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Days of Infamy: Military Blunders of the 20th Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 531min

This compendium fleshes out the century's best known military mishaps. In a series of short chapters, Coffey shows how even relatively small misjudgments have become historical turning points, such as how a driver's poor knowledge of Sarajevo's streets in 1914 helped lead to World War I. He reminds us of some of the bigger blunders, including detailing how the Treaty of Versailles laid the groundwork for the Second World War. More recent events receive coverage, too. Here is the Bay of Pigs and Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Also underscored are the unexpected ways things go wrong, either from the design of a weapon, friendly fire, or complacency. This book is the official companion volume to the riveting History Channel 26-part documentary series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Abia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000356/bk_bkot_000356_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Under the Table Books: A Novel of Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 766min

Under the Table Books is a funny, sexy, thought-provoking novel of stories. Underscored by his original piano compositions, Todd Walton's dramatic reading of his novel brings to life the inviting and mysterious world of a one-of-a-kind bookstore, haven to a fascinating family of social outcasts, visionaries, and cutting-edge artists. This mythically real bookstore is both community center and grand experiment in pragmatic mysticism. The cast includes poets, musicians, master chefs, a 10-year-old genius, a former movie star, 88-year-old identical twins, and a homeless savant who may have once been the richest man on earth. Yet for all their eccentricities, each character is an authentic and lovable soul with whom readers and listeners will identify and care deeply about as this first volume of an ongoing saga builds to its myriad dramatic conclusions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Todd Walton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redw/000012/bk_redw_000012_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Meeting Her New Daddy: ABDL Ageplay Erotica , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 27min, (USK 18)

It had been only two weeks since Paul had dumped her, but 19-year-old Tiffany already knew that there would never be anyone to replace him. He was amazing, and there was no one else on the planet quite like him. This fact seemed to be underscored by her failures at online dating. It all changed one day when she received a message from a handsome, older man claiming to be a "daddy" looking for a "little girl". At first she dismissed the man's message as strange, but she found herself strangely drawn to the thought of being his little girl. Tiffany agreed to meet with this handsome man, who was old enough to be her father. Would she be able to be a good little girl for her new daddy, or would she fail to fit into this strange new world of little girl clothes and cuddles? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sierra Kline. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/038598/bk_acx0_038598_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 531min

Conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker have fascinated the world since the 19th century. In her captivating book, Chang and Eng Reconnected, Cynthia Wu traces the "Original Siamese Twins" through the terrain of American culture, showing how their inseparability underscored tensions between individuality and collectivity in the American popular imagination. Using letters, medical documents and exhibits, literature, art, film, and family lore, Wu provides a trans-historical analysis that presents the Bunkers as both a material presence and as metaphor. She also shows how the twins figure in representations of race, disability, and science in fictional narratives about nation building. As astute entrepreneurs, the twins managed their own lives; nonetheless, as Chang and Eng Reconnected shows, American culture has always viewed them through the multiple lenses of difference. The book is published by Temple University Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kathleen Godwin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/056731/bk_acx0_056731_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Poems on the Underground , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 58min

The now familiar poem posters first appeared in London's tube and underground trains in 1986. The idea was simple enough: why not convert the empty advertising space above the passenger's heads into a simple celebration of the poetry that has underscored English literature for a thousand years or more? The poems soon caught the public's imagination. Here on the trains there was at last something different, words to soothe, inspire, move, charm, surprise, arouse, even occasionally to shock, but never to sell. The programme grew, and attracted international attention, so that now there are similar programmes of public poetry on transport systems around the world, from New York to Shanghai, including Dublin, Paris, Athens, Stuttgart, St. Petersburg, Moscow, San Francisco, and Barcelona. This latest anthology brings together the best of all of them in a single volume.Contents: (1) London(2) Love (3) Men and Women (4) Everything Changes (5) Birds and Beasts, Stars and Planets (6) The Poet Speaks ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gerard Benson, Cicely Herbert. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000334/bk_orio_000334_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Soho , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 78min

Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2018'But tonight I am super-charged, alive, looking into the eyes of / men....'In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott looks into the places not everyone sees or chooses to see. Against the backdrop of London's Soho, he creates an uncompromising portrait of love and shame, questioning our sense of the permissible and the perverse. Scott takes us back to our roots: childhood incidents, the violence our scars betray, forgotten forebears and histories. The hungers of sexual encounters are underscored by the risks that threaten when we give ourselves to or accept another. But the poems celebrate joy and tenderness, too, as in a sequence reimagining the love poetry of Verlaine. The collection crescendos to the title poem, 'Soho!', where a night stroll under the street lamps becomes a search for 'true lineage', a reclamation of stolen ancestors, hope for healing and, above all, the finding of our truest selves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Scott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/fabe/000160/bk_fabe_000160_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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How Early America Sounded , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 442min

In early America, every sound had a living, willful force at its source. Sometimes these forces were not human or even visible.In this fascinating and highly original work of cultural history, Richard Cullen Rath recreates in rich detail a world remote from our own, one in which sounds were charged with meaning and power.From thunder and roaring waterfalls to bells and drums, natural and human-made sounds other than language were central to the lives of the inhabitants of colonial America. Rath considers the multiple soundscapes shaped by European Americans, Native Americans, and African Americans from 1600 to 1770, and particularly the methods that people used to interpret and express their beliefs about sound. In the process he shows how sound shaped identities, bonded communities, and underscored - or undermined - the power of authorities.This audiobook's stunning evidence of the importance of sound in early America - even among the highly literate New England Puritans - reminds us of a time before a world dominated by the visual, a young country where hearing was a more crucial part of living.The book is published by Cornell University Press. The audiobook will be published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Redford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150381/bk_acx0_150381_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Toni Tennille: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 508min

Since bursting onto the scene in the mid '70s, the pop duo Captain and Tennille have long defined the sparkling, optimistic idea of everlasting love, both in their music and through their image as a happy and, seemingly, unbreakable couple. They were an irresistible pair to millions of fans all over the world, further underscored by the rousing "yes, we can!" gospel of their biggest hit, "Love Will Keep Us Together". But underneath the image was an entirely different story that the fans never saw: a woman who fought a lonely struggle against the controlling and often bizarre behavior of her emotionally inaccessible husband. Toni Tennille: A Memoir is a visceral account of Toni Tennille's life from her childhood in the segregated South to her thrilling rise to fame in the world of pop music to where she is now: no longer one-half of a famed couple but a stronger woman for all she has experienced - both the good and the bad. Toni hopes that her story will help anyone who feels trapped in a toxic relationship realize that it is never too late to break away from it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Toni Tennille. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/024164/bk_adbl_024164_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Shadows of Asphodel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 641min

Never save a necromancer, unless you want his undying loyalty. 1913. In her work as a mercenary for Austria-Hungary, Ardis has killed many men without hesitation. One more man shouldn't matter, even if he manages to be a charming bastard while he stands dying in the snow. But when he raises the dead to fight for him, she realizes she must save his life. If a necromancer like Wendel dies, he will return as a monster - or so the rumors say. Ardis decides to play it safe and rescues him. What she doesn't expect is Wendel falling to one knee and swearing fealty. Ardis never asked for the undying loyalty of a necromancer, but it's too late now. Ardis and Wendel forge an uneasy alliance underscored with sexual tension. Together, they confront rebels, assassins, and a conspiracy involving a military secret: robotically-enhanced soldiers for a world on the brink of war. But as Ardis starts to fall for Wendel, she realizes the scars from his past run more deeply than she ever imagined. Can Ardis stop Wendel before his thirst for revenge destroys him and everyone else around him? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jodie Bentley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/020629/bk_acx0_020629_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 541min

Told with a lyrical, almost-dreamlike voice as intoxicating as the moonflowers and orchids that inhabit this world, Monsoon Mansion is a harrowing yet triumphant coming-of-age memoir exploring the dark, troubled waters of a family’s rise and fall from grace in the Philippines. It would take a young warrior to survive it. Cinelle Barnes was barely three years old when her family moved into Mansion Royale, a stately ten-bedroom home in the Philippines. Filled with her mother’s opulent social aspirations and the gloriously excessive evidence of her father’s self-made success, it was a girl’s storybook playland. But when a monsoon hits, her father leaves, and her mother’s terrible lover takes the reins, Cinelle’s fantastical childhood turns toward tyranny she could never have imagined. Formerly a home worthy of magazines and lavish parties, Mansion Royale becomes a dangerous shell of the splendid palace it had once been. In this remarkable ode to survival, Cinelle creates something magical out of her truth - underscored by her complicated relationship with her mother. Through a tangle of tragedy and betrayal emerges a revelatory journey of perseverance and strength, of grit and beauty, and of coming to terms with the price of family - and what it takes to grow up. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cinelle Barnes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010494/bk_brll_010494_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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