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    The Knockoff: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 730min
    An outrageously stylish, wickedly funny novel of fashion in the digital age, The Knockoff is the story of Imogen Tate, editor in chief of Glossy magazine, who finds her 20-something former assistant Eve Morton plotting to knock Imogen off her pedestal, take over her job, and reduce the magazine, famous for its lavish 768-page September issue, into an app. When Imogen returns to work at Glossy after six months away, she can barely recognize her own magazine. Eve, fresh out of Harvard Business School, has fired "the gray hairs", put the managing editor in a supply closet, stopped using the landlines, and hired a bevy of manicured and questionably attired underlings who text and tweet their way through meetings. Imogen, darling of the fashion world, may have Alexander Wang and Diane von Furstenberg on speed dial, but she can't tell Facebook from Foursquare and once got her iPhone stuck in Japanese for two days. Under Eve's reign, Glossy is rapidly becoming a digital sweatshop - hackathons rage all night, girls who sleep get fired, and "fun" means mandatory, company-wide coordinated dances to Beyoncé. Wildly out of her depth, Imogen faces a choice - pack up her Smythson notebooks and quit, or channel her inner geek and take on Eve to save both the magazine and her career. A glittering, uproarious, sharply drawn story filled with thinly veiled fashion personalities, The Knockoff is an insider's look at the ever-changing world of fashion and a fabulous romp for our internet-addicted age.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katherine Kellgren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004172/bk_rand_004172_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Steps: 12 Secrets to Raising Happy and Successful Kids , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 501min
    The Steps: 12 Secrets to Raising Happy and Successful Kids is the ultimate parenting guide, all based on the most recent scientific discoveries but with a twist: It is narrated in a fictional format and is, thus, easier to understand and much more fun. With this audiobook, you will: Learn the 12 steps to raising happy and successful kidsUnderstand the value of communication and connection from an early ageDevelop your children's values, deliberate practice, and growth mind-setWhat’s in it for you (and your kids)?Follow the story of Estela, a successful journalist, who encounters a young boy who knows how to read better than most adults. Intrigued with the exceptional ability of the boy, she finds out that he attends the Awake Clinic, where the renowned neuroscientist Dr. Michael Jansen works. There, Estela finds out about "the steps", an innovative protocol, based on the recent advances of science and psychology. The protocol targets the development of communication and language of the child, early reading, creativity, self-control, discipline, grit, and values, among others, to give them the right tools to promote the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective behaviors of babies, children, and adolescents.Dr. Michael Jansen decides to share with Estela and her readers the 12 steps from the protocol. In the meantime, she finds out about her pregnancy. What better time to check if the steps really work?This thinly veiled story will give you a first-row seat to 12 game-changing parenting lessons. By the end of this informative parenting audiobook, you will be able to:Communicate better with your child which in turn will build an iron-clad relationshipPromote focus, creativity, and self-control which will help to create a balanced young adult ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Luis Bermudez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/162639/bk_acx0_162639_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blue Room VIPs: Books 1-3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 583min
    Tied and Twisted Since leaving the Army to launch a private security company and raise his younger sister, David Burke doesn't have time for women outside of business. He swears by casual and uncomplicated, and satisfies his needs within the walls of a friend's club - until business and pleasure cross paths in one of the club's exclusive Blue Rooms. When Jovanna Steeple's past rears its ugly head and violates the new life she's making, David might be enough to save her heart - but will he be enough to save her life? Naked and Unleashed The line between business and pleasure was never a concern for Callista Voorhees until Mikal Steele stepped off her client list and into her most twisted fantasies. She knows she shouldn't draw him into her uncivilized need to surrender, but Mikal's thinly restrained violence wreaks havoc with her good sense. Divided by responsibility and desire, Mikal fights to remain in control. He almost succeeds - until the lure of the Blue Room draws Callista in, and her confessions unleash Mikal's darkest beast. Tangled and Bound The powerful, magnetic man seated beside Melanie Burke on a flight to Las Vegas could have walked straight out of one of her dog-eared romance novels. When he strikes up a conversation with her on the late-evening flight, fictional fantasies become knee-weakening, panty-soaking, feminine-core-clenching reality - a reality she wants to revisit again and again. But jaded club owner Sam Fletcher has seen everything in the Blue Rooms, and he's weary of the games people play in pursuit of a thrill. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hollie Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/029531/bk_acx0_029531_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mirror Mirror: Frieze Masters London: CV/Visual Arts Research, Book 237 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 20min
    Frieze Masters, London October 6, 2019Into the broad arena of the covered awnings of this enormous tented gathering of leading art dealers and the first gallery space is Aquavella, with a variety of exhibits; and come face-to-face with an absolutely spiteful acid green and fluorescent pink abstract by Keith Haring (1958-1990). It’s on canvas dated 1982 and signed lower left. The green is painted in a random ventilated grid over the hyper-intense pink with a bold line of a green stripe on the top edge of the work, which is encased in a glass vitrine. Next to this, Wayne Thiebaud, pop painter of the primary movement in the 1960s. Always a strongly composed small-scale panel shows an aerial view of a highway and sports arena. Its neighbor, a classic signature Thiebaud of an array of cakes and pastries, described in mouthwatering swirls of oil paint.Jean Dubuffet figures frequently in the art fair; here is a piece dated 1963. Abstract expressionist slash marks of brown revealed through patches of pink, cream, and white in vigorous calligraphic swirls. A powerful and early Francis Bacon "Study for a Figure", 1950. An intensely felt statement, carrying the conviction of the post-war period before his vision became dandified, repetitive, and formulaic. The ground is charcoal grey in thinly washed vertical strokes. The male body emerges convulsively, a bulging tangle of pecs and biceps and hunched powerful shoulders. The figure is imprisoned in the familiar white outline cage, and there is a counterpoint thin red line identifying the lower edge of the canvas. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Selbie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/171055/bk_acx0_171055_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Entertaining Disasters: A Novel (With Recipes) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 572min
    In print, the unnamed freelance food writer of Nancy Spiller’s sardonic debut novel, Entertaining Disasters, lives high on the food chain in the heady realm of L.A.’s culinary journalism scene. She waxes poetic about her hip home gatherings, while thinly veiling the identities of her A-list glitterati guests. But in reality, she's been inventing the dinner parties she writes about because social paralysis sets in at the very thought of a real guest in her fabulous - or is it shabby? - hillside home. Enter the glossy food magazine editor, new in town, who wants an invitation to one of her bashes, and the panic-stricken journey from fantasy hostess to reality bites is on.Entertaining Disasters at turns whimsical and deeply affecting, chronicles the struggle she faces in the week before she hosts her first real dinner party in a decade. At the same time, her estranged sister threatens to drop by, her husband takes off, and her house implodes.In the way of Nora Ephron’s Heartburn, Spiller’s book is filled with fascinating culinary lore, (mostly) delicious recipes, generous servings of humor and heartbreak, and infused with longing for a culinary salvation.  What the critics say: "...offers sharp, startling observations in a unique and very human voice." (Elle Magazine, a Readers' Prize Pick 2009) Redbook Recommend: "This Zany novel (with recipes)...will make you appreciate your own fallen souffles all that much more." Los Angeles Magazine: "Nancy Spiller's novel offers memoir's most potent pairing: the child's eye, sensual and vindictive, with the grown-up's aching heart...it's a testament to Spiller's skill as a narrator that tragedy and comedy begin to seem like a natural couple and that feeding a gathering of friends is the ultimate modern ordeal." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nancy Spiller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/205939/bk_acx0_205939_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dear Becky, Unsolicited Comments of a Mother-In-Law , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 60min
    In the world of Gertrude Charmaine Beasley, exists the soft-spoken, black-sheep daughter in law, Becky Beasley, married to the not-quite-celebrated son, Matthew. In order to shape Becky into the daughter-in-law she favors (Denise), Gertrude imparts her wisdom, suggestions, and thinly veiled insults through the passive-aggressive art form of letter writing... Dear Becky,I wanted to thank you for inviting me over to your quaint home for dinner. I can always tell the character of a person by the cleanness of their home. The carpet deodorizer did a lovely job of adding fragrance to the air and covered some of the burned smells coming from the kitchen. (Did you know you were supposed to vacuum after using the deodorizer, dear?)I also wanted to complement you on your table decorations. I understand that you're new to home ownership and gardening, so there was no way to know that the flower arrangement you picked was full of rag weed. The children's repeated sneezing was not distracting at all. But, the main point of my letter was to get the recipe for your tomato sauce. I have never had a sauce with such a distinct flavor. I am usually known for my palette and ability to distinguish flavors, but your sauce has confused me. I could not detect any basil, garlic, onion, olive oil, pepper, or salt. So enlighten me, if you will. Other than tomatoes and water, what did you put in it?Well, again it was a joy coming over for dinner. I am glad to see that my son and his children, because of your cooking, are remaining fit. Yes, there is no evidence of your spoiling them in any way.Mom ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dani Dodge. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014174/bk_acx0_014174_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Bird in Hand , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 544min
    It was an accident. It was dark, it was raining, Alison had only had two drinks. And the other car ran the stop sign. But Alison finds herself trapped under the crushing weight of grief and guilt, feeling increasingly estranged from her husband, Charlie, who has his own burdens. He's in a job he doesn't love so that Alison can stay at home with the kids (and why isn't she more grateful for that?); he has a house in the suburbs and a long commute to and from the city. And the only thing he can focus on these days is his secret, sudden affair with Claire, Alison's best friend. Bold where Alison is reserved, vibrant where Alison is cautious, Claire has just had her first novel published, a thinly veiled retelling of her childhood in North Carolina. But even in the whirlwind of publication, Claire can't stop wondering if she should leave her husband Ben, an ambitious architect who is brilliant, kind, and meticulous. And who wants nothing more than a baby, or two - exactly the kind of life that Charlie and Alison seem to have. In each of her novels, Christina Baker Kline has explored how people tell the stories of their lives and what those stories reveal about who they are. As they set out on their individual journeys, Alison, Charlie, Claire, and Ben explore the idea - each in his or her own way - that every moment of loss contains within it the possibility of a new life. Alternating through these four intertwined perspectives, Bird in Hand is a searing novel about friendship, love, marriage, loss, and the choices we make that irrevocably alter everything we believe to be true. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alison Larkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001195/bk_adbl_001195_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Our Miss Brooks: Boynton Blues, Hörbuch, Digital, 595min
    Eve Arden stars as the tart-tongued Constance Brooks, a dedicated English teacher at Madison High School. Before and after the bell rings, Miss Brooks turns her thoughts from language to love. Indulging in her perpetual pursuit of bashful biology teacher Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler), Connie finds herself making his favorite stew, conspiring to make him sick, and pretending to be his mother! She even considers compromising her principles (and her principal)! Miss Brooks has a rival for the attentions of that handsome specimen: Miss Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft). She's a good cook, a master of the thinly-veiled insult, and every bit as competent and ruthless as Connie! These 20 digitally restored and remastered episodes co-star Gale Gordon as the blustery, autocratic Osgood Conklin; Richard Crenna as the ever-exuberant Walter Denton; and Jane Morgan as absent-minded landlady Mrs. Davis. Episodes include: "The Model School Teacher" 11-21-48; "Stretch the Basketball Star" 02-13-49; "Walter vs. Stretch Grudge Match" 05-01-49; "Peanuts, the Great Dane" 05-22-49; "Arguments, Arguments!" 05-29-49; "The Telegram" 07-10-49; "Mrs. Davis' Cookies (Pensacola Popovers)" 07-24-49; "Heat Wave" 08-07-49; "Conklin Causes a Fight" 09-25-49; "Game at Clay City" 12-11-49; "A Letter to Santa" 12-18-49; "Babysitting on New Year's Eve" 01-01-50; "Professorship at State U" 01-22-50; "Miss Enright's Dinner" 02-05-50; "Valentine's Day Date" 02-19-50; "Boynton's Barbecue" 05-07-50; "Mr. Boynton's Parents" 05-14-50; "Measles Diagnosis" 10-01-50; "Who's Going Where" 08-21-55; "Oo-Oo-Me-Me-Tocoludi-Gucci-Mo O-Moo" 09-18-55. Language: English. Narrator: Eve Arden, Jeff Chandler, Mary Jane Croft, Gale Gordon, Richard Crenna, Jane Morgan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/radi/000906/rt_radi_000906_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Warden , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 582min
    Anthony Trollope’s The Warden was the first of Trollope’s hugely successful Barchester Chronicles, appearing in 1855 and reversing the rather unfortunate sales of his previous three novels. It concerns the story of Mr. Septimus Harding, Warden of Hiram's Hospital almshouses and Precentor of Barchester Cathedral. The discrepancy between the living of the clerics and the living of the bedesmen in the almshouses becomes a cause célébre, with Barchester and, in particular, Mr. Harding becoming the centre of a whipped up storm in the national newspaper The Jupiter. At the time when Trollope was writing The Warden, several financial scandals had rocked the Church of England, and he drew on one in particular for the background to his story. The Reverend Francis North had been appointed as Master of the Hospital of St Cross in Winchester, and some serious discrepancies had emerged between the vast revenues of the hospital and the rather less great work of the Master. The Times was very closely involved in the publicising of the St Cross story and is very clearly the model for The Jupiter. However, when he was gently teased by The Times for his very personal attack on the editor of the paper, which it claimed to see thinly disguised in the character of Tom Towers, Trollope denied that any personal attack was involved, saying that he’d been in Ireland for the whole of the St Cross scandal and was totally unaware of any particular characters involved. The Warden is a totally engrossing 'history of an old man’s conscience', as Henry James described it. Trollope leads us further and further into the life of Septimus Harding, and we grow more and more fond of him and await with increasing dread the inevitable catastrophe. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Edward Fox. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/slks/000062/bk_slks_000062_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Secret Agent , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 680min
    The Secret Agent was one of the first espionage novels ever written, and it is certainly one of the finest in the oeuvre of Joseph Conrad. The story concerns the attempt by a group of back-alley revolutionaries to destroy one of London's most famous landmarks and thereby set off a revolution. As the plot unfolds, we discover a cast of unlikely villains, self-aggrandizing intellectuals, overeager bureaucrats, fame hungry politicians, and innocent bystanders, all described with poignant psychological depth as only Conrad could. The story centers around Adolph Verloc, owner of a Soho bookshop and ostensibly a member of a group of home-grown anarchists, but actually in the pay of a foreign government. Verloc's quiescent wife, Winnie, maintains their stable household in which she tries to provide for her retarded brother and her aging mother under the thinly disguised irritability of her husband. The anarchist collective consists of "Doctor" Ossipan, who lives off his romantic attachments to women barely able to take care of themselves; "The Professor", an explosives expert who is so insecure that he is perpetually wired with a detonator in case he is threatened by police capture; and Michaelis, a corpulent writer composing an autobiography after a mitigated sentence in prison. When Verloc is summoned to the embassy in whose pay he works, he receives a cold reception from his new superior, Vladimir. Vladimir tells Verloc that he's going to have to start producing or he'll lose the wages he receives. A humiliated Verloc is shocked when he receives orders to blow up Greenwich Observatory. As the scheme takes shape, it is Verloc who is compelled to execute the plan. But his doubts and fears are only too well justified, and despite his misgivings, he pushes ahead. However, it is the man-child Stevie who brings the enterprise to its ignominious end. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlton Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acon/000089/bk_acon_000089_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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