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State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 635min

State Out of the Union is award-winning journalist and historian Jeff Biggers’ riveting account of Arizona, the famed frontier state whose conflict over immigration and state’s rights has become a national bellwether. Biggers shows how Arizona’s long history of labor and civil rights battles, its contentious entry into the union, as well as cyclical upheavals over immigration rights, place the state front and center in a greater American story playing out across the United States. From President Eisenhower’s Operation Wetback to the legacy of Arizona native son Csar Chvez to the powerful influence of the state’s politicians, like Sen. Barry Goldwater and Tea Party President Russell Pearce, Biggers reveals how Arizona has played a pivotal role in determining the nation’s conservative and liberal agendas. Today, more than 25 state legislatures have introduced anti-immigration bills that are virtual copies of Arizona’s controversial SB 1070 "papers please" law. The state is ground zero in the clash over a historic demographic shift taking place across the country with the rise of a newly empowered Latino electorate. But Arizona is not only home to some of the most virulent anti-immigration legislation in the country - it is also the birthplace of a new movement of young Latino activists and allies who have not only challenged the self-proclaimed architect of SB 1070 in a historic recall election, but are also mobilizing to defend the state’s education system from censorship. A lasting and important work of cultural history, State Out of the Union vividly unveils the showdown over the American Dream in Arizona - and its impact on the future of the nation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Rapkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017225/bk_adbl_017225_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Desert Run: A Lena Jones Mystery, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 697min

Things are never easy for Scottsdale private eye Lena Jones. Her partner in Desert Investigations, Jimmy Sisiwan, is leaving for a moneyed wife and a job at Southwest Microsystems, and her old captain at the Scottsdale Police Department is off to his home in Brooklyn. Meanwhile, she’s doing security for Warren Quinn, director of a documentary film about the American World War II camp for German POWs at Arizona’s Papago Park, from which some prisoners once escaped. One surviving escapee, Käpitan zur See Erik Ernst, a man now in his nineties and confined to a wheelchair after a boating accident, has just been murdered. What’s more, the man’s Ethiopian caregiver begs Lena to clear him as a suspect in the murder. Lena, experienced in probing the past for answers to the central mystery of her own life - who is she? - learns that after their daring Christmas Eve escape Ernst and two other POWs had hid out in Arizona’s rugged Superstition Mountains. Nearby on Christmas night, a farm family, the Bollingers, had been slaughtered. A jury didn’t convict the only survivor, the teenage son, despite some suggestive evidence. What might Chess Bollinger know about Ernst - and vice versa? And how much can Lena trust filmmaker Warren Quinn, either as a client, a witness, or a lover? In this complex, stunning case based on real Arizona history, Betty Webb spins another evocative, haunting story in her Lena Jones mystery series. Betty Webb worked as a journalist and bases her mysteries on stories she covered as a reporter. She currently teaches creative writing at Phoenix College. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marguerite Gavin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005082/bk_blak_005082_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Billboard Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 356min

He saw in the rusted mirror the man he’d become, new scars and all. His wife killed, his family shattered, a man takes to the road, wandering lost and alone - except for the comfort of a kind of woman he can’t deny. When a tryst in the shadow of Arizona’s red rocks leads to murder, the man sets out to clear his name and corner the killer, unaware that a madman is on his trail - and the trail of his estranged daughter. The second book in the Sam series, Billboard Man follows Jim Fusilli’s drifter antihero, who once again learns there’s no place to hide on the long, dark road when so many people want him dead. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Lawlor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/005581/bk_brll_005581_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Body Heat: Dept. 6 Hired Guns, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 689min

Twelve people have been shot at point-blank range and left to rot in the desert sun. It’s Sophia St. Claire’s job to do something about it. She’s Bordertown, Arizona’s new chief of police - and she’s out of her depth. Help arrives in the form of Department 6 hired gun Roderick Guerrero. As far as Sophia’s concerned, his involvement only makes things worse. Maybe he’s managed to turn his life around. And maybe he’s a good investigator. But as the bastard son of a wealthy local rancher, he has a history he can’t get past. A history that includes her. Rod refuses to leave town until the killer is caught. He’s not worried about the danger posed by some vigilante. It’s Sophia who threatens him. Because he’s used to risking his life - but his heart is another story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cris Dukehart. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004388/bk_brll_004388_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Big Maria , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 565min

Somewhere in Arizona’s Chocolate Mountains lie the Big Maria Mine and a wealth of gold lost for 100 years. There’s only one problem: Those mountains are now the home of the US Army Proving Ground, the world’s largest active artillery range. But for Harry, Ricky, and Frank, three down-at-the-heels guys with few dollars but plenty of dreams, the gold offers each of them a chance for a new life. Are scuba diving through an underwater ghost town; facing down a hungry mountain lion; doing the hesitation waltz across a minefield; matching wits with potheads, pit bulls, and bikers; and braving the might of Uncle Sam’s full arsenal worth it? With little more than a samurai sword, a severed head, and an impractical amount of optimism, these intrepid soldiers of (mis)fortune are about to find out. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David de Vries. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004207/bk_brll_004207_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Christmas Future (Holiday Romance Collection): Inspired by a Christmas Carol , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 480min

She's taken. He's taken. But maybe absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. While Scarlett Ambrose works her PR magic landing the state of Alaska on the nice Christmas spirit list, her wedding plans and a longing for Arizona’s heat have to wait. But when the wait’s too long will a warm-hearted doctor be just the prescription for lifting her cold, Scrooge-like spirit? Gil Pennington, dubbed online as “The Compassionate Doctor,” arrives in Anchorage to set his late father’s affairs in order. He yearns for a place to call home, but an overdue breakup with his fiancé from California puts the plan on hold. What he doesn’t expect is a displaced Valley of the Sun-girl taking up residence in his heart. Can a frosty PR rep and a benevolent doctor find love in snowy Alaska? With a bit of holiday whimsy and a big dose of Christmas spirit, maybe they will find their Christmas future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Denise Black. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/159427/bk_acx0_159427_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Coronado's Trail: An Arizona Borderlands Mystery, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 543min

In 1540, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led an expeditionary force from Mexico into what is now the American Southwest. His journey provides the backdrop for this contemporary mystery novel. Deputy Sheriff Calvin Creede mostly works alone in one corner of Arizona’s smallest county. His job had been a simple one until the day a flash flood exposes the rusted remains of an old pickup. A body in the truck turns out to be the long-lost son of a prominent ranching family, and forensic evidence shows it was murder. Deputy Creede faces a 20-year-old cold case with too many suspects, from an ex-girlfriend and jealous family members to drug lords and looters of archaeological sites. The story unfolds amid two issues affecting modern day Southeastern Arizona: the loss of native rangeland to exurban development and tensions along the international border. Resolution of the case leaves both of these problems in place, but sheds fictional yet plausible light on a Southwestern mystery that has been around for nearly five centuries. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas Block. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/116770/bk_acx0_116770_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Tears, Fears, and Arrowheads: Weeping Eye Sings: The Red Rock Road Trip Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 436min

Loneliness speaks many languages. A road trip is one of them. Put aside your daily life and whatever you were about to do. Instead, cruise into Arizona’s Red Rock country with the characters in this audiobook.Espiritud Soledad, toiling for justice for her native people and who weeps for the lost girls of the Navajo reservation and fears growing old alone but loves practicing law out of the back office of a desert diner.Dr. Tomas Hotone, Espiritud’s former boyfriend, who made it big in Atlanta before launching a road trip in his Ferrari and maybe, rekindling an old romance.A good cop who fights for justice and a bad cop who fights for what he can get.Waitresses, cooks, truck drivers, and the other colorful characters who populate any good road trip and make it memorable.Ride shotgun through a crazy time in a guy’s life. Sit in on a tough time in a tough woman’s life. Experience the clash of womanly revenge and male jealousy. If you haven’t had a decent road trip of your own yet, borrow this one. Live it. It could have happened. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Glynn Amburgey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/177370/bk_acx0_177370_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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South Phoenix Rules: A David Mapstone Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 429min

A handsome young New York professor comes to Phoenix to research his new book. But when he’s brutally murdered, police connect him to one of the world’s most deadly drug cartels. This shouldn’t be a case for historian turned deputy David Mapstone—except the victim had been dating David’s sister in law, Robin, and now she’s a target too. David’s wife, Lindsey, is in Washington with an elite anti-cyber-terror unit, and she makes one demand of him: protect Robin. This won’t be an easy job, with the city police suspicious of Robin and trying to pressure her. With the sheriff’s office in turmoil, David is even more of an outsider. And the gangsters are able to outgun and outspend law enforcement. It doesn’t help that David and Lindsey’s long-distance marriage is under strain. But the danger is real and growing. To save Robin, David must leave his stack of historic crimes and plunge into modern Phoenix’s savage world of smuggling people, guns, and drugs. Arizona’s “History Shamus” returns in South Phoenix Rules. It’s the most gripping and personal David Mapstone Mystery yet.A Poisoned Pen Press Mystery ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Meskimen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004072/bk_blak_004072_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Honor Bound, Hörbuch, Digital, 216min

Aislinn Andrews met Lucas Greywolf under unusual circumstances – she caught the escaped convict raiding her refrigerator. But was he a troublemaker who aroused dissidence among Arizona’s Native Americans…or a hero who’d gone to prison for a crime he hadn’t committed? It didn’t really matter now, since Lucas Greywolf had taken her hostage. He was going home to the reservation of his birth, honor bound to pay last respects to his dying grandfather. And Aislinn was his ticket home. Through their journey across the hot Arizona desert, Aislinn was alternately intrigued and infuriated by this rebel with a cause. This defiant, determined man made no secret of his desire for her – and no secret of his hatred for her kind: the Anglos who betrayed his people. Yet among his people, Aislinn saw another side of Lucas Greywolf as she was swept into a world where sacred tradition clashed with despair and poverty, where family, heritage and honor was all that remained. Transformed by his world, by his strength, by her growing love for this complicated, proud man, she gave in to her heart’s demands, knowing that Lucas soon would return to prison. Neither anticipated the gift he’d leave behind. Language: English. Narrator: Renee Raudman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/003662/bk_brll_003662_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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