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You Can't Make Stuff Up Like This!, Hörbuch, Digital, 51min

A political comedian can offer you all of his best material. Such is the case with Will Durst in this live recording from Cobb's Comedy Club in San Francisco. His performance is brought to you courtesy of the First Amendment. Tracks: 1. "Rearranging Rocks" 2. "We Don't Know How Much We Don't Know" 3. "The Bay Mirror Projects" 4. "Exploding Shoes & Handheld Parachutes" 5. "7 Rows of 7 Stars" 6. "High Speed Limit" 7. "Stripper with Hairy Legs" 8. "Sleepy Lizard in Search of a Warm Rock" 9. "The Right to Assume Room Temperature" 10. "Rayon Pajamas on Silk Sheets in Zero Gravity" 11. "Drive-through Nickel Beer Night" 12. "Bush Sandwich" 13. "Stephen Hawking's Super Secret Scuba Tips" Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/lcom/000004/pf_lcom_000004_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 692min

The wonderful new novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Glass Room is both a gripping adventure story and a moving meditation on patriotism, betrayal and the limits of love. Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status - and fluent French - will be of service to a greater, more dangerous cause. Trained in sabotage, dead-drops, how to perform under interrogation, and how to kill, Marian parachutes into southwest France with an urgent mission.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anna Bentinck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/001268/bk_howe_001268_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Blood Wings: Raiding Forces, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 549min

In this sequel to Dead Eagles, US Major John Randal, commander of Strategic Raiding Forces, returns in Blood Wings, the first book in a trilogy within the Raiding Forces series about the Abyssinian Campaign. Major Randal parachutes into the middle of Italian East Africa with orders to raise a guerrilla army. Everything that can go wrong does. Blood Wings is a story of unconventional warfare and the ability to improvise, adapt, and press on against overwhelming odds. As in the first two Raiding Forces military adventures, Major Randal takes on a long-range, independent mission against incredible odds. He proves once again that he is the best unconventional commander Special Operations Executive can call on in a time of desperate need. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Miles Meili, Shauna MacDonald. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/139553/bk_acx0_139553_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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On a Wing and a Prayer: The Untold Story of the First Heroes of the Air , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 675min

Few are aware of the risks that the pioneering airmen of the First World War took. On a Wing and a Prayer is a narrative history that conveys the perils of those early days, the thrills of learning to fly, and the horrors of war in the air at a time when pilots carried little defensive armament and no parachutes. In 1914 aircrafts were a questionable technology, used for only basic reconnaissance. But by 1918, hastened by the terrible war, aircraft were understood to be the future of modern warfare. The war changed flying forever. The stories are presented to the reader in a frank and open way, revealing the feelings of the men who defended the trenches from above and witnessed the war from a completely different perspective. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joshua Levine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/000430/bk_howe_000430_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Fist of God , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1365min

During those fateful weeks before Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, a fragment of radio intercept had referred to Qubth-ut-Allah, a devastating secret weapon that could rain death and destruction on the Allied forces. Despite Allied scepticism, Major Mike Martin, an SAS man who can pass as an Arab, is sent into Kuwait to assess Iraqi strength and help the resistance. What he discovers there takes him into the heart of Baghdad, where he is to 'run' the Iraqi spy known as Jericho, the sleeper who might be prepared to provide vital information for money. It is a highly dangerous operation, the results of which cause the Allies to delay their ground assault for four days - while Martin parachutes into the Iraqi mountains on the most hazardous mission of his life: to find and destory Qubth-ut-Allah - the Fist of God. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Franklyn-Robbins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001084/bk_rhuk_001084_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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With Each New Dawn , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 556min

Amidst war's uncertainty, what becomes of love? In war-torn London, American Kate Isaacs grieves her husband, awaits their child's birth, and welcomes her best friend, Addie. But after her miscarriage, another meeting with mysterious Monsieur le Blanc launches her into Britain's Secret Operations Executive, the SOE. In late 1943, Kate parachutes into southern France to aid the Resistance. Domingo, a grieving Basque mountain guide turned saboteur, meets her parachute drop, tends to her injured ankle, and carries her to safety. Reunited a few months later, they discover the injured Monsieur le Blanc who, with his dying breath, reveals a secret that changes Kate's life. In the shadow of the Waffen SS, Domingo's younger brother Gabirel is missing. While Domingo seeks Gabirel, Domingo's parish priest, Père Gaspard, creates a new identity for Kate. As Kate and Domingo subject their mutual attraction to the cause of freedom, can mere human will and moral courage change the war's tide and forge a future for them? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gwyn Olson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010180/bk_blak_010180_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Girls Who Could Fly in the Night - An Inspirational Tale About the Women of World War Two : The Girls Who Could Series, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 7min

This special fifth volume in The Girls Who Could series honors not just one girl, but an entire fleet of fierce female aviators. Dubbed “The Night Witches” by their German adversaries, this all-female battalion out-flew and outmatched all other units, flying eight or more missions every night in small canvas planes. No parachutes. No fear. Just honest heroine-ism standing up for what was right. The Girls Who Could Fly in the Night encourages your little ones to be upstanders, fight bullies, do good, and shine bright.The Girls Who Could is a fun, colorful series of stories about real women who have made a difference in the world through inspired action. By giving young girls examples of women who are doing amazing things, children grow up with a template of achievement upon which to grow and expand their own dreams and goals. Fun, rhyming prose helps kids connect easily with the message in each story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maya Cointreau. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/136278/bk_acx0_136278_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Man with Wings: The Story of Leonardo da Vinci , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 441min

A biography of the Aeronautical Engineer, and artistically talented Anatomist, Leonardo da Vinci. Today most people remember Leonardo for his few surviving anatomically correct works of art. They forget that Leonardo spent most of his life experimenting and designing automated machines. He constantly observed the mechanics of nature. He dissected human bodies, carefully recording the workings of muscles and organs. He studied optics, sound and light, gravity, heliocentric celestial mechanics, physical geology, fluid dynamics, and especially the flight of birds. Leonardo believed that machines could be built, using levers, gears, and pulleys, that could reproduce the efforts of men, birds, and fish; and be used to create huge civil engineering projects. Some of his unique creations, designed years before the birth of their famous so-called "inventors", included pre-fabricated housing, practical indoor plumbing, armored cars, machine guns, armor clad ships, submarines, lenses, mechanical music machines, robots, transmission gears, roller bearings, brakes, streamlining, aeroplane propellers, parachutes, and gliders. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Mansell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/clbt/000048/bk_clbt_000048_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople. And it has something to teach us today. In the surprising, often fiercely feminist and always fascinating The Secret History of Home Economics, Danielle Dreilinger traces the field's history from Black colleges to Eleanor Roosevelt to Okinawa, from a Betty Crocker brigade to DIY techies. These women-and they were mostly women-became chemists and marketers, studied nutrition, health, and exercise, tested parachutes, created astronaut food, and took bold steps in childhood development and education. Home economics followed the currents of American culture even as it shaped them. Dreilinger brings forward the racism within the movement along with the strides taken by women of color who were influential leaders and innovators. She also looks at the personal lives of home economics' women, as they chose to be single, share lives with other women, or try for egalitarian marriages. This groundbreaking and engaging history restores a denigrated subject to its rightful importance, as it reminds us that everyone should learn how to cook a meal, balance their account, and fight for a better world.

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The Doldrums , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 379min

Archer B. Helmsley has grown up in a house full of oddities and treasures collected by his grandparents, the famous explorers. He knows every nook and cranny. He knows them all too well. After all, ever since his grandparents went missing on an iceberg, his mother barely lets him leave the house. Archer B. Helmsley longs for adventure. Grand adventures, with parachutes and exotic sunsets and interesting characters. But how can he have an adventure when he can't leave his house? It helps that he has friends like Adélaïde L. Belmont, who must have had many adventures since she ended up with a wooden leg. (Perhaps a crocodile ate it. Perhaps not.) And Oliver Glub. Oliver will worry about all the details (so that Archer doesn't have to). And so Archer, Adélaïde, and Oliver make a plan. A plan to get out of the house, out of their town entirely. It's a good plan. Well, it's not bad, anyway. But nothing goes quite as they expect. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bronson Pinchot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004628/bk_harp_004628_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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