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  Gods at Play: An Eyewitness Account of Great Moments in American Sports

  As a columnist for Time magazine, among many other publications, Tom Callahan witnessed an extraordinary number of defining moments in American sport across four decades. He takes us from Roberto Clemente clinching his 3,000th, and final, regular-season hit in Pittsburgh; to ringside for the Muhammad Ali-George Foreman fight in Zaire; and to Arthur Ashe announcing, at a news conference, that he'd tested positive for HIV. There are also little-known private moments: Joe Morgan whispering thank you to a virtually blind Jackie Robinson on the field at the 1972 World Series, or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar saying he was more interested in being a good man than in being the greatest basketball player. Brimming with colorful vignettes and enlivened by Callahan's eye for detail, Gods at Play offers surprising portraits of the most celebrated names in sports. Roger Rosenblatt calls Callahan "the most complete sportswriter in America. He knows the most and writes the best."

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  Alter Egos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Twilight Struggle over American Power , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 845min

  A deeply-reported, firsthand account of how Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have come to embody two competing visions for the role of the United States in the world - and what that means for the 2016 presidential election. New York Times White House correspondent Mark Landler takes us behind the speeches and press conferences, to the Situation Room debates and picnic-table lunches, where Obama and Clinton honed their two competing worldviews: his, cautious, inward-looking, suffused with a sense of limits; hers, muscular, optimistic, unabashedly old-fashioned. Alter Egos is about two ambitious political archrivals from very different backgrounds who became partners for a time, trailblazers who share a common sense of their historical destiny but who hold fundamentally different beliefs about how to project American power. With all the sweep of a grand history - and enlivened by an insider's access and plenty of news - Landler digs deep into the complex relationship between these two leaders and gives us a different way to think about Obama's legacy and Clinton's promise. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Culp, Mark Landler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009417/bk_reco_009417_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Al Jaffee's Mad Life: A Biography , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 385min

  Jaffee’s inventive work has enlivened the pages of MAD magazine since 1955. To date, he has pickled three generations of American kids in the brine of satire, and he continues to bring millions of childhoods to untimely ends with the knowledge that parents are hypocrites, teachers are dummies, politicians are liars, and life isn’t fair. Jaffee’s work for MAD has made him a cultural icon, but the compelling and at times bizarre story of his life has yet to be told. A synopsis of Jaffee’s formative years alone reads like a comic strip of traumatic cliff-hangers with cartoons by Jaffee and captions by Freud. Six-year-old Jaffee was separated from his father, uprooted from his home in Savannah, Georgia, and transplanted by his mother to a shtetl in Lithuania, a 19th-century world of kerosene lamps, outhouses, physical abuse, and near starvation. He would be rescued by his father, returned to America, taken yet again by his mother back to the shtetl, and once again rescued by his father, even as Hitler was on the march. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Allen Lewis Rickman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002384/bk_harp_002384_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Floating Life: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 409min

  A Floating Life will delight lovers of Kafka, Murakami, and the magic realism of Gabriel Garca Mrquez. A nameless narrator awakens to the muddle of middle age, no longer certain who or what he is. He finds himself at a party talking to a woman he doesn't know who proves to be his wife. Soon separated but still living in the same apartment, he is threatened by a litigious dachshund and saddled with a stubborn case of erectile dysfunction in a world that seems held together by increasingly mercurial laws and elusive boundaries. His relationship deepens with an elderly Dutch model maker named Pecheur whose miniature boats are erratically offered for sale in a hard-to-find shop called The Floating World. Enlivened by Pecheur's dream to tame the destructive forces of nature, the narrator begins to find his bearings. With quiet humor and wisdom, A Floating Life charts its course among images that surprise and disorient, such as a job interview in a steam room with a one-eyed, seven-foot-tall chef, a midnight intrusion of bears, and the narrator’s breast feeding of the baby he has birthed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phil Kane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008400/bk_adbl_008400_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Outstanding!: 47 Ways to Make Your Organization Exceptional , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 195min

  The best-selling author of of QBQ! shows how anyone can use the unlimited potential of accountability to create an outstanding organization. Do people fire companies? You bet they do. But anyone can fireproof their organization with the timely and timeless ideas in Outstanding. Every day outstanding organizations do things that ensure they will retain customers, grow revenues, increase market share, and build their reputations. These successful organi­zations comprise people who hold values and take actions - individually and collectively - that are simple but not always easy or obvious. Informed by Miller's own commitment to the power of per­sonal accountability and enlivened by compelling true stories, Outstanding identifies the principles and behaviors that distinguish such organizations from the pack and provides listeners with ways to integrate these concepts into their own work and companies. With its short pithy entries that carry a lot of impact and takeaway value, Outstanding is filled with practical ideas that can and should be used every single day by individuals and groups, from the boardroom to the stockroom, for creating a distinguished organization with which customers and stakeholders will want to work. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John G. Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/001396/bk_peng_001396_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 169min

  From one of the most internationally admired political thinkers, a controversial polemic on the failures of identity politics and what comes next for the left - in America and beyond.Following the shocking results of the US election of 2016, public intellectuals across the globe offered theories and explanations, but few were met with such vitriol, panic, and debate as Mark Lilla’s. The Once and Future Liberal is a passionate plea to liberals to turn from the divisive politics of identity and develop a vision of the future that can persuade all citizens that they share a common destiny. Driven by a sincere desire to protect society’s most vulnerable, the left has unwittingly balkanized the electorate, encouraged self-absorption rather than solidarity, and invested its energies in social movements rather than party politics. Identity-focused individualism has insidiously conspired with amoral economic individualism to shape an electorate with little sense of a shared future and near-contempt for the idea of the common good. Now is the time to re-build a sense of common feeling and purpose, and a sense of duty to one another. A fiercely argued, important book, enlivened by acerbic wit and erudition, The Once and Future Liberal is essential listening for our times. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Constant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006384/bk_harp_006384_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War, Hörbuch, Digital, 366min

  From the only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Iraq, here is the riveting account of ordinary people caught between the struggles of nations. Determined to offer an unfiltered version of events, the Washington Post's Anthony Shadid was neither embedded with soldiers nor briefed by politicians. Because he is fluent in Arabic, Shadid, an Arab-American born and raised in Oklahoma, was able to actually disappear into the divided, dangerous worlds of Iraq. Day by day, as American dreams clashed with Arab notions of justice, he pieced together the human story of ordinary Iraqis weathering the terrible dislocations and tragedies of war. Through the lives of Sunnis and Shiites, men and women, American sympathizers, and outraged young men newly transformed into martyrs, Shadid shows us the journey of defiant, hopeful, resilient Iraq. Moving from battle scenes to subdued streets enlivened only by the call to prayer, Shadid uses the experiences of his characters to illustrate how Saddam's downfall paved the way not only for democracy but also for an Islamic reawakening and jihad. Night Draws Near, as compelling as it is human, is an illuminating and poignant account from a reporter whose coverage has drawn international attention and acclaim. Language: English. Narrator: Anthony Shadid. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/000488/bk_aren_000488_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Samyama: Cultivating Stillness in Action, Siddhis, and Miracles: AYP Enlightenment Series, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 238min

  Samyama: Stillness in Action, Siddhis, and Miracles covers a powerful yoga practice that has been shrouded in mystery for centuries. Yet, it is as close to us as our most immediate hopes and dreams, for it is the principles of Samyama that are operating behind everything good that is happening in our life. The key methods of Samyama are covered here, simplified to enable anyone to engage in daily practice leading to profound results. Our deepest desires can be enlivened by systematically letting go into our inner silence. Whatever we surrender will come back to us a thousand-fold, purified in a divine outpouring. This is "stillness in action". Yogani is the author of ground-breaking books on highly effective spiritual practices, including Advanced Yoga Practices: Easy Lessons for Ecstatic Living, two comprehensive user-friendly textbooks, and The Secrets of Wilder, a powerful spiritual novel. The AYP Enlightenment Series makes these profound practices available for the first time in a series of concise instruction materials. Samyama is the fifth book in the series, preceded by Asanas, Mudras, and Bandhas; Tantra; Spinal Breathing Pranayama; and Deep Meditation. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Yogani. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/101822/bk_acx0_101822_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Close Range: Wyoming Stories (Selected Unabridged Stories) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 333min

  Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below", a rodeo rider's obsession marks the deepening fissures between his family life and self-imposed isolation. In "The Half-Skinned Steer", an elderly fool drives west to the ranch he grew up on for his brother's funeral, and dies a mile from home. In "Brokeback Mountain", the difficult affair between two cowboys survives everything but the world's violent intolerance. These are stories of desperation, hard times, and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both brutal and magnificent. Enlivened by folk tales, flights of fancy, and details of ranch and rural work, they juxtapose Wyoming's traditional character and attitudes, confrontation of tough problems, prejudice, persistence in the face of difficulty, with the more benign values of the new west. This collection includes: "The Half-Skinned Steer", read by Bruce Greenwood "A Lonely Coast", read by Frances Fisher "People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water", read by Campbell Scott "The Mud Below", read by Bruce Greenwood "The Blood Bay", read by Campbell Scott "The Bunch-Grass Edge of the World", read by Frances Fisher "Brokeback Mountain", read by Campbell Scott ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frances Fisher, Bruce Greenwood, Campbell Scott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000665/bk_sans_000665_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Trailblazer: A Biography of Jerry Brown , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 398min

  In this first biography of Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. in more than 30 years, Chuck McFadden explores the unique persona of one of the most idiosyncratic politicians in California history. The son of California political royalty who forged his own political style against the tumultuous backdrop of a huge, balkanized state - and shoved to and fro by complex currents - Jerry Brown pursued visionary impulses as well as his grandiose ambitions. McFadden traces Brown's childhood in San Francisco, his time studying for the priesthood, his unusual political career, and his romances - including a long-term relationship with singer Linda Ronstadt. He describes Brown's first two terms as governor, advocating for farm workers, women and minorities, his time roaming the world in a spiritual quest, and his return to the gritty world of politics as chairman of the California Democratic Party and then mayor of Oakland. Political experts weigh in with thoughts about the remarkable 2010 campaign that saw the 72-year-old Brown winning his third term in office while being vastly outspent by Republican Meg Whitman. Concise, insightful, and enlivened by the events and personalities that colored the history of California, Trailblazer provides an intimate portrait of the pugnacious, adept politician who has bucked national trends to become a leader of one of the largest economies in the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012951/bk_adbl_012951_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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