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The Tremble of Love: A Novel of the Baal Shem Tov , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1141min

A story inspired by the legendary spiritual master, Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezar, known as the Baal Shem Tov, the Good Master of the Name, who beckoned forth love from the hearts of rag pickers, ruby merchants, midwives, and murderers.Poor orphan. Simpleton. Harder to tame than the wind.He hears what they call him.But he listens to the presence his father promised would never leave him.Yisroel finds his way to those who nurture his healing gifts and rare compassion - until he embraces a destiny he cannot yet fathom nor deny any longer.Honoring women, children, and the poor as his teachers. Celebrating life's simplest deeds as worship. Praying with joyous abandon. Loving without condition. Yisroel's "irreverent" practices threaten the established authorities, among them an embittered rabbinic leader with a mission of his own: to destroy the irrepressible master known as the Baal Shem Tov and his growing community of followers.Set in the richly textured Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the 1700s, this exquisite reimagining of one of history's most revered and revolutionary mystics transports listeners back in time to experience the true meaning of power and the timeless grace of love.Character List and Glossary are available at anituzman.com. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105731/bk_acx0_105731_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Jack Ma: A Lesson in Trust, Honor, and Shared Prosperity: Reinventing the Motivations of Commerce - Insight and Analysis Into the Life of Asia’s Richest Man (Billionaire Visionaries) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 202min

Jack Ma is the quintessential simpleton who has a big heart and wants everyone to share in prosperity. He comes from humble beginnings, had trouble getting to school, had trouble finding a job, but did everything right despite the forces that were arrayed against his intentions.We all have that life where we feel the world just doesn’t value what we have to offer. Jack certainly felt that way, but eventually he found his stride.Today he sits at the top of a global behemoth that boasts sales of $1 billion in the first five minutes of its annual sales event. It has almost half a billion active monthly buyers that get on its site to make purchases totaling more than 3 trillion Yuan - or almost half a trillion Dollars. Jack’s company holds the record for IPO on the New York Stock Exchange - and that was in 2014.This audiobook is about the aspect of success that is unique to Jack and the circumstances that he was cultivated under. We are not all Jacks and we can’t copy his path to success, but we can emulate the areas of his success that come from the parts of him that mirror our own motivation and our own desires.Jack Ma’s story is one that we need to listen to and understand so that we can put together our own sequence of actions that will yield our own successes.This book takes you part of the way, the rest is up to you.Don’t wait any longer! Buy this audiobook now! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Kollins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/130291/bk_acx0_130291_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 455min

Award-winning author, narrator, and screenwriter Neil Gaiman personally selected this book, and, using the tools of the Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), cast the narrator and produced this work for his audiobook label, Neil Gaiman Presents. A few words from Neil on Figures of Earth: "After a first round of very strong but not quite perfect auditions, I told the actors that 'the most important thing with Cabell is being able to deadpan a joke. The books are written by a Virginia Gentleman who is capable of making the dirtiest of dirty jokes with a straight face, and who is writing High Fantasy and Poetry, too.' Robert Blumenfeld captured the accent and wit of a man who corresponded with H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, and in his lifetime counted Mark Twain among his fans!" Figures of Earth, subtitled "A Comedy of Appearances", follows the vicissitudes of Dom Manuel the Redeemer from his lowly swineherd origins through his unlikely elevation to the Count of Poictesme, and beyond. Published in 1921, it was the second volume of “The Biography of Manuel”, Cabell’s great work about an imaginary land that also managed to skewer the world of his upbringing as a Southern Gentleman of Virginia, and nearly everything else, besides! Poor Manuel starts out life as a lowly swineherd, but rises to become the famous Dom Manuel, the legendary, even mythic, hero of many of Cabell’s novels. He begins, like the simpleton in "Jack in the Beanstalk" and other folktales, by taking literally his mother’s advice to “go out and make a figure in the world” – and makes Figures of clay…. But Manuel turns out to be a master of guile, a trickster hero, if you will. His guiding motto is: “The world wishes to be deceived.” ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Blumenfeld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001515/bk_acx0_001515_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Kafka on the Shore , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1148min

With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come. This magnificent novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle - yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own. Extravagant in its accomplishment, Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's truly great storytellers at the height of his powers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Barrett, Oliver Le Sueur. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003582/bk_rand_003582_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Bayou Killer: Life of Serial Killer Ronald J. Dominique , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 89min

We could swear some people are incapable of murdering another human being. Serial killer Ronald Dominique, also known as the Bayou Killer, was such a man. With an exterior that seems almost normal, and some would say pitiful, this serial murderer was on a mission - not one anyone could have ever imagined....Some killers are truly surprising to find. Ronald J. Dominique is one such killer. Listen to this audiobook to find out about how he came to be one of the most terrible people to walk on this planet. They say that the perpetrators of the very worst of deeds are often the people you’d least suspect. This was certainly true of Ted Bundy: he was a handsome, charming man whom many liked and respected. It was also true of accused Canadian serial killer Bruce McArthur, who had many friends and was well-connected. No one expected that he might be capable of such violence. But then, what about Ronald Dominique? Nobody expected such things from him, either - but for slightly different reasons. It wasn’t because Dominique was charming; he was generally considered ugly and uncouth. Nor was it because he had a good job and was well-connected - he delivered pizza and worked as a meter reader. So why is it that no one suspected this man of doing such horrible things? Simply because he seemed too pathetic to pull them off. To those who knew him, he was just a simpleton eking out a meager existence - but Ronald Dominique proved to be much smarter than anyone imagined. Ending the lives of 23 men and evading detection for over a decade, he became one of the most prolific serial killers on record. In this audiobook, we’ll explore the startlingly complex machinations of that warped mind. Dominique was a misfit who never quite fit into normal society. For the most part, he was ignored and sidelined. As this slovenly character delivered your pizza and read your meter, he didn’t merit a second glance. But as this audiobook details, there was much m ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles D. Baker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/143475/bk_acx0_143475_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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