How do I add a single song from iTunes on a different computer

I have the limit of 5 computers with a single iTunes account. And I have 5 iPhones and 3 iPads. All of them use their own library on a desktop iMac back at home in Germany. However, I travel very often to see family in the U.S. Today I purchased an audiobook from Audible and dropped it in my iTunes on my MacBook Air that I have with me in California. I want to ADD just that book to my iPhone 5 so that I can listen to it (the problem could be a single song, but in this case it just happens to be book). I don't want to re-sync, I just want to add on book to my other media on my iPhone 5. All of my devices are marked "Add manually" on the mother iTunes on the iMac at home. But when I try this with any of the other 4 computers I am prompted to erase everything just to add one book. This is not a piracy issue or a copyright issue. I clearly own the book and iTunes knows it. I can download or play new media on any of the five computers. That's not the problem. I need to be able to transfer to a portable device. There should be a way to do this. I can't think of any legal reason why Apple would prevent this.

Allan ... okay now I guess I am making an issue of it. I don't mean to be obnoxious, but since you seem to know what you're talking about, let me pick you're brain a little further.
I soon as I try to add the single song or book, I get the message that this device is synced to another computer. Now isn't it true that iTunes knows exactly what computer it's synced to and that the device is on the same iTunes account that this computer and the other computer are on? Sorry about the run-on sentence. This iPhone sitting here with me is ONLY associated with my iTunes account no matter what computer it's connected to. If that computer is also associated with that "Apple ID" account, doesn't that mean that Apple knows that this device must necessarily me "owned" by me?

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