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The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 455min
The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity - by chewing, brewing, and snorting - some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the 5,000-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze Age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings. Nowadays Big Pharma conglomerates spend billions of dollars on state-of-the art laboratories staffed by PhDs to discover blockbuster drugs. Yet despite our best efforts to engineer cures, luck, trial and error, risk, and ingenuity are still fundamental to medical discovery. The Drug Hunters is a colorful, fact-filled narrative history of the search for new medicines from our Neolithic forebears to the professionals of today and from quinine and aspirin to Viagra, Prozac, and Lipitor. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Foster. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/006957/bk_tant_006957_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Behind Prison Bars: A Medical Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 606min
Samantha Owens applied for the vacant position offered by the State of Texas prison officials for a Registered Nurse with obstetrical experience to work in their OB clinic. After her somewhat frightening orientation what she actually ended up working was the night shift position making her responsible for over 900 inmates in the women's correctional facility. Facing the challenges of triaging pregnant inmates and those with multiple medical issues was daunting and often dangerous during the minimally staffed night shift. For Amy Graham who was incarcerated for writing hot checks, the challenges ranged from simple embarrassment and loneliness to the horrors of being a relatively innocent victim of the dangerous women around her. Although this novel is a work of fiction and the characters' names have been changed to protect the author, Samantha Owens experiences are based on actual incidents that happened to the author when she worked as a nurse in a women's correctional facility. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ayelet Sror. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/046897/bk_acx0_046897_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Animal Instincts, Hörbuch, Digital, 189min
When Kit Lavery's father dies, he is forced to return home after a 10-year stint in Australia to sort out his affairs. A well known conservationist and champion of wildlife, Rupert Lavery has left behind a nature reserve in Devon, staffed by two very determined women: Elizabeth Punch and Jess Wetherby, both of whom are committed to keeping his work alive. As if these two women weren't enough of a match for him, Kit falls under the spell of the stunningly beautiful Jinty O'Hare, niece of the local Master of Foxhounds. All he wants to do is sell his father's estate quickly and get back to Australia...or so he thinks. When a buyer is found for the estate, Kit is torn. Will he stay or will he go? Perhaps Wilson the Gloucester Old Spot pig has the answers. In moments of stress and high anxiety, she seems to be the only one who will listen to the outpourings of a bewildered Kit Lavery... Language: English. Narrator: Alan Titchmarsh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/001700/bk_sans_001700_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fables of Fortune: What Rich People Have That You Don't Want , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 279min
Imagine private jets ready for an afternoon flight to New York City for a transcontinental shopping trip...luxury yachts circling the globe awaiting their owner's arrival...fully staffed but rarely visited vacation homes throughout the world. The rich live trouble-free lives of graceful ease. Or do they? In Fables of Fortune, author Richard Watts pulls back the brocade curtain to reveal the precarious path of wanting more. As an advisor to the super-rich, Watts reflects on the reality of wealth and a difficult and heartbreaking lesson: "The wealthiest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least." Through vignettes based on true stories, Fables of Fortune reveals the challenges the super-wealthy face, including marriages based on net worth, interfamily inheritance battles, faux friends, entitled children, alienation, and spiritual depletion. It also challenges listeners to reconsider key life questions of personal value - and discover surprising new answers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Parks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/128016/bk_acx0_128016_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Hunka Hunka Nursing Love (Women's Fiction) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 503min
Imagine a visiting-nurse service with hot young guys as caregivers. What golden girl wouldn't dig that? Valerie Palka is a savvy businesswoman who is obsessed with keeping her elderly mom, Helen, safe from all the lethal disasters that can befall widows living alone. Helen thinks the workaholic Valerie should focus on having as much luck in the bedroom as she does in the boardroom. But when Helen takes a spill and is rushed to the ER, a handsome male nurse, Keith Nuber, strikes her fancy, and she tells her daughter, “If you could get a handsome devil like that to take care of me, I'd be willing to consider it.” So Valerie creates a care agency, Home Health Hunks, staffed by attractive younger men. Valerie's idea is filled with potential . . . and potholes. As she navigates the tricky road to satisfying her mom as well as her own ambition, she finds herself falling for one of her employees-Keith-and is forced to examine her beliefs about the true meaning of success. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anne Hancock. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/013830/bk_acx0_013830_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Men of Violence: A John Henry Cole Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 401min
John Henry Cole worked for years in Cheyenne, Wyoming - first as a policeman and later a detective. He enjoyed the work, despite its dangers, but it was time for a change. So he decided to open his own agency, one staffed by former lawmen like himself. In practice they might be bounty hunters, but he hired men he had worked with before, that he knew and trusted to be honorable and professional - and then they got to work. And work it was. Cole's agency was located in just about the most dangerous place it could be: Red Pony, in the Cherokee strip, a region often referred to as a no-man's-land because of its rampant outlawry. But the way Cole saw it, what better place to hunt for outlaws with bounties on their heads? But Cole's team may have bit off more than it can chew when it sets out to capture the notorious Sam Starr and his outlaw gang and bring them all to justice. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric G. Dove. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010080/bk_blak_010080_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Sixth Extinction: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 973min
Jason Conrad, a man with the wealth of Bill Gates, decides to preserve for posterity the seeds of as many animal and plant species as possible in a vast and remote underground facility, taking the world's legitimate seed banks and "frozen zoos" to a whole new level. Conrad's secret doomsday complex, though, is staffed by a combination of environmental experts and mercenaries who will stop at nothing to achieve their once-noble ambitions. After a fellow police officer is murdered and his award-winning German shepherd disappears, Montreal Sergeant-Detective Irina Drach and her young partner, Sergeant-Detective Hudson, connect the crime with a seed bank raid in Ardingly, England, and the kidnapping of a Triple Crown Thoroughbred named Zarathustra. Soon it becomes apparent that highly organized, ruthless abduction teams are raiding seed banks around the world, as well as scooping up the finest animal specimens from zoos, nature preserves, and the wild. Despite the global implications and ballooning media interest, however, Irina never forgets that her foremost aim is to solve the murder of a friend and fellow officer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brittany Pressley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014919/bk_adbl_014919_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 365min
During World War II, American soldiers from every city and walk of life rolled through North Platte, Nebraska, on troop trains, en route to Europe and the Pacific. The tiny town transformed its modest railroad depot into the North Platte Canteen, a place where soldiers could enjoy coffee, music, home-cooked food, magazines, and friendly conversation during a stopover that lasted only a few minutes. It provided homesick military personnel with the encouragement they needed to help them through the difficult times ahead. Every day of the war, the Canteen, staffed and funded entirely by local volunteers from the community of 12,000, was open from 5 a.m. until the last troop train of the day pulled away after midnight. By war's end it provided welcoming words, friendship, and baskets of food to more than six million GIs. Based on interviews with North Platte residents and the GIs who once passed through, Bob Greene unearths and reveals a classic, lost-in-the-mists-of-time American story of a grateful country honoring its brave and dedicated sons. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fritz Weaver. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001332/bk_harp_001332_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Evolution 2.0: Breaking the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 660min
When his missionary brother renounced faith in favor of atheism, Perry Marshall was plunged into crisis and doubt. He decided: “I”m going to let science make this decision for me.” He asked: “Is the hand at the end of my arm purposeful? Or is it purposeless?” He leapt into the void of evolution and the origin of life. He could not have begun to anticipate what he was about to discover. Living things were far more sophisticated than textbooks were saying. Nearly every cell in your body can edit its own DNA, combating random destructive copying errors, charting a path for its transformation. Evolution 2.0 pinpoints the central mystery of biology, offering a $10 million technology prize at naturalcode.org to the first person who can solve it - staffed by judges from Harvard, Oxford, and MIT. In this book you’ll find 70+ years of under-reported evolutionary science, including a great many women scientists whose work was sidelined and ignored...even Nobel Prizes that hint at possibilities modern science is only beginning to consider. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Perry Marshall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/057683/bk_acx0_057683_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Life of the Party: Girls Most Likely to... Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 141min
Book three of the Girls Most Likely to... In high school, Tess Bonham was the go-to for party planning. So it's no surprise that she's built that talent into a successful party planning business. Tess loves her job—most of the time. Planning her own ten-year reunion weekend promises to be the highlight of her career, even if making it perfect for her former classmates means she won't actually have time to enjoy it herself. Hotelier Jeremy Wright has wanted Tess for months, and he's tired watching her sacrifice her social life to her overbooked calendar. So when she's short-staffed, Jeremy jumps at the chance to help out with her reunion during the day - if Tess surrenders the nights to him. He's got plans for a private party, and she's the guest of honor... Tess should say no. But she really, really wants to say yes. Spending time with Jeremy reminds her just how much fun life can be. But she's not sure she can be "just friends" once she knows how amazing the benefits are.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ella LaRue. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harl/001390/bk_harl_001390_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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