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    The Gaslighter's Perspective (Personal Support Included): Toxic Others, Book 28 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 24min
    Imagine, if you will, the world from the gaslighter’s perspective. The gaslighter meets you. You are the answer to all his problems. He becomes smitten with you as you are occupying him and staving off all his boredom. But your "shiny" eventually wears off, as it does with all relationships.Then, the gaslighter is bored with you and the everyday activities of the normal relationship. He blames you for him being born. He develops contempt and resentment toward you everyday that he has to look at your face again. He starts to think that you are tying him down. He starts to think that you are the one who is stopping him from having all the fun he could be having.You want to tie the gaslighter down with all your moral constraints, social etiquette, social rules, and relationship expectations. The bored gaslighter wants to do whatever he wants and when he wants to do it. He doesn’t want anyone else telling him what he can or cannot do. He detests authority figures, and you are behaving as though you are an authority. You are the one stopping him from doing all the reckless and fun activities that he wants to spend his time doing.  He treats you now like you are the "fun killer". You sought thrills and fun in him, but then, your expectations changed, and you wanted something real. The gaslighter doesn’t want something real. Granted, he doesn’t want anyone else to have what is his, but he doesn’t want something real. He doesn’t intellectually get being monogamous and married to the same person for life. Marriage is, inevitably, boring. And so is staying with the same person every day. So, the gaslighter starts to look at you like you are an old couch. He stirs up the pot. He gets restless and takes off on you, dumping all the responsibilities of the relationship.Buy the audiobook now to know more! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Virginia Schaffer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/180735/bk_acx0_180735_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The China Mission , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 839min
    A spellbinding narrative of the high-stakes mission that changed the course of America, China, and global politics - and a rich portrait of the towering, complex figure who carried it out. As World War II came to an end, General George Marshall was renowned as the architect of Allied victory. Set to retire, he instead accepted what he thought was a final mission - this time not to win a war, but to stop one. Across the Pacific, conflict between Chinese Nationalists and Communists threatened to suck in the United States and escalate into revolution. His assignment was to broker a peace, build a Chinese democracy, and prevent a Communist takeover, all while staving off World War III. In his 13 months in China, Marshall journeyed across battle-scarred landscapes, grappled with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, and plotted and argued with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his brilliant wife, often over card games or cocktails. The results at first seemed miraculous. But as they started to come apart, Marshall was faced with a wrenching choice. Its consequences would define the rest of his career, as the secretary of state who launched the Marshall Plan and set the standard for American leadership, and the shape of the Cold War and the US-China relationship for decades to come. It would also help spark one of the darkest turns in American civic life, as Marshall and the mission became a first prominent target of McCarthyism, and the question of "who lost China" roiled American politics. The China Mission traces this neglected turning point and forgotten interlude in a heroic career - a story of not just diplomatic wrangling and guerrilla warfare, but also intricate spycraft and charismatic personalities. Drawing on eyewitness accounts both personal and official, it offers a richly detailed, gripping, close-up, and often surprising view of the central figures of the time - from Marshall, Mao, and Chiang to Eisenhower, Truman, and MacArthu ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/011574/bk_blak_011574_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Follow Me
    From the author of Truth Be Told (formerly titled Are You Sleeping)—now an Apple TV+ series of the same name—comes "a thriller for the Instagram age" (Amy Gentry, author of Good as Gone) for fans of Jessica Knoll and Caroline Kepnes. Everyone wants new followers…until they follow you home. Audrey Miller has an enviable new job at the Smithsonian, a body by Pilates, an apartment door with a broken lock, and hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers to bear witness to it all. Having just moved to Washington, DC, Audrey busies herself with impressing her new boss, interacting with her online fan base, and staving off a creepy upstairs neighbor with the help of the only two people she knows in town: an ex-boyfriend she can't stay away from, and a sorority sister with a high-powered job and a mysterious past. But Audrey's faulty door may be the least of her security concerns. Unbeknownst to her, her move has brought her within striking distance of someone who has obsessively followed her social media presence for years—from her first WordPress blog to her most recent Instagram Story. No longer content to simply follow her carefully curated life from a distance, he consults the dark web for advice on how to make Audrey his and his alone. In his quest to win her heart, nothing is off-limits—and nothing is private. Kathleen Barber's new novel of suspense, hailed as "gripping, chilling" by Robyn Harding, author of The Perfect Family, is an electrifying new thriller that will have you scrambling to cover your webcam and digital footprints.
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    Bee People and the Bugs They Love
    Certified master beekeeper and president of the Northeast NJ Beekeepers Association, Frank Mortimer, chronicles the adventures and comedic misfortunes of beekeeping in a funny, noble odyssey into the fantastic, complex world of bees and their human custodians. A fascinating foray into the obsessions, friendships, scientific curiosity, misfortunes and rewards of suburban beekeeping-through the eyes of a Master Beekeeper... Who wants to keep bees? And why? For the answers, Master Beekeeper Frank Mortimer invites readers on an eye-opening journey into the secret world of bees, and the singular world of his fellow beekeepers. There's the Badger, who introduces Frank to beekeeping; Rusty, a one-eyed septuagenarian bee sting therapist certain that honey will be the currency of the future after the governments fail; Scooby the "dude" who gets a meditative high off the awesome vibes of his psychedelia-painted hives; and the Berserker, a honeybee hitman who teaches Frank a rafter-raising lesson in staving off the harmful influences of an evil queen: "Squash her, mash her, kill, kill, kill!" Frank also crosses paths with those he calls the Surgeons (precise and protected), the Cowboys (improvisational and unguarded) and the Poseurs, ex-corporate cogs, YouTube-informed and ill-prepared for the stinging reality of their new lives. In connecting with this club of disparate but kindred spirits, Frank discovers the centuries-old history of the trade; the practicality of maintaining it; what bees see, think, and feel (emotionless but sometimes a little defensive); how they talk to each other and socialize; and what can be done to combat their biggest threats, both human (anti-apiarist extremists) and mite (the Varroa destructor). With a swarm of offbeat characters and fascinating facts (did that bee just waggle or festoon?), Frank the Bee Man delivers an informative, funny, and galvanizing book about the symbiotic relationship between flower and bee, and bee and the beekeepers who are determined to protect the existence of one of the most beguiling and invaluable creatures on earth.
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    True Mates: A Gay Shifter MPREG , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 427min
    There are things that we want, and things that we need. Sometimes they end up being one and the same. Philip All my life, I’ve known two truths: my best friend Jaeger is my true mate, and I’m destined to marry a princess I’ve never met for the sake of my kingdom. Prophecy’s a bitter pill to swallow when you’ve tasted true love and are told it can never be. But I wouldn’t be worthy of my beautiful omega if I were willing to let selfishness be the ruin of my people. Still, I don’t feel anything but selfish as I keep my childhood friend close, and yet forever out of reach. The pain of our proximity reflected in his eyes. A better man would set him free, but I’m not that noble. Just noble enough to deny us both what we crave. But if I can’t be with the man I love, I can at least be a better prince for my people. I need to remain focused on staving off my enemies as I’m teased with the promise of the only thing I’ve ever wanted. Because as it turns out, prophecies are never quite what you think....Jaegar If the story of my life has a theme, it must be this: so close, and yet so far. Orphaned and raised as a brother to the wolf prince I love more than my own life, but never quite felt like one of the family. Talented enough in battle to silence the rumors that only favoritism gave me the role of his bodyguard, but not skilled enough to protect him when he needed me most. I am willing and eager to be the partner - the mate - Prince Philip deserves. I can give him everything he wants, if only it weren’t for the one thing an ancient prophecy demands of him. The Prince must surrender to a marriage with the heir of a kingdom strong enough to protect his own. But we are who we are, and we all have a role to play. I’ve made peace with mine. Ready to step into the shadows and allow his bride to bask in his light. But then I discover: I am not who I thought I was. And ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Seager. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/146574/bk_acx0_146574_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Courier
    In 1960, British machine parts salesman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) was approached by MI6 and the CIA to be an international contact for Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze), a GRU officer wary of the Khrushchev regime's excesses. While the relationship provided America with intel critical to staving off the Cuban Missile Crisis, their perilous dealings would ultimately saddle both with a price. True espionage tale co-stars Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley, Angus Wright. 112 min. Widescreen, Soundtrack: English.
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