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    Night as a Catalyst , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 221min
    As beautiful as the night can be, it often plays a role in something more foreboding, supplying the catalyst for things both terrifying and imaginative. Utilizing this hallowed time of the day, author Chad Lutzke has written and compiled 18 stories, with creature features, sleep deprivation, hiding the undead, revenge, cannibalism, morbid habits, and executions of karma being just a handful of the themes covered in this book. Listen on and discover what the mind produces when using the night as a catalyst. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Hempel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/047178/bk_acx0_047178_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Plain Dealing: The Ryder Quartet, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 452min
    Midnight on a moonlit beach. Six cops execute four thugs after a heinous crime. They are unaware that there is a witness to the executions. Thrilling action explores tactical, ethical, and criminal choices made by officers of the law. A stark image of moral ambiguity underpins their struggle to maintain courageous and precarious control of all-engulfing crime. Plain-dealing cops face scrutiny in an emotional journey through choices made in the day-to-day confrontation with evil. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ian Patrick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/053944/bk_acx0_053944_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Old Sparky: The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 510min
    In early 2013, Robert Gleason became the latest victim of the electric chair, a peculiarly American execution method. Shouting "pog mo thin" ("kiss my ass" in Gaelic), he grinned as electricity shot through his system. When the current was switched off, his body slumped against the leather restraints. And Gleeson, who had strangled two fellow inmates to ensure his execution was not postponed, was dead. The execution had gone flawlessly - not a guaranteed result with the electric chair, which has gone horrifically wrong on many occasions. Old Sparky covers the history of capital punishment in America and the "current wars" between Edison and Westinghouse, which led to the development of the electric chair. It examines how the electric chair became the most popular method of execution in America before being superseded by lethal injection. Famous executions are explored alongside quirky last meals and poignant last words. The death penalty remains a hot topic of debate in America, and Old Sparky does not shy away from that controversy. Executions have gone spectacularly wrong, with convicts being set alight or needing up to five jolts of electricity before dying. There have been terrible miscarriages of justice, and the death penalty has not been applied evenhandedly. Historically, African Americans, the mentally challenged, and poor defendants have been likely to get the chair, an anomaly that led the Supreme Court to briefly suspend the death penalty. Since the resumption of capital punishment in 1976, Texas alone has executed more than 500 prisoners, and death row is full. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Reynolds. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/022856/bk_adbl_022856_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Nothing This Fun Could Be Good for You: A History of Evil Entertainment , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 17min
    Popular entertainment has frequently been hailed as the harbingers of social downfall, but is it really that simple? From public executions to theater, from ballet to video games, this brief essay examines the turmoil that surrounds history's most cherished forms of entertainment. Nancy Fulda is an essayist and science fiction writer living in Germany. She is a Phobos Award winner, a Jim Baen Memorial award winner, and a recent Hugo and Nebula nominee. Originally published in Clarkesworld Magazine, this article is approximately 2500 words or 15 printed pages long. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bryant Cantrell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/022825/bk_acx0_022825_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Lives And Bloody Exploits Of The Most Noted Pirates
    The Lives And Bloody Exploits Of The Most Noted Pirates ab 28.49 € als Taschenbuch: Their Trials And Executions. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Belletristik, Briefe & Biografien,
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    Terror Times Three (eBook, ePUB)
    NIGHT SWEATS: Geoff has covered over a horrible crime he committed as a youth. But sometimes the past just won't stay buried. MAYA: An exotic Latin beauty brings her American lover back to her Mexican village to receive her family's blessing. His welcome exceeds his expectations. But it includes something he never unexpected. SEED: When all the women in the pre-colonial village become pregnant overnight, the only explanation is that a witch lives among them. The village pastor, son of a witchfinder, is tasked to find her. Multiple accusations and executions follow. But when all the babies are born deformed on the same day, and die that same night, the panicked villagers demand an accounting for their pastor's failures.
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    More Frontier Justice in the Wild West
    More Frontier Justice in the Wild West ab 20.49 € als Taschenbuch: Bungled Bizarre and Fascinating Executions. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    The Night of the Long Knives: The History and Legacy of Adolf Hitler's Notorious Purge of the SA , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 97min
    Germany's Nazi Party was remarkably implacable in the hostility it showed to the outside world, staunchly opposing both Communism and liberal democracy from the moment of its inception to that of its violent dissolution. The Nazis likewise showed steely, unwavering resolve in their lethal hatred of the Jews, the Slavs, and many others whom they labeled as "untermenschen," subhumans unworthy of rights, cultural standing, or life itself. They pursued their dark vision of "Aryan" superiority with a terrifying clarity and zeal, and they were willing to incur the enmity of the entire world in the process.At the same time, despite this fanatic dedication to their overall vision, the Nazis had their own share of factional strife, and perhaps not surprisingly, the internecine struggle often led to violence, executions, and assassinations, byproducts of a totalitarian environment in which power appeared in its most undisguised and aggressive form. The firing squad, the bomb, the torture chamber, the extermination camp, the crematorium, and the noose of piano wire took the place of debate and persuasion in Hitler's Germany.Like other totalitarian regimes, the leader of the Nazis kept an iron grip on power in part by making sure nobody else could attain too much of it, leading to purges of high-ranking officials in the Nazi party. Of these purges, the most notorious was the Night of the Long Knives, a purge in the summer of 1934 that came about when Hitler ordered the surprise executions of several dozen leaders of the SA. This fanatically National Socialist paramilitary organization had been a key instrument in overthrowing democratic government in Germany. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/033329/bk_acx0_033329_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Executing the Rosenbergs: Death and Diplomacy in a Cold War World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 521min
    In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested for allegedly passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, an affair FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover labeled the "crime of the century". Their case became an international sensation, inspiring petitions, letters of support, newspaper editorials, and protests in countries around the world. Nevertheless, the Rosenbergs were executed after years of appeals, making them the only civilians ever put to death for conspiracy-related activities. Yet even after their executions, protests continued. The Rosenberg case quickly transformed into legend, while the media spotlight shifted to their two orphaned sons. In Executing the Rosenbergs, Lori Clune demonstrates that the Rosenberg case played a pivotal role in the world's perception of the United States. Based on newly discovered documents from the State Department, Clune narrates the widespread dissent against the Rosenberg decision in 80 cities and 48 countries. Even as the Truman and Eisenhower administrations attempted to turn the case into pro-democracy propaganda, US allies and potential allies questioned whether the United States had the moral authority to win the Cold War. Meanwhile, the death of Stalin in 1953 also raised the stakes of the executions; without a clear hero and villain, the struggle between democracy and communism shifted into morally ambiguous terrain. Transcending questions of guilt or innocence, Clune weaves the case - and its aftermath - into the fabric of the Cold War, revealing its far-reaching global effects. An original approach to one of the most fascinating episodes in Cold War history, Executing the Rosenbergs broadens a quintessentially American story into a global one. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kathleen Mary Carthy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/065088/bk_acx0_065088_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Song Before It Is Sung , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 554min
    On 20 July 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassin's bomb. Axel von Gottberg and his conspirators were hunted down and hanged from meat hooks, and the executions were filmed. Sixty years later Conrad Senior is left a legacy of papers by von Gottberg's close friend, the legendary Oxford professor Elya Mendel, and becomes obsessed with what they reveal and finding the brutal film. Award-winning writer Justin Cartwright has conjured a masterwork that addresses the nature of friendship and what it means to be human, and it is a remarkable tapestry of passion, ideas, frailty and courage. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Pacey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018053/bk_adbl_018053_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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