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    Manna from Hades: The Cornish Mysteries, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 546min
    Eleanor Trewynn is a widow of some years living in Port Mabyn, a small fishing village in Cornwall, England. In her younger days, she traveled the exotic parts of the world with her husband. These days she's retired and founded the local charity shop. Her niece, Megan Pencarrow, transferred nearby and was recently promoted to the rank of Detective Sergeant. Perhaps the only downside is that she is now working for a DI who doesn't approve of women on the police force and who really doesn't much approve of Megan's aunt Eleanor, as she is something of a thorn in his rather substantial side. All of these factors collide when, the day after collecting donations, Eleanor and the vicar's wife find the dead body of a long-haired, scruffy-looking youth hidden in the stockroom of the charity shop. Then they discover that some donated jewelry thought to be fake is actually very real, very expensive, and the haul from a violent robbery in London. Making matters more complex, the corpse found in the storeroom is apparently not one of the robbers. Carola Dunn's Manna from Hades is a confounding Cornish case of daring theft, double-cross, and a wily older woman confronted by a case of murder most foul. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wanda McCaddon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009617/bk_blak_009617_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 726min
    The secret history of our most vital organ - the human heart The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries - which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived - to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives, almost defying nature in the process. Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously animated object, the heart is still more a mystery than it is understood. Why do most animals only get one billion beats? (And how did modern humans get to over two billion - effectively letting us live out two lives?) Why are sufferers of gingivitis more likely to have heart attacks? Why do we often undergo expensive procedures when cheaper ones are just as effective? What do Da Vinci, Mary Shelley, and contemporary Egyptian archaeologists have in common? And what does it really feel like to touch your own heart, or to have someone else's beating inside your chest? Rob Dunn's fascinating history of our hearts brings us deep inside the science, history, and stories of the four chambers we depend on most. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Fass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/001924/bk_hach_001924_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    MARCO POLO Reiseführer Jamaika
    Kompakte Informationen, Insider-Tipps, Erlebnistouren und digitale Extras:Entdecken Sie mit MARCO POLO die Karibikinsel von den Sandstränden der Nordküste bis zu den Wasserfällen im grünen Landesinneren - mit dem MARCO POLO Reiseführer kommen Sie sofort auf Jamaika an. Erfahren Sie, welche Highlights Sie neben einer Fahrt durch die Blue Mountains und dem Klettern über die Dunn's River Falls nicht verpassen dürfen, wo Sie ungestört chillen können und dass Sie in Barney's Hummingbird Garden scheue Kolibris aus der Nähe beobachten können.Die Insider-Tipps des Autors lassen Sie Jamaika individuell und authentisch erleben und mit den Low-Budget-Tipps sparen Sie bares Geld. Erkunden Sie Jamaika in all seinen Facetten mit den maßgeschneiderten MARCO POLO Erlebnistouren. Das speziell dafür entwickelte Design sorgt - schon beim Lesen und umso mehr vor Ort - für größtmögliche Orientierung.Die kostenlose Touren-App führt Sie digital (und ohne Roaminggebühren) auf den besonderen Wegen der Erlebnistouren. Und Events&News mit aktuellen Veranstaltungen (Ausstellungen, Konzerten, Festivals, Sportevents...) für die nächsten 3 Monate, brandaktuellen Informationen zu den Printinhalten und zusätzlichen Insider-Tipps hält Sie immer auf dem neuesten Stand. In jedem Band gibt es einen übersichtlichen Reiseatlas und eine herausnehmbare Faltkarte - in beide sind natürlich die Erlebnistouren eingetragen.
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    The Nature of Love , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 349min
    Let yourself be swept away as you listen to this collection of three romantic novellas about women who fall in love as they explore the beauty of the earth. Best-selling author Marian Snowe takes you on a journey through forests and across the waves, telling the stories of courageous women who find love where they least expect it. The Nature of Love includes these three novellas: Two Alone: All Ivy Wilson wants is a little privacy after going through a distressing public humiliation. While on a hike deep in the woods, Ivy meets Sawyer, a gorgeous, tree-climbing adventurer...and Ivy can't resist her allure. Being out in the wilderness means they'll have plenty of privacy, but what will Ivy do when she finds out that dating Sawyer could drag her even farther into the spotlight? Rescue Me: Elise Giordano wants an opportunity to impress Sasha, the charismatic leader of the marine animal rescue where Elise volunteers and the woman of Elise's dreams. Elise never guessed that an entangled mother humpback whale and her calf would provide that opportunity, but when the two women rush to the rescue, a love as deep as the ocean begins to surface. Love Birds: Alexandria Dunn's quiet, boring life gets a splash of color when she discovers a love of birds and birdwatching. At her first birdwatching event, Alexandria meets Nell, a beautiful and enthusiastic tour guide. When a series of misfortunes result in Alexandria being the only participant, Nell shows her a romantic afternoon that changes both of their lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lauren Hartzog. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/099400/bk_acx0_099400_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 469min, (USK 18)
    A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome's first great poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man's wife and made it known to the world through his timeless verse. Famed for his lyrical, subversive voice, Catullus was Rome's first and foremost poet. Amid the death of the Roman Republic, his life, as told through his poetry, was beset with love, loss, political conflict and, above all, a desire for escape. Catullus' Bedspread follows the young poet's journey from his native Verona to Rome, filled with the all indulgences and sexual social mores of the time, and then his lasting affair with the married Clodia, whom he would immortalise in his poetry. While Catullus and Clodia made love in the shadows, the whole of Italy was quaking as Caesar, Pompey and Crassus forged a doomed allegiance. When the older Clodia in turn betrayed Catullus for another man, the result was his greatest work, 'Poem 64': the wonderful, mythical tale of a sorrowful marriage and a lover's desertion, told through a picture on a bedspread. For a year Catullus turned his back on Rome, Italy and love. In his journey of escapism he encountered new geography, new cultures and, at last, an understanding that there was no escape, that yearning for the past, recent or ancient is futile. Following a brush with the might of Caesar and a cunning evasion, Catullus died at the age of just 30. Drawing on his peerless poetry and turbulent circumstances, Daisy Dunn's immediate narrative rediscovers Catullus the man, Rome's most modern poet - oscillating between the glorious past and the vivid, sensual present. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Grady. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002269/bk_hcuk_002269_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Death by Liberalism : The Fatal Outcome of Well-Meaning Liberal Policies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 556min
    More Americans have been killed by well-meaning liberal policies than by all the wars of the last century combined. J. R. Dunn not only analyzes the unintended consequences of liberal policies, but argues that these consequences have resulted in millions of fatalities in the United States and around the world. Liberalism sees itself as a rational and helpful philosophy that seeks to use the benign power of the government to improve our safety, health, and general welfare. In doing so, it relies on the authority of experts to devise the most rational means of realizing these goals. Unfortunately, when these well-meaning plans go awry, as they too often do, the results can be disastrous, even deadly. As J. R. Dunn persuasively argues in this thoroughly documented book, death by liberalism occurs in all fields and at all levels of society. Motorists, workers, even children taken under the state's protection all have fallen victim to liberal policies. What's more, the numbers are staggering. Liberalism can be implicated in the deaths of hundreds of thousands in this country, and millions worldwide. Dunn's detailed and deliberative account takes no cheap shots but relies on well-established facts to show liberalism's fatal consequences in numerous aspects of our lives, from crime and abortion to fuel-efficiency standards and the banning of DDT, from gun control to urban renewal. Dunn also pinpoints areas in which liberal interventions in the making are likely to produce more suffering and death, such as legal euthanasia, and identifies some of the leading liberals - including George Soros - behind the spread of these lethal initiatives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Blumenfeld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002796/bk_adbl_002796_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    MARCO POLO Reiseführer Jamaika (eBook, ePUB)
    MARCO POLO E-Books sind besonders praktisch für unterwegs und sparen Gewicht im Reisegepäck! Ab sofort sind Sie noch besser für Ihre nächste Reise ausgerüstet - alle Karten aus dem E-Book lassen sich jetzt mit einem Klick downloaden, ausdrucken, mitnehmen oder für später speichern. Weitere Zusatzfunktionen: - Einfaches Navigieren durch praktische Links - Weblinks führen direkt zu den Websites der Tipps - Offline-Karten und Google Maps-Links - zur schnellen Routenplanung Tipp: Erstellen Sie Ihren persönlichen Reiseplan durch Lesezeichen und Notizen... und durchsuchen Sie das E-Book mit der praktischen Volltextsuche! E-Book basiert auf: 3. Auflage 2019 Kompakte Informationen, Insider-Tipps, Erlebnistouren und digitale Extras: Entdecken Sie mit MARCO POLO die Karibikinsel von den Sandstränden der Nordküste bis zu den Wasserfällen im grünen Landesinneren - mit dem MARCO POLO Reiseführer kommen Sie sofort auf Jamaika an. Erfahren Sie, welche Highlights Sie neben einer Fahrt durch die Blue Mountains und dem Klettern über die Dunn's River Falls nicht verpassen dürfen, wo Sie ungestört chillen können und dass Sie in Barney's Hummingbird Garden scheue Kolibris aus der Nähe beobachten können. Die Insider-Tipps des Autors lassen Sie Jamaika individuell und authentisch erleben und mit den Low-Budget-Tipps sparen Sie bares Geld. Erkunden Sie Jamaika in all seinen Facetten mit den maßgeschneiderten MARCO POLO Erlebnistouren Die kostenlose Touren-App führt Sie digital (und ohne Roaminggebühren) auf den besonderen Wegen der Erlebnistouren. Und Events&News mit aktuellen Veranstaltungen (Ausstellungen, Konzerten, Festivals, Sportevents...) für die nächsten 3 Monate, brandaktuellen Informationen zu den Inhalten und zusätzlichen Insider-Tipps hält Sie immer auf dem neuesten Stand.
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    Superfluous Women (eBook, ePUB)
    The Honorable Daisy Dalrymple-Fletcher is on a convalescent trip in the countryside, visiting old school friends. The three of them, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of the generation of 'superfluous women', brought up expecting marriage and a family, but left without any prospects after more than 700,000 British men were killed in the Great War. Daisy and her husband Alec - Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, of Scotland Yard - are invited for Sunday lunch, where one of the women mentions a wine cellar below the house which remains resolutely locked. Alec picks the lock but when he eventually opens the door, what greets them is not a cache of wine, but the stench of a dead body. And with that, what was a pleasant Sunday lunch becomes a much darker affair. Now Daisy's three friends are the suspects in a murder and her husband Alec is a witness.. So before the local detective, DI Underwood, can officially bring charges against her friends, Daisy is determined to use all her resources and skills to solve the mystery behind this perplexing locked-room crime.Critical Praise for The Daisy Dalrymple novels by Carola Dunn: "The period sense remains vivid, the characterizations are excellent, and the mysteries are, if anything, more perplexing than ever." The Oregonian on Rattle His Bones "Styx and Stones is a swift, deeply enjoyable read. While Dunn's influences are many, she ultimately makes this territory her own." The Register-Guard "Reading like an Agatha Christie thriller, Rattle His Bones is a charming look at life after the first World War." Romantic Times "Dunn captures the melting pot of Prohibition-era New York with humorous characterizations and a vivid sense of place, and with careful plotting lays out an enjoyable tale of adventure." Publisher's Weekly on The Case of the Murdered Muckraker
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    Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind
    The co-founder of the menswear startup Bonobos opens up about the struggle with bipolar disorder that nearly cost him everything in this gripping, radically honest memoir of mental illness and entrepreneurship. "Arrestingly candid . . . the most powerful book I've read on manic depression since An Unquiet Mind."-Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of WorkLife ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022-Forbes At twenty-eight, fresh from Stanford's MBA program and steeped in the move-fast-and-break-things ethos of Silicon Valley, Andy Dunn was on top of the world. He was building a new kind of startup-a digitally native, direct-to-consumer brand-out of his Manhattan apartment. Bonobos was a new-school approach to selling an old-school product: men's pants. Against all odds, business was booming. Hustling to scale the fledgling venture, Dunn raised tens of millions of dollars while boundaries between work and life evaporated. As he struggled to keep the startup afloat, Dunn was haunted by a ghost: a diagnosis of bipolar disorder he received after a frightening manic episode in college, one that had punctured the idyllic veneer of his midwestern upbringing. He had understood his diagnosis as an unspeakable shame that-according to the taciturn codes of his fraternity, the business world, and even his family-should be locked away. As Dunn's business began to take off, however, some of the very traits that powered his success as a founder-relentless drive, confidence bordering on hubris, and ambition verging on delusion-were now threatening to undo him. A collision course was set in motion, and it would culminate in a night of mayhem-one poised to unravel all that he had built. Burn Rate is an unconventional entrepreneurial memoir, a parable for the twenty-first-century economy, and a revelatory look at the prevalence of mental illness in the startup community. With intimate prose, Andy Dunn fearlessly shines a light on the dark side of success and challenges us all to take part in the deepening conversation around creativity, performance, and disorder.
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    Burn Rate (eBook, ePUB)
    The co-founder of the menswear startup Bonobos opens up about the struggle with bipolar disorder that nearly cost him everything in this gripping, radically honest memoir of mental illness and entrepreneurship. "Arrestingly candid . . . the most powerful book I've read on manic depression since An Unquiet Mind."-Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of WorkLife ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022-Forbes At twenty-eight, fresh from Stanford's MBA program and steeped in the move-fast-and-break-things ethos of Silicon Valley, Andy Dunn was on top of the world. He was building a new kind of startup-a digitally native, direct-to-consumer brand-out of his Manhattan apartment. Bonobos was a new-school approach to selling an old-school product: men's pants. Against all odds, business was booming. Hustling to scale the fledgling venture, Dunn raised tens of millions of dollars while boundaries between work and life evaporated. As he struggled to keep the startup afloat, Dunn was haunted by a ghost: a diagnosis of bipolar disorder he received after a frightening manic episode in college, one that had punctured the idyllic veneer of his midwestern upbringing. He had understood his diagnosis as an unspeakable shame that-according to the taciturn codes of his fraternity, the business world, and even his family-should be locked away. As Dunn's business began to take off, however, some of the very traits that powered his success as a founder-relentless drive, confidence bordering on hubris, and ambition verging on delusion-were now threatening to undo him. A collision course was set in motion, and it would culminate in a night of mayhem-one poised to unravel all that he had built. Burn Rate is an unconventional entrepreneurial memoir, a parable for the twenty-first-century economy, and a revelatory look at the prevalence of mental illness in the startup community. With intimate prose, Andy Dunn fearlessly shines a light on the dark side of success and challenges us all to take part in the deepening conversation around creativity, performance, and disorder.
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