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    The CEO Pay Machine: How It Trashes America and How to Stop it , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 475min
    The former top CEO examines the scandalous and corrupt reasons behind obscene pay packages for corporate executives - and explains how this hurts all of us - and how we can stop it.  Today, the pay gap between chief executive officers of major US firms and their workers is higher than ever before - depending on the method of calculation, CEOs get paid between 300 and 700 times more than the average worker. Such outsized pay is a relatively recent phenomenon, but despite all the outrage, few detractors truly understand the numerous factors that have contributed to the dizzying upward spiral in CEO compensation. Steven Clifford, a former CEO who has also served on many corporate boards, has a name for these procedures and practices - the CEO Pay Machine. The CEO Pay Machine is Clifford's thorough and shocking explanation of the "machine" - how it works, how its parts interact, and how every step pushes CEO pay to higher levels. As Clifford sees it, the payment structure for CEOs begins with shared delusions that reinforce one other. Once this groupthink is accepted as corporate dogma, it becomes infinitely harder to see any decision as potentially irrational or dysfunctional. Yet, as Clifford notes, the Pay Machine has caused immeasurable harm to companies, shareholders, economic growth, and democracy itself. He uses real-life examples of the top four CEOs named the highest paid in 2011 through 2014. Clifford examines how board directors and compensation committees have directly contributed to the rising salaries and bonuses of the country's richest executives; what's more, Clifford argues, each of those companies could have paid their CEOs 90 percent less and performed just as well. Witty and infuriating, The CEO Pay Machine is a thorough and incisive critique of an economic issue that affects all American workers.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Oliver Wyman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003126/bk_peng_003126_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Nakedman: Uncomfortable Tales of Epic Adventure: Overexposure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 199min
    Race Harleson is up against it big time: The world is stripping naked, and it seems to be some form of viral madness. He ends up shot into space with a couple of sharp veteran astronauts...and a new sidekick, Dark Matter. Physics super-prodigy Crayten "Cray-Cray" Hobbs has juiced himself up so much that he can alter the essence of matter to his rather freewheeling will, so Race is understandably both awed and annoyed by the hyper young man, and he's stuck keeping his fingers crossed that the people who sent them up there knew what they're doing. And when nothing goes as hoped, it soon becomes obvious that what's behind the bizarre and embarrassing global phenomenon isn't half as scary as plain old greedy rich people. Race ends up a high-speed serial kidnapper, abducting the world's wealthiest and carrying them off to a tropical island nowhere for a little barbecue, some spirits and what he hopes will be some desperately needed plain talk. But a party crasher trashes those plans, leaving Race to deal with potential disaster on all fronts. As long as he stays naked, he may have a chance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hugh Harper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/204951/bk_acx0_204951_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Aged for Mayhem: A Tuscan Vineyard Cozy Mystery, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 430min
    Aged for Mayhem is book three in A Tuscan Vineyard Cozy Mystery series by number one best-selling author Fiona Grace, author of Murder in the Manor, the first book in the series and a number one best seller with over 100 five-star reviews!Olivia Glass, 34, turns her back on her life as a high-powered executive in Chicago and relocates to Tuscany, determined to start a new, simpler life - and to start her own vineyard. Olivia is thrilled to take her first trip to Florence, and that her love life is heating up. She is even more ecstatic when her small vineyard produces its first bottle of wine. Yet when a famous wine critic trashes her wine - and then ends up dead - Olivia finds herself in the crosshairs of a murder that she is pinned on - and one that she must urgently solve herself. Is the Tuscan life really for Olivia? Or was it all just a fantasy?Hilarious - packed with travel, food, wine, twists and turns, romance, and her newfound animal friend - and centering around a baffling small-town murder that Olivia must solve, Aged for Mayhem is an unputdownable cozy mystery that will keep you up laughing late into the night. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Quinn Francis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/226026/bk_acx0_226026_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Jump Cut: The Ellie Foreman Mysteries, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 489min
    Chicago video producer Ellie Foreman has been absent from thriller author Libby Fischer Hellmann's repertoire for almost a decade. Now, in Jump Cut, she's back...and is soon entangled in a web of espionage, murder, and suspicion that threatens to destroy what she holds most dear. Hired to produce a candy-floss profile of Chicago-based aviation giant Delcroft, Ellie is dismayed when company VP Charlotte Hollander trashes the production and cancels the project. Ellie believes Hollander was spooked by shots of a specific man in the video footage. But when Ellie arranges to meet the man to find out why, he is killed by a subway train before they can talk. In the confusion, she finds a seemingly abandoned pack of cigarettes with a flash drive inside that belonged to the now-dead man. Ellie gets the drive's contents decrypted, but before long discovers she's under surveillance. Suspecting Delcroft and the ambitious Hollander are behind it, she's unconvinced when Hollander tells her the dead man was a Chinese spy. Ellie and her boyfriend, Luke, try to find answers, but they don't realize how far they have ventured into the dangerous echelons of hidden power - where more lives are on the line - including their own. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nan McNamara. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/082085/bk_acx0_082085_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Death on the Wolf , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 517min
    The summer I turned 16, I shot a man. With that simple declaration, Nelson Gody begins his story of the summer of 1969 and the events that would change his life forever. Nelson lives with his widower father and his five-year-old sister on their small farm outside Bells Ferry, Mississippi. It's an idyllic world grounded in family and friendship, a world full of farm chores and lazy afternoons swimming in the Wolf River with Frankie, his best friend. Things begin to change when Nelson finds himself falling in love with Mary Alice, the orphan from a children's home who is spending the summer with his aunt. While dealing with the emotional rollercoaster of first love, Nelson learns the secret his best friend has been harboring (he's gay) and nearly trashes his life-long friendship with Frankie. Just when it seems the two boys have worked it all out, saving their friendship, a mysterious stranger comes to town on an exotic motorcycle and interjects himself into their world...giving Frankie the chance to explore his burgeoning sexuality with horrific consequences. Capped by the devastation of Hurricane Camille, no one escapes unscathed from those six weeks in the summer of '69. Told with narrative drive that pulls you completely into the story, A Death on the Wolf is an uncompromising coming of age tale full of hard-hitting issues that are tackled head-on with courage; not only by the author, but by the characters he's created. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fred Kennedy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/048714/bk_acx0_048714_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 552min
    Red Room Press is extremely proud to present its fourth annual anthology featuring this year's hardcore corps of authors with the best extreme horror fiction of 2018 that breaks boundaries and trashes taboos.First up is Vigil by Chad Lutzke. Chad takes us into a neighborhood where a steady stream of decayed corpses are exhumed from a neighbor’s cellar. Extreme olfactory horror at its best.Deborah Sheldon went under the knife for the inspiration of Hair and Teeth, and the result is a tale of gynecological body horror likely to terrify women and make most men squeamish.With Rut Season Brain Hodge makes a return to Year’s-best stories in a tale as chilling as it is heart-wrenching, inspired by a thousand-mile drive littered with roadkill and some personal tragedies.Control by Jeff Parsons introduces us to a meth addict stalking potential victims in Central Park to get money for the next score. Annie Neugebauer is back with Cilantro, a Neugebauerian yarn of culinary chaos sure to turn stomachs and cause nightmares. Tim Waggoner likewise returns this year with Voices Like Barbwire, an exploratory dig into old wounds and painful memories.Rebecca Rowland’s Bent wins the Most Cringe-worthy Story honor with her twisted tale of extreme body horror. Her well-drawn characters seem to come off the page but God forbid they do. Their idea of a pretzel party is truly twisted.Scath Beorh takes Lovecraftian cosmic horror to its next level with Lord of the Mesa.Sean Patrick Hazlett’s story The Godhead Grimoire possesses dangerous religious overtones and a forbidden bloodthirsty book.Carnal Bodies by R.E. Hellinger is a shocking story of baroque horror and demonic necrophilia from Two Dead Queers Present: Guillozine. You’ll have to read this one to believe it.In Crossroads of Opportunity Ed Kurtz and doungjai gam take you on ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: D. Paul Faulkner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/166786/bk_acx0_166786_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 710min
    This book almost didn’t see the light of day as government officials tried to bar its publication. The inside story of the real President Trump, by his former attorney and personal advisor - the man who helped get him into the oval office Once Donald Trump’s fiercest surrogate, closest confidant, and staunchest defender, Michael Cohen knows where the skeletons are buried. This is the most devastating business and political horror story of the century. As Trump’s lawyer and “fixer”, Cohen not only witnessed firsthand but was also an active participant in the inner workings of Trump’s business empire, political campaign, and presidential administration. This is a story that you have not read in newspapers, or on social media, or watched on television. These are accounts that only someone who worked for Trump around the clock for over a decade - not a few months or even a couple of years - could know. Cohen describes Trump’s racist rants against President Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, and Black and Hispanic people in general, as well as the cruelty, humiliation, and abuse he leveled at family and staff. Whether he’s exposing the fact that Trump engaged in tax fraud by inflating his wealth or electronic fraud by rigging an online survey, or outing Trump’s Neanderthal views towards women or his hush-money payments to clandestine lovers, Cohen pulls no punches. He shows Trump’s relentless willingness to lie, exaggerate, mislead, or manipulate. Trump emerges as a man without a soul - a man who courts evangelicals and then trashes them, panders to the common man, but then rips off small business owners, a con man who will do or say absolutely anything to win, regardless of the cost to his family, his associates, or his country. At the heart of Disloyal, we see how Cohen came under the spell of his charismatic "Boss" and, as a result, lost all sense of his moral compass. The real "real" Donald Trum ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Petkoff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/215457/bk_acx0_215457_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 583min
    Excerpt from the introduction:  Editors Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax put the call out to horror writers and editors of extreme stories, the hardcore stuff that breaks boundaries and trashes taboos, the transgressive tales you can't "unread" (as Chuck Palahniuk says). We staked out our territory and nailed this to the wall to guide us:  Year's Best Hardest Horror  Not your mama's best-of horror annual. This stuff comes from the edge of the abyss, stories you read at your own risk because you feel the abyss looking right back into you through the tainted lens of each twisted tale.  Some of the stories you'll find here are loaded with very graphic descriptions of violence, sex, and depravities, while others may contain only one shocking moment of brutality. In others, the hardcore aspect may be less graphic and subtler than you might expect. Some of these quieter tales offer the listener some time to recover from the more disturbing ones preceding.  Most of the stories collected here are from small and specialty press anthologies, with a few from periodicals, like the prestigious Splatterpunk Zine in the UK and Thuglit here in the US. Bizarro is also represented with a couple of tales from the unlikely anthology Blood for You: A Literary Tribute to GG Allin from Weirdpunk Books. (If you're not familiar with the late GG Allin, you can find snippets from some of his outrageous and obscene punk shows online, which will increase your appreciation of those two tales.)  So for now, forget about that neighbor you suspect is a serial killer, don't worry about the drunk driver that could take you out on your next trip to the store, push those troubling news stories to the back of your mind, and immerse yourself in the imaginary horrors at hand.  But don't be surprised if you sense something dark staring back at you from between the lines. That is to be expected when you enter these forbiddi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Hempel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/063703/bk_acx0_063703_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The CEO Pay Machine
    The CEO Pay Machine - How it Trashes America and How to Stop it: ab 14.99 €
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    Skin Deep
    Writer/director Blake Edwards' farce stars John Ritter as Zach Hutton, an author who trashes his marriage to beautiful newscaster Alex (Alyson Reed) for a series of slapstick flings with younger women. Following a divorce, he eventually realizes that he wants his ex back. But can he cast aside his randy habits long enough to once again win her heart? Don't miss the now-legendary condom fight scene! With Julianne Phillips, Chelsea Field, Denise Crosby, Raye Hollitt. 101 min. Widescreen, Soundtrack: English.
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