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    When the Wolves Bite , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 481min
    The inside story of the clash of two of Wall Street's biggest, richest, toughest, most aggressive players - Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman - and Herbalife, the company caught in the middle With their billions of dollars and their business savvy, activist investors Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman have the ability to move markets with the flick of a wrist. But what happens when they run into the one thing in business they can't control: each other? This fast-paced book tells the story of the clash of these two titans over Herbalife, a nutritional supplement company whose business model Ackman questioned. Icahn decided to vouch for them, and the dispute became a years-long feud, complete with secret backroom deals, public accusations, billions of dollars in stock trades, and one dramatic insult war on live television. Wapner, who hosted that memorable TV show, has gained unprecedented access to all the players and unravels this remarkable war of egos, showing the extreme measures the participants were willing to take. When the Wolves Bite is both a rollicking, entertaining listen - a great business story of money and power and pride.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Wapner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004416/bk_hach_004416_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dock Boss: Eddie McGrath and the West Side Waterfront , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 544min
    Dock Boss: Eddie McGrath and the West Side Waterfront is the fascinating account of one gangster's ascension from altar boy to the leader of New York City's violent Irish Mob. Eddie McGrath's life and crimes are traced through the tail-end of Prohibition, the gang warfare of the 1930s that propelled him into the position of an organized crime boss, the sordid years of underworld control over the bustling waterfront, McGrath's involvement in dozens of gangland murders, and finally the decline of the dock mobsters following a period of longshoremen rebellion in the 1950s. Like walking into the backroom of a smoky West Side tavern, the book also features all the other unsavory characters who operated on the waterfront, including McGrath's brother-in-law, John "Cockeye" Dunn; the gang's hitman of choice, Andrew "Squint" Sheridan; racketeers such as Mickey Bowers, Timothy O'Mara, Charlie Yanowsky, Joe Butler, and Albert Ackalitis; as well as a plethora of corrupt union officials, robbers, enforcers, shakedown artists, loan sharks, boss loaders, and bookies. This is the real-life story of the preeminent racketeer on Manhattan's lucrative waterfront and the bloodshed that long haunted the ports of New York City. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/010139/bk_tant_010139_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 896min
    October 1982: ABC, Culture Club, Shalamar and Survivor dominate the top twenty when the Pogues barrel out from the backstreets of King's Cross, a furious, pioneering mix of punk energy, traditional melodies and the powerfully poetic songwriting of Shane MacGowan. Reviled by traditionalists for their frequently fast, often riotous interpretations of Irish folk songs, the Pogues rose from the sweaty chaos of backroom gigs in Camden pubs to world tours with the likes of Elvis Costello, U2 and Bob Dylan and had huge commercial success with everyone's favourite Christmas song, 'Fairytale of New York'. Yet the exuberance of their live performances coupled with relentless touring spiralled into years of hard drinking and excess which eventually took their toll - most famously on Shane but also on the rest of the band - causing them to part ways seven years later. Here their story is told with beauty, lyricism and great candour by James Fearnley, founding member and accordion player. He brings to life the youthful friendships, the bust-ups, the amazing gigs, the terrible gigs, the fantastic highs and the dramatic lows in a hugely compelling, humorous, moving and honest account of life in one of our most treasured and original bands. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Fearnley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021742/bk_adbl_021742_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Snowballing My Cuckold: A Hotwife Gives Back , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 126min, (USK 18)
    Trudy likes her husband to clean up after himself. And Darren doesn't mind sharing a hot snowball. But if he wants to share his hotwife, will she expect him to clean up after another man? Darren has indulged his wife's little kink until it's become his own. After all, there's nothing he likes more than giving her what she wants. When Trudy's friend Shelly gets in the way of a much-needed promotion, they face a choice: Trudy can stay true to Darren, stay in her dead-end job, and let Shelly play the part of the hotwife...or she can give the strapping new boss something Shelly won't. Or at least that's what Trudy tells Darren. And as things heat up, the couple are both asking themselves the same question: Are we doing this because we have to? Or are we doing it because we want to? Watching your wife with another man is one thing. But will she taste the same? How far will Trudy go? And will her husband follow her? This sloppy tale of backroom trysts, cell phone videos, sticky kisses, and shared snowballs moves to a salty conclusion that's shocking, sweet, and good to the last hot drop. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Danny Céspedes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/112006/bk_acx0_112006_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Soccer Analytics: Assess Performance, Tactics, Injuries and Team Formation Through Data Analytics and Statistical Analysis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 65min
    Do you love soccer and want to get better in a systematic manner? Or have you ever wondered how top-level coaches and players think about the game?This audiobook is your answer.Analytics are playing an increasing role in the world of soccer. The days of gut instinct representing the main tactic in a game are passing, and a more calculated approach is being applied to coaching and playing.This has the advantage of providing a secure base on which coaches and players can apply their bits of skill, their touches of magic that can turn a game. This audiobook will explain what soccer analytics are and how they work in a game.It will analyze different parts of play during a game and provide ideas and details around how analytics can improve a team during various passages of play. It will show it is possible to carry out analytics without recourse to expensive software and the kind of backroom team that is only possible in the higher levels of the professional game.Here's what's included in this audiobook:How analytics are used in soccerTeam-formation analyticsAttacking set-play analyticsDefensive set-play analyticsPlayer-performance analyticsPlayer-injury analyticsPlayer-combination analyticsScroll up and download now. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Cassidy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/123516/bk_acx0_123516_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dark Reservations: A Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 642min
    Bureau of Indian Affairs special agent Joe Evers still mourns the death of his wife and, after a bungled investigation, faces a forced early retirement. What he needs is a new career, not another case. But when Congressman Arlen Edgerton's bullet-riddled Lincoln turns up on the Navajo reservation - 20 years after he disappeared during a corruption probe - Joe must resurrect his failing career to solve the mysterious cold case. Joe partners with Navajo tribal officer Randall Bluehorse; his investigation antagonizes potential suspects, including a wealthy art collector, a former president of the Navajo Nation, a powerful US senator, and Edgerton's widow, who is now the front-runner in the New Mexico governor's race. An unexpected romance further complicates both the investigation and Joe's troubled relationship with his daughter, forcing him to confront his emotional demons while on the trail of a ruthless killer. Joe uncovers a murderous conspiracy that leads him from ancient Anasazi burial grounds on the Navajo Nation to backroom deals in Washington, DC. Along the way, he delves into the dangerous world of black market trade in Native American artifacts. Can he unravel the mystery and bring the true criminal to justice, or will he become another silenced victim? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Berkrot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002128/bk_aren_002128_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Strip Me , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 398min
    This sizzling and passionate romance follows two men whose lives are turned upside down by their intense mutual attraction.Sam Richmond is a workaholic in danger of becoming the very man he despises - his father. Stressed and sick with worry, he’s desperate to shake off the shackles that bind him to his current path and embark on a life lived only for himself.His friends are determined to pull him out of his funk and decide to drag him to a strip club that caters to both men and women. Sam is shocked when he develops an attraction to the show’s male headliner: Rico McIntyre. The two men end up in a backroom for a private lap dance that ends up being a game changer for them.Because despite the fact they both identify themselves as heterosexual, they decide to explore their strange attraction for one another - if only for one night. But one night quickly becomes another and then another, until a misunderstanding tears the two apart. Both men attempt to forget about the other, only for life to unexpectedly reunite them.Can Sam and Rico embark on a relationship and come to terms with their new understandings of themselves and who they love? Or are they doomed from the start?  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sebastian York, Kale Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/009172/bk_sans_009172_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Everything You Love Will Burn , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 638min
    The dark story of the shocking resurgence of white supremacist and nationalist groups, and their path to political power Six years ago, Vegas Tenold embedded himself among the members of three of America's most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups - the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, and the Traditionalist Workers Party. At the time, these groups were part of a disorganized counterculture that felt far from the mainstream. But since then, all that has changed. Racially motivated violence has been on open display at rallies in Charlottesville, Berkeley, Pikesville, Phoenix, and Boston. Membership in white nationalist organizations is rising, and national politicians, including the president, are validating their perceived grievances. Everything You Love Will Burn offers a terrifying, sobering inside look at these newly empowered movements, from their conventions to backroom meetings with Republican operatives. Tenold introduces us to neo-Nazis in Brooklyn; a millennial Klanswoman in Tennessee; and a rising star in the movement, nicknamed the "Little Fÿ by the Southern Poverty Law Center, who understands political power and is organizing a grand coalition of far-right groups to bring them into the mainstream. Everything You Love Will Burn takes listeners to the dark, paranoid underbelly of America, a world in which the white race is under threat and the enemy is everywhere.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vegas Tenold. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004282/bk_hach_004282_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    December 6, Hörbuch, Digital, 341min
    Set in the crazed, nationalistic Tokyo of late 1941, December 6 explores the coming world war through the other end of history's prism - a prism held here by an unforgettable rogue and lover, Harry Niles.In many ways, Niles is as American as apple pie: raised by ultra-protective missionary parents, taught to honor and respect his elders and be an upright Christian citizen. But Niles is also Japanese: reared in the aesthetics of Shinto and educated in the dance halls and backroom poker gatherings of Tokyo's shady underworld. As a gaijin, a foreigner - especially one with a gift for the artful scam - he draws suspicion and disfavor from Japanese police. This potent mixture of stiff tradition and intrigue - not to mention his brazen love affair with a Japanese mistress who would rather kill Harry than lose him - fills Harry's final days in Tokyo with suspense and fear. Who is he really working for? Is he a spy? For America? For the Emperor?Now, on the eve of Pearl Harbor, Harry himself must decide where his true allegiances lie. Suspenseful, exciting, and replete with the detailed research Martin Cruz Smith is famous for, December 6 is a triumph of imagination, history and storytelling melded into a magnificent whole. Language: English. Narrator: John Slattery. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000373/bk_sans_000373_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Vengeance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 836min
    Leading politician and best-selling author Newt Gingrich and novelist Pete Earley are back with another gripping international thriller. A terrorist drives an explosive-packed rental truck into Major Brooke Grant's Washington, DC wedding, intending to detonate a deadly bomb. Saved by a last-minute fluke, Brooke seeks revenge against the master terrorist responsible, an international radical Islamist known only as the Falcon, who is determined to murder her, bring America to its knees, and create a modern-day caliphate. An unorthodox, newly sworn-in president recruits Brooke to join a clandestine CIA team in pursuit of the Falcon. With help from an odd coupling - a Saudi intelligence officer and an Israeli Mossad agent - Brooke goes after her elusive zealot nemesis. But before the trio can close in on their target, they discover that America's worst nightmare has come true. Intertwined with backroom Washington political intrigue, Vengeance is a fast-paced, realistic thriller that entertains while raising serious questions about our national security, the power of religious faith to inspire good and evil, the consequences of revenge, and the validity of our constitutional safeguards. Former speaker of the house Newt Gingrich and Washington Post reporter turned novelist Pete Earley are at their best in this third installment of their best-selling Brooke Grant series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric Martin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/003523/bk_hach_003523_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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