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    Is There Apple Juice in My Wine?: Thirty-Eight Laws That Affect the Wine You Drink , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 299min
    Is there apple juice in my wine? My wine bottle says both “no sulfites added”, and “contains sulfites” - both statements can’t be right, can they? And, why is it perfectly legal to ship wine to Colorado - but a felony (more serious than physically assaulting someone) to ship wine to Kentucky? And, how did it happen that the United States shares the highest legal minimum drinking age along with Equatorial Guinea and Sri Lanka? The laws in the United States impact every aspect of enjoying and consuming wine. This book, written for wine lovers, not lawyers or bureaucrats, tells the facts behind 38 laws that affect the wine you drink. The popular wine writers behind the 10kbottles blog, Heather and Jordan Lipp, provide an entertaining, humorous, and illuminating journey through the morass of bizarre laws on all aspects of wine. So, open up a bottle of what you think is 100% Chardonnay (though 25% of it likely contains some cheap grape you’ve never heard of), and listen in. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mare Trevathan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/133196/bk_acx0_133196_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Our Frail Blood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1021min
    By way of Italy, the Felice family puts down new roots in Southern California, settling into a grand Victorian home and buying a share of the great American Dream. But for their five, first-generation children, an idyllic childhood didn’t quite translate into success and happiness. Rather, the pressures of living up to expectations drove a wide rift through the family. After decades apart, the five siblings find themselves together again at their ailing mother’s bedside, caught in a deadlocked feud over her hospice care. Into the morass steps Murron Teinetoa, one of their bastard children, who carries an idealistic hope of finally fitting in among her estranged relatives.In an interweaving narrative, Malae portrays the Felices in their formative years of the fifties; he excavates the personal lives of the siblings in the eighties and nineties; and he follows Murron in the present as she raises her son as a single mother. A powerful and fiery multi-generational story, Our Frail Blood captures the beauty and horror, the strength and fragility, the selfishness and love comprising the threads of familial bonds. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Keith Szarabajka, Christopher Curry, Josh Clark, Dana Green, Nicol Zanzarella, Rob Dean, James Eckhouse. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011818/bk_adbl_011818_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Scion of Ikshvaku: Ram Chandra Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 695min
    Ram Rajya. The Perfect Land. But perfection has a price. He paid that price. 3400 BCE. India. Ayodhya is weakened by divisions. A terrible war has taken its toll. The damage runs deep. The demon King of Lanka, Raavan, does not impose his rule on the defeated. He instead imposes his trade. Money is sucked out of the empire. The Sapt Sindhu people descend into poverty, despondency and corruption. They cry for a leader to lead them out of the morass. Little do they appreciate that the leader is among them. One whom they know. A tortured and ostracised prince. A prince they tried to break. A prince called Ram. He loves his country, even when his countrymen torment him. He stands alone for the law. His band of brothers, his Sita, and he against the darkness of chaos. Will Ram rise above the taint that others heap on him? Will his love for Sita sustain him through his struggle? Will he defeat the demon Lord Raavan who destroyed his childhood? Will he fulfil the destiny of the Vishnu? Begin an epic journey with Amish's latest: the Ram Chandra Series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sagar Arya. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/026452/bk_adbl_026452_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: America's Doctor Tells You Why the Health Experts Are Wrong, Hörbuch, Digital, 178min
    Help me, Dr. Dean! I want to be healthy, but I just don't know where to turn for advice." No wonder. How often have you felt whipsawed by the experts, confused by conflicting advice, or torn with guilt over what you eat, drink, think? Prepare yourself for a shock: You can relax, enjoy life, and still be healthy. Renowned for candid straight talk on radio and television, Dr. Dean Edell applies his unique common-sense perspective to America's growing obsession with health. Frank and iconoclastic, Dr. Edell walks readers through a lifetime of experience from deep inside the twin worlds of media and medicine. As one of the first media doctors, he knows better than anyone the dangers of distorted medical reporting. With colorful detail, he shows how medical consumers are made neurotic at a time when people are healthier than ever before. Dr. Edell sorts through the morass of research, distinguishing fact from panic-inducing fiction. With trademark humor, grace, and style, he shares with us the essential reassuring facts about our health: you can be fatter than you think; too much exercise might kill you; and yes, sex will add years to your life! Language: English. Narrator: Dean Edell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/000647/bk_harp_000647_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dead Storm: The Masters CIA Thriller Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 555min
    Hackers can access your bank accounts, take control of your car, or read your personal files. What if one gripped your beating heart? Whatever. Clint's got his own problems. As his city smolders from a saboteur's plot to destroy him, Clint's company sinks deeper in the morass. Every waking moment he struggles to keep the operation alive. As the stock price tanks and his best talent leaves for companies on the rise, it's not a problem he wants to face sober. When a medical hacker seizes control of the First Lady's heartbeat regulator, Clint's products pose a new threat. With one of their own on the line, the Washington elite won't let Clint rest until they get answers. They expect him to search for the one man Clint doesn't want to find, but his normal sympathies won't extend beyond his own misery. After he reluctantly agrees to join the overseas mission, Clint returns to face a greater terror. Greater than his enemies. Greater even than his own demons. This time it's personal. But can he stop a bomber determined to commit mass murder? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Nolan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/074786/bk_acx0_074786_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dereliction of Duty, Hörbuch, Digital, 189min
    The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, DC. (H. R. McMaster, from the conclusion) Dereliction of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully and convincingly researched, based on transcripts and personal accounts of crucial meetings, confrontations and decisions, it is the only book that fully re-creates what happened and why. McMaster pinpoints the policies and decisions that got the United States into the morass and reveals who made these decisions and the motives behind them, disproving the published theories of other historians and excuses of the participants. A gripping narrative, Dereliction of Duty focuses on a fascinating cast of characters: President Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, General Maxwell Taylor, McGeorge Bundy, and other top aides who deliberately deceived the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US Congress, and the American public. McMaster's only book, Dereliction of Duty is an explosive and authoritative new look at the controversy concerning the United States involvement in Vietnam. Language: English. Narrator: H. R. McMaster. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005989/bk_harp_005989_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Everything That Follows , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 584min
    For fans of Megan Abbott and Chris Bohjalian comes a novel of moral complexity about friends who must choose between self-preservation and doing the right thing in the wake of a fatal boating accident.  Set in the moody off-season of Martha's Vineyard, Everything That Follows is a plunge into the dark waters of secrets and flexible morals. The truth becomes whatever we say it is. Around midnight, three friends take their partying from bar to boat on a misty fall evening. Just as the weather deteriorates, one of them suddenly and confusingly goes overboard. Is it an accident? The result of an unwanted advance? His body disappears quickly, silently, into the dark water. The circumstances are murky, but what is clear is that the other two need to notify the authorities.  Minutes become hours become days as they hesitate, caught up in their guilt and hope that their friend has somehow made it safely to shore. As valuable time passes, they find themselves deep in a moral morass with huge implications as they struggle to move forward and live with their dark secret. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amy McFadden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/011597/bk_blak_011597_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Defending Marriage: Twelve Arguments for Sanity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 383min
    Defending Marriage: Twelve Arguments for Sanity is a rousing, compelling defense of traditional, natural marriage. Here, Anthony Esolen, professor at Providence College and a prolific writer, uses moral, theological, and cultural arguments to defend this holy and ancient institution, bedrock of society - and to illuminate the threats it faces from modern revolutions in law, public policy, and sexual morality. Inside, discover: Traditional marriage's roots in age-old religious, cultural, and natural laws Why gay marriage is a metaphysical impossibility How acceptance and legal sanction of gay marriage threatens the family How the state becomes a religion when it attempts to elevate gay marriage, and enshrine as a civil right all consensual sex How divorce and sexual license have brought marriage to the brink How today's culture has impoverished and emptied love of its true meaning In Defending Marriage, Esolen expertly and succinctly identifies the cultural dangers of gay marriage and the Sexual Revolution which paved its way. He offers a stirring defense of true marriage, the family, culture, and love - and provides the compelling arguments that will return us to sanity, and out of our current morass. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin F. Spalding. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/030723/bk_acx0_030723_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Outlaw Mountain: Joanna Brady Mysteries, Book 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 775min
    Alice Rogers, an elderly widow, is dead, found murdered in the Arizona desert. It's easy enough to pin the killing on the teens caught driving her car across the Mexican border, but Sheriff Brady isn't about to let it go at that. Alice was something of a free spirit, with a penchant for Scotch, the glitter of Las Vegas, and a romance with a man 20 years her junior. Her hot-tempered daughter Susan suspects Mom's boyfriend—her former handyman who moved in instead of moving on when he finished his handy work. Now Susan's furious at her brother Clete, the do-nothing mayor of Tombstone, blaming him for not protecting their inheritance by breaking up their mother's winter romance. Yet all is not as it appears to be, and Joanna is forced to put her personal life on hold to dig deeper into Alice's death, the lives of her greedy offspring, and the identity of her mysterious gentleman friend. And as the investigation gets sidetracked by ugly local land disputes, it takes some troublesome twists and turns, until Sheriff Brady finds herself wading through a murky morass of graft and corruption that may have given someone reason to kill—and kill again. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: C. J. Critt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002207/bk_harp_002207_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lesser Evils , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 737min
    An exciting entry into the noir canon, Joe Flanagan's Lesser Evils expertly reimagines 1957 Cape Cod, where the mystifying murder of a local child brings us into a world of intrigue - honed by intricate plotting, sharp dialogue, and original characters - that culminates in a conclusion both surprising and deeply moving. When the first young boy goes missing in a quiet Cape Cod town, Lieutenant Bill Warren is pulled into a morass that promises no happy ending. As his pursuit uncovers the unimaginable, he is led into a world of gambling, drug peddling, corruption, and secret psychiatric experiments. Now he must fight to maintain control of an investigation that more and more people - from the state police to the district attorney to a tenacious Boston reporter - have become seriously interested in. As facts become murkier and the threat rises, Warren struggles to survive in a world where the police can be just as corrupt as the criminals they chase and where a murder inquiry will ultimately lead to his front door. Years later, the locals will still be debating whether the case's resolution was factual or miraculous. Flanagan's debut novel is a modern take on classic noir crime fiction. Listeners will be eager for his next offering. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Dufris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/025346/bk_adbl_025346_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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