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    Inappropriation: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 603min
    A wildly irreverent take on the coming-of-age story that turns a search for belonging into a riotous satire of identity politicsStarting at a prestigious private Australian girls’ school, 15-year-old Ziggy Klein is confronted with an alienating social hierarchy that hurls her into the arms of her grade’s most radical feminists. Tormented by a burgeoning collection of dark, sexual fantasies, and a biological essentialist mother, Ziggy sets off on a journey of self-discovery that moves from the Sydney drag scene to the extremist underbelly of the Internet. As PC culture collides with her friends’ morphing ideology and her parents’ kinky sex life, Ziggy’s understanding of gender, race, and class begins to warp. Ostracized at school, she seeks refuge in Donna Haraway’s seminal feminist text, A Cyborg Manifesto, and discovers an indisputable alternative identity. Or so she thinks. A controversial Indian guru, a transgender drag queen, and her own Holocaust-surviving grandmother propel Ziggy through a series of misidentifications, culminating in a date-rape revenge plot so confused, it just might work. Uproariously funny, but written with extraordinary acuity about the intersections of gender, sexual politics, race, and technology, Inappropriation is literary satire at its best. With a deft finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist, Lexi Freiman debuts on the scene as a brilliant and fearless new talent. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katherine Littrell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007626/bk_harp_007626_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fixin To Git: One Fan's Love Affair with Nascar's Winston Cup , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 629min
    In the past twenty years, big-time stock-car racing has become America’s fastest growing spectator sport. Winston Cup races draw larger audiences - at the tracks and on television - than any other sport, and drivers like Dale Jarrett, Jeff Gordon, and Mark Martin have become cultural icons whose endorsements command millions. What accounts for NASCAR’s surging popularity?For years a “closeted” NASCAR fan, Professor Jim Wright took advantage of a sabbatical in 1999 to attend stock-car races at seven of the Winston Cup’s legendary venues: Daytona, Indianapolis, Darlington, Charlotte, Richmond, Atlanta, and Talladega. The “Fixin’ to Git Road Tour" resulted in this book - not just a travelogue of Wright’s year at the races, but a fan’s valentine to the spectacle, the pageantry, and the subculture of Winston Cup Racing.Wright busts the myth that NASCAR is a Southern sport and takes on critics who claim that there’s nothing to racing but “drive fast, turn left,” revealing the skill, mental acuity, and physical stamina required by drivers and their crews. Mostly, though, he captures the experience of loyal NASCAR fans like himself, describing the drama in the grandstands - and in the bars, restaurants, parking lots, juke joints, motels, and campgrounds where race fans congregate. He conveys the rich, erotic sensory overload - the sights, the sounds, the smells, the feel - of weekends at the Winston Cup race tracks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012797/bk_adbl_012797_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Why Tolerate Religion? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 226min
    This provocative audiobook addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory - why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse? Why, for example, can a religious soup kitchen get an exemption from zoning laws in order to expand its facilities to better serve the needy, while a secular soup kitchen with the same goal cannot? Why is a Sikh boy permitted to wear his ceremonial dagger to school while any other boy could be expelled for packing a knife? Why are religious obligations that conflict with the law accorded special toleration while other obligations of conscience are not? In Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter argues that the reasons have nothing to do with religion, and that Western democracies are wrong to single out religious liberty for special legal protections. He offers new insights into what makes a claim of conscience distinctively "religious", and draws on a wealth of examples from America, Europe, and elsewhere to highlight the important issues at stake. With philosophical acuity, legal insight, and wry humor, Leiter shows why our reasons for tolerating religion are not specific to religion but apply to all claims of conscience, and why a government committed to liberty of conscience is not required by the principle of toleration to grant exemptions to laws that promote the general welfare. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Bloodworth. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/007321/bk_adbl_007321_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Be an Amazing Dancer Hypnosis: Own the Dance Floor, Using Hypnosis, Hörbuch, Digital, 39min
    Be an Amazing Dancer - Own the dance floor using hypnosisDancing is more than a skill - it's an art form. It combines fluid movement with flexibility, being able to interpret music, feel the rhythm, and create stunning spectacles using your own body. Mastering the art takes physical prowess, mental acuity, and the intuition to move the right way at the right time. If you're ready to become a dancing dynamo - hypnosis can show you how.Feel the beat and move your feetThe Be an Amazing Dancer Hypnosis session will help you tap, sway, slide, pop or bop your way to dancing stardom from the inside out! As you listen, potent hypnosis and NLP techniques will work to reprogram your subconscious, helping infuse it with positive energy and supreme confidence. You'll take to the floor with poise, assurance, and the skills and self-belief to perform at your best. You'll execute steps with ease, always knowing exactly what to do and when, thrilling audiences with your natural flair and finesse.Simply download the Be an Amazing Dancer session, put on your headphones, and listen to discover how to:Become a flawless, awesome dancer!Master any dance style quickly and easilyImprove any aspect of your dancingBe ultra-confident in your abilitiesDownload the Be an Amazing Dancer Hypnosis session now to set your inner dancing superstar free. Language: English. Narrator: Hypnosis Live. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ispr/000071/bk_ispr_000071_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    American Taliban: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 494min
    An avid, near-six-foot-tall surfer, John Jude Parish cuts a striking figure on the beaches of the Outer Banks in North Carolina. When he isn't on water, John lives on wheels, a self-described skate ratgrinding and kickflipping with his friends, and encouraged by his progressive parents. His hero is the great explorer Richard Burton, his personal prophet is Bob Dylan, and his world is wide open to new ideas, philosophies, and religions. Through online forums and chat rooms, John meets a young woman from Brooklyn who spurs his interest in Islam and Arab literature. Deferring Brown University for a year, he moves to the idyllic New York borough to study Arabic. Like Burton, John embraces the experience heart, body, and soul-submitting to Islam, practicing the salaat, fasting and meditating, dancing with dervishes, and encountering the extraordinary. Burton lived the life of a nineteenth-century adventurer, but he also penetrated the ancient wisdom of secret worlds. John will toowith unforeseen consequences. Critically acclaimed novelist Pearl Abraham uses her gifts of psychological acuity and uncommon empathy to depict a typical upper-middle-class family snared by the forces of history, politics, and faith. In American Taliban, she imagines this young surfer/skater on a distinctly American spiritual journey that begins with Transcendentalism and countercultural impulses, enters into world mysticism, and finds its destination in Islam. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jay Snyder. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002287/bk_adbl_002287_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Boost Your Memory with Easy Exercises - Improve Your Mental Focus in Everyday Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 26min
    Learn How to Boost Your Memory and Improve Your Mental Focus in Your Everyday Life Memories can be fickle things. Many people will have trouble remembering one type of thing, be it names or numbers. Some people are born with wonderful memories and have no trouble keeping things straight. Those born without this incredible ability have to find ways to strengthen their memories. Some do this through repetition exercises; some come up with nifty little games or tricks to keep their minds alert and focused. This book contains proven exercises that will enhance your mental focus and strengthen your ability to remember things through simple daily routines. There are a number of ways to help boost your mental acuity and memory. You do not need to do all of these by yourself; feel free to incorporate your family into your methods. Play word games with your kids, or memory if your children are younger. In this audiobook we will be taking a look at ways to improve your memory through many different strategies. We encourage you to try a few of these and see which ones boost your memory the most. It may help to put a few of these strategies together, using multiple methods to achieve your goal of memory retention. Listen to the audiobook and begin to improve your memory and mental focus today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michelle Murillo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/054658/bk_acx0_054658_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims: A Medieval Woman Between Demons and Saints , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 530min
    In 1384, a poor and illiterate peasant woman named Ermine moved to the city of Reims with her elderly husband. Her era was troubled by war, plague, and schism within the Catholic Church, and Ermine could easily have slipped unobserved through the cracks of history. After the loss of her husband, however, things took a remarkable but frightening turn. For the last 10 months of her life, Ermine was tormented by nightly visions of angels and demons. In her nocturnal terrors, she was attacked by animals, beaten and kidnapped by devils in disguise, and exposed to carnal spectacles; on other nights, she was blessed by saints, even visited by the Virgin Mary. She confessed these strange occurrences to an Augustinian friar known as Jean le Graveur, who recorded them all in vivid detail. Was Ermine a saint in the making, an impostor, an incipient witch, or a madwoman? Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski ponders answers to these questions in the historical and theological context of this troubled woman's experiences. With empathy and acuity, Blumenfeld-Kosinski examines Ermine's life in 14th-century Reims, her relationship with her confessor, her ascetic and devotional practices, and her reported encounters with heavenly and hellish beings. The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims brings to life an episode that helped precipitate one of the major clerical controversies of late medieval Europe, revealing surprising truths about the era's conceptions of piety and possession. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cynthia Wallace. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/067306/bk_acx0_067306_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Losing It: In Which an Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 513min
    In Losing It, William Ian Miller brings his inimitable wit and learning to the subject of growing old: too old to matter, of either rightly losing your confidence or wrongly maintaining it, culpably refusing to face the fact that you are losing it. The "it" in Miller's "losing it" refers mainly to mental faculties - memory, processing speed, sensory acuity, the capacity to focus. But it includes other evidence as well - sags and flaccidities, aches and pains, failing joints and organs. What are we to make of these tell-tale signs? Does growing old gracefully mean more than simply refusing unseemly cosmetic surgeries? How do we face decline and the final drawing of the blinds? Will we know if and when we have lingered too long?Drawing on a lifetime of deep study and anxious observation, Miller enlists the wisdom of the ancients to confront these vexed questions head on. Debunking the glossy new image of old age that has accompanied the graying of the Baby Boomers, he conjures a lost world of aging rituals - complaints, taking to bed, resentments of one's heirs, schemes for taking it with you or settling up accounts and scores - to remind us of the ongoing dilemmas of old age. Darkly intelligent and sublimely written, this exhilarating and eccentric book will raise the spirits of readers, young and old.The book is published by Yale University Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Scherer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/002458/bk_acx0_002458_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Italian Shoes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 540min
    Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on the operating table. One morning in the depths of winter, he sees a hunched figure struggling towards him across the ice. His past is about to catch up with him. The figure approaching in the freezing cold is Harriet, the only woman he has ever loved, the woman he abandoned in order to go and study in America forty years earlier. She has sought him out in the hope that he will honour a promise made many years ago. Now in the late stages of a terminal illness, she wants to visit a small lake in northern Sweden, a place Welin's father took him once as a boy. He upholds his pledge and drives her to this beautiful pool hidden deep in the forest. On the journey through the desolate snow-covered landscape, Welin reflects on his impoverished childhood and the woman he later left behind. However, once there Welin discovers that Harriet has left the biggest surprise until last.Italian Shoes is as compelling as it is disturbing. Through his anti-hero Welin, Mankell tackles ageing and death with sensitivity and acuity, and as with the critically acclaimed Depths, delivers a moving tour-de-force on the frailty of mankind. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/000507/bk_rhuk_000507_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    You Will Not Have My Hate , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 103min
    The international best seller. What matters most in life? How do you build a happy life when terrible things happen? What is left behind when you lose the person you love the most? One night last winter, Antoine Leiris was at home looking after his son while his wife, Hélène, was at a concert with friends. Suddenly he started receiving text messages asking if he was okay. Turning on the TV, Antoine watched the terrorist attacks in Paris unfolding around him and tried to call Hélène. She didn't answer. That night Hélène was killed, along with 88 other people, at the Bataclan Theatre. Three days later Antoine wrote an open letter to his wife's killers on Facebook. He refused to be cowed or to let his 17-month-old son's life be defined by their acts. 'For as long as he lives, this little boy will insult you with his happiness and freedom,' he wrote. Instantly that short post caught fire and was shared thousands of times around the world. You Will Not Have My Hate is an extraordinary and heartbreaking memoir about how Antoine and his baby son, Melvil, endured after Hélène's murder. With courage, moral acuity and absolute emotional honesty, he finds a way to answer the question "how can I go on?" This is the rare and unforgettable testimony of a survivor and a universal message of hope and resilience. This audiobook is a guiding star for us all in perilous times. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gildart Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002611/bk_rhuk_002611_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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