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    Masaryk Station: A John Russell Thriller, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 646min
    Berlin, early 1948: The city, still occupied by the four Allied powers, still largely in ruins, has become the cockpit of a new Cold War, and as spring unfolds its German inhabitants live in fear of the Soviets enforcing a Western withdrawal. Here, as elsewhere in Europe, the legacies of the War have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict, creating a world of bizarre and fleeting loyalties, a paradise for spies. John Russell works for both Stalin’s NKVD and the newly-created CIA. He does as little for either as he can safely get away with, and between the tawdry tasks they set him - assessing dubious defectors in Trieste, running a spy ring in a Berlin VD clinic, rescuing ex-Nazis who might prove useful from Czechoslovakia - he seeks a way to cut himself loose. His partner Effi Koenen has an easier time, starring in a popular radio series and looking after their adopted daughter Rosa, until a woman she helped save in the War turns up on her doorstep, and admits to a child she left behind all those years before, a child now trapped behind the new iron curtain. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Healy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbca/001448/bk_bbca_001448_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 262min
    Perhaps the best golfer ever, Tiger Woods rocketed to the top of a once whites-only sport. Endorsements made him a global brand and the world’s richest athlete. The child of a multiracial marriage, Woods and his blond, blue-eyed wife, Elin Nordegren, seemed to represent a new postracial America. Then, in late 2009, Woods became embroiled in a sex scandal that made headlines worldwide. In this concise yet far-reaching analysis, Orin Starn brings an anthropologist’s perspective to bear on Tigergate. He explores our modern media obsession with celebrity scandals and their tawdry ritualized drama, yet he offers much more than the usual banal moralizing about the rich and famous. Starn explains how Tiger’s travails and the culture of golf reflect broader American anxieties - about race and sex, scapegoating and betrayal, and the role of the sports hero. The Passion of Tiger Woods is required listening for all those interested in the high-stakes world of professional golf, the politics of sports and celebrity, and the myths and realities surrounding the flawed yet riveting figure who remains among the most famous athletes of our time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael McConnohie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011832/bk_adbl_011832_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Failed It!: How to Turn Mistakes Into Ideas and Other Advice for Successfully Screwing Up
    A fun and fabulous take on the art of making mistakes. Erik Kessels celebrates imperfection and failure and shows why they are an essential part of the creative process. Failed it! celebrates the power of mistakes and shows how they can enrich the creative process. This is part photobook and part guide to loosening up and making mistakes to take the fear out of failure and encourage experimentation.It showcases the best and most hilarious examples of imperfection and failure across a broad range of creative forms, including art, design, photography, architecture and product design, to inspire and encourage creatives to embrace and celebrate their mistakes.We live in an era when everyone is striving for perfection and we have become afraid of failure, which limits our potential. Mistakes help us find new ways of thinking and innovative solutions, and failures can change our perceptions and open up new ways of looking things. This book transforms mistakes from something to be embarrassed about into a cause for celebration.It includes over 150 visual examples drawn from Kessels personal collection of artworks and found photographs, along with tips, quotes, anecdotes and wisdom for celebrating with failure. To quote Kessels: 'the ubiquity of Apple + Z, means that we can literally undo any mistake before it has had time to breathe, be considered and - perhaps - evolve into something else: a fascinating, strange, provocative or even original piece of work. This book asks readers to embrace their fuck-ups, learn from them and celebrate their tawdry glory'.
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    One Hundred Years of Solitude , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 844min
    Includes a bonus PDF with a character chart! One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005853/bk_blak_005853_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    4 Taboo Highly Erotic Sex Stories: Blow Your Top Tales of Submission, Lesbians, Gangbangs, Anal Sex, and Much More (4 Taboo Sex Stories, Book 1) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 75min, (USK 18)
    Christmas cheer gets hogtied to the vanity post as the fetish fringe’s fervent peccadilloes buff up their strap-ons, shine their Santa boots, and jump head first into bed screaming: “hold on tight, I’m coming in hot!”This holiday, get ready for a steamy sled ride through the sexual underbelly of society. “Ho, ho, ho and don’t hold out on the lube.”Get your motors running as the preppy college cover girl scene stealer slips into a frisky conspiracy that involves chains, unmarked white vans, dodgy kidnappers, and a sexual mastermind that could give the porn industry some pointers.Then, while you fan your collar, step onto an orgy laced boat commanded by corrupt South American politicians, smugglers, and narcos. An investigative reporter gets the full “scoop” as she learns to love life in the fast lane.Get a chronological, blow-by-blow account on why lunatic pixies with a growing tab in their local sex shop truly are the best lay.Finally, to round out the madcap mob of Freudian fetish taboo bombast, get swept into the Balkans as mines go off, bullets whizz by, and a night of passion leads to a jaw-dropping twist that changes the whole narrative.Humor, characters, desperados, film students, lesbians, debunked presidents, subversive iguanas, and BDSM in these four tantalizing tales of tawdry taboo. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eva Perkele. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/188454/bk_acx0_188454_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Carnival , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 491min
    A stirring new masterpiece from the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award-winning author of Cockroach and De Niro's Game. In Carnival, internationally acclaimed author Rawi Hage takes us into the world of Fly, a taxi driver in a crime-ridden apocalyptic metropolis. Raised in the circus, the son of a golden-haired trapeze artist and a flying-carpet man, Fly sees everything, taking in all of the city's carnivalesque beauty and ugliness as he roves through its dizzying streets in his taxi. Fly is a reader, too, and when he's not in his taxi he is at home in the equally dizzying labyrinth of books that fills his tiny apartment. His best friend is Otto, a political activist who's in and out of jails and asylums, mourning his dead wife and lost foster son. On one otherwise tawdry night Fly meets Mary, a book-loving passenger with a domineering husband. So begins a romance that is, for Fly, a brief glimmer of light amid the shadows and grit of the Carnival city. Along with Otto and Mary, Fly introduces us to madmen and revolutionaries, magicians and prostitutes as he picks them up and drops them off, traveling through a nightmarish town that is - we can't help but notice - a parable for our own debauched, unjust world. Wildly imaginative and darkly ironic, Carnival is a magnificent achievement. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wyntner Woody. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014074/bk_adbl_014074_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Legacy Girls: The Jaycee Wilder Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 486min
    Los Angeles TV reporter Jaycee Wilder fled her woodsy New Hampshire hometown long ago, but when she gets word her teenage cousin has gone missing from the elite boarding school she attends on scholarship, Jaycee answers the urgent plea for help. Despite having narrowly survived the clutches of a serial killer herself, the intrepid storyteller and amateur investigator rushes back to the family she barely remembers and the wintry campus of an illustrious academy known for grooming the next generation of society's most privileged members. But just below the pristine surface of school uniforms and wistful first crushes, Jaycee learns of a lurid opportunity that exists for a daring few. As Jaycee penetrates her cousin's pubescent inner circle, she uncovers a world where innocence is lewdly corrupted, and secrets are too lucrative to expose. Sifting through rumors and myths, Jaycee builds a fondness for the spirited young cousin she never took the time to know, but is growing desperate to find. Relying on her own skills, and those of her trusted police source, James Barton, she follows a trail that takes her to a secluded estate in the state's northernmost territory. Racing to expose the tawdry pay-for-play enterprise that may have entangled her own relative, Jaycee peels back layers that run deep and discovers that sometimes surviving isn't enough and justice can be the ultimate final transaction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stacey Melotte. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/093920/bk_acx0_093920_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Best-Looking One Always Wins , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 565min
    All the best stuff about the elections for the President of the United States of America. Uncover the tawdry tricks of the presidential-election trade! Amuse yourself with the antics of Republicans and Democrats alike! Be amazed when you find out how close our elections really were!Listen to this book and have the time of your life.Readers love this presidential humor"a winner about the history of winners and losers - presidential ones to boot!."--Lisa F."...this country's always been a mess! Which is oddly reassuring.."--Leo GPolitical satire at its finestIf you want to have fun learning about presidential campaign history, this book is for you. Deadly accurate, personal, and remarkably incisive.Funny president facts and serious presidential campaign historyEvery presidential contest includes a summary of the election itself and a Hot Vote between the candidates, in a style so easy to understand, it seems like history is a basketball game.Oh, the president trivia you'll learn"Washington figured being president wouldn't totally suck. Turns out he was wrong. It totally sucked"Donald Trump was not good-looking enough to be president. He was not the color of a person. I know people come in all sorts of colors, but orange is not one of the colors."Buy the paperback, kindle, or audiobook version today for your dose of political campaign humor. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ryil Adamson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/098807/bk_acx0_098807_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hitler, Mussolini, and Me: A Sort of Triography , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 446min
    In 1938, Hitler visits Italy. An expatriate Irish art historian is obliged to guide Mussolini and his guest around the galleries. Half fascinated, half repelled, he watches the tyrants, wrestling with the uneasy conviction that he ought to use the opportunity to "do something" about them yet lacking the zeal that might transform misgivings into action. Thirty years later, his daughter comes across a compromising clipping showing her father with the dictators. Exposed as a collaborator, the narrator explains what happened, what he did and did not do, and why, revealing in the process the part the girl's mother played in promoting the digestive disorders that were to influence the course of the war. To help his daughter understand, he conjures a time before the crime that would define the century, a time before these men became monsters inflated to fit that crime, showing her the tawdry little people behind the myths, the real Hitler and Mussolini, the Flatulent Windbag and the Constipated Prick. Based on historical events and using the tyrants' own words, Hitler, Mussolini, and Me brings the dictators down to earth, describing the murkier, more scurrilous aspects of their careers, and using jokes and scatology to weave a crazed pathway toward a cracked kind of morality. It is the story of an ordinary man living in extraordinary times - times when being ordinary was an act of rebellion in itself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gerard Doyle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008815/bk_blak_008815_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Alcázar of Seville: The History of Spain’s Most Famous Royal Palace , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 75min
    The majority of those fortunate enough to feast their eyes upon the majestic complex that is the Alcázar of Seville share the same sentiment: its beauty is indescribable. This is a place that oozes opulence, a kind of opulence flavored by class and historical charm, rather than the garish flamboyance and tawdry ostentation often displayed by the nouveau riche. To say that the Alcázar is fit for the fussiest prince would simply be downplaying its splendor. Of course, this was exactly what the Alcázar was, and continues to be, for this fantastical compound is the oldest European royal residence still in use. The royal estate, with 17,000-square meters of spectacular structures and 7 hectares of lavish gardens, is even more sublime in the nighttime. The rambling Moorish arches and the gorgeous detail of the fairy-tale turrets and curtain walls - from the striking shapes of the rectangular merlons capped with triangular cones to the coarse, aged texture and smears of damp discoloring the ancient facade - are all the more emphasized by the torches dotted throughout the premises. But following the departure of the nocturnal visitors, the interactive tour guides (clad in elaborate costumes of historical figures just hours before), and the last of the staff, the Alcázar, some say, becomes an intoxicating, sinister maze almost impossible to escape. The Alcázar of Seville: The History of Spain’s Most Famous Royal Palace journeys through the eventful timeline of the palatial fortress as well as the stages leading up to its fruition. It also explores some of the fascinating characters who lived there, and the most pivotal events that took place within the centuries-old brick walls.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/115172/bk_acx0_115172_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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