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    Framley Parsonage: Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1263min
    In Framley Parsonage, the fourth novel of Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire, the author leaves the confines of Barchester and looks to the countryside, where he relates the moral difficulties of Mark Robarts, the young clergyman who has recently been appointed Vicar of Framley. Desperate to keep up with the local aristocracy, the country parson is persuaded to underwrite the debts of Sowerby, a well-respected peer. However, when the debts are called in, Robarts finds himself in a serious predicament. Written with acute insight, together with a great deal of warmth and humour toward his characters' attendant charms and foibles, Framley Parsonage is sure to delight. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Shaw-Parker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/001273/bk_naxo_001273_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fool Me Once: The Riverwood Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 454min
    Ronnie Chandler's past - especially the identity of her ex-husband - is a secret, held close and shared with only a trusted few. Planning never to see him again, she’d moved halfway across the country and found a job in a profession where he'd never in a million years look for her.Ready for a bigger challenge than selling small cabins, Ronnie and her colleagues at Horse Country Real Estate attract The Westlake Group, venture capitalists from Virginia, to underwrite the creation of Riverwood, a planned equestrian community.Senator Evan Parker is in Tennessee on a fact-finding trip. When his path unexpectedly crosses Ronnie's, he demands a second chance, but Ronnie is fast falling in love with Luc Deschaines, one of her new investment partners.Evan has Ronnie and all of the realtors over a proverbial barrel. Infuriated at the position forced on her, will Ronnie capitulate to Evan’s demands? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chloe Parks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/174779/bk_acx0_174779_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Bitter Wind Blows : The Riverwood Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 520min
    Listeners meet Ronnie Chandler in the first book of The Riverwood Series, Fool Me Once. When Ronnie and her partners at Horse Country Real Estate attract investors to underwrite the creation of Riverwood, an equestrian community in rural Tennessee, that's when things start to heat up.Ronnie's associates are far more than colleagues; they’re her support system and her true friends. They always have her back but never more so than when Ronnie’s ex-husband, United States Senator Evan Parker, arrives in Tennessee and presents her with an unpalatable ultimatum.In A Bitter Wind Blows, the women rely on their deep friendships to sustain them in overcoming the obstacles resulting from the choices they've made. They all have horses and they all ride, discussing and deciding during long hours in the saddle, as Riverwood comes to fruition.And they all fall in love, with romances that develop slowly throughout the story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chloe Parks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/192981/bk_acx0_192981_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    At the Earth's Core , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 309min
    David Innes is a young man who has just inherited a large mining company. An eccentric inventor, Abner Perry, convinces Innes to underwrite a project to build an 'iron mole,' claiming it will make them both wealthy. The mechanical beast works well, actually too well. On the maiden voyage, instead of digging for a few minutes and returning, they plunge straight through the earth's crust into the 'inner world' of Pellucidar. This world resembles earth but is a horizon-less, primeval tropical landscape where the sun neither sets nor rises, and is populated by 'Sagoth' gorilla men, wild human slaves, and the ruling hypnotic reptilian 'Mahars.' Upon arrival at this strange world, the men are immediately captured and enslaved. But soon Perry learns to read the language of the Mahars, and discovers a secret way to turn the tables! True to Burroughs form, this nonstop fantasy thriller weaves together savage islanders, pterodactyls, telepathy, and, of course, romance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Lawlor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/000060/bk_tant_000060_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Re-Imagining Philanthropy - Second Edition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 229min
    Jimmy LaRose's passion for people who give has inspired philanthropists around the world to change the way they invest in nonprofits. His belief that donors are uniquely positioned to give charities what they truly need, leadership more than money, is the basis for his work with individuals, governments, corporations and foundations, in the US, Europe, Asia, and Middle East. Jimmy, in his role as author, speaker, corporate CEO, and nonprofit CEO champions all of civil society's vital causes by facilitating acts of benevolence that bring healing to humanity and advance our common good. Now, in his 25th year of service, his message that money is more important than mission and donors are more important than people or causes has resonated with policy institute scholars, social activists, doctoral students, business leaders, think tanks, nonprofit and NGO executives who rely on him and his team of veterans to meaningfully grow their charitable enterprise. He's the architect of the Major Gifts Ramp-Up Donor Cultivation Model & Online Cloud used by charities around the world to meet the needs of their primary customers...the advocates, donors, and volunteers who financially underwrite their mission. He's the founder of National Development Institute, a 501(c)3 public benefit charity established in 1990 that insures funders, granting organizations, and corporations safeguard their mission by building capacity within charities who serve the human welfare, education, health care, arts, and environmental sectors. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen James. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/098368/bk_acx0_098368_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1314min
    In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career. "In December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France." So begins an enthralling narrative account of how Benjamin Franklin - 70 years old, without any diplomatic training, and possessed of the most rudimentary French - convinced France, an absolute monarchy, to underwrite America's experiment in democracy. When Franklin stepped onto French soil, he well understood he was embarking on the greatest gamble of his career. By virtue of fame, charisma, and ingenuity, Franklin outmaneuvered British spies, French informers, and hostile colleagues; engineered the Franco-American alliance of l778; and helped to negotiate the peace of l783. The eight-year French mission stands not only as Franklin's most vital service to his country but as the most revealing of the man. In A Great Improvisation, Stacy Schiff draws from new and little-known sources to illuminate the least-explored part of Franklin's life. Here is an unfamiliar, unforgettable chapter of the Revolution, a rousing tale of American infighting, and the treacherous backroom dealings at Versailles that would propel George Washington from near decimation at Valley Forge to victory at Yorktown. From this audiobook emerges a particularly human and yet fiercely determined Founding Father, as well as a profound sense of how fragile, improvisational, and international was our country's bid for independence. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Denaker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003027/bk_rand_003027_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Geometry of Wealth: How to Shape a Life of Money and Meaning , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 383min
    How does money figure into a happy life? In The Geometry of Wealth, behavioral finance expert Brian Portnoy delivers an inspired answer based on the idea that wealth, truly defined, is funded contentment. It is the ability to underwrite a meaningful life. This stands in stark contrast to angling to become rich, which is usually an unsatisfying treadmill.  At the heart of this groundbreaking perspective, Portnoy takes listeners on a journey toward wealth, informed by disciplines ranging from ancient history to modern neuroscience. He contends that tackling the big questions about a joyful life and tending to financial decisions are complementary, not separate, tasks.   These big questions include:  How is the human brain wired for two distinct experiences of happiness? And why can money "buy" one but not the other? Are the touchstones of a meaningful life affordable? Why is market savvy among the least important sources of wealth but self-awareness is among the most? Can we strike a balance between pushing for more and being content with enough?  This journey memorably contours along three basic shapes: A circle, triangle, and square help us visualize how we adapt to evolving circumstances, set clear priorities, and find empowerment in simplicity. In this accessible and entertaining audiobook, Portnoy reveals that true wealth is achievable for many - including those who despair it is out of reach - but only in the context of a life in which purpose and practice are thoughtfully calibrated. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Ares. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/141497/bk_acx0_141497_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 540min
    Read it, please. Straight through to the end. Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important. (Barbara Kingsolver)Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We've created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth.That new planet is filled with new binds and traps. A changing world costs large sums to defend - think of the money that went to repair New Orleans, or the trillions it will take to transform our energy systems. But the endless economic growth that could underwrite such largesse depends on the stable planet we've managed to damage and degrade. We can't rely on old habits any longer. Our hope depends, McKibben argues, on scaling back - on building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down, concentrate on essentials, and create the type of community (in the neighborhood, but also on the Internet) that will allow us to weather trouble on an unprecedented scale. Change - fundamental change - is our best hope on a planet suddenly and violently out of balance.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Oliver Wyman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001069/bk_aren_001069_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 594min
    In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, "saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will while jettisoning the impediments". In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of free will worth wanting - those that underwrite moral and artistic responsibility - are not threatened by advances in science but distinguished, explained, and justified in detail. Dennett tackles the question of free will in a highly original and witty manner, drawing on the theories and concepts of fields that range from physics and evolutionary biology to engineering, automata theory, and artificial intelligence. He shows how the classical formulations of the problem in philosophy depend on misuses of imagination, and he disentangles the philosophical problems of real interest from the "family of anxieties" in which they are often enmeshed - imaginary agents and bogeymen, including the Peremptory Puppeteer, the Nefarious Neurosurgeon, and the Cosmic Child Whose Dolls We Are. Putting sociobiology in its rightful place, he concludes that we can have free will and science, too. He explores reason, control and self-control, the meaning of "can" and "could have done otherwise", responsibility and punishment, and why we would want free will in the first place. A fresh listening of Dennett's book shows how much it can still contribute to current discussions of free will. This edition includes as its afterword Dennett's 2012 Erasmus Prize essay. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Don Hagen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/001814/bk_gdan_001814_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 552min
    John Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing the best - and the brainiest - bond arbitrage group in the world. In 1991, in the wake of a scandal involving one of his traders, Meriwether abruptly resigned. For two years, his fiercely loyal team - convinced that the chief had been unfairly victimized - plotted their boss' return. In 1993, Meriwether gathered together his former disciples and a handful of supereconomists and proposed that they become partners in a new hedge fund different from any Wall Street had ever seen. And so Long-Term Capital Management was born. Meriwether & Co. truly believed that their finely tuned computer models had tamed the genie of risk, and would allow them to bet on the future with near mathematical certainty. Thanks to their cast - which included a pair of future Nobel Prize winners - investors believed them. Four years later, when a default in Russia set off a global storm that Long-Term's models hadn't anticipated, its supposedly safe portfolios imploded. In five weeks, the professors went from mega-rich geniuses to discredited failures. The firm's staggering $100 billion balance sheet threatened to drag down markets around the world. At the eleventh hour, fearing that the financial system of the world was in peril, the Federal Reserve hastily summoned Wall Street's leading banks to underwrite a bailout. Best selling author Roger Lowenstein captures Long-Term's roller-coaster ride in gripping detail. Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein crafts a story that reads like a first-rate thriller from beginning to end. He explains not just how the fund made and lost its money, but what it was about the personalities of Long-Term's partners, the arrogance of their mathematical certainties, and the late-90s culture of Wall Street that made it all possible. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roger Lowenstein. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhau/000060/bk_rhau_000060_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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