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    Swords and Ice Magic: The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 483min
    Neil Gaiman Presents: the sixth book in Fritz Leiber's classic sword-and-sorcery series. In Swords and Ice Magic, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser have traveled the width and breadth of the land of Nehwon in search of adventure and fortune. Now lost at sea, their ship drawn out on the Great Equatorial Current, their journey brings them to Rime Isle, a tragic island populated by vagabonds and wanderers. The island is also home to a race of gods, schemers, and manipulators that plague the humans for their amusement. Will Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser be able to escape the island, or be trapped forever as pawns of the gods? The late Fritz Leiber's tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser launched the sword-and-sorcery genre, and were the inspiration for the fantasy role-playing game, Dungeons and Dragons. BONUS AUDIO: Includes an exclusive introduction by Neil Gaiman. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Davis, Neil Gaiman (introduction). Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/000177/bk_adbl_000177_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The King of Confidence
    The King of Confidence ab 9.99 € als epub eBook: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers Frontier Schemers True Believers False Prophets and the Murder of an American Monarch. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus,
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    Forbes Greatest Technology Stories: Inspiring Tales of the Entrepreneurs and Inventors Who Revolutionized Modern Business, Hörbuch, Digital, 178min
    Here is the fascinating story of the making of the high-tech business revolution and the birth of the Digital Age. Journalist Jeffrey Young chronicles six decades of unbridled technological innovation, taking you inside today's business empires and introducing you to the dreamers, the schemers, the entrepreneurs, and the inventors who built them, including: Millionaire playboy turned visionary CEO Thomas Watson, Jr.: How he helped pioneer the business computing industry in the early 1950s and made IBM its undisputed master for the next three decades. Fast-talking hippie-entrepreneur Steve Jobs and engineering genius Steve Wozniak: How they went from penniless "wireheads" to high-tech multimillionaires overnight. Bill Gates and Microsoft: whose talent for turning other people's creative innovations into his own marketplace success. Webs, Networks, and the Internet: How a handful of visionaries turned a Cold War communications system into the global phenomenon called the Internet. Packed with all the excitement of scientific discovery and nail-biting suspense of entrepreneurial brinksmanship, Forbes Greatest Technology Stories is a must-read for every business professional. Language: English. Narrator: Michael McConnohie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pent/000050/bk_pent_000050_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Bedeviled Viscount Brockton , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 613min
    Country born and bred Miss Caledonia Johnston has come to London during the Silly Season, not to dance and flirt, and please her Mama by making an advantageous match.In fact, her parents don’t even know she’s there, which is probably a good thing, as she’s fibbed her way to Mayfair to Wreak Revenge on a certain Mr. Noel Kinsey (and sees nothing wrong with that because, well, she’s Callie, and she somehow believes she’s rather invincible, with Right on her side).Enter one Simon Roxbury, Viscount Brockton, surprising himself when he comes to Callie’s aid...which infuriates her, but she’ll find a way around him to complete her “mission.” He seems nice enough, and his mother is a dear thing, so she agrees to be good...especially considering she’d almost shot the man.Come along as amused friends interfere, simple plans twist themselves into hilarious knots, and True Love (currently hiding in the bushes, hoping to remain safe away from these two mis-matched schemers), takes a few chances of its own. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Turner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/172359/bk_acx0_172359_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Kidnapped (AmazonClassics Edition) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 477min
    Swindled out of his inheritance, recently orphaned David Balfour finds himself kidnapped and aboard a slave ship bound for the Carolinas shortly after the Jacobite rising of 1745. A shipwreck leads to a chance encounter and an unlikely rescuer - Highland rebel and suspected assassin Alan Breck Stewart. An incredible friendship blossoms between the two young men, who occupy opposite ends of the political and religious spectra. Together they return to the mainland, outwit many murderous foes and schemers, and attempt to restore David to his rightful fortune. Originally published for children, Robert Louis Stevenson's enthusiastic, politically charged tribute to his native Scotland has won the hearts of young and old alike since its publication in the summer of 1886. AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to read a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature's most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds. Revised edition: Previously published as Kidnapped, this edition of Kidnapped (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Page. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009832/bk_brll_009832_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Secret Keeper , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1193min
    England, 1959: Laurel Nicolson is 16 years old, dreaming alone in her childhood tree house during a family celebration at their home, Green Acres Farm. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and then observes her mother, Dorothy, speaking to him. And then she witnesses a crime. Fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress, living in London. She returns to Green Acres for Dorothy’s 90th birthday and finds herself overwhelmed by memories and questions she has not thought about for decades. She decides to find out the truth about the events of that summer day and lay to rest her own feelings of guilt. One photograph, of her mother and a woman Laurel has never met, called Vivian, is her first clue. The Secret Keeper explores longings and dreams, the lengths some people go to fulfill them, and the strange consequences they sometimes have. It is a story of lovers, friends, dreamers and schemers, play-acting, and deception told against a backdrop of events that changed the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Caroline Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/001450/bk_boli_001450_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    1636: The Cardinal Virtues , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 769min
    Book number 19 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. After carving a free state for itself in war-torn 17th-century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia, must contend with France's infamous Cardinal Richilieu, who is determined to keep his grip on power no matter what history says. France, 1636... It has been 20 years since King Louis took Ana Maria Mauricia, daughter of Spain's King Philip III, as his wife, and their union has not yet produced an heir. Under the guidance of his chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu, a plan is developed to remedy that situation. Once she is with child, Queen Anne goes into seclusion to guard her health and protect her from those who would prefer that the child is never born - France's foreign enemies as well as schemers such as Monsieur Gaston d'Orleans, the king's younger brother and heir. When the Crown's opponents make their move, factions inside and outside France must choose sides and help determine the future and fate of the kingdom. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Guidall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/008770/bk_reco_008770_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Boundary , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 699min
    July 1839, without the permission of the English Government, the New Zealand Company ship, Tory, quietly departed England, anxious to reach New Zealand with the utmost speed. Expedition leader, Colonel William Wakefield's objective is clear - acquire millions of acres of valuable land from the natives at the lowest possible price.On board the Tory, Andrew and Eleanor Stewart, young Scottish emigrants indentured to the New Zealand Company, are excited at the prospect of beginning a new life in a perfect town called Britannia. It's the Utopia the company promised. Boundary highlights adversity as settlers struggle to survive the hardships of a new colony. Where mounting claims of illegally obtained lands and deception force local Maori chiefs to resist. How much more can they endure before they finally take action and revolt? Caught between the loyalty to their employer, and helping Maori, Andrew and Eleanor encounter schemers and murderers as they challenge the powerful New Zealand company and the men who govern. Meticulously researched, Boundary is a story of greed and injustice, and draws attention to an often-misunderstood dark passage in New Zealand's early colonial history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Witstijn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/156490/bk_acx0_156490_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Barrie Craig: Confidential Investigator, Hörbuch, Digital, 284min
    Murder as a steady occupation has its handicaps - the pay is high, but so are the gallows from which, sooner or later, they hang you. Former real-life private detective William Gargan stars as Barrie Craig, a confidential investigator working out of an office on New York's Madison Avenue. Prowling the dirty, crime-ridden byways of a city in the midst of violent post-war change, he kept a wry sense about the frailties of human life. Ralph Bell co-stars as Lt. Travis Rogers, and Parker Fennelly supplies his trademark Vermont wit as Craig's elevator operator, Jake, in 10 digitally restored and re-mastered episodes of bookies, broads, masquerades, and murders! Episodes include: "Ghost of A Chance", 12-19-51; "Death of a Private Eye", 01-02-52; "The Girl on the Doorstep", 02-15-53; Behold a Corpse", 03-01-53; "The Lost Lady", 06-14-53; "The Thirteenth Guest", 08-09-53; "The Lonely Corner", 11-03-53; "The Schemers", 04-06-54; "Death Buys a Bedroom", 07-27-54; "Dead Bull in a China Shop", 12-19-54. Language: English. Narrator: Ralph Bell, Parker Fennelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/radi/000902/rt_radi_000902_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 714min
    Rarely does a week go by without a well-known executive being indicted for engaging in a white-collar crime. Perplexed as to what drives successful, wealthy people to risk it all, Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes spent seven years in the company of the men behind the largest corporate crimes in history - from the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the Ponzi schemers Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford. Soltes refutes popular explanations of why seemingly successful executives engage in crime. White-collar criminals, he shows, are not merely driven by excessive greed or hubris, nor do they usually carefully calculate the costs and benefits before breaking the law. Instead, he shows that most of these executives make decisions the way we all do - on the basis of their intuitions and gut feelings. Based on extensive interaction with nearly 50 former executives, Soltes provides insights into why some saw the immediate effects of misconduct as positive, why executives often don't feel the emotions most people would expect, and how acceptable norms in the business community can differ from those of the broader society. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Johnny Heller, Eugene Soltes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/001147/bk_high_001147_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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