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  Pass the Sour Cream: Given a Choice Between a Baked Potato and the Great Wall of China , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 36min

  I had been in Asia just over two months - something like 10 weeks, or if you’re counting days, about 70 days. Of course, if you’re counting meals, like I was, think about 210. Add iodine-purified water, a permanent layer of dust on my tongue, and let's just say I couldn't always hold down what I did eat. Food was becoming my meaning, my passion, my existence. I dreamt up meals in my head: leafy salads, steak, anything without rice and noodles. Sure, rice and noodles are great, but try them for 70 days, three meals a day - try anything for that long. I wanted food from home. Besides, just before coming to Asia, I'd spent six months in Africa eating things that were beige, bland, and beaten. Oh yes, Asian food had sounded exotic and adventurous, but at this point given a choice between a baked potato and the Great Wall of China.... Pass the sour cream. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bradley Charbonneau. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/203799/bk_acx0_203799_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Audio for Authors: Audiobooks, Podcasts, and Dictation for Fun and Profit , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 115min

  Have you ever noticed that, after listening to a podcast or an audiobook, you feel like you know the author? Our ears bring information into our brains in a different way then our eyes by reading the words - or even our eyes through watching a screen. I’m no aural scientist, but what I personally get with audio is a connection. A connection to the author, to the words, to the story, to the material. It sinks into your brain, I can almost feel it seeping through the nooks and crannies of my mind like water over porous volcanic rock. This is what I’m after. This is the connection I love to have as a reader and this is what I strive for as an author. This is why I’ve built this course so you too can connect with your readers. The rest, a booming audiobook market, smartphones around the world with one-tap access to audio, and a relatively untapped market compared to print and ebooks, is gravy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bradley Charbonneau. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/159525/bk_acx0_159525_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Jerusalem Helix , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 658min

  This fast-paced, timely novel of tolerance brings us a young, likeable, John Lennon-type of protagonist who has made the book a hit with listeners of surprisingly different backgrounds. It has also been a great selection for book clubs all over the country.The story is reminiscent of such thought-provoking classics as Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse) and The Alchemist (Paolo Coelho). Christ’s DNA is discovered in an ancient relic - and secretly used to create a boy. He is never told the truth about his conception. Who will this young man be exactly? How will we react when he leaves his sheltered childhood, enters our modern world, and meets the Pope, the Dalai Lama, and people of all religions?Expertly narrated by actor Matt Addis, whose luxurious voice and amazing variety of accents bring the story to another dimension.Note: This edition has a new title."You can tell a good writer... The wit, the pace, the emotional impact. Sue Stephenson's got it all." (Robert Ferrigno, author of twelve novels)"Familiar character, fresh new story. High caliber, page-turning stuff." (Anna Davis, author and writing director, Curtis Brown) "An emotional experience." (Ed Charbonneau) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Addis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/185498/bk_acx0_185498_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Promising Life: Coming of Age with America: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 526min

  Award-winning author Emily McCully's most adventurous book to date draws a dramatic portrait of life in 19th century America. For as long as he can remember, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau has been told that a promising future lies ahead of him. After all, his mother is the great Sacagawea, who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition of discovery. And thanks to his mother, Baptiste's life changes forever when Captain Clark offers him an education in the bustling new city of St. Louis. There, his mother charges him to "learn everything" - reading, writing, languages, mathematics. His life becomes a whirl of new experiences: lessons, duels, dances, elections. He makes friends and undertakes unexpected journeys to far-off places. But he also witnesses the injustices Clark, as a US agent for Indian Affairs, forces upon the Osage, the Arikara, the Mandan, and so many others. He sees the effect of what some call "progress" on the land and on the people who have lived there for generations. And he must choose what path he will take and what place he will have in a rapidly changing society. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: MacLeod Andrews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/schc/000820/bk_schc_000820_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Blind Influence: The Blind Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 551min

  Successful, sexy attorney Nicole Charbonneau feels content with her life and career as a star at a powerful law firm in Washington, DC. She is blind, however, to circumstances that will put her at the center of a web of deceit, murder, power plays, and conspiracies. Across the ocean, British MI6 agent Sean Adkins is tracking a cold-blooded assassin known as the Serpent, who's been hired to kill President Andrews. The Serpent cares only for the millions he'll get, not why a powerful group of men wants Andrews killed.  A master of disguise, the Serpent completes his job, but will it be his last? Sean will stop at nothing to get revenge, which includes setting a trap. Nicole - through her work and her connection to Robert Jenkins, a powerful young senator who happens to head the Intelligence Committee - pieces together who hired the assassin. Will the senator reveal to the public all he knows, or will revealing the identities of the powerful businessmen, politicians, and government officials be too much for a country already in a fragile state? Set in 1979, when the United States was on the brink of its second oil crisis, Blind Influence takes listeners on a wild ride of political intrigue and personal discovery. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/011539/bk_blak_011539_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Waltzing in Ragtime , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 871min

  Award-winning young-adult novelist Eileen Charbonneau now turns her storytelling powers and lauded historical research to her first adult novel: the epic story of two people drawn together from dramatically different spheres of society. As the turn of the century, San Francisco is a far cry from its gold rush days. The railroads have ushered in an era of rapid change and industrialization in California. In the mansions on Russian Hill, powerful men build financial empires by pillaging a landscape rich in natural resources. The daughter of a lumber baron, Olana Whittaker is struggling to make it on her own as a journalist for the Gold Coast Chronicle. She resents having to use a male pseudonym to be read seriously. Covering the grand opening from Sequoia National Parks, Olana meets forest ranger Matthew Hart, who speaks with passion on the need for protecting nature. Hart has little time for people, especially those who destroy forests. But when the pair are trapped in an early blizzard, Olana learns to appreciate both Hart and the land he is fighting to protect from men like her father. Over the years that follow, Olana and Matt will part - and come together again - as they live through the turbulent early years of the new century and learn the heartbreaks and joys that come with living, loving, and pursuing their destinies. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joanna Withey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014143/bk_acx0_014143_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  By Sorrow's River: Volume 3 of the Berrybender Narratives , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 660min

  At the heart of this third volume of his Western saga remains the beautiful and determined Tasmin Berrybender, now married to the "Sin Killer" and mother to their young son, Monty. Although Tasmin intends Montyto be an English gentleman like his grandfather, he lives the childhood of a savage. By Sorrow's River continues the Berrybender party's trail across the endless Great Plains of the West toward Santa Fe, where those lucky enough to survive the journey intend to spend the winter. Along the way, Tasmin, whose husband, Jim Snow, has moved out to scout ahead, falls in love with Pomp Charbonneau, only to see him killed by the ruthless commander of the Spanish troops. The Berrybenders meet up with a vast cast of characters from the history of the West: Kit Carson, the famous scout; Le Partezon, the fearsome Sioux war chief; The Ear Taker, an Indian whose specialty is creeping up on people while they are asleep and slicing an ear off with a sharp knife; two aristocratic Frenchmen whose eccentric aim is to cross the Great Plains by hot air balloon; a party of slavers led by the cowardly but bloodthirsty Obregon; a band of raiding Pawnee; and many other astonishing characters who prove that the rolling, grassy plains are not as empty as they look. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alfred Molina. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000469/bk_sans_000469_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Mirror Earth: The Search for Our Planet's Twin , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 510min

  In the mid-1990s, astronomers made history when they detected three planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way. The planets were nothing like Earth, however: They were giant gas balls like Jupiter or Saturn. More than 500 planets have been found since then, yet none of them could support life. Now, armed with more powerful technology, planet hunters are racing to find a true twin of Earth. Science writer Michael Lemonick has unique access to these exoplaneteers, as they call themselves, and Mirror Earth unveils their passionate quest. Geoff Marcy, at the University of California, Berkeley, is the world's most successful planet hunter, having found two of the first three extra-solar planets. Bill Borucki, at the NASA Ames Research Center, struggled for more than a decade to launch the Kepler mission - the only planet finder, human or machine, to beat Marcy's record. David Charbonneau, at Harvard, realized that Earths would be much easier to find if he looked at tiny stars called M-dwarfs rather than stars like the Sun - and that he could use backyard telescopes to find them! Unlike those in other races, the competing scientists actually consult and cooperate with one another. But only one will be the first to find Earth's twin. Mirror Earth is poised narrate this historic event as the discovery is made. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carol Schneider. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009800/bk_adbl_009800_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Secret of Kite Hill: Li & Lu, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 58min

  Do you know every nook and cranny of your neighborhood? How about under your neighborhood? Do you let your kids walk home from school? It's just a few blocks, right? What lurks in the shadows? In the bushes? Or scarier yet, under the bushes? Or is it all just happy-go-lucky Huckleberry Finn and exploring and adventuring in your own neighborhood? When do you know the difference? Maybe your kids know. Maybe they don't. How will you learn? It began as a simple walk home, the same one we did every day after school. But our dog's ball went into something of a hole, or was it a cave? Maybe a tunnel. But are there tunnels in the city? The ball was pretty close to the entrance, but just far enough to be a little spooky. Should we just forget it? Warning to parents: There are some questionable parenting decisions in this audiobook. It is not intended as a parenting handbook. There's a fine line between making the right decision and making the fun decision. When to choose which? How much do you involve your children in daily decisions? What if they involve danger? But what if your kids think it might be fun? You get the idea. Maybe I need a disclaimer.... You know in scary movies when you yell, "Don't go in there!" We went in. Yeah, I know. Ask your eight-year old why. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bradley Charbonneau. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/111147/bk_acx0_111147_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Saving St. Germ: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 565min

  Consumed by her pursuit of a Theory of Everything, a brilliant California scientist struggles to deal with life in and outside the lab Doctor Esme Charbonneau Tallich's passion is cosmology, the science of the origin of the universe; specifically, she is searching for a TOE, or a Theory of Everything. Esme is a feminist maverick, a rogue thinker. Hired as a professor of molecular biology at the University of Greater California, she prefers the "bench science" of organic chemistry at one extreme and "walking out into space" at the other. Her marriage to a TV director and aspiring stand-up comedian is rocky. Esme's five-year-old daughter, Ollie, the sun in her galaxy, seems an enigma. Too readily diagnosed by professionals as "challenged", even possibly autistic, she is, like Esme, a renegade thinker and creative mind. Her use of language is poetic, not deficit driven or conventional. As her marriage dissolves, Esme's struggle to maintain custody of Ollie and autonomy for herself and her work is set against the backdrop of the beckoning cosmos. Her tantalizing closeness to discovery of a grand unified theory - as psychiatric professionals, lawyers, and Esme's estranged husband also close in on Ollie, seeking to medicate and restructure her - heightens tension while also offering hope. The discovery that Esme seeks is twofold: enlightenment and equilibrium in the troubled universes of her personal and professional lives. Saving St. Germ is a provocative, dramatic look at a single mother's life at the edge of the universe - and the center of the human heart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Woodward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017596/bk_adbl_017596_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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