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Moon 514: Blaze and the White Griffon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 740min

It's inevitable: Technology must evolve alongside magic.Trained from boyhood to be protectorate of the only known community of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world, Blaze takes a devastating turn when he fails to save the Order from an unexpected and devastating attack. When his mentor turns executioner, Blaze gets arrested for treason and falls victim to Toka's secret gene-splicing experiments. He’s further thrown into confusion when his legendary weaponry skills prove useless against the psionic powers of a small and unintimidating alien woman.After Evelia, his unquenchable crush, becomes the alien’s unexpected apprentice, Blaze hearkens to the Earth’s call to lead mankind’s last few survivors to the destiny she envisions for them: a technologically advanced civilization governed by magic.Young adult fans who enjoy action-packed pause-resisters will love Moon 514’s unique and hopeful twist on a post-apocalyptic world. Consider it Star Wars meets Insurgent with a smiley emoji. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julian Pearson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/143154/bk_acx0_143154_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Time and Despondency: Regaining the Present in Faith and Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 277min

Idleness. Apathy. Restlessness. Procrastination. These are symptoms of what early Christian theologians called despondency (acedia), a spiritual sickness rooted in a lack of care or effort.A condition as old as the ancients, despondency thrives in today's culture of leisure, anxiety, and digital distraction. Time and Despondency is a penetrating synthesis of ancient theology, spiritual memoir, and self-help practicality. It envisions despondency as the extension of a broken relationship with the experience of time.Driven by the fear of death and the anxiety of living, despondency drives us to abandon the present moment, forsaking the only temporal realm in which we have true fellowship with Christ. The remedies offered by time-honored Christian thinkers for this predicament constitute not only an antidote to despondency but also stepping stones back to the present moment.In regaining the sacredness of time, we re-encounter the resurrection of Christ in the dark and restless moments of our lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicole M. Roccas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/121736/bk_acx0_121736_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Cadence Caper: The Sarah McDougall Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 258min

Life has been quiet for Sarah McDougall, that is, until she's envisions an elderly woman's abduction. Confused over the unwelcome and distressing images of a woman she's never met, Sarah soon gets a plea for help from her friend and lover, Raven De Ville. It turns out his aunt has been kidnapped by treasure hunters. When there's no ransom demand for the return of Raven's aunt, and Sarah experiences more psychic episodes where she sees and is seen while she ghost walks into danger, things take a sudden and unexpected turn for the worse. Sarah's psychic abilities are more complicated and aggravating than she'd originally thought. While she struggles to get the hang of ghost walking, an unwanted gift inherited from her Scottish grandmother, Sarah lands in precarious positions that put her own life in danger. Can she survive long enough to rescue Raven's aunt or will she end up trapped by her own powers? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kathleen Mary Carthy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/011479/bk_acx0_011479_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 370min

Our understanding of nature's deepest reality has changed radically, but almost without our noticing, over the past 25 years. Transcending the clash of older ideas about matter and space, acclaimed physicist Frank Wilczek explains a remarkable new discovery: matter is built from almost weightless units, and pure energy is the ultimate source of mass. He calls it "The Lightness of Being." Space is no mere container, empty and passive. It is a dynamic grid, modern ether, and its spontaneous activity creates and destroys particles. This new understanding of mass explains the puzzling feebleness of gravity, and a gorgeous unification of all the forces comes sharply into focus. The Lightness of Being is the first book to explore the implications of these revolutionary ideas about mass, energy, and the nature of empty space. In it, Wilczek masterfully presents new perspectives on our incredible universe and envisions a new golden age of fundamental physics. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Walter Dixon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/001190/bk_gdan_001190_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Dying Voices: Carl Burns, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 322min

Pecan City, Texas, is a quiet, uneventful town. Hartley Gorman is a sedate, fundamentalist college (although a dean was murdered there once - in Bill Crider's One Dead Dean). English professor Carl Burns is about to begin yet another year in such a place, with only the eccentricities of his fellow teachers to entertain him. Even Burns, perpetual worrier that he is, envisions the worst of his problems to be the pigeons that have roosted in the attic above his office and the uninspired students that have enrolled for his classes. But what Burns hasn't counted on is the Edward Street Seminar, a conference that Burns has been assigned to run, which honors one Edward Street, former HGC professor and, lately, Hollywood celebrity. When Street comes back to Hartley Gorman and proceeds to offend everyone in town, and then turns up dead in his motel room, there is no shortage of suspects and Burns really begins to worry! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Foster. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/020510/bk_acx0_020510_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Speed the Dawn: A Donovan Nash Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 556min

In the style of Clive Cussler, best-selling author Philip Donlay climbs to a new height of terror in his eighth Donovan Nash thriller.Hundreds of white-hot meteor fragments plunge toward earth near Monterey Bay, California. Huge fires ignite the tinder-dry landscape, and as the sun sets, the power grid collapses and the fires grow, illuminating a nightmare created in hell itself. Donovan Nash realizes he is trapped.Injured and growing desperate, his options dwindling, Donovan fights to keep himself and a small band of survivors alive until dawn, when they can make one last attempt to escape the inferno.Meanwhile, Donovan's wife, Dr. Lauren McKenna, working with the Pentagon as well as the Forest Service, envisions a bold approach to stop the fire from spreading all the way to the Bay Area and the seven million residents living there. She's terrified that, if not executed perfectly, her plan could cause the death of thousands of people - including Donovan. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rhett Samuel Price. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129432/bk_acx0_129432_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

"Startling in scope and bravado." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world." -Los Angeles Times "Elaborate, smart and persuasive." -The Boston Globe "A pleasure to read." -The Wall Street Journal One of CBS News's Best Fall Books of 2005 • Among St Louis Post-Dispatch's Best Nonfiction Books of 2005 • One of Amazon.com's Best Science Books of 2005 A radical and optimistic view of the future course of human development from the bestselling author of How to Create a Mind and The Age of Spiritual Machines who Bill Gates calls "the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence" For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations.

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The Mummy! (eBook, ePUB)

Within a decade of the 1818 publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, another Englishwoman invented a foundational work of science fiction. Seventeen-year-old Jane Webb Loudon took up the theme of reanimation, moved it three hundred years into the future, and applied it to Cheops, an ancient Egyptian mummy. Unlike Shelley's horrifying, death-dealing monster, this revivified creature bears the wisdom of the ages and is eager to share his insights with humanity. Cheops boards a hot-air balloon and travels to 22nd-century England, where he sets about remedying the ills of a corrupt government. In recounting Cheops' attempts to put the futuristic society to rights, the young author offers a fascinating portrait of the preoccupations of her own era as well as some remarkably prescient predictions of technological advances. The Mummy! envisions a world in which automatons perform surgery, undersea tunnels connect England and Ireland, weather-control devices provide crop irrigation, and messages are transmitted with the speed of cannonball fire. The first novel to feature the concept of a living mummy, this pioneering tale offers an engaging mix of comedy, politics, and science fiction.

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Sick to Debt: How Smarter Markets Lead to Better Care , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 480min

An informed argument for reworking the broken market-based U.S. healthcare system by making cost and quality more transparentThe United States has the most expensive healthcare system in the world. While policy makers have argued over who is at fault for this, the system has been quietly moving toward high-deductible insurance plans that require patients to pay large amounts out of pocket before insurance kicks in. The idea behind this shift is that patients will become better consumers of healthcare when forced to pay for their medical expenses.Laying bare the perils of the current situation, Peter A. Ubel - a physician and behavioral scientist - notes that even when patients have time to shop around, healthcare costs remain largely opaque, difficult to access, and hard to compare. Arguing for a middle path between a market-based and a completely free system, Ubel envisions more transparent, smarter healthcare plans that tie the prices of treatments to the value they provide so that people can afford to receive the care they deserve. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Kipiniak. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/054962/bk_adbl_054962_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Hidden Fire: Pine Hills Police, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 637min

Returning from a stint as part of a task force on violent crime, Randy Detweiler is eager to reunite with Sarah Tucker in Pine Hills, but she’s having second thoughts about their relationship. Can she deal with a cop who gets called away at a moment’s notice, especially one who won’t talk about his job?Their reunion is cut short when a body is discovered, and rumors fly that it’s the work of a serial killer. To make matters worse, the town council might disband their police department, and Randy’s under added pressure to solve the murder before they take action. Forced to work under the radar, Randy struggles to balance work with a shaky relationship.Sarah can’t cope with apparently meaning less to Randy than his job. Should she force him to choose between his job and the us she envisions for the two of them? All bets are off when Sarah herself becomes a suspect in Randy’s case. Before long, it’s more than their relationship that’s in danger. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kelley Hazen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/228510/bk_acx0_228510_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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