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    Abominations of Humanity: The Evil Within, Hörbuch, Digital, 64min
    In nature, man is a unique beast because he takes joy in the suffering of other sentient beings and hunts for fun and profit. Ever since man became conscious of his own existence, he has experimented with death and torture. He has imagined and invented all manner of sick and twisted ways of inflicting pain and suffering. Even under the cover of medical advancement, man has ignored the brutality of his own actions and excused himself. He has a remarkable ability to hide from himself and others the nature of the beast within. When the innocent animals of the world refused to give answers, man turned on himself, and human experimentation began. This is the history of man's abuse of his own species, the tale from the dark side of science - this is about the evil within. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Westerly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/real/000401/rt_real_000401_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Alexander X: Battle for Forever, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 642min
    Alexander Grant is a little too good at a few too many things. Two dozen martial arts. Twice that many languages. Chess, the piano, sports, forging excused absences, you name it. He graduated high school top of his class...seventeen times. Of course, no one knows any of this. Not that he wants to go unnoticed. It’s just safer that way. So for the last several decades, Alexander has been forced to move from town to small town to even smaller town - he just bought his 651st house - in an effort to live a painfully quiet life. But when a mysterious cabal attempts to kidnap him and kill his friends, Alexander must use all his skills and centuries of training to outwit the most dangerous man alive, the mastermind of a plot that would change the world forever.Clever, intriguing, skillfully woven with humor, Alexander X launches us on an epic journey toward a future few of us will survive, rising from a past we never knew existed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wil Wheaton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/153734/bk_acx0_153734_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Cuckoo in the Nest , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 462min
    Keep your enemies close, your family less so...Last year Nat found herself with nowhere to live. She considered sleeping on the bus and washing in the rain but inevitably ended up on her parents' doorstep. It was only for a month, she assured them, if that.. She repeated this phrase a lot over the next six months, while the housing market stagnated like a spoilt kid's fish tank, and her life followed suit. While her friends pursued normal adult lives, Nat was taking packed lunches to gigs and being treated to lectures on 'Why It's Nice When All The Tins Face Forwards In The Cupboard.' ('So we can see what they all are at a glance!')Nat wouldn't say she and those like her were the real victims of the recession, but it would be nice if you did. Then she would do a tiny, brave smile. A book for anyone who's been forced back to the family nest, parents who can't shake off their adult kids, or anyone who's ever excused themselves from a family gathering for a quick scream into a pile of towels. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nat Luurtsema. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/000338/bk_hodd_000338_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Short Story Press Presents Jumping Candlestick , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 39min
    Short Story Press Presents Jumping Candlestick by Ruth PettiteAngelique wants nothing more than to meet her personal Prince Charming. She becomes involved in a domestic case, and the officer in the case takes a liking to her stern attitude and brilliance in domestic law.Frederick comes back after being shunned and verbally excused from this teacher’s presence. She is aware of everything, except that he is readily and eagerly interested in her. After accepting a hasty date decision, Angelique decides that maybe a Prince Charming may come to her after all. Mystery and suspense fill this man’s life, making Angelique wary of whom she is actually with. Could this be the honest officer that suddenly asked her out? Should she really be here or think twice about the whole thing? Every decision seems to be made for Angelique, although she feels she is making each one on her own. Will Angelique find her true Prince Charming? Will Mr. Frederick be as special and wonderful and beautiful as he is making everything around her? Or will she be at wits end again, wondering if her Prince Charming will ever show? Watch Angelique jump candlesticks to get to where she wants to be and with who she really needs to be from a true story short tale. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Liz A. Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/121281/bk_acx0_121281_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Erection: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 285min
    For decades, news outlets have described sexual misconduct by prominent men, ranging from indecent exposure and molestation, to spousal abuse, rape, and murder. And while social movements have empowered women to add their stories to these headlines, so much inappropriate sexual behavior happens below the radar and is treated as natural, normal, or is excused - because “boys will be boys”, or worse, “she asked for it”.In Erection, author David Thomas narrates his young, repressed childhood, and the pattern of “thinking with his crotch” that haunted his life. After growing up trying to sexually escalate every interaction with a woman, David finds himself the teenage husband in a shotgun marriage that would last 12 years and produce two daughters he adores and abandons. Then divorcing his first wife for a trophy wife and a decade of sexual pleasure, David’s life would spiral into addiction and pain that wounded everyone the marriages touched. It would be only after his second divorce crippled his son when David would discover the right role for passionate sex in an intimate relationship.Erection is a story of the human damage ordinary men create when they follow their hormones and their culture’s permission to pursue aggressive sexual activity unreflectively, and to avoid at all costs reflecting on and communicating about their sexuality. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Thomas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150370/bk_acx0_150370_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Project Chick , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 535min
    Tressa is a fly girl accustomed to the lavish lifestyle that her possessive and deranged baby daddy, Lucky, has provided herwith. In order to keep her high standard of living, she has excused many of his unforgivable actions. It is not until he pulls off the ultimate stunt that she realizes no mink coat, car, house, or any amount of money is worth her peace ofmind. Never blinking or thinking twice, Tressa leaves everything behind, with the exception of her street savvy, and sets out to make a life of her own - one that will be filled with hard times and even harder luck. Tressa soon finds herself making the transition from public figure to public assistance. Everyday of her life seems like one drama-filled chapter after another, from the baby-daddy drama to the backstabbing friends to the various men she sorts through and disposes of. There will be times she must struggle and scramble just to make ends meet, and other times when she will stand tall and hold her own. In this captivating tale, Tressa's voyage will expose listeners to a side of a struggling single mother that has yet to be revealed to them. Nikki Turner, the bestselling author of A Hustler's Wife, once again takes you on a safari through the jungle of the fierce and stormy streets, leaving you on the edge of your seat and begging for an encore. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cary Hite. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005859/bk_blak_005859_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Love: A Very Short Introduction: Very Short Introductions , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 266min
    Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth living and dying for, and bringing out the best in ourselves. And yet it has excused, and even been thought to justify, the most reprehensible crimes. Why should this be? This Very Short Introduction explores this and other puzzling questions. Do we love someone for their virtue, their beauty, or their moral or other qualities? Are love's characteristic desires altruistic or selfish? Are there duties of love? What do the sciences - neuroscience, evolutionary and social psychology, and anthropology - tell us about love?Many of the answers we give to such questions are determined not so much by the facts of human nature as by the ideology of love. Ronald de Sousa considers some of the many paradoxes raised by love, looking at the different kinds of love - affections, affiliation, philia, storage, agape, but focuses on eros, or romantic love. He considers whether our conventional beliefs about love and sex are deeply irrational and argues that alternative conceptions of love and sex, although hard to formulate and live by, may be worth striving for.About the series: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly digestable. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Storm P Browne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/234174/bk_acx0_234174_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Punishment , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 167min
    Punishment is a harm or deprivation, imposed by a legitimate authority, based on a legitimate conviction of wrongdoing. In assessing guilt, considerations of intention, action, and results are all relevant. Any understanding of punishment depends heavily on our interpretation of both authority and responsibility. Paternalism is one set of beliefs about who should have authority; it obviously has been applied within the family, and it has a highly controversial application in government. The authority of law and the state is a topic of philosophical interest extending at least back to Socrates. The way one understands the role and power of the state in turn depends on assumptions about human nature. The philosopher Thomas Hobbes emphasized the benefits of a "common power", based on the view that mankind is naturally warlike, acquisitive, and egoistic. By contrast, John Locke emphasized the benefits of liberty, based on the view that people are naturally free and equal, forming governments only for the purpose of protecting life and property. Criminal responsibility requires that a person be able to freely conform his conduct to law. An act is excused if the perpetrator did not act voluntarily (e.g., due to insanity); it is justified if there was good reason to voluntarily commit the act. Assigning criminal responsibility is one of the most difficult and immediate problems in any criminal justice system. Controversy continues today about corporal punishment, imprisonment, and capital punishment. Society questions if any of these methods offer retribution for the crime committed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cliff Robertson, Robert Guillaume. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001540/bk_blak_001540_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Millionaire Soldier: Her Navy Hero : A Sweet Christian Romance Anthology Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 60min
    Anastasia is a successful CEO of a multinational organization. Her lifestyle keeps her surrounded by rich men with cocky attitudes who look down on those less fortunate than them. It’s because of this and past hurts that she has completely written off men.So, she was already annoyed to be out on a date with one of those types of men, simply because he asked her in front of people, putting her on the spot. He was once again telling her stories of his corporate life. She was looking for an excuse to end the date, when she spotted him from across the room.The man was dressed in a sailor uniform, which made him even more irresistible. He was with a group of soldiers, who were laughing and having a good time. But all she could see was him. Eventually, she excused herself from the boring date and went to the restroom. They literally bumped into each as she was coming out. She wanted him immediately. But her date was waiting. So, all he could do was let it go. Daniel is a young soldier. He and his buddies were celebrating his recent inheritance. The man was officially rich. But of course, that’s not something you share with a woman you just met coming out of the women’s restroom.He is a Christian man hoping to someday fall in love with a God-fearing woman. And now that he was rich, he also wanted a woman who would love him for him...not his money.Millionaire Soldier is the second book in A Sweet Christian Romance Anthology series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sarah Zeola. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/186282/bk_acx0_186282_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Finding Nirvana: Black Shamrocks MC, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 479min
    It's said that only in our darkest hour do we find light. That may be true for the lucky ones. When your light has been extinguished and pitch-black bleakness has taken hold, you could be excused for doubting that it will ever be reignited. In the past when people mentioned Joel O'Brien, they talked about "the quiet one". The boy who was the family's voice of reason and their go-to guy for wisdom well beyond his years. Nowadays, they whisper about the "crippled one". The man who radiates darkness, who wallows in his self-pity, and refuses to find a way to deal with the injuries he sustained at the beginning of the war that's threatening to engulf the Black Shamrocks MC. Sascha Koswalski is the light of her family's life. With a smile that could brighten the day of the most hard-hearted, the single mother's innate exuberance lessens the pain of her physiotherapy clients. She's yet to find a patient who doesn't respond to her sunny nature and skilled hands. Until Joel. The stubborn, angry man might be the one patient she fails. Unable to crack his protective shell, Sascha is on the verge of giving up when Joel shows her another side of himself. Buoyed by the knowledge that there is a man filled with hope hiding beneath his cold veneer, can she rehabilitate more than his broken body? Will she be the light that reignites his belief in himself and sets them both on the path to Finding Nirvana?   Disclaimer: This book contains depictions of graphic situations and is not suitable for all readers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Liv Rose, Jake Hudson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/inbl/000763/bk_inbl_000763_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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