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  The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 336min

  An examination of childhood trauma and its surreptitious, debilitating effects by one of the world's leading psychoanalysts. Never before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined so persuasively the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body. Using the experiences of her patients along with the biographical stories of literary giants such as Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust, Miller shows how a child's humiliation, impotence, and bottled rage will manifest itself as adult illness - be it cancer, stroke, or other debilitating diseases. Never one to shy away from controversy, Miller urges society as a whole to jettison its belief in the Fourth Commandment and not to extend forgiveness to parents whose tyrannical childrearing methods have resulted in unhappy, and often ruined, adult lives. In this empowering work, writes Rutgers professor Philip Greven, "[listeners] will learn how to confront the overt and covert traumas of their own childhoods with the enlightened guidance of Alice Miller." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sara Clinton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012357/bk_adbl_012357_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  When We Were Very Young

  Verses full of bubbling nonsense and rhythm, written for the author's son, Christopher Robin. It is for "very small children (and for their elders who get a surreptitious joy from what is meant for their little ones)".--Saturday Review..Celebrate the 90th birthday of one of the world's most beloved icons of children's literature, Winnie-the-Pooh! A classic celebration of childhood, A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young is a collection of poems that have touched the hearts of readers for more than 90 years. His verses sing with a playful innocence, weaving together the worlds of reality and enchanting make-believe. Published two years before Winnie-the-Pooh, careful readers will also discover the very first appearance of the Best Bear in All the World. These treasured poems are perfectly matched by Ernest Shepard's whimsical illustrations, which have delighted countless readers. These poems have been read and re-read to generations of children, and today, they can still find a cherished place on every bookshelf.

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  Daisy in the Doghouse , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 438min

  What happens when an ex-CEO, frustrated with the corruption in the American financial system, hijacks his 12-year-old daughter’s blog to try and change things from the bottom up?In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Jack Sullivan, former CEO and current stay-at-home dad, struggles to find an outlet for his frustrations with the unfair financial systems of corporate America. Meanwhile, Daisy, his precocious 12-year-old daughter, has recently garnered a substantial following for her new blog, documenting surreptitious “social experiments” performed on her unaware family. When Daisy’s blogging activities are outed, Jack decides to leverage his daughter’s popularity with American youth to communicate the greed and hypocrisy inherent in the corporate professions of many parents. Inspired by her father’s rants, the popularity of Daisy’s blog soars, resulting in an unlikely sequence of events that ultimately has a very positive impact on way that people treat each other in American society.From the author of Managed Care, the Maxy Book Awards 2019 Book of the Year. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Thomas Werther. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/180432/bk_acx0_180432_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Illicit Transgressions , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 323min

  The South is known for being a majestic place with the most hospitable residents, but this fictional novel will unearth the mystical and immoral secrets of the antebellum South.Master Boney is a beautiful Southern belle, a wife, and one of the most ruthless women in the small Southern town of Plat-eyes.Unable to find solace from her favorite bottle of wine, she starts to redirect her anger toward her husband and the slaves on the plantation. She is a tortured soul with a traumatic past that leads her down a path rooted in surreptitious behavior, infidelity, and alcoholism.She becomes more volatile after whooping cough diminishes the free slave labor that provides the Boney family prosperity.Her fear of losing her status as the exalted ruler of this small town forces her to become more diabolical than ever before.She manipulates her husband into crossing the Atlantic with his associates to obtain more slaves to save the plantation and to save their marriage.However, there is a malevolent spirit lurking in the shadows, and everything might not be what it seems. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dinah Beard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/157718/bk_acx0_157718_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Silent City: A Pete Fernandez Mystery, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 489min

  Pete Fernandez is a mess. He's on the brink of being fired from his middle-management newspaper job. His fiancée has up and left him. Now, after the sudden death of his father, he's back in his hometown of Miami, slowly drinking himself into oblivion. But when a coworker he barely knows asks Pete to locate a missing daughter, Pete finds himself dragged into a tale of murder, drugs, double-crosses, and memories bursting from the black heart of the Miami underworld - and, shockingly, his father's past. Making it up as he goes and stumbling as often as he succeeds, Pete's surreptitious quest becomes the wake-up call he's never wanted but has always needed - but one with deadly consequences. Welcome to Silent City, a story of redemption, broken friendships, lost loves, and one man's efforts to make peace with a long-buried past to save the lives of the few friends he has left. Silent City is a gritty, heartfelt debut novel that harkens back to classic PI tales but infused with the Miami that only Alex Segura knows. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin T. Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/025660/bk_adbl_025660_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Undercover Tales of World War II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 537min

  Most of these surreptitious events would have been rejected by Hollywood film producers as implausible—yet they happened and helped to shape the outcome of the war.Going beyond the well-known history, this book offers World War II buffs and history fans something altogether different. Just beneath the surface of the traditional perspectives and legendary events lurks a vast and shadowy world of virtually untraceable maneuvers, deceptive appearances, and confidences betrayed. Breuer deftly uncovers 70 covert operations and insidious plots, including:The bloc of hard-core American Nazis who carded out elaborate plans to sabotage war efforts and keep the United States neutralThe wily Japanese "tailor" who singlehandedly stole the secrets to the United States Gray CodeThe brave member of Norway’s resistance movement who deeply infiltrated the German hierarchy, posing as a zealous NaziThe French boy and his "blind" music teacher who penetrated, in broad daylight, the German forbidden zone at Port-en-BesseinIn the vivid, fast-paced tradition of Unexplained Mysteries of World War II, this far-reaching treasury of vanishing spies, mysterious kidnappings, and bizarre subplots is a unique and riveting addition to World War II literature. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Perkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001751/bk_adbl_001751_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar, Germany , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 540min

  When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nation's currency depreciates beyond recovery. In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German republic was all but reduced to a barter economy. Expensive cigars, artworks, and jewels were routinely exchanged for staples such as bread; a cinema ticket could be bought for a lump of coal; and a bottle of paraffin for a silk shirt. People watched helplessly as their life savings disappeared and their loved ones starved. Germany's finances descended into chaos, with severe social unrest in its wake. Money may no longer be physically printed and distributed in the voluminous quantities of 1923. However, quantitative easing, that modern euphemism for surreptitious deficit financing in an electronic era, can no less become an assault on monetary discipline. Whatever the reason for a country's deficit - necessity or profligacy, unwillingness to tax, or blindness to expenditure - it is beguiling to suppose that if the day of reckoning is postponed economic recovery will come in time to prevent higher unemployment or deeper recession. What if it does not? Germany in 1923 provides a vivid, compelling, sobering moral tale. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Antony Ferguson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002840/bk_adbl_002840_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Days of Refugee: One of the World’s Known Lost Boys of Sudan , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 374min

  In 1987, Nathaniel Nyok, tormented by thoughts of missing parents and siblings, fled a bloody scene and a burning village in Sudan. Wishing to live at any cost and driven by a confrontational heart-pounding fear, he journeyed through the wild to seek sanctuary in Ethiopia. At eight, he had just capitulated to an orphan-like life with a new title, A Lost Boy of Sudan, living in a refugee camp for 14 years without a family and a future. The refugee camp became a cage that was too confining, and he languished with a sense of loss. As he battled the loss of home and family, he chose education over revenge as the road to freedom, a road that eventually brought him to America, land of freedom and rules, welcomes and prejudices. In a turning point of surreptitious blessing, grilled by United States immigration lawyers and medical experts in a two-year vetting process of interviews and medical evaluations, he was offered an approval letter, becoming one of a few Lost Boys admitted to the United States. In 2001, he resettled in Atlanta, Georgia, in a community that welcomed him, a stranger, with both joy and contempt. This story portrays his transition to American culture - from the stylishness and glam of Hollywood to battling the prejudices of his new community - as a time of both confusion and hope. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Leon Nixon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/013129/bk_tant_013129_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 319min

  Only an extraordinary Texas Ranger could have cleaned up bandit-plagued Southwest Texas, between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande, in the years following the Civil War. Thousands of raiders on horseback, some of them Anglo-Americans, regularly crossed the river from Mexico to pillage, murder, and rape. Their main objective? To steal cattle, which they herded back across the Rio Grande to sell. Honest citizens found it almost impossible to live in the Nueces Strip.In desperation, the governor of Texas called on an extraordinary man, Captain Leander M. McNelly, to take command of a Ranger company and stop these border bandits. One of McNelly's recruits for this task was George Durham, a Georgia farmboy in his teens when he joined the "Little McNellys", as the Captain's band called themselves. More than half a century later, it was George Durham, the last surviving "McNelly Ranger", who recounted the exciting tale of taming the Nueces Strip to San Antonio writer Clyde Wantland.In Durham's account, those long-ago days are brought vividly back to life. Once again the daring McNelly leads his courageous band across Southwest Texas to victories against incredible odds. With a boldness that overcame their dismayingly small number, the McNellys succeeded in bringing law and order to the untamed Nueces Strip - succeeded so well that they antagonized certain "upright" citizens who had been pocketing surreptitious dollars from the bandits' operations. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jamie Renell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/053257/bk_adbl_053257_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Island of Missing Trees (eBook, ePUB)

  A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK"A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." -David Mitchell, author of Utopia AvenueA rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he's searching for lost love. Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited--- her only connection to her family's troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world. A moving, beautifully written, and delicately constructed story of love, division, transcendence, history, and eco-consciousness, The Island of Missing Trees is Elif Shafak's best work yet.

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