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    After Words , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 52min
    In this darkly comic memoir, a young woman recounts the steps she took to rebuild her sense of self in the aftermath of two devastating strokes that robbed her of her ability to communicate.Nina Mitchell was an accomplished Harvard graduate whose world changed forever when her facility with language - and much of her personality - disappeared. Lacking the tools to navigate her old life, Nina was forced to create another one. In After Words, she shares her remarkable journey as she slowly reclaims the power to converse, write, assert her identity, and to be herself - with words.Nina Mitchell’s After Words is part of Missing, a collection of six true stories about finding, restoring, or accepting the losses that define our lives - from the mysterious to the inspiring. Each story can be listened to in a single sitting. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angela Dawe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010802/bk_brll_010802_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hunters: A Morningstar Strain Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 477min
    The Morningstar Strain can be cured - or can it? America is rising out of the ruins of the zombie apocalypse - but will the living and the dead kill the world before it can be reborn? The tyrannical leaders of the RSA are dead, but the remnants of the traitorous army still threaten the recovering United States. Old friends face new challenges and unexpected enemies arise as Brewster’s team reclaims the Capitol and the White House, Keaton cripples the Nomads using their own weapons, Mark is elected mayor after he reveals the traitor, and Dr. Demillio discovers a cure for the sprinters. If they aren’t too damaged, the Morningstar Virus can be driven from their diseased bodies and she can bring them back to life.  As the dead never stop coming - and never stop killing - a new America must fight them all, not just to survive, but to rise again! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Oliver Wyman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/030265/bk_adbl_030265_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 403min
    Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia.... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are. Girt introduces forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the crime of "felony of sock", and Trim the cat, who beat a French monkey to become the first animal to circumnavigate Australia. It recounts the misfortunes of the escaped Irish convicts who set out to walk from Sydney to China, guided only by a hand-drawn paper compass, and explains the role of the coconut in Australia's only military coup. Our nation's beginnings are steeped in the strange, the ridiculous, and the frankly bizarre. Girt proudly reclaims these stories for all of us. Not to listen to it would be un-Australian. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Hunt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023003/bk_adbl_023003_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Long Ago and Far Away , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 403min
    A 55-year-old professor of physics at Harvard University, Mark Peterson creates a time machine and uses it to travel back to 1973 and revisit his first love, Lena Mendleson.When traveling to his past, he does not arrive as a double of himself but takes over the body of his younger self which goes into a limbo state. Mark gradually begins to feel and act like the boy he once was, reexperiencing the intensity of his first love as his younger self slowly reclaims its body.Mark plays it safe by planning to spend just 10 days in the past because if he does not return in three weeks, he will lose himself in time, thus altering his future forever. Because of an unforeseen problem, Mark is solely dependent on his friend and colleague Ron, a fellow professor at Harvard, to bring him home. As the days tick by and the point of no return approaches, Mark awaits his fate. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/161843/bk_acx0_161843_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Yankee Miracles: Life with the Boss and the Bronx Bombers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 468min
    If it was not all so true, you’d think it was a fairy tale. A seventeen-year-old from Queens spray paints graffiti on Yankee Stadium and gets nabbed by George Steinbrenner himself. Contrary to his gruff public image, the Boss—driven by a compassionate inner voice—reclaims the teen at a time when the Bronx is literally burning. Thus begins the unlikeliest of baseball stories, one in which Ray Negron is transformed from street kid to batboy and beyond. Befriending many of major league baseball’s greatest stars—Billy Martin, Reggie Jackson, Munson, Mantle, Catfish, A-Rod, Jeter, even Mrs. Lou Gehrig—Negron ultimately emerges as a dynamic community leader, dedicating his own life to helping the sick and rescuing generations of city kids from unfulfilled lives. Yankee Miracles is an audiobook about the power of baseball to transform lives, about all those miracles on 161st Street we never knew were there. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Downer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012416/bk_adbl_012416_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 612min
    Despite multiple waves of feminist revolution, today's single woman is still mired in judgment or, worse, pity. But for one brief exclamatory period in the 1930s, she was all the rage. Marjorie Hillis was working at Vogue when she published the radical self-help book Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman. With Dorothy Parker-esque wit, she urged spinsters, divorcees, and old maids to shed derogatory labels, and her philosophy became a phenomenon. From the importance of a peignoir to the joy of breakfast in bed (alone), Hillis's tips made single life desirable and chic. Now, historian and critic Joanna Scutts reclaims Hillis as the queen of the "Live-Aloners" and explores the turbulent decades that followed, when the status of these "brazen ladies" peaked and then collapsed. The Extra Woman follows Hillis and others like her who forged their independent paths before the 1950s saw them trapped behind picket fences yet again. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: C. S. E. Cooney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/008799/bk_tant_008799_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Stoner: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 535min
    Waterstone's book of the year Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer - in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on best-seller lists across Europe. William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at 19 to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely. Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value. Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history and reclaims the significance of an individual life. A listening experience like no other, itself a paean to the power of literature, it is a novel to be savoured. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alfred Molina. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002380/bk_rhuk_002380_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Reclaiming Populism: How Economic Fairness Can Win Back Disenchanted Voters
    Populist upheavals like Trump, Brexit, and the Gilets Jaunes happen when the system really is rigged. Citizens the world over are angry not due to income inequality or immigration, but economic unfairness: that opportunity is not equal and reward is not according to contribution.This forensic book draws on original research, cited by the UN and IMF, to demonstrate that illiberal populism strikes hardest when success is influenced by family origins rather than talent and effort. Protzer and Summerville propose a framework of policy inputs that instead support high social mobility, and apply it to diagnose the differing reasons behind economic unfairness in the US, UK, Italy, and France. By striving for a fair, socially-mobile economy, they argue, it is possible to craft a politics that reclaims the reasonable grievances behind populism.Reclaiming Populism is a must-read for policymakers, scholars, and citizens who want to bring disenchanted populist voters back into the fold of liberal democracy.
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    Antarctic Pioneer (eBook, ePUB)
    Jackie Ronne reclaims her rightful place in polar history as the first American woman in Antarctica. Jackie was an ordinary American girl whose life changed after a blind date with rugged Antarctic explorer Finn Ronne. After marrying, they began planning the 1946-1948 Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition. Her participation was not welcomed by the expedition team of red-blooded males eager to prove themselves in the frozen, hostile environment of Antarctica.On March 12, 1947, Jackie Ronne became the first American woman in Antarctica and, months later, one of the first women to overwinter there.The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition secured its place in Antarctic history, but its scientific contributions have been overshadowed by conflicts and the dangerous accidents that occurred. Jackie dedicated her life to Antarctica: she promoted the achievements of the expedition and was a pioneer in polar tourism and an early supporter of the Antarctic Treaty. In doing so, she helped shape the narrative of twentieth-century Antarctic exploration.
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    The Tie That Binds , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 557min
    From the best-selling author of Eventide, The Tie That Binds is a powerfully eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America and of the tenacity of the human spirit. Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the back of her hand, police officer at her door. She is charged with murder. The clues: a sack of chicken feed slit with a knife, a milky-eyed dog tied outdoors one cold afternoon. The motives: the brutal business of farming and a family code of ethics as unforgiving as the winter prairie itself. Here, Kent Haruf delivers the sweeping tale of a woman of the American High Plains, as told by her neighbor, Sanders Roscoe. As Roscoe shares what he knows, Edith's tragedies unfold: a childhood of predawn chores, a mother's death, a violence that leaves a father dependent on his children, forever enraged. Here is the story of a woman who sacrifices her happiness in the name of family - and then, in one gesture, reclaims her freedom. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Danny Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005158/bk_rand_005158_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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