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The Night Locker , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 114min

The Night Locker is a dark place where good and bad people are punished alike. Tyler Grant leads listeners down the path of insanity in this mind-warping tale of innocence lost to corruption by a talented entity.Martin Blevins is an unsuspecting, inoffensive man who likes to eat at the EveryDay Diner. He orders specific meals for each day of the week. He has a routine, and has organized his life around the work schedule of his favorite waitress. On a stormy October night, Martin is assaulted by a man he calls the ogre. Embarrassed in front of the woman he loves, he goes to great lengths to prove to her that he can fend for himself, and protect her. What does this mean? Murder? Perhaps. How’s he going to do it? He’ll need a little help...and he’ll get it too. Martin is opened up to something that’s been knocking at his mental backdoor since he was an abused child. As a wave of change overtakes him, he begins to lose what makes him Martin Blevins. He becomes someone...or something...else in entirely.Be wary of the thoughts you allow to entire your mind. Once they’re in, they can never be sent away. They live there, always waiting for the first crack in your resolve… and they worm their way into control… ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tyler Grant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/212430/bk_acx0_212430_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Baseline Selling: How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know About the Game of Baseball , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 361min

Baseline Selling: How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know About the Game of Baseball will dramatically change the way we approach the sales process, replacing the gratuitous complexity advocated by today's sales "experts" with an elegant and very effective simplicity. Studies have shown that the selling techniques of the last two decades have had very little impact on most of the sales population. Why? Because of the complexity, learning curve and difficulty in applying the concepts in these systems. In response to the urgent need for a flexible, innovative process that will enable people to grasp the essential skills necessary to close a sale in any situation, Baseline Selling reemphasizes the fundamentals of selling in a fresh, memorable way that modern sales professionals can relate to and utilize, and above all, one that complements and enriches advanced sales methodologies. Salespeople who listen to this book and put its wisdom to work will succeed in acquiring more opportunities as they learn to get appointments more easily. They will excel at creating opportunities with prospects who are "not interested". They'll sell at higher margins by using the "Rule of Ratios". Their closing percentages will improve dramatically as they implement the simple "Inoffensive Close". Salespeople selling commodities, struggling to differentiate themselves, will love "Commodity Busters" and every salesperson will be able to shorten their sell cycle by "Taking a Lead". Quite simply, Baseline Selling introduces a way for salespeople to visualize and touch all the "sales bases" without over-complicating the process. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Lenz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/067099/bk_acx0_067099_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Chronic City: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 899min

The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies.Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called Martyr & Pesty. Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancée, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, she in Earth's stratosphere, he in a vague routine punctuated by Upper East Side dinner parties.Into Chase's cloistered city enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range pop critic whose soaring conspiratorial riffs are fueled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth cheeseburgers, and a desperate ache for meaning. Perkus' countercultural savvy and voracious paranoia draw Chase into another Manhattan, where questions of what is real, what is fake, and who is complicit take on a life-shattering urgency. Along with Oona Laszlo, a self-loathing ghostwriter, and Richard Abneg, a hero of the Tompkins Square Park riot now working as a fixer for the billionaire mayor, Chase and Perkus attempt to unearth the answers to several mysteries that seem to offer that rarest of artifacts on an island where everything can be bought: Truth.Like Manhattan itself, Jonathan Lethem's masterpiece is beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, devastating and antic, a stand-in for the whole world and a place utterly unique. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Deakins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002048/bk_rand_002048_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Innocent in Death: In Death, Book 24 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 758min

The death of history teacher Craig Foster devastated his young wife, who'd sent him off to work that morning with a lovingly packed lunch. It shocked his colleagues at the Upper West Side private school. And as for the 10-year-old girls who found him in his classroom in a pool of bodily fluids, they may have been traumatized for life. Lieutenant Eve Dallas, of course, is more hardened to murder cases. And this is clearly a murder case. That lovingly packed lunch was tainted with deadly ricin. And Mr. Foster's colleagues, shocked as they may be, have some shocking secrets of their own. It's Eve's job to get a feel for all the potential suspects, and find out why someone would have done this to a man who seemed so inoffensive, so pleasant...so innocent. Now Magdelana Percell - there's someone Eve can picture as a murder victim. Possibly at Eve's own hands. The slinky blonde - an old flame of her billionaire husband, Roarke, from his days on the wrong side of the law - has turned up in New York, and she's anything but innocent. Unfortunately, Roarke seems blind to Magdelana's manipulation, but not to her shapely figure and flirtatious ways. And he insists that the occasional lunch or business meeting with her is nothing to worry about...and none of Eve's business. Eve's so unnerved by the situation that she finds it hard to focus on the Foster case. Still, she'll have to put aside her anger, jealousy, and heartbreak, for a while at least - because another man has just turned up dead, and the case is taking some strange turns and hitting some frustrating dead ends. Eve knows all too well that innocence can be a façade. Keeping that in mind may help her solve this case at last. But it may also tear apart her marriage. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Ericksen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/000076/bk_brll_000076_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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An Inoffensive Rearmament

An Inoffensive Rearmament - The Making of the Postwar Japanese Army. Digital Only: ab 37.99 €

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Goodbye Cindy

Reviews for Goodbye Cindy: From 'The Voice Magazine' I'm a diehard old folkie. For various intervals in my life it was the only music to which I'd listen. At the same time I'm now so jaded by folk rock-and not always because most of what I hear sounds so contrived-that it's really hard for musicians playing in this genre to grab my attention. I still write about folk rock occasionally for a couple of reasons, the main one being that good stuff is still, occasionally, being recorded. Remember those old songs that you used to play to death? The tracks that got you through depressions, breakups, the terrible angst-filled loneliness of youth, the music that was just as much yours in the city or the country? Is it possible to create songs with built-in nostalgia? Is it possible to pen a brand new tune and lyrics that immediately bring to mind the clouds and tall grasses of childhood, the tortured self-absorption of adolescence? Yes. And here it is. The poignant but relevant lyrics, tight harmonies, wonderfully jangly stings, and brilliant teamwork of Miller-Kelton, a post-Bush alt-folk/country band from Columbus, Ohio, are reminiscent of that folk trio/duo era I'm always harping on about (see Human Statues, Tab, and JD Miner) and will continue to harp on about as long as I have enough self-possession to indulge my whims. Julia O'Keefe's voice is as smooth, powerful, and heartfelt as that of mountain singers I heard at camp meetings years ago-pitch-perfect, resonant, and ripe with holy zeal. Her phrasing is thoughtful and her annunciation is a great vehicle for these lyrics. Her singing has that quality that the Mindful Bard admires more than almost any other in a vocalist: sincerity. She means what she sings and she sings what she means. I am also put in mind of the odd groups that have brightened my days through the years even though not necessarily falling into the "great albums of all time" category or even any conventional musical movement: Poi Dog Pondering, The Incredible String Band, and one album, Ram, by Paul and Linda McCartney are all prime examples. Like these, Goodbye Cindy just makes it seem like the band was having an incredibly good time, and that's infectious. My favourites are "Summerflies," "Glad to See You're Pushing Me Again," and of course the title track, but they're pretty much all good. -- Wanda Waterman St. Louis From 'The Other Paper' LOCAL ROUNDUP: Miller-Kelton -- Fuzzy surface belies CD's depth Due either to it's proximity to Appalachia or to the number of college towns within driving distance, Columbus has never lacked for traditional country and folk acts. The latest to politely mosey up to the stage is Miller-Kelton, which released it's CD, Goodbye Cindy, on New Year's Eve. Like many snobby critics, I don't have a lot of time for folk music, but a couple of spins of this record make the argument for keeping the disc close by. The band plays a pleasant blend of banjo-led Americana wrapped around the honey-sweet vocals of Julia O'Keefe. It's a sound we're all familiar with, one that would fit in just as naturally at Borders as it would at Victorian's Midnight Café. For the most part, it reminded me of the overly pleasant, warm and fuzzy songs you're likely to hear on Nick Jr. Keep your ears peeled, however, and you'll realize the band uses that sort of inoffensive musical language to convey much more mature lyrical themes. There is a veritable one-act play of pathos and interpersonal drama underneath the album's surface. Let's hope this thoughtful work is a harbinger of a musically interesting 2010. -- Rick Allen From 'Country Music Jukebox' Die charismatische Sängerin Julia O'Keefe ist der Dreh- und Angelpunkt der vor gut zwei Jahren gegründeten Band aus Columbus, Ohio. Ganz vorne mit dabei sind die fünf Musiker von MILLER-KELTON in Sachen Folk-Rock/Americana. Sie verbinden auf ihrem Albumdebüt Goodbye Cindy abseits jeglicher Stereotypen authentische Klänge und balladeske Tradition der Appalachen mit inspiriertem, aktuellem Songwriting, großartigem mehrstimmigen Gesang und furiosen Slide Guitar- und Banjo-Grooves. Eine echt hörenswerte musikalische Frischzellenkur. -- Max Achatz From Indie-Music.com Pleasant folk-rock with pleasing vocals, banjo, mandolin, percussion, guitar and more. The female vocals are wistful, like Jill Sobule or a less jazzy Norah Jones. The male vocals have a friendly singer-songwriter vibe - the kind of guy you'd like to sit down with in a coffee shop. 'Throws Like A Girl' is definitely the stand-out cut, with quirky lyrics like 'Wondering why my neighbor's such a fascist and I still throw like a girl.' He never answers that question but you'll be singing along anyway. The banjo is great and I love the harmonica 'cause it gives it all a more rootsy feel. -- Jamie Anderson From Singing Moon Records This might be the album where Miller-Kelton lost it's sense of humor. Only the final track, 'The Boy is Gone,' has any of the tongue-in-cheek delivery of the preceding Cowboys and Trains EP. Replacing it are songs of frustration, bewilderment and seemingly inevitable loss. The beautiful fiddle playing of Ian Jones adds to the somber mood of tracks like 'Goodbye Cindy Too' and the surprisingly poppy (and heartbreaking) 'Summerflies.' These are countered by the country fueled exuberance of tracks like 'Summer Rolls' and 'Throws Like a Girl,' although the exuberance is perhaps a bit sardonic (from Rolls: Jesus didn't help us -- I don't even think he tried -- I am barely conscious -- and very much alive). 'Throws Like a Girl,' incidentally, does not appear to be about gender issues and instead is an oddly life-affirming a saga of cross-country travel, unexpected rejection and sour grapes. Speaking of gender, the boys have conceded the majority of the lead vocals to Julia O'Keefe, whose beautiful voice slips effortlessly from country to rock and at times even touches jazz on the lyrical puzzles 'The Leatherman' and 'A Couple More.' The two real stand-out tracks are 'A Man WIthout a County, ' a vaguely sympathetic send up of Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, and the anthemic 'Glad To See You're Pushing Me Again.' Anthemic in a musical sense, that is, as the lyrics hint only at mixed feelings and resignation. But that's how it goes with Miller-Kelton these days, and it's worth going with them -- Mike Saulson.

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