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    The Getting of Wisdom , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 438min
    The Getting of Wisdom, a wicked and satirical novel on the pain and confusion of growing up, first appeared in 1910. A century later, it has lost none of its bite. One of the most memorable characters in Australian fiction, Laura Rambotham, aged 12, enters the portals of an exclusive girls' school eager to be accepted. But this precocious country girl is snubbed and ridiculed by her fellow students, who are richer, more attractive, and more adept at dealing with life's hypocrisies. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Justine Eyre. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010713/bk_blak_010713_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Little Women
    Now a major motion picture starring Timothée Chalamet, Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson and Meryl Streep. Recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories of all time, Little Women is an utterly beguiling novel.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition includes the sequel, Good Wives, which picks up the girls' stories three years on, and features an afterword by publisher Anna South.Louisa May Alcott tells the story of the courageous and ingenious March sisters; Jo, the independent tomboy; Beth, who is delicate and loving; pretty and kind Meg; and beautiful, precocious Amy, the baby of the family. Their devoted mother Marmee, recently impoverished, must care for them alone whilst their father is away serving as a chaplain in the Civil War.
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    Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
    A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world The product of a decade of intrepid research, Stalin is a landmark achievement. Stephen Kotkin offers a biography that, at long last, is equal to this shrewd, sociopathic, charismatic dictator in all his dimensions. We see a man inclined to despotism who could be utterly charming; a pragmatic ideologue; a leader who obsessed over slights yet was a precocious geostrategic thinker-unique among Bolsheviks-and yet who made egregious strategic blunders. Through it all, we see Stalin's unflinching persistence, his sheer force of will-perhaps the ultimate key to understanding his indelible mark on history. Drawing on Kotkin's exhaustive study of Soviet archival materials as well as vast scholarly literature, Stalin recasts the way we think about the Soviet Union, revolution, dictatorship, the twentieth century, and indeed the art of history itself.
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    Olga
    THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Bernhard Schlink speaks straight to the heart' New York TimesOlga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees her as second-best.When she falls in love with Herbert, a local aristocrat obsessed with the era's dreams of power, glory and greatness, her life is irremediably changed.Theirs is a love against all odds, entwined with the twisting paths of German history, leading us from the late 19th to the early 21st century, from Germany to Africa and the Arctic, from the Baltic Sea to the German south-west.This is the story of that love, of Olga's devotion to a restless man - told in thought, letters and in a fateful moment of great rebellion.
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    Lucinda's Ghost , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 316min
    A precocious, often thoughtful 11-year-old named Lucinda befriends Bob, a lonely ghost who lives on a beach on an island in South Carolina. When Lucinda learns Bob died while vacationing with his daughter and granddaughter and now he can’t leave the island to return home to Tennessee, she must enlist her parents’ help in freeing Bob, although her parents cannot see him. In this story of friendship and hope, Lucinda takes us on a journey of what it means to be selfless in a selfish world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Renee Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/182030/bk_acx0_182030_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fuzzy Wuzzy: Stories for the Early Years, Volume 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 3min
    An exciting story about a precocious bear cub who doesn’t listen to his mother and almost ends up in the hands of the Big Bad Wolf! Fuzzy Wuzzy, his brothers, Bob and Hal, and sister, Sal, were told to stay in their lair while Mama Bear went fishing. But Fuzzy, bored, decides to explore the world. Ivan the Wolf could not have been happier to see him, given how hungry he is. Can Fuzzy escape Ivan’s clutches?Ages six to seven; grade levels one to two. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Selleck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/125988/bk_acx0_125988_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lulu: A Novella , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 364min
    Lulu is a fascinating heroine based on the equally fascinating life of her creator. Come take the journey with Lulu as she grows from a precocious child in Charleston, SC, into a coed at a college in the North. A journey that comes with all of the heartbreak of first love, motherly rivalry, brotherly caring, and parental betrayal. With a literary voice in the grand tradition of the great Southern writers, one of America's best-selling nonfiction authors, Nancy Friday, has in Lulu created a fascinating first work of fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/033563/bk_adbl_033563_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Needled: Quilter's Club Mysteries, Book 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 245min
    Maddy Madison and her Quilters Club pals - Bootsie, the police chief's wife; Cookie, the town historian, married to a local farmer; and Lizzie, the ostentatious wife of a retired banker - along with Maddy's precocious granddaughter Aggie and brainiac grandson N'yen - are back again. But who would expect them to tangle with Russian spies and long-dead Amish murderers in this new adventure? And there's lots of sewing on patchwork quilts as they prepare for the competition at the annual Watermelon Days festival in their quaint little hometown of Caruthers Corners, Indiana. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katherine Thompson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/081517/bk_acx0_081517_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Why Are We in Vietnam?: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 298min
    When Why Are We in Vietnam? was published in 1967, almost twenty years after The Naked and the Dead, the critical response was ecstatic. The novel fully confirmed Mailer's stature as one of the most important figures in contemporary American literature. Now, a new edition of this exceptional work serves as further affirmation of its timeless quality. Narrated by Ranald ("D.J.") Jethroe, Texas's most precocious teenager, on the eve of his departure to fight in Vietnam, this story of a hunting trip in Alaska is both brilliantly entertaining and profoundly thoughtful. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: MacLeod Andrews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/008492/bk_brll_008492_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Cocksure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 459min
    Cocksure evokes the outrageous and bawdy years of the 'Swingin' Sixties'. Mordechai Richler has assembled the most bizarre gallery of types - Mortimer Griffin, worried about impotence and with good reason; Rachel Coleman, slinky Black Panther of the boudoir; the Star Maker, a movie tycoon of truly unnerving erotic abilities and a living miracle of spare-part surgery; a precocious group of schoolchildren with a taste for the teachings of the Marquis de Sade and many more characters all working out their problems against the frantic background of post-war freedom discovering Sixties Britain. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Martha Henry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003959/bk_adbl_003959_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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