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    Oriental Girls Desire Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 615min
    It's 1980s New York, and though the coke flows freely, money and glamour are the more powerful intoxicants. While fortunes are being made in SoHo galleries and on Wall Street, an underclass of transient drag queens and dandies, club kids and strippers, artists and actors, models and waitstaff wander the streets, providing the city's background color, cheap labor, and even cheaper entertainment. The unnamed narrator of Catherine Liu's 1997 novel Oriental Girls Desire Romance - now reprinted by Kaya Press - is a young Chinese-American woman who skirts the edges of New York privilege. A refugee both from her Ivy League education and a family of Maoist ideologues, she navigates the city as a slacker, temp, and exotic dancer, outmaneuvering the ever-present lure of Prozac. Liu's debut novel recalls the seedy street atmosphere of Bette Gordon's 1984 film Variety through a narrator that is perceptive, funny, and unhinged. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eunice Wong. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052862/bk_adbl_052862_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Doctor Who - The Justice of Jalxar, Hörbuch, Digital, 77min
    They call him The Pugilist. It is the dawn of a new century and a vigilante is on the loose. The scourge of the criminal underclass. The saviour of the virtuous and the protector of the weak. The police are baffled, the public enamoured...but Professor George Litefoot and Henry Gordon Jago are on the case. Or at least they will be when they've finished their beer. What is the source of The Pugilist's spectacular supernatural powers? Is he alone in his noble quest? And what is his connection to the spate of corpses discovered around London? As they descend further into a nefarious netherworld, the infernal investigators may be out of their depth. They're going to need help if they're to get out of this alive. The help of an old friend and his new assistant. The help...of the Doctor and Romana. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Baker, Mary Tamm, Trevor Baxter, Christopher Benjamin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bgfn/000295/bk_bgfn_000295_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    One Day on Mars: Tau Ceti, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 627min
    It's 24 on Mars: a non-stop futuristic thrill-ride, all in one day, through the critical events which were the breaking point for the underclass of Martian citizens and precipitated a revolution to break the Martian colonists free from the formidable Sol System government. The formerly red planet would never be the same, nor would the human race.It was one day that changed the course of history for the Solar System, raging from hand-to-hand combat to piloted armored mecha suits clashing to an enormous space battle, with dedicated heroes on both sides of the conflict wondering if they were doing the right thing and if they would live to see another day. And wondering, as well, if the spark of this new war that would eventually reach across whole star systems, would bring them peace. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Dufris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001589/bk_adbl_001589_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Falcon Fire
    On colonial Venus, people who are susceptible to lies have been denigrated and barred from the citizenry. Ancient dirigibles dock at the top of colossal towers to shunt people to and from underground cities. Armies of enclosed, beetle-shaped biocrawlers creep around the planet providing a coveted, yet deficient, natural environment. Colonists strive for an outdoor ecology to call their own, but terraforming is faltering. There is growing unrest, and at the heart of this rift is Hix, a member of the Venusian underclass. He has risen from the tenements to become a renowned film star, until he is accused of murder. Neeva is destined to be Keeper, an esteemed protector of First Colony Heritage. She is also an inspector assigned to Hix's case, and the victim happens to be her sister. Hix and Neeva must find passage through the winds of change, or their people will be swept away forever.
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    On the Margins of Japanese Society
    On the Margins of Japanese Society ab 43.49 € als epub eBook: Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    Inclusive Growth and Development in India
    Inclusive Growth and Development in India ab 84.99 € als pdf eBook: Challenges for Underdeveloped Regions and the Underclass. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft,
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    White Night (eBook, ePUB)
    Wizard Harry Dresden must investigate his own flesh and blood when a series of killings strike Chicago's magic practitioners in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Someone is targeting the members of the city's supernatural underclass-those who don't possess enough power to become full-fledged wizards. Some have vanished. Others appear to be victims of suicide. But now the culprit has left a calling card at one of the crime scenes-a message for Harry Dresden. Harry sets out to find the apparent serial killer, but his investigation turns up evidence pointing to the one suspect he cannot possibly believe guilty: his half-brother, Thomas. To clear his brother's name, Harry rushes into a supernatural power struggle that renders him outnumbered, outclassed, and dangerously susceptible to temptation. And Harry knows that if he screws this one up, people will die-and one of them will be his brother...
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    The Tribe (eBook, ePUB)
    Teeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered together in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel Álvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in Latin America, employs the crónica form - a genre unique to Latin American writing that blends reportage, narrative non-fiction, and novelistic forms - to illuminate a particularly turbulent period in Cuban history, from the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with the US, to the death of Fidel Castro, to the convulsions of the San Isidro Movement. Unique, edgy and stylishly written, The Tribe shows a society in flux, featuring sportsmen in exile, artists, nurses, underground musicians and household names, dissident poets, the hidden underclass at a landfill, migrants attempting to make their way across Central America, fugitives escaping the FBI, dealers from the black market, as well as revelers and policemen in the noisy Havana night. It is a major work of reportage by one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Language novelists.
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    Arrowood: Arrowood, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 569min
    London Society takes their problems to Sherlock Holmes. Everyone else goes to Arrowood. The Afghan War is over, and a deal with the Irish appears to have brought an end to sectarian violence, but Britain's position in the world is uncertain, and the gap between rich and poor is widening. London is a place where the wealthy party while the underclass are tempted into lives of crime, drugs and prostitution. A serial killer stalks the streets. Politicians are embroiled in financial and sexual scandals. The year is 1895. The police don't have the resources to deal with everything that goes on in the capital. The rich turn to a celebrated private detective when they need help: Sherlock Holmes. But in densely populated South London, where crimes are sleazier and Holmes rarely visits, people turn to Arrowood, a private investigator who despises Holmes, his wealthy clientele and his showy forensic approach to crime. Arrowood understands people, not clues. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Malk Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002676/bk_hcuk_002676_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Kasari Nexus: Rho Agenda Assimilation, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 657min
    Jennifer Smythe escapes Earth's invasion by the insidious Kasari race, hijacks an alien starship, and survives the deadly passage through a wormhole. But escape is short-lived.... When Jennifer emerges on the new world of Scion, she is confronted by the same deadly enemy. Now the Kasari have sided with the planet's angel-like elite against the warrior underclass, but with the intent of ultimately ruling both. And when Jennifer is captured by the brutish Koranthians, her alien-enhanced abilities make her a crucial asset in battling the Kasari and their winged allies. Back on a divided Earth, Jennifer's brother, Mark, and Jack "the Ripper" Gregory wage their own war against the Kasari. As the global government welcomes the extraterrestrials, Mark, Jack, and their rebel faction seek to use the powerful mind-altering skills gained from the Kasari's sworn enemies to repel the would-be conquerors. But faced with the might of Earth's ruling forces, has the cause already been lost? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexander Cendese. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/007890/bk_brll_007890_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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