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    Mirror Image, Hörbuch, Digital, 369min
    To look at one was to see the other. For her family, even the girls' own father, it was a constant guessing game. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. And for the twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson, two remarkable young women coming of age at the turn of the century, their bond was mysterious, marvelous, and often playful -- a secret realm only they inhabited.Olivia and Victoria were the beloved daughters of a man who never fully recovered from his wife's death bearing them in 1893. Shy, serious Olivia, born eleven minutes before her sister, had taken over the role of mother in their lush New York estate, managing not only a household but her rebellious twin's flights of fancy.Free-spirited Victoria wanted to change the world. She embraced the women's suffrage movement and dreamed of sailing to war-torn Europe. Then, in the girls' twenty-first year, as the First World War escalated overseas, a fateful choice changed their lives forever.It began when Victoria's life was about to become a public scandal. It led to a painful decision, and brought handsome lawyer Charles Dawson into the Hendersons' life and family. Hand-picked by the twins' father to save his daughter's reputation, Charles was still mourning his wife's death aboard the Titanic, struggling to raise his nine-year-old son alone, determined never to lose his heart again. Charles wanted to believe that for the sake of his son he could make an unwanted marriage work. But in an act of deception that only Olivia and Victoria could managa, the twins took an irrevocable step, which changed both their lives forever; and took one of the twins to the battlefield of France, the other into a marriage she longed for but could not have. Language: English. Narrator: John Fleming. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bant/000315/bk_bant_000315_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Namesake , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 610min
    The Namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their arranged marriage in Calcutta, in order for Ashoke to finish his engineering degree at MIT. Ashoke is forward-thinking, ready to enter into American culture if not fully at least with an open mind. His young bride is far less malleable. Isolated, desperately missing her large family back in India, she will never be at peace with this new world. Soon after they arrive in Cambridge, their first child is born, a boy. According to Indian custom, the child will be given two names: an official name, to be bestowed by the great-grandmother, and a pet name to be used only by family. But the letter from India with the child's official name never arrives, and so the baby's parents decide on a pet name to use for the time being. Ashoke chooses a name that has particular significance for him: on a train trip back in India several years earlier, he had been reading a short story collection by one of his most beloved Russian writers, Nikolai Gogol, when the train derailed in the middle of the night, killing almost all the sleeping passengers onboard. Ashoke had stayed awake to read his Gogol, and he believes the book saved his life. His child will be known, then, as Gogol. Lahiri brings her enormous powers of description to her first novel, infusing scene after scene with profound emotional depth. Condensed and controlled, The Namesake covers three decades and crosses continents, all the while zooming in at very precise moments on telling detail, sensory richness, and fine nuances of character. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sarita Choudhury. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000315/bk_rand_000315_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Weltall Erde Mensch, Hörbuch, Digital, 53min
    Nordhausen ist ein kleiner Punkt im Weltall. Er bewegt sich mit rasender Geschwindigkeit auf einer Kreisbahn - sofern man die Ellipsengesetze nicht kennt. Die exakte Geschwindigkeit von Nordhausen lässt sich allerdings nicht feststellen, außer man könnte von einem festen Bezugspunkt im All ausgehen. Doch den gibt es im Grunde genommen nicht. Die Bewohner von Nordhausen rasen haltlos durch das All. Dennoch sind sie gebunden an diesen kleinen Ort im Norden Thüringens. Außer sie würden genug Muskelkraft besitzen, um ihn zu verlassen. Sie müssten nur schnell genug und hoch genug springen können, während es Nordhausen weiter durch den Kosmos treibt. Dann wären sie vielleicht entwischt. Hier, mitten in Deutschland - und doch am Rande der medialen Aufmerksamkeit - gibt es Menschen, die hier weiterhin leben und auch unter Perspektivlosigkeit leiden. Das Land, in dem sie heute leben, hat die Gesetze nicht für sie gemacht. Das Land, in dem sie vorher lebten, tat das ebenso wenig. In diesem Niemandsland, meiner Heimatstadt Nordhausen, begebe ich mich gemeinsam mit den Menschen, die dort leben, auf ihre Umlaufbahnen ohne Bezugspunkt. Bereits 2005 widmete ich mich in einem Kurzhörspiel während meines Studiums dem Leben der Menschen in Nordhausen, um ihnen eine Stimme in künstlerischer Gestalt zu geben. Heute, sechs Jahre später, besuche ich sie erneut, um unsere Gespräche weiter zu vertiefen und ihre Wege weiter zu begleiten", erklärt die Autorin. Luise Voigts Langzeitprojekt ist ein Glücksfall in Zeiten schnellen Produzierens. Und sie greift eine Tradition im Hörspiel auf, die den O-Ton grenzüberschreitend zum Feature als eine Möglichkeit des künstlerischen Ausdrucks nutzt und ihn in eine Kunstwirklichkeit überführt. Regie: Luise Voigt, Musik: Björn SC Deigner; SWR Edition - ArsAcustica: Die Reihe für akustische Kunst mit Hörspielen zwischen Soundpoesie und musikalischem Hörstück, Klangkunst und Bildender Kunst, Rock, Pop und Neuer deutsch. div.. https://samples.audible.de/bk/swrm/000315/bk_swrm_000315_sample.mp3.
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    Focus!: Mastering the Power of Mindfulness and Attention, Hörbuch, Digital, 402min
    Reach your peak awareness There are times in your life when everything clicks. When your skills match your challenges. When you feel most fully alive. This is what experts call the flow state. It's a zone of optimal learning, of calm intensity, of nearly effortless mastery in all your endeavors. You've had these magic moments in your own life. You've enjoyed the professional and financial benefits and experienced the personal fulfillment they bring. But, if you're like most people, these flow states - these productive periods of focused concentration - come to you less frequently than you'd like. If only you could learn to create them on a consistent basis, you know that great satisfaction and business success would be yours. The Focused Mind State: Maximizing Your Potential through the Power of Concentration is your guide to utilizing this state of perfect concentration, and getting into a peak performance state whenever you need it. With a rich selection of proven effective methods, authors Joel and Michelle Levey teach you to achieve a higher degree of confidence and to attain freedom from anxiety and fear. They integrate the best of modern scientific research with the traditional wisdom that's been preserved and used in various cultures for thousands of years. Learn to live your life "on purpose" and to focus the energy of your sometimes wandering mind. Let the Leveys teach you to: Free yourself from mental dullness or agitation Develop the Power of Mindfulness while maintaining a clear recognition of what you are paying attention to in the moment Renew your commitment to your goals and priorities Manage the outer demands of your environment and the inner elements of high stress and emotion A more focused mind state can be yours, along with the many personal and professional rewards that it brings. Language: English. Narrator: Joel Levey, Michelle Levey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ntgl/000315/bk_ntgl_000315_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Story of Medieval England: From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest, Hörbuch, Digital, 1147min
    These 36 lectures tell the remarkable story of a tumultuous thousand-year period in the history of England. Dominated by war, conquest, and the struggle to balance the stability brought by royal power with the rights of the governed, it was a period that put into place the foundation of much of the world we know today. As you journey through this largely chronological narrative - occasionally interrupted for lecture-long explorations of specific topics - you'll see key themes emerge, including the assimilation of successive waves of invaders, the tense relationship between kings and the nobility, and the constant battles over money and taxation. And because so much of history is driven by specific individuals and not just historical circumstance, each lecture is rich in intimate portraits that reveal those individuals at the key moments of their historical destiny, including Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and John Wycliffe.The result is a lecture series that winds up being not only informative but deeply entertaining, with each lecture drawing you in with its own particular fascinations, including a probing look at the scope of the Black Death, a realistic examination of the legends of both King Arthur and Robin Hood, a riveting description of the Battle of Bosworth Field, and a discussion of the surprisingly nuanced penalties of the early Germanic law codes. These lectures consistently deliver a fresh level of understanding about medieval England, its rulers and subjects, and their significance for the world we live in today. The chain of theme and event that links our world to theirs will never be clearer, rewarding every moment you spend with this series. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Paxton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000315/bk_tcco_000315_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Forty Signs of Rain: Capital Trilogy, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 775min
    The best-selling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt returns with a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation's capital-and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by scientific facts already making headlines. When the Arctic ice pack was first measured in the 1950s, it averaged 30 feet thick in midwinter. By the end of the century it was down to 15. One August the ice broke. The next year the breakup started in July. The third year it began in May. That was last year. It's an increasingly steamy summer in the nation's capital as Senate environmental staffer Charlie Quibler cares for his young son and deals with the frustrating politics of global warming. Charlie must find a way to get a skeptical administration to act before it's too late-and his progeny find themselves living in Swamp World. But the political climate poses almost as great a challenge as the environmental crisis when it comes to putting the public good ahead of private gain. While Charlie struggles to play politics, his wife, Anna, takes a more rational approach to the looming crisis in her work at the National Science Foundation. There a proposal has come in for a revolutionary process that could solve the problem of global warming-if it can be recognized in time. But when a race to control the budding technology begins, the stakes only get higher. As these everyday heroes fight to align the awesome forces of nature with the extraordinary march of modern science, they are unaware that fate is about to put an unusual twist on their work-one that will place them at the heart of an unavoidable storm. BONUS AUDIO: Includes an exclusive introduction by author Kim Stanley Robinson. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Ganim, Kim Stanley Robinson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/000315/bk_adbl_000315_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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