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    Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America, Hörbuch, Digital, 394min
    Who filled the trough? Who set the table at the banquet of greed? How has it been possible for corporate pigs to gorge themselves on grossly inflated pay packages and heaping helpings of stock options while the average American struggles to make due with their leftovers? Provocative political commentator Arianna Huffington yanks back the curtain on the unholy alliance of CEOs, politicians, lobbyists, and Wall Street bankers who have shown a brutal disregard for those in office cubicles and on factory floors. The media have put their fingers on pieces of the sordid puzzle, but Pigs at the Trough presents the whole ugly picture of what's really going on for the first time: a blistering, wickedly witty portrait of exactly how and why the worst and the greediest are running American business and government into the ground. Arianna Huffington turns the spotlight on the tough reforms we must demand from Washington to stop the voracious corporate predators from eating away at the very foundations of our democracy. Devastatingly funny and powerfully indicting, Pigs at the Trough is a rousing call to arms and essential listening for all those who are outraged by the scandalous state of corporate America. Language: English. Narrator: Alison Fraser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000141/bk_high_000141_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sex Stories, Volume 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 84min, (USK 18)
    Forbidden fruit is the one that always tastes the best....Jay’s had the brains and sex appeal to make his days in high school enjoyable. His perfect world is interrupted when his dad remarried a lady with a daughter named Betty. He attempted to welcome his new stepmother and her daughter, but he could sense Betty wanted nothing to do with him. Betty was not impressed with her living arrangements and upon meeting Jay felt his ego was deeply inflated. Despite the fact he was popular in the high school she attended, she still did not want anything to do with him. As Betty tries to fit into a new school, she finds that her grades are dangerously close to failing. In desperation, she asks Jay to become her tutor. This arrangement is one where she is able to see Jay in a new light. Will their close arrangement ignite feelings that neither anticipated? Will they throw caution to the win to taste the forbidden fruit their soul craved? Or will they ignore their feelings and go on pretending they are just family acquaintances? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kat Black, Stephen Meghoo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/190508/bk_acx0_190508_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Tell It to the Marine: 1 Night Stand Series: Always a Marine, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 89min, (USK 18)
    PFC James Westwood isn't a typical Marine. As a clinical psychologist, he recognizes his band of brothers needs a helping hand after their return home from the war. When his boss, Captain Dexter, encourages him to sign up for the 1-Night Stand dating service, Westwood committed himself. What did he have to lose? The last thing he expected was a date with screen goddess Lauren Kincaid. Movie star Lauren Kincaid grew up splitting her time between the cold reality of the Hollywood scene and her family home in Plano, Texas. After two decades surrounded by artificial friendships and inflated egos, her greatest desire is to meet a real man, not a Hollywood talking head. When her agent suggests a 1-Night Stand date, the only expectations Lauren allows herself to have are discretion and exclusivity. What she didn't expect was having a gorgeous psychologist with rapier wit blow her away. James and Lauren share an unmistakable connection, but when one of James' patients suffers a crisis, Lauren more than proves her mettle. Can one night turn into happily ever after for this Marine and his movie star? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christine Padovan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/006668/bk_acx0_006668_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 936min
    Babe Ruth was more than baseball's original superstar. For 85 years, he has remained the sport's reigning titan. He has been named Athlete of the Century...more than once. But who was this large, loud, enigmatic man? Why is so little known about his childhood, his private life, and his inner thoughts? In The Big Bam, Leigh Montville, whose recent New York Times best-selling biography of Ted Williams garnered glowing reviews and offered an exceptionally intimate look at Williams's life, brings his trademark touch to this groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the Babe. Based on newly discovered documents and interviews, including pages from Ruth's personal scrapbooks, The Big Bam traces Ruth's life from his bleak childhood in Baltimore to his brash entrance into professional baseball, from Boston to New York and into the record books as the world's most explosive slugger and cultural luminary. At a time when modern baseball is grappling with hyper-inflated salaries, free agency, and assorted controversies, The Big Bam brings back the pure glory days of the game. Leigh Montville operates at the peak of his abilities, exploring Babe Ruth in a way that intimately, and poignantly, illuminates a most remarkable figure. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Brick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000729/bk_bkot_000729_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth, Hörbuch, Digital, 367min
    Babe Ruth was more than baseball's original superstar. For 85 years, he has remained the sport's reigning titan. He has been named Athlete of the Century...more than once. But who was this large, loud, enigmatic man? Why is so little known about his childhood, his private life, and his inner thoughts? In The Big Bam, Leigh Montville, whose recent New York Times best-selling biography of Ted Williams garnered glowing reviews and offered an exceptionally intimate look at Williams's life, brings his trademark touch to this groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the Babe. Based on newly discovered documents and interviews, including pages from Ruth's personal scrapbooks, The Big Bam traces Ruth's life from his bleak childhood in Baltimore to his brash entrance into professional baseball, from Boston to New York and into the record books as the world's most explosive slugger and cultural luminary. At a time when modern baseball is grappling with hyper-inflated salaries, free agency, and assorted controversies, The Big Bam brings back the pure glory days of the game. Leigh Montville operates at the peak of his abilities, exploring Babe Ruth in a way that intimately, and poignantly, illuminates a most remarkable figure. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Grupper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000824/bk_rand_000824_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    John Ringo, King of the Cowboys (Second Edition): His Life and Times from the Hoo Doo War to Tombstone: A.C. Greene Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 586min
    Few names in the lore of Western gunmen are as recognizable. As a young man, Ringo became embroiled in the blood feud turbulence of post-Reconstruction Texas. The Mason County "Hoo Doo" War in Texas began as a war over range rights, but it swiftly deteriorated into blood vengeance and spiraled out of control as the body count rose. In this charnel house, Ringo gained a reputation as a dangerous gunfighter and man killer. The reputation he earned in Texas, further inflated by his willingness to shoot it out with Victorio's raiders during a deadly confrontation in New Mexico, preceded him to Tombstone in territorial Arizona. Ringo became immersed in the area's partisan politics and factionalized violence. A champion of the largely Democratic ranchers, Ringo would become known as a leader of one of these elements, the Cowboys. He ran at bloody, tragic odds with the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday, finally being part of the posse that hounded these fugitives from Arizona. In the end, Ringo died mysteriously in the Arizona desert - his death welcomed by some, mourned by others, and wrongly claimed by a few. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barry Eads. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/043594/bk_acx0_043594_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Executioner of St Paul's , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 836min
    The plague raging through London in 1665 has emptied the city. The only people left are those too poor to flee or those who selflessly struggle to control the contagion and safeguard the capital's future. Amongst them, though, are those prepared to risk their health for money - those who sell dubious 'cures' and hawk food at wildly inflated prices. Also amongst them are those who hold in their hands the future of the city's most iconic building - St Paul's Cathedral. The handsome edifice is crumbling from decades of neglect and indecision, giving the current custodians a stark choice: repair or demolish. Both sides have fanatical adherents who have been fighting each other since the Civil Wars. Large sums of money have disappeared, major players have mysteriously vanished, and then an unidentified skeleton is discovered in another man's grave. A reluctant Chaloner returns to London to investigate, only to discover that someone is determined to thwart him by any means - by bullet, poison or bludgeon - and he fears he has very little time to identify the culprits before he becomes yet another victim in the battle for the cathedral's future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gordon Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/001194/bk_twuk_001194_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Maybelline Story and the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 860min
    In 1915, when a kitchen stove fire singed his sister Mabel's lashes and brows, Tom Lyle Williams watched in fascination as she performed what she called "a secret of the harem" - mixing petroleum jelly with coal dust and ash from a burnt cork and applying it to her lashes and brows. Mabel's simple beauty trick ignited Tom Lyle's imagination, and he started what would become a billion-dollar business, one that remains a viable American icon after nearly a century. He named it Maybelline in her honor. Throughout the 20th century, the Maybelline company inflated, collapsed, endured, and thrived in tandem with the nation's upheavals, as did the family that nurtured it. Tom Lyle Williams - to avoid unwanted scrutiny of his private life - cloistered himself behind the gates of his Rudolph Valentino Villa and ran his empire from the shadows. Now, after nearly a century of silence, this true story celebrates the life of an American entrepreneur, a man forced to remain behind a mask, using his sister-in-law, Evelyn Boecher, to be his front. This is an epic story and best-selling book. It is being considered for a four-part series made for television. To date, the book has been translated into four languages. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kerrie Seymour. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/049806/bk_acx0_049806_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Fearful Rise of the Markets : Global Bubbles, Synchronized Meltdowns, and How to Prevent Them in the Future , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 445min
    Are we barreling toward another massive global financial catastrophe? How can so many bubbles form all at once? Why are so many disconnected markets now capable of collapsing in unison? In this remarkably listenable book, award-winning Financial Times columnist John Authers takes on these critical questions and offers deeply sobering answers.Authers reveals how the first truly global super bubble was inflated - and might now be inflating again. He illuminates the multiple roots of repeated financial crises: a massive shift in investing power from individuals to big institutions; the migration of key decisions from banks to capital markets; the wholesale financialization of many asset classes; and fundamental failures of both theory and policy.The Fearful Rise of Markets presents a truly global view, avoiding oversimplifications and ideology as it outlines how we got here and where we stand. Even more valuable, it offers realistic solutions - for decision-makers who want to prevent disaster and investors who want to survive it. Topics include:The herd grows ever larger - and more dangerousHow institutional investing, indexing, and efficient markets theory promote herdingCheap money and irrational exuberanceSuper fuel for super bubblesToo big to fail: the whole story of moral hazardBanks, hedge funds, and beyondDanger signs of the next bubbleForex, equity, credit, and commodity markets move once more in alignment ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Plummer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002424/bk_adbl_002424_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Real Estate Investing: The Blueprint to Starting a Passive Income Business and Making Money Through Rental Optimization and Property Management , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 183min
    Are you interested in the best strategy to set up a long-term real estate business? Do you want to discover the secrets to a lifelong financial freedom with real estate investing?If you ever asked yourself these questions, this is the book for you, as it will guide you toward your goals through a step-by-step blueprint showing that, yes, financial freedom is definitely achievable for everybody. If you are looking for quick solutions or inflated promises to get rich, this is not the book for you.Here, you'll find solid and valid blueprints to start a real estate business that do require lot of work and effort in the beginning and certainly have a learning curve. Therefore, if you feel like putting yourself out there and want to learn, this audiobook will be an amazing resource, as you will learn:How to use the best criteria for identifying great real estate investment opportunitiesWhy many real estate investors fail and how you can ensure to avoid the biggest mistakesWhat are some easy-to-follow strategies you can immediately implementWhat are actionable and profitable ideas for financing rentals, no matter how much cash you haveWhat are the best ways to analyse deals and make offers in as little as 15 minutesSo, if you are ready for freedom, take that first step and hit the "buy now" button. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Craig Abbott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/201593/bk_acx0_201593_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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