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Couple Skills: 25 Skills to Build Deeper Connections for Couples with Questions on How to Enhance Intimacy in Their Relationships: Advice for Making Your Relationship and Communication Work , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 181min

If you want to improve your relationship in a stable and effective way, avoiding situations of chaos and conflict, lack of trust, jealousy, boredom, and second thoughts, then keep reading.No relationship is ever completely free of problems. Life happens and it can bring all sorts of chaos your way. The days can be full of arguments and quarrels, and it may seem that your partner does everything to make things worse. Every little misunderstanding can become a pretext to quarrel, and intimacy seems to have vanished.Or maybe you're starting a new relationship and you want everything to go smoothly from the beginning. You want to know yourself better and establish a deep connection right away, and avoid being found bored, tired, and doubtful by those close to you.With Couple Skills You Can:Learn more about your partner and their relationship expectations.Discover how the past can dictate handling the present and future.Learn how to create a great relationship no matter how bad past ones have been.Learn ways to communicate that go deeper than words.Couple Skills will teach you the secrets of creating a strong, loving, committed relationship through communication skills that every long-standing marriage has learned over time. You’ll get all the tips and step-by-step instruction needed to see nearly immediate improvements in communicating the needs and desires of you and your partner.You’ll also enjoy a multitude of ideas for ways to connect, reconnect, and stay connected on a level you’ve never experienced previously. Explore everything from emotions to the deeper meanings of partner appreciation. No stone is left unturned in bringing you the most relevant ways to improve day-to-day communications and methods to get your relationship goals back on the same page.Get this book and:Discover why seemingly good relationships end up in conflict. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bobby Pierce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/149963/bk_acx0_149963_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Berghof Betrayal: A Winston Churchill 1930s Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 857min

Winston Churchill receives startling news from a German aristocrat in early 1933 after Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. The aristocrat has learned of a plot to stage a fake assassination attempt on the new German leader that the Nazis will use as a pretext to declare martial law and liquidate their political opponents. Unknown to Hitler, however, his enemies within the Nazi party - the Black Front - are conspiring with renegade elements of his own SS to turn the fake assassination attempt into a real one. Churchill tells the American newspaper titan, William Randolph Hearst, of the fake plot, and together, they persuade Mattie McGary, Hearst's top photojournalist and Churchill's adventure-seeking Scottish goddaughter, to investigate. Mattie readily agrees, in large part because exposing the fake plot may help her finally shed the unfortunate reputation she has in Germany as "Hitler's favorite foreign journalist". Soon after she leaves for Germany, Mattie's fiancé, the American lawyer and former MID agent, Bourke Cockran, Jr., also travels to Germany to help his publisher client, Freedom House, acquire the rights to Rear Area Pig, an expose of Hitler's less-than-heroic wartime service. Once in Germany, both Mattie and Cockran find themselves in peril at the hands of the SS loyal to Hitler who will stop at nothing to keep Cockran from acquiring the book and Mattie from learning the truth about the fake plot. Threats to Mattie multiply when SS agents working for the Black Front attempt to coerce her into joining the real plot to kill Hitler. When Cockran learns the Black Front intends to kill Mattie along with Hitler at his alpine retreat, the Berghof, he reluctantly seeks the help of Reichspresident Herman Göring and Kurt von Sturm, a top Göring aide who is also one of Mattie's former lovers. The one-time rivals for Mattie's affection quickly conclude that there is only one way to protect Mattie. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mr. Robert Lindsell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105716/bk_acx0_105716_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: The History of the Central European Nation from Its Founding to Its Breakup , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 148min

On New Year’s Day 1993, Czechoslovakia broke into two separate countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Thus ended one of the creations brought about by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I, and as a country that had existed for just under 75 years, Czechoslovakia spent most of its time under the tyranny of fascism or communism.Of course, the country’s origins go back far longer than the 1910s, and they were complex and convoluted. The very geography of central Europe meant this territory had been conquered and occupied many times over the course of history, and for much of the modern era, the area belonged to much larger empires, including the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian Habsburg Empire, and finally the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Nevertheless, two distinct ethnicities had come to make up the bulk of the territory’s inhabitants: the Czechs, predominantly in the areas of Bohemia and Moravia, and the Slovaks, in Slovakia. Both peoples had their own Slavic-based languages, but the languages were similar enough to be mutually intelligible.Despite any ethnic similarities, the country that formed in 1918 among the ashes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was by no means a “nation-state” as most people understand that term. In fact, much of the territory which bordered Germany was inhabited by ethnic German speakers, including one of Prague’s most famous sons, the writer Franz Kafka. One of the 20th century’s most celebrated authors spoke German as his first language. As such, the lands that became Czechoslovakia had usually existed in some kind of supranational system where identity was allowed to be relatively fluid.Czechoslovakia would also play a crucial role in bringing about World War II, a sign that the area’s nationalism, which ultimately split Czechoslovakia apart in 1993, had long spelled danger in a place where so many groups competed for power. The presence of German speakers would serve as a pretext for Hitler’s acquisition of th ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/152927/bk_acx0_152927_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Flash Me: Heathens Ink, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 529min

Love is multiplied, never divided.Liam I was kicked out at 16 for being transgender, but it turned out to be one of the best things to ever happen to me. At 21, I have a fantastic new family made up of my brother and a handful of wonderful friends, I own my own photography business, and I’m happier than I imagined possible. There’s just one thing missing.... Okay, maybe two....Wyatt When I took the position volunteering as a therapist at Rainbow House, I knew I’d found my place in the world: helping teens who had been rejected by their families. What I didn’t expect was the friendship I formed with Liam or how it would grow over the years into a crush I just couldn’t shake. I’m happy to see him finally opening himself up to dating with someone he trusts like Owen. But when he comes to me and asks if I can help his boyfriend, I feel like there’s more to the request than just a few therapy sessions. The more I get to know Owen, the more I like him, too.Owen I’m not sure why I believe so much in fate when she’s dealt me nothing but crappy hands - a stint in prison and enough childhood horrors to fuel all my adult nightmares. But I still hold on to the idea that everything happens for a reason. What I can’t figure out is why fate would plop me naked into Liam’s bed under the pretext of helping him with a photo series for a gallery showing. Or why my stomach goes funny every time he smiles at me. Liam is too sweet to be exposed to my demons, but I don’t know how to protect him.... Maybe that’s why fate gave us Wyatt. *This is the seventh book in the Heathens Ink series. Each book in the series can be listened to as a stand-alone, but characters do recur so it’s more fun to listen to them all! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kenneth Obi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/132978/bk_acx0_132978_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Una Historia de España

Por primera vez un volumen reúne la historia de España escrita por Arturo Pérez-Reverte durante más de cuatro años en su columna «Patente de corso» del XL Semanal. Un relato ameno, personal, a ratos irónico, pero siempre único, de nuestra accidentada historia a través de los siglos. Una obra concebida por el autor para, en palabras suyas, «divertirme, releer y disfrutar; un pretexto para mirar atrás desde los tiempos remotos hasta el presente, reflexionar un poco sobre ello y contarlo por escrito de una manera poco ortodoxa.» A lo largo de los 91 capítulos más el epílogo de los que consta el libro, Arturo Pérez-Reverte narra los principales acontecimientos ocurridos desde los orígenes de nuestra historia y hasta el final de la Transición con una mirada subjetiva, construida con las dosis exactas de lecturas, experiencia y sentido común. «La misma mirada con que escribo novelas y artículos -dice el autor-; no la elegí yo, sino que es resultado de todas esas cosas: la visión, ácida más a menudo que dulce, de quien, como dice un personaje de una de mis novelas, sabe que ser lúcido en España aparejó siempre mucha amargura, mucha soledad y mucha desesperanza.».- Arturo Pérez-Reverte ENGLISH DESCRIPTION For the first time, one volume gathers the history of Spain as written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte over the course of more than four years in his "Patente de corso" ("Carte Blanche") column for XL Semanal. An entertaining, personal, and sometimes ironic but always unique tale of Spain's turbulent history throughout the centuries. A work conceptualized by the author to, in his words, "entertain me, re-read and enjoy; a pretext for looking back through time from the very beginning until the present, reflecting a little about it, and telling it in writing in an unorthodox way." Throughout the 91 chapters plus the epilogue of the book, Arturo Pérez-Reverte narrates the main events from Spain's origin and up through the end of the Transition with a subjective view, made up of precise measures of reading, experience, and common sense. "The same view with which I write novels and articles," says the author, "... I didn't choose it myself; it's the result of all those things: as one of my novel's characters says it, it's the vision, harsh yet frequently sweet, of someone who knows that being lucid in Spain has always entailed bitterness, loneliness, and despair." -Arturo Pérez-Reverte

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Fidel and the Cypress

Fidel and the Cypress is a book about the states of mind, the beauty of death, and a child who perceives it simple way. About looking for our lost ones in others. It is a story of a quest in which strangers become closest to us, and those we know disappear. The book is for everyone who has experienced longing, no matter for whom or what - a cypress, a lake, father, distant lands, or sunrise. Ani can live only with Fidel. But Fidel is dead, and life has to continue. The story tells about the child's efforts to adapt to the changed reality. It is a journey from a gloomy apartment and day-to-day boredom into a meadow, green from morning till evening, cypress alleys, and candied fruit biscotti for breakfast. It is a quest to rediscover the lost loved one in the mountains, lakes, trees, doughnuts. Fidel and the Cypress, both textually and visually, is the little person's journey into light: until the everyday anxious blue becomes a refreshing, nurturing, homey cypress green. 'I wrote this book as a pretext for people to talk to one another. About light and darkness, the beauty of the world, mums and dads; not only about the most beautiful feelings but about all kinds of feelings and, ultimately, about death. I see this book in the hands of parents snuggled up with their kids. Or in the hands of friends sitting close together. Later on, when working with Ugne, we had many discussions about the moderate dosage of words and images. We wanted to preserve space and silence on every page, emphasizing internal states and their visual presentation. We decided to create a book which you would open and feel how life continues,' says the author Dovile Zavedskaite.While creating illustrations for Fidel and the Cypress, the artist, Ugne Rudinskaite, continued her friendship with literature that transcends age boundaries: 'I am immersed in books that have no age boundaries. I wrote my master's thesis on so-called crossover literature, concentrating on the flow of image and text, their connection, and their impact. For me, the very feeling of the book is always essential. I think a lot about its power to connect and bring people together, about the importance of communication and dialogue.'

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