Flyboy

A Girl Divided , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 863min

An emotional novel of love, loyalty, and faith - and one woman’s exhilarating journey of self-discovery during World War II.Rural China, 1942. Twenty-two-year-old Eugenia Baker exists in a bubble as yet untouched by WWII. Content to help her father with his missionary work, Genie sees her future as a straight, if narrow, road - until an American pilot arrives, warning them of the approaching Japanese army.Lieutenant Ted Younan is one of the Flying Tigers, volunteer fighters protecting China from aerial attacks. After rescuing Ted from his downed plane, Genie’s father asks the flyboy to get his daughter across the mountains so she can escape to the United States. To leave her beloved home - much less chaperoned by her father’s overbearing assistant, Nathan - is the last thing Genie wants, but she reluctantly agrees.Ted is unlike any man Genie has known, and he opens her eyes to the idea of determining her own fate and chasing her dreams. But Genie has her doubts when tragedy thrusts responsibility upon her and the war creates unexpected opportunities, challenges...and temptations. Now, a world away from the woman she was, Genie must discover the woman she wants to be. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010896/bk_brll_010896_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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G-8 and His Battle Aces #7, April 1934 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 310min

Among the heroes of the pulps who soared through their adventures, G-8 flew higher and farther than any of his contemporaries. His true name unknown, the Flying Spy was no mere flyboy, but the champion ace of World War I. It all began with a message dropped from a raiding German plane on G-8's headquarters, a warning that promised a new kind of war and demanded unconditional surrender. Tomorrow at dawn, von Griel will fly again. He has been brought back to life. All other German aces who have been killed will be brought back to live again in the air, by the aid of a new white magic. The next day, G-8 and his Battle Aces encountered Oberleutnant von Griel in the sky, cold-eyed and stiff, yet flying his checkered Fokker. Worse, he was impervious to their bullets! This is only the beginning of the wave of Zombie Hun pilots, reanimated by the foul sorcery of Haitian Voodoo - the Squadron of Corpses! How can the Master Spy repel an onslaught of the living dead? For not even G-8 understood how foes he had shot down in past battles could live again to fly against him and his fellow Allied pilots. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Santa Maria. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/020868/bk_acx0_020868_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 574min

All Day is a behind-the-bars, personal glimpse into the issue of mass incarceration via an unpredictable, insightful, and ultimately hopeful reflection on teaching teens while they await sentencing. Told with equal parts raw honesty and unbridled compassion, All Day recounts a year in Liza Jessie Peterson's classroom at Island Academy, the high school for inmates detained at New York City's Rikers Island. A poet and an actress who had done occasional workshops at the correctional facility, Peterson was ill prepared for a full-time stint teaching in the GED program for the incarcerated youths. For the first time faced with full days teaching the rambunctious, hyper, and fragile adolescent inmates, "Ms. P" comes to understand the essence of her predominantly black and Latino students as she attempts not only to educate them but to instill them with a sense of self-worth long stripped from their lives. "I have quite a spirited group of drama kings, court jesters, flyboy gangsters, tricksters, and wannabe pimps all in my charge, all up in my face, to educate," Peterson discovers. "Corralling this motley crew of bad-news bears to do any lesson is like running boot camp for hyperactive gremlins. I have to be consistent, alert, firm, witty, fearless, and demanding, and, most important, I have to have strong command of the subject I'm teaching." Discipline is always a challenge, with the students spouting street-infused backtalk and often bouncing off the walls with pent-up testosterone. Peterson learns quickly that she must keep the upper hand - set the rules and enforce them with rigor, even when her sympathetic heart starts to waver. Despite their relentless bravura and antics - and in part because of it - Peterson becomes a fierce advocate for her students. She works to instill the young men, mostly black, with a sense of pride about their history and culture, from their African roots to Langston Hughes and Malcolm X. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Liza Jessie Peterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/003106/bk_hach_003106_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Returning Love: Silver City Secrets, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 289min

Welcome to the Silver City Hotel. A place where dreams are made, fortunes are lost, and hearts can be mended, stolen, or broken at a moment’s notice.A gambler with a heart of gold...Thirty years ago, Rhett Costello met the love of his life in Las Vegas. But after a freak accident killed the man he wanted to spend the rest of his life with, Rhett was never able to open up to the possibility of heartbreak again. Recently, he’s been diagnosed with lung cancer, so he’s taken his motorcycle back to the Hotel Opulence to spend the rest of his money in the city where he met his true love.Rhett plans to spend his time there gambling and regretting not telling Andrew how he honestly felt before it was too late.A test pilot living life on the edge...Andrew was a happy-go-lucky air force pilot who, like many men in their early 20s, thought he was invincible. He went to Vegas to celebrate his 23rd birthday the night he met Rhett. But their romance was not meant to be, as he died shortly after the best weekend of both their lives.A second chance at love.After Rhett meets a mysterious young woman who gives him a hotel keycard, he finds himself back in 1990, inhabiting his old body, on the best day of his life. The day he fell in love with Andrew. Rhett is given 24 hours to alter the past to change the future, but is that enough time to convince the young and stubborn Air Force flyboy their relationship is more important than racing through the skies?Check in, grab a cocktail, and place your bets. Returning Love is a steamy M/M romance featuring a charming high-stakes gambler and the handsome pilot who was the love of his life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Morgan Sharpe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/139155/bk_acx0_139155_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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G-8 and His Battle Aces #13, October 1934: The Spider Staffel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 252min

They called G-8 the Flying Spy. History never recorded his exploits - and for good reason! No one would ever believe World War I was that wild! "Be warned! Each night with the setting of the sun the giant Tarantula Spider will spin his web across the Front. If you send your ships out tonight - he will eat them!" HQ scoffed at this warning. But G-8 saw it carried out, saw four Yank planes devoured by the most ghastly creature that ever stalked the skies. What was this new horror? How could Yank bombers hope to get past its net of death? Among the heroes of the pulps who soared through their adventures, G-8 flew higher and farther than any of his contemporaries. His true name unknown, the Flying Spy was no mere flyboy, but the champion ace of World War I. It was the summer of 1933, and despite the Great Depression, Popular Publications was booming. Part of their autumn expansion plans entailed launching the Spider, and a companion title to be aimed at the legions of readers who drank up fictionalized accounts of World War I Allied aces versus Imperial Germany's various bi-winged counts and barons, red and otherwise. One of Popular's star writers, Hogan was doubtless the first writer publisher Harry Steeger considered when casting about for a suitable scribe. The unnamed magazine was on the schedule as a monthly. Hogan had been an air cadet during World War I, although the armistice came before he could ship out and see action. Steeger and Hogan hashed out an idea. It was part Eddie Rickenbacker and What Price Glory? which was a popular Maxwell Anderson stage play turned into a motion picture. Price stressed the horrors of war as counterpoint to the sentimental comradeship of the Allies in the trenches. Nick Santa Maria brings G-8 and His Battle Aces to vivid life in this exciting audiobook. Nick DeGregorio composed the music for the G-8 and His Battle Aces series of audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Santa Maria. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/047697/bk_acx0_047697_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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