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    Love in the Time of a Highland Laird: A Laird for All Time, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 492min
    When she was accidentally pushed into a wormhole, Allorah "Al" Maines never imagined she'd be thrown back in time, land at the feet of a gorgeous Highlander, and be taken as his prisoner. Al is awestruck by the savage Scot who chained her up in his dungeon. But once she emerges from her cell, she finds herself even more captivated by the roguish Highlander he's transformed into. He's an undeniably enticing manifestation of all her secret fantasies - ones she's tempted to explore. However, Al knows that passion fades and lust dies. Planning for a future on her own is the only way their story can end. If all women in the 21st century were as stubborn as Allorah Maines, Keir MacCoinnach wept for the future of man. Nay, he despaired for them. She's utterly obtuse, difficult, aggravating...and quite possibly the most fascinating woman he's ever met. Keeping her in his bed and in his heart is the key to a life of love and joy. But can Keir convince Al to share that life with him before she walks away forever? Contains mature themes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirsten Potter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/006403/bk_tant_006403_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Secret of Crickley Hall, Hörbuch, Digital, 415min
    The Caleighs have had a terrible year. They need time and space, while they await the news they dread. Gabe has brought his wife, Eve, and daughters, Loren and Cally, down to Devon, to the peaceful seaside village of Hollow Bay. He can work, and Eve and the kids can have some peace and quiet - and perhaps they can try, as a family, to come to terms with what's happened to them. Crickley Hall is an unusually large house on the outskirts of the village at the bottom of Devil's Cleave, a massive tree-lined gorge, the stuff of local legend. A river flows past the front garden. It's perfect for them, if a bit gloomy. And Chester, their dog, seems really spooked at being away from home. And old houses do make sounds. And it's constantly cold. And even though they shut the cellar door every night, it's always open again in morning. The Secret of Crickley Hall is James Herbert's finest novel to date. It explores the darker, more obtuse territories of evil and the supernatural. With brooding menace and rising tension, he masterfully and relentlessly draws the listener through to the ultimate revelation: one that will stay to chill the mind long after the book has been laid aside. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Pacey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/000146/bk_macm_000146_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Vortena: Everybody Loves Large Chests, Volume 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 851min
    What happens when one takes a murderous psychopath and forces them to team up with a cowardly tinkerer? Though not a question Jeremiah ever expected to ponder, he is nevertheless looking forward to seeing what the aforementioned duo will cook up. Success or failure does not matter to Richard, only that the journey be entertaining.    Things are far less jovial for the one under Tom's "care", however. Stuck in the monster-infested wilderness, lacking the usual backup, hunted by the Empire's top brass, and tasked with an incredibly vague and obtuse Quest, Boxxy will face a world of uncertainty and adversity. However, this is nothing new. Pain, suffering, and loss are things that have been commonplace since day one, and Boxxy is not only entirely undaunted, but also eager to share those valuable lessons with its new "companion". With things both shiny and tasty on the line, the crafty killer has every intention of showing that lich who's boss.    Assuming Boxxy manages to find it, of course.    Content warning: profanity, gore, violence, explicit adult content.The Soundbooth Theater team for this production:      Jeff Hays - narration, music, and sound design   Dalton Lynne - editing and proofing  Griffin Malnar - editing and mastering ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Hays. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/002551/bk_mike_002551_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rubik’s Cube: How to Solve a Rubik’s Cube, Including Rubik’s Cube Algorithms , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 41min
    If you want to impress your family and friends by solving the Rubik's Cube while staying calm and collected, then keep reading....The Rubik’s Cube seems like an innocent, colorful, and perfect gift for kids, something that will keep them busy for hours on end...Until you’re faced with helping them solve it a few minutes later. That’s when you realize the fiendish difficulty involved and feel a rising sense of panic as your plan backfires.Does it sound familiar?Rubik’s Cube: How to Solve a Rubik’s Cube, Including Rubik’s Cube Algorithms includes: An easy-to-follow step-by-step guide with full-color images so you can solve the Rubik's Cube with easeA detailed explanation on how the pieces fit and move togetherSecret maneuvers the expert solvers don't want you to know about - maneuvers that will allow you to move any given piece to any position on the cube without perturbing everything elseLinks to exclusive accompanying videos made for this audiobook only that you can watch if you ever get stuckPossibly the easiest way to solve the Rubik's CubeAnd much more!If you've tried solving the Rubik's Cube before but not been able to, it's not your fault. In fact, even if you've been looking for guidance, you may have come across Rubik's Cube guides that have obtuse or incomplete instructions. As mentioned earlier, when you get this amazing guide, you will also have access to accompanying videos that will prove that this remarkable solving method works - from start to finish (every step of the way).PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angela Julian. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124487/bk_acx0_124487_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Options Trading: Beginner's Guide to Making Money Fast , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 90min
    Perhaps you've heard of options trading before but have been hesitant to get started because it seemed complicated. I understand the sentiment, but the market for options only appears more complicated than it truly is. There is a desire by the Wall Street elites to complicate simple strategies that nearly every trader can invoke. I will teach you the fundamentals of options trading using everyday language. I will illustrate complex ideas with simple examples that will make once indecipherable ideas easy to understand. By the time you are done listening to this book, you will have a strong foundation in all the things you need to know about the options market, as well as know several strategies to get you started. I began trading options some seven years ago. My background is someone who was skeptical about financial trading. I thought it was only for people with large investment funds and educational backgrounds in finance. It became my hobby to learn about financial markets, and for years I never thought about investing for myself. One day I decided to take a risk; I tried a strategy that I had learned about years earlier, and to my surprise I made a nice little profit of a few hundred dollars. I was shocked at how a novice trader like me could earn such a profit using a simple strategy. It then occurred to me that many of the resources available for learning how to trade options are purposefully complicated and obtuse. I traded for several years after internalizing the concepts that took me several years longer to fully learn. I come to you now with the knowledge to explain these complicated ideas in a way that anyone can understand. You too can make steady income through the use of options. Start listening today and soon you will be earning steady profit, understanding the mechanics of options, and internalizing the strategies that thousands of traders use every year. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: C.J. McAllister. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/078829/bk_acx0_078829_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Building Stories
    The New York Times Book Review, Top 10 Book of the Year Time Magazine, Top Ten Fiction Book of the Year Publishers Weekly, Best Book of the Year 2013 Lynd Ward Prize, Best Graphic Novel of the Year 4-time 2013 Eisner Award Winner, including Best Publication, Best Writer/Artist and Best Graphic Album Newsday, Top 10 Books of 2012 Entertainment Weekly, Gift Guide, A+ Washington Post, Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2012 Minneapolis Star Tribune, Best Books of the Year Cleveland Plain Dealer, Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year Amazon, Best Books of the Year/Comics Boing Boing, Best Graphic Novel of the Year Time Out New York, Best of 2012 Entertainment Weekly, Best Fiction of 2012 Everything you need to read the new graphic novel Building Stories: 14 distinctively discrete Books, Booklets, Magazines, Newspapers, and Pamphlets. With the increasing electronic incorporeality of existence, sometimes it's reassuring-perhaps even necessary-to have something to hold on to. Thus within this colorful keepsake box the purchaser will find a fully-apportioned variety of reading material ready to address virtually any imaginable artistic or poetic taste, from the corrosive sarcasm of youth to the sickening earnestness of maturity-while discovering a protagonist wondering if she'll ever move from the rented close quarters of lonely young adulthood to the mortgaged expanse of love and marriage. Whether you're feeling alone by yourself or alone with someone else, this book is sure to sympathize with the crushing sense of life wasted, opportunities missed and creative dreams dashed which afflict the middle- and upper-class literary public (and which can return to them in somewhat damaged form during REM sleep). A pictographic listing of all 14 items (260 pages total) appears on the back, with suggestions made as to appropriate places to set down, forget or completely lose any number of its contents within the walls of an average well-appointed home. As seen in the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Building Stories collects a decade's worth of work, with dozens of "never-before-published" pages (i.e., those deemed too obtuse, filthy or just plain incoherent to offer to a respectable periodical).
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    30 Obtuse Activites for Supremely Bored Children
    30 Obtuse Activites for Supremely Bored Children: ab 2.99 €
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    30 More Obtuse Activities for Supremely Bored Children
    30 More Obtuse Activities for Supremely Bored Children: ab 2.99 €
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    Up Your Lockdown Games. 101 Obtuse Activities For Supremely Bored Children
    Up Your Lockdown Games. 101 Obtuse Activities For Supremely Bored Children: ab 6.99 €
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    Cinco de Star-Oh!
    While D.C. Bloom doesn't exactly relish the label, he understands why one might call him a "late bloomer" on the Texas music scene. Yes, D.C. will admit, it took him a little over four decades to even get to the Lone Star State, despite the fact that he has occasionally cited the ghost town of Nix, Texas as his birthplace. But no, D.C.'s really an Ohio native, who spent years inside the D.C. Beltway and a stint in the chilly climes of New England before finally putting his boots on the ground in Texas. And even then, it was another two or three years before he cranked out his solo debut, Simpler Times A-Wastin'. So D.C. Bloom as the quintessential late bloomer is more than a little legit. D.C.'s journey from the Black Swamp land of northwest Ohio to the Texas Hill Country is as circuitous as his musical evolution. He left the Buckeye State in his rear-view mirror in the late '70s to travel to the nation's capital for a job with the FBI, where he began as a humble data entry clerk and ended up writing speeches for the Director. Bloom next took his growing family to Boston, heeding the siren call of the private sector's bigger paydays and earning a Master's degree in Speech Communication from the esteemed Emerson College. A return trip to D.C. four years later put him back in the business of putting words in the mouths of policymakers and movers and shakers in banking and housing finance. It wasn't until the late '90s, when - on a whim and the suggestion of a co-worker who detected a lack of true passion in Bloom's false calling - that he signed up for a songwriting workshop at the Kerrville Folk Festival and began to string words and chords together in a format more to his liking than the day job 30-minute PowerPoint presentations that paid the mortgage. Bloom next took his growing binder of original songs to Geoff Pemble, who played in the praise band at the church D.C. attended in Vienna, Virginia. Pemble invited D.C. to join the God's house band, which he did somewhat reluctantly, because contemporary Christian music didn't necessarily ring his chimes. But after the weekly rehearsals in the church sanctuary, Bloom and Pemble stayed on to work on D.C.'s secular songs, some of which probably never should have been sung anywhere near an altar. In any event, the two soon formed an Americana band called The Dog Waggers and self-produced a CD called "Chasin' Tales," which the good Lutherans of Northern Virginia scarfed up like fresh dog treats. And some of them even figured out that the title was more about pursuing posteriors than posterity. As his alphabetized binder continued to expand, Bloom dreamed of landing a cushy corporate gig that would finance his move to Texas and put him within easy driving distance of the sacred grounds of Kerrville. Lightning finally struck in early 2003, and the headhunted D.C. would bid adieu to the Dog Waggers and travel south by southwest to San Antonio with his beat-up Tacoma guitar and a new dream - to get out there and perform on his own ... and finally put out a CD all by his lonesome. A little mishap on a mountain bike and a goat farm that resulted in a broken left wrist and pins being inserted in same slowed things down a bit, but the recuperation time also allowed D.C. to pen more tunes to his new home state. "I have long wanted to be a Texas singer-songwriter," Bloom acknowledges, "and I figured the best way to do that is to write a song about every town and city in the state." With atlas and guitar in hand, he added to the repertoire that would form the basis for many of the songs on STA-W. Bloom's songs are chock full of witty wordplay and hand-hewn humor. "It may not seem like it," D.C. notes, "but I really do work at this silly stuff, ya know?" Because not unlike the spin and obtuse soundbites that emanate from the real D.C., there's often more than one way to interpret D.C.'s lyrics. Bloom paraphrases another fella who had a keen eye and an ability to masquerade truth in satire, saying, "Yep, I never met a double entendre I didn't like." The songs on Simpler Times A-Wastin' (STA-W) bear out D.C. Bloom's unique way with words. He sings of a headturning gal from Texarkana who much prefers men from Texas because when she's with Arkansas guys "she can't get her Little Rocks off." There's the delightful "Ballad of Boerne and Alice," which chronicles the on-line romance and the less-than-satisfying in-person hook-up of two residents of two Texas towns whose names sound a lot like where they're from. He takes a playful jab at the business community of the Alamo City on "I Can't Forget the Alamo," ticking off the real and imagined names of San Antonio enterprises that can't resist the temptation to call themselves Alamo something-or-other. And on the jazz-boiled "Small Potatoes," which features the beautiful acoustic guitar work of Maestro Aurora, D.C. offers homage to the virtues of organic farming, "diesel-powered cats in greasy trucker caps," and the noble pursuits of common women and men. The CD also includes two tracks with his former bandmates, the Dog Waggers, including "Ice Box on the Fritz,' a bouncing Sir Doug-inspired romp about a refrigerator handyman with more than repairs on his mind. But while it's D.C.'s light-hearted cleverness that draws the listener in, there's also a reflective, thoughtful side to his songwriting that touches on universal themes such as family or longing for deeper connections. On "Acres to Plow," which features the harmonies of Terri Hendrix and the steel guitar of Lloyd Maines," both of whom he first met at that defining Kerrville workshop, D.C. reminisces about his dairy farming father who would joyfully sing on his tractor all day long. And on the haunting and sobering "Neon Signs," which has been featured on KGSR's "Lone Star State of Mind" radio show, D.C draws the parallel between those once-buzzing storefront artifacts from earlier days that have "lost their way and their will to shine" and broken down people who cling to false hope and memories of bygone and fading love. D.C.'s newest musical offering, a 5-song EP entitled "Cinco de Star-oh!" is set for an April 16, 2010 release. Recorded in Austin, TX at the Byrd House Studio, the EP features an array some of of the city's finest players and singers, including Lloyd Maines on dobro, Warren Hood on fiddle and madolin, Chip Dolan on piano and accordion, Tom Robinson on saxophone, Greg Whitfield on lead guitar, Michael Rubin on harmonica, Elizabeth Wills on vocals, and Chrissy Flatt on background harmonies.
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