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    The Beer Hall Putsch: The History and Legacy of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party's Failed Coup Attempt in 1923 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 106min
    You can see that what motivates us is neither self-conceit or self-interest, but only a burning desire to join the battle in this grave 11th hour for our German Fatherland... One last thing I can tell you. Either the German revolution begins tonight or we will all be dead by dawn! - Hitler "I cannot remember in my entire life such a change in the attitude of a crowd in a few minutes, almost a few seconds... Hitler had turned them inside out, as one turns a glove inside out, with a few sentences. It had almost something of hocus-pocus, or magic about it." - Dr. Karl Alexander von Mueller It is often claimed that Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany through democratic means, and while that is a stretch, it is true that he managed to become an absolute dictator as Chancellor of Germany in the 1930s through a mixture of politics and intimidation. Ironically, he had set such a course only because of the failure of an outright coup attempt known as the Beer Hall Putsch about a decade earlier. At the close of World War I, Hitler was an impoverished young artist who scrapped by through selling souvenir paintings, but within a few years, his powerful oratory brought him to the forefront of the Nazi party in Munich and helped make the party much more popular. A smattering of followers in the hundreds quickly became a party of thousands, with paramilitary forces like the SA backing them, and at the head of it all was a man whose fiery orations denounced Jews, communists and other "traitors" for bringing upon the German nation the Treaty of Versailles, which had led to hyperinflation and a wrecked economy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/033297/bk_acx0_033297_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Last One: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 740min
    Survival is the name of the game as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itself in Alexandra Oliva's fast-paced novel of suspense. She wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far. It begins with a reality TV show. Twelve contestants are sent into the woods to face challenges that will test the limits of their endurance. While they are out there, something terrible happens - but how widespread is the destruction, and has it occurred naturally or is it man-made? Cut off from society, the contestants know nothing of it. When one of them - a young woman the show's producers call Zoo - stumbles across the devastation, she can imagine only that it is part of the game. Alone and disoriented, Zoo is heavy with doubt regarding the life - and husband - she left behind, but she refuses to quit. Staggering countless miles across unfamiliar territory, Zoo must summon all her survival skills - and learn new ones as she goes. But as her emotional and physical reserves dwindle, she grasps that the real world might have been altered in terrifying ways, and her ability to parse the charade will be either her triumph or her undoing. Sophisticated and provocative, The Last One is a novel that forces us to confront the role that media plays in our perception of what is real: how readily we cast our judgments, how easily we are manipulated. Praise for The Last One“[Alexandra] Oliva brilliantly scrutinizes the recorded (and heavily revised) narratives we believe, and the last one hundred pages will have the reader constantly guessing just what Zoo is capable of doing to find her way back home.” (Washington Post)“A high-concept, high-octane affair... The conceit is undoubtedly clever and...well executed, but what makes The Last One such a page-turner is Zoo herself: practical, tough-minded and appealing.” (The Guardian)“Oliva takes this (possib ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Chamberlain, Nicol Zanzarella. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004631/bk_rand_004631_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Erewhon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 435min
    Setting out to make his fortune in a far-off country, a young traveller discovers the remote and beautiful land of Erewhon, and is given a home among its extraordinarily handsome citizens. But their visitor soon discovers that this seemingly ideal community has its faults - here crime is treated indulgently as a malady to be cured, while illness, poverty, and misfortune are cruelly punished, and all machines have been superstitiously destroyed after a bizarre prophecy. In Erewhon, criminals are considered to be ill and are "treated" by "straightners" who make them well, whereas those who have physical illnesses (or suffer bad luck) are considered criminal and are tried and punished. Thus an embezzler will be treated for his "illness" and the party who was robbed will be tried in the Court of Misplaced Confidence. The consistency with which Butler carries through with this conceit is impressive and consistently entertaining, and this is only one of the "curious" conventions of Erewhonian society. Another fascinating chapter in Erewhon explains how machines are on an evolutionary track that will surpass and then come to dominate their human creators. The detail of the argument is impressive (the discussion of "vestigial organs" in machines is hysterical and accurate), and no matter how far-fetched it must have seemed in 1872 when the book was published, it seems much less a satire and more a serious fear today. This is a book of great intelligence and wicked humour. As a simultaneous mind-stretching exercise and laugh-generating experience, there are few novels of any age that are its peer. Samuel Butler (1835-1902), a British writer strongly influenced by his New Zealand experiences, is best known for his utopian satire, Erewhon, and his posthumous novel, The Way of All Flesh. Butler was born in Langar Rectory, near Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England, into a long line of clerics. Butler, who was a detractor from widely-acce ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Maloney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012029/bk_adbl_012029_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Book of Laman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 311min
    From the Forward.The central conceit of The Book of Laman - telling the story of 1 Nephi from Laman’s perspective - seems like a perfect device for a funny book. Indeed, Bob Lewis used it precisely this way in his satirical 1997 novel, The Lost Plates of Laman. Here we see all of the jokes implied the first time we hear that Laman is the narrating the Book of Mormon: The villain becomes the hero, and the hero becomes an insufferable know-it-all, the archaic language is peppered with anachronisms and modern values, and the devotional content of the original text is sacrificed on the twin altars of mocking Mormon weirdness and having a grand time.But Mette Harrison’s Book of Laman is not funny. It does not try to be funny. It doesn’t use intentional archaisms to make fun of the Book of Mormon’s language; rather, it tells its story in a non-distracting modern style. The characters are not simply reversed. Nephi is sometimes an annoying brat, but he is also a real prophet who sees and speaks for the Lord. Laman is neither a comic book villain nor a long-suffering ironist. He is a flawed human being struggling to live well and usually coming up short. And in some of the book’s very best scenes, he is touched unexpectedly by grace and God.Harrison’s characters are the sorts of people who might actually have existed in history. She does not naturalize the miracles in the Book of Mormon - there really are angels and visions and smiting and all the rest - but she humanizes the actors. And this is important, as it corrects for a listening bias that plagues Latter-day Saints. Simply put: We want the Book of Mormon to be history, not fiction, but we expect the people in it to act like characters in a (not very good) novel and not as the kinds of people who have actually ever existed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mette Harrison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/199855/bk_acx0_199855_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Love Yourself: Learn How to Love Who You Are and Be Happy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 44min
    Do you know what the greatest love of all is? It isn't the love of a mother although that is certainly one of the greatest. It is not the love of a Savior or God although theologians will argue that point with you. It is also not the love of friends, a lover or a social group although those can be as outstanding as ever. The greatest love is loving yourself. Now hold your horses. I didn't mean narcissism. There is a vast difference between loving who you are and making yourself the center of the universe. The latter is putting yourself on a pedestal and setting yourself up as the epitome of perfection, flawlessness and the absolute point of reference. Unfortunately, that is nothing but pride, conceit and vanity. It makes you feel you have no wrongs and lifts you so high only to slam you down hard on the pavement with the entire world laughing at your humiliation and shame. On the other hand, really loving who you are will bring you happiness. Learning to love yourself will unmask who you really are and your flaws, imperfections, inabilities without diminishing your self-esteem. It will uncover your strengths, talents and abilities in order to give you self-confidence. It will make you look beyond whatever you have gone through that may have slanted your views, skewed your opinions or shattered your beliefs and restore your self-respect. It will help you decide whatever you choose to become and give you the self-assurance that you can be that person. Learn to love who you are and you will be able to look beyond the past into the future and beat a path to it. When you do then you will begin to feel the greatest love and become happy despite any adversity that comes your way. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Burrows. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/096580/bk_acx0_096580_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Meteora: The History of the Famous Greek Landmark That Houses Eastern Orthodox Monasteries , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 81min
    The Tower of Babel is arguably among the most well-known allegories of the Old Testament. As told by the Book of Genesis, the story revolves around a post-flood batch of Noah's descendants who dwelled in Babylon's Mesopotamia, a city erected by King Nimrod. The population multiplied rapidly over the years, and the city's inhabitants fostered the growth of their culture and enhancing the infrastructure of their territories, made easier by the existence of only one common language. Naturally, the pride of the Mesopotamian residents burgeoned, but their contentment, poisoned by their greed and ambition, began to decline. The only way to prevail over this slump, believed a particularly enterprising group of individuals, was to construct a colossal ziggurat (a “rectangular, stepped tower”) that would ascend past the clouds and into the heavens. With this tower, they intended to “make a name for” mankind and the untouchable abilities of mere mortals, thereby severing their relationship with God, their creator, for good. According to the Bible, God was far from impressed, and to add insult to injury, the architects behind this attempt deliberately opted for man-made materials, such as brick and tar, rather than stone, timber, and other natural building blocks gifted to them by God. The overblown pomposity and conceit of his subjects had to be ceased at once, lest they stray further away from him. Thus, as the people slept, God reached down and scooped up handfuls of the slumbering Mesopotamians and strewed them across the continents, creating 70 different nations and tribes. When they awoke, the bewildered residents of the newly birthed nations were speaking in different tongues. With the architects scattered around the globe and now unable to understand one another, construction of the partially built ziggurat came screeching to a halt. It was later dubbed the “Tower of Babel”, or the “Tower of Confusion”. This miserable monument, which served as a haunting remi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124700/bk_acx0_124700_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert 'Believe It or Not!' Ripley , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 716min
    A Curious Man is the marvelously compelling biography of Robert “Believe It or Not” Ripley, the enigmatic cartoonist turned globetrotting millionaire who won international fame by celebrating the world's strangest oddities, and whose outrageous showmanship taught us to believe in the unbelievable.As portrayed by acclaimed biographer Neal Thompson, Ripley’s life is the stuff of a classic American fairy tale. Buck-toothed and cursed by shyness, Ripley turned his sense of being an outsider into an appreciation for the strangeness of the world. After selling his first cartoon to Time magazine at age eighteen, more cartooning triumphs followed, but it was his “Believe It or Not” conceit and the wildly popular radio shows it birthed that would make him one of the most successful entertainment figures of his time and spur him to search the globe’s farthest corners for bizarre facts, exotic human curiosities, and shocking phenomena.Ripley delighted in making outrageous declarations that somehow always turned out to be true - such as that Charles Lindbergh was only the sixty-seventh man to fly across the Atlantic or that “The Star Spangled Banner” was not the national anthem. Assisted by an exotic harem of female admirers and by ex-banker Norbert Pearlroth, a devoted researcher who spoke eleven languages, Ripley simultaneously embodied the spirit of Peter Pan, the fearlessness of Marco Polo and the marketing savvy of P. T. Barnum.In a very real sense, Ripley sought to remake the world’s aesthetic. He demanded respect for those who were labeled “eccentrics” or “freaks” - whether it be E. L. Blystone, who wrote 1,615 alphabet letters on a grain of rice, or the man who could swallow his own nose.By the 1930s Ripley possessed a vast fortune, a private yacht, and a 28 room mansion stocked with such “oddities” as shrunken heads and medieval torture devices, and his pioneering firsts in print, radio, and television were tapping in ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marc Cashman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003466/bk_rand_003466_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Stars Bleed at Midnight , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 678min
    All of us have a path to follow, and that path begins in the heart. - Samuel McCord The world is filled with mystery and shadow. What is life? The years bring us the conceit that we grasp life. What we grasp is but illusion. Childlike we seize a fistful of seawater and say we hold the ocean. And even that slips through our grasping fingers. As the ocean holds depths, man will never see so does life. But one cursed man has seen more than most. And the enemies he has made doing so are now trying to un-make him. From the undead halls of power in colonial Washington, D.C., to the bloody plains of India, to the mystery-shrouded deserts of Egypt, Texas Ranger Captain Samuel McCord is spoken of in whispers lest he take notice of the speakers. Follow his cursed footsteps from 1826 and the death bed of President John Adams to the blood-stained hills and ravines of 1857 India. And finally to 1895 Cairo and the far deserts wastes of Egypt. Some fool has disturbed the sleep of something that should never have been awakened. And it is up to McCord, his deadly wife, Meilori Shinseen, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Nikola Tesla, and Lt. Winston Churchill to keep the world from slipping into a new Dark Age of madness and death. But this time, the past has caught up with McCord in the form of the undead Abigail Adams and the revenant Empress Theodora of the Unholy Roman Empire. Worse, an ancient Pestilence in the body of a mummy child now reaches out for him and those he loves. And his friends and even the world itself may soon pay the terrible price if Samuel McCord cannot be more than what he believes he can be. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Rossmann. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/052050/bk_acx0_052050_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Last Chance Mail Order Bride: Violet's Cowboy: Westward Wanted, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 395min
    It was not Violet Gladstone's idea to become a mail order bride. She felt it was foolhardy for a woman to leave everything behind to marry a man she had never met. However, when her greedy boyfriend, Ned, jilted her for a rich woman, her friend convinced her to answer an ad. Soon, she was exchanging letters with a nice widower who wanted to wed her. For months, they wrote to each other. All his letters were charming, except the last one. It contained an ultimatum: marry him now or never. He could wait no longer. She wrote back that she would come right away, but she did not. Instead, when the time came, she turned in her ticket to Texas and posted an apologetic letter to the widower breaking off their engagement. When Ned heard Violet stayed, he accused her of holding a torch for him and offered to make her his mistress. Violet scoffed at his lewd offer and his vile conceit. In a flash, he was in her face, pointing out that a strong-willed 27-year-old servant was too old, too poor, and too disagreeable to find a husband in man-starved postwar Georgia. He predicted she would live out her life, a spinster dwelling in the servants' quarters while she pined away for what might have been. That was all it took for her to pen another letter asking the widower to forgive her fickleness, and informing him she was on her way. There was no way Ned was going to ruin her dreams. She left on the very next stagecoach bound for Texas. Her fury kept her doubts and fears at bay for some time, but when the road got rough as they traveled farther and farther into the frontier, she regretted leaving Atlanta. When she really thought about it, being a spinster seemed like a pleasant carefree lifestyle and the servants' quarters a safe haven. Her rationalization was for naught; it was too late to turn back. Certain she had left the frying pan for the fire, she stared out the window of the stagecoach as it rattled down the bumpy dirt road heading to her uncertain future. / ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amy Gramour. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/056585/bk_acx0_056585_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mr. Darcys Loyalität: Eine Variation von "Stolz und Vorurteil" (eBook, ePUB)
    Sechs Jahre nachdem Napoleon England erobert hat… ist Fitzwilliam Darcy ein Verräter. Er gibt sogar selbst zu, mit Napoleons Besatzungstruppen zusammenzuarbeiten. Und Elizabeth Bennet kann Verräter nicht ausstehen. Aber aus Darcy wird sie nicht schlau. Er verhält sich nicht wie einer, der sein Land verrät. Er setzt seine eigene Sicherheit aufs Spiel, um junge Frauen vor den Franzosen zu retten. Und wie könnte sie einen Mann verachten, der so wundervoll mit Welpen umgeht?Irgendetwas an ihm stimmt nicht, obendrein findet sie ihn viel zu attraktiv. Dann fällt Darcys sorgsam konstruierte Welt in sich zusammen und er muss Elizabeth sein am besten gehütetes Geheimnis offenbaren.Um dieses Geheimnis zu wahren, muss Elizabeth verschwinden als hätte sie sich in Luft aufgelöst, ihre Familie und Darcy zurücklassen, und sich in die schwindelerregende Welt der guten Gesellschaft Londons und der loyalistischen Widerstandsbewegung stürzen. Nichts wird jemals wieder so sein wie zuvor. Darcy ist fest entschlossen, Elizabeth zu finden. Nun, da sie die Wahrheit über ihn kennt, wird sie nichts mehr trennen können. Nichts, abgesehen davon, dass Darcy sich eines Tages entscheiden muss, welche Liebe größer ist - die für sein Land oder für die Frau seines Herzens.Auszeichnungen, die dieses Buch gewonnen hat:Beste Bücher 2017 und Readers Choice Award 2017 bei Austenesque Reviews, Beste Bücher 2017 bei Babblings of a Bookworm und Savvy Verse & Wit, Beste Bücher 2018 bei From Pemberley to Milton und More Agreeably EngangedKritiken:Suzan Lauder: "Conceit and Concealment ist famos, so einzigartig, wie kein anderer Fanfiction-Roman zuvor und nur schwer zu übertreffen was Anspruch und Qualität anbelangt. Der originelle Plot und der faszinierende Schauplatz haben mich in ihren Bann gezogen und doch blieben Darcys und Elizabeths Charaktere nah an Austens Original. Bravo!"More Agreeably Enganged: "Ich hatte schon von einigen gehört, dass es ein richtig gutes Buch sein soll, vermutlich das Beste, das die Autorin bis dato geschrieben hat. Ich musste es einfach lesen und dem muss ich rundheraus zustimmen. Es ist ein großartiges Buch. Lizzys und Darcys erstes Aufeinandertreffen ist beinahe wie im Märchen und ich habe es geliebt! Das trägt einen durch das ganze Buch. Diese Geschichte muss man genießen, die Charaktere sind sehr rund und glaubwürdig. England steht unter Französischer Herrschaft, was den Protagonisten noch nie dagewesene Erfahrungen ermöglicht. Der Schauplatz ist brillant gewählt, man kann das Buch kaum aus der Hand legen. Falls Sie es noch nicht gelesen haben - unbedingt tun!" -Austenesque Reviews: "Was ich daran liebte - die Handlung, die Charaktere, die Achterbahnfahrt der Gefühle und dass man nie wusste, was einen als nächstes erwartet! Ich kann es gar nicht erwarten, meine Rezension zu diesem Buch zu veröffentlichen, das mich von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite gefesselt hat. Zusammen mit Mr. Darcys feine Verwandtschaft ist es jetzt mein Lieblingsbuch von Abigail Reynolds."
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