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When the Sky Falls

A boy and a gorilla create an unbelievable bond in this powerful WWII tale for young readers, for fans of Alan Gratz and Michael Morpugo. "A wonderful story of hurt, kindness, and what it means to be human in an inhumane world." -The Times of London, Children's Book of the Year In 1940, with his father off to war, Joseph is sent on a train out of his British town into the care of Mrs. F., a gruff woman with no great fondness for children. But he soon discovers her softer side when she takes him to the rundown city zoo and he learns she is the only one who ever checks in on it. Many of the animals have escaped, been released, or have sadly starved . . . but not Adonis, a huge silverback gorilla. Adonis is strong and ferocious-and a danger to the whole city if a bomb should fall and damage the fence that keeps him in. But as Joseph struggles in his new school and starts to spend more time at the zoo, he finds, unexpectedly, Adonis becoming a loyal new friend. From acclaimed author Phil Earle comes a touching historical fiction story of how a boy and a gorilla find redemption in each other amid the toughest of circumstances.

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How Gaslighting Feels: Toxic Others, Book 11 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 27min

Gaslighting is an insidious form of brainwashing and mind control. Gaslighting can occur in any relationship with anyone, but it is particularly prevalent in romantic relationships. A man who wants to do what he wants gets with a woman who demands respect and love. The mix results in a man who tries to pull the wool over the eyes of the woman. This relationship can, in fact, be reversed. An honest bloke can get with a malevolent drama queen, and the results can be equally as horrific.Gaslighting rocks us to our core. It, typically, causes us to be distrustful toward others for the remainder of the relationship. In many cases, we are traumatized enough to be distrustful toward all humans for the rest of our lives. Being brainwashed isn’t only uncomfortable; it’s absolutely and utterly dangerous.When we begin to let go of our own reality, neuroses and psychoses will follow. People who allow another person to control their own reality ultimately lose all their grip on reality. This is the most vulnerable and inhumane place in the world with which to exist. I don’t wish it upon my worst enemy. People who are brainwashed, manipulated and exploited - they typically wind up with issues.Buy the audiobook to know more! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Davis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/175215/bk_acx0_175215_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1208min

Uncle Tom's Cabin opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts. Even though he and his wife, Emily Shelby, believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them - Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and Harry, the son of Emily Shelby's maid Eliza - to a slave trader. Emily Shelby hates the idea of doing this because she had promised her maid that her child would never be sold; Emily's son, George Shelby, hates to see Tom go because he sees the old man as his friend and mentor. When Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852, it became an international blockbuster, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United States alone in its first year. Progressive for her time, Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the earliest writers to offer a shockingly realistic depiction of slavery. Her stirring indictment and portrait of human dignity in the most inhumane circumstances enlightened hundreds of thousands of people by revealing the human costs of slavery, which had until then been cloaked and justified by the racist misperceptions of the time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Allen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/000860/bk_tant_000860_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Dreamland, Hörbuch, Digital, 360min

Among the thousands of immigrants who arrive in New York harbor is an Eastern European stowaway called Kid Twist who earns his keep as an enforcer for the ruthless gangster Gyp the Blood. Soon though, Kid brutally splits with Gyp, leaving him bleeding from a shovel wound to the head in a rancid basement on the Lower East Side. His life now in jeopardy, Kid flees to Brooklyn, finding asylum with a Coney Island carny known as Trick the Dwarf.While hiding out, Kid meets young Esther Abramowitz, a shirtwaist seamstress who labors under inhumane conditions. As their love affair blossoms, Esther emerges from quiet shop worker to foot soldier in the burgeoning labor movement. Changed by love, Kid, too, is no longer the ruthless scavenger he once was, as he prepares for an electrifying showdown with the vengeful Gyp the Blood. Kevin Baker's deftly imagined blend of meticulous historical research and assured narrative invention recreates a world bursting at the seams, a world of freak shows, cataclysmic exhibitions, mad dwarves, and bathing beauties. In prose that is at once ferocious and breathtakingly lyrical, Dreamland weaves a richly layered tapestry that captures perfectly the emotional and psychological essence of the American experience at the dawn of a new age. Language: English. Narrator: John Rubenstein. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/000629/bk_harp_000629_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Who Is to Blame?: A Russian Riddle , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 744min

Jane Marlow's debut novel is a beautifully written 25-year saga of two families - one born of noble heritage and the other bound as serfs to the noble's household. Set during the mid-1800s in the vast grain fields of Russia, Who Is to Blame? follows the lives of two star-crossed serfs, Elizaveta and Feodor, torn apart by their own families and the church while simultaneously trapped in the inhumane life of poverty to which they were born. At the other end of the spectrum, Count Maximov and his family struggle to maintain harmony amidst a tapestry of deception and debauchery woven by the count's son. The plot twists further when the tsar emancipates 20 million serfs from bondage while the rural gentry's life of privilege and carelessness has taken its final bow and much of Russia's nobility faces possible financial ruin. Aficionados of historical fiction will be captivated by the lyrical flow of Marlow's intertwining stories of love, loss, courage, and pain against her backdrop of social upheaval. The novel's riddles flow subtly throughout, spurring listeners to ponder where the blame actually lies. In the end, we must tap into our own hearts to navigate the depths and quandaries of the author's perplexing question. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Hosking. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/080111/bk_acx0_080111_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Crown of Destiny: The Rose of York, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 325min

Sandra Worth's Crown of Destiny, her second novel in a trilogy about Richard III, picks up shortly after the first book's conclusion, with Richard finally wed and attempting to safeguard his new family from the machinations of his brother Edward IV's court. This is a fast listen, but one that never lags. Richard grows in this unusual portrayal of a humane man in an inhumane time, one who must confront challenging choices that threaten to rend his world apart, and contend with the own darkness in his own nature. It also paves the way for the third and final book in the trilogy. Once again, Ms. Worth succeeds in bringing to life the tumultuous era of the last of the Plantagenets, as well as offering a different interpretation of a much-maligned historical figure, one that compliments the canon rather than detracts from it. In particular, Richard's love for Anne and his hopes for England are poignantly rendered, while the obvious meticulous research never intrudes on the narrative. A moving listening experience for all lovers of historical fiction, this book deserves its place on the shelf beside the other illustrious authors who have undertaken the difficult task of elevating Richard from the myths surrounding him. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Sachs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/007630/bk_adbl_007630_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 23min

The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave is a study of slave making. It describes the rationale and the results of Anglo Saxon's ideas and methods of insuring the master/slave relationship. The infamous Willie Lynch letter gives both African and Caucasian students and teachers some insight, concerning the brutal and inhumane psychology behind the African slave trade. The materialistic viewpoint of Southern plantation owners that slavery was a business and the victims of chattel slavery were merely pawns in an economic game of debauchery, crossbreeding, interracial rape and mental conditioning of a negroid race, they considered subhuman. Equally important is the international nature of the European economic, political and cultural climate that influenced the slave trade. Within the time scale of African History, it was a relatively short period, a mere one and a half centuries from the most intensive phase of the Atlantic slave trade to the advent of European administration and dominance. Long before that the Slave Coast had been chartered by the Portuguese and the people off the area west of Benin, between the Volta River and Lagos, European traders traced a cultural history which linked them with the earliest Yoruba settlements to the north and eastern borders of Africa. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ronald Eastwood. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bigh/000602/bk_bigh_000602_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The World's Toughest Prisons: A Shocking Portrayal of History's Most Notorious Jails , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 87min

Profiles some of the world's most infamous jails, from the Tower of London to Alcatraz Alcatraz, the Maze, Rikers, Bangkwang, Sabaneta, ADX Florence - the names alone can chill the blood. Along with La Santé, Diyarbakir, Tadmor, and Carandiru, these are 10 of the toughest prisons in the world. Their walls have housed those guilty of some of the most heinous crimes in history - and frequently served as virtual torture chambers for those whose only crime is to fight for their political beliefs. Some have been the scene of massacres and other atrocities, while others house their inmates in conditions judged inhumane and degrading. Some are virtually run by murderous gangs of inmates, while others have played host to the most infamous names in criminal history. Some have closed their doors, while others operate to this day. But all 10 have one thing in common: They've all generated intense controversy. Packed with hard-hitting facts, this booklet forms the perfect partner to the accompanying documentary series, Hard Time, as it probes the innermost workings of these 10 infamous prisons from all corners of the globe. It concludes with a section exploring "crime and punishment" much closer to home with a look at how the British penal system has changed down the centuries through profiles of four of London's most historic prisons: the Tower of London, Newgate, the Marshalsea, and Holloway. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carl Moore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/053470/bk_acx0_053470_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Resistance: Sisters in Slavery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 156min

Life is full of challenges. As we move through different phases in different, a little motivation can be of great help. If you listen to a fiction book, it takes you to another world. Listening to this book is like living a second life. When a group of black skinned girls get taken off their islands with the promise of greener pastures and the allure of better life out in the modern world by a Pastor whom they had trusted for years. Little would they know how their lives were about to be altered forever. In a mix of deception, betrayal, loyalty, and revenge, follow Sheila in her ordeal to find penance not just for herself, but for her fallen sisters when they become victims of a vicious circle of slave traders who would stop at nothing to make sure they got paid. Will she come out atop or become a victim crying for justice like the millions whom had gone before her? What will become of Sheila when she is left for dead after the most inhumane acts one can ever come to imagine, were perpetrated on her? Resistance goes a long way into showing you just what the human mind is capable of and how karma is always a swing away as it lies in the shadows. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrea Lavender. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/197434/bk_acx0_197434_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Walk to Freedom: Kriegsgefangenen #6410: Prisoner of War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 449min

June 30, 1944: Fifty members of the United States 460th Bomb Group embarked on an important mission to destroy German oil refineries in Silesia, Hungary, only to come under heavy attack. Above the cloud cover, German twin-engine Me-410 fighters firing 20-millimeter cannons blasted seven B-24s out of the sky. Seventeen US airmen were killed, 24 captured, with many of them badly burned, wounded, or beaten to death by Hungarian peasants after parachuting to the ground. This single event marked the beginning of a heart-wrenching episode in the life of one airman: T/Sgt. John L. Lenburg. On his 36th mission, he was shot down along with the crew of their B-24, "Miss Fortune", over enemy lines near Lake Balaton, Hungary. Taken prisoner (or "Kriegsgefangenen #6410", the code name the Germans gave him), he never knew if he would see his homeland again. Walk to Freedom: Kriegsgefangenen #6410 - Prisoner of War is Lenburg's powerful, compelling account of his 327 days of imprisonment and long walk to freedom 11 months after his capture. Recalling the inhumane treatment and horrific conditions of his encampment, the missions and memories, and the reunions of the few who survived 50 years later, this revised and expanded memoir demonstrates why Lenburg and his crew were "the greatest generation" of their time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ed Waldorph. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/099358/bk_acx0_099358_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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