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    Last Looks (eBook, ePUB)
    A razor-sharp, exquisitely paced, madly fun debut thriller that gleefully lampoons Hollywood culture and introduces the highly eccentric yet brilliant ex-detective gone rogue: Charlie Waldo. There are run-of-the-mill eccentric Californians, and then there's former detective Charlie Waldo. Waldo, a onetime LAPD superstar, now lives in solitude deep in the woods, pathologically committed to owning no more than one hundred possessions. He has left behind his career and his girlfriend, Lorena, to pay self-imposed penance for an awful misstep on an old murder case. But the old ghosts are about to come roaring back. There are plenty of difficult actors in Hollywood, and then there's Alastair Pinch. Alastair is a onetime Royal Shakespeare Company thespian who now slums it as the "wise" Southern judge on a tacky network show. He's absurdly rich, often belligerent, and typically drunk--a damning combination when Alastair's wife is found dead on their living room floor and he can't remember what happened. Waldo's old flame Lorena, hiding peril of her own, draws him toward the case, and Alastair's greedy network convinces Waldo to take it on. But after such a long time away from both civilization and sleuthing--and plagued by a confounding array of assailants who want him gone--Waldo must navigate complicated webs of ego and deceit to clear Alastair's name . . . or confirm his guilt.
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    Solar Power: Making the Smart Switch to Solar Power - and Staying Within Budget! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 59min
    So you are thinking about switching to solar power and want to be sure it is the right move for you? Solar power is becoming a hot topic. Did you know California is trying to make it mandatory for all houses to have to install solar power starting in 2020? They are a leader in solar power, but it isn't just Californians who can look to generate power from the sun; you can, too. The biggest issue many of us face is installing solar power and not breaking the bank. What if we could show you a way to be able to do both? Instead of you paying the energy company, how about they pay you? Wouldn’t that be something....Making the Smart Switch to Solar Power isn’t just another random audiobook on solar power. This audiobook has been created with you in mind. In it, we discuss a variety of topics related to photovoltaic cells: What the heck is a photovoltaic cell anyway? Breaking down the neutrons and protons and how they work. Is this even right for you?  Taking your solar power on the go with you. Providing you with the information to choose the right products for your lifestyle. And much, much more.We have taken the "complicated" out of the materials and replaced them with "easy to follow" so you won’t be overwhelmed.  Are you ready to make the smart switch today? Yes? Then scroll up to the top of the page and click the "Buy Now" button and take action toward energy freedom today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joshua McLean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/120548/bk_acx0_120548_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Sellout: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 575min
    Audie Award Finalist, Fiction, 2016 A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality: the black Chinese restaurant. Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since the '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral. Fuelled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident - the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins - he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Prentice Onayemi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023754/bk_adbl_023754_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Purity: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1500min
    A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom. Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother - her only family - is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world - including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong. Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters - Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers - and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time. This audiobook includes a bonus conversation with the author. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jenna Lamia, Dylan Baker, Robert Petkoff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002038/bk_aren_002038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Curing the Cancer in U.S. Healthcare: StatesCare & Market-Based Medicine , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 164min
    When it comes to our healthcare, we all want the same thing: the care we need, when we need it from people we choose, at a price we can afford. Americans are confused about how to achieve this.Why must all Americans have the same healthcare structure? If Californians want a single-payer system, if Texans want market-based medicine, and if New Yorkers want Obamacare, why should Washington say no to 86 million Americans?In this audiobook, you’ll discover:How, in Washington, insurance companies practice more medicine than doctorsWhat we can do to cure the cancer devouring our healthcare systemWhy StatesCare is the answer to our healthcare nightmaresHow a market-based healthcare system with safety net can work for all AmericansIn Curing the Cancer in U.S. Healthcare, Dr. Deane Waldman delivers an eye-opening look at healthcare today, including the shocks he experienced while caring for thousands of children with heart problems.He studied and trained at Yale, Chicago Medical School (MD), Mayo Clinic, Northwestern, Harvard, and Anderson Graduate Schools (MBA).Discover how Americans can save money and restore our freedom to choose our healthcare. “A must-read for physicians, patients, and policymakers alike. Equipped with his vast experience as a pediatric cardiologist, clinician, teacher, researcher, and policy adviser, Dr. Waldman approaches our critically ill healthcare system as he does a critically ill patient. He identifies the root causes of the problems and proposes a workable cure that puts patients first. This is a quick and superb read packed full of information and insight.” (Kristin S. Held, MD, president-elect, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nancy Peterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/213662/bk_acx0_213662_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Purity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1499min
    A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom and The Corrections. Includes an interview with the author. Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother - her only family - is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has always concealed her own real name, or how she can ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organisation that traffics in all the secrets of the world - including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong. Jonathan Franzen’s Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters - Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers - and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dylan Baker, Jenna Lamia, Robert Petkoff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002069/bk_hcuk_002069_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    California Sports Astounding: Fun, Unknown, and Surprising Facts from Statehood to Sunday (eBook, ePUB)
    You might know California's sunny beaches and sky-high Redwoods, but do you know when California's first mini golf course opened? Ever wondered what's recognized as California's official state sport, or which sports were invented within its state lines? Whether a native of Eureka or San Diego, Californians all have one thing in common - a home rich with a spectacular sports history. Impress your friends, amaze your family, and even conquer your enemies on a quiz show with your sublime knowledge of practically every sport in the Golden State! The first sports history guide chronicling statehood to the modern era, California Sports Astounding shares the fun, unknown, and surprising sports highlights. Featuring extraordinary facts and remarkable events from football to fishing, this complete chronicle is your ultimate resource to everything in California athletics. You're about to discover:A statewide genealogy of over 65 sports, including the Olympics, professional, college, and student levels.Famous California firsts and surprising facts - like what was called "Basket Ball" before basketball, how your favorite baseball teams received their nicknames, and which soccer match set a world record.Life stories of elite Californian men and women athletes and their inspiring paths to hall of famer status.The origins of the quirkiest and most memorable mascots, such as Rampage and Sharkie.Athlete birthdays for each month - so you'll have a reason to celebrate! Dive into the state's largest compilation of sports history in a single volume. Get California Sports Astounding and astound everyone with your immense wealth of sporting wisdom!
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    The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father…and Finding the Zodiac Killer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 648min
    Soon after his birthmother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father. His quest would lead him to a horrifying truth and force him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about himself and his world. Written with award-winning author and journalist Susan Mustafa, The Most Dangerous Animal of All tells the story of Stewart’s decade-long hunt. While combing through government records and news reports and tracking down relatives and friends, Stewart turns up a host of clues—including forensic evidence—that conclusively identify his father as the Zodiac Killer, one of the most notorious and elusive serial murderers in history. For decades, the Zodiac Killer has captivated America’s imagination. His ability to evade capture while taunting authorities made him infamous. The vicious specificity of his crimes terrified Californians before the Manson murders and after, and shocked a culture enamored with the ideals of the dawning Age of Aquarius. To this day, his ciphers have baffled detectives and amateur sleuths, and his identity remains one of the twentieth century’s great unsolved mysteries. The Most Dangerous Animal of All reveals the name of the Zodiac for the very first time. Mustafa and Stewart construct a chilling psychological profile of Stewart’s father: as a boy with disturbing fixations, a frustrated intellectual with pretensions to high culture, and an inappropriate suitor and then jilted lover unable to process his rage. At last, all the questions that have surrounded the case for almost fifty years are answered in this riveting narrative. The result is a singular work of true crime at its finest—a compelling, unbelievable true story told with the pacing of a page-turning novel—as well as a sensational and powerful memoir. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary L. Stewart. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/003982/bk_harp_003982_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Sellout
    Winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Named one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street Journal A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality-the black Chinese restaurant. Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens-on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles-the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral. Fuelled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident-the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins-he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.
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    Purity
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Notable Book "So funny, so sage and above all so incandescently intelligent" (The Chicago Tribune), the New York Times bestseller Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder, a daring and penetrating book from "the most intelligent novelist of [his] generation" (The New Republic), Jonathan Franzen Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world--including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong. Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters--Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers--and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time.
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