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Allegra: A Novel Set in the Italian Renaissance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 570min

16th century Florence, Italy: Allegra Castagno harbors a secret so big that it can ruin her life and her father's reputation. Exceptionally talented, yet banned from the Florentine guilds, she devises a clever ruse in order to secretly ply her beloved craft. In time, the exquisite jewelry designs of "La Castagna" are being praised in noble courts from Venice to Rome. Resentful of the male-dominated society in which she lives, Allegra rejects all suitors in order to maintain her carefully constructed farce - until an embittered man with a tragic past melts her icy heart. Faced with a serious dilemma, she seeks the help of her scandalous friend, Bianca Cappello, lover of the powerful Francesco de' Medici. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brook Van Beuren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/117633/bk_acx0_117633_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Tea Planter's Wife , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 959min

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Tea Planter's Wife by Dinah Jefferies, read by Avita Jay. Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper is newly married to a rich and charming widower, eager to join him on his tea plantation, determined to be the perfect wife and mother. But life in Ceylon is not what Gwen expected. The plantation workers are resentful, the neighbours treacherous, and there are clues to the past - a dusty trunk of dresses, an overgrown gravestone in the grounds - that her husband refuses to discuss. Just as Gwen finds her feet, disaster strikes. She faces a terrible choice, hiding the truth from almost everyone, but a secret this big can't stay buried forever.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Avita Jay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/000626/bk_pauk_000626_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Gap Year for Grownups , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 654min

After 20 years of comfortable marriage, and with the kids finally off her hands, Sarah Lewis realises she has filled the washing machine once too often. Surely there must be more to life than this? What she wants is an adventure - a wild, unpredictable adventure - but her husband, good old reliable David, is very happy with the status quo. What Sarah needs is a gap year for grown-ups - and she wants to do it alone. Confident the grass must be greener elsewhere, she heads for France, leaving behind a devastated and resentful David, faced with an empty house and a freezer full of meals-for-one. But is life really better on the other side of the fence? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Suzy Aitchison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/003770/bk_bbcw_003770_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Pity the Lonely Dreamers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 555min

Valentina's mother had always made it clear to her that her brother, Michael, was the favourite child. So, when the opportunity comes for Valentina to leave South Wales behind, and head to London, she grasps it with both hands. Living in the midst of the music scene changes her attitude and, growing in confidence and experience, Valentina attempts to move out from the shadow of her friend, Phil, and his dream of being a star.But 1970s London is still thoroughly a man's world and with her new-found success it is Phil who becomes resentful, and dangerously so. With new friends and big ambitions Valentina learns to stand on her own, and make for herself the life of which she dreams. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anne Cater. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/002019/bk_isis_002019_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Blue Moon of Ake , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 66min

The evil immortal Queen-Jinabadi is now in Ake. She is leveling up as she destroys and conquers, however she is unaware of a past hater with a tasty trap. What can actually stop a powerful goddess with a worldly mission? This is a story about a magical OG (Original Goddess) named Jinabadi from the West, ancient America. "Badi" experiences a couple of lives on her destructive mission. In Blue Moon of Ake it conveys the early stage of the resentful queen building her kingdom to rule over all of ancient Africa (Ake). However on her deadly path she gets confronted with a different type of magic that traps her, and puts a pause on her wicked journey. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dala Dala. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/126744/bk_acx0_126744_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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If Divorce Is a Game, These Are the Rules: 8 Rules for Thriving Before, During and After Divorce , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 248min

Facing a divorce, and the life that comes after it, isn't easy. If you are struggling to figure out how to get through your divorce emotionally, physically, practically, or mentally, or you have been divorced for some time yet still find yourself bitter, sad, angry or resentful, If Divorce Is a Game, These Are the Rules provides the road map to turn your divorce into your personal breakthrough and design the new life of your choosing. Honorée Corder, author of The Successful Single Mom book series, has once again used her experience and deep understanding of the turmoil of divorce to help those going through their own divorce walk through the process, step-by-step, with minimal stress while maintaining their sanity and integrity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tracy Hundley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/023216/bk_acx0_023216_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The French House , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 624min

CC is trapped by a job she no longer loves in an unfriendly city. So when her new boyfriend decides it's time to sell up and move to the South of France, she decides in seconds to change her life. After all, who wouldn't pick an azure sea, aperitifs, and sunshine over a dreary commute and a rainy climate? She hadn't expected a tumbledown farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. Or a motley assortment of surly builders, eccentric farmers, and a resentful, terrifying neighbour - who happens to be her boyfriend's aunt. Suddenly, CC's dream of a place in the sun is looking more like a nightmare. Does she have the courage to stick it out and make a home of her French house? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Suzy Aitchison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/006799/bk_bbcw_006799_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Black Skies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 584min

Detective Sigurdur Oli is in trouble. After a school reunion exposes the chasm between his life and those of his much more successful contemporaries, leaving him bitter and resentful, one of his old friends asks him to pay an unofficial visit to a couple of blackmailers. He readily agrees, only to arrive to find one of the pair lying in a pool of blood. When the victim dies in hospital, Sigurdur Oli is faced with investigating a murder without revealing his own reasons for being present at the murder scene. Moving from the villas of Reykjavík's banking elite to a sordid basement flat, Black Skies is a superb story of greed, pride, and murder from one of Europe's most successful crime writers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Saul Reichlin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001729/bk_rhuk_001729_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Thirteenth Step: Zombie Recovery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 606min

Eight people escape zombie-infested New York. They have only one thing in common: the addict gene. The same genetic quirk that makes alcoholics and addicts susceptible to booze and drugs gives them a mysterious ability to evade the undead. But that's not enough to unite them. They're an unlikely crew: A Botoxed Upper East Sider; a drug dealer; a resentful daughter of addicts; a recovering AA guy; a Japanese ex-dope fiend; an addicted Ivy Leaguer; and a Mexican immigrant. They dodge zombies, toxic wastelands, drugged lunatics, their personal demons and sometimes each other, only to find themselves in a cult that takes A.A. to fundamentalist extremes. They have to make a choice, one they may not survive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/026032/bk_acx0_026032_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Down in the City , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 517min

Acclaimed-author Elizabeth Harrower's stunning debut, first published in 1957. Esther Prescott has seen little of life outside her wealthy family's Rose Bay mansion - until flashy Stan Peterson comes roaring up the drive in his huge American car and barges into her life. Within a fortnight they are living in his Kings Cross flat. Moody and erratic, proud of his well-bred wife yet bitterly resentful of her privilege, Stan is involved with his former girlfriend and a series of shady business deals. Esther, innocent and desperate to please him, must endure his controlling ways. This story of a troubled and obsessive marriage, set against the backdrop of postwar Sydney, is devastating. First published in 1957, Down in the City announced Elizabeth Harrower as a major Australian writer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deidre Rubenstein. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/003214/bk_boli_003214_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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