13 Results for : prosecutes
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The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 438min
An unabridged audio collection of the "best of the best" science fiction stories published in 2014 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster, as narrated by top voice talents. In "Marielena" by Nina Allan, an immigrant is haunted by his past, as well as his present and future, in a disturbingly mean-spirited near-future England. A convicted serial killer is sentenced to "rightminding" to cure his neurological disorder, which resulted in the sociopathic murdering of 13 women in "Covenant" by Elizabeth Bear. "The Magician and LaPlace's Demon" by Tom Crosshill follows a powerful AI that discovers the existence of magic and then prosecutes a vendetta against the magicians, who grow more powerful as their numbers dwindle. In "Sadness" by Timons Esaias, a man strikes back, as best he can, against the powerful aliens who conquered Earth long ago. In "Amicae Aeternum" by Ellen Klages, a young girl shares her last morning on Earth with her girlfriend before boarding a generation starship. "Red Lights and Rain" by Gareth L. Powell is a blend of sci-fi and vampire-hunting lore in which the vampires are made, not born. In "The Sarcophagus" by Robert Reed, the maintenance cyborgs of the Great Ship encounter a stranded spacer in a derelict lifesuit from a long ago ship. "In Babelsberg" by Alastair Reynolds showcases a robot whose account of the dead colonists recently found on Titan are challenged by another AI. In "Passage of Earth" by Michel Swanwick, a coroner gets a taste of the Earth invaders' superior intelligence while dissecting a giant worm-like alien. Finally, in "The Colonel" by Peter Watts, Colonel Moore tries to assess the capabilities of the hived human intelligences that have attacked a compound under his command. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Dheere, Nancy Linari. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/atxt/000039/bk_atxt_000039_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Good Fight , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 479min
Against the electrifying backdrop of the 1960s, Danielle Steel unveils the gripping chronicle of a young woman discovering a passion for justice and of the unsung heroes she encounters on her quest to fight the good fight. The daughter and granddaughter of prominent Manhattan lawyers, Meredith McKenzie is destined for the best of everything: top schools, elite social circles, the perfect marriage. Spending her childhood in Germany as her father prosecutes Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials, Meredith soaks up the conflict between good and evil as it plays out in real time. When her family returns to the United States, she begins blazing her own trail, swimming against the tides, spurred on by her freethinking liberal grandfather, determined to become a lawyer despite her traditional, conservative father's objections. She forges a lifelong friendship with a young German Jewish woman whose family died in the concentration camps. And while her grandfather rises to the Supreme Court, Meredith enlists in the most pressing causes of her time, fighting for civil rights and an end to the Vietnam War. From the bright morning of JFK's inauguration through the tumultuous years that follow as America hurtles toward the twin assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, Meredith joins the vanguard of a new generation of women, breaking boundaries socially, politically, and professionally. But when the violence of the era strikes too close to home, her once tightly knit family must survive a devastating loss and rethink their own values and traditions in light of the times. Encompassing the remarkable people Meredith meets, the historic events she witnesses, and the sacrifices she must make, this is the story of a woman changing her world as she herself is changed by it. Beautifully told, brimming with unforgettable moments and characters, The Good Fight is an inspiring, uplifting novel with resonance for our own times./ ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan John Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/011967/bk_reco_011967_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 770min
A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police—from the bestselling author of The Divide NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST On July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner died on a Staten Island sidewalk after a police officer put him in what has been described as an illegal chokehold during an arrest for selling bootleg cigarettes. The final moments of Garner’s life were captured on video and seen by millions. His agonized last words, “I can’t breathe,” became a rallying cry for the nascent Black Lives Matter protest movement. A grand jury ultimately declined to indict the officer who wrestled Garner to the pavement. Matt Taibbi’s deeply reported retelling of these events liberates Eric Garner from the abstractions of newspaper accounts and lets us see the man in full—with all his flaws and contradictions intact. A husband and father with a complicated personal history, Garner was neither villain nor victim, but a fiercely proud individual determined to do the best he could for his family, bedeviled by bad luck, and ultimately subdued by forces beyond his control. In America, no miscarriage of justice exists in isolation, of course, and in I Can’t Breathe, Taibbi also examines the conditions that made this tragedy possible. Featuring vivid vignettes of life on the street and inside our Kafkaesque court system, Taibbi’s kaleidoscopic account illuminates issues around policing, mass incarceration, the underground economy, and racial disparity in law enforcement. No one emerges unsullied, from the conservative district attorney who half-heartedly prosecutes the case to the progressive mayor caught between the demands of outraged activists and the foot-dragging of recalcitrant police officials. A masterly narrative of urban America and a scathing indictme ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dominic Hoffman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005256/bk_rand_005256_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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