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    HorrorBabble's Ultimate Weird Tales Collection, Volume II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1330min
    This collection comprises another 40 stories by and inspired by the originators of weird fiction.From White's seminal body-shocker, Lukundoo, through to Howard's dastardly Pigeons from Hell, and Benson's nightmarish The Room in The Tower. Time immemorial; worlds unimaginable.Contents:Lukundoo (E. L. White)Sredni Vashtar (Saki)The Oval Portrait (E. A. Poe)The Vampire Maid (H. Nisbet)The People of the Pit (A. Merritt)The Red God Laughed (T. McClusky)The Shining Pyramid (A. Machen)The Shunned House (H. P. Lovecraft)The Horror in the Museum (H. P. Lovecraft)Beyond the Wall of Sleep (H. P. Lovecraft)The Hounds of Tindalos (F. B. Long)The Red One (J. London)I, the Vampire (H. Kuttner)The Shattered Timbrel (W. J. Knapp)The Wailing Well (M. R. James)A School Story (M. R. James)The Haunted Dolls' House (M. R. James)Pigeons from Hell (R. E. Howard)Dig Me No Grave (R. E. Howard)The Black Stone (R. E. Howard)The Whistling Room (W. H. Hodgson)The House Among the Laurels (W. H. Hodgson)Demons of the Sea (W. H. Hodgson)Old Rambling House (F. Herbert)They've Got a Killer View (I. Gordon)Pieter Craft - Model Citizen (I. Gordon)The Day They All Forgot (I. Gordon)The Horror of the Heights (A. C. Doyle)The Eyes Have It (Dick)The Screaming Skull (F. M. Crawford)The White Villa (R. A. Cram)The Ocean Ogre (D. Carroll)The Shadow from the Steeple (R. Bloch)The Night They Crashed the Party (R. Bloch)i ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ian Gordon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/164988/bk_acx0_164988_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Love Is Strange: Timeline 10/27/62, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 604min
    The Cuban Missiles Crisis didn't end peacefully and the "swinging sixties" didn't happen. On Saturday October 27th, 1962 American and Soviet geopolitical brinkmanship resulted in the most terrible war in human history. The forever changed world that remained when the thermonuclear fires had burned themselves out is the world of Timeline 10/27/62. Love is Strange is Book Two of the alternative history series Timeline 10/27/62. Love is Strange picks up the story a year and a month after the terrifying events in Operation Anadyr, Book One of the Timeline 10/27/62 Series. In a partially devastated world in which people are beginning to discover what actually happened and who their friends really are, chaos and disintegration threaten and old allies drift like sleepwalkers towards new wars. The USA has assumed a new global hegemony and written off its old European allies. Therein lie the seeds of a generational conflict, but nobody in Washington wants to hear that kind of news, or recognize that the laurels of victory might in time come to crush the seemingly invincible American eagle. In a Britain ravaged by nuclear war in which the survivors are struggling to come to terms with the cataclysm, questions are being asked about the reasons why, and how what remains of the nation will survive in the new world. Out of the catastrophe new leaders are beginning to emerge and there is a growing consensus that one day there will be a reckoning. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Killavey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/066716/bk_acx0_066716_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Secret to Achieving All Your Goals: An Advanced Course in Personal Achievement, Hörbuch, Digital, 269min
    Never resting on their laurels and always moving on to their next goal, people become super-achievers only when they believe that good enough isn't good enough for them. These are the personality types that get everything they want out of life. In The Secret to Achieving All Your Goals, Roger Dawson shares the life-changing results of his research into the lives of super-achievers. He gives you a perceptive look at how behavior determines your success - and invaluable advice on how to shape your own behavior using specific steps that will help you develop the personality of an achiever. Behavior is a function of its consequences. This potentially complex notion is demystified by Dawson, who explains its personal and practical significance to you. Through anecdotal stories and analogies, he introduces you to the vocabulary of behavior modification and gives you a fresh new look at the way you make decisions and how all your decisions affect your achievements in life. He'll teach you how to master new techniques for taking yourself to the next level of success. How to use behavior shaping to bring out the best in yourself and in others. And you'll learn to stop punishing yourself for failures and move ahead to the next achievement. While developing your own personality for achievement, you'll also learn how to: ALIGN your goals to your driving force EMPLOY three psychological methods that eradicate fear CREATE goals that are intrinsically rewarding OVERCOME fears blocking your path to achievement USE eight sure-fire techniques to impact the behavior of others With the knowledge you'll gain in The Advanced Course in Personal Achievement, you'll break through the old thresholds, to go way beyond the status quo, and find ever greater levels of achievement. Language: English. Narrator: Roger Dawson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/002005/bk_gdan_002005_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Bride for Sam: The Proxy Brides, Book 11 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 336min
    Rugged lumberjack and sawmill owner, Sam Maynard, enjoys a happy-go-lucky life in the 1870s small town of Brownville, Nebraska. Seeking out a wife of his own is the farthest thing from his mind until he sees his brother, Finn, so blissfully happy with his new proxy bride, and it sparks a desire within his own soul to find a mate. The girl he might have been able to love, sadly, is already promised to someone else, so he turns down the same avenue his brother had taken - the matrimonial advertisements.After multiple replies fail to generate any interest, however, he is about to chuck the whole idea...Tired of living in an apartment all alone, Beth Ann Gilmore looks forward to having her own hearth, home, husband, and children, but when she finds herself unexpectedly jilted by Stanley, her longtime beau, all her dreams go up in smoke. Refusing to rest on her laurels, she ponders the fact that her best friend, Charise, found happiness through mail-order-bride notices - so why couldn’t she? For good measure, she visits a local marriage broker as well. Soon, however, circumstances take a drastic turn and in fear for her life, she wires her friends in Nebraska for help.The return telegram contains a shocking idea. Can she go through with it? Should she? Could a man she only met once be her salvation...in more ways than one?Beth knows it’s a gamble, but faced with no other choice, it’s a chance she can’t afford to pass up.This is a clean, inspirational romance. The story contains themes of real life, but is suitable for all ages, as it contains no illicit sex or profanity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory Lioi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/197818/bk_acx0_197818_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Seleucid Empire: The History of the Empire Forged in the Ancient Near East After Alexander the Great's Death , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 83min
    In 323 BCE, Alexander the Great was on top of the world. Never a man to sit on his hands or rest upon his laurels, Alexander began planning his future campaigns, which may have included attempts to subdue the Arabian Peninsula or make another incursion into India. But fate had other plans for the young Macedonian king. One night, while feasting with his admiral Nearchus, he drank too much and took to bed with a fever. At first, it seemed like the fever was merely a consequence of his excess, and there was not much concern for his health, but when a week had elapsed and there was still no sign of his getting better, his friends and generals began to grow concerned. The fever grew, consuming him to the point that he could barely speak. After two weeks, on June 11, 323 BC, Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, Hegemon of the League of Corinth, King of Kings, died. On his deathbed, some historians claim that when he was pressed to name a successor, Alexander muttered that his empire should go "to the strongest". Other sources claim that he passed his signet ring to his general Perdiccas, thereby naming him successor, but whatever his choices were or may have been, they were ignored. Alexander's generals, all of them with the loyalty of their own corps at their backs, would tear each other apart in a vicious internal struggle that lasted almost half a century before four factions emerged victorious: Macedonia, the Seleucid Empire in the east, the Kingdom of Pergamon in Asia Minor, and the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt. During the course of these wars, Alexander's only heir, the posthumously born Alexander IV, was murdered, extinguishing his bloodline for ever. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim D Johnston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/075039/bk_acx0_075039_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Iterate and Optimize: Optimize Your Creative Business for Profit , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 632min
    The top-to-bottom guide to taking your writing and publishing business from square one to stratosphere. Iterate and Optimize is a behind-the-scenes peek into how indie publishing company Sterling & Stone grew their three-author team into a juggernaut, and a next-level guide for authors looking to explode their sales and do the same. In their cornerstone publishing guide Write. Publish. Repeat., best-selling authors Johnny B. Truant, Sean Platt, and David Wright explained how to build a thriving international publishing empire with no luck required. Rather than resting on their laurels in the years since WPR was written, they've been evolving their once-fledgling business a little bit at a time: expanding to eight publishing imprints, 10 high-profile podcasts, a coordinated staff working behind the scenes, millions of words published, and hundreds of thousands of books in the hands of eager readers. In Iterate and Optimize, they show you how they grew their business from the ground up in tiny, incremental steps, and give you a road map so that you can do it, too. More than "just another self-publishing guide", this book delves deep into the business behind the success of Platt, Truant, and Wright's company Sterling & Stone, making it the essential "advanced course" follow-up to Write. Publish. Repeat., covering topics like: Exclusive versus "going wide" distribution International and multi-format sales Optimizing book covers, descriptions, and metadata to increase conversion Company organization and outsourcing Product funnels Series structure Networking and in-person meet-ups Workflow management and systems The writing and pre-writing process so you can "write better faster" Social media Podcasting Crowdfunding Advertising and marketing And much ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Whistler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/068938/bk_acx0_068938_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Patton's Pawns: The 94th US Infantry Division at the Siegfried Line , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 697min
    The 94th US Infantry Division was an organization formed late in the Second World War, made up largely of draft-deferred university students as enlisted men and an officer corps pulled together from various domestic postings with unfortunate consequences for mutual trust and respect. Initially used as part of the force blockading the Brittany ports after D-Day, in December of 1944, the division was incorporated into General Patton's Third Army south of the Moselle-Saar Triangle, the base of which was a portion of the Siegfried Line known as the Orscholz Switch. Its first combat experience came in battalion-sized attacks during that terrible winter while the Battle of the Bulge raged to the north, and the Division suffered heavy casualties, many due to the ferocity of the winter weather. Patton, with characteristic zeal, excoriated the division's officers and senior NCOs for the rate of non-combat casualties. Thereafter, the division was ordered forward on an all-out assault to break through the Siegfried Line. After horrific fighting against entrenched defenders, with ice turning to mud as spring approached, on February 19, 1945, the 94th broke through to open the roads to Trier and the Rhine. This audiobook is the most comprehensive study to date of the fierce fighting between the 94th U.S. Infantry Division and their German counterparts during that spring of 1945. It sheds new light on the achievements of the outnumbered division in penetrating Germany's Westwall. With characteristic verve and detail, Tony Le Tissier narrates the action and illuminates the tribulations and sacrifices of American soldiers who won their laurels at great cost. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Stageman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/021604/bk_acx0_021604_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Falsche Schwestern
    Vor 13 Jahren verschwand meine Schwester. Jetzt ist sie wieder da. Nichts ist, wie es war. 'Falsche Schwestern' von Cat Clarke ist ein psychologischer Spannungsroman, der unter die Haut geht.Stell dir vor, du hast deine Schwester verloren. Kidnapping. Seit der Entführung vergehen deine Eltern vor Kummer. Das Loch, das deine Schwester in der Familie hinterlassen hat, ist immer schmerzhaft präsent. Alles fällt auseinander.Stell dir vor, deine Schwester taucht plötzlich wieder auf. 13 Jahre später! Bei deinen Eltern ist die Freude riesig. Alle scheinen glücklich, aber sie drängt sich so in den Mittelpunkt, dass für dich kein Platz mehr in der Familie ist. Sogar deinen Freund spannt sie dir aus.Doch dann passiert etwas, das alles verändert.Faith kennt ihre Schwester Laurel eigentlich nur von einem Foto. Ein lächelndes sechsjähriges Mädchen, das eines Tages spurlos aus dem Garten verschwand. Für Faith Familie beginnt ein Albtraum: Angst, Kummer, Pressekonferenzen, großangelegte Polizeisuche und Paparazzi. Doch dann, mehr als 13 Jahre später kommt ein Anruf. Eine junge Frau ist aufgetaucht. Und sie hat Laurels Teddy im Arm. Die Familie kann ihr Glück kaum fassen: Endlich hat Faith ihre große Schwester zurück. Dann aber schlägt ihre Freude um. Irgendetwas fühlt sich verdammt falsch an ... In Faith wächst ein schrecklicher Verdacht. Jeder erinnert sich an den Fall Natascha Kampusch. 'Falsche Schwestern' ist in packender Was-wäre-wenn-Roman über eine Entführung, bei der das Mädchen nach 13 Jahren zurückkehrt. Das Drama was sich in der Familie und zwischen den Geschwistern anbahnt, ist aufwühlend und höchst berührend.
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    Heinz Guderian: The Life and Legacy of Nazi Germany's Famous Panzer Commander , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 91min
    Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come, the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who are prepared to act with daring. (Heinz Guderian) Heinz Wilhelm Guderian was one of the most respected commanders and theoreticians of World War II. An innovative tank commander, he was a pioneer of German Blitzkrieg tactics and therefore a hugely influential figure in the way the war was fought. Guderian's profile was not always what might have been expected for a man of his abilities and influence, due to the shape of his career. As a German commander during the war, Guderian fought for one of the most appalling regimes in history, so while his skills are respected, it is hard to celebrate a man who led the troops of the Reich, especially to such success. Erwin Rommel, the legendary Desert Fox, managed to somewhat sidestep this stigma through his glamour and remarkable achievements spanning the length of the war, but Guderian was out of power for over a year, and when he returned, it was not to a position of battlefield command, giving him fewer opportunities than Rommel to build his reputation in the eyes of the Western media. The reasons for Guderian's time out of command are tied to the reason for his lower profile - he was a traditional German career officer rather than an ideologically driven Nazi, willing to challenge Adolf Hitler's opinions on military matters. This, together with his outspoken attitude, led to his loss of favor and dismissal from command. At the same time, being a career military man rather than a Nazi officer also meant Guderian was not as directly involved in the atrocities of the war, and he did not gain the infamy of his SS contemporaries. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094459/bk_acx0_094459_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    What If Alexander the Great Had Lived?: An Alternative History of the Macedonian King and His Empire (Charles River Editors' Alternative History Series) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 127min
    In the 19th century, the Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle famously wrote that history is “the biography of great men", popularizing the “Great Man” theory that the course of history is shaped by a select few heroic individuals.While historians and others continue to debate the accuracy of the Great Man theory of history, there is no question that the course of history is permanently altered by decisive moments in time, where a different result would have produced drastically different outcomes.As a result, while some of history’s most famous people and events have been permanently etched into the world’s collective imagination, there is a flip side to that coin: Just how differently would history have turned out if certain events never took place?Charles River Editors’ “What If” alternative history series examines some of these people and events, profiling what happened in reality and how things might have been drastically different otherwise.Over the last 2,000 years, ambitious men have dreamed of forging vast empires and attaining eternal glory in battle, but of all the conquerors who took steps toward such dreams, none were ever as successful as antiquity’s first great conqueror.Leaders of the 20th century hoped to rival Napoleon’s accomplishments, while Napoleon aimed to emulate the accomplishments of Julius Caesar. Caesar himself found inspiration in Alexander the Great (356 - 323 BCE), the Macedonian king who managed to stretch an empire from Greece to the Himalayas in Asia by the age of 30. It took less than 15 years for Alexander to conquer much of the known world.In 323 BCE, Alexander the Great was on top of the world. Never a man to sit on his hands or rest upon his laurels, Alexander began planning his future campaigns, which may have included attempts to subdue the Arabian Peninsula or make another incursion into India. But fate had other plans for the young Macedonian king. Alexander died of still unknown cau ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194131/bk_acx0_194131_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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