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    All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, Hörbuch, Digital, 389min
    When Paul Miller's pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she's been waiting years for - until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune. Meanwhile, 400 miles south in Los Angeles, the Millers' older daughter, Margaret, has been dumped by her newly famous actor boyfriend and left in the lurch by an investor who promised to revive her fledgling post-feminist magazine, Snatch. Sliding toward bankruptcy and dogged by creditors, she flees for home, where her younger sister Lizzie, 14, is struggling with problems of her own. Formerly chubby, Lizzie has been enjoying her newfound popularity until some bathroom graffiti alerts her to the fact that she's become the school slut. The three Miller women retreat behind the walls of their Georgian colonial to wage battle with divorce lawyers, debt collectors, drug-dealing pool boys, mean girls, country club ladies, evangelical neighbors, their own demons, and each other, and in the process they become achingly sympathetic characters we can't help but root for, even as the world they live in epitomizes everything wrong with the American Dream. Exhilarating, addictive, and superbly accomplished, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything crackles with energy and intelligence and marks the debut of a knowing and very funny novelist, wise beyond her years. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca Lowman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001448/bk_rand_001448_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Friends with Multiple Benefits , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 532min
    The Friends are back in book six, the final chapter in the Friends with Benefits series. When newlyweds Jim and Victoria return from their Vegas wedding, Victoria dives full swing back into her sex therapy practice. With the addition of a new, let's call him, unique client along with a couple of old surprise visitors, there is never a dull moment in the naughty professional's home office. While Brian and Jillian are in full expectant parent mode, and with twins no less, Jillian's movie opens to great success. Just when the famous author thinks she's gotten Amanda Joseph out of her and, more importantly, her husband's hair, the A-list actress returns and in a big way. With the continuation of Jillian's series of novels heading to the small screen, she's looking forward to the promise of a huge financial windfall, but will the price tag be too much to bear? Will Jim and Victoria survive her new clients? Will Brian and Jillian have boys or girls or one of each? And will Jillian's movie's box office triumph be the end of her career or her marriage or both? Find out in Friends with Multiple Benefits. Featuring expanded Ian Dalton scenes, this audiobook is also the continuation of the steamier Victoria Wilde version of the series. The optional Ian scenes are easily skipable by listeners who prefer the Luke Young variety. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Summer Morton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023845/bk_adbl_023845_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sunrise: Pact Arcanum, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 723min
    Steel and Shadow San Francisco, 2015. A group of friends celebrating a windfall in their musical careers takes a wrong turn down a deserted alleyway to find their path blocked by two creatures out of nightmare. Surviving only through the arcane intervention of a cryptic savior, they find themselves thrust unwillingly into the center of a war of extermination between two mystical races. "The Gauntlet" Rory loved his best friend Takeshi for as long as he can remember, though he never had the courage to speak of it. When Rory is captured, his soul hangs in the balance as the Nightwalkers delve into ancient magic to corrupt his spirit. Takeshi attempts a desperate rescue, but is unprepared to face the enemy that waits in the depths of the vampire fortress. In the end, his own damnation may be the key to Rory's salvation. "Night and Day" Nick was surprised to see Rory at a Christmas party so many years after the other musician disappeared from public life. Renewing their friendship, he remains completely unaware that Rory is not at all what he appears to be. Nick's ignorance costs him dearly when Rory's enemies attack. To save Nick, Rory and his allies must find a way to triumph over the first and greatest of the vampire lords, before Nick's soul is twisted forever by the torments of the Prince of Nightmares. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Greg Tremblay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/102275/bk_acx0_102275_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Unleashed: The Kate Turner, DVM Mysteries, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 487min
    Dr. Kate Turner is happy with her new life in Oak Falls in upstate New York. Working as a relief veterinarian at a small house-call practice, she truly enjoys helping her patients. All that changes when client Claire Birnham is found dead, an apparent suicide. A talented artist, Claire had everything to live for: a new job,;a Manhattan apartment; her cairn terrier, Toto. As feisty as the Wizard of Oz's Toto, he and Claire were devoted to each other. Kate can't imagine Claire simply abandoning her pet. Was her death murder? Questions end when police arrest young kennel helper Eugene. The fragile friendship between Kate and police officer Luke Gianetti frays as she ignores his advice and keeps asking questions. House calls provide gossip and clues, some helpful, some not so much, as she treats her animal patients. Did Claire's recent insurance windfall prove too tempting for her hardworking and hard-drinking mother? What does trouble in the art gallery where Claire worked signal? How huge a grudge did heavy metal rocker A. J. hold against high school sweetheart Claire after she dumped him? Was Claire a threat to A. J.'s rich new girl? Dr. Kate mixes real medicine with murder as she risks her life over Claire's death, aided by insights from a former fire investigator, aka her gramps. Unleashed is just as irresistible as Dr. Kate's first adventure, Muzzled. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Caroline Shaffer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007828/bk_blak_007828_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Investing Bible: 3 Manuscripts: Beginner's Guide to Home Buying & Flipping Houses + Beginner's Guide to Wholesaling & Budgeting in Real Estate + Tips & Tricks to have a Thriving and Evergreen Business , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 245min
    One of the reasons that real estate is generally so reliable is that it offers a unique mix of liquidity, cash flow, profitability, net worth, and diversification benefits not seen in other types of investments. Having an understanding of the benefits of real estate investment, and understanding how to best put them to use are very different beasts, however, which is why this book will aim to outline the basic principles at play during real estate investing as well as the various risks involved. While every once in a while, a whale of a property will come along and allow you to make a major windfall with relatively little effort. Unfortunately, for most real estate investors, this is going to be the exception, not the rule, which means that most of the time success is going to come about incrementally thanks to lots and lots of research and a firm understanding of real estate investment fundamentals. This means that even if you have a real estate agent on the team you are going to want to spend plenty of your own time seeking out non-traditional avenues to find properties, which is often where the occasional whale is going to be found. This Investing Bible is all about learning home buying, flipping houses, wholesaling and budgeting in real estate and also learning the important tips and tricks to have a thriving and evergreen real estate business for generations. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pete Beretta. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/071735/bk_acx0_071735_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least
    Elevate your game in the face of challenging market conditions with this eye-opening guide to portfolio managementInvesting Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least provides an evidence-based blueprint for successful investing when decades of market tailwinds are turning into headwinds.For a generation, falling yields and soaring asset prices have boosted realized returns. However, this past windfall leaves retirement savers and investors now facing the prospect of record-low future expected returns. Emphasizing this pressing challenge, the book highlights the role that timeless investment practices - discipline, humility, and patience - will play in enabling investment success. It then assesses current investor practices and the body of empirical evidence to illuminate the building blocks for improving long-run returns in today's environment and beyond. It concludes by reviewing how to put them together through effective portfolio construction, risk management, and cost control practices.In this book, readers will also find:* The common investor responses so far to the low expected return challenge* Extensive empirical evidence on the critical ingredients of an effective portfolio: major asset class premia, illiquidity premia, style premia, and alpha* Discussions of the pros and cons of illiquid investments, factor investing, ESG investing, risk mitigation strategies, and market timing* Coverage of the whole top-down investment process - throughout the book endorsing humility in tactical forecasting and boldness in diversificationIdeal for institutional and active individual investors, Investing Amid Low Expected Returns is a timeless resource that enables investing with serenity even in harsher financial conditions.
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    Beguiled by a Baron: The Heart of a Duke, Book 14 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 541min
    A lady with a secret... Partially deaf, with a birthmark marring her face, Bridget Hamilton is content with her life, even if she's been cast out of her family. But her peaceful existence - expanding her mind with her study of rare books - is threatened with an ultimatum from her evil brother - steal a valuable book or give up her son. Bridget has no choice; her son is her world. A lord with a purpose... Vail Basingstoke, Baron Chilton is known throughout London as the Bastard Baron. After battling at Waterloo, he establishes himself as the foremost dealer in rare books and builds a fortune, determined to never be like the self-serving duke who sired him. He devotes his life to growing his fortune to care for his illegitimate siblings, also fathered by the duke. The chance to sell a highly coveted book for a financial windfall is his only thought. Two paths collide... When Bridget masquerades as the baron's newest housekeeper, he's hopelessly intrigued by her quick wit and her skill with antique tomes. Wary from having his heart broken in the past, it should be easy enough to keep Bridget at arm's length, yet desire for her dogs his steps. As they spend time in each other's company, understanding for life grows as does love, but when Bridget's integrity is called into question, Vail's world is shattered - as is his heart again. Now Bridget and Vail will have to overcome the horrendous secrets and lies between them to grasp a love - and life - together. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/088705/bk_acx0_088705_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 265min
    Who hasn't dreamed of finding a million dollars? Joey Coyle was down and out - the affable, boyish South Philadelphian hadn't found dock work in months, he was living with his ailing mother, and he was fighting a drug habit and what seemed like a lifetime of bouncing into and out of bad luck. One morning, while cruising the streets just blocks from his home, fate took a turn worthy of Hollywood when he spotted a curious yellow tub he thought might make a good toolbox. It contained $1.2 million in unmarked bills - casino money that had just fallen off the back of an armored truck. Detective Pat Laurenzi, with the help of the FBI, was working around the clock to track it down. Joey Coyle, meanwhile, was off on a bungling, swashbuckling misadventure, sharing his windfall with everyone from his girlfriend to total strangers to the two neighborhood kids who drove him past it. To hide the money, Joey turned to the local mob boss - a shadowy, fearsome man who may or may not have helped launder it. But as adrenaline-filled nights began taking their toll, Joey Coyle's dream-come-true evolved into a nightmare: Whom could he trust? By one of our most evocative and versatile chroniclers of American life, Finders Keepers is not only a gripping true-life thriller; it is the remarkable tale of an ordinary man faced with an extraordinary dilemma, and the fascinating reactions - from complicity to concern to betrayal - of the friends, family, and neighbors to whom he turns. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bowden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000388/bk_sans_000388_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Vanishing Games: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 646min
    The gritty, riveting, highly anticipated sequel to the national (and international) best seller Ghostman, by the critically acclaimed and award-winning Roger Hobbs. It's just before dawn on the South China Sea when three experienced pirates open fire on a small smuggling yacht. Their target: a bag of uncut sapphires worth millions. But when one of them stumbles across an enormous treasure that wasn't on the manifest, everything goes sideways. Within minutes two of them are dead, leaving the third, a coldblooded psychopath, to claim both the sapphires and the mysterious windfall for himself. If he disappears, he won't just be wealthy. He'll have the power to change the course of history. His boss, Angela, isn't about to let that happen. She calls in a favor from her onetime protégé: a fixer sometimes known as Jack, or more often as simply the Ghostman. Within hours he's flying halfway around the world to find her in the glimmering neon slums of Macau. Jack has no real name, no address and no fingerprints - but given the right motivation, he can make serious problems vanish. Though the two haven't talked since they botched a job six years ago, as soon as Jack's off the plane they're back together again, facing down a crime boss, a hit man and a conspiracy bigger than anything they've ever encountered and more dangerous than they could've imagined. Their partnership - between people with no lasting relationships whatsoever - is at the very heart of a novel that will cement Roger Hobbs's status as one of our most talented crime writers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jake Weber. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004222/bk_rand_004222_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Burning Passion - The Inheritance: Hidden Cove Firefighters, Book 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 185min
    New York Times best-selling author Kathryn Shay spent five years riding fire trucks with a large city fire department, eating in their firehouses and interviewing hundreds of America's bravest. Hear the firefighter romance novels that resulted from her intense relationship with firefighters! Former friends turned lovers and a billionaire who changes both their lives with an inheritance...what more could two people want? In the newest installment of the beloved Hidden Cove Series, Dan Collins is everybody's favorite firefighter. He's good at his job, a nice guy, and treats people well. But his life fell apart a year ago when his wife left him for a wealthy man. Thank God Dan has had firefighter Lucy Coretta to lean on, both at work and at home. She's brought him back from the brink of despair and has been there for him during all those horrible months after the divorce. Unbeknownst to him, Lucy has been in love with him forever but kept it to herself. Then, when he split with his wife, she didn't want to be a rebound girlfriend. One night, though, passion explodes between them, and by the morning, everything has changed. And not just in their relationship. A man comes to the door and hands Dan an inheritance from a wealthy billionaire for saving the lives of his godchildren years ago. It's money - lots and lots of money. Unfortunately, the windfall doesn't bring him happiness. It messes up all his newly made plans with Lucy and throws them both into a tailspin. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/053585/bk_acx0_053585_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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