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    Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 444min
    The remarkable story of an ordinary man who was transformed when a traumatic injury left him with an extraordinary giftNo one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches, revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the objects around us.Yet Padgett wasn’t born this way. Twelve years ago, he had never made it past pre-algebra. But a violent mugging forever altered the way his brain works, giving him unique gifts. His ability to understand math and physics skyrocketed, and he developed the astonishing ability to draw the complex geometric shapes he saw everywhere. His stunning, mathematically precise artwork illustrates his intuitive understanding of complex mathematics.The first documented case of acquired savant syndrome with mathematical synesthesia, Padgett is a medical marvel. Struck by Genius recounts how he overcame huge setbacks and embraced his new mind. Along the way he fell in love, found joy in numbers, and spent plenty of time having his head examined. Like Born on a Blue Day and My Stroke of Insight, his singular story reveals the wondrous potential of the human brain. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Cummings, Kate Rudd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/006063/bk_brll_006063_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Diagnosis: Death : The Paul Monroe Mystery Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 381min
    When a body is found in the park, Paul Monroe knows two things: This isn’t a simple mugging, and the weekend he has planned with his boyfriend is officially over before it begins. With no murder weapon but a slew of suspects at the ready, Paul and his partner, Rob, begin the tedious task of piecing together the few clues they have.Happier than he’s ever been, Cliff knows there’s more to Paul than the tough exterior the man shows to the world, but Cliff is determined to take things slow. An unexpected phone call forces him to revisit the pain of his past, and now he needs Paul more than ever, but he’s hesitant to ask, unwilling to pressure Paul into a decision he might not be ready to make.Paul’s investigation means more long nights away from Cliff, who is grappling with his unsettling news. Not being able to support Cliff isn’t sitting right with Paul, and for the first time his personal life is as important as his job. Knowing he has Paul to lean on gives Cliff the courage to speak and to heal old wounds as they navigate the minefield of building a relationship. Meanwhile, a killer walks the streets of Thornwood Park, and Paul won’t be satisfied until they are caught and justice served. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kale Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/179770/bk_acx0_179770_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Felony Murder , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 803min
    On the surface, the court-appointed case that lands on young Dean Abernathy's desk is a biggie; he is slated to defend a homeless man accused of the felony murder of the popular black New York City Police commissioner during an early-morning mugging attempt. But at second look, the case promises to be a routine conviction. The evidence is overwhelming. The police have come up with an eyewitness, they have physical evidence, and Joey Spadafino has given the arresting officers a signed confession. Dean's course seems obvious: Get Joe Spadafino, an ex-con, to plead guilty, bargain for the most lenient sentence possible, and figure you can't win 'em all. Before he can talk to his client about a plea bargain, however, he finds that the prosecutor has already offered one - which Joey refuses. Dean, not only a conscientious defense attorney but a former investigator, starts looking harder at the seemingly incontrovertible evidence. What he turns up changes a foregone conclusion into something very different. The district attorney, although outwardly cooperative, seems to be trying to keep Dean from interviewing the eyewitness - and the reason becomes apparent when Dean, challenged, digs deeper into her background. Anomalies and discrepancies in the government's case crop up. Dean realizes that he is drawing closer to a particularly nasty truth, one that not only puts his life and those of others in immediate peril but confronts him with a moral dilemma that is even more difficult to face. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Berkrot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009013/bk_brll_009013_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Last Scoop: Clare Carlson Mystery, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 591min
    The scariest kind of serial killer - one you don't know exists.Martin Barlow was Clare Carlson's first newspaper editor, a beloved mentor who inspired her career as a journalist. But, since retiring from his newspaper job, he had become a kind of pathetic figure - railing on about conspiracies, cover-ups, and other imaginary stories he was still working on. Clare had been too busy with her own career to pay much attention to him.When Martin Barlow is killed on the street one night during an apparent mugging attempt gone bad, it seems like he was just an old man whose time had come.But Clare - initially out of a sense of guilt for ignoring her old friend and then because of her own journalistic instincts - begins looking into his last story idea. As she digs deeper and deeper into his secret files, she uncovers shocking evidence of a serial killer worse than Son of Sam, Ted Bundy, or any of the other infamous names in history.This really is the biggest story of Martin Barlow's career - and Clare's, too - as she uncovers the path leading to the decades-long killer of at least 20 young women. All is not as it seems during Clare's relentless search for this serial killer. Is she setting herself up to be his next victim?Clare Carlson is perfect for fans of Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone and Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joan Dukore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/211365/bk_acx0_211365_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Black Bullet , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 597min
    Glenda Lawson believes her husband was the only US serviceman shot and killed on American soil during World War II. But in 1945, investigators ruled that Billy Lawson died in a “mugging turned ugly.” Sean O’Brien is learning the ropes of commercial fishing when he gets his anchor caught on something underwater. He discovers a German U-boat partially buried in sand, and inside is a frightening cargo. The media pick up the story, and a 35-year-old woman who has a haunting tale visits O’Brien. Her grandfather, Billy Lawson, was fishing one night on a Florida beach when he saw something very disturbing. The Black Bullet is a thriller that combines an unsolved murder from 1945 and a modern-day discovery connected to America’s entry into nuclear weapons, the Manhattan Project. The last thing Sean O’Brien wants is to investigate a 67-year-old murder. But Billy Lawson’s granddaughter and his cancer-stricken widow are desperate for closure. For O’Brien to bring it to them he has to pry the lid off a secret buried with the Manhattan Project. It’s information that got Billy Lawson killed, and O’Brien soon learns the old murder and his new discovery at the bottom of the sea are inextricably knotted. O’Brien is thrust into a world where nothing is as it appears, and everything is riding on a secret Billy Lawson took to his grave. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael David Axtell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023330/bk_adbl_023330_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Flynn: The Love Family Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 155min
    Flynn Love knows a thing or two about women. When he loses a bet to his buddy and is forced to play tour guide and babysitter to the man's little sister, he's warned she can be a handful and is always attracted to losers. Flynn has one job: Show her around her new home on Love Island and scare away the creeps while winning her over with his charm. Should be a piece of cake, right? Wrong. Expecting some nerdy scientist with a big brain and even bigger glasses, he's stunned to find out the woman he's to spend time with turns out to be sex in spiked heels with an even sharper tongue. Mia Stewart has had a tough time of late with break-ins at her home and a mugging that sent her to the emergency room. The universe is conspiring against her and screwing her at every turn. When her boss offers her a job at his new lab on a luxurious island to continue her research, she jumps at the chance to sneak away from the troubles plaguing her and leave them behind. When trouble follows her to the island and threatens her new life, she'll rely on the one person her brother trusts to keep her safe, even if the two clash in every way but sexual tension. When things heat up, it's more than her life on the line she needs to worry about. It's her heart. Can the playboy change his ways, or is he a brain cell shy of keeping up? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin J. Sitten. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/062122/bk_acx0_062122_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Walking Homeless , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 443min
    John Tibbets is not just another homeless man living in New York's Bowery. He also suffers from advanced amnesia and has no idea how he arrived at the most famous mission in America. A recluse, he lives a quiet life of desperate isolation. While wandering the Bowery streets one summer night, Tibbets comes upon three men mugging a police officer. Acting on unknown instincts, Tibbets intervenes. Displaying the fighting skills of a Navy Seal, Tibbets saves the life of the police officer, suffering a bullet wound in the process. While recovering at the hospital, Tibbets becomes the toast of the town and a media darling. Uncomfortable with the sudden attention, Tibbets discreetly leaves the hospital late one night to return to the seclusion of the Mission where he is most comfortable. Tibbets' fame is as short lived as his solitude, however, when a group of mysterious men arrives at the mission intent on killing him. Forced to run for his life, Tibbets has no idea who the men are or why they want to kill. With no memory to guide him, Tibbets takes to the streets to escape his assailants. Living off just his wits, Tibbets must fight not just the men who would kill him, but to regain his memory and unlock the deadly secrets tucked away inside his mind. Set against the backdrop of the grainy New York City streets, Walking Homeless is a fast-paced mystery/thriller that races to a startling climax, which will leave listeners breathless. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dwight Goldman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/022264/bk_acx0_022264_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ansible: Season Three: The Ansible Saga, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 624min
    In a future where humanity is a refugee species, can refugees from the past save us?The pneumavores ("soul eaters") have taken the Earth and have spread to every planet humanity has ever touched. Now, a Syrian refugee, a 13th-century librarian, and a hijabi shapeshifter from the far future must travel across space and time to defend humanity from this intergalactic and devouring evil.They'll find allies: a wheelchair gunslinger from far-future Beijing. A legion of women soldiers wielding spinning saws that can slice through predators that only barely exist inside our universe. A strange child-empath who can hear all of humanity's suffering at every instant in history. A firestarter-goddess from our prehistory. Together, they will face a species that travels across time and feeds on terror itself.Review for Ansible:"Stant Litore may be SF's premier poet of loneliness." (Jason Kirk, author of Reverb and The Other Whites in South Africa)"Litore's stories aren't only entertaining. They are stories invading our lives, unexpectedly. You encounter them, as you might encounter people. They are those random elements in life that happen to you, like a mugging, like childbirth, like falling in love and marriage, like death and the funeral that follows. They are moments that leave a mark, and leave you changed." (Andrew Hallam, PhD, Metropolitan State University of Denver)"Stant eloquently writes passages that are so moving, full of passion, fury, loneliness, blind drive... He takes us to places of amazing beauty, awe-inspiring, as well as places where the implications in the story can leave you almost in despair for the human race." (Nikki Ebright, director, Myths & Legends Con) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amy McFadden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/218479/bk_acx0_218479_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ansible: A Thousand Faces: The Complete Omnibus of Seasons 1-3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1125min
    This omnibus edition includes all three volumes of the Ansible Saga in one omnibus edition. In Ansible, 25th-century Islamic explorers transfer their minds across space and time to make first contact...and get marooned in alien bodies on alien worlds. Along the way, they encounter the most dangerous predator humanity has ever faced. Now a Syrian refugee, a 13th-century librarian, and a hijabi shape-shifter from the far future must travel across space and time to defend humanity from this intergalactic and devouring evil. They'll find allies: A wheelchair gunslinger from far-future Beijing. A legion of women soldiers wielding Spinning Saws that can slice through predators that only barely exist inside our universe. A strange child-empath who can hear all of humanity's suffering at every instant in history. A firestarter-goddess from our prehistory. Together, they will face a species that travels across time and feeds on terror itself. Reviews for Ansible: "Stant Litore may be SF's premier poet of loneliness." (Jason Kirk, author of Reverb)"Litore's stories aren't only entertaining. They are stories invading our lives, unexpectedly. You encounter them, as you might encounter people. They are those random elements in life that happen to you, like a mugging, like childbirth, like falling in love and marriage, like death and the funeral that follows. They are moments that leave a mark, and leave you changed." (Andrew Hallam, PhD, Metropolitan State University of Denver)"Stant eloquently writes passages that are so moving, full of passion, fury, loneliness, blind drive.... He takes us to places of amazing beauty, awe-inspiring, as well as places where the implications in the story can leave you almost in despair for the human race." (Nikki Ebright, director, Shiny Garden) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amy McFadden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/218480/bk_acx0_218480_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Outsider: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 576min
    A young Supreme Court law clerk finds himself caught in the crosshairs of a serial killer in The Outsider, a breathtaking thriller #1 New York Times bestseller James Patterson called "as authentic and suspenseful as any John Grisham novel." Things aren't going well for Grayson Hernandez. He just graduated from a fourth-tier law school, he's drowning in student debt, and the only job he can find is as a messenger. The position stings the most because it's at the Supreme Court, where Gray is forced to watch the best and the brightest—the elite group of lawyers who serve as the justices' law clerks—from the outside. When Gray intervenes in a violent mugging, he lands in the good graces of the victim: the Chief Justice of the United States. Gray soon finds himself the newest—and unlikeliest—law clerk at the Supreme Court. It's another world: highbrow debates over justice and the law in the inner sanctum of the nation's highest court; upscale dinners with his new friends; attention from Lauren Hart, the brilliant and beautiful co-clerk he can't stop thinking about. But just as Gray begins to adapt to his new life, the FBI approaches him with unsettling news. The Feds think there's a killer connected to the Supreme Court. And they want Gray to be their eyes and ears inside One First Street. Little does Gray know that the FBI will soon set its sights on him. Racing against the clock in a world cloaked in secrecy, Gray must uncover the truth before the murderer strikes again in this thrilling high-stakes story of power and revenge by Washington, D.C. lawyer-turned-author Anthony Franze. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Petkoff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002471/bk_aren_002471_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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