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    The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 96min
    They were in and out in less than two minutes - that's how they got away with millions. And for the duration of their reign, no bank robbers were more feared (though they never fired their guns) nor more pursued or more mythologized than the Stopwatch Gang. The members themselves were straight out of central casting: Lionel Wright, a meticulous introvert who could disappear in a room full of people; Paddy Mitchell, a charming and well-connected crook who saw an angle in everything and would go to any lengths to avoid the hell of being locked away; and Stephen Reid, a fearless point man who could find the weakness in any system and whose story - of addiction and descent into crime, of redemption and literary fame - was all prelude to a tragic but life-saving fall from grace. In The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang, Josh Dean reconstructs the gang's glory days and reveals how the real story, pieced together through months of research and reporting - most prominently with Reid himself, as he comes to the end, at age 64, of his final days in the custody of the state - is more remarkable than the myth that has long been told. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Crystal Fawn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/032455/bk_acx0_032455_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Queen's Prophet , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 693min
    Inspired by Velázquez's baroque masterpiece, Las Meninas, The Queen's Prophet is an imagined account of the dwarfess Maribarbola of Spain (featured prominently in Velázquez's painting) and her struggle for survival and self-determination at a time when dwarfs were kept by aristocracy as pets, prophets, and good-luck charms. When the Countess of Walther dies at her German estate, her loyal dwarfess Maria-Barbara is forced to work as a prophet for a traveling magician, who betrays her by selling her to the queen of Spain. At the royal court in Madrid, Mari finds herself in a bizarre, enchanted world, a society culturally splendid but intellectually isolated. There she becomes Maribarbola, prophet to the queen, and, her survival at stake, endeavors to outsmart the Spaniards. Mari's wits and loyalties are tested as she becomes embroiled in palace intrigue alongside the politically embattled queen. When Mari's carefully schemed prophecies dazzle all of Spain, she and the queen climb to dizzying heights of power, a place as intoxicating as it is dangerous. But even as Mari survives and thrives at the Spanish court, the loss of identity she suffers from living a lie makes her question whether she is really surviving at all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Justine Eyre. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010159/bk_blak_010159_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Muses: Revealing the Nature of Inspiration , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 217min
    Muses have fascinated for millennia yet seldom receive as much exposure as the artistic geniuses they inspire. Of any age, descent or gender, muses enchant simply by being themselves; this innate capacity to inspire has been commonplace for many years yet these catalysing forces are little understood.New science places much emphasis on the role of the observer as the catalyst or creator of reality, and explains what is happening 'energetically' when two human beings relate to each other in the same space and time - or even when they're not in each others' presence.Challenging dualistic Cartesian philosophy and classical Newtonian physics by proposing an interconnected, quantum view of the world, new science can help us to better understand the magic of muses and it can even help us to channel inspiration more prominently into our everyday lives.Offering an 'ecology' of inspiration, Muses lends a fresh perspective to what happened when Lewis Carroll played with Alice Liddell; when Rainer Maria Rilke dreamt of Lou Andreas Salomé, or when John Lennon wrote for his one and only Yoko Ono. Taking this new insight to the edges of the 21st century, the book finishes with a chapter on the future of inspiration. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Sandon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/summ/000194/bk_summ_000194_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 325min
    When the rabbis composed the Mishnah in the late second or early third century C.E., the Jerusalem Temple had been destroyed for more than a century. Why, then, do the Temple and its ritual feature so prominently in the Mishnah? Against the view that the rabbis were reacting directly to the destruction and asserting that nothing had changed, Naftali S. Cohn argues that the memory of the Temple served a political function for the rabbis in their own time. They described the Temple and its ritual in a unique way that helped to establish their authority within the context of Roman dominance. At the time the Mishnah was created, the rabbis were not the only ones talking extensively about the Temple: other Judaeans (including followers of Jesus), Christians, and even Roman emperors produced texts and other cultural artifacts centered on the Jerusalem Temple. Looking back at the procedures of Temple ritual, the rabbis created in the Mishnah a past and a Temple in their own image, which lent legitimacy to their claim to be the only authentic purveyors of Jewish tradition and the traditional Jewish way of life. Seizing on the Temple, they sought to establish and consolidate their own position of importance within the complex social and religious landscape of Jewish society in Roman Palestine. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/021396/bk_acx0_021396_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Kingdoms in Peril (eBook, ePUB)
    This abridged edition introduces readers to the power and drama of this electrifying classic Chinese novel. One of the great works of Chinese literature, beloved in East Asia but virtually unknown in the West, Kingdoms in Peril is an epic historical novel charting the five hundred years leading to the unification of China under the rule of the legendary First Emperor. Writing some fourteen hundred years later, the Ming-era author Feng Menglong drew on a vast trove of literary and historical documents to compose a gripping narrative account of how China came to be China. Here, translated into English for the first time, Kingdoms in Peril recounts the triumphs and tragedies of those five hundred years, through stories taken from the lives of the unforgettable characters that defined and shaped the age in which they lived. This abridged edition distills the novel's distinct style and its most dramatic episodes into a single volume. Maintaining the spirit and excitement of the original novel, this edition weaves together nine of the most pivotal storylines--some extremely famous, others less well known. Readers will glimpse the intensity of tectonic events that shaped everyday lives, loves, and struggles, with powerful women featuring as prominently in the novel as they have in Chinese history. There are many historical works that provide an account of some of these events, but none are as thrilling and breathtakingly memorable as Kingdoms in Peril.
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    Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 737min
    In the history of the Moody Bible Institute, founded in 1886 by shoe salesman turned revivalist Dwight Lyman Moody, Timothy Gloege finds an answer to why Christian ethics seem to go hand in hand with free-market capitalism. Taking the story back to the origins of modern fundamentalism as it arose within the social and cultural context of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, Gloege reveals longstanding connections between Chicago evangelicals and business and shows that the marriage between modern business and the so-called "old-time religion" developed symbiotically, forever altering the American religious landscape. By 1920 a shifting coalition of businessmen, midlevel bureaucrats, and ministers had forged a remarkably resilient form of conservative evangelicalism that deviated in key respects from traditional Protestantism and that embraced modern consumer-oriented ideas and strategies. At the bottom was evangelicalism's thoroughgoing individualism, demonstrated prominently in the privilege it gave to a personal relationship with God as the essence of an authentic faith. This individualism aligned with key developments within capitalism and facilitated a remarkable confluence of business and religious ideas resistant to the influence of Darwinian science's basic orientation toward aggregated populations conditioned by nature or nurture. For these evangelicals, to challenge capitalism was to challenge the foundations of evangelical orthodoxy. Guaranteed pure from both liberal theology and populist literalism, this was a new form of old-time religion not simply compatible with modern consumer capitalism but uniquely dependent on it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Manchester. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007546/bk_blak_007546_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Killer Cop: Unnecessary Use of Deadly Physical Force and How to Protect Yourself from Being Shot , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 84min
    Have you ever been apprehended by the police? If so, how did you react to the situation? Were you handcuffed? People around the world have complained of police manhandling them during arrests, even when their conscience is clear and they know they have not committed a crime. This is a common phenomenon everywhere. The question is, how are you supposed to react before you come to the conclusion that the police are militarized? When people have accused police of using deadly physical force, more often than not, investigations have concluded otherwise. People have been killed by police gunfire because of failure to obey orders during arrests, but this does not mean the killer cops who have been accused of killing unarmed, innocent civilians should not be investigated and brought to justice. Racism is at the center of the increasing number of killer cop incidents. Racism has featured prominently as a major factor contributing to the use of deadly force and pervasive legal processes against minorities in the US. This audiobook addresses killer cop incidents, especially in the US. While it reviews what many are now calling "racist" police killings, note that some people who have been killed by so-called killer cops could have saved their lives by obeying police orders during arrests. This audiobook will also equip you with useful tips that will help you do the right thing, should you fall into the hands of law enforcement officers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Howe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035765/bk_acx0_035765_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Three Gothic Novels: Frankenstein, Carmilla, Dracula , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1533min
    A Gothic novel calls forth paradoxically thrilling feelings of horror and pleasure in the listener. These dark novels feature fictitious prose saturated with mysterious adventures, supernatural horrors, fantasy, and mysticism. Family curses, vampires, ghosts, and monsters frequently appear within the storylines.Gothic novels originated in 18th century England and are the precursors to the modern horror genre. Often the story is set in an old castle or building that had been built in the Gothic style. Thus, the name of the genre derives from the story's backdrop, which features prominently in the mood and action of the story.Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus tells about the life and studies of Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who manages to harness the mystery of life and transform dead flesh into a living man. The man, however, is a monster and begins to pursue his creator.Dracula is a novel that has greatly impacted modern culture. It can be said to be the mother of the vampire genre of prose and television serials that are so popular in the 21st century.Carmilla is another vampire novel that, while lesser-known, was one of the first popular gothic novels to feature vampires. In it, the young Laura tries to fend off the predatory and romantic advances of a female vampire.Contents:1. Mary W. Shelley: Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus2. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla3. Bram Stoker: Dracula ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Gibson, Martina Mercer-Hall, Peter Coates. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/236698/bk_acx0_236698_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Me and Kaminski: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 275min
    From the internationally best-selling author Daniel Kehlmann, a provocative, wickedly funny novel about two unpredictable men - one an artist and the other a journalist - who together embark on an unexpected adventure with uproarious results.Sebastian Zollner's failure as a journalist is matched only by his personal failures: his girlfriend is moving a new lover in before Sebastian even knows he's been dumped. Searching for the break that will redeem him in the eyes of his peers, he heads off on a wild-goose chase into the mountains to interview the eccentric, legendary painter Manuel Kaminski with the hope of writing his biography. Kaminski is going blind and is living in seclusion with his daughter. He could be working on his next masterpiece or easing into his final days, and his inconsistent career raises the question of whether he has been a fraud or a genius.His artistic reputation hinges on any number of factors, but most prominently on a definitive biography. Enter Zollner - who has no intention of writing a puff piece. He's out to dig dirt and to force Kaminski to confront the legacy of his work. But the secrets he uncovers will lead Kaminski, and Zollner himself, to places neither of them ever expected to go. With edgy wit and intelligence, Kehlmann dives into the question of what is "truth" in our celebrity-crazed times and embraces the energy and humanity that lie beneath the pretensions of the art and journalistic worlds. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicolas Coster. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000086/bk_pnix_000086_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Wolves of Winter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 534min
    A captivating tale of humanity pushed beyond its breaking point, of family and bonds of love forged when everything is lost, and of a heroic young woman who crosses a frozen landscape to find her destiny, this debut novel is in a postapocalyptic tradition that spans The Hunger Games and Station Eleven but blazes its own distinctive path. Forget the old days. Forget summer. Forget warmth. Forget anything that doesn't help you survive in the endless white wilderness beyond the edges of a fallen world. Lynn McBride has learned much since society collapsed in the face of nuclear war and the relentless spread of disease. As the memories of her old life continue to haunt, she's been forced to forge ahead in the snow-drifted Canadian Yukon, learning how to hunt and trap and slaughter. But her fragile existence is about to be shattered. Shadows of the world before have found her tiny community - most prominently in the enigmatic figure of Jax, who brings with him dark secrets of the past and sets in motion a chain of events that will call Lynn to a role she never imagined. Simultaneously a heartbreakingly sympathetic portrait of a young woman searching for the answer of who she is meant to be and a frightening vision of a merciless new world in which desperation rules, The Wolves of Winter is enveloping, propulsive, and poignant. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jayme Mattler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008187/bk_sans_008187_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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