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    The Fortunes of Philippa, Hörbuch, Digital, 223min
    The Fortunes of Philippa (1906) is a schoolgirl novel by Angela Brazil.Excerpt from the book:"My father looked me up and down with a glance of despair which would have been comical if it had not seemed at the same time somewhat pathetic. 'I can do the fifth proposition in Euclid,' I objected, 'and the Latin Grammar as far as irregular verbs.' My father shook his head. 'That might help you a little if you were a boy in a public school, but it's not all that your mother would have wished. You've not been taught a note of music, you can't speak French or dance a quadrille, and if it came to a question of fine sewing, I'm afraid you'd scarcely know which was the right end of your needle!' The list of my deficiencies was so dreadfully true that I had no excuse to bring forward, and my father continued. 'Besides, it's absurd to attempt to educate you in this spot, where you've no opportunity of mixing with cultured people. I wish you to see England, and to have companions of your own age.'" Language: English. Narrator: Harriet Reese. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/009875/bk_edel_009875_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Great Expectations , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1273min
    While visiting his parents gravesite in the marshy mists of a village graveyard, Pip, a young orphan living with his older sister, encounters a shivering, limping convict on the run. In spite of his fear of the man, Pip befriends the convict and gives aid, an act that spells considerable consequences for Pip later in life. Fate intervenes and Pip is sent to the household of Miss Havisham, a wealthy and eccentric spinster. Pip shares the household with Miss Havisham and her beautiful, but cold, adopted daughter Estella. Estella seizes every opportunity to tempt and spurn the admiring Pip. Undaunted, Pip tries to make a gentleman of himself and win the heart of Estella by using a trust fund he believes has been established for him by Miss Havisham. A word about the author: After completing Great Expectations, Dickens had the work critiqued by his friend and novelist Edward Bulwer Lytton. Lytton objected strongly to the original 'unacceptable' ending, so Dickens changed it to its current 'more acceptable' form. In this reading, you will hear both endings. The 'acceptable' ending is first and the original ending is presented second. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gene Engene. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bimo/001221/bk_bimo_001221_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Macat Analysis of Jared M. Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 128min
    In his 2005 book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (also subtitled How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive), author and multifaceted US scholar Jared M. Diamond clearly identifies five major factors that he says determine the success or failure of all human societies in all periods of history. Having first asked why societies collapse, Diamond explores various examples of failed societies, from the Norsemen of Scandinavia, who colonized Greenland in the early 10th century, to the 18th-century inhabitants of Easter Island. As a counterpoint, he shows how inhabitants of Highland New Guinea over the past 7,000 years, and Japan in the 17th to 19th centuries, managed to overcome potentially terminal challenges to their survival. Investigating these successes and failures allows Diamond to pinpoint the five key factors. Collapse alienated many academics, especially those who objected to Diamond's emphasis on "geographic determinism", or the impact of local environments on the way societies develop. Many of them dismissed this view as outdated and racist. But Diamond's depth of knowledge, and the way he uses it so engagingly, have won Collapse a huge worldwide readership. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Macat.com. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/063879/bk_acx0_063879_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Death Mask , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 488min
    In the third book of the Jocelyn O'Roarke series, the actress and amateur detective finally gets her big break; too bad a murder has to come along and ruin it. It has been a tough road thus far for the audacious Jocelyn "Josh" O'Roarke. Every time she feels like she's moving up in the theater world, her life is derailed by a murder. Now, she is about to make her big move with her directorial debut Off-Broadway. Even better, it's a revival of Major Barbara - a surefire hit. It seems nothing could go wrong - until stage veteran Burton Evans collapses on stage during a preview, apparently from a heart attack. As the director of the play, Josh must get to the truth. Despite Evans's kindly exterior, he was hiding a history that gave several people motives for murder. Could he have been killed for his sizable inheritance? Perhaps someone objected to his testimony to the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the 1950s? Jocelyn O'Roarke needs answers if the curtain is ever to go up on her debut. Death Mask is the third book in the Jocelyn O'Roarke mystery series, which begins with Murder on Cue and First Hit of the Season. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jane Dentinger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019660/bk_adbl_019660_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How to Find the Right Person for Marriage: Getting It Right from the Beginning , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 107min
    Being single is seen as a chronic problem that needs to be solved, and those who just had it solved want to share their secret, i.e. the secret to finding love and getting married.The question of who to marry is an agelong one. Every single man or woman asks this question either silently in their hearts or by speaking out to the hearing of someone else.I was at the bank some time ago to carry out a transaction when I met a longtime friend who was trying to back out of a relationship due to certain personal reasons. He needed to be sure he was doing the right thing. As I shared with him certain signposts to watch out for if one is in the will of God, he told me that someone had told him that there is nothing like "The will of God in marriage". Thank God, he objected to that counsel. When I finished talking with him and was about leaving, he said to me, “Thank God, I met you today.” I observed that a weight of confusion was lifted off him.In How to Find the Right Person for Marriage, you will discover the amazing proven principles for finding the right spouse. You will enjoy this audiobook and recommend it to others.Take action now, click the "Buy Now" button, and you will be happy you did.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brittany Schank. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/146730/bk_acx0_146730_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Wayward Preacher (Amazing Gracie Mysteries, #9) (eBook, ePUB)
    Locked Rock, Iowa has a new preacher. Gracie Evans decides the man is way too young and inexperienced to be a preacher for elderly citizens set in their ways. Although, she admits he wasn't too bad at preaching a sermon. It was when he said good bye after church to the congregation, Gracie objected to his familiarity with the unmarried women as they filed out. He latched onto each young woman's hand and kept her talking to him as long as he thought he could get away with it. Gracie complained his behavior wasn't seemly, but Melinda didn't want to hear her bad mouth the preacher. She said so what if he was wife hunting. Nothing wrong with that. Gracie didn't intend to drop her opinion so easily. She vowed to keep an eye on the preacher to keep him from making a fool out of the young women in town. Some mysterious things started happening after Preacher Mayfield arrived that might prove Gracie right. A few young women whispered among their family and friends that their pantaloons disappeared from their bedrooms in the night. Weirder yet, expensive porcelain dolls were found on the porches of the young ladies the preacher flirted with. Dolls that looked just like the young women. All evidence to Gracie that the town's preacher's past should be checked. She just might be right about him being a Wayward Preacher.
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    Woman Enough: How a Boy Became a Woman and Changed the World of Sport , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 359min
    A powerful and inspiring story of self-realization and legal victory that upends our basic assumptions about sexual identity.In 1966, a male baby, Chris, was adopted by an upper-middle-class Toronto family. From early childhood, Chris felt ill at ease as a boy and like an outsider in his conservative family. An obsession with sports - running, waterskiing, and cycling - helped him survive what he would eventually understand to be a profound disconnect between his anatomical sexual identity and his gender identity. In his 20s, with the support of newfound friends and family and the medical community, Chris became Kristen. Chris had been a world-class cyclist, and now Kristen aspired to compete in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She became the first athlete in the world to submit to the International Olympic Committee's gender verification process, the Stockholm Consensus. An all-male jury determined she fit their biological criteria - but the IOC ultimately objected to her use of testosterone supplements. They, and other sports bodies, regard them as performance-enhancing, when in fact all transitioned female athletes need the hormone to stay healthy and to compete. So Kristen filed a complaint against the sports bodies standing in her way with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. And she won.     Woman Enough is the account of a human-rights battle with global repercussions for the world of sport; it's a challenge to rethink fixed ideas about gender; and it's the extraordinary story of a boy who was rejected for who he wasn't and who fought back until she found out who she is.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Justine Eyre. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/prhc/000656/bk_prhc_000656_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ayn Rand and Altriusm , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 60min
    In Ayn Rand and Altruism, George H. Smith calls attention to benevolence in Rand’s thinking. Indeed, Smith defends Rand’s rejection of altruism by contrasting it to benevolence. In this series of essays, originally published on Libertarianism.org and republished by The Atlas Society with permission of the author, Smith begins by establishing that Rand’s definition of altruism - “the placing of others above self, of their interests above one’s own” - is identical to the definition of altruism originated by Auguste Comte. The 19th-century French philosopher considered altruism the basis of morality. Rand considered altruism morality’s antithesis. Smith explains: "Rand’s analyses of altruism - including her claims about its moral, social, and political implications - are a virtual negative image of Comte’s defense of altruism. Thus, however much critics may dismiss Rand’s attacks on altruism as unjustified, her treatment of altruism, as discussed and defended by the man who originated the term and who defended altruism in more detail than any other philosopher, before or since, was remarkably on point." Smith emphasizes that Rand objected to altruism on the grounds that it is a duty. Benevolence is voluntary. The distinction has serious political consequences. Altruism becomes the moral basis of collectivism. It can be used malevolently to force individuals to sacrifice themselves. Smith refutes the absurd claim that Ayn Rand, in rejecting altruism, advocated a cruel disregard for the well-being of others, and he asserts that it is categorically incorrect to consider Ayn Rand someone who “defended selfishness in the vulgar sense, according to which an egoist should show no concern for the welfare of others.” Indeed, Smith concludes after a sweeping and methodical examination of Rand’s position, “That was not her point at all.” ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott R. Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/142861/bk_acx0_142861_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Confederaphobia: An American Epidemic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 104min
    For 150 years Confederate monuments and other memorials dotted the American landscape. Few people objected. After all, a third of the American people are descended from Confederate soldiers and Congress has officially and legally declared Confederates to be "American veterans". That time has passed. There is an epidemic of hate and fear sweeping the land; a wave of hostility and intolerance that shows no sign of slowing or stopping; its fury is directed at Southern symbols - flags, monuments, and other displays - in fact everything Southern now appears to be a target. Paul C. Graham has courageously examined this case of mass hysteria; a condition he has aptly dubbed "Confederaphobia". "It's one thing," writes Graham, "to acknowledge that the meaning of symbols is one of perspective. It's quite another thing to have the meaning dictated by ideologues who are not participants in the cultural tradition.... Southern symbols mean to the Southerner exactly what they say that they do...speak for those people for whom Southern identity is a living reality." Southern people are growing weary of the ongoing demonization; of being bullied and harassed; and have begun to realize that Confederaphobia is not a matter of monuments, but a campaign to expunge their identity. If you are a self-identified Southerner, you are a potential target! It's not too late to inoculate yourself from the dangerous effects of this disease, but this is only possible if you recognize the problem. The problem is not Confederate flags, monuments, markers, belt-buckles, stickers, do-dads, knick-knacks, what-nots, or Dukes of Hazzard re-runs - the problem is Confederaphobia! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Izard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105370/bk_acx0_105370_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    When Good Lesbians Meet Bad Lesbians & More Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 47min, (USK 18)
    Just tell me what you want, Bethany, Carmen replied coldly. Bethany smiled wickedly and licked her ice cream cone. "I'll tell you what: I am the same age as Derek. All I ask is that you do everything I say, from now on." She took another lick of her ice cream cone. "Be my sex slave, and I won't breathe a word of this to Mr. Childers." Bethany went on to promise she wouldn't reveal their special relationship if Carmen agreed. They eventually shook hands and went their separate ways. And that was how it had all started. Bethany would skip school and go to the Childers' home when Mr. Childers was at work and Trevor was in school. There she would dominate Carmen, commanding her to please her in any way she saw fit. Then one Tuesday evening when Bethany's parents were out of town, she called Carmen. "Come over to my house right away," she insisted. "But my husband is here," Carmen protested. "Make an excuse," Bethany demanded. "You have ten minutes." Eight and a half minutes later, the doorbell rang. It was Carmen. Bethany let her in, shaking her head as she locked the door behind her. "You didn't dress up," she said. "You know I like my little slut to dress up for me. You only gave me ten minutes!" Carmen objected. "No excuse!" Bethany replied. "Go to my parent's room and put on something of my mother's." Carmen returned a few minutes later wearing a pink babydoll and matching thong. Bethany nodded. "Very nice," she said. "Now get over here!" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: K. Krutz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/011098/bk_acx0_011098_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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