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    Mail Order Bride - Elise's Journey: Eagle Creek Brides, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 383min
    Elise Mitchell is no stranger to traveling huge distances to follow her heart, but this time she is making the move to take back control. Tragically widowed and with a young son to look out for, she finds herself beholden to her husband's family and their grip is chafing. Having come from Scotland, she knows the mountains and the fresh air will be a tonic for her and her son, Bailey, but will the wilds of Montana be far enough away for her to be free of the Mitchell's clutches? Tom Greening loves his land, loves his cattle, and loves the single life. But, when his housekeeper decides to take matters into her own hands to find him a bride he finds himself intrigued, and even begins to think he might just be the marrying kind after all. But Tom has a secret, and it has haunted him for too long. Will it ruin everything and take from him the family he never knew he wanted? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J. Scott Bennett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/098594/bk_acx0_098594_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Mother's Secret: Hearts of the Lancaster Grand Hotel Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 511min
    Thirty-one-year-old Carolyn Lapp has never been married - but she's been a mother for 15 years. In a community with strict standards and a long memory, Carolyn knows she might never find a man who will have her and her son, Benjamin. Carolyn's family tries to marry her off to a widower with a daughter who needs a mother. A marriage of convenience doesn't sound so bad, yet despite her loneliness, Carolyn knows what she really wants: a traditional Amish family and a marriage for love. When Benjamin gets into trouble at an auction, he finds himself beholden to a handsome horse breeder named Joshua Glick. Joshua and Carolyn feel an instant attraction, and soon a romance is budding between them. The trouble is Joshua believes Benjamin is Carolyn's nephew, not her son. After years of shame and loneliness, Carolyn suddenly has two men vying for her attention. Can either man give her the family - and the unconditional love - she longs for? Or will her past once again sabotage the future she wants? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amy Melissa Bentley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/007978/bk_tant_007978_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Beautiful and Damned (AmazonClassics Edition) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 861min
    Anthony Patch is the idle heir to a vast fortune. His wife, Gloria, dazzles society with her good looks. Satisfied by privilege and beauty alone, they are beholden only to the "magnificent attitude of not giving a damn." When Anthony’s inheritance is withheld, it causes an irreparable rift in their marriage, threatening their fragile paradise. Oblivious to their future, he and Gloria have little left to define themselves but their ever-receding pasts. A bitter critique of the empty pleasures of post-World War I Café Society, The Beautiful and Damned endures not only as a cautionary tale but as a social artifact of the decadent Roaring Twenties. AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to read a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature’s most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds. Revised edition: Previously published as The Beautiful and Damned, this edition of The Beautiful and Damned (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Verner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010490/bk_brll_010490_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Tyranny of Big Tech
    The reign of Big Tech is here, and Americans' First Amendment rights hang by a keystroke. Amassing unimaginable amounts of personal data, giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple-once symbols of American ingenuity and freedom-have become a techno-oligarchy with overwhelming economic and political power. Decades of unchecked data collection have given Big Tech more targeted control over Americans' daily lives than any company or government in the world. In The Tyranny of Big Tech, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri argues that these mega-corporations-controlled by the robber barons of the modern era-are the gravest threat to American liberty in decades. To reverse course, Hawley argues, we must correct progressives' mistakes of the past. That means recovering the link between liberty and democratic participation, building an economy that makes the working class strong, independent, and beholden to no one, and curbing the influence of corporate and political elites. Big Tech and its allies do not deal gently with those who cross them, and Senator Hawley proudly bears his own battle scars. But hubris is dangerous. The time is ripe to overcome the tyranny of Big Tech by reshaping the business and legal landscape of the digital world.
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    The Golden Thread (eBook, ePUB)
    Blending the sacred and the everyday, Amali Gunasekera's second collection The Golden Thread is a search for grace through the deep process of transmuting emotional trauma into peace. She takes up Muriel Rukeyser's famous line: 'What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.' Her book's central sequence, Nine [Miscarried] Methods, considers the challenge of asserting a woman's equal status within a patriarchal objectified culture. Approaching the polemic or the existential with a gentle touch, this is poetry as lyric essay, mysterious and shapeshifting as sunlight on water. Formally, the poems explore the instability of the lyric 'I' and the addressed 'You'. Often there is no static vantage point; instead, the 'I' and 'You' are verbs in a state of becoming. Their very unfixity reflects dynamic systems in the natural world where elements are constantly interacting and altering their natures. These poems also respond to Wilfred Bion's notion of 'Thoughts Without a Thinker' and Carl Jung's 'Collective Unconscious': through a rich symbolic system they simultaneously hold two dimensions of time; the linear Chronos of our material world, and the vertical Kairos or spiritual time. Thus, the field of this collection is holographic, in search of new co-ordinates, always beholden to something just beyond sight.
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    Sanctuary of Dehlyn : The Unclaimed, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 424min
    One woman with the mind of a child, and the world’s ancient secrets are trapped within her.When Kherron meets her, he wishes he hadn’t. Beholden to the man who purchased his freedom from the Iron Pit, he cannot deny Torrahs this one request - get to know the woman-child named Dehlyn. He also cannot reconcile the gorgeous woman with the stunted, naive, unnatural workings of her innocent mind. And yet, she’s been placed under his care.On the night he saves her life, Dehlyn transforms, revealing the otherworldly power of the creature she has always been - the creature who, for centuries, no one but Kherron has seen. She asks him to make a vow, to protect her at all costs, and when he can do nothing but submit to such a promise, the world he knows unravels.The immortals are at war. Beings wielding forbidden magic run rampant across Eldynia. Powerful men will stop at nothing to pry the world’s mysteries from Dehlyn’s mind, and all the rules are changing. Kherron’s path lies at the center, but if he’s to protect Dehlyn at all costs, first he must find her. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brandon Palmer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/158546/bk_acx0_158546_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dreamwielder , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 625min
    In a world shrouded by soot and smoke, young Makarria has literally been forbidden to dream.… Legend has foretold the demise of Emperor Thedric Guderian at the hands of a sorceress with royal blood, and the Emperor has made it his legacy to stamp out all magic from the Sargothian Empire in favor of primitive coal fired smelters and steam-powered machines. When Guderian’s minions discover a Dreamwielder on a seaside farmstead, a chain of events forces Guderian’s new threat - the young Makarria - to flee from her home and embark upon an epic journey where her path intertwines with that of Princess Taera; her headstrong brother, Prince Caile; and the northman Siegbjorn, who captains a night-flying airship. Dogging their every step is the part-wolf, part-raven sorcerer, Wulfram, and Emperor Guderian, himself, a man who has the ability to stint magic and a vision to create a world where the laws of nature are beholden to men and machines. Only by learning to control the power she wields can Makarria save her newfound companions and stop the Emperor from irreversibly exterminating both the magic in humans and their bond with nature. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Luci Christian Bell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011617/bk_adbl_011617_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Wayward: A LitRPG Adventure (Second Skin, Book 7) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 572min
    Discovering that your mother is a total fraud is never easy; it’s even worse when she’s a goddess. Growing up as the daughter of the Goddess of Justice was like living in my own private little fairy tale, but that carefully crafted illusion was shattered with the death of my mortal mother. In the aftermath of her passing, the true nature of my "divine" parent was finally revealed, and I found myself stranded in a sea of lies and hypocrisy. Yet there was no escaping from the prison the goddess had created for me. I was trapped within the walls of the Imperial Palace, beholden to that horrible woman for my very existence. All I could do was wait and hope that I’d eventually find some way to gain my freedom. When that opportunity finally presented itself, I jumped into the unknown, preferring to take the risk rather than remain in my gilded cage. But the bargain I’d made had more than one side, and the goddess hadn’t been its only intended victim. Alone in a strange land, I soon discovered that the world beyond the palace walls wasn’t exactly the way I’d imagined it would be. Listener advisory: This book contains scenes of graphic violence and deals with mature/adult themes.   ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Leah Voysey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/214312/bk_acx0_214312_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Genesis Code: A Thriller of the Near Future , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 657min
    Blue Magic, the latest designer drug linked to a rash of overdoses, might explain the needle mark on the arm of a young woman found dead in her Kansas City apartment. But when star reporter Rich Azadian digs deeper, the clues point to a far more explosive story: MaryLee Stock was a special protege of evangelical megapastor and power broker Cobalt Becker, who is poised to deliver his followers and the presidency to a firebrand right-wing senator in the next election. When Azadian sets out to prove that MaryLee's death was no accident and she may have been carrying Becker's genetically enhanced baby, the stakes become life itself. In 2023 America - bankrupt, violently divided by the culture wars, and beholden to archrival China - the rules of the game are complicated. With the danger mounting, the dead bodies of young women piling up, Chinese agents circling, and the US Department of National Competitiveness moving in to quash his investigation, Azadian's only option is to go rogue, assemble a team of brilliant misfits like himself, and begin the fight of his life to find out who is killing these women and why, and if any others like them may still be alive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andy Caploe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/020068/bk_adbl_020068_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mail Order Bride - Susanna's Destiny: Faith Creek Brides, Book 10 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 100min
    Susanna Greyshott's family were once wealthy and well-to-do, but they have fallen upon hard times, and she and her Mama have been forced to make changes and do the best they can under the circumstances. But it has made Susanna hard as flint, unwilling to forgive and even less willing to open her heart. She is quite prepared to move to Texas, where she believes she may finally be able to build a life for her and her Mama where they are beholden to no-one, but a face from her past could ruin it all. Can she truly let herself accept all the benefits and happiness that Faith Creek longs to offer? Will she learn to forgive and accept the love that has always been all around her? Dr. Nathaniel Baron has been Faith Creek's only physician for some time, but as more and more people arrive and make their homes there he knows he will have to expand the practice. But searching for suitable doctors and nurses who actually wish to make a new start in the wilds of Texas isn't that easy - especially when you secretly wish to find a bride and haven't even let yourself know it yet! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alan Taylor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/101165/bk_acx0_101165_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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