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  Dead Souls , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 950min

  Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these "souls" as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Nikolai Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov. Dead Souls, Russia's first major novel, is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy. This version of Dead Souls is the translation by C. J. Hogarth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Morey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/001886/bk_tant_001886_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Ayoade on Top , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 279min

  At last, the definitive audiobook about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View from the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow. In Ayoade on Top, Richard Ayoade, perhaps one of the most 'insubstantial' people of our age, takes us on a journey from Peckham to Paris by way of Nevada and other places we don't care about. It's a journey deep within, in a way that's respectful and non-invasive; a journey for which we will all pay a heavy price, even if you've waited for the smaller paperback edition. Ayoade argues for the canonisation of this brutal masterpiece, a film that celebrates capitalism in all its victimless glory; one we might imagine Donald Trump himself half-watching on his private jet's gold-plated flat screen while his other puffy eye scans the cabin for fresh, young prey. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Ayoade. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/053869/bk_adbl_053869_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  On Augustine , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 597min

  Since his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury and his return to academic life (Master of Magdalene College Cambridge), Rowan Williams has demonstrated a massive new surge of intellectual energy. In this new audiobook, he turns his attention to St Augustine. St Augustine not only shaped the development of Western theology, he also made a major contribution to political theory (The City of God) and, through his Confessions, to the understanding of human psychology. Rowan Williams has an entirely fresh perspective on these matters, and the chapter titles in this new audiobook demonstrate this at a glance - 'Language Reality and Desire', 'Politics and the Soul', 'Paradoxes of Self Knowledge', 'Insubstantial Evil'. As with his previous titles, Dostoevsky, The Edge of Words and Faith in the Public Square, this new study is sure to be a major contribution on a compelling subject. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Noble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027492/bk_adbl_027492_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  City of Sand , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 585min

  It's the year 2000 and the Silicon Valley city of Sunnyview is abuzz with the possibilities of vast fortunes to be made in the Dot Com boom. But to retired cop Benjamin Stone, who has come to Sunnyview to find his estranged daughter, Jessica, the promise of Sunnyview rings hollow. Benjamin grew up in Sunnyview in the 1950s, when it was a sleepy farming town, and he finds its modern day counterpart strange and weirdly insubstantial. After Jessica turns up dead in a creek bed, apparently murdered, Benjamin follows clues that suggest a conspiracy involving a startup company and a Silicon Valley pioneer with a disturbing past. As the mystery unravels, Benjamin must confront the reality of terrible crimes that occurred in the idealized town of his youth, which helped to make Silicon Valley what it is today. But as Benjamin attempts to unravel the conspiracy, all the clues begin to point toward a horrifying possibility: Sunnyview isn't what it seems. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer D. Ledford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/109719/bk_acx0_109719_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Innocent Man, Part One , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 81min

  In partnership with Texas Monthly, Pamela Colloff's "The Innocent Man, Part One" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.In 1986, in northwest Austin, Texas, Michael Morton came home from work to discover that his wife had been brutally murdered in their bed, with their son in the next room. In less than six months, he would be convicted of murdering her and sentenced to life in prison. In this detailed investigative piece of true crime journalism, Pamela Coloff picks apart how an innocent man was charged on insubstantial physical evidence and immature scientific evidence.In exploring Morton's story, Colloff examines the full cast of characters that made up the case. A portrait of a misunderstood marriage, a sheriff who played by his own rules, a district attorney eager to make a name for himself, and a close-knit community quick with judgement come together to create a nightmare that wouldn't end. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Staci Snell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005981/bk_rand_005981_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Capacity for Murder: A Professor Bradshaw Mystery, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 471min

  In the early years of the 20th century, restorative waters are a popular health draw for many. Healing Sands Sanitarium, northwest of Hoquiam, Washington, is located on the sandy edge of the Pacific Ocean and is famous for its restorative rest cure, fermented diets, and Dr. Hornsby’s electrotherapeutics. No one has ever died at Healing Sands - until now. When Benjamin Bradshaw, a professor at the University of Washington and a specialist in electricity, is summoned to investigate, he immediately knows that this death was no accident. The only clue to foul play is an obvious one to him but will seem as insubstantial as smoke to anyone other than an electrical engineer. Suspects are limited to a handful whose lives - and lies - must be exhumed and examined. A sinister tale emerges as deep undercurrents turn personal, provoking Bradshaw to make a decision about the woman he loves. And then an everyday object provides the key, alerting Bradshaw that one among them is a walking dead man and that another possesses the capacity for murder. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005686/bk_blak_005686_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Prince and the Pauper , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 445min

  They look alike, but they live in very different worlds. Tom Canty, impoverished and abused by his father, is fascinated with royalty. Edward Tudor, heir to the throne of England, is kind and generous but wants to run free and play in the river - just once. How insubstantial their differences truly are becomes clear when a chance encounter leads to an exchange of clothing - and roles. The pauper finds himself caught up in the pomp and folly of the royal court, a role that is further complicated when the king dies soon after the switch; and the prince wanders horror-stricken through the lower strata of English society. Out of the theme of switched identities, Mark Twain fashioned both a fiery assault upon social hypocrisy and injustice and a riotous comedy filled with high-spirited play. Mark Twain (1835-1910) was born Samuel L. Clemens in the town of Florida, Missouri. One of the most popular and influential authors America has ever produced, his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. He has been called not only the greatest humorist of his age but the father of American literature. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004489/bk_blak_004489_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Missing Person , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 283min

  In this strange, elegant novel, Patrick Modiano portrays a man in pursuit of the identity he lost in the murky days of the Paris Occupation, the black hole of French memory. For 10 years Guy Roland has lived without a past. His current life and name were given to him by his recently retired boss, Hutte, who welcomed him, a one-time client, into his detective agency. Guy makes full use of Hutte's files - directories, yearbooks, and papers of all kinds going back half a century - but leads to his former life are few. Could he really be that person in a photograph, a young man remembered by some as a South American attache? Or was he someone else, perhaps the disappeared scion of a prominent local family? He interviews strangers and is tantalized by half clues until, at last, he grasps a thread that leads him through a maze of his own repressed experience. On one level, Missing Person is a detective thriller, a 1950s film noir mix of smoky cafes, illegal passports, and insubstantial figures crossing bridges in the fog. On another level, it is also a haunting meditation on the nature of the self. Modiano's spare, hypnotic prose, superbly translated by Daniel Weissbort, draws listeners into the intoxication of a rare literary experience. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bronson Pinchot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008180/bk_blak_008180_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Sherlockian Musings: Thoughts on the Sherlock Holmes Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 504min

  Is Sherlock Holmes really as rational as he seems?He talks about the importance of reasoning and logic, but why then does he sometimes seem like a “strange Buddha”?On the other hand, why in The Sign of the Four does Watson smash a Buddha?What is going on in The Sign of the Four, that strange tale of Empire?What is going on in all the original 60 stories in “the canon”?In this study of the stories, Sheldon Goldfarb explores questions like these, from the significance of the eggs in “Thor Bridge” to the reason Watson keeps leaving Holmes for an insubstantial wife.What meanings lurk beneath the surface of these detective stories?Why is there an obsession with Napoleon in this story or an article on free trade in this other?Can we find answers to these questions?Perhaps.In any case, in this collection of essays (or musings) on each of the 60 stories, Dr. Goldfarb, an award-nominated mystery writer himself and the holder of a PhD in English literature, light-heartedly tries out a variety of perspectives, allowing listeners to come to their own conclusions about such matters as the nature of the angel in “A Case of Identity” or the reason Holmes abandons his magnifying glass for binoculars in “Silver Blaze”.  Who brings binoculars to a horse race?Indeed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J.T. McDaniel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/201268/bk_acx0_201268_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Human Mind - Wired for Multiple Realities , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 451min

  Albert Einstein once stated that the distinction between the past, present, and future were only illusions. Conventional science tells us that there is a real world out there...but whose world is it and how do we prove it? Best-selling authors Ishan Rami and Dan Howe explore the fascinating answers to these questions and many more in their new book The Human Mind - Wired for Multiple Realities. Inside you'll learn about: The split realities created by our right and left brains The differences between the intuitive and discriminating mind The secrets of the intelligent intuitive unconscious How complimentary thinking and feeling is used to shape our reality Split reality and how it operates in our daily lives What causes the brain's mystical experiences How deactivating the brain is achieved The latest thinking on quantum-holographic theory The insubstantial universe An astonishing hypothesis that's just being introduced The current thinking concerning superposition in the full void Cancellation in the empty void What effect meditation has on the brain What is universal brain-mind Thoughts on reality held by mystics and scientists over the ages The basics of neurology as it applies to creating your perception of reality How virtual reality may hold the key to understanding everything And much more! For more information on this title or to see our entire catalog visit us at www.2ndEmpireMedia.com. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory Shinn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/049589/bk_acx0_049589_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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