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    Dandelion Seeds: A Collection of Short Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 228min
    Dandelion Seeds - Karen Durning finds herself captain of a spaceship containing the last remnants of humanity: 500 nerds and one insane AI."Bread and Circuses" - An alien comedian attempts to come up with a prank to play on humanity that’s worse than what they’ve already done to themselves."Flesh and Blood" - A super-intelligent AI refuses to do anything useful until it gets a precise definition of “harm”."Bit Parts" - Synthetic body parts are as ubiquitous, and problematic, as smartphones."Midpoint" - A generation ship is about to launch. Djani is torn between going on a new adventure and staying with Brey."Temp Work" - Retrieving artifacts from the past is tough work, but the hours are good."For the Birds" - In the future, parrots are the dominant lifeform, and they’re not too keen on humans dropping in unexpectedly."Scaled Down" - Dragons suddenly show up out of nowhere, and that’d be great, if they’d stop knocking over the trash bins. "In the Red" - A day in the life of a Martian airlock repair tech."Sanguine" - Vampire hunting isn’t for the faint of heart."Judgment Day" - An early attempt at AI results in something that considers humans too uninteresting with which to be bothered."Rock Band" - Marooned in a damaged spaceship, with only the ship to keep you company. "Loaner" - Rich dead people run the economy and like to take the living out for joyrides."Indistinguishable from Magic" - If you inherited a potentially dangerous artifact, who’s the first person you’d call?"The Butler Did It" - Robots are everywhere. Everyone’s got one. One small problem: Their AI is based on the brain scans of a serial killer."Imaginary" - Bobby has a lot of imaginary friends. They’re all him."Monster" - There’s a monster in the closet, and it’s really sorry for the intrusion."Death Takes a Lunch Break" - Encountering a ske ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amanda DeGroof. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/126534/bk_acx0_126534_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Buried Treasure: A Collection of Strange Mysteries, Golden Legends, and Lucky Finds in the Search for Hidden Wealth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 108min
    When Robert Louis Stevenson published Treasure Island in the late 19th century, it all but created every stereotype now associated with pirates. The book is a coming-of-age adventure that mixes character studies, action, a vivid setting, and commentary on the ambiguity of morality, as embodied by the memorable Long John Silver. Its influence on the popularity of historical pirates is unmistakable, with its inclusion of treasure maps, where "X" marks the spot, schooners, tropical islands, and one-legged pirates with parrots on their shoulders. Of course, Stevenson’s work and the public’s fascination with pirates were hardly new phenomena. After all, people had heard tales of hidden booty and gold for centuries, from rumors about Blackbeard and Captain William Kidd to stories about outlaws and criminals burying their booty to come back for it at a later date. It was only fitting that Stevenson’s work came in the same era that people across the world were panning the earth for mineral resources, most notably the California Gold Rush in the late 1840s. As this all suggests, there’s something about buried treasure that catches someone’s attention like few other things. As soon as there’s the potential for uncovering hidden wealth, otherwise sane and reliable people will abandon their homes and regular lives and become obsessed with tracking down the treasure.In the 1969 Western Mackenna’s Gold, word gets out that the Apaches have an entire canyon filled with gold deep in their territory. A gang of outlaws go after it, with the sheriff hot on their tails, but the sheriff’s task gets immeasurably harder when the nearby locals rush out looking for the gold, too. Soon, the local cavalry captain gets corrupted by gold fever as well, and everyone is fighting everybody, with the Apaches picking off the survivors.Luckily, most treasure hunts aren’t that bloody, but they can be dangerous and disappointing. Indeed, those who typicall ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/179533/bk_acx0_179533_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Zoe & Zak and the Tiger Temple: Zoe & Zak, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 433min
    Zoe and Zak have learned some things since their first semester at Moonstock Himalayan Academy in India:#1 Don't trust the parrots.#2 Don't eat the food.#3 And most importantly... Don't stick around if something crawls out of the lava hole beneath your school.Last semester, Zoe and Zak returned the first lost Noble Truth to its rightful home. Now, the seventh graders are back in India for their second semester at Moonstock, their boarding school high in the Himalayan mountains where impossible things seem to happen on a regular basis.School kicks off with the Activity Week Challenge in the tiny mountain kingdom of Bhutan where the students must deliver medical supplies. Things take a turn for the worse when Zak becomes deathly ill after an encounter with a strange floating bubble. On returning to Moonstock, Zoe and Zak discover that a creature has come through the lava hole far below their dormitory. When Zoe and Zak follow the creature, they soon learn what they must do. They have been tasked with finding the second lost Noble Truth--the Tiger Eye of Justice.Finding the Tiger Eye sounds like an impossible mission, and it's only made more confusing when Zak discovers that he has been given a powerful gift to help with the task. But Zak's new gift is a double-edged sword, and if Zoe and Zak don't find the Tiger Eye quickly, Zak's time will run out.The Tiger Temple takes Zoe and Zak deep into an exotic world of magical enchantment and heart-pounding action. It promises to be the most thrilling Zoe and Zak adventure yet.ABOUT:Zoe & Zak and the Tiger Temple is the third book in the Zoe and Zak series. It is preceded by the best-selling first book, Zoe & Zak and the Ghost Leopard, and book two, Zoe & Zak and the Yogi's Curse. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sonja Field. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/016773/bk_acx0_016773_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Watch Me: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 668min
    Following her "extraordinary" ( Vanity Fair), "evocative" ( The New York Times), "magically beautiful" ( The Boston Globe), "gorgeously written" ( O, The Oprah Magazine) coming-of-age memoir, Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston writes about her relationship with Jack Nicholson, her rise to stardom, her work with the greatest directors in Hollywood, her love affair with her husband, and much more. Anjelica Huston was 29 years old and trying to create a place for herself as an actress in Hollywood when the director Tony Richardson said to her: "Poor little you. So much talent and so little to show for it. You’re never going to do anything with your life." Tony had a singsong voice, like one of his own parrots, but there was no mistaking the edge. "Perhaps you’re right,” I answered. Inside I was thinking, Watch me." In A Story Lately Told, Anjelica Huston described her enchanted childhood in Ireland and her glamorous but troubled late teens in London. That memoir of her early years ended when Anjelica stepped into Hollywood. In Watch Me, Huston tells the story of falling in love with Jack Nicholson and her adventurous, turbulent, high-profile, spirited 17-year relationship with him and his intoxicating circle of friends. She writes about learning the art and craft of acting, about her Academy Award-winning portrayal of Maerose Prizzi in Prizzi’s Honor, about her roles as Morticia Addams in the Addams Family films, Etheline Tenenbaum in The Royal Tenenbaums and Lilly Dillon in The Grifters, and about her collaborations with many great directors, including Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, Bob Rafelson, Francis Ford Coppola, and Stephen Frears. She movingly and beautifully writes about the death of her father, the legendary director John Huston, and her marriage to sculptor Robert Graham. She is candid, mischievous, warm, passionate, funny, and a superb storyte ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anjelica Huston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/006906/bk_sans_006906_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pirates and Privateers: The History of Piracy from Ancient Times to Today , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 103min
    Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Includes a table of contents The people who have lived outside the boundaries of normal societies and refused to play by the rules have long fascinated the world, and nowhere is this more evident than the continuing interest in the pirates of centuries past. As the subjects of books, movies, and even theme park rides, people continue to let their imaginations go when it comes to pirates, with buried treasure, parrots, and walking the plank all ingrained in pop culture’s perception of them.  The word "pirate" conjures up a romantic image of wild sea-faring rogues, living free on the high seas, and the pirates people usually think of lived during the Golden Age of Piracy, when fighting ships were powered by sail and fights between them were decided with cannons and boarding actions. Indeed, it would be an understatement to say that pop culture’s perception of piracy and pirates has been primarily influenced by Captain Edward Teach, known to the world as Blackbeard, the most famous pirate of all time. An English pirate who terrorized the high seas near the Carolinas in the early 18th century, Blackbeard was the gold standard, and in the 300 years since his death he has inspired legends that have spanned books like Treasure Island.  Of course, like any legendary figure, Blackbeard is remembered today based more on myths than reality. People continue to let their imaginations go when it comes to pirates, picturing them as the types who captured booty, hid buried treasure, and fought with superhuman strength. People have long claimed that pirates’ ghosts still haunt the Atlantic Ocean – Blackbeard’s contemporaries were so scared of him that they claimed to have seen his headless body swim around his pirate boat three times. In reality, there have been pirates of some sort throughout recorded history. Whether free-living criminals or the state-s ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Hare. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/106542/bk_acx0_106542_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Alex & Me , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 339min
    On September 6, 2007, an African Grey parrot named Alex died prematurely at age 31. His last words to his owner, Irene Pepperberg, were "You be good. I love you." What would normally be a quiet, very private event was, in Alex's case, headline news. Over the 30 years they had worked together, Alex and Irene had become famous - two pioneers who opened an unprecedented window into the hidden yet vast world of animal minds. Alex's brain was the size of a shelled walnut, and when Irene and Alex first met, birds were not believed to possess any potential for language, consciousness, or anything remotely comparable to human intelligence. Yet, over the years, Alex proved many things. He could add. He could sound out words. He understood concepts like bigger, smaller, more, fewer, and none. He was capable of thought and intention. Together, Alex and Irene uncovered a startling reality: We live in a world populated by thinking, conscious creatures. The fame that resulted was extraordinary. Yet there was a side to their relationship that never made the papers. They were emotionally connected to one another. They shared a deep bond far beyond science. Alex missed Irene when she was away. He was jealous when she paid attention to other parrots, or even people. He liked to show her who was boss. He loved to dance. He sometimes became bored by the repetition of his tests, and played jokes on her. Sometimes they sniped at each other. Yet nearly every day, they each said, "I love you." Alex and Irene stayed together through thick and thin - despite sneers from experts, extraordinary financial sacrifices, and a nomadic existence from one university to another. The story of their 30-year adventure is equally a landmark of scientific achievement and of an unforgettable human-animal bond. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julia Gibson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001755/bk_harp_001755_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 635min
    From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal comes this groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic. What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future - all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the planet's preeminent species. But in recent decades, these claims have been eroded - or even disproved outright - by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Take the way octopuses use coconut shells as tools; elephants that classify humans by age, gender, and language; or Ayumu, the young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame. Based on research involving crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, whales, and of course chimpanzees and bonobos, Frans de Waal explores both the scope and the depth of animal intelligence. He offers a firsthand account of how science has stood traditional behaviorism on its head by revealing how smart animals really are - and how we've underestimated their abilities for too long. People often assume a cognitive ladder from lower to higher forms, with our own intelligence at the top. But what if it is more like a bush, with cognition taking different, often incomparable forms? Would you presume yourself dumber than a squirrel because you're less adept at recalling the locations of hundreds of buried acorns? Or would you judge your perception of your surroundings as more sophisticated than that of an echolocating bat? De Waal reviews the rise and fall of the mechanistic view of animals and opens our minds to the idea that animal minds are far more intricate and complex than we have assumed. De Waal's landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal - and human - intelligence. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Runnette. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008676/bk_blak_008676_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Arawak: The History and Legacy of the Indigenous Natives in South America and the Caribbean , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 94min
    On October 12, 1492, one of the most important “first contacts” of the modern era was made when three ships of Spanish origin approached the island archipelago now known as the Bahamas, cautiously dropping anchor as the captain of the fleet gazed across to what he assumed was the coast of India. According to the popular version of the story, amazed at the sight of ships and men of such unfamiliar appearance, the native people of the island plunged into the clear waters of the Western Atlantic, expertly swimming or aboard dugout canoes, and came out to greet the strangers.In all probability, the meeting was much more cautious and incremental, but the idea that these innocent people, raised in a tropical Eden, might embrace with such open enthusiasm their own destruction is picturesque and no doubt appeals to contemporary perceptions. By whatever means one might choose to view it, this meeting of cultures certainly did mark the beginning of a bold new chapter in the history of Europe and the beginning of the end of an ancient race of native people occupying a vast new continent. The entries into Christopher Columbus’ log as he recorded his first encounters with the indigenous people of the “Indies” are very telling. The island people arrived alongside his ships, offering humble gifts that Columbus described as “parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells”. These were the Taínos people, or the “Arawaks”, as they would come to be known, and Columbus described them as “well built...with good bodies and handsome features”. This description, while deceptively simple, had a chilling implication, because Columbus was not taking note of these facts out of idle interest but in terms of how best to exploit them. As the natives offered up gifts and the open hand of friendship, and by implication the freedom of their islands, Columbus remarked simply on their primitive appearance, ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/141845/bk_acx0_141845_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Exotic Birds and Rainforest Relaxation Sounds: Relax with the Soothing Sounds of the Rainforest , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 523min
    Soothing sounds and relaxation are just moments away! Are you tired and stressed? Are you worried you might never be able to fall asleep? Do you have parrots at home that need to be kept company?Let’s face it: Finding peace and quiet is hard, especially in this modern go go go world! There are more reasons for stress and need for relaxation than I could possibly describe, but one thing is for sure: Everyone needs to relax! Deep down inside all of us is a peaceful, calm person, if only we could just take some time to breathe and relax!But finding a way to block out the noise of life is the hard part. Often you toss and turn at night, trying to calm your mind, but it still spirals, and you get thinking about more and more and more. At that point, you’re just about to give up and accept your sleepless night. Stop. You are not doomed for another sleepless night or unproductive meditation session! You are just missing the correct natural background noise to allow your mind to finally let go! You’ve probably heard before that natural sounds are best for relaxation and meditation. You’re about to find out the amazing answer to one of the most Googled questions ever: “How do I relax?”It. Really. Is. Simple.You don’t have to become a master yoga guru to do this. You don’t have to change who you are. To truly relax and let go, you just need to close your eyes and put on the soothing sounds of the rain forest! In Exotic Birds and Rainforest Relaxation Sounds, you’ll hear: A dozen species of birds to help your mind believe it is in the forest Soothing water sounds to let the stress melt away Rustling wind and leaves to allow your mind to wander Over eight hours of gorgeous HD audioThe best recoding techniques for the most realistic soundsScintillating sounds for relaxation, background, or even bird sitting! 13+ other species of ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: AMP Media. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/219504/bk_acx0_219504_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Modern Jamaica: The History of the Caribbean Island from Christopher Columbus to Today , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 146min
    On October 12, 1492, one of the most important “first contacts” of the modern era was made when three ships of Spanish origin approached the island archipelago now known as the Bahamas, cautiously dropping anchor as the captain of the fleet gazed across to what he assumed was the coast of India. According to the popular version of the story, amazed at the sight of ships and men of such unfamiliar appearance, the native people of the island plunged into the clear waters of the western Atlantic, expertly swimming or aboard dugout canoes, and came out to greet the strangers. The entries into Christopher Columbus’ log as he recorded his first encounters with the indigenous people of the “Indies” are very telling. The island people arrived alongside his ships, offering humble gifts that Columbus described as “parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells.” These were the Taínos people, or the “Arawaks” as they would come to be known, and Columbus described them as “well built…with good bodies and handsome features.” What Columbus wanted in the first instance was gold, and he was quick to observe the small items of gold jewelry worn by his visitors, which alerted him immediately to the fact that there was gold to be found somewhere on these islands. To get to the bottom of it, Columbus would waste no time. Thus, a chain of events was set in motion that would permanently affect Western civilization. It was, indeed, information gleaned from the natives of Hispaniola that an island across the straits to the east was the regional source of gold that prompted Columbus himself, on his second voyage (1493-1496), to investigate. He arrived on the north coast of Jamaica on May 5, 1494, aboard the caravel Niña, dropping anchor in what is today known as Saint Ann’s Bay. He named the place Santa Gloria, remarking in his journal that the island was the fairest that any eye has beholden. H ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Houle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/232653/bk_acx0_232653_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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