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    Moral Panic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 368min
    If everything can be hacked, nothing can be trusted. It’s 2025. Tanner Moore is at the top of his game in the high-stakes world of big technology. As C.T.O. of Paragon, the largest corporation in the world, Tanner is about to release the greatest convenience innovation in the history of eCommerce - drone delivery services to every inch of the globe. But when an interview with journalist Amy Noral is secretly recorded and published by the clickbait media, Tanner’s fall from grace is swift and brutal. He is fired, publicly condemned as a terrorist for comments he never made, and kidnapped by a mysterious vigilante group using surveillance data to track and kill their enemies. Tanner must navigate their underground headquarters full of violent zealots and hedonist hackers to find his way to freedom or see his drone technology used as the most advanced assassination tool ever devised. Above ground, Amy, the only person who doubts Tanner’s guilt, delves into the string of mysterious circumstances surrounding Tanner’s disappearance. Risking her own well-being to find the truth, she meets a mysterious conspiracy theorist on the internet offering to help her uncover the vigilante group’s malicious purpose. Moral Panic explores the collision of the most extreme elements of politics, ideology, and technological media manipulation. It wanders through the maze of modern surveillance with a skeptical eye on the data-driven world we live in, hoping an awareness of the possibility of such a story prevents it from coming true in the real world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: K.M. Ecke. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/115588/bk_acx0_115588_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Reaper's Deliverance: The Grim Alliance, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 382min
    When Ryder dies in a horrific motorbike accident, he's left facing a choice. Go onto his next life, more terrible than his last, or become a Reaper. Ryder's life has little meaning to him. A violent hedonist who left his broken childhood behind, he would rather spend his time chasing women and smashing up bars than consider his future. But when it all comes to an abrupt end, he's forced to make a decision that changes everything. Elizabeth is a single mother, and the light of her life, her son Thomas, is terminally ill. With no time for a job, a normal social life, and definitely not a relationship, her world is turned upside-down when Ryder strides in with his biker boots. She's always known there was something more to the universe than what she can see. But when she learns the real reason for him being in their lives, she has to do something she hasn't done for a long time. Trust someone. When little Thomas is threatened by an evil that would misuse his special gift, they must work together, along with a troubled but caring group of reapers. Time is running out to get him back, and Helheim beckons with its black jaws. All of them must fight, and be prepared for the centuries-waiting battle they will kick off. And will Ryder finally gain his redemption? Please note, this book is in UK English. And there's also swearing, sexual scenes, violence, and a lot of sarcasm. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ian McEuen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094266/bk_acx0_094266_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    White Apples , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 633min
    Award-winning author, narrator, and screenwriter Neil Gaiman personally selected this book, and, using the tools of the Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), worked with the book's author to cast the narrator and produced this work for his audiobook label, Neil Gaiman Presents. A few words from Neil on White Apples: "In his performance, Victor Bevine manages to convey three aspects of Vincent’s personality: the womanizing hedonist he was in life, the now-dead fellow trying to control his rising panic who realizes his one-night-stand knows today is his mother’s birthday; and, ultimately, the loving, heroic family man who undertakes a big task for the sake of his unborn son and - incidentally - the rest of humanity. That’s a tall order for any narrator, but I wasn’t surprised when the accomplished actor Victor Bevine made the character come alive.” Vincent Ettrich, a genial philanderer, discovers he has died and come back to life, but he has no idea why, or what the experience was like. Gradually, he discovers he was brought back by his true love, Isabelle, because she is pregnant with their child - a child who, if raised correctly, will play a crucial role in saving the universe. But to be brought up right, the child must learn what Vincent learned on the other side - if only Vincent can remember it. On a father’s love and struggle may depend the future of everything that is. By turns quirky, romantic, awesome, and irresistible, White Apples is a tale of love, fatherhood, death, and life that will leave you seeing the world with new eyes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Victor Bevine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000609/bk_acx0_000609_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Wicked Allure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 646min
    What does a man say to the woman he betrayed but never stopped loving? Three years ago, Zachary Steele refused to entertain thoughts of permanency with any woman. A hedonist at heart, he didn't want to corrupt the much younger, Madigan DeLeon, by continuing his affair with her. With the hidden scars of his past, he didn't believe in happily-ever-after. By the time he realized how much Madigan meant to him, he'd driven her away. Then, one night, after being clean for a number of years, Zach briefly falls off the bandwagon. He believes his lovemaking to Madi is a drug-induced hallucination. The resulting consequences tell another story. What does a woman do when the only man she's ever loved hurt her so deeply she feared she'd never recover? Three years after her affair with Zach so abruptly ended, celebutante, Madigan DeLeon, is thrust back into Zach's life by her mother's machinations. Brought home under the false pretenses of repairing her damaged relationship with her mother, Madi instead finds herself running a private sex club called Wicked Allure. Forced to confront her anger at his betrayal and grief at the loss of what might've been, Madi faces the realization that she's never stopped loving Zach. Can two broken hearts set aside anger and betrayal to find true love once and for all? Searching the deepest recesses of their hearts, in a place where pride and pain has no room, Madi and Zach must decide if their bond is strong enough to take a second chance at love. Or if resuming their sexual relationship is an irresistible wicked allure and the ghosts of their former relationship will finally, and forever, sever all ties between them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lauren Sweet. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/005949/bk_acx0_005949_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Robustness: Building a Less-Fragile World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 391min
    Robustness is the ability to deal with stress tests, to act with courage, and to accomplish the necessary while there is time. We live in a world of deficiencies and excesses, and the only miracle - life - exists thanks to balance. This equilibrium is fragile: Humanity’s almightiness threatens to destroy it. Processed foods give us more empty calories than ever before, but fewer nutrients. Life expectancy lengthens, but available time shortens. We receive notifications and interruptions, reducing our ability to focus, to pursue deep work, and to prioritize. Instead of concentrating five hours at a time, we are invited to switch every five minutes.The challenges of carving freedom, calibrating quantities and allocating time have existed at least since the writings of Hippocrates and Seneca over 2,000 years ago, and later on in the works of Paracelsus and Nietzsche. Modernity amplifies the phenomenon, but is not the issue. It is how we approach life. These are the challenges we discuss in Robustness, by combining disciplines often seen as opposites: passion and rationality, freedom and determinism, epicureanism and caloric restriction, metaphysics and physiology, statistics and life stories - not choosing between one or the other, but using both. While popular ideologies paint the world in black or in white, the world needs truth.Robustness embarks the listener on a hedonist manifesto, a joint venture reconciling the divided domains of science and philosophy. The project took Nicolas Pujol to libraries, to research labs meeting scientists, to unexpected encounters with adventurers on volcanoes, and to learn the methods and poignant stories of Robert Marchand, the oldest athlete on the planet.This audiobook is for life enthusiasts: fitness and sports practitioners; epicureans who like to experiment, to taste all flavors with all senses; and those who want to live without indifference, conscious that because life isn't fair, only we ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Austin Vanfleet. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100743/bk_acx0_100743_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Glad You're Gone: A Book About Divorce: Learning Thyself, Book 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 27min
    If you’ve been through divorce, you know all too well about the emotional ups and downs that come with the territory. Part of you wishes your marriage would have worked out, and another part of you may be wary of your newly found freedom. Part of you is afraid to date again because you don’t want someone else to take advantage of you. This is particularly true if the person you were with had unreasonable expectations.Some of us lived with flat-out bullies. They told us where to go. They told us how to live. They told us who to talk to. They told us how to dress. They told us where to work. They shared their opinions and negative feedback with us, whether we asked for it or not.They told us who not to associate with, at all. They made us behave in a certain way when we visited their parents and family members. They acted rude toward us when they were around their parents, siblings, friends, or coworkers. They had to act "cool". They couldn’t behave in prosocial ways.Maybe, your ex-partner was a nihilist or a hedonist. Maybe, your ex-partner was an atheist, and you were a Christian. Maybe, you disagreed on sleeping in on Sundays, or maybe, you had blow-out fights over money. Maybe, there were lies, confabulated stories, and shenanigans. Maybe, there was immaturity. Or, maybe, one of you acted as the parent, while the other one behaved like a child. Many of us walk into a relationship thinking that we are in love with the other person. We imagine that we will, somehow, figure out a way to have a perfect life together. We will get married with the perfect dress and the perfect ceremony. We’ll plan a great honeymoon to somewhere we both like. We’ll all look beautiful and classy getting married in front of our family members. Or, we’ll have a private affair that is intimate; it’s just the two of us against the world. We’ll build a life. We’ll buy our dream house. We’ll start a family together. We’ll grow old together. We’ll be a po ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lou Borek. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194724/bk_acx0_194724_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Isolation: A Battered Woman's Reality: The Narcissist's and Abuser's Efforts to Control , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 28min
    Many victims don't realize it, but the constant efforts of the narcissist to isolate the victim are the result of him wanting her under his complete control. The narcissist's partner is to be critiqued, blamed, shamed, isolated, and gaslighted into utter and complete submission to him. The narcissist is a hedonist and a sadist, and the only thing that he wants from his prospective partners are blind loyalty, ignorance, compliance, and cooperation. The narcissist views his wife or partner as "his". She is his possession, even if she doesn't feel like he cherishes her on any level. More often, he treats her poorly so that she does not get a "big head" and leave him for a better alpha. The narcissist knows deep down that women are not naturally monogamous, but that they will often leave a beta or alpha man turned beta in seek of a better alpha. He has witnessed this happen to his friends, family members and acquaintances. He has heard from other men who have been victimized by women, thus he cannot let this woman get the "upper hand", no siree! The delicate ego of the narcissist cannot tolerate "losing" his partner to another mate, because he believes in his own specialness. His competitive nature is due to his evolutionary need to procreate and pass his legacy along to future generations, though he won't claim to know why he does many of the things that he does. His family of origin has a need for their legacy to be passed on, thus he will be supported in his desire to control his partner and the children that she bore for him. He is told to keep her in her place at all costs. He must ensure his children are reared to also be respectful and controlled and obedient. To not do so earns great scorn and disrespect from his parents and grandparents, as he has lost control of his own household to a member of the weaker sex! Blame, shame and rejection are not tolerated by the competitive narcissist! He best not be disrespected by anyon ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: D. Gaunt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/097979/bk_acx0_097979_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Robert Altman: The Oral Biography , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1085min
    Robert Altman - visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend - comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque. His outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a few enemies, as well as the agents, writers, crew members, producers, and stars who worked with him, including Meryl Streep, Warren Beatty, Tim Robbins, Julianne Moore, Paul Newman, Julie Christie, Elliott Gould, Martin Scorsese, Robin Williams, Cher, and many others. There is even Altman himself, in the form of his exclusive last interviews. After an all-American boyhood in Kansas City, a stint flying bombers through enemy fire in World War II, and jobs ranging from dog-tattoo entrepreneur to television director, Robert Altman burst onto the scene in 1970 with the movie M*A*S*H. He revolutionized American filmmaking, and, in a decade, produced masterpieces at an astonishing pace: McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Thieves Like Us, The Long Goodbye, 3 Women, and, of course, Nashville. Then, after a period of disillusionment with Hollywood - as well as Hollywood's disillusionment with him - he reinvented himself with a bold new set of masterworks: The Player, Short Cuts, and Gosford Park. Finally, just before the release of the last of his nearly 40 movies, A Prairie Home Companion, he received an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement from the Academy, which had snubbed him for so many years. Mitchell Zuckoff - who was working with Altman on his memoirs before he died - weaves Altman's final interviews, an incredible cast of voices, and contemporary reviews and news accounts, into a riveting tale of an extraordinary life. Here are a series of revelations that force us to reevaluate Altman as a man and an artist, and to view his sprawling narratives with large casts, multiple ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Altman, Warren Beatty, Cher, Julie Christie, Elliott Gould, Paul Newman, Tim Robbins, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002035/bk_rand_002035_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Robert Altman: The Oral Biography, Hörbuch, Digital, 384min
    Robert Altman - visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend - comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque. His outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a few enemies, as well as the agents, writers, crew members, producers, and stars who worked with him, including Meryl Streep, Warren Beatty, Tim Robbins, Julianne Moore, Paul Newman, Julie Christie, Elliott Gould, Martin Scorsese, Robin Williams, Cher, and many others. There is even Altman himself, in the form of his exclusive last interviews.After an all-American boyhood in Kansas City, a stint flying bombers through enemy fire in World War II, and jobs ranging from dog-tattoo entrepreneur to television director, Robert Altman burst onto the scene in 1970 with the movie M*A*S*H. He revolutionized American filmmaking, and, in a decade, produced masterpieces at an astonishing pace: McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Thieves Like Us, The Long Goodbye, 3 Women, and, of course, Nashville. Then, after a period of disillusionment with Hollywood - as well as Hollywood's disillusionment with him - he reinvented himself with a bold new set of masterworks: The Player, Short Cuts, and Gosford Park. Finally, just before the release of the last of his nearly 40 movies, A Prairie Home Companion, he received an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement from the Academy, which had snubbed him for so many years.Mitchell Zuckoff - who was working with Altman on his memoirs before he died - weaves Altman's final interviews, an incredible cast of voices, and contemporary reviews and news accounts, into a riveting tale of an extraordinary life. Here are a series of revelations that force us to reevaluate Altman as a man and an artist, and to view his sprawling narratives with large casts, multiple s Language: English. Narrator: Meryl Streep, Warren Beatty, Tim Robbins, Julianne Moore, Paul Newman, Julie Christie, Elliott Gould, Martin Scorsese, Cher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002090/bk_rand_002090_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    My Secrets: IMNarcEvil, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 36min
    I am the narcissist. I have many secrets. Some you will find out about. Some you will not find out about. I will only let you in on the ones that I think will help me to control you and make you obey me unquestioningly. To be in this union, I must command your undying loyalty. Anything less than that will not be acceptable.If you find out about one of my secrets that you weren’t meant to find out, I will punish you via abuse or silent treatment so that you will learn to stop snooping on me. If you continue to snoop or to call me out to others on my malicious behavior, I will file lawsuits, gag orders, restraining orders and more to get you to shut your mouth. If you keep telling my secrets, I might just kill you. Then, you will be one of my secrets, too.I will tell the police and the FBI that I wasn’t involved in your convenient death or your murder. I will lie to your family’s face at the funeral. I will lie on the news to the public, faking tears and concern. After all, you deserved it. I won’t face accountability just because you say so. I don’t feel like I owe you or anyone else anything.In fact, you are the one denying me the fuel that I want. It was your fault. You promised to give me whatever I wanted when we first got together, remember? I took that promise literally, and then I fell out of your favors due to my lies, my cheating, my silent treatments, and more.I am a hedonist - a pleasure seeker. I break the law as the day is long. It is my right to do so as I have a sense of entitlement of epic proportions. I will get away with it the way I learned to get away with everything as a child. I was taught by the best, after all. My parents were narcissists, too. I will laugh all the while.You will be attracted to the mysteriousness of me. I am the man who tells you a little, but withholds a lot. You might wonder why it is that I don’t talk about myself all of the time. You may wonder why I don’t drone on and on about myself ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Roelofs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105336/bk_acx0_105336_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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