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President William H. Taft's Last State of the Union Address , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 78min

William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857-March 8, 1930) was the twenty-seventh president of the United States (1909-1913) and later the tenth chief justice of the United States (1921-1930). He is the only person to have served in both of these offices. Riding a wave of popular support for fellow Republican Roosevelt, Taft won an easy victory in his 1908 bid for the presidency. In his only term, Taft's domestic agenda emphasized trust busting, civil service reform, strengthening the Interstate Commerce Commission, improving the performance of the postal service, and passage of the Sixteenth Amendment. Abroad, Taft sought to further the economic development of nations in Latin America and Asia through Dollar Diplomacy and showed decisiveness and restraint in response to revolution in Mexico. The task-oriented Taft was oblivious to the political ramifications of his decisions, often alienated his own key constituencies, and was overwhelmingly defeated in his bid for a second term in the presidential election of 1912. In surveys of presidential scholars, Taft is usually ranked near the middle of lists of all American presidents. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Greenman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001091/bk_mike_001091_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Breakaway: Scoring Chances, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 453min

Drafted to play for the Jacksonville Sea Storm, an NHL affiliate, 20-year-old Lane Courtnall's future looks bright, apart from the awkwardness he feels as a gay man playing on a minor league hockey team. He's put his foot in his mouth a few times and alienated his teammates. Then, during a rivalry game, Lane throws off his gloves against Jared Shore, enforcer for the Savannah Renegades. It's a strange way to begin a relationship. Jared's been playing minor league hockey for most of his career. He's bisexual and doesn't care if anyone knows. But he's determined to avoid another love affair after the last one left him devastated. Out of nowhere a one-nighter with rookie Lane Courtnall gives him second thoughts. Lane reminds Jared why he loves the game and why love might be worth the risk. In turn, Jared hopes to show Lane how to be comfortable with himself on and off the ice. But they're at different points in their careers, and both men will have to decide what they value most. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott R. Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/065393/bk_acx0_065393_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Confessions of a Bone Woman: Realizing Authentic Wildness in a Civilized World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 347min

Lucinda White is a happy-go-lucky nature child raised by a young single mother in the 1960s. In a dramatic turn of events, her wild nature is broken. She is shaped into a yuppie and becomes the wife of a prominent Silicon Valley CEO and a glamorous socialite. Successful by all accounts of external measure, she feels trapped by the shallow values of a dominant culture and ever more alienated from her true nature.Something primal awakens in Lucinda when she unearths and touches an ancient buffalo bone, and the experience impels her to secretly collect dead animal parts and learn the art of curing their decomposing flesh. As Lucinda challenges convention, her curiosity about the animal kingdom leads to wild and unlikely adventures rescuing roadkill, tracking wolves, and encountering lions face-to-face. Confessions of a Bone Woman is one woman’s story of how she recognizes and learns to express her authentically wild nature in order to heal bone by bone and become her full self, redefining what it means to be a modern woman. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lucinda Bakken White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/144139/bk_acx0_144139_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Specimen Days, Hörbuch, Digital, 289min

In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, an older man, and a young woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost story which takes place at the height of the Industrial Revolution, as human beings confront the alienated realities of the new machine age. "The Children's Crusade", set in the early 21st century, plays with the conventions of the noir thriller as it tracks the pursuit of a terrorist band which is detonating bombs, seemingly at random, around the city. The third part, "Like Beauty", evokes a New York 150 years into the future, when the city is all but overwhelmed by refugees from the first inhabited planet to be contacted by the people of Earth. Presiding over each episode of this interrelated whole is the prophetic figure of the poet Walt Whitman. Specimen Days is a genre-bending, haunting, and transformative ode to life in our greatest city, a work of surpassing power and beauty by one of the most original and daring writers at work today. Language: English. Narrator: Alan Cumming. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/000464/bk_aren_000464_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 467min

America's power is in decline, its foreign policy adrift, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past eight years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Daydream Believers combines in-depth reporting and analysis to explain how George W. Bush and his aides got so far off track - and why much of the nation followed.For eight years, the White House and many of the nation's opinion pages rang out with appealing but deluded claims: that we live in a time like no other, that new technology transformed warfare, that the world's peoples will be set free if only America topples their dictators, and that those who dispute such promises do so for partisan reasons. They thought they were visionaries, but they only had visions. And they believed these daydreams.With stunning anecdotes, hidden history, and sharp insight, Kaplan reveals a truth whose understanding is crucial to finding leaders who can see the world as it really is. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/002499/bk_blak_002499_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Love into Light: The Gospel, the Homosexual, and the Church , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 242min

Homosexuality is one of the most controversial moral issues of our day. Headlines teem with stories of athletes "coming out", politicians changing positions, and courts handing down same sex marriage rulings. Sadly, the church has often been afraid to talk about homosexuality. Many Christians feel confused and divided between the call to love and the call for truth. And many who struggle with unwanted same sex attraction feel alone and alienated by the church. The time is ripe for God's people to think and speak about same sex attraction in a way that is both biblical and beneficial. We must reject our fears and misunderstandings and see ourselves together, in need of the grace of Jesus. Love into Light is designed to move the church toward that end. Written from the heart of a pastor with a love for people and a sensitivity to our culture, Love into Light is your next step toward becoming more faithfully and helpfully engaged with people in your families, in your church, and in your neighborhood. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Mann. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/039923/bk_acx0_039923_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Hate Is Such a Strong Word , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 396min

In the vein of Does My Hair Look Big In This and Looking for Alibrandi, Hate is Such a Strong Word is the story of a 17-year-old girl caught between two cultures, Lebanese and Anglo Australian. Seventeen-year-old Sophie hates Monday mornings, socks worn with sandals and having to strategise like she's a battle sergeant every time she asks her parents if she can go out. But she especially hates being stereotyped because she's Lebanese. When New Guy, Shehadie Goldsmith, is alienated at her Lebanese school because his dad's Australian, she hates the way it makes her feel. Like she's just as prejudiced as everyone else. Like she could make a difference if she stopped pretending she's invisible. Like the attraction between them might be too strong to fight.... But hate is such a strong word.... Can Sophie find the strength to speak out - even if it means going against everything she's been brought up to believe? A brilliant debut novel about identity, love, culture and finding your place. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sarah Ayoub. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/002917/bk_boli_002917_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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IRL , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 106min

IRL is a sweaty summertime poem composed like a long text message, rooted in the epic tradition of A.R. Ammons, ancient Kumeyaay Bird Songs, and Beyoncé’s visual albums. It follows Teebs, a reservation-born, queer NDN weirdo, trying to figure out his impulses/desires/history in the midst of Brooklyn rooftops, privacy in the age of the Internet, street harassment, suicide, boys boys boys, literature, colonialism, religion, leaving one's 20s, and a love/hate relationship with English. He’s plagued by an indecision, unsure of which obsessions, attractions, and impulses are essentially his, and which are the result of Christian conversion, hetero-patriarchal/colonialist white supremacy, homophobia, Bacardi, gummy candy, and not getting laid. IRL asks, what happens to a modern, queer indigenous person a few generations after his ancestors were alienated from their language, their religion, and their history? Teebs feels compelled towards “boys, burgers, booze”, though he begins to suspect there is perhaps a more ancient goddess calling to him behind art, behind music, behind poetry. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tommy Pico. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/107830/bk_acx0_107830_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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One Woman Falling: Whispers of Grace, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 652min

Who will stand with her when everything comes crashing down?Cassie Peterson lives in an invisible prison of fear, chained by self-doubt and kept guard by a relentless warden - her husband. Derrick’s physical and verbal abuse, as well as his alcoholism, have left Cassie alienated from her family, without friends, and certain she can’t survive on her own.After an unexpected police visit, Cassie realizes the survival of her four-year-old daughter Renee depends on Cassie’s courage to leave. What she doesn’t plan on is Derrick’s vengeful custody fight. While navigating the treacherous waters of divorce, Cassie is encouraged by her spunky new friend Missy to pursue her love of waterfalls.Cassie finds solace in the waterfalls that she can’t explain. Meanwhile, unexpected help in her divorce case comes from Brian Sutton, an attorney at the firm where Cassie works, but what price will she ultimately pay for his assistance?As Derrick’s threatening behavior escalates, Cassie questions the choices she has made. Why is she drawn to waterfalls during this chaotic time? How much will her daughter suffer through the custody battle? And can she ever find her way back to forgiveness and a loving God? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Melanie Carey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/220458/bk_acx0_220458_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Goldfinch , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1945min

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize For Fiction 2014 Longlisted – Baileys Women’s Prize 2014 Audie Award Finalist, Literary Fiction, 2013 Aged 13, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Pittu. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000708/bk_twuk_000708_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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