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Jetzt wird's spannend: ein Erdmännchen spielt Detektiv: Christoph Maria Herbst in Bestform: Im Hörbuch-Krimi "Ausgefressen" von Moritz Matthies leiht er nicht nur Erdmännchen Ray als Erzähler seine sonore Stimme. Lispelnd und nuschelnd strapaziert er auch in weiteren Rollen unsere Lachmuskeln. In zahlreichen unterschiedlichen Tonlagen und Dialekten macht er so das Hörbuch rund um den Erdmännchen-Clan von Ray, Rufus und Rocky zu einem wahren Hörgenuss!

One Good Thing is the heartwarming, hilarious alternative love story, from the internationally bestselling author of Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up, Alexandra Potter. 'A joyful, wholly unpredictable love story' - Woman's Own In life, nothing is certain. Just when you think you have it...

"Gardner's familiarity with Andy and the team is clear as he characterizes the larger-than-life characters with aplomb. His spot-on timing allows Andy's wisecracks to shine, while his subtle changes in inflection help signal passages not told from Andy's point of view. The result is a thoroughly...

Library Cat – the resident cat of Edinburgh University Library – is not like other cats. He is a thinking cat. You can tell by the canny glint in his eye, his arched, disdainful whiskers and his unrelenting interest in books and piles of paper. This is Library Cat’s story. Join him on the adventures he takes when he leaves his favourite turquoise chair in the library and his favourite food (bacon-rind) behind to go out into the big, bad world. Meet his cousins Biblio Chat and Saaf Landan Tom.

When he wakes in a pitch-black room with his hands bound, Roland Britten – accountant and champion steeplechase jockey – knows he’s entered a nightmare of someone else’s making. Wracking his brain to figure out who’s out to get him and why, he comes up empty, but somehow manages a death-defying escape. It isn’t long, though, before he’s recaptured.

Brought to you by Penguin. **Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022** Glory is an energy burst, an exhilarating ride. A bold, vivid chorus of animal voices calls out the dangerous absurdity of contemporary global politics, and helps us see our human world more clearly. A long time ago, in a...

George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable.

The first book in the brand-new series from New York Times best-selling author Julie Kagawa. Enter a beautiful and perilous land of shape-shifters and samurai, kami and legends, humans and demons...a world in which Japanese mythology and imagination blend together. When destiny calls, legends rise. Every millennium the missing pieces of the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers are hunted, for they hold the power to call the great Kami Dragon from the sea and ask for any one wish.  

Dans l'immensité du plateau Limousin, Jeanne et Damien, éleveurs de père en fils, appréhendent le retour des loups. Lucas et Mathilde, eux, défendent avec ardeur la cause de ces animaux sauvages. C'est dans un climat tendu que se produit la première attaque, puis la deuxième… et que la colère des éleveurs éclate. Tandis que les deux couples s'affrontent, chacun défendant son idéal de vie, Lupo et Léna, traqués, luttent pour leur survie et celle de leurs petits.

Tupolev est membre d'une troupe de cirque, Matcha, une douce aide-soignante, Triskelian, un sans-abri belliqueux, Soroban vit au Japon. Chaque chat mène une vie bien singulière et parfois très surprenante ! Découvrez le quotidien d'une quarantaine de félins pas comme les autres, une galerie de portraits qui va vous faire miauler de rire et ronronner de plaisir !

Brought to you by Penguin. When a Victorian fossil hunter discovers a baby pterodactyl, she vows to protect him with the help of a fellow scholar – her former fiancé – in this enchanting and transporting historical fantasy. Perfect for fans of Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries and A...

Es ist an der Zeit, die Krone der Schöpfung weiterzureichen … Animal. Sprich oder stirb von Bestseller-Autor Tibor Rode ist ein brandaktueller, top recherchierter True-Science-Thriller über die Entschlüsselung der Sprache der Tiere und die Frage, ob wir bereit sind, ihnen zuzuhören. Endlich darf aufstrebender Anwalt Ben Lorenz für eine renommierte Hamburger Großkanzlei seinen ersten Fall vor Gericht verhandeln.

A city makes its last stand . . . War Master’s Gate is the ninth book in the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The Empire’s mighty imperial armies are marching on Collegium once more. They’ve learnt from past failures and this time their...

The USA Today bestselling author of How to Eat a Cupcake and All the Summer Girls returns with an unforgettably poignant and funny tale of love and loss, confronting our fears, and moving on . . . with the help of a poodle, a mutt, and a Basset retriever named Seymour. As a pet bereavement...

Hettie and Tilly set out to investigate an old crime and a spate of new murders. Why is Mavis Spitforce dressed as a pumpkin? Can Irence Peggledrip really talk to cats from the spirit world? Did Milky Myers murder his family on Halloween; longer ago now than anyone can remember? These are the questions that the tabby duo must answer before the latest case for The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency can be solved.

Rien ne va plus, Madame! Keine gute Stimmung im Erdmännchen-Bau: Roxy fühlt sich unterfordert, Rocky versteht die Welt nicht mehr, Häsin Grete braucht bitte mehr Me-Time, und Natalie möchte erst mal keinen Nachwuchs mit Ray. In all diese Beziehungs- und Sinnkrisen platzt ein Anruf von Interpol, und wenig später sind Phil, Rufus und Ray unterwegs zu den Reichen und Schönen an die Côte d’Azur. Denn dort heiratet der Sohn einer zwielichtigen Investmentfonds-Größe eine Frau aus bestem Haus. Zu Gast sein wird auch »Samtpfote«, Kopf eines mexikanischen Drogenimperiums.

A dog tries his best to keep his two co-parenting owners and their happiness afloat in this hilarious and touching sequel to Joint Custody by Lauren Baratz-Logsted and Jackie Logsted. The Man is happy. The Woman is happy. That means Gatz is happy. He'd like to forget about the trouble he made to...

When Chet the dog, "the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction" (Boston Globe), and his partner, PI Bernie Little of the desert-based Little Detective Agency, arrive to a meeting with hydrologist Wendell Nero, they are in for a shocking sight - Wendell has come to a violent and mysterious end. What did the hydrologist want to see them about? Is his death a random robbery, or something more? Chet and Bernie, working for nothing more than an eight-pack of Slim Jims, are on the case. 

Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world’s garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a herd of insatiable pigs: a perfect system. But when a barrel washes ashore with a boy inside, the children must decide whether he is more of the world’s detritus, meant to be fed to the pigs, or whether he is one of them.

"Maizes's debut novel is brought to life by Devon Sorvari's engaging narration. Her delivery is well matched to the story's short declarative sentences as she makes listeners care about La La in spite of her bad choices." -- AudioFile Magazine R.L. Maizes's Other People’s Pets examines the gap...