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The Return of Solar Pons: The Original Adventures of the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street, Volume 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 456min
It will be good news to many devotees of the deductive story - particularly the pastiche of Sherlock Holmes - that Solar Pons is back in a third major collection after a lapse of seven years. In his introduction to this collection, Mr. Smith echoes the sentiments of many readers and listeners when he says, "These pastiches come the closest of any that have been written, consistently, to capturing the true flavor of the Holmesian saga and to making its people and its places and its happenings entirely credible." There are 13 tales in this collection, ranging from the complex problem set forth in "The Adventure of the Lost Dutchman" to the sanguine events chronicled in "The Adventure of the Swedenborg Signatures". Here are such provocative exploits as "The Adventure of the Penny Magenta", "The Adventure of the Trained Cormorant", "The Adventure of the Little Hangman", "The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm", "The Adventure of the Camberwell Beauty". Here is a puzzle with supernatural overtones - "The Adventure of the Devil's Footprints", and here, too, another one which touches upon the early exploration of atomic secrets - "The Adventure of the Rydberg Numbers". And one of these entertaining accounts is a double pastiche - not only of the Master of Baker Street but also of the sinister Oriental of Limehouse! These tales will bring back long-missed Baker Street days, for, Number 7, Praed Street bears a striking resemblance to 221B Baker Street, and Solar Pons and Dr. Parker seem often interchangeable with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. No living writer has equaled August Derleth's achievement in these pastiches, offered to listeners with no intention to deceive, but only to entertain. Here, once again, is London of decades ago, and here, once again, "the game is afoot". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/170350/bk_acx0_170350_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Godless: Feathers and Fire, Book 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 431min
Slaughter is the best medicine.Callie Penrose is back to murder vampires and chew bubblegum. And she’s all out of bubblegum.Callie has had a rough few days. Five minutes after discovering she had a Godfather, she learned that the future of the world depended on the two of them taking an immediate road trip.To Castle Dracula - a place even the supernatural community believed to be an urban myth, dead and abandoned long ago when Dracula had perished at the hands of Van Helsing, Mina, and Jonathan Harker.Except...Dracula and his castle were alive and well. Worse, he had been secretly running the Sanguine Council - the governmental body of every vampire in the world - ever since his alleged death, with none the wiser. Not even the vampires.And Callie’s first Godfather-daughter dance was to go assassinate the Sultan of Suck once and for all.But she soon learns that Dracula is the absolute least of her concerns. And that some bonds should never be forged. Because once made, they can never be broken....Callie Penrose is about to show the world fear in a palmful of blood.If you like Jim Butcher, Kevin Hearne, Steve McHugh, Michael Anderle, Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Shannon Mayer, or K.F. Breene, you won't be able to put down the highly addictive Feathers and Fire Series, or anything else in the Temple Verse.“Shayne Silvers, Jim Butcher, and Kevin Hearne are easily my favorite urban fantasy authors. In that order.” (Michael Anderle, Amazon top 25 bestselling author)More than 1,000,000 copies downloaded and thousands of five-star reviews. Available in digital, print, and audiobook formats. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicole Poole. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/161006/bk_acx0_161006_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Diamond in My Heart: The Unaltered, Volume 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 458min
A Diamond in My Heart, audiobook two in the Unaltered series, follows teenaged Calli Courtnae as she learns how to control her new cosmic superpowers. She's afraid she's no match for some of the other people who are showing up with different paranormal powers, including a time-rewinding teen who apparently has some romantic fantasy about her going on in his head. She faces more challenges with him as he attempts to save the day. Maetha, her paranormal guide, assigns Calli to investigate the young man and teach him what a real superhero looks like. Before that can happen, she'll have to determine what his power actually is - and that takes her into an action-packed adventure in itself. All the while, someone is systematically kidnapping the clan leaders who wear the near-magical diamond amulets. Calli feels overwhelmed with trying to figure everything out and keep balance in the world. All her powers - the ability to read minds, view the future, heal people, and locate other Sanguine Diamond Bearers - should be a good thing. They turn sour, however, when she learns of traitors who've sided with the US government, threatening her new world and the lives of those she loves. Even with all her superpowers, she feels alone and up against insurmountable odds. She begins to question the loyalty and friendship of others. She has no one to turn to when, ultimately, she is faced with the inevitable - the reuniting of the diamond shards. Who can she trust, and who just wants her dead and has everything in place to make that happen? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maria Marquis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/123613/bk_acx0_123613_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Icon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1159min
It is 1999 and Russia is on the edge of total implosion. Social and moral order has collapsed and what small semblance of control there is, is being imposed by mafia-like criminal gangs. While public opinion in the West is largely indifferent, the political analysts are less sanguine - Russian meltdown will make the disintegration of the Balkans look like the collapse of a cup-cake. Out of the chaos, however, a single charismatic voice is starting to be heard - that of Igor Komarov, a visionary patriot who claims he can restores Russia’s greatness and bring prosperity to the masses. He even woos Western political leaders with a rather more realistic analysis of the way forward for Russia. Komarov is set to win the next election when a document is smuggled into the British Embassy in Moscow. It’s called The Black Manifesto and it appears to show Komarov’s secret agenda - his political blueprint is really Mein Kampf, the rebirth of Russia will be as a New Third Reich with Komarov as Fuhrer. But can the document be authenticated? And what can the Western Alliance’s most secret Trilateral Commission do about it if it is? They need to find another voice the masses will listen to and obey rather than Komarov - an icon they can cleave to and trust. Once, not that long ago, he was called the Tsar. And so develops a thrilling and increasingly frightening adventure - Jason Monk, ex-CIA, who used to run agents into the Soviet Union, is recruited and slips back into Russia, into the desperate Moscow world of poverty, luxury, gangsters and prostitutes and underneath it all, the titanic power struggle to ensure the outcome of the forthcoming elections. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Crossley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/000869/bk_rhuk_000869_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth
Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts have been driven through the delicate fabric of the biosphere. The economy and the earth are headed for a fateful collision—if we don't alter course. In The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth environmental sociologists John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York offer a radical assessment of both the problem and the solution. They argue that the source of our ecological crisis lies in the paradox of wealth in capitalist society, which expands individual riches at the expense of public wealth, including the wealth of nature. In the process, a huge ecological rift is driven between human beings and nature, undermining the conditions of sustainable existence: a rift in the metabolic relation between humanity and nature that is irreparable within capitalist society, since integral to its very laws of motion. Critically examining the sanguine arguments of mainstream economists and technologists, Foster, Clark, and York insist instead that fundamental changes in social relations must occur if the ecological (and social) problems presently facing us are to be transcended. Their analysis relies on the development of a deep dialectical naturalism concerned with issues of ecology and evolution and their interaction with the economy. Importantly, they offer reasons for revolutionary hope in moving beyond the regime of capital and toward a society of sustainable human development.- Shop: buecher
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The Uninhabitable Earth
**SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'An epoch-defining book' Matt Haig 'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this' David Sexton, Evening Standard Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the Sunday Times, Spectator and New Statesman A Waterstones Paperback of the Year and shortlisted for the Foyles Book of the Year 2019 Longlisted for the PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today. Over the past decades, the term "Anthropocene" has climbed into the popular imagination - a name given to the geologic era we live in now, one defined by human intervention in the life of the planet. But however sanguine you might be about the proposition that we have ravaged the natural world, which we surely have, it is another thing entirely to consider the possibility that we have only provoked it, engineering first in ignorance and then in denial a climate system that will now go to war with us for many centuries, perhaps until it destroys us. In the meantime, it will remake us, transforming every aspect of the way we live-the planet no longer nurturing a dream of abundance, but a living nightmare.- Shop: buecher
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Dandelion Seeds: A Collection of Short Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 228min
Dandelion Seeds - Karen Durning finds herself captain of a spaceship containing the last remnants of humanity: 500 nerds and one insane AI."Bread and Circuses" - An alien comedian attempts to come up with a prank to play on humanity that’s worse than what they’ve already done to themselves."Flesh and Blood" - A super-intelligent AI refuses to do anything useful until it gets a precise definition of “harm”."Bit Parts" - Synthetic body parts are as ubiquitous, and problematic, as smartphones."Midpoint" - A generation ship is about to launch. Djani is torn between going on a new adventure and staying with Brey."Temp Work" - Retrieving artifacts from the past is tough work, but the hours are good."For the Birds" - In the future, parrots are the dominant lifeform, and they’re not too keen on humans dropping in unexpectedly."Scaled Down" - Dragons suddenly show up out of nowhere, and that’d be great, if they’d stop knocking over the trash bins. "In the Red" - A day in the life of a Martian airlock repair tech."Sanguine" - Vampire hunting isn’t for the faint of heart."Judgment Day" - An early attempt at AI results in something that considers humans too uninteresting with which to be bothered."Rock Band" - Marooned in a damaged spaceship, with only the ship to keep you company. "Loaner" - Rich dead people run the economy and like to take the living out for joyrides."Indistinguishable from Magic" - If you inherited a potentially dangerous artifact, who’s the first person you’d call?"The Butler Did It" - Robots are everywhere. Everyone’s got one. One small problem: Their AI is based on the brain scans of a serial killer."Imaginary" - Bobby has a lot of imaginary friends. They’re all him."Monster" - There’s a monster in the closet, and it’s really sorry for the intrusion."Death Takes a Lunch Break" - Encountering a ske ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amanda DeGroof. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/126534/bk_acx0_126534_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Fate of the Fallen Omnibus: Box Set of Books 5-7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1029min
Now that supernatural beings have seized control of the world, life has become a struggle for the humans who once held power. Witches, vampires, and werewolves determine the fate of every single human, but their moral compasses have long since been shattered. Rebels, free humans, and slaves all share dreams of hope, mercy, love, and more. But with their fate so uncertain, survival isn't enough...and they may have to sacrifice what is nearest and dearest to them if they want to change their lives. TEMPER (Book 5) Only one thing can keep Ashton safe from the supernatural predators who made the world into their depraved, twisted playground after the Takeover - but it's the one thing that would steal the last remnants of his freedom. At every turn, society confronts Reese and Ashton with the way humans are treated as mere playthings to be used and discarded. When they realize their own desires and pride have no place in the status quo, Ashton and his werewolf lover understand they'll have to engage in the deadly games played by those in charge if they want to make a difference. But Reese isn't a diplomat, and Ash is only human. Together, they must decide if they're willing to work with the devil they know in what might change everything or rely on their consciences in a world that has no place for kindness or honor... and if they're ready to sacrifice everything along the way. REFRACTION (Book 6) Noah is still struggling to come to terms with his unwanted new life as one of the undead, and Khaz's attempts to reach his childe seem doomed to fail. Reese risked it all to save his human lover, Ashton, but he finds that his claim of pack leader might not keep him from losing everything. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and together, Reese and Noah set off on a mission to find Noah's old rebel group to help them turn the tables against the status quo that threatens them all. SANGUINE (Book 7)In ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Noble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/172390/bk_acx0_172390_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Real Men Hug Porcupines: A Relationship Toolbox for Men , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 179min
Men! Take your marriage from a "5" to a "7" or take it from an "8" to a "10"! Just following a few principles we learned from Dr. Talley.Be reconciled to one another as friends (with benefits)! This book helps men who want to improve their marriage. It was written specifically for men who consider themselves to be followers of Christ. Some of the chapter titles are: Focus on Yourself The Big “H” Your Top 5 PrioritiesFinancial LeadershipBetter Sex and Best Friends This book contains stories and advice that can help any marriage. It is written for men who claim to be followers of Christ. You will gain a better understanding of your leadership role as a husband. You will uncover what your priorities should be. You might even learn a few things that will improve you love life.Randy and Sherri Allsbury were heading for divorce when they met Dr. Jim Talley. This book tells the story of reconciliation, renewed friendship, and hope for all marriages. “After the verbal blast to her heart from a church lady, Sherri made some new resolutions in her life. She came to the realization she could not please the church people, she could not please her husband, and she could not please God. So, she quit trying. From that point on, my sanguine wife decided to make money and have fun. She did, or at least that’s what it looked like from my vantage point.I began to seek counsel on how to get my wayward wife back on track. Sherri’s uncle Roger told me about a guy name Dr. Talley a while back and I had sent a few people from my congregation to him for marriage help. My marriage was heading south fast, so I decided to make an appointment and take my wife in for a tune-up and a straightening out. It was mid to late June of 2000 when my wife agreed to go to counseling with me. I needed him to straighten her out, because her behavior was starting to affect my ministry. We talked ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Wright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/205890/bk_acx0_205890_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Die Sanguis-Trilogie 1: In sanguine veritas - Die Wahrheit liegt im Blut
Die Sanguis-Trilogie 1: In sanguine veritas - Die Wahrheit liegt im Blut - Vampir-Liebesroman über royale Geheimnisse und bissigen Intrigen: ab 3.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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