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Smidgey Pidgey's Predicament , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 26min
It was a gorgeous summer day in Central Park, and Smidge and her brother Ridge had time to share one last adventure before it was time to grow up, as Mama Pidgey primly informed them. Yuk, where was the fun in that?! Smidge slapped Ridge’s wing with hers. “Hey, you hungry? Want to be real birds, and scavenge the park for seeds, or go see if Mrs. Laney is providing Pidgey takeout today?” Ridge rubbed his belly. “Yum, Mrs. Laney’s for sure! Maybe she put out french fries again,” he grinned mischievously. The two were so intent on their scramble for treats that when they heard the first squawks of protest, they assumed it was just a squabble over a savory morsel. Soon the cries became louder and more frantic, and more birds joined the chorus. Finally realizing something wasn’t right, Smidge and Ridge looked up from their breakfast. But it was too late - a black sack came down over their heads, engulfing them both and turning their world to darkness.... Who was stealing the city’s pigeons, and what’s to become of Smidge, Ridge, and the others? Find out in Smidgey Pidgey’s Predicament, excellent for ages eight and up and perfect for humane education in today’s classrooms. Includes vocab builders, as well as information about the very real threat to pigeons and what you can do to help these wonderful birds. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Gilmour. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/116381/bk_acx0_116381_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Gentleman Called , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 462min
In grand master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis’ second Mrs. Norris novel, which the New York Times hailed as “tensely perplexing”, the crime-solving Scottish housekeeper helps crack the case of a serial lady-killer. As housekeeper to James Jarvis' recently deceased father, a retired major general of the US Army, Mrs. Norris has raised Jimmie since boyhood. Now the Wall Street lawyer faces a challenging case. The son of one of the firm’s old blue-blood clients has been slapped with a paternity suit. But Teddy Adkins swears he never slept with the woman. Meanwhile, Mrs. Norris is miffed when her gentleman friend Jasper Tully, the widowed chief investigator for the Manhattan DA’s office, cancels one dinner date after another because a real estate magnate has been found strangled in the bedroom of her Upper East Side apartment. Jewelry was stolen, but there are no signs of a break-in. Tully’s investigation turns up a trail of strangulations that extends all the way to the Midwest. As Mrs. Norris pursues her own unorthodox investigation, she uncovers a shocking link between the cases that threatens her very life. A Gentleman Called, a finalist for the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award, is the second novel in Dorothy Salisbury Davis’ Mrs. Norris Mysteries, which also include Death of an Old Sinner, Old Sinners Never Die, and “Mrs. Norris Observes”, a short story in the collection Tales for a Stormy Night. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Terry Donnelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016766/bk_adbl_016766_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Baby Fever: A Real Man, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 99min, (USK 18)
He's done being the bad boy...he's ready to be a father. Dex I'm the bad boy - the one mothers warn their daughters about. But I've never seen myself settling down, and that's been fine with me. Then life, reality, whatever you want to call it, bitch slapped me right across the face, and I knew what I wanted. A baby. At 39, I am having a severe case of baby fever, and that means convincing the one woman I've always wanted but knew was too good for me to be mine and be the mother of my child. Eva I've always wanted Dex. It's hard not to want a man like Dex. He's all raw power and cut muscle. He's the epitome of what a real man is, but he's not a bastard about it. But then he throws me a curve ball and says he wants me not only as his woman...but as the mother of his child. And I'll be honest; it's what I've always wanted. Dex The truth is Eva deserves better than me, but I'm too selfish, and I want her too badly to back away. Nothing will stop me from making her mine...and putting my baby inside her. Warning: This book is short and right to the point - like the kind of story that gives you whiplash. If you enjoy unbelievable plots, and insta-everything going on, you may enjoy this dirty little listen. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stella Bloom. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/093136/bk_acx0_093136_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Black Hat Blues , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 488min
Meet Mr. Scratch. He's an evil sorcerer, ruthless CEO, and diabolical weapons manufacturer. Scratch exists as drawings on paper, but he's certain he's better than you.Meet Mark. He created Mr. Scratch. Never thought he'd meet him one day. And Mark certainly never thought the fractured marriage of Jack and Gloria Power, fictional characters in his long-running comic book, would have dire consequences here in the real world.In the 1970s, underground cartoonist Mark Lipscomb followed his muse and created, quite by accident, a merchandising phenomenon. The characters from his comic Power & Gloria penetrated the mainstream, becoming an action figure line, a syndicated action cartoon, and really anything else their images could be slapped upon.Today, the audience is dwindling, and Mark's adjusting to life with the new corporate owners of his creations. Arthritis has severely hindered Mark's ability to draw, and his stories have a tendency to offend the modern tastemakers, generating a routine series of social media outrages.He does have one defender, though. His own creation: the villainous Mr. Scratch, who’s escaped a dangling plot thread from Mark’s final issue. The ingenious rogue has traveled the multiverse and found himself in Mark’s backyard. Truly, they were fated to become fast friends. Except, Scratch isn’t as harmless in the real world as he is on the printed page. As the days pass, Mark can no longer deny what he’s created. Macular degeneration and arthritic wrists don’t lend themselves to old-fashioned slugfests, so Mark must get creative if he wants to stop the bloodlust of his destructive id. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian L. Knutson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/181345/bk_acx0_181345_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Girl I Left Behind , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 747min
The Girl I Left Behind is an action love story set in North Alabama during the Civil War. When the Union Army invades Marlbridge, Alabama, in the spring of 1862, Alexandra Corbin disguises herself as a man and joins a band of Confederate cavalry in the hopes of convincing Captain Ramsey to come back and save her town, but Captain Ramsey has other plans.North Alabama, April, 1862In the midst of upheaval and confusion, the people of Marlbridge, Alabama, knew one thing for certain: the enemy was coming, and there wasn’t a thing they could do about it. Their beloved sheriff, who might have saved them from calamity, was dead, and Elias Kelson, the closest thing they had to a savior, was just as likely to welcome the invaders as to run them out of town.“No tears”, Alexandra Corbin swore to herself as she stood in front of the mirror, took hold of her long, thick, honey-colored hair, and cut it off just below her ear. The cropped tresses slapped against her cheek as she slipped into her brother’s rebel uniform and strapped his colt to her hip. The enemy had come for her and her people, and she meant to stop him.Rebel cavalry officer Cana Ramsey stood on the edge of town, paying no mind to the blood and sweat dripping into his eye. He had sworn an oath to never again set foot in Marlbridge. Breaking that oath would cost him his life, and he knew it. But God help him, he couldn’t let Alexandra Corbin hang. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephanie Bain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/159284/bk_acx0_159284_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Obsessed: 31 Horrifying Tales from the Dead, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 7min
Jack Stephenson lived alone, and was very shy around woman until a good friend of his introduced him to Penny that also lived alone down the street from Jack. When their eyes met Jack felt he found his angel and Penny thought she found the man of her dreams. After months of dating Jack and Penny they got married. That's when things started going downhill. Jack didn't let his new bride out of his sight. Whenever she wanted to hang out with her friends Jack would object and say, "Why do you need to hang out with them when you've got me?" Penny replied, "You know I like spending time with you, but I need my space, darling." Jack couldn't accept her answer, and told her, "I am your husband, and you will do as I say." Resentment set in and Penny's heart was turning cold towards Jack, but that just made things worse. Anytime a man said hello or gave her a compliment. Jack would say, "What are you looking at?" in an angry voice. Penny tried to reassure Jack that he needs to quit being so obsessive with her and try to find other things to occupy his time so she could breathe. That just pissed him off, and he slapped her in the face, and told her, "I'll be the one who says when I'm being too obsessive, or not? This conversation is over," replied Jack as his face was beet red. Penny told him in an angry voice, "You will never touch me again!" Jack yelled out in anger, "Nobody tells me what to do!" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Luke Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/025314/bk_acx0_025314_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sherlock Holmes: The Phoenix Collection - Three Sherlock Holmes Mysteries in One Book , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 82min
Three Compelling Sherlock Holmes Mysteries In One Book. Narrated by the celebrity actor Simon Prebble who is also known as an award winner for the best voice in fiction. Story One: "The Game of Cat and Mouse". "The interior was dark, and neither of us searched for a lamp or switch. There came a ticking of some clock or another. And the sound of a dripping faucet somewhere in the house was like a hammer to an anvil. Our breaths were loud, but my heart sounded louder to me. Interestingly enough, Holmes moved as though he'd been through here before. I had no time to ponder this as somewhere behind us, I heard a door shut and then the click of a lock." Story Two: "A Strange Affair with the Woman on the Tracks". "Jane screeched at this further betrayal and went for Henry. They began to struggle. Henry was the stronger out of the two, yet the woman's pain was unstoppable. His hands wrapped around her throat and Jane clawed at his face until she fell. She lay there, across the tracks, and was quite still. Mrs. Cavell gasped in shock and Henry ran past us back to the train. We stared down at Jane's body...." Story Three: "The Curse of a Native". "Adams had violently slapped Kimilu so hard that the sheer force had floored the waiter and the usually humble waiter had lost it. He had stood up and angrily talked back at him in his native language, which Adams did not understand. But Butler had lived in Africa for over two decades and he understood every word. His translation was confirmed by other native workers who witnessed the drama. It was chilling to say the least." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Prebble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/018945/bk_acx0_018945_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Pumping Sunshine: A Memoir of My Rural Childhood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 705min
We live so far in the backwoods, we have to pump sunshine through hollow logs, young Susanette's daddy says, when asked where the Howell family lives. Their cracker house, which has never been slapped by a loaded paintbrush, sits on a small tobacco farm near the Suwannee River in North Florida, 18 miles from the small town of Live Oak - a town that was, at the turn of the 19th century, the fifth largest town in Florida and the largest inland city in the state.The Howell's home has no indoor plumbing and no screens on windows to keep out gnats, flies, and mosquitoes. But the family is a proud bunch that make the best of the each situation as they struggle to improve their lot.Here, in the 1940s and 1950s, kids run barefoot, use their pennies to buy bubblegum off the rolling store and can't wait for cracklins on hog-killing day and polecat on cane-grinding day. Susanette and her older sisters attend a three-room county school for eight grades, when schools in the South are segregated and the Suwannee County school district bars country kids - White and Black - from elementary schools in town.Susanette brings this time and place to life with humor and innocence as she struggles to understand her own embarrassing situations (which occur mostly at night) and overcome the apprehension she feels as her world begins to change. This family's frugality and can-do attitude and the community's coming together when the Suwannee River overflows its banks, destroying homes and crops, will amaze and warm the heart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lauri Jo Daniels. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/206829/bk_acx0_206829_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Wreck Two Shards of Stone: Poetry by Iain McLean , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 71min
Poems that make you feel alive. Poems that rip false assumptions from your heart to leave you bare. Poems to provoke thought and provide courage to take on this damaged world.Having experienced wild love and cancer in the same breath, the broad theme of Iain McLean’s work is the battle between science and romance. A dramatist and published writer Iain lives in the Guadarrama mountains north of Madrid with his family.Poems on lost innocence: “To show nothing are our senses assigned / To keep the heart calm is what we prefer / But the face is a picture of the mind / As the eyes must be its interpreter....”.Poems about that a lifetime of love and decay: "A river sculpture / Of floating leaves / Each one sewn / To the next by its stem / Elegant at first / Holding hands....".Poems on terrible realities: "Yes, I had it all planned out; / Not until next July, I said / You should be sick of it by then / You turn up as if you had read / My thoughts; you and your junkie friend....".Poems on God's joke: "By the marina we sit drinking gin / Carelessly, sunny and fine / As we bathe in the sun / And mood we are in / We get slapped with a parking fine....".Poems on individual strength: "You stand your ground, fight your fears, / For a man you don’t know; a nobody / “Sit down! I have a meeting!” - you don’t / “You’re scaring the children!” - do not flinch / “He will die,” you say; they are silenced....".Sonnets, haiku, nonsense poems, poetic tales, and tough love. Iain bares his soul in order for you to have the courage bare yours. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Iain McLean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/146656/bk_acx0_146656_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 888min
Winner of the 2018 National Book Award.In this dual audiobook memoir, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld tell the dramatic story of 50 years devoted to bringing Nazis to justiceThey were born on opposite sides of the Second World War: Beate grew up in the ruins of a defeated Weimar Germany, while Serge, a Jewish boy in France, was hiding in a cupboard when his father was arrested and sent to Auschwitz. They met on the Paris Métro and fell in love, and became famous when Beate slapped the face of the West German chancellor - a former Nazi - Kurt Georg Kiesinger.For the past half century, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld have hunted, confronted, prosecuted, and exposed Nazi war criminals all over the world, tracking down the notorious torturer Klaus Barbie in Bolivia and attempting to kidnap the former Gestapo chief Kurt Lischka on the streets of Cologne. They have been sent to prison for their beliefs and have risked their lives protesting anti-Semitism behind the Iron Curtain in South America and in the Middle East. They have been insulted and exalted, assaulted and heralded; they’ve received honors from presidents and letter bombs from neo-Nazis. They have fought relentlessly not only for the memory of all those who died in the Holocaust but also for modern-day victims of genocide and discrimination across the world. And they have done it all while raising their children and sustaining their marriage.Now, for the first time, in Hunting the Truth, a major memoir spoken in their alternating voices, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld tell the thrilling story of a lifetime dedicated to combating evil. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marisa Calin, Raphael Corkhill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/003416/bk_aren_003416_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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