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    History of the Khitans
    The history of the Khitans dates back to the 4th century. The Khitan people dominated much of Mongolia, and modern Manchuria (Northeast China) by the 10th century under the Liao Dynasty, and eventually collapsed by 1125 (or 1211). From Xianbei origins, they were part of the Kumo Xi tribe until 388, when the Kumo Xi-Khitan tribal grouping was roundly defeated by the newly established Northern Wei, allowing the Khitan to resume their own tribe and entity, and beginning the Khitan written history. From the 5th to the 8th centuries, they were dominated by the steppe power to their West, the Turks, then the Uyghurs. The Chinese also came from the south. In some cases under Korean domination, according to the balance of power at any given time. Under this triple domination and oppression, the Khitan started to show growing power and independence. Their rise was slow compared to other cases. Slow because it was frequently crushed by its neighbouring powers, each using the Khitan warriors when needed, but each ready to crush them when the Khitan rose too much and became powerful.
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    Subhas Chandra Bose: A Life from Beginning to End , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 61min
    Discover the remarkable life of Subhas Chandra Bose.Subhas Chandra Bose was a revolutionary who sought Indian independence, but as many would contend, he ended up on the wrong side of history. In order to shake off the British yoke, Bose enlisted aid from Germany and Japan during World War II. This has led some to roundly condemn Bose as nothing more than a fascist cast in the same mold as Adolf Hitler, Hideki Tojo, and Benito Mussolini. But is there more to this complicated figure than meets the eye? In this book, we will take a look at the big picture when it comes to one of India’s first freedom fighters of the modern era.Discover a plethora of chapters in this audiobook, such as:Expelled from SchoolWork in LondonBy the Führer’s SideGoing Over to the JapaneseBose’s Invasion of IndiaThe Fatal Plane CrashAnd much more!So, if you want a concise and informative book on Subhas Chandra Bose, simply scroll up and click the "buy now" button for instant access! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Nelson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/192116/bk_acx0_192116_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Killing Forest , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 453min
    Sara Blaedel, author of the number-one international best seller The Forgotten Girls - which was roundly praised as "gripping" with "uncompromising realism" (Washington Post) and "tautly suspenseful" (BookPage) - returns with the thrilling next book in her series featuring police investigator Louise Rick. The Killing Forest Following an extended leave, Louise Rick returns to work at the Special Search Agency, an elite unit of the National Police Department. She's assigned a case involving a 15-year-old who vanished a week earlier. When Louise realizes that the missing teenager is the son of a butcher from Hvalsoe, she seizes the opportunity to combine the search for the teen with her personal investigation of her boyfriend's long-ago death.... Louise's investigation takes her on a journey back through time. She reconnects with figures from her past, including Kim, the principal investigator at the Holbaek Police Department, her former in-laws, fanatic ancient religion believers, and her longtime close friend, journalist Camilla Lind. As she moves through the small town's cramped network of deadly connections, Louise unearths toxic truths left unspoken and dangerous secrets. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christine Lakin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/002366/bk_hach_002366_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    When Becky and Savita Studied at Mrs Dipple's House: Study Breaks: Lust, Love, Lust and Deception in Suburbia, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 61min, (USK 18)
    When the glamorous Mrs Dipple offers Becky and Savita a place to study for their college exams, she also offers a limitless supply of drinks and cookies. It seems too good to be true. Mrs Dipple positions herself on a chest-of-drawers and Savita, as she lies on the bed studying with the shapely and popular Becky, finds herself tempted into showing her hostess a glimpse of the white panties under her own black dress. While Becky studies, apparently entirely oblivious, Savita is drawn into an incredibly erotic slow striptease while Mrs Dipple watches intently. Will Mrs Dipple be tempted to reciprocate? Can she resist the gorgeous half-Indian girl who is slowly stripping before her eyes? Will Becky ‘wake’ from her studies and roundly condemn Savita and their married hostess? Or will Savita push things further, tapping into her ‘bi’ side, tempting her hostess, and bringing herself to incredible heights of passion and arousal in the most erotica encounter of her entire life? On your own or with a partner, this story will transport you into an ultra-sexy place, leaving you breathless and satisfied… a subtle, spicy, and extremely arousing slice of erotica. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eva McCoy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/029378/bk_acx0_029378_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Bewitching Benedict: Lovelorn Lads , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 464min
    Benedict Fairburn does not quite need his ailing great-aunt's fortune, especially since he'll have to marry to get it. His family, however, thinks otherwise - as do many of the eligible ladies in London - and the pressure is mounting. An embarrassment of attentions fill Benny's time, but the young lady he prefers roundly dislikes him. Claire Dalton, cousin to one of Benedict's oldest friends, is too busy debuting in Society to pay much attention to the Fairburn boy who once insulted her past bearing. He doesn't recognize her, but that's hardly upsetting, especially with the fetching Mr. Graham offering his arm. Unfortunately, Mr. Graham is not all he seems, and each week brings a fresh disaster for Claire's first Season. It's enough to drive a young woman to distraction, especially since Benny Fairburn keeps behaving so very oddly. Concealed tragedy, poor orphans, a dotty great-aunt, deception and misunderstanding whirl in every direction, ready to explode. Benedict and Claire are perfect for each other. Unfortunately, it may take catastrophe to make them realize as much.... The Lovelorn Lads: A man needs manners, if he is to marry. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Morag Sims. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/032450/bk_adbl_032450_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 602min
    The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a grueling debacle that has striking lessons for American foreign policy today. In The Great Gamble, Gregory Feifer examines the war from the perspective of the soldiers on the ground. During the last years of the Cold War, the Soviet Union sent some of its most elite troops to unfamiliar lands in Central Asia to fight a vaguely defined enemy, which eventually defeated their superior number with unconventional tactics. Although the Soviet leadership initially saw the invasion as a victory, many Russian soldiers came to view the war as a demoralizing and devastating defeat, the consequences of which had a substantial impact on the Soviet Union and its collapse. Feifer's extensive research includes fascinating interviews with participants from both sides of the conflict. In gripping detail, he vividly depicts the invasion of a volatile country that no power has ever successfully conquered. Parallels between the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are impossible to ignore: Both conflicts were waged amid vague ideological rhetoric about freedom. Both were roundly condemned by the outside world for trying to impose their favored forms of government on countries with very different ways of life. And both seem destined to end on uncertain terms. The Great Gamble tells an unforgettable story full of drama, action, and political intrigue whose relevance in our own time is greater than ever. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robertson Dean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/000895/bk_tant_000895_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    An Autobiography of General Custer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 658min
    Taken from George Armstrong Custer's own writings, An Autobiography of General Custer is the “true story” of one of the most praised, most despised, but surely most remembered American military heroes. Indeed, few figures in our history were - in their own time, as well as in our own - so wildly cheered and so roundly hated. Custer’s narration takes us from just after the Civil War, when, having gained a reputation as a bold and inventive leader of the cavalry, Custer was given command of an expedition to help subjugate the Native Peoples of the Great Plains and to force them onto reservations. His story touches on his own court martial and subsequent reinstatement to command. It ends shortly before he embarks upon the campaign that would eventually lead to the Battle of the Little Bighorn and “Custer’s Last Stand.” As Custer was unable to write about his most famous battle, the Autobiography concludes with an 1880s newspaper account of an interview with Sitting Bull himself after his escape to Canada, in which the great Chief looks back on the battle and offers his own point of view. In the evenings, on post and during his various leaves, Custer would sit at the dining room table with his beloved wife, Libby, and together they would compose the various stories of his exploits that would eventually become the book My Life on the Plains, which was a best-seller in its time, and from which this autobiography is largely taken. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Talbott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008972/bk_adbl_008972_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 606min
    In December 2008, the world watched as master financier Bernard L. Madoff was taken away from his posh Manhattan apartment in handcuffs, accused of swindling thousands of innocent victims - including friends and family - out of billions of dollars in the world's largest Ponzi scheme. Madoff went to jail; he will spend the rest of his life there. But what happened to his devoted wife and sons? The people closest to him, the public reasoned, must have known the truth behind his astounding success. Had they been tricked, too? With unprecedented access to the surviving family members - wife Ruth, son Andrew, and his fiancée Catherine Hooper - journalist Laurie Sandell reveals the personal details behind the headlines. How did Andrew and Mark, the sons who'd spent their lives believing in and building their own families around their father's business, first learn of the massive deception? How does a wife, who had adored her husband since they were teenagers, begin to understand the ramifications of his actions? The Madoffs were a tight-knit - even claustrophobic - clan, sticking together through marriages, divorces, and illnesses. But the pressures of enduring the massive scandal pushed them to their breaking points, most of all son Mark, whose suicide is one of the many tragedies in the wake of the scandal. Muzzled by lawyers, vilified by the media, and roundly condemned by the public, the Madoffs have chosen to keep their silence - until now. Ultimately, theirs is one of the most riveting stories of our time: a modern-day Greek tragedy about money, power, lies, family, truth and consequences. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maggie Hoffman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/000749/bk_hach_000749_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Meech Lake Accord: Patriation & Canadian Constitutional Law , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 57min
    The failure of the Meech Lake Accord to be enacted was the final stumble in the French English divide in Canada that has run from the founding of British & French Canada in the 17th Century until today. It was indicative of the struggle that the Accord was passed by the politicians but voted down by the voters. A later version was similarly roundly voted down across Canada. The Meech Lake Accord was a package of amendments to the Canadian Constitution negotiated in 1987 under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the 10 provincial premiers. It was put forth to persuade Quebec to endorse formally the 1982 Canadian Constitution as well as increase popular support in the Province of Quebec for being an integral part of Canada. The failure has led to a stand still which seems to bode well for Canada since The Constitution of 1982, Canada Act of 1982, and Charter of Reforms of 1982, have all been received reasonably well across Canada and have formalized Canadian Constitutional Law since its inception in the seventeenth century. This audiobook also includes a review and thumbnail sketches of the eleven major Canadian Constitutional documents. The author's model is Alex DeTocqueville's On Democracy in America written in the early nineteenth century with an unbiased approach to American affairs. Similarly the author has attempted to bring that same disinterested, as in unprejudiced, approach to a discussion of Meech Lake and Canadian Constitutional development, taking no sides in the matter. This is intended to be a summary of these events and landmarks in Canadian life; in no way does it seek to be thought of as a complete historical work. Intended for students, teachers, professionals, and interested adults, but not for academics. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deaver Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/smag/000138/bk_smag_000138_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Whisperer in Darkness: H.P. Lovecraft a la Carte No. 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 163min
    This is the same reading of The Whisperer in Darkness that you'll find in Pulp-Lit Productions' 82-hour flagship omnibus collection, The Complete Weird-Fiction Works of H.P. Lovecraft. We've packaged it as an individual file for listeners who just want this story, to save them the expense of buying the whole collection and the trouble of sifting through hundreds of titles. This deeply unsettling cosmic-horror story blurs the line between and among weird fiction, dark fantasy, and science fiction, and arguably makes better use of its scholarly-but-a-little-thick professorial narrator to evoke subtextual horror than any previous work.By the time he was writing this story, Lovecraft was acutely aware that he and his primary literary outlet - Weird Tales - were not exactly a match made in Valhalla. They had different literary goals in mind when approaching any given story. Weird Tales liked fairly conventional shudder-pulp tales, especially ones that delivered a big finish; and Lovecraft had learned by experience that if he let his writing get too subtle and sophisticated, it would be shot right back to him with an apologetic note from editor Farnsworth Wright. The Whisperer in Darkness may have been his attempt to bridge these two worlds. It features plenty of pulpy action, to the point of getting roundly criticized by some Lovecraft fans for borrowing too much from writers like Robert E. Howard. And it does have that oft-parodied “final crowning horror” line, the last piece of evidence withheld until the very last sentence that reveals The Horrid Truth; but it is voiced by Professor Wilmarth, and for a careful listener (who has figured out the truth already, long since), it functions not so much as a crowning horror, but as a line that rings true to a character who we know really isn’t as smart as he thinks he is. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Finn J.D. John. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/165586/bk_acx0_165586_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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