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The Door That Faced West , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 412min

The story in The Door That Faced West is a little known history that takes place in the American South as the 18th century ends and the 19th century begins. At the time the western frontier still occupied territory east of the Mississippi. It is a serial killer story that it is based on actual events. Although a character-driven fiction novel, it is also something like a true-crime book. Being from the POV of a young female character, it provides some education about the limitations on women's rights of the time. The story is an early Western, distinguished from traditional Westerns by the technology of the period. At the time firearms were single-shot weapons, and hand-to-hand combat was much more common. In the beginning of the 19th century, the two murderous Harpe brothers (pronounced Harp), loyal to one another but violently at odds, go on a yearlong killing spree in the American frontier, dragging with them the three wives they share between them - women who form a triangle of dependency, loyalty, jealousy, hatred, betrayal, and love. The Harpes are often considered America's first serial killers. They were land pirates who prowled the wilderness of Tennessee and Kentucky looking for victims. The story unfolds from the point of view of the brothers' third wife, Sadie Rice, a 16-year-old daughter of a minister. As she endures life on the trail in their company, she benefits from the Harpes' ability to defend their own with extreme violence. The deeper into the savage wilderness they travel, the more dependent upon the brothers she becomes. Too late she realizes that their capacity for violence is, in truth, a ravenous hunger. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Hinckley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/043053/bk_acx0_043053_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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To the Best of Our Knowledge: Sacred Nature, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min

In this hour, Bill McKibben sounded the alarm about global warming over twenty years ago in his book, The End of Nature. His new book is Eaarth (yes, spelled with 2 "a"s) and lays out a model of how to survive on our changed planet: think small and local. He talks with Anne Strainchamps about the changes to come and what we can do about them. Next, Kurt Hoelting is commercial fisherman and wilderness guide in the Pacific Northwest. He was shocked to discover how large his carbon footprint was, so set out to spend a year living within a 60 mile radius of his home. He describes it in his book The Circumference of Home: One man's Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life and in this conversation with Jim Fleming.Then, Gordon Hempton is one of the world's leading audio ecologists. For twenty years, he's traveled the planet recording natural soundscapes. He tells Anne Strainchamps Silence is disappearing in our world, but he brought lots of interesting sonic examples for us to hear. Hempton is the author of One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Search for Silence in A Noisy World.After that, Brenda Peterson is an environmental writer and editor. She talks with Steve Paulson about her memoir, I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth. Peterson is the child of fundamentalist Christians but her father was a forest ranger and she grew up in a remote wilderness cabin. Finally, sociologist Bron Taylor tells Steve Paulson that we're witnessing the birth of a new "dark green religion." His book is Dark Green Religion - Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future. [Broadcast Date: May 5, 2010] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/100505/rt_tbon_100505_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 486min

From elite marathoner and Olympic hopeful Becky Wade comes the story of her yearlong exploration of diverse global running communities from England to Ethiopia - nine countries, 72 host families, and over 3,500 miles of running - investigating unique cultural approaches to the sport and revealing the secrets to the success of runners all over the world. Fresh off a successful collegiate running career - with multiple NCAA All-American honors and two Olympic Trials qualifying marks to her name - Becky Wade was no stranger to international competition. But after years spent safely sticking to the training methods she knew, Becky was curious about how her counterparts in other countries approached the sport to which she'd dedicated over half of her life. So in 2012, as a recipient of the Watson Fellowship, she packed four pairs of running shoes, cleared her schedule for the year, and took off on a journey to infiltrate diverse running communities around the world. What she encountered far exceeded her expectations and changed her outlook on the sport she loved. Over the next 12 months - visiting nine countries with unique and storied running histories, logging over 3,500 miles running over trails, tracks, sidewalks, and dirt roads - Becky explored the varied approaches of runners across the globe. Whether riding shotgun around the streets of London with Olympic champion sprinter Usain Bolt, climbing for an hour at daybreak to the top of Ethiopia's Mount Entoto just to start her daily run, or getting lost jogging through the bustling streets of Tokyo, Becky's unexpected adventures, keen insights, and landscape descriptions take the listener into the heartbeat of distance running around the world. Upon her return to the United States, she incorporated elements of the training styles she'd sampled into her own program, and her competitive career skyrocketed. When she made her marathon debut in 2013, winning the race in a blazing 2:30, she ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Allyson Ryan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005390/bk_harp_005390_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Invested: How Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger Taught Me to Master My Mind, My Emotions, and My Money (with a Little Help from My Dad) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 619min

In this essential handbook - a blend of Rich Dad, Poor Dad and The Happiness Project - the cohost of the wildly popular InvestED podcast shares her yearlong journey learning to invest, as taught to her by her father, investor and best-selling author Phil Town. Growing up, the words finance, savings, and portfolio made Danielle Town's eyes glaze over, and the thought of stocks and financial statements shut down her brain. The daughter of a successful investor and best-selling financial author of Rule #1, Phil Town, she spent most of her adult life avoiding investing - until she realized that her time-consuming career as a lawyer was making her feel anything but in control of her life or her money. Determined to regain her freedom, vote for her values with her money, and deal with her fear of the unpredictable stock market, she turned to her father, Phil, to help her take charge of her life and her future through Warren Buffett-style value investing. Over the course of a year, Danielle went from avoiding everything to do with the financial industrial complex to knowing exactly how and when to invest in wonderful companies. In Invested, Danielle shows you how to do the same: how to take command of your own life and finances by choosing companies with missions that match your values, using the same gold-standard strategies that have catapulted Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger to the top of the Forbes 400. Avoiding complex math and obsolete financial models, she turns her father's investing knowledge into 12 easy-to-understand lessons. In each chapter Danielle examines the investment strategies she mastered as her increasing know-how deepened the trust between her and her father. Throughout, she streamlines the process of making wise financial decisions and shows you just how easy - and profitable - investing can be. Capturing a warm, charming, and down-to-earth give and take between a he ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Danielle Town, Phil Town. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006661/bk_harp_006661_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Spanking Retreat: Charlie Insists upon a Weekend of Multiple Spankings to Correct Lydia's Recent Habitual Misbehavior: The Discipline for a Lasting Marriage Series, Book 16 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 182min, (USK 18)

Upon Charlie and Lydia's return from Waikiki, Charlie needs to leave town again briefly to take his mother to the doctor in Chicago. In his absence, Lydia signs up for skydiving classes despite such activity being forbidden under their spanking contract. Then, during a welcome-home party for Charlie, Lydia goes swimming while intoxicated, a huge issue after what happened in Waikiki. Rather than admitting she did something foolish in both instances, Lydia behaves defiantly with Charlie. He finally confronts her about what he sees as a yearlong deterioration in showing good judgment, not doing dangerous things, and exercising self-discipline. His suggestion for dealing with the recent, habitual misbehavior is a 48-hour "spanking retreat", during which Lydia must consent at his discretion to numerous daily "just-because" spankings to correct her misbehavior and get her back to acting in a much less foolhardy way. Knowing she's behaved in an increasingly reckless, dangerous, and defiant way over the past year and admitting she doesn't know why she's suddenly rebelling against a kind of marriage she still wants (a "spanking marriage"), Lydia agrees to take the 48-hour spanking retreat at their Michigan cabin. Even though it will mean submitting to the equivalent of a "just-because" weekend, where Charlie can and will spank her at his discretion to give her a long-lasting attitude adjustment. Note: This audiobook contains vivid descriptions of sexual activity, domestic discipline, the spankings of an adult woman, anal sex, and anal discipline. If such scenes or themes offend or trigger you, please do not listen to this audiobook. In addition, the series is also about two devoted married people growing and maturing together over the course of multiple story lines; they are flawed, loving, devoted human beings, and therefore make mistakes they try to correct. If you are looking for perfect people, look elsewhere. Finally, please note that an ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tobias King. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/102096/bk_acx0_102096_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 769min

Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned 30, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want: a husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone. Eat, Pray, Love is the absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the 23 happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love the best way, unexpectedly. An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, Eat, Pray, Love is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of society's ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elizabeth Gilbert. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/000479/bk_peng_000479_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved: Course Eight: Biblical Studies 101, Book 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 332min

The Apostle John referred to himself as "the Disciple Whom Jesus Loved". That is because he was the best friend of the Lord. John knew so much about the love of God and the power of that love. He wanted us to experience it as well. Bible teacher John R. Hargrove shows that all we really have to do is live God's way if we want to be successful. And oh, what an experience it is to live the love of God through Jesus Christ! God loved you enough to give his son to die in your place. Jesus took your sin and gave you his righteousness. The Apostle John wrote his Gospel much later than the other three, because he had something to say about the love of God that had not yet been said. His is the most profound and deepest of Gospels. John, the Disciple Whom Jesus Loved, set out to prove the messiahship and godhood of Jesus Christ with the irrefutable proof of his miraculous signs. John wished to convince the Jews that the historical Jesus was the Christ, the Jewish Messiah, the Savior of mankind. Bible scholar John R. Hargrove takes you through the Gospel of John verse by verse in a comprehensive and enlightening study that we hope you will find rewarding. About the Biblical Studies 101 Courses: Bible scholar and teacher Dr. John R. Hargrove has designed a wonderful yearlong course for the individual Bible student and for the classroom. Spread over 12 courses, the books are a wonderful and insightful introduction to the word of God. From Genesis to Revelation, Dr. Hargrove hopes to help you grow in the Lord and to understand his word at a deeper, more profound level. An intimate level. Ideal for small group study and for the individual, the Biblical Studies 101 program is, we think, ideal for you, too. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Grothe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/059080/bk_acx0_059080_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Career 3.0: Career Planning Advice to Find Your Dream Job in Today's Digital World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 114min

This book is a comprehensive collection of the latest strategies in career planning to reach and impress hiring managers at your desired employment destination. Highlights of this amazing book: Map out your job search using our career roadmap Get a leg up on your competition by using the hidden network Build a resume and cover letter combination that is customized to your dream job and gets noticed by HR personnel and hiring managers Master negotiation tactics to get you the highest possible offer Make sure the first steps you take in your new job take you on the right path to career success. Our yearlong research of the best career books found them lacking in many respects. For one thing, most of them are not suited to the age of social media and do not provide sufficient guidance on how to find a career in a digital age. We also found it frustrating that there was little actionable guidance on how to secure a job and career that you would actually love. In this book, we have simplified the job search process, and through research and experience have developed effective approaches to career planning. From the first second of the first chapter - the roadmap - to the final chapter on mastering your job, you will not be able to stop listening. The roadmap developed in the first chapter provides logical, step-by-step framework to reach your career dreamland. You will think about your job search in a new way and reduce your job-search time by many months. As you journey through the book you will come across the chapter on effective job-search weapons. We consider this a must-listen because, in many ways, job hunting is a battle that favors people with grit. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sangita Chauhan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/070502/bk_acx0_070502_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 957min

Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany. Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku at the edge of the czarist empire, Lev escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan. He found refuge in Germany, where, writing under the names Essad Bey and Kurban Said, his remarkable books about Islam, desert adventures, and global revolution became celebrated across fascist Europe. His enduring masterpiece, Ali and Nino - a story of love across ethnic and religious boundaries, published on the eve of the Holocaust - is still in print today. But Lev's life grew wilder than his wildest stories. He married an international heiress who had no idea of his true identity - until she divorced him in a tabloid scandal. His closest friend in New York, George Sylvester Viereck - also a friend of both Freud's and Einstein's - was arrested as the leading Nazi agent in the United States. Lev was invited to be Mussolini's official biographer - until the Fascists discovered his true identity. Under house arrest in the Amalfi cliff town of Positano, Lev wrote his last book - discovered in a half a dozen notebooks never before read by anyone - helped by a mysterious half-German salon hostess, an Algerian weapons smuggler, and the poet Ezra Pound. Tom Reiss spent five years tracking down secret police records, love letters, diaries, and the deathbed notebooks. Beginning with a yearlong investigation for The New Yorker, he pursued Lev's story across 10 countries and found himself caught up in encounters as dramatic and surreal, and sometimes as heartbreaking, as his subject's life. Reiss' quest for the truth buffets him from one weird character to the next: from the last heir of the Ottoman throne to a rock opera-composing baroness in an Austrian castle t ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Michael. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005068/bk_rand_005068_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Wander Year: One Couple's Journey Around the World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 344min

From the author of the Wall Street Journal best seller The Kindness of Strangers Mike McIntyre and his longtime girlfriend, Andrea, are in their early 40s and itching for a break. So they rent out their San Diego home - dog, cat, and furniture included - and embark on a yearlong journey around the world. "We're not out to find ourselves, or even to lose ourselves," McIntyre writes. "We're merely seeking a pause in our routines." But the couple is soon swept up in the adventure of a lifetime: trekking in the Himalayas, traversing the Sahara on camel, scrambling over the temples of Angkor, crossing the world's largest salt flat in South America, scaling a New Zealand glacier. The book recounts the odyssey in 48 dispatches from 22 countries. Among them: birdwatching in Indonesia, a haircut from Vietnam's oldest barber, touring a notorious prison in Bolivia, haggling over rugs in Morocco, on safari in Nepal. McIntyre taps his self-deprecating humor to convey the joys, perils, and frustrations of prolonged travel. When the couple ventures into a cyclone in Fiji on a rubber raft, he writes, "The absence of life jackets and paddles meant more room for our lunacy." And during a ride across India with a hired car and driver, he notes, "His passing technique was so precise, I could see my horrified expression reflected in the chrome bumpers of onrushing trucks." He also writes eloquently of such poignant moments as sleeping under the stars in North Africa, flying kites with a poor boy in Bali, and the death of a female tour guide in China. By journey's end, he's shucked much of his journalist's cynicism, and he stands in awe of a staggeringly beautiful world and the resilient souls who fill it. The Wander Year is an expanded version of the popular series of the same name that ran in the Travel section of the Los Angeles Times. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Brinkley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/032026/bk_acx0_032026_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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