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The Cleaner (EN)
Audiobook The Cleaner, written by Inger Gammelgaard Madsen. Bertram and his three friends have formed a small gang of thieves called The Ravens. He lives alone with his mom, who works as a waitress. He doesn’t remember his father much, as the latter was arrested for murder and sentenced to life imprisonment when Bertram was only seven years old. One day, Bertram steals an expensive "Schott Made in USA" leather jacket from a restaurant, which will have fatal consequences, and not just for Bertram.
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B. J. Harrison Reads 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (EN)
Pierre Aronnax is a famous marine biologist, who works together with his manservant Conseil and harpoonist Ned Land. The three brave men are tirelessly hunting a mysterious sea monster in the dangerous sea waters. But a great danger loom over them. Why are the three sailors chasing the monster? Why do they want to kill it at any cost? Will they succeed or will the creature attack and kill them? Find out all the answers in Jules Verne’s classic science fiction and adventure novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" from 1870.
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22,99 €
Hole in one (EN)
There’s nothing like the fresh mountain air, waves crashing against the shore, the wind caressing your chest, the water touching your sex. This is an erotic short story collection from Cupido. The collection includes the following short stories: "Working with the petroglyphs brings forth the mythical life of the forest and the past -- and this life was full of seductive sensuality and sexuality.
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5,99 €
Lover Unknown (EN)
There’s nothing like the fresh mountain air, waves lapping against the beach, the wind caressing your chest, the water touching your crotch. This is an erotic short story collection from Cupido. The collection includes the following short stories: "She waited for him on a park bench. She remembered just how good it was last time they met.
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5,99 €
B. J. Harrison Reads The Edgar Allan Poe Collection (EN)
The Edgar Allan Poe Collection features a selection of works from the pioneering 19th-century poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's works include the dramatic short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" to his perhaps most famous poem "The Raven". This collection promises some of the finest from the master of mystery, horror and the imagination.
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13,99 €
B. J. Harrison Reads The Flowering of the Strange Orchid (EN)
Winter Wedderburn is an amateur collector of orchids, spending his days peacefully with his housekeeper. One day he invites more adventure into his life and buys an unknown species of orchids brought from the Andaman Islands. Little does he know that purchasing this unusual plant will bring him more adventure than he could ever have dreamt of.
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5,99 €
B. J. Harrison Reads The Head of Hair (EN)
Can a man lose his mind because of a braid of hair? Can people come back from the dead? "The Head of Hair" tells the story of one poor man who gets so obsessed with a hairpiece that he comes to believe that the lady it belonged to has returned from the underworld. Nobody believes him and he ends up in an institution for mentally ill but could he have been telling the truth? Did he really get a visitor from the past? B.
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5,99 €
B. J. Harrison Reads The Pit and the Pendulum (EN)
A prisoner arrives at a trial before the Spanish Inquisition and is condemned to death. Upon his conviction, he faints and finds himself in a horrendous cell to fight off death. Still, this prisoner is not giving up that easily and describes his horrendous circumstances to the last detail. "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe is nothing short of grim until the very end.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (EN)
In "The System of Doctor Tarr and Pofessor Fether" from the 19th century nothing is quite what it seems. During his tour of southern France, our narrator visits a local mental institution, of which he has heard a great deal. Upon arriving at the institution, which is run by an acquaintance of his travelling companion, the narrator quickly finds that something is off.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Tell-Tale Heart (EN)
B. J. Harrison tells Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Tell-Tale Heart", where our narrator has committed the crime of murdering an older man. He does not consider himself a madman, and he describes the murder up to the smallest detail. Yet he has killed a man whom he loved and had never wronged him, for the sake of the mans' "evil eye".
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5,99 €
B. J. Harrison Reads Wuthering Heights (EN)
"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. " In the winter of 1801, a man named Lockwood rents a home in Northern England. When he meets his unfriendly landlord, Heathcliff, who lives in the old nearby manor Wurthering Heights, Lockwood is curious to know why he seems so troubled.
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16,99 €
B. J. Harrison Reads Desiree's Baby (EN)
Kate Chopin’s short story "Desirée’s Baby" depicts a love story that is far from simple. Desirée was found as a baby by a wealthy French Creole couple, Monsieur and Madame Valmondé, in Louisiana before the American Civil War. She marries Armand, the son of another wealthy French Creole family, and has a son with him.
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Knights Templar: Lost Secrets Revealed (EN)
Historians find the Middle Ages a period shrouded in mystery. On the one hand, sources speak of greedy kings and corrupt popes who flourished during a time of widespread hunger, disease and servitude. On the other, nobler thoughts began to flourish. Led by their blind faith in the word of god, holy orders of knights attempted to protect the weak.
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10,99 €
Escape to Happiness (EN)
Rose had read about the wedding, a widely covered social event, and under no circumstances had imagined that she would have anything to do with such an important event. Then, to her great surprise, she finds the wounded groom at her doorstep after leaving his bride at the altar, wanting Rose’s help.
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10,99 €
B.J. Harrison Reads MS. Found in a Bottle (EN)
In "MS. Found in a Bottle", one harrowing event seems to take place after another. Our narrator is a man who has become alienated from others and his country. He steps aboard a cargo ship from Batavia, which crashes into stormy conditions that send most passengers into the water. Surprisingly, the narrator stays on board, only to find himself face to face with a new disaster.
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5,99 €
B. J. Harrison Reads The Cask of Amontillado (EN)
B. J. Harrison visits Edgar Allan Poe's grim horror story, "The Cask of Amontillado". Montresor is a man who has been insulted, and he does not take this lightly. Seeking revenge on the person who slighted him, Fortunato, he sets out on a terrible mission to even the score. Yet what follows is far from fair, and Fortunato is far from prepared.
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5,99 €