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    Our Island Story (Complete) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 918min
    H. E. Marshall’s classic children’s chronicle of Britain, Our Island Story, includes all the best-loved (and most infamous!) stories from history: King Alfred and the cakes, King John and the Magna Carta, Lord Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar, Queen Elizabeth and the Spanish Armada, and many others. This recording contains the complete and unabridged text, released previously in separate volumes. It is read with aplomb by Anna Bentinck and Daniel Philpott. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Philpott, Anna Bentinck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000601/bk_naxo_000601_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Three Armies on the Somme: The First Battle of the Twentieth Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1589min
    On July 1, 1916, British and French forces launched the first attack on the German armies lined up along the Somme in what was to become the defining battle of World War I. To this day, July 1 is often remembered for being the bloodiest day in British military history. Indeed, the British suffered some 62,000 casualties in that one day of fighting alone. As gruesome as that statistic is, it's just one of the many dark legacies left by the Somme Offensive. Among the others can be found all the sundry inhumanities of modern trench warfare: infantry lined up opposite machine guns; trench conditions in which vermin and disease were rampant; no-man's-land scattered with dead and dying; vicious gas attacks; soldiers rattled with shell shock. And yet, Philpott reminds us, without having fought and won this crucial battle, the Allied forces might never have prevailed over the Germans. Here, Philpott boldly and convincingly breaks with the predominant view among historians, most of whom regard the Battle of the Somme as the worst of military tragedies. Three Armies on the Somme is an attempt to finally set the record straight: Many of the histories and memoirs written about this important battle - including those of the statesmen Winston Churchill and Lloyd George, both of which Philpott powerfully rebuts - recount the missteps of the British command but fail to account for the fact that General Haig was witnessing the spontaneous evolution of warfare as he marched his troops to battle. It's often said that Haig was fighting a 20th century war using 19th century means. As Philpott shows, however, 20th century war as we know it simply didn't exist before the Battle of the Somme. New technologies developed, such as the machine gun and the armored tank; equally important were the technologies that couldn't develop fast enough: communications capabilities lagged far behind the commanders' needs for a battle of such scale. New methods of engagement were ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Adams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001072/bk_acx0_001072_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Selections from The Decameron, Hörbuch, Digital, 281min
    Here are 16 tales from one of the great works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled for a while the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic, and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio’s answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante’s Divine Comedy. A complete list of narrators includes Giovanni Boccaccio, Teresa Gallagher, James Goode, Polly Hayes, Jonathan Keeble, Siri O'Neal, Alison Pettit, Daniel Philpott, Nickie Rainsford and Stephen Thorne. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Teresa Gallagher, James Goode, Polly Hayes, Jonathan Keeble, Siri O'Neal, Alison Pettit, Daniel Philpott, Nickie Rainsford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000685/bk_naxo_000685_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Bomb Shelter (eBook, ePUB)
    From the bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink and "writer of singular spark and delight" (Elizabeth Gilbert, #1 New York Times bestselling author) comes a poignant and powerful new memoir that tackles the big questions of life, death, and existential fear with humor and hope. A lifelong worrier, Philpott always kept an eye out for danger, a habit that only intensified when she became a parent. But she looked on the bright side, too, believing that as long as she cared enough, she could keep her loved ones safe. Then, in the dark of one quiet, pre-dawn morning, she woke abruptly to a terrible sound—and found her teenage son unconscious on the floor. In the aftermath of a crisis that darkened her signature sunny spirit, she wondered: If this happened, what else could happen? And how do any of us keep going when we can't know for sure what's coming next? Leave it to the writer whose critically acclaimed debut had us "laughing and crying on the same page" (NPR) to illuminate what it means to move through life with a soul made of equal parts anxiety and optimism (and while she's at it, to ponder the mysteries of backyard turtles and the challenges of spatchcocking a turkey). Hailed by The Washington Post as "Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean Kerr, and Laurie Colwin all rolled into one," Philpott returns in her distinctive voice to explore our protective instincts, the ways we continue to grow up long after we're grown, and the limits—both tragic and hilarious—of the human body and mind.
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    Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives
    From the bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink and "writer of singular spark and delight" (Elizabeth Gilbert, #1 New York Times bestselling author) comes a poignant and powerful new memoir that tackles the big questions of life, death, and existential fear with humor and hope. A lifelong worrier, Philpott always kept an eye out for danger, a habit that only intensified when she became a parent. But she looked on the bright side, too, believing that as long as she cared enough, she could keep her loved ones safe. Then, in the dark of one quiet, pre-dawn morning, she woke abruptly to a terrible sound—and found her teenage son unconscious on the floor. In the aftermath of a crisis that darkened her signature sunny spirit, she wondered: If this happened, what else could happen? And how do any of us keep going when we can't know for sure what's coming next? Leave it to the writer whose critically acclaimed debut had us "laughing and crying on the same page" (NPR) to illuminate what it means to move through life with a soul made of equal parts anxiety and optimism (and while she's at it, to ponder the mysteries of backyard turtles and the challenges of spatchcocking a turkey). Hailed by The Washington Post as "Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean Kerr, and Laurie Colwin all rolled into one," Philpott returns in her distinctive voice to explore our protective instincts, the ways we continue to grow up long after we're grown, and the limits—both tragic and hilarious—of the human body and mind.
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    The Ghastly McNastys: Fright in the Night , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 96min
    Those terrible pirate twins are at it again! Their relentless pursuit of treasure is causing all sorts of havoc in the seaside town of Little Snoring, and only youngsters Tat and Hetty - and their cat called Dog - have a chance of stopping them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Philpott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/000627/bk_oakh_000627_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Loved Baby: 31 Devotions Helping You Grieve and Cherish Your Child After Pregnancy Loss – A Devotional Book on How to Cope, Mourn and Heal After Losing a Baby , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 283min
    Loved Baby is a Selah Award winner for Nonfiction Book of the Year and Best Book in the category of Inspiration and Gift.Close to one in four American women experience the silent grief of pregnancy loss. Loved Baby offers much-needed support to women in the middle of psychological and physiological grief as a result of losing an unborn child through miscarriage, stillbirth, or ectopic pregnancy loss.In Loved Baby, author Sarah Philpott gently walks alongside women as they experience the misguided shame, isolation, and crushing despair that accompany the turmoil of loss. With brave vulnerability, Sarah shares her own story of loss and the stories of others, offering Christ-filled hope and support to women navigating grief.This fresh and compassionate devotional offers:Real talk about lossChrist-filled comfortTips to manage social media, reconnect with your partner, and nourish your soulKnowledge that your child is in heavenStrategies to walk through griefWays to memorialize your lossWhether your loss is recent or not, Loved Baby can be your companion as you move from the darkness of grief toward the light of hope. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sarah Philpott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/215414/bk_acx0_215414_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Hunter: Victor the Assassin, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 915min
    Forget James Bond. Forget Jason Bourne. Forget Jack Bauer. Meet Victor. He's an assassin - a man with no past and no surname. But when a Paris job goes spectacularly wrong, Victor finds himself running for his life across four continents, accompanied by a woman too beautiful to trust, pursued by enemies too powerful to escape. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Philpott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000806/bk_twuk_000806_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Touch the Silence , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 633min
    1917 and the First World War is casting a dark shadow over the Harvey family. With one brother dead and Tristan serving at the front, young Ben is desperate to serve, despite his engagement to Emilia. But a dreadful eye injury forces him to stay at the family farm with his brother Alec, a man with secrets of his own. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Philpott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/000004/bk_oakh_000004_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Noise of Time , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 341min
    In May 1937, a man in his early 30s waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now, and few who are taken to the Big House ever return. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Philpott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/002694/bk_howe_002694_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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