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  Of Paupers and Peers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 365min

  Overworked and underpaid curate James Weatherly is resigned to a life of genteel poverty, never suspecting he is heir to a dukedom until a solicitor appears on his doorstep. Alas, on the way to claim his inheritance, James is set upon by ruffians whose handiwork deprives him of his memory. Margaret Darrington is no stranger to genteel poverty herself, since the death of her father has left her in charge of her two younger siblings and feather-brained aunt. But Margaret has a plan: To salvage the family's finances, she has only to put her beautiful younger sister, Amanda, in the way of marrying a wealthy man - perhaps the new Duke of Montford, who is expected to arrive any day. When Margaret finds a beaten and bloodied young man in the road, his shabby attire and collection of secondhand books lead her to mistake him for the tutor she has hired for her younger brother. Still reeling from the attack upon his person, James is relieved to have the mystery of his identity so easily "solved" and accompanies her home. As James' bruises fade, Margaret discovers that he is, if not classically handsome, undeniably pleasing to look upon, with an appealingly self-deprecating wit. Suddenly Amanda's brilliant marriage is in jeopardy, for how can any impressionable female resist such a paragon? But nothing about the penniless pedagogue is quite as it seems, and Margaret would do well to forget about her sister's prospects and look to her own heart instead... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stevie Zimmerman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/135576/bk_acx0_135576_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  After the Fireworks: Three Novellas , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 755min

  From one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, Aldous Huxley, comes his great novella, set in Rome, about a writer's affair with a mysterious young fan - once again available in the US, for the first time in more than 70 years, and featuring two other acclaimed short works, plus an original introduction from noted critic Gary Giddins. In After the Fireworks, three of Aldous Huxley's lost classic pieces of short fiction are collected for the first time. In the title novella, Rome is the stunning backdrop where internationally famous novelist Miles Fanning is setting out on a walk down Via Condotti toward the Spanish Steps when he encounters the mysterious Pamela Tarn - a beautiful young American admirer of his work who shares a name, as well as conspicuous personality traits, with a character from his most celebrated book. Though there is a considerable age difference between them and they come from different worlds, both are soon irresistibly drawn into a dangerous affair that has unforeseen consequences. First published one year before he wrote his classic Brave New World and now available again for the first time in 75 years, After the Fireworks is Aldous Huxley at the height of his powers. Featuring an original introduction by National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Gary Giddins, this new collection also includes Uncle Spencer (1924), the story of an aging World War I veteran's quest for the lost love he met in a prison during the war, and Two or Three Graces (1926), the tale of a passionate and destructive writer's abusive relationship with an impressionable bourgeois housewife. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Page, Tom Parks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005518/bk_harp_005518_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Escape from the Land of Snows: The Young Dalai Lama's Harrowing Flight to Freedom and the Making of a Spiritual Hero , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 527min

  On the evening of March 17, 1959, as the people of Tibet braced for a violent power grab by Chinese occupiers—one that would forever wipe out any vestige of national sovereignty—the 24-year-old Dalai Lama, Tibet’s political and spiritual leader, contemplated the impossible. The task before him was immense: to slip past a cordon of crack Chinese troops ringing his summer palace and, with an escort of 300, journey across the highest terrain in the world and over treacherous Himalayan passes to freedom—one step ahead of pursuing Chinese soldiers.Mao Zedung, China’s ruthless Communist dictator, had pinned his hopes for total Tibetan submission on controlling the impressionable Dalai Lama. So beloved was the young ruler—so identified with his country’s essence—that for him to escape might mean perpetual resistance from a population unwilling to tolerate an increasingly brutal occupation. The Dalai Lama’s minders sent word to the Tibetan rebels and CIA-trained guerrillas who waited on the route: His Holiness must escape—at all costs.In many ways, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was unprepared for the epic journey awaiting him. Twenty-two years earlier, government search parties, guided by prophecies and omens, had arrived at the boy’s humble peasant home and subjected the two-year-old to a series of tests. After being declared the reincarnation of Tibet’s previous ruler, the boy was brought to Lhasa to learn the secrets of Buddhism and the ways of ultimate power. Forced in the ensuing two decades to cope with aching loneliness and often stifling ritual—and compelled to suppress his mischievous personality—Gyatso eventually proved himself a capable leader. But no previous Dalai Lama had ever taken on a million Communist Chinese soldiers bent on stamping out Tibetan freedom. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shishir Kurup. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002494/bk_rand_002494_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Can I Cuddle Too?: A Taboo MILF Sex Confessions Fantasy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 31min, (USK 18)

  Caught in the act of intimacy with her new husband, she cannot possibly guess how much damage the scene will cause to an impressionable young mind or how she'll be forced to address it. She struggles to fulfill her new role as a first-time wife and nurturing caregiver as perfectly as possible: so many needs to fulfill, of very different kinds, and she has so little experience in dealing with the unexpected challenges her new life holds. Treating her husband, Kevin, to a special night he'll never forget, she takes her time tending to his every sensual preference and their simultaneous oral pleasure in - and out - of the revealing negligee she debuts for his eyes only. The last thought on her mind is the possibility of their private moments, dirty words, and erotic teasing being witnessed by David, the young man in the household. All too soon, she discovers just how much of the sensual exchange David observes - and how his innocent mind assumes he deserves the same forms of affection from the female head of household. David's questions are blatant and presumptuous, his casual touch shockingly direct and needy, and he cannot be convinced that his relationship with the new woman in his life should be any different than hers with his father. David just wants to love her and be loved in return. And when her explanations and gentle corrections go ignored, there's only one way to deal with his growing need and hardening difficulty at comprehension. A hands-on approach is the only way David will learn. Her Most Taboo of Sex Confessions - His First-Time Taboo Experience - Their Forbidden Intimacy and Unexpected Taboo MILF Encounter ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Me. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/030819/bk_acx0_030819_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Young Elizabeth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 575min

  We can hardly imagine a Britain without Elizabeth II on the throne. It seems to be the job she was born for. And yet, for much of her early life, the young princess did not know the role that her future would hold. She was our accidental Queen. As a young girl, Elizabeth was among the guests in Westminster Abbey watching her father being crowned, making her the only monarch to have attended a parent's coronation. Kate Williams explores the sheltered upbringing of the young princess with a gentle father and domineering mother; her complicated relationship with her sister, Princess Margaret; and her dependence on her nanny, Marion "Crawfie" Crawford. She details the profound and devastating impact of the abdication crisis, when, at the impressionable age of eleven, Elizabeth found her position changed overnight: No longer a minor princess she was now heiress to the throne. Elizabeth's determination to share in the struggles of her people marked her out from a young age. Her father initially refused to let her volunteer as a nurse during the Blitz, but relented when she was 18 and allowed her to work as a mechanic and truck driver for the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service. It was her forward-thinking approach that ensured that her coronation was televised, against the advice of politicians at the time. Kate Williams reveals how the 25-year-old young Queen carved out a lasting role for herself amid the changes of the twentieth century. Her monarchy would be a very different one to that of her parents and grandparents. And its continuing popularity in the twenty-first century owes much to the intelligence and elusive personality of this remarkable woman.This audio edition is read by the author. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000512/bk_orio_000512_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 751min

  In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne Lake chronicles her years with Charles Manson, revealing for the first time how she became the youngest member of his Family and offering new insights into one of the 20th century's most notorious criminals and life as one of his "girls". At age 14, Dianne Lake - with little more than a note in her pocket from her hippie parents granting her permission to leave them - became one of "Charlie's girls", a devoted acolyte of cult leader Charles Manson. Over the course of two years, the impressionable teenager endured manipulation, psychological control, and physical abuse as the harsh realities and looming darkness of Charles Manson's true nature revealed itself. From Spahn ranch and the group acid trips to The Beatles' White Album and Manson's dangerous messiah complex, Dianne tells the riveting story of the group's descent into madness as she lived it. Though she never participated in any of the group's gruesome crimes and was purposely insulated from them, Dianne was arrested with the rest of the Manson Family and eventually learned enough to join the prosecution's case against them. With the help of good Samaritans, including the cop who first arrested her and later adopted her, the courageous young woman eventually found redemption and grew up to lead an ordinary life. While much has been written about Charles Manson, this riveting account from an actual Family member is a chilling portrait that recreates in vivid detail one of the most horrifying and fascinating chapters in modern American history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dianne Lake. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006309/bk_harp_006309_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  My Father's Day Gift , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 351min

  When given full freedom, many men will piddle. So it is for middle-aged college professor Adam Cherry on Father's Day. Alone for the day on his newly purchased horse farm in the Midwest, his two daughters and wife away or abroad, Adam finds excitement in an entire day to piddle away his Father's Day gift to himself. But this day is one of challenges and interruptions. And each one helps him understand what Father's Day is truly about. As Adam navigates his Father's Day, the fatherly influences of seven male role models reveal themselves in the choices he makes, or avoids, and in the behavior he reveals. As the day winds down, he finds himself recalling his own father, and one particularly memorable Father's Day many years ago. Through it all, the love Adam has found in his newfound rugged farm lifestyle shines through. He shares his passion and struggles as he learns to train horses, fish in his own pond, fix farm equipment, abate snakes, and wield a chainsaw. Though once resistant to his wife s push to buy the farm, Adam comes to realize that he wanted it, or even needed it, as much as she did. It's the simple joy he finds in rural life which reveals the man that his role models have made him. My Father's Day Gift is a tribute to the importance of male role models fatherly influences in the demonstrable character of a man. The influence comes not from lengthy conversations or direct instruction, but the distinct and impressionable moments in everyday interactions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ronald Allan Fouts. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/018987/bk_acx0_018987_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Member of the Family , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 751min

  In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne Lake chronicles her years with Charles Manson, revealing for the first time how she became the youngest member of his Family and offering new insights into one of the 20th century's most notorious criminals and life as one of his 'girls'. At age 14, Dianne Lake - with little more than a note in her pocket from her hippie parents granting her permission to leave them - became one of 'Charlie's girls', a devoted acolyte of cult leader Charles Manson. Over the course of two years, the impressionable teenager endured manipulation, psychological control, and physical abuse as the harsh realities and looming darkness of Charles Manson's true nature revealed itself. From Spahn ranch and the group acid trips to the Beatles' White Album and Manson's dangerous messiah complex, Dianne tells the riveting story of the group's descent into madness as she lived it. Though she never participated in any of the group's gruesome crimes and was purposely insulated from them, Dianne was arrested with the rest of the Manson Family and eventually learned enough to join the prosecution's case against them. With the help of good Samaritans, including the cop who first arrested her and later adopted her, the courageous young woman eventually found redemption and grew up to lead an ordinary life. While much has been written about Charles Manson, this riveting account from an actual Family member is a chilling portrait that re-creates in vivid detail one of the most horrifying and fascinating chapters in modern American history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dianne Lake. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/003208/bk_hcuk_003208_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Dirty Diaries: Taboo Confessions of Maternal Devotion (3-Book Dirty Confessions MILF Box Set) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 101min, (USK 18)

  Buy the bundled audiobooks and save!A dirty diary never lies, and no one nurtures first-time sexual experiences better than a woman devoted to delivering unconditional love. This taboo erotic anthology bundles author Tina Tirrell's infamous dirty diary stories delivered in the form of intimate, no-holds-barred, womanly dirty confessions. Oh, the trouble these tell-all women find themselves tangled in, all due to their unconditional love and eternal devotion to the masculine members of the household they most adore and are held ultimately responsible for.  Whenever His Needs AriseThe sudden arising of an extraordinary situation necessitates the most immediate and taboo handling. Only one person can come to his rescue and relieve Tommy's great burden, taking care of his most urgent needs: the one responsible for caring for him and best equipped for emptying and being a receptacle for his overproducing anatomy.  Can I Cuddle Too?Caught in the act of intimacy with her new husband, she cannot possibly guess how much damage the scene will cause to an impressionable young mind or how she'll be forced to address it. When her explanations and gentle corrections go ignored, there's only one way to deal with his growing need and hardening difficulty at comprehension: a hands-on approach.  It's Perfectly NaturalIt can't be wrong when it feels so natural. She doesn't have to whisper nurturing words in Joel's ear, match his urging motions and movements with her own, and join him in a sleepy, hushed succession of actions leading them both to the brink of physical fulfillment and beyond. But she does and neither of them can take those moments back. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fonda Lee, Tina Tirrell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/135575/bk_acx0_135575_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Victor Lustig: The Life and Legacy of the 20th Century’s Most Notorious Con Artist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 87min

  “Never pry into a person's personal circumstances (they'll tell you all eventually).” (“The Ten Commandments for Con Men”, attributed to Victor Lustig)The art of the confidence trick is a controversial craft that is as old as time itself. In the early years of civilization, unscrupulous folks bottled and peddled assortments of fake cures and potions. Snake oil salesmen aside, charlatans posed as mystical beings with supernatural powers, promising to end droughts and other misfortunes of the gullible with what were in reality parlor tricks and illusions. Indeed, throughout history, unabashedly brazen characters managed to make careers out of deception. Seventeenth-century Britain, for instance, was terrorized by William Chaloner, the most infamous serial counterfeiter and con artist of his time before he was ultimately bested by Sir Isaac Newton himself. The British trickster posed as a quack doctor and a clairvoyant who dispensed false fortunes (most likely via an early form of cold reading) and bogus healing antidotes, but these were bush-league frauds in comparison to one of his most renowned claims to fame: He once bribed four Jacobite sympathizers to crank out pamphlets regarding King James II's denunciation of His Royal Highness William and later double-crossed his coconspirators by tipping off the cops and swiftly decamping with the $1,000 reward. Confidence women were equally active players in such dirty, fixed games. Doris Payne was a professional pilferer of jewels whose unconventional vocation spanned six decades. Throughout all her hits across the United States, Europe, and Asia, Payne adhered to a simple, yet effective method of operation: She donned stylish, pricey clothes, singled out impressionable male shopkeepers and distracted them with flirtatious small talk, and secretly palmed jewelry with sleight-of-hand tricks. One of the most recent was Frank Abagnale, a career impersonator, former forger of bank checks turned FBI empl ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Pickering. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194184/bk_acx0_194184_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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