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    The Angina Monologues , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 410min
    A pioneering cardiac surgeon expertly sews up the heart of surgery, the health of the nation, and the NHS. The Angina Monologues speeds from the transporting of a donor’s heart up the motorway hard shoulder, to cautionary stories of excessive intervention gone awry in US hospitals, to a traumatic trip to bring advanced cardiac surgery to the Palestinian West Bank. Nashef tells heart-stopping stories of transplants, coronary artery bypasses, aorta repair and cardiac arrest. He also delivers humane advice about medical realities rarely observed: the futility of obsessing over diet, the necessity of calculating risks, the role of decision making, the resilience of doctor and patient alike and the threadbare brilliance of the NHS. Nashef is a magnificently warm and likeable doctor and writer, and he has the best imaginable bedside manner. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arty Froushan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052261/bk_adbl_052261_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Fat Lady Sings , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 388min
    This is the third book that follows The Myth of the Anal Probe and Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear. In The Fat Lady Sings, the people of the planet Hale return to Earth and offer an ultimatum: Stop all forms of aggression and violence, or they will return in one year and obliterate Earth. Earthlings realize that at the end of that one year whoever is in control will rule the entire world forever. All countries start to jockey for position, and push each other out of the way. It begins to look like either they will realize the futility of what they are trying to do for the sake of ultimate peace, or they will destroy the planet. It's a coin toss until the last chapter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Ansoff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/154127/bk_acx0_154127_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Good Soldier Svejk, Hörbuch, Digital, 113min
    A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Christopher Reason of the satirical Czech novel by Jaroslav Hasek. This tale charts the exploits during the First World War of ‘European Forrest Gump’ Svejk, in his progress through the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian army. Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austrian army’s most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War - although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. This story of a ‘little man’ caught in a vast bureaucratic machine combines dazzling wordplay and piercing satire to create a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war. Starring Sam Kelly as Svejk and Adrian Lukis as Lukas. Directed by Gary Brown. Language: English. Narrator: Sam Kelly, Adrian Lukis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/003993/bk_bbcw_003993_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    One Night Scandal: The Spinster Club, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 541min
    Born on the wrong side of the blanket, matchmaker Sophie Reynard understands the consequences of unbridled desire all too well. Despite the many highborn friends she has matched, falling in love with an aristocrat without a pedigree of her own would be an act of futility. But that doesn't stop her from succumbing to one evening of anonymous passion. Nicholas Tenbury, Marquess of Ancroft, knows nothing of Sophie's lineage. He knows only that the enchanting beauty captured his heart in one night and then fled, leaving no trace of her identity. But when he seeks answers from London's finest matchmaker, he finds none other than the woman herself - stubbornly refusing to acknowledge the attraction they share! Now the enamored Marquess has no choice but to sway Sophie with seduction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ashford MacNab. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013589/bk_adbl_013589_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Thane: Everknot Duet, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 538min
    A fletcher's apprentice finally finds his calling in a brotherhood of elite rebel spies...until he discovers his leader's plot to betray them all. When the Huctans conscript Timothy into a secret army - and when a girl with a strange set of skills sets him free - an awkward young man gets the chance to become a hero. Throwing himself into the rebel cause, Timothy ignites years of pent-up frustration and futility in an obsessive drive to fight, spy, and deceive better than anyone else. Losing himself in the exhaustion of training and the danger of missions, he finds friendship with a Thane as fanatical as he is and wraps his new identity completely in service to the rebel Band. The rebel Band which, unbeknownst to him, was created to be betrayed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Travis Daniel Bow. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/087919/bk_acx0_087919_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Memoirs from the Asylum , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 452min
    What is it like to work inside a state hospital or to be a patient in such a hospital? What is it like to live inside the mind of such a patient? This tragi-comedic novel takes the listener inside the asylum, inside the worlds of three central characters: a narrator who has taken refuge from his fears of the world, a psychiatrist whose own life has been damaged by his father's depression, and a catatonic schizophrenic whose world is trapped inside a crack in the wall opposite her bed. This is the interwoven story of their lives, a story that includes love, sexuality, violence, deaths, celebrations, circuses, and surprising twists. As the plot unwinds, the listener learns a great deal about the nature of futility, frustration, and freedom. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Kuch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/005885/bk_acx0_005885_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sandy Pearl and the Blades , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 378min
    In the mid-1970s, Sandy Pearl and the Blades were the hottest band on the scene. They topped the charts and wowed the concert audiences. Sandy Pearl was the mysterious front man for the band. Everyone was taken by surprise when the group relocated from LA to a small college town in Texas. Yet, the party continued. Sandy had an open door policy at his mansion on the edge of town, and the soiree was legendary. Revelers, hippies, and groupies made the scene among a seemingly never-ending parade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll. But no one knew who Sandy Pearl really was, until Conrad Snow moved in next door. In the grand tradition of F. Scott's tales of alcohol-fueled days and nights during the torrid '20s, Sandy Pearl and the Blades reminds us of the tragic futility of pursuing dreams whose time has passed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Johnson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/183747/bk_acx0_183747_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    An Arrow in the Hand: A Mother's Guide to Influencing Their Children to Bring About Generational Impact , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 172min
    Mother, God has given you a responsibility, and while it is the same one that your mom had, it is quite different in how it must come to pass. This dispensation of time in which you are training your child has challenges that will require the aid of God like no other generation has needed him ever before. Your children need to do more than just get by or survive. They need to do more than just exist and blend in with the crowd, maintaining the status quo, which is heading toward futility. They need to be more than the kid down the street, the athlete, the academic, or the beauty queen. I am passionate about a child moving beyond what the natural eye can see into being what was conceived in the spirit realm. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Naranjo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/116841/bk_acx0_116841_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Billy and the Cloneasaurus , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 299min
    Six billion identical clones make up the entire population of Earth, and William 790-6 (57th Iteration) is exactly like everybody else. In his one year of life he will toil in suburban mediocrity and spend as much cash as possible in order to please his corporate masters. When 790's first birthday (and scheduled execution) finally rolls around, a freak accident spares his life. Living past his expiration date changes 790 profoundly. Unlike other clones he becomes capable of questioning the futility of his own existence. Seeking answers in the wilderness, he discovers a windmill with some very strange occupants, including a freakish, dinosaur-like monstrosity. Which is especially strange since every animal on earth is supposed to be extinct... Dark, haunting, and blisteringly satirical, Billy and the Cloneasaurus is the story of one "man's" attempt to finally become an individual in a world of copies. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Rimpici. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/082676/bk_acx0_082676_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Old Silk Road: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 517min
    Old Silk Road is a prescient, powerful novel of the Afghan war by someone who's been there. Norman "Doc" Rodgers suspects he won't make it out of this one alive. He's a young combat medic in Afghanistan, eager to avenge his father's death in the World Trade Center and make sense of a new world that feels like it's fallen to pieces. Haunted by hallucinatory encounters, his only solace is a barely concealed addiction to the precious opiates he's supposed to dole out sparingly to those beyond aid. In this tautly plotted debut novel, Brandon Caro, a veteran who served in Afghanistan, tells the story of a soldier's undoing in raw, incendiary, hypnotic prose that forces us to ask ourselves what we know about the futility of war - and what other outcome we can expect. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aaron Abano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/026639/bk_adbl_026639_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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