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Die Zeitdetektive. Entführung in Nürnberg. Ein Krimi aus dem Mittelalter [29]

Bei einem Nürnbergbesuch hören die Zeitdetektive von der Goldenen Bulle, mit der sich Kaiser Karl IV. 1356 wichtige Rechte sicherte und die heute als das bedeutendste Verfassungsdokument des Mittelalters gilt. Julian, Kim und Leon reisen ins Nürnberg des Mittelalters. In der Kaiserburg werden sie Zeuge einer Intrige. Der Papst will seiner Entmachtung durch die Bulle nicht tatenlos zusehen. Mithilfe des Hofnarrs und des Trancheurs der Kaiserburg will er dafür sorgen, dass nicht alle Kurfürsten der Bulle zustimmen. Die Täter schrecken auch vor Bestechung, Entführung und einem Mordversuch nicht zurück. Dank der Zeitdetektive wird ihnen jedoch das Handwerk gelegt. Julian, Kim und Leon reisen auf den Spuren von Verbrechern durch die Zeit. Doch die Zeitreisen sind alles andere als ungefährlich...

Fabian Lenk (Author), Stephan Schad (Narrator)

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Matilda

Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian[His] stories work better in audio than in print. The New York Times The Trunchbull is no match for Matilda!Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It'll take a superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves and Matilda may be just the one to do it!From the Compact Disc edition.

Roald Dahl (Author), Kate Winslet (Narrator)

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian[His] stories work better in audio than in print. The New York TimesWilly Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last!But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television; and Charlie Bucket, Our Hero, a boy who is honest and kind, brave and true, and good and ready for the wildest time of his life!From the Compact Disc edition.

Roald Dahl (Author), Douglas Hodge (Narrator)

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The BFG

Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian [His] stories work better in audio than in print. -The New York Times Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants rather than the BFG she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!Soon to be a Steven Spielberg film! From the Compact Disc edition.

Roald Dahl (Author), David Walliams, David Williams (Narrator)

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Big Nate Flips Out

Big Nate is flipping out! Everyone knows N-A-T-E does not equal N-E-A-T! And when Nate's sloppiness gets out of hand, Francis is in serious trouble. Can Nate clean up his act, or will he flip out first?

Lincoln Peirce (Author), Fred Berman (Narrator)

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Big Nate Goes for Broke

Big Nate is going for broke! Mighty Jefferson Middle School always wins. Then Nate decides it's time to go from zeroes to heroes! Will Nate crack under the pressure of the "Ultimate Snowdown"? Or lead P.S. 38 to its biggest victory ever?

Lincoln Peirce (Author), Fred Berman (Narrator)

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Pinkalicious: Pink or Treat!

When a big storm shuts down all the power in Pinkville, Pinkalicious must turn into Pinkagirl to save Halloween! Victoria Kann is the award-winning illustrator and author of the picture book series featuring the whimsical and effervescent character Pinkalicious. Victoria coauthored and illustrated the first two books, Pinkalicious and Purplicious, as well as the play Pinkalicious: The Musical. She wrote and illustrated the New York Times number-one bestsellers Goldilicious, Silverlicious, and Emeraldalicious. There are also Pinkalicious stories just for beginning readers! Please share your favorite Pinkalicious cupcake creations with Victoria on Facebook at www.facebook.com/pinkalicious.

Victoria Kann (Author), Eliana Shaskan, Victoria Kann (Narrator)

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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian[His] stories work better in audio than in print. The New York TimesNow that he's won the chocolate factory, what's next for Charlie?Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie Bucket's back for another adventure. When the giant elevator picks up speed, Charlie, Willy Wonka, and the gang are sent hurtling through space and time. Visiting the world '' first space hotel, battling the dreaded Vermicious Knids, and saving the world are only a few stops along this remarkable, intergalactic joyride.From the Compact Disc edition.

Roald Dahl (Author), Douglas Hodge (Narrator)

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Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking: A 14-Day Mystery

Outrun the mob while solving the greatest art heist in history? No problem! The summer after 8th grade, Moxie learns that her grandfather, who now has Alzheimer’s, was involved in the theft by hiding the paintings for a notorious mobster, Sully Cupcakes. Sully is recently out of jail and wants the paintings, but Moxie’s grandfather can’t remember where they are. Moxie and her friend Ollie need to find them before Sully comes after her grandfather. The kids travel all over Boston following clues and evading mobsters until they find all the missing art. Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking is an entertaining mystery for 10-14 that is clean, funny, and a real-girl story. Although the real-life theft has never been solved and the paintings have never been found, the listener just might just believe that Moxie and Ollie have made it happen.

Erin Dionne (Author), Amy McFadden (Narrator)

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Crow

The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret. Yet there are good times, too. He's teaching his grandmother how to read. For the first time she's sharing stories about her life as a slave. And his father and his friends are finally getting the respect and positions of power they've earned in the Wilmington, North Carolina, community. But not everyone is happy with the political changes at play and some will do anything, including a violent plot against the government, to maintain the status quo.One generation away from slavery, a thriving African American community enfranchised and emancipated suddenly and violently loses its freedom in turn of the century North Carolina when a group of local politicians stages the only successful coup d'etat in US history.

Barbara Wright (Author), J. D. Jackson, Jd Jackson (Narrator)

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Vortex

The impossible was just the beginning. Now in their second year as superhuman government weapons-in-training at the Pentagonal Spire, Tom and his friends are midlevel cadets in the elite combat corps known as the Intrasolar Forces. But as training intensifies and a moment arrives that could make or break his entire career, Tom's loyalties are again put to the test. Encouraged to betray his ideals and friendships for the sake of his country, Tom is convinced there must be another way. And the more aware he becomes of the corruption surrounding him, the more determined he becomes to fight it, even if he sabotages his own future in the process. Drawn into a power struggle more dramatic than he has ever faced before, Tom stays a hyperintelligent step ahead of everyone, like the exceptional gamer he is,or so he believes. But when he learns that he and his friends have unwittingly made the most grievous error imaginable, Tom must find a way to outwit an enemy so nefarious that victory seems hopeless. Will his idealism and bravado cost him everything,and everyone,that matters to him? Filled with action and intelligence, camaraderie and humor, the second book in S. J. Kincaid's futuristic World War III Insignia trilogy continues to explore fascinating and timely questions about power, politics, technology, loyalty, and friendship. S. J. Kincaid was born in Alabama, grew up in California, and attended high school in New Hampshire. She also interned for a politician in Washington, DC, and received degrees from universities in Illinois and Ohio, but it was while living beside a haunted graveyard in Edinburgh, Scotland, that she realized she wanted to be a writer. Several years, several manuscripts, and several jobs later, Ms. Kincaid now lives in Chicago, and Vortex is her second novel in the Insignia trilogy

S. J. Kincaid (Author), Lincoln Hoppe (Narrator)

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Claudia and Duffy

All the troubles in sixth-grader Claudia Harper’s life seem to start with her fourth-grade friend Dunford Wylie Booth V.

Barbara Brooks Wallace (Author), Christina Moore (Narrator)

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