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    True Believers: The Tragic Inner Life of Sports Fans, Hörbuch, Digital, 174min
    At last author Joe Queenan has turned his attention to a truly weighty issue: the wide world of sports fans. In True Believers he attempts to answer the bewildering question: What does anyone get out of it? For Yankees and Lakers fans the return on emotional investment is relatively high. But why do people root so passionately for inept teams like the Red Six, the Cubs, and the Phillies? Is it pure tribalism? An attempt to maintain contact with one's vanished childhood? A lifelong Phillies fan, Queenan addresses these other questions, shedding light on the culture and psychology of his fellow fans. "Fans Who Love Too Much" illuminates the plight of men who, like the author, actually resort to psychotherapy to deal with their unhealthy addiction. "Fans Who Misbehave" attempts to deconstruct otherwise solid citizens who, once they enter a stadium, spill beer on women or moon other fans. True Believers is a hilarious but also heartfelt look into the world of those fans who realize that it is, in fact, more than just a game. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Queenan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/000295/bk_aren_000295_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Being In Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 131min
    In this inspirational work, best-selling author and lecturer Wayne W. Dyer shows you how to restore balance in your life by offering nine principles for realigning your thoughts so that they correspond to your highest desires. Imagine a balance scale with one end weighted down to the ground, and the other end—featuring the objects of your desires—sticking up precariously in the air. This scale is a measurement of your thoughts. To restore the same balance that characterizes everything in our universe, you have to take up the weighty thoughts so that they match up to your desires. The seasons reflect the overall harmony of life. For example, winter passes and the blossoms emerge. This is balanced by a need to have the trees rest, so autumn arrives on time and helps the trees ready themselves for another period of repose. This book is dedicated to the idea that we’re a vital component of this creative process and have within ourselves the wherewithal to create all that we want if we recognize and revise out-of-balance thoughts. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wayne W. Dyer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hayh/000269/bk_hayh_000269_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Coaltown Jesus , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 77min
    I would have been here sooner, but traffic on I-55 was awful. Walker shouldn’t be so surprised to find Jesus standing in the middle of his bedroom. After all, he prayed for whoever was up there to help his mom, who hasn’t stopped crying since Noah died, two months ago. But since when have prayers actually been answered? And since when has Jesus been so...irreverent? As astounding as Jesus’ sudden appearance is, it’s going to take more than divine intervention for Walker to come to terms with his brother’s death. Why would God take 17-year-old Noah when half of the residents in his mom’s nursing home are waiting to die? And why would he send Jesus to Coaltown, Illinois, to pick up the pieces? If he really wanted to help, why couldn’t he have kept Noah from dying? In a spare, weighty, and often humorous text, renowned poet Ron Koertge tackles some of life’s biggest questions - and humanizes the savior in a way that highlights the divinity in all of us. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Podehl. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/005409/bk_brll_005409_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions (Book 2)
    "It's Hermione Granger meets Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon meets the Ice Capades meets Mean Girls." -The New York Times "Takes on weighty and relevant questions of gender, ability, leadership, immigration... with intelligence, deftness and precision." -Kirkus Reviews, starred review Now in her Second Year at Pearl Famous Academy of Skate and Sword, Peasprout Chen strives to reclaim her place as a champion of wu liu, the sport of martial arts figure skating. But, with the new year comes new competition, and Peasprout's dreams are thwarted by an impressive transfer student. Yinmei is the heir to the Shinian throne and has fled her country for Pearl. When she excels both academically and socially, Peasprout begins to suspect that Yinmei is not a refugee at all but a spy. When the Empress of Shin threatens to invade the city of Pearl, Peasprout makes a bold decision. To keep her enemy close, Peasprout joins Yinmei's "battleband," a team that executes elaborate skating configurations that are part musical spectacle, part defensive attack. In Henry Lien's Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions, Peasprout guides her battleband on a mission to save Pearl, and learns what it truly means to be a leader.
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    Bad Valentines 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 119min
    Love is one of those four letter words that some people like to throw around - but sometimes love can be one of the meanest and nastiest games in town.  Here are six of the strangest love stories you have ever heard.  Find love and memories in the bag of a mysterious 18 wheeler in "Do-Overs and Detours - Somewhere North of Bigfoot".  Find out just how bitter love can truly taste in "Hard Soup".  Find out why the sea is so darned salty in "The Woman Who Lost Her Tooth While Laughing at the Sea".  Other stories include "Forget About Torture", "Voodoo Chicken Trucker Run-around", "St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Ale", "Moving Lines", and the mind-blowing weirdness that is "Olivia Newton John Love Doll".   "This genre needs new blood and Steve Vernon is quite a transfusion." (Edward Lee, author of Flesh Gothic and City Infernal)"Those who have read Vernon's fiction previously know to expect the unexpected, and to grab onto something firm and weighty as they begin the first few words of one of his stories." (Fearzone)"Steve Vernon is a hard writer to pin down. And that's a good thing." (Dark Scribe Magazine) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Burka. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/122867/bk_acx0_122867_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Importance of Being Extraordinary, Hörbuch, Digital, 124min
    Taped on location in Hawaii, this audio program provides a rare opportunity to listen in on a profoundly moving dialogue between two of the three “most spiritually influential people alive" (Watkins Magazine). Dr. Wayne W. Dyer and Eckhart Tolle delve into everything from ancient spiritual texts to contemporary pop culture as they tackle questions we all wrestle with, such as Who am I? What is real? and What is the meaning of life? Yet even as they discuss weighty topics such as the economy and addiction, the mood remains graceful, loving, and even humorous. Through their combined wisdom and perception, Wayne and Eckhart bring you inspired lessons for an exhilarating spiritual awakening. This, according to Eckhart, “consists of relinquishing identification with the conditioned mind through the cultivation of awareness.”Although these lessons are full of rich, philosophical insight, they are also very practical and can easily be applied to the individual listener and the world at large. For, as Wayne explains, when we “create a world of extraordinary people who look beyond what they were programmed to become, we impact the entire consciousness of this planet." Language: English. Narrator: Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Eckhart Tolle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hayh/000296/bk_hayh_000296_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs Pop-Up
    From renowned pop-up masters Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart comes an awe-inspiring tribute to the world's most beloved extinct animals and their 180-million-year reign on our planet. Open this book and a massive T. REX springs out, flashing a startling jawful of jagged teeth. Turn the next spread and a ravishing raptor unfurls and appears to fly off the edge of the page. Inside the amazing ENCYCLOPEDIA PREHISTORICA: DINOSAURS are "shield bearers" in full-body armor, creatures with frilly headgear, and weighty, long-necked giants. There are even amusing tidbits on the history of paleontology itself — like a pop-up version of a Victorian New Year's dinner in the belly of a dinosaur model, or a pair of scientists locked in a literal tug-of-war over bones. Full of fascinating facts and lighthearted good humor, this breathtaking book includes fascinating, up-to-the-minute information about popular dinosaurs as well as many lesser-known varieties. With each of six spreads featuring one spectacular, large pop-up as well as booklets of smaller pop-ups and text, ENCYCLOPEDIA PREHISTORICA: DINOSAURS is a magnificent display of paper engineering and creativity — an astonishing book that will be read, admired, and treasured forever.
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    Run like Hell: The Cassidy Chronicles, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 201min
    See how it all got started! See the first steps on their epic journey across the shattered countries of America!JM Leitch, author of The Zul Enigma, said this: "Run like Hell doesn't fall into the weighty adventure sci-fi type of novel I usually choose - it is also a lighthearted futuristic romance - but having said that, it's beefed up with good science and is a well-constructed and well-written book. The main characters are charming and original and dazzle the reader with their quick and witty repartee."Set 100 years in the future, the book opens with the wedding of two female friends - Kendra (Ken) Foster-Briggs, exotic actress and film producer and Aiyana Cassidy (Cass), half Irish/half Native American graduate from MIT with a doctorate in optical engineering, to Derek James, a man of independent means.The only problem is, instead of the reverend marrying them, he pulls a gun on them, forcing them to run like hell. Surviving a second attack, the two ladies leave Derek behind, and after working out Cass is the target, Ken arranges new identities and a safe place for them both to lay low until they can sort out the mess they find themselves in. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jane Weatherstone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/213449/bk_acx0_213449_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Gospel According to Breaking Bad , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 345min
    Breaking Bad showrunner Vince Gilligan wants to believe that heaven exists, but he "can't not" believe there's a hell. Throughout this fascinating show depicting the shocking life and tragic times of Walter White, Gilligan offers his singular glimpse into a morally amoral universe, a place not unlike the world we live in. The Gospel According to Breaking Bad takes a thoroughly Christian look at AMC's popular and critical TV hit. Covering such weighty theological issues like identity, death, justice, power, fate, free will, and the gospel itself, listeners will be coerced into thinking more deeply about the universal questions Breaking Bad asks. In sections covering the colors and metaphors of Breaking Bad, fans will also come to a further appreciation for one of the most well-done TV series in recent history. More than just an entertaining RV ride through the Albuquerque desert, Breaking Bad presents two unique characters, Walter White and Jesse Pinkman, each on notably different trajectories in their lives. Are either redeemed by series' end? What do our reactions to their stories tell us about ourselves?The Gospel According to Breaking Bad seeks to tell the old, old story through one of the most visceral and alluring stories of the present. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alex Hyde-White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/015833/bk_acx0_015833_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Thirsty: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 517min
    Hello, I'm Nina Parker...and I'm an alcoholic."For Nina, it's not the weighty admission but the first steps toward recovery that prove most difficult. She must face her ex-husband, Hunt, with little hope of making amends, and try to rebuild a relationship with her angry teenage daughter, Meagan. Hardest of all, she is forced to return to Abbey Hills, Missouri, the hometown she abruptly abandoned nearly two decades earlier - and her unexpected arrival in the sleepy Ozark town catches the attention of someone - or something - igniting a two-hundred-fifty-year-old desire that rages like a wildfire.Unaware of the darkness stalking her, Nina is confronted with a series of events that threaten to unhinge her sobriety. Her daughter wants to spend time with the parents Nina left behind. A terrifying event that has haunted Nina for almost 20 years begins to surface. And an alluring neighbor initiates an unusual friendship with Nina, but is Markus truly a kindred spirit or a man guarding dangerous secrets?As everything she loves hangs in the balance, will Nina's feeble grasp on her demons be broken, leaving her powerless against the thirst? The battle between redemption and obsession unfold to its startling, unforgettable end. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Abby Craden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002072/bk_rand_002072_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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