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    Shy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 474min
    Dating is hard enough. Throw in an incontinent Chihuahua, an unrequited love affair, a severe case of social anxiety disorder, a dying father, and a man-eating hog, and it becomes darned near impossible. Still, it takes two to tango - and when Tom Morgan, a mild-mannered assistant bank manager with a debilitating case of shyness, meets Frank Wells, who is straight off the farm and even shyer than he is, sparks start flying. Just when Tom and Frank's burgeoning love affair is rolling along nicely, Frank must return to Indiana to oversee the farm while his father battles cancer. Tom tags along to help Frank out and finds himself slopping hogs and milking cows and wondering what the hell happened to his orderly citified existence. And what's with all the chickens? Tom hates chickens! With Frank's help, Tom grits his teeth and muddles through. Funny what a couple of guys can accomplish when they're crazy about each other. Not even 900 chickens can stand in the way of true love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tommy O'Brien. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/027586/bk_acx0_027586_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Spider Truces , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 739min
    Ellis is obsessed by the spiders that inhabit the crumbling house where he lives with his dad, his older sister and Great-aunt Mafi - and also by a need to find out more about his mother, whose death overshadows the family's otherwise happy existence. He is a sensitive soul; awkward and out of place most of the time but funny, too, and with an embarrassing habit of speaking his thoughts aloud, whatever the company. From early attempts at relationships, to unskilled jobs, flatshares and drug-addled nights on the beach, Ellis muddles his way towards adulthood. What endures is the strength of his bond with his dad, Denny, and his affectionate relationship with his intrepid sister, who turns up whenever he needs her - a new boyfriend in tow every time. The family banter is Ellis's lifeline and a counterpoint to the constant heartache of his desire to know something - anything - about his mother. Meanwhile Denny, an ex-Merchant Navy man, bottles up his grief at the loss of his wife, refusing to talk about her. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Jameson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/025424/bk_adbl_025424_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Drugged in the Water: The Dangerous Coast of Florida Suspense Series, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 420min
    John Godwin, former EMT and current private investigator, continues to make waves as his cooperation with the Miami PD brings him more high-profile cases. Pleased with John’s closure rate, his contact in the Vice department asks him to look into a string of attacks on women using hallucinogenic drugs; he figures his medical training will come in handy in cracking the case. As Godwin tracks the killer through a string of victims, he uncovers the grim details of how the crimes unfold: an innocent interaction with a stranger, memory loss, madness, violence, and then death. There is little evidence left at the scenes and even fewer clues to follow. The poisoner has engineered what could be the perfect crime drug: one that muddles the minds of its subjects, causes them to act out their paranoid delusions, and leaves their sanity in tatters - if they recover at all. When the killer strikes someone close to John’s heart, it threatens to derail the investigation entirely. He has to put his own safety on the line to bring down the most elusive criminal he’s ever encountered. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rick Struve. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/146173/bk_acx0_146173_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 508min
    Four decades after the sexual revolution, nothing has worked out the way it was supposed to. The sexes are circling each other as uneasily and comically as ever, and now the New York Times columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for incisive commentary about the mysteries and muddles of sexual combat in America sorts through the confusion.In a new book filled with chapters that surprise and amuse, Dowd explains why getting ready for a date went from glossing and gargling to Paxiling and Googling; why men may be biologically unsuited to hold higher office, given their diva fits and catfights, teary confessions and fashion obsessions; why women are fixated on their looks more than ever; and why the new definition of "having it all" is less about empowerment and equality than about flirting and getting rescued, downshifting from "You go, girl!" to "You go lie down, girl."Women's liberation has been less a steady trajectory than a confusing zigzag. Feminism lasted for a nanosecond and generated a gender tangle that has bewitched, bothered, and bewildered men and women for 40 years. Now comes a woman to cut through the tangle and tickle Adam's rib. The battle of the sexes will never be the same. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maureen Dowd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/000446/bk_peng_000446_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dragon Unearthed: A Dragon Shifter Sci-Fi Romance: Drakkonian Wars, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 312min
    Because sometimes history proves myths are real....Dr. Jemma FlanniganThere’s nothing like a new dig to get my heart pumping. An endless desert of possibility awaits. Ancient bones. Pottery. Cave art...a dragon? He’s huge. Stark-naked. Covered in scales. And he says I’m his mate. I don’t know what’s more terrifying - the fact he’s an alien, or that his very presence muddles my senses, and his touch leaves me a quaking mess.KaiAfter crash landing on this foreign blue planet thousands of years ago, the last thing I expect is to be struck by the sweet scent of the Nocktam. It beckons to me, rousing me from hibernation, away from the safety of the cave I’ve called home for centuries. Her essence draws me like no other, and I can’t deny the primal need to claim her as mine. She’s beautiful. Vibrant. Spirited. And in grave danger....These humans have no idea their very existence hangs in the balance of an age-old galactic war. But I'll protect my mate at all costs. Even if it means I have to sacrifice an entire planet.If you’re a fan of steamy sci-fi romance, dragon shifters from space, and feisty heroines, then listen to the first book of the Drakkonian Wars today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erica Hilliard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150880/bk_acx0_150880_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Powdered Eggs: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 421min
    A young writer-to-be embarks on a comic coming-of-age journey through the crushing mediocrity of work, the vagaries of fate, and the mysteries of sex. A confused and conflicted but not altogether angry young man shares his observations, disappointments, rants, and sexual desires in a revealing series of letters to an unnamed friend. Our hero wants to be a writer, but is stuck doing mind-numbing work for an unscrupulous encyclopedia publisher. He muddles through two engagements, one to a bright-eyed Catholic virgin, the other to a woman pregnant with another man’s child. And the Great American Novel he is writing—about a man named Austin who is becoming invisible—may be a bit too much for the reading public to handle. But as long as he’s got his friends (like Jose, who is determined to bed and wed his cousin Rita the nun), his health (no thanks to the medical establishment that killed his father), and his libido, everything should turn out okay. Winner of the William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel—more outrageous than Catcher in the Rye and more scandalous than Portnoy’s Complaint—Charles Simmons’s Powdered Eggs is an unforgettable view of young American life through an amusingly jaundiced eye. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Drummond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017251/bk_adbl_017251_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Weekend with Mr Darcy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 512min
    Dr Katherine Roberts is a lecturer at Oxford University and an expert on all things Austen. But she has a guilty secret; a love of racy Regency novels by Lorna Warwick. She's even struck up a long-distance friendship with the novelist and the two of them have been sharing their closest confidences. When Katherine gets her yearly invite to a Jane Austen Conference at the magnificent Purley Hall in Hampshire, she sincerely hopes that Lorna will be in attendance as well. She can hardly wait to meet her new friend, but it seems that Lorna may not have been completely honest with her…. Meanwhile, hopeless romantic Robyn Love is at her happiest when her head is stuck in one of Jane Austen's novels - if only her boyfriend Jace Collins could be more like Colin Firth. The weekend retreat is the perfect opportunity for Robyn to escape from reality for a few days - especially when she meets handsome stable hand Dan. But Jace isn't going to be so easy to shrug off. With misunderstandings, muddles and a few shocking revelations, the weekend proves to be even more than they bargained for. Like all true Jane Austen heroines, Katherine and Robyn will discover that finding their own Mr Darcy is far from easy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Victora Brazier. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000659/bk_hcuk_000659_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 324min
    World War II is now in its third year and although nothing can dent the unwavering patriotism of Henrietta and her friends, everyone in the Devonshire village has their anxious moments. Henrietta takes up weeding and plays the triangle in the local orchestra to take her mind off things; the indomitable Lady B, now in her late 70s, partakes in endless fund-raising events to distract herself from thoughts of life without elastic; and Faith, the village flirt, finds herself in the charming company of American GIs. With the war nearing its end, hope seems to lie just around the corner, and as this spirited community muddles through, Lady B vows to make their friendships outlast the hardship that brought them together. Joyce Dennys was born, in 1893, in India. The Dennys family relocated to England in 1896. Dennys enjoyed drawing lessons throughout her schooling and later enrolled at Exeter Art School. As she got older, her drawing took a backseat to the domestic and social duties of a mother and doctor's wife and she became increasingly frustrated. She voiced her frustrations through the character of Henrietta, a heroine she created for an article for Sketch. These writings were later compiled to form Henrietta's War, first published in 1985. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kimberley Datnow. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009736/bk_adbl_009736_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays (eBook, ePUB)
    In his own time, Shakespeare was not a monument, but a man of the theater whose plays were less finished artifacts than works in process. In contrast to a book, a thing we have come to think of as final and achieved, a play is a work for performance, with each performance based only in part on a text we call a script. That script may well have had imperfections that the actors may or may not have noticed as they turned it into a performance. There were multiple versions of the scripts and never a "final" one. Every revival of a play-indeed, every subsequent performance-was and always will be different. Nevertheless, when we study Shakespeare, we are likely to come to him via printed texts that are scripts masquerading as books, and the impulse is to turn them into finished artifacts worthy of their author's dignity. In The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays Stephen Orgel brings together twelve essays that consider the complex nature of Shakespearean texts, which often include errors or confusions, and the editorial and interpretive strategies for dealing with them in commentary or performance. "There is always some underlying claim that we are getting back to 'what Shakespeare actually wrote,'" Orgel writes, "but obviously that is not true: we clarify, we modernize, we undo muddles, we correct or explain (or explain away) errors, all in the interests of getting a clear, readable, unproblematic text. In short, we produce the text that we want him to, or think he must have written. But one thing we really do know about Shakespeare's original text is that it was hard to read."
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    Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 450min
    A controversial call to arms, Against Empathy argues that the natural impulse to share the feelings of others can lead to immoral choices in both public policy and in our intimate relationships with friends and family. Most people, including many policy makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers, have encouraged us to be more empathetic - to feel the pain and pleasure of others. Yale researcher and author Paul Bloom argues that this is a mistake. Far from leading us to improve the lives of others, empathy is a capricious and irrational emotion that appeals to our narrow prejudices. It muddles our judgment and often leads to cruelty. We are at our best when we are smart enough not to rely on it and draw upon a more distanced compassion. Based on groundbreaking scientific findings, Against Empathy makes the case that some of the worst decisions that individuals and nations make - who to give money to, when to go to war, how to respond to climate change, and who to put in prison - are too often motivated by honest yet misplaced emotions. With clear and witty prose, Bloom demonstrates how empathy distorts our judgment in every aspect of our lives, from philanthropy and charity to the justice system; from culture and education to foreign policy and war. Without empathy, Bloom insists, our decisions would be clearer, fairer, and ultimately more moral. Bound to be controversial, Against Empathy shows us that when it comes to major policy decisions and the choices we make in our everyday lives, limiting our empathetic emotions is often the most compassionate choice we can make. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen Cass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005671/bk_harp_005671_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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