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Beckoning: As My Heart Beats Novella Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 34min, (USK 18)
Roan had searched forever for his soul mate. One night stands had grown old to him, and he wanted more. The first time he saw Natalie across the dimly lit bar, he knew she was the one. He had to have her. Could he be patient and wait to make her truly his? When their eyes collide, the chemistry is electric. One night could be his undoing and could be her last as he holds on by a quickly fraying tether. This short novella is fast paced and charged with sexual electricity. As they walked out into the night air, she sucked in refreshing breaths. The smoke-filled bar always made her weary. He led her to an expensive little red sports car. She was impressed. He pulled her into his arms and pushed her against the passenger door. The kiss he bestowed on her was passionate. The promise of passion was deeply embedded. He ran his fingers into her hair and pulled her close. She could feel his need as he pushed his lower half against her. The feeling of her effect on him was heady, to say the least. Groaning, she lay back against the car and let him ravish her right in the parking lot. He pulled her even closer and rained a trail of kisses down her neck, stopping at her main artery to sniff the skin. Closing his eyes, he worked on his control. Suddenly he pulled back and helped her stand up straight. "Let's move this party to my place." He unlocked the door and opened it for her to get in. Then he walked around to get in. As he drove toward his condo, he kept his hands tightly on the wheel. If he touched her, it could cause him to lose control. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Genie Boss. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/031815/bk_acx0_031815_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 438min
An illuminating look at the way the thoughts we have and the decisions we make are influenced by forces that aren't always in our control Why are people named Kim, Kelly, and Ken more likely to donate to Hurricane Katrina victims than to Hurricane Rita victims? Are you really more likely to solve puzzles if you watch a light bulb illuminate? How did installing blue lights along a Japanese railway line halt rising crime and suicide rates? Can decorating your walls with the right artwork make you more honest? The human brain is fantastically complex, having engineered space travel and liberated nuclear energy, so it's no wonder that we resist the idea that we're deeply influenced by our surroundings. As profound as they are, these effects are almost impossible to detect both as they're occurring and in hindsight. Drunk Tank Pink is the first detailed exploration of how our environment shapes what we think, how we feel, and the ways we behave. The world is populated with words and images that prompt unexpected, unconscious decisions. We are so deeply attracted to our own initials that we give more willingly to the victims of hurricanes that match our initials: Kims and Kens donate more generously to Hurricane Katrina victims, whereas Rons and Rachels give more openly to Hurricane Rita victims. Meanwhile, an illuminated light bulb inspires creative thinking because it symbolizes insight. Social interactions have similar effects, as professional cyclists pedal faster when people are watching. Teachers who took tea from the break room at Newcastle University contributed 300 percent more to a cash box when a picture of two eyes hung on the wall. We're evolutionarily sensitive to human surveillance, so we behave more virtuously even if we're only watched by a photograph. The physical environment, from locations to colors, also guides our hand in unseen ways. Dimly lit interiors metaphorically imply no one's watching and encourage dish ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tristan Morris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003424/bk_rand_003424_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Shooting Genji , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 393min
Set in Jazz-Age New York and Hollywood in the Thirties, Shooting Genji is a noir thriller seen from the unusual perspective of a young man named Jean-Yves LeFouet. As a teenager, Jean-Yves falls off a ladder, after being distracted by the sight of his girlfriend kissing another guy, and the accident leaves him hollow-hearted and almost blinded by daylight. On the other hand, his night vision becomes extremely good. He soon discovers he's well suited to any number of shady jobs. His first dimly lit career path opens up one night when bootleggers hijack him and his truck. After he drives them white-knuckled in the dark - with no headlights - they realize he's just the wheelman they need. They recommend his talents to the Wall Street broker laundering their money, who introduces Jean-Yves to one of the dark arts of Wall Street - front running. The Bull Market and wild nights end abruptly with the Crash of '29, when the tough customers are not amused, and Jean-Yves has to skip town. Why not try Los Angeles? The dancer he wooed in New York, whom he let slip through his fingers, is trying to break into the talkies. He finds work there as a chauffeur, delivering scripts at night for a hyphenate-scoundrel, a British director intent on making an erotic film based on the world's first novel - written 1,000 years ago by a woman - The Tale of Genji. Jean-Yves finds himself increasingly hard-pressed to navigate the hairpin turns in Hollywood, including his girlfriend's reappearance, especially after having met the lovely bookseller who supplies his employer with copies of Genji, the Japanese classic. Lively and literate, this lady from Shanghai may prove to be his undoing... or his salvation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Voorhees. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/022756/bk_acx0_022756_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Room with a View: Cassie's Wet Fantasies: Cassie's Daydreams, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 16min, (USK 18)
Room with a View: A Watersports Shower Sex Short.Azura's imaginative heroine Cassie is back, and this time she's in Reno, where she's surprised to find the love of her life, Jack, in the shower of her hotel suite! Well, Cassie knows just what to do with that situation, and it isn't long before the two are engaged in their favorite activity, sex. And when Cassie's involved, it's never boring and in this case includes masturbation, oral sex, and a golden shower!Warning: This audiobook contains very explicit descriptions of sexual activity during a fantasy shower sex encounter. It includes shower sex, oral sex, masturbation, golden showers, and watersports sex. It is intended for mature readers who will not be offended by graphic descriptions of sex acts between consenting adults.Here is a preview:She fumbled with her cell phone and checked her sent messages for Sunday. Sure enough, he was right. When she sent the text to JT she somehow also sent to the contact listed directly above which was JP. She wondered if Jeanne would call, wondered if Jack had left an important assignment, and wondered more as well but put the phone down and shrugged it all off. All that mattered was that he was here with her now and he was naked and in her shower. It seemed to take an eternity to get out of her clothes, and she was frustrated and furious by the time she stepped into the shower. She got right to it. She knelt before him she took the hardness of his cock into her mouth, fully and tenderly kissing and sucking him as she toyed with his balls and ran her hands over him. She was acutely aware of their surroundings. It was a cavernous open shower made of marble and accented with terrazzo tile and elegant brass fixtures. The bathroom suite was dimly lit with just the flicker of candlelight illuminating the space. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Saucedo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/017030/bk_acx0_017030_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Keepers of the Kalachakra , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 765min
A seemingly random selection of heads of state are struck down like flies by unnamed killers who work with the clinical efficiency of butchers. Except that they leave no trace of their methods. Welcome back to the shadowy and addictive world of Ashwin Sanghi. After The Rozabal Line, Chanakya’s Chant, The Krishna Key and The Sialkot Saga, Ashwin Sanghi returns at last with another quietly fearsome tale - this time of men who guard the ‘Kalachakra’, or The Wheel of Time. Sanghi describes a world of people at war with one another - a boomeranging conflict of faiths that results in acts of such slow and planned human cruelty that they defy human imagination. Caught in the midst of this madness is Vijay Sundaram, a geek scientist who is only dimly aware that the wider sky outside his laboratory is stretched taut and close to being torn apart by forces that he wants simply to have nothing to do with. But events conspire to propel Vijay into the labyrinth of Milesian Labs, a centre of research deep in the forested hills of Uttarakhand. What he stumbles upon is a primordial clue to a galactic secret that could accelerate the downward spiral of humankind. Trapped and wholly unaware of his actual foe, Vijay races against time to save humanity - and himself. Zigzagging from Rama’s crossing to Lanka to the birth of Buddhism; from the origin of Wahhabism to the Einsteinian gravitational wave-detectors of LIGO; from the charnel-grounds of naked tantric practitioners to the bespoke suits of the Oval Office; and from the rites of Minerva, shrouded in frankincense, to the smoke-darkened ruins of Nalanda, Keepers of the Kalachakra is a journey that will have you gasping for breath - but one that you cannot abandon till all the pieces of the jigsaw come together. Till you come up gobsmack against an end that you simply did not see coming. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shernaz Patel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/051981/bk_adbl_051981_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Glenn Miller: The Life and Legacy of Early 20th Century America's Most Popular Musician , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 70min
“A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.” (Glenn Miller)Sprightly swing music spills across the dimly lit club. The grayish curtains of cigarette smoke part every once in a while to reveal a sparkling stage and tables upon tables of patrons, some incurably inebriated and others high on the fast-paced nightlife. Fabulous flappers in shimmery cocktail dresses and stylish feather headbands throw their hands up and stomp their feet to the addictive beat on the dance floor. Smartly dressed men, their hair neatly parted and slicked back, toss fistfuls of dice onto the plush green baize of the craps tables. Some hover over roulette wheels, staring intently at the spinning flashes of silver, while others finger their playing cards as they sip on tumblers of whiskey, eyeing both the river and the tower of tokens next to them. Frisky tunes, chic fashion, and American gambling are nostalgic, rose-tinted images most choose to project when visualizing the Roaring Twenties, but the other side of the coin brought an uninviting, much harsher reality that most would prefer to sweep under the rug. The first real estate bubble was on the brink of bursting, and progress was evident, but painfully slow, which gave way to yet another era of violent riots, lynchings, and other forms of oppression imposed on minorities. The Swing Era was a magical period in American history between the hedonism of the Roaring Twenties and the rebelliousness sparked by rock music beginning in the 1950s. Swing music was rooted in ragtime, blues, and jazz music that had long been popular in African American enclaves in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, and New Orleans, and while musicians like Benny Goodman popularized swing music, big bands produced America’s most popular music. Though it may be hard to fathom in the wake of Elvis Presley and popular rock bands like the Beatles, the early 20th century featured a burgeoning music sales industr ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/159528/bk_acx0_159528_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cinderella Sims: The Classic Crime Library, Book 14 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 280min
There's no glass slipper in this fairy tale - just a damsel in distress, a bag of cash, and a whole lot of dead bodies.Reporter Ted Lindsay is trying to forget his ex-wife, and New York City's tough streets are just what the doctor ordered. They're also filled with alluring women, but only one catches Ted's eye. Cinderella Sims is not only beautiful, she's on the run and she needs Ted's help. She's got a bag full of cash and some very angry people staking out her apartment. Before long Ted's forgotten his heartbreak and is launched into the dark streets of crime with Cindy at his side.The author speaks:“Look, this wasn’t my idea.Three or four years ago, Bill Schafer suggested that I might give some consideration to republishing a book of mine called $20 Lust, which had originally appeared under a pen name. I recalled the book he meant, but dimly; I had, after all, written it in 1960. But I didn’t need to remember it all that vividly to know the answer to his suggestion.No, I told him.A little later I suggested he might want to publish a fancy edition of Mona, the first book under my own name; it had come out as a paperback original in 1961, and we could celebrate its fortieth anniversary with a nice limited edition hardcover.Bill was lukewarm to the notion, but had an alternative proposal; how about issuing a double volume, containing Mona and $20 Lust? Once again, I didn’t have to do a lot of soul-searching to come up with a response.No, I told him.Time passed. Then Ed Gorman, the Sage of Cedar Rapids, used an ancient private eye novelette of mine in a pulp anthology. When it came out he sent me a copy, and, while I didn’t read my novelette - I figured it was enough that I wrote the damned thing - I did read his introduction, which I found to be thoughtful and incisive and generous. I e-mailed him and told him so, and he e-mailed me back and thanked me, adding that my ear ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Theo Holland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/199068/bk_acx0_199068_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Thuggee: The History of the Thugs, the World’s First Organized Gang of Professional Assassins , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 87min
“In the reign of that sultan [about 1290], some Thugs were taken in Delhi, and a man belonging to that fraternity was the means of about a thousand being captured. But not one of these did the sultan have killed. He gave orders for them to be put into boats and to be conveyed into the lower country, to the neighbourhood of Lakhnauti, where they were to be set free. The Thugs would thus have to dwell about Lakhnauti and would not trouble the neighbourhood of Delhi any more.” (Sir H.M. Elliot, History of India) To most people, the typical “thug” in this day and age lurks on a shadowy street corner, toting ready-to-sell packets of “product”, and is more often than not, packing a glinting, unlicensed pistol under his shirt. One might even describe the bully that relentlessly terrorizes peers they deem weaker as such, or perhaps a young hoodlum that ventures out in the dead of the night, tagging their initials or the insignia of their “crew” on public property, and pursuing other kinds of petty mischief. Thugs, a term used interchangeably with “gangsters” at times, are hardcore outlaws of the street, and like most criminals, tend to find strength in numbers. Thugs who have claimed hold on a certain territory are known to harass unfortunate passersby, usually walking down dimly-lit alleys unaccompanied. The most organized syndicates target vulnerable small, family-owned businesses, some so formidably powerful they hold even local authorities hostage under their thumbs. As it turns out, the Thuggee, the group that influenced this now controversial word, is far more fascinating than one might have imagined. The Thuggee: The History of the Thugs, the World’s First Organized Gang of Professional Assassins explores both the etiological myth and origin story of this prolific cult of murderous bandits, and takes an in-depth look into its practices and their ultimate demise. You will learn about the thugs like never before. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim D. Johnston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/107762/bk_acx0_107762_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Voice Over Man: The Extraordinary Story of a Professional Voice Actor , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 667min
It is estimated that there are more than a million professional voice actors in the world. It is by nature, a largely hidden profession but nonetheless is one that annually generates more than $4.5 billion globally.Voice Over Man is a fascinating insight into the life of one of the world’s most prolific voiceover artists. It’s a frank and very personal account of his career. Not in the full glare of the spotlight, but in the dark spaces behind the scenes that the public never gets to see. From barking like a dog on pet food commercials - to his universally recognised work on the world’s biggest television shows - The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent together with countless video games and live events - he recounts the highs and lows of his deeply unconventional career. If you liked The Larry Sanders Show, W1A, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Toast Oo London - you’ll love this!Unlike Kleenex or Clorox, Peter Dickson is not a household name, so while he may not be very effective at or indeed remotely interested in cleaning under your rim or around your U-Bend, his voice is heard in every household in the United Kingdom and beyond; every hour of every day, of every year. From selflessly lending his vocal talent to radio and TV commercials, video games, documentaries, radio programmes, interactive telephone systems, corporate audio and video productions, game shows and family-friendly TV broadcast entertainment behemoths, he is quite literally all over the ruddy place!This is a book which will appeal to anyone who has ever wondered what actually goes on behind the scenes on TV and radio. It’s a frank and very personal account of a life lived in the media. Not in the full glare of the spotlight on the shiny floor in front of the camera, but in the dark spaces the public never get to see; the voice booths, control rooms, offices, dressing rooms and dimly lit corridors backstage.Peter Dickson has bee ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Dickson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lbrk/000685/bk_lbrk_000685_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Through the Gates of Good , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 64min
From the Introduction: The genius of the present age in matters spiritual is towards simplicity, and the hunger of the human heart is for Truth naked and uninvolved. That hunger will eventually bring about (is already bringing about) its own satisfaction, and here and there are men and women who, passing through the Gateway of Self-conquest, are entering into possession of the Transcendent Righteousness.The closing years of the 19th century witnessed the culmination of Formalism, and the spiritual reaction is now firmly established. Already “the end of old faiths and beginning of the new” is discernible to all who have removed from their mental vision somewhat of the textual dust of dying creeds, and have penetrated, however faintly, that sublime region of Truth which is discoverable only by practice, and which is made manifest by pure thoughts and holy deeds.The universal decay of effete religious systems which the world is witnessing today is matter for rejoicing; it is the death which precedes Life; it is the passing away of the false in order that the True may be more fully revealed. The True can, at worst, but remain hidden. It endures. It remains forever. Its invincibility cannot be qualified, and he who has but one momentary glimpse of the True can never again be anxious for its safety. That about which men are anxious is the false, which they mistake for the True, and this, in spite of all their anxiety, must fade away at last.In the lives of all the Great Teachers we see a manifestation of that Universal Truth, the majesty and splendor of which is as yet but dimly comprehended by mankind, but which must, during the gradual transformation and transmutation which the accumulating ages shall effect, at last become the possession of all. That Truth, as manifested by the Teachers, was written by them, as it only can be written, in thoughts and deeds of the loftiest moral excellence which have been permanently impressed upon the min ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barry J. Peterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/108956/bk_acx0_108956_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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