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    Daily Stoicism: Stoic Meditations, Codes of Wisdom, Pearls of Insight for Beginners: 800 Seneca Quotes (Wisdom at its Finest, Book 2) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 295min
    If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place, but to be a different person. Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them, but because we had them.Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. If you live in harmony with nature, you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich. Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands. Of this one thing make sure against your dying day - that your faults die before you do.For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. To be everywhere is to be nowhere. Find over 750 more quotes from Seneca (c. 4 BC - AD 65). Listening to this audiobook will increase your wisdom 10-fold and give you valuable insights to live your best life! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Warren Keyes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/199638/bk_acx0_199638_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Murder in the Morning Edition: The Morning, Noon and Night Trilogy, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 168min
    Welcome to Brighton, England - where they do like to murder beside the seaside.... Join ace crime reporter Colin Crampton and his feisty Australian girlfriend Shirley Goldsmith as they embark on a new adventure. It all starts in August 1963, while Colin is spending a lazy afternoon by the beach with Shirley. When a daring robbery takes place before their very eyes, Colin reckons he's on the trail of a big story. That will please Colin's grizzled news editor, chain-smoking Frank Figgis, half man, half nicotine. But it means Colin will be, yet again, stepping on the toes of Detective Inspector Ted Wilson, a cop who put the plod into plodder. Nothing about the robbery is what it seems. And it's not long before Colin realizes he's fighting on two fronts as a bigger story threatens to eclipse his own scoop. When one of Colin's informants gets murdered, the trouble deepens. Colin's charm and ability to talk his way out of trouble are tested to the limit. Even that might not be enough when he comes face-to-face with a killer. As he chases down his story and earns that front-page headline, Colin encounters a cast of colorful characters, including a motorcycle rocker with bad teeth, a dyslexic tattooist, and a seller of novelty toilet roll holders. Murder in the Morning Edition is the first part of a trilogy which completes with Murder in the Afternoon Extra and Murder in the Night Final. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Jamie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/119319/bk_acx0_119319_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Marker to Measure Drift , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 485min
    A hypnotic, spellbinding novel set in Greece and Africa, where a young Liberian woman reckons with a haunted past…. On a remote island in the Aegean, Jacqueline is living alone in a cave accessible only at low tide. With nothing to protect her from the elements, and with the fabric between herself and the world around her increasingly frayed, she is permeated by sensory experiences of remarkable intensity: the need for shade in the relentless heat of the sun-baked island; hunger and the occasional bliss of release from it; the exquisite pleasure of diving into the sea. The pressing physical realities of the moment provide a deeper relief: the euphoric obliteration of memory and, with it, the unspeakable violence she has seen and from which she has miraculously escaped. Slowly, irrepressibly, images from a life before this violence begin to resurface: the view across lush gardens to a different sea; a gold Rolex glinting on her father's wrist; a glass of gin in her mother's best crystal; an adoring younger sister; a family, in the moment before their fortunes were irrevocably changed. Jacqueline must find the strength to contend with what she has survived or tip forward into full-blown madness. Visceral and gripping, extraordinary in its depiction of physical and spiritual hungers, Alexander Maksik's A Marker to Measure Drift is a novel about ruin and faith, barbarism and love, and the devastating memories that contain the power both to destroy us and to redeem us. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angelle Haney Gullett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003569/bk_rand_003569_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Best and the Brightest , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2224min
    David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a foreword by Senator John McCain. "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.” (The New York Times) Using portraits of America’s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country’s recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam, and why did we lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It is an American classic. “The most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam.... It is also the Iliad of the American empire and the Odyssey of this nation’s search for its idealistic soul. The Best and the Brightest is almost like watching an Alfred Hitchcock thriller.” (The Boston Globe) “Deeply moving... We cannot help but feel the compelling power of this narrative.... Dramatic and tragic, a chain of events overwhelming in their force, a distant war embodying illusions and myths, terror and violence, confusions and courage, blindness, pride, and arrogance.” (Los Angeles Times) “A fascinating tale of folly and self-deception... [An] absorbing, detailed, and devastatingly caustic tale of Washington in the days of the Caesars.” (The Washington Post Book World) “Seductively readable... It is a staggeringly ambitious undertaking that is fully matched by Halberstam’s performance.... This is in all ways an admirable and necessary book.” (Newsweek) “A story every American should read.” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bramhall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005121/bk_rand_005121_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mistress to Slave: A Collection of Five Erotic Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 108min, (USK 18)
    A collection of five erotic stories with mixed and varied themes. 'Mistress to Slave', by Morwenna Drake: They knew how to treat a lady in Imperial Rome, and Quintus the slave lives to obey. But tonight is Saturnalia, when the masters and servants exchange roles for the night, and his mistress, Atia, loves the old traditions. 'Three’s a Cloud', by Roger Frank Selby: When the new girl tries to tell the boss how to run his business, his first reaction is fury and scorn. What does she know about the exercise-bike business? A few easy modifications later, it turns out she knows a lot. And not only about bikes. 'Yes, Tim', by Sommer Marsden: The local recycling plant isn’t the most romantic place in the world, and squatting in the dirt to help sort out the cans isn’t the most erotic way of spending an afternoon. But she wants him more than she can stand, and if that’s what it takes… then that’s what she’ll do. 'The Pleasure Fixer', by Candy Bagham: Abi makes life easier for the A-List celebs who want to party; Gina makes sure they have enough to eat. Together alone they’re dynamite, but when Biggy Bardino gets in between them, they really hit the big time. 'Shadow Play', by Jennie Treverton: When a camping holiday is disrupted by a troupe of troublesome teens, Adrian thinks the best cure is to tell the guy who runs the place. Mirabelle, on the other hand, reckons they simply need to blow off some steam. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katy Anderson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/summ/000257/bk_summ_000257_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    This Is Your Mind On Plants
    'It's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering' New Statesman 'Fascinating. Pollan is the perfect guide ... curious, careful, open minded' The Guardian From the international bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind comes a ground-breaking exploration of our relationship with natural drugs Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate, calm, or completely alter the qualities of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants, Michael Pollan explores three very different drugs - opium, caffeine and mescaline - and throws the fundamental strangeness of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs, while consuming (or in the case of caffeine, trying not to consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants, and the equally powerful taboos. In a unique blend of history, science, memoir and reportage, Pollan shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively. In doing so, he proves that there is much more to say about these plants than simply debating their regulation, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. This ground-breaking and singular book holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds and our entanglement with the natural world.
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    Something New Under the Sun
    NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE • A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and connectedness in the age of environmental collapse and ecological awakening-a darkly unsettling near-future novel for readers of Don DeLillo and Ottessa Moshfegh ONE OF VULTURE'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF SUMMER'S BEST BOOKS: The Wall Street Journal • Time • Parade • LitHub • Vanity Fair • Vogue • Refinery29 • Esquire "A darkly satirical reflection of ecological reality."-Time "Genius."-Los Angeles Times "Wildly entertaining and beautifully written."-LitHub East Coast novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood with simple goals in mind: overseeing the production of a film adaptation of one of his books, preventing starlet Cassidy Carter's disruptive behavior from derailing said production, and turning this last-ditch effort at career resuscitation into the sort of success that will dazzle his wife and daughter back home. But California is not as he imagined: Drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption are omnipresent, and the company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water seems to be at the root of it all. Patrick partners with Cassidy-after having been her reluctant chauffeur for weeks-and the two of them investigate the sun-scorched city's darker crevices, where they discover that catastrophe resembles order until the last possible second. In this often-witty and all-too-timely story, Alexandra Kleeman grapples with the corruption of our environment in the age of alternative facts. Something New Under the Sun is a meticulous and deeply felt accounting of our very human anxieties, liabilities, dependencies, and, ultimately, responsibility to truth.
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    6 Underground: A Twisted Thriller: Home Series, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 18min
    Author Syd West joins forces with narrator JK Anders to bring you home, a twisted thriller series in eight short episodes, for fans of Gone Girl, The Leftovers, and The Handmaid’s Tale.A chilling pause-resister turner with delicious dialogue and a plot that creeps and crawls!Warning: Cliff-hangers and jaw-droppers ahead!Home will get under your skin.At Home, Chad minds fresh eggs. And he’s really bad at it. His breakage ratio might improve if he had clean sheets. Or a bed. Or socks. Or shoes. And definitely some band-aids would go a long way to adjusting his mood.At Home, Chad finds no allies among men. Klint, former all-star tormentor of Saw Creek High, is all-in on the communal farm they tend along with Beck, a kid on the spectrum - who doubles as Juni’s look-out. At Home, Chad reckons with his beloved dead. Devastated from visiting daughter London’s grave for the first time ever, Chad is buckled by the truth behind his mother Hazel’s untimely demise. The snap of his will is audible to Juni.Witness Chad’s transition from breakdown to breakthrough, by intentional design and under Juni’s careful watch. Once Chad commits to Home, Juni’s eager for his indoctrination to begin in earnest. Oddly enough, so is Chad.  Each episode may be enjoyed in one sitting, in this order:Hide and SeekHow to Be InvisiblePossess Your HeartI Don’t Like Mondays6 UndergroundCommon DisasterRunning Up That HillVisions of GideonPerfect for listeners of absolutely gripping suspense, edge-of-your-seat thriller, and break-neck mystery from Zoje Stage, Caroline Kepnes, Josh Malerman, Lisa Jewell.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: JK Anders. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/178117/bk_acx0_178117_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Kensington Kidnap: Epiphany Bloom Mysteries, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 459min
    A missing teenager, a mysterious cult and a case of mistaken identity - just another day’s work for Epiphany Bloom. Epiphany ‘Pip’ Bloom is down on her luck. She can barely afford cat food, and just because Most has three legs doesn’t mean he eats any less. So she absolutely can’t afford to mess up her latest temp job. But when she walks through the door of the private investigation firm, her new boss mistakes her for a missing persons expert. He then charges her with finding Matty Price - the teenage son of two A-list celebrities - who has mysteriously disappeared from his home in Kensington. It ought to be a disaster, but Pip reckons it’s actually an opportunity. She’s always been curious (nosy, her mother calls it) and has an uncanny knack for being at the wrong place at the right time (she doesn’t want to know what her mother thinks of that). After years of trying to find something she’s good at, has Pip managed to walk straight into the job she was born to do? She owes it to herself and poor missing Matty to find out. But searching for Matty takes Pip into the strange, intimidating world of the rich and famous. And it soon becomes clear that some of these people’s love for themselves doesn’t extend to their fellow humans. As Pip investigates further, she realizes the question isn’t whether Matty ran away - it’s whether Pip will find him alive and make it home safely herself....An absolutely brilliant, light-hearted cozy mystery for fans of M.C. Beaton, T E Kinsey, Lauren Elliott, and Joanne Fluke, featuring an irresistible new heroine.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alison Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/226842/bk_acx0_226842_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Political Order and Political Decay : From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1441min
    The second volume of the best-selling landmark work on the history of the modern state. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In the New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time." And in the Washington Post, Gerard DeGrott exclaimed "this is a book that will be remembered. Bring on volume two." Volume two is finally here, completing the most important work of political thought in at least a generation. Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics. He examines the effects of corruption on governance, and why some societies have been successful at rooting it out. He explores the different legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and offers a clear-eyed account of why some regions have thrived and developed more quickly than others. And he boldly reckons with the future of democracy in the face of a rising global middle class and entrenched political paralysis in the West. A sweeping, masterful account of the struggle to create a well-functioning modern state, Political Order and Political Decay is destined to be a classic. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Davis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019193/bk_adbl_019193_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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