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    Jezebel Johnston: Devil's Handmaid , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 411min
    The call of the sea. Born on the pirate island of Tortuga, 14-year-old Jezebel Johnston is a beautiful mulatto sired by an English privateer named Long Tom Johnston and Mofina, the madam of a well-known bordello. For most of her young life, Jezebel was mesmerized by her father's stories of life on the high seas. Eventually he sailed off on a new adventure and never returned. Frustrated by her own boring existence, Jezebel conceives of a daring plan to escape the island. She disguises herself as a boy and signs aboard the pirate ship, Devil's Handmaid, captained by the notorious Dandy Dan Abrams. Her disguise works and within hours she's sailing away from all she knows as she boldly challenges the dangers and threats that lie before her. Writer Nancy Hansen tells a story of clashing empires all seeking to expand their dominion into the New World. Amidst this expansion of wealth and influence, the pirates of the Caribbean were borne, a savage fraternity of outlaw sailors, murderers and scalawags who ruled the seas. Now comes the saga of a young girl willing to share their tempestuous adventures, cutlass for cutlass, until one day she will become the greatest pirate queen of them all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Held Jr.. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/077375/bk_acx0_077375_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Last Call: The Bill Travis Mysteries, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 328min
    Bill Travis, an unmarried, unattached investment counselor rapidly approaching his fortieth birthday, conceives that he may not live the most exciting of lives, yet Julie Simmons, his first appointment that Monday, is deeply in trouble. She has taken a North Texas quarter horse racer and liquor baron named Archie Carpin - the last of a dynasty of criminals from the 1920's - for a ride and cleaned him out of a neat two million bucks. And thus begins the adventure of Bill's life. Ensues a chase north across Texas to recover the money and shake the pursuit of a couple of rednecks with a penchant for rifles and rigged explosives. Yet, through all this action the compelling tale of yet another mystery-an 80-year old missing person's case-begins to unravel. About the Author: This action/adventure mystery novel is the first of six completed novels in The Bill Travis Mysteries. With a total of twenty-one books planned for the series, including three prequels, Bill Travis, Austin, Texas' newest hero, is here to stay. George Wier has been writing for over twenty years. His most recent publishing credits include a contribution to Lone Star Noir (Akashic Books 2010). He lives in Austin, Texas with his lovely wife, Sallie. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frank Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/013038/bk_acx0_013038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lady Chatterley's Lover , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 729min
    The last and most famous of D. H. Lawrence's novels, Lady Chatterley's Lover was published in 1928 and banned in England and the United States as pornographic. While sexually tame by today's standards, the book is memorable for better reasons---Lawrence's masterful and lyrical prose, and a vibrant story that takes us bodily into the world of its characters. As the novel opens, Constance Chatterley finds herself trapped in an unfulfilling marriage to a rich aristocrat whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent. After a brief but unsatisfying affair with a playwright, Lady Chatterley enjoys an extremely passionate relationship with the gamekeeper on the family estate, Oliver Mellors. As Lady Chatterley falls in love and conceives a child with Mellors, she moves from the heartless, bloodless world of the intelligentsia and aristocracy into a vital and profound connection rooted in sexual fulfillment. Through this novel, Lawrence attempted to revive in the human consciousness an awareness of savage sensuality, a sensuality with the power to free men and women from the enslaving sterility of modern technology and intellectualism. Perhaps even more relevant today than when it first appeared, Lady Chatterley's Lover is a triumph of passion and an erotic celebration of life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/001868/bk_tant_001868_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    God’s Guide to a Good Life: Moral Theology, Hörbuch, Digital, 607min
    Join one of America's leading moral theologians in exploring life's most vital question: What does it mean to lead a good life? Your professor for this 24-lecture course is Kenneth R. Himes, OFM (PhD, Duke University), an award-winning author and professor of theology at Boston College. Under his expert guidance, you will explore the following questions: How does the Catholic theological tradition enable us to interpret moral experience? What does it mean to be a moral person in light of a theological understanding of the human situation? What resources are available to the Catholic community for the formation of conscience and wise discernment? The course is structured in three parts. In the first, you will explore the meaning of moral theology generally, and in the second, you will come to understand how moral theology conceives of freedom, character, conscience, sin, and conversion. In the final part, you will explore how to use the Bible, reason, natural law, ecclesial context, and the Church's teaching office to inform moral theology. In these lectures, you will learn to translate your religious beliefs into values and actions. Fr. Himes's course uses the best ideas from Catholic moral theology to help you explore the most important choices of your life. You will become a more reflective person who is better able to assist others in moral discernment. Language: English. Narrator: Kenneth R. Himes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/nykm/000294/bk_nykm_000294_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Religion of the Samurai : A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 495min
    Zen was uniquely suited to the Samurai of Japan. The high moral principles of Buddhism, when adopted and adapted by the Japanese warriors who became the Samurai, created an austere philosophy of singular beauty and depth. Its characteristic requirements of strict control over body and mind was exemplified by ancient warrior monks whose serene countenance, even in the face of certain death, made them much admired even by their foes. Zen may be the most misunderstood of the world's moral philosophies. While it is often classified as a Religion, it is frequently considered by its adherents to be a utilitarian philosophy, a collection of rational moral precepts or, even more simply, as a state of being. The aim of the practice of Zen is to become Enlightened and achieve the beatitude of Nirvana. To reach Nirvana means to achieve the state of extinction of pain and the annihilation of sin. Zen never looks for the realization of its beatitude in a place like heaven, nor believes in the realm of Reality transcendental of the phenomenal universe, nor gives countenance to the superstition of Immortality, nor does it hold the world is the best of all possible worlds, nor conceives life simply as blessing. It is in this life, full of shortcomings, misery, and sufferings, that Zen hopes to realize its beatitude. It is in this world, imperfect, changing, and moving, that Zen finds the Divine Light it worships. It is in this phenomenal universe of limitation and relativity that Zen aims to attain to highest Nirvana. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicholas Techosky. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003864/bk_adbl_003864_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    George & Hilly: The Anatomy of a Relationship , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 389min
    Longtime New York nightlife reporter and humor columnist George Gurley at last tells the complete and outrageously humorous story of how he and his girlfriend, Hilly, attempted - with the occasionally bemused assistance of the couples psychiatrist they are seeing - to analyze a relationship poised on the brink of commitment. George has a great many qualms about marriage. But after more than three years of dating Hilly, he’s equally sure that she is the only woman in the world for him. Perhaps it’s finally time for a march down the aisle. Well...for an engagement ring. Maybe. Or not. Fresh from what he and Hilly are terming The Big Fight - a tentative discussion of a future together - George is eager for insight on whether he’s finally ready (after 20 years) to scale back his bar-hopping, party boy Manhattan life for the love of one fascinating woman. Ever the writer, George conceives a bold plan: He and Hilly will participate in therapy with Dr. Harold Selman, and George will tape-record the sessions. Six years of intensive therapy with Dr. Selman - combined with innumerable mandated “discussions” (read: more squabbling) on their own watch - force these two mismatched but undefeated soul mates to evolve into quasi semi-adults. Wise-ass, confessional, always compelling, George & Hilly is a story of sex, love, money, and big-city life...and of a loveable (and loving) train wreck of a couple who refuse to call their relationship quits just because they’ve hit a few bumps. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fred Berman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005595/bk_adbl_005595_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Clara and Mr. Tiffany: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 958min
    Against the unforgettable backdrop of New York near the turn of the 20th century, from the Gilded Age world of formal balls and opera to the immigrant poverty of the Lower East Side, best-selling author Susan Vreeland again breathes life into a work of art in this extraordinary novel, which brings a woman once lost in the shadows into vivid color. It’s 1893, and at the Chicago World’s Fair, Louis Comfort Tiffany makes his debut with a luminous exhibition of innovative stained-glass windows, which he hopes will honor his family business and earn him a place on the international artistic stage. But behind the scenes in his New York studio is the freethinking Clara Driscoll, head of his women’s division. Publicly unrecognized by Tiffany, Clara conceives of and designs nearly all of the iconic leaded-glass lamps for which he is long remembered. Clara struggles with her desire for artistic recognition and the seemingly insurmountable challenges that she faces as a professional woman, which ultimately force her to protest against the company she has worked so hard to cultivate. She also yearns for love and companionship, and is devoted in different ways to five men, including Tiffany, who enforces to a strict policy: he does not hire married women, and any who do marry while under his employ must resign immediately. Eventually, like many women, Clara must decide what makes her happiest—the professional world of her hands or the personal world of her heart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kimberly Farr. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002489/bk_rand_002489_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Virginia Woolf BBC Radio Drama Collection: Seven Full-Cast Dramatisations, Hörbuch, Digital, 813min
    The collected BBC dramatisations of the fiction of Virginia Woolf, with star casts including Kristin Scott-Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, Juliet Stevenson, Laura Fraser, Robert Glenister and Fenella Woolgar.This collection includes:The Voyage Out A motley group of genteel adventurers board a ship bound for South America in 1913, among them Helen Ambrose and her niece Rachel Vinrace. Starring Laura Fraser, Rebecca Johnson and Bertie Carvel.Night and Day Katherine and Mary are challenged over their assumptions about love in pre-First World War London. Starring Kristen Scott-Thomas.Mrs Dalloway Set on a single day in June, Virginia Woolf's classic novel follows Clarissa Dalloway as she makes final preparations for an important party. Starring Fenella Woolgar. To the Lighthouse The story of the Ramsay family holidaying in Scotland before the First World War, and their planned expedition to a lighthouse nearby. Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Juliet Stevenson and Robert Glenister. Orlando Orlando was born in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and lived into that of George V. He entered life as a boy and she left it as a woman. Starring Jennie Stoller and David McAlister.The Waves Louis, Bernard, Neville, Jinny, Susan and Rhoda struggle to come to terms with life after Percival and, in the process, learn what he really meant to each of them. Starring Geraldine James and Anna Massey. Between the Acts Miss La Trobe, an eccentric local artist, conceives the ambitious idea of portraying a history of English literature and of making her audience see themselves as they really are. Starring Sarah Badel. Language: English. Narrator: Fenella Woolgar, full cast, Juliet Stevenson, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Laura Fraser, Robert Glenister, Vanessa Redgrave. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/003904/bk_rhuk_003904_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Backslider , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 832min
    Recognized as a Mormon classic 20 years after its release, The Backslider features longstanding Christian conflicts played out in a scenic, sparsely populated area of Southern Utah. A young ranch hand, Frank Windham, conceives of God as an implacable enemy of human appetite. He is a dedicated sinner until family tragedy catapults him into an arcane form of penitence preached among frontier Mormons. He is saved by an epiphany that has proved controversial among readers, either interpreting it as an extreme impiety or celebrating it as a moving and entirely plausible rendering of a biblical theme in a Western setting.Frank comes into contact with a host of rural and urban characters. Of central importance is his Lutheran girlfriend, Marianne, whom Frank seduces, begrudgingly marries, and eventually loves. Frank’s extended family is just a generation removed from polygamy and still energized by old-time grudges and deprivations. Along the way, Frank encounters a closeted secular humanist, a polygamist prophet, a psychiatrist, a mason, government employees, college professors, lawyers, and entrepreneurs - all drawn with heightened realism reminiscent of Charles Dickens or the grotesque forms of William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor.The story engages listeners as it alternates almost imperceptibly between Frank’s naive consciousness and the more informed awareness of its narrator. It can be listened to as a love story, a satiric comedy, or a dark and sobering study of self-mutilation. Shifting from one to another, it builds suspense and elicits complex emotions, among them a profound sense of compassion. More joyous than cynical, it sympathizes deeply with the plight of all of God’s backsliders. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Kahlenberg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/141883/bk_acx0_141883_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Leda's Swan: A Paranormal Romance Short Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 36min, (USK 18)
    Marika’s Legacy is explicit romance author Molly Synthia’s reimagining of the legend of Helen of Troy in modern times, and Leda’s Swan is the first installment of Conception, the story of Marika’s mother and the experience that conceives both Marika and her brothers. What secret lies within the ancient electrum necklace? Is she really transported to another time and another place? Is she really face to face with a god? Is she really ravished by power beyond comprehension, or is it all in her mind? The ancient Greek myth of Leda and the swan is updated and expressed with lush language, explicit sexuality, and respect for the source material. This audiobook is not appropriate for minors but contains explicit sexual descriptions and should be read only by adults who won’t find that offensive and are legally able to purchase and read such content. Specifically, it includes sex as rough as might be expected when it occurs between a mortal woman and the god of thunder and lightning. An Excerpt from Leda’s Swan The craftsmanship was simply extraordinary, and I wondered what it took to work with metal - electrum Nikolas had called it - so many centuries before. I didn’t have any expertise with birds, but as far as I could tell, it was a pretty perfect representation of a bird’s feather, if the bird were made of metal. There was something about holding a piece of ancient history in my hand that felt absolutely overwhelming and wonderful. I couldn’t help but imagine all of the glory of the Greek race. It wasn’t some kind of superiority or anything. The Greeks contributed astounding things to philosophy, knowledge, science, art, and more. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amber Grayson Vayle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/026922/bk_acx0_026922_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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