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    Cause to Fear: An Avery Black Mystery, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 408min
    From number-one best-selling author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense: Cause to Fear. When a body turns up floating beneath the frozen Charles River, the Boston Police summons its most brilliant and controversial homicide detective - Avery Black - to close the case. It doesn't take Avery long, however, to realize that this is no isolated murder: it is the work of a serial killer. Other bodies begin to turn up, all of them sharing one thing in common: all are trapped in ice. Is it all a coincidence - or the signature of a particularly deranged killer? As the media converges and Avery suffers pressure from her bosses, she struggles to crack the inexplicable case, too bizarre even for her brilliant mind. At the same time she tries to keep her own depression at bay, as her personal life spirals to a new low. And she does it all while trying to enter the mind of a psychotic and elusive killer. What she will find will shock even her, and make her realizes that nothing is what it seems - and that the worst darkness may sometimes be closest to us. A psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, Cause to Fear is book four in a riveting new series - with a beloved new character - that will leave you listening late into the night. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elaine Wise. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094842/bk_acx0_094842_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sacrifice (Breakthroughs in Mimetic Theory) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 138min
    In Sacrifice, Rene Girard interrogates the Brahmanas of Vedic India, exploring coincidences with mimetic theory that are too numerous and striking to be accidental. Even that which appears to be dissimilar fails to contradict mimetic theory, but instead corresponds to the minimum of illusion without which sacrifice becomes impossible. The Bible reveals collective violence, similar to that which generates sacrifice everywhere, but instead of making victims guilty, the Bible and the Gospels reveal the persecutors of a single victim. Instead of elaborating myths, they tell the truth absolutely contrary to the archaic sense. Once exposed, the single victim mechanism can no longer function as the model for would-be sacrificers. Recognizing that the Vedic tradition also converges on a revelation that discredits sacrifice, mimetic theory locates within sacrifice itself a paradoxical power of quiet reflection that leads, in the long run, to the eclipse of this institution which is violent but nevertheless fundamental to the development of human culture. Far from unduly privileging the Western tradition and awarding it a monopoly on the knowledge and repudiation of blood sacrifice, mimetic analysis recognizes comparable, but never truly identical, traits in the Vedic tradition. In giving attention to the overlooked subject of Vedic sacrifice in Indian religious tradition, this Stanford Emeritus Professor and member of the French Academy deepens understanding of the universal practice of sacrifice." (Midwest Book Review) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Lundeen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/008785/bk_acx0_008785_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Cause to Hide: An Avery Black Mystery, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 399min
    From number-one best-selling mystery author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense: Cause to Hide. Bodies are being found in the outskirts of Boston, their corpses burned beyond recognition, as the police realize a new serial killer is roaming the streets. As the media converges and the pressure is upped, the Boston Police Department must turn to its most brilliant - and controversial - homicide detective: Avery Black. Avery, still trying to pick up the pieces of her own life - her budding relationship with Ramirez, her reconciliation with Rose - suddenly finds herself thrown into the most challenging case of her career. With scant evidence to follow, she must enter the mind of a psychotic killer, try to understand his obsession with fire, and what clues that offers into his personality. Her trail leads her deep into Boston's worst neighborhoods, to confrontations with its worst psychopaths - and finally, to a twist she could never possibly imagine. In a game of psychological cat and mouse, a frantic race against time, Avery is led too deep into the maze of a killer's mind, and to places darker than she'd ever wish to see. A psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense, Cause to Hide is book three of a riveting new series - with a beloved new character - that will leave you turning pages late into the night. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elaine Wise. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/084159/bk_acx0_084159_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Kraken Project: Wyman Ford, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 748min
    Wyman Ford is back again in The Kraken Project, the thrilling new novel from New York Times best-selling author Douglas Preston. NASA is building a probe to be splashed down in the Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Saturn’s great moon, Titan. It is one of the most promising habitats for extraterrestrial life in the solar system, but the surface is unpredictable and dangerous, requiring the probe to contain artificial intelligence software. To this end, Melissa Shepherd, a brilliant programmer, has developed "Dorothy", a powerful, self-modifying AI whose true potential is both revolutionary and terrifying. When miscalculations lead to a catastrophe during testing, Dorothy flees into the internet. Former CIA agent Wyman Ford is tapped to track down the rogue AI. As Ford and Shepherd search for Dorothy, they realize that her horrific experiences in the wasteland of the Internet have changed her in ways they can barely imagine. And they’re not the only ones looking for the wayward software: The AI is also being pursued by a pair of Wall Street traders, who want to capture her code and turn her into a high-speed trading bot. Traumatized, angry, and relentlessly hunted, Dorothy has an extraordinary revelation - and devises a plan. As the pursuit of Dorothy converges on a deserted house on the coast of Northern California, Ford must face the ultimate question: Is rescuing Dorothy the right thing? Is the AI bent on saving the world…or on wiping out the cancer that is humankind? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Sowers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001767/bk_aren_001767_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fragrance Mysticism: And Other Out-of-Body Travel Roles and Methods , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1127min
    Fragrance mysticism portends to the aromas of particular events or places in the realms and spheres of out-of-body travel and could be said to be a mystical theology of the path of purification leading to union with the Divine. Every out-of-body experience or event contains an energy, a fragrance, an aroma, which permeates the atmosphere and contains within it the knowledge of that realm. The out-of-body traveler must absolutely inhale the fragrance of the arising spheres in order to take within the soul the molecular and cellular structure of such mystical atmospheres, allowing the knowledge contained to self-embody without effort on the traveler's part. In such a manner, the cells of the sphere combine with his own particulate matter and eventide to judgment. By so doing, the out-of-body traveler may take in a fragrance of that which is seen, heard, and elementally acquired. As this occurs, that fragrance converges within his own cells, merging and radiating as the soul gradually conquers again the physical body, bringing cells of higher mind within the confines of the terrestrial sphere and the physical mind. Such energies are transformative and cause alteration within the body, as well as the soul of the out-of-body traveler upon re-entry. In an invisible and fragrant way, the out-of-body traveler contains the meaning of the experience through its fragrance, the manner in which it sensates, by the emanations of the worlds to which he pays heed. And knowledge continues to vibrate into a ceaseless seeking (or having sought) which bears no sounds, words, or fantastic imagery; but rather a sapience which confounds itself to energy alone and can only be expressed as such. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca Lynn Bedford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/080293/bk_acx0_080293_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    All the Light We Cannot See , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1020min
    Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction National Book Award Finalist New York Times Bestseller A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II, from the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure’s agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure. Doerr’s gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is his most ambitious and dazzling work. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julie Teal. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001638/bk_hcuk_001638_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Buckingham Palace: The History of the British Royal Family's Most Famous Residence , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 80min
    When people think of the British Royal family, and more specifically where they live, the first image that often pops into mind is that of stately Buckingham Palace, with its changing of the guard and the occasional royal coach leaving or entering. Others may think of the royal country estate of Windsor Castle, a favorite of both Britain's longest-reigning and second longest-reigning monarchs. And there was a time when both royal residences played second fiddle to a much better known home, the elegant Kensington Palace. In his multi-volume work, Old and New London (1878), Edward Walford wrote, "It has often been said by foreigners that if they were to judge of the dignity and greatness of a country by the palace which its sovereign inhabits, they would not be able to ascribe to Her Majesty Queen Victoria that proud position among the 'crowned heads' of Europe which undoubtedly belongs to her. But though Buckingham Palace is far from being so magnificent as Versailles is, or the Tuilleries once were, yet it has about it an air of solidity and modest grandeur, which renders it no unworthy residence for a sovereign who cares more for a comfortable home than for display." This is ultimately what palaces are all about: power and impressions. Buckingham Palace is not different, for though it was originally built as a home of a private citizen, once a king bought it, its future was sealed. Walford continued, "Indeed, it has often been said that, with the exception of St. James's, Buckingham Palace is the ugliest royal residence in Europe; and although vast sums of money have been spent at various times upon its improvement and embellishment, it is very far from being worthy of the purpose to which it is dedicated - lodging the sovereign of the most powerful monarchy in the world. It fronts the western end of St. James's Park, which here converges to a narrow point; the Mall, upon the north, and Birdcage Walk, upon the south, almost meeting before its g ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kenneth Ray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/083610/bk_acx0_083610_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Introducing .Net 6: Getting Started with Blazor, Maui, Winui3, Desktop Development, and Containers
    Welcome to .NET 6, Microsoft's unified framework that converges the best of the modern and traditional .NET Framework. This book will introduce you to the new aspects of Microsoft's fully supported .NET 6 Framework and will teach you how to get the most out of it. You will learn about the progress to one unified .NET, including MAUI and the revival of desktop development. You will dive into Roslyn, Blazor, CLI, Containers, Cloud, and much more, using a "framework first" learning approach. You will begin by learning what each tool is, its practical uses, and how to apply it and then you will try it out on your own for learning reinforcement. And, of course, there will be plenty of code samples using C# 10.Introducing .NET 6 is aimed at .NET developers, both junior developers and those coming from the .NET framework, who want to understand everything the modern framework has to offer, besides the obvious programming languages. While you will still see a lot of fabulous C# 10 throughout the book, the focus of this learning is all about .NET and its tooling.What You Will LearnBecome a more versatile developer by knowing the variety of options available to you in the .NET 6 framework and its powerful toolingKnow the different front-end frameworks .NET offers, such as UWP, WPF, and WinForms, and how they stack up to each otherUnderstand the different communication protocols, such as REST and gRPC, for your back-end servicesDiscover the secrets of cloud-native development, such as serverless computing with Azure Functions and deploying containers to Azure Container ServicesMaster the command line, take your skill set to the cloud, and containerize your .NET 6 app Who This Book Is ForBoth students and more experienced developers, C# developers who want to learn more about the framework they use, developers who want to be more productive by diving deeper into the tooling that .NET 6 brings to the fold, developers who need to make technical decisions. A working knowledge of C# is recommended to follow the examples used in the book.
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    The Art of Immutable Architecture
    This book teaches you how to evaluate a distributed system from the perspective of immutable objects. You will understand the problems in existing designs, know how to make small modifications to correct those problems, and learn to apply the principles of immutable architecture to your tools.Most software components focus on the state of objects. They store the current state of a row in a relational database. They track changes to state over time, making several basic assumptions: there is a single latest version of each object, the state of an object changes sequentially, and a system of record exists.This is a challenge when it comes to building distributed systems. Whether dealing with autonomous microservices or disconnected mobile apps, many of the problems we try to solve come down to synchronizing an ever-changing state between isolated components. Distributed systems would be a lot easier to build if objects could not change.After reading The Art of Immutable Architecture, you will come away with an understanding of the benefits of using immutable objects in your own distributed systems. You will learn a set of rules for identifying and exchanging immutable objects, and see a collection of useful theorems that emerges and ensures that the distributed systems we build are eventually consistent. Using patterns, you will find where the truth converges, see how changes are associative, rather than sequential, and come to feel comfortable understanding that there is no longer a single source of truth. Practical hands-on examples reinforce how to build software using the described patterns, techniques, and tools. By the end, you will possess the language and resources needed to analyze and construct distributed systems with confidence.The assumptions of the past were sufficient for building single-user, single-computer systems. But as we expand to multiple devices, shared experiences, and cloud computing, they work against us. It is time for a new set of assumptions. Start with immutable objects, and build better distributed systems.What You Will LearnEvaluate a distributed system from the perspective of immutable objects Recognize the problems in existing designs, and make small modifications to correct them Start a new system from scratch, applying patterns Apply the principles of immutable architecture to your tools, including SQL databases, message queues, and the network protocols that you already use Discover new tools that natively apply these principles Who This Book Is ForSoftware architects and senior developers. It contains examples in SQL and languages such as JavaScript and C#. Past experience with distributed computing, data modeling, or business analysis is helpful.
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    Magic in Manhattan Collection (eBook, ePUB)
    All three novels in the dazzling Magic in Manhattan paranormal historical romance series, available now in one box set. "Allie Therin built a world that came alive and flew off the pages." -Gay Book Reviews Spellbound Arthur Kenzie's life's work is protecting the world from the supernatural relics that could destroy it. When an amulet with the power to control the tides is shipped to New York, he must intercept it before it can be used to devastating effects. This time, in order to succeed, he needs a powerful psychometric…and the only one available has sworn off his abilities altogether. Rory Brodigan's gift comes with great risk. To protect himself, he's become a recluse, redirecting his magic to find counterfeit antiques. But with the city's fate hanging in the balance, he can't force himself to say no. As Arthur coaxes him out of seclusion, a magical and emotional bond begins to form. One that proves impossible to break-even when Arthur sacrifices himself to keep Rory safe and Rory must risk everything to save him. Starcrossed Arthur's continued quest to contain supernatural relics that pose a threat to the world captured Rory's imagination-and his heart. Butwhen a group of ruthless paranormals throw the city into chaos, the two men's strained relationship leaves Rory vulnerable to a monster from Arthur's past. With dark forces determined to tear them apart, Rory and Arthur will have to draw on every last bit of magic up their sleeves. And in the end, it's the connection they've formed without magic that will be tested like never before. Wonderstruck Arthur's search to to destroy the powerful supernatural relic that threatens Manhattan has been fruitless . All it has done is keep him from the man he loves. But he'll do anything to keep Rory safe and free, even if that means leaving him behind. Rory is determined to gain power over his own magic. He can take care of himself-and maybe even Arthur, too, if Arthur will let him. An auction at the Paris world's fair offers the perfect opportunity to destroy the relic, if a group of power-hungry supernaturals don't destroy Rory and Arthur first. As the magical world converges on Paris, Arthur and Rory have to decide who they can trust. Guessing wrong could spell destruction for their bond-and for the world as they know it Don't miss the standalone spin-off in Allie Therin's Magic in Manhattan universe: Proper Scoundrels
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