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Washington Square (Blackstone Audio Edition) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 435min

On New York City's Washington Square lives Catherine Sloper, a shy and plain-looking young woman who is tyrannized by her wealthy, overbearing father. When young Morris Townsend begins to court her, Dr. Sloper, distrusting his motives, threatens to disinherit Catherine. In accordance with her father's suspicions, young Townsend disappears, leaving Catherine to humiliation, heartache, and lonely spinsterhood. Years later, after her father's death, Townsend returns, and Catherine must make up her own mind about his intentions. This 1881 novel was adapted into the popular movie The Heiress. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lloyd James. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001899/bk_blak_001899_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Black Guard: Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 625min

The Duke of Canarn is dead, executed by the King's decree. The city lies in chaos, its people starving, sickening, and tyrannized by the ongoing presence of the King's mercenary army. But still hope remains: the Duke's children, the Lord Bromvy and Lady Bronwyn, have escaped their father's fate. Separated by enemy territory, hunted by the warrior clerics of the One God, Bromvy undertakes to win back the city with the help of the secretive outcasts of the Darkwald forest, the Dokkalfar. The Lady Bronwyn makes for the sanctuary of the Grass Sea and the warriors of Ranen with the mass of the King's forces at her heels. And in the mountainous region of Fjorlan, the High Thain Algenon Teardrop launches his Dragon Fleet against the Red Army. Brother wars against brother in this, the epic first volume of the 'Long War' series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Meadows. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/007172/bk_bbcw_007172_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Boy in the Hole , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 388min

From an anti-other political climate comes a novel that gives voice to outcasts tyrannized by power. Boy in the Hole is the gripping account of Jacob, a boy wrestling to understand himself, his family, and the world in which he lives as he grows up in the Deep South in the '70s. Emerging from a family of sexual deviancy and alcoholism masked by religion and wealth, Jacob learns to define who he is, but struggles to find the balance between faith and sexuality. To embrace his true identity, he must go on an exodus to face his demons and overcome the pressures to conform. But his parents' toxic beliefs and the messages of self-hate taught by religion and society could prove his undoing.Will Jacob love himself despite the potential isolation? Or will he conform to the norms and settle for mediocrity...and a life in which he can never truly live? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/171227/bk_acx0_171227_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Legend of Horian & the Dycentian Blade , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 625min

The Kingdom of Dycentia was tyrannized by the Dragonking. His supremacy unchallenged, no one was able to right the many wrongs, no one was brave enough to even try - until Horian rose from the shadows. How did this hero and his deep sense of duty save Dycentia?Long ago in the distant Kingdom of Dycentia, storytellers sang the legend of one of their own: a hero the likes of which were only born in forgotten lands, in forgotten times. This Dycentian’s name was Horian, and although his life was cloaked in shadows, the secrets the storytellers sang have been passed down through the ages, known to only a select few and now preserved here so that they may never be forgotten.The lessons of bravery and duty in Horian’s quest surpass even those of the Arthurian legends. Few could have survived the soul-seething journey he undertook to access the most awesome weapon on the face of the earth. Few could be entrusted with the responsibility of wielding such a sovereignty-seizing sword. However, it was only by wielding the Dycentian Blade that Horian would command the godly powers required to massacre the Dragonking, and to right the many wrongs that had been done. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nigel Peever. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/172820/bk_acx0_172820_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Olive Kitteridge

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Oprah's Book Club pick Olive, Again "Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You'll never forget her."-USA Today NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post Book World • USA Today • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • Seattle Post-Intelligencer • People • Entertainment Weekly • The Christian Science Monitor • The Plain Dealer • The Atlantic • Rocky Mountain News • Library Journal At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive's own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and her husband, Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse. As the townspeople grapple with their problems, mild and dire, Olive is brought to a deeper understanding of herself and her life-sometimes painfully, but always with ruthless honesty. Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition-its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires. The inspiration for the Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries starring Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, and Bill Murray

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Emiliano Zapata: The Life and Legacy of the Mexican Revolution's Iconic Leader , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 82min

A little more than 100 years ago a Mexican peasant named Emiliano Zapata gathered a rural army from the plantations and villages of southern Mexico, seized the lands of the haciendas, and began to distribute them among the peasants of Anenecuilco, his hometown, in the state of Morelos. Outraged and impatient with the ceaseless destitution of the indigenous peoples at the hands of the landowners, he had decided to take justice in his hands. His flag was Liberty and Justice, the exact opposites of the two burdens that had tyrannized the rural population: work in semi-slavery conditions and immense inequality. Zapata, who in a few years assembled a popular army of 25,000, was a unique case in the history of Mexico. His country's past had consisted of opportunist generals revolting against the government seeking not to make justice, but to seize power. Conversely, Zapata was not interested in politics or power plays, except in their most practical and immediate form: to distribute land among the peasants; to allow them to work in peace; and to defend their gains by force of arms. Thus, it was only inevitable that in his time, he was seen as a menace, someone to get rid of in order to return to peace and order. Nearly a century after his death, Zapata remains an opaque figure. To call oneself a Zapatista in Mexico can get a person in trouble, yet he led one of the peasant rebellions most studied by scholars. Historians have produced biographies that portray him as a hero, such as John Womack in the 1960s, and that of his successor and closest aide, Gildardo Magaña, who wrote one shortly after Zapata's death. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/088995/bk_acx0_088995_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Autonomous Government: Introducing Alterra , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 250min

They say that "necessity is the mother of invention". But today, I would add that "to maintain all of our necessities, the world sorely needs and requires the greatest invention of all time - an autonomous government". The world is currently being introduced to autonomous cars and trucks. Many millions of miles have been logged by driverless cars and trucks. Tesla has already started to drive huge semi-trailer trucks across the country without a driver. The technology for driverless cars and trucks can be easily adopted to create a leaderless or autonomous government. Autonomous cars will reduce the crashes on the roadways, while an autonomous government will reduce the crash of our civilization and our planet and our species.Today, the people of this country and this planet are forced to endure a system of making the laws that we must all obey by a bunch of old white men in expensive business suits. Even this group is tyrannized by one or two individuals who control these few to consider only solutions to problems that have been predetermined and pre-cleared by special interest groups. Half of them end up in jail, and yet this is how we create the rules of law. But there is hope - we are now building the world's first artificial intelligence, a huge computer brain that can outthink all of these men in suits plus billions more of us on the outside. Solutions to problems can be delivered in seconds - not decades - and they will be fair and just because they will be derived from complete and total logic. Computers also cannot take bribes in their deliberation process. This is a new type of freedom. We're all familiar with freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to bear arms. We now need the Constitution to deliver a new freedom - the freedom from aimlessness. The autonomous government will bring us the common goals of preserving our planet Earth plus the survival of our species as well as all other ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Mathiesen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/131074/bk_acx0_131074_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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