beef Wellington is still a thing), but any food-minded traveler worth her salt will know that London's got oodles to offer. The last decade has seen London rival Paris and New York for dining prestige, and partaking in London's continental classics and New World innovations could take up an entire visit.In this audiobook, you will get to know the best restaurants in London so you can make the most out of your trip.Here’s a preview of the tips you will get in the audiobook:The 10 Best Restaurants in LondonLondon CuisineWhen you download London: 10 Best Restaurants in London, you will be on your way to the best possible version of your trip. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stoicescu Adrian Petru. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/109006/bk_acx0_109006_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Canon Code
    Author Jon Gegenheimer, a New Orleans native, is a litigation lawyer, elected court official, and writer of serious literary fiction. The Canon Code is his third published novel. The first is The Second Hill (AuthorHouse 2011), an exceptional piece of historical/futuristic fiction that foresaw virtually every malady afflicting today's troubled world: ubiquitous terrorism; rampant moral relativism; absurd political correctness; destruction of our cities and towns by anarchist, Jacobin mobs, and the all-out assault against the Judeo-Christian ethic. Mr. Gegenheimer's next story, The Griffin Murders (Rosedog Books 2016, Black Lacquer Press 2018), is a straight murder mystery of the same genre as The Second Hill. Beyond a spellbinding surface plot, it features deep character development and strikingly relevant themes. Like The Second Hill, it is a story for the times-written to awaken, delight, educate, and spark conversation. The Canon Code is a first-of-its-kind literary effort: a new art form-unprecedented in the annals of literature. The reader at some point will wonder: Has Mr. Gegenheimer blurred the line between fiction and fact, as Dickens invariably did; or, is there no line at all? Has he altogether eliminated fiction from the equation? The devoted Dickensian, not to mention all the other avid readers of Western literature, will surely consider a trip to Rochester, Gad's Hill, and London to seek the answers.
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