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    Casanova: The Adventurous Life and Legacy of the World’s Most Famous Womanizer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 85min
    I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy. - Casanova Contrary to how the libidinous legend is often seen through the rose-tinted lenses of Hollywood, the real Giacomo Casanova did not have Heath Ledger's strong, chiseled jaw or the piercing, lagoon-blue eyes of Richard Chamberlain. Rather, portraits of the actual Casanova show a plain, somewhat forgettable face, with a doughy jaw, a prominent, faintly crooked nose, and close-set, protruding eyes. In essence, while he was certainly not unattractive, he was far from someone who would be envisioned as synonymous with womanizing. Nonetheless, Casanova engaged in hundreds of trysts, and whatever the man lacked in aesthetic appeal, he indisputably made up for in charm, mystique, and raw, animal magnetism. He was also quite matter of fact about it all: "Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy." Indeed, the fabled erotic exploits of the captivating, charismatic Casanova were so spectacular that his surname has been immortalized with its own entry in Merriam-Webster, among many other reputable dictionaries - "a lover, especially, a man who is a promiscuous and unscrupulous lover." Though Casanova has been cemented in pop culture, above all else, as a silver-tongued, licentious lover, the man was scintillatingly gift-wrapped with layers of artful deceit, vigilant calculation, and an inextinguishable hankering for adventure. He donned many hats, yet each one seemed to be styled especially for him. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100272/bk_acx0_100272_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Narcissa Whitman: The Life and Legacy of the Missionary Killed by Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 152min
    At the start of the 1840s, the Oregon Country had no political boundaries or effective government. The only administrative organization was the Hudson’s Bay Company, which applied only to British subjects, and aside from natives, the region was populated by a handful of independent traders, hunters, and prospectors, as well as those employed in the various company depots.The first to begin showing up in large numbers were missionaries. The native populations were by then diminished by disease and dispirited, which meant they were more receptive to missionary aid and the Christian message. Christianity, of course, was not entirely unknown among the indigenous populations, given that marriages between white men and Indian women created a hybrid of “folk” Christianity that was commonly observed among the Indians. The first wave of missionaries represented the American Methodists, arriving in or around 1834, followed a year or two later by a second series of arrivals, sponsored this time by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). The ABCFM was an ecumenical organization founded to promote the general outreach of the Presbyterian and Dutch Reform churches in the United States. Roman Catholics arrived around 1830, bringing missionaries mostly from Canada and Europe.Most wives and children remained in the East while men rolled the dice to seek fortunes in the Pacific region. However, religious movements committed to denominational migrations eventually found their way into the western plains through faintly-established routes, leading to the eventual settling of Utah. Before such western societies took root, the Pacific Northwest remained a dark void in the agendas of missionary organizations. Most were of the general mind that to convert the Nez Percé and Cayuse tribes of the Columbia River Plateau to Christianity was a hopeless venture. However, a few aspiring Protestant missionaries persisted in the belief that conversion of th ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory T Luzitano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/159143/bk_acx0_159143_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How to Talk Dirty: The Complete Guide to Have Fun with Your Partner Trying New Sexual Emotions and Transform Your Sex Life. Contains 200 Dirty Talk Examples and Submissive Training Guide (Sex Guide) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 644min, (USK 18)
    How might you begin speaking profanely with your accomplice? The most ideal approach to begin is to decipher what you feel or what you need to feel into words. Ask your accomplice, but faintly and sensually, to squeeze you, press your boobs, or consider you a miscreant. From here, you will perceive how he reacts, and this will be a piece of information whether he/she is into it or not. I bet you'd be surprised if I told you that studies on this kind of dirty behavior have been proven to increase intimacy levels in relationships, enhance lovemaking, and increase trust. The most shocking one is that dirty-talking increases your chances of successful relationships.If you take a moment to think about it, it does make sense. The reason why relationships and marriages come to an end is that either one or both partners lose interest and start cheating, but by keeping the magic alive, you are getting your partner hooked on the excitement. Let this audiobook help you get started through the following chapters listed below:"How to Talk Dirty with Your Partner?""Seduction and Dirty Talk Before Sex""Dirty Talk During the Sex""100 Dirty Talk Examples""The Submissive/Slave Role""Dirty Games to Spice Up the Bedroom"And many more Some call it as bedroom’s mother tongue, erotic talk, sexy talk, or pillow talk, however what dirty talk is described, it is basically legit and open correspondence with your partner while appreciating sexual relations with each other. It is something that both men and women can use to bring more excitement and pleasure to their sex life.Spicing up your romantic or sexual relationship doesn’t have to be hard work. You will also become much more comfortable the more you "talk the talk". Ready to get started? Click “Buy Now”! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shaniese Reyes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/205558/bk_acx0_205558_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    European Diary: 1977-1981 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1558min
    This diary provides the background to two vital issues: our relations with the European Community and the state of politics in Britain. Few people are better qualified to know how we arrived where we are than the late Roy Jenkins. During the period of this diary, he was president of the European Commission. The diary provides a picture of the day-to-day life of the head of an international organization, of the conflicting pressures and grinding routine, and of the importance of personal relationships with world leaders such as Helmut Schmidt, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, Willy Brandt, and Jimmy Carter. In addition to the political chronicle, we have frank and sometimes unguarded revelations about the author, his tastes and preoccupations, from which emerges a man more imbued with public passion, more eccentric and with a more varied private life than many listeners may expect. His subtle perception of people is revealed in brilliant portraits of, for example, Schmidt (pessimistic, streaked with melancholy, indiscreet, and yet notably constructive) and Giscard d'Estaing (highly intelligent but with pretentions that sometimes make him faintly ludicrous). For those concerned with the way the world is developing and the impact of a civilized and essentially private personality on public events, European Diary is compulsory listening. Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, Jenkins (1920- 2003) served in several major posts in Harold Wilson's First Government and as Home Secretary from 1965-67. In 1987, Jenkins was elected to succeed Harold Macmillan as Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Jenkins grew to political maturity during the twilight of a great age of British parliamentary democracy. As much as Churchill, though in quite a different way, Jenkins has been from the cradle a creature of the system that nurtured Palmerston and Disraeli, Gladstone, Asquith, and Lloyd George. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Grady. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009197/bk_adbl_009197_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Tender Bar: A Memoir, Hörbuch, Digital, 322min
    J.R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J.R. spoke his first word. Sitting on the stoop, pressing an ear to the radio, J.R. would strain to hear in that plumy baritone the secrets of masculinity and identity. Though J.R.'s mother was his world, his rock, he craved something more, something faintly and hauntingly audible only in The Voice. At eight years old, suddenly unable to find The Voice on the radio, J.R. turned in desperation to the bar on the corner, where he found a rousing chorus of new voices. Cops, bookies, soldiers, and stumblebums, all sorts of men gathered in the bar to tell their stories and forget their cares. The alphas along the bar, including J.R.'s uncle Charlie, a Humphrey Bogart look-alike; Colt, a Yogi Bear sound-alike and Joey D, a soft-hearted brawler, took J.R. to the beach, to ballgames, and ultimately into their circle. They taught J.R., tended him, and provided a kind of fatherhood-by-committee. Torn between the stirring example of his mother and the lurid romance of the bar, J.R. tried to forge a self somewhere in the center. But when it was time for J.R. to leave home, the bar became an increasingly seductive sanctuary, a place to return and regroup during his picaresque journeys. Time and again, the bar offered shelter from failure, rejection, heartbreak, and eventually from reality. In the grand tradition of landmark memoirs, The Tender Bar is suspenseful, wrenching, and achingly funny. A classic American story of self-invention and escape, of the fierce love between a single mother and an only son, it's also a moving portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and an unforgettable depiction of how men remain, at heart, lost boys. Language: English. Narrator: J.R. Moehringer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hype/000033/bk_hype_000033_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Tender Bar: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 960min
    The New York Times best seller and one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2005. In the tradition of This Boy's Life and The Liar's Club, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man and his romance with a bar. J. R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J. R. spoke his first word. Sitting on the stoop, pressing an ear to the radio, J. R. would strain to hear in that plummy baritone the secrets of masculinity and identity. Though J. R.'s mother was his world, his rock, he craved something more, something faintly and hauntingly audible only in The Voice. At 8 years old, suddenly unable to find The Voice on the radio, J. R. turned in desperation to the bar on the corner, where he found a rousing chorus of new voices. The alphas along the bar - including J. R.'s uncle Charlie, a Humphrey Bogart look-alike; Colt, a Yogi Bear sound-alike; and Joey D, a softhearted brawler - took J. R. to the beach, to ballgames, and, ultimately, into their circle. They taught J. R., tended him, and provided a kind of fathering by committee. Torn between the stirring example of his mother and the lurid romance of the bar, J. R. tried to forge a self somewhere in the center. But when it was time for J. R. to leave home, the bar became an increasingly seductive sanctuary, a place to return and regroup during his picaresque journeys. Time and again the bar offered shelter from failure, rejection, heartbreak - and, eventually, reality. In the grand tradition of landmark memoirs, The Tender Bar is suspenseful, wrenching, and achingly funny. A classic American story of self-invention and escape, of the fierce love between a single mother and an only son, it's also a moving portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man and an unforgettable depiction of how men remain, at heart, ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Grupper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/003370/bk_hach_003370_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Through the Gates of Good , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 64min
    From the Introduction: The genius of the present age in matters spiritual is towards simplicity, and the hunger of the human heart is for Truth naked and uninvolved. That hunger will eventually bring about (is already bringing about) its own satisfaction, and here and there are men and women who, passing through the Gateway of Self-conquest, are entering into possession of the Transcendent Righteousness.The closing years of the 19th century witnessed the culmination of Formalism, and the spiritual reaction is now firmly established. Already “the end of old faiths and beginning of the new” is discernible to all who have removed from their mental vision somewhat of the textual dust of dying creeds, and have penetrated, however faintly, that sublime region of Truth which is discoverable only by practice, and which is made manifest by pure thoughts and holy deeds.The universal decay of effete religious systems which the world is witnessing today is matter for rejoicing; it is the death which precedes Life; it is the passing away of the false in order that the True may be more fully revealed. The True can, at worst, but remain hidden. It endures. It remains forever. Its invincibility cannot be qualified, and he who has but one momentary glimpse of the True can never again be anxious for its safety. That about which men are anxious is the false, which they mistake for the True, and this, in spite of all their anxiety, must fade away at last.In the lives of all the Great Teachers we see a manifestation of that Universal Truth, the majesty and splendor of which is as yet but dimly comprehended by mankind, but which must, during the gradual transformation and transmutation which the accumulating ages shall effect, at last become the possession of all. That Truth, as manifested by the Teachers, was written by them, as it only can be written, in thoughts and deeds of the loftiest moral excellence which have been permanently impressed upon the min ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barry J. Peterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/108956/bk_acx0_108956_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Taking: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 569min
    In one of the most dazzling books of his celebrated career, Dean Koontz delivers a masterwork of suspense that surpasses even his own inimitable reputation as a chronicler of our worst fears - and best dreams. In The Taking, he tells the story of a community cut off from a world under siege and the terrifying battle for survival waged by a young couple and their neighbors as familiar streets become fog-shrouded death traps. Gripping, heartbreaking, and triumphant in the face of mankind’s darkest hour, here is a small-town slice-of-doomsday thriller that strikes to the core of each of us to ask: What would you do in the midst of the Taking?On the morning that will mark the end of the world they have known, Molly and Neil Sloan awaken to the drumbeat of rain on their roof. It has haunted their sleep, invaded their dreams, and now they rise to find a luminous silvery downpour drenching their small California mountain town. A strange scent hangs faintly in the air, and the young couple cannot shake the sense of something wrong.  As hours pass and the rain continues to fall, Molly and Neil listen to disturbing news of extreme weather phenomena across the globe. Before evening, their little town loses television and radio reception. Then telephone and the Internet are gone. With the ceaseless rain now comes an obscuring fog that transforms the once-friendly village into a ghostly labyrinth. By nightfall the Sloans have gathered with some of their neighbors to deal with community damage...but also because they feel the need to band together against some unknown threat, some enemy they cannot identify or even imagine.In the night, strange noises arise, and at a distance, in the rain and the mist, mysterious lights are seen drifting among the trees. The rain diminishes with the dawn, but a moody gray-purple twilight prevails. Soon Molly, Neil, and their small band of friends will be forced to draw on reserves of strength, courage, and humanity ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ari Meyers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000422/bk_rand_000422_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Chosen by Fate: Part Three of Fate's Path , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 752min
    Chosen. By its very essence, the word chosen is one of finality. What you've chosen becomes your destiny. Unless, by chance, fate has chosen otherwise. But choice is a double edged sword, as Will and Sarah find out when it cuts their lives into ever more hard-to-assemble pieces. What was the point of hoping, planning, dreaming? What was the point of loving? It could all be taken, and for Will, it had been. Helplessly bound by his obligations, he watches the love of his life drifting slowly, irretrievably away. How can keeping his promise to Sarah and keeping his vow to do anything to protect his family come to this? How can such love summon such pain? As fate would have it, Sarah is asking herself that very same question. As she struggles to escape the ether ties of amnesia, she gropes the dark corners of her heart, trying to grasp something solid, something to hold. But life is forcing Sarah to seek the very answers she fears most. Can there be something even more powerful than love? Putting a 1,000-piece puzzle together through her dark days of forgetfulness, Sarah slowly snaps one faintly matched memory into place after another, as a familiar picture slowly begins to emerge from the foggy past. And the more her memories creep back in, bringing with them a desire smoldering just beneath the surface of her shattered life, she begins to realize the question that has taunted her for so long, is upon her again. Will, or Adley? Both Will and Sarah share their hopeless closeness as their choices lead them ever further apart. What they've chosen for themselves involves others, and promises made have overgrown the road behind them. If there is no going back, the only way forward is straight through the gates of fate. As they enter, deep family secrets explode from the shadows of their pasts, secrets that cut so deeply, no one will ever be the same, no one will ever forget, and ever-lurking death will snatch its due. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kiana Reye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/107417/bk_acx0_107417_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Complete Witch-Doctor: The Collected Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 77min
    They were the kind of musical notes men and woman once swayed to - even worshiped to - or so Jasper had told him, ground from an instrument called an “organ”, which had once been common, or so he’d said but had vanished from the face of the world. So, too, were there cymbals, which echoed throughout the crew compartment of the war wagon like tinsel - if tinsel could be said to have a sound - and mingled with the steely whispers of their muskets and tanks and other gear as the truck rocked and their harnesses held them fast.   “When a maaan loves a woman,” sang a hearty and soulful voice both inside and outside the compartment, and Jeremiah knew they were close, else the driver wouldn’t have cued the music, and when he scanned the other witch doctors, strapped in six to a bench in the wagon’s cramped confines, he knew they knew it too. What was more, he knew that however fearsome they looked in their black jumpsuits and white flame-retardant vests, their goggled respirators, their buckled hats, they were frightened, too.   But then the wagon ground to a halt, and there was no time to feel anything, much less fear, as Jeremiah unbuckled and piled out with the others. And yet, as he paused momentarily to take in the building - a ramshackle six-story brownstone that looked as though it had been built before the Betrayal, much less the Pogrom - a strange thing happened. He thought he heard a voice, not from without but entirely from within - a woman’s voice, a witch’s voice. And it said to him, as faintly as the cymbals at the start of the music, "Why have you come for us, witch doctor?" And he found himself scanning the illuminated windows of the brownstone as if someone had perhaps shouted to him (rather than reaching directly into his mind) and saw behind one of the uppermost panes a figure so small and motionless that he might have thought it a piece of furniture, a lamp, perhaps, had it not slid to one side and vanished.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/115757/bk_acx0_115757_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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