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  Florence Nightingale: A Life Inspired , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 170min

  Has there ever been someone who accomplished so much and, at the same time, thought so little of herself? Before she even turned 40, Florence Nightingale was the darling of the British public, the heroine of the Crimea. She could have sailed home to England and comfortably dined out on her fame for the remainder of her long days. Instead she conducted a ruthless postmortem on every moment of her wartime service and found herself entirely wanting. She did not try to hide her mistakes; instead she sought to broadcast them so everyone would understand what happens in unsanitary medical facilities. She could well have slid into self-pity and inertia, yet she spent the next several decades campaigning for reforms. One hundred and fifty years ago, the respect we now have for nurses and the intense training that nurses must undergo was nothing but a seed in Florence Nightingale's imagination. If we believe that nurses are some of the most respectable and hardworking people in our community, we owe that belief to Florence Nightingale. But she never took the credit. As an old woman of 77, she deflected all her accomplishments onto God with the words, "How inefficient I was in the Crimea! Yet He has raised up Trained Nursing from it!" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Glass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035950/bk_acx0_035950_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Beforelife , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 915min

  It’s okay if you don’t believe in the afterlife. The people who live there don’t believe in you, either.What if you went to heaven and no one there believed in Earth? This is the question at the heart of Beforelife, a satirical novel that follows the postmortem adventures of widower Ian Brown, a man who dies in the book’s first moments and finds himself in an afterlife where no one else believes in “pre-incarnation”. The other residents of the afterlife have mysteriously forgotten their premortem lives and think that anyone who remembers a mortal life is suffering from a mental disorder called the “Beforelife Delusion”.None of that really matters to Ian. All he wants to do is reunite with Penelope, his wife. Scouring the afterlife for any sign of her, Ian accidentally winds up on a quest to prove that the beforelife is real. This puts him squarely into the crosshairs of some of history’s greatest heroes and villains, all of whom seem unhealthily obsessed with erasing Ian’s memories and preventing him from reminding anyone of their premortem lives. Only by staying a step ahead of his enemies can Ian hope to keep his much-needed marbles, find Penelope, and restore the public’s memories of the beforelife. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ash Rizi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ecwp/000544/bk_ecwp_000544_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Kunst des Lebens, Kunst des Sterbens

  Der erste Teil von "Kunst des Lebens - Kunst des Sterbens" verdeutlicht, Kulturen und Religionen übergreifend, die allen Weisheitslehren gemeinsamen Grundlagen eines von Empathie getragenen heilsamen, ethischen und nachhaltigen Verhaltens und zeigt überzeugend die guten Gründe auf, warum wir auf das Gesetz der Resonanz und in die todlose Natur unseres Geistes vertrauen können.Der zweite Teil, »Leben und Sterben im Licht des erleuchteten Geistes von Weisheit und Mitgefühl«, führt in die transformativen Methoden der tibetisch-buddhistischen Geistesschulung ein. Durch die bewusste Ausrichtung des Geistes auf heilsame Inhalte und die Übung von nicht-konzeptueller Achtsamkeit und Kontemplation werden sich die Ursachen des Leidens - dualistisches Denken sowie Anhaftung und Aversion - von selbst befreien. Haben wir gelernt, frei von allen Konzepten in leerem und klarem Gewahrsein zu ruhen, so können wir noch in diesem Leben zum befreienden Erwachen der Buddhas kommen.Der dritte Teil ist ein Manual für die Kunst des guten Sterbens. Die stringent und klar dargestellten Übungen und Anweisungen zur Vorbereitung auf das Sterben und für die Begleitung im Sterbeprozess und im Postmortem basieren auf dem Erfahrungswissen und den altbewährten Instruktionen der tibetischen Thanatologie. Wer sie erinnert oder an sie erinnert wird, kann im Tod Luzidität, Erlösung und Erleuchtung erlangen.Ein vom Autor erstelltes Glossar von grundlegenden Begriffen der buddhistischen Lehre ist dem Band ergänzend beigegeben.

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  Kunst des Lebens, Kunst des Sterbens (eBook, ePUB)

  Der erste Teil von "Kunst des Lebens - Kunst des Sterbens" verdeutlicht, Kulturen und Religionen übergreifend, die allen Weisheitslehren gemeinsamen Grundlagen eines von Empathie getragenen heilsamen, ethischen und nachhaltigen Verhaltens und zeigt überzeugend die guten Gründe auf, warum wir auf das Gesetz der Resonanz und in die todlose Natur unseres Geistes vertrauen können. Der zweite Teil, »Leben und Sterben im Licht des erleuchteten Geistes von Weisheit und Mitgefühl«, führt in die transformativen Methoden der tibetisch-buddhistischen Geistesschulung ein. Durch die bewusste Ausrichtung des Geistes auf heilsame Inhalte und die Übung von nicht-konzeptueller Achtsamkeit und Kontemplation werden sich die Ursachen des Leidens - dualistisches Denken sowie Anhaftung und Aversion - von selbst befreien. Haben wir gelernt, frei von allen Konzepten in leerem und klarem Gewahrsein zu ruhen, so können wir noch in diesem Leben zum befreienden Erwachen der Buddhas kommen. Der dritte Teil ist ein Manual für die Kunst des guten Sterbens. Die stringent und klar dargestellten Übungen und Anweisungen zur Vorbereitung auf das Sterben und für die Begleitung im Sterbeprozess und im Postmortem basieren auf dem Erfahrungswissen und den altbewährten Instruktionen der tibetischen Thanatologie. Wer sie erinnert oder an sie erinnert wird, kann im Tod Luzidität, Erlösung und Erleuchtung erlangen. Ein vom Autor erstelltes Glossar von grundlegenden Begriffen der buddhistischen Lehre ist dem Band ergänzend beigegeben.

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  The Midnight Hour

  'If only all history mysteries could be as good as The Midnight Hour' The TimesA twisty new murder story from the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries. An old man lies dead and it looks like poison, but his wife isn't the only one who had reason to kill him. Brighton, 1965When theatrical impresario Bert Billington is found dead in his retirement home, no one suspects foul play. But when the postmortem reveals that he was poisoned, suspicion falls on his wife, eccentric ex-Music Hall star Verity Malone. Frustrated by the police response to Bert's death and determined to prove her innocence, Verity calls in private detective duo Emma Holmes and Sam Collins. This is their first real case, but as luck would have it they have a friend on the inside: Max Mephisto is filming a remake of Dracula, starring Seth Billington, Bert's son. But when they question Max, they feel he isn't telling them the whole story.Emma and Sam must vie with the police to untangle the case and bring the killer to justice. They're sure the answers must lie in Bert's dark past and in the glamorous, occasionally deadly, days of Music Hall. But the closer they get to the truth, the more danger they find themselves in...

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  The Breaking Point: A Body Farm Novel

  Past, present, and future collide to throw respected forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton's successful, secure life into devastating turmoil in this poignant novel in the New York Times bestselling Body Farm mystery series. It's been ten years since Dr. Bill Brockton created the Body Farm—the world's first postmortem research facility dedicated to advancing the frontiers of forensic science—and the researcher is at the pinnacle of his career. Under his leadership, the University of Tennessee's forensic anthropology program has become the most prominent in the world, and Brockton's skills and knowledge are in high demand among top law enforcement. Calling him in for a number of high profile cases, the FBI now wants him to identify the charred remains of a maverick millionaire, killed in a fiery plane crash. But a storm is about to hit Brockton with cataclysmic force. First, his identification of the crash victim is called into question. Then he receives a threatening message from the serial killer who attempted to murder the scientist and his family a decade ago. And from Brockton's beloved wife Kathleen—his lodestone and his source of security—he gets the most shocking news of all. Will Brockton be able to weather this deluge . . . or has he finally reached the breaking point?

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  In the Still of the Night , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 718min

  From true crime legend Ann Rules comes this riveting story of a young woman whose life ended too soon - and a determined mother’s 11-year crusade to clear her daughter’s name. It was nine days before Christmas 1998, and 32-year-old Ronda Reynolds was getting ready to travel from Seattle to Spokane to visit her mother and brother and grandmother before the holidays. Ronda’s second marriage was dissolving after less than a year, her career as a pioneering female Washington State Trooper had ended, but she was optimistic about starting over again. "I’m actually looking forward to getting on with my life," she told her mother earlier the night before. "I just need a few days with you guys." Barb Thompson, Ronda’s mother, who had met her daughter’s second husband only once before, was just happy that Ronda was coming home. At 6:20 that morning, Ron Reynolds called 911 and told the dispatcher his wife was dead. She had committed suicide, he said, although he hadn’t heard the gunshot and he didn’t know if she had a pulse. EMTs arrived, detectives arrived, the coroner’s deputy arrived, and a postmortem was conducted. Lewis County Coroner Terry Wilson, who neither visited the death scene nor attended the autopsy, declared the manner of Ronda’s death as "undetermined." Over the next eleven years, Coroner Wilson would change that manner of death from "undetermined" to "suicide", back to "undetermined" - and then back to "suicide" again. But Barb Thompson never for one moment believed her daughter committed suicide. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barbara Caruso. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/005534/bk_sans_005534_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Evidence: An Alex Delaware Novel, Hörbuch, Digital, 386min

  #1 New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Kellerman writes unforgettable tales of crime and detection that expose the shadowy side of glittering Los Angeles. And in Evidence, readers are once again in the dexterous grip of a master storyteller and stylist equally skilled at teasing your brain and taking your breath away. In the half-built skeleton of a monstrously vulgar mansion in one of L.A.'s toniest neighborhoods, a watchman stumbles on the bodies of a young couple murdered in flagrante and left in a gruesome postmortem embrace. Though he's cracked some of the city's worst slayings, veteran homicide cop Milo Sturgis is still shocked at the grisly sight: a twisted crime that only Milo's killer instincts and psychologist Alex Delaware's keen insights can hope to solve. While the female victim's identity remains a question mark, her companion is ID'd as eco-friendly architect Desmond Backer, who disdains the sort of grandiose superstructure he's found dead in. And the late Mr. Backer, it's revealed was also notorious for his power to seduce women. The rare exception is his ex-boss, Helga Gemein, who's as indifferent to Desmond's death as she apparently was to his advances. Though Milo and Alex place her on their short list of suspects, the deeper they dig for clues the longer the list grows. An elusive prince who appears to harbor decidedly American appetites, an eccentric blueblood with an ax to grind, one of Desmond's restless ex-lovers and her cuckolded husband all are in the homicidal mix spiced with eco-terrorism, arson, blackmail, conspiracy, and a vendetta that runs deep. But when the investigation veers suddenly in a startling direction, it's the investigators who may wind up on the wrong end of a cornered predator's final fury. Language: English. Narrator: John Rubinstein. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002023/bk_rand_002023_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Murder at the Flood: Detective Inspector Skelgill Investigates, Book 9 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 550min

  A stand-alone murder mystery, number nine in the series. Meet maverick British detective DL Skelgill, "mad, bad and just a little bit cozy". When latter-day lothario and expert kayaker Roger Alcock disappears on the night of the "Great Cockermouth Flood", his attractive wife Maeve takes 24 hours longer than might reasonably be expected to notify the authorities. But when Roger’s corpse washes up on the Solway coast, a postmortem suggests his death could legitimately be classified as misadventure. DI Skelgill, however - engaged as a rescuer to the inundated Cumbrian town - detects a sinister undercurrent that pervades the tightly knit community in which Roger Alcock moved. As the floodwater recedes, reasons surface why Roger’s erstwhile associates might celebrate his demise. Could this be a murder - of the kind that suits the innocent as well as the guilty to hold their peace? Could spurned lovers and fleeced creditors and others who might benefit be acting in silent concert? Jealousy, revenge, greed...these are sentiments that trouble Skelgill - for he realises that unless he can divine a motive, he cannot begin to ascribe a crime. To penetrate the mystery he enlists a female duo, a visiting TV reporter and the sister-in-law of the late Roger Alcock. But are these alluring ladies simply playing him for their own devices? While DS Jones is temporarily absent, Skelgill becomes doubly conflicted. Barely treading water in the case, he flounders in the perpetrator’s wake. Can his famous "sixth sense" come to his rescue in time - or will a second murder erase forever all trace of the killer? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicholas Camm. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/114830/bk_acx0_114830_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Bone Thief: A Body Farm Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 595min

  New York Times best-selling author Jefferson Bass delivers an authentic and knuckle-biting thriller in which forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton must confront a crime of unimaginable proportions on his own doorstep. Dr. Bill Brockton has been called in on a seemingly routine case, to exhume a body and obtain a bone sample for a DNA paternity test. But when the coffin is opened, Brockton and his colleagues, including his graduate assistant Miranda Lovelady, are stunned to see that the corpse has been horribly violated. Brockton’s initial shock gives way to astonishment as he uncovers a flourishing and lucrative black market in body parts. At the center of this ghoulish empire is a daring and prosperous grave robber. Soon Brockton finds himself drawn into the dangerous enterprise when the FBI recruits him to bring down the postmortem chop shop—using corpses from the Body Farm as bait in an undercover sting operation. As Brockton struggles to play the unscrupulous role the FBI asks of him, his friend and colleague, medical examiner Eddie Garcia, faces a devastating injury that could end his career. Exposed to a near-lethal dose of radioactivity, Dr. Garcia has lost most of his right hand and his entire left hand. Out of options, he embarks on a desperate quest: both of his ravaged hands will be severed at the wrist and replaced with those from a cadaver. But unless suitable ones are found soon, the opportunity will be lost. As Brockton delves deep into the clandestine trade, he is faced with an agonizing choice: Is he willing to risk an FBI investigation—and his own principles—to help his friend? Will he be able to live with himself if he crosses that line? Will he be able to live with himself if he doesn’t? And as the criminal case and the medical crisis converge, a pair of simpler questions arise: Will Dr. Garcia survive—and will Brockton? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Woren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002134/bk_harp_002134_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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