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  The Unpossessed City: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 737min

  Jim Vilatzer was going nowhere - working in his parents' restaurant, sleeping in his childhood bedroom - until he ran up gambling debts that forced him to go somewhere far away...fast. He uses his Russian-language skills (learned from his emigre grandparents) to cadge a job in Moscow finding and interviewing survivors of the Gulag. At first, he only finds that they are well hidden and leery of sharing their horrific stories, but he also discovers that he's falling in love with their homeland. He is intoxicated by Moscow's brooding, ironic atmosphere, its vast reservoir of entrepreneurial energy, its otherworldly churches and majestic subways. On any given day, petty indignities are more than offset by random acts of kindness.Jim's taste for gambling is satisfied merely by living in a city that teems with risk and promise. So he blithely accepts a big win when a chance meeting with a lovely aspiring actress leads not only to romance but also to her grandfather, a concentration camp survivor who does actually want to share his story. Soon Jim is on a roll, scoring interviews with other survivors, learning harrowing and fascinating things about bygone atrocities and feeling like he has finally found where he belongs.But his apparent success has earned him the attention of Russia's Interior Ministry and CIA. Jim has become an unwitting cog in a scheme to spirit Soviet scientists and their deadly secrets out of Russia and into the hands of the highest bidder. Pursued ruthlessly by both sides, he must flee again, this time to the lawless border country, where an economist-cum-mobster is preparing to peddle the world's most dangerous technologies to whichever terrorists can muster the cash first. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Farrage. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/live/000305/bk_live_000305_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  How Wealth Rules the World: Saving Our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 382min

  Ben Price reveals that our constitution and legal system were intentionally designed to give more rights to the wealthy propertied class than the rest of us, and exposes how this hamstrings our ability to effectively address a host of pressing social and environmental problems - and what we can do about it. Many of today’s most serious issues - homelessness, gun violence, fracking, prison privatization, predatory lending, and many more - resist resolution because the “rights of property” undermine the rights of people. Issues that undeniably affect whole communities are determined by the courts to relate primarily to property, contracts, and corporations, and are removed from the public sphere and immunized from public governance.There’s a reason for this. Ben Price tells the story of how the federalists - the more conservative faction of the founding fathers - secretly drafted the constitution as a counterrevolutionary document. It restored to the colonial one percent privileges overturned by the revolution, avoiding a popular backlash by bestowing rights on wealth itself, rather than creating a British-style personal aristocracy. These rights of property deprive the majority of their ability to self-govern and weaponize government in ways that let the “minority of the opulent” (in James Madison’s phrase) use the constitution to block local policies that compete with their interests. Price details often shocking examples of how the supposedly unalienable rights of individuals and communities are blithely disregarded. But he also describes how over 200 communities have drafted their own bills of rights that push back against the primacy of property, and how we all can join this struggle to return America to what the revolutionary generation intended. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Pratt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150408/bk_acx0_150408_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 661min

  Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920's puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for granted. Her newfound freedom heralded a radical change in American culture. Whisking us from the Alabama country club where Zelda Sayre first caught the eye of F. Scott Fitzgerald to Muncie, Indiana, where would-be flappers begged their mothers for silk stockings, to the Manhattan speakeasies where patrons partied till daybreak, historian Joshua Zeitz brings the era to exhilarating life. This is the story of America’s first sexual revolution, its first merchants of cool, its first celebrities, and its most sparkling advertisement for the right to pursue happiness. The men and women who made the flapper were a diverse lot. There was Coco Chanel, the French orphan who redefined the feminine form and silhouette, helping to free women from the torturous corsets and crinolines that had served as tools of social control. In California, where orange groves gave way to studio lots and fairytale mansions, three of America’s first celebrities - Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, and Louise Brooks - Hollywood’s great flapper triumvirate - fired the imaginations of millions of filmgoers. Towering above all were Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, whose swift ascent and spectacular fall embodied the glamour and excess of the era that would come to an abrupt end on Black Tuesday, when the stock market collapsed and rendered the age of abundance and frivolity instantly obsolete. With its heady cocktail of storytelling and big ideas, Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who launched the first truly modern decade. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniella Rabbani. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013192/bk_adbl_013192_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Dangers of Eating Fish, Why People Mistakenly Believe That Fish Is Healthy to Eat, Why You Should Never Eat Fish, and the Myriad of Simple to Prepare Healthy Food Recipes for Longevity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 168min

  This essay sheds light on the dangers of eating fish, elucidates why people mistakenly believe that fish is healthy to eat, and explicates why you should never eat fish. Moreover, the myriad of simple to prepare and palatable healthy food recipes for longevity are demystified and the ample deadly disease-causing foods that you should always desist from ever considering devouring are revealed in this essay. Furthermore, how to substantially mitigate risks for succumbing to contracting lethal chronic diseases by embracing a salubrious, wholesome, heart healthy, brain healthy, kidney healthy, anticancer, antidiabetic, nutrient dense, alkaline, antioxidant rich, anti-inflammatory, raw fruitarian diet is expounded upon in this essay. Unsurprisingly, the consumption of fish is not without its deleterious ramifications against your overall health. Similarly to how cats and dogs are terrestrial animals, fish are also animals even though they can be classified as aquatic animals. Aquatic animals are animals that reside in bodies of water. Nothing salubrious can ensue from consuming animal products, such as fish carcasses. The dangers of eating fish are often blithely overlooked even though the consumption of fish can severely comprised your overall health. The bodies of fish are replete with toxic chemicals which they assimilate from the tainted water that they are submerged in and transverse through. “Fish flesh stores contaminants, such as polychlorinated biphenyls, which cause liver damage, nervous system disorders, and fetal damage. Dioxins, also linked to cancer; radioactive substances like strontium 90; and other dangerous contaminants like cadmium, mercury, lead, chromium, and arsenic, can cause health problems ranging from kidney damage and impaired mental development to cancer. These toxins are stored in the body fat of humans who eat fish and remain in their bodies for decades” (“Think Fish Is”, 2010). The consumption of fish can precipitate ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Judah Paul Andrews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/208945/bk_acx0_208945_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Why Persuasion Is the Utmost Important Skill Set to Master, the Benefits of Being Highly Persuasive, and How to Become Extremely Persuasive in Order to Reap the Most Out of Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 102min

  This essay sheds light on why persuasion is the utmost important skill set to master, demystifies the benefits of being highly persuasive, and elucidates how to become extremely persuasive in order to reap the most out of life. Moreover, how to earn substantial money online so that you can afford to inordinately enrich every aspect of your life is expounded upon in this essay. The eminent importance of persuasion skills is often overlook even though they are in fact perhaps the utmost critical skills to master, especially if you want to reap the most out of life. Persuasion skills are in fact so effective that they can potentially allow you to obtain anything from anyone out of life, presuming that you can persuade them to provide you with whatever it is that you are requesting. Mastering persuasion skills can potentially allow you win you the presidency, attain the highest possible corporate position, attain extreme fame leverage, and may even allow you to attain extreme wealth. The importance of persuasion skills should not be blithely overlooked. According to Tony Robbins, persuasion is the most important skill you can develop. This is because, without it, your ideas cannot build traction. Without influence, you would not get the resources or support you need. Without influence, you would not be able to communicate your unique value to the world. On the flip side, with strong influence skills, you can achieve amazing results with nothing more than simply the clothes on your back” (Meier, n.d.). In life, you can either learn to be the persuader to reap the utmost out of life or alternatively succumb to being the persuaded which causes you to relinquish control of the direction your life is heading to someone else. Persuasion skills are the quintessential skill set to possess for eliciting unprecedented changes in the world. Stellar persuaders have personal power and can convince others to do nearly anything at their behest. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marianthi Evans. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/213373/bk_acx0_213373_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 566min

  A witty, intelligent cultural history from NPR book critic Glen Weldon explains Batman's rises and falls throughout the ages - and what his story tells us about ourselves. Since his creation, Batman has been many things: a two-fisted detective; a planet-hopping gadabout; a campy pop-art sensation; a pointy-eared master spy; and a grim and gritty ninja of the urban night. For more than three-quarters of a century, he has cycled from a figure of darkness to one of lightness and back again; he's a bat-shaped Rorschach inkblot who takes on the various meanings our changing culture projects onto him. How we perceive Batman's character, whether he's delivering dire threats in a raspy Christian Bale growl or trading blithely homoerotic double entendres with partner Robin on the comics page, speaks to who we are and how we wish to be seen by the world. It's this endlessly mutable quality that has made him so enduring. And it's Batman's fundamental nerdiness - his gadgets, his obsession, his oath, even his lack of superpowers - that uniquely resonates with his fans who feel a fiercely protective love for the character. Today, fueled by the Internet, that breed of passion for elements of popular culture is everywhere. Which is what makes Batman the perfect lens through which to understand geek culture, its current popularity, and its social significance. In The Caped Crusade, with humor and insight, Glen Weldon, book critic for NPR and author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, lays out Batman's 78-year cultural history and shows how he has helped make us who we are today and why his legacy remains so strong. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Glen Weldon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007405/bk_sans_007405_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 457min

  A hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice. How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids tackles the last taboo subject of parenthood: the startling, white-hot fury that new (and not-so-new) mothers often have for their mates. After Jancee Dunn had her baby, she found that she was doing virtually all the household chores, even though she and her husband worked equal hours. She asked herself: How did I become the "expert" at changing a diaper? Many expectant parents spend weeks researching the best crib or safest car seat, but spend little if any time thinking about the titanic impact the baby will have on their marriage - and the way their marriage will affect their child. Enter Jancee, her well-meaning but blithely unhelpful husband, their daughter, and her boisterous extended family, who show us the ways in which outmoded family patterns and traditions thwart the overworked, overloaded parents of today. On the brink of marital Armageddon, Dunn plunges into the latest relationship research, solicits the counsel of the country's most renowned couples' and sex therapists, canvasses fellow parents, and even consults an FBI hostage negotiator on how to effectively contain an "explosive situation". Instead of having the same fights over and over, Dunn and her husband must figure out a way to resolve their larger issues and fix their family while there is still time. As they discover, adding a demanding new person to your relationship means you have to reevaluate - and rebuild - your marriage. In an exhilarating twist, they work together to save the day, happily returning to the kind of peaceful life they previously thought was the sole province of couples without children. Part memoir, part self-help book with actionable and achievable advice, How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids is an eye-opening look at how the m ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jancee Dunn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/003071/bk_hach_003071_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 907min

  How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won't anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice? In the four years since Joe Nocera asked those questions in a controversial New York Times column, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has come under fire. Fans have begun to realize that the athletes involved in the two biggest college sports, men's basketball and football, are little more than indentured servants. Millions of teenagers accept scholarships to chase their dreams of fame and fortune - at the price of absolute submission to the whims of an organization that puts their interests dead last. For about 5 percent of top-division players, college ends with a golden ticket to the NFL or the NBA. But what about the overwhelming majority who never turn pro? They don't earn a dime from the estimated $13 billion generated annually by college sports - an ocean of cash that enriches schools, conferences, coaches, TV networks, and apparel companies...everyone except those who give their blood and sweat to entertain the fans. Indentured tells the dramatic story of a loose-knit group of rebels who decided to fight the hypocrisy of the NCAA, which blathers endlessly about the purity of its "student athletes" while exploiting many of them: the ones who get injured and drop out because their scholarships have been revoked. The ones who will neither graduate nor go pro. The ones who live in terror of accidentally violating some obscure rule in the 400-page NCAA rulebook. Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss take us into the inner circle of the NCAA's fiercest enemies. You'll meet, among others: Sonny Vaccaro, the charismatic sports marketer who convinced Nike to sign Michael Jordan. Disgusted by how the NCAA treated athletes, Vaccaro used ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dominic Hoffman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002773/bk_peng_002773_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Forgotten Command: Be Holy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 403min

  The Forgotten Command: Be Holy is a clarion call for all Christians to follow their master's command and to be holy. In the world of today, where holiness is set aside and considered to be outdated, the vital truth of holy living by the Christian has never been more relevant. Christlikeness produces holiness, and William MacDonald stresses its importance as he looks at every aspect of the Christian life. "The moment we are saved, we are given a position of holiness before God. Because we are in Christ, we have a holy standing. Our responsibility is to see that our practice corresponds to our position, our state to our standing. "In the area of holiness, there is a mysterious mingling of the divine and the human. God wants all of us to be holy. Only he can make us holy. And he will give us the necessary power. But he will not do it without our participation. It is misleading to tell Christians that holiness is by faith alone. It creates the impression that they can sit back and become Christ-like without any exertion on their part. It blithely overlooks the hundreds of exhortations in the New Testament directed to their will and calling for their obedience. Salvation is by faith alone, but holiness is by faith and works." This book makes compelling and searching listening for those who are serious about obeying the forgotten command: be holy. A word about the author: William MacDonald (1917 - 2007). William (Bill) MacDonald was born in Massachusetts. His parents were from the Isle of Lewis, and when he was six years old his family moved to Stornoway, Scotland, later moving back to Massachusetts. A commended worker for 60 years, a teacher, preacher, mentor, and author of 84 books, including the Believer's Bible Commentary, William MacDonald was a man who said and wrote much. Yet, for those who knew him well, it was his life that left the greatest impression. Speaking of the Lord Jesus, the Bible says, "the ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Ansdell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/001931/bk_hove_001931_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The House Of Lost Women

  In 1982 - a year in which he reportedly shot 13 films - writer/director Jess Franco created this blithely twisted drama that is equal parts Buñuelian black comedy, over-the-top soap opera and furiously perverse sex shocker: Lina Romay - here in her blonde 'Candy Coster' guise - stars as a pensive young nymphomaniac whose life on a remote island with her father, stepmother and mentally-challenged sister seethes with violence, incest and some of the most degenerate scenarios of the entire Franco canon. Antonio Mayans (NIGHT OF OPEN SEX), Carmen Carrión (THE INCONFESSABLE ORGIES OF EMMANUELLE), Asunción Calero (BLACK BOOTS, LEATHER WHIP) and Antonio Rebollo (BAHÍA BLANCA) co-star in "the best of Franco's '80s Spanish softcore period" (Bizarre Cinema), now scanned uncut from the original negative for the first time ever in America.

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