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    The Peshtigo Fire of 1871: A Captivating Guide to the Deadliest Wildfire in the History of the United States of America That Occurred in Northeastern Wisconsin , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 183min
    If you want to discover the history of the Peshtigo Fire of 1871, then pay attention...It’s likely true that most people picking up this book have never even heard of a place called Peshtigo. This is hardly surprising. This little town on the shores of Lake Michigan is hardly a remarkable place in the modern day. Its residents number less than 4,000, and there’s nothing particularly special about it at first glance.But one does have to look twice at its motto. “A city rebuilt from the ashes.” Peshtigo may be just another small Wisconsin town today, but 150 years ago, it really was nothing but ashes. This town was one of the hardest hit in the deadliest wildfire event in American history - and no, I’m not talking about the Great Chicago Fire, even though it also occurred on the very same night.The Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871 claimed four times as many lives as the fire in Chicago, yet this cruel twist of fate has left it almost unheard of, while the (untrue) tale of Catherine O’Leary’s cow continues to echo through the centuries with unabated vigor. The story of the Great Peshtigo Fire has not been told nearly often enough, yet it is a story that will captivate every listener. Parts of it seem to border on science fiction: trees exploding in the heat of the fire, a tornado made of flames sweeping through an entire town in a single hour, birds caught up and burned in mid-air. Yet, all of it is true, and so are the stories of the people who witnessed the fire first-hand and survived it. So if you want to learn more about the Peshtigo Fire of 1871, scroll up and click the "add to cart" button! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Zenobia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/199104/bk_acx0_199104_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Saving Cascadia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 720min
    A few hundred years ago, Cascadia Island didn't even exist. Like the Washington seacoast, it was rock submerged beneath the Pacific. A massive earthquake changed that, exploding the rock upward, making it land - unstable land, according to seismologist Dr. Doug Lam.Lam has spent years researching the Cascadia Subduction Zone. He published a theory that the unrelieved tectonic strain beneath the idyllic landscape of Cascadia Island could be triggered with modern construction processes - with catastrophic results. The paper was disregarded, even ridiculed, by his peers and by mega wealthy developer Mick Walker, who stands to earn millions from the construction of a luxury resort on Cascadia. The elegant casino, hotel, and convention center will reap millions for him even if the tiny island only lasts for a short time...When a series of earthquakes begins to shake the Northwest Corridor, Doug's worst fears are confirmed. In an attempt to convince Walker to evacuate Cascadia immediately, Doug hurries to join guests arriving for the resort's grand opening. As the tremors wreak havoc across the Northwest coastal area, the military is left with too few resources to assist the people on Cascadia. Convinced that the island will be in ruins within hours, Doug reluctantly calls upon his girlfriend, Jennifer Lindstrom, president of Nightingale Aviation - a major medical transport helicopter company - for help.With snow falling, visibility dropping, and winds increasing, Doug embarks on an impossible mission with Jennifer and Nightingale's helicopters to evacuate over 300 people, while smaller earthquakes continue to herald the approach of a catastrophic tsunami.John J. Nance hurtles readers along a nail-biting quest to rescue hundreds of stranded vacationers and resort staff. Meticulously researched, and with the signature authenticity only a veteran pilot could provide, Saving Cascadia is a hair-raising thriller of awesome magnitude. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John J. Nance. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/001143/bk_brll_001143_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Southern League: A True Story of Baseball, Civil Rights, and the Deep South's Most Compelling Pennant Race , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 721min
    Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings in Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation. Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail - 1963 Anybody who is familiar with the Civil Rights movement knows that 1964 was a pivotal year. And in Birmingham, Alabama - perhaps the epicenter of racial conflict - the Barons amazingly started their season with an integrated team. Johnny "Blue Moon" Odom, a talented pitcher and Tommie Reynolds, an outfielder - both young black ballplayers with dreams of playing someday in the big leagues, along with Bert Campaneris, a dark-skinned shortstop from Cuba, all found themselves in this simmering cauldron of a minor league town, all playing for Heywood Sullivan, a white former major leaguer who grew up just down the road in Dothan, Alabama. Colton traces the entire season, writing about the extraordinary relationships among these players with Sullivan, and Colton tells their story by capturing the essence of Birmingham and its citizens during this tumultuous year. (The infamous Bull Connor, for example, when not ordering blacks to be blasted by powerful water hoses, is a fervent follower of the Barons and served as a long-time broadcaster of their games.) By all accounts, the racial jeers and taunts that rained down upon these Birmingham players were much worse than anything that Jackie Robinson ever endured. More than a story about baseball, this is a true accounting of life in a different time and clearly a different place. Seventeen years after Jackie Robinson had broken the color line in the major leagues, Birmingham was exploding in race riots... and now, they were going to have their very first integrated sports team. This is a story that ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fleet Cooper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/001316/bk_hach_001316_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mrs Cox: Crime Grant Finalist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 506min
    In this Audible Exclusive production, Jilly Bond narrates Jan Moore’s historical crime thriller Mrs Cox. A deserving finalist for the Audible Crime Grant, Mrs Cox follows the tale of three heroines on their quest through Jacobean London as they seek to find justice for their murdered friend. About the Book With King James on the throne of both England and Scotland, a period of stability seems to have arrived. But the exposed gunpowder plot to blow up Parliament serves only to heighten the anxiety and panic of the people. Nowhere is this more keenly felt than in London - a city that is also struggling to deal with its exploding population. In this metropolis of dreams and nightmares, trouble stirs. A well-known, elderly resident of Billiter Lane is missing, presumed dead, and when the corrupt local authorities attempt to frame an innocent woman, the task of discovering the truth falls to a trio of unlikely heroes/heroines. Led by the charismatic Mrs Cox, the three friends embark on a mission to bring the real culprit to justice. On their quest, they must learn to navigate the danger that lurks around every corner and manage to avoid the attentions of the crooked alderman Blincoe and his cronies. About the Narrator Jilly Bond is a highly-respected actress of stage, radio and television with a career spanning three-and-a-half decades. Having featured on Judge John Deed, Doctors, and As If, she is perhaps best known for her theatre appearances at the National Theatre and across the UK where she starred in plays by the likes of William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde. Bond has provided narration for numerous productions across the Audible catalogue and has featured on hundreds of audiobooks in the last 15 years. She has been awarded four Audiophile magazine Earphones Awards.   ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jilly Bond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/050341/bk_adbl_050341_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Signature of All Things: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1303min
    A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the number-one New York Times best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure, and discovery. Spanning much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker - a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father's money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. As Alma's research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction - into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist - but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life. Exquisitely researched and told at a galloping pace, The Signature of All Things soars across the globe - from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. Along the way, the story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. But most memorable of all, it is the story of Alma Whittaker, who - born in the Age of Enlightenment, but living well into the Industrial Revolution - bears witness to that extraordinary moment in human history when all the old assumptions about science, religion, commerce, and class were exploding into dangerous new ideas. Writ ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Juliet Stevenson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002182/bk_peng_002182_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mao: The Unknown Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1790min
    “Ever since the spectacular success of Chang’s Wild Swans we have waited impatiently for her to complete with her husband this monumental study of China’s most notorious modern leader. The expectation has been that she would rewrite modern Chinese history. The wait has been worthwhile and the expectation justified. This is a bombshell of a book.” (Chris Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong, in The Times, London) Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before - and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him - this is the most authoritative life of Mao ever written. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by idealism or ideology; his intimate and intricate relationship with Stalin went back to the 1920s, ultimately bringing him to power; he welcomed Japanese occupation of much of China; and he schemed, poisoned and blackmailed to get his way. After Mao conquered China in 1949, his secret goal was to dominate the world. In chasing this dream he caused the deaths of 38 million people in the greatest famine in history. In all, well over 70 million Chinese perished under Mao’s rule - in peacetime. Combining meticulous research with the story-telling style of Wild Swans, this biography offers a harrowing portrait of Mao’s ruthless accumulation of power through the exercise of terror: his first victims were the peasants, then the intellectuals and, finally, the inner circle of his own advisors. The listeners enters the shadowy chambers of Mao’s court and eavesdrops on the drama in its hidden recesses. Mao’s character and the enormity of his behavior toward his wives, mistresses and children are unveiled for the first time. This is an entirely fresh look at Mao in both content and approach. It wi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robertson Dean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000675/bk_bkot_000675_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Forget Anger Management: Learn 7 Key Ways to Transform Anger into Courage , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 190min
    Stop letting your anger get the best of you. Turn it into a launching pad instead.Have you often gotten into trouble because of your short fuse?Do people tiptoe around you in case they do something that might set you off?Have you tried to keep a lid on your outbursts, only to end up feeling more frustrated than ever?Anger can be a destructive force that affects relationships long after the initial rush of emotion.More often than not, you end up regretting the hurtful things you’ve said and done in the heat of the moment.Yet, no matter how much you tell yourself you’ll do better, time and again, your anger gets the better of you.Maybe you’ve lost friends, alienated family, or even injured yourself inadvertently because of your anger.If you’re tired of having to keep apologizing and paying the consequences for your angry outbursts, know that you don’t have to be a slave to your anger. You can do something about it.And no, you won’t have to bottle things up just to avoid hurting people’s feelings.In fact, you shouldn’t suppress your anger - that feeling is legitimate and should be acknowledged, then transformed into something better.But what is that “something better” and how exactly do you transform anger?F*ck Anger Management will show you accessible ways to transform anger into courage. You will discover:How to calmly deal with your anger without denying your feelings or exploding uncontrollablyThe hidden feelings of insecurity that may be triggering enraged reactions, even to the most well-meaning of criticisms Why being right does not matter as much as doing rightWhat this combative martial art can teach you about managing conflict constructively and peacefullyThe surprising connection between masturbation and your anger issues, and how you can break free from this compulsionWhy you first need to break down a ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Morrison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/232320/bk_acx0_232320_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Deep Sleep Hypnosis and Guided Meditations for Anxiety and Self-Esteem: Find Again the Pleasure of a Healthy Sleep. Relieve Anxiety, Depression and Insomnia. An Emotional Journey to Calm the Mind. , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 737min
    The real secret for a good night’s sleep....We all know that sleep is necessary for our health, productivity in work, positive mood, and many other things. Unfortunately, due to our busy lifestyles, there are so many people out there, just like you, fighting in their minds almost every single night. And in the morning, they still feel like they just woke up after partying hard and with only two hours of sleep, regardless of how many hours they've actually slept.What if you could actually train your mind for a great night's recovery, so you don’t have to deal with lack of energy, bad mood, and a dizzy head ever again?What if you could finally forget those sleepless nights when your head is exploding with all kinds of “important” thoughts and tasks you must do the next day?Inside this audiobook, I will teach you how to program your mind to boost energy and productivity and achieve a positive mood, so you don’t have to deal with sleep problems ever again!Here is just a fraction of what’s inside:You biggest self-recovery enemy - and how to fight itHow a lack of sleep can negatively affect your body - this chapter will make you really curious about the importance of a night’s regenerationHow to use self-hypnosis to fall asleep effortlessly without fighting your mind, and push negative thoughts awayA complete ready-for-you relaxation scrip to better handle daily stress and for anxiety relief - very powerfulThe power of meditation - 11 meditation techniques to improve the quality of your life (for all life situations)“Icing on the cake” - Eight proven bedtime stories to destroy all your late-night worriesMuch, much more.And keep in mind that no matter how long you have been facing these issues or how bad your sleeping habits are...If you follow the exact strategies inside, this audiobook will give you a great opportunity to forget all your ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Reilly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/234651/bk_acx0_234651_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Instant Speed Reading: How to Read Faster Instantly!: Instant Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 37min
    NOTE: Be sure to download the accompanying reference guide upon purchasing. You'll need it to go through the audio. If you can't access it, just contact us directly at audio@instantseries.com. The Instant Series Presents Instant Speed Reading: How to Read Faster Instantly! How fast can you read? Not very fast, right? Or at least not as fast as you would like.... Otherwise you wouldn't be reading this! Now, how about if you could increase your reading speed by five or even 10 times the speed at which you read now...guaranteed? What does that mean? Imagine.... You could read through five times as much you can read through now, and have five times more time for other things. You could get through five times the studying you can get through now and have five times better grades. You could get done with five times as much work, and have five times more respect at work. You could escape to five times as much of the reading you love, and have five times more enjoyment. You could acquire five times the information, and have five times more knowledge and skill to impress people with. The traditional ways you were taught to read in school, and by others, are ineffective and slow you down, making the process and experience boring and unbearable. No wonder we don't have more people who like to read, preferring the tube over pages and preferring to watch a screen over reading a screen. With the digital age ever-exploding, there are more and more things to read coming out every second, from the Internet to our computers, tablets, and mobile devices, and even paper. Reading fast is a must if you want to be able to keep up! Within Instant Speed Reading you will learn: Within Instant Speed Reading you will learn to take your reading speed to a whole new level. How to speed read using periphe ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: uncredited. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/036884/bk_acx0_036884_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Decisive Moments in History: The Attack on Pearl Harbor , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 112min
    We won a great tactical victory at Pearl Harbor and thereby lost the war. (Admiral Hara Tadaichi) All Americans are familiar with the "day that will live in infamy." At 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor, the advanced base of the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet, was ablaze. It had been smashed by aircraft launched by the carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. All eight battleships had been sunk or badly damaged, 350 aircraft had been knocked out, and over 2,000 Americans lay dead. Indelible images of the USS Arizona exploding and the USS Oklahoma capsizing and floating upside down have been ingrained in the American conscience ever since. In less than an hour and a half the Japanese had almost wiped out America's entire naval presence in the Pacific. Less than 24 hours earlier, Japanese and American negotiators had been continuing their diplomatic efforts to stave off conflict in the region, but as they did, President Roosevelt and his inner circle had seen intelligence reports strongly suggesting an imminent attack - though they did not know where. The US rightly believed that Japan would take action to prevent the Americans from interfering with their military activities in Southeast Asia, and American military forces in the Philippines were already bracing for a potential attack. However, as the negotiations were ongoing, the powerful Japanese carrier fleet had been surging southwards through the Pacific while maintaining radio silence, preparing to strike the blow that would ignite war in an area spanning half the globe. Navy Commander-in-Chief Isoroku Yamamoto, whose code of honor demanded that the Japanese only engage enemies after a formal declaration of war, had been given assurances that his nation would be formally at war with the United States prior to the arrival of his planes over Pearl Harbor. As it turned out, those assurances were worth nothing, and Yamamoto had been misled by extremists in his gove ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/092527/bk_acx0_092527_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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