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    The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1370min
    A brilliant investigative marrative: How six average Soviet men rose to the pinnacle of Russia's battered economy. David Hoffman, former Moscow bureau chief for The Washington Post, sheds light onto the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men Hoffman reveals how a few players managed to take over Russia's cash-strapped economy and then divvy it up in loans-for-shares deals. Before perestroika, these men were normal Soviet citizens, stuck in a dead-end system, claustrophobic apartments, and long bread lines. But as Communism loosened, they found gaps in the economy and reaped huge fortunes by getting their hands on fast money. They were entrepreneurs. As the government weakened and their businesses flourished, they grew greedier. Now the stakes were higher. The state was auctioning off its own assets to the highest bidder. The tycoons go on wild borrowing sprees, taking billions of dollars from gullible western lenders. Meanwhile, Russia is building up a debt bomb. When the ruble finally collapses and Russia defaults, the tycoons try to save themselves by hiding their assets and running for cover. They turn against one another as each one faces a stark choice - annihilate or be annihilated. The story of the old Russia was spies, dissidents, and missiles. This is the new Russia, where civil society and the rule of law have little or no meaning. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Coulter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017176/bk_adbl_017176_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Truro Murders , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 204min
    The Truro Murders presents the shocking true story of Christopher Worrell and his accomplice, James Miller. The events in this audiobook unveil one of the worst serial killing sprees in Australian history. Over the course of two months 1976-1977, seven young women were brutally raped and murdered. Worrell and Miller met in prison and upon release developed a dominant and submissive relationship that centered around feeding Worrell's sadistic urges towards women. Miller would deny any involvement in the murders, claiming his love for Worrell was the basis for his cooperation and silence. In the space of 12 months between 1978 and 1979, remains of two of the victims were found within one kilometer of one another. Police linked the two bodies with another five young females reported missing in the area. The police uncovered two more skeletons within the Truro region and now faced the difficult task of piecing together the evidence and finding the countries biggest serial killers. The Truro Murders portrays the sex-fueled killing spree from the perspective of James Miller, the accomplice. Contained within this shocking true crime story are love, loss, manipulation, and extreme violence. If you are especially sensitive to accounts of suffering young females, it might be advisable not to listen to this audiobook. If, however, you seek to understand the darker side of human nature by coming face to face with it, then The Truro Murders is for you. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/101270/bk_acx0_101270_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    738 Days: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 825min
    At 15 Amanda Grace was abducted on her way home from school. Seven hundred and thirty-eight days later, she escaped. Her 20/20 interview is what everyone remembers - Amanda describing the room where she was kept, the torn poster of TV heartthrob Chase Henry on the wall. It reminded her of home and gave her the strength to keep fighting. Now, years later, Amanda is struggling to live normally. Her friends have gone on to college while she battles PTSD. She's not getting any better, and she fears that if something doesn't change soon she never will. Six years ago Chase Henry defied astronomical odds, won a coveted role on a new TV show, and was elevated to superstardom. With it came drugs, alcohol, arrests, and crazy spending sprees. Now he's sober and a Hollywood pariah, washed up at 24. To revamp his image, Chase's publicist comes up with a plan: surprise Amanda Grace with the chance to meet her hero, followed by a visit to the set of Chase's new movie. The meeting is a disaster, but out of mutual desperation Amanda and Chase strike a deal. What starts as a simple arrangement, though, rapidly becomes more complicated when they realize they need each other in more ways than one. But when the past resurfaces in a new threat, will they stand together or fall apart? With charm and heart, Stacey Kade takes listeners on a journey of redemption and love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew Eiden, Shannon McManus. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004623/bk_rand_004623_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    True Crime Stories, Volume 3: 12 Shocking True Crime Murder Cases , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 143min
    Beware! Once you begin listening to this true crime anthology book, you will quickly find that is difficult to stop! You will hear about 12 true crime stories from throughout the United States and around the world that invoke a variety of different emotions from deep within your soul. You will be shocked at some of the bizarre and senseless crimes, while at other times feelings of empathy for the victims and anger at the inhuman perpetrators will stir your spirit. Follow each chapter as you are directed through the anatomy of a true crime, from the outset of the criminal investigation until the final resolution. You will find that shooting rampages are not a recent phenomenon and that some of the world's notorious shooting sprees have been carried out in countries known for their peacefulness and low crime rates. All of these cases prove that no matter how much we may try, sometimes it is impossible to keep evil out! Truly, you will see why these 12 cases have become some of the most notorious true crime murder cases in recent world history. Some of the stories in this book are guaranteed to trouble you, but make no mistake; you will find it impossible to put down this tract of true murder. You will be truly intrigued with this book's collection of mass shootings, cold case murders, and other crimes that for many reasons defy logic! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Herschel J. Grangent, Jr.. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/070952/bk_acx0_070952_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dark Storm , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 898min
    A dark storm is on the horizon.... Return to Christine Feehan’s “steamy and dreamy” (Publishers Weekly) world of her New York Times best-selling Carpathian novels as roiling passions collide in a perfect storm of dangerous desire that only a precious few can hope to outrun.... Awakening after all this time in a world of absolute darkness and oppressive heat, Dax wonders in how many ways the world above must have changed. But it is how he has changed that fills him with dread and loathing. Buried alive for hundreds of years in a volcano in the Carpathian Mountains, Dax fears that he has become the full-fledged abomination that every Carpathian male fears, a victim of the insidious evil that has crept relentlessly into his mind and body over the centuries. But there are some things that never change. His name is Mitro, the vampire Dax had hunted all these long centuries. Second in command to the prince of the Carpathian people he is the epitome of everything malevolent, and perpetrator of one of the most shocking killing sprees known to man - and beast. Even his friends and family weren’t safe from Mitro’s bloodlust. Neither was Mitro’s lifemate, Arabejila, an extraordinary woman with extraordinary gifts. But now that Dax has re-emerged, so too has Mitro. The ultimate battle between good and evil has been re-engaged. Between Dax and Mitro, a violent game has begun - one that has marked Riley Parker, the last descendent of Arabejila, as the reward. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erik Bergmann, Kristine Ryan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/001976/bk_peng_001976_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Beast: Werewolves, Serial Killers, and Man-Eaters: The Mystery of the Monsters of the Gévaudan , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 479min
    Using modern biology and history to investigate a series of grisly deaths in the countryside of 18th-century France. Something unimaginable occurred from 1764 to 1767 in the remote highlands of south-central France. For three years, a real-life monster, or monsters, ravaged the region, slaughtering by some accounts more than 100 people, mostly women and children, and inflicting severe injuries upon many others. Alarmed rural communities - and their economies - were virtually held hostage by the marauder, and local officials and Louis XV deployed dragoons and crack wolf hunters from far-off Normandy and the King's own court to destroy the menace. And with the creature's reign of terror occurring at the advent of the modern newspaper, it can be said the ferocious attacks in the Gévaudan region were one of the world's first media sensations. Despite extensive historical documentation about this awesome predator, no one seemed to know exactly what it was. Theories abounded: Was it an exotic animal, such as a hyena, that had escaped from a menagerie? A werewolf? A wolf-dog hybrid? A new species? Some kind of conspiracy? Or, as was proposed by the local bishop, was it a scourge of God? To this day, debates on the true nature of La Bête, "The Beast," continue. Beast takes a fascinating look at all the evidence, using a mix of history and modern biology to advance a theory that could solve one of the most bizarre and unexplained killing sprees of all time: France's infamous Beast of the Gévaudan. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David de Vries. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009223/bk_brll_009223_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Boy Who Couldn't Fly Home: Broom Closet Stories, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 390min
    Note from the publisher: Prior to July 2017, The Boy Who Couldn't Fly Straight and The Boy Who Couldn't Fly Home were one book, which has now been separated into two books to make them more accessible. If you purchased The Boy Who Couldn't Fly Straight prior to July 2017 and are looking for the next book in this series, then you'll want book three, available early 2018. Newly initiated into witchcraft, high school sophomore Charlie Creevey has abilities that are out of control! He can see things happening in people's homes on the other side of town, and inanimate objects fly across the room and smash into walls. With the help of his aunt, he learns to control his new skills and pours himself fully into the craft. However, his awakened abilities have been noticed by the murderous and evil witch, Grace. At the same time, he and Diego Ramirez finally admit their feelings for each other, leading to Charlie's first relationship and the challenges of gay teen love. Tiptoeing out of the closet, Charlie wants to pull Diego closer to him, but keeps him at arm's length to safeguard the secret that he is a witch. Grace and her coven continue their kidnapping and killing sprees across the Pacific Northwest, terrorizing Charlie's witch community and drawing him deeper and deeper into the evil coven's plans. Constantly outwitting Charlie, Grace eventually lures him into the full horror of her schemes. Can gay teen witch Charlie survive and save his loved ones, or will he be pulled over to the dark side and lose everything dear to him? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Zachary Antonioli. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/101696/bk_acx0_101696_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 542min
    Art Williams spent his boyhood in a comfortable middle-class existence in 1970s Chicago, but his idyll was shattered when, in short order, his father abandoned the family, his bipolar mother lost her wits, and Williams found himself living in one of Chicago's worst housing projects. He took to crime almost immediately, starting out with petty theft before graduating to robbing drug dealers.Eventually, a man named nicknamed DaVinci taught him the centuries-old art of counterfeiting. After a stint in jail, Williams emerged to discover that the Treasury Department had issued the most secure hundred-dollar bill ever created: the 1996 New Note. Williams spent months trying to defeat various security features before arriving at a bill so perfect that even law enforcement had difficulty distinguishing it from the real thing. Williams went on the print millions in counterfeit bills, selling them to criminal organizations and using them to fund cross-country spending sprees. Still unsatisfied, he went off in search of his long-lost father, setting in motion a chain of betrayals that would be his undoing.In The Art of Making Money, journalist Jason Kersten details how Williams painstakingly defeated the anti-forging features of the New Note, how Williams and his partner-in-crime wife converted fake bills into legitimate tender at shopping malls all over America, and how they stayed one step ahead of the Secret Service until trusting the wrong person brought them all down.A compulsively listenable story of how having it all is never enough, The Art of Making Money is a stirring portrait of the rise and inevitable fall of a modern-day criminal mastermind. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Bond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/001680/bk_brll_001680_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Poison Plot: A Tale of Adultery and Murder in Colonial Newport , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 475min
    An accusation of attempted murder rudely interrupted Mary Arnold’s dalliances with working men and her extensive shopping sprees. When her husband Benedict fell deathly ill and then asserted she had tried to kill him with poison, the result was a dramatic petition for divorce. The case before the Rhode Island General Assembly and its tumultuous aftermath, during which Benedict died, made Mary a cause célèbre in Newport through the winter of 1738 and 1739. Elaine Forman Crane invites listeners into the salacious domestic life of Mary and Benedict Arnold and reveals the seamy side of colonial Newport. The surprise of The Poison Plot, however, is not the outrageous acts of Mary or the peculiar fact that attempted murder was not a convictable offense in Rhode Island. As Crane shows with style, Mary’s case was remarkable precisely because adultery, criminality, and theft, and even spousal homicide were well known in the New England colonies. The Poison Plot is an intimate drama constructed from historical documents and informed by Crane’s deep knowledge of elite and common life in Newport. Her keen eye for telling details and her sense of story bring Mary, Benedict, and a host of other characters - including her partner in adultery, Walter Motley, and John Tweedy the apothecary who sold Mary toxic drugs - to life in the homes, streets, and shops of the port city.The book is published by Cornell University Press. "A riveting tale...I loved this book." (Linda Fairstein, author of Alex Cooper crime novels)"An impressive piece of work." (Sandra Hempel, author The Inheritor’s Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science)"Crane brilliantly enhances our understanding of the harsh realities of life in early America." (John Ruston Pagan, author of Anne Orthwood’s Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Beverly Ann Astley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/167040/bk_acx0_167040_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Why You Are a Materialistic Shopaholic, Solutions for How to Curb Your Shopping Addiction, and How to Make Money to Finance Your Compulsive Shopping Addiction , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 114min
    This essay sheds light on why you are a materialistic shopaholic and provides ample solutions for how to curb your shopping addiction. Moreover, how to make money to finance your compulsive shopping addiction is delineated in this essay.In spite of their stigmatized perceptions, people still continue to embrace materialism, consumerism, collecting, hoarding, and shopping sprees. In other words, the excess spending on needless items never ceases for materialistic shopaholics, irrespective of how these insalubrious shopping habits are perceived by others.There are ample reasons that shed light as to why people have an unremitting obsession with embracing collecting, shopping, consumerism, and materialism beyond just doing so to alleviate boredom. Shopping elicits a dopamine release in the brain which draw forth a pleasurable sensation we all crave to feel. Engaging in compulsive shopping can be arduous to resist and it associated with the “need to gain control, genuine impulsiveness and compulsiveness, the need to attain perfection, the need to attain approval from others, the need to attain excitement, and the need to fill an empty inner void. Moreover, these compulsive shopping habits can also be associated with have experienced deprivation in childhood as well as the inability to tolerate negative feelings, such as boredom, depression, fear, pain, loneliness, and anger” (Tracy, 2019).In other words, the causes behind compulsive shopping habits are multitudinous and can even be traced back to problems that the compulsive shopping addict experienced during their childhood. For instance, someone with a stressful and unpleasant childhood in which they experienced a life of minimalism and having to cope with having far less than their childhood friends may feel compelled to be materialistic and compulsively shop as an adult in order to never experience materialistic deprivation ever again.The desire to compulsively shop can be genuine as i ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Winterburn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/219898/bk_acx0_219898_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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