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  The Moscow Kremlin: The History of Russia's Most Famous Landmark , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 86min

  Here are luxury and penury, abundance and the most extreme deprivation, piety, and atheism...and an unbelievable frivolity - warring elements which, out of their constant conflicts, create this marvelous, outrageous, gigantic whole which we know by its collective name: Moscow. (Konstantin Batyushkov) Among all the world's capitals, few contain governmental seats of power as imposing or impressive as the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. While the name itself is often used as a shorthand to refer to the Russian government, and many people associate it with Red Square, the Kremlin is actually a fortress inside the heart of Moscow, replete with everything from ramparts and towers to decadent churches. The history of Russia is vast and winding, so it should come as no surprise that the same can be said for the Kremlin. Construction on the site was taking place by the 12th century, and by the 14th century it was imposing enough to withstand sieges. Ivan the Great added artistic flourishes to the Kremlin during the Renaissance, Catherine the Great had a residence built inside it during the 18th century, and Napoleon severely damaged the Kremlin in the course of ordering its destruction during the invasion of Russia in 1812. Even as Russian dynasties came and went, and a transition to the Soviet Union was made, the Kremlin remained - even as constant changes took place within it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nathan Yoder. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035977/bk_acx0_035977_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Nimisha's Ship , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 682min

  On Vega III, where the jaded inhabitants pursue lives of malicious intrigue and decadent pleasure, Lady Nimisha Boynton-Rondymense has always been an anomaly. Disdainful of the frivolity of her fellows, she prefers the exciting and challenging world of her father, Lord Tionel, owner and principal starship designer of the famous Rondymense shipyards. Precociously gifted, Nimisha becomes Lord Tionel's secret assistant - and, in the aftermath of a shocking tragedy, his chosen successor at the helm of the shipyards. But supplanting her father's designated body-heir, the callow Lord Vestrin, is a slight that Vestrin and his mother, Lady Vescuya, will not easily forget. Or forgive. Preoccupied with carrying on her father's ambitious plans for the Mark 5, an experimental long-distance cruiser, Nimisha dangerously disregards Vestrin's animosity - until a solo test flight of the Mark 5 goes horribly awry, marooning Nimisha light-years from home on a planet as deadly as it is beautiful. Now, Vestrin and Vescuya are given the chance they've been waiting for: to reclaim the shipyards...by any means necessary. Only Nimisha's child, Cuiva, a girl every bit as ingenious as her mother - stands in their way. But for how long? For just when her daughter needs her most, Nimisha is unable to help - and in a precarious situation herself. But Nimisha has never given up in her life - and she's not about to start now. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Ericksen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/000587/bk_brll_000587_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Play It Again, Sam: The Notable Life of Sam Massell, Atlanta's First Minority Mayor , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 370min

  Chronicling the journey of 90-year-old Sam Massell, each chapter is a book unto itself on the separate parts of his life. He has excelled in four careers, including 20 years in commercial real estate, 22 years in elected offices, 13 years in the tourism industry, and is now in his 30th year of association management. In 1969, Sam Massell was elected the first Jewish mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. Since leaving office, he has been inducted into numerous "Halls of Fame" for service in fields of business, government, civil rights, hospitality, and influence. While a young boy and self-described "dead-end kid", Massell searched for identity between the mischief of his only two friends (one who ended up in juvenile detention) and operating his own oversized Coca-Cola stand. Later, he pioneered professionally as a specialist in building medical offices, struggled between pride and prejudice for being Jewish and as a liberal Democrat organized and managed a nonprofit civic group among 100 (mostly) conservative Republican business leaders. Politically, Massell changed Atlanta's city elections to nonpartisan, created Atlanta's Urban Design Commission, allowed Muhammad Ali to fight when 50 other cities would not, established Metro Atlanta's mass transit system (MARTA), appointed the first woman to the city council, named the first Blacks to city department head status, and developed the Omni, Atlanta's first enclosed arena. Most importantly, his legacy will be his peaceful guidance of Atlanta (then population 500,000) through its transformation from an all-White power structure to a Black city government. This is a textbook case of behind-the-scenes fact and frivolity of the sins of a workaholic and the success of an idea man, a leader, and the subject of a well-written history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy Arthur. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/217051/bk_acx0_217051_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Guided Meditations for Anxiety and Panic Attacks: Guided Meditations for Stress Relief with Relaxation Techniques, Guided Imagery, Self Hypnosis and Through Learning Mindfulness for Inner Peace, Hörbuch, Digital, 214min

  Relieve anxiety and panic attacks with five relaxing guided meditations. Has unnecessary stress snatched away the peace from your life? Are frequent panic attacks making your life difficult? Does the fear of panic attacks keep you on the edge?Stress and worries have become a part of modern life. Never-ending deadlines, mad rush, performance pressure, and cutthroat competition keeps us stressed, worried, and insecure.Do you want to have an easy and effective way to fight these negative emotions and bring positivity into your life?This meditation script will help you in relaxing and warding off stress, worries, and panic. Specifically designed guided meditation sessions in the book will help you managing stress successfully. You will be able to lead a happy, content, and blissful life.Even if you are completely new to meditation, this script will walk you through the whole process. From beginning till the end, you will be guided at each step. The audiobook version will help you in easily repeating the affirmations to channelize the positive energy. You can easily relax every day in the comfort of your home or office with the help of this meditation program. It has specially designed guided meditation sessions for breathing relaxation, stress relief, anxiety, and panic attacks.Grab your copy today and learn:Meditation for peace and tranquilityRelieving your stressAcknowledging the reasons for the stressIdentifying the ways in which you can ward off acute stressYou will get to know the ways to counter panic attacks successfullyGet relief from anxietyYou will not fear the stress but face itAnd much moreThis meditation program will empower you to control your emotions. It will help you in achieving stability of emotions. You will learn to overcome your fears. In addition, you will understand their frivolity and effective ways to manag Language: English. Narrator: Chrissa Boice. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/136393/bk_acx0_136393_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Guided Meditations for Anxiety and Deep Sleep: 2 in 1 Practicing Mindfulness for Inner Peace: Includes Guided Meditations for Anxiety and Panic Attacks and Guided Meditations for Deep Sleep, Hörbuch, Digital, 365min

  Stress and worries have become a part of modern life. Never-ending deadlines, mad rush, performance pressure, and cutthroat competition keeps us stressed, worried, and insecure. Do you want to have an easy and effective way to fight these negative emotions and bring positivity into your life? This meditation script will help you in relaxing and warding off stress, worries, and panic. Specifically designed guided meditation sessions in the audiobook will help you managing stress successfully. You will be able to lead a happy, content, and blissful life. Even if you are completely new to meditation, this script will walk you through the whole process. From beginning till the end, you will be guided at each step. The audiobook version will help you in easily repeating the affirmations to channelize the positive energy. You can easily relax every day in the comfort of your home or office with the help of this meditation program. It has specially designed guided-meditation sessions for breathing relaxation, stress relief, anxiety, panic attacks, and deep sleep. Grab your copy today and learn:Meditation for peace and tranquility Relieving your anxiety stress Acknowledging the reasons for the stress Identifying the ways in which you can ward off acute stress You will get to know the ways to counter panic attacks successfully Improving your sleep and feel more energized Practicing mindfulness And much moreThis meditation program will empower you to control your emotions. It will help you in achieving stability of emotions. You will also learn to overcome your fears. Furthermore, you will understand their frivolity and effective ways to manage them. If you want to face stress, worries, and panic attacks, don’t wait any longer. Scroll up and click the "Buy Now" button to get started meditating today! Language: English. Narrator: Chrissa Boice, Kirsten Hintner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/143701/bk_acx0_143701_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 661min

  Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920's puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for granted. Her newfound freedom heralded a radical change in American culture. Whisking us from the Alabama country club where Zelda Sayre first caught the eye of F. Scott Fitzgerald to Muncie, Indiana, where would-be flappers begged their mothers for silk stockings, to the Manhattan speakeasies where patrons partied till daybreak, historian Joshua Zeitz brings the era to exhilarating life. This is the story of America’s first sexual revolution, its first merchants of cool, its first celebrities, and its most sparkling advertisement for the right to pursue happiness. The men and women who made the flapper were a diverse lot. There was Coco Chanel, the French orphan who redefined the feminine form and silhouette, helping to free women from the torturous corsets and crinolines that had served as tools of social control. In California, where orange groves gave way to studio lots and fairytale mansions, three of America’s first celebrities - Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, and Louise Brooks - Hollywood’s great flapper triumvirate - fired the imaginations of millions of filmgoers. Towering above all were Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, whose swift ascent and spectacular fall embodied the glamour and excess of the era that would come to an abrupt end on Black Tuesday, when the stock market collapsed and rendered the age of abundance and frivolity instantly obsolete. With its heady cocktail of storytelling and big ideas, Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who launched the first truly modern decade. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniella Rabbani. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013192/bk_adbl_013192_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Lady Caroline's Defiance: Chase Abbey, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 276min, (USK 18)

  Lady Caroline Duncan has always been an extremely proper young woman who does not step out of societal boundaries, ever. While awaiting an imminent proposal of marriage, Caroline decides she wants to play the sought-after daughter of a duke one last time. She wants a short season of parties in London before returning to her propriety-dictated life forever. She will dip her toe into the invigorating river of rule-breakers, just this once. It is at this precise moment that Lord Alexander Ravens declares his long-awaited suit for Caroline's hand. Caroline is thrilled to have captured the heart of the handsome Alexander but is hesitant to deny herself a chance at a last adventure. Sharing her desires with Alexander, she is pleased when he grants her permission. With great reservation, he draws up a contract that allows a clandestine betrothal only known about by the intimate family. She can have her freedom within the edicts of proper society. Even the caveat that Ravens will promptly deal with all indiscretions over his knee barely gives Caroline pause. As the month progresses, Ravens and the rest of her family discover they are not happy with this new Caroline. When pulling her out of scrapes seems to be the new order of the day, Ravens begins to fear that the lessons delivered to her bare bottom aren't enough to bring his beloved back into the folds of decorum. Is Caroline's defiance of the tenets of polite society - and a month of frivolity - worth jeopardizing her fragile reputation and potentially risking a lifetime of loss? Will she estrange her rules-governed fiancé for a little bit of fun? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: La Petite Mort. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/070537/bk_acx0_070537_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Temptation and Surrender: A Cynster Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 974min

  Handsome, wealthy, and well-born, Jonas Tallent has everything a gentleman needs to enjoy London society to the fullest...and he has. He's played cards until dawn, flirted with eligible young ladies, and made love to some ineligible ones. But now he's restless and bored with the mindless frivolity and careless pleasure, so it's with a sense of relief that he takes up the reins of his family's estate in rural Devon. His most pressing need is to hire a new manager for the inn; the center of village life. Such a small task, yet he discovers few decent applicants are willing to live in a quiet country backwater. Then genteel but impoverished Miss Emily Beauregard applies for the position. Jonas's initial response is an emphatic "no!" Ladies, especially one as attractive as Emily, belong in the ballroom or the bedroom, not running an inn. But with no alternatives, he grudgingly allows Emily to try, and she rapidly proves herself worthy, resurrecting the inn with tact and skill. But Emily has a secret. It's not only the need to provide for herself and her orphaned siblings that has brought her to Devon. She's surreptitiously searching for a family treasure hidden in the village, the only clues to its location a cryptic rhyme handed down through the generations. Emily is determined to solve the puzzle, find the treasure, and reinstate her family to its rightful place in society. But Em hasn't bargained on Jonas. His experience is temptation, his attentions irresistible, and he's determined to aid her in her quest. He eventually persuades her to trust him, and together they unravel the clues. But someone else is watching, waiting, and once the family legacy is unearthed, the villain strikes, threatening Em, her family, and the love she and Jonas have discovered in each other's arms. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roz Landor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001806/bk_harp_001806_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Let's Get Your Party Started: Growing Up, Aging, and Dying - a Martian's Perspective , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 583min

  If Martians were to visit Earth, would they be perplexed to find that some folks need a reminder to celebrate each year of their lives? Do you mark your date of birth with cake and a bit of frivolity? Do you spend any quiet time on your birthdays to reflect on the life path you have taken thus far? Do you eagerly anticipate and map out the trajectory of the next year and all the subsequent years of your life?Would our interplanetary buddies wonder why many of us think we cease to grow as we exit our teen years or why we dread aging and fear dying? You will likely enjoy this audiobook if you:Feel a smidgen of unease about aging and dyingWant to see if worms and chickens can teach life lessonsAre interested in what fellow life travelers say about growing up, aging, and dyingWish to explore cutting-edge research and innovative theories regarding various aspects of our life cycleWant practical, fun ideas to celebrate every age and phase of life to get your party started!The author considers herself an expert “dier” due to a few near-death episodes which didn’t involve any cool out-of-body stuff, but did kindle a lot of interesting ideas and questions about why we think what we think regarding each phase of our lives. This sometimes-amusing, sometimes-quite-serious book is not about whether there’s an afterlife; it’s about you here and now, filled with many ideas and questions for you to ponder.In this audiobook, you will be introduced to a variety of perspectives on these and other issues with the intent that by having listened to it, you will live a more examined life. If you are satisfied with your current life path, you will get some cool suggestions for more fun. If, on the other hand, you realize that the story of your life could use some editing , consider these important aspects that you need to address:Fear, such as fear of public speaking, loneliness, ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Terryl Mackey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/162477/bk_acx0_162477_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Charles Ponzi and the Ponzi Scheme: The History and Legacy of 20th Century America's Most Famous Con Artist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 73min

  “I went looking for trouble, and I found it.” (Charles Ponzi) Though few people are familiar with the story of his life, Charles Ponzi’s name is almost instantly recognizable thanks to the famous financial scandal named after him. This is somewhat ironic because, while his last name has become synonymous with financial scandal and many recognize how a Ponzi scheme works, some have argued that Ponzi really did not know what he was doing while it was taking place. When reading many of the books and articles written about him, it does seem as though Ponzi believed he would be able to pay back his investors at one point or another. In fact, the scheme that Ponzi created was not a new one - it was historically known as “robbing Peter to pay Paul” - but Ponzi became famous for it because he was able to create a scam in this way on a massive scale. When he was finally caught, it led to the investigation and collapse of several estates and banks, and Massachusetts subsequently found itself in a banking crisis. Moreover, one of the most interesting aspects of the affair is that people from many different social backgrounds and classes were affected by Ponzi’s scandal. He took money from teenagers who had savings as low as $20, and he also took millions from New York City’s elite. Ponzi’s scheme involved scamming investors by promising them a bigger return on their investments than was actually possible. Every investor’s money would just be put into a large pool to pay back past investors, and while Ponzi was hardly the first person to engage in such a scheme, the 1920s were ripe for this kind of financial conning. The Roaring Twenties became famous for frivolity, flappers, and Prohibition. Famously depicted in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, life after World War I in America was a time of great spending, and people believed that it as possible for them to make great fortunes, no matter what their social background was. The rich w ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Hare. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/164767/bk_acx0_164767_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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