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  The Best of All Possible Worlds , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 640min

  Karen Lord’s debut novel, the multiple-award-winning Redemption in Indigo, announced the appearance of a major new talent—a strong, brilliantly innovative voice fusing Caribbean storytelling traditions and speculative fiction with subversive wit and incisive intellect. Compared by critics to such heavyweights as Nalo Hopkinson, China Miville, and Ursula K. Le Guin, Lord does indeed belong in such select company—yet, like them, she boldly blazes her own trail. Now Lord returns with a second novel that exceeds the promise of her first. The Best of All Possible Worlds is a stunning science-fiction epic that is also a beautifully wrought, deeply moving love story. A proud and reserved alien society finds its homeland destroyed in an unprovoked act of aggression, and the survivors have no choice but to reach out to the indigenous humanoids of their adopted world, to whom they are distantly related. They wish to preserve their cherished way of life but come to discover that in order to preserve their culture, they may have to change it forever. Now a man and a woman from these two clashing societies must work together to save this vanishing race—and end up uncovering ancient mysteries with far-reaching ramifications. As their mission hangs in the balance, this unlikely team—one cool and cerebral, the other fiery and impulsive—just may find in each other their own destinies... and a force that transcends all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Miles. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011187/bk_adbl_011187_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Eddie and the Gun Girl , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 102min

  Eddie and the Gun Girl is the true story of the shooting of Philadelphia Phillies All-Star first baseman Eddie Waitkus by a deranged female admirer in 1949. While such incidents would become commonplace in ensuing years, as stars of every persuasion would surround themselves with bodyguards and live in increasing fear of unannounced assailants, the events of that June 14 at the elegant Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago were unprecedented. A study of the phenomenon of celebrity stalking by the United States Secret Service years later cited the unprovoked assault on Eddie by young Ruth Steinhagen as ground zero in the age of the obsessed fan. In a superbly sculpted tale of surpassing human resolve that plays on the edge of myth, Mark Kram, Jr., whose book Like Any Normal Day was selected as the winner of 2013 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, walks us back to the world that Eddie and Ruth inhabited in the 1940s and 1950s. Fictionalized by Bernard Malamud in his classic baseball yarn, The Natural, which would be later adapted for the 1984 film starring Robert Redford, this lurid crime drew together two strangers whose lives intersected in a blaze of insanity that changed them both forever. Ruth would become steeped in the guesswork that attended the treatment of psychological illness during that era. Eddie would stage a courageous comeback with the help of a young woman he fell in love with on Clearwater Beach. America was held spellbound as the story of Eddie and the so-called Gun Girl unfolded. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bronson Pinchot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019133/bk_adbl_019133_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 445min

  “The only way this war is going to end is if the American people truly understand what we have done in their name.” (Kelly Dougherty, executive director of Iraq Veterans Against the War)In spring 2008, inspired by the Vietnam-era Winter Soldier hearings, Iraq Veterans Against the War gathered veterans to expose war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. Here are the powerful words, images, and documents of this historic gathering, which show the reality of life in Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq Veterans Against the War argues that well-publicized incidents of American brutality like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the massacre of an entire family of Iraqis in the town of Haditha are not the isolated incidents perpetrated by “a few bad apples,” as many politicians and military leaders have claimed. They are part of a pattern, the group says, of “an increasingly bloody occupation.” "Here is the war as it should be reported, seeing the pain, refusing to sanitize an unprovoked attack that has killed over one million people. All over America are victims who have returned from this conflict with hideous wounds - wounds that turn the lives of the entire family upside down. And the American people are not seeing this. Until now.Full cast of narrators includes David Ledoux, Anthony Swofford (foreword), and Vikas Adam. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Sutherland, Julia Farhat, Edoardo Ballerini, Suzanne Toren, Peter Ganim, Stephen Bel Davies, Matthew Dudley, Jonathan Davis, Lameece Issaq, Anthony Haden Salerno, Karen Chilton, Gabra Zackman, Lauren Fortgang, Anthony Bowden, Ira Rosenberg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/007256/bk_adbl_007256_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Rebel Without a Rogue: The Penningtons, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 511min

  A woman striving for justice....Fianna Cameron has devoted her life to avenging the death of her father, hanged as a traitor during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Now, on the eve of her 30th birthday, only one last miscreant remains: Major Christopher Pennington, the English army officer who not only oversaw her father’s execution, but falsely maligned his honor.Fianna risks everything to travel to London and confront the man who has haunted her every nightmare. Only after her pistol misfires does she realize her sickening mistake: The Pennington she wounded is far too young to be the man who killed her father.A man who will protect his family at all costs....Rumors of being shot by a spurned mistress might burnish the reputation of a rake, but for Kit Pennington, determined to add to his family’s honor by winning a seat in parliament, such salacious gossip is nothing but a nightmare.To regain his good name, Kit will have to track down his mysterious attacker and force her to reveal the true motivation behind her unprovoked assault. Accepting the mistress of an acquaintance as an ally in his search is risky enough, but when Kit begins to develop feelings for the icy, ethereal Miss Cameron, more than his political career is in danger. For, Kit is beginning to suspect that Fianna Cameron knows far more about the shooting - and the reasons behind it - than she’s willing to reveal.As their search begins to unearth long-held secrets, Kit and Fianna find themselves caught between duty to family and their beliefs in what’s right. How can you balance the competing demands of loyalty and justice, especially when you add love to the mix? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alex Wyndham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/208143/bk_acx0_208143_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Spirit of Prophecy: Crime Mystery with a Paranormal and Sci-Fi Twist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 896min

  What if your past came back to haunt you and stalked the present until it became your worst nightmare? What would you do if you discovered you’re engaged to a murderous psychopath about to go serial? J.J. Hughes explores the lengths to which we will go to keep the past from overshadowing the present and destroying the future. Spirit of Prophecy is a highly original, cutting edge, metaphysical crime mystery with a breathtaking paranormal twist. Years ago, a terrible atrocity occurred in Apache Indian territory in New Mexico, and now the players take up their positions to execute a horrific revenge. If you liked A.G. Riddle’s The Atlantis Gene, you’ll love this.Evil awakens, and Rosetta Barrett, a psychic detective, must settle old scores and heal ancient wounds. She has the highest international security clearance with the Elite Paranormal Intelligence Services [EPIS], but she can’t tell her family or the courts what she really does. Divorce was hell. She lost custody of her children because of her paranormal beliefs and abilities, and now she’s fighting to get them back. Prominent American event rider Juliet Jermaine loses her Olympic horse, Gothic, and his rider, Isabella, also dies in a horrific unprovoked road rage attack. Barrett is investigating Isabella’s murder. She has a suspect, but gathering sufficient evidence to nail a conviction is proving elusive. If Rosetta fails to convict the criminal and end the horrific cycle of revenge and retribution, the past is set to explode into the present with dire and explosive consequences. Time is running out....Listen to Spirit of Prophecy and get onboard a metaphysical rollercoaster from the future to the past and back! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Addis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/118822/bk_acx0_118822_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The American Trajectory: Divine or Demonic? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 716min

  In The American Trajectory: Divine or Demonic?, David Ray Griffin traces the trajectory of the American empire from its founding through to the end of the 20th century. A prequel to Griffin's Bush and Cheney, this audiobook demonstrates with many examples the falsity of the claim for American exceptionalism, a secular version of the old idea that America has been divinely founded and guided.The introduction illustrates the claims for divine providence and American exceptionalism from George Washington to the book Exceptional by Dick and Liz Cheney. After pointing out that the idea that America is an empire is no longer controversial, it then contrasts those who consider it benign with those who consider it malign. The remainder of the audiobook supports the latter point of view.The American Trajectory contains episodes that many listeners will find surprising:The sinking of the Lusitania was anticipated, both by Churchill and Wilson, as a means of inducing America's entry into World War IThe attack on Pearl Harbor was neither unprovoked nor a surpriseDuring the "Good War", the US government plotted and played politics with a view to becoming the dominant empireThere was no need to drop atomic bombs on Japan either to win the war or to save American livesUS decisions were central to the inability of the League of Nations and the United Nations to prevent warThe US was more responsible than the Soviet Union for the Cold WarThe Vietnam War was far from the only US military adventure during the Cold War that killed great numbers of civiliansThe US government organized false flag attacks that deliberately killed EuropeansAmerica's military interventions after the dissolution of the Soviet Union taught some conservatives (such as Andrew Bacevich and Chalmers Johnson) that the US interventions during the Cold War were not primarily defe ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/012891/bk_blak_012891_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1250min

  This book by the world expert on Pearl Harbor blows the top off a 70-year cover-up, reporting for the first time on long-suppressed interviews, documents, and corroborated evidence. The bottom line thesis: that the attack December 7, 1941 was not unexpected or unprovoked. Nor was it the reason that Franklin Roosevelt declared a war that resulted in massive human slaughter. Instead, as this book establishes in exhaustive detail, Pearl Harbor was permitted as a public relations measure to rally the public - and the blame shifted from the White House, where it belonged, to the men on the ground, who were unprepared for the attack. The author is Percy Greaves (1906-1984). For 70 years, his documents have been the primary source of revisionist scholarship on Pearl Harbor. The documents were prepared under his leadership by the minority on the congressional commission that investigated Pearl Harbor from 1945 to 1946, because he acted as the main counsel for the Republican minority. He conducted in-person, detailed, comprehensive interviews with all the main players at Pearl Harbor and many people in the security apparatus. The contents of these interviews are corroborated by military records. More than any other person, he was qualified to speak on this subject. He possessed encyclopedic knowledge and had access to research available to no one else. However, for many reasons, the documents were not published. He continued to work on this book for many years before his death in 1984. At that point, his wife, Bettina Bien Greaves, took up the project. The result is absolutely astonishing. The scenario it describes is not unknown even in our own times. A brutal attack on American soil comes from a foreign source. Death and destruction are everywhere. The nation is furious and thirsty for vengeance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Millian Quinteros. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/051715/bk_acx0_051715_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Gangster in New Orleans: The Stories of Robert Charles and His Fight to Death , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 172min

  The bloodiest week New Orleans has known since the massacre of the Italians in 1892 was ushered in Monday, July 24, by the inexcusable and unprovoked assault upon two colored men by police officers of New Orleans. Fortified by the assurance born of long experience in the New Orleans service, three policemen, Sergeant Aucoin, Officer Mora, and Officer Cantrelle, observing two colored men sitting on doorsteps on Dryades street, between Washington Avenue and 6th Streets, determined, without a shadow of authority, to arrest them.One of the colored men was named Robert Charles, the other was a lad of 19 named Leonard Pierce. The colored men had left their homes, a few blocks distant, about an hour prior, and had been sitting upon the doorsteps for a short time talking together. They had not broken the peace in any way whatever, no warrant was in the policemen's hands justifying their arrest, and no crime had been committed of which they were the suspects. The policemen, however, secure in the firm belief that they could do anything to a Negro that they wished, approached the two men, and in less than three minutes from the time they accosted them attempted to put both colored men under arrest.The younger of the two men, Pierce, submitted to arrest, for Officer Cantrelle, who accosted him and put his gun in the young man's face, ready to blow his brains out if he moved. The other colored man, Charles, was made the victim of a savage attack by Officer Mora, who used a billet and then drew a gun and tried to kill Charles. Charles drew his gun nearly as quickly as the policeman and began a duel in the street, in which both participants were shot. The policeman got the worst of the duel and fell helpless to the sidewalk. Charles made his escape. Cantrelle took Pierce, his captive, to the police station, to which place Mora, the wounded officer, was also taken, and a man hunt at once instituted for Charles, the wounded fugitive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Drama Simpson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/205208/bk_acx0_205208_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  My Dog Made Me Submit To Him (eBook, ePUB)

  It was a vicious, unprovoked assault. My dog chased away my date, knocked me down and raped the spirit out of me. I fought as best I could, but he was a big dog and I stood no chance. If I didn’t want to end up a statistic with my throat ripped out just because I told Buddy no, I was going to have to submit. Like it or not, I was now his rape receptacle. Forced to give my life to him. Excerpt: As a single 18-year-old college girl I didn't get out much. I was too wrapped up in my studies to give men much more than a passing glance. Oh sure, I wanted kids just as much as the next lady. But after having practically single-handedly raised my three brothers and sisters, kids weren't something I was looking forward to. So, I stuck to my dorm, keeping to myself and burying my energy into my books. I wanted to become a nurse. But I knew I had a long way to go. My only company was Buddy, a large, black German Shepherd. He was a good dog, but got a little boisterous around male company. I think he was a bit possessive if you want to know the truth. That all came to a head one fine Saturday night. I was right in the middle of my most fertile period and my ovaries were starting to ache a bit, whispering that my clock was ticking. I told them to shut up, but they wouldn't listen. So, knowing I wasn't going to get much studying done with my hormones tickling my belly, I called up this new guy I met in Calculus. He was a tall, handsome fella who I could actually see myself having a nice life with. He took me out to a nice restaurant, grabbed me some flowers and took me dancing afterward. It was honestly the best time I've had in a long, long time and made me completely rethink my life's goals. Like I said, he was good looking. And smooth. After the dance, I invited him up to my dorm for some coffee (and maybe more if you know what I mean). But the second he stepped in the place, Buddy went ape-shit insane. He's barked at strangers before - hell, he'll bark at a fucking squirrel - but never had he acted like this. I'm talking baring fangs, spittle flying from his mouth and the deepest growl I'd ever heard coming from low in his throat. Mark was absolutely petrified. His face was ashen and he looked like he was ready to bolt. I actually think Buddy would've chased him had he ran.

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  Sons of Anarchy: Season 2

  Hang on for this high-octane thrill ride that goes even deeper into the gritty world of an outlaw biker gang! Reeling from the combined pressure of an ATF crackdown and an unprovoked murder, the Sons face a far more deadly threat from a cold-blooded enemy who will stop at nothing to drive them out of Charming - for good. As Jax and Clay square off over questions of leadership and loyalty, lines are drawn and chaos reigns as the club threatens to destroy itself - from the inside out.

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