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    The Book of Mother
    A New York Times Notable Book A Library Journal Best Book of 2021 A "marvelous…superbly effective" (The New Yorker) debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet damaged mother who lived and loved in extremes. Met by rave reviews in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and more, this stunning translation of Violaine Huisman's "witty, immersive autofiction showcases a Parisian childhood with a charismatic, depressed parent" (Oprah Daily). Beautiful and magnetic, Catherine, a.k.a. "Maman," smokes too much, drives too fast, laughs too hard, and loves too extravagantly, and her daughter Violaine wouldn't have it any other way. But when Maman is hospitalized after a third divorce and a breakdown, everything changes. Even as Violaine and her sister long for their mother's return, once she's back Maman's violent mood swings and flagrant disregard for personal boundaries soon turn their home into an emotional landmine. As the story of Catherine's own traumatic childhood and adolescence unfolds, the pieces come together to form an indelible portrait of a mother as irresistible as she is impossible, as triumphant as she is transgressive. With spectacular ferocity of language, a streak of dark humor, and stunning emotional bravery, The Book of Mother is an exquisitely wrought story of a mother's dizzying heights and devastating lows, and a daughter who must hold her memory close in order to surrender, and finally move on.
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    Corrupt Deep State Exposed: Fear, Mobsters, Russia Hoax, Deception and Conspiracy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 199min
    While much of the country has been focused on Russia, James Steel has been collecting the lies, obfuscations, and flagrant disregard for the traditional limits placed on the office of the presidency.In Corrupt Deep State Exposed, he documents how Trump and his administration may be steadily damaging the very tenets of American democracy.Every office in the Executive Branch has conspired to cover-up and hide information about:Hillary Clinton’s e-mails,Benghazi, FBI documents,the IRS and much more.If you liked Michael Wolffs’ Fire and Fury, David Frum, Gregg Jarrett and Jason Chaffetz, then you are sure going to love this action packed audiobook.In this powerful and eye-opening audiobook, James makes clear that the hard work of recovery starts at home, and lays in the hands of the voters. Corrupt Deep State Exposed outlines how Trump could push America toward doom, or perhaps it has all been a big fat lie. Find out what you can do about it now!Here’s why you should listen to the audiobook:Break the status quo - question your beliefs on history in a new way. Raise your critical thinking and awareness of current events.Learn what can’t be found on mainstream news and TV outlets.So what are you waiting for? Get ready for a revelation of a lifetime! This audiobook will definitely answer any questions you have regarding some of history’s most unforgettable events. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Kollins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150003/bk_acx0_150003_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    ISIS Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Extreme Evil of Radical Islam): Burning Reports Topics, Issues, Current Events & More , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 55min
    International attention has been drawn over the past few months to the activities of ISIS, the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria. The entire world has been taken by surprise as they have witnessed the flagrant violation of all forms of human decency by these militants without their even considering the smallest fragment of human nature. It was only with impotent fury and despair that people across the globe could watch the brutal beheadings of innocent human beings by these radical Islamists. ISIS wants to bring the entire Middle East under their control, with Islamic Sharia law imposed everywhere. With this as their motive, they have been carrying out brutal attacks on their opposition. Simultaneously with their merciless and savage attacks and beheadings of their captives, they have made it a practice to release videos of every murder and every killing to the international media. Several hundred opponents have been executed by these ruthless and highly lethal terrorists. Some international journalists, aid workers, and the like have also been either beheaded by a knife or killed in a gruesome murder. This edition of Burning Reports will bring out the origin and growth of yet another terrorist organization (though they call themselves a state), namely ISIS, with roots in the volatile and petro-dollar-rich Middle East. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Claton Butcher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/034752/bk_acx0_034752_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Knife’s Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 576min
    An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the profession’s most eminent figures.Although Professor Stephen Westaby was born with the necessary coordination and manual dexterity, it was a head trauma sustained during university that gifted him the qualities of an exceptional heart surgeon: qualities that are frequently associated with psychopathy. His 35-year career has been characterised by fearlessness and ruthless ambition, leaving empathy at the hospital door as thousands of patients put their lives in his hands.For heart surgeons, the inevitable cost of failure is death, and in The Knife’s Edge, Westaby reflects on the unique mind-set of those who are drawn to this exhilarating and often tragic profession. We discover the pioneers who grasped opportunities and took chances to drive innovation and save lives. Often difficult, uninhibited and fearless, theirs is a field constantly threatened by the risk of public failure.Like those before him, Westaby refuses to draw the line in his search of a lifetime solution to problems of the heart. His determination is unerring - a steadfastness underpinned by his unusual mind. But as we glimpse into the future of cardiac surgery, for all its remarkable scientific advancement, one question remains: within the confines of socialised medical health-care systems, how can heart surgeons - individuals often hardwired with avoidance of self-doubt, a penchant for glory and a flagrant disregard for authority - truly flourish? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gordon Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/004337/bk_hcuk_004337_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 449min
    On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold-out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago's Iroquois Theatre. In the short span of twenty minutes, more than six hundred people were asphyxiated, burned, or trampled to death in a panicked mob's failed attempt to escape. In Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903, Nat Brandt provides a detailed chronicle of this horrific event to assess not only the titanic tragedy of the fire itself but also the municipal corruption and greed that kindled the flames beforehand and the political cover-ups hidden in the smoke and ash afterwards. Advertised as "absolutely fireproof," the Iroquois was Chicago's most modern playhouse when it opened in the fall of 1903. With the approval of the city's building department, theater developers Harry J. Powers and William J. Davis opened the theater prematurely to take full advantage of the holiday crowds, ignoring flagrant safety violations in the process. The aftermath of the fire proved to be a study in the miscarriage of justice. Despite overwhelming evidence that the building had not been completed, that fire safety laws were ignored, and that management had deliberately sealed off exits during the performance, no one was ever convicted or otherwise held accountable for the enormous loss of life. Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903 is rich with vivid details about this horrific disaster, captivatingly presented in human terms without losing sight of the broader historical context. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Regal. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/013158/bk_acx0_013158_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show: Smoother and Sweeter, Hörbuch, Digital, 594min
    Struggling to make his down-and-out orchestra plucky and profitable, Phil Harris conducts his zany sidekick, winsome wife, precocious kids, and grouchy grocery boy through a symphony of silliness. If you long for a series where the drinks are stiff and the whimsy is wicked, you've come to the right place! This collection includes 20 digitally restored and remastered episodes, many of which are available for the first time anywhere. These rare broadcasts are prime examples of the flagrant fun, garish gaiety, and notorious nonsense that Phil and Alice brought to listeners on Sunday nights in 1954. Episodes include: Phil's Band Turns to Drama 01-15-54; Life Insurance for Phil 01-22-54; Royalty Check Celebration 01-29-54; Build It Yourself Television Kit 02-05-54; A Bad Case of Nerves 02-12-54; Firing Elliott 02-19-54; A Night at the Movies 02-26-54; Job Hunting 03-05-54; Expired Driver's License 03-12-54; Phil Writes His Life Story 03-19-54; Who Sent Flowers 03-26-54; What Would You Do If You Were a Dog? 04-02-54; Phil's Pain In the Side 04-09-54; The Band Is Underpaid 04-16-54; Herbert's Happy Hacienda 04-23-54; Special Red Cross Blood Drive Program 04-30-54; Phil's African Movies 05-07-54; This Is Your Past 05-14-54; A Date For Herman 05-21-54; The Trouble With Honest Fred 05-28-54. Language: English. Narrator: Phil Harris, Alice Faye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/radi/001160/rt_radi_001160_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Summary, Analysis, and Review of Seth Stephens-Davidowitz's 'Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are' , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 27min
    Please Note: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Summary, Analysis, and Review of Seth Stephens-Davidowitz's Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are includes a summary of the book, review, analysis and key takeaways, and detailed "About the Author" section. In Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz cleverly manipulates Big Data to explore the dark underside of American consciousness. Using powerful new methodologies, the author analyzes anonymous Google searches across a wide range of subjects about which people tend to be secretive. From Internet pornography to medical diagnoses, Stephens-Davidowitz reveals startling truths about people's desires, failures and fears. Published in 2017, the book begins with a memory that's fresh for listeners: the unexpected ascension of Donald Trump to the US presidency. While pundits, including data journalists like Nate Silver, didn't see it coming, the clues were planted in Big Data. Stephens-Davidowitz, who has been working with giant data sets of search-related data on sites like Facebook, Stormfront, Wikipedia, PornHub, and especially Google over the last decade or so, saw some intimation in the "tea leaves". Before the 2016 election, he had already uncovered troubling data about how flagrant racism had negatively impacted Obama's elections, though of course the results were in the politician's favor. Stephens-Davidowitz's work in this area was rejected by a number of the journals at the time because so many pundits believed in a post-racial America, but his findings anticipated the white nationalism that propelled Trump into office. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Gilboe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/098774/bk_acx0_098774_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Arabian Nights Entertainments , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 874min
    The central core of the stories concerns a Persian king and his new bride. The king has a brother who is a vizier in faraway Samarcand, and he invites him to come to the palace for a visit. Just before his departure, the vizier is shocked to discover his wife's infidelity. Enraged, he kills her. Full of pain and grief, the vizier continues on to the court of his brother, the king. But, once arrived at his brother's palace, the vizier soon discovers the king's wife is also involved in an even more flagrant infidelity, which he reluctantly reports to him. The maddened king, Shahryar, then kills his wife, too. The distrustful king next decides to marry an endless succession of virgins only to execute each one the next morning before she has a chance to dishonor him. Weeks go by. Eventually, Scheherazade, the vizier's daughter, offers herself as the next bride. She is convinced she knows how to stop the slaughter. Her father reluctantly agrees to the marriage. On the night of their marriage, Scheherazade begins to tell the king a tale, but does not end it. The king, curious about how the story ends, is thus forced to postpone her execution in order to hear the conclusion. The next night, as soon as she finishes the tale, she begins (and only begins) a new one, and the king, eager to hear the conclusion, postpones her execution once again. And so it goes on for 1,001 nights.... Listen as the fabulous tales of Alladin, Sindbad the Sailor, Ali Baba, and many others sweep you away to the Golden Age of Islam. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlton Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acon/000160/bk_acon_000160_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight against America’s Enemies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1385min
    Accused of creating a bogus Red scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even today, a half-century after his death, his name remains synonymous with witch hunts. But that conventional image is all wrong, as veteran journalist and author M. Stanton Evans reveals in this groundbreaking book. The long-awaited Blacklisted by History, based on six years of intensive research, dismantles the myths surrounding Joe McCarthy and his campaign to unmask Communists, Soviet agents, and flagrant loyalty risks working within the U.S. government. Evans’ revelations completely overturn our understanding of McCarthy, McCarthyism, and the Cold War. Drawing on primary sources, Evans presents irrefutable evidence of a relentless Communist drive to penetrate our government, influence its policies, and steal its secrets. Most shocking of all, he shows that U.S. officials supposedly guarding against this danger not only let it happen but actively covered up the penetration. All of this was precisely as Joe McCarthy contended. Evans shows that practically everything we’ve been told about McCarthy is false, including conventional treatment of the famous 1950 speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, that launched the McCarthy era, the Senate hearings that casually dismissed his charges, and much more. In the end, Senator McCarthy was censured by his colleagues and condemned by the press and historians. Blacklisted by History provides the first accurate account of what McCarthy did and, more broadly, what happened to America during the Cold War. It is a revealing exposé of the forces that distorted our national policy in that conflict and our understanding of its history since. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Weiner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/003902/bk_blak_003902_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Kings of Casino Park: Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 365min
    In the 1930s, Monroe, Louisiana, was a town of 26,000 in the northeastern corner of the state, an area described by the New Orleans Item as the "lynch law center of Louisiana." Race relations were bad, and the Depression was pitiless for most, especially for the working class - a great many of whom had no work at all or seasonal work at best. Yet for a few years in the early 1930s, this unlikely spot was home to the Monarchs, a national-caliber Negro League baseball team. Crowds of Black and White fans eagerly filled their segregated grandstand seats to see the players who would become the only World Series team Louisiana would ever generate, and the first from the American South. By 1932, the team had as good a claim to the national baseball championship of Black America as any other. Partisans claim, with merit, that league officials awarded the National Championship to the Chicago American Giants in flagrant violation of the league's own rules: Times were hard and more people would pay to see a Chicago team than an outfit from the Louisiana back country. Black newspapers in the South rallied to support Monroe's cause, railing against the league and the bias of Black newspapers in the North, but the decision, unfair though it may have been, was also the only financially feasible option for the league's besieged leadership, who were struggling to maintain a Black baseball league in the midst of the Great Depression. Aiello addresses long-held misunderstandings and misinterpretations of the Monarchs' 1932 season. He tells the almost-unknown story of the team-its time, its fortunes, its hometown - and positions black baseball in the context of American racial discrimination. He illuminates the culture-changing power of a baseball team and the importance of sport in cultural and social history. The book is published by The University of Alabama Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Claton Butcher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001376/bk_acx0_001376_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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