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    The Swordsman: A Pulp Harem Fantasy Adventure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 397min
    A down-on-his luck screenwriter. The mythical warrior Beowulf. A harem of hot warrior women and monster girls. Joining forces to take down the bad guys in modern-day Los Angeles. Wait. What? Adam Fraser's coming home from an unsuccessful movie pitch when he nearly collides with Beowulf and a duo of powerful warrior women who’ve been catapulted forward in time by an evil alchemist named Mossheart. Realizing that each can help the other, they set off on an epic journey across Hollywood to track down the alchemist before he accomplishes his ultimate goal: the resurrection of the monster Grendel. What could go wrong? Lots. Tons. A crapload of things could and do go wrong, but along the way, Adam builds his harem, grows in strength and skills, gathers material for an incredible movie, and discovers how to defeat villains and become an expert, um...swordsman.  Warning: Would it surprise you to learn this audiobook’s intended for those over the age of 18 who like fresh takes on old stories, sexy monster women, shape-shifters, adrenaline-fueled action, cool, snarky characters, and lots of haremy (yes, that’s a real word) adult situations? Probably not, so if you like those things, and I’m guessing you do, come and get swung with The Swordsman!  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Graves. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/130212/bk_acx0_130212_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Legend of Jesse Wells , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 5min
    It was 1862, and what a year it was. A man by the name of Jesse Wells was about to become a legend, but not the kind of legend to be proud of. Jesse had a mean temper, and when the Saloon doors swung open things got quiet, and people scattered. Jesse would enter the Saloon, spit a wad of tobacco juice on the floor, and shoot his six-shooter in the air and say, "Where's my whiskey?" The bartender would rush over, hand a bottle over to Jesse, and run back to the bar in fear for his life because he was the third bartender that replaced the other two that were shot dead by Jesse Wells for not tending to his every need. As Jesse was walking past a table of men playing poker, one of the men at the table started laughing at Jesse, and Jesse said, "What's so funny?" Right before the man had a chance to answer Jesse, he shot the man right between the eyes and said, "Anyone else thinks it's funny?" The men just sunk in their chairs, and Jesse kicked the dead man out of his chair and sat down, and said, "Boy's you ready for some poker?" The men replied, "Sure, Jesse." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ted Brooks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/020541/bk_acx0_020541_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Letters from the Land of Cancer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 327min
    In Letters from the Land of Cancer, award-winning writer Walter Wangerin Jr. offers his profound insights into the greatest challenge we face: confronting our own mortality. “Shortly after the cancer had been diagnosed, I began writing letters to the members of my immediate family, to relatives and to lifelong friends. The following book will consist mostly of those letters. They will invite you into my most intimate dancing with the cancer, even as that partner and I have over the last two years swung each other around the tiled floors of ballrooms and bathrooms. Dizzy still, and day by day, I sat and wrote: This is what I’m feeling right now. This is what I think.…”From afternoon to afternoon of radiation, Wangerin wrote about confronting his mortality, about living with the messiness of undone tasks and bodily weakness. He wrote about the medical procedures he endured, the wild mood swings that unbalanced his days, and the fragilities and strengths of the relationships that surrounded him. Letters from the Land of Cancer is made up of these writings. Cadenced within the letters are Wangerin’s eloquent meditations derived from his pastoral experiences with the faithful passage of death to life. Seldom has the great adventure of life and death been as beautifully presented as it is in this testimony to faith, love, and the shocking reality of hope. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Walter Wangerin, Jr.. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/zond/000533/bk_zond_000533_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Grand Strategy of the War of the Rebellion , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 89min
    Twenty-two years after the close of the American Civil War, General William T. Sherman shared his thoughts and insights on the "grand strategy" of the war. He wrote: "We veterans believe that in 1861-5 we fought a holy war, with absolute right on our side, with pure patriotism, with reasonable skill, and that we achieved a result which enabled the United States of America to resume her glorious career in the interest of all mankind, after an interruption of four years by as needless a war as ever afflicted a people. "The causes which led up to that war have been well described...innumerable volumes have been published, and nearly all the leading magazines of our country have added most interesting narratives of events.... Editors...applied long ago to have me assist them in their laudable purpose. I declined, but the pendulum of time seems to have swung too far in the wrong direction: One is likely to receive the impression that the Civil War was only a scramble for power by mobs and not a war of high principle, guided by men of great intelligence according to the best light they possessed. Discovering that one branch of the history of that war, 'grand strategy,' has been overlooked or slighted by writers, I have undertaken to discuss it." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Bell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/059409/bk_acx0_059409_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Ballad of Jacob Peck , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 363min
    On a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hall. Believing that he was being instructed by God, Babcock stabbed and disemboweled his own sister before dumping her lifeless body in a rural New Brunswick snowbank. The Ballad of Jacob Peck is the tragic and fascinating story of how isolation, duplicity, and religious mania turned impoverished, hardworking people violent, leading to a murder and an execution. Babcock was hanged for the murder of his sister, but in her meticulously researched book, Debra Komar shows that itinerant preacher Jacob Peck should have swung right beside him. The mystery lies not in the whodunit but rather in a lingering question: Should Jacob Peck, whose incendiary sermons directly contributed to the killing, have been charged with the murder of Mercy Hall? In this epic saga, media accounts of what happened in the aftermath of the murder have taken on a life all their own, one built of half truths, conjecture, and narrative devices designed to titillate, if not inform. A forensic investigation of a crime from the Canadian frontier, the tale of Jacob Peck, Amos Babcock, and Mercy Hall remains as controversial and riveting today as it was more than 200 years ago. Cover design by Chris Tompkins and Julie Scriver. Cover image by Thomas Tolkien (thomastolkien.wordpress.com). Reproduced by permission of Goose Lane Editions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew Josdal. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029881/bk_adbl_029881_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Conservative Internationalism: Armed Diplomacy Under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 792min
    Debates about U.S. foreign policy have revolved around three main traditions - liberal internationalism, realism, and nationalism. In this audiobook, distinguished political scientist, Henry Nau, delves deeply into a fourth, overlooked foreign policy tradition that he calls "conservative internationalism." This approach spreads freedom, like liberal internationalism; arms diplomacy, like realism; and preserves national sovereignty, like nationalism. It targets a world of limited government or independent "sister republics," not a world of great power concerts or centralized international institutions. Nau explores conservative internationalism in the foreign policies of Thomas Jefferson, James Polk, Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan. These presidents did more than any others to expand the arc of freedom using a deft combination of force, diplomacy, and compromise. Since Reagan, presidents have swung back and forth among the main traditions, overreaching under Bush and now retrenching under Obama. Nau demonstrates that conservative internationalism offers an alternative way. It pursues freedom but not everywhere, prioritizing situations that border on existing free countries - Turkey, for example, rather than Iraq. It uses lesser force early to influence negotiations rather than greater force later, after negotiations fail. And it reaches timely compromises to cash in military leverage and sustain public support. A groundbreaking revival of a neglected foreign policy tradition, Conservative Internationalism shows how the United States can effectively sustain global leadership while respecting the constraints of public will and material resources. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jones Allen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015338/bk_adbl_015338_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Spark of Love: A Second Chance Romance Bundle, 2 Manuscript, includes The Sparking Heart and Chance of Love , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 631min
    Adrianna was finally starting to feel settled again. She hadn’t realized how adrift she’d been until she packed up and moved with her daughter back to England. Her marriage to Gerard had ended as spontaneously as it had started. Things between them had been patchy for a long time, ever since Crystal was born and he was left to be her main career while Adrianna worked on Zero. But her daughter was her world and the day Gerard left was the day Adrianna realized she might lose it.But here she was, with full custody of her little girl and a new home, a new life back in England. They had been here close to six months now, and while the wounds from her latest divorce were still fresh, she felt - for the most part- happy. Which was why she’d found herself actually saying yes when Vivian asked her, and not for the first time, to take a night off from motherhood and go out. She knocked on Vivian’s door, Crystal’s small hand held tightly in her own, and felt her stomach twist. Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea. She hadn’t had a night out to herself in years; she was bound to make a fool of herself. But it was too late to back out now, and to prove her point the door swung open, revealing Lincoln, Vivian’s husband. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Samantha Archer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173576/bk_acx0_173576_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Watergate Burglars: Nixon, Dirty Tricks, and the CIA
    Fifty years after Watergate-a scandal that rocked the nation-filmmaker and researcher Shane O'Sullivan debunks the myths around Watergate in this chilling story of political espionage and deception. The victory of Richard Nixon in the US presidential election of 1968 swung on an "October Surprise"-a treasonous plot engineered by key figures in the Republican Party to keep the South Vietnamese government away from peace talks in Paris, costing thousands of American lives. There is growing evidence that the CIA was deeply involved in illegal domestic operations targeting Daniel Ellsberg, and in the Watergate break-ins during Nixon's 1972 campaign, which ultimately led to his downfall. CIA Director Richard Helms' relationship with Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt was much closer than previously disclosed and the CIA agent inside the plot was sent on a double agent mission by American intelligence after he got out of prison. Drawing on newly-declassified files and previously-unpublished documents, The Watergate Burglars (previously published as Dirty Tricks) debunks the myths around Watergate and deepens our understanding of the "dirty tricks" that undermined democracy during the Nixon years and destroyed public trust in politics during the seventies. These scandals turn on the covert action of two powerful interest groups-the senior CIA officers around Helms, and the key advisers around Nixon-in this chilling story of political espionage and deception. Now available for the first time in paperback just in time for the fiftieth anniversary of Watergate, author and filmmaker Shane O'Sullivan includes a wealth of new material, including Burglar James McCord's final testament to his family about his role in the break-in, new revelations from whistleblower Alfred Baldwin, and new interviews with FBI case agent Angelo Lano and the police officer who first identified McCord after his arrest and debriefed him in jail.
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    My Stroke of Insight , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 343min
    The international best seller and recommended by medics, patients and the NHS, this is a brain scientist's personal experience of a stroke. It tells of her journey and gives rare insight into human consciousness and its possibilities for all of us. On the morning of the 10th December 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a 37-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist, experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain.   A neuroanatomist by profession, she observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she lost the ability to walk, talk, read, write or recall any of her life, all within the space of four hours. As the damaged left side of her brain - the rational, logical, detail and time-oriented side - swung in and out of function, Taylor alternated between two distinct and opposite realities: the euphoric nirvana of the intuitive and emotional right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace, and the logical left brain that realised Jill was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was lost completely.  In My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, Taylor brings to light a new perspective on the brain and its capacity for recovery that she gained through the intimate experience of awakening her own injured mind. The journey to recovery took eight years for Jill to feel completely healed. Using her knowledge of how the brain works, her respect for the cells composing her human form, and an amazing mother, Taylor completely repaired her mind and recalibrated her understanding of the world according to the insight gained from her right brain that December morning. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jill Bolte Taylor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/001936/bk_hodd_001936_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Heretics , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 414min
    Nothing more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made nowadays of the word orthodox. In former days the heretic was proud of not being a heretic. It was the kingdoms of the world and the police and the judges who were heretics. He was orthodox. He had no pride in having rebelled against them; they had rebelled against him. The armies with their cruel security, the kings with their cold faces, the decorous processes of State, the reasonable processes of law - all these like sheep had gone astray. The man was proud of being orthodox, was proud of being right. If he stood alone in a howling wilderness he was more than a man; he was a church. He was the centre of the universe; it was round him that the stars swung. All the tortures torn out of forgotten hells could not make him admit that he was heretical. But a few modern phrases have made him boast of it. He says, with a conscious laugh, I suppose I am very heretical," and looks round for applause. The word heresy not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word orthodoxy not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong. All this can mean one thing, and one thing only. It means that people care less for whether they are philosophically right. For obviously a man ought to confess himself crazy before he confesses himself heretical. The Bohemian, with a red tie, ought to pique himself on his orthodoxy. The dynamiter, laying a bomb, ought to feel that, whatever else he is, at least he is orthodox." - Gilbert K. Chesterson ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ulf Bjorklund. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/000769/bk_hove_000769_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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