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    Hellblazer: Rise and Fall
    If a billionaire falls out of the sky and dies...who gives a damn?! A wealthy man plummets from the sky and is gruesomely skewered on a church spire. Bizarrely, angel wings are attached to his back. More such deaths follow until, hallelujah, it's raining businessmen. Detective Aisha Bukhari is stumped by this strange phenomenon, until she's visited by her childhood friend, occult investigator John Constantine, who discovers a link between the falling elite and a shocking moment in his and Aisha's misspent youth. How are these killings tied to the first death on John's hands? How does this involve heaven and hell? Even if this is kind of John's fault, will Constantine be happy to let a few more rich bastards fall from the sky, like a vindictive Robin Hood? DC Black Label presents Hellblazer: Rise and Fall-an occult mystery from the all-star team of writer Tom Taylor (DCeased) and artist Darick Robertson (The Boys)! Collects all three installments of the degenerate and debauched miniseries along with a variant cover gallery and behind-the-scenes artwork.
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    Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1056min
    Uncensored, uncontained, and thoroughly demented, the memoirs of Paul Krassner are back in an updated and expanded edition. Paul Krassner, "father of the underground press" (People magazine), founder of the Realist, political radical, Yippie, and award-winning stand-up satirist, shares his stark-raving adventures with the likes of Lenny Bruce, Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer, Ken Kesey, Groucho Marx, and Squeaky Fromme, revealing the patriarch of counterculture’s ultimate, intimate, uproarious life on the fringes of society. Whether he’s writing about his friendship with controversial comic Lenny Bruce, introducing Groucho Marx to LSD, his investigation of Scientology, or John Kennedy’s cadaver, no subject is too sacred to be skewered by Krassner. And yet his stories are soulful and philosophical, always authentic to his iconoclastic brand of personal journalism. As Art Spiegelman said, "Krassner is one of the best minds of his generational to be destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked - but mainly hysterical. His true wacky, wackily true autobiography is the definitive book on the '60s." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Letwin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004247/bk_adbl_004247_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Known, Hörbuch, Digital, 298min
    The dazzling, inimitable Molly Ivins is back, with her own personal Hall of Fame of America's most amazing and outlandish politicians, the wicked, the wise, the witty, and the witless, drawn from more than 20 years of reporting on the folks who attempt to run our government (in some cases, into the ground). Who Let the Dogs In? takes us on a wild ride through two decades of political life, from Ronald Reagan, through Big George and Bill Clinton, to our current top dog, known to Ivins readers simply as Dubya. But those are just a few of the political animals who are honored and skewered for our amusement. Ivins also writes hilariously, perceptively, and at times witheringly of John Ashcroft, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, H. Ross Perot, Tom DeLay, Ann Richards, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, and the current governor of Texas, who is known as Rick "Goodhair" Perry. Following close on the heels of her phenomenally successful Bushwhacked and containing an up-to-the-minute introduction for the campaign season, Who Let the Dogs In? is political writing at its best. Language: English. Narrator: Molly Ivins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000457/bk_rand_000457_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Known , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 769min
     The dazzling, inimitable Molly Ivins is back, with her own personal Hall of Fame of America’s most amazing and outlandish politicians - the wicked, the wise, the witty, and the witless - drawn from more than 20 years of reporting on the folks who attempt to run our government (in some cases, into the ground). Who Let the Dogs In? takes us on a wild ride through two decades of political life, from Ronald Reagan, through Big George and Bill Clinton, to our current top dog, known to Ivins listeners simply as Dubya. But those are just a few of the political animals who are honored and skewered for our amusement. Ivins also writes hilariously, perceptively, and at times witheringly of John Ashcroft, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, H. Ross Perot, Tom DeLay, Ann Richards, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, and the current governor of Texas, who is known as Rick “Goodhair” Perry. Following close on the heels of her phenomenally successful Bushwhacked and containing an up-to-the-minute Introduction for the campaign season, Who Let the Dogs In? is political writing at its best.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anna Fields. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000238/bk_bkot_000238_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Eighth Plague , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 581min
    Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Terry Riley can't seem to catch a break. As a senior political reporter for the Washington Post, he's received death threats and taken on his share of scumbags, but this day trumps it all.He's been skewered by corrupt DC politician Senator Daniel Pritchard, served a court summons from his ex-wife, and discovered his girlfriend up and left, taking most of his stuff with her. Yep, a great day, but things are about to get worse.Riley decides to cover the first International Summit on the Environment in Mexico City. Despite still being a wanted man in Mexico, he burns to uncover the deceit surrounding Pritchard and heads south of the border. But when he arrives, he learns that thousands of Chiapas rebel villagers in the Mexican Badlands are being wiped out by a sadistic general and a mysterious epidemic, and he's landed smack in the middle of it all.Forced to align himself with a rebel leader to stay alive and to get his story, Riley is thrust into a web of political corruption, illegal drugs, and genocide. But this isn't new territory for jaded and cynical Riley, and he's about to get the story of his career...if he lives that long. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alan Philip Ormond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/158086/bk_acx0_158086_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Just Breathe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 806min
    Chicago cartoonist Sarah Moon tackles life's real issues with a healthy dose of sharp wit in her syndicated comic strip Just Breathe. As Sarah's cartoon alter ego, Shirl, undergoes artificial insemination, her situation begins to mirror Sarah's own difficult attempts to conceive. However, Sarah's dreams of the future did not include her husband's infidelity: snag number two in Sarah's so-called perfect life. With Chicago - and her marriage - in the rearview mirror, she flees to the small Northern California coastal town where she grew up, a place she couldn't wait to leave. Now she finds herself revisiting the past - an emotionally distant father and the unanswered questions left by her mother's death. As she comes to terms with her lost marriage, Sarah encounters a man she never expected to meet again: Will Bonner, the high-school heartthrob she'd skewered mercilessly in her old comics. Now a local firefighter, he's been through some changes himself. But just as her heart is about to reawaken, Sarah discovers she is pregnant - with her ex's twins. It's hardly the most traditional of new beginnings, but who says life and love are predictable...or perfect? The winds of change have led Sarah here. Now all she can do is just close her eyes...and breathe. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sandra Burr. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/000677/bk_brll_000677_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 469min
    A vivid narrative that re-creates the life of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome's first modern poet, and follows a young man's journey through a world filled with all the indulgences and sexual excesses of the time, from doomed love affairs to shrewd political maneuvering and backstabbing - an accessible, appealing look at one of history's greatest poets. Born to one of Verona's leading families, Catullus spent most of his young adulthood in Rome, mingling with the likes of Caesar and Cicero and chronicling his life through his poetry. Famed for his lyrical and subversive voice, his poems about his friends were jocular, often obscenely funny, while those who crossed him found themselves skewered in raunchy verse, sudden objects of hilarity and ridicule. These bawdy poems were disseminated widely throughout Rome. Many of his poems recalled his secret longstanding affair with the seductive older Clodia. While Catullus and Clodia made love in the shadows, the whole of Italy was quaking as Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus forged a doomed alliance for power. During these tumultuous years, Catullus increasingly turned to darker subject matter, and he finally composed his greatest work of all: a poem about the decoration on a bedspread, which forms the heart of this biography, a work of beauty that will achieve immortality and make Catullus a legend. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Grady. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005313/bk_harp_005313_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Harm's Way: A Horror Comedy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 309min
    A pack of teens. A cabin in the woods. And a killer with a love for slapstick. “A dark, comic ode to those great 80's horror movies that lowered the bar while at the same time raising it” -Nick Perry   An unlikeable cast of teenage clichés, out for a week in a cabin in the middle of nowhere. What could possibly go wrong?   Murder, that's what!   Hey, who left that dead girl skewered on the porch?   All are suspect, as the slayings become more creative. And more ridiculous.   Hell of a way to spend a vacation.   Will they find out who the killer is in time to stop this madness, or will this mean the end for all?   Harm’s Way is a horror comedy originally penned by Sam Raimi’s twin brother, Aaron Elvis Raimi, who died at birth. It reeks of classics like Evil Dead, Silent Night, Deadly Night, and Student Bodies.  Can a psychopath really fit in an outhouse hole?   Can you re-capitate someone with a welder’s torch?   Will everyone really see your dirty pillows?   The answers to those age-old questions are here.   For an extra bit of fun, the text contains a code that reveals the killer! Maybe you can figure it out before these dummies.   Buy this audiobook now for a bloody pie in the face.   ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David S. Dear. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/068959/bk_acx0_068959_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Switching Perspective: A Gender Swap Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 62min
    Carl has had the week from hell, and when a weird old lady tries to talk to him at the bus stop on a Friday night, it is the last straw. Maybe, he is a little rude to her, but so what? She seems nuts, anyway, fingers covered in silver rings in bizarre shapes and hair skewered with a wicked-looking pin.“You wouldn’t last one day as a lady, you mark my words” she says ominously.All he wants is a quiet weekend to relax, but the first thing he hears when he wakes up the next morning is his girlfriend demanding to know who the hell he is and what he’s done with her boyfriend.“Abby, I’m your boyfriend. Remember? Do you remember?”“How can you be my boyfriend when you’re a woman?” demanded Abby, her voice frosty now.Carl still had no idea what was going on. “A...woman?” He noticed for the first time that his own voice was different. It was higher. Glancing down at his hands again, he realized what exactly was different about them. They looked more delicate. They looked more feminine.Now, Carla is about to embark on a weekend of figuring out how to handle her new body, and after the initial bumpy landing, her girlfriend Abby is only too happy to join her in that project. But when the weekend ends, will she change back? And does she even want to? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Claudia Kirk. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/220463/bk_acx0_220463_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Campaign , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 215min
    On February 1, 2016, the date of the Iowa caucus, David Breskin began a project that would carry him through the American presidential election. An ex-journalist, Breskin set out to "cover" this most strange and historic election, under the pressure of a reporter's daily deadline, by writing one poem a day. He created a deliberately awkward, rollickingly restrictive form - seven beats per line, 11 lines per poem - and, noting our preference for the convenience of sound-bite news and junk-food polls over more nutritious fare, called them "7-11s". The result is Campaign, a fierce, prescient, oddly moving and scathingly funny book. No one is spared (not Ted, not Marco, not Carly, not Hillary nor Bernie nor The Donald, not the Pope nor Scalia nor even Jeb!) as Breskin shines a searching light on the hubris and folly of our would-be leaders. Yet he also captures what is fine about America and Americans, even under siege. "Smashed glass of freedom, a toast / for this sad ballad country / that orphans its immigrants." Campaign is a record of the election unfolding in real time: its distractions and psychodramas laid bare, its bit-part players of single news cycles recycled, the silliness of its silly season skewered. All the while, the drumbeat of essential issues sounds throughout these 77 beat poems, reminding us what was - and remains - at stake. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Breskin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/030568/bk_adbl_030568_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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