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    MI9: Escape and Evasion 1939-1945 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 765min
    Forged passports, secret maps, ingenious disguises, underground networks - in times of war, tales of escape and evasion can be even more spectacular and heroic than those of victory in battle. Many of the most famous escapes in history took place during World War II. These daring flights from Nazi-occupied Europe would never have been possible but for the assistance of a hitherto secret British service: MI9. This small, dedicated and endlessly inventive team gave hope to the men who had fallen into enemy hands and aid to resistance fighters in occupied territory. It sent in money, maps, clothes, compasses, even hacksaws - and in return coded letters from the prisoner-of-war camps provided invaluable news of what was happening in the enemy’s homeland. Understaffed and under-resourced, MI9 nonetheless made a terrific contribution to the Allied war effort. First published in 1979, this book tells the full, inside story of an extraordinary organisation. Originally published in 1979. Read by Michael Fenton-Stevens (Last Trains, Lovejoy, Long Earth, The Science Of Discworld, Spitting Image, KYTV, Radio Active, Only Fools & Horses) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Fenton Stevens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lbrk/000020/bk_lbrk_000020_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Nexus: Augmented Thinking for a Complex World--The New Convergence of Art, Technology, and Science
    Why today's complex problems demand a radically new way of thinking-one in which art, technology, and science converge. Today's complex problems demand a radically new way of thinking-one in which art, technology, and science converge to expand our creativity and augment our insight. Creativity must be combined with the ability to execute; the innovators of the future will have to understand this balance and manage such complexities as climate change and pandemics. The place of this convergence is the Nexus. In this provocative and visually striking book, Julio Mario Ottino and Bruce Mau offer a guide for navigating the intersections of art, technology, and science. The Nexus brings together word and image to prepare us-individuals and organizations alike-for the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century. Compelling historic examples illuminate the present, from the Renaissance, when the domains were one, to the twentieth century, with intense, collective creative outpourings from places as different as the Bauhaus and Bell Labs. Leaders must be able to grasp simplicity in complexity and complexity in simplicity-and embrace the powerful idea of complementarity, where opposing extremes coexist and our thinking expands. Innovation needs more than managing. Managers use maps; leaders develop compasses.
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    8 Keys to Old School Parenting for Modern-Day Families , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 424min
    Raising secure and confident kids using best parenting practices from the past. Does it ever seem to you like kids these days are in control of their parents? Having a strong sense of yourself as a parent is key to raising a resilient, independent, thoughtful, and solution-focused child. But over the last several generations, parents have been immersed in the well-intentioned idea that parenting should be child centered rather than adult centered. Many parents have begun to follow their children's leads rather than insist that children adapt to parental prerogatives. Parental authority has come to be seen as a bad thing. The eight keys presented in this audiobook focus on valuing your own authority as a parent; cultivating your child's character; applying discipline instead of punishment; strategies to motivate compliance; fostering emotional development; problem solving; conflict management; and effective communication. They will help parents raise self-directed children who are active learners, feel good about themselves, take initiative, and have strong moral compasses. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Walter Dixon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/001547/bk_gdan_001547_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Cutting Ties: The Piper Anderson Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 404min
    Against all odds, Piper Anderson has managed to pick up the pieces of her life. She's holding tight to her budding romance with Officer Bobby Wright, anxious to have her moment with him. Now encircled by fiercely loyal friends, she finally feels like she's standing at the edge of a normal life. That is until reports of a brutal attack at the local college campus turn her dream of happily ever after into a nightmare. The unmistakably familiar details of the attack are an instant reminder of the chains tying her to people and places she so badly wants to escape. With her life and friends in danger, Piper must confront her past in order to fight for her future. To make matters worse, Piper and Bobby once again find their moral compasses pointing them in opposite directions. But what Piper doesn't know is that Bobby has secrets of his own. How can their love survive when their pasts have shaped them so differently? Piper's choices could bring her the freedom she yearns for, but will cutting ties with the past sever her relationship with Bobby? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Rowan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/098000/bk_acx0_098000_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blue Castle Sinners: Revised and Updated , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 317min
    Maintaining the family winter tradition, Pastor Haugen, his wife Helen, and their three teenage children whisk away to South Lake Tahoe after Christmas and stay until the New Year.Upon reaching their destination, they notice a Range Rover has stalled in front of their property. Two gentlemen are waiting for roadside assistance. As a kind gesture, Pastor Haugen and Helen offer the comfort of their home until help arrives.They are especially pleased to find out one of the strangers owns a property 15 miles away. The family has settled in, and due to a sudden change in the weather pattern, conditions worsen. It’s late, roadside assistance calls, and it may be several more hours before anyone will arrive to help. Once again, the two strangers are offered a generous act - this time, to stay the night. As the evening is bowing into night, moral compasses are revealed, and the once-believed-congenial strangers are, in fact, gay.Conversations explode! The entire household is fixated on the pastor's actions to maintain control. Everything he's spent his entire life teaching and preaching is now on the line. Will he remain within the will of God or does human nature compel otherwise?A murder? An accident? Someone dies before six o’clock, the next morning. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jez Jameson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/213663/bk_acx0_213663_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Long Hops: Making Sense of Bird Migration: Latitude 20 Book , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 419min
    In Long Hops, physicist Mark Denny explains, in a clear, conversational style, the science of bird migration - from the intricacies of bird aeronautics to the newly unraveled mysteries of their magnetic compasses. While providing wherever possible examples of indigenous Hawaiian species, the book surveys the migration phenomenon as a whole, showing that birds are breathtaking works of engineering with spectacular capabilities for long-distance flights. Each year thousands of these hardy migrants fly 2,500 miles nonstop from Alaska to Hawai'i. How do they endure such marathon journeys, and how on earth do they know which direction to travel over featureless ocean? In fact, many migratory journeys, in all parts of the world and performed by birds as small as warblers and as large as swans, cover much longer distances. After answering the "who, why, where, when" questions, Denny focuses on the questions of how: how researchers study bird migration; how they gather data from old-fashioned bird banding, high-tech satellite tracking, and other techniques; and - above all - how the birds do it. Throughout the book, concepts such as the physics of bird flight and the role of physical geography on navigation are explained in a relatively math-free way. The book is published by University of Hawai'i Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sonny Dufault. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/074299/bk_acx0_074299_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Heretics , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 384min
    Chesterton's compilation of essays in Heretics discusses the difference in Orthodoxy and Heretics, rational vs. irrational, and denial vs. affirmation. He questions the reason for the existence of man and the universe and calls out many prominent figures in the artistic and literary fields for their unorthodox ideas; thus labeling them heretics. He will have you thinking of favorite authors like Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, and H.G. Wells in a new light, challenging their ideals and morals. He pleads for people to believe in something, but not to believe in just anything. He rails against the greatest mental destruction, having everything constantly denied to you and nothing affirmed. Chesterton believes that anyone who did not believe in the Christian God, was dangerous and were very wrong. Nearly every minute of this book has a quotable passage that will really get you thinking about the meaning of life and the different ideas that are being put into the world. Heretics reveals to the listener that their deepest held values, beliefs, and moral compasses may be deeply flawed from within. Chesterton also hones in on the concept that ideas are the most dangerous thing we have in life and there are very real consequences to those ideas. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Philippe Duquenoy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/058311/bk_acx0_058311_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Reckoning , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 604min
    A richly evocative and important novel about what happens to a Virginia family that must come to terms with their slave-owning past as the Civil War approaches and an abolitionist visits their plantation, throwing it into turmoil and eventually sending the family west. It is 1855. The thousand-acre Dickinson farm on the Virginia-Kentucky border is run by two brothers - Benjamin, who owns the land, and John, a circuit-riding Methodist preacher who manages the land and the sale of cotton and brandy. When a naturalist arrives asking questions about birds and plants, he's invited to stay - but his real mission is to distribute maps, compasses, and knives to the slaves, who then begin to escape, causing chaos on the farm and bitterness between the brothers.  We follow one half of the family as they head for the Kansas Territory, and we follow one of the runaway slaves as he travels to freedom in Canada. Both journeys are full of electrifying incident, near escapes, and the astonishing beauty of undefiled America. Throughout, the characters contend with eternal vicissitudes and the pleasures of family and friends, and sometimes loneliness, but they must all finally come to a reckoning with America's original sin: slavery. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: MacLeod Andrews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005995/bk_rand_005995_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Geostorm: The Shift: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 508min
    Earth is alive. Deep beneath her skin is our planet's life blood. Rivers of molten iron, pushing around a core - her beating heart. This moving, fluid iron generates the magnetic field maintaining the delicate balance of life on earth. Until she has a change of heart. International best-selling author Bobby Akart delivers pulse-pounding thrills in The Geostorm Series, the story of a planet-changing phenomenon, a natural disaster brought about by the Earth itself. The Earth's magnetic field surrounds our planet like an invisible force field connected by a north and south pole. It's what makes compasses point north and it protects our atmosphere from the continual bombardment of geomagnetic storms from the Sun. Without a magnetic field, the planet's atmosphere would be stripped away leaving critical infrastructure at risk and humanity exposed to deadly radiation. What happens when these poles begin to wander? This field grows weaker with deadly consequences for all of humanity. The change in the world's climate could change the face of the planet as we know it. Listeners will become enthralled with the discoveries of Chapman Boone, former storm chaser, and full-time field meteorologist who begins to experience extraordinary weather anomalies. His sister, Kristi Boone, is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine known for being attune to the exotic animals within her care. At first, the changes in the animals' behavior are subtle...until they aren't. Follow the story of the Squire and Sarah Boone family, Indiana farmers and their children who begin to recognize the signs of The Shift. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Abernathy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/165899/bk_acx0_165899_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Owned: The Fate of the Fallen , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 341min, (USK 18)
    There are certain truths evident in the new state of the world: Humans are less than nothing, supernatural beings reign supreme...and Elias Ivers always gets what he wants. When he finds out his prized human slave has been snatched away from him by Khaz, a low-class whore, and made a vampire, he doesn't care what he has to destroy to claim Noah as his own. If that includes the budding feelings between Khaz and Noah, so be it. The fight for the fledgling is fierce and hot, but in this game of sex, pain, and intrigue, can anyone other than Elias truly be a winner?Now that supernatural beings have seized control of the world, life has become a struggle for the humans who once held power. Witches, vampires, and werewolves determine the fate of every single human, but their moral compasses have long since been shattered. Rebels, free humans, and slaves all share dreams of hope, mercy, love, and more. But with their fate so uncertain, survival isn't enough...and they may have to sacrifice what is nearest and dearest to them if they want to change their lives.Bought, Ravel, and Recoil feature different characters whose lives begin to come together in Owned and Temper. This dystopian series explores different aspects of the world, from utter darkness to the shining lights waiting to emerge. Because of this, the books range from dark erotica to romance to horror to action(ish) to bits of other things in between. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Noble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/144291/bk_acx0_144291_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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