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    Want Not , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1029min
    A compulsively listenable, deeply human novel that examines our most basic and unquenchable emotion: want. With his critically acclaimed first novel, Jonathan Miles was widely praised as a comic genius "after something bigger" (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times) whose fiction was "not just philosophically but emotionally rewarding" (Richard Russo, New York Times Book Review, front cover). Now, in his much-anticipated second novel, Want Not, Miles takes a giant leap forward with this highly inventive and corrosively funny story of our times, a three-pronged tale of human excess that sifts through the detritus of several disparate lives - lost loves, blown chances, countless words, and deeds misdirected or misunderstood - all conjoined in their come-hell-or-high-water search for fulfillment. As the novel opens on Thanksgiving Day, listeners are telescoped into three different worlds in various states of disrepair - a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by the dissolution of his marriage and his father’s losing battle with Alzheimer’s; and a self-made debt-collecting magnate, whose brute talent for squeezing money out of unlikely places has yielded him a royal existence, trophy wife included. Want and desire propel these characters forward toward something, anything, more, until their worlds collide, briefly, randomly, yet irrevocably, in a shattering ending that will haunt listeners long after the last lines. With a satirist’s eye and a romantic’s heart, Miles captures the morass and comedy of contemporary life in all its excess. Bold, unblinking, unforgettable in its irony and pathos, Want Not is a wicked, big-hearted literary novel that confirms the arrival of a major voice in American fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Therese Plummer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017331/bk_adbl_017331_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Silver Manifesto , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 497min
    There are factors that produce immense profits and these occur rarely. Investors stand at a unique point in monetary history where the death of paper currencies on a global scale is taking place before their eyes. Because most are frozen into inside-the-box thinking, few investors will ride the next move as silver (and gold) skyrocket in the years ahead. In fact the primary purpose of this book is to educate the listener as to why there is no way out of the financial morass created by the financial elite. We have reached the point where the savvy few understand what is happening and take action, while the rest are left watching, thinking the precious metals bull market is dead. The authors explore when to expect the next bull market to begin and why, how the 2008 financial crisis has been "papered over" and what to watch for going forward. The real supply and demand looking at both industrial and monetary demand. Money and banking - what fractional reserve banking means to currency and bullion. The best surest method to stay in the profit zone and not worry about the wild price swings. How to pick a mining company - this information is priceless. Most who are taught this methodology have a degree in finance, but we break it down for the average investor. The silver manipulation story - the facts, more facts, and the irrefutable facts. The biggest concern of all investors: The debt bomb! 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: Ryan Brooks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/043486/bk_acx0_043486_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Red Boyhood: Growing Up Under Stalin , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 545min
    Many children growing up in the Soviet Union before World War II knew the meaning of deprivation and dread. But for the son of an "enemy of the people", those apprehensions were especially compounded. When the secret police came for his father in 1938, 10-year-old Anatole Konstantin saw his family plunged into a morass of fear. His memoir of growing up in Stalinist Russia re-creates in vivid detail the daily trials of people trapped in this regime before and during the repressive years of World War II - and the equally horrific struggles of refugees after that conflict. Evicted from their home, their property confiscated, and eventually forced to leave their town, Anatole's family experienced the fate of millions of Soviet citizens whose loved ones fell victim to Stalin's purges. His mother, Raya, resorted to digging peat, stacking bricks, and even bootlegging to support herself and her two children. How she managed to hold her family together in a rapidly deteriorating society - and how young Anatole survived the horrors of marginalization and war - form a story more compelling than any novel. Looking back on those years from adulthood, Konstantin reflects on both his formal education under harsh conditions and his growing awareness of the contradictions between propaganda and reality. He tells of life in the small Ukrainian town of Khmelnik just before World War II and of how some of its citizens collaborated with the German occupation, lending new insight into the fate of Ukrainian Jews and Nazi corruption of local officials. And in recounting his experiences as a refugee, he offers a new look at everyday life in early postwar Poland and Germany, as well as one of the few firsthand accounts of life in postwar Displaced Persons camps. A Red Boyhood takes listeners inside Stalinist Russia to experience the grim realities of repression - both under a Soviet regime and German occupation. A moving story of desperate people ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Sipple. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/021333/bk_acx0_021333_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Connecting: Key Networking Tips for Business and Life: 103 Proven Strategies to Increase Business and Build Relationships , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 146min
    This book covers every conceivable aspect of business and personal networking, and considers networking as a way of life. The author has extensive training in both psychology and business development, and brings to bear both areas of expertise as the foremost expert in the psychology of networking. There are over 100 immediately useful networking tips, as well as numerous networking exercises that can be used by listeners and leaders of networking groups to increase personal awareness and build relationships. The book addresses business development through strategic networking with pithy tips to aid in the building and nurturing of long-term relationships for gaining both inbound and outbound referrals, warm introductions and having a viable network. It is a veritable tool kit of numerous tips, guides, strategies, and tactics that have been used by thousands of people in a wide variety of settings. Networking is presented as a process where giving and getting involved are the primary focus. Listeners are continually taught and urged to find ways to be valuable to others, maintain a high level of ethical behavior, to show up, and to show up consistently. Dr. Saleebey's holistic approach to the networking process has been utilized by many networking groups, professional firms, organizations and alumni groups. There are accompanying real life stories which serve to amplify the points made by the author. Some of the key topics are: the relative value of personal and business conversations, the utility of a wider or deeper networking, and the choices between in-person and virtual networking. The state-of-the-art information considers both traditional approaches and current trends in networking practices. Connecting: Key Networking Tips for Business and Life is a must-hear for everyone who has been told that they should be networking. The book is easy to listen to and immediately useful. It cuts through the morass of informatio ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William M. Saleebey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/061545/bk_acx0_061545_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Unrepeatable: Cultivating the Unique Calling of Every Person , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 403min
    Beautifully written, compellingly personal, and a treasure to read. (Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, OFM, Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia)"This spiritually grounded, easy-to-read treatise is a solid piece of research, and yet is still packed throughout with supporting anecdotes that the reader will recognize and appreciate. Eminently practicable, Unrepeatable is for every Christian, especially the teacher, counselor, or spiritual director, who is truly serious about sifting through the cultural morass to find the ‘right’ vocation, rather than just a job." (Bishop Robert Barron, Auxiliary Bishop, Archdiocese of Los Angeles) What if we were able to gain profound insight into the unique design, creative drive, and potential destiny of the people in our lives? The bold promise of this book is that we can. This ability carries an awesome responsibility: We must all be mentors and midwives to the personal vocations of others. Unrepeatable is about the urgent need for each of us to cultivate the vocations of others and the steps we should take to do it well. By smartly weaving evocative stories of those who have radically lived out their callings with practical tools for discernment and mentorship, Luke Burgis and Joshua Miller - who have a combined 25 years of experience helping people and organizations discover their purpose - turn staid perceptions of vocation on their head.Unrepeatable will equip you to: Renew your church, school, community, or company by empowering every member to discover, embrace, and fully live out their unique callingConfidently teach and mentor young people in critical skills of discernment and decision-makingKnow and be known by others in a deeply personal way through a technique that unlocks and awakens the deepest desires of the heart As we enter into the stories of others' lives, we enter into the story ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joshua Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/128481/bk_acx0_128481_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lord of the Silent: The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 13, Hörbuch, Digital, 366min
    Undeterred by world war and enemy submarines, Amelia Peabody, grandmaster Elizabeth Peters' indomitable archaeologist-sleuth, once again sets sail for Egypt, where ghosts of an ancient past and specters of a present-day evil hover silently over an inscrutable land. With son Ramses, his wife, Nefret, and a few unwelcome additions in tow, the elder Peabody-Emersons embark on a dangerous sea voyage to Alexandria, ultimately ending up in Cairo for their annual excavations. But in this autumn of 1915 the exotic, alluring city is not what it used to be. Cairo has been transformed into an armed camp teeming with enemy agents, and shockingly bold tomb robbers are brazenly desecrating the ancient sites. Amelia's foremost priority is to prevent the War Office from pressing Ramses into service again, on the same sort of job that almost cost him his life the previous year. But in these terrible days of global conflict and relentless skullduggery, no place in Egypt is safe. Even remote Luxor provides no guarantee of safety, especially after Amelia discovers a fresh corpse resting in an ancient tomb. The grim discovery presages further trouble for the Emersons, as the sinister conundrum pulls them all into a bubbling morass of corruption, intrigue, and international espionage deeper and more fiendish than any they have hitherto encountered. Death follows death, with abduction and an assault on Amelia herself intensifying the chaos of a world at war. Yet there is an even darker danger in store for the Emersons. Can it be that one of Amelia's oldest and most dangerous adversaries will intervene to alter the family's destiny? Tantalizing clues suggest that this may be so and point toward an archaeological discovery of unparalleled importance, and the resurrection of a voice that has been silent for millennia. Language: English. Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001099/bk_harp_001099_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Big Lie: Spying, Scandal and Ethical Collapse at Hewlett Packard , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 648min
    Hewlett Packard is an American icon, the largest information-technology company in the world. The bedrock of Silicon Valley, it employs more than 300,000 people, its market capitalization is in excess of $100 billion, and its products are in almost every home in the country where there is a printer or computer. In 1999 the company began a transition from the family management style of its founders. It made a bold statement by hiring as its new CEO the most visible female business executive in America: Carly Fiorina. In 2005, the board fired her, amid accusations of imperiousness that had begun to leak damagingly into the business media.The board at that time included one of Silicon Valley's most flamboyant venture capitalists and owner of the largest and most expensive yacht in the world, and a former CIA asset who believed he personally channeled the values of the company's founders. Each had a long and complicated history with HP, and each believed he should determine the company's future. They ran up against a corporate governance expert whom they could not roll, and a new CEO whose loyalties on the board were entirely opaque. In this way, the stage was set for a rancorous feud that split the board into implacably distrusting factions. In the middle of the damaging schism, HP introduced the Big Lie. The lie was pinned on the chairman, who was receiving treatment for stage 4 ovarian cancer. And it sizzled through a largely unquestioning media.Anthony Bianco gets to heart of the ethical morass at HP that ended up damning the entire board that created it. Almost every American has an interest in how the country's greatest corporations are run, and the character of the people entrusted with them. The story of Hewlett-Packard reflects power struggles that shape corporate America and is an alarming morality tale for our times. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Ganim. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002237/bk_adbl_002237_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Witness for the Dead (eBook, ePUB)
    "At once intimate and literally operatic, it's everything I love about Katherine Addison's writing, in ways I didn't know to expect. I loved it." -John Scalzi Katherine Addison returns to the glittering world she created for her beloved novel, The Goblin Emperor, in this stand-alone sequelWhen the young half-goblin emperor Maia sought to learn who had set the bombs that killed his father and half-brothers, he turned to an obscure resident of his father's Court, a Prelate of Ulis and a Witness for the Dead. Thara Celehar found the truth, though it did him no good to discover it. He lost his place as a retainer of his cousin the former Empress, and made far too many enemies among the many factions vying for power in the new Court. The favor of the Emperor is a dangerous coin. Now Celehar lives in the city of Amalo, far from the Court though not exactly in exile. He has not escaped from politics, but his position gives him the ability to serve the common people of the city, which is his preference. He lives modestly, but his decency and fundamental honesty will not permit him to live quietly. As a Witness for the Dead, he can, sometimes, speak to the recently dead: see the last thing they saw, know the last thought they had, experience the last thing they felt. It is his duty use that ability to resolve disputes, to ascertain the intent of the dead, to find the killers of the murdered. Celehar's skills now lead him out of the quiet and into a morass of treachery, murder, and injustice. No matter his own background with the imperial house, Celehar will stand with the commoners, and possibly find a light in the darkness. Katherine Addison has created a fantastic world for these books - wide and deep and true.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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    The Witness for the Dead
    "At once intimate and literally operatic, it's everything I love about Katherine Addison's writing, in ways I didn't know to expect. I loved it." -John Scalzi Katherine Addison returns to the glittering world she created for her beloved novel, The Goblin Emperor, in this stand-alone sequel, The Witness for the Dead When the young half-goblin emperor Maia sought to learn who had set the bombs that killed his father and half-brothers, he turned to an obscure resident of his father's Court, a Prelate of Ulis and a Witness for the Dead. Thara Celehar found the truth, though it did him no good to discover it. He lost his place as a retainer of his cousin the former Empress, and made far too many enemies among the many factions vying for power in the new Court. The favor of the Emperor is a dangerous coin. Now Celehar lives in the city of Amalo, far from the Court though not exactly in exile. He has not escaped from politics, but his position gives him the ability to serve the common people of the city, which is his preference. He lives modestly, but his decency and fundamental honesty will not permit him to live quietly. As a Witness for the Dead, he can, sometimes, speak to the recently dead: see the last thing they saw, know the last thought they had, experience the last thing they felt. It is his duty to use that ability to resolve disputes, to ascertain the intent of the dead, to find the killers of the murdered. Celehar's skills now lead him out of the quiet and into a morass of treachery, murder, and injustice. No matter his own background with the imperial house, Celehar will stand with the commoners, and possibly find a light in the darkness. Katherine Addison has created a fantastic world for these books-wide and deep and true.
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    The Masters CIA Thriller Series: Box Set, Books 1 - 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1692min
    Over 250,000 words to keep you up nights. 3 Lies Will kidnapping a sick woman alter the course of a nation? At CIA headquarters, officers fear that terrorists commandeered the computers to launch an unauthorized mission. Elsewhere, conspirators abduct seemingly unrelated people to use as pawns in their treachery. Two disparate ambitions - Clint Masters becomes the reluctant link in the chain of danger. After meeting a woman who doesn't treat him like a commodity, Beth unexpectedly disappears. In spite of the evidence, her family refuses to admit she's in danger. And without routine dialysis, Beth will die. While a CIA young gun tracks his quarry, Clint must find Beth before her kidneys fail. The Master’s Key Someone wants Clint Masters to suffer and will burn down the city to get revenge. Clint's company makes devices that manage the city's infrastructure, making him a respected member of Boston's elite-until one of his products causes a deadly accident. While the public accuses him of terror, he's not allowed to reveal the truth about the tragedies. As his CIA contacts discover, not everyone at the Agency wants to expose the killer. Amid city-wide panic, the public demands Clint's arrest. He must choose. Does he go on the run to find the real terrorist or watch from a jail cell while his city burns? Dead Storm Hackers can access your bank accounts, take control of your car, or read your personal files. What if one gripped your beating heart? Whatever. Clint's got his own problems. As his city smolders from a saboteur's plot, Clint's company sinks in the morass. As the stock price tanks, it's not a problem he wants to face sober. When a medical hacker seizes control of the First Lady's heartbeat regulator, Clint's products pose a new threat. With their own on the line, the D.C. elite won't let Clint rest. They expect him to search for the one man Clint doesn't want to find. This t ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Nolan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/075443/bk_acx0_075443_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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