47 Results for : hames
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Dirty Mines: The Last Generation of Anthracite Coal Miners , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 473min
Dirty Mines is a story about coal mining in Pennsylvania. For the first time, many of the jobs performed by boys, as young as 8 years old, are described in detail. Cesar D’Angelo was 10 when his father was killed in the mines. Cesar, the oldest boy in his family, had to take his father’s place working for the coal company. His first job was working high up in the dangerous coal breakers. At the age of 12, he went down into the blackish, coal dusted mines to begin his long mining career. His first job was sitting in the dark alone for 10 to 12 hours a day as a door keeper. Later he became a spragger, mule driver, and had various other jobs until becoming a lifetime coal miner.Dirty Mines also addresses the rich history of this era, including the miscarriage of justice towards the Molly Maguires in their fight for union rights and the environmental disaster at the Knox Coal company that ended coal mining in North Eastern Pennsylvania.This is a family story about the last generation of Scranton coal miners. It is a fascinating and warm narrative of sacrifice, humor, and love. A revealing story about a forgotten way of life in difficult times, with very little pay in horrible working conditions. It’s an anecdotal story of courage and tenacity of poor deprived coal miners that struggled to make a better life for their children. Their historic sacrifices are being passed on to a new generation, so their unique heritage will never be forgotten. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Randy Hames. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/227354/bk_acx0_227354_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Who Trespass Against Us: The Untold Story of the Las Vegas Shooting , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 423min
A gripping fictional account of one of the United States’ worst tragedies, Who Trespass Against Us is an emotional account of a killer's lineage and upbringing, with a surprising ending that will offer solace and comfort to all.This is the untold story of the life and judgment of the Las Vegas shooter. A work of fiction based on actual events, Conway takes what is known, and imagines what is missing to give you a compelling narrative that answers the question, “Why?” The story begins with the dark connection to the killer’s ancestry and moves quickly into the criminal life of his father, Bingo Bruce, and his “Bonnie and Clyde” style mistress, both of whom cast long shadows over the killer’s life. Conway keeps you on the edge of your seat as Paddock’s heinous crime races to its conclusion in a way you may not have anticipated. After the shooting, you will witness the judgment, where Paddock will face his victims and receive his sentence. But the story does not end there, because Conway also presents the inspiring story of a young woman and her best friend, both country music fans, who journey together through life and face that dark night together. It has been said that great storytellers use their imagination to bring order out of chaos, and in this work, D.P. Conway does not disappoint. “An immensely powerful book…. The blending of fact and fiction is seamless… a compulsive read…” (OnlineBookClub.org)“A unique work of genre-bending fiction…” (Book Life)“An engrossing, dramatized consideration of a real-life tragedy…Recommended.” (Kirkus Reviews) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Randy Hames. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129021/bk_acx0_129021_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Mark Twain on the Moon: Books 1-3 in One Volume , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1158min
The first three books in the Mark Twain on the Moon series, now in one volume!Book one: ProspectorsIn an alternate 19th century, young Samuel Clemens sets out for the mining camps of America’s wildest frontier: the moon. Travel with Sam and his partner Calvin as they venture into the desolate, deadly wastes of the Mare Imbrium and the Montes Caucasus, in search of wonders, adventure, and a fortune in precious water ice. This is Prospectors, the opening salvo in the epic saga of Mark Twain on the Moon, as told by the alternate Mark Twain himself.Book two: The DeirdreThe amazing, perilous, sometimes hilarious adventures of Samuel Clemens on the moon continue when Sam and Calvin are rescued by the men of the Deirdre, an ice mine on the crater’s rim, and forced into indentured servitude, digging for ice deep under the surface of the moon. But when the Deirdres jump a neighboring claim, and no-nonsense Calvin hears the cries of a long-dead miner on his radio, life inside the moon turns deadly, and soon Sam needs all of his wits, and a six-gun, to keep himself and the Deirdres alive.Book Three: HomeDriven out of the Deirdre by a violent band of claim-jumping miners, Sam, Calvin, Perkins, and Chalk strike out into unexplored Lunar territory. But when disaster strikes their former colleagues, the Clemens-Bemis Expedition must take on refugees. With supplies running short and dissent rising, is mutiny over the all-too-close horizon? Then Sam encounters the impossible: a girl in a pressure suit, who after saving his life introduces him to the mysterious cavern dwellers of Home. The "young sirs" of the Expedition are treated royally by the Whoa and Earls of Home, but their safe haven hides a terrifying secret that Sam must discover before it’s too late. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Randy Hames. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/162335/bk_acx0_162335_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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How to Get to the Future Before It Gets to You , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 343min
In this challenging book, the author of the celebrated best-selling How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying (which inspired the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical), provides a daring and amusing antidote to those Doomsday prophets who believe that man is destined to destroy himself and planet earth. Shepherd Mead quickly proves that "natural" isn't necessarily good; demonstrates how to use "population" against people (or just how many can we stand?); and describes how to become a scourge of environment-busters. Highlighting his narrative with amusing and telling anecdotes, Mr. Mead discusses new energy concepts, sophisticated waste disposal systems that reclaim everything (even the garbage), frozen and instant electricity, multispectral photography, and some far-out ideas of his own in the area of communications and do-it-yourself ecology. In a lighter vein, he suggests a Pleasure Index as a replacement for GNP (Gross National Product); describes how we can keep people from a future that's already in the past; how the future home can be an electric and electronic paradise (or hell, depending on the individual viewer); electric education and the university in decades to come; improving people through "germinal choice"; benevolent brainwashing; the Shepherd Mead Symbiotic Super Box, transduction, and advanced cloning. Then there's the very special Magical Population-Reducing People Crib (it's really wild and guaranteed to discourage childbearing); Super Sports Heroes of the Future (part man and part animal - like the greatest middle distance runner in history who won an Olympic gold medal and the Kentucky Derby. And he can run with or without a jockey. Or the great Australian female high jumper who qualified with two kids in her pouch, but was later disbarred when she was caught shaving). Sexual-social problems in the future also come under the keen scrutiny of Mr. Mead. What will become of sin when we have plea ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Randy Hames. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001238/bk_acx0_001238_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Das unvollkommene Verbrechen
Das unvollkommene Verbrechen - Ein Peter Hames Krimi: ab 1.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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