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My Vanishing African Dreams
My Vanishing African Dreams describes my unusual and exciting life as a woman, both on our cattle ranch where we were traders in beef cattle in Kenya, and my remarkable experiences exploring Kenya's mostly uninhabited Northern Frontier District. My story includes the mountains I've climbed and the dangers of those climbs, as well as treacherous experiences encountering wildlife. I was taught to fly by my father, and during our flying years, survived aircraft accidents and other unforeseen tragedies. My travels to the United States and the adventures there with friends are also included. But my story is really about the never-ending excitement and danger of everyday life in the African wilderness. Even though it is almost 2017, we still get our hot water from lighting a fire in a wood burner to heat it. We collect our rain water off the house roof, which runs along gutters into huge underground storage tanks. We are miles from a shopping centre, and need a 4x4 Land Rover to get anywhere on our dirt roads that are filled with huge potholes. About the Author: Born in Nottinghamshire, England, Susan M. Hall emigrated to Kenya when she was four years old. A self-taught artist, she became a professional wildlife and bird artist. She and her family have explored Kenya's most remote and scenic Northern Districts. She now lives in the countryside north of Mt. Kenya on the border of the Northern Frontier, surrounded by wildlife. This is her first book. Publisher's website: http://sbprabooks.com/SusanMHall- Shop: buecher
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Sunglasses After Dark , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 567min
Sunglasses After Dark, by award-winning author Nancy A. Collins, tells the story of Sonja Blue, a punk female vampire searching for the man who made her one of the undead, and her battle to overcome her very real inner demon in time to rescue an innocent man from the clutches of an unholy faith healer. While in London, American heiress Denise Thorne disappears from a nightclub, never to be seen again. On that very same night Sonja Blue, a tough-as-nails vampire hunter-slayer, conceived in terror and born of blood, rises from the city's gutters. Saved by modern medicine before she completed her transformation into one of the undead, she becomes a living vampire, determined to fight for what remains of her humanity. Sonja Blue travels the globe, hunting down and disposing of the shadowy creatures that prey on the innocent while searching for the vampire who created her. But as dangerous as hunting vampires may be, it's nothing compared to the threat posed by The Other, the demonic personality Sonja is locked in constant battle with for control of their shared body. Acknowledged as one of the first Urban Fantasy novels, Sunglasses After Dark has garnered wide-spread critical praise and won the Horror Writers Association's coveted Bram Stoker Award, as well as the British Fantasy Society's Icarus Award. Out of print for several years, the Radio Archives edition of Sunglasses After Dark uses the new edition of this novel, which has been extensively revised and edited by the author. It is considered to be the preferred text. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Melodee M. Spevack. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/023480/bk_acx0_023480_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Kinslayer: The Lotus War, Book Two , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1179min
Kinslayer is Book Two in Jay Kristoff's critically acclaimed Lotus War series that began with Stormdancer, featuring an unforgettable heroine and a stunningly original Japanese dystopian steampunk world. A shattered empire.... The mad Shogun Yoritomo has been assassinated by the Stormdancer Yukiko, and the threat of civil war looms over the Shima Imperium. The toxic blood lotus flower continues to ravage the land, the deadlands splitting wider by the day. The machine-worshippers of the Lotus Guild conspire to renew the nation's broken dynasty and crush the growing rebellion simultaneously - by endorsing a new Shogun who desires nothing more than to see Yukiko dead. A dark legacy.... Yukiko and the mighty thunder tiger Buruu have been cast in the role of heroes by the Kag rebellion. But Yukiko herself is blinded by rage over her father's death, and her ability to hear the thoughts of beasts is swelling beyond her power to control. Along with Buruu, Yukiko's anchor is Kin, the rebel Guildsman who helped her escape from Yoritomo's clutches. But Kin has his own secrets, and is haunted by visions of a future he'd rather die than see realized. A gathering storm.... Kag assassins lurk within the Shogun's palace, plotting to end the new dynasty before it begins. A waif from Kigen's gutters begins a friendship that could undo the entire empire. A new enemy gathers its strength, readying to push the fracturing Shima imperium into a war it cannot hope to survive. And across raging oceans, amongst islands of black glass, Yukiko and Buruu will face foes no katana or talon can defeat. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Ikeda. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011199/bk_adbl_011199_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Last Dragoon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 693min
When was the last time you believed someone who said: I will love you forever? What if they proved it?What is forever in comparison to the power of love? In the end, what is the raw power of the human soul? The Ivy City is dying. It flails under a sea of the risen dead, the holy churches broken, the nobles largely destroyed, the population leaderless and alone, the city itself is bleeding and growing cold. Tattered crimson ribbons of blood fill the gutters. A despicable wizard, scion of the noble line, has shoved the Ivy City to the brink of death as he seeks what he sees as his rightful throne. Doomed by his forbidden love, discarded by the crown, forgotten by the people, a disgraced hero rises from the ashes to combat the rising darkness. Accompanied by a novice of the god of death, this armored savior will crash headlong into the ranks of the undead. As the legions of the unliving surround and entrap him, he faces the dark truths of his own failures, and discovers the limits of his warrior will. He will fight because of his oaths to the crown and because of his oaths to the city. But, in the end, he will fight against a horde of nightmares because he has sworn with the totality of his soul to the crown princess, whom he has vowed to love forever. The only questions that remains are: What is the raw power of the human soul? And can it be enough against an army of the dead? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Dorse. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/016899/bk_acx0_016899_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 641min
Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly 65,000 bridges in the United States as 'structurally deficient'. This crisis - and one need look no further than the I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota to see that it is indeed a crisis - shows little sign of abating short of a massive change in attitude amongst politicians and the American public. In The Road Taken, acclaimed historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from historical and contemporary perspectives and explains how essential their maintenance is to America's economic health. Recounting the long history behind America's highway system, Petroski reveals the genesis of our interstate numbering system (even roads go east-west, odd go north-south); the inspiration behind the center line that has divided roads for decades; and the creation of such taken-for-granted objects as guardrails, stop signs, and traffic lights - all crucial parts of our national and local infrastructure. His history of the rebuilding of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reveals the complex and challenging interplay between government and industry inherent in the conception, funding, design, and building of major infrastructure projects while his forensic analysis of the street he lives on - its potholes, gutters, and curbs - will engage homeowners everywhere. A compelling work of history, The Road Taken is also an urgent clarion call aimed at American citizens, politicians, and anyone with a vested interest in our economic well-being. The road we take in the next decade toward rebuilding our aging infrastructure will in large part determine our future national prosperity. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Butler Murray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027488/bk_adbl_027488_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 671min
From Pulitzer Prize winner Raymond Bonner comes the gripping story of a grievously mishandled murder case that put a twenty-three-year-old man on death row. In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windows, but barely ninety days after the victim’s body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. Elmore had been on death row for eleven years when a young attorney named Diana Holt first learned of his case. After attending the University of Texas School of Law, Holt was eager to help the disenfranchised and voiceless - she herself had been a childhood victim of abuse. It required little scrutiny for Holt to discern that Elmore’s case reeked of injustice - plagued by incompetent court-appointed defense attorneys, a virulent prosecution, and evidence that was both misplaced and contaminated. It was the cause of a lifetime for the spirited, hardworking lawyer. Holt would spend more than a decade fighting on Elmore’s behalf. With the exemplary moral commitment and tenacious investigation that have distinguished his reporting career, Bonner follows Holt’s battle to save Elmore’s life and shows us how his case is a textbook example of what can go wrong in the American justice system. He reviews police work, evidence gathering, jury selection, work of court-appointed lawyers, latitude of judges, iniquities in the law, prison informants, and the appeals process. Throughout, the actions and motivations of both unlikely heroes and shameful villains in our justice system are vividly revealed. Moving, enraging, suspenseful, and enlightening, Anatomy of Injustice is a vital contribution to our nation’s ongoing and increasingly important debate about inequality ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bramhall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004837/bk_blak_004837_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lagos Noir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 383min
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Now, West Africa enters the Noir Series arena, meticulously edited by one of Nigeria's best-known authors.Brand-new stories by Chris Abani, Nnedi Okorafor, E.C. Osondu, Jude Dibia, Chika Unigwe, A. Igoni Barrett, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Adebola Rayo, Onyinye Ihezukwu, Uche Okonkwo, Wale Lawal, 'Pemi Aguda, and Leye Adenle.From the introduction by Chris Abani: Lagos has, like many coastal cities, a very checkered and noir past. It is the largest city in Nigeria and its former capital. It is also the largest megacity on the African continent, with a population approximating 21 million, and by itself is the fourth-largest economy in Africa.... It is rumored that there are more canals in Lagos than in Venice. Except in Lagos they are often unintentional. Gutters that have become waterways and lagoons fenced in by stilt homes or full of logs for a timber industry most of us don't know exists. All of it skated by canoes as slick as any dragonfly. There are currently no moonlight or other gondola rides available....The 13 stories that comprise this volume stretch the boundaries of "noir" fiction, but each one of them fully captures the essence of noir, the unsettled darkness that continues to lurk in the city's streets, alleys, and waterways.... Together, these stories create an unchartered path through the center of Lagos and out to its peripheries, revealing so much more truth at the heart of this tremendous city than any guidebook, TV show, film, or book you are likely to find."In the introduction to this excellent anthology, Abani welcomes readers to Lagos, Nigeria, a city of more than 21 million and an amazing amalgam of wealth, poverty, corruption, humor, bravery, and tragedy. Abani and a dozen other contr ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Free, Cary Hite. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/050861/bk_adbl_050861_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Spousonomics: Using Economics to Master Love, Marriage, and Dirty Dishes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 625min
Are you happy in your marriage—except for those weekly spats over who empties the dishwasher more often? Not a single complaint—unless you count the fact that you haven’t had sex since the Bush administration? Prepared to be there in sickness and in health—so long as it doesn’t mean compromising? Be honest: Ever lay awake thinking how much more fun married life used to be? If you’re a member of the human race, then the answer is probably “yes” to all of the above. Marriage is a mysterious, often irrational business. Making it work till death do you part—or just till the end of the week—isn’t always easy. And no one ever handed you a user’s manual. Until now. With Spousonomics, Paula Szuchman and Jenny Anderson offer something new: a clear-eyed, rational route to demystifying your disagreements and improving your relationship. The key, they propose, is to think like an economist. That’s right: an economist. Economics is the study of resource allocation, after all. How do we—as partners in a society, a business, or a marriage—spend our limited time, money, and energy? And how do we allocate these resources most efficiently? Spousonomics answers these questions by taking classic economic concepts and applying them to the domestic front. For example: Arguing all night isn’t a sign of a communication breakdown; you’re just extremely loss-averse—and by refusing to give an inch, you’re risking even greater losses. Stay late at the office, or come home for dinner? Be honest about your mother-in-law, or keep your mouth shut and smile? Let the cost-benefit analysis make the call. Getting your spouse to clean the gutters isn’t a matter of nagging or guilt-tripping; it’s a question of finding the right incentives. Being “too busy” to exercise or forgetting your anniversary (again): your overtaxed memory and hectic schedule aren’t to blame—moral hazard is. And when it comes to having more ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Renée Raudman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002518/bk_rand_002518_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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George The Greytown Wizard (eBook, ePUB)
The town of Wannabe has been neglected for years. The towns people were too busy with many important things to take care off their surroundings. There were weeds growing out of gutters so the rain water went everywhere else. Buildings which were painted in bright colours years ago were now drab and grey. The roads were full of potholes big enough for a horse to fall into. And the beautiful plants in the town park died when everybody forgot that they needed water. The one dark night everything turned grey. The land, the sky, the water, the people and the animals were not spared. The townspeople were horrified. Many flocked to the local eye doctor to have their eyesight checked, some went to church to pray, some went to the local tavern to drink and dance and the rest of the people blamed the mayor and the council for the disaster. Finally they asked the town wizard, George, if he could reverse the grey spell. George was a young and inexperienced wizard. He spent most of his time trying out new spells, most of which didn't work. He was not confident that he could reverse the grey spell. But the townspeople persisted, so he promised to try. He started to consult his books of spell cures, trying out this and that. Meanwhile a young girl, Rhiannon, who was a passionate artist, did many drawings of the grey town and everything in it. One day the colours of the town appeared in Rhiannon's drawing and for a brief moment the town had colour again. The townspeople were very excited and wanted Rhiannon to keep on drawing. She did but became so tired that she fell into a deep sleep. Her frantic parents called on George to wake her up. This time his spell to wake her up was successful. And at the same time his spell to restore colour to the town worked. After that the people spent a lot of time caring for the town so that it never went grey again.- Shop: buecher
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Salvation through the Gutters
Salvation through the Gutters - Deviance and Identity: ab 4.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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