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The Sadness of Beautiful Things: Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 233min

An exquisite new collection of short stories from award-winning author Simon Van Booy.Over the past decade, Simon Van Booy has been listening to people’s stories. With these personal accounts as a starting point, he has crafted a powerful collection of short fiction that takes listeners into the innermost lives of everyday people. From a family saved from ruin by a mysterious benefactor to a downtrodden boxer who shows unexpected kindness to a mugger, these tales reveal not only the precarious balance maintained between grief and happiness in our lives but also how the echoes of personal tragedy can shape us for the better. “Van Booy’s stories are somehow like paintings the characters walk out of, and keep walking.” (Los Angeles Times)"Simon Van Booy knows a great deal about the complex longings of the human heart." (Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain)Audiobook Table of Contents:"A Sacrifice", read by Alana Kerr Collins"The Green Blanket", read by James Fouhey"Playing with Dolls", read by Simon van Booy"The Pigeon", read by Giordan Diaz"The Hitchhiker", read by Alana Kerr Collins"Not Dying", read by Darren Burrows"The Saddest Case of True Love", read by Simon van Booy"The Doorman", read by James Fouhey ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Van Booy, Alana Kerr Collins, James Fouhey, Giordan Diaz, Darren Burrows. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/004202/bk_peng_004202_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Virgin and Her Wolf: One Night Stand Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 151min

Luck be a lady tonight. Claire Bannatyne is a lady, but sometimes the 21-year old wolftress behaves like an indecisive virgin princess. Her father is the Grand Alpha of an ancient pack of wolf-shifters devoted to secrecy and tradition. Now her procrastination to choose a life-mate is going to cost her dearly. In 24 hours, she'll be forced to enter into an arranged marriage, with a mate of her father's choosing, and all the wrong men are vying for her hand. Desperate for a carefree last fling, she contacts Madame Eve and pleads for a one night stand. She arrives in Las Vegas expecting a whirlwind night of hedonistic lust, but those plans implode big time. Irish charmer Aidan Gregor has flirtatious topaz eyes and loads of Alpha confidence. He's a motorcycle-racing thrill seeker, used to taking risks. An irresistible attraction ignites between Claire and Aidan after he slams into her while chasing a mugger. He apologizes by wining and dining her then visiting the Romulus BDSM Club. Naughty, naughty, somebody's hiding a secret and that secret has big teeth. On their way to getting undressed, Claire and Aidan discover they're in a lot of trouble. Their lust is going to burn bright for far longer than one night. But with so much at stake, there's only one way for these two to find a happily ever after, and that's going to mean putting it all on the line. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hollie Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/075339/bk_acx0_075339_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Miracle Man: A Bullet That Ignited a Purpose-Filled Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 277min

October 17, 2012, started as any other day for Navy airman and fitness trainer Brett Parks until he heard screams for help. Without hesitation, he ran toward the sound and apprehended the mugger, unaware that the criminal had a gun. Moments later, the attacker fired a devastating shot directly into Brett's body. The bullet shredded Brett's kidney, pierced his intestines, and destroyed several inches of the largest vein in his body. Three sets of surgeons' hands applied pressure inside Brett's open stomach to stop the bleeding while nurses delivered coolers full of blood to the operating room every 15 minutes. As the medical team worked fervently to save Brett's life, his wife received the bleak news that their unborn daughter and young son may grow up without a father. But the God whom Brett had given his life to years before had other plans. After a medical battle that included a 20-day coma, multiple surgeries, and an unexpected amputation, Brett emerged from his coma to begin a long and challenging recovery medically and spiritually. Miracle Man details Brett Parks recovery as he experienced it and the miracles and greatness of our God in heaven. However, Miracle Man is less about Brett and more about what God has done through his story. Miracle Man: A Bullet that Ignited a Purpose-Filled Life shows listeners how to:prepare (by doing what God puts in front of you)set goals (by being who God wants you to be)never give up (because God has a purpose for your life that only you can fulfill) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rayden Porter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173229/bk_acx0_173229_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 499min

In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton reveals that there is a scale of “madness” along which we all sit. Incorporating the latest advances in brain scanning and neuroscience, Dutton demonstrates that the brilliant neurosurgeon who lacks empathy has more in common with a Ted Bundy who kills for pleasure than we may wish to admit, and that a mugger in a dimly lit parking lot may well, in fact, have the same nerveless poise as a titan of industry. Dutton argues that there are indeed “functional psychopaths” among us different from their murderous counterparts - who use their detached, unflinching, and charismatic personalities to succeed in mainstream society, and that shockingly, in some fields, the more “psychopathic” people are, the more likely they are to succeed. Dutton deconstructs this often misunderstood diagnosis through bold on-the-ground reporting and original scientific research as he mingles with the criminally insane in a high-security ward, shares a drink with one of the world’s most successful con artists, and undergoes transcranial magnetic stimulation to discover firsthand exactly how it feels to see through the eyes of a psychopath. As Dutton develops his theory that we all possess psychopathic tendencies, he puts forward the argument that society as a whole is more psychopathic than ever: after all, psychopaths tend to be fearless, confident, charming, ruthless, and focused - qualities that are tailor-made for success in the 21st century. Provocative at every turn, The Wisdom of Psychopaths is a riveting adventure that reveals that it’s our much-maligned dark side that often conceals the trump cards of success. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erik Bergmann. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001521/bk_aren_001521_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Mucker , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 445min

Billy Byrne is a low-class American born in Chicago's ghetto. He grows up a thief and a mugger. "Billy was a mucker, a hoodlum, a gangster, a thug, a tough." He is not chivalrous nor kind, and has only meager ethics - never giving evidence against a friend or leaving someone behind. He chooses a life of robbery and violence, disrespecting those who work for a living. He has a deep hatred for wealthy society. He trains as a prizefighter but cannot stop drinking. When falsely accused of murder, he flees to San Francisco and is shanghaied aboard a ship. Ironically, enforced sobriety, brutal ship's discipline, and productive work improve him. The ship's secret mission is soon enacted - the hijacking of a specific yacht to take a millionaire's daughter, Barbara Harding, for ransom. Billy Byrne brutally beats her suitor, Billy Mallory, leaving him for dead. "He knew that she looked down upon him as an inferior being. She was of the class that addressed those in his walk of life as 'my man'." After Barbara confronts him and calls him a coward, a change begins in Billy Byrne. He saves the life of one kidnapper, Theriere, rather than letting him be washed overboard, though he cannot fathom his own reasons. After a terrible storm, the ship is damaged and only makes it to land with Billy's help at the wheel. He rescues Barbara from the wreck and brings her ashore. Barbara is kidnapped by headhunters descended from medieval Japanese. Byrne and Theriere race to rescue her from the daimyo's hut in the middle of the village. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gene Engene. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bimo/001598/bk_bimo_001598_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 181min

Winner - Best Transgender Nonfiction - 2015 Lambda Literary Awards Best Books of 2014 - Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2014 - NPR Books Best Nonficton Books of 2014 - Kirkus Reviews 10 Best Transgender Nonfiction Books - Advocate What does it really mean to be a man? In Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee attempts to answer that question by focusing on two of the men who most impacted his life - one, his otherwise ordinary father who abused him as a child, and the other, a mugger who almost killed him. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, McBee seeks to understand these examples of flawed manhood and tells us how a brush with violence sent him on the quest to untangle a sinister past and freed him to become the man he was meant to be. Man Alive engages an extraordinary personal story to tell a universal one - how we all struggle to create ourselves and how this struggle often requires risks. Far from a transgender transition tell-all, Man Alive grapples with the larger questions of legacy and forgiveness, love and violence, agency and invisibility. About the author: Thomas Page McBee was the "masculinity expert" for VICE and writes the columns "Self-Made Man" for The Rumpus and "The American Man" for Pacific Standard. His essays and reportage have appeared in The New York Times, TheAtlantic.com, Salon, and BuzzFeed, where he was a regular contributor on gender issues. He lives in New York City, where he works as the editor of special projects at Quartz, and is currently at work on a book about modern American masculinity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas Page McBee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031167/bk_adbl_031167_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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