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    That Girl from Nowhere , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 911min
    From the best-selling author of The Ice Cream Girls, The Woman He Loved Before, and My Best Friend's Girl, an emotional story about love, identity, and the meaning of family. ‘Where are you coming from with that accent of yours?’ he asks. ‘Nowhere,’ I reply. ‘I’m from nowhere.’ ‘Everyone’s from somewhere,’ he says. ‘Not me,’ I reply silently. Clemency Smittson was adopted as a baby, and the only connection she has to her birth mother is a cardboard box hand decorated with butterflies. Now an adult, Clem decides to make a drastic life change and move to Brighton, where she was born. Clem has no idea that while there she'll meet someone who knows all about her butterfly box and what happened to her birth parents. As the tangled truths about her adoption and childhood start to unravel, a series of shocking events cause Clem to reassess whether the price of having contact with her birth family could be too high to pay.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adjoa Andoh, Akiya Henry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002024/bk_rhuk_002024_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Alimony Payment: The Fixer, Part 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 10min
    Fixer was sitting at his kitchen table, looking over old Polaroid photos of his son and daughter when they were little kids. He blinked his blurry eyes and remembered the sound of finality in Cheryl’s voice. The memory of it is a stake in his chest. What if Cheryl left him? He couldn’t live with that failure. She’d take the kids. Might as well cut my heart out. He stared at the dirty wooden floor. I have to fix this with Cheryl. The idea clamored for his attention. There is no one to blame for this stupidity but himself. He would beg Cheryl’s mercy and forgiveness. I’ll go into treatment. I’ll join AA. His eyes, burning from cigarette smoke and lack of sleep, search the dirty wooden floor for other ideas. Other plausible arguments for clemency. He couldn’t think of any, so he poured another drink. He really did need a drink this time; hunting down a cold-hearted, remorseless, bloodthirsty man-eater like Spencer Carlin would be the biggest - and most dangerous - case of his career. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Goodrick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/102113/bk_acx0_102113_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Out of the Shadows: Broken Gears, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 805min
    Lenore ran. She ran as fast as her legs would carry her. Her muscles felt like they were on fire, but burning alive was far better than the alternative. The Enforcers weren't known for their clemency or for doling out quick punishments.Homeless, orphaned, living in secret as a thief. Lenore Crowley just wants to survive, but Springhaven's laws make no exceptions. Arrest by the Enforcers - the city's "peacekeepers" - and life imprisonment loom. When Lenore meets the Allens, she's offered a new identity. This chance can save her from the underworld of crime in which she's forced to live. Though magic is supposed to be gone, the universe is keeping score. Oaths carry a brutally painful price, and Lenore isn't the only one caught in this web of debt. As lives entangle, she finds her secrets aren't so secret. Someone is looking for her, someone who knows who she really is. Can Lenore truly escape her past or will she be drawn back into the darkness?Fans of the Finishing School series by Gail Carriger and Garth Nix's Old World universe will delight as this Victorian-era-esque world unfolds before them. A multi-layered, steampunk, fantasy tale of colorful characters, lost magic, and technology, and subterfuge that promises to entrance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brynn Cellan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/153045/bk_acx0_153045_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Birds, Beasts, and Bandits: 14 Days with Veerappan , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 368min
    Veerappan responded in a soft voice: "It has been many years since I killed elephants. But no one believes me if I say so." In a comic case of mistaken identity, wildlife photographers Krupakar and Senani were kidnapped one night from their home at the edge of the Bandipur National Park by Veerappan, India's most dreaded bandit. He thought they were important government officials, and his plan was to hold them hostage in return for clemency and a substantial ransom. The bandit and his gang kept the hostages on the move in the forest, and their only contact with the outside world was via an old transistor radio. While Veerappan, who had already killed some 250 people, formulated strategies to force the government to agree to his demands, his hostages not only got a close look at the plant and animal diversity in the forests of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, but the intimacy of their life on the run gave them an insight into Veerappan's strange mix of cruelty and humanity. Though Krupakar and Senani came from a world that was completely different from that of Veerappan's gang, the kidnapped and the kidnappers became closely involved in each other's concerns. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sanjiv Jhaveri. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004546/bk_adbl_004546_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Love by Any Measure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 588min
    An Irish lass. An English lord. A love that overcomes all boundaries. August Grayson has secretly dreamt of the girl living on his family's Irish estate since childhoods spent together in Killarney. Now a proper Lord of the British Empire, he knows that Maeve could never be more than just a distant fantasy. Still, if only.... Maeve O'Connor owns nothing in this world but her good name, which proves just enough to win a proposal for a marriage of convenience to a good, Irish lad. Until the wedding, however, she's in dire straits. Rent on the cottage she and her father share is due, but there simply isn't the money to pay. Driven to desperation, Maeve hopes Lord Grayson, childhood chum turned dashing English rogue, will prove lenient when she comes seeking clemency. The temptation presented proves too much, and August offers Maeve a compromise: Should she permit him twice as long on each succeeding visit to do whatever he wishes in pursuit of his pleasure, he will consider her rent paid. Starting with a mere five seconds, pulses soon outrace the ticking clock, as August's desires become Maeve's own. Passion blinds them to the challenges closing in on both the Irish and English fronts, threatening to destroy the love they've only just rediscovered. Working to bridge that which divides them, tempting fate with each stolen kiss, and torn between desire and obligation, Maeve and August must strive to overcome all and find a love by any measure... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maxine Lennon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/003456/bk_acx0_003456_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pattaya Pains: Essays, Observations, Stories & Real-Life Tales from Thailand & Its Fun City, Pattaya , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 208min
    Thailand, the land of smiles and golden dreams, is languishing, and Pattaya, its biggest fun city, is succumbing to a thousand ills. Pattaya Pains is about living in Pattaya over the long term. Even though the collection of essays, stories, and observations herein would relish the golden dream of painting Pattaya as a romantic hotspot where Thais and foreigners bond, it can’t do so - not only because East is East and West is West, but also because Thais just don’t see foreigners in a good light. Sure, we bring in the bucks to the Land of Smiles, but we are aliens who do not understand Thai ways, Thai culture, and Thai traditions. There is another problem, as well. Thailand is deeply conservative, and its education system is worlds apart from a Western one.Thailand sides with uniformity of thought and behavior, going out of its way to dismiss other modes of thinking. The country has profound pockets of poverty, and despite examples of countries with social mobility, Thailand operates a tacit, accepted caste-system, reinforced by conformity, uniformity, and its undemocratic leaders who regularly threaten “outspoken” people with punishment while claiming to be lenient.“I will hit you with this law but remember I have not hit you with that law because of my great clemency.” Your average Thai looks at foreigners with contempt and resentment, is patriotic, self-serving, irresponsible, and thoughtless.Pattaya Pains finds these matters and many others, like the death rate on the roads, painful...to say the least. As the nameless crone at the beginning of the book cackles, “Go on, luvvie, give yourself a treat. Learn why Thailand isn’t the Land of Smiles. Learn why Pattaya is Pain City not Fun City!”  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nigel R. Gore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/230361/bk_acx0_230361_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Fugitive with One Shoe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 119min
    Welcome to Georgia, where the all-mighty dollar trumps mercy and lawfulness on an all-too-regular basis. Where hit men can be hired for small sums and lovers can be manipulated into killing innocent people, all out of greed. One of the nation's best-selling crime writers, Caitlin Rother, has put together this astonishingly good look at some of the Peach State's most fascinating crime stories in this volume of the New York Times best-selling series, Notorious USA. In the first story, the socialite wife of a multimillionaire is fatally shot by a flower delivery man on the day of a key divorce hearing. After sending authorities on a global fugitive hunt, the man responsible is brought back to face justice 20 years later, wearing only one sandal on his gout-ridden feet. In the second, a crooked businessman trying to go straight is shot in his driveway by a hit man wearing a ski mask and camouflage gear - one in a nationwide series of contract-for-hire murders, advertised in the classified-ad pages of Soldier of Fortune magazine. And finally, a Gulf War veteran and father of three is kidnapped, beaten, and stabbed by the lover of his on-and-off-again wife, who wants to collect life insurance benefits and pay off her house. The lover makes a deal for a life sentence and a chance at parole, while the wife gets the death penalty. She becomes the second woman ever to be executed in Georgia, even after the Pope, other faith-based advocates, and two of her children fight for her clemency, citing her dramatic repentance and rehabilitation through religion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Pierce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/054817/bk_acx0_054817_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 840min
    A gripping saga of race and retribution in the Deep South and a story whose haunting details echo the themes of To Kill a Mockingbird. In 1945, Willie McGee, a young African-American man from Laurel, Mississippi, was sentenced to death for allegedly raping Willette Hawkins, a white housewife. At first, McGee's case was barely noticed, covered only in hostile Mississippi newspapers and far-left publications such as the Daily Worker. Then Bella Abzug, a young New York labor lawyer, was hired by the Civil Rights Congress—an aggressive civil-rights organization with ties to the Communist Party of the United States—to oversee McGee's defense. Together with William Patterson, the son of a slave and a devout believer in the need for revolutionary change, Abzug and a group of white Mississippi lawyers risked their lives to plead McGee's case. After years of court battles, McGee's supporters flooded President Harry S. Truman and the U.S. Supreme Court with clemency pleas, and famous Americans spoke out on McGee's behalf. By the time the case ended in 1951 with McGee's public execution in Mississippi's infamous traveling electric chair, "Free Willie McGee" had become a rallying cry among civil-rights activists, progressives, leftists, and Communist Party members. Their movement had succeeded in convincing millions of people worldwide that McGee had been framed and that the real story involved a consensual love affair between him and Mrs. Hawkins—one that she had instigated and controlled. As Heard discovered, this controversial theory is a doorway to a tangle of secrets that spawned a legacy of confusion, misinformation, and pain that still resonates today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J.D. Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002179/bk_harp_002179_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    King of the Badgers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 893min
    After the success of The Mulberry Empire and The Northern Clemency, which was short-listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Philip Hensher brings us the peaceful civility and spiralling paranoia of the small English town of Handsmouth. Usually a quiet and undisturbed place situated on an estuary, Handsmouth becomes the centre of national attention when an eight-year-old girl vanishes. The town fills with journalists and television crews, who latch onto the public's fearful suspicions that the missing girl, the daughter of one of the town's working-class families, was abducted. This tragic event serves to expose the range of segregated existences in the town, as spectrums of class, wealth, and lifestyle are blurred in the investigation. Behind Handsmouth's closed doors and pastoral façade the extraordinary individual lives of the community are exposed. The undisclosed passions of a quiet international aid worker are set against his wife, a woman whose astonishing aptitude for intellectual pursuits, such as piano-playing and elaborate cooking, makes her seem a paragon of virtue to the outside world. A recently widowed old woman tells a story that details her late discovery of sexual gratification. And the Bears - middle-aged, fat, hairy gay men, given to promiscuity and some drug abuse - have a party. As the search for the missing girl elevates, the case enables a self-appointed authority figure to present the case for increased surveillance, and, as old notions of privacy begin to crack, private lives seep into the public well of knowledge. Handsmouth is a powerful study of the vital importance of individuality, the increasingly intrusive hand of political powers, and the unyielding strength of Nature against the worst excesses of human behaviour. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Rogers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000785/bk_hcuk_000785_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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