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    The Bible As History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 487min
    The spread of Christianity is not easily explained or understood and confounds critics and believers alike. While this new faith was widely spread by word of mouth, the primary tool for the new religion was the Bible. Even now, nearly 2,000 years later the Bible continues to influence lives all over the world. How can this ancient document continue to have such a profound influence on the world? How has it survived the changing times and the feeble whims of mankind? While the world has changed so dramatically, the Bible remains the same. The Bible has withstood centuries of attack from critics and non-believers, but it still stands intact. The Bible has its roots in both theology and history. Some believe the Bible is at its basest form, a book of history. "The Religion of the Bible is broadly speaking, a historically based religion; the primary arena of the Bible is history; the divine manifestation is set essentially in history." This second edition is intended to show the Bible is a historically accurate document which can be trusted in all the elements it records regarding history, and therefore should be considered trustworthy and accurate in other areas as well. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Huff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/011746/bk_acx0_011746_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Betrayed: Rosato & DiNunzio, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 595min
    Blockbuster author Lisa Scottoline returns to the Rosato & Associates law firm with Betrayed, and maverick lawyer Judy Carrier takes the lead in a case that's more personal than ever. Judy has always championed the underdog, so when Iris, the housekeeper and best friend of Judy's beloved Aunt Barb, is found dead of an apparent heart attack, Judy begins to suspect foul play. The circumstances of the death leave Judy with more questions than answers, and never before has murder struck so close to home. In the meantime, Judy's own life roils with emotional and professional upheaval. She doesn’t play well with her boss, Bennie Rosato, which jeopardizes her making partner at the firm. Not only that, her best friend Mary DiNunzio is planning a wedding, leaving Judy feeling left behind, as well as newly unhappy in her relationship with her live-in boyfriend Frank. Judy sets her own drama aside and begins an investigation of Iris’s murder, then discovers a shocking truth that confounds her expectations and leads her in a completely different direction. She finds herself plunged into a shadowy world of people who are so desperate that they cannot go to the police, and where others are so ruthless that they prey on vulnerability. Judy finds strength within herself to try to get justice for Iris and her aunt -- but it comes at a terrible price. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maria Bello. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001838/bk_aren_001838_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Scarred Woman: Department Q, Book 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 866min
    The New York Times and number-one internationally best-selling author of The Keeper of Lost Causes delivers his most captivating and suspenseful Department Q novel yet - perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson. Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division, meets his toughest challenge yet when the dark, troubled past of one of his own team members collides with a sinister unsolved murder. In a Copenhagen park the body of an elderly woman is discovered. The case bears a striking resemblance to another unsolved homicide investigation from over a decade ago, but the connection between the two victims confounds the police. Across town a group of young women are being hunted. The attacks seem random, but could these brutal acts of violence be related? Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q is charged with solving the mystery. Back at headquarters, Carl and his team are under pressure to deliver results: failure to meet his superiors' expectations will mean the end of Department Q. Solving the case, however, is not their only concern. After an earlier breakdown, their colleague Rose is still struggling to deal with the reemergence of her past - a past in which a terrible crime may have been committed. It is up to Carl, Assad, and Gordon to uncover the dark and violent truth at the heart of Rose's childhood before it is too late. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Graeme Malcolm. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003248/bk_peng_003248_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Wrong Side of Right , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 469min, (USK 18)
    Two men with tortured pasts confront an attraction that cannot be denied, but in the matter of love and trust they must unravel secrets that threaten to tear them apart. The Wrong Side of Right is an uncompromising exploration of male/male sensuality. This book contains adult language, adult situations, and non-consent. If you are easily offended, you may not enjoy this book. Tony Mitchell is a loner who spends most of his life staying low, denying who and what he is until Aiden Caldwell walks into the shop and changes everything. Tony thinks his new supervisor hates his guts, but that doesn't keep Tony from dreaming and yearning. His fantasies drive him to follow the older man, revealing a secret that only confounds Tony's obsession. Conflicted and confused, Tony falls under the spell of a man called Tank who leads Tony down a dark path of seduction and dangerous cravings. Under Tank's guidance, Tony learns to suspend reality, to succumb. The one thing he doesn't learn is how to say no. Aiden Caldwell pulls Tony from the precipice but not from the addiction that threatens to consume the young man. In the matter of love and trust, can two men intent on hiding their most secret selves find common ground as fate and their own tumultuous pasts conspire to tear them apart? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Ferraiuolo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/093756/bk_acx0_093756_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lunar Park , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 683min
    Imagine becoming a best-selling novelist, and almost immediately famous and wealthy, while still in college, and before long seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box, while after American Psycho your celebrity drowns in a sea of vilification, booze, and drugs. Then imagine having a second chance 10 years later, as the Bret Easton Ellis of this remarkable novel is given, with a wife, children, and suburban sobriety, only to watch this new life shatter beyond recognition in a matter of days. At a fateful Halloween party he glimpses a disturbing (fictional) character driving a car identical to his late father's, his stepdaughter's doll violently "malfunctions", and their house undergoes bizarre transformations both within and without. Connecting these aberrations to graver events, a series of grotesque murders that no longer seem random and the epidemic disappearance of boys his son's age, Ellis struggles to defend his family against this escalating menace even as his wife, their therapists, and the police insist that his apprehensions are rooted instead in substance abuse and egomania. Lunar Park confounds one expectation after another, passing through comedy and mounting horror, both psychological and supernatural, toward an astonishing resolution, about love and loss, fathers and sons, in what is surely the most powerfully original and deeply moving novel of an extraordinary career. Bonus Feature: Includes an interview with the author. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Van Der Beek. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000642/bk_rand_000642_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Inward Empire: Mapping the Wilds of Mortality and Fatherhood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 554min
    A Barnes & Noble discover great new writers selection In the vein of The Noonday Demon and When Breath Becomes Air, a father's "remarkable and revelatory" account of navigating his own neurological decline while watching in wonder as his young daughter's brain activity blossoms, a stunning examination of neurology, loss, and the meaning of life. (The Sunday Times)Soon after his daughter Leontine is born, 36-year-old Christian Donlan's world shifted an inch to the left. He started to miss door handles and light switches when reaching for them. He was suddenly unable to fasten the tiny buttons on his new daughter's clothes. These experiences were the early symptoms of multiple sclerosis, an incurable and degenerative neurological illness.As Leontine starts to investigate the world around her, Donlan too finds himself in a new environment, a "spook country" he calls the "Inward Empire", where reality starts to break down in bizarre, frightening, sometimes beautiful ways. Rather than turning away from this landscape, Donlan summons courage and curiosity and sets out to explore, a tourist in his own body. The result is this exquisitely observed, heartbreaking, and uplifting investigation into the history of neurology, the joys and anxieties of fatherhood, and what remains after everything we take for granted - including the functions that make us feel like ourselves - has been stripped away. Like Andrew Solomon, Paul Kalathini, and William Styron, Donlan brings meaning, grace, playfulness, and dignity to an experience that terrifies and confounds us all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Weyman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004545/bk_hach_004545_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    River of Heaven: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 537min
    You have to know the rest of my story, the part I can't yet bring myself to say. A story of a boy I knew a long time ago and a brother I loved and then lost. Past and present collide in Lee Martin's highly anticipated novel of a man, his brother, and the dark secret that both connects and divides them. Haunting and beautifully wrought, River of Heaven weaves a story of love and loss, confession and redemption, and the mystery buried with a boy named Dewey Finn.On an April evening in 1955, Dewey died on the railroad tracks outside Mt. Gilead, Illinois, and the mystery of his death still confounds the people of this small town. River of Heaven begins some 50 years later and centers on the story of Dewey's boyhood friend, Sam Brady, whose solitary adult life is much formed by what really went on in the days leading up to that evening at the tracks. It's a story he'd do anything to keep from telling, but when his brother, Cal, returns to Mt. Gilead after decades of self-exile, it threatens to come to the surface.A Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Bright Forever, Lee Martin masterfully conveys, with a voice that is at once distinct and lyrical, one man's struggle to come to terms with the outcome of his life. Powerful and captivating, River of Heaven is about the high cost of living a lie, the chains that bind us to our past, and the obligations we have to those we love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Morey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001498/bk_rand_001498_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Private Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 821min
    A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman's life, from the 1880s to World War II. Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at 27 in post-Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their small town has ever produced: a naval officer and a brilliant astronomer, a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret's mother calls the match a piece of luck. Margaret is a good girl who has been raised to marry, yet Andrew confounds her expectations from the moment their train leaves for his naval base in faraway California. Soon she comes to understand that his devotion to science leaves precious little room for anything, or anyone, else. When personal tragedies strike and when national crises envelop the country, Margaret stands by her husband. But as World War II approaches, Andrew's obsessions take a different, darker turn, and Margaret is forced to reconsider the life she has so carefully constructed. Private Life is a beautiful evocation of a woman's inner world: of the little girl within the hopeful bride, of the young woman filled with yearning, and of the faithful wife who comes to harbor a dangerous secret. But it is also a heartbreaking portrait of marriage and the mysteries that endure even in lives lived side by side; a wondrously evocative historical panorama; and, above all, a masterly, unforgettable novel from one of our finest storytellers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Reading. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002293/bk_rand_002293_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fragrance Mysticism: And Other Out-of-Body Travel Roles and Methods , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1127min
    Fragrance mysticism portends to the aromas of particular events or places in the realms and spheres of out-of-body travel and could be said to be a mystical theology of the path of purification leading to union with the Divine. Every out-of-body experience or event contains an energy, a fragrance, an aroma, which permeates the atmosphere and contains within it the knowledge of that realm. The out-of-body traveler must absolutely inhale the fragrance of the arising spheres in order to take within the soul the molecular and cellular structure of such mystical atmospheres, allowing the knowledge contained to self-embody without effort on the traveler's part. In such a manner, the cells of the sphere combine with his own particulate matter and eventide to judgment. By so doing, the out-of-body traveler may take in a fragrance of that which is seen, heard, and elementally acquired. As this occurs, that fragrance converges within his own cells, merging and radiating as the soul gradually conquers again the physical body, bringing cells of higher mind within the confines of the terrestrial sphere and the physical mind. Such energies are transformative and cause alteration within the body, as well as the soul of the out-of-body traveler upon re-entry. In an invisible and fragrant way, the out-of-body traveler contains the meaning of the experience through its fragrance, the manner in which it sensates, by the emanations of the worlds to which he pays heed. And knowledge continues to vibrate into a ceaseless seeking (or having sought) which bears no sounds, words, or fantastic imagery; but rather a sapience which confounds itself to energy alone and can only be expressed as such. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca Lynn Bedford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/080293/bk_acx0_080293_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Insanity Defense and the Mad Murderess of Shaker Heights: Examining the Trial of Mariann Colby , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 270min
    They have no witnesses. They have no case. With this blunt observation, Mariann Colby, an attractive, church-going mother and housewife in Shaker Heights, Ohio, bet a defense psychiatrist that she would not be convicted of murder. A lack of witnesses was not the only problem that would confront the State of Ohio in 1966, which would seek to prosecute her for shooting to death Cremer Young Jr., her son’s nine-year-old playmate. Colby had also deftly cleaned up after herself by hiding the child’s body miles from her home and concealing the weapon.Thus, this "highly intelligent" woman, as she would be described at her trial, had hedged a little on her wager. Not only were there no witnesses to the crime but also not a shred of physical evidence to pin the slaying on her. But Mariann Colby upped the ante a bit. Under intense questioning, she broke down, claiming the gun had accidentally discharged. The state thought it had its capital murder case, but Mariann Colby’s bet against it would be right on the money.As her trial unfolds in this audiobook, the imprecision of her insanity defense confounds the judges, and psychiatrists disagree about her diagnosis. To make matters worse, the panel of judges that initially tried Colby was so confused by what they’d heard that they did not reach a decision consistent with the law of the state. This led to a second trial and more conflicting psychiatric opinions, another controversial judgment, and clashing trial outcomes.This book is an Independent Publisher Book Award winner."A very compelling read." (James Jessen Badal, author of In the Wake of the Butcher)"A meticulous and well-written account of one of Ohio's most infamous murders, second perhaps in notoriety only to the Sam Sheppard Case." (Kirkus Reviews) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Sipple. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160609/bk_acx0_160609_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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