Mangled

Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 881min

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts, lunatics, and exotic-disease sufferers. In its two and a half centuries of service, there was hardly an epidemic or social catastrophe - or groundbreaking scientific advance - that did not touch Bellevue. David Oshinsky, whose last book, Polio: An American Story, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine from butchery and quackery to a professional and scientific endeavor, and the growth of a civic institution. From its origins in 1738 as an almshouse and pesthouse, Bellevue today is a revered public hospital bringing first-class care to anyone in need. With its diverse, ailing, and unprotesting patient population, the hospital was a natural laboratory for the nation's first clinical research. It treated tens of thousands of Civil War soldiers, launched the first civilian ambulance corps and the first nursing school for women, pioneered medical photography and psychiatric treatment, and spurred New York City to establish the country's first official board of health. As medical technology advanced, "voluntary" hospitals began to seek out patients willing to pay for their care. For charity cases it was left to Bellevue to fill the void. The latter decades of the 20th century brought rampant crime, drug addiction, and homelessness to the nation's struggling cities - problems that called a public hospital's very survival into question. It took the AIDS crisis to cement Bellevue's enduring place as New York's ultimate safety net, the iconi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fred Sanders. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004832/bk_rand_004832_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Abigail's: An ABDL Story, Complete Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 464min, (USK 18)

Part 1: Spankings help a naughty girl be good. The words had chilled Cole when he'd heard the young Abigail utter them, her teeth chattering as she recovered from exposure to below-freezing temperatures. With her mangled bicycle in the back of his truck, Cole had taken on more than he had ever dreamed when he'd stopped to help the lost and lonely 19-year-old. Her teddy bear peeking out from her backpack paired with the thickly padded diaper she wore beneath her short skirt told him everything he needed to know to make his heart long to make her his. Raised by her stepbrother, Abigail had an upbringing she'd never managed to grow out of. Even though she was now in college, her inside self was still a baby girl. It filled her with shame. Her stepbrother's abuse filled her with shame, too - the harsh words, the spankings and humiliation. She loved him, and she owed him everything. She owed him her life. Part 2: Paul's got a dirty little secret. Waking up to his special girl's stepbrother, Paul, trying to kill him wasn't the way Cole thought he'd be starting his Sunday morning. Having that stepbrother on his knees, doing things to Cole he'd never experienced before, is not the way Cole thought he'd be finishing Sunday night, but he did. In between those moments, Cole takes care of his sweet little Abigail in all the special ways he knows how. He makes sure her tummy is full of good, wholesome food; helps with bathtime; and gives his sweet little Abigail a red-bottomed, tearful correction when she throws a very naughty tantrum. On top of all that, he helps Abigail learn about her own body and the pleasures he can give her. Part 3: Someone's gonna have a "first time", but it's not Abigail. With the things that Paul has been doing to him, Cole is suffering a crisis of identity. He hates Paul for making him want him - but he still wants him. And by the end of part 3, Cole's going to have him. Part 4: Abigail lose ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: D. L. Mann. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/059247/bk_acx0_059247_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Manual for Men , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 442min

Manual for Men is for men who are in the arena, warriors for Christ and His Church. It is for men who battle daily for their souls and for their family. It is often a struggle to shed the sins and vices the world offers men, but it’s a battle we must fight and win.In Part I, Bishop Thomas Olmsted calls for Catholic men to step up and “into the breach” in service to God, their families, parishes, and wider communities. In the course of his exhortation, Olmsted unveils:How being a Christian man is far more than physical prowess or worldly powerWhy the world and the Church desperately need men - real men - to fight for them in spiritual combatThe vital importance of prayer and the sacraments in the life of every manWhy fatherhood, fully understood, is so crucial for every manThe value of devotion to a patron saint (complete with 10 manly suggestions)Most importantly, how men have the perfect model of man in Jesus Christ, and how we can follow his example.In Part II, Cook presents a treasure trove of prayers, church teachings, and writings from the saints that serve as a tremendous source of inspiration for men seeking to become better men of God. It is at once an essential guide and a profound book of prayers designed specifically for men.Now, perhaps more than ever, men need to be men. But what it means to be a man has been twisted into a pale and mangled image of true manhood. Manual for Men serves as a field guide and instruction manual for those husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers who would become real men of God - men who protect, physically and spiritually, those entrusted to them; men who sacrifice, pray, fight, love, and live by the example of Christ.There is a battle for our souls, our families, our world, and Our Lord calls us men to fight. Are you ready to answer the call? Will you accept Bishop Olmsted’s plea to engage in the battle that is r ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin O'Brien. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/148503/bk_acx0_148503_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Interludes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 170min

The Shamrock IncidentMarissa Carmichael wasn’t usually a klutz, but she was having a bad day, in a hurry, and lost her balance. Arms flailing, her forehead connected with the side of a display case. One minute she was crumpled on the floor, the next she was secure in the arms of a handsome stranger.Trey Cleary didn’t think his day could get any worse, but after picking up his side-view mirror from the ground, he was wrong. On a mission to do something about it, he located the shop matching the name on the back of the van that mangled his BMW and went inside to inform the owner of the issue, only he was sidetracked by a beautiful woman who burst into the room like an out-of-control whirling dervish. For such a petite looking person she made a huge entrance, then took one mother of a wipe-out.For Marissa and Trey, this just might be the one time it pays to be unlucky.The PromiseThe year Veronica turned 22 changed her life. She’d graduated from San Diego State University, married the handsome Lieutenant Carter Weis, and was widowed six months after the happy nuptials.Captain Quinn Alstrom of the US Coast Guard was eager to start his newest post; however, the excitement had nothing to do with the beautiful surroundings of Key West, and everything to do with his best friend’s wife.Will Quinn’s surprise arrival in Veronica’s life re-spark the fire in the vivacious woman he remembered? Or will the memory of her fallen husband stop the two of them from finding happiness?Southern PersuasionBrodie Hartley - the true definition of a rugged rascal. A rascal who hadn’t been home in a long, long time. But when his friend Trey Cleary asked him to be the best man at his upcoming nuptials, Brodie hopped on his Harley and headed to North Carolina. Darby Cleary had always been more than a little infatuated with her brother’s best friend. Only, she was too young for him back in the day. Howeve ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tor Thom, Charley Ongel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/152399/bk_acx0_152399_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Sazerac Blues (eBook, ePUB)

First in an all-new suspense series! Here's an excerpt: Around the sides of the thick brown leather, Ash O'Malley made out a fleshy chin and thinning, brown hair threaded with gray covered in a thin layer of dirt and debris. She back-pedaled along the narrow strip of the path shed just traipsed down, losing her balance as she registered her boot print on the poor man's now-crushed his nose. She made a noise that sounded somewhere between a gag and a scream as she clutched her chest. This could not be happening. Not today. Then, his image clicked in her mind. She recognized the man, and her midsection rolled, pitched, and somersaulted over itself. She rose from her rump and crab-crawled, her hands plopping into her own footfalls, clearly visible next to several other tracks in the boggy soil. The man…the obviously dead man was Dr. Cockcroft, director of the Audubon Society. And now she'd stepped on her dead almost boss. "Nope, this cannot be happening," she whispered. She closed her eyes and pinched herself. A soft breeze brushed her overheated skin and the faint sounds of sluggish water siphoned through the tangled thoughts careening through Ash's head, bringing a much-needed stillness. She forced herself to look at the scene in front of her. Dr. Cockcroft lay half-buried in a slight ditch just off the pathway. Besides his trodden face-she winced and suppressed the urge to gag-he was bruised and bloody. Like he'd fallen from a great height. And his scalp, mangled…Ash stumbled even as her gaze searched out more potential cottonmouths. Seeing none, she gave in to her desire and fell forward to retch up the gumbo she'd eaten that morning-the gumbo she'd saved so she'd have a good meal to start her day.She kicked her feet into the dirt, struggling for purchase before she shot back the way she'd come, not unlike a sprinter. She fumbled for her phone, dirt and grit coating her hip as she struggled to pull it from her pants pocket.Her fingers shook but she managed to press 9-1-1. Her breath broke in a sob as the operator answered."A-a b-body. There's a dead body."She slid down the mangrove's trunk, heedless of its short, painful barbs digging through her blouse and into her skin. Her butt hit the boggy soil and harder roots and she winced, unable to take her eyes off the man. Ash forced herself to listen to the dispatcher's questions. She ignored the faint hum of gathering insects as they closed in around her sweat-drenched form. She closed her burning, too-dry eyes, unwilling to watch the bugs land on Dr. Cockcroft's exposed face. Ash understood the circle of life but that didn't mean she wanted to witness it this close up. She gave her location, head bent, forehead to her knees, phone mashed to her ear. Her fingertips tingled and her body felt heavy, biological responses to the scare. She stared at a leaf, a perfect specimen, and wondered idly if she was going into shock.

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