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Tied Lives , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 347min
Reginald Washington, a lonely, politically correct, rich, and highly esteemed English civil servant, nearing retirement age, meets by chance a strangely attractive Asian lady in an English pub. She is young enough to be his daughter and comes from the poorest region of Thailand, the Isaan. They begin a passionate love affair and despite many differences and family conflict, they fall deeply in love. She has a well buried past which she does not want him to know anything about.A holiday in Thailand which takes them to Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and a small village near Buriram begins happily enough but a series of events leads to a completely unforeseen conclusion. Even before they can struggle to come to terms with their changing relationship and attempt to gain insight and resilience, bad luck - or karma - takes control and seems intent on ruining their love. Separated and traumatized, Reginald finds himself journeying alone to Pattaya, Thailand's notorious, red-light city, where he tries to piece together his true love's past. She knows he is there and rushes to join him.Jonathan Finch’s ironic and tragic novel depicts England full of itself, a world leader, with confident, affluent, successful and conceited people everywhere, and Thailand a country with social ills and problems galore. East is east and west is west. Can the two ever meet? Can Reginald L. Washington and his future Thai bride ever bridge the gap? In a world where divisions and differences abound, unity seems an unobtainable goal.Consistently given four and five stars by reviewers, Finch’s latest novel is stylistically innovative and literary. Its irony is directed against vanity, over-reaching societies and politically correct conformism as well as being critical of one of Thailand's most characteristic ways of coping with poverty. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Hart. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/158965/bk_acx0_158965_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Summary of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 54min
Please note: This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book. Don't miss this summary of Bryan Stevenson's controversial and eye-opening book, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. This FastReads summary provides chapter synopses, key takeaways, and analysis to help you fully digest this stunning, personal, and in-depth look at the racial injustices plaguing the American justice system. What will you learn from listening to this book? Understand the history that racial discrimination plays in the modern American justice system and how this has shaped the way that minority groups and justice officials perceive and interact with each other Track the evolution of America's prison system and how these institutions deal with females, juveniles, the poor, and the mentally ill Explore the psyche of a death row inmate and the trauma that capital punishment inflicts on the convicted, the families, and the community Understand the attorney-client relationship, the challenges faced by both defendants and counselors, and the dangers of improper or unobtainable representation Learn about the history and role of victim's rights groups how these groups can help or hinder justice Examine the legal process, methods, and evolution of the modern execution from start to finish and the effect that media has in shaping our perception of capital punishment and the justice system at large Critically analyze the demographic distinctions between the incarcerated population and the US population; compare America's incarceration approach to that of other countries around the world Understand the roles that empathy, mercy, hope, and compassion play in the American justice system and the dangers posed by fear, bigotry, and anger ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jon Turner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/095172/bk_acx0_095172_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Truffle Boy: My Unexpected Journey Through the Exotic Food Underground , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 533min
[Ian Purkayastha] has a true, deep expertise in everything he sells - caviar, truffles, fish. He knows the stories that we need to sell the stuff tableside...he can disrupt the entire luxury foods market. (From the foreword by David Chang) Ian Purkayastha is New York City's leading truffle importer and boasts a devoted clientele of top chefs nationwide, including Jean-Georges Vongerichten, David Chang, Sean Brock, and David Bouley. But before he was purveying the world's most expensive fungus to the country's most esteemed chefs, Ian was just a food-obsessed teenager in rural Arkansas - a misfit with a peculiar fascination with rare and exotic ingredients. The son of an Indian immigrant father and a Texan mother, Ian learned to forage for wild mushrooms from an uncle in the Ozark hills. Thus began a single-track fixation that led him to learn about the prized but elusive truffle, the king of all fungi. His first taste of truffle at age 15 sparked his improbable yet remarkable adventure through the strange - and often corrupt - business of the exotic food trade. Rife with tales from the hidden underbelly of the elite restaurant scene, Truffle Boy chronicles Ian's high-stakes dealings with a truffle kingpin in Serbia, meth-head foragers in Oregon, crooked businessmen and maniacal chefs in Manhattan, and gypsy truffle hunters in the forests of Hungary and a supreme adventure to find "Gucci mushrooms" in the Himalayan foothills - the land of the gods. He endures harsh failures along the way but rebuilds with tremendous success by selling not just truffles but also caviar, wild mushrooms, rare foraged edibles, Wagyu beef, and other nearly unobtainable ingredients demanded by his Michelin-starred clients. Truffle Boy is a thrilling coming-of-age story and the incredible but true tale of a country kid who grew up to become a force in the world of fine dining. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the a ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Will Collyer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/002977/bk_hach_002977_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sort Your Finances Out , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 40min
Do you find yourself buying something when you know you can't afford it? Do you get to the end of the month having already spent all your wages? Do you always seem to be wondering where your money goes and never seem to have enough? Or do you bury your head in the sand and hope your debts will go away? We all live in a consumer society and want what everyone else seems to have; regardless of whether we need it or can afford it. We want it all and we want it now. There's nothing wrong with treating ourselves but in excess it can be dangerous. A decade of unprecedented economic growth and easily accessible credit has created a mindset and a way of life that is simply not sustainable. As a result, more and more people are in debt or struggling to get by and more and more people need advice. It doesn't have to end with you wondering how you will be able to pay the bills, stressed and drowning in debt. But it is vital to take action now, before it is too late. In this audiobook René Carayol, straight-talking presenter of the cult BBC TV series 'Pay Off Your Mortgage In 2 Years', will help you Sort Your Finances Out by guiding you away from the financial rapids and back towards calmer waters without losing your ambition or aspirations. René Carayol offers practical advice on how YOU can be better off and avoid the sinking, claustrophobic feeling of being in spiralling debt with no game plan for getting out of it. This is real, practical advice that avoids complex theory and unobtainable goals; it is a look at best and worst practice from 'ordinary' people trying to clear their debts and striving to realise their dreams of financial freedom. www.carayol.com ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: René Carayol. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/sylo/000004/sp_sylo_000004_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Get What's Yours - Revised & Updated: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 665min
Social Security law has changed! Get What's Yours has been revised and updated to reflect new regulations that take effect on April 29, 2016. Get What's Yours has proven itself to be the definitive book about how to navigate the forbidding maze of Social Security and emerge with the highest possible benefits. It is an engaging manual of tactics and strategies written by well-known financial commentators that is unobtainable elsewhere. You could try reading all 2,728 rules of the Social Security system (and the thousands of explanations of these rules), but academia's Kotlikoff, the popular press's Moeller, and public television's Solman explain the Social Security system just as comprehensively, and a lot more comprehensibly. Moreover, they demonstrate that what you don't know can seriously hurt you: wrong decisions about which Social Security benefits to apply for cost individual retirees tens of thousands of dollars in lost income every year. (Some of those people are even in the book.) Changes to Social Security that take effect in 2016 make it more important than ever to wait as long as possible (until age 70, if possible) to claim Social Security benefits. The new law also has significant implications for those who wish to claim divorced spousal benefits (and how many Social Security recipients even know about divorced spousal benefits?). Besides addressing these and other issues, this revised edition contains a chapter explaining how Medicare rules can shape Social Security decisions. Many other personal-finance books briefly address Social Security, but none offers the full, authoritative, yet conversational analysis of Get What's Yours. Get What's Yours explains Social Security benefits through basic strategies and stirring stories. It covers the most frequent benefit scenarios faced by married retired couples; by divorced retirees; by widows and widowers. It explains what to do if you're ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Cummings. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/008366/bk_brll_008366_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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