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    The Path of Aliveness: A Contemporary Zen Approach to Awakening Body and Mind
    Find a sense of nourishment and embodied aliveness in every aspect of your life with this fresh and accessible guide to Zen practice. Buddhism aims for the development of a flexible mind and skillful responsiveness-whether toward problems in one's personal life or broader issues like the ecological crisis. But in a culture now saturated with cliches about mindfulness and unrealistic fantasies about happiness, what does it truly mean to walk this path? The key practice is that of embodied aliveness. In The Path of Aliveness, Zen and Taoist Qigong teacher Christian Dillo offers a path of meaningful transformation tailored to our times. Through potent conceptual work and practical examples, he shows how to carefully examine the interrelationship between our senses, body energy, thoughts, and emotions so that we can transform our lives in the direction of less suffering and more freedom, wisdom, and compassion. This secular reconstruction respectfully plumbs Buddhist tradition-including classic teachings such as the foundations of mindfulness meditation, the four noble truths, and the practice of loving kindness-while encouraging practitioners to rely on their own embodied experience for maintaining an alive and engaged presence no matter the circumstances.
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    Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1451min
    From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970. Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs every facet of Thomas Jefferson's life, all while situating him amid the sweeping upheaval of his times. We meet Jefferson the politician and political thinker - as well as Jefferson the architect, scientist, bibliophile, paleontologist, musician, and gourmet. We witness him drafting of the Declaration of Independence, negotiating the Louisiana Purchase, and inventing a politics that emphasized the states over the federal government - a political philosophy that shapes our national life to this day. Boles offers new insight into Jefferson's actions and thinking on race. His Jefferson is not a hypocrite, but a tragic figure - a man who could not hold simultaneously to his views on abolition, democracy, and patriarchal responsibility. Yet despite his flaws, Jefferson's ideas would outlive him and make him into nothing less than the architect of American liberty. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Johnson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/003140/bk_hach_003140_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Reputations , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 298min
    From the brilliant mind of the best-selling, award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling, a powerful novel about a legendary political cartoonist. Javier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country's most influential political cartoonist, the consciousness of a nation. A man capable of repealing laws, overturning judges' decisions, destroying politicians' careers with his art. His weapons are pen and ink. Those in power fear him and pay him homage. At 65, after four decades of a brilliant career, he's at the height of his powers. But this all changes when he's paid an unexpected visit from a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to reevaluate his life and work, questioning his position in the world. In Reputations, Juan Gabriel Vásquez examines the weight of the past, how a public persona intersects with private histories, and the burdens and surprises of memory. In this intimate novel that recalls authors like Coetzee and Ian McEwan, Vásquez plumbs universal experiences to create a masterful story, one that reverberates long after it ends. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Fass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002937/bk_peng_002937_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Highland Heart: The Song Weavers' Chronicles, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 813min
    When a woman plans her life, she never includes tragedy. Hannah McFey thought she knew what she wanted - to marry her heart's delight, Lukas MacLaren, and to work as a professional weaver like her mother in the16th-century Scottish Highland village of Feshiebridge. Social class differences undergird Hannah's greatest fears of ever truly being loved. She also discovers close ties with beings of the folkloric Celtic Otherworld. But the initial romantic conflict, once resolved, leads our heroine into deeper discoveries about the nature of a woman's soul - her drive, her courage, and her ability to love, even herself. Remember to breathe. Tragic events send Hannah on a treacherous journey to locate Michael, a mysterious missing harper loved for years by her mother. Michael's story plumbs the depths of Celtic mysteries while Hannah struggles to survive in the face of great loss and deep uncertainties. The two strands blend into a seamless weaving of healing the wounded heart, reclaiming one's identity, and learning to love once more. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bobbie M. Pell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/076307/bk_acx0_076307_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In Course of True Love , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 347min
    All love stories are the same. Or are they? A boy and a girl meet and fall in love. Story ends. Does it? If so, then what about its journey, its meaning, its feelings? What could love mean to anyone? Just a time pass or a reason to live? What if he who remained untouched from love so far in his life - will love be a time pass for him? What if he loves someone truly and deeply, who completes him, will he be able to see the other side of love? In Course of True Love! Destined to be a true yet unusual emotional love saga of Aarush, a reticent boy, who falls in love amid unfavorable situations and crunch moments. It will make listeners think and leave them pondering - does love happen at an age of sweet 16? Or is it merely a passing infatuation? Sanjeev Ranjan’s debut novel stirs to unfold the reality of puppy love and plumbs its depth, its warmth, and its meaning. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Darshan Venkatesh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/050322/bk_adbl_050322_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    I, Richard , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 477min
    Hailed by The New York Times as "a master of the British Mystery", award-winning author Elizabeth George is cherished by readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Her first collection of short stories is an extraordinary offering that deftly explores the lengths to which people will go to get what they want most. In these five original tales, George plumbs the depths of human nature as only she can. From the chilling tale of a marriage built on an appalling set of lies that only death can reveal, to the title story about a penniless schoolteacher whose ambition turns murderous, I, Richard is filled with page-turning drama and unmatched suspense. Thanks to Inspector Thomas Lynley, a squabbling group of Anglophiles discovers a killer in its midst, but little help is on hand when a picture-perfect town is shattered by an eccentric new resident's horrifying pet project. And when a wealthy husband is haunted by suspicions about his much-younger wife, it becomes clear that a man's imagination can be his own worst enemy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Derek Jacobi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/000866/bk_harp_000866_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Beloveds , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 512min
    An exploration of domestic derangement, as sinister as Daphne Du Maurier's classic Rebecca, that plumbs the depths of sibling rivalry with wit and menace. Oh, to be a Beloved - one of those lucky people for whom nothing ever goes wrong. Everything falls into their laps without effort: happiness, beauty, good fortune, allure. Betty Stash is not a Beloved - but her little sister, the delightful Gloria, is. She's the one with the golden curls and sunny disposition and captivating smile, the one whose best friend used to be Betty's, the one whose husband should have been Betty's. And then, to everyone's surprise, Gloria inherits the family manse - a vast, gorgeous pile of ancient stone, imposing timbers, and lush gardens - that was never meant to be hers. Losing what Betty considers her rightful inheritance is the final indignity. As she single-mindedly pursues her plan to see the estate returned to her in all its glory, her determined and increasingly unhinged behavior - aided by poisonous mushrooms, talking walls, and a phantom dog - escalates to the point of no return. The Beloveds will have you wondering if there's a length to which an envious sister won't go. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fiona Hardingham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008258/bk_sans_008258_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 561min
    Staceyann Chin has appeared on television and radio, including The Oprah Winfrey Show , CNN, and PBS, discussing issues of race and sexuality. But it is her extraordinary voice that launched her career as a performer, poet, and activist. Here, she shares her unforgettable story of triumph against all odds in this brave and fiercely candid memoir. No one knew Staceyann's mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother's house in Jamaica, on Christmas Day. Staceyann's mother did not want her, and her father was not present. No one, except her grandmother, thought Staceyann would survive. It was her grandmother who nurtured and protected and provided for Staceyann and her older brother in the early years. But when the three were separated, Staceyann was thrust, alone, into an unfamiliar and dysfunctional home in Paradise, Jamaica. Told with grace, humor, and courage, Chin plumbs tender and unsettling memories as she writes about drifting from one home to the next, coming out as a lesbian, finding the man she believes to be her father, and ultimately, discovering her voice. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Staceyann Chin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010061/bk_adbl_010061_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 733min
    Despite the recent ferocious public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discussion "God" frequently remains vaguely and obscurely described. Are those engaged in these arguments even talking about the same thing? In a wide-ranging response to this confusion, esteemed scholar David Bentley Hart pursues a clarification of how the word "God” functions in the world’s great theistic faiths. Ranging broadly across Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Vedantic and Bhaktic Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism, Hart explores how these great intellectual traditions treat humanity’s knowledge of the divine mysteries. Constructing his argument around three principal metaphysical moments, ”being, consciousness, and bliss", the author demonstrates an essential continuity between our fundamental experience of reality and the ultimate reality to which that experience inevitably points. Thoroughly dismissing such blatant misconceptions as the deists' concept of God, as well as the fundamentalist view of the Bible as an objective historical record, Hart provides a welcome antidote to simplistic manifestoes. In doing so, he plumbs the depths of humanity’s experience of the world as powerful evidence for the reality of God and captures the beauty and poetry of traditional reflection upon the divine. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Pile. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017742/bk_adbl_017742_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Art of Hiding , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 572min
    Nina McCarrick has it all: a loving husband, two beautiful boys, a well-appointed home and more time than she knows what to do with. Life is perfect. Until her husband, Finn, is killed in a car accident and everything Nina thought she could rely on unravels. Alone, bereft and faced with a mountain of debt, Nina quickly loses her life of luxury and she begins to question whether she ever really knew the man she married. Forced to move out of her family home, Nina returns to the rundown Southampton council estate - and the sister - she thought she had left far behind. But Nina can't let herself be overwhelmed - her boys need her. To save them, and herself, she will have to do what her husband discouraged for so long: pursue a career of her own. Torn between the life she thought she knew and the reality she now faces, Nina finally must learn what it means to take control of her life. Bestselling author Amanda Prowse once again plumbs the depths of human experience in this stirring and empowering tale of one woman's loss and love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amanda Prowse. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009285/bk_brll_009285_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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