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Insider Outsider: My Journey as a Stranger in White Evangelicalism and My Hope for Us All , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 292min
Pastor Bryan Loritts dives deep into what it's like to be a person of color in predominantly white evangelical spaces today and where we can go from here.God boldly proclaims throughout the Book of Acts that there is no "ethnic home team" when it comes to Christianity. But the minority experience in America today - and throughout history - too often tells a different story.As Loritts writes, "It is impossible to do theology devoid of cultural lenses and expressions. Like an American unaware of their own accent, most whites are unaware of the ethnic theological accent they carry." Insider Outsider bears witness to the true stories that often go untold - stories that will startle, enlighten, and herald a brighter way forward for all seeking belonging in the family of God.This seminal work on race and the church will help Christians discover:How they can learn the art of listening to stories unlike their ownIdentify the problems and pitfalls that keep Sunday morning the most segregated hour of the weekAnd participate in an active movement with God toward a holy vision of what Dietrich Bonhoeffer calls "life together"Drawing on insightful snapshots through history, eye-opening personal experiences, and biblical exposition, Loritts awakens both our minds and hearts to the painful reality of racial divides as well as the hope of forgiveness. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Justin Henry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/zond/002973/bk_zond_002973_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Art of Business Value , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 246min
Do you really understand what business value is? Information technology can and should deliver business value. But the Agile literature has paid scant attention to what business value means - and how to know whether or not you are delivering it. This problem becomes ever more critical as you push value delivery toward autonomous teams and away from requirements "tossed over the wall" by business stakeholders. An empowered team needs to understand its goal! Playful and thought-provoking, The Art of Business Value explores what business value means, why it matters, and how it should affect your software development and delivery practices. More than any other IT delivery approach, DevOps (and Agile thinking in general) makes business value a central concern. This book examines the role of business value in software and makes a compelling case for why a clear understanding of business value will change the way you deliver software. This book will make you think deeply about not only what it means to deliver value but also the relationship of the IT organization to the rest of the enterprise. It will give you the language to discuss value with the business, methods to cut through bureaucracy, and strategies for incorporating Agile teams and culture into the enterprise. Most of all, this book will startle you into new ways of thinking about the cutting-edge of Agile practice and where it may lead. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric Martin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/098478/bk_acx0_098478_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Plato's Republic, Hörbuch, Digital, 734min
More than 2,000 years later, Plato's Republic remains astonishingly relevant to our everyday lives. It poses one question after another that might well have been drawn from the headlines and debates of our nation's recent history: What sort of person should rule the state? Are all citizens equal before the law? Should everyone have equal access to health care? Plato's greater inquiry, however, was into the question of defining justice itself and the reasons why a person would choose a life aligned with that virtue. These 24 remarkable lectures lead you through the brilliant dialogue Plato crafted both to define and examine the issues with which political philosophy still grapples. Chapter by chapter, Professor Roochnik introduces you to Plato's literary recasting of his own great teacher, Socrates, and the dialogue through which Socrates and the Republic's other characters create the hypothetical ideal city. It is by dissecting life in this presumably just city - the "Republic" of Plato's title - that the nature of justice itself can be examined. Many of Plato's ideas will startle contemporary readers, who may recognize in them the foreshadowing of some of humankind's darkest moments. Indeed, some have called the Republic the "great-great-grandfather of all totalitarian experiments." You'll wrestle with Plato's controversial vision, and you'll be surprised just how contemporary these arguments sound. 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: Professor David Roochnik, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000241/bk_tcco_000241_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Smoldering Fury: Aspen Falls, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 63min
Melinda is the only woman who can touch his heart. Clay yearns for a family to love. Together, they brave more than physical dangers to find what they both seek.Clay is dedicated to the people of his town, but no one knows his secrets: The nightmares that plague him every night; the roiling anger that often simmers just beneath the surface; the seemingly innocuous sounds that unexpectedly startle him.Can Clay find peace and become the man he once was?Will Melinda risk her future on a tormented man?Can Thomas Miller overcome his resentment toward the ex-Confederate soldier?Listen to all the audioooks in Aspen Falls Series by best-selling author Ellen Anderson and Katie Wyatt.Aspen Falls SeriesBook 1 - New BeginningsBook 2 - Blind FaithBook 3 - Starry NightBook 4 - Bucking TraditionBook 5 - Smoldering FuryBook 6 - Dreams Come TrueBook 7 - Wild MustangsBook 8 - The OutbreakBook 9 - Jason’s ChallengeChristmas in Red RockBooks 1 - Catching Christmas SpiritBooks 2 - The Spark of ChristmasBooks 3 - Seeing Christmas SpiritBooks 4 - Christmas Spirit ReturnsHarvey House SeriesBook 1 - A Love So LegendaryBook 2 - A Love So UntamedBook 3 - A Love So FaithfulBook 4 - A Love So UnstagedBook 5 - A Love So MiraculousBook 6 - A Love So HealingBook 7 - A Love So BoldBook 8 - A Love So TrueBook 9 - A Love So DevotedBook 10 - A Love So EternalBook 11 - A Love So CourageousBook 12 - A Love So EnchantingMega Box Set Series51 Inspirational Sweet Western Romances Box Set: Mega Box Set Series, Book ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arwa Hezzah. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/219908/bk_acx0_219908_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Cellist
#1 New York Times Bestseller "The pace of The Cellist never slackens as its action volleys from Zurich to Tel Aviv to Paris and beyond. Mr. Silva tells his story with zest, wit and superb timing, and he engineers enough surprises to startle even the most attentive reader.” —Wall Street Journal Viktor Orlov had a long-standing appointment with death. Once Russia's richest man, he now resides in exile in London, where he is waging a crusade against the kleptocrats who have seized control of the Kremlin. His mansion is protected by armed bodyguards. Yet somehow, on a rainy summer evening, in the midst of a global pandemic, Russia's vengeful president finally manages to cross Orlov's name off his kill list. Before him was the receiver from his landline telephone, a half-drunk glass of red wine, and a stack of documents.... The documents are contaminated with a deadly nerve agent. The Metropolitan Police determine that they were delivered by one of Orlov's employees, a prominent investigative reporter. And when the reporter vanishes hours after the killing, MI6 concludes she is a Moscow Center assassin who penetrated the billionaire's formidable defenses. But Gabriel Allon believes his friends in British intelligence are dangerously mistaken. His search for the truth will take him to Geneva, where a private intelligence service is plotting an act of violence that will plunge an already divided America into chaos. Only Allon, with the help of a brilliant young woman employed by the world's dirtiest bank, can stop it....- Shop: buecher
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Horror Stories Collection: Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1894min
Four horror stories, 30+ hours of audio entertainment Horror stories are intended to frighten, startle, and even disgust the listener. The tales of blood-sucking vampires, headless horsemen, hideous creatures, and transformed humans will leave you terrified yet compelled to listen to the next.Story one: Dracula by Bram StokerBlood-thirsty Count Dracula travels across the seas to find a new source of life in the people of England. He targets young Lucy as his victim, revealing to the townspeople that a vampire has infiltrated their community. As the horror story unfolds, Dr. Abraham Van Helsing rallies the good people of the town to seek revenge on Dracula and his power of darkness.Story two: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonIn an attempt to separate the sinister, self-indulgent side of himself from the usually amiable personality, Dr. Henry Jekyll develops a potion in his laboratory that transforms him into the self-indulgent, evil Mr. Hyde. This horrific tale sheds light on the unpredictable nature of the alter ego.Story three: Frankenstein by Mary ShelleyScientist Victor Frankenstein experiments in his laboratory to impart life into nonliving matter. “The creature” takes on human characteristics and emotions, eventually asking his creator to build him a companion to ensure his right to happiness.Story four: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington IrvingA feud over the hand of a wealthy heiress Katrina Van Tassel leads to the supposed demise of one of her suitors, Ichabod Crane. As legend in Sleepy Hollow has it, a Headless Horseman, the ghost of a fallen soldier, wanders through the forest in search of his severed head. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Milton, JD Kelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/230601/bk_acx0_230601_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Run to Rome: Italy Intrigue Series Volume 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 559min
Love him and leave him. Nine months ago, undercover detective Ispettore Evalina Gallo protected her heart the only way she knew how, never expecting to see her savior-turned-one-night-stand again. When he returns to Italia - now a person of interest in an investigation of a local organized crime family - her personal connection to the rugged American gets her assigned to the case. A second chance to make things right. With his mother's pleas ringing in his ears, Ben Sanders plans to retrieve a stolen bible his father shipped to Italy 13 years ago, and then get out as fast as he can. But with the arrival of the beautiful detective, he suspects his mother's desire to right past wrongs might not be the whole truth. Destiny will not be denied. Now, less than 24 hours after entering the country, he's getting shot at - again. In a race from Milan to Rome to find the precious book before anyone else, time is ticking for the one-time lovers. Attraction burns hotter than molten lava, but amid secrets and half-truths, they must learn to trust each other if they have any hope of a future together. **Romantic suspense for 18+, contains language and sexual content. EXCERPT: "What are you doing?" His voice directly behind her made her jump about a foot and sent her pulse racing. She hadn't heard him with the rustling of branches and snapping of twigs under her own feet. Hopefully he hadn't noticed her startle. That'd be great after her embarrassing incident with the lizard. "I'm looking for a way inside. Those are some dark clouds rolling in." "You said there were no doors down here." "I'm looking for loose stones." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/025823/bk_acx0_025823_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Betrayal in Dallas: LBJ, the Pearl Street Mafia, and the Murder of President Kennedy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 383min
Finally, the truth behind the crime of the twentieth century! Here's what we now know: John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas by Mafia contract killers hired by Louisiana mob boss Carlos Marcello. Kennedy was killed in that city because it was the only place in the country where a crime of that magnitude could be committed without fear of punishment. Long-time local district attorney Henry Wade, an LBJ crony who would have sole jurisdiction over the prosecution of those responsible, had been corrupted by the local Civello crime family. Lyndon B. Johnson, while a U.S. senator during the 1950s, had accepted bribes from the same mobsters so that they could avoid deportation. With incredible detail and documentation, Mark North pieces the puzzle together to reveal how in late 1961, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and his brother John, who hated LBJ, initiated a covert Organized Crime Task Force investigation of the Civello mob in Dallas. They understood that destroying the Dallas Mafia would also destroy LBJ. Johnson, through Wade and local federal officials he had placed in power, learned of the plan and cooperated with the Civello mob to have JFK killed. Johnson did this, in part, because he had the power to control any subsequent federal investigation via FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Johnson had leverage over Hoover because he had learned that the director and his assistant Clyde Tolson were lovers. After the Mafia killed JFK, Johnson stopped Robert Kennedy's prosecution of the Dallas Mafia. Betrayal in Dallas is unlike any book written on the JFK assassination. Because its conclusions are based on classified federal documents unknown to the public and research community, it will startle and convince all those who read it. It is inevitable that, at some point, any great historical truth becomes known. Betrayal in Dallas is nothing less than the vehicle for that moment. It is what the American people have been wa ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erik Davies. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008552/bk_adbl_008552_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Randolph , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 563min
Suddenly I become aware that I am sitting down. I have absolutely no recollection of where I might be. I can't remember where I was and what I was doing last. My eyes are still closed as I try to bring my mind into gear. There is a pungent smell drifting into my nostrils. It is not one I find particularly pleasant. I only struggle for a couple of seconds to place it. The recognition comes to me swiftly. It is the smell of pee. At that I open my eyes. I am on a bench in a park. I look to my left; because that is the direction the smell is originating from. Sitting next to me is a woman and she smells of pee. She is sitting maybe a foot over from me. She is looking at me with crystal clear blue eyes. Those appear to be her best asset. Her face is grubby with a mixture of ingrained dirt and exposure to the sun. Her smile is a toothy one, but I wish she wouldn't as the teeth she does have left are stained and chipped. She is much smaller than my five foot, 10-inch height, but she probably matches my 200 pound weight, at a guess. "I see water and trees." Her words startle me as she shoots out a stubby hand, cupped for a donation. This isn't the first time John Ford has come to, not knowing where he is. The previous time was several years ago, after he had been knocked down by a car. He woke up in hospital not knowing who he is or why he had been to Charlottesville. He still doesn't know. He has had to start his life afresh. The woman sends John on a mission, apparently to try to save a homeless hostel destined to be redeveloped. The hostel was gifted by Abraham Randolph. She guides John to other people who will help him on his quest. His journey takes him from downtown Manhattan to the middle of nowhere in New England. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Milt Bighley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/099702/bk_acx0_099702_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Crystal Stair , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 165min
Welcome to my story. This book is a mere collection of nightmares, without any pretensions but to let you enter the intricate folds of my mind.I think everyone has experienced nightmares in their life, whether asleep or awake; I can well say I am an impressive expert on sleeping terrors. Close-eyed nightmares are my personal curse: I have been having them since I was a child, and I could never explain the reason why.My childhood was always related to the fear that something catastrophic was about to happen, either to me or to the people I loved. I usually felt something akin to a cold breath on my neck that made my hair stand on end; that icy, slimy hand touching your back which makes you startle, aghast. Oftentimes my vision went completely dark, so that I had to go and lie down on my bed in order to feel more at ease; yet, even entering my bedroom I dreaded what would happen when I finally closed my eyes.Things did not improve at all in my teen years: every time, soon after a dream I woke up in a sweat, shivering. After such nights, I obviously had to face life again like everyone else, though still doubtful about my future; but it was whenever I had personal choices to make, that the nightmares worsened. At those times my life easily became hell; I closed myself off entirely and always wondered what I had achieved so far and what I wanted next from my life.Over time, I have come to write my dreams down in order to understand them, alongside my wishes, to see if they come true. This has helped me shed some light more than once.But back to nightmares.I then thought to myself that I would tell you all about my terrors, embellishing each one and including them in a collection of every spine-chilling thrill I have ever experienced.I apologise for this chilly gift on my part, but my mind likewise is as cold and messy a place. It is the mind of a woman, of a fighter who openly faced evil, and chose to talk about it./ ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Subhash Chander. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173055/bk_acx0_173055_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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