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    Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 735min
    Sam Moses, a motorsports writer for Sports Illustrated, was assigned to go racing and write about what happened. Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots is a personal odyssey that peers over the cliff of change and into the pit of obsession. From small-time races to glittery grands prix, it lays bare the greed, lust, and desperation of every driver for time behind the wheel and a faster car. It explains the perfectionism behind taking a turn at the limit and describes the intoxicating thrill of stealing down the Daytona backstraight at nearly 200 miles an hour. The core of Moses' story takes place in the heartland of stock car racing, there he finds a spot on a team in Ether, North Carolina. The team's owner is a tough Louisiana oil man, its crew chief a lanky, laconic Texan, and its number-one driver a hairy-chested leadfoot who learned fast driving on backwoods Georgia roads, delivering beauty supplies in his Mustang. Crashes echo throughout the tale that follows, five of them the author's own. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ax Norman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010460/bk_adbl_010460_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Norwegian by Night , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 636min
    Sheldon Horowitz - 82 years old, impatient, and unreasonable - is staying with his granddaughter's family in Norway when he disappears with a stranger's child. Sheldon is an ex-Marine, and he feels responsible for his son's death in Vietnam. Recently widowed and bereft, he talks to the ghosts of his past constantly. To Norway's cops, Sheldon is just an old man who is coming undone at the end of a long and hard life. But Sheldon is clear in his own mind. He'd heard the boy's eastern European mother being murdered, and he's determined to protect the child from the killer and his Balkan gang. With an endearing combination of dexterity and daring, Sheldon manages to elude the police in what is hostile, foreign territory for him. But what he doesn't know is that the police and the gang both know where he's heading. Norwegian by Night is the last adventure of a man coming to terms with the tragedy of his own life as he tries to save another's. It combines laconic, deadpan humour, moral seriousness, visceral grief, and narrative tensions in a remarkable way - and Sheldon, in particular, is about to become a famous fictional hero. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Mangan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/001989/bk_boli_001989_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Nothingness Imperative , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 396min
    Yes, you'll laugh your ass off! Yes, you'll want to listen to this quirky unpredictable novel all in one sitting! And, yes, you'll recommend it to your friends and maybe even your enemies!In The Nothingness Imperative, author Herb Guggenheim captures life at the bleak onset of the Trump era and he does so with biting wit and startling clarity. But The Nothingness Imperative is more than just satire: It's a probing exploration of all that keeps humanity from the brink of despair. The book asks: In these troubled times, why not give up? Why not annihilate ourselves and hence the universe? The Nothingness Imperative provides some surprising answers.From the back cover:Washed up English professor and recovering narcissist Skip Gershwin doesn't expect time travel to be a part of his daily life. Nor does he anticipate becoming a member of a nihilistic death cult. But when a mysterious silver cylinder falls into his possession, his life path takes a series of bizarre turns. Sought after by an elusive cult leader, a band of impudent millennials, his laconic girlfriend, and a duo of unorthodox federal agents, Skip is forced to confront a disturbing truth - The Nothingness Imperative! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicholas Newell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/174373/bk_acx0_174373_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blaze Erupting: Scorpius Syndrome/A Brigade Novella , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 187min
    From New York Times best-selling author, Rebecca Zanetti, comes a new Scorpius Syndrome/A Brigade Novella…  Hugh Johnson is nobody’s hero, and the idea of being in the limelight makes him want to growl. He takes care of his brothers, does his job, and enjoys a mellow evening hanging with his hound dog and watching the sports channel. So when sweet and sexy Ellie Smithers from his college chemistry class asks him to save millions of people from a nuclear meltdown, he doggedly steps forward while telling himself that the world hasn’t changed and he can go back to his relaxing life. One look at Ellie and excitement doesn’t seem so bad.  Eleanor Smithers knows that the Scorpius bacteria has and will change life as we know it, but that’s a concern for another day. She’s been hand-picked as the computer guru for The Brigade, which is the USA’s first line of defense against all things Scorpius, including homegrown terrorists who’ve just been waiting for a chance to strike. Their target is a nuclear power plant in the east, and the only person who can help her is Hugh, the sexy, laconic, dangerous man she had a crush on so long ago. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Pauley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/030041/bk_adbl_030041_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fifty Famous Stories Retold , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 205min
    Here are 50 famous stories of long-ago times, retold in a short form for all young people. These are tales of valor, bravery, and kindness, as well as high adventure. Included: "King Alfred and the Cakes", "King Alfred and the Beggar", "King Canute of the Seashore", "The Sons of William the Conqueror", "The White Ship", "King John and the Abbott", "The Story of Robin Hood", "Bruce and the Spider", "The Black Douglas", "The Three Men of Gotham", "Other Wise Men of Gotham", "The Miller of the Dee", "Sir Philip Sidney", "Ungrateful Soldier", "Sir Humphrey Gilbert", "Sir Walter Raleigh", "Pocahontas", "George Washington and His Hatchet", "Grace Darling", "The Story of William Tell", "Arnold Winkelreid", "The Bell of Atri", "How Napoleon Crossed the Alps", "The Story of Cincinnatus", "The Story of Regulus", "Cornelia's Jewels", "Androclus and the Lion", "Horatius at the Bridge", "Julius Caesar", "The Sword of Damocles", "Damon and Pythias", "A Laconic Answer", "The Ungrateful Guest", "Alexander and Bucephalus", "Diogenes the Wise Man", "The Brave Three Hundred", "Socrates and His House", "The King and His Hawk", "Doctor Goldsmith", "The Kingdoms", "The Barmecide Feast", "The Endless Tale", "The Blind Men and the Elephant", "Maximilian and the Goose Boy", "The Inchcape Rock", "Whittington and His Cat", "Casabianca", "Antonio Canova", "Picciola", and "Mignon". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bobbie Frohman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/alca/000032/bk_alca_000032_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Bad Woman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 179min
    A Bad Woman (originally titled Sinful Woman) is James M. Cain's little gem of a hard-boiled novel, set in the postwar 1940s of Reno, Nevada. Film star Sylvia Shoreham is wowing the dusty gambling town and is hell-bent on divorcing her conniving user of a husband, a foreigner with a slick tongue and a heavy accent. But the husband has other ideas, threatening to marry Miss Shoreham's neurotic sister if she divorces him. Hollywood bigwigs want to keep the movie star making the pictures that make them millions. And then there's a gun in the room and a dead husband. Did Sylvia do it? Or was it an elaborate suicide? Everyone has a beef and a motive and an angle, and it's largely up to Sheriff Parker Lucas, the laconic lawman who keeps order in his town, to unspool the tangled web. Told in James M. Cain's typically taut and terse prose with deadpan dialogue and bruising plot twists, it's a novel by the noir master that is often overlooked in favor of the better known The Postman Rings Twice and Double Indemnity but offers its own tantalizing tale. A Bad Woman is another fine addition to Chalk Line Books' growing roster of great vintage crime fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Dennis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/034695/bk_acx0_034695_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Alien Adventure: The Adventure: The Beginning, Episode Four , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 76min
    Hang on to your asteroids! You're not coming out the same way you came in. Alien Adventure: The Adventure is a full-cast dramatization of a fresh, quirky, and irreverent interstellar farce in which nothing is sacred.Come join Captain Duda Duda and her misfit crew, including Lexis, the android; Hazy, the navigator; Mentose, the sex psychic; Computer, the laconic; and Pez, the dubious, as they encounter the most ferocious species in the Galaxy: the Zogs.In the far-flung future, the screwball crew of the Arugula Class starship Avanti mistakenly program a young ensign's escape pod to fly into a black hole. Enter the ensign's vengeful uncle, the Grand Poobah of the Federation, who makes the crew an offer they can't refuse. Take one woebegone starship, fill it with the worst bunch of diplomats in the known universe, send them on a mission to sign a peace treaty with an alien species that would rather fight than switch, and shake liberally with irreverent word play that parodies all known sensibilities, and you have an action-adventure comedy of galactic proportions.This edition contains 72 minutes of hilarity not heard anywhere else in the multiverse. May the farce be with you! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bigh/000024/bk_bigh_000024_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fresh Air, Patrick Warburton and Aaron Jay Kernis, Hörbuch, Digital, 47min
    Actor Patrick Warburton and composer Aaron Jay Kernis on this edition of Fresh Air. Patrick Warburton's best known for his recurring role on Seinfeld as Elaine's laconic boyfriend, Puddy. Though he only appeared in nine episodes, he became one of the show's favorite characters. Warburton currently stars in the new FOX show The Tick. He could also be heard as the voice of Joe on Fox's animated series The Family Guy. He's been in commercials for American Express, Cadillac and M&M's. He starred in the movie The Woman Chaser which was critically acclaimed at the New York Film Festival and The Sundance Film Festival, and he was in the Australian film, The Dish. His upcoming films include, Big Trouble, Joe Somebody, and Men In Black 2. Composer Aaron Jay Kernis's one of the youngest composers to win the Pulitzer Prize. This Saturday, his latest composition will be performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra as part of the grand opening of the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia's new concert hall. The piece was commissioned specifically for the event. The Walt Disney Company has commissioned a piece by Kernis. His many awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts award, and two Grammy nominations. Kernis was born in Philadelphia and is 41 years old. (Broadcast Date: December 12, 2001) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/011212/rt_whyy_011212_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    90 Days: A CISO’s Journey to Impact: Define Your Role , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 53min
    In the course of delivering provocative endpoint technology to thousands of customers over the past two-and-a-half years, we’ve seen a variety of styles, challenges, successes, and failures across the global CISO population. No doubt the role and responsibility of the CISO is one of the most unique charges in the enterprise of today. Rather than keep these observations and interactions internal to SentinelOne, our team decided to serve as a platform for allowing CISOs to share perspectives, experiences, and lessons learned with the broader community.Our series was born. While certainly near and dear to us, the topic of endpoint protection, detection, and response is but an essential part of the CISO and cybersecurity leader experience - this publication is not an endpoint bible or propaganda piece. It’s not an “Idiot’s Guide” to being a CISO. Rather, our design principle of this piece is simple: a laconic guide to provide practical advice for CISOs to make instant and lasting impact in their organizations.In our first publication, 90 Days: A CISO’s Journey to Impact, we profile some of the world’s leading enterprise cybersecurity leaders. They share their views on the role and advice to create rapid impact in a reasonable amount of time - 90 days. It is our hope that listeners, whether existing or future CISOs, gain insights to continuously improve and be their most effective selves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: SentinelOne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124584/bk_acx0_124584_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 513min
    The third book in Charles Bowden’s “accidental trilogy” that began with Blood Orchid and Blues for Cannibals, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing attempts to resolve the overarching question: How can a person live a moral life in a culture of death?As humanity moves further into the 21st century, Bowden continues to interrogate our roles in creating the ravaged landscapes and accumulated death that still surround us, as well as his own childhood isolation, his lust for alcohol and women, and his waning hope for a future. We witness post-Katrina New Orleans and terrorist-bombed Bali; we encounter our shared actions with the animal world and the desirous need for consumption; we see the clash and erosion of our physical and figurative borders, the savagery of our own civilization. A man of his time and out of time, Bowden seeks acceptance and a will to endure what may lie ahead.The book is published by University of Texas Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks."Bowden manages to write about these currently unfashionable topics with humor, style, and laconic compression." (Edward Abbey)"Here is the new American nature writing - resourceful, funny, personal, full of good facts, words of the locals, hard-hitting but not self-righteous." (Gary Snyder)"Bowden is a blood-and-guts journalist with a poet’s sensibility, a noirish naturalist, a ferociously inquisitive witness to life’s glory and horror." (Booklist) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Roelofs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/240909/bk_acx0_240909_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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