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  The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 679min

  The intrigue began with a triple homicide in a luxury apartment building just steps from the Champs-Elyseés, in March 1887. A high-class prostitute and two others, one of them a child, had been stabbed to death - the latest in a string of unsolved murders targeting women of the Parisian demimonde. Newspapers eagerly reported the lurid details, and when the police arrested Enrico Pranzini, a charismatic and handsome Egyptian migrant, the story became an international sensation. As the case descended into scandal and papers fanned the flames of anti-immigrant politics, the investigation became thoroughly enmeshed with the crisis-driven political climate of the French Third Republic and the rise of xenophobic right-wing movements. Aaron Freundschuh's account of the "Pranzini Affair" recreates not just the intricacies of the investigation and the raucous courtroom trial, but also the jockeying for status among rival players - reporters, police detectives, doctors, and magistrates - who all stood to gain professional advantage and prestige. Pranzini's case provides a window into a transformational decade for the history of immigration, nationalism, and empire in France. Published by Stanford University Press. "An intriguing tale, told with insight...a good read about the great city in a time of transition." - John Merriman Yale University "This well-reasoned analysis is eminently readable and accessible for those with absolutely no background in the period." - Publishers Weekly "A fascinating history of late nineteenth-century Paris as it was becoming a cosmopolitan seat of a transnational empire. Its parallels with our own time are chilling." - Tyler Stovall, University of California ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Burlinson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104702/bk_acx0_104702_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews, Hollywood Legends , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 890min

  Dana Andrews (1909-1992) worked with distinguished directors such as John Ford, Lewis Milestone, Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, William A. Wellman, Mervyn Le Roy, Jean Renoir, and Elia Kazan. He played romantic leads alongside the great beauties of the modern screen, including Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Greer Garson, Merle Oberon, Linda Darnell, Susan Hayward, Maureen O'Hara, and most important of all, Gene Tierney, with whom he did five films. Retrospectives of his work often elicit high praise for an underrated actor, a master of the minimalist style. His image personified the "male mask" of the 1940s in classic films such as Laura, Fallen Angel, and Where the Sidewalk Ends, in which he played the "masculine ideal of steely impassivity." No comprehensive discussion of film noir can neglect his performances. He was an "actor's actor." Here at last is the complete story of a great actor, his difficult struggle to overcome alcoholism while enjoying the accolades of his contemporaries, a successful term as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and the love of family and friends that never deserted him. Based on diaries, letters, home movies, and other documents, this biography explores the mystery of a poor boy from Texas who made his Hollywood dream come true even as he sought a life apart from the limelight and the backbiting of contemporaries jockeying for prizes and prestige. Called "one of nature's noblemen" by his fellow actor Norman Lloyd, Dana Andrews emerges from Hollywood Enigma as an admirable American success story, fighting his inner demons and ultimately winning. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Stamper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/026679/bk_acx0_026679_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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• Yesterday's Spy

  From the author of the bestselling Kate Henderson series comes a brand new espionage thriller A man in search of his son. An agent on the run from his past. A country on the verge of revolution... Nothing good ever comes from a midnight phone call. For washed-up spy Harry Tower, it is the worst news at the worst possible time. His son, Sean, has gone missing in troubled Iran after writing an exposé about government corruption. Their relationship has never recovered since Harry's wife's suicide, for which Sean holds his father responsible. And Harry, with his career on the verge of disintegration, needs to find him and put things right. When Harry arrives in Tehran, he finds a city on the cusp of revolution. Foreign powers are jockeying for influence, money and, most importantly, oil. The CIA are conspiring to undermine the government with an impending coup, and there are dark mutterings about opium smuggling. But the reasons for Sean's disappearance may be even more sinister than Harry first suspected. Before long, he is on the run - not only from a faceless enemy, but from his own past. Which will catch up with him first? Yesterday's Spy is Tom Bradby at his very best, delivering a cunning espionage novel rich in intrigue and history that will keep you guessing until the final pages. Praise for Tom Bradby: 'A gripping thriller' Sunday Times 'Enthralling and fast-moving' Daily Mail 'Teems with twists...imaginative and unexpected' The Times 'Cracking' Financial Times 'An all-too-plausible premise' Observer

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  Elf Killers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 481min

  “Not for the fainthearted! Kids die horribly, and amid the trolls jockeying for leadership is trial by head bashing.”For the Elves, it's the very worst time to be in the woods.Trolls are hunting them down.Will they live long enough to reach a safe place to live?Oisin’s plan is to come with his bow to help Aedan and Doona lead a party of children into the forest to gather the maidenhair seedlings his people would take across the sea as they flee the trolls who hunt them as prey. Maybe he can be back in time for supper. And if he only dares to dream, he might also be back in time to speak with Doona alone.Dyr's plan is an early evening head smash for the foolish Elves who think they can steal away to the sands of the endless eye sting water and build their strange float huts. They will make a glorious feast.But on the way, Dyr's brutes stumble across Oisin's gathering party and attack, leaving Aedan mortally wounded and scattering Doona and the children to flee in terror into the dark mountain woods, only to be run down and captured by the bloodthirsty trolls.Can Oisin find the bonfires of the trolls and rescue them before it’s too late?And what then? Will any of them live long enough to reach safety?"Elf Killers is about death...and life. Seriously imaginative (especially troll-speak!) and gritty in action and battle, this is worth a read...but be prepared! Oh, be prepared. I dare you to grab a copy!"Warning: If This Were a Film It Might Be Rated RPLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sky Wildmist. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/177545/bk_acx0_177545_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Spitfire Wingman from Tennessee: My Love Affair with Flight , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 672min

  As the memoir of an aerobatic master born to fling his body through cloudbanks, Spitfire Wingman from Tennessee offers a unique birds-eye view of events and personalities of WWII and the Cold War. Encounters with Patton, Vandenberg, Yeager, Truman and Nixon are replayed with perception and wit. While jockeying P-40s, P-51s, and P-47s, he was privileged to see the war both from twenty thousand feet and as a Staff Officer at 9th Air Force HQ in Brussels. A stripped-down Thunderbolt fighter-bomber became his personal 400-mph runabout. Jim Haun took life at a run. After his mother’s death just before his ninth birthday, he worked in turn as Western Union bicycle messenger for fifteen dollars a week and work-a-way galley helper on an aging Atlantic freighter. Then, as the Memphis ‘Boy Wonder’ who built his first airplane in 1933 by adapting a motorcycle engine, the Colonel bears nostalgic witness to historic transformations steering manned flight from art toward automated science. This gifted flyer takes you on an intimate journey from barnstormer to dog-fighter, to threading the Himalayan ‘Hump’, to Berlin Airlift commander, then on to Presidential Squadron leader – finally becoming Chief Pilot of MATS. Balancing dry humor with just enough technical detail to please aviation buffs, this self-revealing air-venture thunders on twelve cylinders with sky-sweeping appeal. After retirement from the Air Force in 1965, Haun spent thirty more years as beloved flight instructor, participating in air shows, and building a biplane in his garage. He died peacefully at home attended by his two sons in 2001, six months before his 90th birthday. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colonel James R. Haun, James Robert Haun, Jr., David Hoffman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bigh/000379/bk_bigh_000379_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Trent Affair: The Diplomatic Incident That Nearly Brought Great Britain into the American Civil War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 81min

  Mr. Seward... is exerting himself to provoke a quarrel with all Europe, in that spirit of senseless egotism which induces the Americans, with their dwarf fleet and shapeless mass of incoherent squads which they call an army, to fancy themselves the equal of France by land and Great Britain by sea. - The London Chronicle In November 1861, the American Civil War was still a relatively young conflict, and both sides were still jockeying for the upper hand. The Confederates had won the First Battle of Bull Run in July, and there had not been any major battles in the West, but the Union had also pushed the Confederates out of West Virginia and George McClellan was about to organize the Army of the Potomac for an offensive against Richmond. Months before then, Confederate President Jefferson Davis had sent out diplomatic agents to Europe in attempts to win recognition among major European powers, and to place even further pressure on the status quo, Southern merchants actually refused to export cotton, hoping the sheer weight of economics would compel them to help. As historian Charles Hubbard pointed out, "Davis left foreign policy to others in government and, rather than developing an aggressive diplomatic effort, tended to expect events to accomplish diplomatic objectives. The new president was committed to the notion that cotton would secure recognition and legitimacy from the powers of Europe. One of the Confederacy's strongest hopes at the time was the belief that the British, fearing a devastating impact on their textile mills, would recognize the Confederate States and break the Union blockade." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Dupuy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/032889/bk_acx0_032889_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Berlin on the Brink: The Blockade, the Airlift, and the Early Cold War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 887min

  The Berlin blockade brought former allies to the brink of war. Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union defeated and began their occupation of Germany in 1945. Within a few years, the Soviets and their Western partners were jockeying for control of their former foe. Attempting to thwart the Allied powers' plans to create a unified West German government, the Soviets blocked rail and road access to the western sectors of Berlin in June 1948. With no other means of delivering food and supplies to the German people under their protection, the Allies organized the Berlin airlift. In Berlin on the Brink: The Blockade, the Airlift, and the Cold War, Daniel F. Harrington examines the "Berlin question" from its origin in wartime plans for the occupation of Germany through the Paris Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in 1949. Harrington draws on previously untapped archival sources to challenge standard accounts of the postwar division of Germany, the origins of the blockade, the original purpose of the airlift, and the leadership of President Harry S. Truman. While thoroughly examining four-power diplomacy, Harrington demonstrates how the ingenuity and hard work of the people at the bottom - pilots, mechanics, and Berliners - were more vital to the airlift's success than decisions from the top. Harrington also explores the effects of the crisis on the 1948 presidential election and on debates about the custody and use of atomic weapons. Berlin on the Brink is a fresh, comprehensive analysis that reshapes our understanding of a critical event of cold war history. The book is published by University Press of Kentucky. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Sipple. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/009792/bk_acx0_009792_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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• In a Garden Burning Gold

  Twins imbued with incredible magic and near immortality will do anything to keep their family safe-even if it tears the siblings apart-in the first book of a mythic epic fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls. Rhea and her twin brother, Lexos, have spent an eternity using cunning and magic to help rule their small, unstable country. Rhea controls the seasons to show favor to their most loyal stewards with bountiful harvests and short winters, while Lexos keeps the tides strong and impassable to maintain the country's borders. Reigning over them both is their father, who holds dominion over death, using his most powerful weapon-fear-to keep the people, and his children, in line. For a hundred years, Rhea and Lexos have been each other's only ally, defending themselves and their younger siblings against their father's increasingly unpredictable anger while also trying to keep up the appearance of unity and prosperity within their borders. Now, with an independence movement gaining ground, other nations jockeying for power, and their father's iron grip weakening, the twins must take matters into their own hands to keep the world from crashing down around them. But as Rhea and Lexos travel beyond the security of their home to try to save their family, they begin to draw very different conclusions about their father's style of rule. And if the siblings aren't careful, they'll end up facing each other on the battlefield. In a Garden Burning Gold is a captivating saga of love and legacy that explores the limits of power and the bonds of family-and how far both can be bent before they break.

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  How to Analyze People: Master the Art of Speed Reading Anyone, Instantly - Through Their Body Language and Their Facial Expressions , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 226min

  Uncover the secrets to human behavior and learn how to read people like a book using field-tested body language cues and psychological strategies!Are you tired of being completely caught unawares by a person's sudden impulsive behavior? Do you often feel stymied by your inability to read even the most glaring of gestures and cues from people? Are you often berated for not being able to "read the room" and behave accordingly?If yes, then this guide is for you.Learning how to analyze people's behavior doesn't have to be difficult. In this insightful guide, you're going to learn how to master this life-changing skill and be a step ahead of everyone you communicate with.Take a sneak peek at what you're going to discover in How to Analyze People:Seven body language tips you can begin using right now to improve your ability to read peopleSurefire techniques to help you "read the crowd" when giving a speech, presentation, or even disk jockeying!The five signals that people give off when interacting with youThe eyes are the windows to the soul - how to accurately read people's feelings using the position of their eyesSteps to effectively use behavioral analysis to find out people you can absolutely trustFour steps for using handwriting analysis to figure out a person's behaviorMethods to analyze people through the personal stories they shareFour powerful ways to get rid of negative thinking patterns and adopt positive onesEight fail-safe ways to get nosy people to mind their own businessesSteps to find your audience's "personality" and give them the content they wantMethods to effectively communicate with difficult and challenging personalities without getting worked upAnd tons more!Whether you're about to approach someone with a sales pitch, give a talk in public, or ask someone on a date, this audio ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Flagg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/177459/bk_acx0_177459_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  How to Analyze People: Become a Master of the Human Mind. Learn to Speed-Read Body Language & Personality Types and to Influence People in Five Minutes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 229min

  Uncover the secrets to human behavior and learn how to read people like a book using field-tested body language cues and psychological strategies!Are you tired of being completely caught unawares by a person's sudden impulsive behavior? Do you often feel stymied by your inability to read even the most glaring of gestures and cues from people? Are you often berated for not being able to "read the room" and behave accordingly?If yes, then this guide was written for you.Learning how to analyze people's behavior doesn't have to be difficult. In this insightful guide, you're going to learn how to master this life-changing skill and be a step ahead of everyone you communicate with.Take a sneak peek at what you're going to discover in How to Analyze People:Seven body language tips you can begin using right now to improve your ability to read peopleSurefire techniques to help you "read the crowd" when giving a speech, presentation, or even disk jockeying!The five signals that people give off when interacting with youThe eyes are the windows to the soul: How to accurately read people's feelings using the position of their eyesHow to effectively use behavioral analysis to find out people you can absolutely trustFour steps to use handwriting analysis to figure out a person's behaviorHow to analyze people through the personal stories they shareFour powerful ways to get rid of negative thinking patterns and adopt positive onesEight fail-safe ways to get nosy people to mind their own businessesHow to find your audience's "personality" and give them the content they wantHow to effectively communicate with difficult and challenging personalities without getting worked upAnd tons more!Whether you're about to approach someone with a sales pitch, give a talk in public, or ask someone on a date, thi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Morty Wilson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/186492/bk_acx0_186492_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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