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    Sparrowhawk: Book Five: Revolution , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 707min
    As the British Crown plans to exact its Stamp Tax on the North American colonies, Hugh Kenrick, Jack Frake, and their friends in Caxton, Virginia, plot to foil the arrival of the hated stamps in the colony. Edgar Cullis and George Mercer, also Virginians, however, scheme to switch sides. Reverdy Brune returns to Hugh's life, and Etáin, Jack's wife, acquires a new friend. Dogmael Jones and Baron Garnet Kenrick join in the debates in Parliament over repeal of the disastrous law; Jones delivers his finest speech in the name of liberty. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregg Rizzo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/030156/bk_acx0_030156_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 927min
    National Book Award FinalistThis searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war. Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom’s swift-winged angels". In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans for declaring war on the empire. Over many nights, hundreds of slaves paddled out to the warships seeking protection for their families from the ravages of slavery. The runaways pressured the British admirals into becoming liberators. As guides, pilots, sailors, and marines, the former slaves used their intimate knowledge of the countryside to transform the war. They enabled the British to escalate their onshore attacks and to capture and burn Washington, D.C. Tidewater masters had long dreaded their slaves as "an internal enemy." By mobilizing that enemy, the war ignited the deepest fears of Chesapeake slaveholders. It also alienated Virginians from a national government that had neglected their defense. Instead they turned south, their interests aligning more and more with their section. In 1820 Thomas Jefferson observed of sectionalism: "Like a firebell in the night [it] awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once the knell of the union." The notes of alarm in Jefferson's comment speak of the fear aroused by the recent crisis over slavery in his home state. His vision of a cataclysm to come proved prescient. Jefferson's startling observation registered a turn in the nation’s course, a pivot from the national purpose of the founding toward the threat of disunion. Drawn from new sources, Alan Taylor's riveting narrative re-creates the events that inspired black Virginians, haunted slaveholders, and set the nation on a new and dangerous course. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bronson Pinchot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016864/bk_adbl_016864_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Last Generation
    The Last Generation ab 49.49 € als Taschenbuch: Young Virginians in Peace War and Reunion. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    Well Enough Alone , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 375min
    The good news is Jennifer Traig does not have lupus, multiple sclerosis, Huntington's disease, Crohn's disease, or muscular dystrophy. She discovers that she does not have SUDS, the mysterious disorder that claims healthy young Asian men in their sleep, nor does she have Foreign Accent Syndrome, the bizarre but real neurological condition that transforms native West Virginians into Eliza Doolittle overnight.What she does have is hypochondria. Jenny Traig's inquiry into her ailment is not only an uproariously funny account but also a literary tour of hypochondria, past and present: the implied hypochondria of the Talamud, the flatulence-obsessed 18th century, and the malady's current unfortunate lack of a celebrity spokesperson.At the same time, Traig provides an intimate look at the complement of minor conditions that have concealed her essential health and driven her persistent self-diagnosis: the eczema, the shaky hands, and, worst of all, the bad hair. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Traig. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/live/000274/bk_live_000274_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    An African Republic
    An African Republic ab 49.49 € als Taschenbuch: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,
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    The Virginia Peerage V1
    The Virginia Peerage V1 ab 30.49 € als Taschenbuch: Or Sketches Of Virginians Distinguished In Virginia's History (1880). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    Talk about Trouble
    Talk about Trouble ab 66.49 € als Taschenbuch: A New Deal Portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    Three Months in the Southern States: April-June, 1863 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 426min
    The author of this book, Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, has, perhaps, achieved more renown in recent years than at any time since the publication of his literary efforts. Those familiar with the film Gettysburg will recall the unusual figure of a British Guards officer attired (inaccurately) in his full dress Guardsman's scarlet uniform among the ranks of the Virginians at the famous and pivotal battle. The cinema may have taken its usual liberties, but the character was firmly based in fact and was none other than the Fremantle himself. The British Empire felt no need to come down strongly on either side of the conflict between the States, but its support for the Confederacy was both implicit and occasionally obvious. Fremantle wanted to see the war at first hand and so he traveled to America and accompanied the Confederate forces-actually unglamorously in mufti-in the field. His experiences brought him to the collision of Gettysburg, and history is indebted to Fremantle for the observations of a comparatively impartial military man on these monumental times and events. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Page. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/002463/bk_tant_002463_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Reunion , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 576min
    Reunion begins and ends with the 45th reunion of the 1960 class of Princeton, West Virginia. Set in a small town on the southern edge of the state, it deals with usual themes of coming-of-age and high school, as well as the once-in-a-lifetime experience of desegregation and its impact on a group of friends. In addition, the debut novel, written in the first person in an engaging style, probes the relationship, or lack of it, between an emotionally-distant father and his son, who much later in life begins to understand what it means to grow up as the adult child of an alcoholic. The characters are rich and varied, with the very essence of Americana: high school, football, and social interactions on multiple levels; the music of the 50s; the thrill of short-wave ham radio; a unique peer group, including an emerging high school rock band; and of course the family of origin, a complex mix of stately Virginians and more informal Kentuckians. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James K. George, Jr.. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/163491/bk_acx0_163491_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The History Of The Virginia Federal Convention Of 1788 V2
    The History Of The Virginia Federal Convention Of 1788 V2 ab 33.99 € als Taschenbuch: With Some Account Of Eminent Virginians Of That Era. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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