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Startup: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 409min
From veteran online journalist and BuzzFeed writer Doree Shafrir comes a hilarious debut novel that proves there are some dilemmas that no app can solve. Mack McAllister has a $600 million idea. His mindfulness app, TakeOff, is already the hottest thing in tech, and he's about to launch a new and improved version that promises to bring investors running and may turn his brainchild into a $1 billion business - in startup parlance, an elusive unicorn. Katya Pasternack is hungry for a scoop that will drive traffic. An ambitious young journalist at a gossipy tech blog, Katya knows that she needs more than another PR-friendly puff piece to make her the go-to byline for industry news. Sabrina Choe Blum just wants to stay afloat. The exhausted mother of two and failed creative writer is trying to escape from her credit card debt and an inattentive husband - who also happens to be Katya's boss - as she rejoins a workforce that has gotten younger, hipper, and much more computer literate since she's been away. Before the ink on Mack's latest round of funding is dry, an errant text message hints that he may be working a bit too closely for comfort with a young social media manager in his office. When Mack's bad behavior collides with Katya's search for a salacious post, Sabrina gets caught in the middle as TakeOff goes viral for all the wrong reasons. As the fallout from Mack's scandal engulfs the lower Manhattan office building where all three work, it's up to Katya and Sabrina to write the story the men in their lives would prefer remain untold. An assured, observant debut from veteran online journalist Doree Shafrir, Startup is a sharp, hugely entertaining story of youth, ambition, love, money, and technology's inability to hack human nature. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eliana Marianes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/003056/bk_hach_003056_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Twist at the End: A Novel of O. Henry and the Texas Servant Girl Murders of 1885 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1218min
Best known for his acclaimed mystery fiction set in ancient Rome, in A Twist at the End Steven Saylor delivers a stunning historical novel about America's first recorded serial murders - the Austin, Texas, servant girl murders of 1885 - artfully blending real characters and true crime into an engrossing work of fiction. The city of Austin, Texas, "is fearfully dull", wrote young Will Porter to a friend in the spring of 1885, "except for the frequent raids of the Servant Girl Annihilators, who make things lively in the dead of night." Years later Will Porter would become the most famous writer in America - O. Henry, the toast of New York. The long-ago Austin servant girl murders would remain unsolved. But behind the O. Henry pen name, Will Porter was a man with secrets. The appearance of a merciless blackmailer and a mysterious stranger draw Porter back into the past and back to Texas, to confront the twisted solution to those murders - and the secrets of his own soul. When he was a young man in Austin in that spring of 1885, Porter fell in love. Her name was Eula Phillips. She was beautiful. She was married to someone else. And she was doomed to be a victim of the Servant Girl Annihilators. The first victims were young black women who worked in the households of Austin's most prominent citizens. The crimes were unspeakable, as the killer or killers used an ax and - in the newspaper parlance of the day - "outraged" the victims even as they were dying or already dead. The authorities were baffled. The murders continued month after month,until suddenly, shockingly, on a bloody Christmas Eve, the pattern changed - and the trial that resulted would uncover an explosive scandal of sex and power that would tear the city of Austin apart. The scene of these crimes was a capital city in uneasy transition. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J. D. Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021583/bk_adbl_021583_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Failed Life of a Mormon Missionary , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 611min
Jerry Wonder is the hero of this hilarious coming-of-age novel. A 19-year-old Mormon missionary, Jerry leaves South Dakota to save souls in New Zealand for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Elder Wonder's path is fraught with challenge. He misses his girlfriend, Susan, who tried valiantly to seduce him before he left, but to his regret, he remained strong for both of them. Now, he worries he will lose her in his two-year absence. And he is flawed. Against the strictures of the LDS church, he is a compulsive masturbator, or in Mormon parlance, a "self-pollinator". Jerry makes a solemn covenant with his Father in Heaven that each time he self-pollinates, he will find a soul for Jesus. After one month, he owes his Father in Heaven 40 converts. Elder Jerry Wonder also has difficulty developing his testimony - i.e. one's absolute belief in the absolute truth of the LDS faith. Complicating his life is Elder Freight, a 20-year-old missionary who teaches him the finer points of converting heathens - when he is not breaking their bones. But he does bond with Brother Ormsby, a Maori who urges him to persist despite his doubts. When Elder Freight takes his life, Jerry is devastated, and he delves into the dark history of the church, learning that the founding polygamist prophets were often conmen, fortune hunters, or even murderers. Salvation of a sort comes when Susan flies to his side. They will be expelled from the church and disgrace their families. But first, Jerry has to protect the mission president and his wife from church officials in Utah, something he manages with characteristic ingenuity. Within its comic frame, the novel is informative about the Mormon church. It also shows how older men try to stifle and control young men. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Wynters. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/055952/bk_acx0_055952_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Johnny D. Miles Learning Curve: An Introduction to (Death Row Inmate) Johnny D. Miles' Collage Art, Poetry, & Mind: Miles Dynasty, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 76min
Visit the website showcasing Johnny Miles' collage work: www.milesdynasty.comTwenty-seven years after the murder of Nancy Willem, the State of California has not put Johnny Miles to death. He has lived in a one-person cell on San Quentin’s death row, among hundreds of others convicted of first-degree murder. Johnny Miles has had to find a measure of acceptance to continue living on death row; he has chosen to live while under the sentence of death. Johnny Miles is the primary author of the book: The Johnny D. Miles Learning Curve: An Introduction to (Death Row Inmate) Johnny D. Miles’ Collage Art, Poetry & Mind. The learning curve is fine art in that patient informed perception is required for a fuller imbuing of Johnny Miles' artistic intent and subterranean self-expression. The learning curve is meant for the learned: a person that can separate flair from meaning; a person able to perceive thematic repetition and aberration; more or less an investigative and curious art enthusiast and/or enjoyer of abstract poetry. Johnny Miles' collaging and poetry exist within the solitary confinement of his own sense of rhyme and rhythm, concept, tone, and intrigue. His work is a soliloquy in the effort to find meaning and transmit meaning. All listening of his work should occur with the background knowledge of his minimal formal education for Johnny dropped out of school in the 10th grade. The word psychopath denoted is clinical while in general parlance communicates pure evil. The word "psychopathy" connotes less negativity to the labeled while still bordering on insult. Basketball great Michael Jordan has been called psychopathic as has the sitting American President, Donald Trump. British psychologist Kevin Dutton in his so-called Great British Psychopath Survey found many eminently valued professions, such as clergy, are filled in great proportions by psychopaths. Due to my own lack of credentials and my genuine ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ridge Cresswell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/147274/bk_acx0_147274_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Practical Psychomancy & Crystal Gazing: A Course of Lessons on the Psychic Phenomena of Distant Sensing, Clairvoyance, Psychometry, Crystal Gazing, Etc. , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 155min
The term psychomancy (pronounced, "sy-ko-man-see"), is derived from two Greek words, the first psycho, meaning "the soul; the mind; the understanding" (and generally used to indicate "psychic" or unusual powers of the soul or mind); the second word, mancy, meaning "to divine; to foresee, or foreknow; to detect secret things" - and in occult parlance, "to sense" or "to receive impressions by the astral senses". So the word, as we use it, may be said to mean "psychic sensing" and in this work will be so used. The word psychomancer means "one practicing psychomancy", and the word psychomantic means "relating to psychomancy". The word clairvoyance is frequently used by people to designate some of the phases of psychomancy, but strictly speaking, this term is incorrect when used in this sense, the true occult meaning of the word clairvoyance being "transcendental vision, or the perception of beings on another plane of existence - the seeing of disembodied souls, elementals, etc.". And so, in this work, we shall consider the true phenomena of clairvoyance as distinct from that of psychomancy. In this work, we shall regard as the true phenomena of psychomancy all the various phenomena known as psychometry; crystal gazing; perceiving distant scenes; a perception of past events and indication of future events; either in the full waking state; the state of reverie; or the state of dreams. And so, this work will examine, consider, and explain the various phases of phenomena above indicated - in short, the phenomena of "sensing" objects by means of astral senses, omitting the phenomena of clairvoyance or seeing disembodied souls, etc., which we regard as belonging to a different phase of the general subject and which require special consideration and examination. We will cover the following topics in their own separate lesson: the nature of psychomancy; how to develop yourself; simpl ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dennis Logan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/139728/bk_acx0_139728_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Belle Boyd: The Controversial Life and Legacy of the Civil War's Most Famous Spy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 78min
Americans have long been fascinated by the Civil War, marveling at the size of the battles, the leadership of the generals, and the courage of the soldiers. Since the war's start over 150 years ago, the events have been subjected to endless debate among historians and the generals themselves. The Civil War was the deadliest conflict in American history, and had the two sides realized it would take four years and inflict over a million casualties, it might not have been fought. Since it was, however, historians and history buffs alike have been studying and analyzing the people and places that shaped the course of the conflict ever since. Much about the war remains controversial over 150 years later, and that includes the extent and nature of the spying that took place on both sides. Thus, it is only fitting that the war’s most famous spy, the Confederate sympathizer Isabella Maria Boyd, is one of those people in American history who is as much myth as reality. Part of this is because she lived in an era that is still heavily imbued with a sense of nostalgia and myth, but her own personality is also heavily to blame, for she was what might in modern parlance be called a drama queen; since she was known for serial exaggerations in her work, historians are still trying to separate fact from fiction when it comes to her exploits. In the same vein, there was the matter of the people she surrounded herself with, many of whom needed a mythical figure to attach their last fading hopes for a Confederate victory to. They found such a person in Belle Boyd. Boyd’s early life was in no way mythical, for she grew up in a lower middle class home in rural Virginia. While some of her more romantic biographers would describe her riding her horse into her parents' elegant dining room during a dinner party, it is unlikely that the Boyd family's home would accommodate a horse and rider within its four walls. Well on her way to fame before she left her teens, Boyd went ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/075063/bk_acx0_075063_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fundamentals Of Balanced Christianity: Charismatic Parlance Or Pragmatic Balance
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Opening to the Law of Attraction
Opening to the Law of Attraction Magic Meditations Workshops Ina R. Ames Biography, About the Opening to the Law of Attraction CD (and free downloadable workbook), About the Series, FAQs Biography: Ina R. Ames is the creator of the Magic Meditations Workshops series and is the voice on the CDs. Ina has taught relaxation and meditation and personal growth courses, as well as provided individual coaching, since the early 1980's. Ina's career has been varied. She's a communication professor as well as an intuitive psychic and healer and a business owner. Ina's focus has been to create workshops that impact important areas of life such an intuition, fear, happiness, magnetizing what you want in your life (the Law of Attraction in current parlance),and her promise for the world - a world vibrating with infinite resources. Please see the Magic Meditations Workshops web page for information on songwriter Bob Ballard, photographer and artist Sheila Finkelstein, songwriter Scott Loiselle and graphic designer Kathy Versteeg. About the Opening to the Law of Attraction CD: The Opening to the Law of Attraction CD is both a Relaxation and Meditation CD and a personal growth workshop that has you use your natural ability to attract what you want in your life free from the barriers that often develop to that natural ability using guided meditations and exercises with background music. Purpose: *The purpose of this workshop is for you to be able to open to your natural ability to attract and have what you want in your life, for yourself, for others and for the planet, and to dissolve the barriers that stop you from having what you want. Mastery and Power: *The intention of this workshop is for you to be able to open to the law of attraction, to dissolve the barriers to having what you want and to dissolve doubt/fear so you are free to have what you want. Special Features: *This CD includes the Opening to the Law of Attraction, Dissolving Barriers and Dissolving Doubt/Fear guided meditations and the Golden Energy exercise- all designed to help you be free to attract what you want for yourself in life, for others and for the planet. Hints: *If you've been unable to create what you want in your life, it could be for many reasons. However, it's not because you're flawed, bad, evil or permanently damaged. It's because you have created barriers to this natural process. This CD will help you dissolve these barriers. *A very powerful way of opening to the Law of Attraction is to explore your core beliefs about the important areas of your life. Core beliefs are beliefs you developed between the ages of 4-8 when you were pre-logic. See if you find yourself stuck believing such things as you don't deserve money, love, or friendship. The Creating Infinite Resources CD is a very powerful tool for breaking through the barriers created by your core beliefs. *One of the biggest barriers to attracting what you want in your life is trying to manipulate a specific person. The results are not very satisfactory over the long run, even if you do manage to manipulate another person. If you are looking for a romantic relationship, ask for a romantic relationship and be specific as to the type of relationship you want and what you're willing to give in that relationship. In any area where you're interested in manipulating another, acknowledge that and chose instead the essentials of what you want. *Don't ask if you deserve what you want. Why wouldn't you deserve what you want? What kind of God or universe would create a world of unworthy creatures? *The introduction is on a track by itself. When you've gotten the full value of the introduction, you can skip it. But occasionally go back and listen to it again. You may hear something anew. *Don't worry if you fall asleep while listening during the night. You will get the results anyway. *As with any relaxation or meditation recording, if you are disturbed while using any CD and must come back to full waking consciousness immediately, you will immediately come back refreshed, aware and able to deal with any situation. * There is a free downloadable workbook (whether you buy or not) at our web page. You can download it or sign up to have it sent to you. About the Series Welcome to the Magic Meditations Workshop Series. The series includes six CDs - one Relaxation and Meditation CD with three different time lengths and five Relaxation and Mediation CD and personal growth workshops - all which will help you be more relaxed, calm serene and have you improve different areas of your life. Each CD in the series features relaxation and meditation exercises plus guided meditations that will alter your relationship to happiness, help you better use the planet's infinite resources, provide the tools you need to create what you want in your life, expand your understanding and development of intuition and help you masterfully deal with fear. The Magic Meditations Workshops series will dramatically impact these areas of your life for the better. Each of the workshops has been created and abridged from live workshops and individual coaching that I've provided in the Greater Boston area and around the country for more than a quarter century. Most of the original workshops are four to six hours in length. The Workshops in the CDs address very special areas of your life. Because the workshops offered here are recorded, you can listen to them whenever you want, wherever you are to create both relaxation and meditation and personal growth in your life. Each CD also contains the short length version of Relaxation and Meditation plus previews of all the CDs in this series. Where did this series originate? The idea for these CD's were came from participants in an Accessing your Intuition Workshop in Ohio in the 1980s. Delighted with that session, the participants wanted more and requested I record all my workshops so people everywhere could experience the joy, relaxation and freedom they provide without having to leave their home. I liked that idea, so I made these CD's. I originally recorded the Relaxation and Meditation CD in this series on cassette in the 80's when the students in my college-level acting class asked me to record the relaxation and guided meditations I'd used as a warm up to rehearsals. I'd used my relaxation and meditation exercises to help them relax and be more mentally supple when performing. Few of the students were experienced performers and needed good preparation for acting a scene. They found the exercises so effective and beneficial, they wanted copies so that they could listen to them before studying for an exam, taking an exam, and to help them get to sleep at night. I'm sure you'll find this series helpful whether you are interested in reducing the effects of stress or want to both reduce stress and improve areas of your life. You don't need any previous experience in relaxation, meditation or any of the areas of the workshops to benefit from this series. I sincerely believe these recordings will make a positive, joyful and extraordinary difference in your life. Ina FAQs Will I be able to benefit from these CDs if I'm not "new age" and have never taken other courses or workshops? *Yes. This CD series will enhance your life wherever you are at in life. It is written in plain English and designed so all people can comfortably gain the benefits these CDs provide. Many of my workshops participants had never attended others. They found they could quickly adjust to the exercises and guided meditations. If this is new to you, you may need initially to allow yourself to relax but it will happen quicker than you think. How do I decide which CDs to purchase? How do I best use this CD series? *First, ask yourself is "What are the results I want to produce?" If you simply want to relax and meditate, then the Relaxation and Meditation CD is for you. 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Keep My Fire Burnin'
JAHUG Records Ltd 7 Raphael House, 322B Coldahrbour Lane London SW9 8QH Tel:07776196754 Press Release Artist: CARL I By Roger Steffens . Keep My Fire Burnin' is the long-awaited debut CD from the internationally renowned Rastafari writer and former reggae journalist, Carl I (Gayle). Carl's groundbreaking patois writings began in the early '70s, initially for Let It Rock magazine, which published his first interview with Bob Marley in 1973, and then, for many crucial years, in the pages of Black Music magazine. His trenchant articles garnered a multi-national audience in North America, Africa and the Caribbean, his ground-breaking roots-style introducing Jamaican parlance to fans eager to "penetrate the patois" of Marley and other early reggae creators. But unknown throughout his writing career, Carl has also been musically active as well and many of his earliest compositions are contained on his new CD. His life has been one of intense contemplation and active participation, sometimes as a "hermit in the hills," other times as a revolutionary, intent on educating "de youth dem" about the great hidden history of his people and the power of Rastafari. Raised initially in Western Kingston, Carl moved with his family to England in 1959, at the age of eight. There, he recalls, "music was our only source of rare light-heartedness," as import discs from Jamaica introduced the new "ska" music to the island's ex-pats. Seeing Bob Dylan on TV "helped me develop a strong interest in conscious music." In the '70s, Carl became a leading force in the popularization of conscious reggae music, not only through his influential Black Music works, but also through his own journal, JAHUGLIMAN, which he founded a few years after his return to Jamaica in 1977. The magazine presented deep Rasta reasonings and controversial articles like his comprehensive review of Kingston's One Love Peace Concert, printing the entire transcript of Peter Tosh's fiery speeches on that historic evening in 1978, rants that led to Tosh's near fatal beating by police a few months later. In 1986 he fulfilled a lifelong desire to "live in the hills, where I built a bamboo cabin and started to grow my own food and live like a hermit. It was the loneliest, most trying period of my life but I emerged from it stronger, wiser and more determined than ever before to show what life is really worth. I'd been writing songs in the evenings, chanting and singing. Up there in the hills, far from the rest of the world, you feel one with Creation. As the night comes down the unseen creatures of the bush start chanting with you, like a higher choir. This is where I wrote 'Rare Moments' and 'Ises'.' Following 17 years in Jamaica, he returned to London in 1990 and in the following year, relaunched his journal as JAHUG, just in time to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Emperor Selassie's birth. Says Carl, 'JAHUG now emphasized the Creator's embrace rather than the outcasts of Jamaican society that JAHUGLIMAN signified. Since then, tens of thousands of the seven volume publication have been sold worldwide." His first venture into an actual recording studio came in '88 at Marley's fabled Tuff Gong Studio. Titled "Bird Heights," it was never released, although he "felt encouraged by the enthusiastic vibes of the musicians who played on it,' notably Earl "Chinna" Smith and Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace, the drummer star of the movie Rockers. His first actual record was "Heroes" with Tyrone Downie. "He played all the instruments and provided backing vocals too, up at Music Mountain studio around '99" recalls Gayle. "I pressed a couple hundred copies on a 45, but had to leave Jamaica before I could get it on the road properly. Then in London, I recorded two versions of 'Ice Cream' and a remixed version of 'Heroes' for a 12inch, and pressed about 500 copies. Family illnesses caused Carl to abandon his music plans for several years. "I wrote 'Light of the Universe,' 'Heart of Darkness' and 'Queen of the Streets' after the loss of my parents. Then I was introduced to a musician named Peter Dread in 2004, who had his own studio. He played almost all the instruments, according to my instructions, on 'Light,' 'Queen,' 'DJ,' 'Remedy,' and ' Monk.'. And I asked a veteran sax player Bukky Leo to play on three tracks, including 'Ras Tafari.' "I wanted a more natural, colourful sound for the other nine tracks with full drum kit, horns, percussion and more backing harmonies. I met George 'Skillington' Stewart, a guitarist, who was rehearsing some music of his own with a drummer named Dean Pierre, a Polish bass player named Jacek, a trumpeter from Australia and a sax player from Eastern Europe, and a white English dread called Ketteh Lion on percussion. We all met up, and then had two rehearsals to before laying the rhythm tracks in the studio. We added my daughter and granddaughter, Ziah and Rosie, to chant on 'Closer Than A Brother.' The musicians are very proud of what we've done and so am I, especially as only George had ever done recording sessions before." As befits the historian turned recording artist, Carl I has made sure that his album's accompanying booklet contains several powerful tracts by Haile Selassie, black British MP Bernie Grant and other writers, on topics as widely divergent as AIDS, the Belgian rape of the Congo, and the necessity for reparations for centuries of enslavement of black Africans. "Each one teach one" goes the mantra, and teacher Carl now stands at the head of the class, leading students with his inspired musical meditations. Roger Steffens, Los Angeles-based reggae archivist, is the founding editor of The Beat magazine and chairman of the Reggae Grammy Committee. He is co-author, with Peter Simon, of Steffens and Simon's Reggae Scrapbook, coming from Palace Press in November of 2007. *Note - on last page of CD booklet, the actual date of Selassie's speech to the U.N. was Oct. 4, NOT Oct 6, 1963.- Shop: odax
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