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  From Here to Eternity

  We'd like the think that we treat our dead with the utmost dignity and that our contemporary Western funeral traditions provide all the comfort and closure the dead's loved ones deserve. In her new book, best-selling author and licensed undertaker Caitlin Doughty urges us to think again. A clever follow-up to Doughty's debut (which explored death and dying in America through her experiences as a young crematorium assistant), From Here to Eternity takes her search for "the good death to the far corners of the globe. Doughty investigates the ways in which other cultures may be fostering more dignified, meaningful funeral customs than our own: in rural Indonesia, where mummified relatives live in the family home for years before burial; Bolivia, where the skulls of the dead are crime-solvers and relationship counsellors; to Japan, where bodies can spend their last days in their very own "corpse hotel.

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  Missing Gretyl: You Only Love Twice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 535min

  Some say Gretyl is loud, hairy, and obnoxious. Others are less complimentary. Buckle up for a comedic rollercoaster ride, with bad wigs, waxing disasters, holiday scams, a deluded hitman, lust, arson, and murder. After 50 years of marriage, Gretyl Trollop is thinking of a new life, somewhere hot. Her husband, Albert, is thinking of the crematorium. She's thinking of stuffing herself in a bikini. He's thinking of a taxidermist. The Londoners continue their separate lives until a mysterious letter turns their world upside down. In Essex, Dave and Sharon Soddall are struggling on benefits and looking for a get-rich-quick solution. With the help of a devious financial advisor, they concoct a plan and Costa Soddall Travel is born. Will the Soddalls pull off the con of a lifetime? Can Gretyl be silenced? Will Albert end up missing Gretyl? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Melanie Crawley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/080650/bk_acx0_080650_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  From Here to Eternity

  Wed like the think that we treat our dead with the utmost dignity and that our contemporary Western funeral traditions provide all the comfort and closure the deads loved ones deserve. In her new book, best-selling author and licensed undertaker Caitlin Doughty urges us to think again. A clever follow-up to Doughtys debut (which explored death and dying in America through her experiences as a young crematorium assistant), From Here to Eternity takes her search for the good death to the far corners of the globe. Doughty investigates the ways in which other cultures may be fostering more dignified, meaningful funeral customs than our own: in rural Indonesia, where mummified relatives live in the family home for years before burial; Bolivia, where the skulls of the dead are crime-solvers and relationship counsellors; to Japan, where bodies can spend their last days in their very own corpse hotel. With a beguiling mix of gallows humour and wit, Doughty challenges notions of what really constitutes a good approach to death, mounting a compelling case to reconsider our cultural relationship to our dead.

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  Zombie Cheerleaders: And Other Nightmares , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 128min

  Zombie Cheerleaders is a collection of three nightmarishly devious stories... The Limits of Pain: Tom wandered the streets around midnight, looking for his next fix. His addiction had taken him to some pretty dark places already, but nothing could have prepared him for Anna. A little old lady with a very big secret. The Pleasure of Flesh: Two loner college students have discovered the answer to all of their prayers - an entire sorority filled with cheerleaders who are willing to do anything! They'll soon learn that unlimited pleasure comes with a terrible price... Don't Open the Well: We all have to die sometime. But what happens when the people we trust to take care of our remains can't be trusted at all? Growing up with an alcoholic father, Michael is forced spend his summers as a young boy working away in the family-owned crematorium. This was no place for children, any sane person would have been able to see that. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Roberts. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/025848/bk_acx0_025848_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  3000 Degrees: The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 432min

  On December 3, 1999, the call crackled in to the men of the Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department: a three-alarm warehouse blaze in a six-story windowless colossus of brick and mortar. Firefighters love the excitement of a "triple." But this was a different beast. Rollovers, flashovers, backdrafts, this one had it all. Once inside, they found themselves trapped in a snarling furnace of blazing orange heat as hot as a crematorium, with smoke so black and predatory they had to feel for their partners next to them. Swallowed deep in the building, with no way out, they struggled to survive an ill-fated ordeal that would push them to the very limits of loyalty and courage. What happened next - and how their lives and community were changed forever - offers an unprecedented look at these heroic men whose job it is to rush into burning buildings when everyone else just wants out. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Rohan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/live/000049/bk_live_000049_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  3000 Degrees: The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It, Hörbuch, Digital, 288min

  On December 3, 1999, the call crackled in to the men of the Worchester, Massachusetts, Fire Department: a three-alarm warehouse blaze in a six-story windowless colossus of brick and mortar. Firefighters love the excitement of a "triple". But this was a different beast. Rollovers, flash-overs, back drafts - this one had it all. Once inside, they found themselves trapped in a snarling furnace of blazing orange heat as hot as a crematorium, with smoke so black and predatory they had to feel for their partners next to them. Swallowed deep in the building, with no way out, they struggled to survive an ill-fated ordeal that would push them to the very limits of loyalty and courage. What happened next, and how their lives and community were changed forever, offers an unprecedented look at these heroic men whose job it is to rush into burning buildings when everyone else just wants out. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Walker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/live/000222/bk_live_000222_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  World and Town: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 953min

  Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: “It was like having twins…She got to book the same church with the same pianist for both funerals and did think she should have gotten some sort of twofer from the crematorium.” But two years later, it’s time for Hattie to start over. She moves to a small New England town where she is soon joined by a Cambodian American family and an ex-lover—now a retired neuroscientist—all of them looking for their own new lives. What Hattie makes of this situation and of the changing town of Riverlake—challenged as it is, in 2001, by fundamentalist Christians, struggling family farms, and unexpected immigrants—lies at the center of a novel that asks deep and absorbing questions about religion, home, and what “worlds” we make of the world. Moving, humorous, and broad-ranging, World and Town is rich in character and brilliantly evocative of its time and place. This is a masterful novel from one of our most admired writers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Janet Song. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004020/bk_blak_004020_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 898min

  In a thrilling narrative showcasing his gifts as storyteller and researcher, Erik Larson recounts the spellbinding tale of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. The White City (as it became known) was a magical creation constructed upon Chicago's swampy Jackson Park by Daniel H. Burnham, the famed architect who coordinated the talents of Frederick Olmsted, Louis Sullivan, and others to build it. Dr. Henry H. Holmes combined the fair's appeal with his own fatal charms to lure scores of women to their deaths. Whereas the fair marked the birth of a new epoch in American history, Holmes marked the emergence of a new American archetype, the serial killer, who thrived on the very forces then transforming the country. In deft prose, Larson conveys Burnham's herculean challenge to build the White City in less than 18 months. At the same time, he describes how, in a malign parody of the achievements of the fair's builders, Holmes built his own World's Fair Hotel - a torture palace complete with a gas chamber and crematorium. Throughout the book, tension mounts on two fronts: Will Burnham complete the White City before the millions of visitors arrive at its gates? Will anyone stop Holmes as he ensnares his victims? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Brick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000116/bk_bkot_000116_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, Hörbuch, Digital, 365min

  Two men embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the 20th century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham the brilliant director of works for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds - a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake. The Devil in the White City draws listeners into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both. Language: English. Narrator: Tony Goldwyn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000257/bk_rand_000257_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Night of the Long Knives: The History and Legacy of Adolf Hitler's Notorious Purge of the SA , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 97min

  Germany's Nazi Party was remarkably implacable in the hostility it showed to the outside world, staunchly opposing both Communism and liberal democracy from the moment of its inception to that of its violent dissolution. The Nazis likewise showed steely, unwavering resolve in their lethal hatred of the Jews, the Slavs, and many others whom they labeled as "untermenschen," subhumans unworthy of rights, cultural standing, or life itself. They pursued their dark vision of "Aryan" superiority with a terrifying clarity and zeal, and they were willing to incur the enmity of the entire world in the process.At the same time, despite this fanatic dedication to their overall vision, the Nazis had their own share of factional strife, and perhaps not surprisingly, the internecine struggle often led to violence, executions, and assassinations, byproducts of a totalitarian environment in which power appeared in its most undisguised and aggressive form. The firing squad, the bomb, the torture chamber, the extermination camp, the crematorium, and the noose of piano wire took the place of debate and persuasion in Hitler's Germany.Like other totalitarian regimes, the leader of the Nazis kept an iron grip on power in part by making sure nobody else could attain too much of it, leading to purges of high-ranking officials in the Nazi party. Of these purges, the most notorious was the Night of the Long Knives, a purge in the summer of 1934 that came about when Hitler ordered the surprise executions of several dozen leaders of the SA. This fanatically National Socialist paramilitary organization had been a key instrument in overthrowing democratic government in Germany. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/033329/bk_acx0_033329_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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