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    The Republic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 718min
    What is at stake is far from insignificant: it is how one should live one's life. Plato's The Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: What is goodness? What is reality? What is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the roles of both women and men as "guardians" of the people. With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory, Plato arrives at a depiction of a state bound by harmony and ruled by "philosopher kings." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Langton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/001333/bk_tant_001333_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Salt Bride: A Georgian Historical Romance: Salt Hendon Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 722min
    Set in the opulent world of the 18th century aristocracy, Lucinda Brant delivers another delicious 18th century romantic experience. High drama, witty prose, a deft palette of historical detail, and a weave of subplots will keep you mesmerized from beginning to end. England, 1763. The Earl of Salt Hendon and squire's daughter Jane Despard share a secret past of mistrust, heartache, and misery. Forced into a marriage neither wants, the patient and ever optimistic Jane believes love conquers all; the Earl will take some convincing. Enter Diana St. John, who will go to extreme lengths, even murder, to hold the Earl's attention. Can the newlyweds overcome past prejudices and sinister opposition to fall in love all over again? ARRA Awards Finalist 2011 Favorite Historical Romance ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marian Hussey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/019508/bk_acx0_019508_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Convenient Marriage, Hörbuch, Digital, 306min
    Horatia Winwood is the youngest and the least attractive of the three Winwood sisters. She also has a stammer. But when the enigmatic and eminently eligible Earl of Rule offers for her oldest sister’s hand – a match that makes financial and social sense, but would break her heart – it is Horatia who takes matters into her own impetuous hands. Can she save her family’s fortune? Or is she courting disaster? Witty, charming, elegant, and always delightful, Georgette Heyer – the undisputed queen of Regency Romance – brings the whole period to life with deft precision and glorious characters. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Armitage. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000617/bk_naxo_000617_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Grieving Conversations, Hörbuch, Digital, 55min
    From award-winning author Chris Cander comes a wrenching and suspenseful short story about grief. County Sheriff Brody Hayes is in the midst of a missing person's call - for a five-month-old baby. Deep in the mountains of his hometown, Bowie, Wyoming, Brody's desperate search for the helpless child through a worsening snowstorm leads him on an even greater journey - one through his memories of his childhood, his brother, his son and a life for himself that he thought was lost. Gripping, atmospheric, and utterly memorable, Grieving Conversations will at once cause your heart to pound and break. “Cander is a smart, deft storyteller.” (The New York Times Book Review) “Cander has a gift for description.” (Houstonia Magazine) Language: English. Narrator: Neil Hellegers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/or/orig/001449/or_orig_001449_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Night of the Rooster and Other True Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 151min
    From the North Carolina Piedmont to the forests of Hungary, Jody Mace examines the mundanity of everyday life and finds the kernel of eternal truth. Or else she just makes one up. Contemplate Schrödinger's human head in your dryer or find a way to make peace with Barbie. A journalist and freelance writer in Charlotte, Jody has collected a dozen of her essays on family life that will have you thinking deeply and laughing heartily. Capturing the wry wit of these stories is Linda Velwest, whose characterizations and deft delivery let the humor percolate, and the poignancy leave you with a sigh. Linda has narrated short stories and novels from science fiction to romance, and even a couple of cookbooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Linda Velwest. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001724/bk_mike_001724_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Colonel's Lady , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 788min
    In 1779, when genteel Virginia spinster Roxanna Rowan arrives at the Kentucky fort commanded by Colonel Cassius McLinn, she finds that her officer father has died. Penniless and destitute, Roxanna is forced to take her father's place as scrivener. Before long, it's clear that the colonel himself is attracted to her. But she soon realizes the colonel has grave secrets of his own - some of which have to do with her father's sudden death. Can she ever truly love him? Listeners will be enchanted by this powerful story of love, faith, and forgiveness from Laura Frantz. Her solid research and deft writing immerse listeners in the world of the early frontier while her realistic characters become intimate friends. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laura Jennings. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/069732/bk_acx0_069732_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Touchstone , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 177min
    This spare, mesmerizing novel is Edith Wharton's money-can't-buy-happiness tale. Young Stephen Glennard, a lawyer, is poor, but he has an unanticipated gambling chip: a collection of love letters from a scorned, but now famous, lover, the distinguished novelist Margaret Aubyn. To raise money for his forthcoming wedding to another woman, Stephen stoops to selling the letters. His decision brings him wealth and admission to society, but a mystery contained in the missives comes back to haunt him, and it may take the madness of guilt to remind Stephen that he does, after all, have a conscience.Betrayal, greed, and consequences faced make this sly, masterful story a deft social and psychological portrait that stands with Wharton's best. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grace Conlin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/002005/bk_blak_002005_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, Hörbuch, Digital, 360min
    More than two centuries after Master's Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this enthralling adventure has become obscured by the legend. Combining vivid characterization and deft storytelling, Caroline Alexander shatters the centuries-old myths surrounding this story. She brilliantly shows how, in a desperate attempt to save one man from the gallows and another from ignominy, two powerful families came together and began to create the version of history we know today. The true story of the mutiny on the Bounty is an epic of duty and heroism, pride and power, and the assassination of a brave man's honor at the dawn of the Romantic age. Language: English. Narrator: Michael York. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/000490/bk_peng_000490_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 636min
    In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion... and anything is possible. In Smoke and Mirrors, Gaiman's imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders - where an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift store, where assassins advertise their services in the Yellow Pages under "Pest Control," and where a frightened young boy must barter for his life with a mean-spirited troll living beneath a bridge by the railroad tracks. Explore a new reality, obscured by smoke and darkness yet brilliantly tangible, in this extraordinary collection of short works by a master prestidigitator. It will dazzle your senses, touch your heart, and haunt your dreams. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Neil Gaiman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/003442/bk_harp_003442_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Forgiving the Angel: Four Stories for Franz Kafka , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 337min
    In four stories that are a deft amalgam of fact and fiction, Jay Cantor captures the reverberations of Kafka's influences on the lives of some of the friends and lovers who survived him. Here is Kafka's last lover, Dora Diamant: their love opening out with both passion and pathos as he succumbs to tuberculosis... Max Brod, his friend and literary executor, struggling with Kafka's instructions to burn all his unpublished stories upon his death...the militant German Communist Lusk Lask, whom Dora - still enraptured by the memory of Kafka - marries and loses to a Soviet Gulag...a Nazi concentration camp prisoner whose survival will depend on her love for Milena Jesenska, who once survived on her own love for Kafka. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Qarie Marshall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/000318/bk_drms_000318_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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