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    Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1241min
    Renowned constitutional scholar Geoffrey R. Stone traces the evolution of legal and moral codes that have attempted to legislate sexual behavior from the ancient world to America's earliest days to today's fractious political climate. Stone crafts a remarkable, even thrilling narrative in which he shows how agitators, moralists, legislators, and especially the justices of the Supreme Court have historically navigated issues as explosive and divisive as abortion, homosexuality, pornography, and contraception. Overturning a raft of contemporary shibboleths, Stone reveals that at the time the Constitution was adopted there were no laws against obscenity and no laws against abortion before the midpoint of pregnancy. A pageant of historical characters - including Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, Anthony Comstock, Margaret Sanger, J. Edgar Hoover, Phyllis Schlafly, and Justice Anthony Kennedy - enlivens this landmark work, which dramatically reveals how our laws about sex, religion, and morality reflect the paradoxes and cultural schisms that have cleaved our nation from its founding. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Dufris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/001250/bk_high_001250_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    House of Dreams , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 779min
    In the hilltop villa with its spectacular views across rolling countryside to the straits of Gibraltar, Lucy anxiously awaits the arrival of her brother and sister. They're spending the weekend together to say farewell to Casa de Sueños, the house in the mountains of Southern Spain where they grew up. Her sister, Jo, landing at the airport with her fractious four-year-old, dreads the prospect of this time with her family, fulfilling their mother's last instructions that they celebrate her birthday party together - only this time their mother won't be there. Tom, their brother, is filled with dread, remembering only the chaos of his bohemian upbringing and wanting nothing more than for their stay to go without a hitch. Then a beautiful face from his past appears at the villa.... Over one long, hot week weekend, past secrets will spill out, making the siblings question themselves, the choices they've made and where their futures lie in this gorgeous new novel from Fanny Blake. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sherry Baines. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000890/bk_orio_000890_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Damascus Gate, Hörbuch, Digital, 631min
    National Book Award-winner Robert Stone lays bare the searing tensions and desperate hopes of those who dare to seek redemption at any cost in Jerusalem. In this holiest and most fractious city, where religion and politics are inextricably bound, a plot unfolds to bomb the sacred Temple Mount. Christopher Lucas, an expatriate American journalist, skeptical and searching, stumbles upon the Temple Mount plot while on assignment to investigate religious fanatics. Unwittingly entangled in the bombing plan is another American, Sonia Barnes, a Sufi convert and nightclub singer who is drawn with Lucas into dangerous intrigues surrounding the Old City. A violent confrontation in the Gaza strip, a race through riot-filled streets, a cat-and-mouse game in an underground maze - as Lucas follows his leads, he uncovers an attempt to seize political advantages that reveals duplicity and depravity on all sides of Jerusalem's sacred struggle. Ambitious, passionate, darkly comic, Damascus Gate is a timely and brilliant story of belief, power, salvation, and apocalypse. Language: English. Narrator: Frank Muller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mill/000022/bk_mill_000022_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Identity
    Identity is an urgent and necessary book - a sharp warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continuing conflict. In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in decay, as the state was progressively captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out as a series of political outsiders rose to power. They are populist nationalists who seek direct charismatic connection to "the people," offering an irresistible call to an in-group while excluding large parts of the population as a whole. Demand for recognition of one's identity is a master concept that unifies much of what is going on in world politics today: the rise of anti-immigrant populism, the upsurge of politicized Islam, the fractious "identity liberalism" of college campuses, and the emergence of white nationalism. Populist nationalism, said to be rooted in economic motivation, actually springs from the demand for recognition and therefore cannot simply be satisfied by economic means. The demand cannot be transcended - and as Fukuyama cogently argues, we must begin to shape identity in a way that supports democracy.
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    Pale Face & the Raven , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 621min
    A series of brutal murders, a mysterious scripture handed down through generations by an ancient race, and a cult leader hellbent on vengeance and redemption. DI Luke Raven's checkered career as a police officer is on the brink of ruin after a series of ill-judged decisions and one too many drunken altercations. As a consequence, his personal life lies in tatters. Anthony Richards, a young, aspiring author, has a deeply troubled past, a fractious and volatile relationship with his mother, and a family history cloaked in secrets, violence, and lies. The lives of these two men become intrinsically and eternally intertwined when a girl is found on Westhampton Common, her throat slit and her naked, cold, and lifeless body drained of blood. What follows is a dark, disturbing, and unpredictable journey sparked by the discovery of an ancient manuscript and tales of unspeakable horrors. Bodies are piling up in Westhampton. The elusive pale-faced killer is on a murderous rampage. This time, it's personal, and Raven must risk it all to stop him - at whatever cost. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bryan Gilmore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/182469/bk_acx0_182469_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Poison Tree: A DCI Will Blake Novel, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 446min
    Would you forgive your child anything?The murder of a young girl found barefoot in a country park and the re-emergence of shoes from the victims of a serial killer from over 40 years ago. A coincidence or a connection?Will Blake is determined to find out, but as he unearths the past, questions are raised about the original investigations, and it becomes clear that The Wirral has a killer on the loose, once again.Victor Hunt, father of Drucilla, the last victim back in the '80s, lies in a hospice, with weeks to live. The truth lies hidden in Hunt’s tangled family tree and the actions of his wayward daughter. Time is against Blake and his fractious team. If they don’t get to the root of past crimes, then innocent blood will flow again.A Poison Tree is the first thrilling mystery in the Will Blake crime series. A great listen for fans of Luca Veste's DI Murphy and JD Kirk’s Jack Logan series.Discover A Poison Tree and get involved in this exciting investigative series today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Owen Welsh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/210194/bk_acx0_210194_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Beowulf for Cretins: A Love Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 530min
    2019 LAMMIE Award Winner: Best Lesbian Romance! English professor and aspiring novelist Grace Warner spends her days teaching four sections of Beowulf for Cretins to bored and disinterested students at one of New England's “hidden ivy” colleges. Not long after she is dumped by her longtime girlfriend, Grace meets the engaging and mysterious Abbie on a cross-country flight. Sparks fly on and off the plane as the two strangers give in to one night of reckless passion with no strings attached and no contact information exchanged.  Back home at St. Albans, the college rocks Grace's world when it announces the appointment of a new president, the first woman in its 165-year history. Cue Abbie - and cue Grace's collision course with a neurotic dog named Grendel, a fractious rival for tenure, and a woman called Ochre, in what very well might be Grace's last real shot at happiness.  This full-length novel reimagines and expands on the short story “Falling from Grace”, which was originally published in the award-winning story collection Sidecar, by Ann McMan. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christine Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/032224/bk_adbl_032224_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    King of Thieves , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 520min
    Earth's survivors face devastating new challenges in the wake of recovering from an alien conflict. Battered and mourning tremendous losses, the once fractious peoples of enemy nations must work together to rebuild their shattered world - and prevent the possibility of their attackers' return. What they don't know is that a new, deadlier enemy unlike anything they've ever faced will usher in the dawn of another war. Captain Morgan Passer commands the Rogue Class destroyer Autolycus, charged with an interstellar recon mission to detect traces of the repelled enemy while gathering information for the fortification of Earth's defenses. What the expedition finds instead is a deeply disturbing mystery: a discovery that redefines everything they thought they knew about Earth's place in the galaxy...and reveals deadly new horrors. In this original story set in the Odyssey One world, former enemies unite for their own survival, and Passer and his intrepid crew seek answers to help them save their people. Instead, they find that the invasion may be over, but the danger is just beginning. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Todd Haberkorn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/006853/bk_brll_006853_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Places in the Darkness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 882min
    Million-copy-selling Chris Brookmyre takes his fiction further than ever before in this wildly inventive and sharply-plotted novel set in the unforgiving emptiness of space. Longlisted for the Mcilvanney Prize for Crime Writing 2018 "This is as close to a city without crime as mankind has ever seen." Ciudad de Cielo is the 'city in the sky', a space station where hundreds of scientists and engineers work in earth's orbit, building the colony ship that will one day take humanity to the stars. When a mutilated body is found on the CdC, the eyes of the world are watching. Top-of the-class investigator, Alice Blake, is sent from Earth to team up with CdC's Freeman - a jaded cop with more reason than most to distrust such planetside interference. As the death toll climbs and factions aboard the station become more and more fractious, Freeman and Blake will discover clues to a conspiracy that threatens not only their own lives, but the future of humanity itself.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Miles. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/001423/bk_twuk_001423_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Weight of Smoke: In the Land of Whispers, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1124min
    Beginning with The Weight of Smoke, Minkoff’s exciting trilogy bursts into dazzling new life as an audiobook, read by acclaimed Shakespearean actor Nigel Gore.Four hundred years after the founding of Jamestown, the lives of Captain John Smith, Powhatan, and Pocahontas assume their true dimensions in this far-ranging saga of the beginnings of the British Empire. The English came to the New World to found a utopia. Instead they founded a slave state. The only English voice of reason and the first true American hero became an outcast - and then forgotten.George Robert Minkoff presents a rich, authentic tale about the disastrous first 18 months of the Jamestown Colony, 1607-1609. Entwined with the colony’s fractious beginnings are the adventures of Sir Francis Drake, retold around the campfires by an old alchemist, Jonas Profit, who sailed the Spanish Main with Queen Elizabeth’s favorite pirate.Appropriately, these tales are told in a language rich with metaphorical power, flavored with Elizabethan authenticity, and read with power and authenticity by Nigel Gore. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nigel Gore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150510/bk_acx0_150510_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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