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The Trials of Quintilian , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 203min

Set at the height of the Roman Empire, in the last half of the first century AD - about the time of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, when Christianity was still an unimportant Jewish sect - these stories chronicle the cases of one of the few actual crimesolvers that we know of in ancient Rome. The stories are fictional, but the character of Quintilian is based on a real Roman barrister whose writings on rhetoric and on the education of the young are still read today. Quintilian - Marcus Fabius Quintilianus - was certainly among the noblest Romans of them all. Honored in his lifetime (roughly 35 to 100 AD) as a teacher, rhetorician, and jurist, he also seems to have been something of a detective. He was put in charge of devising a course of instruction for the youth of Rome by the emperor Vespasian, and made a consul with a salary from the Imperial Treasury. The first story about him, Blind Justice, is based on an actual case that he is reputed to have solved while acting as defense counsel for the accused. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ramon De Ocampo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000710/bk_acx0_000710_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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From Distant Stars , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 745min

Inspector Keon has finally got over the death of his wife, Alysha, in a terrorist attack five years ago. The illegal AI copy of her - Liss - that he created to help him mourn has vanished, presumed destroyed. His life is back on track. But a deadly shooting in a police-guarded room in a high-security hospital threatens to ruin everything. Who got past the defences? Why did they kill the seemingly unimportant military officer who had been in a coma for weeks? And why did the scanners pick up the deceased man the next day on the other side of the planet, seemingly alive and well? As Keon digs into the mysteries, he begins to realise that the death was connected to a mysterious object, potentially alien, discovered buried in ice under the North Pole. Someone has worked out what is hidden there and what its discovery will mean for mankind. Someone who is willing to kill. And another player has entered the game. Someone who seems to know more about Keon than is possible. Someone who might be using Liss' information against him. Or who might be Alysha, back from the dead. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Noble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oras/000030/bk_oras_000030_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Last Girl Gone: The Laura Chambers Mysteries, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 587min

Investigative journalist Laura Chambers is back in her tiny hometown of Hillsborough, North Carolina, the one place she swore never to return. Fired from The Boston Globe, her career in shambles, she reluctantly takes a job with the local paper. The work is simple, unimportant, and worst of all, boring - at least until a missing girl turns up dead, the body impeccably clean, dressed to be the picture of innocence. Years earlier, 10-year-old Patty Finch left home and never made it back. But for the people of Hillsborough, Patty was just the beginning. Child after child disappeared, a reign of terror the town desperately wants to forget. Now that terror has returned to seize another girl. And another. And another. This is the story Laura's been waiting for - her one last chance to get back onto the front page. She dives deeper into a case that runs colder by the second, only to discover the truth may be far closer to home than she could have ever imagined. Powerful, intricate, and tense, Last Girl Gone will have you looking over your shoulder long after the last page. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laura Jennings. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/011714/bk_blak_011714_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Money Smart Children: Teaching Children to Be Money Smart , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 30min

Children grow up to be adults. The lessons they learn as children will be carried with them as they become students, employees, husbands or wives, parents, and grandparents. If they learn the lessons when they are younger, the mistakes in adulthood are less frequent and less disastrous. Some of those lessons learned in childhood relate to love, work, and values. You teach your children the things that are important to you and the lessons you want them to learn to be successful, happy, and productive. Unfortunately, one that is often neglected is the lesson of money. Whether it is because parents don't feel confident talking about money or feel it is unimportant, many children grow up without money skills. This is not a lesson that you want to learn when you are an adult. The consequences are too significant. They include financial stress, which can cause illness. Other consequences are debt, no savings, living paycheck to paycheck, and a life that is more difficult than it needs to be. As parents there is a responsibility to teach your child to be money smart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Staci D. Mims. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/045484/bk_acx0_045484_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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World War II: A Concise Guide from Beginning to End , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 118min

Your selection of this audiobook demonstrates a rare seriousness. You recognize the need to study history, for to ignore it is to repeat it. Yet you also recognize the time constraints imposed by modern life. There is no shortage of massive tomes covering every aspect, even the most trivial, of World War II. Volumes that take months to get through and can double as doorstops after you’ve given up in frustration.You have wisely chosen a different route to knowledge about the conflict we now call the Good War: an understandable, surprising, fact-filled history that concentrates solely on the characters, countries, and battles that determined the outcome of the war. No filler. No padding. No meandering asides about ultimately unimportant people and events. In World War II: A Concise Guide from Beginning to End, you’ll discover the reasons for the war’s launch and gain appreciation for the sacrifices made to bring it to a close.Can a history as concise as this one still offer surprises? Oh, yes. Don’t believe me? Just download and begin. Surprises await you in the first paragraphs. Think you already know how World War II began? Prepare to be astonished.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Margittai. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/125343/bk_acx0_125343_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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In Bed with Susie Bright 661: The Great Clitoris Vanishing Act, Hörbuch, Digital, 29min, (USK 18)

Time for your history lesson on the origins of the female clitoris. That's right, Susie has a detailed look, beginning in ancient times and moving through to the present day, on the absurd idea that the clit is evil or witchcrafty or that it's really just an unimportant body part. Susie reads from an article in the Huffington Post by writers Carina Kolodny and Amber Genuske, who tell what the anatomists, psychologists, and neurologists have written throughout the ages about this important female pleasure center. Then, it's "What's New on Audible". Susie has a great new audiobook to recommend: God Is Disappointed in You by Mark Russell and Shannon Wheeler. This funny book, narrated by James Urbaniak, tells all the stories of the Bible, except they're stripped down in a way that cuts to the chase. And no more arcane language! This audiobook is a finalist in the Comedy category for a prestigious Audie Award. Have a question or news story for Susie? You can send your confidential queries and comments to susie@susiebright.com. [Episode 661, May 29, 2015] Explicit Language Warning: You must be 18 years or older to purchase this program. Language: English. Narrator: Susie Bright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/suzy/150529/pf_suzy_150529_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Thinking of Answers: Questions in the Philosophy of Everyday Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 623min

In his acclaimed columns in the London Times and Prospect, A. C. Grayling often responds to provocative questions posed by editors and readers. These questions serve as the basis for the essays in Thinking of Answers, among them searching examinations of the following: Are human beings especially prone to self-deception? If beauty existed only in the eye of the beholder, would that make it an unimportant quality? Are human rights political? Can ethics be derived from evolution by natural selection? If both sides in a conflict passionately believe theirs is a just cause, does this mean the idea of justice is empty? Does being happy make us good? And does being good make us happy? As in his previous books on philosophy for the general public, including Meditations for the Humanist and Life, Sex and Ideas, rather than presenting a set of categorical answers, Grayling offers suggestions for how to think about every aspect of the question at hand and arrive at one's own conclusion. Nobody can listen to Thinking of Answers without being fully engaged, for Grayling challenges with his intellect and inspires with his humanity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Derek Perkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009699/bk_adbl_009699_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Becky Suss

Becky Suss (b. Philadelphia, PA in 1980; lives and works in Philadelphia, PA) explores ideas of intimacy, domesticity and memory. Her large-scale paintings of interiors are holistic representations of the sensory and remembered qualities of space, while her small paintings of objects and books become a library of charged personal items. Devoid of figures, Suss' style uses flattened architecture, exaggerated proportions, and distorted perspective to amplify the tension between the factual and the fictitious, mirroring the plasticity of memory, continually reformed and revised. What resonates is how a dwelling, despite its rigid physical structure, can adapt, welcoming the day to-day histories, eccentricities, and impressions of the people who move between its walls. Suss' work often questions the stereotypes of domesticity especially as they relate to the lives of women in America. She is fascinated by American culture's dismissal and dependence on homemaking and homemakers, and inspired by her own personal heritage, the generations of women in her family who managed the domestic sphere without recognition. She aspires to elevate these historically female private spaces that have long been dismissed as unimportant, though in reality are places where family and identity are created and defined. She often draws inspiration from memories of her own grandparents' home and, after becoming a parent herself, she has found inspiration through returning to the literature of her childhood and the memories of these imagined narratives.

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Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant: Modern Life as Interpreted By Someone Who Is Reasonably Bad at Living It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 455min

A collection of full-throated appreciations, withering assessments and hard-won lessons by the popular journalist.There are a few things you need to know about Joel Golby. Both his parents are dead. His dad was an alcoholic. He himself has a complicated relationship with alcohol. He once went to karaoke three times in five days. He will always beat you at Monopoly, and he will always cheat.Joel makes a name for himself as a journalist who brings us distinguished articles such as 'A Man Shits on a Plane So Hard It Has to Turn Around and Come Back Again', but that says more about us than him. In his first book, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant, Joel writes about important stuff (death, alcohol, loss, friendship) and unimportant stuff (Saudi Arabian camel pageants, a watertight ranking of the Rocky films, Monopoly), always with the soft punch of a lesson tucked within.Golby's sharp, evocative prose thrives on reality and honesty that is gut-wrenchingly close to the bone and laced with a copious dose of dark humour. Who is this book for? It is for everyone, but mainly people who are as lost and confused as Joel and just want to have a good laugh about it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joel Golby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/004338/bk_hcuk_004338_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Laundry Man: The Mean Streets of Asia Crime Novels, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 554min

If there's a living writer whose work makes me think of the great Raymond Chandler, it's Jake Needham.” (James David Audlin, author of The Train)Jake Needham is Michael Connelly with steamed rice." (The Bangkok Post)Once a high-flying international lawyer, a member of the innermost circles of government power, Jack Shepherd has abandoned the savage politics of Washington for the lethargic backwater of Bangkok, where he is now just an unremarkable professor at an unimportant university in an insignificant city. Or is he?A secretive Asian bank collapses under dubious circumstances and a former law partner Shepherd thought was dead reveals himself as the force behind the disgraced bank.Coerced into helping his old partner track the hundreds of millions of dollars that disappeared in the collapse, Shepherd follows a twisting trail of deceit from Manila to Hong Kong to Bangkok and eventually to an isolated villa on the fabled island of Phuket where he confronts the evil at the heart of a monstrous game of international treachery.A lawyer among people who laugh at the law, a friend in a land where today’s allies are tomorrow’s fugitives, Jack Shepherd battles a global tide of corruption, extortion, and murder that threatens to destroy the new life he has made for himself in Thailand. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fred Filbrich. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/019857/bk_acx0_019857_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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