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    The Eyes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 48min
    Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928, and 1930. Among her most popular and terrifying tales are the many masterly ghost stories which she wrote in her early career. During a convivial evening during which all the guests recount their own personal ghost stories, nobody expects the dry old host, Andrew Culwin, to contribute any supernatural experience. But when most of the guests have left, the youngest man present, Phil Frenham, challenges Culwin on the subject. In response, Culwin hands out another round of cigars and embarks on the strangest tale of all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000493/bk_redd_000493_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Kerfol , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 55min
    Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Among her most popular and terrifying tales are the many masterly ghost stories she wrote in her early career. Kerfol is the story of an American who looks over the remote and partially ruined castle of Kerfol and finds only a pack of eerie, shy and strangely silent dogs there. When he mentions that he has seen the dogs, his hosts give him a very peculiar old story to read...the history of a bizarre old murder and an even more mysterious pack of dogs. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000713/bk_redd_000713_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Kill as Directed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 359min
    Henry Kane writing as Ellery Queen. An exciting mystery by the masterly Ellery Queen. Dr. Harry Brown is a competent, respectable practitioner of the time-honored art of medicine--until the day old man Gresham, with his millions of dollars, failing heart, and young spouse, hires him. Suddenly it's money, luxury, and love. But what happens to a doctor when someone slips a corpse into his locked apartment? What can a man say when he finds himself a member of an organized crime ring? How can Harry tell his richest patient he's having an affair with a man's wife? It's enough to give a man a heart attack--but which man? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Peckham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007333/bk_blak_007333_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Tales of Folk and Fairies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 308min
    Katharine Pyle's masterly retelling of well-loved folk tales from around the world. The Meester Stoorworm - A Story from Scotland Jean Malin and the Bull Man - A Louisiana Tale The Widow’s Son - A Scandinavian Tale The Wise Girl - A Serbian Story The History of Ali Cogia - From the Arabian Nights Oh! - A Cossack Story The Talking Eggs - A Story from Louisiana The Frog Princess - A Russian Story The Magic Turban, the Magic Sword and the Magic Carpet - A Persian Story The Three Silver Citrons - A Persian Story The Magic Pipe - A Norse Tale The Triumph of Truth - A Hindu Story Life’s Secret - A Story of Bengal Dame Pridgett and the Fairies ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000190/bk_redd_000190_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Song of Stone , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 425min
    The war is ending, perhaps ended. For the castle and its occupants the troubles are just beginning. Armed gangs roam a lawless land where each farm and house supports a column of dark smoke. Taking to the roads with the other refugees, anonymous in their raggedness, seems safer than remaining in the ancient keep. However, the lieutenant of an outlaw band has other ideas and the castle becomes the focus for a dangerous game of desire, deceit and death. Iain Bank's masterly novel reveals his unique ability to combine gripping narrative with a relentlessly voyaging imagination. The narrative technique and sheer brio of A Song Of Stone reveal a great novelist at the height of his powers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Kenny. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000758/bk_twuk_000758_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Miss Mary Pask , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 37min
    Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Among her most popular and terrifying tales are the many masterly ghost stories which she wrote in her early career. Miss Mary Pask is the story of a young man who calls in on the sister of his best friend's wife while he is travelling in Brittany, where she lives. But as he stands on the doorstep, he suddenly recalls hearing that the sister had died a year ago. And yet there is a figure in white coming down the stairs.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000714/bk_redd_000714_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Tales from the Inner City
    A stunningly presented collection of twenty-five illustrated short stories exploring the relationship between humans and animals, from the award-winning visual storyteller Shaun Tan.Where can we live if not in each other's shadow?World-renowned artist Shaun Tan applies his extraordinary talent to a reflection on the nature of humans and animals, and our urban co-existence. From crocodile to frog; tiger to bee, this is a dark and surreal exploration of the perennial love and destruction we feel and inflict - of how animals can save us, and how we are entwined, for better or for worse. Tales from the Inner City is a truly masterly work, bearing all of Shaun Tan's trademark wit and poignancy in both its prose and exquisite illustrations.
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    The Third Man and Other Stories
    Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognizable - torn apart by the Second World War and shared between the occupying Allies. What's more, Harry is dead, and the circumstances look suspicious . . . Determined to uncover the truth, Martins must pick through the rubble of this broken city in search of answers.Accompanied here by twelve further stories that exhibit the full range of Graham Greene's masterly storytelling, The Third Man is an atmospheric noir that oozes with suspense.With an introduction by the biographer and editor Professor Richard Greene.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound gift editions of much loved classic titles.
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    Bomber (eBook, ePUB)
    'Probably the best thing ever written about the wartime air campaign against Germany' Max Hastings'Magnificent ... rich with historical detail' The Times31 June, 1943. An RAF crew prepare for their next bombing raid on Germany. It is a night that many will never forget. Len Deighton's devastating novel is a gripping minute-by-minute account of what happens over the next twenty-four hours. Told through the eyes of ordinary people in the air and on the ground - from a young pilot to the inhabitants of a small town in the Ruhr - Bomber is an unforgettable portrayal of individuals caught up in the wreckage of war.'A superbly mobilised tragedy of the machines which men make to destroy themselves. Masterly' Spectator
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    Persuasion
    The Penguin English Library Edition of Persuasion by Jane Austen'Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth; and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect'Persuasion, Jane Austen's last novel, is a moving, masterly and elegiac love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities. It tells the story of Anne Elliot, who, persuaded to break off her engagement to the man she loved because he was not successful enough, has never forgotten him. When he returns, he brings with him a tantalizing second chance of happiness ...The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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