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    Murder By Reference: John Lloyd Branson Series, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 551min
    In a variation of the classic locked-room mystery, Attorney John Lloyd Branson and his beautiful, trusted, but often impetuous legal assistant, Lydia Fairchild, scare up ghosts from the past and rattle family skeletons as they try to discover who murdered the young museum curator. It’s no Halloween trick when Brad Hemphill materializes in a locked museum at midnight, the main feature in a prehistoric display. Who among the museum staff would kill the harmless, mild-mannered young curator, and why? What deadly secret did Hemphill know that made him a target for murder? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Bowen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bimo/001463/bk_bimo_001463_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    My Man Jeeves , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 305min
    My Man Jeeves, first published in 1919, introduced the world to affable, indolent Bertie Wooster and his precise, capable valet, Jeeves. Some of the finest examples of humorous writing found in English literature are woven around the relationship between these two men of very different classes and temperaments. Where Bertie is impetuous and feeble, Jeeves is coolheaded and poised. This collection, the first book of Jeeves and Wooster stories, contains eight stories, including "Absent Treatment", "Helping Freddie", "Rallying Round Old George", "Doing Clarence a Bit of Good", "Fixing It for Freddie", and "Bertie Changes His Mind". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Prebble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001393/bk_blak_001393_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rogue Herries , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1361min
    Rogue Herries tells the story of the larger-than-life Francis Herries, who uproots his family from Yorkshire and brings them to live in Borrowdale, where their life is as dramatic as the landscape surrounding them.Proud, violent, and impetuous, he despises his first wife, sells his mistress at a county fair, and forms a great love for the teenage gypsy Mirabell Starr. Alongside this turbulent story, runs that of his son David, with enemies of his own, and that of his gentle daughter, Deborah, with placid dreams that will not be realised in her father's house. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gordon Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/001008/bk_isis_001008_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Reproduction (eBook, ePUB)
    WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family.Reproduction tells a crooked love story which takes strange, winding paths shaped by community, family and fleeting interactions that leave an inedible imprint. Felicia, a nineteen-year-old West Indian student, and Edgar, an impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. An odd-couple relationship blooms between Edgar and Felicia, ripe with miscommunications and reprisals for perceived and real offences that have some unexpected results. Fast-forward, their son Armistice is a teenager fixated on a variety of get-rich-quick schemes that are as comic as they are indicative of the immigrant son's fear of falling through the cracks. When Edgar re-enters Felicia's life at a typically inopportune moment, the book's exhilarating final act is set in the motion and Reproduction is revealed.
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    Setting Free the Kites
    From the author of the "lyrical and compelling" (USA Today) novel A Good American comes a powerful story of two friends and the unintended consequences of friendship, loss, and hope.For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless, impetuous-and fascinated by kites and flying. Robert and Nathan's budding friendship is forged in the crucible of two family tragedies, and as the boys struggle to come to terms with loss, they take summer jobs at the local rundown amusement park. It's there that Nathan's boundless capacity for optimism threatens to overwhelm them both, and where they learn some harsh truths about family, desire, and revenge.Unforgettable and heart-breaking, Setting Free the Kites is a poignant and moving exploration of the pain, joy, and glories of young friendship.From the Hardcover edition.
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    War and Peace, Part 1, Hörbuch, Digital, 144min
    At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon’s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey, and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants, to soldiers and Napoleon himself. In War and Peace (1868-9), Tolstoy entwines grand themes - conflict and love, birth and death, free will and fate - with unforgettable scenes of 19th-century Russia, to create a magnificent epic of human life in all its imperfection and grandeur. Language: English. Narrator: Edward Petherbridge. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/copy/000361/bk_copy_000361_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Fragile Stone: The Emotional Life of Simon Peter, Hörbuch, Digital, 158min
    Reading the full text of A Fragile Stone, Michael Card fascinates, inspires and challenges us to enter into the emotions of the Apostle Peter. Was the "Rock" really strong of heart? What did Jesus mean to him? What did he hope to gain by following Jesus? How did an impetuous fisherman become an iconic leader of the early church? Michael Card says, "The ultimate reason for getting to know Peter is so together we might better know Jesus. For the story of Peter is the story of Jesus. Perhaps, if you and I do our best, the same will be said of us someday. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Card. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/000318/bk_hove_000318_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Man Who Owns Little , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 59min
    Pete - an impetuous, avowedly self-absorbed writer - and Dave - a pithy banker with a "genius for generosity" - had maintained a close friendship since their first days at college. They stood as Best Man for each other; they are godfathers to each other's sons. That bond cracks during one visit in their mid-30s, and since then neither can say with any satisfaction why. In their ensuing letters, both men begin speaking with a candor they never shared face-to-face, and over 15 years they break down and rebuild what each thought of the other, and of themselves, sifting the remains of a friendship dissolved and youth passed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kurt Bernhardt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013905/bk_adbl_013905_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    War and Peace, Part 2, Hörbuch, Digital, 143min
    At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon’s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey, and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants, to soldiers and Napoleon himself. In War and Peace (1868-9), Tolstoy entwines grand themes - conflict and love, birth and death, free will and fate - with unforgettable scenes of 19th-century Russia to create a magnificent epic of human life in all its imperfection and grandeur. Language: English. Narrator: Edward Petherbridge. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/copy/000363/bk_copy_000363_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Little Less Girl , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 337min
    Everything has always come to Jake West easily. But when Amy, the girl obsessed with him, commits suicide, the entire town of Raynesville is quick to blame Jake. Now Amy's cousin, Dani, has moved into town. And suddenly Jake has an obsession of his own. Dani Spencer has always dreamed of a home and normal life. When her beloved cousin and grandmother die, her wild, impetuous mother inherits their house in Raynesville. With Amy's diary in hand, Dani intends on finding out what happened to her cousin. And there's an obvious place to start...Jake West, the guy who broke Amy's heart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hollis Beck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/040813/bk_acx0_040813_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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