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    Miss You : Story of Love/Jiai Jouwa, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 600min, (USK 18)
    The Jiai Jouwa (Story of Love) series takes a look into how one lesbian relationship overcomes the dichotomies that can keep two hearts apart: age, class, social expectations, and distance. Ten years ago, Saya escaped a forced marriage in the house of Hara, granting herself the freedom to follow her will. And for ten years, she has been content to live a life of near poverty and menial labor in exchange for being the master of her own destiny. That was until she met Jun, the hotel heiress who stole her heart and taught her what love and protection could feel like. Now, Saya finds herself torn between two worlds: her girlfriend’s reality, comprised of formalities and endless wealth, and her own head, which pulls her to the isolation of the Japanese countryside. Jun wants her to settle in the city, yet Saya is not sure she can live with the pressures to conform to high society. In the midst of this dilemma is the one thing Saya wants more than anything else – a divorce from the man who tried to ruin her life. But the leash connecting her to the Haras runs long, and Saya soon finds that her heart’s call of “Aitai,” or “I want to see you,” not only echoes for Jun when they are apart, but for the people who forced her to become the woman she is today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laura Angell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/198808/bk_acx0_198808_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Cinderella, Hörbuch, Digital, 17min
    Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper(French: Cendrillon or La Petite Pantoufle de verre), is a very famous European folk tale. Once upon a time, there was a wealthy widower who married a proud and haughty woman as his second wife. She had two daughters, who were equally vain and selfish. By his first wife, he'd had a beautiful young daughter, a girl of unparalleled goodness and sweet temper. The stepmother and her daughters forced the first daughter into servitude, where she was made to work day and night doing menial chores. One day, the Prince invited all the young ladies in the land to a ball, planning to choose a wife from amongst them. The two stepsisters gleefully planned their wardrobes for the ball, and taunted Cinderella by telling her that maids were not invited to the ball. As the sisters departed to the ball, Cinderella cried in despair. Her Fairy Godmother magically appeared and immediately began to transform Cinderella from house servant to the young lady she was by birth, all in the effort to get Cinderella to the ball. She turned a pumpkin into a golden carriage, mice into horses, a rat into a coachman, and lizards into footmen. She then turned Cinderella's rags into a beautiful jeweled gown, complete with a delicate pair of glass slippers. The Godmother told her to enjoy the ball, but warned that she had to return before midnight, when the spells would be broken... Language: English. Narrator: Katie Haigh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cids/000488/bk_cids_000488_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Jam on the Vine: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 672min
    A new American classic: a dynamic tale of triumph against the odds and the compelling story of one woman's struggle for equality that belongs alongside Jazz by Toni Morrison and The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Ivoe Williams, the precocious daughter of a Muslim cook and a metalsmith from central-east Texas, first ignites her lifelong obsession with journalism when she steals a newspaper from her mother's white employer. Living in the poor, segregated quarter of Little Tunis, Ivoe immerses herself in printed matter as an escape from her dour surroundings. She earns a scholarship to the prestigious Willetson College in Austin only to return overqualified to the menial labor offered by her hometown's racially biased employers. Ivoe eventually flees the Jim Crow South with her family and settles in Kansas City, where she and her former teacher and lover, Ona, found the first female-run African-American newspaper, Jam! On the Vine. In the throes of the Red Summer, the 1919 outbreak of lynchings, and race riots across the Midwest, Ivoe risks her freedom and her life to call attention to the atrocities of segregation in the American prison system. Skillfully interweaving Ivoe's story with the stories of her family members, LaShonda Katrice Barnett's Jam on the Vine is both an epic vision of the hardships and injustices that defined an era and a moving and compelling story of a complicated history we only thought we knew. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phylicia Rashad. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/022354/bk_adbl_022354_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Kid Stardust on the Porterhouse , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 13min
    A short story from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories "They had led me down steps, 4 floors down and it had gotten colder and colder and the floors had been covered with a sheen of blood, green floors, green walls. "I had explained my job - which was to push a button and then through this hole in the wall there was a noise like the crushing of fullbacks or elephants falling in hay, and here it came - something dead, a lot of it, bloody, and he showed me, you take it and throw it on the truck and then push the button and another one comes along, then he walked away, when he did I took off my smock, my tin hat, by boots (issued 3 size too small) and walked up the stairway and out of there.... "...I managed to open the door and get up inside the cab. It had a soft leather seat and the seat felt so good that I knew if I didn't fight it I would soon be asleep." A brutal personal treatise on the need for work, even the most menial - and the need for dignity. OBIE winner Will Patton (Remember the Titans, The Good Wife, Armageddon) recreates Bukowski in his visceral prime, along with every eye-popping character in his life, each adversary, lover, and stranger in a lost city. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Will Patton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031812/bk_adbl_031812_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mine , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 974min
    A psychopathic female fugitive provokes a mother's vengeance in this terrifying thriller by the New York Times best-selling author of Gone South and Boy's Life. Back in the 1960s, Mary Terrell shot and killed a man. A former member of the fanatical Storm Front Brigade - a splinter group of the notorious Weathermen - Terrell has stayed one step ahead of the FBI for decades. Living with numerous identities and menial jobs, Terrell's only constants in life have been LSD, psychotic delusions of motherhood, and murderous rage. The '60s are long gone, but Mary is still out there. Now, provoked by a message she reads in Rolling Stone, she's convinced that the surviving leader of her old band of radicals wants to build a life with her. So one night, Mary sneaks into the maternity ward of an Atlanta hospital. Laura Clayborne has a successful career and now a newborn baby. She's the type of person who is sensitive to suffering and injustice. But the kidnapping of her infant son has brought out a white-hot fury. She's not going to sit and wait while the FBI investigates. She's going after Mary herself - headlong and relentless - on a twisting and violent cross-country pursuit to get her child back. But to track a madwoman, Laura will have to think like one.... A Bram Stoker Award winner, this "expertly constructed novel of suspense and horror" (Publishers Weekly) from the author of Swan Song, Speaks the Nightbird, and other acclaimed works is "feverishly exciting...a page-whipping thriller" (Kirkus Reviews). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Isabelle Gordon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/032538/bk_adbl_032538_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Color Line , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1030min
    Set against the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance, The Color Line uncovers the long buried story of The Harlem Hellfighters, one of the many African-American units that served in the first World War. By focusing on the personal journey of Serval Rivard, from his wedding day to the trenches of the Western Front and home again, the story reveals not only the Hellfighters’ history, but that of two families and their place in Harlem’s most glorious era. It is 1918, and Serval Rivard is marching off to war. He isn’t after glory, just respect - despite the humiliating prospect of menial labor in a segregated army. But mounting casualties on the Western Front and a twist of fate result in his reassignment to French command. It is in France that Rivard and his fellow soldiers forever distinguish themselves as “The Harlem Hellfighters.” After surviving the horrors of No Man’s Land, Rivard returns to his bride and a community on the rise - the literary brilliance of W.E.B. DuBois and Langston Hughes, the pride of Marcus Garvey’s Back to Africa Movement, and the glamour of the Cotton Club. But as heartbreaking reports pour into Harlem of black soldiers lynched in the uniforms of their country, it becomes clear that despite the community’s progress and the military accomplishments of the Hellfighters, America’s racial divide remains immutably in place. For Rivard and his family, the Great War has ended, but a new war has begun - the war of the American Color Line. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Walker Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/145256/bk_acx0_145256_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Summary, Analysis, and Review of David Finkel's Thank You for Your Service , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 23min
    Please note: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. Journalist David Finkel, who had previously written about the experiences of an Army infantry division fighting in Baghdad, now tells the story of soldiers grappling with the after-effects of their service in Iraq. Finkel focuses primarily on Adam Schumann, an extremely capable non-commissioned officer now suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after witnessing several horrific scenes during combat as well as feeling tremendous guilt for missions he didn't go on that resulted in the death of colleagues. Schumann returned from Iraq after these events and struggled to readjust to family life. He and his wife Saskia have a strained relationship. She feels the requisite amount of guilt for the injuries that he suffered, but also believes he must put that behind him and return to serving as a husband and a provider. Because he has not won a generous disability pension, like other injured colleagues, his diminished cognition and impaired judgment have combined to limit him to menial jobs and much-reduced workloads. He also experiences mood swings and nightmares, recurring conditions that have not endeared him to Saskia, who is struggling to raise their two children. Saskia has a complicated relationship with Amanda Doster, wife of Adam's deceased friend James Doster and the beneficiary of a large Army death benefit, whom she alternately pities and envies (and borrows money from, without ever paying it back). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Gilboe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/088851/bk_acx0_088851_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Underground Adventure: Below The Green, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 105min
    The story tells of a magical and adventurous quest undertaken by two friends below the earth, through portals to new Realms, meeting allies in the form of creatures to help outwit the evil foes encountered on their journey. This is the first in a series for middle grade children and above.The pair soon meet two of the Earthlie children and explore their amazing and ingenious treehouse homes; learning about their extraordinary lives. Quinn is nine years old; he is strong, brave and has magical skills. His younger sister Vita is soon to turn eight and anticipates the accompanying Scholar ceremony on that same date. Like all Earthlie children at age eight their true Scholar nature is revealed and they join one of the schools to help develop their skills and attributes.When Maggie and James are invited to return, they hear of a calamitous occurrence. Vita and her best friend, Archer, have been caught by The Snatcher. They are taken through a portal to The Realm of The Grimms; an evil band of ogres. The Grimms are huge and are revoltingly grubby, mean and dull. They treat the youngsters as menial slaves; their only hope is to escape but even then they will have to negotiate the Dark Wilds filled with strange and usual creatures.Maggie, Quinn, and James set out to rescue the two friends in time to return for the Scholar ceremony. An adventurous rescue ensues which tests their nerves and skills. The three encounter The Wild Bandits and meet some allies en route to Argatron, the capital city of the Realm.Will they be successful and manage to return home in time for the all-important Scholar ceremony? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen Ascoe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/154920/bk_acx0_154920_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man’s Blindness into an Extraordinary Vision for Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 593min
    As seen on the Today Show and as featured in People magazine!The remarkable and inspiring story of a Columbia undergrad from a poor Jewish family who, after losing his eyesight to disease during his junior year, finds the power to break through the darkness and fulfill his vision for a life of great professional success and distinguished public service.It’s a bitterly cold February in 1961, and Sandy Greenberg lies in a hospital bed in Detroit, newly blind. A junior at Columbia University from a Jewish family that struggled to stay above the poverty line, Sandy had just started to see the world open up to him. Now, instead of his plans for a bright future - Harvard Law and politics - Sandy faces a new reality, one defined by a cane or companion dog, menial work, and a cautious path through life.But that’s not how this story ends.In the depth of his new darkness, Sandy faces a choice - play it “safe” by staying in his native Buffalo or return to Columbia to pursue his dreams. With the loving devotion of his girlfriend (and now wife) Sue and the selflessness of best friends Art Garfunkel and Jerry Speyer, Sandy endures unimaginable adversity while forging a life of exceptional achievement.From his time in the White House working for President Lyndon B. Johnson to his graduate studies at Harvard and Oxford under luminaries such as Archibald Cox, Sir Arthur Goodhart, and Samuel Huntington, and through the guidance of his invaluable mentor David Rockefeller, Sandy fills his life and the lives of those around him with a radiant light of philanthropy, entrepreneurship, art, and innovation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Art Garfunkel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/056016/bk_adbl_056016_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Learn like Einstein: Strategies and Techniques to Maximize Memory, Develop Unlimited Creativity and Discover the Genius Within , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 220min
    Albert Einstein was considered a failure back in 1895...and thanks to this book, you're about to discover the same techniques he used to learn faster, memorize better, and become a creative genius.Key word: become.Have you ever been so stressed or simply too distracted that you are unable to even concentrate on your study or work?In Learn like Einstein, you'll discover how an average college reject, laughed at by professors and scientists and confined for years to menial jobs turned into the crazy, creative genius we all know in just a few months.This book will guide you through the techniques that Einstein used to concentrate better, absorb, and retain more information, attain clarity of mind, and ultimately get a comeback in life.Inside Learn like Einstein, you will discover:The secrets to learning anything at any ageHow to improve your concentration and focus in a few hoursHow to double your reading speedHow to apply a creative approach to solving problems, even if you've never considered yourself creativeHow to learn quickly and save a lot of timeHow to absorb tons of data and information and retain them in your long-term memory - you won't easily forget themAnd much more!From developing enviable creativity to improving your reading skills, this book will give you the tools you need to overcome everyday and working life challenges.With the right tips, exercises, information, and tricks, anyone can develop the ability to think outside the box, find solutions to any problem, and succeed in life.Now is your time, too. Don't waste any more time. Start listening to this audiobook to unlock your brain's full potential! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Hopkinson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/222071/bk_acx0_222071_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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