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    A Walk Up Consititution & Pennsylvania Avenues, Hörbuch, Digital, 115min
    Looking for a different tour of Washington, DC? Your host, BrightPath Tours, will take you for a walk along two of the most famous streets in the United States: Constitution Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue. Walk at your own pace, on your own schedule! This tour begins at Constitution Avenue and 22nd Street, at the Einstein Memorial. Along the route, we’ll see some of the rarely-visited, smaller monuments, including Simon Bolivar, the Army Second Division, the Zero-Mile Marker, Boss Shepherd, and Ben Franklin. We’ll walk through historic areas where newsmen and their newspapers thrived, where the lowest rungs of society struggled to establish meager lives, where protestors gathered and met tragic ends over the demand for their War pensions. The tour ends at one of the largest equestrian monuments in the world - and one of the most dramatic monuments on DC’s landscape: The Ulysses S Grant Memorial. If you have already visited the major memorials and would like to add to your knowledge of Washington, DC, this is the tour for you! Language: English. Narrator: Maureen Reigh Quinn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mrqu/000007/bk_mrqu_000007_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The White House Ellipse & Pennsylvania Avenue, Hörbuch, Digital, 87min
    If you're looking for a different tour of Washington, DC, here it is! Your host, BrightPath Tours, will take you for a walk along one of the most famous streets in the United States, Pennsylvania Avenue. Walk at your own pace, on your own schedule! This tour begins in the Ellipse, right in front of the South Lawn of the White House. After we leave the Ellipse, we'll walk along Pennsylvania Avenue where we’ll see some of the rarely-visited, smaller monuments including Boss Shepherd, Ben Franklin, and the Peace Memorial. We'll walk through historic areas where newsmen and their newspapers thrived, where the lowest rungs of society struggled to establish meager lives, where protestors gathered and met tragic ends over the demand for their War pensions. The tour ends at one of the largest equestrian monuments in the world - and one of the most dramatic monuments on DC's landscape: The Ulysses S Grant Memorial. This walk is perfect for those who have already visited the major memorials and would like to add to their knowledge of Washington, DC! Language: English. Narrator: Maureen Reigh Quinn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mrqu/000008/bk_mrqu_000008_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Days of Rage: Smokey Dalton, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 740min
    Nominated for The Best Private Eye Hardcover Novel of the Year Chosen as one of the top ten books of the year by Kirkus. Chosen as one of the best mystery novels of the year by Deadly Pleasures Magazine Winner, Spotted Owl Award for Best Mystery by a Northwest Writer. Shamus nomination for Best Private Eye Hardcover Novel. Chicago, 1969: The trial of eight protestors from the Democratic Convention the previous year has the whole world watching - and all of Chicagoland on edge. Smokey Dalton feels the pressure: more cops on the streets, more FBI in his neighborhood. But when the landlord at one of Sturdy Investments’ South Side properties dies alone in his apartment, Smokey agrees to investigate. He finds old human bones in the basement, along with hints of more. Smokey and his girlfriend, Sturdy’s CEO Laura Hathaway, worry that Laura’s father knew who used that basement and why. Without involving law enforcement, they decide to hold a thorough investigation and discover secrets they never ever imagined - secrets that could threaten Smokey, Laura, Sturdy, and one of Chicago’s greatest institutions. Secrets worth killing for. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mirron Willis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012889/bk_adbl_012889_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Illumination: The Awakening Series, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 618min
    In this final installment of the best-selling Awakening Series, Tara Spencer comes face-to-face with the forces that caused her supernatural pregnancy. She also learns the truth about her child's origin - and her own. On awakening from a 13-month coma, Tara discovers the well-adjusted infant she remembers is gone, replaced by a toddler who shies away from her mother and who has yet to speak her first word. Threats and violence have split the Spencer family apart, and protestors plague Tara wherever she goes after discharging herself from the hospital. A young woman arranges to meet Tara, giving her what she says is the key to unraveling the mystery of Tara's pregnancy and mission. But she brings news of death and destruction as well and is suspicious of Tara's closest allies. Struggling for answers, Tara seeks out the man she believes was responsible for the kidnapping of her beloved daughter. Tragedy follows, and Tara despairs of ever freeing herself and her child from danger. Tara longs for a guide, but when she finds one, the message she hears nearly destroys her. How much must she sacrifice to save the world? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shiromi Arserio. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/101871/bk_acx0_101871_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fresh Air, Dave Davies and Howard Pollack, Hörbuch, Digital, 45min
    Reporter Dave Davies and Aaron Copeland biographer Howard Pollack on this edition of Fresh Air. Dave Davies talks about Philadelphia and next week's Republican National Convention. He'll talk about what the city did to get the convention, what image the city is trying to project, and what the city is doing to prepare for the delegates, the protestors, and the media. Davies will also talk about the current controversy surrounding the Philadelphia police. Davies is a long time reporter in the Philadelphia area. He covers City Hall and city politics for the Philadelphia Daily News. Biographer Howard Pollack is the author of Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Copland's birth. Though Copland was Jewish, gay, and raised in Brooklyn, his work came to personify the American West, with such well known compositions as Billy the Kid and Rodeo. Copland also wrote Appalachian Spring, and Fanfare for the Common Man. Copland also wrote the film scores for The Red Pony, and The Heiress. Pollack is professor of music history and literature at the University of Houston. Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/000760/rt_whyy_000760_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The American Spring: What We Talk About When We Talk About Revolution , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 373min
    I don't think there'll ever be a day when there's nothing to dissent about. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti) "The game is being run on people but they don’t know how the game is being run." (Arthur Blaustein) "I often feel as though right before a movement people think nothing is going to change." (Candace Falk) Since the eviction of Occupy protestors from encampments in many cities throughout the world, smaller and more targeted occupations have continued. Workers in a Chicago factory occupied - with the support of their union - to protest layoffs. Teachers and students in Tucson staged a walkout to protest the removal of Chicano history books from the curriculum. Home foreclosures were disrupted, even avoided, by direct community action. But what does it all mean? What do we talk about when we talk about "revolution", if we talk about it at all? Journalist Amelia Stein sat down with some of our most prominent thinkers, artists, and activists and asked them. The resulting conversations were lively, thoughtful, and engaging. This is the perfect handbook for anyone looking to engage more deeply with our own, ongoing, American Spring. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amanda Carlin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008607/bk_adbl_008607_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Legacy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 586min
    Twenty years ago, the image of burning copies of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses held aloft by thousand-strong mobs of protestors became an internationally familiar symbol of anger and offence. Kenan Malik examines how the Rushdie affair transformed the debate worldwide on multiculturalism, tolerance, and free speech, helped fuel the rise of radical Islam and pointed the way to the horrors of 9/11 and 7/7. "Malik’s big idea is that multiculturalism – by which he means organised ethnic interest groups – has led to a culture of grievance which renders 'secular and progressive arguments less sayable'. The word 'multiculturalism' stirs outrage as reliably as stories about straight bananas in Europe. The fact that an investigation into its history ends with the Birmingham Chinese Society should give us pause for thought. One legacy of the Rushdie affair is that it has revived debate over the future of multi-ethnic, multi-faith states. Those who believe that pluralist nations end in disaster do not need straw men like 'multiculti' to disguise their views. Why allow them to duck the debate so easily?" --Nicholas Blincoe, Daily Telegraph ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lyndam Gregory. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002343/bk_adbl_002343_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Apex: Nexus, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1382min
    The explosive conclusion to Nexus and Crux. Global unrest spreads through the US, China, and beyond. Secrets and lies set off shockwaves of anger, rippling from mind to mind. Riot police battle neutrally linked protestors. Armies are mobilized. Political orders fall. Nexus-driven revolution is in here. Against this backdrop a new breed of posthuman children are growing into their powers. And a once-dead scientist, driven mad by her torture, is closing in on her plans to seize planet's electronic systems and reforge everything in her image. A new Apex species is here. The world will never be the same. Ramez Naam is a professional technologist and was involved in the development of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook. He holds a seat on the advisory board of the Institute for Accelerating Change, is a member of the World Future Society, a senior associate of the Foresight Institute, and a fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Please note that following customer feed-back, sections of this product have been re-recorded. New audio has been made available as of 23 October 2015. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephanie Cannon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/024731/bk_adbl_024731_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Three Rooms
    A piercing howl of a novel about one young woman's endless quest for an apartment of her own and the aspirations and challenges faced by the millennial generation as it finds its footing in the world, from a shockingly talented debut author "A woman must have money and a room of her own." So said Virginia Woolf in her classic A Room of One's Own, but in this scrupulously observed, gorgeously wrought, debut novel, Jo Hamya pushes that adage powerfully into the twenty-first century, to a generation of people living in rented rooms. What a woman needs now is an apartment of her own, the ultimate mark of financial stability, unattainable for many. Set over the course of one year, Three Rooms follows a young woman as she moves from a rented room at Oxford, where she's working as a research assistant; to a stranger's sofa, all she can afford as a copyediting temp at a society magazine; to her childhood home, where she's been forced to return, jobless, even a room of her own out of reach. As politics shift to nationalism, the streets fill with protestors, and news drip-feeds into her phone, she struggles to live a meaningful life on her own terms, unsure if she'll ever be able to afford to do so.
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    Weird Television: A Collection of Interrupted Broadcasts, Paranormal Apparitions, and Other Mysteries on TV , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 76min
    For more than two generations, television has been a part of most people’s lives, and few could remember a time when it wasn’t there as a familiar, reliable source of information and entertainment. Today, viewers are accustomed to broadcasts running seamlessly with commercials following programming before more programs come on. The occasional glitch might happen here or there, including temporary blackouts due to storms, but for the most part, television runs incredibly smoothly.Of course, that wasn’t all the case. At times, pranksters or political activists hacked into satellite feeds, protestors took over studios while live and on air, and intriguing paranormal events with few good explanations have been seen. In fact, the TV has always been a place of mystery, a battleground for competing ideologies, and a source of anonymous voices. Television broadcasts have been used to support war efforts, topple governments, communicate secretly, and even attempt to communicate with the dead.Weird Television: A Collection of Interrupted Broadcasts, Paranormal Apparitions, and Other Mysteries on TV includes strange stories that will make this familiar medium seem a bit less familiar and far more interesting. You will learn about some of the world’s strangest TV stories like never before. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim D Johnston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/159926/bk_acx0_159926_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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