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    The Immortalists , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 690min
    It's 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York's Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. Four siblings, too young for what they are about to hear, sneak out to hear their fortunes. We then follow the intertwined paths the siblings take over the course of five decades and, in particular, how they choose to live with the supposed knowledge the fortune-teller gave them that day. This is a story about life, mortality and the choices we make: is it better to live a long and cautious life or to burn brightly, but for the shortest time? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maggie Hoffman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/head/000642/bk_head_000642_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Right to Die , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 340min
    When a bright young heiress with a flair for romance and one too many enemies is found brutally murdered, Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, find themselves embroiled in a case that is not as black and white as it first appears.Susan Brooke has everything going for her.  Men would have killed themselves to marry her, and, in fact, one did.Susan came to New York to find love and fulfillment, and ended up dead on a tenement floor.  The police say her black fiance did it, but Wolfe has other ideas.  Before he's done, he'll prove that good intentions and bad deeds often go hand in hand and that the highest ideals can sometimes have the deadliest consequences. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Prichard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000819/bk_bkot_000819_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Tenants: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 329min
    With a new introduction by Aleksandar Hemon In The Tenants (1971), Bernard Malamud brought his unerring sense of modern urban life to bear on the conflict between blacks and Jews then inflaming his native Brooklyn. The sole tenant in a rundown tenement, Henry Lesser is struggling to finish a novel, but his solitary pursuit of the sublime grows complicated when Willie Spearmint, a black writer ambivalent toward Jews, moves into the building. Henry and Willie are artistic rivals and unwilling neighbors, and their uneasy peace is disturbed by the presence of Willie's white girlfriend Irene and the landlord Levenspiel's attempts to evict both men and demolish the building. This novel's conflict, current then, is perennial now; it reveals the slippery nature of the human condition, and the human capacity for violence and undoing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: LJ Ganser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019532/bk_adbl_019532_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Chisellers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 178min
    Fans of Agnes Browne craving further hilarious and heartwarming adventures will be delighted with The Chisellers. Agnes, the lovable and determined heroine, returns with her seven children - whom she affectionately calls 'the chisellers' - all struggling to make their way in the world with varying degrees of success. To make matters more difficult, as Agnes struggles along the bumpy road of parenting, she learns that the family is about to be forced out of their tenement home in the name of urban renewal. Pierre, Agnes' persistent suitor, is thankfully on hand to console her. Like all good Irish stories, The Chisellers includes a wedding and a funeral, much laughter and some tears - and it is sure to please newcomers as well as loyal fans of this terrific series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brendan O'Carroll. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/002269/bk_boli_002269_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Longing for Elsewhere: My Irish Voyage Through Hunger, History, and High Times , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 327min
    Born in a Dublin tenement in the middle of the 20th century, this dead-poor, curious Irish girl escaped to Paris when she was 17 with the help of a nun, a Hollywood actor, and a kind stranger. There she was accepted into the emigre community blacklisted in the McCarthy era. She met James Baldwin and Ring Lardner, Jr.; Ruth Gordon gave her a fur coat. Still restless and full of dreams she spent years working her way around the world. On a ship bound for Egypt with her year-old daughter Aisling she fell in love with a radical longshoreman from San Francisco. The memoir Longing for Elsewhere explores the themes entangled in her journey: identity, adventure, creativity, the burdens of history, and the passion for justice. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Renee Gibbons. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/017939/bk_acx0_017939_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Martha's Journey , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 593min
    Liverpool, 1915. Martha Rossi lives in a tenement with her husband and their five children. Despite working all the hours she can, the family doesn't have much money. So when Martha’s 14-year-old son, Joe, proudly enlists to fight for his country just to earn his mother an extra shilling, Martha is horrified. Despite her pleas and protests, Joe is dispatched to France within weeks. Unbeknown to them all, Joe’s act of selfless heroism will have huge implications for Martha and all the family. As the dreaded telegrams begin to arrive from the front in France, mothers’ hearts are broken across the country. Spurred on by grief of her own, Martha Rossi begins a quest that will take her right to the doors of No.10 Downing Street.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maggie Ollerenshaw. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/004045/bk_bbcw_004045_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Nightmare Chronicles , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 536min
    It begins in an old tenement with a horrifying crime. It continues after midnight, when a young boy, held captive in a basement, is filled with unearthly visions of fantastic and frightening worlds. How could his kidnappers know that the ransom would be their own souls? For, as the hours pass, the boy's nightmares invade his captors like parasites - and soon, they become real. This audiobook also contains the short stories "Underworld," "O Rare and Most Esquisite," "The Rendering Man," "The Fruit of Her Womb," "The Hurting Season," "Chosen," "The Night Before Alec Got Married," "Only Connect," "The Little Mermaid," "Damned if You Do," and "The Ripening Sweetness of Late Afternoon." You can also listen to the acclaimed novelettes, "White Chapel" and "I am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mia Chiaromonte. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014445/bk_adbl_014445_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Return Fire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 501min
    NYPD Third Grade Detective Sam Archer and Alice Vargas are working in the NYPD Counter-Terrorism Bureau and also living together. However, things between them are strained; both are struggling to deal with the aftermath of a terrifying ordeal in a Harlem tenement block the day they met. Before long, the tension between them boils over, and Vargas walks out, going to Spain to visit family. Seven days later, Archer still hasn't heard a peep from her. Unable to sleep and sitting on the balcony of his apartment, Archer suddenly hears a knock on his front door. It's his NYPD partner, Josh, and he has some shocking news. Vargas has been abducted. Every second Vargas is missing is another second closer to never seeing her again. If he stands any chance of ever finding her, he's going to have to return fire with fire. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Murray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cher/000184/bk_cher_000184_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Nanny at Number 43: Be Careful Who You Let into Your Home , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 469min
    Wanted: a respectable woman to care for a motherless child.When William D. Thomas’s wife dies in childbirth, he places an advertisement in his local newspaper seeking a nanny for his newborn child. He is thankful when an experienced nanny arrives at 43, Laurence Street, and takes over from his frazzled housekeeper Mrs McHugh.Mrs McHugh confides in her bedridden friend Betty, who has a bird’s-eye view of all the happenings on Laurence Street, that the nanny is not all she seems. Betty begins her own investigation into the mysterious woman.When the bodies of twin babies are discovered buried in a back garden by a family who have moved from their tenement home into a country cottage, a police investigation begins. But it is Betty who holds the key to discovering who the nanny really is...and the reason she came to 43, Laurence Street. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emma Thorpe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/205557/bk_acx0_205557_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    44 Scotland Street: Series 1-3: Full-cast radio adaptations of the much-loved novels, Hörbuch, Digital, 204min
    Alexander McCall Smith's much-loved series of novels is the basis of this full-cast dramatisation about the inhabitants of an Edinburgh tenement building. Anthropologist Domenica MacDonald observes the lives of her neighbours and the neighbourhood in Edinburgh's New Town. Pat, a new young tenant, arrives at 44 Scotland Street to flat share with Bruce. Bruce is a surveyor with more of an eye for the ladies than a sound property. We're introduced to five-year-old Bertie, who is controlled by his pretentious and intellectual mother, Irene - he's learning the saxophone, speaks Italian, and is extremely knowledgeable about many subjects. And then there's Matthew, setting up the Something Special Gallery with little knowledge of artists or paintings! 44 Scotland Street began life as a serial in The Scotsman before becoming a best-selling series of novels and now a BBC Radio 4 serial. Language: English. Narrator: Crawford Logan, Carol Ann Crawford, full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002682/bk_rhuk_002682_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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