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    King of the Badgers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 893min
    After the success of The Mulberry Empire and The Northern Clemency, which was short-listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Philip Hensher brings us the peaceful civility and spiralling paranoia of the small English town of Handsmouth. Usually a quiet and undisturbed place situated on an estuary, Handsmouth becomes the centre of national attention when an eight-year-old girl vanishes. The town fills with journalists and television crews, who latch onto the public's fearful suspicions that the missing girl, the daughter of one of the town's working-class families, was abducted. This tragic event serves to expose the range of segregated existences in the town, as spectrums of class, wealth, and lifestyle are blurred in the investigation. Behind Handsmouth's closed doors and pastoral façade the extraordinary individual lives of the community are exposed. The undisclosed passions of a quiet international aid worker are set against his wife, a woman whose astonishing aptitude for intellectual pursuits, such as piano-playing and elaborate cooking, makes her seem a paragon of virtue to the outside world. A recently widowed old woman tells a story that details her late discovery of sexual gratification. And the Bears - middle-aged, fat, hairy gay men, given to promiscuity and some drug abuse - have a party. As the search for the missing girl elevates, the case enables a self-appointed authority figure to present the case for increased surveillance, and, as old notions of privacy begin to crack, private lives seep into the public well of knowledge. Handsmouth is a powerful study of the vital importance of individuality, the increasingly intrusive hand of political powers, and the unyielding strength of Nature against the worst excesses of human behaviour. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Rogers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000785/bk_hcuk_000785_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Heat and Light: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 886min
    Acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart - a bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: It sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. He doesn't count on the truck traffic and nonstop noise, his brother's skepticism, or the paranoia of his wife, Shelby, who insists the water smells strange and is poisoning their frail daughter. Meanwhile his neighbors, organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the drilling - until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their lives. Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, Heat and Light depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources. Soaring and ambitious, it zooms from drill rig to shareholders' meeting to the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to the ruined landscape of the "strippins", haunting reminders of Pennsylvania's past energy booms. This is a dispatch from a forgotten America - a work of searing moral clarity from one of the finest writers of her generation, a courageous and necessary book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Rahhal, Allyson Ryan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005150/bk_harp_005150_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rain Dogs , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 553min
    The year is 1976, and the first shots are being fired in the narcotics and human-trafficking war. Colt Freeman and his partner, Snyder, want only to preserve their small piece of the marijuana trade. Like a modern-day Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid, they do their work with proficiency and stealth and, when necessary, deadly force.Hundreds of miles away, a law enforcement task force patrols the border between the United States and Mexico, the desolate no man’s land that separates misery and prosperity. They seek to curb the unspeakable violence that feeds off the ever-growing number of illegal immigrants who find themselves at the mercy of ruthless “coyotes” they have paid to guide them in their desperate crossing.Farther southwest, an elegant hacienda is nestled behind protective walls at an isolated ranch on the coast of the Sea of Cortez. Beyond the well-guarded gates, Miguel Zamora has placed himself at the center of a powerful circle of corrupt Mexican officials on the cusp of establishing ties with Columbian drug cartels. Zamora, driven by avarice and steeped in paranoia, begins to seize control of his world with a singular and savage brutality that threatens to unleash a firestorm of bloodshed on both sides of the border. Snyder and Colt decide to cash in on one last marijuana harvest in one final run down the coast before leaving their outlaw lives behind them. But when their meticulously-planned scheme comes undone, it forces them into a rash and hazardous escape from the law and directly into the crossfire of an internecine narcotics war that no one had seen coming. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ray Porter, Timothy Andrés Pabon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005830/bk_blak_005830_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Bowling for Columbine
    "Der Morgen des 20. April 1999 sieht nach einem ganz normalen Tag in Amerika aus. Farmer bestellen ihre Felder, Milchmänner liefern Milchflaschen aus, der Präsident lässt Bomben über einem Land abwerfen, dessen Namen wir nicht einmal aussprechen können" (O-Ton) - und Dylan Klebold und Eric Harris, zwei Jungs in Littleton, Colorado, gehen zu ihrem Bowlingkurs. Was keiner ahnt: Die beiden bowlenden Jugendlichen werden wenige Stunden später das Columbine Highschool Massaker verüben, in dessen blutigem Verlauf 12 Schüler und ein Lehrer den Tod finden und viele Kinder und Jugendliche schwer verletzt werden. Wie eine ironische Spiegelung des Schicksals wirkt der Umstand, dass an diesem Tag die USA ihren stärksten Bombenangriff auf dem Kosovo fliegt.Mit lakonischem Zynismus und beißendem Witz geht Regisseur Moore in BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE auf eine wahnwitzige Reise in das Herz Amerikas. So lässt er zwei Opfer von Littleton - einer querschnittsgelähmt, der andere invalide mit einer inoperablen Kugel in Aortanähe - in einem symbolischen Akt die in ihren Körpern steckenden Kugeln an die Supermarktkette K-Mart zurückgeben, wo die Täter ihre Munition kauften und konfrontiert Hollywood-Ikone und Waffenaktivist Charlton Heston, den Vorsitzenden der NRA (National Rifle Association) mit dem Bild eines sechsjährigen Mädchens, das von einem gleichaltrigen Mitschüler erschossen wurde.Michael Moore porträtiert mit bewegender Emotionalität und mitunter feuilletonistischen Volten voll absurder Komik eine Nation zwischen Waffenfetischismus und angstbesetzter Paranoia. Ein Volk mit dem Colt im Anschlag für die permanente Selbstverteidigung. Besonders im Kielwasser des 11. September ist BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE ein mutiger Film. Denn Amerikas führender Satiriker und sozialkritischer Dokumentarist stellt eine simple Frage, die sich kein Amerikaner in diesen von Patriotismus geprägten Zeiten zu fragen traut: "Sind wir verrückt nach Waffen - oder sind wir nur verrückt?"
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    Leaders Eat Last
    Finally in paperback: the New York Times bestseller by the acclaimed, bestselling author of Start With Why and Together is Better. Now with an expanded chapter and appendix on leading millennials, based on Simon Sinek's viral video "Millenials in the workplace" (150+ million views). Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work, feels trusted and valued during the day, then returns home feeling fulfilled. This is not a crazy, idealized notion. Today, in many successful organizations, great leaders create environments in which people naturally work together to do remarkable things. In his work with organizations around the world, Simon Sinek noticed that some teams trust each other so deeply that they would literally put their lives on the line for each other. Other teams, no matter what incentives are offered, are doomed to infighting, fragmentation and failure. Why? The answer became clear during a conversation with a Marine Corps general. "Officers eat last," he said. Sinek watched as the most junior Marines ate first while the most senior Marines took their place at the back of the line. What's symbolic in the chow hall is deadly serious on the battlefield: Great leaders sacrifice their own comfort--even their own survival--for the good of those in their care. Too many workplaces are driven by cynicism, paranoia, and self-interest. But the best ones foster trust and cooperation because their leaders build what Sinek calls a "Circle of Safety" that separates the security inside the team from the challenges outside. Sinek illustrates his ideas with fascinating true stories that range from the military to big business, from government to investment banking.
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    Iron Man
    "Ich habe Ozzys Arsch öfter gesehen, als meinen eigenen."Die Gründung von "Black Sabbath" ist auch die wahre Geburtsstunde des Heavy Metal. Und Heavy Metal ist weit mehr als einfach Musik - es ist inzwischen längst zum kompletten Lebensgefühl geworden.In seiner Autobiografie beschreibt Tony Iommi die Karriere rund um Ozzy Osbourne und "Black Sabbath", gezeichnet von Drogeneskapaden, Gewalt und gigantischen Erfolgen. Gemeinsam mit Ozzy und der Band beginnt ein rauschendes Leben auf der Überholspur. Ihre Nächte enden meist auf den Partys der ganz großen Hollywoodstars und Tony weiß heute, dass er davon nichts mehr weiß: "Ich kann mich nicht mehr an Details erinnern, da wir uns zu viel Koks reingezogen haben." Schnell wird das exzessive Leben zu einer Berg- und Talfahrt. Oft verlieren die Musiker völlig den Bezug zur Realität. Die Karriere gerät in den Hintergrund, während Aggressionen und Paranoia den Alltag der Band bestimmen. Einmal besprühen Tony und Ozzy ihren Schlagzeuger Billam ganzen Körper mit goldener Farbe, bis er aussieht wie eine glänzende Weihnachtskugel. Kurz bevor er erstickt, kann ihn ein Notarzt retten. Der Irrsinn nach Methode wird zur tödlichen Gefahr: "Ich hatte Bill schon öfter angezündet, aber einmal geriet alles außer Kontrolle. Während er sich vor Schmerzen schreiend auf dem Studioboden wälzte, lachte ich mich schlapp. Doch das Schreien hörte nicht auf. Langsam begriff ich den Ernst der Lage - unser Drummer verbrannte bei lebendigem Leib." Nur durch das Eingreifen beherzter Helfer überlebte der Drummer die Feuerspiele.Tony Iommi blickt auf ein Leben zurück, das spektakulärer kaum sein könnte: Trotz zwei fehlender Fingerkuppen wurde aus dem Briten aus ärmlichen Verhältnissen einer der herausragendsten Gitarrenvirtuosen aller Zeiten.
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    The One-Hour Miracle (eBook, ePUB)
    A revolutionary healing framework that is a blueprint for transforming most problems, ranging from the most pedestrian to the most treatment resistant. And sometimes, the transformation simply takes one hour. The One-Hour Miracle: A 5-Step Process to Guide Your Self-Healing presents the revolutionary Life-Centered Therapy (LCT), a healing framework that is a blueprint for transforming most problems--physical (such as chronic pain, asthma, addictions), emtional and mental (including depresssion, PTSD, OCD, paranoia) relational (releasing destructive patterns), and spiritual (alienation, despair, inertia), And sometimes, the transformation simply takes one hour. Filled with testimonials of real-life people who have benefitted from this approach when other attempts to end their suffering turned up fruitless, it provides people with an entirely new way of understanding their suffering, giving them inspiration and hope that they can create miracles in their lives. The One-Hour Miracle includes a protocol that allows people to facilitate this process on their own by finding the root cause of their suffering and shifting it. This framework helps them live engaged lives of freedom, peace, joy, wisdom, and vitality. In the book, co-authors Andrew Hahn, PsyD, and Joan Beckett, LMHC, will teach readers how to do this work for themselves and others. With step-by-step instructions, readers are led through a five-step process, an integration of mindfulness and body-centered therapy, that guides them through their own self-healing practices and how to do them. In addition, therapists who are reading the book will have enough information to immediately start using the approach with clients without needing more training
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    Iron Man (eBook, ePUB)
    "Ich habe Ozzys Arsch öfter gesehen, als meinen eigenen." Die Gründung von "Black Sabbath" ist auch die wahre Geburtsstunde des Heavy Metal. Und Heavy Metal ist weit mehr als einfach Musik - es ist inzwischen längst zum kompletten Lebensgefühl geworden. In seiner Autobiografie beschreibt Tony Iommi die Karriere rund um Ozzy Osbourne und "Black Sabbath", gezeichnet von Drogeneskapaden, Gewalt und gigantischen Erfolgen. Gemeinsam mit Ozzy und der Band beginnt ein rauschendes Leben auf der Überholspur. Ihre Nächte enden meist auf den Partys der ganz großen Hollywoodstars und Tony weiß heute, dass er davon nichts mehr weiß: "Ich kann mich nicht mehr an Details erinnern, da wir uns zu viel Koks reingezogen haben." Schnell wird das exzessive Leben zu einer Berg- und Talfahrt. Oft verlieren die Musiker völlig den Bezug zur Realität. Die Karriere gerät in den Hintergrund, während Aggressionen und Paranoia den Alltag der Band bestimmen. Einmal besprühen Tony und Ozzy ihren Schlagzeuger Bill am ganzen Körper mit goldener Farbe, bis er aussieht wie eine glänzende Weihnachtskugel. Kurz bevor er erstickt, kann ihn ein Notarzt retten. Der Irrsinn nach Methode wird zur tödlichen Gefahr: "Ich hatte Bill schon öfter angezündet, aber einmal geriet alles außer Kontrolle. Während er sich vor Schmerzen schreiend auf dem Studioboden wälzte, lachte ich mich schlapp. Doch das Schreien hörte nicht auf. Langsam begriff ich den Ernst der Lage - unser Drummer verbrannte bei lebendigem Leib." Nur durch das Eingreifen beherzter Helfer überlebte der Drummer die Feuerspiele. Tony Iommi blickt auf ein Leben zurück, das spektakulärer kaum sein könnte: Trotz zwei fehlender Fingerkuppen wurde aus dem Briten aus ärmlichen Verhältnissen einer der herausragendsten Gitarrenvirtuosen aller Zeiten.
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    The Luminous Dead (eBook, ePUB)
    Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best First Novel!"This claustrophobic, horror-leaning tour de force is highly recommended for fans of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation and Andy Weir's The Martian." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping dread of Annihilation, in which a caver on a foreign planet finds herself on a terrifying psychological and emotional journey for survival.When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, she thought she'd be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave collapses and gear malfunctions. She also thought that the fat paycheckenough to get her off-planet and on the trail of her mothermeant she'd get a skilled surface team, monitoring her suit and environment, keeping her safe. Keeping her sane. Instead, she got Em. Em sees nothing wrong with controlling Gyre's body with drugs or withholding critical information to ensure the smooth operation of her expedition. Em knows all about Gyre's falsified credentials, and has no qualms using them as a leashand a lash. And Em has secrets, too . . . As Gyre descends, little inconsistenciesmissing supplies, unexpected changes in the route, and, worst of all, shifts in Em's motivationsdrive her out of her depths. Lost and disoriented, Gyre finds her sense of control giving way to paranoia and anger. On her own in this mysterious, deadly place, surrounded by darkness and the unknown, Gyre must overcome more than just the dangerous terrain and the Tunneler which calls underground its home if she wants to make it out aliveshe must confront the ghosts in her own head.But how come she can't shake the feeling she's being followed?
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    The Shadow People
    A riveting, twisty psychological thriller from acclaimed author Joe Clifford, perfect for fans of The Whisper Man Brandon Cossey is finishing his last semester as an undergrad when he learns his childhood best friend, Jacob Balfour, has committed suicide. The news about Jacob, who had long battled schizophrenia, does not come as a surprise-but the bizarre details surrounding his death do. Jacob was found several states away, in a quarry, burned alive. Brandon returns to his hometown and discovers Jacob had been moonlighting as an amateur DIY reporter. As sole author and editor of the homemade zine Illuminations, Jacob has been covering a wide array of conspiracy theories. When Jacob's estranged grandfather, Francis, who also suffers from schizophrenia (but chooses to go untreated), arrives for the funeral, he tells Brandon that Jacob didn't kill himself; Jacob stumbled upon a secret so deadly he was murdered to keep it quiet. Soon afterwards, Brandon's life takes a turn for the strange. He notices odd cars and lookalikes following him, his personal property is hacked and stolen, and Brandon can no longer trust what he thinks he sees. As his grasp on reality recedes and falters, Brandon must question whether a sinister gang of doppelgängers, whom Jacob dubbed "the Shadow People," are really responsible. Events conspire to put Brandon on the road with Francis, as the unlikely duo travel across the upper Midwest attempting to learn the truth about Jacob's death. Part conspiracy thriller, part horror noir, The Shadow People mines the rich depths of perception and paranoia, asking the tough question: when you can't believe yourself, who can you trust?
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