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    Behind Enemy Lines: Heroes of Vietnam, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 52min
    Rookie Joe Walker, 3rd Brigade, 7th Air Cavalry, was finding life in Vietnam tough. The war is building into a major conflict, yet despite his efforts, he feels like a square peg in a round hole. He can’t shoot straight, missed the bayonet course, and nothing ever goes right. He can throw a mean grenade, but the army made him a rifleman, and they’re determined to make sure he can shoot straight. Or else.Before they pitched him into the maelstrom of Vietnam, he’d planned to be a major league baseball pitcher. The chances of him surviving long enough to realize his dream are receding fast.When they hand his unit a mission to go north of the DMZ to rescue a downed aircrew member, he knows his dream is at an end. For, north of the demilitarized zone is a country known as North Vietnam. Along with millions of enemy soldiers just waiting for the chance to kill any American who sets foot on their sacred, communist soil.A job for the rangers or the Navy SEALs, the men in green faces. The army wants something different, a unit that won't be missed. Led by a newbie lieutenant who is as green as Joe, a helicopter drops them close to their target.North Vietnam is within spitting distance, and their orders are simple. Cross a flimsy bamboo bridge over a fast flowing river, grab the man they came for, and bring him back. Simple. Until they encounter the enemy, and all hell breaks loose.Behind Enemy Lines is the second book in Heroes of Vietnam - a fictional war story set during the Vietnam War. The book is a collaboration between Todd McLeod and Eric Meyer, the best-selling author of more than 50 war novels. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Heath Douglass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/195929/bk_acx0_195929_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Picnic Comma Lightning: In Search of a New Reality , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 528min
    Random House presents the audiobook edition of Picnic Comma Lightning, written and read by Laurence Scott. A Radio 4 Book of the Week. A spellbinding examination of the nature of reality, by one of the brightest thinkers of today.Cognitive science proposes that we have evolved to build mental maps of the world not according to its actual, physical nature but according to what allows us to thrive. In other words, our individual and collective realities are fictions - carefully constructed to enable us to maintain our particular perspectives. It used to be that our fictions were rooted to reasonably solid things: to people, places and memories. Today, in an age of online personas, alternative truths, constant surveillance and an increasingly hysterical news cycle, our realities are becoming more flimsy and more vulnerable than ever before. Ours is now a zoomed-in perspective, where the backstage is centre stage. We are both camera person and subject, with new powers and new weaknesses. Our personal and political spheres are dangerously merging. How will the form and grammar of our feelings have to change in this overexposed environment? Should any of our stories remain secret? How are these phenomena changing the way we live? How do we maintain a sense of reality in an increasingly fantastic world?Picnic Comma Lightning is an innovative examination of the nature of reality in the 21st century, one that explores the key ethical, political and neurological forces contouring our inner selves but also the old influences of grief and desire, memory and imagination. In it, award-winning author Laurence Scott provides a lively and accessible new philosophy for this epoch in Western civilisation, one that will change the way you see the world and your place within it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurence Scott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/003778/bk_rhuk_003778_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 874min
    A fresh look at the endlessly fascinating Tudors - the dramatic and overlooked story of Henry VII and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty - filled with spies, plots, counter-plots, and an uneasy royal succession to Henry VIII. Near the turn of the sixteenth century, England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy and civil war. Henry Tudor clambered to the top of the heap, a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England’s crown who managed to win the throne and stay on it for 24 years. Although he built palaces, hosted magnificent jousts, and sent ambassadors across Europe, for many Henry VII remained a false king. But he had a crucial asset: his family - the queen and their children, the living embodiment of his hoped-for dynasty. Now, in what would be the crowning glory of his reign, his elder son would marry a great Spanish princess. Thomas Penn re-creates an England that is both familiar and very strange - a country medieval yet modern, in which honor and chivalry mingle with espionage, realpolitik, high finance, and corruption. It is the story of the transformation of a young, vulnerable boy, Prince Henry, into the aggressive teenager who would become Henry VIII, and of Catherine of Aragon, his future queen, as well as of Henry VII - controlling, avaricious, paranoid, with Machiavellian charm and will to power. Rich with incident and drama, filled with wonderfully drawn characters, Winter King is an unforgettable account of pageantry, intrigue, the thirst for glory, and the fraught, unstable birth of Tudor England. Thomas Penn has a PhD in early Tudor history from Clare College, Cambridge. Winter King is his first book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Vance. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004858/bk_blak_004858_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Publish to Sell: Long Term Income from Short Term Effort , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 185min
    Build your business with a high quality audiobook - quickly! Eight reasons to listen to this book now: Money - Attract the highest value customers and clients to your business with a book. The best clients can be worth 20 times the average client, and a book brings them to you. Time - Don't waste months or years publishing a book. Learn the secrets to creating a high value book in 30 to 60 days - not a flimsy pamphlet, but a compelling book you'll be proud to put your name on. Fun - Readers become your most enjoyable clients. They respect your time and your boundaries. They appreciate the value you provide. Consistency - Earn for a decade from your book. Stop chasing marketing fads and use a proven technique that will be valuable for many years. Employees - The people who work with you will have a clear vision of your company, enabling them to do their jobs better and with less supervision. Strategy - Authoring a book will take you deep into the workings of your business, helping you clarify your strategy and the value you deliver to clients. Networking - Being an author is a terrific ice-breaker at conferences and social events. Conversations flow naturally, fostering new relationships with ease. Proven - The methods in this book have been used successfully in law, real estate, marketing, consulting, financial services, and other industries. Eighty-eight percent of the wealthy read at least 30 minutes per day, versus just two percent of the poor! Meet your best clients and customers where they are, and publish a book. Publish to Sell is a step-by-step blueprint for publishing a high quality book quickly. Upgrade your business and your life today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Greg Zarcone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/021897/bk_acx0_021897_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    What Self-Made Millionaires Really Think, Know and Do: A Straight-Talking Guide to Business Success and Personal Riches , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 721min
    There are better ways to becoming a millionaire than trudging to your local store to buy a lottery ticket every week. The fact is your chances are 14 million to one. If you entered the lottery once every week, then - sure - you can expect to win. About once in every 270,000 years! But still there are those who believe that if they sit and listen as number after number is called out on the TV, this will be their week. Their lucky break.Then there are those that know that they must do more than watch spinning balls to make their lives a success; that in order to do more, to have more, to become master of their own destiny - they must change. They must act. And this book is for them.Enter Richard Dobbins and Barrie O. Pettman, two self-made millionaires who reveal the secrets of their fantastic business achievements and personal fortunes. What Self-Made Millionaires Really Think, Know and Do does not rely on a mystical system, flimsy hype, or unbelievable get-rich-quick schemes. Instead it offers practical and realistic advice for turning your brilliant ideas into a money-making business reality.What Self-Made Millionaires Really Think, Know and Do guides you from business idea to market acclaim. You will discover the secrets of real business - from thinking creatively and setting clear goals to negotiating skills, leadership, and liberating time management. It is illustrated throughout with superb success stories and anecdotes from the authors' remarkable careers.Dobbins and Pettman provide a complete toolkit for the ambitious entrepreneur. They provide proven methods for getting what you want in life: success, happiness, and your first million. It's not an easy walk in the park, but if you are serious about dramatically changing your life, it’s all within your grasp. And it’s all in here. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fred Humberstone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/209725/bk_acx0_209725_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Greedy Bastards: Corporate Communists, Banksters, and the Other Vampires Who Suck America Dry , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 409min
    Dylan Ratigan is mad as hell. Infuriated by government corruption and corporate communism, incensed by banksters shaking down taxpayers, and despairing of an ailing health care system, an age-old dependency on foreign oil, and a failing educational system, Ratigan sees an America that has allowed itself to be swindled and robbed. In this book, his first, he rips the lid off our deeply crooked system—and offers a way out. This country, now more than ever, needs passionate debate and smart policy, a brazen willingness to scrap what doesn’t work, and the entrepreneurial spirit to try what does. Ratigan has compiled brash and fresh solutions for building a new and better America, and with this book he has started the debate America deserves. With you, he wants to take back the country from the six vampires sucking this nation dry: A political system in which lobbyists write legislation, lawmakers place “secret holds” to create more pork for their districts, and money drives the whole process A banking system that uses capital for speculation and debt creation, rather than productive investment A “master-slave” relationship with our Chinese bankers, making our corporations and politicians complicit in a system that rigs our currency and leaves us with permanent joblessness and massive trade deficits A health care system that is among the priciest and least sustainable in the industrialized world An educational system that prizes prestige but produces mediocrity An addiction to foreign oil that has sapped us of our willingness to innovate, made us reliant on inefficient technologies, and left us supportive of corrupt governments To combat these vampires and to isolate the systematic ways in which our once productive industries and our government have been breached, Ratigan does not offer a grab bag of flimsy suggestions or useless hot air. Instead he provides listeners with a s ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dylan Ratigan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/005743/bk_sans_005743_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rain of Terror: A Blacklick Valley Mystery, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 549min
    The child ran through the dark forest, sobbing, breathless, oblivious to the driving rain that soaked his matted hair and plastered the flimsy shirt against his skin. Jagged streaks of lightning cut across the night sky, creating a stark backdrop for the swaying black oaks silhouetted above him. He ran, stumbled, fell, and ran again, heart pounding in his thin chest, the sound of his own blood roaring in his ears...driven not by reason or logic, but by basic primal instinct - the instinct to survive. A child vanishes on his way home from school as thunder rumbles in the western horizon. Another is abducted from his bedroom on a dark and storm-filled night. A young mother is murdered in her bed as lightning flashes across the Valley. Who will be next? And why? When the tranquil community of Blacklick Valley, tucked into the dark, pine-forested mountains of western Pennsylvania, explodes in murder and missing children and terror sweeps across the Valley, Sheriff Jed Tyler is faced with the most challenging case of his career. Who would steal away innocent children as if they never existed? Why do the violent thunderstorms that rip across these Pennsylvania mountains ignite a fury in the mind of the killer that fuels his madness? And...why target Blacklick Valley? In his quest, will Tyler discover the answer to a dark secret hidden deep in his past? Will newcomer Jenny McConnell capture his free-spirited heart or plunge him into greater danger? With time running out, will Tyler unmask the identity of this madman, untangle the web of mystery, before another victim is taken, another murdered? From fear-ridden Blacklick Valley to a diabolical satanic cult in the distant Sierra Nevadas, Tyler is swept across the country in his relentless determination to learn the fate of the kidnapped children as well as find resolution to the black abyss in his own soul. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tony Vatsula. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/043404/bk_acx0_043404_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Naughty Nurse , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 16min, (USK 18)
    Previously published as: 'Nurse!' This Directed Erotic Visualisation audio takes the male listener to an examination room where his own personal nurse attends to all of his special needs. You know you have thought about it before. Waiting in the sterile room, the cold exam table, a hospital bed - a sexy nurse in a short white dress making you feel so much better. She enters your room and you have to look twice. How did you get so lucky? She is a fantasy come true and doctor's orders are for her to do whatever it takes to cure your illness. You are soon wishing that the flimsy hospital gown did not make your arousal quite so evident but she quickly takes matters into her own hands to make you more comfortable. A very thorough examination by this gorgeous woman reveals you have an extreme build-up of tension and the only way to fix it is to lead you to a powerful release. As your temperature goes up, so does her passion and it isn't long before she is using all of her considerable assets to pleasure you in every way she can. A common fantasy made extraordinary by an experienced woman willing to do anything it takes to get the job done. 'Just lay back and relax, I promise it won't hurt a bit.' Something a little different and special are the audio experiences that make use of a unique audio technique called Directed Erotic Visualisation, or DEV. DEV is an immersive audio experience similar to 3D audio, a blend of guided meditation, visualisation, relaxation and suggestion techniques that can put you right into the thick of a story, you can feel it, touch it and...well listen for yourself; over 1.4 million men and women have listened to DEV audio experiences since December 2007. Note: DEV experiences should not be used while driving or using heavy machinery. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J. Jezebel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/smot/000058/bk_smot_000058_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Advanced Christianity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 477min
    One of the hardest things we'll ever attempt to do is love people who ignore us - or who even actively despise us. Do you see why Jesus' commands to love our enemies, pray for those who persecute us, and do good to those who would do evil to us, remains so low in priority on our life's 'To Do' list? It is painful just to think that we must love people who consider us so rotten. No sane person would put themselves through an emotional meat grinder, by embracing such a goal. No sane person would strive to do as Jesus commands. No sane person would leap the wall that protects our flimsy self from destruction, and show such vulnerability and meekness to the conniving and deceitful world, ruled by Satan. And so we must choose the apparent 'insanity of God, and choose to be vulnerable, and truly loving, even though this will, most certainly, bring us pain. This quote came from Advanced Christianity.This book you are considering is filled with teaching, as above, that takes you beyond the Sunday school class, beyond the sermon preached, and into the areas of the heart and mind that need to grasp how important Jesus' teaching was, given while he lived on earth. We can't even love Jesus without considering his teachings because he said, "If you love me, follow my commands."Don't worry if some of the teachings in this book seem impossible. With God, all things are possible. He, through his holy Spirit, will give you the power to accomplish his commands. Prayer opens the communication with God, allowing him to instruct and empower you to do as he asks. As you pray, he tells you how.This book tells you why you'd want to do such a thing. I pray it is a blessing to you. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/121702/bk_acx0_121702_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    Welcome to the story to end all stories. Two decades of literary League lunacy have all been building to this, the most ambitious meta-comic imaginable.After an epic twenty-year journey through the entirety of human culture - the biggest cross-continuity 'universe' that is conceivable - Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill conclude both their legendary League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and their equally legendary comic-book careers with the series' spectacular fourth and final volume, The Tempest. Tying up the slenderest of plot threads and allusions from the three preceding volumes, The Black Dossier, and the Nemo trilogy into a dazzling and ingenious bow, the world's most accomplished and bad-tempered artist-writer team use their most stylistically adventurous outing yet to display the glories of the medium they are leaving; to demonstrate the excitement that attracted them to the field in the first place; and to analyse, critically and entertainingly, the reasons for their departure.Opening simultaneously in the panic-stricken headquarters of British Military Intelligence, the fabled Ayesha's lost African city of Kor and the domed citadel of 'We' on the devastated Earth of the year 2,996, the dense and yet furiously-paced narrative hurtles like an express locomotive across the fictional globe from Lincoln Island to modern America to the Blazing World; from the Jacobean antiquity of Prospero's Men to the superhero-inundated pastures of the present to the unimaginable reaches of a shimmering science-fiction future. With a cast-list that includes many of the most iconic figures from literature and pop culture, and a tempo that conveys the terrible momentum of inevitable events, this is literally and literarily the story to end all stories. Originally published as a six-issue run of unfashionable, outmoded and flimsy children's comics that would make you appear emotionally backward if you read them on the bus, this climactic magnum opus also reprints classic English super-team publication The Seven Stars from the murky black-and-white reaches of 1964. A magnificent celebration of everything comics were, are and could be, any appreciator or student of the medium would be unwise to miss The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume IV: THE TEMPEST.Co-Published by Top Shelf Productions (US) and Knockabout (UK).
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