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    Sentinel: Galactic Gladiators: House of Rone, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 359min
    Fighting for love, loyalty, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim...When Quinn Bennett’s exploration ship is attacked, the security chief finds herself abducted by alien slavers. Unable to save her crew, she is taken across the galaxy and sold to a desert scavenger on the lawless planet of Carthago. Driven by her guilt and failure, she’ll do anything to escape and save the other abductees from her ship. Chained and forced into servitude, she’s waiting for her chance to strike when, across a dusty trading post, she comes face-to-face with a big, cyborg gladiator.Jaxer Rone’s loyalty is to his imperator - the man who saved him from a lethal cyborg military program. Jax works tirelessly for his gladiatorial house and would die for his fellow cyborgs. His emotional dampeners have never functioned well, but while he feels some emotion, he never lets it get in the way of his duty. Right now, his mission is to find the stolen humans from Earth. But when he rescues the fierce, relentless Quinn, he starts feeling a rush of emotion he’s never experienced before.Quinn and Jax join forces to track down the aliens holding the other Earth women captive. Side by side, they venture into the desert and uncover a desire hotter than the desert suns. But the aliens who captured Quinn want her back. In order to protect Quinn, will Jax embrace his newfound feelings or shut them off to keep her safe? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vivienne Leheny. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/164613/bk_acx0_164613_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1156min
    The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial black response to segregation, the subsequent struggle to establish successful separate enterprises, and the later movement toward integration. Baseball functioned as a critical component in the separate economy catering to black consumers in the urban centers of the North and South. While most black businesses struggled to survive from year to year, professional baseball teams and leagues operated for decades, representing a major achievement in black enterprise and institution building. Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution presents the extraordinary history of a great African American achievement, from its lowest ebb during the Depression, through its golden age and World War II, until its gradual disappearance during the early years of the civil rights era. Faced with only a limited amount of correspondence and documents, Lanctot consulted virtually every sports page of every black newspaper located in a league city. He then conducted interviews with former players and scrutinized existing financial, court, and federal records. Through his efforts, Lanctot has painstakingly reconstructed the institutional history of black professional baseball, locating the players, teams, owners, and fans in the wider context of the league's administration. In addition, he provides valuable insight into the changing attitudes of African Americans toward the need for separate institutions. Winner of the 2005 Seymour Medal of the Society for American Baseball Research ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Todd Barsness. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/004225/bk_acx0_004225_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 596min
    Contains an exclusive Q&A with the author, Ruth Goodman. Historian and popular TV presenter Ruth Goodman offers up a history of offensive language, insulting gestures, insolent behaviour, brawling and scandal in the 16th and 17th centuries - with practical tips on just how to horrify the neighbours. From royalty to peasantry, every age has its bad eggs, those who break all the rules and rub everyone up the wrong way. But their niggling, antisocial and irritating ways tell us about not only what upset people but also what mattered to them, how their society functioned and what kind of world they lived in. In this brilliantly nitty-gritty exploration of real life in the Tudor and Stuart age, you will discover: How to choose the perfect insult, whether it be draggletail, varlet, flap, saucy fellow, strumpet, ninny-hammer or stinkard Why quoting Shakespeare was very poor form The politics behind men kissing each other on the lips Why flashing the inside of your hat could repulse someone The best way to mock accents, preachers, soldiers and pretty much everything else besides Ruth Goodman draws upon advice books and manuals, court cases and sermons, drama and imagery to outline bad behaviour from the gauche to the galling, the subtle to the outrageous. It is a celebration of drunkards, scolds, harridans and cross-dressers in a time when calling a man a fool could get someone killed and cursing wasn't just rude - it worked! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ruth Goodman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/momb/000002/bk_momb_000002_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 338min
    The inside story of the protest that has given birth to America's most important progressive movement in a half century. In a vivid, fast-paced narrative, the key events of the occupation are described: the pepper spraying of young women corralled between plastic fences by the NYPD; the mass arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge; the victory on October 14th when an announced "clean up" of the square was abandoned by a mayor's office fearful of a PR disaster; and the eventual storming of the occupation that brought it to an abrupt end. Woven throughout are stories of daily life in the square focusing on how the kitchen, library, media center, clean-up, hospital, and decision-making at the General Assembly functioned, all in the words of the people who were there. The future course of Occupy Wall Street remains unclear. But one thing is starkly evident: Under the banner "We are the 99%" the protest has given birth to America's most important progressive movement since the civil rights marches half a century ago. This is the story of that beginning. Writers for the 99% is a group of writers and researchers, active in supporting Occupy Wall Street, who came together to create this book. A list of all those contributing will appear at the back of the book. All profits from this book will be donated to Occupy Wall Street. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Readdean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/005569/bk_acx0_005569_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Dutch East India Company: A Captivating Guide to the First True Multinational Corporation and Its Impact on the Dutch War of Independence from Spain , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 93min
    If you want to discover the captivating history of the Dutch East India Company, then pay attention...Huge international companies and corporations are a normal part of our everyday lives today. For most, their unimaginable wealth and power, rivaling even some of the smaller countries of the world, is something we take for granted. And we see them as the living embodiment of the capitalist system, regardless if we take it as a good or a bad omen. However, this wasn’t always the case.For the majority of history, it was the kings and emperors who wielded the most influence, commanded the largest armies, and had the largest treasures. And all of them would laugh at the idea of some merchants managing to not only catch up to their supremacy and riches but even surpass them. Yet, they did.Probably, the best example of that kind of success were the traders of the Dutch East India Company of the 16th century. This company single-handedly reformed the way businesses functioned, creating the foundation of our modern capitalist world, with all of its strengths and weaknesses.Through its international trade, this corporation brought our world one step closer to the colonialism of the 19th century and the globalization of the 20th century. It managed to transform itself from a group of merchants to an empire in its own right. By the time of its disbandment in the late 18th century, the world was irreversibly changed.If you want to learn more about the Dutch East India Company, scroll up and click on the "buy now" button! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Randy Whitlow. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/193179/bk_acx0_193179_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Library of Alexandria and the Lighthouse of Alexandria: The Ancient Egyptian City's Most Famous Sites , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 155min
    In the modern world, libraries are taken for granted by most people, perhaps because their presence is ubiquitous. Every school has a library, large libraries can be found in every major city, and even most small towns have public libraries. However, the omnipresent nature of libraries is a fairly recent historical phenomenon, because libraries were still few and far between before the 19th century. For centuries in the Western world, during what is known as the Middle Ages, written knowledge was guarded closely and hidden away in private repositories, usually by the religious classes, and hidden away in private repositories. The lack of libraries in the West helped contribute to the popular imagination of the ancient Library at Alexandria, and all the myths and legends that have come to be associated with it, but the Library of Alexandria deserves its reputation. While the exact nature of the Library remains murky, it functioned for at least several centuries and is believed to have housed hundreds of thousands of books, most written as scrolls on papyrus, and it essentially became the culmination of two ancient literary and cultural traditions converging: the Greek and Egyptian. Of course, the most controversial aspect of the Library of Alexandria is its destruction, which is still a topic of debate today. Over 2,000 years ago, two ancient writers named Antipater of Sidon and Philo of Byzantium authored antiquity's most well-known tour guides. After the two Greeks had traveled around the Mediterranean, they wrote of what they considered to be the classical world's greatest construction projects. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maria Chester. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/037313/bk_acx0_037313_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Entangled , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 674min
    Have you ever been swept off your feet by a charming, handsome man, only to find his declarations of love were false? If so, you will be interested to learn that maybe, you were entangled with a sociopath. Some people hear the word sociopath and conjure up the image of a psychopathic killer, but while all psychopaths have sociopathic characteristics, sociopaths do not kill the body. They are killers of souls. Driven by narcissism, they lack a sense of moral responsibility and have no conscience. The definition doesn’t come close to what lurks beneath the surface. I know because I was entangled with one. It started with “love-bombing”. Daniel came on strong. He seduced me with texts and phone calls, drawing me into his web until I couldn’t think straight. Once he had me where he wanted me, he played on my sentiments to throw me off balance and put my world on the crazy train. Disguised by his upbeat and funny demeanor, his abuse was subtle and hard to pinpoint. I walked around in a fog and functioned, mindlessly accepting his behaviors for fear of causing a rift. Under constant stress and anxiety over losing him, I give Daniel the benefit of the doubt. Doubt! Remember that word. It will drive me to the edge of insanity by the time the relationship is done. Not everyone will understand how he could manipulate and deceive me for so long. They don’t know. Daniel was clever and a master of manipulation, able to twist the truth until I accepted his fabricated reality. I didn’t recognize his cunning, devious nature. It’s still hard to believe that the person I loved never really existed. He was a ghost, a man without a soul. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernadette Homerski. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173292/bk_acx0_173292_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Summary of Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife by Eben Alexander III M.D. , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 76min
    Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. A Harvard-trained neurosurgeon faced his own mortality and survived a coma that lasted seven days. After he woke up, what he discovered during his slumber made him a believer. Driven into a coma and with no hope of surviving, Eben managed to pull through. However, in his seven-day slumber, he had vivid dreams about things he didn't know about, like a deceased birth sister he didn't get a chance to meet. He was puzzled, and as a scientist, he couldn't find an explanation. In the state his brain was in, it couldn't have functioned at all. So, why did it? How could he know details about facts that he didn't know before? The answer changed his life for good.  "Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator." (Eben Alexander)Proof of Heaven tells the tale of his attempt to comprehend consciousness and his origin. After his coma, Alexander began his journey to prove we are conscious despite our brains, as if it's embedded to our very soul. The only answer he could find through all his research was within God, so he turned to Him. Alexander assures us he found scientific proof to his theory and is willing to show us, are you willing to listen? P.S. Proof of Heaven is an extremely spiritual book that talks about how a non-believer turned to God in order to find the answers he was looking for.Note: This summary is wholly written and published by Abbey Beathan. It is not affiliated with the original author in any way. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Prova. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/177793/bk_acx0_177793_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    'A' Force: The Origins of British Deception During the Second World War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 567min
    A Force explores an area of World War II deception history that has often been neglected. While older studies have focused on the D-day deception campaign and Britain's infamous double-agents, this work explores the origins of Britain's deception activities to reveal how the British became such masterful deceivers. This is the first work to focus exclusively on "A" Force and the origins of British deception, examining how and why the British first employed deception in World War II. More specifically, it traces the development of the "A" Force organization - the first British organization to practice both tactical and strategic deception in the field. Formed in Cairo in 1941, "A" Force was headed by an unconventional British colonel named Dudley Wrangel Clarke. Because there was no precedent for Clarke's "A" Force, it truly functioned on a trial-and-error basis. The learning curve was steep, but Clarke was up for the challenge. By the Battle of El Alamein, British deception had reached maturity. Moreover, it was there that the "deceptionists" established the deception blueprint later used by the London planners to plan and execute Operation Bodyguard, the campaign to conceal Allied intentions for the D-Day landing at Normandy. In contrast to earlier deception histories that have tended to focus on Britain's later efforts emphasizing Operation Bodyguard, this work clearly shows that this strategy was forged much earlier in the deserts of Africa under the leadership of Dudley Clarke, not in London. Moreover, it was born not out of opportunity, but out of sheer desperation, when in June 1940 the British found themselves completely unprepared for war. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Derek Perkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014909/bk_adbl_014909_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Internal Lockdown , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 590min
    Over a morning, you can tend to your garden, paint a room, watch the morning news repeat its talking points. Over a morning, you can do the laundry or visit the doctor for a check-up; you can run errands. Over a morning, you can stop a school in its track, or lockdown an AP English class. Over a morning, you can get revenge. Green Hill is a small, ordinary Pennsylvania town where nothing ever happens until the morning its normalcy is crushed by a shocking act of violence. One morning the school is interrupted by the frantic announcement calling for a lockdown. AP English teacher, Mike Zarlapski, swings into action, following the lockdown procedures. Although his students help pile as many desks in front of the classroom door as possible, their panic is not allayed as they communicate with what is now the outside world first-in responders, police entering the building, and the shooters who remain at large via cellphone.Internal Lockdown, Ernie Quatrani's, first novel is raw, honest, and his most important novel. Although it's his first, the book is told in a straightforward style from different viewpoints, but mostly through the lens of the kids locked in the classroom. Before there was Columbine, a student Mr. Quatrani taught murdered a classmate in a biology lab. The student walked out of the high school after deciding against shooting up the cafeteria. Mr. Quatrani was in the cafeteria proctoring a study hall. As a high school teacher, he functioned in a world where lockdown drills became routine, but there was much more to a lockdown than can be imagined, as Internal Lockdown reveals. The novel is based on his unfortunate experience and years of research. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve McCutcheon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/156406/bk_acx0_156406_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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