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    The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 610min
    With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature. Authoritarianism first returned in Russia, as Putin developed a political system dedicated solely to the consolidation and exercise of power. In the last six years, it has creeped from east to west as nationalism inflames Europe, abetted by Russian propaganda and cyberwarfare. While countries like Poland and Hungary have made hard turns toward authoritarianism, the electoral upsets of 2016 revealed the citizens of the US and UK in revolt against their countries’ longstanding policies and values.But this threat to the West also presents the opportunity to better understand the pillars of our own political order. In this forceful and unsparing work of contemporary history, Snyder goes beyond the headlines to expose the true nature of the threat to democracy. By showcasing the stark choices before us - between equality or oligarchy, individuality or totality, truth and falsehood - Snyder restores our understanding of the basis of our way of life, offering a way forward in a time of terrible uncertainty. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Timothy Snyder. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005405/bk_rand_005405_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Captured: Devil's Blaze MC, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 533min
    She was my obsession. I was her destruction. Beth: My life is not my own. I belong to the family. Every step I make is dictated. Until him. Skull. The only man I've ever loved. The only man I will ever love. His touch inflames me. I can't stay away - even if I should. I gave him my body and my heart. To keep him safe, I will sell my soul to the devil. The lies began with our hello. Now, I'm captured by them. Skull: There's an animal in me that I keep hidden. Beth calls to him. She tempts the monster and lures him to the surface. I'm obsessed with her. I can't stay away, even when doing so puts my entire club in danger. Her blood is on my hands. I formed her to fit only me. I was her first and if I have to kill everyone in our way. So be it. I will be her last. She is mine. Warning: Cliffhanger ahead. This book will end in a cliffhanger and continue with Craved, Burned, and Released. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Morgan Tyler, Leo Barnabas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/inbl/000220/bk_inbl_000220_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rare Earth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 540min
    Marc Royce stares down from the helicopter on the Rift Valley slashing across Africa like a scar. Tribal feuds, drought, and dislocation have left their devastation. And he sees a new wound – a once-dormant volcano oozing molten lava across the dry landscape – and clouds of ash obscure his vision. His undercover assignment is similarly obscured. Supposedly, dispatched to audit a relief organization’s accounts, Marc finds himself amid the squalor and chaos of Kenyan refugee camps caught in a stranglehold of corruption and ruthlessness. But his true task relates to the area’s reserves of once-obscure metals now indispensible to high-tech industry. The value of this rare earth inflames tensions on the world’s stage as well as among warring tribes. When an Israeli medical administrator, Kitra, seeks Marc’s help with her humanitarian efforts, they forge an unexpected link between impoverished African villages and another Silicon Valley rising in the Israeli desert. Precious metals and inventive minds promise new opportunities for prosperity, secure futures, and protection of valuable commodities from terrorists. As Marc prepares to report back to Washington, he seizes a chance to restore justice to this troubled land. This time, he may have gone too far. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phil Gigante. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/003956/bk_brll_003956_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Forbidden Temptation & The Italian's Ruthless Seduction , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 647min
    An unwanted desire... With the death of his wife still raw, Jack Connolly's mood is dark and dangerous. He's not looking for a woman - until he meets buttoned-up but beautiful Grace Spencer, who stirs his senses back to life. Yet Jack cannot act on his feelings, as Grace belongs to another! An impossible affair... Trapped in a fake relationship to safeguard her family, Grace knows crossing the line with Jack would risk everything she holds dear. Beneath the hunger she sees in Jack's eyes is the promise of something more - but is it enough for her to surrender to a taste of the forbidden? What his billions can't buy... If Sergio Mancini wants something, he only has to snap his fingers to get it. Except for Bella Williams. No matter how much his stunning stepsister once drove him wild with lust, he never allowed himself to have her, believing she was a gold digger like her mother. Now, when Bella calls unexpectedly, seeking refuge at their secluded family home by Lake Como, their unfulfilled desire resurfaces. No longer able to resist, Sergio ruthlessly decides it's finally time to quench the fire. But their one night together only inflames their passion - and now he wants more! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Morag Sims, Saskia Maarleveld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004963/bk_harp_004963_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Under The Blue Flag: My Mission in Kosovo , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 669min
    Seeking to escape the monotony he had come to endure in his job as assistant District Attorney in San Francisco, Philip Kearney needed a change. His solution came one day in a casual email from a friend: “UN has opening here for an international prosecutor doing war crimes stuff. You should apply, gotta go.”“Here” meant Pristina, Kosovo. And “stuff”—Kearney soon finds out, after landing the job despite his inexperience with international law and inability to speak any foreign languages—meant a harrowing string of investigations involving the most brutal and devastating crimes imaginable. Abruptly removed from the comforts of home and the order and stability of America’s justice system, Kearny finds himself the sole international prosecutor assigned to a region of nearly one million people. Welcome to the Balkans circa 2001.Kearney is thrown headlong into a series of historic investigations that quickly land him under the protection of four armed security guards. Armed himself with only the region’s archaic criminal justice code, Kearney is soon prosecuting local street thugs, shutting down a ring of international sex-traffickers, and spearheading an investigation into secret death camps—a case that ultimately implicates prominent local officials and inflames ethnic violence. He developed an urgent passion, stemming from devastating stories of torture, murder, and slavery that dominate Kosovo’s bleak landscape. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Philip Kearney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000529/bk_pnix_000529_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Asthma Explained , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 29min
    Asthma is classified as a chronic lung condition that narrows and inflames the airways. The disease causes wheezing when you breathe, shortness of breath, coughing, and chest tightness. The coughing normally occurs early in the morning or at night. Asthma affects people from all walks of life, including children, men, and women, but most begin to experience it during childhood. In the US over 25 million people suffer from asthma, and seven million of these are children. In order to understand the prevalence of asthma, it is important to know how the airways function. Airways are tubes that transport air into and out of the lungs. Victims of asthma are characterized by having inflamed airways. This inflammation makes the airways become swollen and very sensitive, and it also makes them react very strongly to different inhaled elements. When the airways react to inhaled substances, muscles around them begin to tighten. This constricts the airways and causes them to become narrow, which in turn results in less air flow into and out of the lungs. The swelling can become worse and constrict the airways narrower. The cells in the airways may produce more mucus than normal, and this sticky, thick mucus may further make the airways narrower. This sequential reaction may result in people experiencing asthma symptoms. These symptoms may occur every time airways become inflamed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Colby Green. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/039355/bk_acx0_039355_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Bloodline War: The Community Series, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 580min
    A car accident changes everything for Dr. Toni Parthen. Her computer-hacked hospital blood test confirms she's the carrier of a gene that's the key to salvation for a unique race of human beings. Abducted from her hospital room to a secret underground community, Toni is asked to do the unthinkable: procreate with a man from a race called Varcolac - a species that must consume the blood of humans to survive. Then bizarre turns dangerous, because a new, mysterious enemy also wants her special DNA, and Toni finds herself in the middle of an all-out war to possess her. It's the job of Jacken Brun, leader of the Warrior Class, to keep the captured women safe from a demonic race of humans who rule a neighboring part of their underground world. His challenges multiply when Toni inflames the women into mutiny, and then there's his biggest problem...his growing desire for the infuriating woman herself. Afflicted with a dark genetic makeup, Jacken can never be with a woman - until Toni uses her scientific ingenuity to find a way for her and Jacken to be together. But then the new enemy faction unearths Toni and drags her to their hidden lair, where they'll inflict an unspeakable cruelty on her to gain access to her valuable genes. It will take every warrior skill Jacken owns to save the woman he loves, but only if he can find her in time.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/045880/bk_acx0_045880_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Spirituality for Everyone: Based on the Second Edition of Spirituality for Dummies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 875min
    Friendlier title, same great work!Spirituality for Dummies is now Spirituality for Everyone."If you feel empty inside (and not because it's been six hours since your last burrito), it might be time to search for the meaning of life in Spirituality for Dummies (now Spirituality for Everyone). This chunky primer provides a comprehensive rundown of the existential questions that Eastern spirituality aims to answer. Even skeptics can gain self-knowledge from the thought and visualization exercises strewn throughout the audiobook that demonstrate how to take a positive view of negative experiences and let go of emotional baggage - like going to a therapist but cheaper." (The Village Voice)"A Mecca for those who are sincerely seeking the genuine meaning and practice of spirituality. Sharon Janis fuses mystical insights drawn from the east/west approaches, resulting in a volume that opens the heart, exhilarates the mind, and inflames the soul. No matter upon which rung of the spiritual ladder you now stand, expect to be catapulted to the next level of awareness through practice of the wisdom-offerings in this scripture of Truth." (Reverend Dr. Michael Beckwith)"This audiobook bridges the gap between conventional experience and the spiritual life. Spirituality for Dummies gives practical advice for entering the path of spirituality, borrowing wisdom from a host of religious, philosophical, and comedic traditions. Insightful, wise, and humorous, this audiobook can and should be read by all, from novice to saint!" (Dr. Christopher Key Chapple, Loyola Marymount University) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sharon "Kumuda" Janis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/143752/bk_acx0_143752_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Nix: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1302min
    A Nix can take many forms. In Norwegian folklore it is a spirit who sometimes appears as a white horse that steals children away. In Nathan Hill's remarkable first novel, a Nix is anything you love that one day disappears, taking with it a piece of your heart. It's 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson - college professor, stalled writer - has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn't seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she's reappeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: She's facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel's help. To save her, Samuel will have to embark on his own journey, uncovering long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew, secrets that stretch across generations and have their origin all the way back in Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. As he does so, Samuel will confront not only Faye's losses but also his own lost love and will relearn everything he thought he knew about his mother and himself. From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, The Nix explores - with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness - the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ari Fliakos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004667/bk_rand_004667_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Empire: Conqueror: Empire Series, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 523min
    Another interstellar war!The Empire has won the war against the Alliance. But at the close of that war, an invasion fleet from the Democracy of Planets sought to annex Jasmine. So Jasmine annexed to Sintar, and Sintar destroyed that fleet, causing resentment that is driving the Democracy of Planets to go to war with Sintar.The Democracy of Planets is a much more deadly enemy than the Alliance. They have a new navy, too, with powerful new warships, and are much more of a military challenge. The Emperor’s strategy from the Sintar-Alliance war won’t work on the DP.Will the Emperor’s new strategy work? And if he wins the war, how will he ever win the peace?The stunning conclusion to Empire.Interview with Rich WeyandIt sounds like the Democracy of Planets government gets sucked into a war they don’t want in Empire: Conqueror.That’s right. The leadership doesn’t want a war, but they’ve been manipulating public opinion against Sintar for years. When the fleet sent to annex Jasmine is destroyed in Empire: Warlord, it inflames their public opinion, and they have no choice but to proceed to war.This sounds like a tougher war than the one in Empire: Warlord.Yes and no. The Alliance was a real threat to Sintar. Their strategy was good - to occupy portions of the Empire and force a peace on their terms - but their tactics were bad. In particular, they didn't know the Empire could see their forces mustering and already knew about the war vote.The Democracy of Planets is a different challenge. They have some structural weaknesses in their military posture. But it won't be enough to win the war. The Emperor has to fight the war in such a way as to win the peace. That's actually a tougher challenge.The Empress and the Co-Consul are there to help, though.Yes, and so is Saaret’s wife Suzanne. She’s the "everyman" inserted into their councils. She has given me, since Empire ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lance Rasmussen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/195472/bk_acx0_195472_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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