Spineless

The Last Summer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 508min

Daniel Eastbriar has finally made good use of that camcorder his parents gave him for his birthday. How? He has secretly recorded his overbearing mother Annie, or Hitler with breasts, having her "afternoon delight" with their neighbor. Not a normal activity for an 18 year old boy and his sister but it's a last ditch effort to expose her double life to their spineless father. For years Daniel and Sam have endured their mother's abuse; Daniel because he is gay, Sam because she idolizes him, but now he has the tape of his mother acting like an amateur porn queen. That should change things, right? Until the tape disappears. Known for recording his workout sessions in his room, that camera is always on. When Sam finds Daniel dead, hanging by the very belt she bought him for his birthday, she struggles to move on with her life. Left without an ally in her own home she tries to overcome her resentment towards Daniel for leaving her. In the midst of starting her life over, Sam uncovers Daniel's camcorder and is forced to see with her own eyes that her family's dysfunction runs deeper that she could ever dream. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Beverly Ann Astley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/085135/bk_acx0_085135_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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With This Heart , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 474min

If someone had told me a year ago that I was about to fall in love, go on an epic road trip, ride a Triceratops, sing on a bar, and lose my virginity, I would have assumed they were on drugs. Well, that is, until I met Beckham. Beck was mostly to blame for my recklessness. Gorgeous, clever, undeniably charming Beck barreled into my life as if it were his mission to make sure I never took living for granted. He showed me that there were no boundaries, rules were for the spineless, and a kiss was supposed to happen when I least expected. Beck was the plot twist that took me by surprise. Two months before I met him, death was knocking at my door. I’d all but given up my last scrap of hope when suddenly, I was given a second chance at life. This time around, I wasn't going to let it slip through my fingers. We set out on a road trip with nothing to lose and no guarantees of tomorrow. Our road trip was about young, reckless love. The kind of love that burns bright. The kind of love that no road-map could bring me back from. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jessica Almasy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021217/bk_adbl_021217_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Fatal Grace: Chief Inspector Gamache, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 631min

Winner of the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel! Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparing for a traditional country Christmas, and someone is preparing for murder. No one liked CC de Poitiers. Not her quiet husband, not her spineless lover, not her pathetic daughter - and certainly none of the residents of Three Pines. CC de Poitiers managed to alienate everyone, right up until the moment of her death. When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, of the Sûreté du Quebec, is called to investigate, he quickly realizes he's dealing with someone quite extraordinary. CC de Poitiers was electrocuted in the middle of a frozen lake, in front of the entire village, as she watched the annual curling tournament. And yet no one saw anything. Who could have been insane enough to try such a macabre method of murder - or brilliant enough to succeed? With his trademark compassion and courage, Gamache digs beneath the idyllic surface of village life to find the dangerous secrets long buried there. For a Quebec winter is not only staggeringly beautiful but deadly, and the people of Three Pines know better than to reveal too much of themselves. But other dangers are becoming clear to Gamache. As a bitter wind blows into the village, something even more chilling is coming for Gamache himself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ralph Cosham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001784/bk_aren_001784_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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F--k "the Man": Escape the Rat Race and Live a Purpose Driven Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 481min

Working for the man...is defined as performing a task, manual labor, or any type of assigned duty for a stupid, spineless, gutless, lazy, self-serving, douchebags, worthless, anal retentive, unappreciative, disrespectful person or organization for money. How do you know if you are working for the man? If the bills necessitate you repeatedly going to a place of work Monday to Friday then...you work for the man! If you feel like time seems to speed up at the weekend and you firmly believe that Monday's suck ass...then yes you work for the man. I am here to tell you that life is far too short to spend your best years working to make somebody else rich. Trust me on this; you are here to achieve something amazing. Most people intrinsically feel this burning desire and know it to be true. Whether you love your job or not. The company you work for is only ever going to pay you just enough to stop you leaving and not a cent more. The vast majority of people would be out of cash within a month of losing their job. Heck, over 50% of Americans would be unable to raise $400 for a medical emergency without borrowing the money or selling something. In F - k "The Man", best-selling author and online entrepreneur Craig Beck will show you his step-by-step system to find your passion and purpose. Then how you can destroy fear and get started on designing and building the life of your dreams. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Craig Beck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/085981/bk_acx0_085981_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Three Days and Two Knights: An Amusing Arthurian Adventure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 738min

Sir Alanbart avoids action, recoils from romance, and shuns self-sacrifice; yet when he finds himself drawn into a harebrained attempt to rescue King Arthur, he becomes a victim of all three, and then poor Alanbart must fight hard to stay true to his cowardly and indolent nature. Three Days and Two Knights is a genre crossover that blends fantasy adventure, comedy, and romance in a historical literary setting. "Few tales tell of heroes and dragons, knights and giants, magic, miracles, love, a banshee and the undead...." So begins Aelfric the Entertainer, this tale's invasive, witty and often philosophical narrator. Set on the moors of Scotland in the waning months of Arthur's rule, Three Days and Two Knights tells how Sir Alanbart, an impoverished and spineless knight; Heather, an indomitable and irresistible serving maid; Scot, a pagan swordsman of questionable intelligence and sexuality, and Sir Gawain, the legendary romantic hero, form an unlikely alliance to free King Arthur from prison. The catch? They have just three days before the blue moon rises, at which time the red wizard Rabordath will use Arthur's blood to conjure a dragon that will end a kingdom and set all of Britain aflame. Three Days and Two Knights features characters, settings, artifacts and events drawn from medieval myth and history, and will appeal to anyone who loves the middle ages, knights, monsters, magic, or King Arthur, especially those who grew up with The Hobbit, Percy Jackson, and Cressida Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Topping. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/102961/bk_acx0_102961_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 527min

Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his principled aversion to absolutes does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Obama's commitments to deliberation and experimentation derive from sustained engagement with American democratic thought. In a new preface, Kloppenberg explains why Obama has stuck with his commitment to compromise in the first three years of his presidency, despite the criticism it has provoked. Reading Obama traces the origins of his ideas and establishes him as the most penetrating political thinker elected to the presidency in the past century. Kloppenberg demonstrates the influences that have shaped Obama's distinctive worldview, including Nietzsche and Niebuhr, Ellison and Rawls, and recent theorists engaged in debates about feminism, critical race theory, and cultural norms. Examining Obama's views on the Constitution, slavery and the Civil War, the New Deal, and the civil rights movement, Kloppenberg shows Obama's sophisticated understanding of American history. Obama's interest in compromise, reasoned public debate, and the patient nurturing of civility is a sign of strength, not weakness, Kloppenberg argues. He locates its roots in Madison, Lincoln, and especially in the philosophical pragmatism of William James and John Dewey, which nourished generations of American progressives, Black and White, female and male, through much of the 20th century, albeit with mixed results. Reading Obama reveals the sources of Obama's commitment to democratic deliberation: the books he has read, the visionaries who have inspired him, the social movements and personal struggles that have shaped his thinking. Kloppenberg shows that Obama's positions on social justice, religion, race, family, and America's role in the world do not stem from a desire to please everyone b ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Woodside. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004999/bk_adbl_004999_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire, Hörbuch, Digital, 340min

Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi set out to describe the nature of George Bush's America in the post-9/11 era and ended up vomiting demons in an evangelical church in Texas, riding the streets of Baghdad in an American convoy to nowhere, searching for phantom fighter jets in Congress, and falling into the rabbit hole of the 9/11 Truth Movement.Matt discovered in his travels across the country that the resilient blue state/red state narrative of American politics had become irrelevant. A large and growing chunk of the American population was so turned off - or radicalized - by electoral chicanery, a spineless news media, and the increasingly blatant lies from our leaders ("they hate us for our freedom") that they abandoned the political mainstream altogether. They joined what he calls "The Great Derangement."Taibbi tells the story of this new American madness by inserting himself into four defining American subcultures: The Military, where he finds himself mired in the grotesque black comedy of the American occupation of Iraq; The System, where he follows the money-slicked path of legislation in Congress; The Resistance, where he doubles as chief public antagonist and undercover member of the passionately bonkers 9/11 Truth Movement; and The Church, where he infiltrates a politically influential apocalyptic mega-ministry in Texas and enters the lives of its desperate congregants.Together these four interwoven adventures paint a portrait of a nation dangerously out of touch with reality and desperately searching for answers in all the wrong places.Funny, smart, and a little bit heartbreaking, The Great Derangement is an audaciously reported, sobering, and illuminating portrait of America at the end of the Bush era. Language: English. Narrator: David Slavin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001479/bk_rand_001479_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Operator #5 #6 September 1934 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 291min

Chaos, confusion, and disintegration fall with swift, breathtaking disaster upon America! Already terrorized by a tottering, unstable world, American men and women are swept into a mad stampede when the great leaders of the nation are spirited away one by one to return as broken men, useless and inept. Here Jimmy Christopher - Operator #5 - sets forth on his most thrilling and dangerous exploit while the great brains of America surrender to madness and despair, as a leaderless people seethe in revolt against a government that is crumbling before their eyes. How can Operator #5 singlehandedly hope to prevail against that dread master of broken men? A woman screamed once...and 1,000 guests in that great Washington ballroom stood frozen with terror as the blood-mad horde of naked savages turned the place into a reeking charnel house. But that was only the beginning.... America's greatest industrial and political leaders become, overnight, gibbering maniacs while a fear-frenzied, despairing nation revolts against a crumbling, dying government! How can Operator #5, alone, hope to prevail against this dread master of broken men? They called this new threat to America's freedom the "man breaker". Is he an agent of a foreign power or a traitor burrowing through the national bowels like a termite of silent but relentless destruction? Does it matter when the country's most prominent leaders fall before his cruel tortures like spineless rag dolls? As savage riots spring up across the benighted land, Jimmy Christopher, Operator #5, takes up his pistol and rapier and undertakes a desperate manhunt for the mastermind before the nation plunges into a new dark age of doom. Into this uncontrollable political crisis plunges Jimmy Christopher - only one man, but a man who embodied the American spirit and stands prepared to perish to protect his country. From the pages of Operator #5 magazine, September 1934, comes "Master of Broken Men" read ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Milton Bagby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/047684/bk_acx0_047684_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 524min

Glenn Beck, number-one best-selling author and radio host, reveals the cold truth behind the ideology of progressivism and how the tenets of this dangerous belief system are eroding the foundation of this country. Why do we accept the lies? Politics is no longer about pointing to a shining city on the hill; it's about promising you a shiny new car for your driveway. The candidate who tells the people what they want to hear is usually the one who wins - facts be damned. Politicians may be sleazy and spineless, but they're not stupid. They see that the way to win is by first telling people everything that is wrong with the world and then painting a vision of the life they want - a Utopian vision that they'll create right here on earth, one where no one is ever sick or hungry, jobless, or homeless. All we have to do is surrender our freedom and someone else's wallet, and they'll make it happen. And so they continue to lie, and we continue to believe them, and they keep winning elections. The only way to break the cycle is to understand why Americans fall for the deception over and over again. In Liars, number-one best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck reveals the startlingly simple answer: fear. At our most basic level, we're all afraid of something. Progressives from both parties exploit this by first pointing out the things we should be afraid of and then offering us "solutions" to these fears. Solutions that always require us to give up our freedoms. Solutions that are based on two things: lies and an unrelenting hunger for power and control. In his signature no-holds-barred way, Beck destroys the false promises of Progressivism and takes us through its history, showing how each "wave" built up on the one before it, ultimately washing up to the beach in the form of Barack Obama - and whoever is next. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanyin ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy Lowell, Glenn Beck - introduction. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007569/bk_sans_007569_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Spineless - The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone: ab 17.99 €

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