David Case
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Der Psychiater Dr. Pope wird in ein altes, düsteres Herrschaftshaus gerufen, am Rand eines weiten Moorgebiets. An diesem einsamen Ort haben sich einst furchtbare Dinge zugetragen, die noch heute die Bewohner in ihren Bann ziehen. Der Seelendoktor soll eine junge Frau namens Catherine von schrecklichen Wahnvorstellungen befreien. Aber seine ärztliche Kunst droht zu versagen. Denn Dr. Pope entdeckt, dass die Unglückliche von einem unheimlichen Dämon...
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Sherlock Holmes mysteries volume 5
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This is the third and most famous novel to feature Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, who are called to investigate the curse of the Baskervilles and to protect Sir Henry Baskerville, the last remaining heir to the Baskerville estate. It is classic Holmes, with incisive deduction, sudden turns of plot and surprise revelations.
3) Dubliners
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A classic collection of the great literary pioneer's early work, the fifteen short stories evoke the character and atmosphere of the Irish city at the turn of the century.
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At Talavera in July of 1809, Captain Richard Sharpe, bold, professional, and ruthless, prepares to lead his men against the armies of Napoleon in what will be the bloodiest battle of the war. Sharpe has earned his captaincy, but there are others, such as the foppish Lieutenant Gibbons and his uncle, Colonel Henry Simmerson, who have bought their commissions despite their incompetence. After their cowardly loss of the regiment's colors, their resentment...
8) Bleak house
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With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city's underworld, and of the law's...
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Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, but the ensuing peace becomes ugly for Captain Jack Aubrey, with violent celebrations of the English sailors in Gibraltar and the desertion of nearly half his crew. To cap it all off, the Surprise is nearly sunk in a shattering night collision on the first leg of her journey to South America, where Jack and Stephen are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain. The delay for repairs reaps a harvest of...
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After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such best-sellers as The Mother Tongue and Made in America, decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland - and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people...
13) Sharpe's tiger
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In 1799, the British Army is fighting its way through India in an attempt to push the ruthless Tippoo of Mysore from his throne and drive his French allies out. Posing as a deserter, the young and illiterate private Richard Sharpe must penetrate into the Tippoo's city and make contact with a Scottish spy being held prisoner there. Success will mean winning his sergeant stripes; failure, being turned over to the Tippoo's brutal executioners--or his...
14) Les misérables
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Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, Les misérables is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.
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p2006
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1 sound media player (2.5 hr.) : digital ; 9 x 6 cm. + 1 set of earphones + 1 AAA battery + 1 lanyard.
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Chronicles the adventures of a kind-hearted doctor, who is fond of animals and understands their language, as he travels to Africa with some of his favorite pets to cure the monkeys of a terrible sickness.
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p2009
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10 sound discs (ca. 11.7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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At the end of the Cold War, tensions between the former Soviet Union and the Western World. British spy Tim Cranmer plans on a quiet retirement with main-squeeze Emma. However, after longtime rival Larry Pettifer recruits Emma for a Chechen revolution, the betrayed Cranmer finds himself on the lam in Russia.
17) Sharpe's gold: a rogue soldier fights a guerrilla war and the fate of the army hangs in the balance
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 9
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℗2009
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8 audio discs (approximately 9.3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1810, as the Peninsular War rages on, Captain Richard Sharpe and a small regimen of men are sent on a mission to discover the fate of a fellow British officer who was sent to recover gold. Teaming up with Major Kearsey, Sharpe sets out to find the missing officer, as well as the gold. However, the duo has conflicting intentions for the gold, and with the Spanish suspicious of their presence, Sharpe must use his cunning to complete the mission.
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[2008], p1994
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14 sound discs (17 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Claudius, born weak and with a stutter, was shamed and dismissed by his family as an idiot. This allowed him to live under the public radar and avoid his family's scandal and eventual murder. Claudius survived to become the emperor of Rome in 41 A.D.
19) Les Misérables
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Les Miserables is the great epic masterpiece of the mid-nineteenth century. Begun in 1845, the year Louis Philippe conferred a peerage and a lifetime seat in the Senate upon Victor Hugo, it was completed when the author was living in exile in the Channel Islands. Les Miserables is a product as well as a document of the political, social, and religious upheaval that followed the Napoleonic Wars and Europe's great democratic revolutions....
20) Shogun
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A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust, and the struggle for power.
Here is the world-famous novel of Japan that is the earliest book in James Clavell's masterly Asian saga. Set in the year 1600, it tells the story of a bold English pilot whose...
Here is the world-famous novel of Japan that is the earliest book in James Clavell's masterly Asian saga. Set in the year 1600, it tells the story of a bold English pilot whose...



