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  A Little Life: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1971min

  Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize Long-listed for the National Book Award for Fiction Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the 21st century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow, improbably, breaks through into the light. When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he'll not only be unable to overcome - but that will define his life forever. In rich and resplendent prose, Yanagihara has fashioned a tragic and transcendent hymn to brotherly love, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance. Cover photograph by The Peter Hujar Archive, LLC, Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Oliver Wyman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/025075/bk_adbl_025075_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice

  A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. But that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of: Kobani. From that unlikely showdown in Kobani emerged a fighting force that would wage war against ISIS across northern Syria alongside the United States. In the process, these women would spread their own political vision, determined to make women's equality a reality by fighting the men who bought and sold women. Based on years of on-the-ground reporting, The Daughters of Kobani is the unforgettable story of the women of the Kurdish militia that improbably became part of the world's best hope for stopping ISIS in Syria. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon introduces us to the women fighting on the front lines; in helping to cement the territorial defeat of ISIS, whose savagery toward women astounded the world, these women played a central role in neutralizing the threat the group posed worldwide. In the process they earned the respect-and significant military support-of U.S. Special Operations Forces. Rigorously reported and powerfully told, The Daughters of Kobani shines a light on a group of women intent on not only defeating the Islamic State on the battlefield but also changing women's lives in their corner of the Middle East and beyond.

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  All the Feels (eBook, ePUB)

  Following Spoiler Alert, Olivia Dade returns with another utterly charming romantic comedy about a devil-may-care actorwho actually cares more than anyone knowsand the no-nonsense woman hired to keep him in line."An absolutely witty, swoon worthy behind the scenes romp! Delightful from beginning to end!"--Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin'Alexander Woodroe has it all. Charm. Sex appeal. Wealth. Fame. A starring role as Cupid on TV's biggest show, Gods of the Gates. But the showrunners have wrecked his character, he's dogged by old demons, and his post-show future remains uncertain. When all that reckless emotion explodes into a bar fight, the tabloids and public agree: his star is falling.Enter Lauren Clegg, the former ER therapist hired to keep him in line. Compared to her previous work, watching over handsome but impulsive Alex shouldn't be especially difficult. But the more time they spend together, the harder it gets to keep her professional remove and her heart intact, especially when she discovers the reasons behind his recklessness...not to mention his Cupid fanfiction habit.When another scandal lands Alex in major hot water and costs Lauren her job, she'll have to choose between protecting him and offering him what he really wantsher. But he's determined to keep his improbably short, impossibly stubborn, and extremely endearing minder in his life any way he can. And on a road trip up the California coast together, he intends to show her exactly what a falling star will do to catch the woman he loves: anything at all.

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  The Other Side of Power (eBook, ePUB)

  The psychotherapist and author of Scripts People Live shows readers how to use their personal strengths to achieve what they want. Claude M. Steiner (1935-2017) was a bestselling author and psychotherapist who pioneered the popular field of Transactional Analysis, which involves analysis of an individual's social interactions as a basis for understanding behavior. First published in 1981 and now back in print, The Other Side of Power is the sequel to Dr. Steiner's influential Scripts People Live and feels as relevant today as ever. Power-we all want it, we all need it. We feel its effects in our business, family, and personal relationships. In this accessible volume, Dr. Steiner shows how everyone can be powerful without being power-hungry. Instead of chasing the increasingly empty and improbably "conventional American power dream," as Dr. Steiner puts it, the other side of power-our own personal strengths-can be used to get us what we want. This humane approach is not predicated upon the exploitation or manipulation of others, which leads to power for the few and not the many. In clear terms and with specific examples, the author shows how to draw instead upon individual strengths to neutralize and turn to advantage situations that could otherwise result in feeling of powerlessness. The Other Side of Power teaches us that once we understand the nature of power, we can learn to deal with it more comfortably and use it toward more rewarding personal and professional relationships. Dr. Steiner's classic in psychological theory offers a meaningful and practical guide to harnessing the other side of power.

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  The Book of Lost Friends

  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a dramatic historical novel of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students' lives. "An absorbing historical . . . enthralling."-Library Journal Bestselling author Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual "Lost Friends" advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as newly freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold away. Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous era of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Hannie, a freed slave; Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now destitute plantation; and Juneau Jane, Lavinia's Creole half sister. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following roads rife with vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of stolen inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and siblings before slavery's end, the pilgrimage west reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope. Louisiana, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt-until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, is suspicious of new ideas and new people, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and run-down plantation homes lie the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything.

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  Dominance and Submission Erotica Bundle: A BDSM Boxed Set: Four BDSM Erotica Series - Bondage, Chastity, Discipline, Cuckolding, MFM, Explicit Encounters : BDSM Erotica Boxed Set, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 890min, (USK 18)

  Includes bondage, chastity, discipline, cuckolding, MFM, and explicit encounters!In Dominance and Submission: A sports car. A dominant man. The lure of forbidden pleasures.Klara Fintz suspects the purchase of a sports car is Ron's first symptom of insanity. Then when he admits to having fantasies about watching her with another man, she's sure he's lost his mind. Then he meets a Dom extraordinaire who insists on a first-class tour of forbidden pleasures.In A Domme Can: Elsa has everything that she thought she wanted. Great grades in college, awesome friends who support her every step of the way, an apartment all of her own - oh, and a thriving dominatrix business that has dozens of men across campus crawling to her to indulge their deepest and darkest desires. But something about getting everything she wants, even from legions of willing submissive men, has started to grate on her. She wants something new and different, she craves a challenge.In Undercover Domme Lia's star in the department is rising. She's made a name for herself as one of the best up and coming detectives in the precinct. She's had no problem being undercover before, but is shocked when her next assignment requires her to impersonate a profession dominatrix to ferret out a some of the most complex and devious crimes the precinct has ever encountered. Lia is initially repulsed by the thought of sexually dominating men and can not imagine any real man ever desiring such a thing. This begins to change for her as she interacts with Theo Tracy, a white collar businessman who has the keys to unraveling a criminal empire. Her mark quickly becomes her best customer and, much to her chagrin, the only man she can imagine being with. In The Case of the Slandered Supermodel: Gwen Turisso's modeling career has continues to reach peak after new peak. Her fame is only increased by her improbably wholesome image. Her bubbly yet sheltered public per ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ruby Rivers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/132718/bk_acx0_132718_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 475min

  Long before I met him, I was a fan of his writing, and his merciless wit. He’s bigger than food. (Anthony Bourdain) Eddie Huang is the 30-year-old proprietor of Baohaus - the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the night - and one of the food world’s brightest and most controversial young stars. But before he created the perfect home for himself in a small patch of downtown New York, Eddie wandered the American wilderness looking for a place to call his own. Eddie grew up in theme-park America, on a could-be-anywhere cul-de-sac in suburban Orlando, raised by a wild family of FOB ("fresh off the boat") hustlers and hysterics from Taiwan. While his father improbably launched a series of successful seafood and steak restaurants, Eddie burned his way through American culture, defying every "model minority" stereotype along the way. He obsessed over football, fought the all-American boys who called him a chink, partied like a gremlin, sold drugs with his crew, and idolized Tupac. His anchor through it all was food - from making Southern ribs with the Haitian cooks in his dad’s restaurant to preparing traditional meals in his mother’s kitchen to haunting the midnight markets of Taipei when he was shipped off to the homeland. After misadventures as an unlikely lawyer, street fashion renegade, and stand-up comic, Eddie finally threw everything he loved - past and present, family, and food - into his own restaurant, bringing together a legacy stretching back to China and the shards of global culture he’d melded into his own identity. Funny, raw, and moving, and told in an irrepressibly alive and original voice, Fresh Off the Boat recasts the immigrant’s story for the 21st century. It’s a story of food, family, and the forging of a new notion of what it means to be American. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eddie Huang. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003377/bk_rand_003377_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  From the Corner of the Oval: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 594min

  New York Times best seller What if you lived out the drama of your 20s on Air Force One? "[This] breezy page turner is essentially Bridget Jones goes to the White House." (The New York Times) Recommended Reading: theSkimm • Today • Entertainment Weekly • Refinery29 • Bustle • PopSugar • Vanity Fair • The New York Times Editors’ Choice • Paste In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein is working five part-time jobs and just scraping by when a posting on Craigslist lands her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama's stenographers. The ultimate DC outsider, she joins the elite team who accompany the president wherever he goes, recorder and mic in hand. On whirlwind trips across time zones, Beck forges friendships with a dynamic group of fellow travelers - young men and women who, like her, leave their real lives behind to hop aboard Air Force One in service of the president. As she learns to navigate White House protocols and more than once runs afoul of the hierarchy, Beck becomes romantically entangled with a consummate DC insider, and suddenly the political becomes all too personal. Against a backdrop of glamour, drama, and intrigue, this is the story of a young woman learning what truly matters, and, in the process, discovering her voice. “Who knew the West Wing could be so sexy? Beck Dorey-Stein’s unparalleled access is obvious on every page, along with her knife-sharp humor. I tore through the entire book on a four-hour flight and loved reading all about the brilliant yet hard-partying people who once surrounded the leader of the free world. Lots of books claim to give real insider glimpses, but this one actually delivers.” (Lauren Weisberger, author of The Devil Wears Prada) “Dorey-Stein...writes with wit and self-deprecating humor.” (The Wall Street Journal) “Addictively readable... Dorey-Stein’s s ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Beck Dorey-Stein. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006171/bk_rand_006171_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Love Without Limits: A Remarkable Story of True Love Conquering All , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 463min

  It Doesn’t Take a Perfect Person to Find a Perfect Love Even though he was born without arms or legs, Nick Vujicic created a “ridiculously good life.” But after dating disappointments and a failed relationship, he reached his mid-20s worried that he would never find a woman to love him and share his life. Then Nick met Kanae and everything changed. But even with undeniable chemistry, they would have to navigate twists and turns worthy of a romantic comedy before becoming "one" in marriage. In Love Without Limits, Nick and Kanae tell how they improbably found each other, fell in love, and then fought to overcome skepticism from others about their relationship. Filled with practical insights that will benefit any couple, this inspiring book describes a godly courtship and the early years of the Vujicics’ marriage and parenting journey. Above all, Love Without Limits is an inspiring reminder that when Christ is at the center of a relationship--even with serious challenges--true love will triumph. “Despite my optimism about other parts of life, I decided that love in this world had limits after all. I’d become convinced that no woman would want to marry such an obviously imperfect man as me...” As a boy growing up in Australia, Nick Vujicic could not understand why God had allowed him to be born without limbs and if He would ever bring a woman into Nick’s life. On the other side of the world, Kanae Miyahara - a girl growing up in Mexico - saw dysfunction sadly separate her family. She wondered if a loving, lasting marriage was even possible. Later, when Nick realized that God had a purpose for him, his life took on new meaning. But after a long-term relationship ended in heartache, would he ever find someone to marry? Kanae experienced relationships based on superficial attraction, but she longed to find a mate with strong character and faith - a man who would be a godly husband ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Franklin, Tara Sands, Nick Vujicic. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004017/bk_rand_004017_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  BlacKkKlansman

  In 1979, Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) became the first African-American cop to serve in Colorado Springs. He very improbably drew the duty of engineering an infiltration of the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan... and just as stunningly, with his white Jewish partner (Adam Driver) acting as the front, he brought it off. Spike Lee's audacious, timely, and "based on some fo' real fo' real sh*t" comedy co-stars Laura Harrier, Alec Baldwin, Ryan Eggold, and Topher Grace as David Duke. 128 min. Widescreen, Soundtrack: English.

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