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Rebel Heart: A Prequel to Rebel Alpha (Book 5 in the Aloha Shifters: Pearls of Desire Series) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 81min
Uptown girl meets rogue biker - with a shape-shifter twist!All Cynthia was planning for the weekend was a quick escape to the countryside, where her inner dragon can stretch its wings. She wasn’t counting on a handsome, enigmatic wolf shifter coming along and sweeping her off her feet. Cynthia has always been driven by duty rather than desire. But suddenly, she finds herself making reckless, irresponsible choices and telling herself, "Just this once...."A night of sizzling passion ensues, but the question remains: Is Cal to blame for making her throw caution to the wind - or is it destiny? Maui just got hotter with this exciting new series of steamy, suspenseful paranormal romance!This short-story prequel can be listened to at any point in the Aloha Shifters: Pearls of Desire series (all stand-alone audiobooks with no cliff-hangers). "Rebel Heart" reveals Cynthia’s backstory and sets the stage for her second chance at love, a story told in the series finale, Rebel Alpha (Aloha Shifters: Pearls of Desire, Book Five - a full-length novel like the rest of the series).Aloha Shifters: Pearls of Desire is a series of sizzling paranormal romances with adult content. No cliff-hangers. Each story is a pause-resister packed with action, emotion, and romance! If you like Magnum, PI and smoldering-hot alpha shape-shifters, you'll love these audiobooks. Join these strong heroines and their alpha heroes in exotic, tropical locales full of danger and suspense! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kelsey Osborne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/136292/bk_acx0_136292_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sueño Mexicano / Mexican Dream
«EN LA VIDA HAY QUE TENER SUEÑOS LO SUFICIENTEMENTE REALISTAS PARA LLEGAR A ELLOS ANTES DE MORIR, PERO LO SUFICIENTEMENTE MOTIVANTES PARA LEVANTARSE TODOS LOS DÍAS A LUCHAR POR ELLOS.» Don Arnoldo de la Rocha es originario de la sierra de Chihuahua. Aprendió a trabajar la tierra desde los seis años, usó zapatos a partir de los ocho y entró a la escuela a los once. Forzada por la necesidad, su familia dejó el campo para instalarse en la ciudad. Luego de tocar fondo durante un turbulento periodo de adaptación al nuevo entorno, Arnoldo recibió una llamada que le cambiaría la vida: su tío lo invitaba a que aprendiera el oficio de asar pollos al carbón en su local para que después abriera su propia parrilla en otra ciudad. Desarraigado, inconforme, hambriento literal y figurativamente, soñador, Arnoldo tomó la oportunidad, aunque se resistía a abandonar los paradigmas con los que había crecido. Con el tiempo, descubrió su pasión por el negocio y, junto con sus socios, reunió los locales de la familia bajo la marca Pollo Feliz, la cual se volvería una exitosa cadena de restaurantes en México y el sur de Estados Unidos. El tercer libro de la colección Conecta México consiste en una historia de una familia que dejó el campo persiguiendo un sueño y lo cumplió tras una parrilla, que convirtió sus locales en un laboratorio de emprendedores y que finalmente alcanzó la prosperidad. Un camino cuesta arriba en todos los sentidos hacia la trascendencia que se acompaña de profundas reflexiones, enseñanzas de vida y consejos para los jóvenes emprendedores. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "IN LIFE YOU MUST HAVE PRACTICAL DREAMS IN ORDER TO FULFILL THEM BEFORE YOU DIE, BUT ALSO ENCOURAGING ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU GET UP EVERYDAY TO FIGHT FOR THEM." Don Arnoldo de la Rocha was born in the mountain range of Chihuahua. He learned to work the land since he was six years old, didn't wear shoes until he turned eight, and had his first school day at eleven. Out of necessity, his family left the countryside and moved to the city. After hitting rock bottom during a troubled adjustment period to this new environment, Arnoldo got a phone call that would change his life. His uncle invited him to learn the trade of grilling chicken at his local restaurant so he could open up his own grill in a different city. Rootless, dissatisfied, literally and figuratively hungry, dreamer Arnoldo took the chance, even though he felt reluctant to abandon the paradigms he was raised with. Over time, Arnoldo discovered his passion for business and, along with his partners, he combined all family grills under the brand Pollo Feliz, which became a successful restaurant chain in Mexico and the American south. The third installment in the collection Conecta México is the story of a family that left the countryside to pursue a dream and fulfilled it behind a grill, turning their businesses into an entrepreneur workshop that ultimately became prosperous. It was an uphill climb to transcendence in every way, accompanied by deep reflection, life lessons, and advice for young entrepreneurs.- Shop: buecher
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The Complete Art of World Building
Creating a unique, immersive setting one world at a time A guide for authors, gamers, and hobbyists The Complete Art of World Building brings together volumes 1-3 in The Art of World Building series. This how-to guide will make readers a master of inventing imaginary worlds and help a setting stand out from the multitude of fantasy and SF worlds audiences see. Creating Life (#1) teaches readers how to create gods, species/races, plants, animals, monsters, world figures, and even undead. Creating Places (#2) teaches how to create planets, moons, continents, land features, bodies of water, sovereign powers, settlements, interesting locales, and maps. Learn the different government types, how climate impacts vegetation, and consistently calculate how long it takes to travel by horse, wagon, sailing vessels, dragon, or in space. Cultures and Beyond (#3) teaches how to create cultures, organizations, armed forces, religions, the supernatural, magic systems, technological and supernatural items, languages, names, and various systems our world will have, from health, educational, legal, and commerce, to information systems. The series draws on author Randy Ellefson's quarter century of world building experience and will quickly turn a beginner into an expert, making a time-consuming project more fun, easier, and faster. Ellefson shares his experiences, lessons learned, and insights, including how much of your creations can realistically be mentioned during storytelling, how far creators should go, and what the benefits/risks to each approach might be. Elevate your work above the competition. Build better, faster.- Shop: buecher
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Digital Nomads (eBook, ePUB)
A small but growing group of today's knowledge workers actively seek a lifestyle of freedom, using technology to perform their jobs, traveling far and wide, and moving as often as they like. These digital nomads have left their local coffee shops behind and now proudly post their "office of the day" photos from exotic locales, but what do their lives really look like? In Digital Nomads, Rachael Woldoff and Robert Litchfield take readers into an expatriate digital nomad community in Bali, Indonesia to better understand this growing demographic of typically Millennial workers. Through dozens of interviews and several stints living in a digital nomad hub, Woldoff and Litchfield present new answers to classic questions about community, creativity, and work. They further show why digital nomads leave their conventional lives behind, arguing that creative class and Millennial workers, though successful, often feel that their "world class cities" and desirable jobs are anything but paradise. They first follow their transitions into freelancing, entrepreneurship, and remote work, then explain how digital nomads create a fluid but intimate community abroad in the company of like-minded others. Ultimately, Woldoff and Litchfield provide insight into digital nomads' efforts to live and work in ways that balance freedom, community, and creative fulfillment in the digital age. A sympathetic yet critical take on this emerging group of workers, Digital Nomads provides a revealing take on the changing nature of work and the problems of the new economy.- Shop: buecher
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Gwendy's Button Box (eBook, ePUB)
'A resonant novella set in one of King's signature locales: the small town of Castle Rock, Maine' Washington PostThe small town of CASTLE ROCK, MAINE has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but there is one story that has never been told...until now.There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974 twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong (if time-rusted) iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside.At the top of the stairs, Gwendy catches her breath and listens to the shouts of the kids on the playground. From a bit farther away comes the chink of an aluminum bat hitting a baseball as the Senior League kids practice for the Labor Day charity game.One day, a stranger calls to Gwendy: 'Hey, girl. Come on over here for a bit. We ought to palaver, you and me.'On a bench in the shade sits a man in black jeans, a black suit coat, and a white shirt unbuttoned at the top. On his head is a small neat black hat. The time will come when Gwendy has nightmares about that hat...Journey back to Castle Rock in this chilling new novella by Stephen King, bestselling author of The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, and Richard Chizmar, award-winning author of A Long December.- Shop: buecher
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The Caves of Fear: A Rick Brant Science Adventure Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 332min
Heavy water. The Joint Army-Navy Intelligence Group, (JANIG), a science secret service has discovered that someone is shipping heavy water, often used for atomic purposes, from a secret source in Asia. JANIG's mission is to make sure that science does not get misused. A coded telegram is received by Rick Brandt on Spindrift Island from his Hindu friend Chada. Spindrift Island is a scientific research facility off the coast of New Jersey. After decoding the telegram, Hanson Brandt, Rick's father telephones JANIG to discuss the telegram's contents. JANIG quickly enlists the aid of Rick, his ex-Marine friend Scotty, and a nuclear physicist named Zircon from the research facility to discover the source of the heavy water and if it is being used for nefarious purposes. Upon arriving in Hong Kong, the trio is plunged into a whirlwind of danger and mystery.Rick Brant is the central character in a series of 24 adventure and mystery novels by John Blaine, a pen name for Harold L. Goodwin. Goodwin was a popular science writer with a strong technical background and a sense of style unusual in the juvenile adventure-series field. The series has a scientific tone and is realistic for the time period in which the books are penned. The books are suspenseful, well-plotted, and enriched by humor and important characterization as well as personal experience. Exotic locales such as tropical islands, the Philippine jungles, and the Himalayas are given vivid and well-researched descriptions. All in all, a good fun listen for teens of all ages. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Weiss. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/003001/bk_mike_003001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 454min
Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Today Manto is an acknowledged master of twentieth-century Urdu literature, and his fiction serves as a lens through which the tragedy of partition is brought sharply into focus. In The Pity of Partition, Manto's life and work serve as a prism to capture the human dimension of sectarian conflict in the final decades and immediate aftermath of the British raj. Ayesha Jalal draws on Manto's stories, sketches, and essays, as well as a trove of his private letters, to present an intimate history of partition and its devastating toll. Probing the creative tension between literature and history, she charts a new way of reconnecting the histories of individuals, families, and communities in the throes of cataclysmic change. Jalal brings to life the people, locales, and events that inspired Manto's fiction, which is characterized by an eye for detail, a measure of wit and irreverence, and elements of suspense and surprise. In turn, she mines these writings for fresh insights into everyday cosmopolitanism in Bombay and Lahore, the experience and causes of partition, the postcolonial transition, and the advent of the Cold War in South Asia. The first in-depth look in English at this influential literary figure, The Pity of Partition demonstrates the revelatory power of art in times of great historical rupture. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sanjiv Jhaveri. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011678/bk_adbl_011678_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lure of the Tiger: Aloha Shifters - Jewels of the Heart, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 487min
Ruthless assassin or irresistible bodyguard?Named one of the 100 Best Paranormal Books of All Time by Book Authority!Tiger shifter Cruz Khala doesn’t trust humans. He doesn’t trust destiny either - not even when it sends him the one woman capable of saving his tormented soul. But there’s more than love at stake as merciless shifter forces gather on sunny Maui, intent on stealing a priceless jewel with mysterious powers. Before he knows it, Cruz becomes the last line of defense between pure evil and the sapphire - and the only one capable of saving his destined mate’s life.Footloose and carefree? Not anymore. Jody Monroe, pro surfer, is a woman on a mission - until an unknown gunman turns her world upside down. She escapes thanks to a stealthy, enigmatic stranger with haunting, yellow-green eyes who arouses all her fears - and her desires. Cruz is a contradiction: Gruff and grouchy, painfully private, yet tender and protective of those he loves. And sexy. Mouthwateringly sexy, all the damn time. Soon, Jody’s life isn’t the only thing on the line - her heart is, too.Aloha Shifters: Jewels of The Heart is a thrilling new series set on the tropical shores of Maui. Each story is a pause-resister packed with action, emotion, and romance! Magnum, PI with a shifter twist (a smoldering hot, alpha shapeshifter twist)!No cliff hangers. Each story is a stand-alone paranormal romance with adult content. This story includes strong heroines, alpha heroes, werewolves and shapeshifters, billionaires, military heroes, paranormal suspense, action-adventure romance, fantasy romance, and exotic, tropical locales! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kelsey Osborne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/096408/bk_acx0_096408_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions, Hörbuch, Digital, 325min
Ugly Americans is the true story of John Malcolm, a Princeton graduate who traveled halfway around the world in search of the American dream and pulled off a trade that could be described as the biggest deal in the history of the financial markets. Without speaking a word of Japanese, with barely a penny in his pocket, Malcolm was thrown into the bizarre life of an ex-pat trader. Surrounded by characters ripped right out of a Hollywood thriller, he quickly learned how to survive in a cutthroat world, at the feet of the biggest players the markets have ever known. Malcolm was first an assistant trading huge positions for Nick Leeson, the rogue trader who brought down Barings Bank, the oldest in England. He was the right-hand man to an enigmatic and brilliant hedge-fund cowboy, Dean Carney, and grew into one of the biggest derivatives traders in all of Asia. Along the way, Malcolm fell in love with the daughter of a Yakuza gangster, built a vast fortune out of thin air, and came head to head with violent Japanese mobsters. Malcolm and his twentysomething, Ivy League-schooled colleagues rode the crashing waves of the Asian markets during the mid-to late 1990s, culminating in a single deal the likes of which had never been seen before, or since. A real-life mixture of Liar's Poker and Wall Street, brimming with intense action, romance, underground sex, vivid locales, and exotic characters, Ugly Americans is the untold, true story that will rock the financial community and redefine an era. Language: English. Narrator: Ben Mezrich. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/000775/bk_harp_000775_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Ottoman Empire, Hörbuch, Digital, 1124min
By understanding the dramatic story of the Ottoman Empire - from its early years as a collection of raiders and conquerors to its undeniable power in the 15th and 16th centuries to its catastrophic collapse in the wreckage of the First World War - one can better grasp the current complexities of the Middle East. Over the course of these 36 enlightening lectures, investigate over 600 years of history that covers the nature of Ottoman identity, the achievements of the Sultan's court, and stories of confrontation and cooperation with the West. Befitting a story of such epic scope and grandeur, every lecture is a treasure trove of historical insights into the people, events, themes, and locales responsible for shaping the story of this often-overlooked empire. You'll cover everything from Rumi, the whirling dervishes, and the importance of the sultan's grand viziers to the wars of Sultan Suleiman I, the shadowy politics of the Committee of Union and Progress, and the birth of the Turkish Republic under Kemal Atatürk. Welcome to a fascinating story of the triumph and tragedy, war and peace, intellectual progress and civil insurrection of a great empire that, for all its glory and grandeur, has left an important legacy that will shape the future of the Balkan nation-states, the Turkish Republic, and the Arab world - and those of us in the West as well. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Kenneth W. Harl. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000471/bk_tcco_000471_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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