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    Classic American Short Stories, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 268min
    Unlike the other arts, American literature has been a powerful, influential, and leading aspect of American culture. By turns sedate and mercurial and possessing a moral mind set of various social values, the American short story reveals in its pages the psyche of a growing, sprawling nation whose sense of destiny has always been larger than life. Here are seven masterpieces that will make you smile, make you frown, and leave you pondering the mystery that surrounds the soul of a great nation.  Selections in Volume 1: "A Journey" by Edith Wharton - A woman tries to conceal the death of her husband on a train trip."Impulse" by Conrad Aiken � After a lifetime of pushing his luck, a man pushes it a little too far."Only the Dead Know Brooklyn" by Thomas Wolfe � A lonely man with a map tries to understand a little piece of the earth."A Christian Education" by Robert Penn Warren � A troubled farmer recalls the life and death of a retarded boy."Barn Burning" by William Faulkner � In prose as fully mature and beautiful as anything he ever wrote, this is one of the most searing indictments of revenge ever put on paper."Paul's Case" by Willa Cather � A youth decides to put his life of fantasy and that of the real world on a collision course."The Devil and Daniel Webster" by Stephen Vincent Benét � This beautiful, riproaring tall-tale embraces all that is good in American life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlton Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acon/000047/bk_acon_000047_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In Love with My Bestie : Second Chance Lovers, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 436min
    Sawyer can spot a bad boyfriend at a hundred paces.... Liars, cheaters, and worse, he can’t seem to stay away. If it weren’t for Axel Lewis, he wouldn’t be able to put himself back together after every heartbreak. Ax is kind, protective, and way too good for the mess that is Sawyer Clarke. But when one of his terrible exes starts causing trouble, Sawyer will need the help of his best friend to stay out of danger. And maybe, just maybe, there might be more between them than he’s ever dared to dream. He’s been waiting for years....It’s torture to watch the man he loves go through terrible boyfriends who don’t deserve him, and Ax won’t let that happen again. He’s been Sawyer’s best friend since they were kids, and he’s secretly pined for years. Now, he’s ready to make his move and be the man standing at Sawyer’s side for good.But with Sawyer’s ex ready to cause trouble, it may already be too late. Danger lurks in their sedate town, and when they’re ready for their chance at love it could be ripped away before it can begin. Love hasn’t come easily or stayed long for the men of Knot Pointe, Colorado. But now luck is on their side. They’ll seize their second chances and find the loves of their lives! This audiobook and every other audiobook in the Second Chance Lovers Series can be enjoyed in any order! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: C.S. Harder. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/171032/bk_acx0_171032_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 580min
    Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. States and their revenue consultants use illusory schemes to siphon Medicaid funds intended for children and the poor into general state coffers. Child support payments for foster children and families on public assistance are converted into government revenue. And the poverty industry keeps expanding, leaving us with nursing homes and juvenile detention centers that sedate residents to reduce costs and maximize profit, local governments buying nursing homes to take the facilities' federal aid while the elderly languish with poor care, and counties hiring companies to mine the poor for additional funds in modern day debtor's prisons. In The Poverty Industry, Daniel L. Hatcher shows us how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social safety net, turning America's most vulnerable populations into sources of revenue. The poverty industry is stealing billions in federal aid and other funds from impoverished families, abused and neglected children, and the disabled and elderly poor. As policy experts across the political spectrum debate how to best structure government assistance programs, a massive siphoning of the safety net is occurring behind the scenes. In the face of these abuses of power, Hatcher offers a road map for reforms to realign the practices of human service agencies with their intended purpose, to prevent the misuse of public taxpayer dollars, and to ensure that government aid truly gets to those in need. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colleen Patrick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/080642/bk_acx0_080642_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dead Silent: Cold Case Psychic, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 431min
    After a dramatic end to the Justin Wilson case, psychic Tennyson Grimm heads to a small island off the coast of Maine, hoping to clear his mind and renew his spirit. When the dead won’t let Tennyson rest, the psychic curses his gift and orders the spirits to leave him. He wakes the next morning to silence and finds truth in the saying, "be careful what you wish for.”Detective Ronan O’Mara has been tasked by his boss with the chore of finding a more "sedate" cold case to investigate this time around. The handsome cop is only too happy to oblige. He chooses the 20-year-old case of a family patriarch who was murdered on Christmas night, 1997. The only possible suspects are either his wife or his daughter, who were both with him at the time of his death. Ronan figures this one will be a piece of cake. All he has to do is get his favorite medium to talk to the deceased man's spirit.When Tennyson reveals the truth about what happened in Maine, he’s forced to take a hard look at who he thought he was and what his gift really means. Ronan does his best to help his lover cope with his new normal while he uses good old-fashioned police work to figure out a family who put the "dis" in dysfunction.Will Tennyson be able to find the key to unlock his gift, or will the spirits stay dead silent? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Pauley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/130153/bk_acx0_130153_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Flight for Life: An American Company's Dramatic Rescue of Nigerian Burn Victims , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 326min
    The harrowing, true-life rescue of Nigerian burn victims and the race against time and distance... Flight for Life is the heart-stopping account of one of the most gripping rescue missions in African history, told by a doctor involved in saving the lives of Nigerian workers who became victims of a tragic American chemical company explosion. Dr. Stewart and his colleague moved mountains and cut red tape to fly patients to one of the premiere burn centers in the United States. At the time of the S. C. Johnson Company chemical plant explosion in 1982, there were no burn care centers in Africa. Its hospitals lacked the most basic accommodations for burn victims and would usually sedate anyone who was badly burned until they died. When the S. C. Johnson Company’s foreign subsidiary, based in Lagos, Nigeria, had a ruptured butane gas line that exploded, burning the skin and clothing of 29 Nigerian employees, the company began a race against time to help the victims of the catastrophe. Teaming with the University of Michigan Trauma Burn Center, S. C. Johnson’s executives, and the U.S. embassies in England and Nigeria, Dr. Stewart (Johnson’s corporate medical director) converted a DC-10 airliner into an intensive-burn-care flying hospital, staffed by a London medical team to keep the patients alive during the 11-hour transatlantic crossing through an unexpected and dangerous storm at sea. This real-life rescue narrative illuminates the heroic lengths dedicated individuals will go to when lives are at stake. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elijah Alexander. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008613/bk_adbl_008613_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Femdom Training of Egon: Dominatrix Jenny , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 97min, (USK 18)
    Another ho-hum Friday night for Jenny. Argue with boyfriend. Report to job. Join a dominatrix training her latest male sex slave. The private party in the Jefferson Suite starts out sedate enough, though why eight women and only one man? It soon changes into the most sexually exciting night of Jenny's life. Whipping. Forced cross-dressing. Spanking. Female domination training. Male humiliation to the max. Jenny's life sucks. A low-paid job as a room service waiter at a swank hotel. An unemployed, live-in boyfriend who argues about everything. The guests at Friday night's private party in the Jefferson Suite occupy a different world. Eight wealthy, elite socialites in expensive evening gowns. Lead by the most beautiful of all, Lady Alyssa. The reincarnation of Marie Antoinette. And one man. Egon. For Jenny, the pinnacle of masculine attractiveness. Handsome as a movie star. Broad shoulders. Powerful chest. Flat, ribbed abdomen. Narrow waist. A bodybuilder preppie. Small wonder he can handle eight debutantes by himself. However, after Jenny and coworker Paul serve the party dessert, she realizes she misunderstood the power dynamics in play. This femdom, female domination story of male submission to femdom male sex slave training contains scenes of femdom spanking, cuckold sex, and more female domination, male humiliation. Afterward, Jenny learns Lady Alyssa makes her living off female domination training of submissive men, to be male sex slaves for wealthy rich women. She decides her relationship with her lazy boyfriend must change. Warning: Extreme sexual content consisting of male humiliation, female domination, oral sex, pegging, spanking, cuckolding, and forced cross-dressing. 18+ years only. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hollie Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/019032/bk_acx0_019032_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 468min
    The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the discovery of a lifetime: a 10th planet, Eris, slightly bigger than Pluto. But instead of its resulting in one more planet being added to our solar system, Brown's find ignited a firestorm of controversy that riled the usually sedate world of astronomy and launched him into the public eye. The debate culminated in the demotion of Pluto from real planet to the newly coined category of "dwarf" planet. Suddenly Brown was receiving hate mail from schoolchildren and being bombarded by TV reporters - all because of the discovery he had spent years searching for and a lifetime dreaming about. Filled with both humor and drama, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming is Mike Brown's engaging first-person account of the most tumultuous year in modern astronomy - which he inadvertently caused. As it guides readers through important scientific concepts and inspires us to think more deeply about our place in the cosmos, it is also an entertaining and enlightening personal story: While Brown sought to expand our understanding of the vast nature of space, his own life was changed in the most immediate, human ways by love, birth, and death. A heartfelt and personal perspective on the demotion of everyone's favorite farflung planet, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming is the book for anyone, young or old, who has ever dreamed of exploring the universe - and who among us hasn't? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ryan Gesell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002486/bk_rand_002486_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    My Other Daddy: The Complete Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 84min, (USK 18)
    Story 1 - My Other Daddy: Anne watched as her best friend since grade school drove down the street and away to college. She'd miss her something terrible, but at least she still had Mr. Booth. He always treated her like a second daughter and she had always thought of him as her other daddy. That is until she stops in for a visit and sees him working in the hot summer sun without a shirt. His glistening muscles fire Anne's sexual awakening, and when his nude picture falls out of an old photo album, it only feeds the flame. The deliberate drop of his towel only begins to satisfy her curiosity. It will take much more than that to quench the inferno that's building in her body. Is he up for the challenge? Story 2 - My Other Daddy 2: Anne is starting to get serious over Mr. Booth. The sex is hot and the fact that he's twice her age doesn't seem to matter to either one of them. Anne's not sure if Marybeth, Mr. Booth's daughter and Anne's best friend would appreciate it, but the time is coming when she'll have to be told. Story 3 - My Other Daddy 3: Anne is about to reveal her little secret to Marybeth. She's nervous though, as she doesn't know how her best friend will take it. Then she finds out that Marybeth has a secret of her own, which makes Anne's look positively sedate. This is the final story in the series. These stories are graphic in nature and are meant for adults only. All Characters depicted are 18 or older. Enjoy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lucy Malone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/002766/bk_acx0_002766_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mental Health, Inc.: How Corruption, Lax Oversight, and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 745min
    Prizewinning investigative journalist Art Levine offers a no-holds-barred and crucial call to action for America's broken mental health system. The mental health system in America is hardly a front-burner issue, despite lip service about reform after a tragic mass killing. Yet every American should care deeply about fixing a system a presidential commission reported was in "shambles". By some measures, about 20 percent of Americans have some sort of mental health condition, including the most vulnerable among us - veterans, children, the elderly, prisoners, and the homeless. With Mental Health, Inc., award-winning investigative journalist Art Levine delivers a Shock Doctrine-style exposé of the failures of our out-of-control, profits-driven mental health system, with a special emphasis on the failures of the pharmaceuticals industry, including the treatment of children with antipsychotics and disastrous PTSD protocols for veterans. Levine provides narrative portraits of victims and people who won unexpected victories against their illnesses by getting smart, personalized help, as well as snapshots of corrupt Big Pharma executives and researchers who created fraudulent marketing schemes. Levine also tells the dramatic David vs. Goliath stories of a few brave reformers, including Harvard-trained psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Stefan Kruszewski, who has acted as a whistle-blower in numerous cases, leading to major federal and state settlements, as well as spotlighting pioneering clinicians challenging outmoded, drug-and-sedate practices that leave 90 percent of people with serious mental illness too disabled to work. By taking a comprehensive look at mental health abuses and dangerous, ineffective practices as well as pointing toward solutions for creating a system for effective, proven, and compassionate care, Art Levine's essential Mental Health, Inc. is a call to action for politicians and citizens alike. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Traber Burns. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010155/bk_blak_010155_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Taste of Innocence (eBook, ePUB)
    For no gentleman is this more true than Charles Morwellan, the eighth Earl of Meredith. Although he's seen the many successful unions of his Cynster connections, he has also watched his father's obsessions nearly destroy their family and fortune, a mistake Charles will not repeat. But as Lord Meredith he must marry, so he offers for Sarah, the daughter of his neighbors Lord and Lady Conningham. She's intelligent enough to run his social life, beautiful enough to grace his arm, and old enough to know the value of his offer. For most young ladies of the ton, the right marriage is the culmination of years of training, perfect deportment, and intricate plans that would impress a general. But as a lady of independent means with a life of her own, Sarah is unwilling to wed unless it is for unbounded love.But Charles always gets what he wants. He convinces Sarah to give him two weeks to win her; if he succeeds, they will marry immediately. And so begins an intense courtship. By day, Charles and Sarah are models of decorum indulging in innocuous walks, polite conversation, sedate waltzes. Each night they steal away to the lush, moonlit gardens, where sensual embraces turn to searing kisses, and much, much more. Both are swept away on a tide of passion and feeling neither can resist.And yet, after the wedding, despite nights of insatiable passion, Charles remains aloof, as if the near-sinful sweetness of their nights exists only in a dream. Sarah battles to prove that true love is a force that can't be contained, a gift worth fighting for, but it's only when she's engulfed in a web of increasingly dangerous incidents that Charles discovers how much he's willing to surrender to protect . . . the taste of innocence.
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