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  Paradise Valley , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 651min

  “I would do a great many things for you." Even at 16, Jake’s handsome features hold the calm certainty and patient confidence of a man, and Rachel Bender knows—Jake Weaver is the one. Rachel will grow into a strong young woman with powerful gifts—but in a faraway country, without her Jake. In 1921, Ohio’s new law forces Caleb Bender’s family to seek sanctuary in the wilds of Mexico where the government will not interfere with their Amish way of life, or take their children from them. Nor will it protect them from the bandits terrorizing the countryside. In an unfamiliar land where no one speaks their language or knows their ways, the Benders establish a homestead in exile. Sisters Emma, Rachel, and Miriam find strengths unimagined, gifts unexpected, and yearning beyond their deepest dreams. Even steadfast Caleb is compelled to wrestle with the demands of faith, only to discover that love has its own demands. Paradise Valley—a tale of love, danger, and redeeming faith. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Miles. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/004847/bk_reco_004847_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Sailing into History: Great Lakes Bulk Carriers of the Twentieth Century and the Crews Who Sailed Them , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 450min

  The Great Lakes create a vast transportation network that supports a massive shipping industry. In this volume, seamanship, cargo, competition, cooperation, technology, engineering, business, unions, government decisions, and international agreements all come together to create a story of unrivaled interest about the Great Lakes ships and the crews that sailed them in the 20th century.This complex and multifaceted tale begins in iron and coal mines, with the movement of the raw ingredients of industrial America across docks into ever larger ships using increasingly complicated tools and technology. The shipping industry was an expensive challenge, as it required huge investments of capital, caused bitter labor disputes, and needed direct government intervention to literally remake the lakes to accommodate the ships. It also demanded one of the most integrated international systems of regulation and navigation in the world to sail a ship from Duluth to upstate New York. Sailing into History describes the fascinating history of a century of achievements and setbacks, unimagined change mixed with surprising stability. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Hanko. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/125777/bk_acx0_125777_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Girl Who Fell: The Chess Raven Chronicles, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 633min

  The first in a thrilling fantasy series about a girl who learns to embrace her inner power.  Chess Raven is a hacker who has grown up with nothing and no one. Her parents died when she was three, and her foster care situation turned out badly - very badly. But on her 16th birthday, her life is turned upside down.  Chess learns her mother was Queen of the Fae and her father was a brilliant physicist. The unique blend of her mother’s fairy blood and her father’s humanity gives Chess - and Chess alone - the ability to unlock a mysterious vessel that will unleash unimagined powers - with devastating consequences. Thrown into a new world where nothing is at it seems, Chess must work out who to trust as vying forces race to control her. Or kill her.  Reunited with her childhood friend Tom Williams, an enigmatic shape-shifting unicorn, Chess discovers love for the first time and is prepared to risk her life for it. But first she must learn to overcome a fear of her own power and stop waiting for other people to save her. She is the one she’s been waiting for. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/004105/bk_boli_004105_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Steel Wind , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 691min

  What if North Korea’s sudden turn toward peace is a cunning act of misdirection?A routine Coast Guard inspection of a cargo ship in the Caribbean turns into a vicious firefight with unidentified Asian commandos. The second attempt to board the vessel ends with a nuclear detonation.North Korea has been smuggling short- and intermediate-range missiles into Cuba. An unknown number of nuclear warheads are hidden less than 100 miles from the tip of Florida. Every American city east of San Antonio is in the target zone.Scrambling to stop the flow of weapons to Cuba, the president orders the Atlantic Fleet to surround the island, cutting off all access. It’s the Cuban Missile Crisis all over again, but this time there won’t be a diplomatic resolution. The North Koreans have developed a secret weapon that rips through the blockade with ease, leaving burning ships and floating bodies in its wake.Against this unimagined threat stand a small detachment of US Marines and a cutting-edge destroyer that’s never been tested in combat.It’s a battle we never expected to fight, against an enemy we can barely comprehend.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Taverna. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/127845/bk_acx0_127845_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 515min

  This follow-up to the national best seller A Study in Sherlock is a stunning new volume of original stories compiled by award-winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger. The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were recently voted the top mystery series of all time, and they have enthralled generations of readers - and writers. Now, Laurie R. King, author of the New York Times best-selling Mary Russell series in which Holmes plays a costarring role, and Leslie S. Klinger, Edgar Award - winning editor of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, have assembled a stellar group of contemporary authors from a variety of genres and asked them to create new stories inspired by that canon. Authors included here are Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Michael Dirda, Harlan Ellison, Denise Hamilton, Nancy Holder, John Lescroart, Sara Paretsky, Michael Sims, and more. Inside you'll find Holmes in times and places previously unimagined, as well as characters who have themselves been affected by the tales of Sherlock Holmes. The game is afoot - again! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner, Peter Berkrot, Simon Vance, Steve West, Ralph Lister, Johnny Heller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007078/bk_blak_007078_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Brisingr: Inheritance, Book 3, Hörbuch, Digital, 687min

  Oaths sworn.... Loyalties tested.... Forces collide. It's only been months since Eragon first uttered "brisingr", an ancient-language term for fire. Since then, he's not only learned to create magic with words - he's been challenged to his very core. Following the colossal battle against the Empire's warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still, there is more adventure at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep. First is Eragon's oath to his cousin Roran: to help rescue Roran's beloved from King Galbatorix's clutches. But Eragon owes his loyalty to others, too. The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strength - as are the elves and dwarves. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices - choices that will take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice. Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Can this once simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king? Language: English. Narrator: Kerry Shale. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/000386/bk_rhuk_000386_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence (eBook, ePUB)

  A series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum. Is it possible that creative artists have more in common with machines than we might think? Employing an improvisational call-and-response writing performance coauthored with an AI text generator, remix artist and scholar Mark Amerika, interrogates how his own "psychic automatism" is itself a nonhuman function strategically designed to reveal the poetic attributes of programmable worlds still unimagined. Through a series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum, Amerika critically reflects on whether creativity itself is, at root, a nonhuman information behavior that emerges from an onto-operational presence experiencing an otherworldly aesthetic sensibility. Amerika engages with his cyberpunk imagination to simultaneously embrace and problematize human-machine collaborations. He draws from jazz performance, beatnik poetry, Buddhist thought, and surrealism to suggest that his own artificial creative intelligence operates as a finely tuned remix engine continuously training itself to build on the history of avant-garde art and writing. Playful and provocative, My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence flips the script on contemporary AI research that attempts to build systems that perform more like humans, instead self-reflexively making a very nontraditional argument about AI's impact on society and its relationship to the cosmos.

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  Tempting the Player: London Legends Rugby Club (eBook, ePUB)

  Professional rugby player Matt Ogden has spent so much time warming the bench that London Legends supporters voted his bum the hottest in the league. He's not only fighting for a starter position. He's fighting a debilitating fear of flying that may ground his career before he can get it off the ground. Maybe he can get some help with that from his best friend, who happens to know a thing or two about flying. Airline pilot Libby Hart has lots of thoughts about Matt's bum, every one of them naughty. But she's looking for man to start a family with, one who'll keep the home fires burning for her, without sacrificing her high-flying career. Matt may be her perfect plus-one and co-parent of their Chihuahua, but he's not that guy--even though he sets her imagination on fire. There's always been a spark between them, so when Matt asks Libby for help, they agree the best way to resolve all that built up tension is a vacation from their platonic relationship. Whenever they fly together, they can have sex. So what happens when the pilot and the player find each other too hot to resist? They may not have a future together but these BFFs are tempting fate. Will they crash and burn? Or soar to unimagined heights?

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  The Jersey: A Story of Loss and Redemption , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 524min

  Dan West wonders which is more important to him: Helping his long-time friend win back his business after being accused of stealing money from the company, or coaching his 11-year-old son’s soccer team trying to win an improbable championship.Money and prestige don’t motivate Dan. Rather, family, work and coaching soccer are the underpinnings of his life. He revels in the simple joys like hanging out with his wife Jill, mentoring a young lawyer at his firm, and watching the boys connect on three passes before drilling the ball into the back of the net.Dan always knew to keep it steady - not to get too high or he might get knocked off his perch. And he did, until he and the boys’ soccer team achieved unimagined success. Before he can grasp how good he has it, tragedy rips a hole in his family.James Rosenberg, author of the bestseller Legal Reserves, strikes a new chord in his exploration of what makes a life and how to put it back together after it is shattered.The Jersey is a beautifully written, profoundly touching, and relatable story of love, loss, and the redemptive power of a group of motivated 11-year-old kids. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Avers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173523/bk_acx0_173523_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Brisingr: The Inheritance Cycle, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1774min

  Don’t miss the latest book from the author of Eragon, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Tales from Alagaësia, coming December 31, 2018! Perfect for fans of Lord of the Rings, the New York Times best-selling Inheritance Cycle about the dragon rider Eragon has sold over 35 million copies and is an international fantasy sensation.Oaths sworn...loyalties tested...forces collide. Following the colossal battle against the Empire’s warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still there is more at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.First is Eragon’s oath to his cousin Roran: to help rescue Roran’s beloved, Katrina, from King Galbatorix’s clutches. But Eragon owes his loyalty to others, too.The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strength - as are the elves and dwarves. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices - choices that take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Can this once-simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king?  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gerard Doyle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/000762/bk_lili_000762_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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