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Archangels: Rise of the Jesuits - Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 437min
When control of the Vatican is at stake, money talks, and nobody plays fair. Italian intelligence specialist Michael Visconte is shocked by the brutal murder of a Jesuit priest, who turns out to be a hedge fund manager for the Vatican. The victim, Father Matteo Pintozzi, achieved an unblemished record of extraordinary returns. The next day, Michael is visited by two Jesuits who ask him to investigate the murder, and Michael soon finds himself in the middle of a struggle for power and control over the finances of the Vatican. Unfortunately, his lucky break - one that should provide critical evidence - blurs the line between good and evil and not only endangers the lives of Michael and the Jesuits, but also imperils the lives of his wife and children. From the back cover ”A word of advice Mr. Visconte. This is Vatican business. It's dangerous to forget that.” Michael Visconte never forgot the Vatican Bank's $250 million payoff to the defrauded depositors of Banco Ambrosiano or the murder of Roberto Calvi. The fresh corpse at his feet told him it was far from over. He thought he already knew the consequences of double-crossing the Vatican. But that was before he agreed to help the Jesuits blackmail the Pope... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Heitsch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/023348/bk_acx0_023348_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fearless , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 941min
Play dirty, play to win.From the top 10 best-selling author Jessie Keane comes a gripping thriller featuring two women who will do anything to win the man they love Josh Flynn is the king of the bare-knuckle gypsy fighters. His reputation is unblemished, his fist a deadly weapon.Claire Milo has always loved Josh. They were destined to be together from the day they met. Two gypsy lovers with their whole lives ahead of them. If only Josh would find a different way of earning a living instead of knocking the living daylights out of another man in the boxing ring. One day, she knew, something really bad was going to happen. She could feel it.....Shauna Everett always wanted what she couldn’t have, and nobody, especially Claire Milo, was going to stand in her way. She’d had her eye on Josh Flynn for years, and she knew just how to get him. If it meant playing dirty, then so be it. What did she have to lose?In a world ruled by violence, crime and backstreet brawls, only one woman will win in Jessie Keane's Fearless, but how low is she prepared to go to achieve that goal? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen Cass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/001824/bk_macm_001824_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Secret of Manipulation: The Techniques of Persuasion and How to Analyze People Guide That Allows You to Take Mind Control , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 184min
The manipulator is like a dark cloud that prevents the sun's rays from reaching us. As long as it dominates us or we stay "below", we feel bad, we do stupid things, we're confused, and we go around in circles. But by cutting off all relationships of dependence or by completely breaking with the one that ruins our lives, we come out of its nefarious darkness to find the warm rays of peace, freedom, and intelligence. You will learn:The most effective persuasion techniques and how to use themTechniques used in deception and how to defend yourself from deception successfullyHow to recognize a manipulatorHow to "read" people and on which physical and character aspects you need to focus your attentionThe art of persuasion, manipulation, and mind control and how you can protect yourself from others with these skillsIt would be an oversimplification to think of the manipulator as a big bad wolf and see us as innocent victims with pure and unblemished hearts. If we are more or less regularly victims of manipulators, this is rarely due to chance. When we always encounter the same obstacles or the same difficulties, we must know how to seek the help of competent people to help us erase or modify the sensitive areas of our past that make us vulnerable to manipulation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas James. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/170703/bk_acx0_170703_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Crime in the Second World War: Spivs, Scoundrels, Rogues, and Worse , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 339min
Was there crime in the Second World War?At a time of national emergency, the average person could be forgiven for thinking that crime rates would go down as everyone tried to help the war effort. However, the reality was that criminals saw the war as an opportunity to exploit the emergency conditions, and those with a previously unblemished reputation found themselves tempted off the straight and narrow. Criminal activity wasn’t just a civilian occupation. The military services had its share of crime, and the influx of foreign troops added to the problem. American and Canadian troops found themselves transported to Britain in preparation for D-Day. Lonely and far from home, some rioted, and many looked for other distractions, with desertion being a significant problem and one that was often funded by crime.Penny takes you back to some of the most infamous wartime crimes such as the Blackout Ripper, the Bath Chair Murderer, and the last person to be prosecuted in Britain for witchcraft. She also delves into the murky world of spivs, gangs, prostitutes, and robbers. At a time when rationing, shortages, and the Blitz meant feeding the family became ever more difficult, it was all too easy for the increasingly blurred line of criminality to be crossed.Penny Legg shows how and why crime was committed during the Second World War and what became of those spivs, scoundrels, rogues, and worse who strayed into the underworld. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Finlay Robertson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/147520/bk_acx0_147520_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Not Another Prison Diary , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 251min
When the City of London police raided the home of boiler room suspect and stockbroker mason's home in 2011, what came next was a roller-coaster ride from hell taking this former city boy into the bowels of one of Europe's most notorious prisons.Housing murderers, rapists, cartel members and this middle-class boy from Essex. Not Another Prison Diary tells you what happened in the aftermath of the UK's first "Wolf of Wall Street" style conviction."Want to see inside? What about "Inside"!A story that is unabashedly true and unblemished by artistic license. This is a true account of one man's time behind bars in Modern Britain, within an ancient prison."In 2011 I said goodbye to my family and walked into the first day of my new life. A name in the morning, a number at night. My comfortable suburban home, swapped for a shared cell, surrounded by murderers, rapists and the very dregs of society you'd cross the road to avoid.This is my inside story, of inside life. A diary, unlike others. Suicide, gangbanging, billionaire barbers and a shed load of heroin.My crimes? I was the UK's first boiler room conviction.Think Wolf of Wall Street, but a less impressive resume, slightly fewer drugs and a different accent. But that's me. And this is my no-holds-barred diary of exactly what goes on in the Queen's finest establishments.I hope this read helps you if you are about to walk this path, or if you need a reason to think twice before doing anything a little stupid. I wrote this for you.This is your white-collar crime to prison tracksuit fairytale, and I'm in charge of the class." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Mason. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/205514/bk_acx0_205514_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Pop the Clutch: A Second Chance Romance (Second Gear) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 532min
Not all people need a second chance at love. Some need a second chance at life. To Violet Foster, the past 10 years have been a continual replay of an ill-fated night in high school. Without warning, she went from Downriver’s sweetheart to unintentional adult film star, her most intimate moments shared with the world in 10-second loops. She's lost friends, been forced to change career plans, and had to stop dating because of that one indiscretion. The last thing she wants is to return to the scene of the crime, but with her grandma’s health failing, she doesn’t have a choice. Easton Cole is a walking, talking bad-boy cliché in blue mechanic coveralls. He's always known his trailer-park-kid shadow would follow him into adulthood, but building his auto repair shop into a successful business means he has a chance to change that image. People in Downriver have long memories, and getting them to forget his past is an uphill battle. The last thing he needs is the trouble Violet could bring. She's a lightning rod for gossip, with a reputation that precedes her. So what if he's been crushing on her practically since puberty? Violet’s only planning on staying a month, even if the good memories of Downriver have started to overpower the bad, and Easton is dead set on making new ones…together. But the internet is forever, so there's no chance of Violet having a future unblemished by her past. When the stain of her damaged reputation resurfaces, Violet knows it could destroy everything around her…including Easton. Pop the Clutch is a full-length contemporary romance novel from USA Today best-selling author Ellis Leigh writing as Kristin Harte and the first book in the Second Gear series of stand-alone novels featuring second chance romance and blue-collar heroes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Heft, Alexis Van Aiken. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/158842/bk_acx0_158842_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Cross , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 103min
In contemporary Christianity, the cross is a symbol of the atonement and reminds Christians of God's love in sacrificing His own Son for humanity. It represents Jesus' victory over sin and death since it is believed that through His death and resurrection He conquered death itself. "Having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross." (Colossians 2:15). The Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Triumph of the Cross under the same name In Exaltatione Sanctae Crucis on September 14th. What is the meaning of the cross? Simply put, the meaning of the cross is death. The cross was an instrument of execution that resulted in death by the most tortuous and painful of ways. In crucifixion a person was either tied or nailed to a wooden cross and left to hang until dead. Death would be slow and excruciatingly painful; in fact, the word excruciating literally means "out of crucifying." However, because of Christ and His death on the cross, the meaning of the cross today is completely different. In Christianity, the cross is the intersection of God's love and His justice. Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29). The reference to Jesus as the Lamb of God points back to the instruction of the Jewish Passover in Exodus 12. The Israelites were commanded to sacrifice an unblemished lamb and smear the blood of that lamb on the doorpost of their homes. The blood would be the sign for the Angel of Death to pass over that house, leaving those covered by blood in safety. When Jesus came to John to be baptized, John recognized Him and cried, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29), thereby identifying Him and God's plan for Him to be sacrificed for sin. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chuck DiMaria. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/087530/bk_acx0_087530_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Dirtiest Race in History: Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100M Final , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 628min
The 1988 Seoul Olympics played host to what has been described by some as the dirtiest race of all time, by others as the greatest. The final of the men's 100 metres at those Olympics is certainly the most infamous in the history of athletics, and more indelibly etched into the consciousness of the sport, the Olympics, and a global audience of millions, than any other athletics event before or since. Ben Johnson's world-record time of 9.79 seconds - as thrilling as it was - was the beginning rather than the end of the story. Following the race, Johnson tested positive, news that generated as many - if not more - shockwaves as his fastest ever run. He was stripped of the title, with Lewis awarded the gold medal, Linford Christie the silver and Calvin Smith the bronze. More than two decades on, the story still hadn't ended. In 1999 Lewis was named Sportsman of the Century by the IOC, and Olympian of the Century by Sports Illustrated. Yet his reputation was damaged by revelations that he too used performance-enhancing drugs, and tested positive prior to the Seoul Olympics. Christie also tested positive in Seoul but his explanation, that the banned substance had been in ginseng tea, was accepted. Smith, now a lecturer in English literature at a Florida university, was the only athlete in the top five whose reputation remains unblemished - the others all tested positive at some stage in their careers. Containing remarkable new revelations, this book uses witness interviews - with Johnson, Lewis and Smith among others - to reconstruct the build-up to the race, the race itself, and the fallout when news of Johnson's positive test broke and he was forced into hiding. It also examines the rivalry of the two favourites going into it, and puts the race in a historical context, examining its continuing relevance on the sport today, where every new record elicits scepticism. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Traber Burns. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009541/bk_adbl_009541_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Fashionable Indulgence (eBook, ePUB)
In the first novel of an explosive new series from K. J. Charles, a young gentleman and his elegant mentor fight for love in a world of wealth, power, and manipulation. When he learns that he could be the heir to an unexpected fortune, Harry Vane rejects his past as a Radical fighting for government reform and sets about wooing his lovely cousin. But his heart is captured instead by the most beautiful, chic man he's ever met: the dandy tasked with instructing him in the manners and style of the ton. Harry's new station demands conformity-and yet the one thing he desires is a taste of the wrong pair of lips. After witnessing firsthand the horrors of Waterloo, Julius Norreys sought refuge behind the luxurious facade of the upper crust. Now he concerns himself exclusively with the cut of his coat and the quality of his boots. And yet his protégé is so unblemished by cynicism that he inspires the first flare of genuine desire Julius has felt in years. He cannot protect Harry from the worst excesses of society. But together they can withstand the high price of passion. And look for the enticing Society of Gentlemen series by KJ Charles: THE RUIN OF GABRIEL ASHLEIGH A FASHIONABLE INDULGENCE A SEDITIOUS AFFAIR A GENTLEMAN'S POSITION Don't miss any of the captivating Sins of the Cities novels: AN UNSEEN ATTRACTION AN UNNATURAL VICE AN UNSUITABLE HEIR Praise for A Fashionable Indulgence "If one Regency rake isn't enough for you, check out A Fashionable Indulgence, a rollicking tale from the deft pen of K. J. Charles. I'll read anything she writes!"-New York Times bestselling author Kate Pearce "Charles has built a reputation for tight, enthralling plots."-Publishers Weekly "I will go out on a limb and say I enjoyed this more than the Magpie story. Gasp! Yes I said it."-Reviews by Jessie Wave "The kind of story that you want again and again."-Love Bytes "A wonderful start to a new series. Harry and Julius are so likable and incredibly sweet together."-Joyfully Jay "A Fashionable Indulgence has more than piqued my interest in all things A Society of Gentlemen has to offer and I am eagerly anticipating future installments. For now, allow me to give this latest 2015 favorite five-plus stars."-Bookaholics Not-So-Anonymous Includes an excerpt from another Loveswept title.- Shop: buecher
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Glimmers of Glory: Discovering God Moments in the Gloomy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 229min
You may feel ordinary, no more special than a solitary droplet of rain in a storm. But I’m here to tell you that you are extraordinary in God’s eyes. After creating you and me, God looked at us and said we are good, “very good” (Genesis 1:31). As women, we can be so hard on ourselves. We look in the mirror and see our blemishes. You and I look at our lives and see our bent and broken moments. Yet through Christ, God looks at us and sees us as his unblemished daughters. He looks at our lives and sees how bent and broken moments can form perfect prisms, allowing us - like colorless light - to be bent and broken, blooming in arcs of color like a rainbow! While rainy seasons in life can be filled with stormy trials, they can also bring vibrant growth. Rain can nourish life, just as trials can nourish faith. This book shares bent and broken moments from my own crazy days. Life is a journey through so many seasons. We are wives and mothers. Daughters and sisters. Homemakers and coworkers. We have friends and fears...frustrations and flaws. None of us have mastered it all, least of all me, so we need to encourage one another! Every morning after we pull up the covers making our beds, we can uncover the unexpected, experiencing his spirit. We can find more than lost socks in the laundry when we're paired with God. And when we cling to his truths, like socks to a sweater, life becomes sweeter. Heaven knows, you’re pulled more directions than a bra that has escaped the lingerie bag in the washer. When your car keys are misplaced, your cell phone is dead and your gas tank is on empty, you can turn to God to be refreshed, recharged and refilled. Like Chicken Soup for the Soul, this book is meant to brighten your days. It’s lighthearted. Laugh out loud as we see how blunders can become blessings. Laughter is good. Breathe deep and exhale purposefully with me. Let’s discover Glimmers of Glory not just in this book but in the stories of ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lisa Wilt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/180845/bk_acx0_180845_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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