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The Smoke Thieves , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 798min

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Smoke Thieves by Sally Green, read by Charlie Anson, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Yasmin Paige, Daniel Weyman and Asa Butterfield. A princess, a traitor, a soldier, a hunter and a thief. Five teenagers with the fate of the world in their hands. Five nations destined for conflict. In Brigant, Princess Catherine prepares for a political marriage arranged by her brutal and ambitious father while her true love, Ambrose, faces the executioner's block. In Calidor, downtrodden servant March seeks revenge on the prince who betrayed his people. In Pitoria, feckless Edyon steals cheap baubles for cheaper thrills as he drifts from town to town. And in the barren northern territories, 13-year-old Tash is running for her life as she plays bait for the gruff demon hunter Gravell. As alliances shift and shatter, and old certainties are overturned, our five heroes find their past lives transformed and their futures inextricably linked by the unpredictable tides of magic and war. Who will rise and who will fall? And who will claim the ultimate prize? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlie Anson, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Yasmin Paige, Daniel Weyman, Asa Butterfield. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/001076/bk_pauk_001076_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Arabella's Taming: Bridal Discipline, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 479min

Lady Arabella Windham, sister to the Duke of Manchester, has given up on ever attracting the positive attention of Lord Thomas Hood. After discovering he still sees her as the same hoydenish young woman she was in the past, no matter her current perfectly ladylike behavior, and realizing she will never match up to his infamous list of attributes for a wife, she throws caution to the wind and becomes more reckless than ever. Why bother being good if it's not going to even be noticed, much less acknowledged? When her return to feckless and indiscreet behavior results in disgrace however, it's Lord Thomas Hood who is caught up in the scandal with her. With a strong-willed bride determined to make her new husband dance to her tune and a stubborn lord determined to curb his new wife's imprudent ways, is a happily-ever-after even possible?This is the last book in the Bridal Discipline series and contains a strong alpha male, a sassy and rebellious heroine, and some heavy handed (and fun!) discipline.Bridal Discipline Series 1. Philip's Rules 1.5 Undisciplined 2. Gabrielle's Discipline 3. Lydia's Penance 4. Benedict's Commands 5. Arabella's Taming ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca McKernan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/141792/bk_acx0_141792_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe, Hörbuch, Digital, 384min

With her trademark passion, intelligence, and devastating wit, Huffington Post editor in chief Arianna Huffington tackles the issues that are crucial to this year's presidential election and, even more so, to the fate of the country.Huffington makes the case that America has been hijacked from within by a radical element - the "lunatic fringe" of the Right that has taken over the Republican Party. Despite holding views at odds with the majority of Americans, these zealots have given us an endless war in Iraq, a sputtering economy, a health-care system on life support, a war on science and reason, and an immoral embrace of torture.But they haven't done it on their own; they have been enabled by a compliant media - which acts as if there is no such thing as truth and is more interested in cozying up to those in power than in holding them accountable - and by feckless Democrats who have allowed themselves to be intimidated into backing down again and again.Both a withering indictment and a hopeful call to arms, Right Is Wrong is an explosive, boldly incisive work that will help set the national agenda. Language: English. Narrator: Arianna Huffington. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001403/bk_rand_001403_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Elsewhere: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 452min

After eight commanding works of fiction, the Pulitzer Prize winner now turns to memoir in a hilarious, moving, and always surprising account of his life, his parents, and the upstate New York town they all struggled variously to escape. Anyone familiar with Richard Russo's acclaimed novels will recognize Gloversville, once famous for producing that eponymous product and anything else made of leather. This is where the author grew up, the only son of an aspirant mother and a charming, feckless father who were born into this close-knit community. But by the time of his childhood in the 1950s, prosperity was inexorably being replaced by poverty and illness (often tannery-related), with everyone barely scraping by under a very low horizon. A world elsewhere was the dream his mother instilled in Rick, and strived for herself, and their subsequent adventures and tribulations in achieving that goal - beautifully recounted here - were to prove lifelong, as would Gloversville's fearsome grasp on them both. Fraught with the timeless dynamic of going home again, encompassing hopes and fears and the relentless tides of familial and individual complications, this story is arresting, comic, heartbreaking, and truly beautiful: an immediate classic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Russo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003291/bk_rand_003291_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 675min

In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant a vast, underprivileged swathe of society whose members have become stereotyped by one, hate-filled word: chavs. In this acclaimed investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from 'salt of the earth' to 'scum of the earth.' Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the chav caricature, he portrays a far more complex reality. The chav stereotype, he argues, is used by governments as a convenient fig leaf to avoid genuine engagement with social and economic problems and to justify widening inequality. When Chavs was first published in 2011 it opened up the discussion of class in Britain. Then, in the public debate after the riots of that summer, Owen Jones's thesis was proved right - the working class were the scapegoats for everything that was wrong with Britain. This new edition includes a new chapter, reflecting on the overwhelming response to the book and the situation in Britain today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Leighton Pugh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029744/bk_adbl_029744_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Widespread Panic

From The Modern Master of Noir comes a novel about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood underground - a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI finks, celebrity smut films and strange bedfellows. Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in '50s L.A. He operates with two simple rules - he'll do anything but commit murder and he'll never work with the commies. Freddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. So Chief William H. Parker canned him. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot internet - and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink and the scurrilous skank on the feckless foibles of misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites and potzo politicians. Freaky Freddy outs them all! In Widespread Panic, we traverse the depths of '50s L.A. and dig on the inner workings of Confidential. You'll go to Burt Lancaster's lushly appointed torture den ... You'll groove overhyped legend James Dean as Freddy's chief stooge ... You'll be there for Freddy's ring-a-ding rendezvous with Liz Taylor ... You'll be front and centre as Freddy anoints himself the 'Tattle Tyrant Who Held Hollywood Hostage'.

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Would Jesus Vote for Trump? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 558min

So, would Jesus vote for Trump?No doubt many, especially on the left and the NeverTrumpkins who claim Christ, probably just spit out their double chocolaty chip crème frappuccino over the mere posing of that question, but best-selling authors Doug Giles and Brandon Vallorani wanted to know if Trump and his policies reflected Jesus and his teachings.What you're about to hear is their findings on Trump's governance and how it squares with Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Many pertinent policies are tackled, using the sieve of the Gospels, to examine Trump's presidency, heretofore.What you'll find here might shock you. It might anger you. It might bless you. One thing's for certain: We guarantee...it'll definitely make you think.Inside you'll find...Would Jesus ever choose someone with a less-than-stellar past to be a leader?Would Jesus be cool with how Trump blasts CNN, the left, and his feckless "compadres" on the right?What about health care?Would the great physician give Trump's opposition to ObamaCare the "two thumbs up"?Oh, and here's a dicey topic: Immigration. Would the son of man be in opposition with President Trump's position on our southern border?Also, was Jesus just the socialist hippie that leftists purport him to be? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brandon Vallorani, Doug Giles. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160644/bk_acx0_160644_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Life, the Universe, and Everything: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 348min

“Wild satire.... The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes.” (Chicago Tribune)The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads - so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we know it - and don't know it!“Adams is one of those rare treasures: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading.” (Arizona Daily Star) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Martin Freeman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000858/bk_rand_000858_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Plato and the Tyrant , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 95min

The greatest philosopher who ever lived. A dissolute tyrant in need of an education. What could possibly go wrong? Plato was the most brilliant thinker of his age. Head of the Academy in Athens, friend of the best minds of his generation, his philosophy was famous across the Greek world. But would he ever get the chance to try his ideas out? Dionysius the Younger was Tyrant of Syracuse, feckless son of a famous father. His rule ran from Sicily to the Adriatic, but he had time only for debauchery and dancing girls. The ancient cities of Sicily were in ruins, destroyed by the rising power of Carthage. His father's empire was slipping away. His austere, disciplined uncle Dion, Plato's most beloved pupil and the power behind the throne, was in despair. So was born the dream of making a real philosopher-king by taking an unworthy young man with absolute power and shaping him into a model of wisdom, integrity, and benevolence. In the last generation of Greek independence, Plato's doomed journeys to Syracuse were an attempt to turn thoughts into actions, to make a philosophical ideal into a political reality. But philosophy could be a dangerous business. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Patrick Cronin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027451/bk_adbl_027451_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Making It in America: A 12-Point Plan for Growing Your Business and Keeping Jobs at Home , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 406min

Everyone knows you can't build things in America anymore. Everyone, that is, except John D. Bassett III. While one corporation after another exported their manufacturing to high-volume factories in low-wage locations overseas, Bassett's traditional wood bedroom furniture manufacturing company has not only survived but thrived making premium products right here in America. When everyone else was rushing for the exits, Bassett bet on the talent, dedication, and uncompromising quality of American workmanship. And he won. In Making It in America, Bassett tells you the secrets that have made Vaughan-Bassett Furniture so successful doing what everyone said couldn't be done. Drawing on rich life experience, including the everyday challenges of running a traditional manufacturing company, Bassett constructs a 12-point plan to achieve successful leadership in any business. These steps include: have a winning attitude, respect your employees, don't panic, reinvest constantly, and make the best of the worst. Bassett's story is about how those values underpinned his personal success and how they can revitalize America itself. In the face of feckless leadership, crumbling infrastructure, and global competition, Bassett's story is a blueprint for how America can revitalize its role as leader of the free world and how your success can be part of it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Allan Robertson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/002560/bk_hach_002560_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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