27 Results for : loosened
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The Battle of Midway (Pivotal Moments in American History) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 887min
There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk, and their grip on the Pacific had been loosened forever. In this absolutely riveting account of a key moment in the history of World War II, one of America's leading naval historians, Craig L. Symonds, paints an unforgettable portrait of ingenuity, courage, and sacrifice. Symonds begins with the arrival of Admiral Chester A. Nimitz at Pearl Harbor after the devastating Japanese attack and describes the key events leading to the climactic battle, including both Coral Sea - the first battle in history against opposing carrier forces - and Jimmy Doolittle's daring raid of Tokyo. He focuses throughout on the people involved, offering telling portraits of Admirals Nimitz, Halsey, Spruance, and numerous other Americans, as well as the leading Japanese figures, including the poker-loving Admiral Yamamoto. Indeed, Symonds sheds much light on the aspects of Japanese culture - such as their single-minded devotion to combat, which led to poorly armored planes and inadequate fire-safety measures on their ships - that contributed to their defeat. The author's account of the battle itself is masterful, weaving together the many disparate threads of attack - attacks which failed in the early going - that ultimately created a five-minute window in which three of the four Japanese carriers were mortally wounded, changing the course of the Pacific war in an eye-blink. Symonds is the first historian to argue that the victory at Midway was not simply a matter of luck, pointing out that Nimitz had equal forces, superior intelligence, and the element of surprise. Nimitz had a strong hand, Symonds concludes, and he rightly expected to win. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Lurie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003476/bk_adbl_003476_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to Torture , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 407min
The book the government doesn't want you to hear. President Trump wants to bring back torture. This is why he's wrong. In his more than 30 years as an NCIS special agent and counterintelligence officer, Mark Fallon has investigated some of the most significant terrorist operations in US history, including the first bombing of the World Trade Center and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole. He knew well how to bring criminals to justice, all the while upholding the Constitution. But in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, it was clear that America was dealing with a new kind of enemy. Soon after the attacks, Fallon was named deputy commander of the newly formed Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF), created to probe the al-Qaeda terrorist network and bring suspected terrorists to trial. Fallon was determined to do the job the right way, but with the opening of Guantanamo Bay and the arrival of its detainees, he witnessed a shadowy dark side of the intelligence community that emerged, peddling a snake-oil they called "enhanced interrogation techniques". In Unjustifiable Means, Fallon reveals this dark side of the US government, which threw our own laws and international covenants aside to become a nation that tortured - sanctioned by the highest-ranking members of the Bush administration, the army, and the CIA, many of whom still hold government positions, although none has been held accountable. Until now. Follow along as Fallon pieces together how this shadowy group incrementally - and secretly - loosened the reins on interrogation techniques at Gitmo and later Abu-Ghraib and black sites around the world. He recounts how key psychologists disturbingly violated human rights and adopted harsh practices to fit the Bush administration's objectives even though such tactics proved ineffective, counterproductive, and damaging to our own national security. Fallon untangles the powerful decisions the administration's ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Stifel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/032935/bk_adbl_032935_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Moonglow: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 882min
Following on the heels of his New York Times best-selling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure - and the forces that work to destroy us. In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother's home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon's grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis of the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain in the ongoing magic act that is the art of Michael Chabon. Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession, made to his grandson, of a man the narrator refers to only as "my grandfather". It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and desire and ordinary love, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact - and the creative power - of the keeping of secrets and the telling of lies. A gripping, poignant, tragicomic, scrupulously researched, and wholly imaginary transcript of a life that spanned the dark heart of the 20th century, Moonglow is also a tour de force of speculative history in which Chabon attempts to reconstruct the mysterious origins and fate of Chabon Scientific Co., an authentic mail-order novelty company whose ads for scale models of human skeletons, combustion engines, and space rockets were once a fixture in the back pages of Esquire, Popular Mechanics, and Boy's Life. Along the way Chabon devises ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Newbern. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005556/bk_harp_005556_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Having His Back: A Sweet Marriage of Convenience Series (The Brides of Purple Heart Ranch, Book 5) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 159min
She yearns to sing a new tune. He wants to mute the past. Can a secret baby bring them into harmony?Xavier Ramos was always a smooth talker. As an army communications specialist, his gift of gab loosened the lips of informants and helped gain needed intelligence. But the collateral damage of his actions left scars inside and out. He battles his demons with a joking attitude and forced smiles but gets tongue-tied when he meets the daughter he never knew he had. It’s love at first sight for him and his little girl. Unfortunately, her mother, the love of his life who he abandoned years ago, is immune to his sweet talk.Cassie Butler was the quintessential good girl. She sang in the choir on Sundays and followed all the rules until the night she gave herself to the man she thought she would marry. But when Xavier went off to war and never returned, she was left heartbroken and pregnant. Shunned by her parents and community, Cassie has struggled to raise her child on her own. With no child care for her special-needs daughter, she hasn’t had it easy and has resolved to never depend on anyone again. And then, Xavier shows up in her life again.His proposal is simple: a platonic marriage of convenience complete with a home and child care. But can she trust the pretty words of the man who broke her heart and abandoned her? For Xavier, opening up to Cassie about the wartime horrors that kept him away from her will be his biggest battle yet. And even if he can get her to trust him, can he convince himself that he is worthy of love again?Find out if love can truly heal all wounds in this light-hearted, sweet romance of convenient arrangements that unfold into lasting love. Having His Back is the fifth in a series of marriage of convenience tales featuring wounded warriors who are healed with the power of love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meagan Moses. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/237782/bk_acx0_237782_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Co-Ed Found Cheating: Sara Makes Tina Serve as Her Personal Slave Girl Volume 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 57min, (USK 18)
The girls walked over to the bar and ordered their drinks. They had a few drinks and began relaxing. Tina asked Sara if she could go and dance on the dance floor because her favorite song was playing. Sara nodded her head yes.Tina was dancing very sexy on the dance floor. She was swaying her hips and rubbing her hands all over her body. A couple of guys noticed this and danced over to her and soon enough she was in between the two guys as they were rubbing all over her body. The drinks must have loosened her up, because she found herself having fun.Sara watched and got turned on, but wasn’t too happy that the guys were getting something for free. Tina was her sex slave and in her mind, if someone wanted to play with her toy, they had to either ask her permission or pay to play with her.When the song was over, Tina came back over to Sara and sat next to her at the bar. She ordered another drink and one of the guys paid for it. The other guy then saw Sara and bought her a drink as well. After all, Sara was attractive even though he didn’t know she was a lesbian.Tina could tell that she had displeased Sara. She was afraid of what Sara might make her do tonight. After all, she was at her beckon call and if Sara weren’t happy, she would let Tina know by punishing her.Tina hadn’t forgotten that Sara was in charge of her and could make her do anything she wanted her to do no matter how humiliating or embarrassing it would be. For now, Tina was happy and the night seemed to be going normal so far.That is, until Sara whispered in Tina’s ear, “Go on the dance floor and do a strip tease for me.”“What?” Tina asked to make sure she heard Sara.“Get your little ass on that dance floor and strip, bitch!” She yelled louder in Tina’s ear so that Tina would hear her loud and clear this time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Candy Kross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/017398/bk_acx0_017398_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Killing Bridezilla: A Jaine Austen Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 448min
When writer-for-hire Jaine Austen signs on to script vows for the ultimate Bridezilla, "I do's" soon become "I wish I hadn't's"--and curtains for the bride spell a veil of woes for Jaine… Jaine's accepted her share of lame gigs to pay the bills, but rewriting Shakespeare's got to be an all-time low. The fiasco begins with a call from Jaine's high-school nemesis, uber rich uber witch Patti Devane. It seems Patti will soon be sashaying down the aisle with another former classmate from Hermosa High, and she'd like the exchange of vows to evoke Romeo and Juliet…except without the "downer" of an ending.Even worse than the assignment itself is dealing with Patti as a client. At least Jaine's not alone, as nobody can stand the demanding, spoiled, and incredibly rude Bridezilla from Hell. Patti's managed to rack up an amazingly long list of enemies in a short time, not the least of whom include her prospective mother-in-law, the soon-to-be ex-wife of Patti's stolen soon-to-be groom, and just about everyone involved in the wedding preparations. So it isn't a complete surprise when the erstwhile Juliet plunges to her death during her balcony scene.The loosened bolts that brought down the bride were clearly an act of sabotage--what's not so obvious is whom, among Patti's numerous haters, committed this murder most foul. Was it the caterer she threatened to ruin? The bridesmaid tossed out of the wedding party for being too chubby? Jaine's determined to learn the truth--if only to end the hideous walk down memory lane kicked off by her association with Patti.Between fending off advances from the nerd of her high school nightmares and figuring out ways to stop Prozac the cat from corrupting the victim's pet Poodle, Jaine's involvement in this case keeps veering between comedy and tragedy. That is, until another body is discovered--and the killer starts laying plot for a final act--starring Jaine… ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brittany Pressley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015305/bk_adbl_015305_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Bondage Room 2: An Erotic BDSM Fantasy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 31min, (USK 18)
After her first visit to the bondage room of her friend's father, Candice is desperate for more. Mr. Johnson avoids contact with her though and she starts to suspect that it was a one off. When he is waiting for her outside her home one day she learns that the lack of contact is just another form of torture to build their desires. When he asks is she is ready for a second visit to his home the desire spills over and Mr. Johnson treats her to another harsh session of painful love in his bondage room. This is an explicit erotic short story of approximately 5,000 words. It contains graphic language and sexual themes. It is meant only for adults who are interested in this type of material for viewing in jurisdictions where its sale and enjoyment does not violate any local laws. Excerpt: "Mr. Johnson went across to a cabinet, opened a drawer and pulled out a riding crop. As soon as Candice saw it, it brought to mind her experience of being bent over and tied to the table on her previous visit and she wondered if it was to be repeated. The older man came to stand in front of her though and began to tap the end of the riding crop on her bra. "Take it off," he finally said. Candice reached behind her back and loosened the hooks, shrugging the straps from her shoulders and letting the bra fall to the floor. The riding crop touched a naked breast, teasing around the nipple and stroking over it. Candice felt the nipple harden and the end of the crop tapped the erect nub more forcefully. Each hit brought a little more pain and she winced, her breath beginning to spill out hard as her nipple suffered. Mr. Johnson worked the crop to the other breast and gave the nipple similar treatment. Candice was breathing ever harder as the mixture of pain and pleasure made her gasp. The crop suddenly lashed at her tits and the sharp pain made her wince. Her eyes opened wide and as she looked she saw the red mark stretching across the smooth skin. Mr. Johnson re ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vanessa Taylor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/008032/bk_acx0_008032_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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