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    A Promised Land
    A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of November 4, 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office. Reflecting on the presidency, he offers a unique and thoughtful exploration of both the awesome reach and the limits of presidential power, as well as singular insights into the dynamics of U.S. partisan politics and international diplomacy. Obama brings readers inside the Oval Office and the White House Situation Room, and to Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, and points beyond. We are privy to his thoughts as he assembles his cabinet, wrestles with a global financial crisis, takes the measure of Vladimir Putin, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds to secure passage of the Affordable Care Act, clashes with generals about U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, tackles Wall Street reform, responds to the devastating Deepwater Horizon blowout, and authorizes Operation Neptune’s Spear, which leads to the death of Osama bin Laden. A Promised Land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective—the story of one man’s bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage. Obama is candid about the balancing act of running for office as a Black American, bearing the expectations of a generation buoyed by messages of “hope and change,” and meeting the moral challenges of high-stakes decision-making. He is frank about the forces that opposed him at home and abroad, open about how living in the White House affected his wife and daughters, and unafraid to reveal self-doubt and disappointment. Yet he never wavers from his belief that inside the great, ongoing American experiment, progress is always possible. This beautifully written and powerful book captures Barack Obama’s conviction that democracy is not a gift from on high but something founded on empathy and common understanding and built together, day by day.
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    West Winging It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 448min
    The West Wing meets The Office in this fresh and funny exclusive look into President Barack Obama’s years in the White House, directly from his senior writer and former Deputy Director of Messaging. West Winging It: An Unpresidential Memoir is the personal story of Pat Cunnane and his journey from outsider to insider, from his dreary job at a warehouse to his dream job at the White House. Pat pulls the drapes back on the most famous and exclusive building in the United States, telling the story of the real West Wing with compelling and quirky portraits of the people who populate the place, from the president to the press corps. Pat takes you into the Oval Office, providing a witty insider’s glimpse of that it’s really like - from the minutiae to the momentous - to work at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Along the way, Pat draws an intimate portrait of the side of President Obama that few were privy to - the funnyman, the nerd, the athlete, the caring parent. He describes both the small details - the time he watched in horror as the president reached over the sneeze guard at Chipotle - and the larger, historic moments, such as watching the president handle the news of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. In some ways, working at the White House is a lot like every office, and in some ways, it’s like no office ever. Pat recounts the time he accidentally slammed a door on Joe Biden, plotted to have the Pope bless him by faking a sneeze, and almost killed America’s First Dog. Pat’s story is one of proximity to history, revealing an office where both the historically momentous and the hilariously mundane occurred every day. He brings the White House to life with hysterical, heartwarming, and sharply observed depictions of the president and vice president. It’s a fun portrait of a remarkable time and an extraordinary president, featuring a bunch of brilliant, quirky staffers bursting in and out of frame. He recounts the behind-the-sc ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pat Cunnane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008726/bk_sans_008726_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 625min
    An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” (NPR.org)New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018 Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismWinner of the 2019 RFK Book and Journalism Award A New York Times Notable BookA groundbreaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for nine dollars an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough, and in short order he wrote an exposé about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Still, there was much more that he needed to say. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For, as he soon realized, we can't understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still.  The private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private p 9780525528784 N N ©2018 Shane Bauer;(P)2018 Penguin Audio http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DKHMYZ1?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DKHMYZ1?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Love and Lady Lovelace: Regency Royal, Book 10 (Unabridged) 22.95 AVAILABLE Love and Lady Lovelace: Regency Royal, Book 10 (Unabridged) Love and Lady Lovelace (Unabridged) M. C. Beaton When young widow Lady Lovelace realized she had been swindled to near bankruptcy by her curmudgeonly cousin, she knew she would have to marry again for money.... Karen Cass Hachette Audio UK 2018-09-27 07:00:00 276 B07DNHY39B English - Fiction British English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/twuk/001501de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/001501/bk_twuk_001501_sample.mp3 When young widow Lady Lovelace realised she had been swindled to near bankruptcy by her curmudgeonly cousin, she knew she would have to marry again for money. These were the very thoughts of Lord Philip, who had nothing between him and destitution but his small army pension. And so these two attractive fortune hunters somehow found each other and, before long, popped into marriage - and into the bridal chamber - only to discover they were both virtually penniless. What a diabolical situation. What would they do now?  9781405540322 N N ©2013 M. C. Beaton;(P)2018 Hachette Audio UK http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DNHY39B?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DNHY39B?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true El asedio [The Siege] (Unabridged) 22.95 AVAILABLE El asedio [The Siege] (Unabridged) El asedio [The Siege] (Unabridged) Arturo Pérez-Reverte Cádiz, 1811. España lucha por su independencia mientras América lo hace por la suya. En las calles de la ciudad más liberal de Europa se libran batallas de otra índole. Mujeres aparecen desolladas a latigazos. En cada lugar, antes del hallazgo del cadáver, ha caído una bomba francesa.... Victor Velasco Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial 2018-06-07 14:52:11 1385 B07DLLQN3J English - Mysteries & Thrillers Spanish 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/rhsp/000774de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/rhsp/000774/bk_rhsp_000774_sample.mp3 en español, en espanol, español, espanol, audiolibros en español, audiolibros en espanol ¿Puede ser una coincidencia que una muchacha muera a latigazos donde acaba de caer una bomba? ¿Puede jugarse una partida de ajedrez usando como escenario una ciudad sitiada? El asedio es la novela más enigmática de Arturo Pérez-Reverte Cádiz, 1811. España lucha por su independencia mientras América lo hace por la suya. En las calles de la ciudad más liberal de Europa se libran batallas de otra índole. Mujeres jóvenes aparecen desolladas a latigazos. En cada lugar, antes del hallazgo del cadáver, ha caído una bomba francesa. Eso traza sobre la ciudad un mapa superpuesto y siniestro: un complejo tablero de ajedrez donde la mano de un jugador oculto -un asesino despiadado, el azar, las curvas de artillería, la dirección de los vientos, el cálculo de probabilidades- mueve piezas que deciden el destino de los protagonistas: un policía corrupto y brutal, la heredera de una importante casa comercial gaditana, un capitán corsario de pocos escrúpulos, un taxidermista misántropo y espía, un enternecedor guerrillero de las salinas y un excéntrico artillero a quien las guerras importan menos que resolver el problema técnico del corto alcance de sus obuses. El asedio narra el pulso asombroso de un mundo que pudo ser y no fue. El fin de una época y unos personajes condenados por la Historia, sentenciados a un vida que, como la ciudad que los alberga -una Cádiz equívoca, enigmática, solo en apariencia luminosa y blanca-, nunca volverá a ser la misma. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish. 9788420432809 N N ©2010 Arturo Pérez Reverte;(P)2018 Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S. A. U. http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DLLQN3J?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DLLQN3J?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Anything for Him (Unabridged) 17.95 AVAILABLE Anything for Him (Unabridged) Anything for Him (Unabridged) L.K. Chapman Alone after the loss of her parents, Felicity finds herself in a relationship with volatile Jay. Reluctantly drawn in to a revenge plan against Jay's former best friend, Felicity soon becomes trapped, and as Jay turns increasingly controlling she questions everything he has told her.... Anna Parker-Naples Tantor Audio 2018-06-26 07:00:00 415 B07DM5WMD2 English - Mysteries & Thrillers English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/tant/011549de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/011549/bk_tant_011549_sample.mp3 Vulnerable and alone after the tragic loss of her parents, Felicity finds herself in a relationship with volatile and troubled Jay. Reluctantly drawn in to a twisted revenge plan against Jay's former best friend, Felicity soon becomes trapped, and as Jay turns increasingly controlling and abusive she questions everything he has told her about his past and his former girlfriend Sammie. But when she wants to expose the truth she comes up against an even greater threat: Someone obsessed and dangerous. Someone who has always been in the background of Jay's life. Someone who will do anything for him. 9781977386397 N N ©2016 LK Chapman;(P)2018 Tantor http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DM5WMD2?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DM5WMD2?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Shelter for Blythe : Badge of Honor: Texas Heroes, Book 11 (Unabridged) 20.95 AVAILABLE Shelter for Blythe : Badge of Honor: Texas Heroes, Book 11 (Unabridged) Shelter for Blythe (Unabridged) Susan Stoker Blythe Coopman never imagined she'd be homeless, but a series of events has landed her on San Antonio's streets hungry, tired, and scared. She clings to her most precious possession, a phone accidentally swiped from a local firefighter.... Erin Mallon Stoker Aces Production, LLC 2018-06-12 07:00:00 380 B07DJYRH7P English - Romance English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/acx0/118068de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/118068/bk_acx0_118068_sample.mp3 firefighter romance Blythe Coopman never imagined she'd be homeless, but a series of events has landed her on San Antonio's streets...hungry, tired, and scared. She clings to her most precious possession, a phone accidentally swiped from a local firefighter, who, instead of canceling the number, starts texting her. Soon, the man's calls and texts are the highlight of her days, but she declines his frequent offers of help. Blythe refuses to be his burden - until a vicious attack takes the decision out of her hands. When the woman he's already begun to care for ends up in the ER, Sawyer “Squirrel” McClay is livid - and ashamed. He should have insisted she accept his help long ago. Now, he's not taking no for an answer. While his friends rally round Blythe, Squirrel's bond with her grows stronger by the day, until he realizes he'll do anything to keep her safe, healthy, and happy...even as his own lifelong insecurities work against him. But despite leaving the streets behind, Blythe and Sawyer discover old dangers still linger, threatening to end the couple's new bliss before it's barely begun. UNKNOWN N Y ©2018 Susan Stoker;(P)2018 Susan Stoker http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DJYRH7P?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DJYRH7P?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Options Trading: Beginners Guide to Get You Started with Options Trading (Unabridged) 7.95 AVAILABLE Options Trading: Beginners Guide to Get You Started with Options Trading (Unabridged) Options Trading (Unabridged) George Graham The concept of options is treated with trepidation in some quarters. The simple fact is you need to have a trading plan that works. Over the years, my trading plan has become progressively simpler. To make it as a trader, it helps to develop the following traits in this audiobook.... Dave Wright George Graham 2018-06-07 18:13:34 110 B07DLG43QD English - Business English 1.00 4.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/acx0/118309de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/118309/bk_acx0_118309_sample.mp3 Do you want to learn about options trading?  Options have become remarkably popular, especially in the US. Far from being confined solely to the institutions and professional money managers, options trading is now mainstream for retail" traders from all walks of life.  The concept of options is still, however, treated with fear and trepidation in some quarters. When I first embarked upon serious trading, a friend warned me about what I was getting into, but trading can be as safe as you want it to be.  The simple fact is you need to have a trading plan that works. It needs to keep your risk low and your potential for reward high. You need your plan to have structure and simplicity so you can follow it every time.  Over the years, my trading plan has become progressively simpler. To make it as a trader, it helps to develop the following traits in this audiobook, and they can all be developed.  Why options trading?  The main reason for trading options is that for a smaller amount of money, you can control a large amount of stock, particularly with call options. Call options are always cheaper than the underlying asset and put options usually are.  Options are generally more volatile than their underlying instruments; therefore, investors get "more bang for their buck", or more action. Clearly, this can lead to danger, but as you'll see, it also can lead to more safely and security. You'll also see that it can mean much greater flexibility in your trading and even give you the ability to make profit when you don't know the direction in which the stock will move.  Here is a preview of what you'll learn: What is options trading?  The basics of options trading  Types of options  How to manage risk and the various option strategies  How to choose currency options  The leverage inherent in options  The fundamentals of put and call option ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Fouhey, Shane Bauer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/004039/bk_peng_004039_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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