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    Crudrat , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 423min
    Original score by Danny Schade Welcome to Wheel: a perfect world without poverty, disease, or want. Tinkered and tuned in every way for maximum order by Rank and Spoke, every child knows her destiny - so long as she can take the neural implant. The defective, whose bodies reject the implants, do not exist. Ghosts. Cyphers. Haunting the edges of society, living on scraps, killed for sport. A lucky few, the Crudrats, scrape out a perilous living cleaning the toxic wastes from the great machines that power the station. Meet Maura. Cypher. Crudrat. Grown too tall, alone in a spaceport with no use for her, doomed to starve. With only her crud-eating murmel and an alien monster to help her, she must find a way to survive, or escape, before they catch her and blow what's left of her life, and her companions, into space. From the pen of Gail Carriger, ArtisticWhispers Productions presents an unabridged full-cast young-adult adventure that brings golden age-style science-fiction into the 21st century, stuffs it full of heart and gives it a finely polished, gleaming edge. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J. Daniel Sawyer, full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/050992/bk_acx0_050992_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Sixth String of Vilayat Khan , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 488min
    Everyone knows Vilayat Khan, but no one knows Vilayat Khan.Meditative and playful, generous and ruthless, he was many things to many people. He broke hearts and he broke rules. He tinkered as furiously with his car as he did with his instrument, which he transformed technically to create the new sitar standard. And always there was the music, at the centre of his being, protected and unharmed— - music that contained the sound of ‘fairies dancing, elephants walking’. Vilayat Khan saw music. He was the man who made the sitar sing.Namita Devidayal, author of the acclaimed best seller The Music Room, re-creates the extraordinary life of an artiste who fundamentally and forever changed Indian instrumental music. She follows his footsteps from Calcutta, through Delhi, Bombay, Shimla and Dehradun, to Princeton, USA, where he spent his last years. Filled with previously untold stories about the man and the musician, this is an intimate portrait of an uncommon genius. .It is also an absolute feat of research -and storytelling."Vilayat Khan and Ravi Shankar promised each other they would never perform together after this. Kishan Maharaj later told someone, ‘If these two eyes of India play together again, one will shut for ever.'" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Namita Devidayal. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/051304/bk_adbl_051304_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rangeland Romances, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 328min
    First editor Rogers Terrill described his approach this way: "Over a year ago we started a new magazine with a new idea. We started a romance magazine in which the hero and heroine fight side by side, live an adventurous life together, experience hope and despair, defeat and success, and finally love together. We brought out a magazine that was true to life; that was about characters who really could have lived and done those things that the author writes about." In other words, Rangeland Romances wasn't just another Cinderella love pulp. The formula - which succeeding editors tinkered with from time to time - worked like a charm. Rangeland Romances ran for a generation. For our first Rangeland Romances audiobook, we've chosen to record the August 1948 issue in its entirety. All seven stories. It's a hoot. Described as a novel of "Border Romance", Marian O'Hearn's "Fiesta Kisses are Sweetest" leads off the collection. It's followed by a brace of fun frontier novelettes, Art Lawson's "Cupid Rules the Roost" and Isabel Stewart Way's "No Sirens Wanted". Four sizzling short stories follow. "Salty but Susceptible", "Petticoat-Corralin' Hombre", "I'm Claiming That Guy!", and "Gambling Gal". These are sweet yet salty stories of determined cowgirls navigating the complicated courtship rituals of ranches ranging from the Dakotas to the Southwest. Pistol-packin' Doris Day in Annie Get Your Gun! gives you a good idea of the flavor of the festivities. Read by Roy Worley. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: E. Roy Worley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/005307/bk_acx0_005307_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Guitar: An American Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 679min
    What was it about a small, humble folk instrument that allowed it to become an American icon? The guitar represents freedom, the open road, protest and rebellion, the blues, youth, lost love, and sexuality. Tim Brookes explores with adoration these ideas and how they became entwined with the history of America. Shortly before Tim Brookes' 50th birthday, baggage handlers destroyed his guitar, his 22-year-old traveling companion. His wife promised to replace it with the guitar of his dreams, but Tim discovered that a dream guitar is built, not bought. He set out to find someone to make him the perfect guitar, a quest that ended up a on a dirt road in the Green Mountains of Vermont, where an amiable curmudgeon master guitarmaker, Rick Davis, took a rare piece of cherry wood and went to work with saws and rasps. Meanwhile, Tim set out to write a kind of chronicle of the guitar, as he said, "not a catalog of makes and models, nor a genealogy of celebrities, but an attempt to understand this curious relationship between the instrument and the people involved with it, and how that has grown and changed over time". He discovered that the instrument, first arriving with conquistadors and the colonists, ended up in the hands of a variety of people: miners and society ladies, lumberjacks and presidents' wives, Hawaiians, African-Americans, Cajuns, jazz players, spiritualists, singing cowboys of the silver screen, and bluegrass and Beatles fans. Inventors and crackpots tinkered with it. In time, it became America's instrument, its soundtrack. When Tim wasn't breathing over Rick's shoulder, he was trying to unravel the symbolic associations a guitar holds for so many of us, musicians and non-musicians alike. His journey takes him across the country talking to historians, curators, and guitarmakers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Brookes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001076/bk_blak_001076_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Dissolution of Yugoslavia: The History of the Yugoslav Wars and the Political Problems That Led to Yugoslavia’s Demise , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 145min
    The Dissolution of Yugoslavia: The History of the Yugoslav Wars and the Political Problems that Led to Yugoslavia’s Demise examines how the multicultural nation broke apart in the 1980s and 1990s...you will learn about the Yugoslave Wars like never before.In the wake of World War I, as the political boundaries of Europe and the Middle East were redrawn, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, initially known as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, came into existence with a monarch as its head of state. Confirmed at the 1919 Versailles Conference, the “first” Yugoslavia was a particularly fragile enterprise, and there was almost constant tension between the majority Serbs and the other Yugoslav nationalities, especially the Croats. As a result, the Kingdom was a land of political assassinations, underground terrorist organizations, and ethnic animosities. In 1929, King Alexander I suspended democracy and ruled as a dictator until he himself was assassinated in 1934.During his reign, Tito managed to quash the intense national feelings of the diverse groups making up the Yugoslavian population, and he did so through several methods. He managed to successfully play the two superpower rivals, the United States and Soviet Union, off against each other during the Cold War, and in doing so, he maintained a considerable amount of independence from both, even as he additionally received foreign aid to keep his regime afloat. All the while he remained defiant, once penning a legendary letter to Joseph Stalin warning the Soviet dictator, “To Joseph Stalin: Stop sending people to kill me! We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send a very fast working one to Moscow and I certainly won't have to send another.”Internal issues plagued the country in its final years and Tito had tinkered with Yugoslavia’s constitution on several occasions. His final attempt, in 1974, s ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/137445/bk_acx0_137445_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 760min
    “Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey and you go to jail.” - Junior Johnson, NASCAR legend and one-time whiskey runner. Today’s NASCAR is a family sport with 75 million loyal fans, which is growing bigger and more mainstream by the day. Part Disney, part Vegas, part Barnum & Bailey, NASCAR is also a multibillion-dollar business and a cultural phenomenon that transcends geography, class, and gender. But dark secrets lurk in NASCAR’s past. Driving with the Devil uncovers for the first time the true story behind NASCAR’s distant, moonshine-fueled origins and paints a rich portrait of the colorful men who created it. Long before the sport of stock-car racing even existed, young men in the rural, Depression-wracked South had figured out that cars and speed were tickets to a better life. With few options beyond the farm or factory, the best chance of escape was running moonshine. Bootlegging offered speed, adventure, and wads of cash—if the drivers survived. Driving with the Devil is the story of bootleggers whose empires grew during Prohibition and continued to thrive well after Repeal, and of drivers who thundered down dusty back roads with moonshine deliveries, deftly outrunning federal agents. The car of choice was the Ford V-8, the hottest car of the 1930s, and ace mechanics tinkered with them until they could fly across mountain roads at 100 miles an hour. After fighting in World War II, moonshiners transferred their skills to the rough, red-dirt racetracks of Dixie, and a national sport was born. In this dynamic era (1930s and ’40s), three men with a passion for Ford V-8s - convicted criminal Ray Parks, foul-mouthed mechanic Red Vogt, and crippled war veteran Red Byron, NASCAR’s first champion - emerged as the first stock car “team.” Theirs is the violent, poignant story of how moonshine and fast cars merg ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Buz Mckim. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014364/bk_acx0_014364_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    History for Kids: An Illustrated Biography of Nikola Tesla for Children , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 30min
    Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature. (Nikola Tesla) In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Nikola Tesla was one of history's greatest scientists, and though he is best known for his pioneering work with electricity, the fact that he is mostly remembered solely for that actually does a disservice to his legacy. Born a Serb in the Austrian Empire, Tesla came to the United States and worked in a laboratory for none other than the Wizard of Menlo Park, Thomas Edison. It was through his work on behalf of Edison that Tesla flourished and became a well-known figure in his own right. His work there helped him establish financial backing for his own projects, particularly the design of AC (alternating current) as a system for supplying electricity. This later put him at odds with Edison, who championed DC (direct current), but Tesla's model would come out on top as the 19th century came to a close. Having established AC as an electrical supply system, Tesla became a global celebrity, and his devices and inventions fascinated people. Tesla tinkered with everything from X-rays to wireless communications and even attempted a primitive form of the radio. While Tesla was not able to successfully execute the devices and concepts he foresaw, his forward thinking in fields like wireless communication certainly proved prescient, and his futuristic devices and his later reputation for eccentricity helped create the "mad scientist" image that still remains a pop culture fixture. Tesla seemed to have c ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tracey Norman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/099428/bk_acx0_099428_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Origin of Creation: The Meaning of Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 122min
    In 1859 Charles Darwin published a book similar to this one entitled - The Origin of Species. It changed the way that the world would understand their origins and their place in the universe. But more recently the discoveries made about our DNA, the recent discovery of the God particle by the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland - the most massive and expensive scientific apparatus in the history of the world - as well as recent discoveries in astronomy - have surfaced that suggests an origination and destiny for us even more wonderful, magical and profound than what Darwin could ever dream possible. We may soon learn about a "Survival of the Smartest" that will replace "Survival of the Fittest". Evidence we reveal in this book today will demonstrate how humans, and all life everywhere was actually created by a massive machinery of incredible complexity and at the same time, incredible simplicity. And that this life-creation machinery is still very much in working order today effecting all of our lives second by second and even how our evolution as a species will progress under these forces for millions of years to come. Advances in our technology make for a new kind of consciousness that is external to our own bodies and which informs and guides us even more directly than our own physical consciousness does. Explained in this book for the first time in history is how the universe was tinkered together by the Creator for the sole purpose of creating us. The evidence in our DNA and in the smallest of particles known to compose the universe as well as the largest objects in the universe are all molded into a mechanism that will over time produce the consciousness that you are using at this moment to comprehend these words and make sense out of them. Anyone able to absorb this information will be raised to a new level of evolution and this rising tide will elevate us all onto the next great platform for epic changes in our ci ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Mathiesen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/049002/bk_acx0_049002_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Routines
    Hoops' full-length debut, Routines is a bittersweet and honest record that sounds both warmly familiar and jarringly distinctive. Whereas their previous releases were recorded on four-track tape machines in living rooms and basements (both their own and their parents'), Routines marks the band's first sessions in an actual studio - namely, Rear House Recording in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with Jarvis Taveniere (Widowspeak, Quilt). Those sessions, however, were just one step in the band's careful creative process. After a few months of touring, they returned to Indiana to set up their gear in Krauter's parents' basement and began experimenting with the studio-recorded tracks. Some songs they only tinkered with, others they scrapped completely and rebuilt from the ground up. They were determined to make a record that sounded like Hoops. The result is Routines, the sharpest and clearest delineation of the band's sound thus far, drawing from and emphasizing each members' distinctive influences and personal styles: four guys making music that is larger than themselves.
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    Anything Can Happen In A Life
    My life began with family sing-alongs, my father on piano and accordion, playing by ear. My love affair with the piano started the moment Dad placed my small fingers in C major position. Many years later, most of the songs on this CD were born on that family upright, which my mother had shipped to me from New York one Christmas. Growing up near New York City, I was raised on Broadway tunes, but credit also goes to Debussy, Cole Porter, Motown, The Kingston Trio, and many others whose music became part of me. I have always tinkered with words, but at 16, lyrics and music convereged when my siblings bought me a pawn shop guitar. As I sang the works of Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, Carole King, and Laura Nyro, I learned that everyday experiences could become universal songs. As a high school English teacher for 12 years, I was privileged to help students find their own writing voices, while they showed me the courage of self-expression. In the meantime I attended and led seminars in self-discovery, where I began to write songs. When I retired, my dear husband encouraged my devotion to music. The path led to the San Francisco cabaret community, where I encountered musicians who became friends, mentors and colleagues. It was Barry Lloyd who faithfully transcribed my songs into lead sheets, tweaking a chord here and there for flavor. He also taught me vocal interpretation and some simple ways to accompany myself. But Barry is the primary pianist on this album, and as you listen to his lush arrangements, you will know why his solo cabaret shows are acclaimed nationwide. Songwriting is a mysterious process. Sometimes it seems as if out of nowhere, notes and words come flying, and all I have to do is scribble them down before the moment is lost. Other songs require far more conscious effort, but all are gifts. I hope that my experiences and observations, collected here in musical form, will speak to you or encourage your own self-expression, for tuly, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN IN A LIFE!
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