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[German] - Des Königs Liebste: Aus 'Tolldreiste Geschichten'

Honore de Balzac (Author), Johannes Steck (Narrator)

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"Robert Louis Stevenson, der Autor der Schatzinsel, erzählt hier die Geschichte Keolas, der mit seiner Frau und deren Vater Kalamake zusammenlebt. Eines Tages kommt Keola hinter das Geheimnis des unermesslichen Reichtums seines Schwiegervaters: Dieser reist mittels Zauberei an einen einsamen Strand und sammelt dort Muscheln, die sich in Silbermünzen verwandeln. Als Keola sich von diesem Schatz heimlich bedienen will, zieht er den Zorn Kalamakes auf sich..."

Robert Louis Stevenson (Author), Christian Rode (Narrator)

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[German] - Wie einstmals Argus

"Jack London schrieb viele bekannte Abenteuergeschichten. In Wie einstmals Argus will der alte John Tarwater es noch einmal wissen: Er macht sich auf den beschwerlichen Weg nach Klondike, dem Grenzgebiet zwischen Kanada und Alaska, um Gold zu suchen. Dazu muss er übermenschliche Anstrengungen vollbringen und ist häufig dem Tod näher als dem Leben.."

Jack London (Author), Christian Rode (Narrator)

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Across the River and Into the Trees

"Now a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber! A poignant tale of a revitalizing love that is found too late—the fleeting connection between an Italian countess and an injured American colonel inspires light and hope, while only darkness lies ahead. In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for Across the River and into the Trees, the story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the Second World War, and his love for a young Italian countess. A bittersweet homage to love that overpowers reason, to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the world-weary beauty and majesty of Venice, Across the River and into the Trees stands as Hemingway's statement of defiance in response to the great dehumanizing atrocities of the Second World War."

Ernest Hemingway (Author), Boyd Gaines (Narrator)

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Dark Angels

"The long-awaited prequel to Koen's beloved Through a Glass Darkly, Dark Angels is a feast of a novel that sparkles with all the passion, extravagance, danger, and scandal of seventeenth-century England. Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams. Returning to England after a messy scandal forced her to flee to Louis XIV's France, Alice is anxious to re-establish herself by regaining her former position as a maid of honor to Charles II's queen and marrying the most celebrated duke of the Restoration. But all is not as it seems in the rowdy, merry court of Charles II. Since the Restoration, old political alliances have frayed, and there are whispers that the king is moving to divorce his barren queen, who some wouldn't mind seeing dead. Alice, loyal only to a select few, is devoted to the queen, and so sets out to discover who might be making sinister plans-and if her own father is one of them. When a member of the royal family dies unexpectedly, the stakes are raised. As Alice steps up her efforts to find out who is-and isn't-true to the queen, she learns of shocking betrayals throughout court, and meets a man who she may fall in love with-and who could spoil all of her plans. With the suspected arrival of a known poison-maker, the atmosphere in the court electrifies, and suddenly the safety of the king himself seems uncertain. Secret plots are at play, and war is on the horizon-but will it be with the Dutch or the French? And has King Charles himself betrayed his country for greed? Unforgettable in its dramatic force, here is a novel of love and politics, of romance and betrayal, of power and succession-and of a resourceful young woman who risks everything for pride and status in an era in which women were afforded little of either."

Karleen Koen (Author), Donada Peters (Narrator)

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L.A. Rex

"A fierce and ferocious, grittily cinematic debut crime novel that recalls both Richard Price and Quentin Tarantino set loose on South Central Los Angeles- James Ellroy with a soundtrack by Death Row Records-by an LAPD anti-gang officer who continues to patrol the streets he writes about. Unabridged CDs - 8 CDs, 9 hours"

Will Beall (Author), Dan Oreskes (Narrator)

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Brothers

"At the height of China’s Cultural Revolution a powerful general fathered two sons. Tan was born to the general’s wife and into a life of comfort and luxury. His half brother, Shento, was born to the general’s mistress, who threw herself off a cliff in the mountains of Balan only moments after delivering her child. Growing up, each remained ignorant of the other’s existence. In Beijing, Tan enjoyed the best schools, the finest clothes, and the prettiest girls. Shento was raised on the mountainside by an old healer and his wife until their deaths landed him in an orphanage, where he was always hungry, alone, and frightened. Though on divergent roads, each brother is driven by a passionate desire—one to glorify his father, the other to seek revenge against him. Separated by distance and opportunity, Tan and Shento follow the paths that lie before them, while unknowingly falling in love with the same woman and moving toward the explosive moment when their fates finally merge. Brothers, by bestselling memoirist Da Chen, is a sprawling, dynamic family saga, complete with assassinations, love affairs, narrowly missed opportunities, and the ineluctable fulfillment of destiny."

Da Chen (Author), Various (Narrator)

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The Zero: A Novel

"The Zero is a groundbreaking novel, a darkly comic snapshot of our times that is already being compared to the works of Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller. From its opening scene—when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head—novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack. As the smoke slowly clears, Remy finds that his memory is skipping, lurching between moments of lucidity and days when he doesn't seem to be living his own life at all. The landscape around him is at once fractured and oddly familiar: a world dominated by a Machiavellian mayor, and peopled by gawking celebrities, anguished policemen, and real estate divas hyping the spoils of tragedy. Remy himself has a new girlfriend he doesn't know, a son who pretends he's dead, and an unsettling new job chasing a trail of paper scraps for a shadowy intelligence agency. Whether that trail will lead Remy to an elusive terror cell—or send him circling back to himself—is only one of the questions posed by this provocative yet deeply human novel. Performed by Christopher Graybill"

Jess Walter (Author), Christopher Graybill (Narrator)

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[German] - Die Brille

Edgar Allan Poe (Author), Johannes Steck (Narrator)

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[German] - Liebesgeschichten: Vier Erzählungen

"Bei einer Kur lernt Gaudolf Felice kennen, die 'nicht ganz bei Vernunft ist', denn sie glaubt tot zu sein. Er nimmt sich ihrer an und auf wundersame Weise kommt es zur Heilung. Aber nun erkrankt Gaudolf selbst... Rat- und Hilfslosigkeit angesichts zu großer Gefühle stehen im Mittelpunkt der Erzählungen des großen Romantikers."

Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), Wolf Frass (Narrator)

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[German] - Ein Drama in den Lüften

"Dies ist die Geschichte eines mutigen Aeronauten, der während einer Ballonfahrt mit einem Verrückten um sein Leben kämpfen muss. Eine abenteuerliche Situation, ein Abriß über die katastrophenreiche Geschichte der Luftfahrt und eine Hommage an die Faszination des Fliegens von einem der Erfinder des Science-Fiction-Romans."

Jules Verne (Author), Hubertus Gertzen (Narrator)

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To Have and Have Not

"From one of the best writers in American literature, a classic novel about smuggling, intrigue, and love. To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair. In this harshly realistic, yet oddly tender and wise novel, Hemingway perceptively delineates the personal struggles of both the 'haves' and the 'have nots' and creates one of the most subtle and moving portraits of a love affair in his oeuvre. By turns funny and tragic, lively and poetic, remarkable in its emotional impact, To Have and Have Not is literary high adventure at its finest."

Ernest Hemingway (Author), Will Patton (Narrator)

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