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    The Hard Way Home: Alaska Stories of Adventure, Friendship, and the Hunt (Outdoor Lives) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 353min
    A lifelong Alaskan, Steve Kahn moved at the age of nine from the “metropolis” of Anchorage to the foothills of the Chugach Mountains. A childhood of berry picking, fishing, and hunting led to a life as a big-game guide. When he wasn’t guiding in the spring and fall, he worked as a commercial fisherman and earned his pilot’s license, pursuits that took him to the far reaches of the Alaskan wilderness. He lived through some of the most important moments in the state’s history: the 1964 earthquake (the most powerful in US history), the Farewell Burn wildfire, the last king crab season in Kodiak Island waters, the Exxon Valdez oil spill and cleanup, and even the far-reaching effects of the 9/11 attacks. The essays in The Hard Way Home offer a view of Alaska that is at once introspective and adventurous. Here we find the state’s plants, animals, people, geography, politics, and culture considered from an intimate perspective, yielding hard-earned lessons about conservation, sustainability, and living well. An irrepressible guide, Kahn invites listeners to share his experiences and discoveries and to consider questions about a place, and a life, that are disappearing. The book is published by University of Nebraska Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks."Alaskan Kahn has written a series of heartfelt, yet understated, essays about life on the Last Frontier that will appeal to nature lovers and thoughtful outdoorsmen and outdoorswomen." (Booklist)"Perfect for outdoor enthusiasts, anyone wishing to learn about life in the wilderness, and those interested in Alaska history." (Pacific Northwest Quarterly)"A fine read for anyone who wants to understand Alaska better...highly recommended." (Midwest Book Review) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Malhiot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/164900/bk_acx0_164900_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pablo Escobar's Story, Part 2: Narcos at War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 625min
    Pablo Escobar was a mama’s boy who cherished his family and sang in the shower, yet he bombed a passenger plane and formed a death squad that used genital electrocution.Most Escobar biographies only provide a few pieces of the puzzle, but this action-packed audiobook reveals everything about the king of cocaine.Mostly translated from Spanish, Part 2 contains stories untold in the English-speaking world, including:How Pablo’s craving for a teen volleyball player caused his brother-in-law’s death.How half of the Medellín Cartel’s big bosses fell.The fate of the survivors of the Palace of Justice attack.The state’s role in the death of the popular presidential candidate Galán.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Randal Schaffer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160750/bk_acx0_160750_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Her Father's Daughter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 782min
    Gene Stratton-Porter (1863 - 1924) was a naturalist, photographer and author. This novel, set in 1920s California, tells the tale of Linda Strong who shares her father’s love for the beauty of nature in California. When her parents suddenly pass away, she is left with her sister Eileen, a huge house, and much wealth. Eileen goes on a spending spree, dissipating the inheritance at an alarming pace. When Linda eventually finds out, she meets with their banker and finds a way to earn money in a manner that she enjoys. The narrative includes romance, murder, and delightful descriptions of the state’s fauna and flora. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anne Makoto. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/001313/bk_yurt_001313_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    I Cannot Play with You , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 628min
    While Lyme disease won’t kill her, the man who infected her just may. Sick with a disease that doesn’t officially exist, a state director for a US senator struggles to make sense of her boss’ suicide, as she investigates the suspicious activities of the state’s other US senator and his sidekick, a nefarious rheumatologist - all while her best friend helps her manage her new and confusing symptoms of chronic Lyme. When she begins to suspect that her home, workplace, and car are littered with listening devices installed by some evildoer, she wonders if she’s crazy. After all, her best friend seems to think she is. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Garrett Howard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/144036/bk_acx0_144036_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 510min
    A provocative examination of race, gun laws, and violence that exposes how the state of Florida bungled the Trayvon Martin case through new interviews and revelations about the trial.Many thought the election of our first African-American president put an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America had moved into a post-racial era of equality. Then, on the night of February 26, 2012, a black seventeen-year-old boy walking to a friend’s home carrying only his cell phone, candy, and a fruit drink was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch coordinator.The public, especially African-American journalists and activists, clamored for the media to pay attention to the killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman. The July 2013 trial of Zimmerman for murder captivated the nation, as did his eventual and shocking acquittal. Any belief that we lived in a post-racial America was shattered.In her provocative and landmark audiobook Suspicion Nation, Lisa Bloom, who covered the trial from gavel to gavel, posits that none of this was a surprise: Our laws, culture, and blind spots created the conditions that led to Trayvon Martin’s death and made George Zimmerman’s acquittal by far the most likely outcome. A trial lawyer herself, Bloom details how the “winnable case was lost” through new in-depth interviews of key trial participants. The only nonwhite juror tells her story of loneliness and isolation during the trial. The state’s medical examiner describes a scientific theory he wanted to raise during his testimony but could not. Rachel Jeantel, the state’s star witness and the last person to speak to Trayvon Martin, reveals how poorly the state prepared her to testify and what went through her mind when she was on the stand. And a new examination of Trayvon’s school suspensions raises troubling questions about racial profiling against the teenager at his own high school.And the injustice continues, as more shootings, ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lisa Bloom. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/005736/bk_brll_005736_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Best of Car Talk, My Brother, The Idiot, January 31, 2015, Hörbuch, Digital, 53min
    This week on The Best of Car Talk, Ray decides to play Stormchaser, during one of the worst blizzards in Our Fair State’s history. Fortunately, we have an eyewitness account of his bold, daring, and completely idiotic adventure—even his dog was scared! Elsewhere in the post-blizzard landscape, Susan is wondering if she can just leave her car buried in snow until the July 4th thaw; and Kristopher may need Lord Kelvin himself to convince his girlfriend to turn on her Golf’s heater. Also, can Beth do anything do protect her white Camry from the local berry-eating mockingbird that’s using it as a commode? All this and more, this week on The Best of Car Talk. [Broadcast Date: January 31, 2015] Language: English. Narrator: Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/cart/150131/rt_cart_150131_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rogue: An Ike Schwartz Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 464min
    Ruth Harris, Sheriff Ike Schwartz’s fiancée, is involved in a near-fatal automobile accident. But Ike is convinced the crash was rigged. Even though he is embroiled in a close election, has no jurisdiction over the investigation, and can find no support in the usual law enforcement community, he places himself on leave and goes rogue to investigate and seek the person or persons responsible for putting Ruth in a coma.His efforts attract help from unexpected and irregular sources. Old friends in the covert community step up, and his loyal staff in Picketsville provide undercover assistance. The journey leads him to state’s rights organizations and then to several zealots and dissident academics before it finally ends at home in Picketsville.A Poisoned Pen Press Mystery ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lloyd James. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004420/bk_blak_004420_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Where I Was From , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 388min
    In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons. Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and her book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gabrielle De Cuir. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005845/bk_adbl_005845_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Land Remembered , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 899min
    Patrick D. Smith here tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that the land has been exploited far beyond human need. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history. A best-selling novel of Florida historical fiction, A Land Remembered was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and received the state’s highest literary award from the Florida Historical Society, the 1986 Tebeau Prize for the Most Outstanding Florida Historical novel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Guidall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/005389/bk_reco_005389_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Stars at Knight: Sons of Texas, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 425min
    Mason Richardson is a 40-year-old oil and gas engineer whose life gets overturned when he meets a billionaire with an unexpected secret in Vegas. After receiving a gift from the older oilman, Mason is thrust into a world where Texas folklore and the idiosyncrasies of the Lone Star State’s history unfold to reveal secret orders, mystical powers, and an unexpected destiny he never chose. As he discovers his purpose, he navigates lawyers, the FBI, and the Ghost of a Headless Horseman killed by the Texas Rangers. A contemporary urban fantasy novel, The Stars at Knight in a similar style to The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher or The Iron Druid series by Kevin Hearne. The The Stars at Knight is the first of a five-book series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Toby Tomplay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/225485/bk_acx0_225485_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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