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    The Waiting Room (The Marshall Project) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 47min
    It’s easy to get lost in Chicago’s Cook County Jail, the size of seventy-two football fields. For many released into the harsh elements beyond the walls, it can be impossible to find their way home.This haunting and powerful narrative reveals the intentionally disorienting tactics of the system and how the punishments meted out to prisoners, their families, and even innocent victims extend beyond the cages. Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, the award-winning author of Crook Country, exposes the moral, spiritual, legal, and psychological wasteland - inside and out - of the nation’s largest jail.Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve’s The Waiting Room is part of Southside, a collection of five true stories about racism and reform, crime and corruption, justice and injustice in Chicago - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning team at The Marshall Project. Each story can be listened to in a single sitting. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Almarie Guerra. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010929/bk_brll_010929_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Diamond as Big as the Ritz , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 101min
    Written in the same vein as "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,""The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most imaginative shorter works. John T. Unger is a young southerner who goes to Montana for summer vacation with a wealthy college classmate. But the classmate's family proves to be much more than simply wealthy - they own a mountain made entirely of one solid diamond. And they've gone to dreadful lengths to conceal their secret, which means that John could be in danger. But the family also has a daughter - the lovely Kismine - and with her help, John may yet escape the fate her family has meted out to all their other guests so far. Proceeds from sale of this title go to Reach Out and Read, an innovative literacy advocacy organization. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Berkrot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006058/bk_blak_006058_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Erotic Capital: The Power of Attraction in the Boardroom and the Bedroom , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 527min
    In 2010, pioneering sociologist Catherine Hakim shocked the world with a provocative new theory: In addition to the three recognized personal assets (economic, cultural, and social capital), each individual has a fourth asset - erotic capital - that he or she can, and should, use to advance within society. In this bold and controversial book, Hakim explores the applications and significance of erotic capital, challenging the disapproval meted out to women and men who use sex appeal to get ahead in life. Social scientists have paid little serious attention to these modes of personal empowerment, despite overwhelming evidence of their importance. In Erotic Capital, Hakim marshals a trove of research to show that rather than degrading those who employ it, erotic capital represents a powerful and potentially equalizing tool - one that we scorn only to our own detriment. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lisa Cordileone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000656/bk_gdan_000656_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Republics Versus Woman
    Republics Versus Woman ab 22.99 € als Taschenbuch: Contrasting The Treatment Accorded To Woman In Aristocracies With That Meted Out To Her In Democracies (1903). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    Arctic Wings: A Story of Crime and Justice on the Northern Frontier , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 122min
    Spring has come to White Bear Landing - and so has the law, in the firm hands of Royal Mounted policeman and pilot Bob Dixon. Dixon's gruff, tough and good-looking, and in this outpost halfway between the arctic mines and civilization, he's known for taking the law to extremes.More than once Dixon has meted out his own brand of rough justice with hard fists and hot lead, but now the tables have turned. The past has come back to haunt him, he's been set up as a murder suspect, and a rogue's gallery of enemies are lining up to settle old scores....Out on the icy tundra, on the edge of the world, revenge can be cold - and brutal. Dixon's only hope is to let the trust of a good friend and the love of a good woman lead the way to true justice and redemption - on Arctic Wings.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R. F. Daley, Christina Huntington, Phil Proctor, Jim Meskimen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gala/000111/bk_gala_000111_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Private Peaceful: A BBC Radio Drama, Hörbuch, Digital, 87min
    A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the powerful novel set in the First World War, from the author of War Horse. This is the story of Thomas "Tommo" Peaceful, a young soldier who finds himself in Belgium, in the trenches of the First World War, with his brother Charlie. It is also the story of Tommo’s life, growing up in Devon with his brothers, and of his love for Molly, the beautiful girl he met on his first day at school. As the story unfolds, from past to present, so approaches the hour when Tommo and Charlie will be separated forever. The horrors of the First World War, and the injustice meted out to the soldiers who fought in it, are movingly described. Recorded on location in Iddesleigh, the Devon village where the book is set, this radio dramatisation features among its cast Paul Chequer, Nicholas Lyndhurst, and author Michael Morpurgo himself. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Chequer, Michael Morpurgo, Full Cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001767/bk_rhuk_001767_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Moon Lake , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 403min
    A monster lurks in the lake, haunting those who do evil. A novel of youth corrupted and innocence lost. Angie moved with her father from St. Louis to the deep south town of Moon Lake, Mississippi. The lake was huge and peaceful, but the high school wasn't very friendly and Tyeson Dompier thought he owned the lake and everyone who lived around it. He wanted Angie for himself the way he'd had every girl he wanted, but his cruelty ruined everything. In the lake a monster lurked, lying in the weedy bottom, waiting the time it was needed to search out those who committed unforgivable sins. It was the monster of retribution, the hands of justice meted out to those born of evil. Angie and Tye begin a dance of revenge, death, and one of them will pay the ultimate penalty. One of them will face the lake creature's wrath... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Commodore James. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/006240/bk_acx0_006240_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Caleb Williams or Things as They Are , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1008min
    Caleb Williams is a young, naive, and bookish man from a humble family. He is hired as a private secretary and librarian by a local country squire Ferdinando Falkland. Falkland seems to be the best of men - a cultivated, humane, liberal and kindly man. But when honest young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins to suspect that his new master is hiding a secret. As he digs deeper into Falkland’s past and finally unearths the horrible truth, the results of his curiosity prove calamitous when - even though Caleb has loyally sworn never to disclose what he has discovered - the squire enacts a cruel revenge.A tale of gripping suspense and psychological power, William Godwin’s novel creates a searing depiction of the intolerable persecution meted out to a good man in pursuit of justice and equality. Written to expose the political oppression and corrupt hierarchies its author saw in the world around him, Caleb Williams makes a radical call to end the tyrannical misuses of power. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gresta Mason. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/187962/bk_acx0_187962_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Men in Blue: Conversations with Umpires , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 724min
    The philosopher Jacques Barzun thought that "whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball". And whoever wants to know baseball had better learn about umpires. As Larry Gerlach points out in The Men in Blue, these arbiters transform competitive chaos into organized sport. They make it possible to "play ball", but nobody loves them.Considering the abuse meted out by fans and players, why would any sane person want to be an umpire? Many reasons emerge in conversations with a dozen former major-league arbiters. While nobody loves them, they love the game. Gerlach has elicited entertaining stories from these figures under fire - about their lonely travels, their dealings with umpire baiters, battles for unionization, breaking through the color line, and much more. From Beans Reardon, who came up to the National League in 1926, to Ed Sudol, who retired in 1977, here is a witty and telling portrait of baseball from the boisterous Golden Age to the Jet Age of Instant Replay. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Patrick Cronin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019512/bk_adbl_019512_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rise: Last Chance, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 632min
    Death doesn't always kill you....But second chances don't come free.  Death is inevitable...unless the Second Chance (SC) program recruits your particular super power. One last chance at life, in exchange for unquestioning completion of tasks set by the system that brought you back. At first, Dare's assignments seem trivial, inconsequential even. But as the missions progress, they produce more questions and no answers. Unexpected assailants, inexplicable tasks, and too many people Dare knows already in the system. Dare's never believed in coincidences. SC's motives are unclear. Questions aren't tolerated. Punishment is meted out arbitrarily. And SC can terminate the contract, and all participants' lives with it, at any point in time. Dare's only chance is to figure out how to fight back without being deleted in the process. Rise is a Gamelit dark contemporary science fiction story set in the near future and is the first book in the Last Chance series. It touches on death, the afterlife, torture, and the lengths people can be pushed, too. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrea Parsneau. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/226429/bk_acx0_226429_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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