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How to Drink like a Billionaire: Mastering Wine with Joie de Vivre , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 405min

Would you like to know the mysteries of how the 1 percent drink? Mark Oldman, one of America's most popular wine experts, demystifies the secrets of the wine world, so you can drink, enjoy, and savor wine better - and cheaper. Mark Oldman imparts his vast knowledge of wines into this easy to hear, humorous guide, complete with in-depth how-tos on tasting, swirling, and buying wine the same way billionaires do - without the price tag. With his characteristic wit and charm, Oldman reveals how to imbibe like an insider while cutting through the pretension and geekiness that still surrounds wine. From detailing little-known ways to hone in on the best value bottles to the secret maneuvers you can do to master wine in restaurants, shops, and at home, How to Drink like a Billionaire will have you approaching wine with the shrewdness, style, and unapologetic joy of the 1 percent. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Oldman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009431/bk_blak_009431_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Neighborly: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 630min

A not-to-be-missed novel of suspense about the secrets hidden in a young couple’s new neighborhood. Kat and Doug felt like Aurora Village was the perfect community. Minutes from the city, affluent without pretension, low crime with a friendly vibe - it’s everything Kat never had, and that she’s determined to provide for her infant daughter. Snagging a nice bungalow in this exclusive enclave was worth all the sacrifice. But everything changes overnight when Kat finds a scrawled note outside their front door. That wasn’t very neighborly of you. As increasingly sinister and frighteningly personal notes arrive, each one stabs deeper into the heart of Kat’s insecurities, paranoia, and most troubling, her past. When the neighbors who seemed so perfect reveal their open secret, the menace moves beyond mean notes. Someone’s raising the stakes. As suspicious as she is of every smiling face and as terrified as she’s become of being found out, Kat is still unprepared for the sharp turn that lies just ahead of her on Bayberry Lane. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amy McFadden, Cristina Panfilio. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010377/bk_brll_010377_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Realville , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 701min

This unique audiobook is about the recognition, understanding, and pursuit of truth by a critique of its opposites in seven forms of lying, cheating, denial, delusion, deception, pretension, and withholding. The message is framed metaphorically by describing a central Texas town near where I live, "Realville".Our trip here to Realville allows us to see a kaleidoscopic view of how to achieve truthfulness as we move along the four streets surrounding the central courthouse square: Integrity Boulevard, Face It Street, Openness Way, and Aw-shucks Road.On Integrity Boulevard we see what it means to avoid lying and cheating. We see and learn on Face It Street how to see things as they really are, as opposed to denying reality or deluding ourselves. The scene on Openness Way lets us see and correct our unseemly passive aggressive tendencies of withholding information. On Aw-shucks Road, we see that we no longer need to preen and posture to make ourselves valued. This audiobook's three foundational sections show listeners how to: Recognize untruthfulness in any of its formsAnalyze what causes people to be untruthful, even unintentionallyEmploy strategies to become more truthful themselves and thus more trustworth ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Turtle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/233061/bk_acx0_233061_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest Management Teacher , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 573min

Long considered the world's greatest thinker and writer on management, Peter Drucker's teachings continue to inspire leaders everywhere. From 1975 to 1979, author William Cohen studied under the Great Man and became the first graduate of his doctoral program. What Drucker taught him literally changed his life. In a matter of a few years, he was re-commissioned in the Air Force and rose to the rank of major general. Eventually, he became a full professor, management consultant, multi-book author, and university president - while maintaining a nearly lifelong friendship with the master. In A Class with Drucker, Cohen shares many of Drucker's teachings that never made it into his countless books and articles, ideas that were offered to his students in classroom or informal settings. Cohen expands on Drucker's lessons with personal anecdotes about his teacher's personality, lack of pretension, and interactions with students and others. He also shows how Drucker's ideas can be applied to the real-world challenges managers face today. Enlightening and intriguing, A Class with Drucker will enable you to gain from the timeless wisdom of the inspiring man himself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William A. Cohen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000159/bk_gdan_000159_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Live Learn Grow: Lessons of a Reluctant Tiger , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 162min

Heartfelt and blatantly honest, Live Learn Grow: Lessons of a Reluctant Tiger portrays Brannon Beliso's struggles and victories, and the insights that moved him forward step-by-step. Growing up poor in San Francisco. Child abuse. Foster care. Becoming a martial arts champion. His life as a rock star in the Philippines. And then, fed up with his decadent lifestyle, returning to San Francisco on a quest for clarity. Live Learn Grow was born out of Brannon's deepest desire to help you live your best life. Brannon had a tough childhood and knows firsthand what it's like to be a prisoner of negative thinking. Without pretension, he shares the simple insights that helped him overcome his greatest challenges. His strategies for living a life of purpose and service are powerful tools to start living your best life. Live Learn Grow is an act of bravery, humility, and love, in which Brannon pulls from his inner sanctum and tells his tales without inhibition. You won't find a bit of armchair philosophy in this book. Brannon has gotten his hands dirty in experiencing life and its vicissitudes, which makes Live Learn Grow ultimately valuable because it is real, every gritty step of the way. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brannon Beliso. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/098135/bk_acx0_098135_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Cut from the Same Cloth: My Notorious Aunt, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 380min

Why does the powerfully built, golden-haired Lord St. Evert dress like an overdone dandy? His outlandish wardrobe belies the hard unyielding lines of his face. Whoever he is, he's ruining Elizabeth Hampton's desperate scheme to secure a rich husband. Terribly vexing, to arrive at the most fashionable breakfast party of the season wearing a perfectly stunning Chinese silk gown, only to discover that Lord St. Evert is clad in unmentionables cut from identical cloth. Humiliating. And insufferable! Why the devil must he show up in fabrics Elizabeth searched so diligently to procure? To say nothing of the long hours she spent secretly stitching her creations together. He must be stopped. She is determined to spy out his perplexing game and put an end to his interference. Lord St. Evert despises pretension of any kind. He cannot abide the self-important airs put on by some members of the ton and takes pleasure in making a mockery of Brummell's fashion strictures. Conceited frauds! Hadn't his grandfather's snobbery made his mother's life a misery? All the more maddening to discover that the one woman who captures his interest is the biggest pretender of all. He vows to teach Miss Elizabeth Hampton a lesson she won't soon forget. Contains mature themes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Beverley A. Crick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/008146/bk_tant_008146_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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P.S. I Made It: Finding Radical Joy After a Lifetime of Trauma , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 377min

P.S. I Made It is a powerful story that grabs you through its lack of pretension and honesty. The audiobook reveals another layer of curious wonder at both Dawn's life and of the power of hope that moves within each of us.Dawn's hope is that you use this audiobook as a resource to deal with your struggles. Gift it with someone who needs it. We all want to feel like someone understands what it's like to suffer through something and come out the other side. She describes her life as "horrifically beautiful and beautifully horrific". Dawn is a trauma, life, and business coach, an in-demand speaker, and author. We are about to embark on a great adventure together. She seeks to empower people to be the superhero in their own rescue so that they can change their own lives, as Dawn has done, inspiring others to do the same. Through her unconventional, strategy-based style of coaching and her blunt honesty, the ass kicker and hope giver will challenge your thinking and broaden your awareness to help you achieve outstanding results.Having struggled with gut-wrenching depression, a broken back, sexual abuse, a severe eating disorder, attempted suicide, and a brain aneurysm - all before she was 18 - Dawn learned to become a fighter and survivor. Her deepest desire is to turn everyone she meets into their own rock star through her strategy based coaching practice.Visit www.thetaylorway.ca to learn more about Dawn and her programs. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dawn Taylor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/180300/bk_acx0_180300_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Diary of a Nobody , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 293min

Written as the diary of someone who would not normally merit a memoir but considers that he should have one written about him anyway, The Diary of a Nobody chronicles in agonizing but very funny detail everyday life in the lower middle class suburbs of Victorian England and the attempts of a social climber to better himself. It was published in 1892. First published in the satirical magazine Punch as a serial between 1888 and 1889, with illustrations by the author’s brother, Weedon, The Diary of a Nobody did to late Victorian society what Alan Partridge has done for not-very-celebrated celebrities. The book coined the word Pooterism - the tendency to take oneself way too seriously - and helped to popularise a rather more familiar word from the name of one of its characters - Mr Murray Posh. But for all Mr Pooter’s petty snobbery and his tragic-comic social pretension, we love this character and even identify with him at some level, if we are honest with ourselves! This is the diary of someone who acknowledges that he is not a somebody but would dearly love to be! Author George Grossmith (1847-1912) was born in London to a theatrical family. The comic genius which characterised his literary work was also evident in his approach to performance. He was noted for his ability to get laughs, sometimes at the expense of the show as a whole. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Geoffrey Palmer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/slks/000011/bk_slks_000011_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 485min

The father of cognitive neuroscience and author of Human offers a provocative argument against the common belief that our lives are wholly determined by physical processes and we are therefore not responsible for our actions. A powerful orthodoxy in the study of the brain has taken hold in recent years: Since physical laws govern the physical world and our own brains are part of that world, physical laws therefore govern our behavior and even our conscious selves. Free will is meaningless, goes the mantra; we live in a “determined” world. Not so, argues the renowned neuroscientist Michael S. Gazzaniga in this thoughtful, provocative book based on his Gifford Lectures - one of the foremost lecture series in the world dealing with religion, science, and philosophy. Who's in Charge? proposes that the mind, which is somehow generated by the physical processes of the brain, “constrains” the brain just as cars are constrained by the traffic they create. Writing with what Steven Pinker has called “his trademark wit and lack of pretension”, Gazzaniga shows how determinism immeasurably weakens our views of human responsibility; it allows a murderer to argue, in effect, “It wasn’t me who did it - it was my brain.” Gazzaniga convincingly argues that even given the latest insights into the physical mechanisms of the mind, there is an undeniable human reality: We are responsible agents who should be held accountable for our actions, because responsibility is found in how people interact, not in brains. An extraordinary book that ranges across neuroscience, psychology, ethics, and the law with a light touch but profound implications, Who’s in Charge? is a lasting contribution from one of the leading thinkers of our time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pete Larkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/002302/bk_tant_002302_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Drive Thru Murder: The New Orleans Go Cup Chronicles, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 504min

A Murder Scene Where Nothing Is as It SeemsBrandy witnesses a murder at a drive thru joint with the unlikely name of Cluck It: Chicken by the Bucket. And then it turns out nothing at the scene’s what it seems, or at any rate nobody’s who they seem. Seems Cluck It is not just a place to clog your arteries but also a transgender hangout. And with that discovery, you know you're in New Orleans.The Local New Orleans Color Never Stops Brandy’s complex Irish Channel family develops the kind of problem that is a lot more fun on the page than in real life. What to do when your sister gets pregnant with one of the next-door twins, but she doesn't know which twin? (Be glad it's Brandy’s problem, not yours.)She also finds a mysterious box of valuable jewelry under her closet floor, becomes the unofficial caretaker of the Tarot reader across the street who knows the future but can never predict when she’s going to get so drunk she’s going to fall into her own bushes, and develops a strong suspicion about one of her other neighbors, all the while juggling the two Romeos.Luckily, Brandy Is Better at Solving Mysteries Than She Is at Wrangling Her Boyfriends The listener can rest assured she’s eventually, and in fine style, going to weave together the myriad mysterious strands that confound the police (who happen to count Boy Friend #1 among their ranks) and present them the solution with all the panache of an old-style detective like Hercule Poirot, yet none of the pretension. You can almost hear her wondering, “Did I do that?”Fans of cozy mysteries and chick lit heroines will delight in Brandy’s flat-out lovability and Mooney’s almost offhand yet spot-on (and often hilarious) observations of everyday New Orleans life. If you like contemporary stylish heroines like those popularized by Janet Evanovich, Elaine Viets, Stephanie Bond, and Gemma Holliday, and humorous mysteries like those by Donna A ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alyson Krawchuk. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/177082/bk_acx0_177082_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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