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Die Sammlung besteht aus kurzen, in sich abgeschlossenen Geschichten, die unabhängig gehört werden können und gezielt für Lernende der Mittelstufe entwickelt wurden. Sprachlich sind die Texte klar dem CEFR-Niveau B1-B2 zuzuordnen und verwenden überwiegend klare Satzstrukturen, häufige Verben und alltagsnahen Wortschatz, ohne künstlich vereinfacht zu wirken.

As her revolutionary neighbor mysteriously disappears during Josef Stalin's Great Terror purges, 18-year-old Regina suspects that she's the Kremlin's next target. Under cover of the night, she flees from her parents' communal apartment in 1930s Moscow to the 20th century's first Jewish Autonomous Region, Birobidzhan, on the border between Russia and China. Once there, Regina has to grapple with her preconceived notions of socialism and Judaism while asking herself the eternal question: What do we owe each other? How can we best help one another?

Dieses Hörbuch präsentiert eine Auswahl moderner Kurzgeschichten, die typische Alltagssituationen lebendig und authentisch einfangen – Begegnungen im Café, kleine Missverständnisse unterwegs, Gespräche mit Nachbarn oder Momente, die gewöhnlich beginnen und doch etwas verändern. Jede Geschichte wurde so konzipiert, dass sie Lernenden der Mittelstufe einen natürlichen Zugang zur französischen Sprache ermöglicht, ohne zu überfordern. Die Themen sind vertraut, die Erzählweise klar, und die sprachliche Gestaltung bietet genau die richtige Balance zwischen Verständlichkeit und Herausforderung.

A teenager from Alabama in the United States begins losing grip on reality after the death of his brother. A decade later, with his mental illness progressively getting worse and inspired by the work of L. Ron Hubbard, he begins to try and trap the madness on paper so he can analyze it. He writes, "The Positive Energy Theory." Soon after, he is visited by God, who commands him to keep writing, instructs him on the chapters, and guides his words. 18 years after starting the capture of the unknown parts of his brain, the book barely survived.

I was having the perfect day when I suddenly found myself on the wrong side of an interdimensional portal. Instead of a weekend in wine country, I wound up in a trailer park that seemed stuck in the 1980s and filled with... goblin women? By the way, since when are goblins real? And why are the women so hot? I didn't have much time to think about it, though. As soon as I arrived, someone thrust a magical tablet into my hands and told me I had to get to work right away to get this place in order.

A bittersweet holiday tale set in a grimdark future, long after humans took to the stars. The Solstice Festival celebrates the new dawn and the promise it brings. It holds more significance for Marcus since he managed to claw his way out of poverty by focusing on the future. However, the legacy of his humble beginnings haunt him in a world where social hierarchy is everything. Instead of celebrating with his own family, Marcus agrees to visit his partner’s parents on their lavish estate to celebrate the Solstice.

Violet Payne has spent years crafting the perfect facade, serving as a publicist and informant for House Sunsong, one of the five ruling noble families of Stelladir. But when she becomes a threat to the very House she serves, her life is marked for elimination. Ryland Sunsong is an assassin, a weapon forged in blood and loyalty. Tasked with silencing Violet before she can betray them, he expects the kill to be swift and emotionless. Instead, he finds himself drawn to the woman he’s meant to destroy—torn between duty and an undeniable, dangerous desire.

A band of battle-scarred crusaders, haunted by loss and fractured faith, take shelter in a storm-lashed tower, with a creature they captured on the battlefield. Behind barred doors lurks a presence that whispers like scripture yet reeks of damnation.

In the sun-drenched hills of Napa Valley, former Mexican cartel distributor Francisco Bautista reinvents himself as a respectable vintner, trading blood money for the prestige of California's wine aristocracy. Armed with a mountain estate, sprawling vineyards, and a fabricated past, Francisco launches his assault on Napa's wine country social elite. His unlikely arsenal includes a washed-up celebrity ghostwriter, retired sports legends, and elite wine experts—all fighting for relevance in the intoxicating world of luxury wine.

Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, swarming through the networks, and soon, we're told, they'll be delivering our shopping. But what are drones? The word encompasses everything from toys to weapons. And yet, as broadly defined as they are, the word “drone” fills many of us with a sense of technological dread. Adam Rothstein cuts through the mystery, the unknown, and the political posturing, and talks about what drones really are: what technologies are out there, and what’s coming next; how drones are talked about, and how they are represented in popular culture.

Trees are marvels of nature, still-standing giants of extraordinary longevity. In a beautifully sequence of essays, anecdotes and profiles of Britain's best-loved species (from yew to scots pine), Max Adams explores both the amazing biology of trees and humanity's relationship with wood and forest across the centuries.

The first in-depth cultural history of one of the most famous American contemporary musicals featuring archival research and first-hand accounts from its creators and collaborators.

Admiral Lord Collingwood, the eldest son of a Newcastle merchant, went to sea in 1761 at the age of thirteen. In his nearly fifty years in the Navy he rose to become a fine seaman, a master of gunnery, a battle commander the equal of his friend – and rival in love – Nelson. He was also an accomplished writer and wit, a doting father, inveterate gossip and consummate diplomat and strategist.

Neither Man Nor Beast explores the common link between cultural attitudes to women and animals in modern Western culture that have enabled the systematic exploitation of both. A vivid work that takes in environmental ethics, theological perspectives and feminist theory.

Maddie died. Piper refused to accept it. One blood ritual later and Maddie is back—undead, starving and nothing close to resembling human. Despite her deceased girlfriend reeking of rotting flesh, Piper decides she’ll do anything to keep her zombie girlfriend: lie to suspicious neighbors, outwit a nosy cop, and make sure the apartment complex’s missing-person flyers don’t point to their kitchen. As scraps of the old Maddie surface, so do the hunger pangs. The body count begins to pile up, and Piper has to decide what she's willing to do to keep her girlfriend fed.

Real-life advice that vegetarians and vegans can use to defuse any situation where their food choices come under attack. She suggests viewing meat eaters as blocked, and their responses to vegans and vegetarians as signs of what keeps them from changing.

Standing at the bleeding edge of the new decade between the experimental Berlin Trilogy (Low, Heroes, and Lodger) and 1983’s wildly successful Let’s Dance, it was here Bowie sought to bury the ghosts of his past and the golden decade of the 1970s to become a global superstar reaching millions of new fans. Featuring fresh insights and exclusive interviews with close collaborators, Adam Steiner’s Silhouettes and Shadows uncovers the studio stories, meanings behind, and secret history of Scary Monsters...

The Couple’s Guide to BDSM Training is your roadmap to a shared adventure into kink. Designed for curious couples, this guide helps you explore with confidence, safety, and joy. BDSM can feel intimidating, so this program begins with trust, respect, and consent. You’ll learn to communicate desires, set boundaries, and use negotiation tools like the Traffic Light Safeword System. From there, you’ll move through progressive exercises—touch and sensation play, temperature and impact play, power exchange, and rope bondage—each with clear instructions, safety tips, and guided discussions.

The Cassidyverse is vast. It spans centuries, stars, and stories whispered in orbit, shouted from rooftops, or muttered into a whiskey glass at the end of the world. In The Shape of the Fire, Adam Gaffen returns to the sprawling, genre-bending universe that began with Into the Black and The Heart of Space — and he’s brought some of your favorite chaos agents with him.

After a harrowing journey through the Forest of Dreams, Nate returns to Magic Rune Academy only to find that downtime is a luxury of the past. Between brutal training sessions and an unforgiving class schedule, the pressure is higher than ever.