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    Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 773min
    In Brotherhood, Deepak and Sanjiv Chopra reveal the story of their personal struggles and triumphs as doctors, immigrants, and brothers. They were born in the ferment of liberated India after 1947, as an age-old culture was reinventing its future. For the young, this meant looking to the West. The Chopra brothers were among the most eager and ambitious of the new generation. In the 1970s, they each emigrated to the United States to make a new life. Both faced tough obstacles: while Deepak encountered resistance from Western-trained doctors over what he called the mind-body connection, Sanjiv struggled to reconcile the beliefs of his birthplace with those of his new home. Eventually, each brother became convinced that America was the right place to build a life, and the Chopras went on to great achievements - Deepak as a global spiritual teacher and bestselling author, Sanjiv as a world-renowned medical expert and professor at Harvard Medical School. Brotherhood will fascinate and inspire those who still believe in America’s capacity to foster achievement and reward hard work. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deepak Chopra, Sanjiv Chopra. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004992/bk_brll_004992_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Rare Recording of Richard Wurmbrand , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 36min
    Richard Wurmbrnad, born on March 24, 1909, was a Romanian Christian minister of Jewish descent. He was a youth during a time of anti-Semitic activity in Romania, but it was later, after becoming a believer in Jesus Christ as Messiah, and daring to publicly say that communism and Christianity were not compatible, that he experienced imprisonment and torture for his beliefs. After serving five years of a second prison sentence, he was ransomed for $10,000. After spending time in Norway and England, he and his wife Sabina, who had also been imprisoned, emigrated to America and dedicated the rest of their lives to publicizing and helping Christians who are persecuted for their beliefs. He wrote more than 18 books, translated into more than 60 languages, the most widely known being Tortured For Christ. He founded the international organization, Voice of Martyrs, which aids Christians around the world who are persecuted for their faith. Wurmbrand died on February 17, 2001. Recording obtained and published by Rick Sheridan. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Wurmbrand. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/live/000459/bk_live_000459_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Summary of Trump Revealed by Michael Kranish & Marc Fisher: Includes Analysis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 25min
    Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power by Washington Post reporters Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher is a biography of businessman and TV personality-turned-2016 Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump. Trump's mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, grew up on Scotland's Isle of Lewis and emigrated to New York City in 1930. Trump's father, Frederick Christ Trump, was born in the South Bronx to parents of German descent. After Frederick's father died at age 49, Fred got involved in the family real estate business. Fred bought up land in Queens during the Depression. In 1935, Fred met Mary Anne, and they were married a year later. On June 14, 1946, the fourth of their five children was born: Donald John Trump. Donald Trump grew up in a 23-room mansion in Queens. Young Trump was a troublemaker who was once caught throwing rocks at a neighbor's baby. Please note: This is summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dwight Equitz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/069410/bk_acx0_069410_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The House of Seven Gables, Hörbuch, Digital, 336min
    A dark, many-gabled mansion in a small New England village houses the distinguished Pyncheon family, who are haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin on its last four members. The arrival of Phoebe Pyncheon from the country breathes fresh air and sunshine into their musty, decaying home. Hawthorne called The House Of the Seven Gables a "romance" drawing on the Gothic tradition of exploiting the supernatural. The poet and critic, James Russell Lowell, deemed this work "the most valuable contribution to New England history that has been made". Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, a direct descendant of the William Hawthorne, who had emigrated to New England with the first generation of Puritan settlers in 1630. New England Puritanism and its legacy provided Hawthorne with the means of the themes that concerned him deeply; among them the conflict between patriarchal authority and the impulse to a variety of freedoms, including the freedom of the artist. Phoenix Books also offers an audio edition of Hawthorne's classic, The Scarlet Letter. Language: English. Narrator: Joan Allen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000667/bk_pnix_000667_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Empress of Mars , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 568min
    When the British Arean Company founded its Martian colony, it welcomed any settlers it could get. Outcasts, misfits, and dreamers emigrated in droves to undertake the grueling task of terraforming the cold red planet - only to be abandoned when the BAC discovered it couldn't turn a profit on Mars. This is the story of Mary Griffith, a determined woman with three daughters, who opened the only place to buy a beer on the Tharsis Bulge. It's also the story of Manco Inca, whose attempt to terraform Mars brought a new goddess vividly to life; of Stanford Crosley, con man extraordinaire; of Ottorino Vespucci, space cowboy and romantic hero; of the Clan Morrigan; of the denizens of the Martian Motel, and of the machinations of another company entirely - all of whom contribute to the downfall of the BAC and the founding of a new world. But Mary and her struggles and triumphs are at the center of it all, in her bar, the Empress of Mars. Based on the Hugo-nominated novella of the same name, this is a rollicking novel of action, planetary romance, and high adventure. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicola Barber. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003240/bk_adbl_003240_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Alpha's Mate: The Wolvers, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 573min
    Welcome to Rabbit Creek.... City girl Elizabeth Reynolds hopes to find peace and contentment in the small Appalachian town of Rabbit Creek. Okay, so the bucolic cottage she's rented turns out to be a dilapidated cabin without phone service, but the people she meets are wonderful. Friendly and down to Earth, they welcome her with open arms. It's just like moving to Mayberry...if Andy and Aunt Bea were wolves. Only an outsider would call them werewolves. They're wolvers, a community of man/beasts that have lived in these hills since their ancestors emigrated from Scotland three hundred years ago. And that gorgeous Chief of Police, Marshall Goodman, the guy she met while covered in mud and wearing granny underpants? The one who sends her heart spinning? He's their Alpha and his pack is under attack from outside forces. Elizabeth, being a sane and reasonable woman, wants no part of any of this, but if she refuses to risk her life and her heart, the people she's grown to care about will lose everything and she'll lose the one man she was born to love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Leah Frederick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/019982/bk_acx0_019982_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fresh Air, John Matisonn and Mary Pipher, Hörbuch, Digital, 41min
    South African journalist John Matisonn and psychologist Mary Pipher on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Matisonn is white and grew up in the suburbs in Johannesburg. His grandparents emigrated to South Africa at the turn of the century. Matisonn covered South Africa from 1986 to 1991 for NPR and worked in Washington, D.C. He's now the head of elections for the South Africa Broadcasting Company, SABC, (which before the end of apartheid, broadcast purely government propaganda). He also co-founded the PBI, Public Broadcasting Initiative, to train and recruit South African journalists for the SABC to teach them about balance and fairness in the media. Mary Pipher has worked mostly with teenage girls for over 10 years. She's witnessed the "oppression" of teenage girls today, more pronounced than that of their mothers because of the "more dangerous, sexualized, and media saturated culture." She argues also that something happens to girls when they reach adolescence, that they lose their "assertive, energetic, and 'tomboyish' personalities" to become "more deferential, self-critical, and depressed." She is the author of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. (Original Broadcast Date: May 28, 2001) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/010528/rt_whyy_010528_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Prisoner who Sang (eBook, ePUB)
    What happens to your personality if you don't know who you really are? 'He was possessed by the idea of doing the most startling things in order to astonish his fellowmen. He loved to dazzle and amaze people.'The Prisoner Who Sang portrays Andreas, an eccentric and village outcast. He is so lacking in his own identity that he takes on several different personalities and then accuses himself of murdering one of them.Andreas opportunistically takes on many disguises in real life such as an aristocrat and a businessman, and unfortunately crosses the line which leads to some time in prison. This is a humorous but ultimately tragic story of a lonely imaginative man.Johan Bojer (born Johan Kristoffer Hansen) was a popular Norwegian novelist and dramatist. He grew up as a foster child in a poor family living in Rissa near Trondheim, Norway. He learned early the realities of poverty. Bojer principally wrote about the lives of the poor farmers and fishermen, both in his native Norway and among the Norwegian immigrants in the United States. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. He is best remembered for his novel 'The Emigrants', a major novel dealing with the motivations and trials of Norwegians emigrated on the plains of North Dakota.
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    Trivia from The Fog by John Carpenter: Horror Movie and Trivia Guide , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 43min
    When the fog rolls in, it is hard to resist its impact upon civilization. In John Carpenter's The Fog, the fog of nature is so irresistible that it might just crush those who think that they can control or predict it. It's a classic tale of man and enlightenment "reason" attempting to overcome or subvert the deleterious forces of nature. In part, that is why the cinematic tale is so compelling. Humans need to find a way to overcome the raw power and implied alienation of Nature (from humankind), while appearing civilized in the process. The Fog deftly handles these universal themes, as it unfolds a tale about a local D.J. who warns a nearby ship about the impending fog, which may cause the crew to lose their bearings! In this trivia quiz, you'll test yourself and your memory about this great cinematic work from horror film creator/legend, John Carpenter. Sample question: The old book uncovered by the priest is a journal written by whom? His brother who had emigrated from America The woman whom he was to marry had he not taken the vows of celibacy An old pioneer who starved in the mountains Another priest, Father Malone None of the above ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James D Callaway. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/092381/bk_acx0_092381_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Simply Eliot: Great Lives , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 232min
    Though he was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Harvard University, at the age of 26, Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) emigrated to England, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. Influenced equally by his formative years in the New World and his experiences in London during and after World War I, Eliot strove to reconcile a variety of conflicting ideas while trapped in an unhappy marriage - a struggle that gave rise to some of the greatest poems of the 20th century.In Simply Eliot, Joseph Maddrey plumbs the emotional and intellectual life of the man whom critic Edmund Wilson called "one of our only authentic poets.” Taking The Waste Land (written in the aftermath of World War I) and Four Quartets (published 1936-1942) as reference points, Maddrey chronicles Eliot's attempts to create a coherent worldview, and explores how his religious conversion in 1927 led to a spiritual rebirth that allowed him to produce his ultimate poetic statement.Making use of previously unavailable materials, including over 5,000 personal letters, Maddrey offers an intimate and incisive portrait of Eliot, and illustrates his continued relevance as both a Romantic and Classical poet, as well as a religious and spiritual thinker. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alex Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/149151/bk_acx0_149151_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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