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    Making Sense , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 544min
    In Making Sense, David Crystal confronts the foe of many: grammar. Once taught relentlessly to all students in the English-speaking world, grammar disappeared from most school curricula, so that terms such as preposition and conjunction now often confound children and adults alike. Explaining the nuts and bolts of grammar presents a special challenge because - far more than is the case with spelling and punctuation - the subject is burdened with a centuries-old history of educational practice that many will recall as anything but glamorous. One of the world's foremost authorities on the English language, Crystal sets out to rid grammar of its undeserved reputation as a dry and intimidating subject, pointing out how essential grammar is to clear and effective speech and writing. He moves briskly through the stages by which children acquire grammar, along the way demystifying grammar's rules and irregularities and showing us how to navigate its snares and pitfalls. He offers the fascinating history of grammar, explaining how it has evolved from the first grammarians in ancient Greece to our 21st century digital environment of blogging, emailing, and texting. Many find grammar to be a daunting subject, but in this breezy, entertaining book, Crystal proves that grammar doesn't need to make us uneasy - we can all make sense of how we make sense. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Crystal. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/010257/bk_reco_010257_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Amber Fang: Betrayal: Librarian. Assassin. Vampire., Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 263min
    Librarian. Assassin. Vampire. The blood-sucking suspense continues.... For Amber Fang, life used to be simple: Study library science by day, read by night, and, whenever hungry, enjoy an ethical meal. Her mother had taught her well - it's only good etiquette to eat murderers. But now her mom has vanished, and Amber is alone. Her job as an assassin for a top-secret organization has been terminated. But ZARC, an arms dealing company, is still trying to hunt her down using algorithms, drones, and a murderess with metal hands.Through the dark web, Amber learns that her long-lost mother has been “disappeared” to a secret compound in Antarctica. When Amber arrives and pries open a door to investigate, what she discovers shocks her to the core. And it will change her life forever.If she survives.Amber Fang: Betrayal is the second book in the best-selling vampire series by Arthur Slade. Join Amber Fang's adventure. Buy this book!"Enthralling, witty, briskly paced and highly original, AMBER FANG is bestselling author Arthur Slade at his finest. I can't wait for the next book in the series!" (A. J. Banner, best-selling author of The Good Neighbor)“Arthur Slade's trademark humor imbues this book about a plucky vampire librarian; it's a romp of a read, and I kept thinking it would also make a great TV series. I had so much fun reading this!” (Susin Nielsen, author of Optimists Die First) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amber Dawn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/121371/bk_acx0_121371_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Personal Healing: Recorded Live at St. James Palace in the Presence of HRH the Prince of Wales, Hörbuch, Digital, 54min
    Each of us, at some point in our lives, will experience a crisis in our physical well-being. When that time comes, how will you prepare spiritually and energetically to heal yourself? In Personal Healing, Caroline Myss answers questions crucial to anyone in the midst of such a challenge: How do you gather the spiritual power necessary to recover from an illness? Why do some people respond well to medical treatments and alternative therapies while others do not? What specific energetic practices can you begin to use immediately to support healing? In this fascinating and briskly paced distillation of her core insights, Caroline Myss explores: The healing power of "present time" awareness Ways to retrieve the aspects of your spirit lost or "bartered" to others How forgiveness releases the "anchors" that keep old wounds open Inner alchemy - how you affect your physical conditions through the direction and movement of the spirit And more Most of us know instinctively that we must rally our spiritual and energetic resources in order to heal. Now, here is an opportunity to join Caroline Myss as she offers a sweeping paradigm for reclaiming that power, with Personal Healing. This program was recorded at St. James Palace in London in honor of holistic health pioneer Penny Brohn, founder of the Bristol Cancer Centre. It includes closing remarks by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, a longtime advocate for alternative healing in Great Britain. Language: English. Narrator: Caroline Myss. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/true/000797/sp_true_000797_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Romance: Stepbrother Romance: Billionaire Trouble , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 67min, (USK 18)
    Do you think money can buy happiness? I don't think so. But then again, I also grew up dirt poor, and my father married into wealth in the form of my billionaire stepmother, author of a famous vampire romance series. This, in turn, brought me rather briskly into the lap of luxury, where I encountered the man who would come to change my life. Charles.... Charles and I had shared many a sordid moment growing up, developing quite an uncomfortable and utterly sexual dynamic, culminating in an intense seaside romp when I was 18, and the two of us, almost immediately, seeing the error of our ways, deeply regretted our decision. It's been nearly seven years since that fateful day. We've both done our best to put the incident out of our minds, the two of us staying far apart from one another, but to no avail. Now I'm engaged to be married to Alan, a billionaire tech mogul, despite my ongoing feelings for Charles. But will his appearance at our engagement party lead me to a change of a heart and into the arms of such a taboo lover? A standalone stepbrother romance with no cliffhanger. Warning: This book contains lots of hot sex, drama, and some adult language. If this is not the kind of stuff you like to hear, then start now and see what you have been missing! Enjoy! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: D Rampling. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/040322/bk_acx0_040322_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Red Mountain: A Novel: Red Mountain Chronicles, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 767min
    Best book I've read in over 50 years... since A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. (LibraMystic)A Pulpwood Queens Book Club Selection and Amazon Charts Best SellerHow well do we really know each other?Red Mountain in eastern Washington is home to a community of eccentrics.Otis Till, the area's visionary winemaker, has been known to howl at the moon - fully nude.Single mother Margot Pierce moved across the country to build an inn, but so far all she does is binge on gelato, the Hallmark Channel, and fantasies of murdering her ex.High school senior Emilia Forester is the daughter of celebrity parents struggling to build her own life outside of their shadow.And Brooks Baker is a man haunted by his past spent living on the streets as an orphan. Somehow, everyone lives together harmoniously, their lives intertwined like the vines in Red Mountain's beautiful and renowned vineyards.But in a place where everyone knows each other, secrets are like poison...and right now Otis, Margot, Emilia, and Brooks all have something to hide. When their secrets come to light and dysfunction ignites, will their small mountain be stronger for it - or will lives be torn apart?Heartfelt, briskly paced, and wonderfully descriptive, Red Mountain is the story of four complicated people living in a beautiful landscape unlike anywhere else. Told from multiple perspectives and rich with vivid descriptions of wine life, this novel will transport you from the first word to the last.For a free copy of Red Mountain Recipes for the Body, Mind, and Spirit, sign up on Boo's website. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Avers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/193327/bk_acx0_193327_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 746min
    The fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century. We know it simply as "the pill", yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women but neglected her own children in pursuit of free love; the beautiful Katharine McCormick, who owed her fortune to her wealthy husband, the son of the founder of International Harvester and a schizophrenic; the visionary scientist Gregory Pincus, who was dismissed by Harvard in the 1930s as a result of his experimentation with in vitro fertilization but who, after he was approached by Sanger and McCormick, grew obsessed with the idea of inventing a drug that could stop ovulation; and the telegenic John Rock, a Catholic doctor from Boston who battled his own church to become an enormously effective advocate in the effort to win public approval for the drug that would be marketed by Searle as Enovid. Spanning the years from Sanger's heady Greenwich Village days in the early 20th century to trial tests in Puerto Rico in the 1950s to the cusp of the sexual revolution in the 1960s, this is a grand story of radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes. Brilliantly researched and briskly written, The Birth of the Pill is gripping social, cultural, and scientific history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gayle Hendrix. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021517/bk_adbl_021517_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Love and Fatigue in America: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 429min
    Love and Fatigue in America records an Englishman’s decade-long journey through his newly adopted country in the company of a mystifying illness and a charismatic dog. When he receives an unexpected invitation from an unfamiliar American university, he embraces it as a triumphant new beginning. Instead, on arrival, he is stricken with a persistent inability to stand up or think straight, and things quickly go wrong. Diagnosed with ME disease - chronic fatigue syndrome - he moves restlessly from state to state, woman to woman, and eccentric doctor to eccentric doctor, in a search for a love and a life suited to his new condition. The journey is simultaneously brave, absurd, and instructive. Finding himself prostrate on beds and couches from Los Alamos to Albany, he hears the intimate stories offered by those he encounters - their histories, hurts, and hopes - and from these fragments an unsentimental map emerges of the inner life of a nation. Disability has shifted his interest in America from measuring its opportunities to taking the measure of its humanity. Forced to consider for himself the meaning of a healthy life and how best to nurture it, he incidentally delivers a report on the health of a country. By turns insightful, comic, affecting, and profound, Roger King’s Love and Fatigue in America briskly compresses an illness, a nation, and an era through masterly blending of literary forms. In a work that defies categorization, and never loses its pace or poise, the debilitated narrator is, ironically, the most lively and fully awake figure in the book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Graeme Malcolm. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012771/bk_adbl_012771_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Real American: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 395min
    This program is read by the author. A fearless debut audiobook memoir in which beloved and best-selling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a biracial black woman in America. Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The only child of a marriage between an African-American father and a white British mother, she shows indelibly how so-called "micro" aggressions in addition to blunt force insults can puncture a person's inner life with a thousand sharp cuts. Real American expresses, also, through Lythcott-Haims' path to self-acceptance, the healing power of community in overcoming the hurtful isolation of being incessantly considered "the other". The author of the New York Times best-selling anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult, Lythcott-Haims offers listeners a different kind of story this time out but one that will nevertheless resonate with the legions of students, educators, and parents to whom she is now well known, by whom she is beloved, and to whom she has always provided wise and necessary counsel about how to embrace and nurture their best selves. Real American is an affecting memoir, an unforgettable cri de coeur, and a clarion call to all of us to live more wisely, generously and fully. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julie Lythcott-Haims. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002680/bk_aren_002680_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
    Experience the action-packed first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson's laugh-out-loud middle-grade fantasy series like never before-Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians is now in paperback with all new covers! AN ANCIENT RIVALRY REAWAKENS. Everything I'd known about the world was a lie. On my thirteenth birthday, I, Alcatraz Smedry (yes, I got named after a prison, don't ask) received my inheritance: a bag of sand. And then I accidentally destroyed my foster parents' kitchen. It's not my fault, things just break around me, I swear! I thought the sand was a joke until evil Librarians came to steal it. You're probably thinking, "Librarians are nice people who recommend good books," but that's just what they want you to think! It turns out they're actually a secret cabal keeping the truth from you-a hidden world filled with magical eyeglasses, talking dinosaurs, and knights with crystal swords! Or so my Grandpa Smedry claimed when he suddenly showed up to rescue me. So now I have to go with him to invade the local library and get that sand back, before it's used to conquer the world. And Grandpa says how I keep breaking things is actually an amazing talent. There's no way that can all be true, right? Will I ever make it back home alive? "An excellent choice to read aloud to the whole family. Funny, exciting, and briskly paced." -NPR
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    Miles Higher: No. 1 in the Series 'At Your Service: The Tennis Star, the Stewardess, and the Waitress' (Lesbian Erotica) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 83min, (USK 18)
    If you like sexy lesbian stories, teasing lesbian fiction, and arousing lesbian erotica, you'll love this hot tale of mile-high ecstasy.... Amanda was nervous but excited. At 24, she had been a journalist for a couple of years, but this was her first chance at international travel. Recent press stories had revealed the "free gifts" and "happy endings" that had been given away by one well-known airline as an inducement to travel in first class, and now Amanda's editor had asked her to investigate the seamy underbelly of the airline industry. It wasn't exactly Watergate, but it promised to be interesting. Amanda found herself in a five-star Dubai hotel, knocking briskly on the door of a rather beautiful stewardess with whom she had chatted on the flight from London. Amanda had a boyfriend back in London, where she had grown up, but there was something about this girl that intrigued her. Could it be, she wondered for a brief moment, that her interest was more than just professional? Felicity opened the door. She was still in the blue skirt and light blue blouse of her uniform. Her straw-colored hair was up in a bun, and her bright blue eyes were just as radiant as ever. Amanda was struck once again by just how beautiful the stewardess was. For her part, Amanda, a keep-fit enthusiast from a privileged background, had dressed nicely for the occasion - a crisp white blouse, short black cotton skirt, and black Prada heels. Five-foot, 10-inches in height with slightly feline light brown eyes and a bob of shiny, short brown hair, she felt hip, smart, sexy, confident, and adventurous.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Everly Rose. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/045038/bk_acx0_045038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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