• Alle meine Frauen Staffel 5 Folge 11

  Robyns Sohn Dayton hat das Asperger-Syndrom und wurde vor zwei Jahren in einen Unfall verwickelt, der sein Gesicht stark in Mitleidenschaft gezogen hat. Seitdem ist der Zwölfjährige sehbehindert. Sein rechtes Oberlid hängt stark über das Auge und soll nun durch einen chirurgischen Eingriff verkürzt werden. Christines Tochter Mykelti liebt Mode über alles und träumt davon, bei Designer David Tupaz ein Praktikum zu bekommen. Vater Kody begleitet sie zum Vorstellungsgespräch, sieht die Sache aber kritisch: Der eingefleischte Polygamist bekennt sich selbst zu seiner prüden Moralvorstellung und will nicht, dass seine Tochter freizügige Kleidung entwirft.

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• Alle meine Frauen Staffel 9 Folge 8

  Bei den Browns wird heute Klartext geredet. Kody will wissen, warum seine Frauen seinen Herzenswunsch vom Gemeinschaftsdomizil ausschlagen und stattdessen in vier getrennten Häusern leben möchten. Und der Grund ist ganz simpel: Sie wollen mehr Privatsphäre und sich nicht dauernd absprechen müssen, wer wann wo zu sein hat. Dann trifft sich der Großfamilienvater mit seinem Freund Kyle, ebenfalls Polygamist und im Bauwesen tätig, um ihm das Grundstück in Flagstaff zu zeigen. Kyle ist begeistert, weil die Browns einen eigenen Teich haben, und drauf und dran, das Nachbargrundstück zu erwerben.

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  The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 544min

  The narration by Wariner compliments the candid nature of her story...A captivating and emotional story delivered in a straightforward way without an ounce of self-pity. (Library Journal) A riveting, deeply-affecting audiobook memoir of one girl's coming-of-age experiences in a polygamist cult. Ruth Wariner was the 39th of her father's 42 children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turned a blind eye to the practices of her community, Ruth lives in a ramshackle house without indoor plumbing or electricity. At church, preachers teach that God will punish the wicked by destroying the world and that women can only ascend to Heaven by entering into polygamous marriages and giving birth to as many children as possible. After Ruth's father - the man who had been the founding prophet of the colony - is brutally murdered by his brother in a bid for church power, her mother remarries, becoming the second wife of another faithful congregant. In need of government assistance and supplemental income, Ruth and her siblings are carted back and forth between Mexico and the United States, where her mother collects welfare and her step-father works a variety of odd jobs. Ruth comes to love the time she spends in the States, realizing that perhaps the community into which she was born is not the right one for her. As Ruth begins to doubt her family's beliefs and question her mother's choices, she struggles to balance her fierce love for her siblings with her determination to forge a better life for herself. Recounted from the innocent and hopeful perspective of a child, The Sound of Gravel is the remarkable true story of a girl fighting for peace and love. This is an intimate, gripping audiobook resonant with triumph, courage, and resilience. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ruth Wariner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002148/bk_aren_002148_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Honor and Polygamy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 257min

  Heartbreaking and timely novel by Afghan-American author follows one man's journey from New York to the clutches of the Taliban and into an unintentional polygamist union. "He is picking up the same bags with the same clothes Lisa packed and folded a year ago. He wishes he were like his clothes, untouched by external forces." Family man Nick Blake is living in New York City and working for the United Nations. Born and raised in the United States with broad knowledge of the Afghan culture, he is living the All-American life with his wife, Lisa, and their children. His life is turned upside down when, while on a diplomatic mission to Afghanistan, Nick is kidnapped and finds himself in the clutches of the Taliban. Omar Farhad's debut novel Honor and Polygamy follows Nick throughout his eighteen months in Afghanistan and the devastating and unexpected turns his life takes, as he learns the true meanings of home, history and culture. After being held captive for several months, Nick is forced to marry the sixteen-year-old Shaista. Although he cannot forget his beloved wife and children back home, he finds himself falling in love with his second wife and, overwhelmed with guilt, is torn between his old life and his new one. Honor and Polygamy is far from simply a captivating fiction story, but is also a brilliant commentary on the United States' situation with Afghanistan. Farhad expresses his views on both the political and the cultural sides of Afghanistan. Politically, he is predicting how he feels the war will ultimately end, while culturally, he shows readers not familiar with Afghanistan that the 35-year-old war has created a population, which is uneducated, disloyal, and without identity. The United States and many other nations have continuously disrupted Afghanistan with no clear political objectives, and, in his novel, Farhad explores the consequences of these actions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom McElroy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/052330/bk_acx0_052330_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 483min

  In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it. Born into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Rachel Jeffs was raised in a strict patriarchal culture defined by subordinate sister wives and men they must obey. No one in this radical splinter sect of the Mormon Church was more powerful or terrifying than its leader, Warren Jeffs - Rachel's father. Living outside mainstream Mormonism and federal law, Jeffs arranged marriages between underage girls and middle-aged and elderly members of his congregation. In 2006 he gained international notoriety when the FBI placed him on its 10 Most Wanted List. Though he is serving a life sentence for child sexual assault, Jeffs' iron grip on the church remains firm and his edicts to his followers increasingly restrictive and bizarre. In Breaking Free, Rachel blows the lid off this taciturn community made famous by John Krakauer's best-selling Under the Banner of Heaven to offer a harrowing look at her life with Warren Jeffs and the years of physical and emotional abuse she suffered. Sexually assaulted, compelled into an arranged polygamous marriage, locked away in "houses of hiding" as punishment for perceived transgressions, and physically separated from her children, Rachel, Jeffs' first plural daughter by his second of more than 50 wives, eventually found the courage to leave the church in 2015. But Breaking Free is not only her story - Rachel's experiences illuminate those of her family and the countless others who remain trapped in the strange world she left behind. A shocking and mesmerizing memoir of faith, abuse, courage, and freedom, Breaking Free is an exposé of religious extremism and a beacon of hope for anyon ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rachel Jeffs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006302/bk_harp_006302_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Muslim: What You Need to Know About the World's Fastest Growing Religion , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 514min

  Is Islam a peaceful and tolerant religion? For all the debate over Islam and its growing presence in the world, one thing is often overlooked: Islam is not a religion in the sanitized Western sense. It is, in contrast, an all-encompassing sociopolitical legal matrix that has bred a worldview antagonistic to anything but itself. While there may be millions of peaceful and tolerant Muslims, many of them our neighbors, Islam itself is hardly peaceful and tolerant. Islam is the only significant religious system in the history of the human race with a sociopolitical structure of laws that mandate violence against the infidel. The current narrative is that to tell the truth in this regard is tantamount to radicalizing Muslims and exacerbating hostilities that may otherwise lie dormant. A common refrain has reverberated throughout the West: "Islam is not our enemy." As well-intentioned as this mantra may be, it is a potentially dangerous stance once someone understands Islam in full. Despite its incoherence, Islam - one billion six hundred million strong and growing - is poised to fill the vacuum left by a Western culture slouching inexorably towards Gomorrah. Demographics alone are alarming. While polygamist Muslims boast a robust birth rate, native Westerners are moving rapidly toward self-extinction. Filling the void are multiplied millions of Muslims who have no intention of assimilating into Western culture. Equally grave is the specter of global Islamic jihadism now exacting mass genocide on Christians in the East and ever-multiplying terrorist attacks throughout the West. We are also witnessing the co-belligerency of fantastically wealthy Saudis spending multiplied billions of dollars exporting virulent Wahhabism to the West. Worse still, Western governments, academic institutions, and media outlets seem bent on exporting a false narrative respecting the religious animus animating global Islamic jihadism. In Muslim: What You ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Parks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/002243/bk_hove_002243_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Failed Life of a Mormon Missionary , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 611min

  Jerry Wonder is the hero of this hilarious coming-of-age novel. A 19-year-old Mormon missionary, Jerry leaves South Dakota to save souls in New Zealand for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Elder Wonder's path is fraught with challenge. He misses his girlfriend, Susan, who tried valiantly to seduce him before he left, but to his regret, he remained strong for both of them. Now, he worries he will lose her in his two-year absence. And he is flawed. Against the strictures of the LDS church, he is a compulsive masturbator, or in Mormon parlance, a "self-pollinator". Jerry makes a solemn covenant with his Father in Heaven that each time he self-pollinates, he will find a soul for Jesus. After one month, he owes his Father in Heaven 40 converts. Elder Jerry Wonder also has difficulty developing his testimony - i.e. one's absolute belief in the absolute truth of the LDS faith. Complicating his life is Elder Freight, a 20-year-old missionary who teaches him the finer points of converting heathens - when he is not breaking their bones. But he does bond with Brother Ormsby, a Maori who urges him to persist despite his doubts. When Elder Freight takes his life, Jerry is devastated, and he delves into the dark history of the church, learning that the founding polygamist prophets were often conmen, fortune hunters, or even murderers. Salvation of a sort comes when Susan flies to his side. They will be expelled from the church and disgrace their families. But first, Jerry has to protect the mission president and his wife from church officials in Utah, something he manages with characteristic ingenuity. Within its comic frame, the novel is informative about the Mormon church. It also shows how older men try to stifle and control young men. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Wynters. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/055952/bk_acx0_055952_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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• Alle meine Frauen Staffel 2 Folge 22

  Nachdem die Frauen ihren Spaß hatten, ist in dieser Folge Kody an der Reihe: Ein Abend unter Männern auf dem Las Vegas Strip ist angesagt. Zuerst besucht er mit seinen Freunden ein Mixed Martial Arts-Trainingscenter, wo der 45-Jährige mit einem professionellen MMA-Kämpfer in den Ring steigt und seine Wrestling-Fähigkeiten testet. Beim Abendessen wird es privat: Kodys Kumpel wollen nämlich genau erfahren, wie ein Leben mit vier Frauen so abläuft, und der eingefleischte Polygamist nimmt kein Blatt vor den Mund. Zuhause geht es beschaulicher zu: Da Robyns Baby bald zur Welt kommt, muss das Kinderzimmer eingerichtet werden.

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• Alle meine Frauen Staffel 8 Folge 9

  Kody Brown macht Ernst: Er will Las Vegas so schnell wie möglich verlassen, um in seine Heimat Utah zurückzukehren, obwohl er dort als Polygamist nicht erwünscht ist und nach wie vor eine strafrechtliche Verfolgung fürchten muss. Seine Frauen sind gegen die Entscheidung, vor allem Janelle sträubt sich, da sie ihre Kinder nicht von der Schule nehmen will. Doch Kody besteht am Ende nicht auf Utah: Er will an einen Ort ziehen, der günstigere Lebensbedingungen bietet als Vegas, um allen Kindern eine gute Ausbildung zu ermöglichen, und reist mit Christine nach Flagstaff, Arizona. Außerdem: Mariah und ihre Lebensgefährtin Audrey kommen mit einer großen Neuigkeit.

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• Alle meine Frauen Staffel 7 Folge 30

  Meri und Kody fahren nach Parowan in Utah, um das vieldiskutierte Haus anzusehen. Meris Ururgroßvater, ebenfalls ein Polygamist, hatte es um 1870 erbaut, und nun will Kodys erste Frau den Familienbesitz zurückkaufen und darin vielleicht ein Bed & Breakfast eröffnen. Doch Kody ist mehr als skeptisch, weil er in dem Anwesen keinen wirtschaftlichen Nutzen sieht. Außerdem hat er schon länger Problem mit Meri und zweifelt am Fortbestand ihrer Beziehung. Als er das Haus zum ersten Mal betritt, spürt er jedoch eine Magie, die er sich nicht erklären kann. Aber ein zentrales Problem bleibt: Da Polygamie in Utah verboten ist, scheint es gefährlich, hier ein Geschäft zu betreiben.

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