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    The Nettle Spinner: A Traditional Fairy Story from Flanders , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 17min
    A cruel nobleman grants permission for the marriage of two of his serfs only on condition that the bride spins her wedding gown and a death-shroud for himself from nettles - and that the wedding should not take place until after his death. Every time the girl spins the cloth for his shroud, he becomes violently ill - and his attempts to stop her are thwarted by strong magic. There are many twists to the tale as the magic spinning wheel steers the characters towards their destinies. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000069/bk_redd_000069_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Alexander II, Emperor of Russia: Russian History, Hörbuch, Digital, 18min
    Alexander II was Emperor of Russia from 2 March 1855 until his assassination on 13 March 1881. He is remembered as Alexander the Liberator, as he led the emancipation of Russia's serfs; during his reign, he kept seeking peace, although the context of the surrounding countries was proving more and more difficult. Although he went down in history as a reformer, his actions were too little too late for the revolutionaries of late imperial Russia, who managed to assassinate him in 1881. This concise presentation will help you understand this part of Russian history and the particular struggles this careful pacifist had to put up with in a troubled country. Language: English. Narrator: Katie Haigh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cids/001583/bk_cids_001583_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Peter Kropotkin: The Conquest of Bread , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 474min
    The Conquest of Bread is an 1892 book by the Russian anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin. Peter Kropotkin was born a Russian prince whose father owned 1,200 serfs. But he became a Russian activist, writer, revolutionary, scientist, economist, sociologist, historian, essayist, researcher, political scientist, biologist, geographer, and philosopher. The Conquest of Bread has become a classic of political anarchist literature. It was heavily influential on both the Spanish Civil War and the Occupy movement. In the work, Kropotkin goes on to propose a more decentralized economic system based on mutual aid and voluntary cooperation, asserting that the tendencies for this kind of organization already exist, both in evolution and in human society. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kenneth Elliot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/206459/bk_acx0_206459_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Modern Scholar: The Russian Revolution: From Tsarism to Bolshevism , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 402min
    The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a key turning point in the history of modern Europe and the world. For much of the 20th century, politics were defined by attitudes to what had taken place in Russia in 1917. To understand the Russian Revolution, then, is to understand a key building block of modern history and the contemporary world.Senior lecturer and renowned Russian researcher Dr. Jonathan Smele sheds new light on the many forces that came to bear in tsarist Russia, from the emancipation of the serfs in the mid-19th century to the climactic revolutions of the early 20th century that brought the small Bolshevik party to power. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Prof. Jonathan D. Smele. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/003382/bk_reco_003382_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dead Souls , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 950min
    Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these "souls" as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Nikolai Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov. Dead Souls, Russia's first major novel, is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy. This version of Dead Souls is the translation by C. J. Hogarth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Morey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/001886/bk_tant_001886_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Temple of Arrival: The Empowered Ones, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 498min
    Betrayed.Hunted.The Liberators defiant stand at the city of Asta has sparked the fires of resistance in the downtrodden people. Slaves, serfs, and even members of the aristocracy have risen against the regime and flock to the Liberator banner.As conflict spreads across the world, the Supreme's gaze is fixated on Elian more than ever. Reeling from his mentor’s betrayal and battle with the First Fear he is hunted relentlessly by Hollowed and Venerable Chamber Seekers.The only person who can help Elian is a mysterious Empowered One - who he's not even sure he can trust. Terrible secrets await. Secrets about himself. Secrets that could herald the end of all things.Temple of Arrival is the second book in the exciting Empowered Ones fantasy series. If you like action, sprawling battlefields, and power enhanced heroes, then you’ll love this series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kim Gjersøe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/197760/bk_acx0_197760_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Humans Vs. Aliens: Aliens Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 608min
    Jack Munroe has learned another space lesson: defeating Alien invaders in the Kuiper Belt does not guarantee peace. The HikHikSot social carnivores have returned for a second invasion of Sol system! They've brought with them a colony ship filled with 30,000 cheetah-leopard Aliens and an attack fleet that is able to deflect lasers and particle beam weapons. They aim to turn Earth into a source of protein, and humanity into serfs! All of which forces Jack to get his fellow Asteroid Belters to join him in an anti-Alien crusade that will first go after the invading predators, then head out into interstellar space to liberate other subject peoples. The future of humanity is on the line and Jack Munroe is determined to teach Alien predators a permanent lesson - mess with Humans and you die! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Somerset Hamilton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/081843/bk_acx0_081843_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blessed Margaret of Castello: Holy Innocence, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 26min
    Patron of the unwanted.A baby is born. There is a hush in the town and on the mountain top in anticipation of the new little lord, as if time is standing still waiting for the signal to rejoice! Lady Emilia went into labor. The candle bearers were ready to brighten the castle, symbolizing the light that had come into their lives. The serfs stood ready to ring the bells!The baby was born, but there were no lights. No bells tolled, and only deadly silence prevailed. A baby girl was born; that was one blow. The infant was rejected immediately by her parents; she was not only a girl, she was deformed! She was not a pretty baby; if her parents were to believed, she was ugly. She would never reach full height, they determined, as she already showed signs of being (as her parents later told her) a midget! Her right leg was shorter than the other, and so, they knew she would be lame, as well. Believing God had punished them, one week later, they discovered they had not seen the total chastisement; the child was blind! What a disgrace, they thought!The word went out that the baby was very sick and was not expected to live! As it was impossible to keep them from becoming aware what had transpired, the serfs and soldiers in the fortress were told that this was not something to be broadcast. As Parisio was known for the merciless cruelties inflicted on those who disobeyed him or got in his way, it was fairly fait accompli that no one would know of the little girl who had come into this cruel world, and cruel it would turn out to be, making this reaction and subsequent action a kind one in comparison.The local parish priest Father Cappellano insisted the baby be baptized! And as was the custom of that time, the baby had to be baptized in the cathedral, and he faced very stubborn opposition; Parisio flatly refused. But when his wife reasoned with him, he reluctantly agreed - on one condition: Lady Emilia's maid would bring the baby girl and ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Lord, Penny Lord. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/218162/bk_acx0_218162_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Sowers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 784min
    A romantic adventure yarn of plotting and corruption largely set against the panorama of Imperialist Russia but with some of the skullduggery taking place in the major capitals of Europe. An old Etonian and half Russian, Prince Paul Alexis, inherits the Osterno estate in the Steppes. Naive and honest, but helped by experienced campaigner Steinmetz, he forms a progressive but illegal Charity League to succour the needs of the starving uneducated peasantry who are ravaged by cholera. When the League is betrayed there are severe consequences for the neighbouring nobility and Paul himself only just escapes a violent death at the hands of his own serfs. Who has betrayed them? Is it Claude de Chauxfille Paul's erstwhile rival in love or is the beautiful Etta, his wife, keeping more secrets than he or Steinmetz can guess? With intrigue and deception at every turn The Sowers was Merriman's biggest best seller eventually reprinted 30 times. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000094/bk_assm_000094_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, Hörbuch, Digital, 334min
    Of all the civilizations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful and backward. But the anarchy of these years proved to be, not the portents of the end of the world, as many Christians had dreaded, but rather the birthpangs of a radically new order. MILLENNIUM is a stunning panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000. This was the age of Canute, William the Conqueror and Pope Gregory VII, of Vikings, monks and serfs, of the earliest castles and the invention of knighthood, and of the primal conflict between church and state. The story of how the distinctive culture of Europe - restless, creative and dynamic - was forged from out of the convulsions of these extraordinary times is as fascinating and as momentous as any in history. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew Sachs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000188/bk_twuk_000188_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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