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The Witch's Cradle: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 728min

“How the people love a sinner, especially when she is a woman. Witch! Witch!” The Dark End of the Street is a television program that pries into the business of Barry and Cheryl Higgins and their three small children, uncovering every nasty aspect of their lives on welfare in front of a fascinated and disgusted audience. The couple didn’t get rich off the wildly successful reality show, though, so why would anyone want to kidnap the kids? When the two older children are found, there is little doubt that Cheryl planned their disappearance to win the public’s affection and boost the show’s ratings. As the media and the legal system condemn Cheryl, one question remains: Where is baby Cara?Gillian White adeptly demonstrates how the public’s need to know and to judge - and how people can profit from those impulses - is a modern kind of witch hunt. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew Waterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015870/bk_adbl_015870_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 396min

Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity between the public’s perception of homesteading as a cherished part of our national narrative and most scholars’ harshly negative and dismissive treatment.Homesteading the Plains reexamines old data and draws from newly available digitized records to reassess the current interpretation’s four principal tenets: Homesteading was a minor factor in farm formation, with most Western farmers purchasing their landMost homesteaders failed to prove up their claimsThe homesteading process was rife with corruption and fraudHomesteading caused Indian land dispossessionUsing data instead of anecdotes and focusing mainly on the 19th century, Homesteading the Plains demonstrates that the first three tenets are wrong and the fourth is only partially true. In short, the public’s perception of homesteading is perhaps more accurate than the one scholars have constructed.Homesteading the Plains provides the basis for an understanding of homesteading that is startlingly different from current scholarly orthodoxy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Barton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/131656/bk_acx0_131656_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Dracula (Dramatized) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 744min

The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity. The author didn’t invent vampires, but his novel has so captured the public’s imagination that he is rightly considered their popularizer. Listen and you will meet not only the Count himself, but heroes Jonathan Harker and Abraham Van Helsing, plus an array of madmen, psychiatrists, and fair maidens who cross paths with the fanged menace. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Damron. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/bnpp/000052/rt_bnpp_000052_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Ballad of Tommy Atkins , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 3min

The Ballad of Tommy Atkins was first published as “Tommy” in Kipling’s timeless Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses in the 1890s. "Tommy Atkins", or simply Tommy, was a generic name applied to British soldiers from as early as the 18th century, but came into popular parlance during the First World War when troops were simply referred to as “Tommies”. The ballad exposes the bitterness felt by the British soldier to the public’s treatment of their forces in times of peace, and how that alters in wartime. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phillip J. Mather. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/000574/bk_mike_000574_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Sacrifice: DS Heckenburg, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 794min

A vicious serial killer is holding the country to ransom, publicly - and gruesomely - murdering his victims. When a man is burnt alive on a bonfire, it seems like a tragic Guy Fawkes Night accident. But with the discovery of a young couple on Valentine’s Day - each with an arrow through the heart - something more sinister becomes clear. A "calendar killer" is on the loose. Detective Mark "Heck" Heckenburg is up against it. With a rising body count and the public’s eyes on him, Heck must find the killer before he executes more victims. Because this killer has a plan. And nothing will stop him completing it. A heart-stopping and grisly thriller that will enthral fans of Stuart MacBride and Katia Lief. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Thornley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001368/bk_hcuk_001368_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Health Care Revolt: How to Organize, Build a Health Care System, and Resuscitate Democracy - All at the Same Time , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 440min

Today’s deliberations about a revamped health care system are stuck and in need of fresh analysis and a new vision. Health Care Revolt sets out to provide just that and at a most propitious time in US history.Dr. Michael Fine’s manifesto frames the questions more expansively than others before him and offers an impassioned road map for a nation confused about which healthcare direction to travel. The crux of Dr. Fine’s argument is that the US has put the fate of its healthcare in the so-called marketplace, where the few profit from the public’s ill health and accelerate the erosion of democracy in the process.Health Care Revolt looks around the world for examples of healthcare systems that are effective and affordable, pictures such a system for the US, and creates a practical playbook for a revolution to protect health and strengthen democracy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Fine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/213812/bk_acx0_213812_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Jeff Wayne's The War of The Worlds: The Musical Drama: An Audible Original Drama, Hörbuch, Digital, 304min

When H. G. Wells first published The War of The Worlds in 1898, the novel quickly became a sci-fi classic. The story of extraterrestrials from Mars invading Earth captured the public’s imagination, inspiring a famed 1938 radio broadcast with Orson Welles, several feature films, countless video games, and a best-selling musical concept album by Jeff Wayne in 1978, among others.Immersing listeners in a world that is as thrilling as it is desolate, Jeff Wayne’s eerie and pulsating score brings the suspense, drama, and urgency of Wells’s original novel to a fever pitch in this Audible Original Drama. Michael Sheen headlines an ensemble cast of talented performers that also includes Taron Egerton, Adrian Edmondson, Theo James, and Anna-Marie Wayne.©2018 Music Masters: Sony Music Entertainment©2018 Existing compositions: Universal Music Publishing Group, Jeff Wayne Music (Publishing) Ltd©2018 Newly composed music: Jeff Wayne Music (P)2018 Audible, Ltd Language: English. Narrator: Michael Sheen, Taron Egerton, Theo James, Adrian Edmondson, Anna-Marie Wayne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/or/a095/000000/or_a095_000000_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Media Darling , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 663min

Hayley Carpenter has always dreamed of being a famous screenwriter, but dreams don’t pay bills and LA living isn’t cheap. So when a temp position at a celebrity gossip magazine becomes available, she goes after it. Emerson Sterling has been acting since she was little, but a rough patch as a teenager has given her a bad rap in Hollywood. Just when she thinks her dream role can turn around the public’s image of her, a conflict with her co-star and America’s Sweetheart, Rachel Blanche, puts her on the front cover of every magazine, the villain once again. Rumors swirl that the starlets’ feud started in the bedroom, and Hayley accidentally overhears a conversation between Emerson and Rachel that could lead to the biggest scoop of her career. Will Hayley follow the story, or will her irresistible attraction to Emerson and the secrets Emerson is desperate to keep buried ruin both their careers...and their chance at love? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lori Prince. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/132685/bk_acx0_132685_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Prisoner of Zenda , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 394min

The hugely successful romantic adventure story which continues to thrill a century after it was written. It has all the classic ingredients - a twisting plot of betrayal and deception, love interest, great swashbuckling action and a most beguiling villain in Rupert of Hentzau, who captured the public’s imagination and had them begging the author for a sequel.Rudolph Rassendyll visits Ruritania, with whose Royal Family he has a connection because of a scandalous sexual indiscretion in the past. When the heir apparent is kidnapped, Rudolph by virtue of his physical similarity to the new ruler, is plunged into a sequence of events in which he is crowned, then must rescue ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ in order to continue the royal line and pay court to the Princess Flavia - the latter task coming very easy to him as he falls deeply in love. A terrific, original tale much imitated by succeeding authors - but never bettered. Great entertainment and part of literary history! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000034/bk_assm_000034_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Fame: The Hijacking of Reality , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 300min

Entertainment shows, magazines, websites, and other channels continuously report the latest sightings, heartbreaks, and triumphs of the famous to a seemingly insatiable public. Millions of people go to enormous lengths to achieve fame. Fame is woven into our lives in ways that may have been unimaginable in years past.And yet, is fame even real? Contrary to tangible realities, fame is one of those “realities” that we, as a society, have made. Why is that, and what is it about fame that drives us to spend so much time, money, and focus to create the framework that maintains its health?Mining decades of experience, writer, director, producer, and actress Justine Bateman writes a visceral, intimate look at the experience of Fame. Combining the internal reality-shift of the famous, theories on the public’s behavior at each stage of a famous person’s career, and the experiences of other famous performers, Bateman takes the listener inside and outside the emotions of Fame. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Justine Bateman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/011154/bk_brll_011154_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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