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    Breaking Rockefeller: The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 594min
    The incredible tale of how ambitious oil rivals Marcus Samuel, Jr., and Henri Deterding joined forces to topple the Standard Oil empire. Marcus Samuel, Jr., is an unorthodox Jewish merchant trader. Henri Deterding is a take-no-prisoners oilman. In 1889 John D. Rockefeller is at the peak of his power. Having annihilated all competition and possessing near-total domination of the market, even the US government is wary of challenging the great "anaconda" of Standard Oil. The Standard never loses - that is, until Samuel and Deterding team up to form Royal Dutch Shell. A riveting account of ambition, oil, and greed, Breaking Rockefeller traces Samuel's rise from outsider to the heights of the British aristocracy, Deterding's conquest of America, and the collapse of Rockefeller's monopoly. The beginning of the 20th century is a time when vast fortunes were made and lost. Taking listeners through the rough and tumble of East London's streets, to the twilight turmoil of czarist Russia, to the halls of the British Parliament, and right down Broadway in New York City, Peter Doran offers a richly detailed, fresh perspective on how Samuel and Deterding beat the world's richest man at his own game. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter B. Doran. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002826/bk_peng_002826_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Four Fists , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 37min
    The title of this short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a bit deceptive and doesn't do this story justice. The four fists are actually four very valuable life lessons delivered with a fist. "I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswise across his character and disposition and general outlook. With some men it's secret and we never know it's there until they strike us in the dark one night. But Samuel's showed when it was in action, and the sight of it made people see red. He was rather lucky in that, because every time his little devil came up it met a reception that sent it scurrying down below in sickly, feeble condition. It was the same devil, the same streak that made him order Gilly's friends off the bed, that made him go inside Marjorie's house. If you could run your hand along Samuel Meredith's jaw you'd feel a lump. He admits he's never been sure which fist left it there, but he wouldn't lose it for anything. He says there's no cad like an old cad, and that sometimes just before making a decision, it's a great help to stroke his chin. The reporters call it a nervous characteristic, but it's not that. It's so he can feel again the gorgeous clarity, the lightning sanity of those four fists." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Vendetti. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/000115/bk_mike_000115_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Ruby Ridge Siege: The History of the Federal Government's Deadly Standoff with Randy Weaver and His Family , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 71min
    In the summer of 1992, federal agents surrounded a few acres of land isolated in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, where Randy Weaver, his wife Vicki, his 14-year-old son Samuel, and his three young daughters were staying. Weaver was a former Green Beret who had come to the attention of the ATF and other federal agencies for a number of reasons, including associations with white supremacist groups and the possession of illegal shotguns. After being arrested and released on bail in 1991, Weaver failed to appear in court when necessary and was thus treated as a fugitive, bringing in the involvement of US Marshals. For the rest of that year, attempts to bring in Weaver were rebuffed, and Weaver threatened to shoot anyone who came to his cabin to bring him in. After a number of reconnaissance efforts and operations to arrest Weaver took place in 1992, federal agents from the US Marshal Service and FBI surrounded the area on August 21 and wound up engaging in a firefight that ended in the deaths of 14-year-old Samuel, one of the family dogs, and Marshal Bill Degan, who was shot by Weaver's friend Kevin Harris. In the aftermath of the shooting, Randy and Vicki brought Samuel's body to a shed near their main cabin, and they remained inside with Harris for the rest of the day. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/083646/bk_acx0_083646_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Stillness of Winter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 433min
    There are rules to breaking a heart. The do's and don'ts of ripping the love-torn heart and soul out of the one person you once swore you would never leave are well-documented, irrevocable, and the one constant throughout the universe. But everybody lies. Julia lied when she left only a note on the dining room table for Samuel to find when he returned home to an empty house after having spent the day lost in erotic thought about the night before in their bed. She had taken only the things that mattered and unique to her life, and Samuel apparently wasn't one of them. Marlys lied by maintaining their on again, off again, and somewhat precarious friends with benefits relationship under the pretense of consolation and understanding. Sidelined by Julia two years ago, she saw her chance to coerce Samuel's strings into the part she wanted him to play. She knew all along what she wanted and was willing to lie and manipulate at all costs to get it. Samuel lied by relegating all of the complicated emotions of Julia's departure to the back of his mind by attempting to convince himself that it really didn't matter, that life would go on. And it would go on, but it would always matter. And then out of the blue, a letter from Julia arrives offering explanation, understanding, and closure leaving Samuel with some decisions to make... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Al Peterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/024524/bk_acx0_024524_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Age of Reinvention: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 710min
    An international best seller and finalist for the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, The Age of Reinvention is a suspenseful Gatsbian tale of a famous New York lawyer whose charmed and glamorous life is a sham. Top Manhattan criminal defense attorney Sam Tahar seems to have it all: fame, fortune, an enviable marriage to a prominent socialite, and two wonderful children. But his success is built on a lie - he isn't the person he pretends to be. Growing up a poor Tunisian immigrant, crammed inside the walls of a grimy Paris apartment tower, Samir Tahar seemed destined for life as either a drug dealer or a delivery man - until he decided "he was going to cut through the bars of his social jail cell, even if he had to do it with his teeth". At law school in Montpelier, France, he became fast friends with Jewish student Samuel Baron. The two were inseparable until the irresistible Nina, torn between the men, ultimately chose Samuel. Samir fled to America, where he assumed Samuel's identity and background while his former friend remained stuck in a French suburb, a failed, neurotic writer seething at Samir's overseas triumphs. Decades later, the three meet again in this dark, powerful story of a deeply tangled love triangle that becomes subsumed by the war on terror. Called "a masterful novel...unquestionably one of the season's best" (Paris Match) and "a work of great magnitude" (Le Figaro), The Age of Reinvention is an intriguing tale about the wonderful possibilities and terrible costs of remaking oneself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Newbern. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007295/bk_sans_007295_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Into the Divine: Forbidden Love, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 329min
    Detective Samuel Corbin had seen his share during his life as the human liaison with the local vampire clan. He had been with the Knight family through thick and thin, and he had fought by their sides on more than one occasion. They had become a part of his life. When a brain tumor threatened to take Samuel's life the Knight family gave him a new one. As the newest member of the Knight family, Samuel is taken by surprise when he loses his heart to the one woman he shouldn't have. Azerial is everything that is good and pure in the world, and she is too good for the likes of him. Samuel just knows that he will never be good enough for the Goddess, so he sends her away. But a goddess does whatever she wants, and Azerial finds herself making a deal with the devil to be with Samuel. Now, the demon Abaddon is making a drug that kills humans and he has the one thing that Samuel discovers that he can't live without; Azerial. In an epic battle of good versus evil, who will fall, and who will survive? Will all be lost? Samuel knows that it isn't only the fate of the goddess he loves on his shoulders, but the fate of the world that she protects. Samuel and his family will risk it all to save humanity, or go into the divine. Warning: Contains explicit sex and graphic violence. Recommended for 18+. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Miles Taylor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/095625/bk_acx0_095625_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Winning Customers with Commitment , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 20min
    Gary Hirshberg learned about running a business as the CE-Yo of Stonyfield, now the world's largest organic yogurt producer. In his book, Stirring It Up - How to Make Money and Save the World, he tells how the company grew from seven cows in a New Hampshire barn to a business with more than $330 million in annual sales. Now he is sharing what that experience taught him in a series of brief, practical lessons on profiting from a sustainable enterprise. This one is about earning customers trust and loyalty."I can't claim that Stonyfield's founder, Samuel Kaymen, and I gave up conventional marketing through a reasoned decision," he says. "Short on money at the outset, we had no other choice. But what we had was worth more than billboards and magazine layouts. We had Samuel's yogurt recipe, pieced together from Yiddish yogurt masters in Brooklyn, and the simple conviction that our stuff was so good we need only persuade people to try it to win them over. Our first customers would spread the word - but how to get their attention? When running a startup, you use whatever resources you have. A family friend who owned Stop & Shop supermarkets in Boston asked his dairy buyer to let us stock our yogurt and hand out samples in five stores for 12 weeks. If we couldn't make a dent in the market by then, we'd be out. So most every evening for 12 weeks, one of us visited one of these supermarkets, evangelizing." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jay Snyder. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002149/bk_adbl_002149_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Silent Warriors, Incredible Courage: The Declassified Stories of Cold War Reconnaissance Flights and the Men Who Flew Them , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 629min
    The outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 took the American military by surprise. Rushing to respond, the US and its allies developed a selective overflight program to gather intelligence. Silent Warriors, Incredible Courage is a history of the Cold War overflights of the Soviet Union, its allies, and the People's Republic of China, based on extensive interviews with dozens of pilots who flew these dangerous missions. In 1954 the number of flights expanded, and the highly classified SENSINT program was born. Soon, American RB-45C, RB-47E/H, RF/100s, and various versions of the RB-57 were in the air on an almost constant basis, providing the president and military leadership with hard facts about enemy capabilities and intentions. Eventually the SENSINT program was replaced by the high-flying U-2 spy plane. The U-2 overflights removed the mysteries of Soviet military power. These flights remained active until 1960 when a U-2 was shot down by Russian missiles, leading to the end of the program. Shortly thereafter planes were replaced by spy satellites. The overflights were so highly classified that no one, planner or participant, was allowed to talk about them - and no one did, until the overflight program and its pictorial record was declassified in the 1990's. Through extensive research of existing literature on the overflights and interviews conducted by Wolfgang W. E. Samuel, this audiobook reveals the story of the entire overflight program through the eyes of the pilots and crew who flew the planes. Samuel's account tells the stories of American heroes who risked their lives - and sometimes lost them - to protect their country.The book is published by University Press of Mississippi. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wayne M. Lane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/174278/bk_acx0_174278_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Nix: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1302min
    A Nix can take many forms. In Norwegian folklore it is a spirit who sometimes appears as a white horse that steals children away. In Nathan Hill's remarkable first novel, a Nix is anything you love that one day disappears, taking with it a piece of your heart. It's 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson - college professor, stalled writer - has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn't seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she's reappeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: She's facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel's help. To save her, Samuel will have to embark on his own journey, uncovering long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew, secrets that stretch across generations and have their origin all the way back in Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. As he does so, Samuel will confront not only Faye's losses but also his own lost love and will relearn everything he thought he knew about his mother and himself. From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, The Nix explores - with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness - the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ari Fliakos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004667/bk_rand_004667_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Dream of an Ancient God , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 408min
    Samuel Walker is a painfully shy, bumblingly inept college student who always seems to have the worst luck at everything. Tasma Thompson is a gorgeous, carefree young woman who catches Samuel's eye. Unfortunately, she's repulsed by him. They're thrown together on a flight to Phoenix, but before they can exchange much more than names, the plane crashes in a terrorist attack and everyone on board dies. Or do they? Samuel and Tasma abruptly find themselves at the airport terminal, having missed the flight, but with memories of having died in the flight. Gothan Jiswa is an alien on a far off world, and the practitioner of a secret, forbidden religion. He senses that reality has been altered. The source is pinpointed: Earth. An invasion force is quickly mounted. Because in a galaxy where select beings are able to alter the quantum flux of possibilities, a practice strictly controlled by the galactic emperor and his minions, someone on far off, backward Earth has just managed to alter reality in a way that shouldn't be possible. But it is possible, according to an ancient galactic prophecy. And the one with the ability to do it is prophesied to overthrow the galactic empire, end a million years of oppression, and usher in a new golden age. Gothan and his forces converge on Earth, starting a chain of events that will lead Samuel and Tasma on a wild ride across the galaxy and into the midst of religious zealots who force them to confront the possibility that one of them may be an omnipotent god whose coming was foretold billions of years earlier. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Teresa Willis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/012453/bk_acx0_012453_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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