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    The Dead Girls , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 150min
    They are often times referred to as "the expendables", or the "invisible ones". The walking wounded, the broken people. The runaways. The homeless. They all come from different backgrounds; some were sexually or ritually abused as children, some born with a silver spoon in their mouth. But they all have one thing in common; they are now living on the street - and doing anything to survive. In The Dead Girls, author Brian Lee Tucker examines the lives of six different women who, having lived on the streets for far too long, have now been pushed over the edge of sanity - and have finally become what they themselves had always feared the most. Among them is Donna, the fledgling serial killer who, born with a facial deformity that made her a social outcast, now peels the faces off of beautiful girls to wear as her own; and Gina, a barfly whose tendency to be promiscuous has led her into the lair of a murderous Picasso whose art pieces are fashioned from human body parts. A nightmarish, unforgettable glimpse into the seedy, often times terrifying underbelly of our own society, The Dead Girls is a book the listener will not soon forget. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Goodrick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/054568/bk_acx0_054568_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Heaven's Gate: America's UFO Religion , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 581min
    2015 Best Book Award from the Communal Studies Association In March 1997, 39 people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To insiders, it was a graduation. This act was the culmination of over two decades of spiritual and social development for the members of Heaven's Gate, a religious group focused on transcending humanity and the Earth, and seeking salvation in the literal heavens on board a UFO. In this fascinating overview, Benjamin Zeller not only explores the question of why the members of Heaven's Gate committed ritual suicides, but interrogates the origin and evolution of the religion, its appeal, and its practices. By tracking the development of the history, social structure, and worldview of Heaven's Gate, Zeller draws out the ways in which the movement was both a reflection and a microcosm of larger American culture. The group emerged out of engagement with Evangelical Christianity, the New Age movement, science fiction and UFOs, and conspiracy theories, and it evolved in response to the religious quests of baby boomers, new religions of the counterculture, and the narcissistic pessimism of the 1990s. Thus, Heaven's Gate not only reflects the context of its environment, but also reveals how those forces interacted in the form of a single religious body. In the only book-length study of Heaven's Gate, Zeller traces the roots of the movement, examines its beliefs and practices, and tells the captivating story of the people of Heaven's Gate. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric Burns. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094951/bk_acx0_094951_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The New York Druid: Irish/American Fantasy, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 499min
    Live Corp. is a hedge fund seeking niche markets in evil. They seek a Druid who can be put on the path of evil and read stock market trends.Connor is a young, successful, conservative tax accountant. His life changes when a short man in a leprechaun suit seeks his tax assistance in the matter of gold mines.  Conned into visiting Ireland, Connor meets the beautiful Megan and her attractive witch of a mother, Morag. He is ritually murdered, suffocated, kidnapped, and revived.  On his return to New York, he is in the power of the Live Corporation hedge fund seeking niche markets in evil. They require, as part of his management development, that he recover 50 million dollars from the son of an African dictator. In addition, he is required to provide cremated remains of 10 happy people so he can complete a ceremony to become an evil Druid.  Megan reveals she is madly in love with Connor, and Megan's attractive mother wonders why if he won't sleep with her daughter, he won't try her. How will Connor cope with all this disruption to his normally peaceful life?Humor, myth, and adventure combine as the story mixes Irish folklore and modern-day New York. The mix of this mythological Irish background with contemporary American life is one of the novel’s strengths and provides many instances of humor and contrast. The tone balances seriousness with something altogether quicker and more irreverent as the novel progresses, keeping the story modern and the listener interested. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernadette Homerski. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/142522/bk_acx0_142522_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Memoirs of a Serial Killer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 116min
    Although incorporated with a fictional character - Romeo, the Valentine Serial Killer - Memoirs of a Serial Killer is otherwise based on true events, the history culled from numerous real-life interviews, court transcripts and eye witness accounts. An unflinching look into the mind of one of the most vicious serial killers in American history, Memoirs of a Serial Killer chronicles the murderous exploits as Romeo, tiring of his boring and normal life as a respected member of the community, takes a "road trip", his own code word for a killing rampage, and allows the listener to accompany him on his quest to kill as many women as possible - women that remind him of his mother. Ritually abused by his parents as a child and home-schooled to avoid prosecution, Romeo actually grew stronger with time as his parents watched in horror. Now murderous and robotic, and systematically programmed to do what he was told regardless of the repercussions, he had forgotten anything and everything he ever wanted. He had been convinced he already had everything he would ever need: the urge to kill. Memoirs of a Serial Killer is a drop dead frontal assault that provokes, rather than patronizes, its listener, and is truly the most dangerous kind of true crime genre book in existence, pulling no punches and telling no lies and narrated by one of the most dangerous men in existence; Romeo could be your next door neighbor, the guy that could be your best friend, but who secretly slaughters women with about as much remorse as Jack the Ripper, robbing, raping, burning, and killing, attacking America more like an epidemic plague than a human being. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J. Scott Bennett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/039442/bk_acx0_039442_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    100 Quotes about Marriage, Hörbuch, Digital, 40min
    We have selected for you 100 great quotes about marriage. The range of authors of those 100 quotes about marriage is very wide : from Jane Austen to Friedrich Nietzsche, from Oscar Wilde, of course, to Coco Chanel, Mae West, Groucho Marx, Socrates, from Virginia Woolf to William Shakespeare or Ava Gardner. Marriage is a great source of humour, of inspiration for artists, intellectuals, philosophers, writers, painters, creators in general. Marriage is of course a great source of happiness, of self-accomplishment, of stress, and sometimes of disappointment. Individuals may marry for several reasons, including legal, social, libidinal, emotional, financial, spiritual, and religious purposes. Whom they marry may be influenced by socially determined rules. Marriage is a socially or ritually recognized union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between them. The definition of marriage varies according to different cultures, but it is principally an institution in which interpersonal relationships usually sexual, are acknowledged. When defined broadly, marriage is considered a cultural universal. A great quote is very similar to a great thinking and a small poem. It can encapsulate a large web of ideas, thoughts, reflections, emotions in a few words. The reader of a great quote is forced to think about what he just heard. He has to think about those words and what they mean. An excellent quote requires the reader to pause to contemplate the real meaning and poesy of a few words. A great thought reaches a level of universality. Quotes hit hard into the essence of being human. The right quote can help us to see some invisible meanings of things or subjects. Language: English. Narrator: Katie Haigh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cids/000497/bk_cids_000497_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dilvish, the Damned (eBook, ePUB)
    Dilivish, a half elf-half man hybrid failed in his attempt to rescue a young maiden being ritually sacrificed by the dark sorcerer Jelerak. In his anger at the attempt Jelerak kills the maiden and turns Dilvish's body to stone and banished his soul to Hell. It takes Dilvish two hundred years to escape Hell and reclaim his body. Dilvish does not leave hell unprepared. He returns with a number of very powerful spells and a faithful metal steed, Black who is far more than he seems. Together Black and Dilvish plan to hunt down Jelerak and make him pay. Heroic fantasy at it's finest from a master storyteller. This edition has a bonus preview chapter from the Dilvish, the Damned novel The Changing Land. Roger Zelazny was a science fiction and fantasy writer, a six time Hugo Award winner, and a three time Nebula Award Winner. He published more than forty novels in his lifetime. His first novel This Immortal, serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction under the title "...And Call Me Conrad," won the Hugo Award for best novel. Lord of Light, his third novel, also won the Hugo award and was nominated for the Nebula award. He died at age 58 from cancer. Zelazny was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010. "A storyteller without peer. He created worlds as colorful and exotic and memorable as any our genre has ever seen." -George R.R. Martin ". . . his performance was never anything other than dazzling." -Robert Silverberg "Roger Zelazny's work excited me. It was intoxicating and delightful and unique. And it was smart." -Neil Gaiman
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    Crypt of Bone
    Two billion people are about to die... and they're the lucky ones. When a man in a hospital gown jumps to his death from the Western Wall in Israel, the authorities think it's just another victim of Jerusalem Syndrome: a religious psychosis triggered by a visit to the holy city. But when a second victim ritually disembowels himself, it's the sign of much worse to come. Thanatos - a fanatical group dedicated to the destruction of the world - is on the move again. The only ones who can stop them are ex-Israeli military psychologist, Oxford professor, and religious expert Morgan Sierra; and Jake Timber, agent of ARKANE, the British agency tasked with investigating - and sometimes saving the world from - the supernatural. Last time, Morgan and Jake worked together to stop Thanatos from bringing about a dark version of Pentecost. This time, Thanatos is mixing science with sacrilege - combining the Devil's Bible with mind-control technology to murder a quarter of the human race. Together, Morgan and Jake will travel from the hallowed halls of Oxford, to the labs of a biotech company with a dark agenda, to a chapel made of human bones. They'll go anywhere, do anything, to stop Thanatos. But they have to hurry. Thanatos is on the rise. Apocalypse is at the gates. And the only way to save a quarter of the world is for Morgan to uncover the secrets of her past... at the cost of her own future. Death awaits in a Crypt of Bone. New York Times and USA Today bestselling author J.F. Penn draws you deeper into darkness with Crypt of Bone, the second of the ARKANE adventures. Tap the link, grab your copy, and discover what you've been missing in this standalone adventure!
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    Crypt of Bone
    Two billion people are about to die... and they're the lucky ones. When a man in a hospital gown jumps to his death from the Western Wall in Israel, the authorities think it's just another victim of Jerusalem Syndrome: a religious psychosis triggered by a visit to the holy city. But when a second victim ritually disembowels himself, it's the sign of much worse to come. Thanatos - a fanatical group dedicated to the destruction of the world - is on the move again. The only ones who can stop them are ex-Israeli military psychologist, Oxford professor, and religious expert Morgan Sierra; and Jake Timber, agent of ARKANE, the British agency tasked with investigating - and sometimes saving the world from - the supernatural. Last time, Morgan and Jake worked together to stop Thanatos from bringing about a dark version of Pentecost. This time, Thanatos is mixing science with sacrilege - combining the Devil's Bible with mind-control technology to murder a quarter of the human race. Together, Morgan and Jake will travel from the hallowed halls of Oxford, to the labs of a biotech company with a dark agenda, to a chapel made of human bones. They'll go anywhere, do anything, to stop Thanatos. But they have to hurry. Thanatos is on the rise. Apocalypse is at the gates. And the only way to save a quarter of the world is for Morgan to uncover the secrets of her past... at the cost of her own future. Death awaits in a Crypt of Bone. New York Times and USA Today bestselling author J.F. Penn draws you deeper into darkness with Crypt of Bone, the second of the ARKANE adventures. Tap the link, grab your copy, and discover what you've been missing in this standalone adventure! Hardback edition.
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    Bronze Age Mindset , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 332min
    The Atlantic named this author as possibly Steve Bannon's contact in the White House (Rosie Gray, The Atlantic, Feb 10, 2017: "'Think you should speak directly to my WH cutout/cell leader,' Yarvin said in an email. 'I've never met him and don't know his identity, we just DM on Twitter. He's said to be ‘very close’ to Bannon.... Goal is to intimidate Congress with pure masculine show of youth, energy. Trump is said to know, will coordinate with powerful EOs...."); and a recent Vox article (Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, June 1, 2018) claimed he is the "text" to Jordan Peterson's "subtext" and a "distilled" form of Peterson. Distilled means purer: yes, so why not listen and understand the purer version? T. I. Burton also adds in this article that this author, Bronze Age Pervert, is a kind of priest-king to thousands on Twitter and outside and is possibly leading a spiritual reawakening.  Some say that this work, found in a safe-box in the port area of Kowloon, was dictated because Bronze Age Pervert refuses to learn what he calls "the low and plebeian art of writing". It isn't known how this work was transcribed. The contents are pure dynamite. He explains that you live in ant farm. That you are observed by the lords of lies, ritually probed. Ancient man had something you have lost: confidence in his instincts and strength, knowledge in his blood. BAP shows how the Bronze Age mind-set can set you free from this iron prison and help you embark on the path of power.  He talks about life, biology, hormones. He gives many examples from history, both ancient and modern. He shows the secrets of the detrimental robots, how they hide and fabricate. He helps you escape gynocracy and ascend to fresh mountain air.  Praise be to the Pervert. Praise be to his teaching of peace. Be careful. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/130615/bk_acx0_130615_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The World of Myth: An Anthology , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 831min
    Hercules, Zeus, Thor, Gilgamesh - these are the figures that leap to mind when we think of myth. But to David Leeming, myths are more than stories of deities and fantastic beings from non-Christian cultures. Myth is at once the most particular and the most universal feature of civilization, representing common concerns that each society voices in its own idiom. Whether an Egyptian story of creation or the big-bang theory of modern physics, myth is metaphor, mirroring our deepest sense of ourselves in relation to existence itself. Now, in The World of Myth, Leeming provides a sweeping anthology of myths, ranging from ancient Egypt and Greece to the Polynesian islands and modern science. We read stories of great floods from the ancient Babylonians, Hebrews, Chinese, and Mayans; tales of apocalypse from India, the Norse, Christianity, and modern science; myths of the mother goddess from Native American Hopi culture and James Lovelock's Gaia. Leeming has culled myths from Aztec, Greek, African, Australian Aboriginal, Japanese, Moslem, Hittite, Celtic, Chinese, and Persian cultures, offering one of the most wide-ranging collections of what he calls the collective dreams of humanity.More important, he has organized these myths according to a number of themes, comparing and contrasting how various societies have addressed similar concerns, or have told similar stories. In the section on dying gods, for example, both Odin and Jesus sacrifice themselves to renew the world, each dying on a tree. Such traditions, he proposes, may have their roots in societies of the distant past, which would ritually sacrifice their kings to renew the tribe.In The World of Myth, David Leeming takes us on a journey "not through a maze of falsehood but through a marvellous world of metaphor," metaphor for "the story of the relationship between the known and the unknown, both around us and within us." Fantastic, tragic, bizarre, sometimes funny, the myths he presents speak o ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy Arthur. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015536/bk_adbl_015536_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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