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    My Friend the Mercenary , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 828min
    James Brabazon is narrating this story of war, violence, and political intrigue. He wanted a war. And, for his sins, he got one. James Brabazon was an ambitious young war reporter when he entered the chaos of the Liberian Civil War in 2002. Running with the infamous LURD rebels, he survived numerous deadly ambushes, the privations of dysentery and a dramatic hundred-mile escape from Government troops through dense equatorial jungle. He even had a bounty put on his head. Surrounded largely by child soldiers high on drugs, Brabazon was accompanied by Nick du Toit, a South African mercenary with a dark past. They quickly became best friends. Before long, Nick promised James the scoop of his life: a front seat, beside Simon Mann, in an audacious coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea. And the offer was too good to refuse.… ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Brabazon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003258/bk_adbl_003258_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Culture Gap: Towards a New World in the Yalakom Valley: Transmontanus, Book 22 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 178min
    The pervasive, and intriguing, stories surrounding the mysterious Camelsfoot Commune in the Yalakom valley, BC, Canada. Culture Gap: Towards a New World in the Yalakom Valley tells the story of a two year sojourn at the Camelsfoot Commume in a remote valley in BC, Canada. The challenges and privations, the joys and adventures of rural communal living, form the backdrop to the human drama the author recounts. Judith and Kip Plant's family includes her children; Willie takes to the new life, but his sisters feel the strong pull of the life they left behind. Meanwhile Fred, the inspiration for the commune, stricken with cancer, is dying. An absorbing account of a lifestyle emblematic of a time, Culture Gap also shows, from her own older perspective, a young mother's struggles to reconcile her social ideals of personal and environmental responsibility, and loving and caring for those closest to her.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Judith Plant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/202826/bk_acx0_202826_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Sound of One Hand Clapping , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 640min
    Winner of the Australian Bookseller's Choice Award, this is a modern Australian classic set in Tasmania. In 1954, in a construction camp for a hydroelectric dam in the remote Tasmanian highlands, Bojan Buloh had brought his family to start a new life away from Slovenia, the privations of war, and refugee settlements. One night, Bojan's wife walked off into a blizzard, never to return - leaving Bojan to drink too much to quiet his ghosts, and to care for his three-year-old daughter, Sonja, alone. Thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to Tasmania and a father haunted by memories of the European war and other, more recent horrors. As the shadows of the past begin to intrude ever more forcefully into the present, Sonja's empty life and her father's living death are to change forever. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Humphrey Bower. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/001296/bk_boli_001296_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Sun Also Rises
    American Journalist Jake Barnes is desperately in love with the beautiful Lady Brett Ashley. She moves seductively through the seemingly glamorous milieu of American and British expats, loving, living and partying in Paris in the 1920's. They're a hedonistic generation, marked by the violence and privations of WW1, in pursuit of adventure. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Ever restless, Jake and Lady Brett travel together with a disparate group of friends through France to Pamplona in Spain. There they are taken up by the vitality and the spectacle of the famous Fiesta of St Fermin. In a city famous for its bullfighting, Jake is plagued by jealousy and real love seems forever out of reach. The drama of the bullfighting is captured on the page by Hemingway with brutal realism in a remarkable novel that secured his place as an astonishing new writer and a voice for his generation.
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    We Survived... At Last I Speak , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 509min
    This is Leon Malmed's true story of his and his sister Rachel's escape from the Holocaust in Occupied France. When their father and mother were arrested in 1942, their French neighbors agreed to watch their children until they returned. Leon's parents were taken first to Drancy, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and they never returned. Meanwhile their downstairs neighbors, Henri and Suzanne Ribouleau, gave the children a home and family and sheltered them through subsequent roundups, threats, air raids, and the war's privations. The courage, sympathy, and dedication of the Ribouleaus stand in strong contrast to the collaborations and moral weakness of many of the French authorities. "Papa Henri and Maman Suzanne” were honored as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem in 1977. It is a narrative of love and courage, set against a backdrop of tragedy, fear, injustice, prejudice, and the greatest moral outrage of the modern era. It is a story of goodness triumphing once more over evil. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Leon Malmed. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/023974/bk_acx0_023974_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Woman on the American Frontier
    Woman on the American Frontier ab 35.9 € als Taschenbuch: A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism Adventures Privations Captivities Trials and Noble Lives and Deaths of the Pioneer Mothers of the Republic. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Geschichte,
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    The Ute War
    The Ute War ab 42.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: A History Of The White River Massacre And The Privations And Hardships Of The Captive White Women Among The Hostiles On Grand River (1879). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben,
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    Hiking Westward
    Hiking Westward ab 33.99 € als Taschenbuch: Being The Story Of Two Boys Whose Ambition Led Them To Face Privations And Hardships In Their Quest Of A Home In The Great West (1920). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    The Time We All Went Marching , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 503min
    Seduced by Slim's stories of the privations of a cross-country trek that ended in the violence of an historic riot and tales of Depression-era work camps, Edie MacDonald has followed him from mine to mine, where he finds work and she cares for their son, Belly, in the thin shelter of canvas tents. Until now. Edie has left Slim behind, passed out in an unheated apartment on the coldest day of the year. Boarding a train with Belly, she travels westward. When the train struggles through a snowstorm and possible calamity, the lens shifts between Belly's perspective and Edie's. Only then does Edie broach a crucial question: Should she leave Belly with his grandmother and strike off on her own? Or should she return to Slim, despite his boozy wanderings? Vivid and evocative, with rich, convincing characters, The Time We All Went Marching is an episodic novel of storytelling, memory, and imagination - about a time in history rarely explored in fiction. Arley McNeney inhabits her characters with breathtaking conviction, reaching deep into the vulnerable solitude of individual perception while seamlessly holding her listeners breathless. Mark her. Watch. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Runnette, Cris Dukehart. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010545/bk_adbl_010545_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Revelation Day: The Fall, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 379min
    Revelation Day is the final volume of The Fall. Years have passed since the cascade of events known as The Fall began. Kell McDonald has struggled through endless fights and privations, suffered war and kidnappings, and even lost a leg. His role in the rise of Chimera, the organism responsible for reanimating the dead and altering the living, is now public knowledge. Through it all, Kell struggled to complete his work and find a cure. When that moment finally came, the horrible consequences of his discovery were driven home. Everyone wanted it, none more than the mysterious colony of survivors in the budding state of New America. Spearheaded by Rebound, a project designed to restart civilization after a nuclear war, New America will stop at nothing to get their hands on Kell and his work Tired of hiding, he and the people of Haven are going to end the threat once and for all. To do it, they'll have to fight through the hungry dead while using every shred of cleverness at their disposal to stop their human enemies. With luck, it might even be enough. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joseph Morton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/091144/bk_acx0_091144_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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