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Admiral Chester W. Nimitz: The Life and Legacy of the U.S. Pacific Fleet's Commander in Chief During World War II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 135min
“It is the function of the navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on US soil.” (Admiral Nimitz)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 US 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. Despite fighting in North Africa and the Atlantic, the United States still had the resources and manpower to fight the Japanese in the Pacific. Though the Japanese had crippled the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, its distance from Japan made an invasion of Pearl Harbor impossible, and Japan had not severely damaged important infrastructure. Thus, the United States was able to quickly rebuild a fleet, still stationed at Pearl Harbor, right in the heart of the Pacific. This forward location allowed the United States to immediately push deeply into the Pacific Theater.The Americans would eventually push the Japanese back across the Pacific, and one of the most instrumental leaders in the effort was Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, who commanded the US Pacific Fleet and helped coordinate joint operations with the legendary General Douglas MacArthur, the supreme commander, Southwest Pacific Area. The ensuing strategies would lead to decisive operations at places like Midway, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and others before the use of the atomic bombs compelled Japan’s surrender in August 1945.Admiral Chester W. Nimitz: The Life and Legacy of the U.S. Pacific Fleet’s C ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory T Luzitano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/168217/bk_acx0_168217_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Darker Saints , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 936min
Behind the walls of respectability is a world exploding with crime, sin, and the darkest magic of all. The rain beats down on the hot New Orleans streets. A derelict staggers, no longer a man, but a zombie, a vessel emptied by voodoo sorcery and poured full of another's will.This is the land of lace curtains and Mardi Gras. This is the world of the bayou, and sizzling crawfish, and a man in white who can kill at any distance.A storm of corporate greed and cruel vengeance is sweeping through New Orleans, descending on a young advertising executive (Nightlife‘s Justin Gray), who fears he may be selling his soul along with brand names, a weary ex-CIA agent, and a Caribbean chauffeur on the run from enemies he can't understand.Two powerful businessmen, one legitimate, the other a criminal, have built a common empire. Now it is coming apart in a tidal wave of bloodshed and shattered lives, flooding the Delta with voodoo - the dark magic of darker saints.PRAISE FOR THE DARKER SAINTS:“Southern Louisiana is always a terrifically atmospheric setting for hot, humid, moldering, multicultural horror. Hodge uses his setting well...moves along with the speed of an airboat skimming a steaming bayou. The action's hot, the magic is dark, and you start getting a little sorry for Justin, considering all the shit he gets into in the space of just two novels... This is a quite literate edge of night in which the morning apparently never comes.” (Ed Bryant, in Locus)“You've got the spicy ingredients for a dish so intense and uncompromising, it'll leave your eyes stinging... If you're tired of predictable horror yarns, then step into Hodge's dark and obsessive world, where lovers circle each other like enemies, brothers see murder as a tool of capitalism, and ancient voodoo gods descend to earth to possess willing subjects. Hodge's work often emphasizes that the real world can be scarier than the supernatural. The Darker Saints ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wes Freeman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/206598/bk_acx0_206598_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Supers: Ex Heroes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 347min, (USK 18)
Super powers. Super harem. Super awesome. Contains adult content. Seriously. Who in his right mind tells both his lawyer and the judge presiding over his murder trial “F--k you!” while still in the courtroom? No one, right? Yeah, you'd be wrong about that. I did. You'd say the same thing if you were just found guilty of a murder you didn't commit, though. Call me crazy for going off like that in court, but trust me, you don't know crazy until you see what happened next. I never believed in superheroes. I certainly didn't believe I'd become one, or that strategically forming a harem of hot chicas and getting down with them to unlock my superpowers would be the key to my survival. Did I say my survival? I meant the universe's. No, really.... That's exactly what happened when I was taken to a galaxy of supers, thrown into a prison ship full of villains, and told it was up to me to stop them all. Read on, friend, because it gets a whole hell of a lot crazier from here. Warning: This audiobook contains gratuitous violence and sex, harems, a hot foxlike chick, breasts galore, heads exploding, and ample blood. You might cringe, you will laugh, and hell, you might even cry. Soundbooth Theater presents: more super harem naughtiness! Jamie Hawke's steamy, action-packed adventure is now on audio with the full SBT cast treatment! Justin Thomas James leads yet another sexy bunch of superheroines voiced by the lovely Laurie Catherine Winkel and Annie Ellicott, while our vocal chameleon, Jeff Hays, plays the wise sage and the ultimate villain. Adjust your pants for another titillating aural joyride, and keep an eye out for more audiobooks from Jamie Hawke and Soundbooth Theater! The Soundbooth Theater team for this production: Justin Thomas James - NarrationChad Annie Ellicott - Twitch, Gale, The Blue Lady Laurie Catherine Winkel - Charm, Metallica Jeff Hays - Xin, Ranger ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Justin Thomas James, Laurie Catherine Winkel, Annie Ellicott, Jeff Hays. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/121184/bk_acx0_121184_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Battle of Los Angeles: The History of the Notorious False Alarm That Caused an Artillery Barrage over California During World War II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 81min
All Americans are familiar with the “day which will live in infamy”. At 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor, the advanced base of the US 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 more than 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.Roosevelt addressed Congress and the nation the following day, giving a stirring speech seeking a declaration of war against Japan. Congress voted overwhelmingly in support of an immediate declaration of war: 82-0 in the Senate and 388-1 in the House. Churchill had said that Britain would declare war “within the hour” if Japan attacked America. There was no way the British were going to forget the support they had already received from Roosevelt. Britain was at war with Japan the same day. The other Axis powers quickly followed suit, with Germany and Italy declaring war on America and vice versa by December 11.Today, Pearl Harbor is remembered in several important ways. First, it is widely viewed as a turning point for World War II, and if Hitler’s attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941 had not already sealed his fate, his declaration of war against America that December did. Beyond that, the day provided some important pointers for how the war would pan out in the Pacific. Japan’s conduct of battle was exposed as aggressive but inflexible, and its pilots proved brave but undisciplined. The Americans, derisively portrayed as decadent and weak, showed they could and would fight. In the immediate aftermath, Americans immediately rallied around the flag, invoking ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim D Johnston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/126388/bk_acx0_126388_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Christmas Eve, 1914, Hörbuch, Digital, 73min
Drawing from historic events and written especially for audio by two-time Emmy Award winner Charles Olivier, this stellar production transports the listener behind British lines on the Western Front during the first Christmas of WWI, when, of all things, German and English soldiers declared an unofficial truce to bury their dead, sing carols, and give thanks. The cast's excellent naturalistic acting and superb dialogue bring out the human side of a conflict in which the enemy lay entrenched only a few hundred yards away. Spot-on sound effects and motion-picture-style original music create sonic depth and atmosphere. Riveting, touching, and timeless, this production is destined to become a family favorite at Christmas for years to come. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, 2016. (AudioFile magazine)Audie Award Finalist, Audio Drama, 2016 "Gentlemen, maybe war takes a holiday today."This mesmerizing audio drama takes you to the dismal trenches of World War I. It is here, under the constant threat of exploding shells and artillery, that British and German soldiers live in deplorable conditions. Braving the merciless cold and crushing exhaustion and hunger, the men conduct patrols and fight, often to the death, to advance mere inches in the frozen No Man’s Land that lies between them.But on Christmas Eve, the Western Front gives way to a miracle of grace, as soldiers from both sides emerge from their trenches to greet each other, share their meager rations, and bury the dead for an unofficial and temporary truce. Drawing upon the unforgettable true story of history’s most transcendent ceasefire, this Audible Original, a finalist for the 2016 Audie Award for Best Audio Drama, commemorates an astonishing moment of peace—and celebration of man’s capacity for kindness—in the midst of total war. A full cast performance of a heart-wrenching script written by Emmy Award-winner Charles Olivier and produced by D Language: English. Narrator: Cameron Daddo, Xander Berkeley, Cody Fern, Damon Herriman, James Scott, John Beck, Lance Guest, Gabe Greenspan, Nate Jones. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/022326/bk_adbl_022326_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Devil's Claw: Joanna Brady, Book 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 826min
In the night-still canyons of the Arizona desert, a girl is on the run. Alone but for her beloved red-tailed hawk, she flees from the dark shadows of her young life, the horror she has witnessed…and the terror that now stalks her. New York Times best-selling author J. A. Jance returns with her eighth novel in the highly acclaimed Joanna Brady mystery series. Set against the backdrop of the modern west, this gripping tale finds Sheriff Brady juggling a precarious overload in both her personal and professional lives. About to be married, Joanna's facing a daughter turning 12 and going on 20, a meddlesome mother micro-managing her wedding, and new in-laws arriving any day. The sudden death of her much-loved neighbor and handyman, Clayton Rhodes, creates further turmoil, leaving Joanna shocked, saddened, and the target of Clayton's irate and irrational daughter, who accuses the Sheriff's Department of covering up a possible murder. But amidst the uproar, the report of a homicide at Cochise Stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains quickly captures Joanna's full attention. An Indian woman has been found shot to death - a woman recently released from prision after serving time for the manslaughter killing of her husband. She is the mother of a missing 15-year-old, Lucy Ridder. The death at first appears to be a case of domestic rage finally exploding - and a troubled teen runaway may be a victim, or a cold-blooded killer. Yet as Joanna deals with the long-standing troubles of Clayton Rhodes' family and digs deeper into the mysterious life of Lucy and her family, she discovers that investigating family hostilities is leading her down a twisted trail of hatred, greed, and far-reaching consequences - and into a dangerous world where violence is the first response and long buried secrets are a reason to kill…or die. Once again, J. A. Jance delivers a gritty, deftly written thriller that unfolds on a vivid landscape of raw beauty and ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: C. J. Critt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002231/bk_harp_002231_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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12: The Inside Story of Tom Brady's Fight for Redemption , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 488min
The incredible story of Tom Brady and the Patriots' tumultuous 2016 season: from national disgrace to the greatest Super Bowl comeback of all time. In January 2015, rumors circulated that the New England Patriots - a team long suspected of abiding by the "if you ain't cheating you ain't trying" philosophy - had used under-inflated footballs in their playoff victory against the Indianapolis Colts. As evidence began to build, however, a full on NFL investigation was launched, exploding an unsubstantiated rumor into an intense scandal that would lead news coverage for weeks. As shockwaves rippled throughout the NFL system, the very legitimacy of one of the league's most popular teams and their star quarterback began to erode, even as the Patriots and Brady went on to win that year's Super Bowl. But as the celebrations gave way to the offseason, the investigation only intensified, reopening old wounds between the Patriots' powerful owner, Robert Kraft, and the NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell. Brady was devastated and seemingly more nervous in front of a judge than on a game-winning drive. When the dust settled, Brady would be able to play again - but only after watching the first four games of the 2016 season from his couch. The pressure couldn't have been more intense: Brady's legacy was at stake. If he failed to return to his usual self, all the critics and even the history books would have to put a giant asterisk next to his name, signifying one thing: he was a cheater.12 is the propulsive story of this gritty comeback. It's a drama that unfolds in the locker room, the court room, and under the brightest lights in all of sports - the Super Bowl. Now for the first time, listeners will have an exclusive look into Tom Brady's experience and the NFL's shocking strangle-hold on their players. With unprecedented access to Brady himself, his teammates, and his lawyers, we will see just how a football legend went up against one ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Greg Baglia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004562/bk_hach_004562_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Badass Likability: The Art of Making People Like You, Building Charisma, Making Friends, and Getting Things Your Way , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 89min
There was always that popular kid in school that everyone remembers. Maybe it was because they were funny, or good-natured to everyone, or they did a great impression of Homer Simpson. Something made others stand in awe. That popular kid in school was even liked by the teachers, parents of the other kids, and never once got pooped on by a bird. Even wild animals liked them. Did you ever wonder what would that be like? To be liked? To be the most liked person ever? This audiobook is for you - the badass in dire need of realistic and practical ways to enter the world of likability. In this audiobook, you will understand how to become a likable badass and how it can shape your future and give you the tools to harness your self-worth, purpose, and identity. We are embarking on a journey of self-discovery that delves into the meaning of being liked, things you should and shouldn’t do in order to get there, and how learning the secrets to likability will give you the greatest chance at getting ahead. Being liked doesn’t always mean being popular; being liked means being accepted, respected, and having a sense of belonging. The greatest social currency out there is being liked. This opens the door to many opportunities, such as getting invited to events, more people trusting you, nobody ever forgetting your birthday, or making your way through life much easier. Yes, you can be that popular kid in school. Yes, you can be that person at work who always gets high-fives from everyone - even if you make a simple mistake like exploding the office. Yes, you can be that husband or wife who always goes home to a cooked meal and...hot sex. Yes, you can be that golden child of your parents and bask in the jealousy of your siblings. Yes, you can be that friend who is always offered a drink as soon as his beautiful face shows up. And yes to much, much more.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric Burr. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/111925/bk_acx0_111925_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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How to Brand Your Home-Based Business: Work from Home Series, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 207min
What's the difference between a successful home-based business and one that fails? Branding. Home-based business startups are exploding all across the world as more and more people realize that the best way to take control of your life - and your finances - is to work for yourself. But what many people forget to do is brand their small business. That's a mistake. You see, business branding isn't only for the big guys. Home-based business owners also need to focus on creating a brand that will speak to their customers and forge that ever-important bond between the business and the public. But home-based business owners shouldn't play by the same rules when it comes to branding their business. For starters, most solopreneurs don't have the finances to pay big shot logo designers, graphic artists, and copywriters, not to mention the cash to invest in top-notch packaging and marketing efforts. And why would you want to? Building a brand doesn't have to be expensive or complicated, but it does require a plan and the knowledge about how to best create the right brand and then use it to build your business. If you own a home-based business and can't figure out why you're not meeting your goals, could it be that you haven't take the time to properly brand it? And if you're just starting out, you shouldn't even think about opening your doors until you've branded your business for success. In this book, I'll show you: What branding is and why your business can't truly succeed without it The biggest benefits you'll reap from a business brand The seven mistakes most people make when building a brand - and how to avoid them How to build a brand in today's high-tech world A step-by-step guide to brand building that will work for any type of business (along with links and resources) Don't let your hard work go to waste. Increase your market share (and ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anna Crowe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/074274/bk_acx0_074274_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch
'A fascinating exploration of how we learned what matter really is, and the journey matter takes from the Big Bang, through exploding stars, ultimately to you and me.' - Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply Hidden'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.' - Carl SaganWe probably all have a vague idea of how to make an apple pie: mix flour and butter, throw in some apples and you're probably most of the way there, right? Think again. Making an apple pie from scratch requires ingredients that definitely aren't available in the supermarket, ovens that can reach temperatures of trillions of degrees, and a preparation time of 13.8 billion years.Inspired by Sagan's famous line, Harry Cliff ventures out in search of the ultimate apple pie recipe, tracing the ingredients of our universe through the hearts of dying stars and back in time to a tiny fraction of a second after our universe began. Along the way, he confronts some really big questions: What is matter really made of? How does the stuff around us escape annihilation in the fearsome heat of the Big Bang? And will we ever be able to understand the very first moments of our universe?In pursuit of answers, Cliff ventures to the largest underground research facility in the world, deep beneath Italy's Gran Sasso mountains, where scientists gaze into the heart of the Sun using the most elusive of particles, the ghostly neutrino. He visits CERN in Switzerland to explore the 'Antimatter Factory' where this stuff of science fiction is manufactured daily (and we're close to knowing whether it falls upwards). And he reveals what the latest data from the Large Hadron Collider may be telling us about the fundamental ingredients of matter.Along the way, Cliff illuminates the history of physics, chemistry, and astronomy that brought us to our present understanding of the world, while offering readers a front-row seat to one of the most dramatic intellectual journeys human beings have ever embarked on.A transfixing deep dive into origins of our world, How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch doesn't just put the makeup of our universe under the microscope, but the awe-inspiring, improbable fact that it exists at all.- Shop: buecher
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