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    Basket Case, Hörbuch, Digital, 304min
    Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, “plotting to resurrect my newspaper career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff.” Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead in a fishy-smelling scuba “accident”, might be the stiff of Jack’s dreams - if only he can figure out what happened. Standing in the way are (among others) his ambitious young editor, who hasn’t yet fired anyone but plans to “break her cherry” on Jack; the rock star’s pop-singer widow, who’s using the occasion of her husband’s death to re-launch her own career; and the soulless, profit-hungry owner of the newspaper, whom Jack once publicly humiliated at a stockholders’ meeting. With clues from the dead rock singer’s music, Jack ultimately unravels Jimmy Stoma’s strange fate - in a hilariously hard-won triumph for muckraking journalism, and for the death-obsessed obituary writer himself. “Always be halfway prepared” is Jack Tagger’s motto - and it’s more than enough to guarantee a wickedly funny, brilliantly entertaining novel from Carl Hiaasen. Language: English. Narrator: Carl Hiaasen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002779/bk_rand_002779_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    American Outrage: A Novel, Hörbuch, Digital, 380min
    Jake Carlson, a correspondent for the television news show American Outrage, inhabits a world of sensational trials and crazed celebrities. One of the nation's top television journalists, he's used to dragging himself through the dirt to get to the truth. When his adopted son, Sam, asks him to use his muckraking talents to find his birth mother, Jake is stunned by the ugly secrets he unearths: an international crime syndicate, a horrifying child-trafficking ring, and a corrupt politician, the patriarch of an old New York financial dynasty. Initially galvanized by a career-making exclusive, Jake and his son become the victims of brutal violence and the targets of Jake's fellow reporters, pressuring them for their story. Concerned for the survival of his family, Jake realizes some sins of the past should never be uncovered. Filled with an insider's knowledge of tabloid news and the experience of an adopted son seeking his biological parents, American Outrage proves to be Tim Green's best and most personal thriller yet. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Brick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/000030/bk_hach_000030_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Shame of the Cities
    The Shame of the Cities ab 18.99 € als Taschenbuch: The Famous Muckraking Expose of Corruption in America?s Cities: St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh Philadelphia and New York. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    Back to Blood: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1248min
    A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay - with officer Nestor Camacho on board - Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor; the black police chief; a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day, loin lock by night - until lately, the love of Nestor's life; a refined, and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin' little brother; a billionaire porn addict; crack dealers in the 'hoods; "de-skilled" conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair; "spectators" at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that night's orgy; yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers at an "Active Adult" condo; and a nest of shady Russians. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous best-selling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lou Diamond Phillips. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/001074/bk_hach_001074_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 486min
    In the spirit of David McCullough's Brave Companions, this anthology of popular American history presents the stories of nine incredible Irish immigrants as written by nine contemporary Irish-Americans. Rosie O'Donnell, for instance, the adoptive mother of five, tells the story of Margaret Haughery, known as "Mother of the Orphans"; filmmaker and activist Michael Moore writes about the original muckraking journalist, Samuel McClure; and celebrated actor Pierce Brosnan writes about silent film director Rex Ingram. Some of the figures profiled are well known, others have stories that are less often told; all are inspiring. Compelling history mixed with moving and personal reflection, this collection of portraits is at once uniquely intimate and surprisingly immediate. More than one in 10 Americans claims Irish ancestry and, with its celebrity contributors, Nine Irish Lives will have strong appeal for those listeners. It is also, though, a timely portrait of shared humanity. These are stories about immigrants - and in the tales of revolutionaries and visionaries, caretakers and unsung heroes, Nine Irish Lives reminds us of the values and the people that have shaped America. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alana Kerr Collins, Alan Smyth. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/001982/bk_high_001982_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Elimination Night: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 552min
    Sasha King dreams of being a serious novelist and living the good life with her surfer boyfriend, Brock. But her day job as assistant producer of Project Icon, a once-mighty ratings juggernaut that’s recently taken a hit in viewership, keeps her working nonstop. She’s got her hands full with Icon’s two new celebrity judges, entrepreneur-actress-singer Bibi Vasquez ("Crew to be forbidden to make eye contact with Artist AT ALL TIMES," reads her contract) and Joey Lovecraft, a horny but spiritual rock legend who doesn’t even own a TV (it goes against the teachings of his guru, Tibetan high lama Yutog Gonpo). As the competition among the young would-be stars - including foul-mouthed, opera-trained Mia Pelosi and apple-cheeked yodeler Jimmy Nugget ("It’s like Roy Rogers made love to a Bee Gee!") - heats up, Sasha finds herself constantly putting out fires. A date with a mysterious stranger makes her rethink her devotion to Brock. And then an unexpected revelation rocks her world. Add a frighteningly smooth host (Wayne Shoreline), muckraking gossip columnists, and powerful people named Nigel, and you have the pure madcap listening pleasure of Elimination Night, a book so searingly accurate about the talent show machine that it had to be written anonymously. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cristina Panfilio. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004636/bk_brll_004636_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Evolution of American Investigative Journalism , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 562min
    Beginning with America’s first newspaper, investigative reporting has provided journalism with its most significant achievements and challenging controversies. In The Evolution of American Investigative Journalism, James L. Aucoin provides listeners with the first comprehensive history of investigative journalism.Aucoin begins by discussing in detail the tradition of investigative journalism from the colonial era through the golden age of muckraking in the 1900s and into the 1960s. Subsequent chapters examine the genre’s critical period from 1960 to 1975 and the founding of IRE by a group of journalists in the 1970s to promote investigative journalism and training methods. Through the organization’s efforts, investigative journalism has evolved into a distinct practice with defined standards and values.Included is a thorough account of IRE’s role in the controversial Arizona Project. The Arizona Project brought national attention and stature to the fledgling IRE and was integral to its continuing survival.Emerging investigative reporters and editors as well as students and scholars of journalism history will benefit from the detailed presentation and insightful discussion provided in this audiobook."Well researched, soundly grounded in theory, well organized, and compellingly written.” (Fred Blevens, coauthor of The Twilight of Press Freedom)“This much needed text fills a historical hole of significant proportion.” (Lloyd Chiasson, author and editor of Three Centuries of American Media) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Roelofs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160156/bk_acx0_160156_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Evil That Men Do , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 817min
    Robert Gleason brings his A game to The Evil That Men Do, a terrorism thriller audiobook steeped with equal parts terror and wit.  Income inequality and the offshore hoarding of illicit black funds have reached such extremes that the earth’s democracies are in peril. The oligarchs are taking over. The people worldwide, however, are rising up, and they demand that the UN seize and redistribute all that illegal filthy lucre. But it will not be easy. The world’s oligarchs will not go gentle. Mikhail Putilov, Russia’s strongman; J. T. Tower, the American president; and Wahid al-Waheed, the Saudi ambassador to the United States will do anything to stop and destroy this global expropriation moment - even if it means nuking the UN.  Only three people can stop them: the crusading, muckraking, investigative journalist Jules Meredith; ex-CIA agent Elena Moreno; and her boyfriend, the ex-Special Forces operative turned cybersecurity billionaire John C. Jameson. If these three fail, democracies around the world will die, and the age of the great global oligarchs will begin. If these the three friends fail, the nuclear fireballs will blaze, the UN will burn, and a new dark ages will ensue. People everywhere must hold their breath and wait. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Graybill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/003494/bk_aren_003494_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Last Days of the Condor , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 572min
    Look in the mirror: You're nobody anybody knows. You know pursuing the truth will get you killed. But you refuse just to fade away. So you're designated an enemy of the largest secret national security apparatus in America's history. Good guys or bad guys, it doesn't matter: All assassins' guns are aimed at you. And you run for your life, branded with the code name you made iconic: Condor. Everyone you care about is pulled into the gunsights. The CIA star young enough to be your daughter - she might shoot you or save you. The savvy political aide who lets love trump the law. The lonely woman your romantic dreams make a fugitive. The Middle Eastern child warrior you mentored into a master spy. Last Days of the Condor is the bullet-paced, ticking-clock saga of America on the edge of our most startling spy-world revolution since 9/11. Set in the savage streets and Kafkaesque corridors of Washington, DC, shot through with sex and suspense, with secret-agent tradecraft and full-speed action, with hunters and the hunted, Last Days of the Condor is a breakneck saga of America's secrets from muckraking investigative reporter and author James Grady. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Berkrot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001923/bk_aren_001923_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sick Puppy, Hörbuch, Digital, 319min
    When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Idealistic, independently wealthy and pathologically short-tempered, Twilly has dedicated himself to saving Florida's wilderness from runaway destruction. He favors unambiguous political statements - such as torching Jet-Skis or blowing up banks - that leave his human targets shaken but re-educated. After watching Stoat blithely dump a trail of fast-food litter out the window, Twilly decides to teach him a lesson. Thus, Stoat's prized Range Rover becomes home to a horde of hungry dung beetles. Which could have been the end to it had Twilly not discovered that Stoat is one of Florida's cockiest and most powerful political fixers, whose latest project is the "malling" of a pristine Gulf Coast island. Now the real Hiaasen-variety fun begins.... Dognapping eco-terrorists, bogus big-time hunters, a Republicans-only hooker, an infamous ex-governor who's gone back to nature, thousands of singing toads and a Labrador retriever greater than the sum of his Labrador parts - these are only some of the denizens of Carl Hiaasen's outrageously funny new novel. Brilliantly twisted entertainment wrapped around a powerful ecological plea, Sick Puppy gleefully lives up to its title and gives us Hiaasen at his riotous and muckraking best. Language: English. Narrator: Edward Asner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002938/bk_rand_002938_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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