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    A Woman on the Edge of Time: A Son Investigates His Trailblazing Mother’s Young Suicide , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 447min
    A son's search for his mother, a feminist pioneer - and a casualty of her time. In London, 1965, a brilliant young woman - a prescient advocate for women's rights - has just gassed herself to death, leaving behind a suicide note, two young sons, and a soon-to-be-published book: The Captive Wife. No one had ever imagined that Hannah Gavron might take her own life. Beautiful, sophisticated, and swept up in the progressive 60s, she was a promising academic and the wife of a rising entrepreneur. But there was another side to Hannah, as Jeremy Gavron reveals in this searching portrait of his mother. Gavron - who was just four when his mother killed herself - attempts to piece her life together from letters, diaries, photos, and the memories of old acquaintances. Ultimately, he not only uncovers Hannah's struggle to carve out her place in a man's world; he examines the suffocating constrictions placed on every ambitious woman in the mid-20th century. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gerard Doyle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009145/bk_blak_009145_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hitler's War and the Horrific Account of the Holocaust , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 36min
    Please Note: Hitler's War and the Horrific Account of the Holocaust is a short book. Warning: Contains highly disturbing content. This audiobook is recommended for age 18+ The Holocaust remains as a reference to the destruction of about six million Jews. The collection of undesirables began in 1933 with the construction of the first concentration camp. As Hitler's power grew, he rounded up others that he considered undesirable. Hitler had come into power and the slow destruction of Jews was put into place. In 1942, about a million Jews had already been killed. Execution was just one cause of death. Two and a half million have been gassed and a half million starved to death. Typhus outbreak killed many others. After the Allied victory, Germany was in chaos. This audiobook is an effort to look at the type of situation that would allow a civilized country to let the Holocaust to take place. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Glenn Koster, Jr.. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/032450/bk_acx0_032450_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Siege of Loyalty House (eBook, ePUB)
    'Extraordinary, thrilling, immersive... at times almost Tolstoyan in its emotional intelligence and literary power' Simon SchamaIt was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war. A greater proportion of the British population died in the civil wars of the seventeenth century than in the world wars of the twentieth. Jessie Childs recovers the shock of this conflict by plunging us into one of its most extraordinary episodes: the siege of Basing House. To the parliamentarians, the royalist stronghold was the devil's seat. Its defenders called it Loyalty House. We follow artists, apothecaries, merchants and their families from the revolutionary streets of London to the Marquess of Winchester's mist-shrouded mansion. Over two years, they are battered, bombarded, starved and gassed. From within they face smallpox, spies and mutiny. Their resistance becomes legendary, but in October 1645, Oliver Cromwell rolls in the heavy guns and they prepare for a last stand. Drawing on unpublished manuscripts and the voices of dozens of men, women and children caught in the crossfire, Childs weaves a thrilling tale of war and peace, terror and faith, savagery and civilisation. The Siege of Loyalty House is an immersive and electrifying account of a defining episode in a war that would turn Britain - and the world - upside down. 'Brilliant. Original. Gripping.' - Antonia Fraser
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    A Garland for Ashes: World War II, the Holocaust, and One Jewish Survivor's Long Journey to Forgiveness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 484min
    Torn from her homeland...her parents murdered.... How could she cope? When little Hannelore (Hanna) Zack left Cologne, Germany, on a train bound for London as a seven-year-old mädchen (young girl) on July 24, 1939, she had no way of knowing that she was part of the Kindertransport, an epic rescue effort that would save 10,000 Jewish children from Hitler's Nazi regime by granting them safe passage to England. In the coming years, Hanna would learn the painful truth: After being stripped of their business, forced from their Zuhause (home), and deported to endure six months of inhumane conditions in the Lodz Ghetto, her parents were gassed in a brutally efficient killing operation in a remote, forested area near Chelmno, Poland, on May 3, 1942. Written over a four-year period beginning when Hanna was about 75 years old, A Garland for Ashes is both a gripping detective story recounting the heartbreaking process of discovering her family's fate and a poignant account of her journey from vengeful hatred to forgiveness and release from bitterness. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Tackenberg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/184652/bk_acx0_184652_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Opening Night & When in Rome (Dramatized), Hörbuch, Digital, 113min
    Jeremy Clyde Stars as Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn in two BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatizations. Opening Night Tensions are running high on the first night of a new play. When the leading actor is found gassed in his dressing room, it looks like suicide. It soon transpires, however, that he was widely detested, and almost everyone in the theatre had a possible motive for his murder. It's down to Inspector Alleyn to discover who acted upon their grudge. When in Rome Alleyn is in Rome, traveling incognito on the trail of an international drug racket. His path crosses the members of the Sebasstian Mailer's tour group, all of whom seem strangely unperturbed that their guide has disappeared in the depths of a Roman basilica. Then a body is found in an Etruscan sarcophagus, and Alleyn is very much concerned. Michael Cochrane, David Swift, and Nick Waring are amongst the cast in these two atmospheric adaptations of novels by Ngaio Marsh. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Cochrane, David Swift, Nick Waring, Full Cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/bbcw/000939/pf_bbcw_000939_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    H. H. Holmes: Original Evil, Hörbuch, Digital, 70min
    In the world of evil and deranged serial killers, there is no equal. Meet the "Dark Lord of the Murder Castle" who killed roughly 200 people in a self-made house of horrors, and who also may have been the notorious Jack the Ripper. He presided over the "murder castle", a devilish architectural creation in downtown Chicago made specifically to murder people. Trap doors, chutes, false doors, hidden passageways, and spy holes made the Murder Castle the infamous building of its age. Many victims were beaten to death; some were strangled; others gassed; and even more were tortured on racks before they lost their lives. When he was finally caught, he confessed to 27 murders; although, it is believed by many that he butchered over 200. But it is not the number of deaths that is the cause of his devilish fame. It is, in fact, the methods he used. This is the tale of the evil "Dark Lord of the Murder Castle" - guts and all. Language: English. Narrator: OH Krill, Paul Hughes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/real/001009/bk_real_001009_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Survivor's Game , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 626min
    A heart-wrenching true story of one young man's journey into, through, and out of the Holocaust. Some people have a knack for survival, for getting out of jams. Twelve-year-old David Karmi found himself face to face with the ultimate test. With his homeland consumed by fear, David entered a world of human slaughter. Whole towns were vaporized. Cities obliterated in firestorms. More than 50 million people died - 12 million either gassed, shot, hanged, worked to death, or subjected to biological experiments. David survived. Separated from his parents and siblings, David Karmi was hurled into a nightmare of death camps, forced marches, sickness, violence, and depravity. On his own, through the tortuous months that followed, he endured. He is a survivor of Auschwitz, Dachau, and the Warsaw Ghetto. He endured forced marches, starvation, and even persecution after the Allies freed him from the camps. This is a story of strength, courage, some luck - and an amazing man, told in his own words. It is the biography of a survivor. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey Rubin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/098863/bk_acx0_098863_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    One Quiet Woman: Ellindale Saga, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 661min
    From the beloved and best-selling Anna Jacobs comes a new Lancashire-based saga. Lancashire, 1930: Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry, and since her mother died years ago it falls to her to become sole provider for her little sister. But women's wages are half those of men, and pawning the few belongings she has left will keep their vicious rent collector at bay for only a few weeks, so even if she finds a job, they'll lose their home. Out of the blue, Charlie Willcox, the local pawnbroker, offers her a deal. His brother Jonah, an invalid since being gassed in the Great War, needs a wife. Charlie thinks Leah would be perfect for the job. The idea of a marriage of convenience doesn't please Leah, but she finds Jonah agreeable enough, and moving with him to the pretty hamlet of Ellindale may be the only chance of a better life for her sister. But other people have plans for the remote Pennine valley, and the two sisters find themselves facing danger in their new life with Jonah. Can the three of them ever look to a brighter future? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anne Dover. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/001166/bk_hodd_001166_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon, Hörbuch, Digital, 336min
    In this extraordinary narrative, Alan Tennant recounts his all-out effort to radio-track the transcontinental migration of the peregrine falcon, an investigation no one before him had ever taken to such lengths. On the Wing transports us from the windswept flats of the Texas barrier islands, where the tundra falcons pause during their springtime journey north, to the Arctic, and then south, through Mexico, Belize, and into the Caribbean, in a hilariously picaresque and bumpy flight. At the helm is Tennant's partner in falcon-chasing, George Vose, a septuagenarian World War II vet who trusts his instincts as much as his instruments. As the two men nearly lose their lives and run afoul of the law in the race to keep their birds in view and their rattletrap Cessna gassed up and running, Tennant renders with gorgeous precision and skill the landscape and wildlife they pass on the way and the falcons that direct their course. On the Wing is a breathtaking encounter with these majestic birds, the icons of pharaohs, Oriental emperors, and European nobility, whose fierce mien, power, and swiftness have fired the human imagination for centuries. This is an unforgettable tale that speaks to all our dreams of flight. Language: English. Narrator: Alan Tennant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000539/bk_sans_000539_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ted Hughes: A Modern Wordsworth? A Modern Byron?: Studies in World Art, Book 138 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 17min
    Of all the British poets of my generation, Ted Hughes, now nearly 20 years dead, left behind him both the grandest and most sulfurous reputation. The controversies he aroused rumble on, and the hurts, in certain quarters, are still keenly felt.The gestation of Bate's book, chronicled here, gives ample proof of this. The author began it with the full sanction of Hughes’ widow, Carol, on the understanding that it was to be a "literary life". Halfway through its composition, cooperation was withdrawn - hence the subtitle, "The Unauthorised Life". This has restricted Bate's freedom to quote from Hughes' writings as much as he might have liked, but has in other respects (as he points out) left him more fully at liberty to say what he wants to say about a life story that was in any terms pretty dramatic.Any life story that comprises not just two but actually three suicides (Hughes' son, Nicholas, killed himself in 2009, just over 10 years after his father's death), plus a murder - one can't describe the death of Hughes' little daughter, Shura, gassed by her suicidal mother, the poet's mistress, Assia Wevill, as anything else - does wrap a cloak of darkness about itself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Carper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105544/bk_acx0_105544_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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