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    How to Play Rummy and Gin Rummy: A Beginners Guide to Learning Rummy and Gin Rummy Rules and Strategies to Win , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 64min
    Master Rummy and win big around the card table! Let the games begin. When you listen to How to Play Rummy, you’ll enter an exciting world of strategy, cunning, and adventure. Though many cultures claim to have invented this game, one thing is certain - its cross-cultural appeal. You’ll also learn to play popular variants of this game like Gin Rummy, Contract Rummy, Shanghai Rummy, and Indian Rummy! One of the world’s most popular card games, Rummy offers a fascinating blend of simplicity and complexity. The rules are simple, as you’ll learn as you listen through this audiobook. It takes a minute to learn - but a lifetime to master. Inside this comprehensive guide, you’ll discover everything you need to know about the game of Rummy: Easy-to-understand basics for beginners Choosing a total score and the first dealer How to deal, how to play, and how to win Melding rules and techniques for optimal point scores The Rummy scoring system and the value of each card Popular optional rules for exciting gameplay Gin Rummy basics, dealing rules, and gameplay How to knock, score, and win Gin Rummy You’ll even discover the subtle and cunning elements of strategy for both Rummy and Gin Rummy! Don’t miss your turn to join the global (and local) community of rummy players - get your copy of How to Play Rummy right away! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Forris Day, Jr.. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/112069/bk_acx0_112069_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Sensitive Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 143min
    By the end of the 21st century, a deep-state human-systems organization, the Psychotechnic Institute, has begun melding neuroscience and psychoanalytics to create the foundation for generations of more peaceful, more powerful, more "sensitive" human beings. In Poul Anderson's 1954 science-fiction thriller, The Sensitive Man, one such human, Simon Dalgetty, is on the trail of brutal men who kidnapped Michael Tighe, keeper of the keys to the Institute's secrets, and, thus, to the fate of world order.  In the midst of his pursuit, Simon falls prey to his own carelessness and, trapped by the men he is pursuing, is taken to an island hideout where Tighe is being held. Simon faces torture if he cannot get Tighe to reveal the Institute’s plans. As he contemplates the possibilities for escape, Simon reaches out to Elena Casimir, an enigmatic, possibly problematic adversary allied with Simon’s captors. What does the sensitive man see in Elena that gives him hope not only of escape, but of Tighe’s rescue and the capture of the kingpin responsible for Tighe’s kidnapping? Anderson’s tight plot, breezy dialogue, fascinating scene-setting, political foreshadowing, and well-woven characters, both good and bad, make for a fun, exciting, and future-forward glance at what may lie in store for the world in the century ahead. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: C James Moore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/002480/bk_mike_002480_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hall of Small Mammals: Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 515min
    A wild, inventive ride of a short story collection from a distinctive new American storyteller.The stories in Thomas Pierce’s Hall of Small Mammals take place at the confluence of the commonplace and the cosmic, the intimate and the infinite. A fossil-hunter, a comedian, a hot- air balloon pilot, parents and children, believers and nonbelievers, the people in these stories are struggling to understand the absurdity and the magnitude of what it means to exist in a family, to exist in the world. In “Shirley Temple Three,” a mother must shoulder her son’s burden—a cloned and resurrected wooly mammoth who wreaks havoc on her house, sanity, and faith. In “The Real Alan Gass,” a physicist in search of a mysterious particle called the “daisy” spends her days with her boyfriend, Walker, and her nights with the husband who only exists in the world of her dreams, Alan Gass. Like the daisy particle itself—“forever locked in a curious state of existence and nonexistence, sliding back and forth between the two”—the stories in Thomas Pierce’s Hall of Small Mammals are exquisite, mysterious, and inextricably connected. From this enchanting primordial soup, Pierce’s voice emerges—a distinct and charming testament of the New South, melding contemporary concerns with their prehistoric roots to create a hilarious, deeply moving symphony of stories. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: MacLeod Andrews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002520/bk_peng_002520_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 694min
    A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family's hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before. In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu's great-great-grandfather Liu's Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of prized antique porcelain, and undertake a decades-long trek that would splinter the family over thousands of miles. Many years and upheavals later, Hsu, raised in Salt Lake City and armed only with curiosity, moves to China to work in his uncle's semiconductor chip business. Once there, a conversation with his grandmother, his last living link to dynastic China, ignites a desire to learn more about not only his lost ancestral heirlooms but also porcelain itself. Mastering the language enough to venture into the countryside, Hsu sets out to separate the layers of fact and fiction that have obscured both China and his heritage and finally complete his family’s long march back home. Melding memoir, travelogue, and social and political history, The Porcelain Thief offers an intimate and unforgettable way to understand the complicated events that have defined China over the past 200 years and provides a revealing, lively perspective on contemporary Chinese society from the point of view of a Chinese American coming to terms with his hyphenated identity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Huan Hsu. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004101/bk_rand_004101_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Failure Is not an Option: Creating Certainty in the Uncertainty of Retirement , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 357min
    Is your retirement recession-proof? Ten thousand baby boomers reach retirement age every day. More than half of new retirees say that they were not ready when they got there, leading to what has been called the greatest retirement crisis in history. Failure is Not an Option: Creating Certainty In the Uncertainty of Retirement was written by financial planner and retirement expert, David Rosell, to combat the immense lack of resources regarding living a successful retirement.We all know that there are endless books on how to accumulate wealth and how to get out of debt. However, few resources teach what to do once you've reached the second half of your financial journey, when you retire and begin to live on your hard-earned retirement savings. This is also the phase that requires most of the planning and entails most of the risk. This audiobook was written to fill that gap. Through an unexpected melding of travel and family stories coupled with financial survival tips, Failure Is Not an Option will lay out the eight fundamental risks every retiree faces and help you recession-proof your retirement and create more certainty in the uncertainty of retirement. In the process, it will help you achieve far greater financial peace of mind as you learn to recognize and address the risks in retirement and successfully navigate the second-half of your journey, regardless of how the markets perform. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David M Rosell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/164195/bk_acx0_164195_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 290min
    President Carter has written importantly about his spiritual life and faith. In Living Faith, a huge bestseller, he recounted the values and experiences that shaped his personal and political life. In his companion book Sources of Strength, also a bestseller, he meditated on fifty-two of the favorite Bible lessons he has taught. In Our Endangered Values, Carter offers a personal consideration of "moral values" as they relate to the important issues of the day. He puts forward a passionate defense of separation of church and state, and a strong warning of where the country is heading as the lines between politics and rigid religious fundamentalism are blurred. Now, he describes his own involvement and reactions to some disturbing societal trends that have taken place during the last few years. These changes involve both the religious and the political worlds as they have increasingly become intertwined, and include some of the most crucial and controversial issues of the day, frequently encapsulated under "moral values". Many of these matters are under fierce debate. They include preemptive war, women's rights, terrorism, civil liberties, homosexuality, abortion, the death penalty, science and religion, environmental degradation, nuclear arsenals, America's global image, fundamentalism, and the melding of religion and politics. Sustained by his lifelong faith, Jimmy Carter assesses these issues in a forceful and unequivocal but balanced and courageous way. Our Endangered Values is a book that his millions of readers have eagerly awaited. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jimmy Carter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000627/bk_sans_000627_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Faerie Knitting: 14 Tales of Love and Magic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 90min
    From New York Times best-selling author Alice Hoffman and master knitter Lisa Hoffman comes Faerie Knitting, a magical melding of words and yarn where the ordinary is turned into the extraordinary and where imagination becomes creation.The magic of storytelling and the magic of knitting - woven together in 14 original patterns inspired by each story.“How fairy tales are told and remembered has a great deal in common with knitting traditions. It is no mistake that we describe storytelling as knitting a tale, or weaving a story, or spinning a yarn.” (Alice Hoffman, from the Introduction of Faerie Knitting)Featuring 14 original fairy tales, Faerie Knitting is an entrancing collection of stories of love and loss, trust and perseverance. Seamlessly woven into the plot of each tale is a magical garment or accessory inspired by the bravery and self-reliance of the tale’s heroine and brought to life through an imaginative and bespoke knit pattern.From the "Blue Heron Shawl" and the "Love Never Ending Cowl", to the "Three Wishes Mittens" and "Amulet Necklace", each project is as wearable as it is magical. Lush, atmospheric photography captures the enchanted faerie domain while beautifully rendered charts and instructions are well suited for beginner and advanced knitters alike.Faerie Knitting is a rare gift for creators - and lovers - of magic. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: January LaVoy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008936/bk_sans_008936_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Making Rent in Bed-Stuy: A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 514min
    A young African American millennial filmmaker's funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City - a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and commerce, struggle and insecurity, and the economic and cultural forces intertwined with "the serious, life-threatening process" of gentrification. Making Rent in Bed-Stuy explores the history and sociocultural importance of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn's largest historically black community, through the lens of a coming-of-age young American negro artist living at the dawn of an era in which urban class warfare is politely referred to as gentrification. Bookended by accounts of two different breakups, from a roommate and a lover, both of who come from the white American elite, the book oscillates between chapters of urban bildungsroman and a historical examination of some of Bed-Stuy's most salient aesthetic and political legacies. Filled with personal stories and a vibrant cast of iconoclastic characters - friends and acquaintances such as Spike Lee; Lena Dunham; and Paul MacCleod, who made a living charging $5 for a tour of his extensive Elvis collection - Making Rent in Bed-Stuy poignantly captures what happens when youthful idealism clashes head-on with adult reality. Melding in-depth reportage and personal narrative that investigates the disappointments and ironies of the Obama era, the book describes Brandon Harris' radicalization and the things he lost and gained along the way. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brandon Massey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006114/bk_harp_006114_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    1889: The Boomer Movement, the Land Run, and Early Oklahoma City , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 715min
    After immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the land rush of 1889 and the future capital of Oklahoma City sprang up “within a fortnight”, the city’s residents adopted the slogan “born grown” to describe their new home. But the territory’s creation was never so simple or straightforward. The real story, steeped in the politics of the Gilded Age, unfolds in 1889, Michael J. Hightower’s revealing look at a moment in history that, in all its turmoil and complexity, transcends the myth. Hightower frames his story within the larger history of Old Oklahoma, beginning in Indian Territory, where displaced tribes and freedmen, wealthy cattlemen, and prospective homesteaders became embroiled in disputes over public land and federal government policies. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, Hightower captures the drama of the Boomer incursions and the Run of ’89, as well as the nascent urbanization of the townsite that would become Oklahoma City. All of these events played out in a political vacuum until Congress officially created Oklahoma Territory in the Organic Act of May 1890.The story of central Oklahoma is profoundly American, showing the region to have been a crucible for melding competing national interests and visions of the future. Boomers, businessmen, cattlemen, soldiers, politicians, pundits, and African and Native Americans squared off - sometimes peacefully, often not - in disagreements over public lands that would resonate in western history long after 1889.The book is published by University of Oklahoma Press. The audiobook will be published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Douglas R Pratt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150091/bk_acx0_150091_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 607min
    What do Google, Snapchat, Tinder, Amazon, and Uber have in common, besides soaring market share? They're platforms - a new business model that has quietly become the only game in town, creating vast fortunes for its founders while dominating everyone's daily life. A platform, by definition, creates value by facilitating an exchange between two or more interdependent groups. So, rather than making things, they simply connect people. The Internet today is awash in platforms - Facebook is responsible for nearly 25 percent of total Web visits, and the Google platform crash in 2013 took about 40 percent of Internet traffic with it. Representing the 10 most trafficked sites in the US, platforms are also prominent over the globe; in China, they hold the top eight spots in web traffic rankings. The advent of mobile computing and its ubiquitous connectivity have forever altered how we interact with each other, melding the digital and physical worlds and blurring distinctions between "offline" and "online." These platform giants are expanding their influence from the digital world to the whole economy. Yet, few people truly grasp the radical structural shifts of the last 10 years. In Modern Monopolies, Alex Moazed and Nicholas L. Johnson tell the definitive story of what has changed, what it means for businesses today, and how managers, entrepreneurs, and business owners can adapt and thrive in this new era. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Yen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031886/bk_adbl_031886_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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