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Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 398min
Fourteen years before Kirsten Gillibrand succeeded Hillary Rodham Clinton as senator from New York, she heard her future mentor say these life-changing words: "Decisions are being made every day in Washington, and if you are not part of those decisions, you might not like what they decide, and you’ll have no one to blame but yourself." A young corporate lawyer at the time, Gillibrand felt as if she’d been struck by lightning. She instantly knew that her voice - all women’s voices - were essential to shaping the future of this country, and that she had a greater purpose in life: to speak up and effect change. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, the senator, wife, and mother of two recounts her personal journey in public service and galvanizes women to reach beyond their busy lives and make a meaningful difference in the world around them. Off the Sidelines is a playbook for women who want to step up, whether in Congress or the boardroom or the local PTA. If women were fully represented in politics, Gillibrand says, national priorities would shift to issues that directly impact them: affordable daycare, paid family medical leave, and equal pay. Pulling back the curtain on Beltway politics, she speaks candidly about her legislative successes (securing federally funded medical care for 9/11 first responders, repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell) and her crushing disappointments (failing by five votes to pass a bill protecting survivors of sexual assault in the military). Gillibrand also shares stories of growing up the daughter and granddaughter of two trailblazing feminists in a politically active family in Albany, New York, and retraces her nonlinear path to public office. In Off the Sidelines, Gillibrand is the tough-love older sister and cheerleader every woman needs. In her sharp, honest, and refreshingly relatable voice, she dares us all to tap into our inner strength, find personal fulfillment, and speak up for what we believe in./p ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirsten Gillibrand, Susan Denaker, Hillary Clinton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003937/bk_rand_003937_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Divorce Papers: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 802min
Witty and wonderful, sparkling and sophisticated, this debut romantic comedy brilliantly tells the story of one very messy, very high-profile divorce, and the endearingly cynical young lawyer dragooned into handling it. Twenty-nine-year-old Sophie Diehl is happy toiling away as a criminal law associate at an old line New England firm where she very much appreciates that most of her clients are behind bars. Everyone at Traynor, Hand knows she abhors face-to-face contact, but one weekend, with all the big partners away, Sophie must handle the intake interview for the daughter of the firm's most important client. After 18 years of marriage, Mayflower descendant Mia Meiklejohn Durkheim has just been served divorce papers in a humiliating scene at the popular local restaurant Golightly's. She is locked and loaded to fight her eminent and ambitious husband, Dr. Daniel Durkheim, chief of the Department of Pediatric Oncology, for custody of their 10-year-old daughter Jane - and she also burns to take him down a peg. Sophie warns Mia that she's never handled a divorce case before, but Mia can't be put off. As she so disarmingly puts it: It's her first divorce, too. Debut novelist Susan Rieger doesn't leave a word out of place in this hilarious and expertly crafted debut that shines with the power and pleasure of storytelling. Told through personal correspondence, office memos, emails, articles, and legal papers, this playful reinvention of the epistolary form races along with humor and heartache, exploring the complicated family dynamic that results when marriage fails. For Sophie, the whole affair sparks a hard look at her own relationships - not only with her parents, but with colleagues, friends, lovers, and most importantly, herself. Much like Where'd You Go, Bernadette, The Divorce Papers will have you laughing aloud and thanking the literature gods for this incredible, fresh new voice in fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Arthur Morey, Kathe Mazur, Emily Rankin, Susan Denaker, Mark Bramhall, Fred Sanders, Mark Deakins, Kim Mai Guest, Marc Cashman, Kimberly Farr. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003809/bk_rand_003809_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1756min
They have wielded enormous financial power and dominated world politics for more than half a century. They have been appointed to positions of great power and have been elected as governors, congressmen, senators and presidents. They have shaped our past and, with our country at war under the leadership of their number one son, they are, more critically than ever, shaping our future. As the Bush family has risen to dominance, so too they have been master orchestrators of their own public image, acting and operating under the shield of privacy their money and status have always afforded them. Until now. Number one best-selling author and investigative biographer Kitty Kelley has closely examined the lives of Jacqueline Onassis, Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra, and the British Royal family. Now the First Lady of unauthorized biography reckons with the first family of the United States - and the result is at once a rich and shocking history and a very human portrait of the world’s most powerful dynasty. An important work on wealth, power, and class in America, The Family is rich in texture, probing in its psychological insight, revealing in its political and financial detail, and stunning in the patterns that emerge and expose the Bush dynasty as it has never before been exposed. Ms. Kelley takes us back to the origins of the family fortune in the Ohio steel industry at the turn of the last century, through the oil deals and international business associations that have maintained and increased their wealth over the past hundred years. The book leads us through Prescott Bush’s first entrée into government at the state level in 1950s’ Connecticut, to George Herbert Walker Bush’s long and winding road to the White House, to his son’s quick sweep into the same office. Along the way, we see the complex relationships the Bushes have had with the giants of the century - Eisenhower, Nixon, Joseph McCarthy, Kissinger, Reagan, Clinton - as well as th ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Denaker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000276/bk_bkot_000276_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Make Money, Not Excuses: Wake Up, Take Charge, and Overcome Your Financial Fears Forever , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 645min
Get rich, don’t bitch “I don’t have time to deal with my money.”“Managing money and investing is too intimidating.”“I’m not a numbers person.”“My husband takes care of our finances.”“I’m just not good with money.”Jean Chatzky has heard all the excuses for why women don’t deal with their finances. She used to make them herself. For the first time, Jean tells you how she made every financial mistake in the book - not paying her bills, going into credit card debt, letting her 401(k) lapse - before finally making the decision to take control of her money and her future. Whether you’ve made these mistakes or you want to avoid them, if you’re ready to take charge of your financial life then this is the book for you. In it, Jean shares these valuables lessons:Where to startHow to decode financial jargon (it’s easier than you think)How to get over your “I’m not smart enough to deal with money” feelingsWhy being a “good-enough investor” will make you more money in the long-term (while trying to be a “great investor” will drive you crazy)Why you might think you are bad at math, and why that doesn’t have to be trueHow (and where) to save your moneyWhy women make better investors - and higher returns - than men Jean is famous for her ability to explain money and investing. In a clear and accessible way, she breaks down all the scariest parts of dealing with money - from investing in stocks to saving for your retirement - to make them doable, easy, and yes, even enjoyable. She also includes throughout a “Map to a Million,” great tips on easy and quick financial changes you can make immediately...that really add up! Are you ready to be rich? If you want to get rich, if you want to be wealthier than you are today, you really need to do only four things. That’s right, just four things. You need to make a decent living/l ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Denaker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000809/bk_bkot_000809_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 387min
In the summer of 1962, 19-year-old Mimi Beardsley arrived by train in Washington, D.C., to begin an internship in the White House press office. The Kennedy Administration had reinvigorated the capital and the country - and Mimi was eager to contribute. For a young woman from a privileged but sheltered upbringing, the job was the chance of a lifetime. Although she started as a lowly intern, Mimi made an impression on Kennedy's inner circle and, after just three days at the White House, she was presented to the President himself. Almost immediately, the two began an affair that would continue for the next 18 months. In an era when women in the workplace were still considered "girls", Mimi was literally a girl herself - naive, innocent, emotionally unprepared for the thrill that came when the President's charisma and power were turned on her full-force. She was also unprepared for the feelings of isolation that would follow as she fell into the double life of a college student who was also the secret lover of the most powerful man in the world. Then, after the President's tragic death in Dallas, she grieved in private, locked her secret away, and tried to start her life anew, only to find that her past would cast a long shadow and ultimately destroy her relationship with the man she married. In 2003, a Kennedy biographer mentioned "a tall, slender, beautiful 19-year-old college sophomore and White House intern, who worked in the press office" in reference to one of the President's affairs. The disclosure set off a tabloid frenzy and soon exposed Mimi and the secret that she had kept for 41 years. Because her past had been revealed in such a shocking, public way, she was forced, for the first time, to examine the choices she'd made. She came to understand that shutting down one part of her life so completely had closed her off from so much more. No longer defined by silence or shame, Mimi Alford has finally unburdened he ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Denaker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002879/bk_rand_002879_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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His Majesty's Dragon: Temeraire, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 381min
Just when you think you’ve seen every variation possible on the dragon story, along comes Naomi Novik.... Her wonderful Temeraire is a dragon for the ages.” (Terry Brooks)Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain's defense by taking to the skies... not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons. When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo - an unhatched dragon egg - fate sweeps Captain Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature.Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as France's own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparte's boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire.“Terrifically entertaining.” (Stephen King) 9780739354148 N N ©2006 Naomi Novik;(P)2007 Random House Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House Inc. http://www.audible.de/pd/B004V6VPN0?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B004V6VPN0?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true The Alibi Man (Unabridged) 27.97 AVAILABLE The Alibi Man (Unabridged) The Alibi Man (Unabridged) Tami Hoag The Palm Beach elite go to great lengths to protect their own - and their own no longer includes Elena Estes. But a shocking event is about to draw her back into that painful vortex.... Beth McDonald Random House Audio 2007-03-06 11:57:04 582 B004I0SMUS English - Mysteries & Thrillers English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/rand/001121de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001121/bk_rand_001121_sample.mp3 Palm Beach, murder, society The Palm Beach elite go to great lengths to protect their own - and their own no longer includes Elena Estes. Once upon a time a child of wealth and privilege, Elena turned her back on that life and chose the life of an undercover cop, with the hunt for justice her personal passion. Then a tragic, haunting mistake ended her career. Now Elena exists on the fringes of her old life. But a shocking event is about to draw her back into the painful vortex she's fought so hard to leave behind. First she finds a body - not just a victim, but a friend. As Elena delves into her dead friend's secret life, she discovers ties to a group of powerful and wealthy Palm Beach bad boys...a group that includes Elena's former fiancé. Finding her friend's killer will put Elena at odds with her old life, with her new lover, and with herself. But she is determined to reveal the truth - a truth that will shock Palm Beach society to its core, and could very well get her killed. 9780739341070 N N ©2007 Tami Hoag;(P)2007 Random House Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House Inc. http://www.audible.de/pd/B004I0SMUS?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B004I0SMUS?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true The Alibi Man 20.97 AVAILABLE The Alibi Man The Alibi Man Tami Hoag The Palm Beach elite go to great lengths to protect their own - and their own no longer includes Elena Estes. But a shocking event is about to draw her back into that painful vortex.... Beth McDonald Random House Audio 2007-03-06 11:57:30 362 B004V7S6PO English - Mysteries & Thrillers English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/rand/001122de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001122/bk_rand_001122_sample.mp3 Palm Beach, murder, society The Palm Beach elite go to great lengths to protect their own - and their own no longer includes Elena Estes. Once upon a time a child of wealth and privilege, Elena turned her back on that life and chose the life of an undercover cop, with the hunt for justice her personal passion. Then a tragic, haunting mistake ended her career. Now Elena exists on the fringes of her old life. But a shocking event is about to draw her back into the painful vortex she's fought so hard to leave behind. First she finds a body - not just a victim, but a friend. As Elena delves into her dead friend's secret life, she discovers ties to a group of powerful and wealthy Palm Beach bad boys...a group that includes Elena's former fiancé.Finding her friend's killer will put Elena at odds with her old life, with her new lover, and with herself. But she is determined to reveal the truth - a truth that will shock Palm Beach society to its core, and could very well get her killed. Please note: This is the abridged edition. An unabridged audiobook is also available. 9780739341063 N N ©2007 Tami Hoag;(P)2007 Random House Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House Inc. http://www.audible.de/pd/B004V7S6PO?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B004V7S6PO?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Throne of Jade: Temeraire, Book 2 20.97 AVAILABLE Throne of Jade: Temeraire, Book 2 Throne of Jade: Temeraire, Book 2 Naomi Novik When Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon's egg, Captain Will Laurence unexpectedly became master and commander of the noble dragon he named Temeraire.... David Thorn Random House Audio 2007-03-09 14:43:23 396 B004UVZUKA English - Science Fiction & Fantasy English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/rand/001125de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001125/bk_rand_001125_sample.mp3 Temeraire, Napoleon, Napoleonic Wars, dragon “Readers with a penchant for both Patrick O’Brian and Anne McCaffrey may have found their perfect match. Naomi Novik beautifully renders an 1800s Europe in which naval buffs and dragon lovers will be keen to immerse themselves.” (Alan Dean Foster, author of the Pip & Flinx series)When Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargo - an unhatched dragon's egg - Captain Will Laurence of HMS Reliant unexpectedly became master and commander of the noble dragon he named Temeraire. As new recruits in Britain's Aerial Corps, man and dragon soon proved their mettle in daring combat against Bonaparte's invading forces. Now China has discovered that its rare gift, intended for Napoleon, has fallen into British hands - and an angry Chinese delegation vows to reclaim the remarkable beast. But Laurence refuses to cooperate. Facing the gallows for his defiance, Laurence has no choice but to accompany Temeraire back to the Far East - a long voyage fraught with peril, intrigue, and the untold terrors of the deep. Yet once the pair reaches the court of the Chinese emperor, even more shocking discoveries and darker dangers await. 9780739354162 N N ©2006 Naomi Novik;(P)2007 Random House Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House Inc. http://www.audible.de/pd/B004UVZUKA?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B004UVZUKA?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Black Powder War: Temeraire, Book 3 20.97 AVAILABLE Black Powder War: Temeraire, Book 3 Black Powder War: Temeraire, Book 3 Naomi Novik Captain Will Laurence of His Majesty's Aerial Corps and his extraordinary dragon, Temeraire, are waylaid by a mysterious envoy bearing urgent new orders from Britain.... David Thorn Random House Audio 2007-03-09 14:44:39 384 B004I0QMCI English - Science Fiction & Fantasy English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/rand/001126de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001126/bk_rand_001126_sample.mp3 Temeraire, Napoleon, Napoleonic Wars, dragon After their fateful adventure in China, Captain Will Laurence of His Majesty's Aerial Corps and his extraordinary dragon, Temeraire, are waylaid by a mysterious envoy bearing urgent new orders from Britain. Three valuable dragon eggs have been purchased from the Ottoman Empire, and Laurence and Temeraire must detour to Istanbul to escort the precious cargo back to England. Time is of the essence if the eggs are to be borne home before hatching.Yet disaster threatens the mission at every turn, thanks to the diabolical machinations of the Chinese dragon Lien, who blames Temeraire for her master's death and vows to ally herself with Napoleon and take vengeance. Then, faced with shattering betrayal in an unexpected place, Laurence, Temeraire, and their squad must launch a daring offensive. But what chance do they have against the massed forces of Bonaparte's implacable army? 9780739354186 N N ©2006 Naomi Novik;(P)2007 Random House Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House Inc. http://www.audible.de/pd/B004I0QMCI?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B004I0QMCI?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories (Unabridged) 24.50 AVAILABLE For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories (Unabridged) For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (Unabridged) Nathan Englander One of the most stunning literary debuts of our time, these energized, irreverent, and deliciously inventive stories introduced an astonishing talent.... Paul Michael, Arthur Morey, Susan Denaker Random House Audio 2007-03-13 15:19:44 403 B004V685K6 English - Fiction English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/rand/001127de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001127/bk_rand_001127_sample.mp3 short story collection, Jewish fiction, satire fiction One of the most stunning literary debuts of our time, these energized, irreverent, and deliciously inventive stories introduced an astonishing talent.In the collection's hilarious title story, a Hasidic man gets a special dispensation from his rabbi to see a prostitute. The Wig" takes an aging wigmaker and makes her, for a single moment, beautiful. In "The Tumblers", Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for the death camps and, in a deft, imaginative twist, turns them into acrobats tumbling out of harm's way.For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a work of startling authority and imagination; a collection that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad. It's the work of a remarkable storyteller. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Thorn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001120/bk_rand_001120_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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