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    Fresh Air, Cam Simpson, Flynn McRoberts and Peter Sarsgaard, Hörbuch, Digital, 50min
    Journalists Cam Simpson and Flynn McRoberts and actor Peter Sarsgaard on this edition of Fresh Air. Simpson and McRoberts collaborated (along with journalist Liz Sly) on a three part special series in the Chicago Tribune. The series, "Tossed Out of America", is about the crackdown on Muslims who are illegal immigrants in the US. They were required to register with the government after the September 11th attacks. Now many of them are facing deportation or have already been deported. Actor Peter Sarsgaard portrays editor Chuck Lane in the new film Shattered Glass. Previously, Sarsgaard played opposite Hilary Swank and Chloe Sevigny in the film Boys Don't Cry. (Broadcast Date: November 19, 2003) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/031119/rt_whyy_031119_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fresh Air, Greg Mortenson and Andrew Meldrum, Hörbuch, Digital, 46min
    Activist Greg Mortenson and journalist Andrew Meldrum on this edition of Fresh Air. Greg Mortenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Central Asia Institute. Since 1993, the organization has opened schools and provided an education for over 4000 girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The schools promote literacy, women's vocational skills, public health and environmental awareness. Mortenson splits his time between Central Asia and Montana. Andrew Meldrum's the Guardian's Zimbabwe correspondent. Currently, he covers the upcoming presidential election in Zimbabwe and the crackdown that the media faces as election time nears. In the past few weeks, he's written a series of articles focusing on the bill President Mugabe signed, requiring all journalists working in Zimbabwe to have a license from the Minister of Information. (Broadcast Date February 7, 2002) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/020207/rt_whyy_020207_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In Bed with Susie Bright 60: Protecting Corporate Porn, Hörbuch, Digital, 32min, (USK 18)
    Susie returns to one of her favorite topics this week: the increasing corporate ownership and distribution of pornography. Some of America's biggest and best-known companies, including AT&T, General Motors, and hotel chains like Marriott, Westin, and Hilton, have quietly become some of the biggest distributors of pornography. But, as Susie explains, big corporate influence probably won't protect the creators of porn if the Bush administration keeps its promises to crackdown on the industry. Susie also makes her case for the sexiest Oscar pick (hint, think Halle and Billy Bob). In her Try this at Home mailbag, Susie follows the ups and downs of erectile dysfunction to explain why some men only get soft-ons instead of hard-ons. Don't forget to send your completely confidential sex questions and feedback to susie@audible.com. For Adults Only: Explicit language. Must be 18 years of age or older to purchase. Language: English. Narrator: Susie Bright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/suzy/020226/pf_suzy_020226_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fresh Air, Barry Hannah and Andrew Meldrum, Hörbuch, Digital, 39min
    Writer Barry Hannah and journalist Andrew Meldrum on this archive edition of Fresh Air. A native of Mississippi, Barry Hannah has been writing short stories and novels set in the South for over thirty years. Truman Capote once called him "the maddest writer in the U.S.A." His first book, the autobiographical novel Geronimo Rex won the William Faulkner Prize for writing. He followed that with Airships, a collection of short stories now considered a classic. He continued to publish more short story collections and novels, though his 2001 novel Yonder Stands Your Orphan was his first in ten years. Journalist Andrew Meldrum is the Guardian's Zimbabwe correspondent. He covered the presidential election in Zimbabwe and was jailed for 33 days for violating the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, which punishes journalists for publishing "falsehoods." The law was one of several instituted by President Mugabe in a crackdown on the media. Original broadcast dates: July 31, 2001, May 23, 2002) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/020621/rt_whyy_020621_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    State of Emergency , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 573min
    Three a.m. on a frozen winter’s night, only hours after the results of the general election. A small craft skims the Thames, closing in on London’s most exclusive new riverside hotel. Onboard is a lone assassin, his target - Britain’s most powerful new politician. In a nation threatened by extremist jihadis and torn apart by civil unrest, Vernon Rolt has just been catapulted into government on an extreme antiterror platform. Rolt’s plans for a zero-tolerance crackdown on ethnic violence has touched a popular nerve. But his move into politics has made him some unlikely enemies - British ex-servicemen, once his most committed supporters who now want him dead. Ex-SAS trooper turned MI5 operative Tom Buckingham is undercover inside Rolt’s organisation. His mission: to neutralise the rogue assassins for whom he also has become a target and to discover the deadly intentions of Rolt’s new financier, shadowy Crimean oligarch Oleg Umarov. But all too soon, Tom gets caught up in a far more devastating plot which will change the political landscape of Europe - forever.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Buchanan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002059/bk_rhuk_002059_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dear Lina , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 547min
    England is recognisable on the surface: the buildings are the same, there is still a government, the tube still runs through London. For Lina, however, the England she knew when she was little, when her mum was still around, has disappeared completely. Arriving home one day to find her mum gone, Lina finds in her place a leather-bound notebook containing hundreds of pages of her mum’s handwriting: letters of advice and memories, all the things her mother would no longer have the chance to teach her. Through these pages, Lina learns that her mother, Eve, left in the middle of the night to avoid being arrested. The government crackdown on immigrants meant that Eve either had to flee or risk the same fate as her friends, friends who were taken away from their homes and families and never made it back to their country of birth. Taking Eve’s advice, Lina leaves her life behind and sets off on a journey north to Scotland to find freedom and, she hopes, her mother. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amélie Roch, Dervla Kirwan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aopu/000037/bk_aopu_000037_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hellhole: Awakening: The Hellhole Trilogy, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1142min
    After declaring his independence from the corrupt Constellation, rebel General Adolphus knows the crackdown is coming. Now he needs to pull together the struggling Hellhole colony, the ever-expanding shadow-Xayan settlement, and his connections with the other Deep Zone worlds. Even then, he doubts his desperate measures will be enough. Diadem Michella Duchenet has collected a huge space fleet led by Commodore Escobar Hallholme, son of the hero who originally defeated Adolphus. They expect resistance from the General's rebels, but who could possibly stand up to such a mighty fleet? Adolphus knows he’s running out of time, but he still has some hope - the shadow-Xayans have banded together to defend their sacred planet with "telemancy", but can they discover new powers to protect all the stored alien lives on the already devastated world? And when all hope seems lost, the awakened Xayans reveal information hidden even from their own followers - the existence of a bigger threat that makes even the Constellation fleet seem insignificant. Disaster has come for General Adolphus and Hellhole...and this time there is no escape. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Brick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001572/bk_aren_001572_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Beyond All Weapons , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 140min
    Firsten Guide is a tough, wise-cracking rebel leader who’s light years ahead of his time - and about to lead his crew into a battle that’s Beyond All Weapons. He and his fellow colonizers of Mars have faced a brutal crackdown engineered by Earth’s tyrannical government. But the resourceful Firsten has developed an extraordinary new fuel that enables him and his hardy band to escape into space - and time.Escape, however, is not enough. Firsten wants revenge. But the universe is full of unexpected twists and turns. Just as Prometheus flew too close to the sun, Firsten will soon discover that when you attempt to break the laws of physics, you can get burned.Also includes the science fiction adventures “Strain”, the story of a space war’s brutality and one man’s struggle to keep a secret under the pain of torture; and “The Invaders”, in which the distant crystal mines are under attack until a technician crystallizes a unique strategy to undermine the attackers. “A thrilling space adventure...the terror and excitement builds through to the end.” (Publishers Weekly) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Noelle North, JIm Meskimen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gala/000082/bk_gala_000082_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Carbon Diaries 2017 (eBook, ePUB)
    It's over a year since her last diary and Laura Brown is now in her first year of university in London, a city still struggling to pull itself together in the new rationing era. Laura's right in the heart of it; her band, the dirty angels, are gigging all over town until a police crackdown on rioting students forces them out of the city. After a brief exile on her parents' farm, the angels set off in a battered VW bus on a tour of Europe with the fabulous Tiny Chainsaws in the Distance.The tour soon unravels, however, in an increasingly dramatic sequence of events that include drought in Europe and Africa, a tidal-wave of desperate immigrants, a water war in the Middle East and a city-wide face off with the army in London. Not to mention infidelity, betrayal, friendship, love and massive courage.How long can Laura distance herself from the struggle? And more importantly, how can she keep her style and hope alive in a world on the edge of madness?
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    Mickey Cohen and the West Coast Mob: Washington's Crackdown on Vegas and Los Angeles 1950-1960 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 344min
    Mickey Cohen, who died in 1976, was a colorful, feared West Coast gangster-gambler who knew the biggest names in Hollywood including the Rat Pack, was a confidant of Bugsy Siegel, a friend of Las Vegas' late Liz Renay and on first names with the biggest guys in the Mafia, plus Frank Sinatra, Richard Nixon and Billy Graham. Brad Lewis' book about Cohen draws from thousands of resources - a virtual treasure trove of Mafia-related books, articles and interviews. Written by a tough and knowledgeable insider, Lewis tells the whole Mickey Cohen story during the period when he was involved in the McClellan Hearings in Washington and the beginnings of the Senate Select Committee on Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, also known as the Kefauver hearings. All the whispered anecdotes, the news items and the underside of the crime rackets where Mickey operated are in this book, open to scrutiny. From Bugsy Siegel to Lucky Luciano and Albert Anastasia to Meyer Lansky and Carlos Marcello, Mickey knew them well and worked closely with them for many years. This is Mickey Cohen! Inside and out! (This book is an abridged version of Hollywood's Celebrity Gangster.) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John C. Zak. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/017648/bk_acx0_017648_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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