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Star Wars: Brotherhood

Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker must stem the tide of the raging Clone Wars and forge a new bond as Jedi Knights. The Clone Wars have begun. Battle lines are being drawn throughout the galaxy. With every world that joins the Separatists, the peace guarded by the Jedi Order is slipping through their fingers. After an explosion devastates Cato Neimoidia, the jewel of the Trade Federation, the Republic is blamed and the fragile neutrality of the planet is threatened. The Jedi dispatch Obi-Wan Kenobi, one of the Order's most gifted diplomatic minds, to investigate the crime and maintain the balance that has begun to dangerously shift. As Obi-Wan investigates with the help of a heroic Neimoidian guard, he finds himself working against the Separatists who hope to draw the planet into their conspiracy-and senses the sinister hand of Asajj Ventress in the mists that cloak the planet. Amid the brewing chaos, Anakin Skywalker rises to the rank of Jedi Knight. Despite the mandate that Obi-Wan travel alone-and his former master's insistence that he listen this time-Anakin's headstrong determination means nothing can stop him from crashing the party, and bringing along a promising but conflicted youngling. Once a Padawan to Obi-Wan, Anakin now finds himself on equal-but uncertain-footing with the man who raised him. The lingering friction between them increases the danger for everyone around them. The two knights must learn a new way to work together-and they must learn quickly, to save Cato Neimoidia and its people from the fires of war. To overcome the threat they face they must grow beyond master and apprentice. They must stand together as brothers.

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Contamination: Zombies are Human, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 455min

From New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Jamie Thornton comes a stunning survival series that has listeners raving about its dark and gritty thrills. Powerful enemies, twisted memories, a government willing to do anything for control....Once upon A Time a Plague Ended the World.A single drop of blood is all it takes to begin changing you. Sometimes the blood fills you with rage, but sometimes it does...something else.For a limited time, grab book one at a substantial discount.When a new virus unleashes violence that devastates 18-year-old Corrina's neighborhood, all Corrina can think about is surviving. But when the boy she loves is kidnapped by a group of government soldiers, she must team up with a strange group of street kids to save him.Interview with the authorQ - What makes the Zombies are Human series special?An epidemic ravaging the human population. A world spiraling into chaos. People doing whatever it takes to survive. I wanted to write something I would love to read. I've always been drawn to the post-apocalyptic genre and thought about end-of-the-world books I’ve loved - Stephen King's The Stand, Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. But also recent stories like The Girl With All the Gifts, The Passage, and even Stranger Things. I’ve always found stories with big epidemics/events that reinvent the world so thrilling. I also love getting into some of the science, like the genetic engineering, that would make the situations plausible. Zombies are Human gives you some of that classic Walking Dead zombie fare, but...without giving too much away...I guarantee you've never read a zombie series like Zombies are Human before.Even though my cast of characters are teenagers I’ve definitely had plenty of adults write me about how much they’ve enjoyed the series. I think Zombies ar ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jamie Thornton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/182319/bk_acx0_182319_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Apocalypse Machine , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 618min

The human race started the sixth mass extinction on Earth. A chain of subglacial volcanoes erupt in Iceland. The melting ice floods the countryside. Poisonous gas descends on Scotland. A tsunami devastates the Norwegian coastline. An ash cloud rises into the atmosphere, blotting out the sun across Europe, ushering in a new Ice Age. Dozens of nuclear power plants, flooded by ocean water, experience meltdowns. Millions perish. Many more are displaced. All on the first day. On the second day, a series of earthquakes moving in a straight line, reveal the presence of something massive walking across the landscape. Concealed by a thick, radioactive ash cloud, the 'aberration' heads west, toward Russia. Abraham Wright, a science writer for Modern Scientist, who wants nothing more than to be reunited with his family, finds himself at the center of the United States' response to the crisis. Under his new title as Assistant Science Advisor to the President, Wright is sent to Europe with a team of Army Rangers, where he uncovers the truth about the ancient behemoth laying waste to the world: there have been five mass extinctions on planet Earth, and the aberration has been present at each. On the third day, the world fights back. And loses. Separated from his family by continents and oceans ravaged by countless disasters and populated by strange new life, Wright struggles to survive in an evolving world. Hoping to uncover the key to mankind's redemption, he fights for answers, and to reach his loved ones - before the human race's extinction. The Apocalypse Machine will finish it. Jeremy Robinson returns to the Kaiju thriller genre he popularized with the largest Kaiju to ever appear in fiction: the Apocalypse Machine. Bursting with all the epic action, desperate struggle and complex characters that listeners have come to expect, Robinson takes the world to the brink. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/063223/bk_acx0_063223_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Wright Stuff: From NBC to Autism Speaks , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 843min

Named president and CEO of NBC at the age of 43, he faced a two-headed dragon: on one hand, distrust from the network people deeply skeptical of the "suit" from GE, their new corporate parent; and on the other, fiscal oversight demands from a cautious, conservative institution reluctant to invest heavily in a media business they didn't understand. For the next 20 years, he managed to navigate the fine line between the two and in the process completely reinvent - and save - the network. His name is Bob Wright. Under his leadership a traditional network, struggling to survive a changing landscape, was transformed into a $45 billion cable and Internet giant. Frequently flying under the GE corporate radar, Wright and his handpicked team spearheaded what amounts to a revolution in broadcast television: Embracing rather than resisting cable Launching alternative news channels CNBC and MSNBC along with MSNBC.com, NBC's powerful springboard to the Internet Creating strategic partnerships with other media companies formerly considered competitors A string of acquisitions that solidified NBC's leadership in multiple US and international markets, culminating in the lucrative merger into NBC Universal What does someone like that do when he retires? If he's Bob Wright, he starts all over again. At almost the exact same time as Bob's NBC reign was winding down, his grandson, Christian, was diagnosed with autism, a condition then poorly understood. Baffled by a lack of medical knowledge and community support, Bob and his wife, Suzanne, founded Autism Speaks, which in short order became the leading advocacy and research funding organization for this mysterious condition that so devastates families. They make a powerful team - the compassionate, charismatic, indefatigable Suzanne who won't take no for an answer and the analytic, efficient executive who poured all his business acumen into building an organ ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hillary Huber, Kevin Pariseau. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/026643/bk_adbl_026643_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Technologists: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1095min

The first class at M.I.T. The last hope for a city in peril. The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl’s spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word “technology” represents a bold and frightening new concept. The fight for the future will hinge on.... The Technologists. Boston, 1868. The Civil War may be over but a new war has begun, one between the past and the present, tradition and technology. On a former marshy wasteland, the daring Massachusetts Institute of Technology is rising, its mission to harness science for the benefit of all and to open the doors of opportunity to everyone of merit. But in Boston Harbor a fiery cataclysm throws commerce into chaos, as ships’ instruments spin inexplicably out of control. Soon after, another mysterious catastrophe devastates the heart of the city. Is it sabotage by scientific means or Nature revolting against man’s attempt to control it? The shocking disasters cast a pall over M.I.T. and provoke assaults from all sides - rival Harvard, labor unions, and a sensationalistic press. With their first graduation and the very survival of their groundbreaking college now in doubt, a band of the Institute’s best and brightest students secretly come together to save innocent lives and track down the truth, armed with ingenuity and their unique scientific training. Led by “charity scholar” Marcus Mansfield, a quiet Civil War veteran and one-time machinist struggling to find his footing in rarefied Boston society, the group is rounded out by irrepressible Robert Richards, the bluest of Beacon Hill bluebloods; Edwin Hoyt, class genius; and brilliant freshman Ellen Swallow, the Institute’s lone, ostracized female student. Working against their small secret society, from within and without, are the arrayed forces of a stratified culture determined to resist change at all costs and a ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Hoye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002891/bk_rand_002891_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 154min

Audie Award Finalist, Narration by the Author or Authors, 2014 From the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty, and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the 20th century. Through his books and his radio essays for NPR's This American Life, David Rakoff has built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and funniest essayists of our time. Written with humor, sympathy, and tenderness, this intricately woven novel proves him to be the master of an altogether different art form. Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish leaps cities and decades as Rakoff sings the song of an America whose freedoms can be intoxicating, or brutal. The characters' lives are linked to one another by acts of generosity or cruelty. A daughter of Irish slaughterhouse workers in early-20th-century Chicago faces a desperate choice; a hobo offers an unexpected refuge on the rails during the Great Depression; a vivacious aunt provides her clever nephew a path out of the crushed dream of postwar Southern California; an office girl endures the casually vicious sexism of 1950s Manhattan; the young man from Southern California revels in the electrifying sexual and artistic openness of 1960s San Francisco, then later tends to dying friends and lovers as the AIDS pandemic devastates the community he cherishes; a love triangle reveals the empty materialism of the Reagan years; a marriage crumbles under the distinction between self-actualization and humanity; as the new century opens, a man who has lost his way finds a measure of peace in a photograph he discovers in an old box - an image of pure and simple joy that unites the themes of this brilliantly conceived work. Rakoff's insistence on beauty and the necessity of kindness in a selfish world raises the novel far above mere satire. A critic once called Rakoff "magnificent", a word that perfectly describes this wonderful novel in verse. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Rakoff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003557/bk_rand_003557_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Summary & Analysis of Medical Medium Life Changing Foods , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 42min

Please Note: This is a summary, analysis, and review of the book and not the original book. Anthony William, The "Medical Medium" uses his connection to a higher power to provide unprecedented insight into how our diets affect not only our physical health, but our mental, spiritual, and emotional well-being. This FastReads Summary & Analysis offers supplementary material to Anthony William's Medical Medium: Life Changing Foods to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective. Whether you'd like to improve your retention and understanding, refresh your memory, or simply decide whether or not this book is for you, FastReads Summary & Analysis is here to help. Absorb everything you need to know in under 20 minutes! What does this FastReads Summary & Analysis Include? A short synopsis of the original book Editorial Review of the writing style and themes Key takeaways of the author's main points Overview of the book's content A short bio of the the author Original Book Summary Overview What inspired Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, to say "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food?" He tapped into an understanding of the benefits of life changing foods. In this book, you'll hear about what devastates the foundation, which is our health, and why we ought to positively interact with stress and consume life giving foods. BEFORE YOU BUY: The purpose of this FastReads Summary & Analysis is to help you decide if it's worth the time, money, and effort listening to the original book (if you haven't already). FastReads has pulled out the essence-but only to help you ascertain the value of the book for yourself. This summary & analysis is meant as a supplement to, and not a replacement for, Life Changing Foods. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: L.K. Negron. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100034/bk_acx0_100034_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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To Be Where You Are , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1068min

A New York Times Best SellerNumber one New York Times best-selling author Jan Karon returns with the 14th novel in the beloved Mitford series, featuring three generations of Kavanaghs. Wounds heal, bonds grow stronger, and celebrations continue.... Welcome back to beloved Mitford. After 12 years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a steady job to prove himself. Then he's given one. As for what it proves, heaven only knows.Millions of Karon fans will be thrilled that it's life as usual in the wildly popular Mitford series: A beloved town character lands a front-page obituary, but who was it, exactly, who died? And what about the former mayor, born the year Lindbergh landed in Paris, who's still running for office? All this, of course, is but a feather on the wind compared to Muse editor J.C. Hogan's desperate attempts to find a cure for his marital woes. Will it be high-def TV or his pork-chop marinade?In fiction, as in real life, there are no guarantees.Twenty minutes from Mitford at Meadowgate Farm, newlyweds Dooley and Lace Kavanagh face a crisis that devastates their bank account and impacts their family vet practice. But there is still a lot to celebrate, as their adopted son, Jack, looks forward to the most important day of his life - with great cooking, country music, and lots of people who love him. Happily, it will also be a day when the terrible wound in Dooley's biological family begins to heal because of a game - let's just call it a miracle - that breaks all the rules.In To Be Where You Are, Jan Karon weaves together the richly comic and compelling lives of two Kavanagh families, and a cast of characters that listeners around the world now love like kin. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John McDonough. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003247/bk_peng_003247_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Hidden Hope: Hidden Trilogy, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 503min

Book 3 of the epic series that's earned more than 3,000 worldwide five-star reviews and has sold thousands of copies! Give in to glamour and continue the thrilling and deeply romantic journey into the Hidden world that readers are calling “addictive”, “riveting”, “magical”, and "captivating from the first chapter.” Ryann is torn between two kings - two brothers. Lad, the king of the Light Court, is her first love. Nox, the new king of the Dark Court, came through when she needed him most and won her heart. But Lad has revealed a secret to Ryann that devastates her and tears at her loyalties. And though Nox and Lad are fierce rivals for the girl they both love, an even bigger problem threatens them all. The unsuspecting human population of the world hangs in the balance with an approaching war between Dark and Light. Powerful fan pods have transformed the face of the country. The Dark Council's plan is almost accomplished, and the Dark Court is nearly ready to reveal itself and take back control of the world, as it was in the old days, before the history books were written. Ryann can't believe the Nox she knows and loves would allow that to happen, though he is now deeply entrenched in the Dark Court and seems to be changing by the day. Is his love for Ryann strong enough to give him the strength to stand against his people and their plot? Or should she side with Lad and the Light Court, who who appear to have the welfare of humans in mind? Lad is fighting the looming danger as hard as he can, fully involved now in the world of Elven politics he tried so hard to avoid. And what can Ryann - only a partial Fae - personally do? She'll have to learn to balance her own Dark and Light sides - and somehow make the right choice between two tempting Fae guys - or face the consequences of a wrong decision eternally and watch her family and the entire human world fall under the oppression of the Dark Court. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amy DeLuca. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/113577/bk_acx0_113577_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Air Pollution, Clean Energy and Climate Change

Climate change is a globally recognized threat multiplier, but decades of intergovernmental negotiations have failed to curb toxic levels of fossil fuel energy-related air pollution which the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified as the world's largest, single environmental health risk. Lying in plain view are the troubling truths about the morbidity and ill-health burdens associated with anthropogenic climate change that are borne by those who have done the least to contribute to per capita emissions of greenhouse gas emissions. Ignoring the nexus between air pollution, lack of access to clean energy and climate adversities that extracts the harshest toll on those least resilient and most exposed to climate health risks represents a collective failure of the UN's ambitious, universally agreed upon 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda (SDA) which pledged "to leave no one behind".This book highlights the air pollution crisis that emanates from the heavy reliance on polluting forms of energy used by the poor and also the urbanization of poverty in developing countries. It provides a framework for understanding why the broader sustainable development community needs to urgently address the more neglected intersection between adverse climatic impacts and energy-related air pollution which devastates the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable amongst us, especially young children, women and the elderly.It focuses on the importance of breaking down persistent global silos on sustainable energy for all, and climate change reflected in the UN's 2030 SDA, and the 2015 Paris Agreement in order to more clearly integrate air pollution reduction and clean energy access partnerships. Integrating clean air and climate mitigation measures that specifically include curbing short lived climate pollutants such as black carbon via innovative partnerships/modalities are seen as vital to clean energy and climate responsive action. This book argues that linked action to reduce air pollution and increase clean energy access by non-nation state actors in the most populous cities in developing countries like India where annual average particulate matter pollution levels consistently exceeds WHO guidelines is essential to reducing health costs, disease burdens and climate risks impacting on millions of lives.Air Pollution, Clean Energy and Climate Change will be of particular interest to climate change, clean air and clean energy and public health policy makers, academics, researchers, practitioners and civil society representatives who need to better understand the nexus between climate , air pollution, clean energy access and public health risks.

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