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Prinzessin Brambilla ist ein 1820 in Berlin von E. T. A. Hoffmann nach acht Kupferstichen von Jacques Callot geschriebenes literarisches Capriccio. In der von Ironie geprägten Erzählung geht es um den mäßig talentierten Schauspieler Giglio und die Putzmacherin Giacinta, die anfangs in die geheimnisvolle Prinzessin Brambilla beziehungsweise den Prinzen Cornelio Chiaperri verliebt sind. Was Giglio und Giacinta am Ende der Erzählung erkennen, wird hier nicht verraten, aber phantasiebegabte Hörer werden es irgendwann ahnen.

Twenty-six-year-old Presley Goult's life is anything but ordinary. Her mother abandoned her as a toddler after her father’s death, leaving her to be raised by the only family she has left - her uncle Arnold. After years of being away, she returns heartbroken and devastated, knowing this is the last place she wants to be. Unbeknownst to her, Kadenburg is not your ordinary town. There are secrets that have been kept from her for her own good.

This classic tale begins on Christmas Eve, when young Marie Stahlbaum and her siblings open their Christmas presents. One toy, a Nutcracker who looks like a soldier, soon become Marie’s favourite gift. That night, the Nutcracker comes to life and battles the evil Mouse King. Once Marie discovers how the Nutcracker came to be cursed, she has many decisions to make. Will she help the Nutcracker defeat the Mouse King? Will she help break his curse? And will she return to the magical kingdom, populated by dolls, to be with her beloved Nutcracker?

Some conspiracy theories turn out to be true. FBI profiler Victor Loshak works a brutal murder case in Watertown, New York - a woman found strangled in her basement, her face gone purple and baggy. But as he sifts through the crime scene details, his mind keeps drifting back to Kansas City, his last job. The human trafficking case there ended in something of a cliffhanger, and it's a loose end that everyone else in law enforcement seems in no hurry to tie up. The truth is out there. Always just out of reach.

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Everybody is a kid once - it’s a fact of life. They play and make friends and have fun. Kids live in the moment, going on grand adventures and making dumb promises to each other that never really matter because tomorrow is so far away. But then, they grow up. Work takes over, friends drift apart, and fun becomes a distant, foreign concept. That’s a fact of life, too.

Ever since Britt was a small child, she played to an audience. She had always dreamt of being a famous actress. Her resume was short, but she convinced herself that is was strong enough to break into Hollywood. With her bags packed and the GPS set to Los Angeles, she never expected to meet the man of her dreams stranded in the middle of nowhere on a dark rainy night.

Straßenmusik im Berliner Tiergarten im Spätherbst 1809. Ein Mann trifft auf einen sonderbaren Fremden. Beide teilen die musikalische Leidenschaft für Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart und Christoph Willibald Gluck, aber auch ihre Abneigung gegen das dilettantische Opernpublikum. Nachdem der Fremde verschwindet, bricht der Kontakt zwischen beiden ab. Einige Monate später, während die Oper "Armida" aufgeführt wird, begegnen sich die Herren zufällig wieder - und der skurrile Musiker offenbart dem Erzähler ein unfassbares Geheimnis.

Dear parent, what do you want most for your child? Is it to get good grades? Maybe you want them to discover and develop their talents? This is an audiobook for you parents that would teach you the unconventional methods to help your kids monetize their talents.

Some secrets don’t stay buried. Three elaborately staged victims. No clues. A public verging on panic. FBI profiler Victor Loshak heads to Kansas City to hunt another serial killer. But something about this case is all wrong. The three corpses lie posed. Face up. A glove laid to cover each right eye. The victims seem to be selected at random. Suburban. Upper middle class. Squeaky clean. It doesn’t make sense. A piece is missing from this puzzle.

He slips through the unlocked window. Creeps down the hall. A shadow standing in the bedroom doorway. Will you wake when death comes ripping? A string of brutal home invasion murders terrifies Dade County, Florida. The killer strikes in the dead of the night, savages innocent people in their beds, wipes out entire families. He attacks at random. Rich. Poor. Young. Old. No one is safe. When the city sleeps, he comes alive. Stalks the night. Walks among us.

For graduate student Jeremy Freirs, citified, cynical, yet prone to daydreams, summer is the time to shed a few pounds and finally get some reading done for a course on Gothic literature. He's picked just the right place: the small, secluded village of Gilead, New Jersey, only 90 minutes from Manhattan but, with its antique customs and clannish traditions, seemingly centuries away. For farmers Sarr and Deborah Poroth, young members of Gilead's fundamentalist community, the summer threatens a conflict between their passionate natures and the stern dictates of their faith.

For Nate Kincade, former Army Special Forces, the future looks bleak. Following a tragic incident, he faces a long-term sentence inside a military prison. But when a mysterious visitor appears and offers to have all charges against him dismissed in exchange for him completing a mission, Nate believes his luck has finally turned.

"Die Elixiere des Teufels": Die Flasche mit dem Teufelselixier stammt aus dem Nachlass des heiligen Antonius. Jetzt soll der Kapuzinermönch Medardus diese gefährliche Reliquie nach Rom bringen. Aber der Teufel ist ihm dicht auf den Fersen und so erlebt Medardus Dinge, die er sich in seinen kühnsten Träumen nicht vorgestellt hätte. "Der Sandmann": Ein Straßenverkäufer klopft an Nathanaels Wohnungstür, er möchte ihm Brillen und Ferngläser verkaufen, doch er stürzt den jungen Studenten damit in einen grausigen Albtraum!

Valko can see the last moments of a victim's life. It comes at a price - a scrap of flesh cut from his brain and replaced with an implant. Bound to a drug that lets him use his insight but brings with it the pain of synthetic emotion, he's at war with himself. Now, a killer has found a way to hide from him, and two people are dead. Someone wants to keep their secrets buried. The trail leads out into the wasteland where death flies on the wind as nanotech dust. Manipulated and betrayed, Valko must get to the truth before his time runs out.

It's the 22nd century. Humanity has taken its first steps into the galaxy, and we've found ourselves in a vast playground of alien races, environments, and cultures. As the newest players on the universal stage, though, our position is readily apparent - we're at the bottom of the food chain.

This Black History Collection contains the brilliant works of Frederick Douglass (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass), Booker T. Washington (Up from Slavery) and W. E. B. Du Bois (The Souls of Black Folk). Enjoy the works of these three influential men, whose vision and ideas helped to shape modern society.

Zu Weihnachten erhält die kleine Marie einen Nussknacker geschenkt, an dem etwas Besonderes zu sein scheint. In der Tat: Mitten in der Nacht erwacht der Nussknacker zum Leben und ficht mit seiner Armee den Kampf gegen den siebenköpfigen Mausekönig! E. T. A. Hoffmanns Märchen gehört zu den Klassikern der Weihnachtsliteratur.

Lewis Tumnal is a teacher of English at the county school. Quiet and uncomplicated, he lives in a big Edwardian house in the north of Wren Hoe with his wife, and a daughter of 11 years. But Lewis Tumnal and his family are the imaginary lives of Louis Tumnal, a withdrawn and lonely bachelor, ill at ease with himself and in social situations. With few friends, he goes to a night class in photography which he loves, but he keeps himself very much to himself. That is, until he meets Kathryn...

Hörspiel, Lesung, Oper, Gesang: So abwechslungs- und facettenreich E. T. A. Hoffmanns Sammlung ist, so vielseitig ist die grandiose Umsetzung durch Klaus Buhlert. Eigens komponierte Musik und die herausragenden Sprecher machen die phantastischen Erzählungen zum Hörspiel-Ereignis für Groß und Klein. Enthält: "Der Einsiedler Serapion", "Rat Krespel", "Das Fräulein von Scuderi", "Nussknacker und Mausekönig", "Eine Spukgeschichte", "Der Baron von B.", "Die Bergwerke zu Falun", "Der Artushof", "Die Automate", "Nachricht aus dem Leben eines bekannten Mannes", "Signor Formica" und "Die Königsbraut"