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The Hidden Empire: A Chapter in the Mallory Chronicles , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 953min

No sooner does Navy fighter-squadron skipper Commander Deke Mallory leave the service to be with his family than his world is shattered by the murder of his wife.When he and his son visit the Central American country of Costa Verde as guests of Peralta, the ousted president's wealthy son, and Elena, the president's recently widowed daughter, Mallory's son is snatched by the ruling junta's goons. With his son a "disappeared" and his hosts plotting counter-revolution, Mallory is shanghaied by his commander-in-chief for an unprecedented return to active duty. He's ordered to go underground in Central America to track down a renegade CIA agent. Abruptly, he's plunged into an unfamiliar world of spymasters turned agents, highly placed moles, and even Vatican politics. Mallory can't prove it, but he has stumbled onto economic terrorists posing as the archbishop and priests at Costa Verde's National Cathedral, protected by their mole in the Vatican. With the counter-revolution in full swing, and his loyalties wrenched between duty, finding his son, and a deepening love affair with Elena, it's up to Deke Mallory to expose and bring down the Hidden Empire - if he can just stay alive long enough to get back into the cockpit! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Macnee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bigh/000026/bk_bigh_000026_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Dimension X: Future Tense, Hörbuch, Digital, 459min

All of us fear and fantasize about what is to come - be it tomorrow or next year or for the next generation. Sixty-five years after its creation, radio's most successful early venture into adult science fiction continues to entertain - and to stimulate the imaginations of a whole new audience. Voyage with the voices of Raymond Edward Johnson, Les Damon, Joan Alexander, Santos Ortega, Berry Kroeger, and more in 16 interstellar stories by Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Stephen Vincent Benet, Ernest Kinoy, and George Lefferts. Whether men are on Earth or Mars or in the deepest reaches of space, morality, curiosity, justice, romance, and rebellion are universal. Episodes include: "The Potters of Firsk", 07-28-50; "Perigi's Wonderful Dolls", 08-04-50; "The Castaways", 08-11-50; "The Martian Chronicles", 08-18-50; "The Parade", 08-25-50; "The Roads Must Roll", 09-01-50; "Hello, Tomorrow", 09-15-50; "Dr. Grimshaw's Sanatorium", 09-22-50; "And the Moon Be Still as Bright", 09-29-50; "Shanghaied", 11-12-50; "Universe", 11-26-50; "The Martian Death March", 01-14-51; "The Last Objective", 06-03-51; "Nightmare", 06-10-51; "A Pebble in the Sky", 06-17-51; "Child's Play", 06-24-51. Language: English. Narrator: Les Damon, Joan Alexander, Santos Ortega. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/radi/001189/rt_radi_001189_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Voodoo Shanghai: Kincaid Strange, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 855min

The third and final installment in Kristi Charish's thrilling urban fantasy series finds beloved heroine and voodoo practitioner Kincaid Strange shanghaied away from Seattle and pursuing the ghost of a serial killer in Portland. Just when Kincaid Strange thinks her life is back on track and she's finally put her time as a paranormal practitioner with the Seattle PD to rest, her ex (and Seattle cop) Aaron asks her for help with yet another strange and ominous case. Martin Dane, the White Picket Fence Serial Killer who terrorized West Coast families living the suburban American dream, appears to be back at it with a fresh murder in Portland. There's only one problem: Dane has been dead for three weeks. Kincaid can't resist a paranormal mystery. Despite her misgivings, she agrees to examine the Portland crime scene. What she discovers is a place of supernatural power unlike anywhere she's ever been - and the reason Aaron had been so tight-lipped about the case details. There's already a voodoo practitioner on the scene: Liam Sinclair, a TV celebrity of questionable talent and dubious intent. Kincaid wants nothing more than to finish the job and retreat to Seattle, but the deeper she looks, the less the murder adds up. When she uncovers a much more sinister mystery - missing ghosts, scores of them, whom no one is looking for - there's no turning back. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susannah Jones. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027036/bk_adbl_027036_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Frontier Preacher: The Life of John Corbly, 1733 to 1803 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 334min

This book follows the amazing life of John Corbly, circa 1733 to 1803, from the time he was shanghaied in Ireland as a young teenager to the troublesome times of the Whisky Rebellion in frontier Pennsylvania. Once in America, he experiences some good luck. Indentured to a good Christian family, he learns farming, believing it to be his destiny. But those were not God's plans for him, and this unassuming young man eventually becomes a lay preacher and evangelist. Persecuted for his beliefs, he moves his family to the wild frontier of Pennsylvania. Once he reaches this untamed area, like the other frontiersmen, Corbly finds only pain and suffering as crops fail, there is no money, and Indian raids wipe out whole communities in a matter of minutes. The Fledgling government has little respect for these rugged frontiersmen. The bureaucrats think this remote province across the mountains is good for only one thing - collecting taxes - that these poor, unfortunate frontier families are not able to pay. More fear and anguish results from the brutal actions of the Federal government who send troops and drag the suspected "insurrectionists" out of their beds in the dead of winter. Yet, through it all, the indefatigable Rev. John Corbly never loses faith, establishes many churches throughout Pennsylvania, and continues to evangelize until his dying breath. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ron Babcock. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001115/bk_acx0_001115_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Death and the Barbary Coast: The Gaslight Adventures of Tom Turner, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 244min

There's something nasty lurking in the thick fog of San Francisco, roaring in the dark, waiting to be unleashed. Leave it to lucky Tom Turner to have to find out, but first he must evade being shanghaied in the Barbary Coast, destroyed by the murderous ambitions of former Confederate "gentlemen", or punished as a consequence of his own past. Mechanical monstrosities show up on every gas lit street corner and in every suspicious warehouse, threatening the very fabric of his country. Civil War veteran, witness to Krakatoa's deadly eruption, and survivor of Robur the Conqueror's madness, Turner's luck finally seems to be failing as he is thrust back into a war to save the Union. The Volcano Lady, Volumes I and II, told only part of Tom Turner's story. Now The Yankee Must Die - Gaslight Adventures of Tom Turner (in three novellas) reveals the rest of his adventures. Can he escape his past or will he die at the hands of bio-mechanical assassins? Turner dreams of the day he might be reunited with the only woman to capture his heart - Victorian volcanologist Lettie Gantry - if only he can survive again and again, against all chances. This is T.E. MacArthur's latest installment from the Volcano Lady universe: an exciting blend of historical fact and steam-powered fiction - plus a healthy dose of Jules Verne himself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick R. Golden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/028028/bk_acx0_028028_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Pforten zur Schattenwelt Staffel 2 Folge 4

Portland in Oregon ist in dieser Episode das Ziel von Katrina und Jack. Hier wollen sie die Shanghai-Tunnel besichtigen, die im 19. Jahrhundert gebaut wurden und ein sehr düsterer Teil der Stadtgeschichte sind: Wurde jemand "shanghaied" bedeutete es, dass er unter Drogen gesetzt und durch die Tunnel auf ein Schiff Richtung China verschleppt wurde, um Zwangsarbeit zu verrichten. Andere Menschen wurden durch die Tunnel entführt und als Sklav:innen in verschiedene Länder gebracht. Oft starben sie, bevor sie auf den Schiffen ankamen, weil ihnen zu viel Betäubungsmittel eingeflößt wurde. Die Geisterjäger:innen wollen neu eröffnete Tunnelabschnitte auf paranormale Aktivitäten untersuchen.

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The Abduction of Smith and Smith: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 639min

In this harrowing and thrilling work of historical fiction, two enemies become the unlikeliest of allies as they fight to save their own lives aboard a hell ship headed into the dangerous unknown. The Civil War is over, though for Jupiter Smith, a former slave and Union soldier, many battles still lie ahead. He returns to the plantation he worked on before the war in search of his woman but rather finds his old master gone mad, haunting the ruins like a ghost. Out of pity for the now mentally ill colonel, Jupiter strangles him and heads west to seek a new life in San Francisco. When the colonel's son, Confederate soldier Archer Smith, arrives at home and finds his father murdered, he vows revenge upon Jupiter for all he has lost - following his former slave to the far reaches of the continent. But things take a new turn as Archer's desire for retribution is overwhelmed by his dependency on opium, and he ends up the target of a gang of "crimpers"...the very gang that Jupiter works for in San Francisco. When Jupiter fails in an attempt to save Archer, they both end up shanghaied aboard a ship headed on a dangerous mission and ruled by a merciless captain. Will the two Smiths work together to stay alive and return home, or will they become victims of the sea, the crew, and their mad captain? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J. D. Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/025012/bk_adbl_025012_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Long Stone's Throw , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 657min

This memoir of the youngest McCourt begins between the borders of Canada and the United States. Because of a technical hitch in immigration law, Alphie, in town to play a rugby match with his mates, finds himself shanghaied in no man's land. This was not the first, or the last, time Alphie will be on unsteady ground.Alphie McCourt was born in Limerick, Ireland, where his father's departure left misery behind for the family. His loneliness only grew deeper and wider as each of his older brothers (Frank, Malachy and Michael) left for America so in the year 1959, Alphie followed them.Alphie's adolescence in New York was marked by aimlessness, and too much drink. Briefly returning to Ireland and studying law, he returned to America only three years later, where this time he settled in California, discovering marijuana and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Returning to his immigrant roots in New York City, Alphie reencounters the beautiful Upper East Side Lynn,and marries her in 1975, in a raucous ceremony attended by both priest and rabbi. Success followed by hardship in business ventures color several of the following years. Then, one night, on Route 80 in New Jersey, drunk, full of despair and driving through the snow, Alphie has an epiphany. Today Alphie rises in the morning, at time when he used to go to bed. With a New York City dawn still lingering, he monitors the Empire State Building, in all its moods and colors, and knows he has finally landed on firm ground. He is home. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alphie McCourt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/000212/bk_hach_000212_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Mucker , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 445min

Billy Byrne is a low-class American born in Chicago's ghetto. He grows up a thief and a mugger. "Billy was a mucker, a hoodlum, a gangster, a thug, a tough." He is not chivalrous nor kind, and has only meager ethics - never giving evidence against a friend or leaving someone behind. He chooses a life of robbery and violence, disrespecting those who work for a living. He has a deep hatred for wealthy society. He trains as a prizefighter but cannot stop drinking. When falsely accused of murder, he flees to San Francisco and is shanghaied aboard a ship. Ironically, enforced sobriety, brutal ship's discipline, and productive work improve him. The ship's secret mission is soon enacted - the hijacking of a specific yacht to take a millionaire's daughter, Barbara Harding, for ransom. Billy Byrne brutally beats her suitor, Billy Mallory, leaving him for dead. "He knew that she looked down upon him as an inferior being. She was of the class that addressed those in his walk of life as 'my man'." After Barbara confronts him and calls him a coward, a change begins in Billy Byrne. He saves the life of one kidnapper, Theriere, rather than letting him be washed overboard, though he cannot fathom his own reasons. After a terrible storm, the ship is damaged and only makes it to land with Billy's help at the wheel. He rescues Barbara from the wreck and brings her ashore. Barbara is kidnapped by headhunters descended from medieval Japanese. Byrne and Theriere race to rescue her from the daimyo's hut in the middle of the village. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gene Engene. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bimo/001598/bk_bimo_001598_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Deadly Straits , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 606min

In the tradition of Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler, Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and W.E.B. Griffin, R. E. McDermott delivers a thriller to rival the masters. When marine engineer and very part-time spook Tom Dugan becomes collateral damage in the War on Terror, he's not about to take it lying down. Falsely implicated in a hijacking, he's offered a chance to clear himself by helping the CIA snare their real prey, Dugan's best friend, London ship owner Alex Kairouz. Reluctantly, Dugan agrees to go undercover in Alex's company, despite doubts about his friend's guilt. Once undercover, Dugan's steadfast refusal to accept Alex's guilt puts him at odds not only with his CIA superiors, but also with a beautiful British agent with whom he's romantically involved. When a tanker is found adrift near Singapore with a dead crew, and another explodes in Panama as Alex lies near death after a suspicious suicide attempt, Dugan is framed for the attacks. Out of options, and convinced the attacks are prelude to an even more devastating assault, Dugan eludes capture to follow his last lead to Russia, only to be shanghaied as an "advisor" to a Russian Spetsnaz unit on a suicide mission. Deadly Straits is a nonstop thrill ride, from London streets, to the dry docks of Singapore, to the decks of the tankers that feed the world's thirst for oil, with stops along the way in Panama, Langley, Virginia, and Teheran. Richly spiced with detail from the author's 30 years sailing, building, and repairing ships worldwide, it is, in the words of one reviewer, "fast-paced, multilayered, and gripping." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Todd Haberkorn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/003730/bk_acx0_003730_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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