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    Gasping for Air: Last Chance Romance, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 158min
    Lillian is a 40-something mother whose life is miserable. Her husband hits her when he drinks and her grown daughter treats her as a servant. Realizing that she is wasting time on two people who just don't care, Lillian leaves her little family of self-indulgent narcissists in search of a more meaningful life. She flees to Key Largo and finds the Last Chance Motel. There she heals from years of abuse. Hoping to begin anew, Lillian works hard to make a place for herself on the island of sun and play. And she finds new friends. But it is not without cost. Lillian finds herself the victim of a stalker who is bent on making her new life as miserable as her old one. Only this time, Lillian is going to confront her tormenter - and she is determined to win. But it may cost Lillian her life! Sometimes the heat in the Keys just brings out the meanness in people! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amy McFadden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035573/bk_acx0_035573_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Spike the Rebel!: Another Sommer-Time Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 16min
    Spike the rebel caused trouble everywhere, and all the kids were afraid of him except Mary. Mary warned him that one day he would get into big trouble because of his meanness. Spike continued to be mean at school, on the school bus, camping, and in the park. He thought that being tough and mean would make him happy. Instead, it made him miserable and got him into all sorts of trouble. Spike went over a dangerous waterfall with a stolen canoe and survived. One day while riding his bike, he hit one of his self-made bike traps. He broke his leg and bled badly. Debbie, a girl he laughed at for falling off her bike in one of his traps, came with her mother and saved him. Spike's life was transformed. He said to Debbie, "I thought being tough and mean would make me happy, but I've discovered I'm much, much happier having friends and helping others." Grades one to four. Virtues: tolerance, friendship, and cooperation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carl Sommer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/135051/bk_acx0_135051_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Born in Slavery: Narratives from the WPA Slave Narrative Collection , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 355min
    The WPA Slave Narrative Collection was a massive compilation of histories by former slaves undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938. It was the simultaneous effort of state-level branches of FWP in 17 states, working largely separately from each other.These narratives depict the physical and mental atrocities visited upon black people in a way no other method, save that of witnessing the barbarities firsthand, could. The narratives that disclosed the meanness and depravity of evil "masters", graphically illustrate the abject wrongness of slavery. Lest we be inclined to consider the reports depicting benignant generosity among slave owners as exonerating slavery, consider the aftermath of emancipation. Hundreds of thousands of Black people who were taught to depend on the largess of their white masters as the only way to live, were plunged into contemptible, humiliating poverty; swept under the feet of the vanquished foe that once enslaved them.Born in Slavery is a collection of the expression of these former slaves. Having described the slavery from which they were emancipated, they then speak of a new slavery of exclusion and hatred. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Wagnon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bigh/001423/bk_bigh_001423_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Shift Happens: Breakdowns During Life's Long Hauls , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 616min
    Out of desperation to escape the confines of her small Northern California town, in 1979, Genger breaks every rule of her social class, gender, and upbringing to become a long-haul truck driver. Shift Happens is a 21st-century incarnation of the classic voyage to find one’s self and one’s homeland. By facing her mental health and addiction demons, at the age of 28, she sees her role as a young woman flip-flop from cheerleader, girlfriend, young wife, sex-symbol to a strong, self-determined individual who knows what she wants and how to succeed. Along the way, Margot discovers the many facets of America - its beauty and its meanness - and eventually realizes what she values in "home". Ms. Genger’s gift of description paints the majesty of the beaches, mountains, meadows, and skyscapes of the countryside, and captures the colors and grit of our cities, truck stops, and underground lives of long-haul truck drivers. Shift Happens will make you laugh, cringe, and celebrate as you meet Margot’s driving partners - Southerners, Yankees, East Coast, West Coast, and Middle Americans of all stripes and colors - as she delivers everything from Hustler magazines to Washington State apples. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Randye Kaye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/114887/bk_acx0_114887_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Two New Adults and Two First Times: My Crazy All Holes Filled First Time , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 33min, (USK 18)
    Nicole and I were best friends from childhood to our present college years and we were both, to put it gracefully, inexperienced. But then we met Alex and Don. It seemed perfect that my best friend and I would meet two friends, like the typical All-American story. The next thing we knew, though, Nicole and I were sharing another first together...and another...and another...all in one night! It was one college experience we would never forget. Warning: This audiobook contains very explicit descriptions of sexual activity including new adult sex, group sex, first sex, first anal sex, rough sex, and more. Only mature adults should listen to this story. Here is a preview: I felt his fingers teasing and playing with me. I turned my head back to watch Nicole. She was getting none of this treatment. She was just getting f--ked. It was astounding, and part of me felt this incredible sense of...Well, hell, I didn't know if it was relief, I didn't know if it was meanness, I had no f--king idea what it was, but Nicole was getting f--ked by the guy I thought would take my virginity, and she didn't look like she was having a great time about it, while I was being treated to this incredible, wonderful series of sensations running through me. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sophia Chambers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/080058/bk_acx0_080058_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Slings & Arrows: How Toxic Narratives Perpetuate Poverty in Indian Country , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 627min
    Stories define us. They tell us who we are or, at least, who we think we are. The American story of westward expansion draws upon heroic tales of courage and perseverance and the "pioneer spirit". But settlers and their descendants also spread false narratives about Indians in order to justify ruinous private and public acts.The stories we heard and the tales we hear even now give people cover to behave abominably. And this abominable behavior has economic effect. It means that bankers are less likely to make loans to Black and Native American men and women, and it means that fewer businesses are started, less wealth is accumulated, and poverty is more intransigent.But narrative is not destiny. From "welfare cheat" or "food stamp fraud" to absurd stories about an Indian cutting a hole in his house so his horse could drink from the bathtub, the labels and stories applied to poor communities gain currency in the majority world through their meanness, absurdity, and repetition. It is easy for people to traffic in these toxic stories, but the White majority does not reckon with the impact on minority communities.Slings & Arrows tries to break the cycle and describes the author's 40 years of experience learning how communities beset by generations of trauma and dispossession fight back using their history and culture to create a better path. A new narrative must be told, and Slings & Arrows is just one small step in rewriting the stories we tell. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David W. Bland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/222439/bk_acx0_222439_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sugar , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 538min
    I'm the fat Puerto Rican - Polish girl who doesn't feel like she belongs in her skin, or anywhere else for that matter. I've always been too much and yet not enough. Sugar Legowski-Gracia wasn't always fat, but fat is what she is now at age seventeen. Not as fat as her mama, who is so big she hasn't gotten out of bed in months. Not as heavy as her brother, Skunk, who has more meanness in him than fat, which is saying something. But she's large enough to be the object of ridicule wherever she is: at the grocery store, walking down the street, at school. Sugar's life is dictated by taking care of Mama in their run-down home - cooking, shopping, and, well, eating. A lot of eating, which Sugar hates as much as she loves. When Sugar meets Even (not Evan - his nearly illiterate father misspelled his name on the birth certificate), she has the new experience of someone seeing her and not her body. As their unlikely friendship builds, Sugar allows herself to think about the future for the first time, a future not weighed down by her body or her mother. Soon Sugar will have to decide whether to become the girl that Even helps her see within herself or to sink into the darkness of the skin-deep role her family and her life have created for her. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tara Sands. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/006985/bk_brll_006985_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Failure of Justice: A Brutal Murder, an Obsessed Cop, Six Wrongful Convictions , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 649min
    Everyone felt the same way: Small-town Nebraska widow Helen Wilson didn't have an ounce of meanness in her body. Then, on February 5, 1985, one of the coldest nights on record, the unthinkable happened. The 68-year-old resident was murdered inside her second-floor apartment. But why? Local residents were horrified. What type of monster would target a vulnerable widow to fulfill his homicidal sexual fantasies? The crime scene was eerily ritualistic. The trail of evidence turned frustratingly cold until an astonishing breakthrough occurred four years later. A torn scrap of money recovered at the crime scene became the presumed smoking gun that helped solve the hideous crime. The news of six arrests was absolutely stunning to the locals in this easygoing blue-collar community of 12,000 residents. But why were six loosely connected misfits who lived as far away as Alabama, Colorado, and North Carolina being linked to the rape and murder of a beloved Nebraska widow? As they sat in jail, the constant threat of Nebraska's barbaric electric chair frightened these troubled souls, except for one of them. Joseph White remained defiant in his fight to prove his innocence. It didn't matter. All six of the condemned were convicted of murder and sent away to prison for the ghastly crime. The town moved on, convinced that justice had been served. For more than 25 years, the Beatrice 6 rotted in prison. In 2008, DNA tests proved that there'd been a terrible failure of justice, but what would it mean to the prisoners? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Pierce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/061272/bk_acx0_061272_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hungry Ghosts
    Classical stories and depictions of hungry ghosts not only tell us a great deal about Buddhism in the ancient world-they also speak to the modern human condition. The realm of hungry ghosts is one of the unfortunate realms of rebirth in the Buddhist cycle of existence, and those reborn there are said to have led lives consumed by greed and spite. Hungry ghosts are often described as having enormous stomachs and tiny mouths, forever thwarted in their search for food. One of the earliest sources about hungry ghosts is the ten stories about them in the Avadanasataka (One Hundred Stories), a Buddhist scripture from the early centuries of the Common Era, and these ten stories are elegantly translated in this volume. These hungry ghosts know the error of their ways, and they sometimes appear among humans, like the ghosts that haunt Ebenezer Scrooge, as augurs of what may await. Their bodies trigger disgust, but their aim is to inspire in us a disgust with the human thoughts that lead to such wretched bodies. Hungry-ghost stories are meant to shock us out of our complacency. Artistic depictions of the travails of hungry ghosts are found throughout the Buddhist world, and Hungry Ghosts reproduces some of the best examples with detailed descriptions. The volume also begins with a meditation on meanness (matsarya), the mental state that engenders rebirth as a hungry ghost. We discover how the understanding of miserliness, cruelty, and bad faith found in the stories illuminates the human condition, offering insight and inspiring compassion for readers both in ancient times and in the world today.
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    You Are in Charge of Your Life, Hörbuch, Digital, 79min
    Whatever happens, whatever prevails, whatever circumstances there are, you are still in charge of your life. Unless you are held at gunpoint which is highly unlikely then you make all the choices in life - even if it is a choice to follow someone else. If you do follow someone else as an easy option and it all goes wrong, then it's not them to blame; it is you who put your trust in them, even if they did something stupid. There's no getting away from the truth of the matter about yourself. By accepting responsibility in life, things do get better. The modern "blame culture" mentality is only for the low-life scumbags who see easy options and self-greed over actually living a life themselves and being a useful part of it. People who don't take charge of their lives are not to have as friends nor partners nor they re so struck with themselves that they have a selfish meanness and a short view of life. That's not to say the infirm or vulnerable don't need help and guidance.All the actions, successes, failures, deeds that come from your thoughts and actions are about you. Similarly it's important that you don't rely on those that can't make decisions as you will be constantly let down or services will not run efficiently. In short the people that can't take control of their lives aren't much good to humnanity which even involves some cultures and religions that forever moan and groan and complain and give nothing to society. A very interesting and informative audio download for those who want to get on in life and see a degree of clarity and future happiness. Language: English. Narrator: Mr John Stewart Rushton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lfal/000033/bk_lfal_000033_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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