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    Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match, Hörbuch, Digital, 476min
    Wedlock is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britain's richest young heiresses. She married the Count of Strathmore who died young, and pregnant with her lover's child, Mary became engaged to George Gray. Then in swooped Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary was bowled over and married him within the week. But nothing was as it seemed. Stoney was broke, and his pursuit of the wealthy Countess a calculated ploy. Once married to Mary, he embarked on years of ill treatment, seizing her lands, beating her, terrorising servants, introducing prostitutes to the family home, kidnapping his own sister. But finally after many years, a servant helped Mary to escape. She began a high-profile divorce case that was the scandal of the day and was successful. But then Andrew kidnapped her and undertook a week-long rampage of terror and cruelty until the law finally caught up with him. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca Hall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000336/bk_orio_000336_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Will the Boat Sink the Water: The Life of China's Peasants , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 484min
    The Chinese Economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the 15th century.Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi undertook a three-year survey of what had happened to the peasants in one of the poorest provinces, Anhui, asking the question: have the peasants been betrayed by the revolution undertaken in their name by Mao and his successors? The result is a brilliant narrative of life among the poor, a vivid portrait of the petty dictators that run China's villages and counties, and the consequences of their bullying despotism on the people they administer.Told principally through four dramatic narratives, Will the Boat Sink the Water? gives voice to the unheard masses and looks beneath the gloss of the new China to find the truth about its vast population of rural poor. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Chen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001084/bk_adbl_001084_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO’s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 411min
    In addition to his work as an entrepreneur, corporate executive, and consultant, for the last 16 years August Turak worked alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey, watching firsthand as they undertook new enterprises and sustained an incredibly successful business practice. Service and selflessness are at the heart of this 1,500-year-old monastic tradition’s remarkable business success, an ancient though immensely relevant economic model that preserves what is positive and productive about capitalism while transcending its ethical limitations and internal contradictions. Combining the lessons he's learned from 30 years of business experience with intimate portraits of the monks at work, Turak shows how Trappist principles have been successfully applied in a variety of business settings. He demonstrates how the monks and such agnostics as Warren Buffett are wildly successful not despite their fanatical commitment to the highest principles but because of them. Turak also points to other transformational organizations that share critical components of the abbey’s philosophy conducive to success. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: August Turak. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018907/bk_adbl_018907_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Choose Freedom: The Boston Brahmin, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 405min
    When faced with the tough choices necessary to preserve our nation's ideals, I say we choose freedom! With those words, the new American patriots, The Loyal Nine, operating under the specter of their forefathers, undertook the impossible - defeating the tyranny which infected their own government. From eight-time Amazon bestselling author Bobby Akart, Choose Freedom concludes The Boston Brahmin series as the battle to preserve America's freedoms expands across the nation. But first, The Loyal Nine must resolve conflicts between themselves. An old friend arrives and takes up the fight as the insurgency movement of The Mechanics continues. The president is firmly entrenched in a "third term", and he uses his new allies, a globalist-sponsored Army in the form of the UN Peacekeeping forces to quash dissent. For freedom-loving patriots, a martyr is remembered, a leader is born, and Americans come together under the battle cry - Choose freedom! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joseph Morton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/069896/bk_acx0_069896_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Erebus: The Story of a Ship
    _______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The Terror In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the first, she ventured further south than any human had ever been. On the second, she vanished with her 129-strong crew in the wastes of the Canadian Arctic, along with the HMS Terror.Her fate remained a mystery for over 160 years.Then, in 2014, she was found.This is her story._______________Now available: Michael Palin's North Korea Journals_______________A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Beyond terrific . . . I didn't want it to end.' Bill Bryson'Illuminated by flashes of gentle wit . . . It's a fascinating story that [Palin] brings full-bloodedly to life.' Guardian 'This is an incredible book . . . The Erebus story is the Arctic epic we've all been waiting for.' Nicholas Crane'Thoroughly absorbs the reader. . . Carefully researched and well-crafted, it brings the story of a ship vividly to life.' Sunday Times'A great story . . . Told in a very relaxed and sometimes - as you might expect - very funny Palin style.' David Baddiel, Daily Mail'Magisterial . . . Brings energy, wit and humanity to a story that has never ceased to tantalise people since the 1840s.' The Times
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    Deadly Walkabout: Blood Relations Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 439min
    Logan Bell accepts a contract assassination, believing it originates from one of the US organized crime families. Unbeknownst to him, the CIA has co-opted the method by which these contracts are communicated, and the order has come from the CIA instead.The CIA has ordered the hit as a favor to the UK's famed MI-6, and if that's not unusual enough, MI-6 undertook the deed as a favor to a member of the Royal Family.When the deed is done, everyone appears to get what they sought. A prominent member of the Royal Family has repaid a debt to an old friend. MI-6 facilitated the request without having to get involved. And, the CIA has demonstrated it can command a highly trained assassin without his being any the wiser.But what does Logan Bell receive in this bargain? He's forced to flee London believing the Russian mob wants him dead. Both Logan and his sister flee into the rural Cotswolds hoping to disappear in plain sight. Unfortunately, there are others who have something else in mind for them entirely. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Rineer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173854/bk_acx0_173854_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Bill Bryson Collector's Edition: Notes from a Small Island, Neither Here Nor There, and I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Hörbuch, Digital, 1031min
    Notes from a Small Island After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson decides to move his wife and kids back to his homeland, the United States. But not before taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. The result is a hilarious social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain. Neither Here nor ThereThirty years after backpacking across Europe, Bryson decides to retrace the journey he undertook in the halcyon days of his youth, carrying with him a bag of maps, old clothes, and a stinging wit honed to razor sharpness by two decades of adult experience. I'm a Stranger Here MyselfBryson reads "somewhere" that nearly three million Americans believe they have been abducted by aliens; clearly the Americans need him back. So after years of raising his family in Britain with his English wife, the brood moves to the States, allowing Bill to chronicle the quirkiest aspects of life in America as he reveals his own rules for life. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Bryson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000945/bk_rand_000945_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    One Way!: 7 Powerful Benefits of Recognizing Jesus as the Only Way to Eternal Salvation (Eternal Truth Series) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 136min
    Jesus stands out as the most unique figure in the religions of the world. He made a bold claim that he was the only way to have a relationship with Almighty God. And yet, many of the other world religions set forth beliefs that are contrary to Jesus’ claims. What is so exceptional about what Jesus accomplished? Why is he different than any other religious figure? One Way! will answer these kinds of questions and more.In this book, you will find out:How Jesus did for you what you could never do for yourselfHow Jesus dealt with the universal problem of sinHow Jesus conquered death and why it matters to youWhy Jesus is the only one who can make peace with God for youHow Jesus made a way for you to know your eternal destinyOne Way! will take you on a journey to experience and understand the incredible assignment Jesus undertook for you. He alone opened the door for you to receive the most amazing gift ever given. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Randy Clark. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/227257/bk_acx0_227257_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The New Testament: A Translation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1306min
    David Bentley Hart undertook this new translation of the New Testament in the spirit of "etsi doctrina non daretur", "as if doctrine is not given". Reproducing the texts' often fragmentary formulations without augmentation or correction, he has produced a pitilessly literal translation, one that captures the texts' impenetrability and unfinished quality while awakening listeners to an uncanniness that often lies hidden beneath doctrinal layers. The early Christians' sometimes raw, astonished, and halting prose challenges the idea that the New Testament affirms the kind of people we are. Hart reminds us that they were a company of extremists, radical in their rejection of the values and priorities of society not only at its most degenerate, but often at its most reasonable and decent. "To live as the New Testament language requires," he writes, "Christians would have to become strangers and sojourners on the earth, to have here no enduring city, to belong to a Kingdom truly not of this world. And we surely cannot do that, can we?" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric Martin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/011408/bk_tant_011408_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Colonialism: History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 5min
    Learn about the history of Colonialism with iMindsJNR audio learning series for younger minds. Around 500 years ago, European nations began to explore the world around them more than ever before. With safer and faster ships, Europeans were able to sail across the globe, over oceans that had once been unnavigable. As they undertook these great voyages of discovery they encountered cultures very different to their own. In many cases, Europeans established settlements in the lands of these other cultures and came to dominate them. The term “colonialism” was invented to describe this overtaking of one culture by another. Perfect to engage, entertain and broaden young thinkers.. iMindsJNR brings knowledge to your MP3 with 5 minute information segments for growing minds. iMindsJNR offers 6 main categories for ages 7-14years including General Knowledge, Geography & Nature, Famous People, Science & Math, The Arts and History. Make your MP3 smarter with iMindsJNR MindTracks, intersperse with music and enjoy learning a little about a lot.. knowledge to help shape young minds. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Todd MacDonald. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/imnd/000144/bk_imnd_000144_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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