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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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    Notes From a Small Island , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 629min
    After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such best sellers as The Mother Tongue and Made in America, decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland, and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people needed him. But before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of modern-day Britain, and to analyze what he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite, zebra crossings, and place names like Farleigh Wallop, Titsey, and Shellow Bowells. With wit and irreverence, Bill Bryson presents the ludicrous and the endearing in equal measure. The result is a social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Roberts. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/000866/bk_bbcw_000866_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Secret Magdalene , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1131min
    Raised like sisters, Mariamne and Salome are indulged with riches, position, and learning - a rare thing for females in ancient Jerusalem. But Mariamne has a further gift: an illness has left her with visions - she has the power of prophecy. It is her prophesying that drives the two girls to flee to Egypt, where they study philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy in the Great Library of Alexandria. After seven years they return to a Judea, where many now believe John the Baptizer is the messiah. Salome too begins to believe, but Mariamne, now called Magdalene, is drawn to his cousin, Yeshu'a, a man touched by the divine in the same way she was during her days of illness. Together they speak of sharing their direct experience of God. But Yeshu'a unexpectedly gains a reputation as a healer, and as the ill and the troubled flock to him, he and Magdalene are forced to make a terrible decision. This radical retelling of the greatest story ever told brings Mary Magdalene to life, not as a prostitute or demon-possessed, but as an educated woman who was truly the "apostle to the apostles". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernadette Dunne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000866/bk_bkot_000866_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Regency Etiquette: The Mirror of Graces (1811); or The English Lady's Costume , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 251min
    This book, written by a woman who wished to remain anonymous, covers the social customs and manners of her time, the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the times of Jane Austen and of Napoleon. It is devoted in large part to the "English lady's costume" but also covers deportment, movement, the correct dances, propriety, and aids to beauty and health. "Naturally, a 'Lady of Distinction', in coy anonymity, has written it. But this book was no joke in Regency times, and much of the advice would have been taken very much to heart....The style of writing of this period can only be described as flowery; everything is padded out with endless adjectives, adverbs, and classical references. So one receives the following advice: 'Again, I repeat, the libertine, the gross Epicurean, may feast his imbruted gaze upon a form so stripped of decency; for he is a creature whose senses are bent to the earth and the basest offerings are his banquet.' This, apparently, is the result of leaving too much shoulder showing!" (Anne Woodley, editor, Regency Collection On-Line) This audiobook will be especially indispensable to anyone interested in the times of Jane Austen, of English Regency, of Napoleon, the early United States, and the War of 1812. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nadia May. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000866/bk_blak_000866_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Open Season, Hörbuch, Digital, 290min
    She's hunting for a mateand there's no more playing it safe.Daisy Minor is bored. Worse than that, she's boring. A plain, small-town librarian, she's got a wardrobe as sexy as a dictionary and hasn't been on a date in years. She's never even had a lukewarm love affair, let alone a hot one. So when she wakes up on her 34th birthday and wonders how it is that she still lives with her widowed mom and spinster aunt while her friends have all gotten married and started families, she decides it's time to get a life - and a sex life. And as far as she can tell, good girls don't attract nearly as many men as bad ones.One makeover later, Daisy has transformed herself into a party girl extraordinaire. She's dancing the night away at clubs, and laughing and flirting with men for the first time in, well, forever. With a new lease on her own place, it's open season for manhunting.But on her way home late one night, Daisy sees something she's not supposed to see. Suddenly the target of a killer, she's forced to put her manhunt on hold.But the very moment she stops looking might be the moment she finds what she's wanted all along. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Forbes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000866/bk_sans_000866_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 435min
    The Big Ratchet is the story of the ratchets: the technologies and innovations, big and small, that propelled our species from hunters and gatherers on the savannahs of Africa to shoppers in the aisles of the supermarket. Our species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat nearly 3,000 calories every day. This is such an astonishing thing in the history of life as to verge on the miraculous. The Big Ratchet is the story of how it happened. The Big Ratchet itself came in the twentieth century, when a range of technologies - from fossil fuels to scientific plant breeding to nitrogen fertilizers - combined to nearly quadruple our population in a century, and to grow our food supply even faster. To some, these technologies are a sign of our greatness; to others, of our hubris. MacArthur fellow and Columbia University professor Ruth DeFries argues that the debate is the wrong one to have. Limits do exist, but every limit that has confronted us, we have surpassed. That cycle of crisis and growth is the story of our history; indeed, it is the essence of The Big Ratchet. Understanding it will reveal not just how we reached this point in our history, but how we might survive it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pam Ward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000866/bk_high_000866_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Broken Promise , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 783min
    The morning it all started, newspaper reporter David Harwood had plenty to worry about. A single parent with no job, forced to return with his young son to the small town of Promise Falls to live with his parents, the future wasn't looking too rosy. So when his mother asked him to look in on his cousin, Marla, who was still not quite right after losing her baby, it was almost a relief to put the disaster his own life had become to one side. The relief wouldn't last long. When he gets to Marla's house he's disturbed to find a smear of blood on the front door. He's even more disturbed to find Marla nursing a baby, a baby she claims was delivered to her "by an angel". And when, soon after, a woman's body is discovered across town, stabbed to death, with her own baby missing, it looks as if Marla has done something truly terrible. But while the evidence seems overwhelming, David just can't believe that his cousin is a murderer. In which case, who did kill Rosemary Gaynor? And why did they then take her baby and give it to Marla? With the police convinced they have an open and shut case, it's up to David to find out what really happened, but he soon discovers that the truth could be even more disturbing.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Quincy Dunn Baker, Brian O'Neill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000866/bk_orio_000866_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Art Can Heal Your Life: Techniques for Self-Healing Through the Creative Process, Hörbuch, Digital, 187min
    How art heals is a mystery as old as civilization itself. To the first shamans, no remedy was more important than the medicine of the imagination. Now you can learn to access this natural medicine and explore your own soul's capacity for self-healing with Shaun McNiff's Art Can Heal Your Life. For the past 30 years, artist and art therapist Shaun McNiff has worked in this same tradition, seeking ways to engage the healing energy that exists within art and building a case for a new "therapy of the imagination" that today is practiced worldwide. The making of art, McNiff teaches, can serve as the "foundation of a revolutionary and pragmatic treatment" for our psychic ills. In Art Can Heal Your Life, he explains how this discipline allows your imagination to actually treat itself,through an innate process as simple as speaking, drawing, and moving. In easy-to-follow language, McNiff guides you through the key principles of his pioneering methods - from choosing materials and getting started to interpreting and dialoguing with the images you create to using movement, sound, and writing to build on your expressive resources. No special skills or techniques are required, just a mind open to the mystery contained within the healing images you create yourself. The medicine you need to heal is as close and abundant as your own imagination. Return now to this timeless tradition for self-healing through creative expression,with Art Can Heal Your Life. Language: English. Narrator: Shaun McNiff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/true/000866/sp_true_000866_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Global Soccer Mom: Changing the World Is Easier Than You Think , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 274min
    Women are the caretakers of the world. Yet global HIV and AIDS and extreme poverty can seem overwhelming. Even if these things break our mother's hearts, how is a busy, full-time mom to get engaged and make a difference? Global Soccer Mom shows that everyday moms care deeply about these issues and long to engage the world in a meaningful way. Busy women everywhere will resonate with Shayne's story as a mother of three who learned she could make a difference on the global level. Follow Shayne's journey - sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant - and learn how you can get involved too. Activist Shayne Moore knows the challenge of managing a home and the desire to make a difference for those who are suffering. As a full-time mom, she has journeyed from an insular suburban world into the arena of global advocacy, where she's worked alongside media superstars to effect change. Using the power of story, she inspires women everywhere to start right where they are and make a real difference. Moore's work has taken her far beyond her comfortable suburban home. She's travelled to international summits and was featured in a commercial with Julia Roberts, George Clooney, and Matt Damon. She's been interviewed by CNN, NBC, and The Wall Street Journal, and featured in a photo shoot in Vanity Fair's Africa issue. You CAN make a difference. Real change starts right where you are. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shayne Moore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/zond/000866/bk_zond_000866_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Manage Your Time to Reduce Your Stress: A Handbook for the Overworked, Overscheduled, and Overwhelmed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 259min
    A self-improvement guru's inspiring and effective tips for gaining control of our Herculean workloads and overbooked personal lives. How often do you think to yourself, So much to do and so little time? In the sympathetic and insightful style of The Procrastinator's Handbook, Rita Emmett offers help for those of us with too much to do. The key is not time management but "stuff" management - taking control of all those tasks to do, people to see, commitments and obligations to fulfill. Mismanagement of all that "to-do" stuff is what leads to stress.We often have little control over the demands made upon us, yet we can control our response. That's where the management of stress must start. Emmett combines quick, easy-to-digest tips and infectious good humor to give listeners positive ways to handle stress and their overly busy lives, first by understanding how stress impacts our physical, mental, and emotional health. She shows us how to cut down on distractions and interruptions that sap our concentration and energy, be more organized and streamline our duties, ask for help and be more selective about what we choose to do, and clarify our values and prioritize activities based on what is important. Spending time doing things that are incongruent with your values, striving for perfection, being overly competitive, and job insecurity are some of the reasons people feel overburdened and overwhelmed. Emmett draws on the stories of many people who have participated in her seminars, and listeners will not only identify with their problems but can find common ground in the strategies that have worked for them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rita Emmett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/000866/bk_aren_000866_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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