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  Satin Island , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 362min

  Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, 2015Meet U. - a talented and uneasy figure currently pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London. His employers advise everyone from big businesses to governments, and, to this end, expect their 'corporate anthropologist' to help decode and manipulate the world around them - all the more so now that a giant, epoch-defining project is in the offing. Instead, U. spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer zones of information and becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis: oil spills, African traffic jams, roller-blade processions, zombie parades. Is there, U. wonders, a secret logic holding all these images together - a codex that, once cracked, will unlock the master meaning of our age? Might it have something to do with South Pacific cargo cults or the dead parachutists in the news? Perhaps; perhaps not. As U. oscillates between the visionary and the vague, brilliance and bullshit, Satin Island emerges, an impassioned and exquisite novel for our disjointed times. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Garnon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002194/bk_rhuk_002194_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Radicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 427min

  Radical liberals want to make America a better place, but their utopian social engineering leads, ironically, to greater human suffering. From Karl Marx to Barack Obama, Horowitz shows how the idealistic impulse to make the world a better place gives birth to the twin cultural pathologies of cynicism and nihilism and is the chief source of human suffering. A former liberal himself, Horowitz recounts his own brushes with radicalism and offers unparalleled insight into the disjointed ideology of liberal elites through case studies of well-known radial leftists, including Christopher Hitchens, feminist Bettina Aptheker, leftist academic Cornel West, and others. Exploring the origin and evolution of radical liberals and their progressive ideology, Radicals illustrates how liberalism is not only intellectually crippling for its adherents but devastating to society. David Horowitz is one of America’s most original and iconoclastic political commentators. He is the best-selling coauthor of The Rockefellers and The Kennedys and the president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture. He lives in Los Angeles. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John McLain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005287/bk_blak_005287_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Slum (eBook, ePUB)

  Shortly after my mother died of a terrible illness, I began having ... visions. They weren't wispy, flighty dreams or random, short-lived nightmares. No, these phantasms were much fuller, much more tactile and present, as though I was actually visiting a place, one I eventually started calling Slum. I don't forget these visits like I do with dreams or nightmares or even night terrors, which I've experienced. I am immersed in a grand urban hellscape of both terrible, corrupting beauty and encroaching, overwhelming evil. I can smell in these visions. I can't smell in my dreams. I can touch things; I can sense the continuous burden of time, which I can't in dreams. The world of Slum makes a kind of sick, profane sense. My dreams and nightmares, by contrast, are disjointed, often random, many times utterly nonsensical. Not Slum. These visits are not for the weak of heart or stomach. I offer them to you, the reader, but honestly, I have written them down more to say back to it: "I see you. I hear you. I feel you. I touch you. And yes, I taste you, too." For maybe in this act I can come to a fuller understanding of Slum, and Slum of me. That is my hope.

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  Good News for Those Who Wonder , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 202min

  Good News for Those Who Wonder..."The Biblical Story in Ninety Pages," is a book for those who feel overwhelmed by their attempts to read the Bible and wonder just what is the core story of that large book. In ninety pages, the author takes his reader through the major biblical events and characters, placing them in historical context. Abraham and the Patriarchs, Moses, Saul, David, Elijah and the other Prophets, Jesus and Paul, march across the stage and leave their mark. This book tells the saga of the Bible without elaboration or interpretation. What readers have said: "The whole Bible in under one hundred pages! The whole Bible, including all the major characters and events, both human and divine. . .And those wonderful characters and events follow one upon another, the good, the bad, the ugly, in chronological sequence; or more correctly, flow from one to another so that the story is one continuous whole, never disjointed or broken. The language is exquisite, simple, unpretentious and direct, always a vehicle for capturing the essence of the biblical content. No theological or political axes are ground. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ruth Elsbree. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/019738/bk_acx0_019738_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Truth About Autumn , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 404min

  Have you ever dreamed of starting a new life and leaving your past behind? Autumn Brennan has, but it’s impossible to cut past connections you don’t know exist. Autumn left Nashville to her ex-husband and his band and moved 480 miles to Lake Phillips, North Carolina. Her dream house may look rundown and dilapidated to others, but to Autumn, it looks like a fresh start. Dreams can come true, but sometimes, they can also turn into nightmares. The tingling feeling of being watched when no one is around, an uninjured dog covered in blood, and strange gifts that tickle at her memories set her on a collision course with her forgotten past. Autumn thinks she knows everything about her early life, but the memories she trusted are crumbling, and she cannot escape the truth that is reaching out for her. How do these seemingly disjointed occurrences fit together, and what is the shadow lurking in her past? Can Autumn find the truth and put the puzzle pieces together before it is too late, or will the past reach out for her and steal her future? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christina Eanes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/134357/bk_acx0_134357_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Good Soldier , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 432min

  Handsome, wealthy, and a veteran of service in India, Captain Edward Ashburnham appears to be the ideal "good soldier" and the embodiment of English upper-class virtues. But for his creator, Ford Madox Ford, he also represents the corruption at society's core. Beneath Ashburnham's charming, polished exterior lurks a soul well-versed in the arts of deception, hypocrisy, and betrayal. Throughout the nine years of his friendship with an equally privileged American, John Dowell, Ashburnham has been having an affair with Dowell's wife, Florence. Unlike Dowell, Ashburnham's own wife, Leonora, is well aware of it. When The Good Soldier was first published in 1915, its pitiless portrait of an amoral society dedicated to its own pleasure and convinced of its own superiority outraged many readers. Stylistically daring, The Good Soldier is narrated, unreliably, by Dowell, through whom Ford provides a level of bitter irony. Dowell's disjointed, stumbling storytelling not only subverts linear temporality to satisfying effect, it also reflects his struggle to accept a world without honor, order, or permanence. Called the best French novel in the English language, The Good Soldier is both tragic and darkly comic, and it established Ford as an important contributor to the development of literary modernism. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gildart Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/001644/bk_tant_001644_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Hot Blooded: The Bloodline Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 263min

  Quirky, purple-haired Rose Casson is in danger of losing more than her heart to retired Navy SEAL Calvin Coldwater. He moved to Sweetwater, Kentucky, instead of his hometown, El Paso, Texas, and became a horse trainer for world-famous Mane Lane Farm.The Native American’s fellow horse trainer is slain. Terrorists and drugs wreak havoc on the quiet community. Sheriff Gordon uncovers several viable suspects for the double-homicide with help from stunning deputy and ex-Texas ranger Jaiden Coldwater. Jaiden is Cal's sister, but she must keep her identity secret.Corrie Parrish-Madison adored her friend Justin Henderson since they were children. Justin never saw past her freckles and pigtails. The disabled tavern owner lost his leg as a teen in a biking accident. Losing everything he loves, Justin gives up on life. Fed up, Corrie divorces her philandering husband and moves home to Mane Lane Farm with her teenage daughter. Morgan is livid about the move from New York to their rural homestead. Her only solace is her horse Uncle Levi and her new friend Justin Henderson. Surviving turmoil shattering their disjointed lives seems impossible. Who will be the killer’s next mark? Will peaceful Sweetwater ever be the same? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: M. Harris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/189377/bk_acx0_189377_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Survival of the Fittest: The Lifeboat Augusta Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 222min

  The human instinct for survival is strong, especially when the circumstances are dire. When five women and two men return to Earth as part of a disjointed and meager population, with the intent of completing a barely conceivable mission of reestablishing themselves on the surface and repopulating the planet, dire is an understatement. Short on food, tools, medicine, and options the last members of the human race face stiff odds and certain danger. As the last capsule full of humans depart their orbiting lifeboat for a return to earth's surface, nothing is as it should. Safety margins are slim, virtually every aspect of reentry and survival are in question, yet Randy Tagget, Keisha Miller and their five fellow travelers have little choice. It's time to go home and do their best. The question remains however, is their best good enough, or will they go the way of the billions who came before them and lost a celestial roll of the dice? This fifth installment brings about the conclusion of the story where life and death walk hand in hand, and perhaps the worst fate of all is waiting for the inevitable, while recognizing they are powerless to affect the outcome one way or another - or are they? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elizabeth Phillips. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/051606/bk_acx0_051606_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  After Birth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 367min

  A widely acclaimed young writer's fierce new novel in which childbirth and new motherhood are as high stakes a proving ground as any combat zone. A year has passed since Ari gave birth to Walker, though it went so badly awry she has trouble calling it "birth" to begin with, and she still can't locate herself in her own altered universe. Amid the strange, disjointed rhythms of her days and nights and another impending winter in upstate New York, Ari is a tree without roots, struggling to keep her branches aloft. When Mina, a one-time cult musician--older, self-contained, alone, and nine months pregnant--moves to town, Ari sees the possibility of a new friend despite her unfortunate habit of generally mistrusting women. Soon they become comrades-in-arms, and the previously hostile terrain seems almost navigable. With piercing insight, purifying anger, and outrageous humor, Elisa Albert issues a wake-up call to a culture that turns its new mothers into exiles and expects them to act like natives. Like Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk about Kevin and Anne Enright's The Gathering, this is a daring and resonant novel from one of our most visceral writers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amy Rubinate. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007369/bk_blak_007369_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Vacationland , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 732min

  On a lake in northernmost Minnesota, you might find Naledi Lodge - only two cabins still standing, its pathways now trodden mostly by memories. And there you might meet Meg, or the ghost of the girl she was, growing up under her grandfather’s care in a world apart and a lifetime ago. Now an artist, Meg paints images "reflected across the mirrors of memory and water", much as the linked stories of Vacationland cast shimmering spells across distance and time. Those whose paths have crossed at Naledi inhabit Vacationland: a man from nearby Hatchet Inlet who knew Meg back when, a Sarajevo refugee sponsored by two parishes who can’t afford "their own refugee", aged sisters traveling to fulfill a fateful pact once made at the resort, a philandering ad man, a lonely Ojibwe stonemason, and a haiku-spouting girl rescued from a bog. Sarah Stonich, whose work has been described as "unexpected and moving" by the Chicago Tribune and "a well-paced feast" by the Los Angeles Times, weaves these tales of love and loss, heartbreak and redemption into a rich novel of interconnected and disjointed lives. Vacationland is a moving portrait of a place - at once timeless and of the moment, composed of conflicting dreams and shared experience - and of the woman bound to it by legacy, and sometimes longing, but not necessarily by choice. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amanda Ronconi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010975/bk_adbl_010975_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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