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[German] - Die junge Wanderhure - Die Wanderhure, Band 9 (Ungekürzte Lesung)

"In Iny Lorentzʼ Mittelalter-Roman Die junge Wanderhure erfahren wir endlich, wie aus der hilflosen Kaufmannstochter Marie Schärer die mutige Frau wurde, die ihr Schicksal aus eigener Kraft wendet. Konstanz im Jahr 1410: Nach dem bitteren Verrat durch ihren adligen Verlobten, der nur an ihr Vermögen wollte, wird die schöne Kaufmannstochter Marie entehrt und schwer verletzt aus der Stadt gejagt. Die Wanderhure Hiltrud findet sie und nimmt sich ihrer an. Zunächst sehnt Marie den Tod herbei, um all die Not und das Elend hinter sich lassen zu können. Mit der Zeit begreift sie aber, dass ihr Tod den endgültigen Triumph ihrer Feinde bedeuten würde. Um sich die Hoffnung auf Vergeltung zu erhalten, beschließt Marie, nicht aufzugeben, auch wenn sie dafür ihren Körper verkaufen und ein Leben in Schande führen muss. In den drei Jahren, die nun folgen, geht Marie förmlich durch die Hölle. Ihr Lebenswille ist jedoch stark genug, um alles zu ertragen, denn sie weiß eines. Der Tag wird kommen, an dem sie ihren Peinigern erneut gegenübertreten und endlich Rache nehmen kann ... Die Wanderhuren-Reihe ist die erfolgreichste historische Serie aus dem deutschen Mittelalter. Dramatisch, hochspannend und emotional lässt uns Bestseller-Autorin Iny Lorentz am Schicksal der Wanderhure Marie teilhaben."

Iny Lorentz (Author), Anne Moll (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Cristo versus Arizona

"Un western experimental sobre el célebre duelo en el O.K. corral que retrata con sostenido brío un mundo de personajes sumidos en la violencia. El célebre y legendario duelo de O.K. corral, en la localidad de Tombstone (Arizona), inmortalizado en decenas de películas, sirve de pretexto a Cela para escribir, contra todo pronóstico, un particularísimo western que se cuenta entre sus novelas más portentosas. El monólogo alucinado de Wendell Espana, un hombre sin apenas cultura en cuya memoria pululan infinidad de personajes y anécdotas, se traduce en una letanía de enormidades, llena de salvajismo, de violencia, de sexo, de bestialidad, en la que, sin renunciar nunca al humor, Cela da rienda suelta a su vena más transgresora y formalmente más extrema. La crítica ha dicho: «El vanguardismo terminal de novelas como Cristo versus Arizona se cuenta entre lo mejor que ha dado la narrativa experimental del siglo XX.» Eloy Fernández Porta «Uno de los escritores más radicales de todo el siglo XX. [...] Los relojes corren a favor de Camilo José Cela, segundo a segundo, minuto a minuto, hasta marcar la hora exacta de su eterna maestría.» Alberto Olmos «El último gran escritor español, creador de fábulas, de lenguaje, de palabras, con una capacidad prodigiosa para expresarse.» Francisco Umbral"

Camilo José Cela (Author), Tito Asorey (Narrator)

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Though the Bodies Fall

"From an exciting new voice in Irish fiction, a powerful novel set on an Irish clifftop - a story about duty, despair and the chance encounters upon which fate turns. Micheál Burns lives alone in his family's bungalow at the end of Kerry Head in Ireland. It is a picturesque place, but the cliffs have a darker side to them: for generations they have been a suicide black spot. Micheál's mother saw the saving of these lost souls - these visitors - as her spiritual duty, and now, in the wreckage of his life, Micheál finds himself continuing her work. When his sisters tell him that they want to sell the land, he must choose between his siblings and the visitors, a future or a past."

Noel O'regan (Author), Aidan Kelly (Narrator)

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Beasts of England

"Manor Farm has reinvented itself as the South of England’s premium petting zoo. Now, instead of a working farm, humans and beasts alike are invited (for a small fee) to come and stroke, fondle, and take rides on the farm’s inhabitants. But life is not a bed of roses for the animals, in spite of what their leaders may want them to believe. Elections are rigged, the community is beset by factions, and sacred mottos are being constantly updated. The Farm is descending into chaos. What’s more, a mysterious ‘illness’ has started ripping through the animals, killing them one by one… In Beasts of England, Adam Biles honours, updates and subverts George Orwell’s classic, all the while channelling the chaotic, fragmentary nature of populist politics in the Internet age into a savage farmyard satire."

Adam Biles (Author), Mark Elstob (Narrator)

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West Girls

"‘I chose the jagged rocks, the broken bones, the spattered brains. I chose beauty. I'd choose it again.’ Luna Lewis is white. But her friends aren’t, nor are her brothers, nor her one-time Princess of Indonesia–finalist stepmother. After transforming from pudgy preteen to ‘exotic’ beauty, Luna reinvents herself as ‘Luna Lu’ and takes her ticket out of the most isolated city on earth. However, as her international modelling career approaches its expiry date, Luna must grapple with what she’s sacrificed — and who she’s become — in her mission to conquer the world. Featuring an intersecting cast of glamour-hungry public schoolgirls, WAGs, mining heiresses, backpacker-barmaids, and cosmetic nurses, West Girls examines beauty, race, class divisions, and social mobility in Australia’s richest state. It’s also a devastating catalogue of the myriad, inventive ways in which women love and hurt one another. ‘West Girls shows us a sordid, self-regarding, and shiny world of schoolgirls and supermodels, and in any other lesser writer's hands this would be straight parody, but Woollett's extraordinary talent is to make the “real” more grotesque than the satire, and to infuse every sentence with her poet's vision and every character with a true melancholy and flawed humanity.’ ALICE PUNG, AUTHOR OF ONE HUNDRED DAYS"

Laura Elizabeth Woollett (Author), Zoe Trilsbach (Narrator)

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Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue

"Four working-class Vancouver sisters, still reeling from the impact of World War I and the pandemic that stole their only brother, are scraping by but attempting to make the most out of the exciting 1920s. Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue is a love story?but like all love stories, it’s complicated … Morag is pregnant; she loves her husband. Georgina can’t bear hers and dreams of getting an education. Harriet-Jean, still at home with her opium-addicted mother, is in love with a woman. Isla’s pregnant too?and in love with her sister’s husband. Only one soul knows about Isla’s pregnancy, and it isn’t the father. When Isla resorts to a back-street abortion and nearly dies, Llewellyn becomes hellbent on revenge. But can revenge lead to anything but disaster for a man like Llew?a policeman tangled up in running rum to Prohibition America? Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue is immersed in the complex political and social realities of the 1920s and, not-so ironically, of the 2020s: love, sex, desire, police corruption, abortion, addiction, and women wanting more. Beautifully written, with a loveable cast of characters, this novel is a tender account of love that cannot be acknowledged, of loss and regret, risk and defiance, abiding friendship, and the powerful bonds of chosen family."

Christine Higdon (Author), Emma Love (Narrator)

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Kill For Love

"The boys on the row are only after one thing, but that bullshit's for pledges. Tiffany's on the hunt for something more. Kill for Love is a searing satirical thriller about Tiffany, a privileged Los Angeles sorority sister who is struggling to keep her sadistic impulses—and haunting nightmares of fire and destruction—at bay. After a frat party hookup devolves into a bloody, fatal affair, Tiffany realizes something within her has awoken: the insatiable desire to kill attractive young men. As Tiffany's bloodlust deepens and the bodies pile up, she must contend with mounting legal scrutiny, social media-fueled competing murders, and her growing relationship with Weston, who she thinks could be the perfect boyfriend. A female-driven, modern-day American Psycho, Kill for Love exposes modern toxic plasticity with dark comedy and propulsive plot."

Laura Picklesimer (Author), Stefanie Kay (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - La falaz posteridad

"Una inmersión en las sombras de autores olvidados ante al dilema de la creación artística, eje de la novela. Cinco décadas de cine comprometido en las Alemanias -entre la iconografía devota y el delirio- desfilan por las páginas de la periodista Silvia Olazábal Ligur, sobre la obsesión de Dora Bakarel: lograr el reconocimiento para su padre, el cineasta búlgaro Slatan Dudow, como autor del guion de Kuhle Wampe o ¿de quién es el mundo? (1932), primer filme proletario, atribuido a Bertolt Brecht. De la complicidad entre Dora y Silvia, que acabarán confiándose sus peripecias vitales, surgirá el sueño de resucitar el Cineclub Blanco & Negro de Arequipa. Una inmersión en las sombras de autores olvidados ante al dilema de la creación artística, eje de la novela."

Teresa Ruiz Rosas (Author), Mariana De Iraola (Narrator)

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Any Other City

"By the author of Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian): the fictional memoir of a trans indie rock musician that reveals how the act of creation can heal trauma and even change the past. Any Other City is a two-sided fictional memoir by Tracy St. Cyr, who helms the beloved indie rock band Static Saints. Side A is a snapshot of her life from 1993, when Tracy arrives in a labyrinthine city as a fledgling artist and unexpectedly falls in with a clutch of trans women, including the iconoclastic visual artist Sadie Tang. Side B finds Tracy in 2019, now a semi-famous musician, in the same strange city, healing from a traumatic event through songwriting, queer kinship, and sexual pleasure. While writing her memoir, Tracy perceives how the past reverberates into the present, how a body is a time machine, how there’s power in refusing to dust the past with powdered sugar, and how seedlings begin to slowly grow in empty spaces after things have been broken open. Motifs recur like musical phrases, and traces of what used to be there peek through, like a palimpsest. Any Other City is a novel about friendship and other forms of love, travelling in a body across decades, and transmuting trauma through art making and queer sex - a love letter to trans femmes and to art itself."

Hazel Jane Plante (Author), Hazel Jane Plante (Narrator)

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Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare

"From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey through contemporary Hawaiian identity and womanhood. 'A knockout. Eleven knockouts, one KO for every story.'-Elizabeth McCracken In Hawaii, a cast of women reckon with physical and emotional alienation, and the toll it takes on their psyches. A childhood encounter with a wild pua'a (boar) on the haunted Pali highway portends one woman's increasingly fraught relationship with her body during pregnancy. A woman recalls an uncanny experience, in which Elvis impersonators take centre stage, to an acquaintance who doesn't yet know just how intimately they're connected. An elderly widow begins seeing her deceased lover in the giant corpse flower a mourner has gifted her. Centering native Hawaiian identity, and how it unfolds in the lives, mind and bodies of kanaka women, the stories in Kakimoto's debut collection are speculative and uncanny, exploring themes of queerness, colonization and desire. Both a fierce love letter to mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women and a searing dispatch from an occupied territory simmering with tension, Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare takes seriously the superstitions born of the islands. Kakimoto's characters seek pleasure and purpose even in absurd circumstances, often with a surprising sense of humor, and her stories treat Hawai'i as so much more than a postcard from paradise."

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto (Author), Chloe Madriaga (Narrator)

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[German] - Das Leuchten der Blätter - Sehnsuchtswald-Reihe, Band 3 (Ungekürzte Lesung)

"Ein Wald voller Zauber und Erinnerungen - der dritte Band der Sehnsuchtswald-Reihe von Bestseller-Autorin Patricia Koelle Ava betreibt in Kühlungsborn ein Antiquitätengeschäft, das ihr einst vererbt wurde. Doch obwohl sie die Arbeit dort nicht erfüllt, scheut sie sich davor, ihren Herzenswunsch nach kreativer Arbeit in die Tat umzusetzen. Aufregender wird ihr Leben, als die temperamentvolle Solvie in ihren Laden stürzt. Denn die hat in Avas Schaufenster ein Symbol entdeckt, hinter dem eine besondere Bedeutung steckt. Gemeinsam reisen die beiden an die Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, um mehr über das Symbol zu erfahren. Die alten Eichen in Ivenack haben es Ava besonders angetan - aus der Umgebung schöpft sie Kraft und Inspiration. Und sie trifft dort auf Peer, der sie ermutigt, ihren Herzenswunsch nicht aus den Augen zu verlieren. Die Romane sind auch unabhängig voneinander ein großer Hörgenuss. Weitere Hörbücher der Autorin: Die Sehnsuchtswald-Reihe: Das Licht in den Bäumen, Das Glück in den Wäldern, Das Leuchten der Blätter, Der Klang des Windes Die Inselgärten-Reihe: Die Zeit der Glühwürmchen, Das Lächeln der Libellen, Die Träume der Bienen, Das Geheimnis der Grashüpfer, Die Hoffnung der Marienkäfer Die Ostsee-Trilogie: Das Meer in deinem Namen, Das Licht in deiner Stimme, Der Horizont in deinen Augen"

Patricia Koelle (Author), Ulrike Kapfer (Narrator)

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Flame Music

"It's 1978 and Nick Du Pont, one-time PR man to Sixties rock behemoths the Helium Kids, is back in London and bent on founding his own record label. A new kind of music - sharp, hard and dangerous - is bursting onto the airwaves on both sides of the Atlantic and Nick wants a slice of the action - in particular, the work of The Flame Throwers, the most provocative assemblage of street-smart desperadoes ever to hail from downtown Los Angeles. Picking up from where the highly-praised Rock and Roll is Life (2018) left off, this is the story of Resurgam Records and the personal traumas and tragedies that attended its coruscating rise - until the time when, as so invariably happens, the dancers shuffle to a halt and the music stops."

D.J. Taylor (Author), Alan Turton (Narrator)

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