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The Perfect Summer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 635min

One summer of nearly a hundred years ago saw one of the high sunlit meadows of English history. A new king was crowned; audiences swarmed to Covent Garden to see the Ballet Russes and Nijinskys gravity-defying leaps. The aristocracy was at play, bounding from house party to the next; the socialite Lady Michelham travelled with her nineteen yards of pearls. Rupert Brooke (a 23-year-old poet in love with love, Keats, marrons glaces and truth) swam in the river at Grantchester. But perfection was over-reaching itself. The rumble of thunder from the summer's storms presaged not only the bloody war years ahead: the country was brought to near standstill by industrial strikes, and unrest exposed the chasm between privileged and poor; as if the heat was torturing those imprisoned in society's straitjacket and stifled by the city smog.Children, seeking relief from the scorching sun, drowned in village ponds. What the protagonists could not have known is that they were playing out the backdrop to WWI; in a few years time the world, let alone England, would never be the same again. Through the eyes of a series of exceptional individuals; a debutante, a suffragette, a politician, a trade unionist, a butler and the Queen; Juliet Nicolson illuminates a turning point in history. With the gifts of a great storyteller she rekindles a vision of a time when the sun shone but its shadows fell on all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Beth Chalmers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/murr/000018/bk_murr_000018_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Reinventing Masculinity: The Liberating Power of Compassion and Connection , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 323min

“A wonderful book for thinking about how to release ourselves from crippling processes. It’s time for men - and for all of us - to stand up and say, ‘Give us back our full humanity, give us back our dignity.’” (Paul Gilbert, PhD, author of The Compassionate Mind)In a recent FiveThirtyEight poll, 60 percent of men surveyed said society puts pressure on men to behave in a way that is unhealthy or bad. Men account for 80 percent of suicides in the United States, and three in 10 American men have suffered from depression. Ed Adams and Ed Frauenheim say a big part of the problem is a model of masculinity that’s become outmoded, and even dangerous, to both men and women.The conventional notion of what it means to be a man - what Adams and Frauenheim call “confined masculinity” - traps men in an emotional straitjacket; steers them toward selfishness, misogyny, and violence; and severely limits their possibilities. As an antidote, they propose a new paradigm: liberating masculinity. It builds on traditional masculine roles like the protector and provider, expanding men’s options to include caring, collaboration, emotional expressivity, an inclusive spirit, and environmental stewardship.Through hopeful stories of men who have freed themselves from the strictures of confined masculinity, interviews with both leaders and everyday men, and practical exercises, this book shows the power of a masculinity defined by what the authors call the five Cs: curiosity, courage, compassion, connection, and commitment.Men will discover a way of being that fosters healthy, harmonious relationships at home, at work, and in the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Hoyt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/216877/bk_acx0_216877_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Marked Woman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 515min

A Marked Woman is based on a true story of a husband's betrayal. It takes place in central Pennsylvania when Naomi Bryar awakens in a mental institution. Trapped behind closed doors, her attempt to escape fails. She fights back as attendants force a straitjacket over her head, pull her arms tight across her chest, and drag her to a padded cell.Exhausted, she lay helpless on the matted floor. Sobbing till her voice is but a whisper, she recalls her early years during the 1929 Depression, the happy times raising her two children in the Pennsylvania woods, and the difficulties World War II brought about during her 23 years of marriage.Naomi did her best to follow her religious up-bringing. There were many twists and turns during her 43 years of life, but what did she do so wrong that landed her here?"In Joan Foor's gripping novel A Marked Woman, we relive a time in recent history when a philandering husband could commit his wife to a life of torture, a time when misdiagnosis was rampant and straitjackets and shock therapy were accepted medical "treatments". We share a daughter and son's frustration, knowing the truth about their father's mistress yet unable to rescue their mother. The story grabs and does not let go, and the charming 1940s romance of the fated couple only makes the outcome more painful. A haunting, unforgettable must-read." (Kathryn Jordan, author of Hot Water, Gladys and Capone, In The Time of Apricots, and The Sins of Esther Mary)"The author has poured out her heart in this gut-wrenching story based on her mother's tortured life." (Cynda Thomas, author of He Came from the Sky, Hell of a Ride, and the new release The Wasp and the Hornet) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kathleen Godwin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/221663/bk_acx0_221663_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Universal Force: The Power Behind the Law of Attraction , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 311min

We all live in a world that we fill up with our dreams and goals. When we are young we believe everything is possible, there are no limits to the dreams and goals we have or what we feel we are able to achieve. As we get older, often dreams and goals become more adapted to the "realities" of life and we begin to develop a more "realistic" consciousness, and thus develop what we believe to be more realistic goals. Many believe that this is normal - the longer you live, the more experience and knowledge you collect, and the narrower your frame of possibility becomes. Many would-be advisers caution others not to think too highly of themselves, or not to carry too lofty of a goal for fear of failure. While still others fear being ostracized for daring to think outside the box. This program will teach you to remove society's limitations and open yourself to new paradigms and ways of thinking. It will introduce you to the real you, the one filled with unlimited potential. It will teach you to remove your reality straitjacket and move and think freely - without limits! You will learn how to control your subconscious to create new dreams - both big and small. You will learn how to manifest those dreams into reality on a daily basis and how to control your thoughts and limit the negative thinking forced upon you by society. You'll discover how to improve relationships, lose weight, attract success and happiness, gain wealth and sense of worth, unleash your creative genius, reach important life goals, and clearly define what you want most in life! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Burnham Martin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/061867/bk_acx0_061867_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 704min

A natural history of rain, told through a lyrical blend of science, cultural history, and human drama. It is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of all the world's water. Yet this is the first audiobook to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science - the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of colored rains - with the human story of our attempts to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey's mopes and Kurt Cobain's grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking listeners to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is an audiobook for everyone who has ever experienced it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christina Traister. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/006942/bk_brll_006942_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Amazon Princess , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 434min

A gutsy dame, a surly smuggler, a deep and sinister river: If you enjoyed The African Queen and Raiders of the Lost Ark, you'll love this romantic-suspense novel set in the most eldritch corner of the Amazon Basin. It's February of 1928 - late summer in the Amazon. Prudence McMarion, a film editor at Walter Disney's animation studio in Los Angeles, has taken a leave of absence to travel deep into the Amazon Rainforest with her best friend, Brazilian native Eleanor Martins, to make an independent movie in Eleanor's home village. Along the way, they meet members of the seedy, disreputable "expat community" there: A French doctor who's clearly not really French, a South African mercenary, and a surly riverboat captain who's pretty obviously a smuggler. All are on the lam. None are to be trusted. And when they get to the village, they learn that Eleanor's relatives have vanished, leaving behind only an empty canoe with tooth marks on it. Shortly after their arrival, the strange dreams start. Then Eleanor disappears as well, and her disappearance touches off a chain of events that culminates in Prudence, in a straitjacket, being led down the pier to the riverboat to be transported to a brutal Brazilian insane asylum. But is she really crazy? Or does someone want her to think she is? Someone with a dark secret hidden away in a leafy fastness close to the village, about which some of Prudence's dreams came a little too close for comfort? And where is Eleanor? Dead or alive? The answers to these questions will open the door to a past, and a future, full of secrets and mystery for both women - who, as it turns out, have known one another much longer than they realize. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Finn J.D. John. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/205614/bk_acx0_205614_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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