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In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul.

The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And D-503, the Builder, is the ideal citizen, at least until he meets I-330, who opens his eyes to new ideas of love, sex and freedom.

The Russian Classics Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 12 classic novels and short stories by Russian authors, read by an award-winning cast of narrators. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Tolstoy; Dostoyevsky; Chekhov; Gogol; Turgenev; and more.

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining island archipelagos, pores over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith.

Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is … complicated. So when her real dad - a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago - suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw.

In We Who Wrestle with God, Jordan Peterson guides us through the ancient, foundational stories of the Western world, analyzing the Biblical accounts of rebellion, sacrifice, suffering and triumph that stabilize, inspire and unite us, culturally and psychologically.

Wenn der Spieleinsatz dein Leben ist, zählt nur noch eins: gewinnen.Ein fesselnder Psychothriller von der Autorin von Silent Child (Silent Child. Nur dein Kind kennt die Wahrheit), Saving April und The Broken Ones. Perfekt für Fans von Gillian Flynn, Lisa Jewell und Paula Hawkins. Bei diesem spannenden Hörbuch sprechen Alice Dwyer als Effie und Sabin Tambrea als Ben. Das perfekte Paar. Die perfekte Ehe. Das perfekte Spiel. Effie und Ben May haben alles. Sie sind erfolgreich, schön und glamourös.

Cadence Sinclair Eastman weiß, dass ihre Familie etwas vor ihr verbirgt. Jeden Sommer verbringen die Sinclairs auf ihrer Privatinsel mit den luxuriösen Häusern vor der Küste Massachusetts. Doch vor zwei Jahren ist etwas passiert, woran sich Cadence nicht erinnern kann und worüber niemand mit ihr spricht. Weder Mirren und Johnny. Noch Gat, der Außenseiter, der Cadence auf eine Weise berührt hat, die ihr den Atem raubt, und der seit zwei Jahren auf keine ihrer Nachrichten reagiert.

Wenn wir durch Liebe, Herzschmerz, Freude, Elternschaft, Freundschaft, Alter, Trauer, Neuanfänge – kurz, das Leben – reisen, brauchen wir auch einen Reiseführer. Als kürzlich innerhalb eines einzigen Jahres bei Glennon Magersucht und bei Amanda Brustkrebs diagnostiziert wurde und Abbys geliebter Bruder starb, waren sie zum ersten Mal alle gleichzeitig völlig verzweifelt. Also wandten sie sich dem einzigen zu, was ihnen immer geholfen hat, ihren Weg zu finden: tiefgründige, ehrliche Gespräche mit anderen.

A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends-the Liars-whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth.

Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don't sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life - eating, drinking, and reproducing - the purpose of sleep remained elusive.

A heart-wrenching new novel from best-selling author Rebecca Yarros that examines the risks we take for love, the scars too deep to heal, and the endings we can't bring ourselves to see coming.

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.

There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with listeners, considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt or helplessness? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much?

There's a reason We Are Legion was named Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016: Its irresistibly irreverent wit! Bob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking forward to a life of leisure. The first item on his to-do list: Spending his newfound windfall. On an urge to splurge, he signs up to have his head cryogenically preserved in case of death. Then he gets himself killed crossing the street. Waking up 117 years later, Bob discovers his mind has been uploaded into a sentient space probe with the ability to replicate itself.

Belly has only ever been in love with two boys, both with the last name Fisher. And after being with Jeremiah for the last two years, she’s almost positive he is her soul mate. Almost. While Conrad has not gotten over the mistake of letting Belly go, Jeremiah has always known that Belly is the girl for him. So when Belly and Jeremiah decide to make things forever, Conrad realizes that it’s now or never—tell Belly he loves her, or lose her for good.

We Need Your Art is a revolutionary reprogramming of everything we have been taught and told about being a creative, removing the shame and fear we may feel at dubbing ourselves artists and inviting us to create proudly, with celebration. This book is a warm hug, a pep talk, the wise teacher you always wanted, the loving parent you needed, and the fire in your belly that you need to get roaring.

Das Finale der Winter Dreams-Reihe von Ayla Dade als Hörbuch. Die leidenschaftliche Eiskunstläuferin Paisley steht vor der größten Herausforderung ihres Lebens: Sie will olympisches Gold gewinnen – und dabei den Schmerz der Trennung von ihrer großen Liebe Knox überwinden. Am liebsten würde sie nie wieder ein Wort mit ihm wechseln, doch das Schicksal hat andere Pläne. Denn um ihren Traum von der Gründung eines Sportinternats nach ihrer Karriere zu verwirklichen, muss sie ausgerechnet mit ihm zusammenarbeiten.

We, the Drowned is the story of the port town of Marstal, Denmark, whose inhabitants sailed the world from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War. The novel tells of ships wrecked and blown up in wars, of places of terror and violence that continue to lure each generation. The result is a brilliant seafaring novel, a gripping saga encompassing industrial growth, the years of expansion and exploration, the crucible of the first half of the twentieth century, and most of all, the sea.

The Bobiverse is a different place in the aftermath of the Starfleet War, and the days of the Bobs gathering in one big happy moot are far behind. There’s anti-Bob sentiment on multiple planets, the Skippies playing with an AI time bomb, and multiple Bobs just wanting to get away from it all. But it all pales compared to what Icarus and Daedalus discover on their 26,000-year journey to the center of the galaxy.