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    Racehoss: Big Emma's Boy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 884min
    “A timeless classic” (San Antonio Express-News), reissued with a new foreword, afterword, and 10 percent more material about a black man who spent 17 years on a brutal Texas prison plantation and underwent a remarkable transformation. First published in 1984, Racehoss: Big Emma’s Boy is Albert Race Sample’s “unforgettable” (The Dallas Morning News) tale of resilience, revelation, and redemption.  Born in 1930, the mixed-race son of a hard-drinking black prostitute and a white cotton broker, Sample was raised in the Jim Crow South by an abusive mother who refused to let her son - who could pass for white - call her Mama. He watched for the police while she worked, whether as a prostitute, bootlegger, or running the best dice game in town. He loved his mother deeply but could no longer take her abuse and ran away from home at the age of 12.  In his early 20s, Sample was arrested for burglary, robbery, and robbery by assault and was sentenced to nearly 20 years in the Texas prison system in the 1950s and '60s. His light complexion made him stand out in the all-black prison plantation known as the “burnin’ hell”, where he and over 400 prisoners picked cotton and worked the land while white shotgun-carrying guards followed on horseback.  Sample earned the moniker “Racehoss” for his ability to hoe cotton faster than anyone else in his squad. A profound spiritual awakening in solitary confinement was a decisive moment for him, and he became determined to turn his life around. When he was finally released in 1972, he did just that. Though Sample was incarcerated in the 20th century, his memoir reads like it came from the 19th.  With new stories that had been edited out of the first edition, a foreword by Texas attorney and writer David R. Dow, and an afterword by Sample’s widow, Carol, this new edition of Racehoss: Big Emma’s Boy offers a more complete picture of this extraordinary time in America’s recent past. /p ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mirron Willis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031297/bk_adbl_031297_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    99 Pathways to Purpose: Reimagining Your Spiritual Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 217min
    What is the meaning of life? This is commonly the question that comes up when people start searching for themselves. But the truth is that life has only the meaning that we give it. Something Michael Tsarion put forward years ago. We have to go out and create our purpose, as such; this is a guide to perspective, self-understanding, self-love, and spiritual endurance. Sometimes in life there is just no way forward that we can view. This audiobook was written to help with any such circumstance and help you get perspective from a higher vantage point. It was designed to help you move forward with your personal life goals and purpose no matter where you may find yourself. This audiobook will help you to uncover as many treasures of the soul as you may hope to find, being that you are willing to put in the work. There is no perfect path to self-discovery, there are only different perspectives that might unlock a new train of thought which may help you move forward. Taking the time to understand yourself is very important in life. Secondarily or concurrently to your quest for self-understanding should be your search for purpose.... Nobody said life would be easy, nobody said self-discovery would be easy, nobody said spiritual development would be easy; but these words were crafted as to help you find understanding while you go through whatever it is that you have to go through in this life. We all have a challenge; perhaps when the time is right you will do your absolute best to make something special happen in your life, going beyond the "self-help" moniker and instead helping the world at large. We all have a quest, a path, a self to actualize; it’s our job to find these things and make them real. With all sincerity, we hope that you take this text and do something magical with it.... Open a heart, open a mind; in short we hope it will help you unlock your potential and share it with the world. We have all been blessed with life; what w ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Austin Muhs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/140351/bk_acx0_140351_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Sepoy Rebellion of 1857: The History and Legacy of the Indian Rebellion Against the British East India Company , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 84min
    The British East India Company served as one of the key players in the formation of the British Empire. From its origins as a trading company struggling to keep up with its superior Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish competitors to its tenure as the ruling authority of the Indian subcontinent to its eventual hubristic downfall, the East India Company serves as a lens through which to explore the much larger economic and social forces that shaped the formation of a global British Empire. As a private company that became a non-state global power in its own right, the East India Company also serves as a cautionary tale all too relevant to the modern world's current political and economic situation. In Bengal, the region where the rebellion that would change British-Indian relations permanently took place, the Company shared power with a local nawab. The Company was given increasing responsibility, including the power to collect taxes, or Diwani, in 1773. Many have criticized this "dual authority" of both local Indian rulers and the rule of Company officials as allowing for greater corruption and creating anger and resentment throughout Bengal. Though a defender of Britain's contributions to India's history and economy, Kartar Lalvani calls the Company's collection of the Diwani "short-sighted greed" and charges the Company with a "horrendous blunder concerning the role of revenue collection." To the Indian people, the events of 1857 are known as the first War for Independence. For the British, the time is referred to as a mutiny, an uprising, or a rebellion. It is ironic that a similar story played out just under 100 years earlier, during the American Revolution, or as the Americans called it, the War for Independence. Whatever the moniker, in 1857, one of the Indian armies, the Bengal, mutinied. In the most cursory histories of the period, the cause of the rebellion is simply cited as an oversight, a change in the type of grease used in powder ca ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/077726/bk_acx0_077726_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Magnolia Palace
    Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions. Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought after artists' models in New York City, with statues based on her figure gracing landmarks from the Plaza Hotel to the Brooklyn Bridge. But with her mother gone, a grieving Lillian is rudderless and desperate-the work has dried up, and a looming scandal has left her entirely without a safe haven. So when she stumbles upon an employment opportunity at the Frick mansion-a building that, ironically, bears her own visage-Lillian jumps at the chance. But the longer she works as a private secretary to the imperious and demanding Helen Frick, the daughter and heiress of industrialist and art patron Henry Clay Frick, the more deeply her life gets intertwined with that of the family-pulling her into a tangled web of romantic trysts, stolen jewels, and family drama that runs so deep, the stakes just may be life or death. Nearly fifty years later, mod English model Veronica Weber has her own chance to make her career-and with it, earn the money she needs to support her family back home-within the walls of the former Frick residence, now converted into one of New York City's most impressive museums. But when she-along with a charming intern/budding art curator named Joshua-is dismissed from the Vogue shoot taking place at the Frick Collection, she chances upon a series of hidden messages in the museum: messages that will lead her and Joshua on a hunt that could not only solve Veronica's financial woes, but could finally reveal the truth behind a decades-old murder in the infamous Frick family. Story Locale: New York City
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    The Marsh King's Daughter (eBook, ePUB)
    You've met Kya, the 'marsh girl' now meet Helena, 'the marsh king's daughter...''What to read after Where the Crawdads Sing' AMAZON'Emotionally and intellectually thrilling, tremendously exciting' SUNDAY EXPRESS'I loved this book' LEE CHILD'Gorgeously written eerie suspense' KARIN SLAUGHTERYou'd recognise my mother's name if I told it to you. You'd wonder, briefly, where is she now? And didn't she have a daughter while she was missing?And whatever happened to the little girl?Helena's home is now like anyone else's, with a husband and two daughters and a job she enjoys. But no one knows the truth about her childhood.Brought up in a cabin in the wilderness until she was twelve, Helena's father kept her and her mother isolated and unable to leave their marshland home, until the fateful day Helena escaped and her father faced justice.Now years later and with news that he has escaped from prison, Helena instinctively knows that her father is coming for her and if she is to keep her family safe, she must once again return to the marsh, to confront him in the wilderness and become the Marsh King's daughter once again.An unforgettable and emotional read-in-one-sitting story packed with gripping suspense.__________'Kya, the main character in Crawdads, is known as the "Marsh Girl." The Marsh King's Daughter shares the marsh moniker, along with the mystery and thriller elements of Crawdads... if you're looking for another strong female character and a book where the characters are of their environment, this book might do the trick' AMAZON'Unlike anything else I've read. Haunting and unputdownable' LAURA MARSHALL'If you only read one thriller this year, make it this' CLARE MACKINTOSH'You won't be able to stop turning the pages' MEGAN ABBOTT'A wonderful book... Mesmerising' ALEX MARWOOD'A nail-biter' COSMOPOLITAN'A knockout' SARAH HILARY'I was absolutely gripped' GILLY MACMILLAN'Eerie and breathtaking, terrific and terrifying' TÉA OBREHT'Original and exciting, with a thrilling ending' MARK EDWARDS
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    John Dee and the Empire of Angels (eBook, ePUB)
    A comprehensive look at the life and continuing influence of 16th-century scientific genius and occultist Dr. John Dee • Presents an overview of Dee's scientific achievements, intelligence and spy work, imperial strategizing, and his work developing methods to communicate with angels • Pieces together Dee's fragmentary Spirit Diaries and examines Enochian in precise detail and the angels' plan to establish a New World Order • Explores Dee's influence on Sir Francis Bacon, modern science, Rosicrucianism, and 20th-century occultists such as Jack Parsons, Aleister Crowley, and Anton LaVey Dr. John Dee (1527-1608), Queen Elizabeth I's court advisor and astrologer, was the foremost scientific genius of the 16th century. Laying the foundation for modern science, he actively promoted mathematics and astronomy as well as made advances in navigation and optics that helped elevate England to the foremost imperial power in the world. Centuries ahead of his time, his theoretical work included the concept of light speed and prototypes for telescopes and solar panels. Dee, the original "007" (his crown-given moniker), even invented the idea of a "British Empire," envisioning fledgling America as the new Atlantis, himself as Merlin, and Elizabeth as Arthur. But, as Jason Louv explains, Dee was suppressed from mainstream history because he spent the second half of his career developing a method for contacting angels. After a brilliant ascent from star student at Cambridge to scientific advisor to the Queen, Dee, with the help of a disreputable, criminal psychic named Edward Kelley, devoted ten years to communing with the angels and archangels of God. These spirit communications gave him the keys to Enochian, the language that mankind spoke before the fall from Eden. Piecing together Dee's fragmentary Spirit Diaries and scrying sessions, the author examines Enochian in precise detail and explains how the angels used Dee and Kelley as agents to establish a New World Order that they hoped would unify all monotheistic religions and eventually dominate the entire globe. Presenting a comprehensive overview of Dee's life and work, Louv examines his scientific achievements, intelligence and spy work, imperial strategizing, and Enochian magick, establishing a psychohistory of John Dee as a singular force and fundamental driver of Western history. Exploring Dee's influence on Sir Francis Bacon, the development of modern science, 17th-century Rosicrucianism, the 19th-century occult revival, and 20th-century occultists such as Jack Parsons, Aleister Crowley, and Anton LaVey, Louv shows how John Dee continues to impact science and the occult to this day.
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    Collected Works 1996-2017 (3LP+DL)
    Matthew Puffetts erfolgreiches Techno/Elektronika-Projekt hat auf Labels wie Tresor, Delsin, Void, Archive, Rush Hour veröffentlicht. Hier die besten Tracks von 1996-2017.Matthew Puffetts erfolgreiches Techno/Elektronika-Projekt hat auf Labels wie Tresor, Delsin, Void, Archive, Rush Hour veröffentlicht. Hier die besten Tracks von 1996-2017. Matthew Puffett, the artist most commonly known as Future Beat Alliance, presents a retrospective of selected works under his most lauded moniker. The name - taken from an Afrika Bambaataa sleeve - may have been a nod to the early-80s hip hop that was his first musical love while growing up in Oxford, but the music bore the unmistakable influence of the Detroit techno that had become his obsession. Collected Works 1996-2017 maps an illustrious discography over two decades and will be released on the artist s own imprint - FBA Recordings. Preceding the compilation, a brand new track entitled Chemical Cloud will also be released. TRACKS: A1. Intruder A2. Chemical Cloud A3. Almost Human B1. Something To Hold B2. Dark Passenger C1. Eon Link 500 C2. Machines Can Help E1. Cross Dissolve E2. Endless Blue E3. Calculated Notes F1. Radio.Seti.Org F2. Lumiere F3. Without Words
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    TWICE AS NICE: THE BE MUSIC
    In the early 1980s, energised by hip hop and electro, New Order produced a string of acts for Factory under their studio moniker Be Music, the results of which were greeted with indifference in the UK. Quite why is hard to fathom since, as this CD attests, tracks like Sakura by Section 25 and Motherland by Royal Family and the Poor were taut, bewitching slices of robo funk that still excite today. The other producers herein (Arthur Baker, Mark Kamins and Donald Johnson) all had their moments too
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    Origin Story: 1994-1999
    Adam Green and Kimya Dawson originally crossed paths at an open mic night in Mount Kisco, New York in the early 90s. From there they went on to record a surplus of home recordings with various friends under the moniker The Moldy Peaches, and eventually became staples in the NYC anti-folk scene of the late 90's/ early 2000's. After releasing several albums that gained traction in the U.S. and UK, the group broke into the mainstream when their song "Anyone Else But You" appeared in the hit indie film "Juno" (2007).Origin Story: 1994-1999 is a collection of songs, unreleased demos, live tracks, and poems from the early years of The Moldy Peaches, and outline the tale of how the band came to be. Liner notes written by Adam and Kimya detail the stories behind each track and rare photos included in the packaging help to illustrate the life and times of the duo when they were young.
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    Diffical Techniculties
    Downtown Los Angeles is not known for it's glamour. However, between skid row and strip joints you will find warehouses hosting massive art openings. Bullet for Dali began when members of a local art collective (S.E.C.S.) decided to combine their talents. After an extensive search for the right musicians to complete their vision, Bullet For Dali resulted in a post-punk electronic quintet. Have you heard that album written by The Cure and The Stranglers that was remixed by New Order? No you haven't but, if it existed, then that album would sound like Bullet for Dali. Bullet for Dali have shared stages from San Diego, California to Tacoma, Washington with local favorites Airborne Toxic Event, War Tapes, The Tender Box, Dirty Little Secret, Buddy Akai, Kill Me Tomorrow, This Blush, Regime Noir, Glass Candy, Veil Veil Vanish, and Idyllists. Bullet for Dali have just released their debut E.P. Diffical Techniculties. The Extended Bio... (go get a drink we'll wait)... Formed in 2003, the band began as the art collective Sterile Eden and originally consisted of bassist/noise artist Chris Coulter, visualist Vivace, samplist Phred Mendoza, and vocalist/promoter/programmer Johnnie Deseo. The four members eventually tried to convince vocalist/guitarist/local artist Raymond Silva to join the band/collective by giving him a crude demo cdr, a place to crash after rehearsal, and large amounts of whiskey. He decided to join the band as a guitar player. Later that year Phred Mendoza left the group to pursue a career as a tattoo artist and married life. The art collective spent the majority of 2003-2006 hosting/promoting/playing their own art/music/fashion shows usually hosted in rundown Downtown Los Angeles warehouses/lofts/venues. The group gained notoriety for holding both legal and illegal events with a bizarre mixture of 'raunch and realism' as was stated by Lina Lecaro in L.A.Weekly. However, the fun ended after a couple of these events ended in citations from the Fire Marshall and the Police Department. The final party was at an abandoned hotel in City of Commerce and the event was aptly named 'The No Tell Motel'. This chaotic event ended in televisions being thrown off the rooftop onto interstate 5, and a complete destruction of the hotel's interior. Shortly after, a fire ensued, and the authorities were called to the scene. The collective decided to take a break from doing these art parties and concentrate on their music. In late 2006 Sterile Eden decided to change their name to Bullet For Dali signifying a new beginning and the sacrifices/risks they had taken in the name of art. Previous to it's current incarnation Bullet For Dali had only played along to samples and programmed sequences. The early shows consisted of sequences and loops, which were the rhythm section backing the band. Chris Coulter played bass guitar through electro harmonix bass synthesizers, arpeggiated synth lines, and shared vocal duties with Deseo and Silva. Deseo sang, played synthesizers, and makeshift percussion. Silva sang, played guitar, and additional percussion. Vivace took over samples, and live visuals. Due to all the sequences and vocal processing that was a part of their studio sound, the band decided to develop an onstage version of this as part of their live sound. The performances were well rehearsed but were often disguised in feedback and technical problems. Unfortunately, this was often written off as part of a 'deliberately artsy' performance citing their past reputation as an art collective and earned them the 'post-punk electronica' moniker. The turning point for Bullet For Dali was playing a sold out event the Hear Gallery a popular hipster venue in Los Angeles. Bullet For Dali was kicked off the stage by the promoter for not 'sounding good'. Once again, technical difficulty was the victor that night, and Chris Coulter decided to take an extended hiatus to visit his native Chicago. Having a few shows lined up in late 2006 Johnnie Deseo was able to convince Vince 'Beanz' Medina (Divided Lines, Hit Me Back) to play bass in the interim. Vince ended up joining permanently and brought along his friend and drummer David Lopez. Corey Capetillo aka Yokimato their former web designer, has also joined the cast of characters as a graphics and web applications expert. He is the behind the scene member that has contributed to the bands web presence, and artistic direction. The current line-up consists of Johnnie Deseo on keyboards, programming, and vocals, Ray Silva on guitar and vocals, Vivace on samples and visuals, Vince on bass guitar, and David Lopez on percussion, production, and programming. Yokimato on graphic design and multimedia applications. The addition of Vince 'Beanz' Medina has introduced a very driving element to the band. His bass lines are rooted in punk rock and have an uncompromising energy the group had lacked previously. David Lopez has brought years of studio expertise having worked at Swinghouse Studios in Hollywood for artists such as Peter Murphy, Courtney Love, and Red Hot Chili Peppers, having toured as a tech for She Wants Revenge, and being a Musician's Institute graduate. Yokimato has educated the group on the technology they implement to get their message across and the group looks to him as the in house techno-guru and behind the scene full member of the band. Medina and Lopez have brought a true rock rhythm section to the group making B4D's sound more accessible to their core Los Angeles indie rock audience. Bullet For Dali has recently relocated their Recording Studio 'Sauna Studios' to Leimert Park/South Central Los Angeles and is working on integrating their previous electronic art performances into their new 'post punk electronic' sound. B4D has just finished their debut E.P. titled 'Diffical Techniculties'.
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